The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-25-1997 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1997-04-25 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), 1997-04-25" (1997). The Voice: 1991-2000. 171. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/171 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]. Woice VolumeTheCXIII, Issue 25 WoosterTHERE'S NO STUFF LIKE GOOD STUFF Friday, April 25, 1997 Women "Take Back the Night" Letter raises concern JAMES ROLLER Week.'" According to the letter, women "declared a week to tell the Women's Week proceedings were w orld how wonderful women were." complicated this week by the ap- In the meantime men reacted by pearance of a letter parodying gen- "selflessly swallowed their pride der roles in society with a focus on even at this insult .." The letter Women's Week. The major con- concluded by say ing ""the alien sped cern regarding the letter dealt not away trom l:arth '" and decided only with its content hut also the that "the planet would be avoided authorship. until a democratic social system " f rhc letter, entitled "Something to emefjed. Trunk About During "Women's According :o Meg Toth '4". co-aireci- or Week.'" was found earl Tuesday tor the Women's Resource-Center- , morning on bulletin hoards in-W.ign- er bet ween midnight and a.m. hy HC( )Sr representativ cs m Tuesdav two copies ol the letter posting Karth W eek I tiers. Copies were posted, one in Wagncf and were rurwarded to various organi- another m kauke Hie WRC re- zations and people on campus, in- ceived calls :rom Concerned siu-deiit- s. J, cluding active participants in as well as a copv ol the liver. r Women's Week. At the bottom, it .v as signed "T he Beginning with the paragraph. meaol t 1" the dice k ietlei s ot "An alien once v isited Earth. This i'hi Delia Sigma. The actual author alien ,aw two types of humans -- of the letter i -- pule, ho'-ve-- . er men and women." ihe letter de- -- lorsc (, roi nted scribed a theoretical .relationship between men and' women :n whui: ul voiii.n generally led i mote c--;-!- r ii!e than men and av-c- d loru-.- - Men "iniiiKd Itir "a n 1 in - - - , " .:i e t:l . !;!;:. ii.! ..ii;:i.i!iv . -- . ".':!. .u-rv e ..n . ..:-.- ; ; . -- v - . ! ".. p:ic:ioi::e.".-'- . ..!..; iu:. u i.r. Last niuhl. mer 150 umnt'ii .uiti nu n u.ithi-rt- l to conntt-- r ioltntt' ;iuainst women. stolen - Conga drums NATE STR1CKLER scheduled jsa part of the 'Women's leniule nurses while only o'ne sur- Week.-.- ' activities. icd. hiding under the bed. ""Didn't NEWSSERVICES About 150 women arrived in At 7:45 p.m. Meg Toth '47 began anyone teach these women to tight Lowry at 7:30 p.m. last night tor the ihe ceremony, by telling everyone back.'" Oliverio inquired. Two conga drums valued at almost SKMMt were taken trom the Take Back the Night March, which that there was going to be a bell The march itself began with all of Timken Rehearsal Room of the Scheide Music Center during the commenced with reading of statis- tolling every fifteen seconds to sig- the women gathering in front of weekend of April II to 13. "We've searched the entire facility and tics and poetry. Amongst the many nify a violent crime against a woman. Lowry and marching towards the talked with a number of students about this, and it appears now that the ' women at the march, llv-r- e were Three women stood up and began library down University St.. through drums have been stolen." said Jeffrey Lindberg. associate professor of twelve male supporters, double the reading statistics about violence, the Kauke arch, around the quad, music. "Whoever took the drums must know that these instruments are number of last year' s march. These punctuated every IS seconds by the and back to Lowry.. "Women unite. very valuable, and thus Campus Security and the Wooster Police are women and men gathered in an ef- bell tolling. It was a striking re- Take back the night was one of the treating this matter as a possible felony. This is much worse than fort to end violence against women minder of the little heard and little chants they yelled as they crossed stealing the sign in front of Galpin Hall," added Lindberg. The drums, and all present were asked to wear publicized crimes against women. campus. The idea behind the march which were given to the Wooster Symphony by the Women's Commit- bells in order to break the silence of The statistics ended with Julie is for a large group of women to tee for the Orchestra, are used extensively by the Percussion Ensemble women not speaking about violence. Oliverio 97 reading her own poem gather together so that they feel safe and the College percussion students. The drums were scheduled to be Black armbands were also handed about women being socialized to at night without having to worry used in last weekend's Spring Dance Concert but obviously were not out to victims of violent crimes. not fight back. She used the ex- available. Anyone with knowledge about, the missing conga brums is The march, sponsored by the ample ofthe Richard Speck case, in please see TAKE BACK THE urged to telephone the music office at x24 19. Women's Resource Center, was which Speck raped and killed seven NIGHT MARCH, page 2 V V Author Michael Dorris com- Women's Week concludes ii tomorrow, when all are invited to mitted suicide April 1 1. He vis- ited the College as a Forum gather in the Pit from 6 to 730 V V V share fine by and speaker in the fall of 1995. Tomorrow in the Pit from I to The Red Cross will set up a Tomorrow, students will leave p.m. to arts 3 pjn.. WVNs Reality Market of- table in Lowry on April 30 from 5 to from Lowry at 1 1 a.m. to walk, bike about women. V will fers insight into the real world. 7 pjn. and May 1 from 12 to 2 p.m. or ran to Spangler Park, where Dr. Vasant Joshi offer a V talk and practice session on "The and 5 to 7 pjn. to collect donations Chuck Kammer will speak for the The recipients of the Cam- Experience of Meditation in V Library carrel requests are due for victims of Ohio flooding. Con- final event of Earth Week. pus Council Honoraria awards announced by May I . Yoga" on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in in Mimi Lewellen's office by Mon- tributions may also be sent to Susan will be Lean Lecture. day. April 28. JenneratC-193-4. 111 Page 2 News April 25, 1997 News Take Back the Night march Briefs co-direct- or continued from page 1 on the men's march, saying, "This Julie Oliverio '97, of NATIONAL is definitely the smallest demon- WRC, commented on this year's about being attacked, as many said stration that I've ever taken part in, evening. "I think it went really well. The floodwalers have stopped rising and by early Thursday morning the they do whenever they walk across which makes it that much more of a I was glad to see so many men com- river was a foot below its record crest in Grand Forks, ND. The city was campus alone after dark. demonstration." fortable enough to get up and talk," virtually abandoned by the time the Red River crested a few days ago at 54 The twelve men gathered outside The women then gathered in front she said. feet, more than twice the flood stage. The Red has continued to flood its Lowry after the women left to show of Lowry to hear a recitation of Toth, also a co-direc- tor of WRC, banks farther north, threatening small towns on both sides of the U.S.- their support. They chanted, 'Take Maya Angelou's poem "And Still I was also pleased with the turn out. Canada border, 100 miles away. Mayor Pat Owens said people in one back the night for women and men," Rise" while the bell continued to be In particular, she said she felt the southwestern section of the city would be allowed to return to their flooded as they made their way across Beall rung every fifteen seconds. After event can be beneficial for first year homes for a brief time Thursday afternoon to assess damage and retrieve and around the quad, then waited at the group assembled inside there .students. "I think a lot of women belongings. To get into their neighborhoods, residents will have to go the Armington quad to cheer on the was an open microphone to anyone come here who haven't had the op- through vehicle checkpoints, she said. It will take months, maybe years, to women. who wanted to tell a story or to show portunity before to talk about things repair burned downtown buildings, swamped sewers, contaminated drink- Men from Andrews began to yell support for the march.