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news: ENTERTAINMENT: SPORTS: Cedar Point is MOVIE REVIEW: Several YSU foot• seeking students to 77/ Z>0 Anything ball players volun• apply for summer could improve with teered at read-a- jobs. additional sarcasm* thon last Friday. Page6 Page 7 ! X >Page 9 Seeking Truth, Justice and Equality Tuesday, February 8,1994 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY VOL. 72 NO. 94 inn PIA BRADY because they "benefit the commu• helping Student Government with that has the most volunteers will Editor-in-Chief nity and everybody." Locket also the blood drive should contact win a pizza party," said Lockett. said Student Government has been Lockett at 742-3591 or call exten• Lockett also said the University JStudent Government and the sponsoring blood drives for the sion 3593. Members of the cam• department that donates the most American Red Cross will be spon• past 10 years. pus community that either donate blood will also receive a pizza soring their third blood drive of the Lockett said the campus com• blood or assist Lockett with the party. First-time donor's names are academic school year from 9 a.m. munity is being encouraged to give program are eligible to receive a placed in a pool to receive a prize, to 3 p.m. on Feb. 15 and 10 a.m. blood because there is a "an over• prize. Lockett said three contests which may be anything from a To Your Heart to 4 p.m. on Feb. 16 in the Chest• all shortage of blood nationwide." are being held which involve stu• stuffed toy to McDonald's cou• nut Room of Kilcawley Center, This quarter Lockett is asking or• dent organizations, University de• pons. GIVE BLOOD Tarena Lockett, secretary of Com• ganizations to participate and help partments and first-time donors. Student Government usually munity Affairs and coordinator of the Red Cross. "We need as much "The student organization that meets its quota for donating blood. its quota with 106 percent. Lockett the event said Student Government help as we can get," said Lockett. donates the most blood will win However Lockett said there was a is hoping the blood drive will be continues to sponsor blood drives Anyone who is interested in $100 and the student organization year when the organization passed just as successful this quarter. Stu Gov Approves M<ff Student Groups PIA BRADY tions are "open to everyone", thus Editor-in-Chief permitting all YSU students an opportunity to take part in a con• A report was submitted by the ference. Beckett also said educa• Financial Appropriations Commit• tional conferences "do enhance the tee at yesterday's Student Govern• body of YSU, (because students . ment meeting which listed a sug• are) representing the University in gested allotment of funding for an intercollegiate spectrum." student organizations. The repre• Mareen Dellapenna reminded sentative body supported the re• Student Government members port and the funding of the orga• that they had been allocating funds nizations. The Political and Legal for educational conferences since Society received $100, Sigma Pi the begining of the academic year. Alpha received $60, the Associa• Other funding stipulations tion for Systems Management $50, were also disscussed at yesterday's The American Society for Me• meeting. Jeff Vanik, F&PA, chanical Engineers received $100 Represritative, wanted to know if David Caleris ' and Kappa Delta Pi received $88. the funding which was to be used Catherine and Norman Schonut relax at the International Coffee Hour, which is held every Thurs• However, before funding was for a student concert could be day in DeBartolo Hail. See story on page 3. approved, Student Government given to student organizations. members debated the necessity of Vanik said some students and or• funding educational conferences. ganizations have fantastic program National Newscaster Visits Alan Rea, Graduate Representa• (ideas) that could benefit every• tive, questioned whether Student one." Dr. Raymond E. Dye, V.P. SUSAN SCAGGS Youngstown. She will present her anchor on its Early Morning News. Government should allocate of Student Affairs, and Student Assistant News Editor lecture on adoption and her career. From CBS, Daniels traveled money to conferences unless all Government adviser, said Presi-. as a newswoman at 7 p.m. on Fri• to NBC. Here she worked as a YSU students are, eligible to attend dent Cochran had allocated $15. day, Feb. 18 at Stambaugh Audi• Faith Daniels, reporter for the news anchor and feature reporter the conference. Dave HAH, V.P. thousand for a campus concert be-; evening newsmagazine, Dateline torium. for the Today Show. supported Rea. He said he be• cause he believed the campus was NBC who spent the first few After graduating with honors Tickets to the lecture are $15 lieved it would be "more benefi• "lacking in a campus wide" con• months of her childhood in an or• from Bethany College in West Vir• cert program. and can be purchased at the door. cial" for the university if those or• phanage, will speak about her tes• ginia, Daniels began her reporting ganizations that did receive fund• Following the lecture, a wine re• Dye said Cochran is still in• timony to Congress where she at• career in Peoria, IL and then went ing for confrences would share tempted to make the adoption pro• ception with Daniels will be held terested in discovering how Stu• on to Columbus. their education from the confrence cess easier. at the Youngstown Club. The.cost dent Government is progressing Daniels left Columbus to with others in the YSU commu• is $25 per person and reservations with coordinating a concert. Dye Daniels will speak as part of work at Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV. It nity. also said the funding given for this the Town Hail XXV lecture series was here that CBS News spotted can be made by calling promoters Todd Beckett, A&S, Repre• sponsored by the Junior League of her and asked her to become an at 533-2715. sentative, said student organiza• See APPROVAL page 12 2 THE JAMBAR February 8,1994 During Black History Month: Moments In African American History s J AD A BRADY own right. What even fewer people joined the French Revolution. latto as a result of his parents Lady of the Camellias. This book Staff Reporter know is that all three were black. When first entering the army he mixed marriage. His mother was is often remembered as Camille, The first Dumas was born to changed his name to Dumas (only a French lady, Marie-Louise the much acclaimed movie staring The Count of Monte Christot the French marquis, Dumas Davy keeping the first part of his father's Laibouret. He was named Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. The Man in the Iron Mask, The de la Paiileterie and a black slave- name). He changed his name be• Alexander Dumas Davy de la This same story was also turned Three Musketeers, and The Lady girl, Cassette Dumas, in San- cause his father disapproved of the Paiileterie. into the famous opera La Traviata. of the Camellias: all of these great Domingo, Haiti. enlistment. This Dumas was the author of The most famous part is literary works were written by the He was recognized as the In the army, Dumas became a famous classics such as: The where Maurqurite dies from tuber• much acclaimed writer Alexander marquis' son and educated as one. general and also commander-in- Count of Monte Cr'tsto, The Three culosis after her Jover comes to Dumas. AH were made into clas• It is said that his mother and fa• chief of the Army of the West her. sical movies, including the recent Musketeers, and The Man in the ther were married and has never Lady of the Camellias was remake of the Three Muskateers. Pyrenees. Dumas also fought un• Iron Mask. AH of these books have been proven false. based closely on a love affair in What many people do not know is der Napoleon in Egypt. He was been made into movies many After his mother's death, the Dumas fils own life with that there were three Alexander famous for his bravery, leadership times. Unlike The Three Muske• marquis took him to his native land Alphonsine Plessis. The young Dumases (grandfather, father and skills and exploits. He was even teers made into a film this year, of France. It was here that Dumas loved the courtesan but she son). All three were famous in their Alexander changed his name and kept in a Naples prison. Dumas novel was not a comedy. left him and loved Franz Liszt who It was in the hopes of equal• Besides those works Dumas was older and more established. ity that Dumas and other black also wrote many poems, plays and Students Interested in Women's Studies, On this woman's grave sons of French noblemen fought other novels. Readers of that time Dumas fils would lay camellias. in the French Revolution. At that and his friend, Victor Hugo, the Soon this became a fashion and There will be an Informal Get Together in the Faculty time it was the custom for French author of the classic The Hunch• people began placing flowers on noblemen to educate and bring back of Notre Dame, marveled at Lounge, First Floor, Debartolo Hall to Discuss Women's the grave everyday. Countess Nera their black sons to France. his ability to do so. He died Dec. Studies Courses for Spring Quarter, 1994. de la Jonchere visited the tomb al• The second Dumas was born 5, .1970. most every day for years. This be• in Villers-Cotterets, France on July The last Dumas was his son, havior continues today.