THE OBSERVER Volume 17, Number 5 College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York March 31,1993 BOMB SCARE Language Programs AT ROSE HILL to be Consolidated By Clare Saliba Fordham University may not be able to sustain Louise Mirrer, Chairperson of the Humanities all of its major programs in the modern languages Division, feels that although it is "important not to in their present form. The Observer has learned. offer the same courses on both campuses," she In an effort to make the most of College at Lincoln "doesn't want to see any of our major courses Center and Fordham College language programs dropped." and to minimize duplication, course offerings in In addition, some majors, such as Russian and the foreign language department will begin to be German, may have to be eliminated altogether. integrated as early as Fall 1993. A definitive plan Regardless of which option is implemented, of action will be in place by this June. faculty and some student travel between the cam- The consolidation is the result to decreasing puses appears to be inevitable. enrollment in elective upper level courses in for- According to Professor Jean Macary, Chair- eign languages on both campuses of the Univer- man of the Modern Languages Department at sity, say administrative sources. Fordham College, "For the time being, two of our A number of options are being considered in professors will be teaching at [CLC] in the Fall order to make such.a collaboration both academi- and we have invited someone to teach in Spring 1994 at Rose Hill." Therefore, only three out of forty language professors will be affected in the Police respond to bomb threat at RH last Saturday immediate future, he said. Language majors may be Macary said he doesn't "know how [the exchange of faculty] can work easily." "It would By JP Connolly only offered at one campus be great if there was an excess of professors but two cars and the inspector in charge of the borough At 11:00 am Saturday, March 27, Rose Hill there isn't. There are only a few teachers in each of Bronx and Queens and the whole task force security received an anonymous phone call stat- wing [French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian] and were here," said Carroll. ing that there was a bomb in the Lombardi Center our faculty is limited," said Macary. "We have All were called because wanted to "expedite Gym that would detonate at 11:30 am, said John cally and financially beneficial for both of the reduced our upper level offerings already," he the search and get the building back to its use Carroll, Head of Security. colleges. Most of these options would require continued, "and some programs will be com- immediately." "Bronx Duty Captain Kissick re- According to Carol, the caller Was an adult some degree of faculty and student traveling pletely closed." sponded and personally declared the building safe male with a middle eastern accent. between the two campuses. "The exchange of faculty has occurred be- after a search by the officers and by security" said The student worker who received the call alerted One possibility, according to Dr. Frederick fore," said Mirrer. Professors from Rose Hill who Carroll. "When it was declared safe everyone was Carl Greenberg, the weekend supervisor. Harris, Professor of French and Comparative Lit- have taught at CLC in the past have been success- brought back in. The overriding issue was mat Greenberg immediately notified Carroll who ana- erature, would be to "reduce the number of [for- ful, she said. lives were protected and nobody got hurt" said lyzed the information and ordered the evacuation eign language] offerings [at CLC] and Rose Hill "Some faculty members will be very enthu- Carol. of McGinley and Lombardi Center. "The in hopes that we can retain a major on both siastic about teaching at Rose Hill," said Macary. The people evacuated from the building waited limited amount of time I had would not have campuses. This would probably mean that stu- "I wouldn't say that we were enthusiastic but outside for more than an hour as Fordham security allowed me to search the Gym" said Carroll. dents would have to move back and forth to some none of us is opposed [to traveling to the other tJong with the police searched the building. When There was aCatholic Youth Organization event extent to complete a major but they would not campus]," said Mirrer. "If there's a need and if it the police left, the building was re-opened along being held in the gym at the time of the call, said have to do all of their major on another campus," will help our programs then faculty exchange with the cafeteria and everything started rolling Carroll. Over 1,000 people occupied the building said Harris. seems to be a solution," she said. again. at the time including elementary level cheerlead- Another alternative, said Harris, i s All of the professors who were interviewed ers, university students and Fordham employees. Carroll did say that "there is a threat and they that "majors [in French, Italian and acknowledged that the integration might be diffi- [the detective squad] can do a follow up on it" Bomb threats in schools are very common, Spanish] will be housed either on one campus or cult for students. " I don't think that the faculty Carroll then stated that he "prefer[s] not to com- said Carroll but "Fordham cannot put any body's the other." "In this case," he said, "any student on minds traveling. I think that it's going to be more ment on what ever further'investigation is going life in danger. We don't evacuate every time,there the campus in which the major is not being offered difficult for the students," said Harris. "The on" but he did say that "we [Fordham security and is a bomb scare. It's based on a number of deci- would have to travel to the other campus to take students are different from the faculty. Traveling 48 precinct] are looking into see who made this sions all put together and totaled up, and see which that major." takes a lot of time-probably a minimum of one or way to go," Carroll said. call." "The 48th precinct responded, a sergeant and Continued on page 3 continued on page 2 Mariott Accused of Food Poisoning By Lori Majewski Flyers alleging the n jnt food poisoning of WARNING!!! nine Fordham students from food consumed in the university cafeteria were displayed around Mariott workers AT LEAST NINE the Lowenstein building last Wednesday. in the CLC cafete- STUDENTS HAVE While students and faculty reacted by re- ria (right) serve evaluating the on-campus food services avail- BEEN TREATED able, representatives of Marriott, the company 2,000 customers a RECENTLY FOR which supplies and serves the food available in day, according to the Lowenstein, Lincoln Center and McGinley Dawn Hackett, POOD POISONING Center, Rose Hill cafeterias, disputed the allega- food service direc- tions that students became ill after eating their FROM FOOD EATEN IN THE food. In fact. Dawn Hacked, food service direc- tor. FORDHAM UNIV. CAFETERIA. tor for Marriott at Lincoln Center, said that the W SUGGEST WHIfiG ELSEWHERE company has no record of a single food poison- ing incident in its six years at Fordham. AT THIS THE FDR YOU* OVW "I take this personally," I lacked said. "I don't "It's absolutely not true," said Carole "I was in shock. I always hear stories like "They do this as a hobby, llie managers make sure that PROTECTION McCoskcy, retail manager for Marriott in Lin- don't wash the vegetables,' so it kind of made each and every day people arc doing their job coln Center. "We don't have any idea who did it. sense. But I realized shortly afterwards that (the correctly. I have 40 employees who do this for a Muybc it was a dissatisfied customer." flyer) was probubly done by some kid." living. They're not fooling around." McCoskcy said that she and other Marriott Some students believed the flyer was meant as Ironically, last Wednesday, the duy after the employees removed six of the flyers discovered a joke, given the old myth about airplane, hospital flyers uppcared, the Board of Health visited the Unauthorized flyer (above) in the elevators on the fifth and sixth floors and and school cafeteria food. Marriott employees, cafeteria for a routine inspection. The Board re- in several rcstrooms, however, were not laughing. posted around CLC last week ported no violations of food protection or prepara- (IDA student Belli Karp found u flyer in a "It's a malicious thing to do," McCoskcy sold. alarmed sonic students and "We take a lot of pride in what we do and it really tion codes. The inspectors' only complaints con- fifth floor phone booth. cerned the luck of "HinployccK must wash their amused others. hurU." "At first 1 wns like, 'Oh my Oodl," Karp Raid. continued on page 3 Arts: News; Butthole Surfers interview, p. 11 Bomb Threat at Rose Hill "Heine's celebrates its 30th USC Update t, Page 2 - CLC Observer - March 31, 1993 NEWS Learning to Live By Sean Gallagher A forum sponsored by HEOP-SO (Higher Education Opportunity Organization Student Or- ganization) brought 3 speakers from the People with AIDS Coalition to CLC on Thursday, March 25. "I have a disease, I am not the disease," said Red, an HIV+ mother and grandmother. Two of the three speakers chose only to use their first "It's been an enlightening experience," she names during the hour and a half long program.