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News Technology Two-year-old girl Y2K: Disaster found in the mid- waiting to hap- dle of D-Court THE ARGO pen or hoax? (see pg. 7) (see pg. 16) of the Richard Stockton College Serving the college community since 1973 Voiume 56 Number 9 Pomona, New Jersey Monday April 12, 1999 http ://www. Stockton. edu/'-argo Coming of Spring Benefits Stockton Carmen Campise The Argo How does an evening of luscious hors d'overes, open bar, an auction, and live entertainment sound? This will be the scene on April 24 when the Richard Stockton College will host its annual Spring Benefit. The evening will begin in the gymnasium with the start of an auction of over 400 items donated to the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Foundation along with a wonderful din- ner. The night continues in the Performing Arts Center with a performance headlined by Joel Grey, world renown for his act- ing role in "Çabaret". The benefit will then end with the con- clusion of the auction. The George Mesterhazy Orchestra will be providing musical entertainment throughout the evening as Photo by Shaun Reilly well. From the Spring Benefit, the Richard Stockton College of Nicholas Jimenez, of Lambda Theta Phi, Latin Fraternity, won the keg toss with a throw of approximately 50 feet on Tuesday, April 6, during Greek Week festivites. (Spring continued on page 8) "Big Blue" Equals Big Change For All Students Carrie Dragovcic and lights for night games and prac- Joshua Heines tices. Two additional practice The Argo fields were established as well as With the wave of the new mil- four new tennis courts that are lenium rapidly approaching, the currently being built behind the Richard Stockton College com- existing gymnasium. munity is patiently awaiting the The second phase is the con- completion of the Multipurpose struction of the actual building Recreational Center(MARC). located next to parking lot 4/5. The MARC'S building will be the "Big Blue," as nicknamed by largest building on Stockton's Larry James, director of campus, stretching over 40,000 Athletics and Recreation, will be square feet. It is tentatively the home of the new gymnasium scheduled to be finished for and many new multi-purpose January 2000. programs for the Stockton com- The entire project cost $17 munity, which was modeled million and was divided into two after the gymnasium at Brandeis phases. The first phase which University. Michael Graves, was completed this year, consist- architect of the Arts and Science Photo by Shaun Reilly ed of upgrading the outdoor ath- building, is also the architect on letic fields. this project. The 40,000 sq. ft. MARC building could be ready in time for graduation in January 2000. The track, and soccer and The new building will have lacrosse fields were fixed to fit three levels. The multi-purpose of the courts is wooden which fits ties ranging from basketball and was at one time a stretching room hightened NCAA standards and facility will contain four NCAA the NCAA regulation for compet- volleyball to tennis and bad- for student and athletes. also due to student interest. Both size courts and will have the itive teams. minton. The present fitness room The planned fitness room for the competitive and practice capacity to house approximately The remaining three are made which currently holds approxi- the new center will be 2500 fields were constructed with 5000 spectators for events. One of synthetic materials for activi- mately ten pieces of equipment (MARC continued on page 6) Page 15 April 12, 1999 WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS THE ARGO NATO Attacks Serb Ground Troops, Finding More Success Michael Kilian And Bob Secter voy Tuesday night. ernment said Wednesday that it was con- sending ground troops to Kosovo. A Knight-Ridder Newspapers After methodically laying waste to vil- sidering the possibility that NATO soldiers Washington Post-ABC News poll released WASHINGTON - NATO warplanes lage after village in Kosovo and driving would have to be sent to Kosovo. earlier in the week had similar results. launched waves of strikes against Serbian hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians Defense Minister Art Hggleton told Clinton gave no indication of any tanks and troops Wednesday as Western from the province in Europe's worst reporters it did not look as if the Yugoslav change in strategy Wednesday as he insist- diplomats probed for signs of softening in refugee exodus since World War II, government was agreeable to ground ed that the 19-member NATO alliance was the hard tine taken by Yugoslav President Yugoslavia suddenly changed course troops being sent in as part of a peace united in its will to force full compliance Slobodan Milosevic, and one key NAl'O Wednesday and sealed off its main border agreement, so military planners were by Milosevic with its demands. partner said it was time to consi<;ler send- crossings to prevent more Albanian "looking at other options as to where "He must withdraw his forces, let the ing ground troops to Kosovo. Kosovars from leaving. ground troops might be involved." (NATO Attacks continued on page 3) "We are flying missions 24 hours a day Without explanation, Yugoslav authori- Similar sentiments echoed through - day and night," Air Force Maj. Gen. ties denied exit to thousands of refugees Washington on Wednesday as key Charles Wald said, stressing that improv- waiting to cross into neighboring Republicans and Democrats in Congress ing weather in Yugoslavia was opening Macedonia and Albania and herded them urged President Clinton to drop his oppo- THE ARGO more targets on the ground in Kosovo to back toward their burned and looted sition to ground-troop combat in Kosovo. The Richard Stockton allied attack. homes and an uncertain fate in the interior Republican Rep. Christopher Cox and One day after conceding that Yugoslav of the war-ravaged province. Democratic Rep, Nancy Pelosi, both from College of New Jersey tanks and troops had evaded attack by con- German Defense Minister Rudolf California, urged Clinton to prepare for the Pomona, New Jersey 08240 cealing themselves in the countr>side and Scharping warned that the Yugoslavs may deployment of ground troops as a last Phone (609) 652-4560 • FAX mingling with columns of refugees, U.S. be planning to use the civilians in Kosovo resort to end the carnage in Kosovo. (609) 748-5565 officials said alliance warplanes were as "human shields" against NATO attack. "Having committed the prestige of the The ARGO is not an official publication of The beginning to attack the Serbian forces suc- Since fighting began, President Clinton worid's only superpower, the only course Richard Stockton College, but is published cessfully. and other NATO leaders have insisted that now is to defeat Milosevic militarily and to independently by students at Stockton College. The Pentagon said F-14 and F-18 jets no Western ground troops would be need- do it swiftly," Cox said. EDITOR-IN -CHIEF from the carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the ed and air attacks alone would eventually An NBC/WalJ Street Journal poll Joshua Heines Adriatic joined the alliance strikes for the force Milosevic to capitulate. released Wednesday found that 53 percent COPY EDITOR first time in an attack on an armored con- But, in a major shift, the Canadian gov- of Americans surveyed were in favor of Chris Ferullo AndreAnna Weber LIFESTYLE EDITOR Libya Hands Over Suspects In Pan Am Bombing Dan Grote COMICS EDITOR Drusilla Menaker built and planted the bomb. mate goal of this trial, then it's a travesty," Michelle McLaughlin Knight-Ridder Newspapers "The days will prove what we are saying he said. PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR CAIRO, Egypt - More than a decade is true," Al-Megrahi said on a Libyan TV U.N. representative Hans Corell escort- Shaun Reilly after a suitcase packed with explosives broadcast monitored by The Associated ed the Libyans, their lawyers, a doctor and CALENDAR COORDINATOR blew up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Press. relatives to the Netherlands, where a sec- Gemette Wright Scotland, killing 270, the Libyan govern- Four days before Christmas 1988, New tion of Camp Zeist, a now-unused U.S. air OFFICE MANAGER ment handed over two men Monday for York-bound Pan Am Flight 103, 42 min- base 30 miles from Amsterdam, will in Carrie Dragovcic trial in the Netheriands. utes out of London's Heathnsw Airport, effect become Scottish territory for the AD & BUSINESS MANAGER The move unlocked a legal and diplo- exploded at 31,000 feet. trial. Chris Longo matic stalemate and brought the immediate All 259 aboard died, including 189 The United States accepted the arrange- easing of U.N. sanctions against Libya, Americans, 25 of them students from New ment last August, agreeing to having the Tara Guide ending its international isolation. York's Syracuse University. case heard in a neutral country after insist- STAFF WRITERS The Clinton administration hailed the Eleven more people were killed as flam- ing for years that the case be prosecuted in Chick Yeager, Brian M. Nelson, hand over as a victory against terrorism. ing wreckage crashed into the farming vil- either the United States or Britain. Susan Evrard, Douglas McCullough, "Now, at last, the road to justice has lage of Lockerbie, making its name a syn- Gadhafi had maintained that the men Carmen Campise, Carrie Dragovcic, begun," President Clinton said in a pre- onym for the long reach of international would not be safe in U.S. custody. For Andrea Shabazian, Michelle pared statement. terrorism. refusing to turn over the suspects, Libya McLaughlin, Emma Redmer, Shaun 'There will now be a criminal trial for investigators soon began piecing togeth- was subjected to sanctions imposed by the Reilly, James Kummel, Amanda that act of mass murder," said British er a case against Libya.