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No.l4 DECEMBER SLChopes Candidates for dean to nix. long soon to be presented Bv LORI DONATH AND ANDY SISK Brown the candidates will be interviewed by the pledge span MANAGING EoiTOR ·AND 01..D Gow A~J) BLACK REPORTI:.R Senior University Appointment Comrnittee:of · the Faculty Senate, Jones said. That group will Though unforeseen complications have caused then advise the provost about the candidates. BY LILLIAN NASH a delay almost a year longer than expected, Brown will also interview the candidates him-. STUDENTG~ REPoRTER members of the Dean Search Committee have self and then he and President Thomas K. Hearn nearly completed their.task.They hope to present Jr. will make the final decision. Jack Wilkerson, the chairman of the Student Life the names offour candidates for the position of Provost Brown said although he has not ~e committee, and student memberS of the committee Dean of the College, along with a written report, ceived the formal recommendation from the spoke to the Student.Government legislature Tues to Provost David Brown by the end of next committee yet, he did say that Wilson, iii a day night, to hear input on the recently released week. conversation last week, told him the names of guidelines regarding pledging fraternities and so- Formed in October 1993 after Dean Thomas the finalists. '1 know the names. and I'm pretty rorities. · Mullen announced his retirement, the Commit sure they haven't changed," he said. The two most controversial asPects of the dia tee consists of two students and six faculty The group was to have had their final meeting logue addressed the proposals to limit the pledge members from various undergraduate depart Monday but due to Wilson's emergency appen~ period for all Greek groups to six weeks, effective ments and university schools who were ap- dectomy, that meeting has been postponed until next semester and to solicit faculty evaluations of . pointed by the provost. next week. Brown said he is hesitant to predict pledges' classroom performances. According to senior Tarnetta Jones; the un when the announcement of the new Dean of the· "We spent a lot of time discussing the faculty dergraduate student representative, the commit College will come. evaluations, and I came away with new insights on tee has chosen the candidates for dean aild the '1literally don't know when the committee· that issue," Wilkerson said afterwards. · group has only one more meeting before their will be giving me-officially-their names,~· Several legislature delegates expressed concerns. task is finished. Brown said. "I now believe there will not be an· that faculty evaluations would single out Greek ''I can't give names, but when we began we appointment before Christmas because there students in the classroom and give faculty members received over 40 names from faculty, staff, won't be enough time for interviews to· be the opportunity to unfairly punish Greeks. · . students and ttdrninistration. Our task was to conducted by the Senior University Appoint- Wilkerson said, "If we can't find a way to evaluate present three to four unranked names to the ments Committee." • classroom performance objectively, then ''-r ~· "\' Provost," Jones said. "And our choice of names He said, "Interviews with the Senior Univer have to readdress that issue, but I was not, however, is complete. We're also writing a report to sity Appointments Committee will likely spi\1~ swayed on the issue of a shortened pledge period." present to the provosf along with the names." over to the first week we're back in January." . Junior legislator Mike Waxelman commented ·Incoming! Jones said the final report is being drafted by Asked whether or not the names of the final-~ that a shortened pledge period may not alleviate Edwin Wilson, the chairman of the Committee ists would be released, Brown said they would pledging problems on this campus but ".. only Junior Sally Vacca prepares some protective packaging for gradu and former vice president for special projects, be. "The members of the committee wa:tt to put make those six weeks more intense." and Jill McMillan, an associate professor of their work on display. They feel like the campus: Patrick Vrana, asenior legislator agreed: "It seems ate student Carrie Dodrill. speech and communicaticns. should see the work they've done," he said._ : See SG, PageS · After the names and report are presented to See Search, Page S Catrrpll&'Policecharge'Newtonmanineorinection with bomb threat I . Bv BETH FISHER him after he was picked up by Winston-Salem building. Nothing was uncovered, she said. able to identify Barahona. Although the phone other than "continued activity stemming from Ow GoLD AND BLACK REPORTER police on worthless check charges. He is be Lawson said Barahona was linked to the number used to make the harassing calls was the harassing phone calls in the military sci ing held at the Forsyth County Jail under bomb threat through information provided by different from that used to make the bomb ence department." Campus Police charged a Newton man in .bond. The charges were made by Campus his phone calL At the time of the threat; threat, Barahona is believed to be responsible Campus Police, however, do not believe connection with the Nov. 11 bomb threat on Police after an investigation, Lawson said. Campus Police were already investiga~ng a for both incidents. that the Nov. 11 bomb threat is necessarily Reynolda Hall. A ranking officer in the military science string of harassing phone calls placed to a Lawson also noted resemblances between related to the Nov. 17 bomb threat. Juan Pablo Barahona, a 23-year-old former dep¥tment received a phone call on Nov.11 staff member in the military science depart the Nov. 11 bomb threat and a similar threat "There were very few similarities between student of Winston-Salem State University, i~forming him that a bomb had been placed in ment. Lawson said although the calls were last May. Both callers said bombs had been the callers," Lawson said. She said thedia\ect, was charged with calling i~ the bomb threa~ Reynolda and in the administrative building persistent and harassing, there have been no placed in Reynolda Hall and on the Winston content and background noises of the Nov .17 and making harassing calls to the department of Winston-Salem State University, Lawson personal threats up to this point. Based on Salem State campus. In addition, she said threat were different from the earlier c~ll .. of military science. said.Reynolda was evacuated and closed while information from the ongoing harassment in tapes of the phone calls sounded similar. There are no suspects in the Nov. 17 threat at · Campus Police Chief Regina Lawson said Campus Police, aided by Winston-Salem Po vestigation, the accent ofthe caller and a trace Lawson said Campus Police have no valid this time, but Lawson added that the inveiti- · warrants for Barahona's arrest were served on lice, searched the interior and exterior of the put on the phone call, Campus PoliCe were theories as to the reasons for the bomb threat gation has not been closed. ·Annual Moravian Lovefeast brings Christmas spirit to students Alumnus BY ANDY FERGUSON Joy to the World and Hark! the Herald nated in Marien born, a European city, Helms to get NEWS PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Angels Sing. The Cor1cert Choir, the in 1747. On Nov. 17, 1753, the fjrst Flute Choir and the Handbell Choir, lovefeast in North Carolina was held Students took· a break from their directed by. senior Kelly Harrington, as the first group of Moravians ar busy study schedules Sunday evening also performec!. · rived. The meal of buns and coffee chairmanship to experience the Christmas celebra "I just think it is such an h0nor io be signifies a community of faith and tion or the Moravian Lovefeast. up in front of everybody and play," hope. BY BRUCE R. MARl>H "I was very pleased with how every said sophomore Stephanie Henderson, . thing went this year," said Ed a member of the Flute Choir. CoNlRIBUTING REPORTER 'Christman, the university chaplain. · The traditional partaking of the With the Republicans gaining control of "It's nice to see that in the midst of all lovefeast, consisting ofMoravian buns both houses of Congress, former Wlike . of our lively pursuits of academics, we and coffee, was an integral part of the Forest alumnus and North Carolina Sena . are able to stop and not only learn the ceremony. Afterward the congrega tor Jesse Helms is in line to become the ·.history of the school but also that of tion lit the beeswax candles they re next chairman of the powerful foreign re Judea-Christian history of which we ceived at the beginning of the service lations committee. According to the are a part." and sung Monzing Star and Joy to the Senate's procedures, Helms' seniority as The Lovefeast, which has been World. the ranking minority member in the 103rd around for 159 years, was started on "I thought that it was neat when the Congress should elevate him to the campus 29 years ago by a Moravian candles went up because it seemed to chairman's position, but derogatory re.:. student who felt that there should be a unify everyone and make it feel like marks made during recent interviews to; service that represented him. Christmas," said freshman Joe wards President Bill Clinton have sparked Christman said the first services were Kennedy. controversy across the political spectrum. held in Davis Chapel and stayed there Students played an integral part in Even before Helms' election to the Sen until the number of people attending the service.