Jacksonville State University JSU Digital Commons Chanticleer Historical Newspapers 1995-03-09 Chanticleer | Vol 42, Issue 22 Jacksonville State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty Recommended Citation Jacksonville State University, "Chanticleer | Vol 42, Issue 22" (1995). Chanticleer. 1142. https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty/1142 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Newspapers at JSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chanticleer by an authorized administrator of JSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FEATURES: The two sides of Michael Franti, page 8 SPORTS: Rijle team places sixth in nation, page 14 1 I 1 Fz THE CHANTICLEER 4 v By Jamie Cole sented to the grandjury, only that an indict- Editor in Chief Case timeline ment was filed. "In this case, there's enough Heather under More than two months after an alleged Nov. 9, 1994: Rape is reported at evidence to go to trial," said Nichols. He rape was reported in Fitzpatrick Hall, a Fitzpatrick Hall. said he has "been in this business long criticism from grand jury indicted Daniel Brian Godwin, Jan. 13, 1995: Grand jury files indict- enough not to speculate" about anything 21, of Oxford, in connection with the al- ment charging Daniel Brian Godwin, 21, else. with first degree rape. deaf community leged crime. Wood said the case is still in its "infancy Jan. 30, 1995: Godwin is arrested and According to University Police Depart- released on bond. stages." A rather _laid-back Heather ment records, on Nov. 9,1994, at approxi- Godwin is now a former JSU student and Whitestone appeared on the cover mately 9 p.m., rape was reported in came her earnest resistance," said Wood. a former member of the Alpha Tau Omega of the Sunday supplement USA Weekend for March 5, curled up in Fitzpatrick Hall. "An indictment is just a formal charge," fraternity. a chair in her sock feet and with her On Jan. 13, 1995, a grand jury filed the said Wood. "An investigatory body found AT0 president Chris Carter told The hair down. Her mood, however, is indictment and formally charged Godwin enough evidence for probable cause." Chanticleer in November that Godwin is less than relaxed. with first degreerape, according to Calhoun Wood said the case was investigated by "no longer a part of our organization. It is "I never intended this issue to County records. UPD, which provided "99.9 percent of the something we are trying to put behind us." become a negative one," Heather Calhoun County sheriff Larry Amerson evidence" that led to the indictment. Godwin finished the Fall 1994 semester told USA Weekend, responding to said Godwin was arrested on Jan. 30 and David Nichols, JSU's Director of Public at JSU but is not a student here now. H. criticism from the deaf community was released on bond. Safety, told The Chanticleer in November Bascom Woodward, Vice President for based on her decision to communi- No court date has been set. of last year that he felt UPD's investigation Student Affairs, wouldn'tcomrnent on what cate primarily through speaking, According to Ron Wood, assistant dis- was very thorough. specific disciplinary action, if any, the rather than signing. "It hurts me to be misunderstood," she said. trict attorney, the charge carries with it two "Both Rick Tubbs and Nelson Coleman University took in the case. In an emotional interview with counts: that the alleged victim was inca- worked on the investigation," Nichols said. Godwin said he had nothing to say about USA Weekend's Gigi Anders, pable of consent (the victim's mother said "Coleman spent 16 years in Washington, the incident, other than "I haven't done Heather said the media was partly the victim had been drinking), and forcible D.C., working on sex crimes." anything ... [I'm] completely innocent." to blame for the misunderstanding, compulsion, which means she was alleg- Neither Wood nor Nichols would com- The alleged victim and her family de- saying that Time magazine mis- edly "forced against her will and it over- nent on the nature of the evidence pre- clined comment. quoted her last October. Thearticle in Time implied Heather advocates speaking over signing: "Sign language puts more limits to SGA gears dreams ... As long as [the deaf] don't use English, it's not going to help them be successful." Heather told Anders she "never up tor said that. I've never said 'I'm right, you're ~rong',~she said. Besides these misunderstandings, Heather has many critics in the deaf elections community. "A lot of us feel she shouldn't represent us to the main- r Bv Beniamin Cunninaham stream world,"said one administra- News editor tor at Gallaudet University, a lead- It's election time at JSU, which would nor- ing school for the deaf. "Hearing mally mean heavy campaigning by candidates people just marvel at this deaf girl trying to beat each other out for office. This who can speak." year however, there Marlee Matlin, the actress who is very little in the won an Oscar for her portrayal of a way of competition deaf character in the film "Children I The Ballot I involved. of a Lesser God," said she came Afull list of who's Of the four major under the same 'kind of criticism running for executive SGA of- when she spoke at the Oscar cer- fices, only one, Sec- emony the year following her win. "This is the same thing that hap- pened to me," she said. "Everyone candidate. gets a taste of cyberspace with a virtual feels a need to jump on Heather's Scott Elrod, the SGA's election clerk, seems reality game. The fully interactive virtual reality video system puts the user inside the case." to think this is a result of the experience of "... I'm learning there will be people those who are running. "They've been here a who disapprove," Heather said. long time, they've paid their dues, and I think "That's all right. I've decided to be true to myself." See Elections -- Jamie Cole page 4 The Chanticleer March 9, 1995 Students expecting to graduate in August 1995 who NATIONO- -- STATE have not yet taken the English Competency Examination should contact Gena Christopher immediately. Her WASHINGTON, D.C. phone number is 782-5856, and her office is 11 1 Stone Center. The Cottaquilla Council of Girl Scouts would like to Bongs ruled illegal to sell by high coart announce the hiring for summer employment at Camp By Marco Buscaglia preme Court. been slow to get out to the general Cottaquilla from June 18-July 29. All majors welcome College Press Service Ralph, an Illinois store owner public, it is also slow in reaching to apply. For more information, contact Phyllis West at You remember seeing that small who wishes to go by his first name police departments as well. 237-2825. collection of bongs at your CD only, says that he sold items to "We haven't really had time to Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is sponsoring a "Mr. Sexy store, don't you? Right there in students and professors from Illi- address that," said Sgt. T.O. Man" contest. All proceeds from this fundraiser will be that glass case between the cash nois State University on a regular Cochran of the Athens police, contributed to the Arthritis Foundation. For information, register and the rack holding the basis. "I should have been selling which presides over the Univer- contact any AOPi sister. latest issue of Spin. Chances are, guns the whole time," he says. sity of Georgia. "When we found though, that stash is now gone. "The feds don't seem to have any out, we already knew we would be spending most of our time go- ing after the dealers. When we do find a store near campus, we'll confiscate the material and deal with it, but it's not at the top list of designed for use in manufactur- on the wall. "You knew it was just our priorities." 3-2-95. Carol Connel 1 reported criminalmischief ing, compounding, converting, a matter of time," says Bill Manhattan federal Judge Rob- at the Home Economics Department in Mason Hall. concealing, producing, process- McMahon, who owns We-B-Joys, ert Sweet recently threw out 3-2-95, Denise Latoyia Walters reported harass- ing, preparing, injecting, ingest- a kind of '60s culture shop cw- charges against three men who ment between Ayers Hall and Logan Hall. ing, inhaling or otherwise intro- ing tie-dye T-shirts and Grateful were arrested for selling drug para- 3-4-95. Meredith L. Cantor reported theft of ducing into the human body a Dead merchandise in Oakland phernalia. Sweet called the Su- services at Crow Hall. controlled substance." Park, Fla. "Once the Supreme preme Court's interpretation of 3-4-95. Tammy D. Walden reported public The ruling stemmed from a 1990 Court makes a decision, it's not the Controlled Substance Act "un- lewdness at Houston Cole Library. case involving a police bust at likely they're going to change it." constitutionally vague." 3-6-95. Travius Djuan Levert, 18, of Birmingham Posters 'NThingsinIowa. Owner McMahon cleared out his mer- But whatever the Supreme Court was arrested and charged with theft of services at Lane Christine Acty and her hus- chandise with a final clearance ultimately decides, most store UPD. band George Michael Moore were sale. "A lot of our regular cus- patrons who have suddenly found 3-6-95.