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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-21-1995 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1995-04-21 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1995-04-21" (1995). The Voice: 1991-2000. 117. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/117 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IheWgooteir Voice Volume CXI, Issue 24 The student newspaper of the College of Wooster Friday, April 21, 1995 Mass mailings to be Death penalty denies humanity By SUSAN WITTSTOCK rican-Americ- an witnesses testified Bracken analyzed inadequacies limited for nest year that he had been at a fish fry whik in the Judicial system which dis- By AARON RUPERT this early effort. - The United Stales is the only in- only one witness, a man later con- criminate along class lines. At the same time, the administra- dustrialized nation in the world to victed of murder, was found to tea-.- .. "Ninety-nin- e percent of those on lawyers. The administntioa has endorsed tion was also working on the con still allow executions. Rouly tify against him. McMUlioo was death row could not afford aplan to Emit mass mailings Car the minikatkiiuqDesnVAAtafdrce, Bracken 91 argued that the death convicted of murder and spent . Court appointed lawyers are rarely est school year. Only vital mass created by President Henry penahymtheUnitedStatesiswrang twelve years on death row. qualified. In moat states, courts maflingysoch as schedule books, Copeland . was formed to look at due toracial and classbiases as well Bracken pointed out that more appoint private attorneys. Many important information from hous- jflflQCt COOCClTMIjfOiPffiBtfsltM?flff as moral reasons, in a discussion Afrkan-Anierkansrecd- ve the death have never tried a felony case," ing or the registrar, and letters deal- About 12 recommendations were sponsored byAmnesty International penalty dan whites. Out of almost Bracken said. "Is this a properway ing with campus security, will be given totePresiaent from that com- last night. Bracken cofounded the 4JOOO executions inthe UmtedSottes to judge who win live or die, based allowedoncampus. Aninformation mittee,oneofwhich calledfor trim- College's chapter ofAmnesty eight between 1930 and 1980. S3 percent on me capacity of your lawyer?" center win be set np inLowry to get ming down mass msitings, TFrora years ago and is currently working were African- -Americans,with there Since the first execution hi the that report, we have tried to form a on his graduate dissertation on hu- being 72 percent in the Southern United States hi 1622, 18,000 to The information center will be policy." said Hanna. man rightsatOhio Stale University. 2200 have been legally executed run though the post office. BuDe-ti- ns Ziegkr.sito studying abroad first "The death penalty allows for no "What's more important is not by the state. Bracken said. , im-perf- will be posted there and about r. contained to fight mass rawtafTf.r " ect. the raceofdie murderer but the race The history of the death penalty 20 copies of mailings. We will and we have ex- of the victim." Bracken stated. in the US. is marked by two forces: eachbulleon Earlier in ecuted innocent people." Bracken He said that since 1977. 84 per- the supporters whowant to speed up win be kept "In my opinion, we need to the semes- said. Many of these cases involved centofdeath penalty senssnces were theprocess and the abo&tkxnsts who Africans-American- victims, de- believe should not be adminis- behind do this, ... Campuses now-- ter. Ziegkr s who were the for murders of white it Lowry Rront metwith the vksims ofracialprejudice. Bracken spite the fact that the races of the tered," he said. struggling African-A- pen- Desk. "Mak- cdays ere all Environ- - said. Heated several cases, such as victims were equal and that He explained mat the death ing 20copies wUh mass mailings" Walter McMillis, an African-Americ- an mericans were 22 times as alty has changed in several ways is better than Jeff Banna, director of Force, a with no criminal record likely to get the death penalty ifthey since the first execution, including group com-poscd-of who was picked up by police in a lolled while! data members oftheir making College relations please see PENALTY, page 2 1,800," said aoV smaD town m Alabama. Thirty Af-- MattTrgkr miaistra-- 96, who has been atthe head of the boo and faculty which deals wish jtnfisf crsosSkxi of mass mail environmental problems oaeanv. Search kFortt ings. Ziegkr is a member of Green pus. At that meeting, it was sog-gesartbyinemberscfiheTas- and EGOS, and has been rr-- i .' J pushing a proposal to do away with that he should present Ins proposal process I '""" to President Copeland. After talk- ing to Copeland, and presenting me prompts ;XJetaag. some control of mass proposal, Ziegler felt very positive mailings is what is critical,'' said about me direction die issue was JeffHanna,director ofcollege rela- taking. "Copeland was very recep- discussion tions. Hsrma has been one of the tive," be said about his meeting. - working on the , sdmmistration'a leaders ia doing "They are still ByANDYDUXER something about the mass mailing logistics," said Ziegler. The infor-mati-on problem. Tn my opinion, we need center will be in one of four Faculty and hourly staff members to do this," he continued. "Cam- places: the firstpanelofthe art wall; met in Lean Lecture Hall yesterday puses nowadays are aU struggling near the SAB board: where the ride todlscusstrieirreaakns tothe presi- with this question." Decisions have board fas or in die entranceway of dential search process used toselect off-camp- not been made about us Lowry, between the double doors Woosters presidentelect. Susanne mailings. "Theproconpera should on the brick walL The latter two Woods. - .... be banned as well." said Ziegkr. options are "problematic." said Participants m the discussion had off-camp- fac- ; When asked why us Ziegler. and he thinks one of the concerns regarding incomplete : ; usefulness . sources were not banned, Ziegkr fksttwowfflbebnplemented. ulty representation, the ; said, "bkasmall source ofincome ."Weare still not there in thesense ofa confidential search and the pur- ofhaving everything nailed down." pose of the consulting firm used in .' The idea of eliminating mass said Hanna about these future deci-sion- s. the search. Also at the meeting, ; mailings has been circulating in the Hanna also cited other op-- plans were' made to form a local EmimTatjj in circles tions to get information out to the' chapter of die American Associa- for a long time. Last year, Ziegkr, students. "We need to make more tion of Uriiversity Professors in or- --edited a older proposal which re sndbetternse ofe-ma-il." tsklHanna. der to addYess these ccttxrns. de-partni- L qoesasdfbrtheabotisbinemofmost He also cited improveownts in the - James Perky of die biology em . server, infor- discussion. - j mass mailings, and a information College's Gopher an moderated the .v- pboio by BRITTANY BUILAW) j the mational tool accessibk though the He stated that the meeting was held f.v center be put in Lowry. "I sent MeCa Arnold H Jobs Dwayac Davk and other oaJooken hi : various deans and stu--' : Internet and college computers, as proposal to please see SEARCH, page 4 VwatcUaga dents on campus," said Ziegkr of anotherwaytokeep students posted. &A VlWPOINTS Feature & E page 9 Sports jpagell ;4. K, J--- 'Bodyscapes'' Wcmen'j i Editorials, cartoons, SpecialReport: oactspiay in L. T A lacrosse beats columns and letters to -. Mackenzie Gators .- . the editor Domestic Violencecrx aGallery .24-1- 3: 1.1 f.M'.I.JJl.l at.Wooster - Si,- Aft fr'Wii a-if-ii- Pare 2 The Wooster Voice News April 21, 1995 Weekend Weather Profs compete for Chinese position Toudgat Partly cloudy. Low 45 to 50. By JONATHAN A. SETTZ communist movement and held the adcision.scconiingtoJtt3un Waltz Saturday Variable cloudiness with a 30 paces chance ofshower! position of Minister of Culture for 95.'is that the professor will be High around 60. Ia the last week, three prospective nearly fifteen years. Dietrich spoke teaching both Chinese language Saaday A chance of rain. Highs in the upper 50s. Chinese professors have taught an on some of Mao's apparent contra- classes as well as literature. In pick- intnxhictory Chinese class as well dictions. She also spoke on Mao's ing a Chinese language professor as give a speech ona topic of interest role in socialist realism and realism attributes such as dialect and choice News Briefs to them. In each session, there were in the socialist era. of character, simplified or tradi- both student as well as faculty ob-- The third speaker. Rujie Wang, tional, can be extremely important CAMPUS chose a chapter from a book by La Professor Ah Seng Choo, of the Jm-lu- ng lecture. Wang . Xanpus Comal passed next year'sbodget.T The first speaker, So, is a Xun for his informal Religious Studies department, y TimWi ninnimw Tt n rtw third yjr m a mm fTnmril ham tiw specialist in the literature of the Han led the class in an examination of a shared his viewson the speakers. "I mat amount to distribute by the president. Coandl also granted its first Dynasty and the Six Dynasties pe- story entitled.