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THE STUDENT VOICE OF UM-ST. LOUIS
Grieving their losses: One failed candidate for SGA office has filed a grievance demand ing a recount; another student claims he filed two grievances. Mirthday delivers on variety, diversity For this story, see page 6.
e & ~ ~ & & ~ e & • ~ ~ & g Bards are New features, back: America is standard rediscover ing its love affair with attractions poetry both near and far, draw crowd including the latest BY SUE BRITT Litmag, left. s pee i·a Ito The C u rr e n t See page 3 . . Wednesday's Mirthday cele- · bration included recreational Mirthday spons, pony rides, a caricaturist, Moments. Our palmist, food, beverages, music crack pho and organizational booths. tographers "Historically, Mirthday was captured all intended to celebrate the binhday the of the University," stated Don McCarty, student services coordi nator in the Office of Student Activities. The celebration is a way to "bring different University aspects together," McCarty said. you can "It gives organizations an oppor see them for tunity to introduce themselves yourself, in while having fun. full color, on "As a way of expanding the the back experience we brought in a clown, page, palmist and tarot card reader," Stephanie Platt/The Current page 8. McCarty said. • Above, palm-reader Share Faerber presumes to tell freshman Marla McCarty stated that in Hockenhull her fortune and future. Left, Cassey Catch tries to keep response to the commuter Cam his act together at Mlrthday Wednesday. The University turned out pus aspect of UM-Sr. Louis, to enjoy the activities despite less than Ideal weather. Controversial "pony rides were provided for children of students and faculty." art kept out of Several booths were run by student organizations. The UM Pikes will likely regain Auburn U St. Louis Riverette Pom Squad . was often outside its booth per exhibition forming routines to the music University recognition offered by DJ Flex, on the loading AUBURN, Ala. (U-WlRE) - dock outside food services. In its One art student wants t o know why the University's art depart booth, Anthropology Club mem Fraternity has cleaned up act, officials say ment won't support her freedom bers were playing drums bor of expression. Jenny Root, a rowed from UM-St. Louis' BY BRIAN DOUGLAS "In a general sense, there [were] ._ ...... _._ ...... --.~ •. .- .. . senior in graphic design, was African Village in the Center for staff writer several years of repeated complaints told by associate professor of art Human Origins and Cultural that OCCUlTed both on and off the cam Barry Flemming that unlike her Diversity. The senate studem affairs commit pus against the fraternity about various fellow students her sculpture Other non-campus organiza tee voted on March 19 to support the allegations of behavior," Grace said. was deemed inappropriate by tions such as UPS, Coca-Cola and Pi Kappa Alpha fratemity's bid to According to Grace, the chapter certain faculty and could not Americorps were running bomhs. regain University recognition, pending was encouraged on several occasions appear in the Foy student Union Activities and rides included to regulate its conduct. St udent Exhibition. an administrative re\~ew. It would instead be moved to co-ed volleyball; a gyroscope, 'The fraternity lost its recognition in 'There [were] repeated efforts a room in Biggin Hall to be exhib which is a spinning harness and the spring of 1996. G. Gary Grace, vice made to try to get the attention of the ited for those who want to see it. jousting - 'With competitors using chancellor for Student Affairs, said chapter [to infonn them] that their Root's art work caHed padded poles while balancing on that Slnce he w:tS not here at the time, b eha\~ o r needed to be brought into "Mother/Father" is a large two pedestals. he did not "rant to comment on the some decorum," Grace said. part sculpture. The "mother" ele "We offered the bungee-run lncidem which led to the withdrawal of Bur Grace said the problems con ment is a female torso with a again. It is always very popular," the fraternity's recognition. He did say tlnued, culminating in a situation at a white colored substance pumped McCarty said. that there had been st.... eral years of parry where alleg.ltions were made that through vinyl tubing through The bun gee-run was a compe- each breast on the SCUlpture. complaints against the fraternity The "father" element has involving noise, panies and the flu id pumped into a latex male see MI RT H , page 8 Stephanie Platt/The Current lnyolvement of municipal police. see PI K ES, page 6 t genital area and out through a penis-like appendage. Root said her piece was juried into the stu dent show by the faculty based Dukakis addresses University on artistic merit. New two-year transfers 'f "I was told to go ahead and set up my work in the gallery so Former presidential nominee discusses ethnicity I did so," she said. She said the will have more credits in foreign policy as part of campus conference question of whether her sculp ture was suitable for display at transferable. BY BRIAN DOUGLAS I ~< BY MARY LINDSLEY Jewish and Irish communities "1th Foy was raised outside of the Welch mentioned the removal of staff writer the North American Free Trade department. This question was ---&;b--- staff writer his [agreement) the cap in her repOrt at the April 15 then brought to, Nancy Agreement, the recognition of On April 16, the Coordinating Student Government Association Former Massachusetts gover- Hartsfield, temporary head of the Israel as a country and the peace . ~ art department, said the sculp Board of Higher Education approved just removes meenng. nor and 1988 presidential candi- negotiations in Northern Ireland, ture was indeed not suitable to modifications to the rransfer and t he [64-hourl cap "There have been many contractS date Michael Dukakis addressed respectively. be displayed tn roy Student articulation guidelines that affect universally for any with the Barnes College of Nursing the influence of ethnic Americans "Here are JUSt three examples Union because Foy is a public which credits students can cransfer to and engineering programs to remove on forei<>"n policy in a speech on student transfe.... this of ethnic communities who take space and who wou ld see the UM-Sr. Louis from community col- the cap already, but . JUSt removes campus Friday, their responsibility very serious works in the show could not be leges. ru ng in. the cap universally for any student The keynote address concluded ly," Dukakis said. UThey ca re very controlled. 0 Sarah Welch, student curator, said rransferring in," Welch said in her the first of a two-day seminar on deeply about their home country the Council On Public Higher ·Sarah Welch report. "A Changing . Greece: Media and their culture, and actively Education had met with the Missouri . student curator Lehmkuhle said there will also be Images and Political and involve themselves in ways they Community College Association and " modifications to the process for Economic Realities" at the Pierre hope will influence American for the CBI-IE to revise state-wide agree- and associate or applied SClence appealing rejected credit aansfers. In Lac:lede Honors College. BULLETIN BOARD ...... 2 eign policy." ments on transfer and articulation. degrees will no longer be cransfer order to prevent them from getting Dukakis, the child of Greek ODDS & ENDS ...... 3 Dukakis also dis~ussed the David Gam, director of the School of degrees. Instead, Lehmkuh1e said the caught in the middle of tranSfer dis- immigrants co America, served for OPlNIONIEDITORIAL ...... 4 Greek influence in American poli Business Administration, was the A.S d f\.A 5 will be'cula putes, students will be able to request three terms as the governor of SPORTS ...... 5 tics, noting that the authors of the UM-St. Louis representative to the . of that sending institutions iniciate before making an LIFE IN HELL ...... 7 rio~ :~ ~'eanin;:e rran~er Ma ssachuse~ts constitution based the document council task force, which worked to their creditS reqUires a specific agree- appe:ili of rejected credit tranSfers on unsuccessful bid for the presiden- PHOTO SPREAD ...... 8 on Athenian principles of democ revise the existing guidelines forrrans- ment be.tween the nvo inscitunons the student's behalf. cy against George Bush in 1988. racy. He said that the involvement fer and articulation. Ganz said those involved. The fourth major change of the He now divides his time between of the Greek-American communi Newsroom. 516-5174 guidelines had been dra\VIl up in 1987. Lehmkuhle also said the previous guidelines, Lehrnkuhle said, states teaching at Harvard, Northeastern ty in US. foreign policy became Advertising • 516-5316 Steven Lehmkuhie, acting vice limit of 64 hours of transferable cred- that if a program at a four-year insti- University and the University of particularly actlv.e following Fax • 516-6811 presidenLOf Academic Affairs for the it will be lifted. However, he said that tunon is going to change its require- California at Los Angeles. W orld 'War II, especially with UM System, said there were four any credit hours e.xceeclingthe former ments, it needs to communicate these In his speech, Dukakis spoke of ,fkll[1[f~ o @(Q)llil/ regards to the terri'corial disputes maior changes to the existing guide- 64 hour cap must be in some way changes t~ the community .colleges instances in which ethnic between Greece and Turkey. . gi!~mI&l E lines. He said the associate of arts linked to the degree program the Stu- and allow them adequate time to Americans had been especially :B'" degree will be the state wide tranSfer dent is pursuing. Ganz said that only change their own requirements influential on foreign policy, citing ' \\. . ·;w·' ~,,' degree, while the associate of science lower division course work will be accordingly. 0 the involvement of the Hispanic, . see 0 U KA KI S, page 6 Page 2 m:be Q[urrent April 27,1998
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Put it on the Board: 7JJe Current Events Bulletin Board is a service providen free of charge 10 all studenJ: org David Baugher. news editor Monday, April 27 C. Schmink, Professor of Latin (3036 Be llerive just to the right of Saturday, May 2 I Becky Rickard • features editor • Rethinking Women's Movements American Studies and Anthropology the U-Meadows) at 4 p.m. Ple ase l • UMSL Night at Carrolton Bowl. . Ken Dunkin· sports editor Annie Valk, assistant pro fessor of at the University of Florida speaks RSVP for the reception to follow. l Cosmic Bowl from 9:45 p.m. to .\ Stephm1ie Platt • photography dzr. ! Contact: Denni s or Betty, 7524. 12:15 a.m. All you can bowl fo r $10 I historical studies, Southern Ill inois about "Community Management of ! Wendy Verl1off. romm. ndations dir. University, Edwardsville, talks about Natural Resources and proceeds benefit t he UMSL Bowl ing i Scott Lee· copy editor her ongoing re search on grassroots Conservation" from 1:00 p.m. to • Student Volunteer Optometric Team . Cosmic Bow l is like bowling : Marty Johnson. cartoonist women's activism in the 1960s and 2 :30 p.m . in 331 SSB. Sponsored by , Services for Humanity Trip in a dance club with music, flashing i '70s at 12 p.m . in 229 J.C. Penney. the Center for International Studies Presentation (Etzatlon, Mexico) and lights, and more. Carrolton Bowl is i M.~. A&E edito r Contact: Karen Lucas, 5699. and the I nternational Center for officer elections from 12 p.m . to located a at 12449 Natural Bridge ! i Mary Undsley· news associate Tropical Ecology. Contact: Bob 12:45 p.m. in SCB 206. Everyone is . ~ Rd. Contact: Carrolton Lanes for • Department of Physics and the Baumann , 5798. welc ome . Contact: 5606. directions, 291-3215. i Amy Lombardo· features associate I i . Center for Neurodynamics colloqui . ! Dave ~. sports assoaate um "Sensory Acquisition and Prey . Wednesday, April 29 Friday, May 1 I Monday, May 4 I i T. Wombacher· ad. associate Capture Behavior in Weakly Electric • Donut Day come by the Women's • ;'Medium-Mediated Interactions: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students i Todd Appel • prod associate Fish" given by Mark Nelson, from Center for complimentary donuts Simple Experiments on Particles for Change Meeting at 4 p.m. in i j Tanisha Tucket' bZLSiness associate the Beckman In stitute of the and coffee and meet the staff of the Entrained in Solution" is a colloqui 441 Stadler Hall. Contact: Ethel , I University of Illinois, Urbana, at Women's Center from 12 p.m. to 2 um given by Dr. Gabrial Spalding 5013. I 3:00 p.m. in 328 Benton Hall with p.m. in the 211/212 Clark Hall. from the Department of Physics at 7940 Natural Bridge Road coffee and cookies at 2:30 p.m. in Contact : The Women's Ce nter, Illinois Wesleyan Un iversity, • Institute for Women's and Gender · St. Louis, Missouri 63121 the Physics Library. 5380. Bloomington Illinois at 3:00 p.m. in Studies Holiday Lunch and Year-End Newsroom' (314) 516·5/74 328 Benton Hall with coffee and Festivities from 12 p.m . to 2 p.m. I, Advertising • (314) 516·5316 Tuesday, April 28 l • Interfaith Memorial Service in the cookies at 2:30 p.m. in the Physics Contact: Nan Sweet, 6383 or Business' (314) 5/6·5175 I · International Seminar: Dr. Marianne South Campus Residence Chapel Library. Deborah Bowman, 5581. I Fax' (314) 516-681J ' Ii i t . ! m .. .J. .. ,,,,\\&1. email: CtlTTet1I @j!nx.umsl.edu 1""'--'-" "~""--~--.---.....,..,---~-~-""-" ______=x=~~~"~! ...... ··.. ········1 website: htlpl/www.umsiedu/ stu.drntlifelolTTenti :""":.'.C' amp us r; meL 111 ne The Campus CrimeUne is a free service provided by the UM- I woman's coat and purse from the pas- I St Louis Police Departmen1 to promote safrty through awareness. senger floor board area. The vehicle had I j il· he Current ls publlshed weekly on ~ ~-_-Il been parked on parking lot " E". !I. I Mondays. Advertising rates aval~ Table upon request. Terms. cond~ i parked at the U-M eadows. The- vehicle fugitivewarra-ntSfrom- t:"'"he---=C-'-'it-y-of St. April 11 tlons and restrictions apply. The Current, ! April 2 had fi ve fist sized dents in the front Char les. At 8:56 p.m. a person at U-Meadows flnance{! In part by student activities fee, Is not an offictal pubncation of UM· A person was arrested at the doors and a lengthy scratch on a front was arrested for Possession of a i St. louis. The University ls not respons~ 1 TeleCommunity Center building as a fender. A student reported that between 4:30 Controlled Substance. Warrants will be ble for the content of The Current or Its ! fugitive with two active warrants from p.m. and 6:45 p.m. her vehicle was stolen: applied for at the St. Louis County policies. Commentary and columns reflect the opinion of the Individual j t he City of Ferguson and one fro m the A student reported that on Mar. 26 from parking lot "1" on the South ! Prosecutor's office. author. Unsigned editorials reflect the I City of St. Louis. between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. some · Campus. i opinion of the majority of the editorial 1 unknown person had stolen her wallet board. All material contained In each At 11:33 p:m. a person reported that their issue Is property of The Currerrt and may April 3 from her purse. The inc ident occurred A student reported that his U-Meadows I . vehicle had been scratched while it was not be reprlrrted, reused or reproduce{! i At 9:30 a.m. a Bi-State bu s driver was 217 Stadler Hall. parking permit had been stolen from the : ~ arked at the South Campus Conference without the expressed, written consent 01 The Current. Arst copy free; all subse ! charged with Property Damage after the windshield of his vehicle. The theft is Center. quent copies, 25 cents, available at the bus she was operating caused damage A staff person complained of being believed to have occurred at U offlces of The Current. Serenity Now. to the campus grounds at parking lot harassed by a former girlfriend while he Meadows. April 13 II G" . was at class in Clark Hall at 7:45 p.m. on A student reported that her wallet had April 2. April 8 been stolen at 10:30 a.m. while she exer iMCMA A student reported that unknown per A student reported that between 9:00 cised at the Mark Twain Fitness Center. sons had damaged her vehic le between April 6 a.m. and 10:10 a.m. unknown persons The wallet had been left unattended in a U April 1 and 2 while the vehicle was A person was arrested on outstanding broke a window on her car and took a bookbag outside of the Fitness Center. I " FREE 516-5742 1 Liter Drink (Coke, Sprite, Diet Coke, Pibb) , with Any Fresh Pizza Purchase Good till May 14, 1998 (U-Mart) I . I ~------~------~ ,r------, , , , FREE , oz Fountain Drink . 116, , 516-5771 :I , , I , , with ,I , ,I I Fresh Bowl of Chili Purchase I I I I I ,I ,I Good till May 14, 1998 (Candy Store) ,I r ______~ ______~ ___ J, FREE TO GO 516-7012 16 oz Fountain Drink with Fresh SUB Purchase (Does Not apply with Daily Special) Good till May 14, 1998 . (Sub-zone) ------April 27,1998 '(!tor QCurrent Page 3 Becky Rickard, features editor ph. Il e: 516-5174 fax: 516-6811 e-mail : ~lr r,_ ";·' @admiral.umsl.edu BEe R D ...... Ky;c~~A...... features editor BY BECKY RICKARD ood bye. See ya. Sayonara. . ------~----- .- - ---_._------staff writer Hasta Luego. Ciao. I'm Center for outta here. If you were walki.T1g past the University Center last week and saw dirty These are all words that I'll be . Trauma launchyhangingup, don't worry. The chancellor's washer and dryer aren't bro embellishing over the neA't few weeh ken. Ifyou looked doserat the hanging garments, you would have realized that Not on..~· will I be leaving UM-St. Recovery each garment represents the victim of a crime. . Louis, but I'll also be handed a degree The UM-St Louis campus is one of the many sites for the St. Louis as the door hits my ass on the way out participates Gothesline Project The project was created in 199J by the Cape Ox! As the nostalgia about "the glory days" Women's Agenda as a model representing viccims in the war aga:inst women. begins to boil, I keep thinking of which in historic The Clothesline Project was displayed at the University Center and at the memories I'll choose to relay to others Center for Trauma. Recovery in the Kathy J. Weinman Centre last week in regarding my college experience. conjunction Mth National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Like many other students, I rrans Clothesline Each shirt is decorared to commemorate the individual's expecimce either ferred from another schooLHowever, I by the survivor herself or by someone who cares about her. 'White shirts rep .\ transfemd to UM-St. Louis because I Project as resent women v,;ho have died from violence; yellow or 00ge shirts are for hated my other school - not because I women who ~ye been battered or assaulted; red, pink and orange shirts depict partied too hard, which seems to be a part of women who have been raped or sexually assaulted; blue and green shirts sym common stereotype among transfers. bolize survivors of incest or child sexual abuse; ptuple or lavender shirts stand Most of my "college experience" hap National for women attacked because of their sexual orientation. Of 26 garmen~ on dis pened at another school- you know, play in the Kathy J. Weinman Center, 10 represented women killed byvio the drinking, shacking, first sense of Crime lence. independence thing. So now I ask Terese Evans, grant coordinator of the Trauma Recovery Centre, and myself, v..>hat did I really do here at _. Michael Griffin, assistant research professor in the clepanment of psychology, UM-St. Louis? Besides information Victims' hope that the project will raise awareness of the extent of the problem of vio ~ that I probably won't use in the real lence while aiding in the healing process of victims and their loved ones. world, what did I learn? Rights "Some of [the shirts J t.ell the story, The front will t:e!l the past and the back First, I learned that this campus is will show the present transformations and gruwth," Evans said. "The unique apathetic, but not as apathetic as people Week thing about this project is that not only is the focus on working through the think. u1vl-St. Louis students seem to .victimization but also experiencing it in a unique way." think that limited time on campu~ is Evans and Griffin W Insert's expres$ion THE ST L DE~T VOICE OF U M-ST. LOUiS Editorial Board is protected too Doug Harrison TilE editor in chief cv ~R fM T ithin the c;;cophony of voices that loudly oppose our choice to prim an insertion last week from the Bill Rolfes MinnesOta Righc To L Ee Coalition, a pervasive managing editor & Mail edicond page editor paradox with unbelievable implications remains untouched, pro Letters to the editor Wendy Verhoff tected by a cloud of self-rightOues indigation and santicmoruous 7940 Natural Bridge Road • Fax E-mail . Telephone commulI!ty relations director hue and cue. St. Louis, MO 63121 (314) 516-6811 [email protected] (314) 516-5174 "Our Opimon " rej /eels (he majon'IY But it is there. It calls itself by many different names. For the opinion of the editorial board "£L& j U Jj i'Ji faculry member, it is an issue of constraining {he definition of advenisement in order to preclude the publication of, say, an inser ,------OUR OPINION ------, tion from the M.inne,Ota Right To life Coalition. For the student · I activist, it is a failure on Our part to understand ""1m our readership "wants" and, more imponant, what it does not want, from its Best laid plans of paper. From still a.ilother student it is a matter of "truth," and disas For SGA's success, it's as easy as one, two sociating ourselves from "other pubUcations," like last week's anti unit mergers failed abortion insert, tbr do not possess an he student body has elect dent organizations already must erry Jones' best laid plans apparently shared, yet undefined will to The Issue: ed next year's Student submit documentation of their haven't worked. Shortly truth. T But though they m:ly seem to be elu TGovernment Association involvement during the previous before he was fired as dean of We have met executive committee, and we have year. In addition, we suggest these the College of Arts and Sciences last cidating separare, yet equally righteous next year's two suggestions for the officers and organizations be required to submit year, he collapsed several individual reasons for us to have refused publica academic offices into a few mega executive com the assembly as a whole. five ideas of activities the SGA can tion of the insert in quesrion (bey are in units. His rationale at the time made fact, saying the same thing, making the mittee for the First, make sure the constitution do as a whole during the coming sense: he had to cut a' half a Il}illion dol is complete before the fall semester year. Jim Avery, SGA president, is same point, with \'ariously consrructed Student lars from the college's budget, and in editor in chief begins and that the chance ll or on the right track with his organiz tough times "luxuries" like individual rhetorical facades: free speech applies Government approves it. The executive commit ing students for "The Big Event." _offices for each department are the only to those whose speech we WdI1t w hear, they are saying. Association, and tee has already formed a task force This event is a day-Io'ng community ·first to go. And so, good-bye, we said to This is indeed a disturbing and disappointing subtext w find we have two to rewrite the constitution, so that service project when students work the days of one department, one office. lurking beneath the surface of arguments by ~ople who profess to A year later, it's time to admit that suggestions. a group of students has plenty of together in cleaning up the home of value the free exchange of e:':p ressio n 'and ideas. Yet it seems time, once finals are over, to com a needy family in the community. this secretary shuffle didn't work. impossible for that exchange to take place unfettered and unre Department assistants are now plete the project before August. While this event and others, like the strained when would-be p,m:icipams, however offensive, an: We Suggest: swamped with twice as many responsi The new constitution should Rec Sports' paintball war, are bilities as before, often with half the refused acces, to the marketplace of ideas because their ideas and require the SGA Assembly to excellent ideas, this campus needs The executive support staff that was once available. expressions are not socially palatable or politically correct. . approve the revised doc ument at the more input from the students who Meanwhile, students have to compete Indeed, some of our present, most yocJ..l critic s readily concede committee needs first meeting of the new term. New actually care to partiCipate in an with one another, faculty in several with no apparent sense of comradiccion thac, had the insen last to make sure the constitution or not. the assembly organization. departments and the demands of two week been of a pro-choice bent, there would be, for them, no issue. constitution gets should approve the constitution at As it stands, the SGA does not or three academic units for secretaries' This suggests that their marketpla 'e f ideas does business only time and attention. approved and the beginning of every year so all appear to be a true association. with those groups mat p JSS some SOrt of leftist, culwnl or social organizations know and understand Instead, it is merely a bunch of indi In recognition of such unfortunate should stop litmus test. For them, The Czmmt has perperuated high crimes j the guidelines stipulated in and by vidual organi zatio ns that show up to side effects, some departments have returned to the ways of old. Others, against enlightened humani ty fo r doing what these s,une people preaching stu it. Also, the SGA will not run into the a meeting once a month so their J however, are not so lucky. normally would expect, in fa _t, demand that we do in instances dent involve problem of going several years with funds won't get frozen. If the SGA Hopefully, we can take from this when the ideas bein g expressed pander to their political ideology. ment. out knowing which constitution is were to require organizations to adm in istrative meltdown a lesson larg Ths street, apparently, doesn't run both ways. official. submit ideas for partiCipation, its er than the unmanageability of the Yet what is more troubling still is that chis most recent So what do Second, stop preaching "student committees could spend more time superunits at the heart of the problem: exchange suggests that we have not progressed nearly as far as we cost cuts and budget reallocations involvement" to the organizations planning for events that will bring first thought nor have we managed to tOlerate or at least consider you think? cripple every facet of the academic who are already involved. The exec student groups together rather t han altemam'c viewpoints. \Y/ e have, ic s ems, raken up where our inrol- . utive committee and other repre· trying to think up ideas. machine. From pencils to professors; Let us hear from erance of a few decades ago left off. sentatives in the SGA consistently :t should not be difficu lt for repre steno pads to students. you on this or How many more student services There is, co be sure, :tIl allure to such beha\~or: after aU, ihve complain about a shortage of stu sentatives to get five ideas from the silence everyone who "offends" us, if we were to exile those with any issue in a must be eliminated, how much more dents on this campus who are other members of their organiza administrative workload must be trans beliefs or expressions we don't Lke , it would be much easier to letter to the edi "involved;" however, few people tions. Furthermore, they already sub ferred to faculty or heaped on over claim we are a tolerant society, that we have achieved a heightened tor. actually offer ideas about how to mit reports stating what they have worked assistants before we decide to sense of the Other. In this utopia, the choices about which voices boost participation. At the begin done in the past. Now it's time they rethink the University's budget get heard become a lor easier, ning of each year, recognized stu- start planning for SGA's future. 0 process? 0 But in the end, for those whom it troubles that we afforded the same freedom of expression to the Mirm esota Right to Life Alliance that we would to its opponents, those people might con READER RESPONSE ------sider reviewing the conditions of libeny that allowed voices like theirs to be heard in the first place. 0 Anti -abortion path, and fm happy on it If you don't believe in advertisement abomon, if you think abor Kicking the binge tion is wtong, don't have offends readers one. It's as simple as that. Don't campaign to have CD ordering habit In January 1998 omer people's rights Cynthia Gorney of The infringed just because you usic by mail: People can purchase CDs and cassettes Washington Post pubhshed dis~aree. And shame on The from the comfort of their homes. This may seem her "Articles of Faith: A Current for trashing an oth- . like a nice concept, but is joining a CD club really Fronthne History of the erwise excellent paper to be wonh the couple of bucks you save? And do people really save Abomon Wars" at Simon a propaganda vehicle, just money? and Schuster. This fast because someone paid Purchasing CDs and cassettes by mail can become an addiction. moving narrative is set in St. . them. Some things are more (fhere's no scientific evidence that I know of; it's my own theory.) Louis from 1968 to 1993, imponam than money. The CD clubs have a different, attractive offer every month, like and depicts me people and three for the price of one with the option of peu-chasing a bonus struggles of pro-Choice CD at half price. Four CDs are a lot to buy at one time. Many and pro-Life movements times, the consumer will end up ordering three CDs, and he finds alike. Judy Widdicombe, of I was appalled to find anti it difficult to decide which three to choose. Reproductive Health choice literature within The After being a member for a while, the consumer finds difficulty Ser\~ces, and Sam Lee, of Current last week. I enjoy not in narrowing his selection down to three, but fmding more pro-Life civil disobedience, browsing through your than one CD he actually wants to buy. So, he ends up experiment are the featured figures. advertising, but this was not ing with CDs - buying one by a band Abomon is an issue for college Stu The Current the week of April 20. goals as you do. advertising. It was a political manipulation of that he has heard of before, or by a band dents. Other readers besides me might I do not expect The tin-rent to sup a ~pposedly unbiased publication. I under that haS recorded a good song on a previ regret the state of affairs described to me by port any agenda and would find any pro -Bethany Cunningham stand the need for advertising, but this is not ous album. The Current's editor: college journalism paganda JUSt as morally reprehensible. . advertising - nothing is being sold, AND IT I bought many CDs while a member might more readily distribute pro-life pro \'\'hen one picks up a copy of the paper, Ladies and Gentlemen, from the WAS PURPOSEFUllY MADE TO of both BMG and Columbia House, and paganda as "advenising," but not discuss one expects news, columns and opin people who brought you Juan LOOK UKE A NEWS ARTIClE. This now I have a box filled with one-hit abonion on its op-ed page. CAnicies of ions, but does not expect to be bom T orquemada and his Spanish Inquisition, is the lowest ploy to influence people. We wonders that collects dust in the comer BILL ROLFES Faith" narrates the discovery of sensation barded with right-wing hype. we have the lovely little ins en from The cannot let money tum your head away from of my closet. There were times I would managing editor al pictures as a propaganda device in the Indeed one would hope that a paper Current last week. In case you don't the obvious conflict of interest mat the admire my extensive collection, but now movement.) For those readers, "Anicles of of any merit would place itself above remember, it was that lovely piece of anti newspaper has incurrecL Are you going to I look at the 200 to 250 CDs I have bought and mink of how Faith" is available at Left Bank Books and supporting in any way something that abortion reactionary propaganda bullshit give equal time and an equal spread for the much money I have wasted. ( elsewhere. Read it in time for the Pope to really amounts to the antithesis of j"our with the picture of the presumably un pro-<:hoice campaign? You shouH One time I did a little math and figured I was spending an aver-. arrive in St. Louis. Read it in time for the nalism. Yes, I understand that they aboned fetus on the cover. Don't get me Please assure me and all UM-Sr. Louis age of about $7 a CD, after shipping fees and sales tax. Now that dedication of RHS's new clinic in the probably paid you to place the inserts. wrong, I anl 100 percent pro-freedom of students that you did not sell us out for a few was sman shopping; although, I never stopped to think if I would Central West End. But journalism is not only about money. speech, but this entirely opinion-driven bucks. have bought all of those CDs if I could have bought them one at a You have a choice whether or nOt to piece of crap took my breath away with its \ time. Even at seven bucks a CD, I wouldn't have bought that -Nanora sweet accept them as a potential advertiser. self-righteous tone. Trixter CD or the one by Extreme (it was a phase). The whole That is really what this is all about. Take, for example, the pseudo-scientific time I was a CD club member I was thinking I was saving money, I would like (0 first state that I have Choice. My right to choose is guaran facts offered by the propagandists as truth. Correction but I really ended up spending more than I would have if I were nothing against The Current and sup teed by Roe vs. Wade, and if someone Unsubstantiated claims offered by so-called • In Issue 920, the story "Survey: buying CDs at the store . POrt its mission and coverage of the wishes (0 overturn this men they need "experts" about the horrors of abomon are students would be off senate I was a binge CD club member. I would realize that I was UM-St. Louis campus. However, I feel I to seek the proper legal channels and not inserted between every other story about a under new, all-faculty body" spending too much money on CDs, so I wouldn't buy any for sev must voice my concern (0 the anti-abor use under-handed, sensationalistic scare raped woman who decided not to abon incorrectly attributed a quote to eral months. After a while, I would lose all control and order three, tion (I will not justify it by calling it pro raeries to prove a point. I am ashamed because "it's ' murder!" The use of loaded former senate chairperson sometimes six, CDs. Afterwards, I would be ashamed of myself, life) literature insened in every copy of that The Current let irs desire for adver phrases such as "the choice is ... between a Lawrence Friedman. The quote and the cycle would continue. tising dollars come before its journalistic dead baby and a live bah-v" also pepper the should have read: "It's easier to I ended my membership with b9th BMG and Columbia House integrity. We, your readers, should paper. make changes slowly rather than because neither had much of a selection after I had purchased half of More letters on the web: come first. You owe it to us to print the Before the CCC and the Newmans ask for a com lete reform of the the CDsin each group's catalogue. I conquered mv addiction about April 27, 1998 '(!toe Ken Dunkin, sports editor phone: 871-2192 fax: 516-6811 e-mail: [email protected] , ~sR~;"~;~;;;;;- to college-level play in conference tourney BY...... DAVE KINWORTHY...... -... .. g.A V E KIN WaR T.H.Y.. BY JOE HARRIS staff writer sports associate staff writer As the men's tennis team entered One of the Riverwomen's best the GLVC tOurnament, the team was offensive threats is also one of their seeded eighrh overall and was forced biggest surprises. Freshman to play the number one seed, n the midst of all of the Andrea Wirkus has exceeded all Southern Indiana, in the first mund, baseball and hockey hype expectations. The Rivennen fared quite well. At I that has been evident "The biggest adjustment is the one point, UM-St. Louis was ahead 7- throughout the St. Louis area, amount of games we play," Wirkus 5 in number one doubles and ended some people overlook the said. "In high school we only up losing 9-7. impressive sport of track and played about 20 games, here we Coach Rick Gyllenborg com field. play around 40." Andrea Wirkus mented how crucial the doubles Now that the track season Wirkus has wasted little time going over her head. marches were for rhe team. getting adjusted. In conference "All three doubles matches we for local high schoolers has "If she doesn't make that play, play she leads the team with a .343 the whole game changes and we potentially could have won, begun, I seem to enjoy this con batting average and 3 triples, is tied may not have won," Kennedy said. Gyllenborg said. "It juSt changes the fusing weather that EI Nino has for the team lead with 11 RBIs, and Wirkus felt welcomed from the whole mental outlook going into rhe . bestowed upon us even more. has a .432 slugging percentage. beginning. singles matches." Although I am not sure "Andrea's been very consistent "At the start of the season there As far as the match was con File' photo whether to call this spring or at the four spOt every ' game," were six or seven new players," cerned, Gyllenborg felr the Rivennen autumn, lately, the one thing I Kennedy said. "She's great at han Wirkus said. "Everybody helped us gave Southern Indiana a hard fight. Sophomore David Crowell was a key member of the UM-St. Louis men's tennis team this year. am sure of is that this weather is dling situations and putting the ball fit in." "Overall, in this match I felt that absolutely perfect for a mid in play whether there's rwo strikes With the great year, there is a we gave them a good scare," with the ending of the season. High School in Illinois, both signed afternoon jog. or not. She's just not a kid that possibility that Wirkus could be Gyllenborg said. "It was a very roller coaster sea with UM-St. Louis recently. strikes out a lot." named the Great Lakes Valley The Rivermen then tOok on son," Gyllenborg said. "I felt the way I miss not being able to suit Accorclingto Gyllenborg, these In82 conference at bats, Wirkus Conference Freshman of the Year. Northern Kentucky in their second we played at conference had us up on players are no slouches when it up in the warm-up pants and has struck out only twice. However, Kennedy thinks Wirkus' round match. top of the hill at the end of the sea comes to tennis. compete against other athletes. "She's very dedicated," Kennedy best days are still ahead of her. It was close as it came to the fin son." ''Trela is a rwo-time state quaLfier Yes, track runners are athletes. said. "She's in the batting cages on "I think with another year under ish ",rith rhe score tied at 4 and the Gyllenborg continued on with and ruro-time all conference and sec They may not play with a ball or days off and she gets extra help to her belt she will relax more and winner would bc detcrmined in the nothing but praise for his players. tional representative. Schaefer was an have to block a slap shot, but work on her swing." she'll enjoy the game a lot more," match of number three singles. "I am very pleased where we fin aU conference selection last year and these runners are in excellent Wirkus has a simple philosophy Kennedy said. "She's her own Townsend Morris came back ished. I do not think we were quite a qualified for state that same year," condition. at the plate. Instead of home runs, worst critic and she takes it out on from one set dO'?lJ1 to pull our the top four team," Gyllenborg said. Gyllenborgsaid. I remember back when I she's looking to get the baU in play. herself. She doesn't show it but I victOry for the Rivennen 5~7, 6-3, 6- ''The fear was that we would finish These rwo players will make an "I want to hit the ball into the know when she does it." eighth, but I was extremely proud of immediate impact on next years ,,,. competed as a long distance 4. outfield on a line drive," Wirkus Though she has put up out UM-St. Louis then played Lewis the guys and they knew that they squad. runner on my track club at said. "Mostly I want to move the standing numbers in her freshman and defeated them quite easily 5-1. should not finish eighth." "I expect them to make our dou CBC. It was a great experience ball and go with the pitch." season, Wirkus still has goals for Overall, the Rivennen finished The Rivermen received good bles teams deeper," Gyllenborg said. and one that ",~Il be treasured Wirkus has come up big for the herself. 5th overall, the same place that the news when they learned that rwo "I expect them also to fight for a sin for a lifetime. Riverwomen this season in more "I would like to raise my aver team finished a year ago. recruits had given their commitment gles spot in the top six, They should I was in great shape, the com ways than one. Against Wisconsin age," Wirkus said, "but what I rcal According to Gyllenborg, to UM-St. Louis. challenge the returning guys for a p-s~~ tion was the best it had been Parkside on April 11, Wirkus made ly want to do is win, and I'll do although the season was a unpre TJ Schaefe r, from Belleville East, singles spot. I definitely see them in in years and the pure enjoyment a great catch. on hne drive that was whatever it takes." 0 dictable, he seemed quite pleased and R an Trela, from Victor Andrew the Lneup for next year." 0 '~ of running was a thrill. , This season the usual t------sports Analysis------Hazelwoods will do well in the Baseball team seeking state meet; Parkway West along with SLUH will have a number Mark McGwire - more than of individuals ",rin the distance ti~ket to post·,season play events; and there is no more a home run hitting machine hype about how great of an ath BY KEN DUNKIN final conference tournament lete Raven Rogers from staff writer SpOrt. There he is, a tower of humanity, ---f we take" t wo--- of at ball four. He had the discipline to Roosevelt High School actually "It is very important that we \';:lVing his lumber, Striking fear into not swing at a bad ball and the confi is. I mean don't get me wrong, In a season of ups and downs three from put the three losses behind us. We opposing pitchers, his fire-red hair, his dence in his team mates to pick up the the UM-St. Louis baseball team need to put together some wins," Rogers was a good athlete, but Bellermine, t hen we imen'c eyes, his focus on only one RBIs. He was looking for a pitch in a has found itself scrapping to get Brady said. "If we take tWO of goal. he was as over publicized as eliminate everyone certain area, he didn't get it, so he did into the conference play-offs. three from Bellermine, then we There he is, for all of you rabid n't swing. Most power hitters swing at Larry Hughes. The Rivermen starred the week behind us from the eliminate everyone behind us from Cardinal Lu:., the modem day base anything regardless of th~ situation. Go to Forest Park and either on a good note by taking two of tournament possibili the tournament possibilities. It ball home ru;; hitting god, Mark McGwire, though, is~'t like most walk or jog; it is quit~ an expeli three games from Southern ties. It then sets up a then sets up a run for the last McG"'~r e. hitters, or players for that matter. ence. Seeing the quick in-line Indiana. The Rivermen then split a sPOt." run for t he last s,pot. Fans are awed by his swing, by People forget that he took less skaters swing past, and the double header with Truman State. If the Rivermen are to succeed how far his home runs go and how money to stay here; that he stayed golfers yelling at me to "look The second game against Truman in the last few games they will need many he can hit. The mere mention of here because of the fans; and that he out" when they'd shank a shot State went 11 innings and the -Jim Brady good support from their pitching. his name automatically brings com is giving millions of his own doUars to Rivermen lost 4-3. head coach The pitching has been a key for the off of the golf course are some parisons to Babe Ruth, Mickey start a foundation for abused chil Lincoln and SIU-Edwardsville squad. Pitchers Jon Buckingham of the encounters I had. Mantle and Roger Maris. dren. then defeated the Rivermen earlier -----" ----- and Rob Dockemeyer have been All this from a town, that in the People forget that he broke down Just going out for a jog is one Lincoln game was extremely close. this week. The team is currently great for the team. Buckingham is '80s , at the height of \X·'hiteyball, in tears at just the mention of his plans thing, but to view the track 26-11 overall and 12-5 in the Great We had every opportunity to with 4-0 and Dockemeyer is 5-3. would rather see a hit and run or a for his foundation during a press con meets as a spectator is another. Lakes Valley Conference. the game. It was ours for the tak- If the pitching and hitting come stolen base than a home run. How ference to announce his signing. . " The best thing of all though is "The weekend ended on a good mg. through, the team feels they can times hay;; changed. People don't look past the home The squad'sfurure relied on that it is FREE! Any person note. The trip up to Kirksville make a solid run. lnstt":ad of the speedsters, the runs to see that McGwire is about with a financially unstable see med to take its toll on us last weekend's games. The team "Hopefully we will learn from Cardinals' lineup has a murderers row winning. That he's had enough losing income can attend a meet and though. The extra inning game was scheduled to play three games last week's mistakes and refocus of hefty bats. Aside from McG'lVire, in Oakland and that he wants more against Bellennine. Both squads , not pay a dime. took a lot out of us," said head ourselves," Brady said. "\Ve can get there's Ray Lankford, Brian Jordan than anything to bring a winner to the are bunched up in a battle for the back in a winning streak." 0 These athletes work hard at coach Jim Brady. "Then the and Ron Gant. And don't ever under best baseball tovm in the world. estimate the venerable Gary Gaeni. their sport. It may not get all of People forget that the main reason Instead of infield single, stolen base, he signed the contract to stay was that \1the coverage that high school Softball team drops two of three sacrifice, sacrifice to produce a run, his son liked St. Louis. basketball may get on Channel Cards fans are thinking single, single, McGwire is a man of dignity, 5, but since Larry Hughes is home run, home run. Down by five? strength, conviction and devOtion in a now headed to the pros, this in GLVC tournament weekend Don't worry this line up always has sports world full of grecJ. Instead of coverage must go somewhere you ill the game. money, he based his decision to stay else. I Errors plague Riverwomen in losses to SIU-Edwardsville and Quincy But for all of the attention the on whether hi s son liked the city or This is not my plea to local home ru.ns have gotten, particularly not. In fact he took less money to stay runs in the fourth and another in news stations to cover track and BY JOE HARRIS weekend. McG\'/ire's, some important things here and he's giving a good chunk of staff writer However the Riverwomen were the fifth. Kuebler went only 4.3 " field, but rather a plea to the are being overlooked, especially about that away. I innings allowing four runs on five derailed in the next game against people of the St. Louis commu McG\\~re. In a world full of the likes of Barry I The UM-St. Louis softball team the SIU-Edwardsville Cougars. hits, but only ru'o of those runs Fans forget that McG-wi.re isn't Bonds and Mike Piazza, it's good to nity to come out and attend ~ took its lumps, going 1-2 in the The 5-3 loss was a heartbreaker as were earned. only about home runs. Take April 11 know that there's still one good man some of these local meets. Great Lakes Valley Conference the River'?Iomen had come back Errors agall1 hurt th e in San Francisco. In the seventh left. As a former athlete, I think it tOurnament last weekend. from a 3-1 deficit to tie it in the top Riverwomen as they committed inning with the game tied, McGwire Thank you, Mark McGwire. is important to be urged on The Riverwomen's campaign of the sixth, only to allow the three against the Lady Hawks, The stepped up ",·ith the bases loaded. He when you are racing down the started off on the right track with a Cougars tv.'o runs in the bottom of Riverwomen attempted a late worked the count full before looking -Joe Harris final 100 meters and are fading 2-1 victory over the Lewis Flyers. the inning. comeback by scoring rwo runs in the sixth and one in the seventh but ~' from exasperation. The crowd Nicki Kocis kept the Flyers off bal Diana Mooney started the game ance, limiting them to only three and went the first five innings and it was too little, too late. does make a difference. The hits and one run. was relieved by Kocis in the sixth. Despite the rough weekend the encouragement that the fans I~ A fast start helped the Kocis took the 105s which dropped Riverivomen are still getting good Contact the • Tuesday : Thursday : i Sunday , display helps to urge the run production from Andrea Wirkus AthletiC Dept. L ___._._---' Riverwomen, as they scored a run her record to 11-9. for more Infor- ~ ...... , ners on to the finish line. i ill both the first and the fourth The next game. against the who leads the team with a .333 bat mation. . [ .. • .... • .. :2'8········j '-,·_.... _ .. ·_.. · _·3_·0....__ ··_.. ·_.. ·, ~ _ __---' '--__3__ _ ~ So go out and support your inning. Andrea Sczurco and Amy Quin.cy Lady Hawks had similar ting average and 18 RBIs. J ani 1...... , Men ,I...... -...... at;; , vs I i at! former high schools. Your atten Costanza gOt the RBIs in the win. results. Again the Riverwomen lost Bonenberger and Costanza each I I Missouri i i Missouri I i Indianapolis: . dance is appreciated and your The win moved Kocis' record to 5-3. has 17 RBIs and Sczurko has 16 t) 7 :30 p.m. I' iI .Baptist . I i noon (DH): knowledge about track and field 11 -8 and put the Riverwomen on Megan Kuebler took the loss RBIs, and Kocis leads the pitching lQJ I I i i 7.30 p.m. I '----_----'I : will bewilder even yourself. 0 I the ' right track for the rest of the after the Lady Hawks scored four staff with a 1.69 ERA. 0 Page 6 ~be QCurrent April 27,1998 'Defeated SGA candidates file election -grievances; some are not recognized B Y DAVID BAUGHER Grove said the closeness of the race ...... - ...... member of the election committee, :1.988 staf f writer justifies a re count wheth er or not the said both e-mails, which were Democratic court says he falls within the one per marked to the attention of the elec Presidential A candidace in this year's Student cent margin required by SGA rules. tion committee and the student Nominee Government Association el ections He lost to Rankins by only 16 VOtes court, had been forwarded to her. Michael h3-5 requested a vote recount from the out of 880 cast for the four vice-presi Collaso said she sent a response Dukakis dis student coun, den rial candidates. to Wolfe saying that the instnlc cusses U.S_ for Aaron Gro\"e, ",.-ho lost a close vice "Even if its not within the one per tions regarding placement of ballot eign policy in presidential cOntest to inc umbent ce nt all I want is a chance to have boxes were only "guidelines" not the Summit Tvlikc Rmk~"1S e,u-lier this month, said someone recount it and make sure "rules and regulations." Lounge Friday. he has officiall y filed for a recount. everything is legit," Grove said. Collaso said grievances must be Stephanie Platt/ Grove said that he didn't suspect submitted to the election commit The Current any fraud or miscounting had Other griev;n:es tee and the student court. She said occurred but that he had heard 70 bal Steven Wolfe, who was uncontest she did not forward Wolfe's e-mail Dukakis also said he was con ed in his bid for graduate school repre to either body. lots had been counted by hand, DUKAKIS, trom page 1 cerned about an overall lack of ''I'm not saying people are stupid, sentative, said he has filed twO griev "[SGA doesn't] do grievances," invo lveme nt by Americans in pol ances in the el ections. One is for the Collaso said. "The cou rt would have but there is the possibility for error," itics, pointing to the low voter Want lack of "'TIte-in spots for elected SGA to do any kind of grievance." Grove said, Dukakis tied the partIcIpation turnout of some nati onal elec representatives fro m other academic Collaso said she didn't know Steve Bartok, chief justice of the of Greek-America ns in foreign ti ons, He said he hoped his work srudent court, said the possibility of a uni tS, N o candidates flied for the whether Wolfe had followed proce $25,000+ affairs to a strong sense of identi as a college professor wo uld , Spots. dure in filing a grievance bye-mail. recount \\ -as still be ing investigated, ty, encourage some to pursue careers "All schools and colleges shou ld Wolfe said nothing in the rules 'VIe' re going to have to look at the "We're proud Americans who in politics and public se rvice, have been listed on the ballOt with a prevents him from filing rhat way, for rules and then decide what our next care very deeply about this coun "It's obvious that people are space for write-in votes eve n if no Bmh Bartok and Jason Brazeal, step is," Bartok said, try and its role in the world," tUrning away from active politics," one filed for a representative seat," chair of the election committee , said Bartok said that one issue will be Dubbs said, "We have a very Dukabs sa id. "Unless we can college! Wolfe said in an e-mail to the SGA. they never received any information whether Grove fJed v.ithin the num strong relationship with our change that, both on our campus Wolfe, who also ran fo r comp regarding the Wolfe grievance, ber of days required by the election brothers and sisters in Greece, and es and at the grassroOts, then I troller, finishing fifth out of six can Bartok sa id the coun would 'nH:' :1..rmy Rt'~ervt' can help niles, we believe very strongly and think the turnout is going to con yo u take a big bite (Jut of college didates, also sent M]mher e-mail to meet Tuesday to review the niles 'That's one of the things we're deeply in their cau se." .tinue to decline," 0 expenses, going to be talking about, whether it's the SGA protesting the lack of a bal regarding grievance and recount How? days in terms of calendar days or days lot box at the Honors College. procedures before arriving at a deci Barb Collaso, SGA treasurer and sion. 0 If you qualify. th e l\lonl in term ofbu iness days," Bartok said. Send the FTD® Loving gonwry Gl Bill could provid e Thoughts® Bouquet you with over $7,000 for coltege or approv ed Yo/ tech tra ining. the complaints were received. the fraternity over the past twO years. for Mother's Day, May 10. We 'll abo pay yOll over $107 a "There were only probably three Grace said he also notified the other PI K ES, from pag e 1 wee.kend to slar\. Training is people in the roon'; that had any affilia- fraternities and sororities, 00 usually one weekend a m() nlh • tion at the time that these complaints "(I] notified the other fraternities $40 plus hV CI weeks' A.nnual Train led to the withdrawal of University came forwar d, " Grace said. and sororities that a review was taking $45 out of town ing. By adding the pay for Basic Grace described the senate student place and that they were welcome to recognition. The fraternity was sus Mother's Day is right arou nd the Training and skill training, you'll affairs committee as a "recommending offer comments," Grace said. pended in February of 1996, Grace comer, so don't forgello send a earn ove r ~ kOOO eluting a stan· said. body," and said the decision lies with Grace said he met with Michael beautiful bouquet to show her you remembered . dard enlistment. That was two years ago, and now, Chancellor Blanche Touhil l. Barwick, president of the PKA frater ::0 , if you cou ld us t' a little Grace said, the fraternity has submitted "In the discllssion it was clear that nity, laSt Thurs day to go over the iinanc ial help gelling th rough the committee unde r. tOod that it ,:vas a petition to r~gai n its University process ",ith him and give him a chance sch ool- the kind tha t word recogmtlon. an administrative decision, ultimately," to respond to issues raised in th e interfere with school-stop by Grace said he met two weeks ago Grace said, review. 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Great condi but not required. $7-$8/hr. + Need a great DJ? Call Wright tion, AM/FM, A/C 99,000 benefits. College students, soc Way EntertainmenUor any occa miles. $2,200 or best offer cer parents and seniors encour sion_ Discount for UM SL students Call 516-7038 or email: aged to apply. For more info, con and staff. Home: 521-4058, [email protected] .edu tact M r. Fisher: 842-4150, M-F, Pager: 995-0102, Office: 533- 8 a.m.-5 p.m . 8833. 93 Mazda MX3 5-speed . white Market Research 71K miles, CD, AC, $5750 or Part-time help needed ASAP at Typing Service best offer. Call 256-0552 MAIL BOXES ETC. to work 15-20 All types word proceSsing. Fast. Well-known market research company is looking for hrs./wk. Includes some evenings Accurate . Reasonable rates. bright, articulate people with good communication 1992 Wlnstar Minivan, excel 3-7 and Saturdays. Flexible. Ask for Kathleen 530-1734 lent condition - must sell. 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