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~ ®. ~ WIDENER UNIVERSITY, CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA 23 FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1992 . BandS 0 Games & Prizes ,.~ ~'!. ~~ i~m",,,ggii1bgmg"i""'~!'" ........ :,~·5pm t--V y". ment, all activities will be moved Spring into the Schwartz Center Carnival 1992 Fieldhouse. Student Guidelines Outdoor Movie/Fireworks Guidelines (8:30-11:00 p.m.) On Saturday, April 25, the Stu dent Activities Committee will • During the movie and fireworks sponsor a Spring Carnival. The dIsplay, all participants are to re event will be held behind Wolfgram main in the stadium bleachers. Library and Academic Center North Under no circumstance is anyone from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Dinner will be permitted on the field at this served that evening picnic style time. Those who choose not to from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the Carnival. comply with this guideline will be In the event of rain, dinner will be removed from the event. served in the Dining Center "IYf • Students are permitted to bring 4:30-5:30 p.m. A canned beverages for individual Later that evening at 8:30 p.m., JII f: 1/1" consumption to the event. The the movie Terminator 2 will be ~ University reminds all students shown outdoors on the football field " of the Commonwealth of Penn followed by a fireworks display. sylvania regulations limiting con Please note below that different sumption to those persons who guidelines will apply to both pro are at least 21 years of age. grams and must be strictly adhered '!C"-;c:::.;._"~ . - _.~ -:-,, ·~ . f:;' ~ . to in order to provide a safe and en __~ - - Flreworks '- O~ • At the conclusion of the event, joyable event for all. We thank you please discard all trash in the in advance for your cooperation. • (\(\e~ 10:30·11 :00 pm ~U>:OO receptacles located throughout 0' ~'~- v.~ 0,-. the stadium. Carnival Guideline (3:00-6:00 p.m.) • In the event of rain, the movie • No alcoholic beverages are per f/l\C(\~,:)'?~ . SATURDAY l?U!O~k' and fireworks will be postponed mitted at this portion of the until Sunday. event. Anyone caught with any ~~ ~ ~~~ form of alcohol will be referred to APR I L 25 We thank you for your assistance Campus Safety to be dealt with in making the Spring Carnival 1992 through the University Judicial System. If the weather is incle- 3:00 pm · 11 :00 pm ~::s?utdoorMovie/Frreworksasuc. FOOTBALL STADIUM New Greeks on the Row by Kelsey Purnell Wilmington Alumni Chapter of the man, if the school he is attending been held on the Widener Campus, Editor Emeritus organization. They, in addition to has a chapter, is qualified to pledge and can be seen at the Philadelphia ten post-graduates, completed the as long as he has a G .P.A. of at least Annual Greek Picnic. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. eight week pledging period April 11 2.3. To be eligible to pledge an The group is looking to become an is slated to become a colony in the of this year. Alumni chapter, he must have com official colony and member of IFC Fall of 1992 on Widener's Chester Kappa Alpha Psi was started on pleted his four year degree. The next semester if they can meet the campus. As any Greek will under January 5,1911 at the Bloomington fraternity is looking for positive, stand, it has been a long, uphill Campus of the Indiana University goal oriented students, who are look See NEW GREEKS . .. Pg. 5 climb for the present four !Dembers by ten young men. Today there are ing to achieve academically: "the to even get their interest recognized. over '80,000 members international best of the best," as Smith stated. Seniors Rob Davis and Joseph Love, ly. Chapters are located in Europe, As with an organization, commit along with Junior Marcel White the Middle East, Africa, and "there ment and dedication are necessary, INSIDE ... have been working for three years to is even a colony in Japan." as well as creativity. " You will have bring a chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Dedicated to community service, tp give up some of your time," accor NEWS ... PAGE 5 to' Widener. "It took us three the organization is set up differently 'ding to Davis. years," White said. "We contacted than most fraternities. Kappa Alpha The fraternity "offers a cultural OPINIONS ... PAGES 2-4 other chapters as to how to go about Psi has two divisions, an under a:}ternative: Stepping," says Davis. the process." After being an interest graduate and an alumni. The alumni Stepping is an organized chant in group the three, joined by Freshman division oversees the undergraduate volving singing, dancing and the FEATURES ... PAGE 6 Willie Smith, were contacted by the chapters in that area. Any young tossing of canes. Exhibitions have 2 - THE DOME, FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1992 OPIED Editorial: ,Leuers to the Editor: Share'd Responsibility' SOlDe RandolD Thoughts night long. You call this responsi To the Editor: Every Friday the DOME is distributed all around campus, and ble? I realize that parking is On my way to lunch today (April somewhat of a problem on Campus. every Friday many students, faculty" and staff pick up a copy of the If you have to park in a "bad" area, DOME. However, some people have been taking many copies of the 10) I picked up a copy of the Dome and jokingly said to my colleague, after the parking lots thin, move paper. The staff expects that the campus community will pick up "I wonder what administrative of your car. As a second shift employee between 1 and 3 copies of each issue. When individuals are taking fice will be bashed today in the I have had to do this on several dif stacks of 25 or more papers. this inhibits the distribution method Dome." It therefore was of little S\lr ferent occasions. I don't mind that has been working. successfully. for many years. Therefore we prise to see an Opinion article writ though. I would rather move my car request that no individual take more than 3 copies of anyone issue. ten by Michael Dell'Angelo speak a little later in the day then leave it If anyone needs more copies please contact the DOME at 499·4421. ing out against Campus Safety. out on 17th Street or any other In addition we are aware that the DOME can be used for many pur ~any of Mr. Dell'Angelo's points remote area for the night. poses other than reading. Wrapping fish, paper training dogs. lining were very well thought out and The student body needs to become bird cages, wallpapering residence hall rooms. adorning fences and valid. However, this situation has more aware of its surroundings. You sincerely become ridiculous. It are attending a school in a city with wrapping presents have all been suggested or done. We ask that a very high rate of unemployment copies not be used for these purposes. The amount of effort that is seems that all that the current stu dent body is capable of doing is com and crime. Be smart about put into each issue is enormous and the staff of the DOME deserves plaining. The Administration should yourselves. Don't walk campus better treatment than to see all of their hard work used as decoration do this, the Administration should alone. Don't take short-cuts through on the top of a fence. do that etc., etc. Perhaps the stu alley ways or dim lit areas. Don't dent body should do something also. park your car in dimly lit areas. The DOME staff wishes to remind the campus community that Mr. Dell' Angelo comments that Don't leave items of value in your the Pennsylvania Primary is next Tuesday, April 28. Please go out "Campus Safety is a shared respon car. When you leave your dormitory and vote. If you are not yet registered, it is too late for the primary. sibility" and "that the student body make sure the entrance door is lock but not for the general election on Tuesday, November 3. So get realizes this and is waiting for the ed behind you. 'Lock your dorm registered. get informed, and then go cast your vote. school to do its part," this state rooms. If someone comes to the ment insinuates that the student dorm to see someone and requests body is dong all that it possibly can entrance, don't let them in on their One note to those who feel the. DOME does not print any positive to prevent criminal activities from word. Make them wait outside while articles about Greeks or the Greek system. In this past school year's occurring on Campus. I disagree. you or the RA attempts to locate the issues (volume 46) a positive article appeared on the front page, . I have seen many students being person they are looking for. Don't often as the lead article in issue #1, 4, 18, 20, and this issue #23. In very unresponsible for their own let people you don't personally know addition, the DOME ran a column entitled "Gr.eek Notes" until the safety. Students walking Campus into the dorm buildings. If you see writers ceased to submit articles on a regular basis. On four separate alone late at night. Students propp someone su~picious call Campus occasions over the past two years, the DO~E has approached the ing dorm doors open so that their Safety. ,~: Greek system to continue the column - each time has ended in friends can come in, or the pizza man The Campus Safety office has a disaster.