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Volume 80, No. 44 Youngstown State University • Youngstown, Ohio Thursday, February 26,1998 Bold spring- breakers to brave El Nino REBECCA SLOAN COPY EDITOR Poetry reading

It's that time of year again when Pamela Alexander wili be rceiting throngs of pale-faced, book-weary poetry al a reading tomorrow night college students from the northern beginning at 7:30 p.m. The poetry portions of the United States be• reading will be held in Kilcawlcy gan to dream of sand, surf and a Center's Pugsley Room. bottle of beer. Eager for palm trees and pina coladas, they hop onto air• planes or pack into the back seats of any south-bound vehicle and Black History Month head to a more tropical region to bask beneath the sun's warming rays and party hardy at seaside Oast Ohio Gas and YSU's Black clubs or cantinas. Studies Program is sponsoring the As El Nino's continued wrath fifth annual "African Marketplace" causes tornadoes to tear through Saturday from noon until 8 p.m. in SOUTH PADRE ISLAND VISITORS BUREAU Florida and mud slides to bury the Kilcawlcy Center. "African Mar• WET AND WILD: Spring-breakers party in South Padre Island, Texas. This vacation hot California coast, fatality counts are ketplace" wili have more than 100 spot is one of the designated places MTV will be visiting during spring break. rising. One wonders if it might be vendors and wili feature better to leave one's feet planted "Harambee," Youngstown's own firmly on colder — but safer — drummers and dancers. soil. "Harambee" will perform from 1 troubles Dawn Gagliano, junior, En• to 3 p.m. in the Chestnut Room. For glish, who plans to journey to the more information, call the YSU • After individually spending more than $500 for a trip to paradise, Sunshine State for spring break, Biack Studies Department at 742- students received less than $200 back after a vacation from hell. expressed concern over the spring 3096 or 742-3097. break travel plans she made two Lou YUHASZ nies," said Johnson. "We got a re• group found their hotel reserva• months ago. ally good package price but didn't tions had been changed, and their ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR "If I would have known there think anything was wrong." meal plans couldn't be honored. was going to be such crazy Dawn Gagliano, a member of They also found that not all Shipka speakers series A year after the Take-A-Break weather, I wouldn't be going to incident — a campus advertised the group said the price ended up rooms had been reserved. Florida," said Gagliano. "But the vacation travel agency that left 56 being $535 after discounts and was "They ended up kicking put arrangements have been made, and The Albert J. Shipka Speakers Se• YSU students stranded in Cancun supposed to include direct flights, three rooms of people who had it's too late to turn back now. I'm ries presents Dr. Harvey Cox, Pro• — both parties reached a settle• hotel, meals and bus transfers. been waiting for Take-A-Break to just gonna wait it out and hope for fessor of Divinity at Harvard Uni• ment in small claims court last The group was notified two arrange their flights home," said the best." versity. Cox will speak at noon Thursday. days before departure their flight Gagliano. Monday in Kilcawley's Chestnut Rhonda Moore, junior, social Each student received $ 125 and was changed to include a stop at On the way home the flight out Room. Cox's topic will be "Reli• work, who plans to spend her a voucher of $75, good if they Baltimore, but plane tickets were of Cancun was delayed, causing gion and Politics in the 21st Cen• spring break in California, is more ever decide to try the same com• never sent. the party to miss-their connecting tury." The Shipka Speakers Scries determined in the face of the pany again. We thought it was odd," said flight to Cleveland. memorializes a former YSU trustee wicked weather El Nino's has been "It's basically worthless," said Gagliano, "but they kept telling us "Their response was 'don't whipping up. and long-time area labor leader. 'don't worry.'" worry, you can get the next flight,' Michelle Johnson, graduate in "My primary intent isn't based but they didn't tell us the next flight business administration. The students used their bus on the weather; it's based on visit• was the next day," said Johnson. The problem started last year transfers as proof and flew to Bal• ing friends," she said. "Of course, when a group of students decided timore where a company represen• Because of the unexpected I will be upset if the weather is bad, Badge day to book their spring break package tative was supposed to give them costs from food and delays, many but I'm not scared of El Nino. In with a large company advertised tickets. group members ran out of money the past I traveled to Ocean City, in flyers posted on campus. However, the representative and had to call home for more. March is Women's History Month, Md. before a hurricane was ex• never showed up and the group Gagliano said she ended up and in recognition The National "When you see a flyer saying pected to blow through there, but spent the day waiting for their Panhellenic conference has de• they send 50 - 70,000 students ev• flight. Spring Break clared Monday Badge day. Soror• ery year, you think there can be EI Nino On arriving in Cancun, the Continued on page 7. ity members will wear badges sym• nothing wrong with the compa• Continued on page 7 bolizing the ideas and values of their sorority. College of Bahamas becomes YSU's sister-university SHARLIE STUBBS An article in the Nassau Guard- Dr. John Yemma, dean of the Col• occasion that brought two "great CONTRIBUTING WRITER tan, a Caribbean newspaper, said," lege of Health and Human Ser• institutions" together in collabora• COB reached another milestone in vices; Dr. Ronald Shaklee, profes• tion to improve both establish• LGBT event A historical event has taken its development when that premier sor of geography and Dr. Silvia ments. place between YSU and the Col• tertiary institution signed an articu• Jimenez Hyre director of the Cen• "The interchanging of faculty LGBT student organization is lege of the Bahamas, The Minis• lation agreement with the noted ter for International Studies and and students is going to be some• sponsoring a presentation Tuesday try of Education and YSU signed YSU." Historically, COB became Programs. thing that we look forward to," he titled "A mother remembers her an agreement to incorporate the the first institution in the Caribbean The YSU delegates noted ben• said. son: The tragedy of gay suicide," College of the Bahamas as a region to form such a partnership efits of having a sister university In addition, delegates said this 10 a.m. in Bresnahan Suite in Kil• sister-university to YSU. The new with the prestigious establishment. as a way to network internation• is a great opportunity for YSU and cawlcy. The movie "Love, Valor agreement will enable students to The delegates of YSU faculty ally and to strengthen and broaden COB students to take an active part and Compassion" will be shown transfer from the College of the and administrators who attended academic systems of both institu• immediately afterward. Bahamas to YSU ora YSU student the meeting include: Dr. Y.T, Chiu, tions. Bahamas to transfer to COB. chairman of the Board of Trustees; , Yemma deemed it a historical Continued on page 2 2 The Jambar Thursday, February 26,1998

Bahamas changes. '.This is an agreement that Honors Program expands Continued from page 1 is university-wide, and other • Program provides flexibility for all nontraditional students. in a study program that will fa• disciplines and colleges will be miliarize students to lifestyles included, but we are going to TAMMY J. WILSON Another alternative to tradi• eligible students. and cultural differences of other get started with the nursing CONTRIBUTING WRITER tional honor courses is the Week• "The intent of the program is countries. program " said Hyre. end Honors Experience, a one to recognize academic achieve• "The international study . The program is available to YSU's Honors Degree Program quarter-hour course taught during ment at a level comparable to ath• programis a valuable experi• theYSUandCOB faculty and has expanded to accommodate the a single weekend. Students read letics by awarding up to 160 ence and resource because, of students, however, expenses schedules of all students including the required material for the course full-tuition scholarships annually the cultural international and are each individual's respon• nontraditional and part-time stu• prior to the scheduled class. to outstanding first-year students. cross cultural experiences on sibility. dents, said Dr. Nathan Ritchey, "The Weekend Honors Experi• In return, University Scholars both sides," said Shaklee. YSU students can use their honors director. ence gives students the opportunity agree to be active members of the . In meetings the delegates financial aid and federal Current students must have a to make connections about life and Honors Degree Program, donate from each college identified grants. Exchange students are cumulative 3.4 GPA and a mini• learning. This-is an experience 60 hours of service to the commu• specific areas of cooperation usually financed through their mum of 12 quarter hours to enroll unique to the Weekend Honors nity and participate in other co-cur- between the two institutions. family resources. in the Honors Degree Program. Experience," Ritchey said. Past ricular aspects of the program," Hyre said the nursing depart• For further information Completion of the Honors Degree courses included a white-water Ritchey said. ments at YSU and the COB are contact: The Center for Inter• Program requires 36 hours of hon• rafting trip to learn about river ge• Students enrolled in the Hon• expected to be a primary focus national Studies and Programs ors course work and a senior the• ology and a course called "What ors Degree Program graduate with of faculty and student ex-- at 742-2336. sis project. Students can enroll in They Didn't Teach Me In College" an honors degree and are eligible the program in their sophomore, that explored student life between to register early. junior or senior year provided they college and work. Students also have access to the complete the required honors Catherine Zapka, a nontradi• computer labs located in Cafaro courses. tional sophomore student studying House. The computer labs in LGBT student Traditional honors courses are social work, attended an archeo- Cafaro House are open 24 hours. scheduled every quarter, but stu• logical dig as part of the Weekend Students not enrolled in the Hon• dents attending part time and in the Honors Experience. ors Degree Program can still en• organization presents: evenings can meet course require• "Most of the students were tra• roll in an honors course, including ments through contract honors, ditional 18- to 23-year-old stu• the Weekend Honors Experience, Ritchey said. Contract honors al• dents, but I had a great time. This by obtaining permission from the lows a student to take any course type of opportunity is unique to the instructor. "A Mother as an honors class through an Honors Program," she said. Students interested in the Hon• agreement with the professor for Zapka's son, lason, senior, elec• ors Degree Program can call Amy additional work in the course. trical engineering, is one of the first Cossentino, assistant honors direc• Remembers Her Son: Honors courses are scheduled dur• University Scholars and is sched• tor at 742-2772. ing the day because there has not uled to graduate this year, she said. Appointments can be arranged been a demand for these courses The University Scholars program to meet the needs of students at• The Tragedy of Gay in the evenings, he said. provides full-ride scholarships to tending in the evenings. Suicide" Golden Key Honor Society to recognize Tuesday March 3 at 10 a.m. full-time and part-time YSU students in Kilcawley's Bresnahan Suite 0 Society includes traditional and nontraditional students. TAMMY J. WILSON bership fees goes to the local chap• Angeles, Calif. The cost for mem• CONTRIBUTING WRITER ters. bers is $395. A showing of the movie "Except $9 goes to the national YSU's Golden Key chapter YSU's chapter of the Golden chapter for the publication of the consists of Cossentino and several Love, Valor & Compassion Key National Honor Society will newsletter and conference fees," student officers. recognize traditional and nontra• Cossentino said. "Members usually attend the will follow at noon in ditional students in the top 15 per• "I find that the junior and se• regional convention which will be Kilcawley's room 2036. cent of thejuniorand senior classes nior years can be just as uncertain held the first weekend of April. at a reception, March 2 at 7 p.m. as the freshmen year, but for dif• They also participate in organiz• The event is free and open to in Kilcawley Center. Two under• ferent reasons. Making the transi• ing community service projects. graduate scholarships will be pre• tion out of the university can at Those will be announced at (he the campus community. sented at this reception. times be quite stressful," March induction," Cossentino "Most honor societies only rec• Cossentino said. • said. ognize traditional students," said Golden Key members may ob• Once a student becomes a Kali Boairight, director of Public tain Golden Key's Career Assis• member, involvement in Golden Affairs and editor of Golden Key. tance Reference that lists more Key activities is voluntary. Join The Jambar Golden Key looks at a student's than 500 companies that recruit "Students can be as involved as academic record and does not dis• Qolden Key members nationwide. they want to be. However,. I will criminate against nontraditional "Golden Key's corporate advi• say that the more involved you be• Writer's Club students who may not be able to sory board includes companies like come, the more you will get out of be part of extracurricular activities Ford Motor Company, Nations your membership," she said. March 5 at 1 p.m. in the because of family obligations and Bank and General Mills. They pro• Golden Key National Honor full-time jobs," Boatright said. vide funding for the organization," Society, a nonprofit academic hon• Members' benefits include ca• Boatright said. ors organization, recognizes aca• Chestnut Room to reer assistance, leadership oppor• "Golden Key students excel demic achievement of full-time tunities and annual publications. both in the classroom as well as and part-time junior and senior col• "Students have the opportunity outside of it, and they make a posi• lege students. Membership is by Fight to Unite: to be published in CONCEPTS, tive impact on their campus and invitation only and requires a life• Golden Key's magazine. There are community. This is one of the rea• time membership fee of $50. leadership opportunities, and stu• sons we target Golden Key stu• Students interested in obtaining dents are encouraged to attend the dents in our recruitment activities " more information about Golden "Let's talk about conferences. Golden Key can be said WilliamA. Dittmorc, director Key National Honor Society can featured on a member's resume," of Recruitment and College Rela• e-mail Amy Cossentino at said Amy Cossentino, YSU's tions for General Mills. [email protected] or call sexuality" Golden Key chapter advisor. This year's national conference Melinda Cookro, YSU's chapter Most of the money from mem• will be held Aug. 6 to 9, in Los co-president at (330) 480-6195. This session is built to discuss ongoing campus issues concerning sexuality that have appeared in Jambar ar• ticles. Issues such as AIDS education, the right for gays Advertise in The Jambar . to marry, public education of the homosexual lifestyle and discussion of the progress of the gay rights move• ment. Questions such as: Should gay people marry or call Jackie at 742-1990! adopt? Should only gay people worry about AIDS? Should kindergarten students be taught about alterna• tive lifestyles? 1 Thursday, February 26,1998 The Jambar

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idltoridQ Knight's Daze KHcawley Center Don't let fliers bust One University Plaza Remember the meaning of a true vacation Youngstown, Ohio your spring break 44555 TRACIE KNIGHT ahead than spend money they don't have on a va• (330) 742-3095 Spring break should be a break —- it EDITOR IN CHIEF cation. After all, earning extra money could mean shouldn't be a bust. But many students who they only need to work two jobs next quarter. Editorial Staff: book their trips through non-reputable com• As students across the country plan their spring And who decided a week was enough time for panies end up broke and stuck miles from a real break? Heck, if you're driving 18 hours, by break'trips, many YSU campus community mem• TRACIE KNIGHT home. • bers, like myself, just look for a break. the time you get to your destination and rest for EDITOR IN CHIEF Even though this happens -— and has hap• I wish someone would do a survey at YSU to one day, you have a whopping two days of vaca• JEFF MILLER pened to YSU students — the types of bro• see how many people actually get the chance to tion before you have to start planning the trip home. MANAGING EDITOR chures and fliers that were blamed for spring get away for ••— Af• ter being break mishaps still seem to be the popular spring break, whatever you chose to do forspring'break JOE LANDSBERGER wallpaper in most buildings on campus. caught up in NEWS EDITOR haveTnoUon Year JUst ^Qve faty &e Sa^e anC* W tO a nonstop Spring, break companies pay individuals REBECCA SLOAN cyclone of to put the ads up, and even if YSU staff mem- spring break limit the stress factor. It's not where you are COPY EDITOR classes and bers or students take them down, the fliers means spring that matters or what you do, it's who you're deadlines, NICOLE TANNER will be back up again the next day. J cleaning or . r I'm just ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Government regulates what stu• spring catch-up" with and how you feel. looking for• EDITOR dents can put on the walls and bulletin boards to most of the : • campus community. ward to it ending for awhile. But this year, I do JAMIE LYNN REESH across campus, but we fail to believe there is I know in the past, I have spent spring break have plans to go away and instead of resting and SPORTS EDITOR nothing the university can do. to stop spring week rearranging my closets, finally doing all my looking forward to it, I have more stress. Because break companies from invading our bulletin laundry anddry cleaning — instead of just what I of the stress involved in planning the trip and rush? KATIIERINE HELLER ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR boards. want to do for the week — and catching up with ing to be prepared to go, I doubt I'll relax when I YSU is working on an advertising policy. friends I haven't talked to since Christmas. get there. And being there instead of here, I'll be LOU YUHASZ Thepolicy should definitely include check• And with tuition due, who has the money to go missing that recooperatkm time I definitely need. TELA DURBIN ing a company's credibility. No company away anyhow? A full-week trip is bound to be a So, whatever you chose to do for spring break ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS should be permitted to advertise on campus minimum $500 investment. If I spend that money this year just have fun, be safe and try to limit the REBECCA SLOAN unless they pass this check. now, how will I ever earn enough money to pay stress factor. It's not where you are that matters or CHAD HOLDEN for spring quarter books? what you do, it's who you're with and how you DARKROOM TECHS Speaking of money matters, I'd imagine the stu• feel. Hell, we'd all feel great resting on a hot beach dents who work three jobs just to make ends meet soaking in some rays. But is it worth the stress of Advertising: probably would rather work extra hours to get coming back with nd break at all? 'em built to last JACKIE COLES ADVERTISING EDITOR (letters to the Editor) If the university builds a structure, it JENN KLOPTA should be a permanent structure, not a tem• Professor adds fuel to fire over Williamson Hall's safety SALES MANAGER porary fix. However, in the late '60s, when parking problems escalated and enrollment Naturally I am concerned by the problems cited case. No windows in most of the rooms. Office Staff: boomed, YSU had to do just that — build in the Feb. 24 Jambar concerning the structural If a fire should break out, the only way out of problems of Williamson Hall. We tend to think of EMILY CRONK quickly. the building would be through the central stair• concrete as eternally enduring material and find it case, which in the case of fire, would act as the RECEPTIONIST To fix parking problems, the Lincoln Deck unnerving when it crumbles beneath our feet. chimney. How does that grab you? No fire escapes was built as a temporary deck. And now there OLGA ZIOBERT But I don't think of the material failure as the — and exit only through the chimney! Does this OFFICE MANAGER is a rumor Williamson Hall was built as a tem• worst problem posed by Williamson Hall. As I see give you a really secure feeling? porary building, even though many dispute it. DAVE SPAY it, Williamson Hall is the most dangerous campus Williamson Hall shouldn't be repaired. It should Whether a structure was built as tempo• DISTRIBUTOR building I have ever seen. I mutter a little agnostic's be bulldozed. rary or not does not exclude it from safety prayer whenever I enter the building. DALE HARRISON standards. We think YSU should begin a Consider the design. All concrete with a little David J. Robinson, - ADVISER fund-raising campaign to be used to renovate brick trim. Two elevators, and a grand central stair• professor, communication & theater all buildings to make them built to last. The Jambar Letter Policy (Guest Commentary) The Jambar encourages letters. All letters must be typed, double-spaced, and Student asks for reflection, consideration on what constitutes racismmus t list a.telephone and social security number. All BETTY CLARKE ing to change the system." selves to be racist — black or white. Honest dia• submissions arc subject to CONTRIBUTING WRITER The "denial" aspect of this definition certainly logue often exposes hidden feelings. editing. Letters must not speaks to the school-naming issues in Riverside During the recent holidays, my daughter re• exceed 300 words and commentaries must not A tale of two cities — update, January 1998. and Gadsden. The white Riverside parents were turned from shopping and showed me a doll she exceed 500 words. Opinion In Riverside, Calif., parents of white students surprised at being called racists, saying they were had purchased for a little girl she tutors at South pieces should concern only concerned about their children. Gadsden Side Ministries. When I asked why she hadn't got• campus issues. Items protested vigorously when the school board unani• submitted become the mously voted to name a new high school for slain school superintendent Fred Taylor said, "Forrest ten the child something practical, she said, "Mom, property of The Jambar and civil rights' leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a right to be in the [KKK] as much as these I said she was black. I never said she was poor." will not be returned. folks have a rightt o be in the NAACP." Submissions that ignore Meanwhile, in Gadsden, Ala., black parents are Insisting we are not prejudiced while speaking Jambar policy will not be protesting because their children attend a school The fact many white people read these news• or acting in a prejudiced manner is not only hypo• accepted. The views and named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate paper articles and didn't see the injustice shows critical, it is patronizing. Sometimes the most vile opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those general who became the first grand wizard of the the pervasiveness of racism. It also adds to the remarks are prefaced with, "I don't mean to sound of The Jambar staff or YSU Ku Klux Klan. anger and hurt of .the black community. prejudiced, but..." faculty, staff or Perhaps the most frightening aspect of these two The Jambar forum, Fight to Unite: Let's Talk Some Youngstown merchants who protested administration. Deadline for submission is Friday for news stories is the white parents who protested in About Racism, held Jan. 29 in Kilcawley's Chest• changing the name of West Federal Street to honor Tuesday's paper and Tuesday Riverside insisted, "We're not racist." And the nut Room, began a much-needed understanding Dr. King said they weren't prejudiced, they just for Thursday's paper. white majority of school board members in process for several campus issues. didn't want to buy new stationery. Gadsden adamantly refused to consider a name I think this is a noble idea. Unfortunately the During the forum, Jambar Editor In Chief Commentary change because they said Forrest's status as a Civil people who care enough to voluntarily attend a Tracie Knight asked the panel what could be done Cafe War hero far outweighed his KKK activities. forum of this type are rarely the ones in need of to make a change in the racist feelings that are so on WYSU 88.5 at 7 At The Jambar Writers' Club's first diversity education. Perhaps YSU should consider divisive to America. p.m. Feb. 26. features campus-wide forum, the Rev. Jim Ray, retired YSU making attendance at diversity seminars a manda• I think YSU Coach Floyd Kerr said it best. Attorney Mark campus minister, gave his definition of racism, tory element of our curriculum. "Change can't start until racism is seen as Belinky, candidate "Prejudice plus power — a system of race wherein A forum of this type is a real eye-opening ex• everyone's problem. We have to step outside our for democratic whites gain power, insist it is not so and do noth• perience even for many who don't consider them• comfort zones and take a risk." chairman The Jambar Thursday, February 26,1998 owe eo CCUND

4 An Enemy of the People' comes to the stage

The play will be held for free 3 p.m. March 5 and 7 in a Matthew Leachi condensed form with music by Dr. Robert Rollin, profes• Contributing Writer sor, music, accompanied by YSU graduate Betty Bannon, Nicole Tanner and lyrics by Jacobs. Following the performances will be a forum discussing issues raised by "An Enemy Of The Ffenguin Star Editor People." Part of the grant will also be used in sending the produc• cience and theater tion on the road beginning March 23. Some of the destina• tions include New Castle, Alliance, Stuebenville and Cleve• collide in YSU land. A third portion of the grant will be used to produce a new play with an environmental theme. Theater's pro• Reservations for the play are necessary. Tickets are $6 duction of Henry to the general public and free to all YSU students. Special rates for non-university students, senior citizens and groups Ibsen's 1882 play, are available. For information and reservations call the YSU Theater Box Office at 742-3105. "An Enemy Of The CHAD HOLDEN, THE JAMBAR ON STAGE: Rebecca McConnell and Andrew People," beginning tonight, in Bliss Pavelek star in "An Enemy of the People," Hall's Ford Theater. opening tonight in Ford Theater. and the play focuses on Dr. Stockmann's attempts to un• Dr. Alan Jacobs, director of the Center cover the truth. for Environmental Studies at YSU, helped Amanda Guthrie, freshman, theater, said the production was challenging because it was so old, making the dialogue by partially funding the play with a grant he re• 8 p.m. tonight, Friday, Saturday, March ceived from the Ohio Environmental Education slightly hard to grasp. She said a translator even came in to help the actors learn the distinctive speech. • 5, 6, 7 and 3 p.m. March 8 Fund. "It was really nice to watch the actors learn the language "The goal is to provide environmental education in the and develop their characters," Guthrie said. theater in such a way that the viewer is transported," said Joel Stigliano, sophomore, theater, also said the dialogue Jacobs, adding, "An Enemy Of The People" was the only formed a challenge. play he ever had in mind. "Each line in the play has something to it," Stigliano Jacobs took his idea of the play's production to Dr. Den• said. "A lot of times in everyday speech we say phrases that Ford Theater nis Henneman, director and professor, communication and don't really mean anything, but that's not the case in this theater, more than a year and a half ago. Henneman, who is play. Every line adds to the deeper meaning of the play." directing the production, remembered the play "after read• Stigliano also said this play is different from other ing it in high school," and was immediately interested in mainstage productions at YSU because it deals with social the project. issues. The student-run BlackBox Productions has dealt with Tickets are $6 for the public and free for "An Enemy Of The People," although written in the late social issues, but the mainstage usually deals with plays of 1800s, raises issues very similar to those in the late 20th a more light-hearted nature. YSU students. Reservations are century. It involves a small Norwegian town that enjoys 'This play makes you think about what really is true," necessary. notoriety for its medicinal spring waters. Dr. Stockmann, said Stigliano, "Simple truths like 'majority rules* are ques• the town's physician, discovers the waters are poisoned, tioned in this production."

Vibro Kings will perform in Pub Fat Wally's brings new nightclub style to area Joshua Nolan regional disc jockeys will be mixing it up. Contribute Writer Lynn Nickels Pittsburgh's Metro Mix D.J.s will be regulars and the Contributing V/nter WHOT hot jocks will literally be a permanent fixture. Sometime in 1995^eff Thurston and Eric Choucron Tom Pappas, WHOT program director, said, "Our sta• met in a bar and discovered one another's love for mu• NILES — Does this town really need another Grille & tion built a permanent antennae on the roof so that our disc sic. They played together and attracted the attention Nightclub? Fat Wally's owner, Fadi Zahran, hopes so. He jockeys can broadcast rightfro m the club" of Doug.Khorey.sftfuch later, Lou Ross joined them. said he is going to show this town something they have WHOT's Jim LoBoy opened for the club and Justine When these guys get together now, they're the Vibrp never seen before in a nightclub. Thomas will be on'hand Wednesday nights. Kings. Fat Wally's, located on the strip in Niles, the former home R.T. Audio will do sound for Fat Wally's. Owner, R.T., . With a loud, raucous, roots-edged, rock and blues of Bombay B icycle Club, features a2,200 square-foot dance said he will enjoy working at the club. sound influenced by the countless bands each mem• floor and famous gourmet one-pound burgers, wings and "There is a lot of history in this building. It's in a good ber has been part of, the Vibro Ki rtgs have been giving fries. Zahran said he wants to keep prices low and quality, location and Fadi is a good guy to work for," he said. the Pittsburgh area "one hell of a.good time",for, the high — the most expensive item on the menu is $7.95. In addition to good food and entertainment, Fat Wally's past few years. "The wings are great. They're a nice size. The skins are atmosphere is cozy yet reminiscent of a Hard Rock Cafe. The band is bringing that good time our way when also very good and that Wally Burger could feed at least On the walls hang guitars and autographed photos of many they appear-Wednesday in the,|plc5WIey.Center=Piib two people," said Brian Prior, Boardman. music legends. A painting of a modern cityscape by local from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.. *• ^ ' % The club is also planning big-name entertainment for Boardman artist, Nick Galipo, spans almost one entire wall. The band members bring their fair shares of blues, the coming spring and summer, such as the Allman Broth-, A grand opening special offers a year's membership to the rock, metal, jazz andiwhatevefXfaoucrdn may have, ers and George Carlin, but-will mainly focus on regional club for $50 per person and $75 per couple. Membership picked up while he spent time in th% L A Alub scene: and local bands. includes 10 percent off dining room prices, entrance to con• With such'a diverse collection "of influences, the Mark DeVicchio of The Houseband, now in the midst of cert dates and no waiting at the door. Vibro Kings are, sure to put on a'show well worth cutting its first CD, said his group will perform Friday night Club days and hours are Mondays through Sundays from checking out. , ^ , at Fat Wally's from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. with daily happy hour from 4 to 9 p.m. And when live entertainment is not scheduled, local and For more information, call Fat Wally's at 652-9914. Thursday, February 26,1998 The Jambar 5 OwDtJsc

goofy senses of humor and are not Joshua Nolan afraid to share a joke before or Contributing Wnter during a song. They ad-lib intro• Matthew Lecht ductions both with their voices and instruments and often make up Contributing Writer Ben "EfoCcta 3xve some new lyrics here and there during songs. This gives the album So many bands today wal• and Lloyd coaxed melodies seem• Marquee Moon still stands a more realistic and human feel• low in mediocrity. Like pigs in ingly out of thin air. apart as a true original. ing than one can find-on any of the slop, they seem content just to Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Adventure, released in 1978, band's studio releases. be fed. Unfortunately, the way Moore (an icon in his own right) shows that the band lost little The trio even parodies sounds music is today, the average said in a 1989 European radio in• of its spark, clearly evident with of bands like the Beastie Boys and bands get the most attention. terview, 'They're one of the rea• songs like "Foxhole" and "Car• Rage Against the Machine on a They are the easiest to package, sons I ever had any ambition to ried Away." There's also a num• sound-check cut called "For Those market and sell — you know pick up a guitar. Television proved ber of rare bootleg live albums Punk rock is all about the loud, of Y'all Who Wear Fanny Packs." who I'm talking about — and that there really weren't any rules available, although you will impossibly fast guitars. Punk rock It is a spur of the moment, hilari• they fit nicely into pre-sold to rock V roll; that there is such a probably have to do a little is all about loud, almost ous mess of rapping, drums, bass genres. One band that defies thing as 'artistic freedom.'" Any• searching to find them. They are scream-like vocals. Punk rock is and piano available only in the UK any kind of simple label is the one who has ever heard Sonic definitely worth checking out, none of this for the Ben Folds Five. prior to this album as a rare b-side. late, great Television. Youth — one of today's biggest considering that Television was They don't have a guitar in the Serious Ben Folds Five fans Caught somewhere between influences — can hear the spirit of one of the best live bands of its band. It has been replaced with a will appreciate the rarities avail• punk and no-wave in a bur• Television. day. piano. As for the vocals, Ben Folds able only on this album. Songs like geoning New York scene of the Television's original lineup in• Today, after brief reunions, has a rather pleasant, quiet voice. "Satan is my Master," "The Ulti• rmd-'70s, Television was a rev• cluded punk legend Richard Hell, the members of Television are But this is, "punk rock for sissies," mate Sacrifice" and a Built to Spill elation for anyone fortunate who was replaced by Fred Smith still active. Tom Verlaine has said Folds. cover called "Twin Falls" have enough to hear them. They after only a couple of singles. The made guest appearances on al• The Ben Folds Five has only only ever been performed live. brought a brand of guitar rock band would go on to record only bums by Patti Smith, as well as three members. Why the "Five" "Jackson Cannery" is an that was previously unheard of. two albums before reforming with releasing several stellar solo then? No one seems to have an unreleased track done when the Less self-absorbed than the this same lineup in 1992 to create records. Richard Lloyd was answer for that one. They produce band had only been together for Velvet Underground and more a tremendous self-titled album — Matthew Sweet's underused a unique sound, though, rounding two months and has never before complex than the Ramones, one of the few "reunion" albums steady lead guitarist, and is now it off with a bass, some drums and been released. they changed music forever. I've heard that works. working on solo material with a little background vocals. This album is a must-have for Television's Richard Lloyd Their true masterpiece is 1977*s Verlaine. This newest album of theirs, anyone who is already a Ben Folds and Tom Verlaine practically' seminal Marquee Moon, an exhila• Although the band remains "Naked Baby Photos " is a collec• Five fan and a great place to start reinvented the function of gui• rating exercise in the humble about its career tion of rare b-sides, different ver• for anyone who is not yet familiar tar in rock music, alternating deconstruction of rock conven• (Verlaine has said they "were sions of previously released songs with the band. Nowhere else can between lead and rhythm parts tions. Featuring classic songs like never trying to reinvent the and some live-only material It is one find such a diverse and in fluid, subtle motions. The "See No Evil," "Marquee Moon" wheel"), Television has defi• a well-done portrait of the band well-assembled version of the solid-as-a-rock rhythm section and "Friction," this is one of the nitely left its mark on music and and its many peculiar sides and band's workithroughout the years. of Fred Smith (bass) and Billy few records that has stood the test will surely stand the test of sounds over the years. "Naked Baby Photos" is avail• Ficca (drums) maintained a of time. For all the guitar-based time. - The live tracks are some of the able now at Disc Go Round in sense of structure as Verlaine rock 'n' roll that has come after, best. Folds and his bandmates have Kilcawley Center.

the eyes of a sleazy journalist, bunch of baffling murders that may midsection is. My only complaint joy it, but it hasn't been the box Mike Hurayt newspaper clippings and the best or may not be linked and just might was the musical score — at times office sensation its makers hoped Contribute Writer ensemble acting of the year. For be connected to organized crime it sounded like a teetering drunk it would be, mostly due to poor those who like their crime movies in the area. playing a flute. Otherwise this was advertising. Look for it to win a hard-boiled, this will delight. Leads evaporate, there's the most satisfying film of the year. bag full of Oscars and possibly First we have Bud White, enough gunplay to fill two regular People who don't get into this sort become the second thing to sink (Russell Crowe) a tough-guy cop action movies and the "plot jumps of movie may still be able to en• the "Titanic." who likes to protect damsels in dis• around more than an NBA team in tress. Then there's Ed Exley, (Guy this excellent throwback movie. Pearce) a straight-nosed, by-the- Hands down, this is one of the book lawman who has as many best movies — if not the best friends in the department as he has movie of the year. Most of its If there is one movie out there facial expressions, which is to say naysayers complain it's too con• that can challenge "Titanic" for not many. Finally, there's lack fusing and it is — if you let your Oscar supremacy in the form of Vincennes, (Kevin Spacey) a glitzy attention slip just a hair or decide Best Picture, "L.A. Confidential" sergeant who's a publicity hound to relieve yourself at any time dur• is that movie. and in a partnership with a tabloid ing the movie, you might come It is a gripping, though at times magazine to ensure maximum fan• back in scratching your head. confusing '50s noir crime drama fare. But it all comes together at the set in Los Angeles and told through They're in the middle of a end, no matter how confusing the

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-YSU men's basketball senior - Lady Penguin's Coach Ed forward Willie Spellman DiGregorip (of his five seniors)

JAMIE LYNN REESH breakfast cereals. "I am a cereal is not as easy as one may presume. SPORTS EDITOR fanatic,* he said. "It's funny, my "When I come home after a favorite cereals are the good long day of classes, then practice, cereals like Chex and Crispix." I am sore and bumped up," said The men's basketball team is Spellman loves food in general Spellman. 'The last thing I want having one of its most successful - one thing he misses most about to do is open a book." seasons in years, but success is not New York is the home cooking. And although basketball comes something new to senior forward One of Spellman's many other easy to Spellman, he does not look Willie Spellman. talents is making people laugh. at basketball as a free ride. Spellman spent two years at "I'm a clown," he tells me. "We are working for school - Sullivan County Community "Willie is a jokester," said ^playing basketball is a job," he College in New York where he led teammate Anthony Hunt. "He is- said. "Watching tape, going to the Generals to two straight like 24-hour around-the-clock practice when you don't want to, National Junior College Athletic laughs." when you are sick - other people Association Division III National "Willie's got a million jokes," get to go home on the weekends." Championships. said junior Devon Lewis. "He is Something else the During his tenure at Sullivan, really upbeat and keeps everybody telecommunications major likes to he earned the title of NJCAA laughing." do in his spare time is take things Player of the Year two years in a From the way Spellman talks, apart. "I am one of those row, along with many other one gets the feeling he got his great destructobots," he said. He takes distinguished honors. personality from his grandmother. apart radios, televisions andVCRs. He was the all-time leading "My grandma told me to treat "I have not put a VCR back scorer at SCCC with 1,115 points people.the way you want to be together yet," he said. "But I am and earned numerous MVP treated," Spellman said. working on it." honors. And he does just that. Spellman There are many things you will Despite his prosperity, has something you do not find in learn about Willie Spellman from Spellman considers himself just many athletes today - a heart. just talking to him, but the most like everyone else. Spellman carries himself well important thing you will learn is "I'm just an average Joe," said on and off the court. that he is real. And although he Spellman. "I just love life." Lewis said, "He has been a thinks of himself as just an average

Life is not the only thing he great leader for us this year." Joe - Willie you are a step above DAVE LONG. THE JAMBAR loves. Spellman has a passion for Balancing schooland athletics the rest. AIM HIGH: Senior Willie Spellman lays the ball in during Thursday's game with Valparaiso. YSU lost 70-68. season Monday's win soidifies the Mid-Continent Title for YSU. JAMIE LYNN REESH Lewis also hit three three-pointers SPORTS EDITOR and nabbed two steals. JAMIE LYNN REESH YSU came out for the second Freshman Drew Hannan SPORTS EDITOR half rolling, and Jones took no time From the start of the game, grabbed 10 rebounds, while' in sinking a jumper. YSU dug itself a hole and could freshman Dave Brown pulled It was smooth sailing on senior Senior Colleen Cook seized not get out of it, as Western Illinois down eight rebounds. night for the Lady Penguins with three steals rightawa y and charged ended the Penguins season with a Despite the loss, the Penguins an 88-67 win over Western Illinois down the court and laid two of them 66-57 loss Monday night in shot 100 percent from the foul line Monday, which gives YSU the in for YSU. She finished the game Beeghly Center. and hit 60 percent for three- Mid-Continent Conference crown with seven steals. "We did not play with the pointers in the first half. outright. Senior Caroline McCombs enthusiasm and desire we have "You saw a team who wanted "They are champions," said nailed 6 of 8 from the floor for 12 exhibited for 97,98 percent of the to win, but they wanted to win a Head Coach Ed DiGregorio. "They points, while senior Shannon season," said Head Coach Dan little momre than we did," said know how to do it. They work hard, Beach poured in 10 points, includ• Peters. "We did not come out Peters. they practice hard, they play hard." ing one three-pointer. prepared to play." The Penguins end the season at Western played with the Red Cook scored eight points, as did YSU struggled from the 18-8 and 11-5 in the Mid- and White from the start, but YSU senior Ann Marie Martin. beginning, but stayed with the Continent Conference. began to pull away around the YSU combined for 15 steals, a Leathernecks up to halftime, seven minute mark of the first half. 68.8 percent shooting percentage where Western led 38-35. The five senior starters played and a 66.7 percent for free throws. The Penguins came out their hearts out for their last game The win moves YSU to 24-2 and cold and did not sink a in Beeghly Center. 15-1 in the Mid-Con. The Lady basket until Junior Devon Senior Teresita Jones stepped Penguins have been seeded No. I Lewis hit a three-pointer her play up to lead the Lady Pen• in the Mid-Con tournament. DAVE LONG, THE JAMBAR with less than 14 minutes guins with 26 points. She connected "It's going to take a good night THE AIR UP THERE: left to play. on 7 of 9 field goals and 12 of 16 by someone else to beat us," said The Leathernecks kept Senior Collen Cook lays from the line. She grabbed a team- "DiGregorio. "We will come ready control the entire game, the bail in after a steal in high seven rebounds and nabbed to play - we will come to play." despite a spurt righta t the five steals. YSU will face No. 8 seed Chi• the second half of the Lady end by.the Penguins. The Lady Penguins kept mo• cago State Saturday at 10 a.m. at Penguin's 88-67 win over Senior Anthony Hunt mentum of the game and took a 42- Black Hawk Junior College in Western Illinois Monday. said, "We did not come out 27 lead into halftime. Moline, 111. and play the way we've been playing aU year, and First-team All-Mid-Continent Conference it showed on the court." Hunt and Lewis scored Juniors Matt Folk and Becky Riggle £ a team-high 13 points each. <' DAVE LONG, THE JAMBAR Second-team All-Mid-Continent Conference Hunt nailed 3 of 6 GUIDANCE: Coach Peters Bob Bond, Shawn Cobey, Dennis Machooka, Dave Putins, three-pointers and was a gives freshman Desmond perfect 4 of 4 on the line Harrison some pointers during Dwy te Smiley, Denver Williams and Meressa Corn well and dished out fiveassists . Monday's game. Thursday, February 26,1998 The Jambar 7 CLASSIFIEDS CAMPUS CALENDAR

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Continued from page 1 Holden said he will travel spending more than $700. to several midwest cities to Because of telephone calls from it never hit, so I got lucky." visit friends and relatives. . parents concerned about their chil• Dr. William Buckler, ge• "I'll be safe from El Nino," dren, Rep. lames Traficant got in• ography, explained some of laughed Holden. "I'm going.- volved in helping get the students the factors fueling the rough to Cleveland ^Bowling Green, home. weather in many popular Sand Creek Mich;, Southbend Johnson said this year the group spring break destinations. Ind., Indianapolis and Colum• made break plans through a local "With El Nino, all of the bus." travel agency. normal ocean currents and Is it always better to be "They're a lot more reputable, wind patterns are reversed. safe than sorry? ; and it only cost $65 more," she said. The trade winds blow west to Despite his knowledge of Bob Ridel, travel counselor at east and die down, and warm the wild and woolly El Nino Pan-Atlas Travel in Kilcawley cen• water cuts off the normal weather patterns, William ter, said it is important to make sure ocean upweHing," he said. Buckler had some brave ad• you use a reputable company when "This causes the Jetstream to vice for southern-set and making arrangements to prevent steer storms to California and western-willed adventurers. A lecture to be given by this from happening. all the areas along.the south• "If I was 20 years old "All these kids come asking for ern coast of the UnitedStates. again, I wouldn't' let the' help, and all I can tell them was There is a predisposition for weather bother me. I'd go and Dr. Christopher Bache 'nothing' because they didn't go stormy weather to occur in have a good time. There's a through a legitimate agency," he these areas during the next predisposition for bad Wednesday March 4,1998 at Noon said. 'Those little flyers they see...I few months" Buckler contin• weather, but I would still take won't book them and nine out of ued. "And it could last the chance. Looking back on 10 agents will tell the same thing." longer." my college years, I regret I Room 2068, Kilcawley Center In a deal made last year between So where should a college didn't travel to more places. Rep. Traficant, Dr. Cochran and student go for spring break? Spring break is a time for col• Student Affairs, YSU is supposed Buckler chuckled and said, lege students to just have fun: Sponsored By to take down any flyers posted on "They should stay here." They pack four or 12 people campus, but the travel agencies just Chad Holden, senior, En• in a room, and they don't care Philosophy and Religious Studies: hire someone to put a new one up glish, has El Nino-immune if the weather's bad." 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FINANCIAL AID & SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS • Forms for the 1998-99 Academic Year are now available • YSU's Institutional Aid Application (including Scholarships for Excel• lence, Federal Perkins, Work Study, & SEOG) for 1998-99 is due MARCH 1,1998. Annual reapplication is required. • The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFS A) or RENEWAL FAFSA for 1998-99 should be filed as soon as possible and requires information from your family's 1997 tax return to complete. » The FAFSA or RENEWAL FAFSA is required to be completed and processed prior to applying for Federal Stafford Loans. »The deadline to submit a financial aid appeal is MARCH 16, 1998 to be effective Spring Quarter. APPLY EARLY FOR MAXIMUM CONSIDERATION

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