Chapel is Messmer-ized By Brian Hiatt last April 9 vwhen he was shot in the throat dur- Staff Writer ing a robberyyattempton 's West Side. Early that imorning, Messmer had left a sports h n.. .. ,.1 ... getting into his car when he saw a More than seven months after a robber's bul- Udi dlU W4t5 let threatened to end his landmark singing teenager app)roaching him, a gun in his hand. career, Wayne Messmer stood at the pulpit of When he qui ckly shut his car door and attempt- Evelyn Chapel with his baritone voice intact ed to drive away, a second gunman who had and a message to spread. ng behind him fired, striking the The 1972 Wesleyan alumnus, perhaps Messmera moin t throat. the most famous singer of the national anthem i " m ment like that, you go to your in American sports history, delivered a stirring instinct," Messmer said. "My first reaction guest sermon, "The Power of Prayer," Nov. 30 was, 'Oh Go d.'" at Evelyn Chapel. withMessmer the bul cdrove back to the bar to get help "I stand here as living proof that miracles do chance, the let still lodged in his throat. By happen every day," he said. tie he had been wearing that Messmer, who has sung the national anthem evening stuc k in the bullet hole and controlled for the Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball the bleeding He was transported to Cook teams and Blackhawks and Wolves hockey County Hostpital, where 13 other gunshot vic- teams more than 3,000 times, is one of the most tims had bee:n taken that weekend. recognizable figures in Chicago sports. ssmer awakened, his brother and But his singing career was nearly cut short see MESSMER p. 7 Profs rip Prop 187 Expect measure to be struck down By Jeff Klemens the realities of illegal immi- Staff Writer gration to California often dif- fer from public perception. Jeff Millies/The Argus According to Renner, as few Wayne Messmer sings the national anthem at the Titans' Three IWU professors ques- tioned the effectiveness and as nine percent of all illegal first game in the new Shirk Center on Wednesday, Nov. 30. legality of California's immigrants partake of welfare Proposition 187 during a panel benefits. Pigeons forced off campus discussion Nov. 28. Seeborg added that with a California voters recently wage differential of seven to By Brian Hiatt an attempt to control the area's passed the referendum which one between the United States Staff Writer pigeon population. would deny state-funded and Mexico, illegal immi- Bob Aaron, director of social services to illegal immi- grants can earn more money With its large expanses of Wesleyan's News Services grants. These services include here, even working menial natural land, the Illinois department, said that the welfare, public education and jobs. had contracted Wesleyan campus hosts an University health care. Renner further defended the American Pest Control of array of animals whose The panelists-political sci- immigrants' position, stating in August to appearances are familiar to Bloomington that for many Californians apply Avitrol in selected cam- ence professor Tari Renner, students. economics professor Michael there is "certainly an econom- But to the consternation of pus areas which pigeons had favored for roosting. Seeborg and sociology profes- ic benefit from illegal immi- many animal lovers this fall, a sor Chris Prendergast-all felt grants . . . they truly do per- number of students have The decision to do so, he Proposition 187 would be form an economic function." reported a relatively unusual added, was in response to a potential health hazard created struck down in federal court. He described jobs done by sight-sickened, convulsing immigrants as the ones and apparently dying pigeons. by the birds and the feathers "Almost any reading of "Americans didn't want to According to officials of the and droppings they leave Proposition 187 tells you that perform." University and a local pest- behind them. it violates the equal protection control company, the birds are "There's no question within clause [of the fourteenth When asked why victims of a pesticide com- the medical and scientific amendment to the Consti- Proposition 187 became an monly known as Avitrol, used community that pigeons create tution]," Renner said. issue in this election, Seeborg by Wesleyan since August in health problems," Aaron said. The panelists stressed that see PIGEONS p. 6 see PROP 187 p. 5 Friday, December 9, 1994 2 Opinion ®® llls L- IIIIL I I O - -' ,I I I Ib _ _ I, _ ~ ~ I ,,_., __ ,-r \PpF1ES x Christmas Canes and Coals... It wouldn't be the holiday season if The Argus didn't use this space to hand out our candy canes and coal to all the people, things and events that elated and frustrated us throughout the year: fault is it, anyway? Whose Candy Canes As a reasonably educated Her statement bothered me, 30 years ago, or if ACT ques- college senior, I never consid- and not because of any older- tions have become easier over ered myself to have an MTV- generation lecturing that might that time period. induced attention span. But have been implicit in it-the On the contrary, I have 4 thanks to one of my English when-I-was-your-age admon- always assumed that these have become more ishings that my parents love to standards * To the new $15.2 million Shirk Athletic Facility, for heap on me as a joke. difficult over the years. With bringing the great game of racquetball into all of our lives What really concerned me the current plethora of college Brian Hiatt was the fact that she wasn't and graduate school students, * To FAB, for our own reasons saying it in an exaggerated, admissions requirements must * To Student Senate, for seeing the light columnist tongue-in-cheek manner. It have become increasingly * reehr was apparent that she honestly stringent to keep the merely * To the stores in Normal that let cats run around inside average student from becom- professors, I've now got a felt that she worked a lot hard- * E-mail about it. er as a student than the average ing a lawyer, doctor or even an complex * To Dr. Plath, for his enchanting Argus parties "It's all because of your gen- student does today. insurance salesman. eration's attention span," this She may not have had to Yet Illinois Wesleyan stu- * To The Boar, as always professor informed my class walk five miles to school every dents, whose collective ACT one day regarding our apparent day without shoes, as my par- scores average out to a very inability to critically read long ents say they did, but she pos- un-mediocre 27, are supposed- literary works. "When I was in sibly did the equivalent in the ly among the upper echelon of school, all I did was read. I pre-Cliff's Notes college era. our generation's legion of didn't have 40,000 cable chan- Of course, our generation- mediocre students. So why is nels, MTV or sound-bite com- the famed Generation X of it that our professors-and for Coals mercials." media hype and scorn-has that matter, our elders-don't Because of this lack of dis- heard these things before. If consider us to be all that great? tractions, she added, she was you listen to likes of Andy It's interesting that these able to derive pleasure and Rooney, you'll soon gather the people-the same Woodstock * To FAB, for our own reasons learning out of her reading at a message that everything from generation who are infamous * To Michael Stipe, for shaving his head and singing level today's American stu- college admissions require- for bringing on social decon- "Tongue" struction in the 1960's-now dents would never be able to ments to standardized tests * Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers match. have been made easier for believe that their offspring are * To Bloomington/Normal city councils who are the only Long works such as ignorant baby-busters. at fault for holding lower edu- see a need for a stop light Paradise Lost, currently the I don't know if these asser- cational standards. people on the planet who don't bane of our class' existence, tions are true or not. To my If anything, our generation is at Emerson and Towanda were so difficult because we knowledge, no empirical study the recipient of those stan- * E-mail, when it doesn't work didn't have the attention span has revealed that college dards. Yet, allegedly, we are * To the new $15.2 million Shirk Athletic Facility, for degree requirements are defin- necessary to follow them from see Xers p. 3 allowing professors to play racquetball . . . in shorts beginning to end. itively more lax than they were ,,-- - - - I -- 9 Copy Editors Betsy Phillips, Editorials are the majority opinion of the editorial board. Katrina Ewert, Laurie Letters and signed columns are the opinion of the writer. The Argus Chappell, Julieanna All letters mustibe signed, typed, double-spaced, less than Lambert,Andrew the Monday before publication. Editor-in-Chief Christopher Baron Sandley 300 words and submitted Business Manager Jesse Boyle Production Manager Ashish Verma All letters and columns are subject to editing or rejection. Managing Editor David Brown Graphics Design Mike McMorris The Argus offices are located in the Memorial Center, News Editor Kerry Podzamsky Treasurer Amy Mills Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61701. Assistant News Editor Maisa Taha The Argus is published by Illinois Wesleyan University Subscriptions are $21 per year. For advertising informa- Arts & Entertainment Editor Ed Schweitzer Student Senate. The University Sports Editor Tim Lindberg and partially funded by the tion, please call 309-556-3036. Photography Editor , Jeff Millies is not responsible for, nor in any way influences, the con- Contents Copyright 1994 The Argus Graphics Editor Chetna Bhosale tent of The' Argus.

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columnist A Senator Bob Packwood (R- vince people to save the Ore.) has promised that in this whales. After all, they are new enlightened age of cute, smart and the U.S. has Republican leadership, "peo- few, if any, whaling ships. If ple count as much as bugs." we save the whales, we are not Betsy Phillips columnist

Of course, he is not insinuat- losing any jobs. ing that we will just call in the It is much harder to mourn Orkin man every time we find the loss of something ugly, an unsightly bunch of liberals. that bites, has more legs than After all, what would happen we care to count and that lives to college faculties and news- on land that might become an paper columnists? industrial park or a shopping He means that, from now center. Forewarning not needed on, people who were formerly But we have to make an now effort to find some kind of considered less than bugs Dear Editor, Contents page in your student different from whatever they workable middle ground are on equal terms with them. I am writing in response to handbook). define as "normal." Wouldn't between protecting endan- Whew! Thank goodness Vito Trifiletti's outrageous A policy of this sort seeks to that be a dynamic learning looking gered animals and protecting those politicians are claim that the Flirtations' sex- protect individuals who have environment. not even us. out for us. I was ual orientation was purposely been subjected to discrimina- You have not been a prob- As any biology major could aware that there was concealed from the Illinois tion in the past without legal ambushed, Mr. Trifiletti. But it tell you, what happens to other lem with egotistical insects Wesleyan community in the recourse and also proclaims an is clear that you expect to be Hill). species eventually happens to (well, except on Capitol Blue Moon Coffeehouse's official open-mindedness forewarned before being for us. So, what does this mean advertising (Letter to the which should be the character exposed to anything different ourselves When you are standing at those of us who find Editor, Nov. 18). of any institution which seeks from that to which you are as the top of the heap, it is not in the same social sphere I would like to remind Mr. to promote higher learning accustomed. If you ever attend wise to eliminate the bottom. spiders? Trifiletti that the University rather than rigid indoctrina- an event or a Coffeehouse and Physics says that you will fall. Will women wear gossamer has a non-discrimination poli- tion. find that you disagree with webs? Anyway, there are plenty of gowns woven from cy: "In keeping with its tradi- I guess the only way the what is being said or sung, you places in the country that we Will men wear giant dragonfly tion of affording equal oppor- University could advertise vis- can get up and leave-that is able to have already decimated. If we wings? Will Armani be tunity to qualified individuals, iting artists and guest speakers your right. But I challenge you of fashion? are going to create more jobs, ride the new wave it is the policy of Illinois without offending anyone to stay-because it is by meet- what why not do it someplace that Well, sarcasm aside, Wesleyan University not to would be to include at the bot- ing people who have had life is this: we have already ruined? Are Packwood is saying discriminate on the basis of tom of each poster a blurb experiences different from our to choos- we so bent on conquering when it comes down race, religion, sex, sexual ori- describing the person's race, own that we learn about our- peo- every frontier that we cannot ing between protecting entation, disability, or national ethnic make-up, age, religion, selves, each other and the see the destruction we leave in ple's jobs and protecting origin in its admissions poli- political affiliation, weight and human community. here our wake? endangered species, from cies, educational programs and eye color. That way, no one going Well, I suppose that is only on out, the humans are activities, or employment poli- would ever accidentally be Michele Herrman human nature. People move to to be given more considera- cies" (please see the Table of exposed to anyone or anything tion. a city in the middle of the Packwood proposes relaxing desert (L.A.) and complain the Endangered Species Act. about droughts. They move to yuppie brats who had nothing in common with By offering less protection to the forest and complain when Xers from p. 2 me. animals on the verge of extinc- they have to share space with the ones who relentlessly watch MTV instead of But the essence of our generation's concerns tion, Packwood hopes to pro- animals. C-Span; who would much rather peruse Mad isn't hollow whining or the result of a spoiling tect and create more jobs. So, maybe that is magazine than Time; who, according to my lifestyle. Many of our worries stem from a Boy, I bet the passenger Packwood's problem. He does English professor, couldn't tell Adam from Eve sense of intellectual inadequacy-an eerie feel- pigeon and the whooping not like the competition. in the poetic labyrinth of ParadiseLost. ing that sometime during our lives, the beliefs crane are going to be relieved Maybe he is afraid that if he I can't say that I fervently believe that my and values we obtained through the collective about that! does not keep the bugs down, generation is a "Lost Generation" burdened educational enterprise of life stopped being suf- I know that when people's one will rise up against him. with the enormous economic, social and envi- ficient. jobs are on the line, emotions Then, with any luck, the voters ronmental problems handed down from our par- And when we hear from our professors that, run high. I am not sure I would will pass over the incumbent ents and grand-parents. As a matter of fact, I despite our hard work, our efforts just aren't be too happy if I lost my job for the insect. read Douglas Coupland's book Generation X what schoolwork used to be,,we can't help,but notice because of some stupid bug, Not that we will (the namesake of the now-popular .label) and wonder if it's true or not. Of course, it's easy to con- much of a difference.. -thought its characters=too-be whining. sooiled wh-haP.flt thai t News1 Friday, December 9, 1994 aPaPi~asP~gPra~Bu~-;~~srura~E~a~ j~iuLi _ _ -::-- . .~. v...... ' ~''~ '' ' ' ---...... '. ..~,....' '' ' '' '' ' + u '''''''''''''~""" PjZiiiliiiliiliiitiijjjliiiiiiiiijiiij'~"""" :::::::::::::::::::~:::::::::::::R::: : : :r : : 1: zz.-- ::::~:-: -: ::::::-:::::: : : :::-:.:. .:...: ""~""'~~...... '~""""""...... ~:t:i:i:i:i:i:iiiiiiS~iiiiH~~Siitiliti ...... ,.,...... ,...1.:. ::~:~::~; :""' "" """':i:i:i:i81::::::-l:::::::::::::::::::::: ~" "'"""""""" """""'""""""""'~" :.:...-.:...... 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All types of VCR's 9, 1994% 5 Friday, December ews FaD ~saLILAZW~OPI~QIIB~b~~-9-9 U.S. foreign policy grounded in self-interest PROP 187 from p. 1 By Maisa Taha constituency" which supports money away." "Waco syndrome," after the pointed to recent economic Assistant News Editor its continuation. Gupta said U.S. security pol- ill-fated religious sect based in Three-fourths of U.S. for- icy has shifted since the end of Waco, Texas. woes in California, including losses of industry and popu- Many Americans would eign aid is tied to the export of the Cold War to cast the Third North Korea's government, lation to other states. limit government action to American products, and World as "the new demon." for example, is "willing to "During those times of eco- domestic affairs if they could: American citizens profit from He said the U.S. has trans- burn down the house and kill nomic difficulty, where no more aid to Russia, no more such an agenda, she said. ferred lessons it learned from its own" people rather than unemployment is a problem, troops to Somalia or Haiti. Lowry said aid to develop- the East-West conflict to mili- give up, he said. that is usually when anti- According to three Illinois ing countries must provide tary situations in the Third Sullivan said the U.S. some- obligation to sentiments start to Wesleyan professors, however, lasting benefit to the recipients World. times has a moral immigrant the United States' ever- as well. Recent American adminis- intervene in other countries, arise," he said. expanding foreign policy con- Successful development pro- trations have changed the idea especially to correct the Renner called the referen- siderations are founded in a grams concentrate on agricul- of "peace keeping" into "peace wrongs it has committed, as in dum a "convenient vehicle" sense of duty and self-interest. ture and rural making," Gupta Somalia. for the re-election of "There's a duty that I think areas, help "The U.S. tnd the said. "The U.S. and the Soviet California governor Pete on most people in this country build infra- Soviet Un Instead of Union played political football Wilson, whose popularity structure and monitoring vio- with Somalia," Sullivan said. had been lagging. take for granted which requires viitical them to help others who are in promote pri- played po lations after a The two Cold War super- Prendergast said that u ith with dire need-when they can do mary educa- football cease fire, as powers flooded Somalia teachers and health care Somalia." I Nations arms to gain support, and when so without undo cost to them- tion, she said. >r United providers would be responsi- faced starvation later selves," said Stephen Sullivan, Most impor- -- Si Sphen missions do, Somalis ble for reporting any students on, anarchy broke loose. professor of philosophy. tantly, these Sullivan, I NU phi- both Bush and or patients who are illegal However, Sullivan said the Sullivan, along with eco- programs must losophy p ofessor Clinton have immigrants. to play nomics professor Pam Lowry have the sup- sent troops to U.S. is "not required This measure has triggered world lifesaver." and political science professor port of the foreign soil to a widespread negative American action in Amit Gupta, participated in a local government, she said. promote peace and political He said response from the education- does not panel discussion entitled The U.S. sent $8.5 billion to stability. foreign countries al and medical communities neglect of its own citi- "Does the U.S. Give a Damn?" Tanzania during the '70s and "The problem for both of imply in California, according to posi- Tuesday, Nov. 29, for an audi- '80s, but the per capita income these administrations-apart zens, but with its singular Prendergast. arena, ence of about 30 students in there fell 40 percent because from having no real experience tion in the international According to Renner, the Art Building. Tanzanian government policy in this sort of operation-is the U.S. "should give a damn" white Californians, who countries in need. Lowry said the U.S. offers destroyed the agricultural sec- that they've forgotten how dif- about make up 53 percent of the called for Third World purely altruistic aid only in tor. ficult it is to bring about Gupta population, constituted 79 countries to be incorporated cases of disaster relief. This is "Aid alone cannot solve a peace," Gupta said. percent of the voters in the cam- into partnerships with the First not the norm. country's problems," Lowry Counter-proliferation last election. With a 63 per- paigns pose a special problem World and for the expansion of "All economic policy has an said. "Giving aid to a country cent approval rate among not going to undertake to American security policy, the UN Security Council since element of self-interest that is white voters, Proposition 187 policies that will promote Gupta said. more countries have a stake in involved," Lowry said. passed by a wide margin, 59 development and the well- Many cases involve leaders it today than when it was creat- She said most U.S. foreign percent to 41 percent. aid policy has a "domestic being of its people is throwing with what Gupta called the ed.

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J d ' .: f. 131ir- ';~Yr 1-.i: "J 6 Newt ¢ Friday, Decemberr 9. 1994 6 Frda. December. s . 9.199v " v . . Personals: Wat'1fUpatiesleyan * To the three graduating art dorks-Chad, Cleatus Events: at Florida Southern: Saturday, Dec. 31, noon and Jen-Good Luck! -Chetna Evelyn at Eleven-Midnight Advent Carthage (here): Saturday, Jan. 7, 3:30 p.m. * N-Be careful or I will "weed" you out!-M Communion: Friday, Dec. 9, midnight, at Augustana: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. * KE-Congratulations on your conservative Women's basketball Evelyn Chapel success! May your dresses fit you well.-Luv, The at Augustana: Friday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. Final examinations: Monday, Dec. 12 through Boar Worshippers of IWU Friday, Dec. 16 Elmhurst (here): Thursday, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m. * Amy-Happy Community Christmas Candlelight Carol Carthage (here): Saturday, Jan. 7, 1 p.m. birthday chica! How's it feel to be Service: Monday, Dec. 12 and Tuesday, Dec. Principia (here): Tuesday, Jan. 10, 6 p.m. an old lady?-your loving suitmates 13, 7:30 p.m., Evelyn Chapel Men's and women's swimming- * Mr. P-Thanks for the Bulls game ... I'm honored Principia (here): Saturday, Jan. 7, 1 p.m. January Term classes begin: Tuesday, Jan. 3 that you asked-The Business Manager Evelyn at Eleven-"Credo," Dr. Pamela Moro, * P-LDC 232-D IWU: Wednesday, Jan. 4, 11 a.m., Evelyn Vital Styx: Chapel Lavaliered- Japan in Film-Black Rain: Wednesday, Jan. 4, Becky Brackmann, AOH, '97 to Craig 7 p.m., Art Building Room 218 Steffen, Gustavus Adolphus College, '95 Evelyn at Eleven-"Credo," Dr. William Teri Domaleczny, KKF, '97 to Vito Trifiletti, Walsh, IWU: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 11 a.m., 1H, n'95 Evelyn Chapel Karen Grant, AOH, '97 to Ryan Sweeney, Acacia, '97 Sports: Kathy Kramer, KA, '95 to Jeff Rathje, FIJI, Men's basketball- '97 Illinois Benedictine (here): Saturday, Dec. Holly Van Stechelman, ZK, '96 to Andy 10, 3 p.m. Matznick, FIJI, '97 Chicago (here): Saturday, Dec. 17, 3 p.m. Engaged at Florida Tech: Thursday, Dec. 29, 6 p.m. Jody Shepard, AOH, '96 to Darin Wilmert, Acacia, '95 community, and that action had enea oy tme poison nas alarmea extreme rar ity," he sald. PIGEONS from to be taken for our size of com- some students, one of whom Many bi rds are not grain "What we are doing here is not monly passed from pigeon munity," Aaron said. was concerned enough to res- feeders and refrain from eating unique." droppings to humans-histo- Shortly before the beginning cue a stricken pigeon and call corn except in the sparse eating Aaron said that the plasmosis and hypersensitivity of fall semester, the poison was the local humane society. conditions of fall and winter, University became concerned pneumonia-which can be mixed at a 1:19 ratio to corn Junior Jennifer Greenwald Haggarty added. The kernel about the accumulation of contracted simply by inhaling and placed in designated areas and a friend were walking size, he said, is too big for pigeon droppings around the bacteria living in the drop- around the roosting sites. toward Ferguson Hall in smaller animals, and pigeons entrances of Presser, Kemp and pings. Ideally, Aaron said, once it is October when they saw a flocking ar ound the bait vehe- Magill halls. The droppings Histoplasmosis, a lung dis- ingested by members of the pigeon staggering about the mently refu se to let other birds were being tracked into the ease which affects four million flock, the sickened birds would parking lot and attempting to near it anywray. buildings by pedestrians and people annually, holds a 90 send distress calls to the other "We try t(o do a great deal of were finding their way into the percent fatality rate if left pigeons, which in turn would watching the flock, to monitor air intake units at Presser as undetected, he said. be frightened away. "Some birds will other anim als that might be well. Hypersensitivity pneumonia, "Some birds will just get sick just get sick from nearby," hee said. "But the "There are several diseases commonly known as "Bird from the poison," he said. "A the poison. A very pigeon floc k often will not let that pigeons carry, largely Handler's Lung," also results very small percentage will small percentage other birds iinside their ranks." affecting the respiratory sys- from prolonged inhalation of die." He added that he had not will die." Greenwald described sever- tem, which remain behind in organic dusts left by pigeons. heard any reports of dead birds al cases wi hen students, upon their feces," Aaron said. "We felt that there was a since the summer. -Bob Aaron, finding a sick pigeon, would He cited two diseases com- potential problem here in our Chris Haggarty, a representa- director of IWU go so far as to break the bird's tive for American Pest Control, News Services, on neck "to puit it out of its mis-

K \{ : said that the purpose of Avitrol university pigeon ery." But tlhese pigeons might

.. '.1':'.\'::.. "was not to kill pigeons, control have survived the poison's although a few-five to 10 per- effects otherrwise, Aaron said. cent-may die." He added that For birds 1that do die from the the company had used the poi- fly without success. poison, Aalron said, the pest- son at "numerous" other.loca- "It was obviously sick," control company usually tions in Bloomington-Normal. Greenwald said. After placing makes an aattempt to pick up "[Avitrol] is an avicide used the pigeon in shelter and call- carcasses th at might be noticed not only by us, but commonly ing the humane society, she by passers-1by, possibly creat- by other pest-control adminis- was told her the only thing that ing a public -relations disaster. trators," he said. McLean could be done for the bird was "Birds aree very difficult to County Health Department "to put it in a shoebox in a dark control, as tlhere will always be "HELP WANTED" representative John Hirsch room and let it die. people who love them and who affirmed that Avitrol was "a "I would think that the 'poi- will react very negatively to $ Business is Booming $ controlled substance" sold only son would pose a threat to the idea of fpoisoning or killing Earn extra cash driving Part-time to licensed pest-control compa- other animals," she said. them," Hirs,ch said. Couple nights a week while delivering nies. The threat of poisoning ani- Aaron stressed that the "Nothing to do with city reg- mals other than pigeons is min- University's the Perfect Pizza! control program ulations ever came up in our imal because of the size of the would be "periodic" and that Inside help also needed negotiations with American bait and of the nature of pigeon "the sole olbject is to get the Stop by & fill out an application or call Pest Control," Aaron said. flocks, Haggarty said. pigeons to Ileave. We want a 602 S. Kingsley 454-PAPA While the poison may be "If other birds would get into mass migratLion," he said. legal, the si -. ~fI ~ 4t in t wouid. re::a : - r ~ r - -~-'1 1m( I ~d Friday, December 9, 1994 7 " News sion became really clear-to MESSMER from p. 1 demonstrate the power of wife were standing at his bed- make a lot of money again," prayer in our everyday lives." Spring Break 95 side. His brother provided he said. Six months after the shoot- him with a slate, on which "I was saying, 'Whatever is ing, on Oct. 14, Messmer took America's #1 Messmer wrote, "Is this in the supposed to happen is out of the ice at the Rosemont SEGA-GENESIS & Spring Break Company! news?" His wife responded, my hands,"' he said. "Once I Horizon, where the SUPER NINTENDO Cancun, Bahamas, Daytona &Panama! "You have no idea." told myself that I would accept International Hockey League CARTRIDGES "I had become the surrogate God's will, I immediately Chicago Wolves were opening 110% Lowest Price Guarantee! MIDWEST voice of the national anthem-- started feeling better." their season against the Detroit Organize 15 friends and TRAVEL the 'anthem guy,"' he said. The gunman was a 15-year- Vipers. As more than 16,000 EXCHANGE INC. 512 IAA Drive, Unit 6 FREE! Earn highest commissions! "When people found out that old boy--a fact that still fans applauded, he sang the Empire Plaza, Blm. the 'anthem guy' had been frightens Messmer. "I think I national anthem for the first (309)662-PAWN (7296) (800) 32-TRAVEL shot, they were irritated. The could have been a tin can on a time since he nearly lost his fact that I was shot in the fence post and gathered the voice. throat made the occurrence same reaction," he said of the Messmer also sang the repulsive." incident. "It's a scary thing to anthem at the first IWU men's Messmer said he could not think about." basketball game at the Shirk speak for two weeks-his Messmer noted that during Center. vocal cords had been "tickled" the weekend he was shot, Messmer reported his voice by the bullet. During that more shooting victims were as being "about 75 percent" of time, cards from fans began treated at Cook County what it was. But that hasn't arriving "by the hundreds," he Hospital than in Japan during stopped him from singing, or said. all of 1993. from spreading his message of "Eight out of 10 cards said, The fact that he was able to the power of prayer. 'I'm praying for you until you recover his voice defied med- "Does prayer always work? can speak again,'"' Messmer ical opinion, he said. "There's Of course not," he said. "If said. "The message I was no possible medical explana- everyone got what they want- receiving was prayer, prayer, tion for why I have recov- ed all of the time, the conse- prayer-from people of all ered," Messmer said. Rather quences would be disastrous. denominations. I thought that than ask why it happened to I simply pray for God's will to even if I would never speak him of all people, he prefers to be done." again, I was doing something concentrate on the positives of For the boy who nearly took good here. I'm uniting all his experience. Messmer's voice away-not demoninations around "When you try to find out to mention his life-and for prayer." why, sometimes you don't the millions of other American Messmer said that before the have to ask," Messmer said. criminals who contribute daily shooting, he had prayed for a "If there is a reason, you will to the country's myriad social number of things, such as find it sometime. It could hap- problems, Messmer had physical and emotional pen to anyone, anytime. another message. strength and enlightenment. "As I was thinking about "You can knock us down," Lying in his hospital bed, prayer and my recovery, the he said. "But we'ill get right however, "I started praying for cards began arriving," he con- back up." some kind of guidance-not to tinued. "I knew I was not be made well so I can sing and 'taken' for a reason. My mis-

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IWU professors leap at sabbatical opportuniities

sC- C--- - - By Kris Nielsen History Project when she came ------Staff Writer across the tapes and decided that something needed to be This spring you can expect done with them in order to pre- to see fewer professors on the serve the history they con- campus of Illinois Wesleyan. tained. Many faculty members will be Muirhead said that she on sabbatical, using the time "absolutely loves this project" off from teaching for research because it has taught her so and travel opportunities that much about African-American will enhance their own person- history and culture. She is also al knowledge as well as their excited because students will curricula here at Wesleyan. have the opportunity to use her Dr. Pamela Muirhead, asso- material in becdming active in ciate professor of English, will the future of oral history. be working on a project that Professor Steve Eggleston, keeps her here in Bloomington. who teaches conducting and She is currently working on a trumpet and is also the director book about the history of the of the IWU Wind Ensemble, African-American Community will travel around the country in the area and will use her to different high schools and time off to do the final editing. colleges to conduct and work Due out next summer, her with students and directors on where she will nesses due to increased med- for research. book, tentatively entitled Bloomington, string and wind repertories. her research on the ical technology. Dr. Pamela Moro, professor Telling Our Story: The continue This is Eggleston's first sab- ill. In this way, Finfgeld will be of anthropology, received a African-American Community, chronically batical in 20 years of teaching, She has been working on a looking more at the psycholog- Joyce grant which she will use is a collection of essays based and he decided to go because project with local support ical aspects than the physical to travel to Thailand. Moro on several taped interviews he thinks that all conductors studying the ways that aspects of chronic illnesses. will not only research rural with African-Americans who groups, feel the need to replenish their ill patients cope Dr. Tim Garvey, professor of folk music, but she will also have grown up in the chronically knowledge of new scores. with long-term health con- art history, will continue his document and record it, some- Bloomington-Normal area. In addition to all of this, ongoing research on 19th- and thing that is not customary in When asked why she chose cerns. Eggleston has another reason to Finfgeld, this 20th-century Chicago painting Thailand. this project, Muirhead said that According to look forward to spring: his a very important area of and sculpture this spring. According to Moro, all the it actually chose her. is daughter, who is a senior in She said that He will do consulting work musicians in Thailand are men, As co-director of the research. high school, will audition for although we are now able to for the preparation of an exhib- and groups of musicians walk Bloomington-Normal various musical spots in col- combat some of the more life- it at the Terra Museum of around while playing instru- Black History and Culture lege, and he is excited to watch diseases with American Art in Chicago, and ments such as gongs and Consortium, she was work- threatening her and see how she does. antibiotics, people are going to he will also organize a public drums. A main component of ing on publicity and program- Dr. Deborah Finfgeld, pro- longer with incurable ill- sculpture exhibit on Chicago the Thai musical culture is ming for the local Black live fessor of nursing, will stay in Art until 1945. competitions between these -- I-- Since his subject matter at groups. Wesleyan is based mainly on The main focus of Moro's this time period, Garvey feels research is determining the cri- that the work he will be doing teria for what makes good will supplement his teaching. music in judging these compe- In addition, Garvey will start titions. I R a project in January on pieces Moro, who lived in Thailand by H.C. Westermann, which he for a year while attending grad- will carry into the spring. uate school, is excited about SItalian Restaurant. Because of the nature of his returning. She said that this projects, Garvey will spend a opportunity is "like gold" TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS PIZZA lot of time on the road between because Thailand is the only Chicago and Bloomington. He medium in which she can con- Cokes All-you-can-eat FREE SANDWICHES is also planning to drive down duct her research. College Art Brian Hatcher, assistant pro- with pizza! to Texas for the spaghetti feast! i PASTA DINNERS Association's annual confer- fessor of religion and humani- ence. ties, also received a Joyce Only $3.10 DininRoom RAVIOLI Other professors, such as grant. Dining Room Linda Farquharson and Dr. He will continue a project :::: A;' . Carry"ou . LASAGNA Kathryn Scherck will also take entitled "Dynamics of Hindu

r ,. sabbaticals next spring. Eclecticism," in which he is Carry-out & the origins and signif- SPAGHETTI In addition to professors studying ...... Delivery! going on sabbatical, there are icance of Hindu eclecticism in three members of the faculty today's contemporary world. Open 11 a.m. Daily *TORTELLINI who will be off campus with a Eclecticism is the tendency Joyce Foundation Grant. The to pick and choose bits and "Avanti's Famous Gondolas"TM L Joyce Grant is competitive and pieces of different religions fac- and put them together into one ' M provides money for junior I1 L NOON to take time off see TEACH p. 9 11 ulty members Its

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By Marta Conlon The copy was so far beyond bad that it Other good stocking stuffers: Staff Reviewer was almost not recognizable as a Black Box: A 13 Year History of Wax Prince album, but I remembered a few Trax!, Wax Trax!/TVT Pearl Jam, Vitology; Robert Plant The Black Album and Jimmy Page, Unledded; Sting, I am finally done with all of my of the melodies. is not a formal review strictly Greatest (1984-1994); Bob classes and can now sit down to became one of the most celebrated, This Sting's because I do not have the 60 bucks to Dylan, Greatest Hits Vol. 3; and The appease my editor by writing my last and bootlegged albums of all time. this boxed set, but Best of Unplugged, featuring 10,000 column for the semester. In today's context I am not sure how go out and purchase Maniacs, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and This installment of "One Person's controversial the record I thought it my duty would be, but at the to inform anyway. others. Opinion" is dedicated to those ever- 'erson P For those of you popular potential stocking stuffers for time it was a follow-up who may not know, And in the "Feeling Old"Category: the holiday season. My stocking was to some of Prince's Wax Trax! is the already stuffed, thankfully, so I don't other, more controver- for The Top Five From Five Years Ago- have to wait for Christmas. sial material from Sign label responsible O' The Times. bringing industrial 1. Kate Bush, The Sensual World I hope everyone has a safe holiday music to America. 2. Camper Van Beethoven, Key Lime season, and when we get back to The Black Album is not controversial as a For those unsure of Pie Illinois Wesleyan at the beginning of result of its sexual con- exactly what indus- 3. Jesus & Mary Chain, Automatic January I will have a fresh installment In fact, in many trial music is, look 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother's of great music as the rush of new year tent. around-you might Milk releases floods in. ways it is a particularly disturbing be surprised who 5. Sugarcubes, Here Today, Tomorrow, My first review is of an artist you frank and portrayal of American has some. Next Week probably would not normally find life. The brief CD sam- under my column, simply for the fact it is a great , pler I received is a Ten Years Ago- that I am not a big R&B or rap music Musically, dance album, as was its stellar display of 1. U2, The Unforgettable Fire fan. I firmly believe, however, that Lovesexy, but v what the five-disk 2. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, everyone should love Prince! substitute unlike that album its boxed set has to Welcome to the Pleasuredome 3. XTC, The Big Express Prince, The Black Album, Warner content is heavy on ten- OpIiinion offer. sion and violence. It includes tracks 4. Ramones, Too Tough To Die Bros. (for Tim P.) Songs like "Rock Hard from Revolting 5. David Bowie, Tonight In a Funky Place" could well apply to Cocks, My Life With the Thrill Kill I remember, back as a freshman in America. Kult, Meat Beat Manifesto, KMFDM, Fifteen Years Ago- high school, hearing about this contro- the struggles of inner-city Sister Machine Gun and a rare Trent 1. Police, Regatta De Blanc versial album from Prince. "Ooohh. As a piece of Prince nostalgia this can Reznor vocal on 1000 Homo DJs' 2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Black Album is this Prince record album is a must, if only so listeners of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." Damn the Torpedoes with all of these really raunchy songs. throw away the unlistenable bootlegs cover yesteryear. I would highly recommend this as a 3. Fleetwood Mac, Tusk He was going to release it, but it was from myself 4. Eagles, The Long Run too risque." Supposedly The Black Album will gift that someone such as only be available for two months, so be would be truly thankful for. 5. Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out I actually heard a copy of The Black to get out and buy it if you don't Door Album once in high school and liked it, sure or rather I think I would have liked it. get it for Christmas.

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' ; ' . : Titans in the swim of things .2 onship. Wheaton is the reigning champ. By Tim Lindberg "We don't have the depth they have. The men Sports Editor will have their hands full at conference," which is The Illinois Wesleyan men's swim team swam held in November, Hurley said. "The door is to victory in the Rockford Invitational, their sec- wide open for second, but someone could sneak in ond invitational win of the season in as many ahead of Wheaton." tries. The Titans have beaten Millikin and Augustana To go along with the Rockford and Illinois this year, two teams that beat them last year at Wesleyan Invitational wins the Titans are also 5-0 conference. in dual meets. The men's team isn't the only one that is raising But Head Coach Erin Hurley, while pleased hopes. The women's team finished second at with her team's performance thus far, doesn't see Rockford. According to Hurley, this might be the the unbeaten streak lasting much longer. highest finish ever for the women. "There are two kinds of teams," she said. Hurley said the finish was a bit of a surprise, but "Those that have lost, and those about to be beat- some swimmers stepped up with great perfor- en. I think we're the second kind." mances. Dana Juergens moved into the team's The Titans certainly will have a whole new 400-meter freestyle relay to help them finish first. level of competition in January as they swim in Amanda Costa returned to form after being out the Illinois Intercollegiate Meet at the University with tonsillitis, winning the 100-meter backstroke of Illinois. They also face Division I Evansville at and placing second in the 100-meter butterfly. Fort Natatorium. The swim team is off until their winter training Even if the Titans don't continue unbeaten, they trip to Florida. already have slim hopes of a CCIW champi-

BASKETBALL from p.16 to improve its defense. On team defense," he said. "If we Tuesday, the Titans put forth come together, we can go pret- their best defensive effort, ty far in the [national] tourna- defeating Anderson in Indiana ment." 83-66. The Titans are scheduled to Against Rockford, the play two more games at home Titans started the second half the next two Saturdays before with a 17-2 run that was heading to Florida for a week sparked by stellar defensive to play Florida Tech and play, as several of the players Florida Southern. created turnovers and turned Crabtree hopes that the trip in excellent transition offense. "will be the turning point" "[We need] a defensive per- before starting conference sonality that can win confer- play at home against Carthage ence," Bridges said. "Whether on Jan. 7. I have to change things with Even though the Titans have or scream- threats, benching played well as a team, the got to make changes ing, I've Florida trip will hopefully be a or we can't win." bonding experience for the X------Forward Brian Crabtree (15 photos by Jeff Millies/The Argus teammates in which they will ppg) agrees with Bridges. game at Shirk build their team chemistry. Top: Chad Hutson fakes out Aurora's Jason Buckley in the inaugural men's "We need to improve our Center. Bottom: Hutson tries to hit Chris Simich as he cuts to the hoop. Congratulations to the new members of Allimi Ileltli

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} h 1,, o , . z. - - S::- L5I= Men's basketball #3 in nation senior captain, who scored the Jon Litwiller, a forward from By Mike McMorris first points by a men's team in ISU has poured in 11.8 points Staff Writer Shirk Center with his three- per game, while former Not since the 1954-55 sea- pointer against Aurora, is aver- Northern Illinois forward Scott son has the Illinois Wesleyan aging 18 points per game at Peterson has added 7.5. men's basketball team opened guard, and senior point guard After the Rockford game, with a 6-0 record. Chad Hutson leads the team in head coach Dennie Bridges This year, not only have the assists (9.5 per game). mentioned that he was "partic- Titans established the best sea- Aubry scored a season-high ularly happy with the play of son start, in forty years, but point total for a single game the second five"-Peterson, they have also earned a num- with 32points against Aurora. senior center Nate Nollen, ber three ranking in Division Against Rockford, every junior forward Matt Swingler III by Columbus Multimedia. player scored. The final five and junior guards Brady In the process the Titans minutes were played by four Knight and T.J. Posey. christened the Shirk Center freshmen and sophomore point Bridges stressed the team's with an exciting 99-96 victory guard Tony Pacetti. main focus. "The goal every over Aurora in the opener, and "It was necessary for us to year is to win the [College IWU ripped Rockford 117-80 blow [Rockford] out. It gave Conference of Illinois and in their second game at the us confidence and team unity. Wisconsin] title," he said. $15.2 million sports arena. When we run our tempo, we "We would like to win a In each of the two home are a top-notch basketball national championship, but games, six players scored dou- team," Simich said. After the [the CCIW title] is our ticket." ble-digits, including junior Titans shut down Anderson Bridges is happy with this Chris Simich, who has led the (Ind.) on Tuesday 83-66, he year's start, but not yet satis- Titans in scoring four times added, "If we can continue to fied. and rebounding six times. play defense as well as we did "We've had small stretches After the first two games we'll be unstoppable." of great play, but we haven't Jeff Millies/The Argus against Washington and The Titans' fast-paced seen it sustained," he said. Jon Litwiller wins the opening tip in Shirk's first men's game. DePauw, Simich earned Player offense has averaged 90.3 "We can ask for more than just of the Week honors in the points per game, while the an undefeated record. We can IWU's legendary coach Division III Midwest Region. defense is allowing 78.8. ask for an undefeated record He is averaging 21.2 points The team's two Division I with great play." and 11.7 rebounds this season. transfers are part of the reason Bridges feels the team needs Don Larson passes away Mark Aubry, the Titans' for the team's success. see BASKETBALL p. 15 By Tim Lindberg Sports Editor Don "Swede" Larson, 68, Lady Titans off to fast start head football coach at Illinois Wesleyan from 1954 to 1986, By Sean Masterson heel against Aurora. Aurora soundly outre- died Nov. 29 at Bromenn Staff Writer bounded the Titans and pulled down a whop- ping 22 offensive boards.. Regional Medical Center in The Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball Normal. "Rebounding was the key," Neal said. "It's team is off to one of their best starts in school something we're working on a lot. We have to In his 39-year association history with a 5-1 record. The Titans picked up get in the habit of boxing out and getting on the with Illinois Wesleyan, includ- win number five with a 72-50 victory over boards as a team." ing four as a student, Larson Concordia on Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Shirk The Titans were also hampered by a break- coached tennis, track and Center. down in their help defense. field, golf and swimming, but Unfortunately, the team fell for the first time "Aurora's guards were really quick," Neal he is best known as the this season to Aurora Tuesday night. said. "When they would drive we were a step school's winningest football Against Concordia, the Titans were led by slow helping out and would draw a foul. They coach. Kristen Schroff and Becky Anderson, with 16 picked up a lot of three-point plays." His career record was 166- and 15 points, respectively. On offense the Titans had were some of the 121-6, with a College Aimee Geiger pulled down 10 rebounds, fol- same problems they have had all season. Don "Swede" Larson by Anderson with nine, and Angie Conference of Illinois and lowed "We have to run our man-to-man offense Thomas dished out nine assists for Wesleyan. Wisconsin coaching record of league championships in 1964 crisper," Neal said. "We're going to face a lot of "Overall we're playing very well right now, 142-89-6. and 1965 and tied for the con- man-to-man defense this year. Word has gotten ference crown in 1974, 1977 but we need to work on some things," said IWU out that we've been successful against the "I look at him as being Mr. head coach Mandy Neal. and 1980. zone." Wesleyan Football," said One area she looks to improve in is rebound- of Larson's teams won Norm Eash, head football Ten ing. Despite the performance of Geiger and The Titans haven't been as sharp as Neal had coach. "He had a tremendous or shared second place in the Anderson, Concordia (0-5) outrebounded the expected, especially since almost the entire league, and six won or shared athletic career, and he was an Titans 44-41, and gave up 18 offensive boards. team returned from last year. outstanding coach." third place. Only five of his Rebounding proved to be the team's Achilles His teams won outright see LARSON p. 14 see TITANS p. 14