~PRICE HIKE- Aramark revises meal plan and ,t raises prices 10 percent. See page 5 HORSING AROUND- Strider continues this week­ e,nd in the Royal Theater. See page 8

DIVING IN- Men and women swimmers break records. See page 15

Volume 68, Issue 11 The student voice of the University of Scranton Thursday, February 9, 1995 Toad, Hootie hop into tovvn

By ANDREW WHELPLEY a junior from Bowye, M.d.,. the surrounding community can Assistant News Editor Flannagan listens to both bands be involved in," Soril said, "it gives frequently and has been waiting them the opportunity to see major Toad the Wet Sprocket opens for an opportunity to see them bands perform for a low ticket for Bootie and the Blowfish at 8 live. price, in a small venue." p.m. on Wednesday, AprilS in the Robert Sandrock, assistant di­ Student tickets are $15 a piece John Long Center, announced Stu­ rector of student activities, ad­ with a limit of two per person. dent Activities last Tuesday. vises the Concert Committee. He Soril explains that they raised the Terrance Clark, a senior from believes that their accomplish­ ticket price from last year because Northport, N.Y., is a Concert Co­ ments over the last two years have the two bands cost more. Director and a devotedHootie fan. come from experience and luck. The tickets go on sale from 11 "These are two great bands which "It's a lot of guess work," he said, a.m. through 2 p.m. on Feb, 21 at we think most students like," he "you have to find the right band the Student Activities Office in the said. "We're lucky to be getting that's doing the right thing at the GunsterCenter, second floor. There both of them in one show." right time." will be special evening sales from The two bands recently teamed Since the Gin Blossoms con­ 5 p.m. through 8 p.m on February up for a tour. Mter two years on cert last year, the Concert Com­ 22 and 23. the road, Toad has just released mittee has been working to repeat After Feb. 28, student tickets their fourth album, Dulcinea. The their success. Rolaine Soril, a jun­ will no longer be available. South-Carolina-based,Hootie also io:r from Farmingdale, N.Y., be­ Ticketmaster will begin sales on just debuted on their Atlantic came a Concert Co-Director be­ March 1 at $19 a ticket plus a Record label with Cracked Rear cause she thinks that concerts service charge. View. bring the University closer to­ The Concert Committee is op­ "Finally, the University is gether. timistic about the event. Accord­ Photo Credit\ Michael Wilson spending our money on something "A big concert is something ingtoSandruck, "Oursell-outpoint L toR: Randy Guss, Dean Dinning, Glen Phillips and Todd Nichols of Toad worthwhile," said Sean Flannagan, that the whole student body and is 4,000 and we hope to sell-out." the wet sprocket.

. . · · II IID ~ fl.cdl ~- · -. ' ,'. - ; Clark to address '95 graduates News ...... 1~5 Security Log...... 2 By MATIHEW SULLIVAN pearances have made it difficult McGrath, an up-and-coming pros­ husband, Warren. With five chil­ News Briefs ...... 3 Assistant News Editor for her to participate at our under­ ecutor- who discovers that plastic dren to support, Clark went to Memoboard ...... 4 graduate ceremonies." surgery has transformed several work writing radio scripts. Mary Higgens Clark, bestsell­ Panuska also noted that find­ women in order to make them She eventually turned her at­ Forum...... 6-7 ing su~pense novelist will address ing a free time for Clark this year look like a murder victim from a tention to novels, writing the best­ Editorial...... 6 the 1995 graduating class during was difficult as well. crime ten years in the past. selling novel Where Are the Chil­ Editorial Cartoon ...... 6 commencement exercises on May "In fact, this year her publisher When McGrath begins to in­ dren? in 1974. Letters to the Editor ... 6· 28. had arranged for something that vestigate, she finds no one inter­ After the sale of her first novel, Opinion articles ...... 7 Clark, who has written 13 would have conflicted with our ested in reopening that old case, she returned to school, entering bestsellers, will receive an honor­ commencement," Panuska said, and suddenly finds herself up Fordham University. She gradu­ Lifestyles ...... 8-13 ary doctor of humane letters de­ "but she graciously and apparently against someone who will go to ated in 1979 with a B.A. in phi­ Campus Profile ...... 10 gree from the University on that any length to keep the case closed. losophy. Campus Comment.. .. ll persuasively managed to have that Classified Ads ..... 12-13 day as well. changed." Clark suffered from a difficult Two of her novels, Where Are "Mary Higgens Clark has been This spring may indeed be a childhood with her father dying the Children? and A Stranger Is Sports...... 14-16 on the list of outstanding candi­ very busy one for Clark, who will when she was ten years old and Watching have been made into Intramurals ...... 16 dates for commencement speaker be releasing her fourteenth novel, her mother struggling to raise motion pictures, while The Cradle Scoreboards ...... 15 for several years," said the Rev. J. Let Me Call You Sweetheart, in Clark and her two brothers on her WillFall and Stillwatch were made Chiely Speaking:..... 14 A. Panuska, S.J ., University presi­ May. own. dent, "but her various public ap- The new novel follows Kerry Later, she was widowed by her See Clark, page 2