Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 3-3-2005 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (2005). The George-Anne. 3096. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/3096 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Established 1927 The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University www.stp.georgiasouthern.edu The Oscars Oscar viewer- ship down from past years. Clint Eastwood sweeps Thursday, March 3,2005 • Volume 77, Number 71 Oscars. Checkout page 9 for more. AROUND the HOUSE ■Women's Basketball begins Faculty group wants more SoCon Tournament today ress • Men's Basketball /ce advances to oa second round ally of SoCon dialogue with administrators tournment with win 250 over Western Stand Up For Faculty seeks more input Carolina and discussion with GSU administrators Page 6 By Adam Crisp over a number of issues," said 200 aacl [email protected] Debra Sabia, a professor of political A group of Georgia Southern science, who is one of the founders professors is banding together, of SUFF. 150 • Adam Crisp finds an excess asking for more respect and trying The three professors who head of ego-stroking Hollywood to get more notice from university SUFF say faculty complaints often award shows administra- fall on deaf ears, a problem they at- tors. tribute to a university management 100 • DeMarc Campbell speaks Formed style that lacks an effective way for of drugs GSU officials outoffrustra- employees to be heard. respond to tion with top "We have seen an erosion of fac- Page 4 SUFF's allega- officials and ulty governance. There is more of a tions. their deci- top-downleadership style," said Jim sions, Stand Solomon, a mathematics professor, who is one of the three professors Adam Bonner offers tips on Up For Faculty (SUFF) was formed 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 who heads SUFF. "(In previous how to make the best out of last spring with the goal of providing a channel for more communication administrations) I think there was your camping trip. D Professor with GSU s leading administrators more of a shared respect." PROFESSOR PROFILE H Members of SUFF (Stand Up For Faculty) contend GSU has seen a and the faculty senate. The founders have a laundry Assoc. Professor D Asst. Professor reduction in the number of full-time and tenured faculty members over SUFF "grew out of informal list of complaints against the GSU the past several years. They say the university, to perhaps maximize cost D Instructor conversations with faculty at GSU administration, but they say their savings, has increasingly relied on temporary professors and less- who were expressing a great deal groups mission isn't to just gripe ■ Temporary educated instructors to teach classes here. of disaffection and consternation See SUFF, page 8 Souice: GSU Factbook Page 10 Only fa & 'xa Hie Ten Naked manthreatens neighbors BYOB illegal in Statesboro with sword Commandments NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa - A man Bagged beverages are no longer allowed in Statesboro businesses threatened his neighbors with a sword after they complained about due to new amendment to the Alcohol Control Ordinance High court plunges into debate him being naked in his front yard, police said. Curtis. D. Rarick, 44, was By Casey Altman charged with assault while display- [email protected] over government displays of ing a dangerous weapon. Rarick had been naked in his yard Brown bagging, known to some The Ten Commandments and became angry when neighbors as "bringing your own booze asked him to put clothes on Sunday (BYOB)",hasofnciallybeen outlawed By Hope Yen Associated Press afternoon, police said. in the city of Statesboro. He went inside and came back WASHINGTON - Ten Commandments displays should be out with a 2 1/2-feet long sword and The city council recently ap- began threatening the neighbors, proved a new amendment to the allowed on government property because they pay tribute to court records show. Alcohol Control Ordinance for the America's religious and legal history, the Supreme Court was He was released from jail Monday city that prohibits brown-bagging. told Wednesday, in cases that could render a new definition of after posting $2,000 bond. Accordingto the ordinance, it is con- the role that religion plays in the life of the nation. If convicted, Rarick could face up sidered "unlawful for a licensee or any "The idea of having a fence around the Ten Commandments to two years in jail and a $5,000 fine. A preliminary hearing is sched- other commercial establishment to to make clear the state has nothing to do with it, I think that is uled for March 7. allow customers to bring with them bending it too far," said acting Solicitor General Paul Clement, their own alcoholic beverages." in arguing against a strict First Amendment wall between church More OIA on Tommy Blitch, a city councilman and state. Page 3 that voted for the ordinance, said this David Friedman, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties ordinance would make it so people Union who is challenging courthouse displays in Kentucky coun- Quote of the Day cannot take their own alcohol into tered: "An assertion that the Ten Commandments is THE source, THE foundation of our legal system... that is simply wrapping the "You're only given a restaurant and continue drinking a little spark after hours. Ten Commandments in the flag, and that's endorsement." of madness. "Brown-bagging is a problem," In their comments and questions from the bench, justices were You mustn't Blitch said. "Its a problem because reluctant to adopt a blanket ban on such displays. They struggled lose it." it can extend people drinking after to formulate a clear constitutional rule that could determine the a restaurant is closed." fate of thousands of religious symbols on public property around -Robin Williams Judy McCorkle, Statesboro .city the country, including one in their own courtroom featuring clerk and member of the Alcohol Moses holding the sacred tablets. Control Board, said the city has Justice Antonin Scalia noted that legislative proclamations had no complaints from restaurants and prayer invoking God's name are permissible. • concerning brown-bagging. "I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad," he LaVene Bell/'STAFF said. "It's not a big problem," said Brown-bagging is considered by most to be a non-existant form now-a- days. Friday In the high court's first confrontation with the Ten Com- McCorkle. "It's something the city However, the Statesboro City Council has made brown-bagging illegal as a council and the alcohol control board mandments issue in a quarter-century, a case from Texas also HIGH preventative measure. feel they need to regulate to avoid it See COMMANDMENTS, page 8 64° becoming a big problem." bagging was once a way to get around The ordinance does not only apply LOW Jim Chambers, manager at Din- liquor laws in the city before licensing to restaurants in Statesboro. It applies gus McGee's in Statesboro, said the was allowed. to any other commercial establishment. Mostly Sunny 37° new ordinance doesn't really affect "Now it really doesn't happen in This means that no licensee or business restaurants. He said that brown- restaurants," he said. See BROWN BAGGING, page 8 Saturday HIGH 68° Iraqi power-sharing talks falter LOW ByRawyARageh Iraq came as clashes and two car bomb- Monday that killed 125 people in Mostly Sunny 42° Associated Press ings in Baghdad killed at least 14 Iraqi Hillah, a town south of the capital. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Talks aimed at soldiers and police officers - the latest "The bombings in Hillah and again It forging a coalition government faltered in a relentless wave of violence since in Baghdad this morning are not going Wednesday over Kurdish demands for elections Jan. 30. to derail the political process that Iraq Larry Kolvoord/AP Photo Calendar 9 more land and concerns that the domi- The group led by Iraq's most wanted is embarked upon," National Secu- A tablet of the Ten Commandments, which is located on News Briefs 3 nant Shiite alliance seeks to establish an terrorist, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, rity Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said the grounds of the Texas Capitol Building in Austin, Texas, Opinions 4 Islamic state, delaying the planned first purportedly claimed responsibility in Wednesday. "The Iraqi government is seen in a Tuesday Oct. 12, 2004 photo. On Wednesday, Sports 6 meeting of Iraq's new parliament. an Internet posting for Wednesday's will go after and hunt down each and the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the granite Classifieds 7 The snag in negotiations between clashes and at least one of the bombings every one of these terrorists whether monument and two similardisplays at Kentucky courthouses constitute unconstitutional government establishment of Crosswords 7 Shiite and Kurdish leaders in northern - as it had for a suicide car bombing See IRAQ, page 8 Comics 7 (912)-681-5246 • [email protected] Williams Center Rm. 2023 • P.O. Box 8001 Statesboro, GA GEORGE-ANNE 2 Thursday, March 3, 2005 MPUS Lewis and Clark expedition featured at Henderson Library SAGE to sponsor viewing Special to the G-A liam Clark lead an expedition from of documentary on An exhibit commemorating the St.