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Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 1999-10-20 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (1999). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 2834. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/2834 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY. 85th year, issue 8 week of OCTOBER 20, 1999 www.xu.edu/soa/11ewswire/ Alcohol forum BY SARAH KELLEY Senior News Editor Xavier's Student Government Association sponsored a forum last Wednesday to discuss issues facing students living off campus. Stu dents were invited to voice concerns on topics including the 'party clause,' shuttle service to and from parties and complaints from neigh bors in North Avondale. A panel, which included Execu tive Director for Student Services Dr. Luther Smith, Vice President for Student Development Dr. Ron Slepitza, Campus Police Chief Michael Couch and representatives from the North Avondale Neighbor NEWSWIRE PHOTO BY VIVIAN WHITE hood Association (NANA), listened Students participating in Shantytown, an effort· to raise homelessness awareness, construct their shanty Sunday on the residential to student comments and answered mall. The annual event will end this Saturday. questions at the forum. "The forum was very success Cardboard and community ful," said Smith. "We need to have Shantytown: more dialogues like this. By bring BY CAROLINE CRISPINO possible to walk by without at least Center and to help the homeless." "I thought Over-The-Rhine was ing in people from surrounding News Writer · thinking 'What are these shanties A new event this year is a City great, and so many students came neighborhoods, students and resi-.. Shantytown, a Xavier tradition doing here?"' said B'arker. Council candidate· forum, on the to see them after a busy week. The dents could hear both sides. This dedicated to educating people about Shantytown is supposed to bring residential mall, Thursday at 8 p;m. music was great. The concert made . type of dialogue is necessary to live homelessness, began on the resi the issue of homelessness to the "The City Council forum is a good money and collected canned goods in harmony and co-exist." dential mall Sunday with the build forefront.of our minds. The hope · opportunity for students to interact for a good cause," said freshman Student senators junior Jeff ing of the shanties and an opening is the events, speakers and reflec" with politiciaris to show our con Alley Clary. Pugh and senior P.J. Zimmer coor reflection and will end Saturday tions throughout the week will lead cerns about the community and the· Students will have the opportu dinated the forum in response to with a day devoted to community to informed opinions, which will city,'~ said End. nity to meet with many people from student concerns. regarding the service. translate into actiori from informed Also, each day a nightly reflec the Drop-Inn Center, a homeless 'party clause.' Students constructed cardboard voting to volunteering. tion will be held focusing on the shelter, and find out firsthand the "We wanted to inform adminis- · shanties on the residential mall to According to its organizers, the day's activities. During each reflec experiences.of a homeless person. trators of student's views through a serve as a visual symbol of the prob purpose of Shantytown is to ·bring . tion, students have the opportunity "There's a lot to learn from other productive dialogue," said Pugh. lem of homelessness in our coun the Xavier community into a deeper .to get a bead, and at the end of the people's stories and the interaction One of the concerns several stu try. relationship with the homeless of week make a keychain out of the between students and people from dents brought up at the forum was Daily and nightly events are Cincinnati through personal con beads to serve as a-reminder of the the Drop-Inn Center,'' said Barker. the allocation of off-campus disci scheduled,· which concentrate· on tact; organized service and attention week and what it signifies. In recent years, many students plinary fines to surrounding neigh problems related to homelessness to the experience of people who Friday, at 5:30 p.m., students have asked the question, why do borhoods. The Xavier handbook such as violence, corporate have dedicated their lives to allevi who have donated a meal from their Xavier students pretend to be home states that all fines are to be directed downsizing and hunger. ating the problem. meal plans are invited to eat at the less for a week? back to Xavier for educational pro Shantytown is sponsored by the Increasing awareness and reflec simulated soup kitchen and be a "It is a common misconception gramming. Dorothy Day House and has been tion about the g19bal, as well as lo part of the music and poetry cel - we are not trying to be home "A committee is being formed held at Xavier since 1989. Senior cal, dimensions of homelessness are ebration. At 9 p.m., a final reflec- less at all, the shanties are prima" that will include students and ad Kristen Barker, the planning com also goals of the week. tion will be held on the residential rily a symbol. Some people choose ministrators, to see if changes need mittee leader, has been involved Throughout the week, mall along with the disassembly of to sleep in them for two main rea to be made in the handbook to with Shantytown for four years. Shantytown is sponsoring music the shanties. Saturday morning, sons. clarify this for students," said Twenty-eight shanties were as performances, global discussions volunteers will attend the final "First, for reflection ofthe days' Smith. sembled and arranged on the resi about homelessness and discus Shantytown event, a service day in events which builds community Students also brought up the is dential mall by various Xavier sions on how homelessness has af Over-The-Rhine. with the other students who stay in sue of the confidentiality of disci clubs, houses and wings. fected the Norwood area. Everyone is welcome to attend the shanty for the night, and sec plinary actions and cited concerns The shanties are built from card Sophom'ore Elizabeth End, every event. The rain sites for the ond, it interrupts our daily pattern. about the issuance of disciplinary board boxes, plastic and wooden member of the Shantytown plan events are listed on the shanties. We feel and think differently be reports, which do not include the palettes. The fee required for each ning committee, is sleeping in the Earlier this week, music concerts cause. we are not in our beds at name and status of students, to shanty is $50, which is given to the Pax Christi shanty this week. and discussions about the effect of night," said Barker. NANA. Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. "I want to experience violence on Vietnamese refugees For additional information about "The forum was a great way to "By the end of the week, we Shantytown this year and show my and immigration problems were Shantytown, call the Dorothy Day open up the lines of communica should have raised over $1,500," support and encourage others," said held. House at 745-3046. tion," said Pugh. "The administra said Barker. End. "I am looking forward to hear Sunday night, Shantytown spqn tors were more than willing to lis Shantytown represents a creative ing the s·tories from the immigrants sored a concert featuring the band ten to student concerns." effort to bring awareness. "It's im- and from people of the Drop-Inn Over-the-Rhine. © 1999 The Xavier Newswire All rights reserved NEWS: OP-ED: SPORTS: DIVERSIONS: ~~~*'3TililS1 !.15.'l!!MMMU!Ydf~JJflM,$Li~ Habitat breaks ground Taking responsibility, Volleyball wins Creed plays Advertising {513) 745-3561 . .on second project taking the keys at Dayton sold-out Firstar t::ir•·~·m"~!!;;Iii... .......,, · ...... a,.,,,,.Q ·. ·.· · · -·~·nr:.~~·•"1\l!llf '];..; ..· ·mm., '·· '""'~··~a·" ci'',~.~ · Editor-in-Chief {513) 745-3607 PAGE 2 PAGE 7 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 ,r IY , 2 weeko/OCTOBER20, 1999 CAMPUS NEWS THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE BRIEFS ;as; SU!!lll!l!:I iSJU S 111.J t: &l!lll!S!tSlf Priority >-Bryan Riechman, Editor . >-News Room: 745-3122 >[email protected] registration Ill I n ii IUBll'.lil !i 11 ! m College Democrats information College Democrats will be holding their first meeting for new members on Oct. 21 at 6:30 REGISTRATION The spring schedule of classes p.m. The meeting will be held in Alter B-11. The meeting will in will be available in the Registrar's Office, Alter 129, beginning Mon~ clude sharing of ideas, and the day, Oct. 25. Registration is Nov. movie "Bulworth" will be shown. 9-16 from 11:30 a.,m. to 5 p.m. Stu Everyone is invited to attend. dents should consult the Registrar's bulletin board in Alter to find the Pershing Rifles exact time and date of their regis Pershing Rifles welcomed the tration appointments. Students recruit class of 1999 into their may not register before their regis fraternity last Saturday. Cory tration appointment time, but may Carter, Justin Habosh, Jonathon do so after. However, everyone Heist, Andrea Pepe, Matt should register before the end of Raymond and Mason Rowell priority registration on Tuesday, successfully completed seven Nov. 16. weeks of strenuous physical NEWSWIRE PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI GEESLIN training, instructional classes, Junior Natalie Heil, member of Habitat for Humanity, helps another volunteer in the construction of ACADEMIC ADVISING drill and ceremony and s.tudy the house's exterior walls.