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BY CHARLES M.MADIGAN Al Gore of Tennessee, watched the voting sometimes cranky, always interesting cam with incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. Chicago Triune returns in Little Rock, where Clinton, the paign, spent perhaps $100 million to run the An aggressive Democrat in the White governor of Arkansas, finally alit after a best third-party race since Theodore Roo House working with a Democratic Congress 4,000-milc airborne romp on the eve of the sevelt in 1912, proof that the anger about Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was could break the political gridlock that has election. President Bush, who also pushed the state of politics and the government ran elected the 42nd president of the United frozen the federal government in place for himself right up to the last minute, watched deep this year. States on Tuesday, ending 12 years of much of the past four years. the returns in his hometown of Houston. "Is this the end or is this just the Republican control of the White House with Clinton's election signals the arrival of It was a painful defeat for Bush, among beginning?" Perot said in a typically bombas a promise "to restore growth to our country the post-World War II generation to the the most popular tic celebration at and opportunity to our people." White House, and to a controlling role in U.S. leaders in his his headquarters national politics. His triumph revived the fortunes of a tory after the Per in Dallas. He The significance of this change was newly moderate Democratic Party. Clinton's sian Gulf War but called on the apparent throughout the campaign, as Bush, victory flowed from the successful embrace weakened—and more band to play 68, and Clinton, 46, seemed at times to be of the very middle-class values and dreams ultimately defeat what became (in speaking to different universes: Clinton to that had been the exclusive territory of White ed—by concern the wake of Bush the post-Vietnam generation and Bush to the House Republicans for so many years. information over the nation's campaign slams veterans of World War II and the Korean He will enter the White House in Jan economic troubles. that Perot was War. uary with strong Democratic majorities in Illinois pre concerning the crazy) the cam Bush emphasized his role as a Navy the U.S. House and Senate and a powerful sented one mea paign's theme pilot in World War II to set a contrast with enough electoral victory to claim a mandate sure of the size of song, Patsy Clinton, a Rhodes scholar who managed to for the fat social and economic agenda he the disappoint presidential Cline's "Crazy," dance around draft notices, charm mentors advanced during the long campaign. ment for Bush. while he did a and postpone a date with the induction cen All over the nation, the turnout was Although this state neat two-step, ter until he drew a high number in the draft huge after registration campaigns that added election was solidly in the first with his wife lottery. hundreds of thousands of new voters to the Bush column four and then with But the issue didn't play out the way rolls. By one count, as many as 100 million years ago, the pres on page 11 his daughter. the Republicans intended. Much of Clin Americans voted Tuesday, reversing years of ident was running He told ton's support in Illinois, for example, came declining participation. at about 32 per backers the most from Vietnam-era men who didn't sec Clin "This election is a clarion call for our cent of the vote important thing ton's draft record as an issue at all. And in country to face the challenges of the end of now was to "get together and make it work the Southeast, the attraction of an all-South the Cold War and the beginning of the next here Tuesday, with Clinton at 50 percent and ...our country needs all our help." He erner ticket outweighed concerns about a century," he said as a crowd of thousands Texas billionaire Ross Perot at 18 percent. applauded Clinton and told his backers to two-decade-old issue. cheered him at the Governor's Mansion in "Here's the way we see it and the "work together to rebuild our great coun Clinton's victory capped one of the little Rock. country should see it," Bush said in Houston try." most heated general election campaigns in He repeated his campaign-trail pledge after the size of the Clinton victory had The size of the Democratic victory, modern times. Both sides unleashed negative "to restore growth to our country and become apparent. "The people have spoken, coupled with Perot's protest showing, will attacks, but more so the Republicans, who opportunity to our people, to empower our and we respect the majesty of the democratic undoubtedly be interpreted as a mandate for turned to rounds of name-calling and own people so they can take more responsi system. ...I want the country to know our change, one every bit as strong as the one bility for their own lives." entire administration will work closely with his team to ensure a smooth transition." Ronald Reagan claimed 12 years ago, when Clinton and his running mate, Senator CLINTON topageTl Perot, who bankrolled his own he was the winner by a landslide in the battle
CAMPUS RECYCLING FRATERNITIES Recycling bins removed from campus; Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity holds Senate considers assuming responsibility forum to discuss issue of sensitivity BY ELLEN GIRARD tional opportunity for the VU community. attempts to locate members of was estimated that the bin had Torch Staff Writer BY JOHN BRIZZI From the start, students and Earth Tones for comment were been used 80% by people from the Torch Staff Writer faculty freely exchanged their unsuccessful. The two students town and 20% by people on cam The Pi Kappa Alpha fraterni thoughts and and ideas concerning who led the group last year are no pus. ty "sincerely did not intend to Approximately two weeks the fraternity's decision to hire an longer on campus: Bob Reiner has One Senator quoted Donna offend anyone," said Pike President ago, Physical Plant ordered the exotic dancer for their rush func Klewer, VU's environmental con Shane Hawkins at an open forum removal of the VU recycling bin tion. The Pikes made it clear that sultant, who said that the official held Wednesday night. The forum from campus. the decision had been discussed position of the University is just to was held in response to controversy The bin was a project of Debate occurred over among members of the fraternity use a landfill. This is the current over a rush function at the Pike Earth Tones, a campus organiza and that they did not believe they whether or not the way of disposing of waste at VU. house last week that featured an tion that focused on recycling. were breaking any rules. Dirk Busse, International exotic dancer, and an advertise Since Earth Tones is not active this (recycling) bin was "We looked into the student Student Senator, has been working ment that showed a disproportion year, responsibility for the bin has handbook, the rush rules and our on a way to deal with recyclables at ately topheavy woman. not been assumed by any campus even being used by VU national handbook and found the residence hall level. He has Hawkins began the forum by organization or department. nothing wrong with it," Hawkins students. contacted a local scrap metal recy- explaining exactly what had hap An unofficial estimate, explained. "If there would have cler who will pick up the recyclables pened, and tried to clear up rumors released in a Student Senate report, been anything that said we were and pay the residence hall for them. that the dancer had been a stripper. places the cost of the bin at $1721 breaking the rules, we never would Currently, this plan will ten "She was a 45-year-old for last year. Since Physical Plant graduated and Nate Gilbertson is in have gone through with it." tatively be used in Brandt Hall. teacher from Porter, from what I has had a budget reduction this Africa this year. Several women in the audi Busse said that he had discussed the hear," he said. year, it cannot subsidize the cost of At a Monday night meeting, ence, however, were upset that the idea with RAs from Alumni and Hawkins said that the Pikes the bin along with its other pro Senate raised questions about the fraternity needed a rule to tell them other residence halls, and that they were using the controversial situa jects. fact that Earth Tones was allotted if their actions were right or had planned a future meeting with tion as an opportunity to educate The bin has now been $3000 at the end of last year and wrong. Junior Melody Griffin representatives of all the residence themselves, to try to understand returned to Able Disposal, the has not yet spent any of the money, argued that although there were no halls to see if the plan would be fea why others might have been company that rented the bin to although there is an outstanding written rules, the fraternity should sible at a University level. Revenues offended by their actions. VU. Able would empty the bin on $650 debt for last year's mainte still hold itself to some standard of from recycling through this plan Jody Passafume, a counsellor an "as called" basis, meaning that nance of the recycling bin. conduct acceptable to the commu would go to the residence halls. from the Student Counseling and regular emptying would not occur. Debate occurred in Senate nity. Development Center, helped to Student Senate and Torch over whether or not the bin was "We have laws that are based moderate discussion among even being used by VU students. It on the minimums, but human approximately 50 students and respect is a different thing," Griffin three other faculty members who said. THE B-52'S AT VU?- PAGE 3 attended the forum. Passafume VOLLEYBALL WINS-PAGE 16 stressed that the purpose of the IN THIS ISSUE: forum was neither name-calling PIKES to page 8 THE FLAME-INSERT nor finger-pointing, but an educa WHAT'S ON AT \/U? Compiled each week by the Student Activities Office, Valparaiso Union, and brought to you as a service of The Torch. If you have any questions call 464-5008. FRIDA Y. NOVEMBER 6 SUNDA Y. NOVEMBER 8 THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12 Nursing Campus Visit Day Worship Brown Bag Lunch VU welcomes these guests to our campus! Chapel, 8:45 and 10:30 am. "The American Elections," presented by the Department of Mass Political Science. Huegli Hall Dining Area, 12:45 - 1:15 pm. Stammtisch Sponsored by the Faculty Club. St. Teresa's Catholic Student Center, 10:30 am. German Club's Stammtisch every Friday at lunch time. Eat lunch Lecture with German students and practice speaking German. Jester's in VU Theatre Presentation The 7th Annual Monsanto Lecture on Tort Law Reform the Union, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm. Sponsored by the German Club. BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn. See the November 6 and Jurisprudence. The topic, "Cleaning Up the Environmental description. Directed by Richard Pick. Kroencke Hall Theatre, East Asian Club Noodle Lunch Insurance Mess," will be presented by Professor 2:00 pm. For reservations call 464-5162. Meet with students and faculty interested in East Asia. NOT Kenneth S. Abraham, Class of 1962 Professor, University of limited to East Asian Studies majors and minors. . . Everyone is Concert Virginia School of Law. Wesemann Hall, 4:00 pm. welcome! Huegli Hall 12:00 - 1:00 pm. Featuring the VU Symphony Orchestra. General admission, $6.00; Chemistry Help Session Movie senior citizens and non-VU students, $3.00; and VU students, Neils 221, 7:00- 10:00 pm. BATMAN RETURNS Michael Keaton as Batman returns to faculty and staff admitted free. Chapel, 4:00 pm. the screen in this all new, gripping epic adventure that pits the Evening Worship Concert Dark Knight of Gotham City against three new villains -- the evil Gloria Christi Chapel, 10:00 pm. Featuring the VU jazz Lab Band. Neils Auditorium, 8:00 pm. Penguin (Danny Devito), the sinuous, mysterious Catwoman Physics Help Session (Michelle Pfeiffer) and the scheming mega-millionaire Max Shreck Neils 125, 8:00-9:00 pm. (Christopher Walken). Director Tim Burton again brings a darkly dazzling vision of Gotham City and its inhabitants to the screen as FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13 Batman battles for the soul of the city against his most fiendish Friday the 13th! opponents yet! Rated PG-13. UB Bijou in Neils, 7:00 and 9:30 pm. tfitf A VIDEO GAME Overnight Visitation Weekend for Prospective $2.00. Sponsored by Union Board. Win the arcade version of Students Valparaiso Christian Fellowship SUPER MARIO BROTHERS. VU welcomes these guests to our campus! ARC Classroom, 7:00 pm. Stammtisch Novella and Rick & Linda Elias in Concert The highest score recorded between German Club's Stammtisch every Friday at lunch time. Eat lunch Novella is a hard rock band out of Nashville, Tennessee. They November 1 & December 18 with German students and practice speaking German. Jester's in have just released their second album titled "A Liquid Earth." the Union, 11:45 am -1:15 pm. Sponsored by the German Club. Novella is a band that is committed to use their 1992 tour to help will win the game! East Asian Club Noodle Lunch inform and activate people to help make the environment a better Meet with students and faculty interested in East Asia. NOT place. Rick & Linda Elias are the opening act. Rick Elias is one of Come to the Union Recreation Center for details. limited to East Asian Studies majors and minors. . . Everyone is the best songwriters. His sound is bar-rock with a blues touch. welcome! Huegli Hall, 12:00 -1:00 pm. Novella with Rick & Linda Elias is one show you cannot afford to miss! Hilltop Gym in the ARC, 7:30 pm. $5.00. Sponsored by the MONDA Y. NOVEMBER 9 Movie VU Christian Activities Board. Chicago Bus Trip Ticket Sales SINGLE WHITE FEMALE Bridget Fonda learns that living VU Observatory Open House A trip to the "Windy City" on Saturday, November 14. Leave the with a stranger can be murder in this intense, psychological Come enjoy views of the moon, planets, star clusters and galaxies Union at 9:00 am and leave Chicago to return to VU at 5:30 pm. thriller from Oscar-nominated director Barbet Schroeder. Faced through the University's computered - controlled telescope. Purchase tickets at the Union Information Desk for $5.00 each. with the prospect of living alone in her spacious Manhattan Descriptions will be given of the objects being observed. It is free, Sponsored by Union Board. apartment, Fonda places an ad for a roommate. Jennifer Jason and all are welcome from 7:30 - 8:30 pm. Call 464-5202 after Intramural Entry Deadline Leigh is the predatory psychopath who answers the ad, and gradually begins to take over Fonda's identity and her life. An 5:00 pm to confirm if weather is clear enough for the observatory Entries for Basketball are due by 5:00 pm in the Intramural Office, agonizingly suspenseful shocker in the Hitchcock tradition, to open. ARC. VU Theatre Presentation SINGLE WHITE FEMALE proves there are far worse fates than Abendgebet being home alone. Rated R. UB Bijou in Neils, 7:00 and 9:30 pm. BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn. A wickedly funny play Worship in the German language. Gloria Christi Chapel, 8:00 pm. $2.00. Sponsored by Union Board. about the blithe inconsideration of the suffering. Trevor and Student Senate Meeting Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the Valparaiso Christian Fellowship A weekly meeting that is open to all students. Neils 224, 9:00 pm. rocks -- and the play depicts the endless night in which they inflict ARC Classroom, 7:00 pm. their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10 VU Theatre Presentation Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' Full Moon BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn. A wickedly funny play bedrooms, BEDROOM FARCE is a three-ring circus of conjugal about the blithe inconsideration of the suffering. Trevor and confusion, high jinks and low comedy. Directed by Richard Pick. Movie Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the Kroencke Hall Theatre, 8:00 pm. For reservations call 464-5162. RAISING ARIZONA An unconventional couple's rocks — and the play depicts the endless night in which they inflict overwhelming desire for a child leads them to redefine the rules of their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples. parenthood. Rated PG-13. UB Bijou in Neils, 7:30 pm. $1.00. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' Archaeology Program bedrooms, BEDROOM FARCE is a three-ring circus of conjugal FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 "Origins of Technology," presented by Nicholas Toth of Indiana confusion, high jinks and low comedy. Directed by Richard Pick. E University, Bloomington. Union Great Hall, 8:00 pm. Sponsored Kroencke Hall Theatre, 8:00 pm. For reservations call 464-5162. p Union Great Hall - STUDENT SENATE Senate discusses Week of Challenge, campus elections, recycling BY JOHN BRIZZI Ombudsman Ravi Singh reported that there was a nance only, and that dues will cover the majority of the costs. good turnout at Student Elections. Wehrenberg and Torch Staff Writer The club decided not to have dues this year because they feel Dau/Kreinheder voter turnouts have increased from last year, that lack of equipment would turn away prospective mem Student Senate met again on Monday, Nov. 2, with an with 120 voters at Wehrenberg and 175 at Dau/Kreinheder. bers. The question of Senate's liability for injury was also average turnout. Singh also reported that his show on Sunday night went well, raised. Senate will not be liable for injury or accident. Insur President Matthew Christian opened the meeting by with lots of call-in responses. Topics on this show included ance is covered by the University itself or by the Administra discussing an open forum concerning the upcoming Week of the residence hall visitation policy and recycling at VU. The tion Committee of Senate. Fencing Club's request for Challenge. The forum was held on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Chris next Ombudsman show will be next month. $603.50 was passed by majority vote with some opposition. tian described the Week of Challenge as "a way to get all Screening Committee Chair Phil Draeger announced A debate over Senate's role in VU recycling followed, facets of the university together." The tentative dates for this that the due date for Multicultural Chair applications is limited to 20 minutes. The discussion concerned the recy year's Week of Challenge are March 22 through 27. Christian Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Senate office at the cling bin, which was taken away by Physical Plant approxi also mentioned a Senate forum to discuss better allocation of Union. Draeger also announced that applications for the mately two weeks ago. Questions raised included the current space and facilities in academic centers such as the library and position of Recycling Committee Chair will be available in status of Earth Tones and the $3000 budget they were allo the AC-CC. The tentative time for this meeting is Thursday, the near future, possibly next week. cated at the end of last year, none of which has been spent. Nov. 12, at noon. Christian will contact those interested by Elections Committee Chair Stacy Burnham introduced Earth Tones also has a $650 debt from last year because of phone with more details. Christian said that he will also start two new Senators. Tara Bracali is the new Dau/Kreinheder the recycling bin. looking for people who would be interested in working on Senator and Ravi Singh is the Wehrenberg Senator. Christian said that the purpose of the debate was to see the Pilot and the Card for next year. Applications are not Finance Committee brought up two organizations for if Senate could come up with an idea to solve the problem of available as of yet, but anyone interested can contact Chris funding. Alpha Psi Omega, a group supporting VU theater recycling. Currently, there is no central organization in tian. Christian finished his report by saying that there was a projects, received $407.50 of the $507.50 it requested. The charge of recycling, but "several wheels turning slowly," he low turnout at last week's forum to discuss the Strategic Plan group has also raised $590 of its own money, but was refused said. and its proposed modifications for 1993-94. the $100 by Senate because it was requested for a donation. Further debates are expected to answer questions Executive Treasurer Allison Kaestner announced that Fencing Club came before Senate a third time, with a regarding Earth Tones, the administration's position on recy last year's books are being closed. Next week she will bring modified request for $603.50. Fencing Club has received cling, a proposal for recycling organized by several RAs and up the issue of last year's overspending and the debt it has $180 from its mini-course revenues. It has returned to gain presented at the meeting by Senator Dirk Busse, and future caused. "starting out fees," according to a representative of the club. responsibility for the recycling bin. The representative said that the future costs will be mainte STRATEGIC PLAN OVERSEAS PROGRAM Two committees receive input from campus Professor Kennedy named community in revising university priorities Cambridge Director for 1993-95 BY PAUL COOK BYAMYFLESCH is to build a Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. "This has been the primary facility priority since Torch News Editor Torch Staff Writer we began strategic planning," Karpenko said. Other priorities of the strategic plan include Dr. Thomas Kennedy, VU associate professor of philosophy and Valparaiso University is in the process of adopt chairperson of the department, has recently been named director of the ing a new strategic plan for 1993-99. The strategic deferred maintenance; recruiting minority faculty, staff, and students; improving information technolo University's overseas study center in Cambridge, England, for 1993-95. planning committees recently published a survey on Kennedy will succeed Dr. David Johnson, VU professor of mathe the proposed plan, seeking input from faculty, staff, gies; considering the standards of Phi Beta Kappa for the College of Arts and Sciences; and gaining profes matics and computer sciences, who has been in the position since 1991 and students. and who will return to his teaching position at VU in the fall. Dr. William Karpenko, Assistant to the President sional accreditation for the College of Business Admin istration, among other goals. Kennedy has been a member of the VU faculty since 1989. He and Chair of the University-Level Strategic Planning received his B.A. degree from Calvin College and his Ph.D. degree from Committee and the Strategic Planning Coordinating The final draft of the strategic goals will be pre sented to the Board of Directors at their meeting in the University of Virginia. He came to VU from Austin Peay State Uni Committee said, "We have been extremely gratified versity, Clarksville, Tenn. In 1991 he received an Alumni Association Fac and pleased with the level of interest and reaction to July. Many people have had input in the development of the goals, but determining how to implement the ulty Fellowship to continue his research on the theory and practice of the proposed plan. We have received a number of very moral education in 18th century Scotland. thoughtful and helpful suggestions regarding the plan is finally the responsibility of the President in con plan." sultation with the Provost, according to Karpenko. The two committees received over 250 reaction Funding to implement the strategic plan will ENTERTAINMENT sheets ranking the possible priorities of the new strate come from several sources. gic plan. Karpenko said that all of the information was "A number of the resources will come from a extremely useful as an indication of how much people comprehensive campaign," Karpenko said. The com B-52's concert at VU a care about the future of the University, and that reac prehensive campaign is a "fundraising effort which tions to the survey have influenced the committees' focuses on major building and facility needs along with possibility for the spring discussions. the ongoing funding needs and additional financial needs of the University." The overall goals of the 1993-99 strategic plan BY PAUL COOK are to "position further Valparaiso University as the Some of the money is already allocated for these Torch Hews Editor preeminent comprehensive Lutheran University in programs through the budgets of different depart ments. Other funds will have to be reallocated from North America" and "to maintain current momentum According to Coach Paul Twenge, a B-52's concert in the ARC is a on strategic decisions made in 1989-92 while encour existing programs to be put into new projects. "The plan will challenge all areas of the Universi very real possibility for next semester. aging selected new strategic directions to emerge." Twenge, who is the head basketball coach, also helps to bring enter One of the main goals of the new strategic plan ty to look at additional ways to reallocate funds," Karpenko said. tainers to campus, such as wrestlers from the World Wrestling Federation. Right now, he says that whether or not VU will host the B-52's is entirely a matter of student interest. VU FACULTY "This group is ours if we want it," Twenge said. Twenge said that although he can bring in enough people from the surrounding area to make the concert worthwhile, he only wants to do it Retired Biology professor and botanist if he is sure that students are willing to attend. Twenge hopes to sell out the concert in ticket sales to VU students, without having to advertise in the surrounding area. Gayton Marks passes away According to Twenge, a B-52's concert could lead to more concerts of this type, with nationally-known performers coming to VU. BY S. STEINBRUECK Marks was also a consultant to the Indiana "If we can do this right, it Can lead to more concerts of this type," Torch Stuff Writer Dunes National Lakeshore, where he worked on a he said. "Once we get into that circle of Big Ten schools, we can get project to identify the plant species in the park. This more well-known groups." Retired VU professor Gayton Marks died on effort spanned a ten-year period. Because of this The B-52's concert would probably be held right after students return from Christmas break, Twenge said. Thursday, October 29, in Porter Memorial Hospital. work and his genuine interest in plants, Marks was In order to make their opinions known, students are asked to cut An associate professor in the Biology department, very knowledgeable about plant species in this region. Tan said that Marks was also responsible for out the survey form below and return it to the Athletic Department, care Marks had been a member of the VU the faculty for of Coach Twenge, in the Athletics-Recreation Center. thirty-three years at the time of his retirement last most of the plants now growing on campus. spring. Marks was an appreciated influence on his stu Marks was a VU alum (class of 1955), and dents, and former students said that his enthusiasm r earned his Masters in botany in 1962 from the Uni for learning increased his ability to teach. Until his I Q YES, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THE B-52's PERFORM IN I versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His special interest retirement, he served as an advisor to biology majors. \ THE ARC. was in the area of systematic botany. Marks is survived by his wife, Lucy, and by Marks was "chiefly responsible for the Biotech children Mary Cezus, Gayton S., Charles and Q NO, I WOULD NOT BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THE B-52'S PER- | nology laboratory course from its inception," said Christopher. His funeral was held on Tuesday, Nov. FORM IN THE ARC. f Dr. James Tan, Chair of the Biology Department. 3. Marks also taught the department's spring Field Biol PLEASE RETURN TO COACH TWENGE BT NOV. 18. ogy course, and supervised the greenhouse. BROUGHT TO TOUASA PUBLIC SERVICE OP THE TORCH. "Marks was an excellently trained botanist, and held an avid interest in [botany]," Tan said. THE TORCH EDITORIALS November 6, 1992 Reader enters converation with Greenman column, finds his ideas Help! My entire page has been consumed with student let concerning love and peace most interesting, yet sadly mistaken ters (and there are even more on page 6!). It is terribly exciting to concept which I understood him to "sexual intercourse" when it comes call myself "human") (3) Green Dear Editor, see so many people concerned be referring. to this part of the article. I man also asks "what is the good?" with so many issues surrounding Yet, in the same paragraph, couldn't help but feel sorry for any He was near the end of his article This letter wishes to enter us on campus. I encourage every Greenman starts talking about lover he might have. Talk about so he answered this question with "conversation" as asked by Green one to continue campus dialogue "affirming the value of every exploitation! First, he stated that one sentence, "The 'good' is what man's article, it was indeed a most through The Torch—not only is it human being to exist" a thought his "lover," "mentor", and "friend" we consider good." Well, this seems interesting article from a "most interesting, I believe it is vital to which seems to admit belonging to were three different people. Then, plainly wrong and has been interesting" (and sadly, mistaken) having any sense of an idealistic paradigm. This does he went on to talk about "pubic brought up in previous articles by thinker. This response, in initial community—communication fos not mean that one must be either hair" and gave a very depressing Greenman with no apparent conversation is in three points. (1) ters the feeling. When Greenman leaped into a dis realistic or idealistic, but I must see and self-interested view of inter progress in thought. I want to quickly commend cussion trying to understand the more in print to understand course—the act of copulation—and I have run out of time but I the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity for meanings of love and peace, he whether one combines or simply dared to call his version "making encourage Craig to further elabo being brave enough to admit its seemed to conflate two different conflates the two. (2) "Ah, love!" Secondly, also in this sec rate on one or all of these points, mistakes in public and apologize-- paradigms in addressing these assumptions! First of all, loving tion, he states that "'human life' is continuing this conversation. In this shows maturity and strength. issues. From what was written everybody unconditionally denies a goal to be attained, an end to be conclusion, there is one further After attending the public forum (which was, understandably, brief) I love itself." In this section Craig sought." While I would love to observtion to make. The reader the fraternity held Wednesday, I understod him to be describing a correctly identifies three different, discuss this (if I only had more has probably noticed that I have encourage the entire Greek sys realist perspective. Realism (briefly) yet related aspects of love, many time) I will only ask one question: not used any offensive profanity nor tem, and the entire VU communi is a paradigm most often used in people often refer back to classical "Craig, if this is true, what would at length talked about sex in order ty to carefully consider the con political thinking and described greek when distinguishing the you call yourself? Since you are not to pick up readers. Do you think cept of sensitivity whan making with Hobbes' concept "war of all three, (eros- sexual desire; Phils- a yet human are you just an animal that profanity is really necessary in decisions-ultimately these choices I against all." there is no such thing Fraternal/Sisterly love; and agape- who has happened to learn how to order to make a rational, academic seem to affect all of us at VU. as total peace on earth, the only a more unconditional love). Craig use the tool of a pen?**( I am not point? thing that qualifies as peace is the spends a lot of time on eros with attacking him, but I can stay consis Let's keep discussion alivp. absence of conflict/war, it is this his talk of "lover," "pubic hair" & tent with my argument, and still Joanne Oestreich Greenman responds to Cook's criticism, accuses Cook of intellectually cheating in his logic Dear Editor: I submit the following don't write for everybody; the pro those weaker than us is sadism, and make suffer in the most beautiful look to for values besides what I as an open Utter to Paul Cooky not fanity is an attempt to guarantee sane people are repulsed by it." and profound sense, who will make finally feel to be valuable? My as a column addressing a new topic. that those who can't or don't want And rightly so, I suppose. If I me suffer, because both of us are "personal rating system" is some I thought that others might also prof to read me won't. spent all my time catching fireflies strong enough to take it—we've thing I must use, something that it from this response. Secondly, I have not "mis and flattening them on the pave suffered enough already. extends beyond bland notions of read [my] Plato;" I know some ment with my tennis shoe you I completely recognize my self-interest but cannot extend out Dear Mr. Cook, thing of what Plato says in the would wonder what was wrong own fallibility; that's why I need side of myself in the final valuating Thanks for your terribly Symposium, but I did not attempt with me. (As an aside: If you others to battle with, to make decision. For, whose rating system interesting and thought-provoking to base my essay on an interpreta don't like hurting your lab rat, then myself and them stronger. I don't do you want me to use? Whose response to my essay. However, it tion of it. My thoughts are a result why do you continue to do it? want to "put [you] all beneath can I use but my own? Until you misunderstands much of my argu of a much wider philosophical read Why don't you refuse to perform [me]," but rather, find who is up to answer these questions for me, ment. Since you're the only person ing than Plato alone would pro the experiment? Does the lab rat the struggle of figuring out our don't criticize me for defending who has devoted enough time and vide; I see no reason why any argu feel comforted by the fact that selves and live with those people. what I value and attacking what I energy to initiate a public conversa ment on "love" or "respect" while you hurt it, you feel bad? And of course we're all weak; that's don't, and don't criticize me at all tion about the topic, I thought I'd should take Plato as the central The Nazi soldiers may have felt ter part of being human. But do we unless you cite the authorities that write you a public response. So authority. Indeed, part of the point rible while killing the Jews, too. Is really love weakness in the sense supposedly stand outside yourself. here goes. of my method is to argue outside that any reason to excuse them?) that you propose? Would you love To do otherwise isn't fair to me — First of all, I use profanity of the constraints of obvious Yet, your argument doesn't refute weakness in me, if, for example, I.) you're cheating at the game (if that neither for "shock value" nor to authorities (as Jesus did in the the idea that causing friction and I was so weak-willed that when I is indeed an common authority "make [myself] feel important" — Gospel of Mark — am I contradict suffering isn't valuable; it suggests saw your mother I raped her; 2.) I found within us two), both the I have no desire to shock anybody ing myself here?); I want people to that making those suffer who are was so weak-minded that every game of conversation and the game for the sake of shocking them, and accept my arguments because they incapable of suffering is rather time I spoke with you I lied; or 3.) of fife. my own feeling of importance relies make sense, not because Plato said indecent. I endorse cruelty to I was so weak-spirited that I Finally, just because I will very little on my surprisingly great so. Many people who have read equals, not to ants—and it's our couldn't take your public criticism "find...thrills" struggling against ability to freak people out. Rather, Plato still find my arguments quite duty (and a rather self-abasing one of my essay and my character? people (including myself: myself, I use profanity to exclude a portion palpable. at that) to make others our equals Maybe we must accept our weak do you understand?), it does not of the Torch readership, those who Moreover, I was confused by in power. Why do you think that nesses, but only to eventually con follow that I will "discard loved would necessarily misunderstand your suggestion mat my essay was last year's World Series was so quer them (or to have something ones." To do so would be tanta my piece. I have spoken with peo "poorly thought out"; for how can damned fun? to despise)—not love them to nur mount to saying I know the ple who quit the essay immediately you possibly know how much And look at the way we regu ture them. And suffering, I sug "truth," that I don't need others to after reading the word "hell," and thought goes into any given piece late our own behavior; look at the gest, is not necessarily a weakness. attack my valuations and to alter that's okay. If they continue to be of philosophy or art? Did a lot of way we chide ourselves when we Furthermore, I don't affirm them. I respect not only those who offended by such inane words as thought go into Plato's "Sympo fail; look at our religion, for God's all feelings: I don't affirm petty share my values, but also those who "hell," "shit," and "fuck," then sium"? Or into Faulkner's "Absa sake! We are making ourselves suf resentment, or a world that will will fight back — and do it with a they're not going to be up to read lom, Absalom!"? Or into Titian's fer, "causing pain" to ourselves, all hate me "for [my] denial of its good conscience, without resent ing a piece that may be disturbing Bacchus and Ariadne? How can for the sake of our own "better worth." Any world, or any person, ment. As I suggested in my essay, in its possible profundity or lack you judge, besides using "qualities ment," of measuring up to our ide that/who can't take a little criti we should love our enemies thereof. Besides being generally in another person('s work) that one als. I never argue that my ideal cism, chiding, and pain isn't worth because they are our enemies, not inept at communicating my points (namely, you, Paul Cook) finds human being is "a person whom my time—it/they would be like in spite of it. to folks who are of a completely desirable"? And can you even tell [I] will not have to 'act on,' your lab rats who are too weak to Thank you for being my different bent of mind than myself, then? because she is at the same level as fight back effectively. I openly crit enemy for a few minutes. I've wasted too much time trying Thirdly, you intimate that my [me]." No! 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THE TORCH November 6, 199 2 THINK ABOUT IT R-E-S-P-E-C-T: a lesson pumpkins and campus activities can teach us So I came home from a Halloween party the other The point is that there are some people on this campus President said, "We're trying to identify those groups that night only to find that the pumpkin which I had painstakingly who arc doing a pretty poor job of thinking about other peo were offended. . .." Lemme help you guys out. Women. gutted and carved had been smashed on the street in front of ple's feelings before doing things. The real issue goes even You offended women. And quite a few men. And a fair por my house. Now, you gotta understand that this was some deeper—not only should we be thinking about how other tion of the Greek system in general. Did you all really think thing of a small pumpkin, and those are actually harder to people are going to feel, but we should also be respecting that no one would find the event offensive? Did you all really carve than the big ones. It's harder to get your hand inside those feelings. think that a sign showing the outline of a woman with breasts to clean it out, it's harder to carve a smaller face, it's harder the size of Montana was really in good taste? Why didn't to make the thing look respectable. So I was pretty bitter anyone speak up? Your President was quoted as saying this: about the demise of my pumpkin. "Basically, what it comes down to is making people sensitive I was also undaunted by the efforts of the prankster, ERIK to other people's feelings."" And yet you all showed no though, as I picked up the biggest pieces of the pumpkin that respect for the feelings of those women on this campus who were left, arranged them sorta around a candle, and lit my dislike being portrayed as objects of male entertainment. By makeshift jack-o-lantern. VARNESS assuming that the freshman males on this campus would be "There," I announced to no one in particular. "That'll amused and/or impressed by a strip-tease show, you offended show 'em." those men on this campus who refuse to take part in such I went inside and put on some music—James Brown— Respect. Does everyone understand? We should be activities. And you angered those fraternityme n on this cam and started thinking about the pumpkin. (Funny how a respecting the feelings of other people. pus who are busting their butts to show that Greek organiza stupid pumpkin can dominate your thoughts, isn't it?) I Now, most of the time, being the good educated tions are not (necessarily) groups of beer-guzzling and wom thought back to my childhood days and the Halloween Lutheran students that we arc, we do a pretty decent job of anizing chauvinists who care only for male bonding and skip nights that we had spent garnering insane amounts of candy respecting other people. But sometimes we screw up. ping classes. and eating most of it before we got home. And I remem The first example that comes to mind is the whole I'm not saying that I have never offended anyone, bered the one time that one of our pumpkins was stolen. I Baldwin sidewalk thing. The students who wrote on the because I'm sure that I have. Or just did. And it's not fair to was about 10, I think, and I remember that my dad and I sidewalk showed no respect for the work of the Physical Plant bash art student or Pikes, because we're all "offenders" to spent a really long time making the thing look just right. But employees who laid the concrete. The sidewalk does look varying degress. But part of the process of becoming educat that didn't seem to matter much to the dork who smashed it really cool, but that's not the point. Nor is "freedom of ed and mature adults is to realize that there are more ways on the street corner. I was so upset the next morning when I expression" the point. The point is that those workers were than one to look at this world. There are always more per discovered that the pumpkin was missing that I almost cried. being paid to install a sidewalk, that it took some amount of spectives than just your own, and to blindly defend your own (I was only ten, remember.) effort to make sure the thing was nice and smooth, and that position without thinking of those other perspectives is noth Looking back on that incident now, I realize that it drawing all over it without checking to see if this was an OK ing but ignorance. Part of our responsibility before making serves as a prime example of a good way to make decisions: thing to do was disrespectful. Laying a level sidewalk is decisions is to give serious thought to how those decisions you should always think about how other people arc going to arguably as much of an "art" as drawing on one, and if art will affect other people and the way that they feel. To do feel before you do something. I don't smash people's pump people and Physical Plant people can work out an agreement, otherwise is to mark ourselves as irresponsible, insensitive, kins on Halloween—even though I've had the urge—because then fine. Otherwise, respect the work that they do as much and uncaring about the people with whom we share this plan for all I know, some kid and his dad worked on that damn as you expect anyone to respect the work that you do. et. pumpkin for a really long time. And that kid would feel pret Another clear example of disrespect is the "exotic Think about it. I'm going to go look at my pumpkin ty bad if I smashed it. dancer" incident at the Pi Kappa Alpha house. The Pike for a while. THE UHLAN Greenman commends Eric Andres, a martyr to American values Two weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the call responsibility to stand or fall as one great nation. All the dif tian convictions, likeable, and devoted to duty. His teachers was first sounded in a letter to the Torch Editor: "As good ferences in the past should be buried in our present efforts. found him cooperative and studious.' The speaker warned Americans, as true sons and daughters of Valparaiso Universi In this dark hour of our country's peril and danger will come his listeners not only to be afraid of their physical enemies. ty let us with unlimited and painful sacrifices carve out for all fulfillment and manifestation of our destiny for our chil 'It is not only the 'fightings without' which endanger us, our posterity the words "We served our country well.'" And dren in the days to come." civilians as well as soldiers. There are also fears within. The so they did—before long, Valponians were out there swap "Education is Defense!" screamed the Torch masthead, world as many of us knew it has passed. Many of our venera ping their mortar boards for mortar shells, etc. etc. In one of and a new column marked the beginning of the 1942-3 aca ble assumptions are lying in ruin. Our spiritual world has suf the most inspired passages ever to leap from his hallowed demic year: Valpo for Victory—News of Valumni in the Ser fered an upheaval.' The professor attacked war-time morality pen, patriarch O. P. Kretzmann (God preserve him!) wrote vices. "As the drafting of man-power from the colleges and called upon his listeners to perpetuate the faith in God. the following in the Walther League Messenger: "I have The Bach chorale 'Come, Sweet Death' was used as the musi been saying goodbye to some of our students going off to cal theme of the service." war. The other day I asked one of them: 'How do you feel The details of young Andres' passing were soon trans about all this?' 'O. K.,' he answered, 'Long ago I decided to PATRICK mitted to the campus under the bold headline NAVY live for my God, my country, and my friends. Now my coun LAUNCHES U.S.S. ANDRES TODAY: Name Escort try needs more of me than I have given it until now. It's O. Destroyer after Eric Andres, First Valpo Alumnus to Die. K. with me. I have a faith that will see me through.' I rose FEASTER "Eric Andres rests quietly at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. and we shook hands. I said a few things which sounded There is no question that he died in the performance of his meaningless and trite. There really isn't much one can say in duty. This afternoon the Navy department recognized that moments like that. He went out into the dark winter after unstinting sacrifice when it launched the USS Andres, one of noon. Through the window I watched him go down the throughout the country gains in momentum," its editor the first of a new type of escort destroyer. Present to take wind-swept street which he had walked in other days when observed, "more and more of Valpo men will soon be peering part in the christening ceremonies were Andres' parents, Rev. his next class and the evening's basketball game were the down gun-sights instead of slide-rules, periscopes instead of and Mrs. Theodore Andres of Madison, Wisconsin. Andres, most important things in life. Down an Indiana street on a microscopes, and many more will be helping in every possible a graduate of Valparaiso in '37, was killed in the initial assault winter afternoon towards Europe, Asia, Africa, and the way to do their share to bring about a speedy close to the on the Jap base on Guadalcanal Island on August 9th, 1942. islands of the South Seas. Suddenly, perhaps because I could war." At the time he was serving on the USS Astoria. Captain not see very clearly, his shabby overcoat became shining Valponian patriotism soon had its martyred hero. Eric Greenman, his superior officer, characterized Andres' con armor, the wind rose to the pitch of high trumpets, and he Andres was a 1937 graduate. He had belonged to the his duct during the assault by commenting that 'the officer became a symbol of all the boys marching down all the streets toric sophomore class that enforced the last-ever Pyjamas unquestionably died at his post of duty with the single of towns like mine, bound for far horizons and the long quest Parade, described in last week's Uhlan. According to the thought of inflicting maximum damage on the enemy and for the grail of peace and freedom. Suddenly, too—perhaps yearbook, Andres had "found time" to take a B.A. in business with entire disregard to his own personal safety.' In his because I could see more clearly now—I felt that he would management. He had also played football for three years and report to the bureau of naval personnel, Capt. Greenman come back and that most of them would come back. A day been a member of the V club, Kappa Delta Pi, and the Com said: 'The body of Ensign Andres lies with the Astoria in the would come when I would be standing at the window again merce Club, the last of which he had served during his senior waters of the Coral Sea, about five miles southeast of Savo and see him coming up the street to start over, to rebuild our year as vice-president. Not a conspicuous individual, but island in the Solomon group.' The youth's parents left their broken world, and to bring out of the winter of our hate a involved. home at Madison Monday for an unnamed east coast port to new and warmer spring." The terrible news hit on September 10, 1942. "Val be present at the launching which was held this afternoon.... This latest tribute on the part of the Navy department Advertisements encouraged freshmen and sophomores paraiso University memorialized her first alumnus known to demonstrates the high regard and admiration held for him by to consider becoming Naval Officers; proceeds from the have fallen in the line of duty in the present war in the matins all his friends and associates. A local man said: 'Valpo is just annual ISC-IFC variety show, Taboo or not Taboo, went service this morning. The alumnus was Ensign Eric Andres, ly proud of so distinguished an alumnus. What he started on towards a $100 War Bond presented at the beginning of U. S. N. R., '37, Madison, Wisconsin. His father, the Rev. Guadalcanal has been finished, and Andres would be proud Indiana's MacArthur Week. Celebrating this last, the hal Theodore Andres, was a former member of the public rela to have given his life could he but have seen the outcome. lowed Kretzmann (may he rest in peace!) declared: "We tions staff of the university. Associate Professor H. H. Kum- Valparaiso and the Navy salute a gentleman and a hero.'" Americans are people of destiny. We have a job to do and we nick, head of the department of religion and dean of students Duke et decorum erat, pro patria mori. will do it. We have a burden to bear and we will bear it. We when Andres was a student in the university, conducted the have a war to win and we will win it. The great need of this memorial service. His text was 'Watch ye, stand fast in the hour is that we stand united, recognizing our common faith, quit you like men, be strong.' Professor Kumnick eulo gized Alumnus Andres as a 'quiet, unassuming lad of Chris the torch but this is the last week encourages please, the editorial staff will letters to the editor keep it indulge verbosity brief. THE TO RC H WWi November 6, 1992 Students outraged at Harre's comments concerning tuition and image DeaT\ r TEditor? J**.__ , £fts*+*tfactor» i• n*-» mmiyr choosin^V**-**-*<-«*-tsgv V\7TU 7 in th*-V»*e» fi««c*-first placer\1«*s-^ , insteaincf» Considering that this Lutheran tradition includes the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, in which women are encouraged to seek ordi Reader offended by profanity in Torch, questions standards nation, and that the Chapel of the Resurrection is not officially affiliated with any single Lutheran denomination, we consider it appropriate that the Dear Editor, journalism for The Torch? You Editor's Note: The Torch Editorial chapel's operational principles reflect not only its commitment to ministering don't have any competition so it Staff promised its sensitivity to the to all Christian students effectively, but also embody its dedication, as a true Just when I thought I can't be to "sell" more newspa feelings of others in what was print religiously affiliated liberal arts university, to the full freedom of all people to remembered reading that The pers. In the past, I have shared ed, particularly when the comments respond to their calling within the Kingdom of God. Torch would be more sensitive to copies of your newspaper with were made anonymously. This was "We feel that the report of the Ad Hoc Committee Further to Realize the use of profanity... I read last friends, family , and even my pas not the case with the Greenman the Lutheran Character of Valparaiso University allows for such a move in the week's edition and find the "F" tors, but I don't think I can con article referred to, because he community in its Recommendation 11, clause 11a, which states word included in Craig Green tinue to do that any longer with signed his opinion piece. As has man's column. Come on folks; out fear of embarassment over become evident in ihe extended dia The University should review and evaluate the "messages" sent to faculty, you're intelligent. Surely you can what just might pop up in print logue of the opinions of Greenman, staff and students about University-sponsored worship opportunities, and find a more appropriate way of the next time! I'm not a prude...I certain staff members found his examine whether full participation and access is made possible and avail expressing your thoughts without don't endorse censorship...I thoughts were as profane as his lan able (e.g., regarding communion fellowship, pulpit fellowship, the role of resorting to such language. There believe in freedom of speech. But guage. Greenman chooses to use women in the Church, and the freedom of staff to attend Morning are still many of us who are I think you are overstepping the certain language as a means of dis Prayer). offended by such words, whether bounds of community standards couraging a particular readership it be in the spoken or printed when you print such language. from his columns; this is his peroga- In addition, clause lie states: word. I have yet to read any major tive in the columns page. Inciden newspaper in this country who Sincerely, tally, this is accepted practice for The University should examine its policies and practices for inconsisten would use such language in print. Diann Ptacek opinion articles in certain publica cies and ambiguities which may promote disciminatory treatment based Is this becoming a new standard of tions. on religious affiliation, gender, age, ethnicity, race, or color, (p. 41) Dear Editor, What I did was entirely on In short, the current practices at the Chapel of the Resurrection are my own initiative, and not only do Editor's note: The Torch Edi intolerable to us and to other members of the University community, precise I am writing this to clarify a I take full responsibility I also still torial Board stands by the objective ly because these practices violate the very mission of Valparaiso University. possible misconception concerning stand firmly by what I said at the nature of the Student Senate article Furthermore, they not only violate the mission of the University, but, as the the rather opinionated article on meeting. I do not, however, wish of October 23. The Editor stands by Report of the Ad Hoc Committe points out, these divisive practices inhibit page three of the October 23rd for my own, personal stance to be her comments concerning the ethical the growth and nurturing of the community. It is our sincere hope that the issue. My actions at the Student misconstrued as NASA's official nature of Schlesinger's attempt to University's Board of Directors will reconsider its traditional practices for the Senate meeting on October 19th stance regarding this issue. To the petition to remove Jennifer Voigt sake of a free participation in, and greater fulfillment within, the Christian were not in any way, shape or form best of my knowledge, it is not. from the position of Committee on experience. sanctioned by the Native American Media Chair. Sincerely, Students Association for which I Sincerely, The membes of FREE am Student Senate Representative. Chad K. Schlesinger THE TORCH November 6, 1992 NATIONAL HEALTH CARE Gays challenge U.S. to make experimental drugs available to people dying of AIDS BY SUSAN PETERSON vs. drugs championed by government researchers. approved." Delaney said. The medical establishment "didn't even want to talk to But reaching that point where people with AIDS us. They didn't want to talk to anyone who would challenge became real to the people with power over their lives was a SANTA ANA, Calif.—Dripping rain echoed through what they had to say or how they did their business," Corti long, tortuous journey. the transom. In the dim gray light of a rainy day in Los Ange said. Corti made his first trip to Tijuana, Mexico, in 1985, les, Jim Corti's loft home was busily untidy, scattered with They were pariahs, the focus of suspicions by govern where he bought and smuggled in ribavirin and isoprin-osine. invoices, crates and a desk overflowing with papers and ment officials, doctors and the gay press and political organi The two anti-viral drugs were invented and manufac crowned by a glass jar loaded with pills. zations. tured by Orange County, Calif., companies—ICN Pharma One of Corti's paintings, the first he has done in a long Now, a decade after the first half-dozen cases of what ceuticals and the then-Newport Pharmaceuticals Internation time, shows thousands of perfect circles of bright reds, yel initially was called GRID—gay-related immune al—and were touted as possibly slowing the AIDS virus. He lows and orange, piled high like a dish of M&Ms. Visitors tell deficiency—the two men have wrought some astounding had to drive by ICN's headquarters on his trek south on the him the circles look like pills. changes in the way drugs are developed for AIDS and other 1-405. diseases for which there is no therapy or cure. The loft looks like an LA. artist's studio. But it is really The story of ribavirin, a drug used for a viral illness that the heart of one of America's most successful underground They were the first to organize underground experi strikes children but never approved for use in AIDS, is one drug networks—a clandestine operation that has provided ments recording the side effects and benefits of experimental full of intrigue, with millions of dollars won and lost on the thousands of doses of experimental drugs to desperate people medications. They tested ribavirin, DDI, Compound Q and a stock market, a host of government investigations and thun with AIDS. half-dozen lesser-known drugs through an extensive network derous shouting matches between then-FDA Commissioner of doctors and AIDS patients. Corti, 52, is perhaps the only self-proclaimed drug Frank Young and ICN's founder and driving force Milan smuggler in the United States. They won by getting through to the government, final Panic. ly, by sheer tenacity. Once they broke through the barriers And the U.S. government, for the most part, leaves Interest in the drug was intense. Corti made dozens of researchers and officials erected to make themselves "objec him alone. A new book, "Acceptable Risks," written by jour trips in his van to Tijuana, along with many others, bringing tive" about their work, they found people who listened and nalist Jonathon Kwitny, chronicles the adventures of Corti back orders for people throughout the country at cost. helped them affect change. and Sausalito, Calif., activist Martin Delaney, two apolitical Scores of people took the drug and said they felt better. gay men who chose to challenge the government to make "The first step was just getting them to accept face-to- But the first major study of ribavirin imploded under charges experimental drugs available to people terminally ill with face contact with people with the disease," Delaney said. of tampering and test-fixing, a rat-fest that was crowned with AIDS. "When we did that, they quickly started to react like human a congressional hearing in which the drug's detractors, the beings. These places are full of women who get breast cancer FDA included, stood in line to testify against it. If the story of Delaney and Corti unfolded in a novel, it and gay men who get AIDS and straight men who get would be fantastic: a sudden, deadly epidemic dooming thou Delaney says the committee committed "McCarthy- prostate cancer." sands of healthy young people to agonizing deaths. The epi ism," assassinating the drug, the stock of ICN and its sub demic represented tragedy for people infected but also oppor It took a lot of talking—Delaney's part—and a lot of sidiaries and never giving its users or developers a chance to tunities for disease controllers, doctors and drug companies. traveling—Corti's part—to affect change. Now AIDS-related respond. The committee chaired by Rep. John Dingell, D- In the pages of "Acceptable Risks," the stasis among drugs that show promise are made widely available within Mich., said ICN and Delaney could respond at a later hear major drug companies, the FDA and the National Institutes months of their first tests. The Food and Drug Administra ing. It was never held. of Health emerges as incestuous. On the outside are people tion gives AIDS matters priority over other applications. "The answer on ribavirin is we do not know. We never with AIDS, their families and small, upstart drug companies And people with other terminal diseases who do not got a straight answer. We never saw anything that said it was such as ICN. have options for therapy—Alzheimer's disease and end-stage more or less effective than AZT," Delaney said. "We truly were outsiders," Corti said. "Even the AIDS breast cancer, to name two—are learning to lobby the gov Corti and Delaney moved on. Corti traveled to China, activists didn't want anything to do with us. We had a few ernment for faster and better access to drugs that might help. Thailand, Denmark and Japan to bring in experimental com friends at the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York, but they "We found an acceptable solution to two conflicting pounds. While smuggling is against the law, the Food and are all dead now." societal needs," Delaney said. "On one hand the need of soci Drug Administration does allow people import small The outsiders were people with AIDS and their friends. ety to protect itself against unsafe pharmaceuticals—and I amounts of foreign drugs for their personal use. The policy is Corti says they were West Coast crazies vs. East Coast estab don't challenge the fact that there are greedy drug companies a direct result of pressure for drugs to fight the AIDS epi lishment. Patients vs. doctors. Private citizens vs. government and unethical quacks out there—but the other need is for the demic. officials. Compounds owned by small-time drug companies person with a life-threatening illness who can't wait the amount of time the process requires for a drug to be NATIONAL HEALTH CARE Third-graders now confront legal tangle with sexual harrassment BY PETER KENDALL In the suit filed last week in Du Page future." increase, which they attribute to a steady rise County (111.) Circuit Court, the parents of a Illinois requires all schools to have a in sexual messages on TV, in advertising and Chkogo Tribune 9-year-old girl alleged that Lombard School grievance procedure to handle complaints of in music. District 44 was negligent for allowing the sexual harassment, but no complaint was ever A third-grade boy's alleged sexual "I certainly have had more calls in the boy to pinch the girl's chest, groin and but brought by the parents to the district, said remarks and repeated pinching of a girl in his last year or two from parents concerned tocks and scratch her arm at Park View Dr. Gordon E. Wendlandt, the district super class has prompted a lawsuit in Illinois and about things that seem disturbing," said School in intendent. added another twist to the tangle of issues Eleanor Linn, director of the University of Lombard, HI. • . —— • _ a — "We surrounding sexual harassment and abuse. Michigan's Program for Education Opportu don't see any nity. "It seems that the touching is becoming The suit is evidence that the national During 1st grade, the boy showed Michael Ceti- basis for it," he more overt." soul-searching about the relationship na, the attor said, referring A recent study by the American Associ between the sexes in the workplace, has, per the girl a condom and talked ney for the to the lawsuit. ation of University Women found that sexual haps inevitably, moved onto the playground. parents, said about sex, Cetina harassment in schools is increasing, though More parents, teachers and profession incidents said reports of the study was limited primarily to junior high als in social service fields are now wrestling involving the the alleged and high school students. with the question: When does child's play boy occurred incidents were "Sex-biased peer interactions appear to become sexual harassment, or even abuse? This is different from a boy "at least five made to police be permitted in schools, if not always The U.S. Department of Education in times" in 3rd pulling a pigtail and pushing her and child approved," the study concluded. "Rather October agreed to investigate a 7-year-old grade and abuse officials, than viewing sexual harassment as serious girl's charges that she was sexually harassed because he likes her...This is not several other and those misconduct, school authorities too often by the foul language and lewd behavior of a times when agencies treat it as a joke." group of rowdy boys on her school bus in normal conduct of a 1st grader the two declined to The study found that girls' self-esteem Eden Prairie, Minn. youngsters or of a 3rd grader." pursue them. drops during school years, and blames that, That case is believed to be the first fed were 1st However, in part, on constant and pervasive sexual eral inquiry into sexual harassment among graders. mmm • "••™ • •••• • "™ • •"•" • "•••• • ••••• L o m b a r d harassment. elementary school pupils. Also police and the Many schools are now working to According to some advocates for during 1st grade, the boy showed the girl a Du Page County Children's Abuse Center make students more sensitive to what might women and children, playground pranks such condom and talked about sex, Cetina said. said they were not aware of any complaints. constitute sexual harassment. as snapping bra straps, looking up skirts and The girl, now in 4th grade, has Sexual harassment among students has "If we really want to get at this prob tugging on underwear are finally becoming enrolled in a private school and is undergo become a greater issue in high schools and lem, we start in those early primary grades," recognized as unacceptable. ing counseling over the incidents, Cetina even in some junior high schools, but ele said Griff Powell, outgoing superintendent of "The 'boys-will-be-boys' justification said. mentary schools have only recently become Highwood-Highland Park District 111. "You for so many years has condoned this behav "This is different from a boy pulling a the trend's newest frontier. do not condone any kind of harassment. ior," said Sharon Schuster, president of the pigtail and pushing her because he likes her," And it is not, or has it ever been, only a "Sexual harassment starts with little American Association of University Women. Cetina said. "This is not normal conduct of a boys-will-be-boys phenomenon. boys picking on little girls and adults saying, "But that standard has changed. It is no 1st grader or of a 3rd grader." At one Glen Ellyn, 111., elementary 'Boys will be boys,'" Powell said. "If you longer condoned, whether it is third-graders school, a group of girls has reportedly target allow that to occur, then you get at the water or adults." The girl's parents claim they have repeatedly complained about the harassment, ed one 4th-grade boy who they repeatedly cooler at work the sexual innuendo and all But not everyone is comfortable apply and the school placed the two students in dif chased, held down and kissed. the things women have to tolerate." ing adult standards to children learning their ferent 2nd-gradc classrooms, but assigned To Carla Bianco, who has a son in the (Chicago Tribune reporter Cindy place in the world. them to neighboring desks in 3rd grade, school, that smacks of sexual harassment, or Schreuder contributed to this article.) "Children are going to bother each Cetina said. worse. "I wouldn't want my daughter doing other, tease each other and make each other The girl's parents are seeking compen that," she said. feel bad," said Timothy McCarthy, principal sation from the school for her private school Experts say there is no hard evidence of Wbodgate Elementary School in Matte- tuition, the costs of her counseling and for that sexual harassment and abuse is rising son, 111. "But that is the story of man. That's the "serious and permanent injuries ... (she) among elementary-age students. But many part of growing up. I really think that (call has suffered and will continue to suffer in the agree that anecdotal evidence points to an ing that sexual harassment) is too far out." THE TORCH October 23, 199 2 freshmen to a rush function. ZC -3TC 33= 33= 123= 3C J PIKES "Is that what you're trying to get?" she asked. / "To get guys into your fraternity who want to sec Watch out for the Union Great Hall something like this?" Passafume agreed that "the rules can't say every "You're going on the premise that we meant to UNION LATE-NIGHTER 8:00pm -2:00am thing. We must use deductive reasoning to decide offend, and that we meant to degrade," responded a what is not appropriate." member of the fraternity. Saturday, November 7 Sponsored by Union Board Many of the brothers were confused as to why Varness said that the issue was one involving the the incident at their house had become such an issue entire greek system. Talent Show - 8 pm Standy-Up Comedy -- 9:15 pm on campus, as other fraternities had reportedly "[Freshmen] don't see 'the Pikes screwed up employed exotic dancers in the past. and they admit it,'" Varness said, citing the fact that no SILENCE OF THE LAMBS-10 pm "Other fraternities have done this—is it so freshmen had come to the open forum. "All they sec A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN-12am wrong?" asked fraternity member Jeff Anderson. is 'here's what the greek system's about, and here's 23= 23= 23= Phi Sigma Kappa member Eric Varness, the only what I can expect when I'm in it.' It doesn't just hurt ZO= 3X 23= non-Pike fraternity member present at the forum, said the Pikes, it hurts every fraternity on this campus." that he had also heard of similar incidents at other fra Several women present, however, said that they ternities. had not been offended at all, and felt that the group The Ei£CT&©!ysis CE Passafume clearly stated, however, that knowing was merely 'Pike-bashing.' "The Only Permanent Hair Removal' that others do something does not make it right. "I think the ad is irrelevant," one woman said. When the Pikes were asked why they felt the "For all we know, there could have been a Dolly Par- 114 E. Lincolnway • Private Entrance need to have an exotic dancer at their rush function, ton impersonator coming here." Facing H.D.S. Parking Lot Hawkins explained that they "had been looking for Valparaiso, IN 46383 Another woman said that this was just the way Phone (219) 477-5751 or 462-7148 rush activities that did not involve alcohol and that things were, and that women treated men the same would still draw a lot of freshmen down to the house." way. Between 50 and 70 freshmen gathered to sec the "If your friends were throwing you a bache- exotic dancer last Monday night, a large number con lorette party, and your husband were out with his bud JEAN LEFFEW Free Consultation sidering the fact that only 150 freshmen are going dies somewhere, would you really be thinking about through rush. Hawkins stressed the fact that before him?" she asked. LIGHTHOUSE the dancer arrived, the freshmen were told what was Passafume stressed the fact that the Pikes had about to take place and were given the opportunity to not been forced to hold the forum, and that they were leave if they chose to. voluntarily discussing these issues. She said, however, It was also pointed out that the dancer was hired that there was something wrong with the attitude from a legitimate business, and that other people, behind the Pikes' actions, even if it was the prevalent including MTV, use sex regularly as a marketing tech attitude. nique. After much discussion, Monique Bernoudy, the Union turnaround at 10:30am Passafume admitted that organizations that mar director of Multicultural Programs, asked, "Where do Leave Lighthouse Place at 3:00pm ket sex do make hiring a dancer seem legitimate, but we go from here?" Tickets on sale at the stressed the idea that it was demeaning to women. Bernoudy stressed the importance of the frater Union Info Desk beginning on November 2nd for $4.00 The overall attitude of fraternity members at the nity taking responsibility for its actions. Hawkins said forum was one of confusion when they were told that that the Pikes had taken responsibility by watching a the exotic dancer and the advertisement were seen by videotape on sexism and rape on Tuesday night, and by Sponsored by Union Board some as demeaning to women. The Pikes said that hosting the forum on Wednesday. Several members of they saw the advertisement as merely a gimmick to get the audience who had been offended by the incident people's attention. applauded the Pikes for taking responsibility. Several members pointed out that the movie Jennifer, a woman who was present, admitted "Basic Instinct" had been shown by Union Board this that before the forum she had held a lot of prejudices fall, and a member of Union Board who was present ASK FOR toward the fraternity, but that after hearing the Pikes confirmed that that movie had drawn a bigger crowd express their concerns and admit that they needed edu than any other film this semester, a total of 626 stu cation, all of her prejudices had been lifted. dents. Although she was upset about this, she said that "I think that the Pikes have done a lot of good THE CARD 1HATS Union Board had so far received only one complaint. in making people understand mat they did not inten "We don't know what offends other people," tionally demean women," she said. said Tarcq Ahmadzi, a member of the fraternity. "If Shannan Schmitt, another woman in attendance, we would have known that what we did was offending YOUR LICENSE said "A lot of positive things have come out of this women, we never would have done it. It's just that forum, including the necessity for education and people interpret 'demeaning to women' differendy." awareness." Passafume understood that fraternity members TO FILL Suggestions for further education ranged from were confused about why their actions had sparked changing the current men's rush policy to action on negative feelings. the University level. Dolores Ruosch, dean of women, .SUB V "We are all entitled to individual values and it is agreed that students need more education on issues sometimes hard to understand others' values," she such as gender and sexuality. Ruosch said that she said. would like to see all fraternities sponsor programs such SUB CLUB Fraternity member Stan Wruble agreed that the as those that are held within the sororities. confusion of values is at the heart of the issue and that Overall, Pikes were pleased with the discussions a gender gap in thinking could be held responsible. at the forum, but were disappointed by the low atten "Other things on campus like GALA, pro-life dance of students and faculty members. groups, pro-choice groups and College Republicans "These are issues that the entire VU community are bound to offend someone at some time," Wruble needs to address, and we all need to be more educated said, "but you can't place your values on others." about them," Hawkins said. Several sorority members who were present were concerned that the dancer had been used to attract —Contributions by Paul Cook, Totch News Editor. ALCOHOL ON CAMPUS Join Subway's Sub Club. Then every time you buy a Subway sub, we'll stamp your Sub Club card. Fill up the card Peers program to help students make wise choices and get a free regular footlong sub. It's that easy. The Sub Club card, for home or office. It's your license to fill. BY JODISAVILLE Freshmen are the targeted group, but presenta 1710 East Lincolnway tions are also given to uppercalssmen who request Torch Staff Writer them. One example would be "Women and Alcohol," Phone: 465-7676 which is given to the sororities. Presentations given by "Keeping students safe. . .at making their own the group emphasize the risks of drinking which can decisions," Judy Nagel explains, is the purpose of the affect such areas in ones life as: Health, relationships, first Peer Education Program here at VU. rules & laws, and grades. What makes this program so Critically acclaimed poet and novelist, Robert Siegel, will be gracing VU with his presence and his poetry on Once upon a time Delia and Earnest had a son named Trevor. Trevor went out November 11 at 7:30 P.M. in the Lumina Room in Huegli Hall. His visit was arranged by his good friend and fellow with Jan, but married Suzannah. Jan married a man named Nick. Trevor and writer Prof. Walt Wangerin, and by Wordfest, the English Department reading series committee. ' Suzannah started having problems and met at Kate and Malcolm's party. Trevor and Siegel is the author of two volumes of poetry and four novels. For these works he has received such prestigious Suzannah argued and Trevor ended up kissing Jan. Trevor also thought about kissing awards as The Chicago Poetry Prize, ECPA Gold Medallion, and the Matson Award. Over 225 of his poems appeared Kate, but there were too many people around. in 45 journals and 16 anthologies including Atlantic Monthly, The Poetry Anthology, and New York Quarterly. ound crazy? Well it is. Siegel attended Wheaton College and Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate and graduate degrees Mian Ayckbourne's comedy "Bedroom Farce," opening at the Kroencke respectively. He received his doctorate in English from Harvard University where he studied under poet Robert Lowell. mainstage theater Friday, November 6, mixes the trials and tribulations of four couples Siegel is currently the coordinator of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. in a soup of confusion, suggestion and laughs. Set in three bedrooms across the Siegel's reading at VU promises to be a rewarding one, according to stage, every character seems to end up in the wrong bed with the wrong person at Wangerin, who describes his friend as "a bear standing on hind legs." Siegel is an experienced lecturer, having given exactly the right time. readings at such prestigious institutions as Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, and his sense of audience is acute. "I Trevor (Kevin Undamood) is a mixture of lunacy and high-level anxiety who has think he's very personable and will give a sense of intimacy. He does the kind of talking around the poems which is a tendency to create (or fail into) awkward situations which he often dismisses with his more that merely academic or scholarly or cool. He does say something about his own feeling..." Wangerin said. British accented "oh..." or "sorry." Like the man, the poetry Siegel will be sharing is very intimate in nature, according to Wangerin. "He has the His wife Suzannah (Patty Bird), dressed to kill in her 1970's pink and white capacity, I think, to enter into whatever being he is speaking for. Which means that he can not just write about various piece of a skirt, high white boots and stockings, repeatedly reassures herself, "I am creatures, but he can write from within their perspective... The subject then becomes a metaphor for something much confident in myself. I am attractive. I am not afraid of people. People are not more large than itself," Wangerin said. frightening." Siegel's newest novel, The Ice at the End of the World, is the final book in his trilogy about humpback whales. It Jan (Christine Teichman) once dated Trevor but has since married Nick (Rob is forthcoming from Harper San Francisco next year. Some of his other titles, including his book of poetry and novel Westra). In the play, Nick has a pulled back muscle and spends all of his time in bed Whalesong, will be available for purchase and signing after the reading. moaning and groaning about his pain and agony. Malcolm (Michael Doman) and Kate (Cathy Doty) throw the party at which Suzannah argues with Trevor and Trevor kisses Jan. Malcolm is a sideburned jokester in striped pants who is constantly hiding pots and pans and boots under the covers on Kate's side of the bed. Kate is a wonderfully red, white and blue-clad Brit who tries to Notes from New York: the CIYIJ conferencecove r up the fact that Malcolm really bores her at times. Earnest (Ron Sommer) is Trevor's father who lives in a world of his own while his high class wife Delia (Susan Shurte) is busy eating sardines in bed, worrying about getting makeup on the sheets and how much her husband tipped the Spanish waiter at PETE DEL RE effective medium for bringing alternative music toth e the restaurant that night. FLAME ARTS CONTRIBUTOR attention of the public. "Bedroom Farce" is a fast-paced comedy with a lot of wonderful squabbling Now, donl be scared by the term 'alternative between the characters, though Trevor and Suzannah's cat-fights are a bit too much at Upon walking into the World Trade Center for the music' This term does not mean the Cure, Nirvana or times and, I think, take the situations that Ayckbourne has created to extremes that are first day of the CMJ (College Music Journal) convention, I Boy George. These bands have, at one point or another, a little bit uncalled for. Each character has a particular British accent which some of the was confronted by Green Jello. For those of you who are been associated with the alternative scene, but the actors find difficult tokee p consistent, especially as the quick exchanges become more unfamiliar with this band, Green Jello is Zoo records' nature of alternative music is constantly evolving (not and more frenzied and spontaneous in the second act. alternative version of Gwar. If you are still confused, unlike Oprah's dress size). Alternative music should be At one point in the opening scenes, Delia tells her husband Earnest, "You can suffice it to say that it was a sight that one should not see viewed as a look into the future of music. What is heard tell a great deal from people's bedrooms." And indeed, each bedroom on the stage after a fourteen hour car ride and a two hour train ride. from the alternative scene today will appear in popular seems crafted to fit the personalities of its permanent residents. Malcolm and Kate's At this point I was dumbfounded. What the hell did I get music tomorrow. room is half wallpapered, the furniture is covered in sheets, the bed is unmade, and a myself into this time? The point of all of this is that CMJ keeps college small ladder stands in the corner of the room. Delia and Earnest's room is quite Once I got past the lobby and into the seminars stations in tune with the direction of new music. They ordered and old. The pictures on the wall seem to have been there forever, the and music panels (and the image of Green Jello faded help the station handle music from promotion toairplay , wastepaper basket is set perfectly beneath the vanity, the bed has a high headboard. from my tortured memory), the convention headed back as well as new ideas on station operations. One thing to Nick and Jan's room is plushly carpeted, sparse, with a little flowered chair and a small towards reality. The goal of this four day convention was keep in mind regarding all of this "nonsense on the vanity. far more complex than strange people in ridiculous radio," and "evil" alternative music is that, at one point in Though every room differs, all of the rooms have mirrors into which the costumes: it focused on college radio's role in the time, most of what you are listening to today was this characters gaze throughout the play. Everyone is extremely conscious of their community and the direction that these stations should alternative devil music, and CMJ was promoting them appearance, so intent on figuring out how others view them, that they lose touch with be taking. In essence, how can college radio remain an too. So go ahead— keep music evil. the other people in their lives. This is where Ayckbourne takes "Bedroom Farce" beyond simple comedy or fonfih farce. The play is a play about miscommunication and misunderstanding, particularly muflP n&re* in marriage. Every character seems to be competing with, ignoring or hiding something from someone else, namely each respective spouse. The more evident and preposterous predicaments of the younger three couples "Verve" to be a band of the '90's are framed nicely by the older couple, Earnest and Delia. These two seem to have been through it before, so much to a point that it has become a part of Delia's identity BY SEAN MARTIN Smashing Pumpkins, VERVE took every element of the (Earnest does not recognize this at all) that she does not particularly want to think FLAMS MUSK CRITIC shoegazing/guitarnoise genre and twisted them into a about. If there is a wise touchstone character in the play, it is certainly Delia, who has poetic, sweeping purge. The garbled screams and learned somewhat tocop e with the problems of marriage and tries to reconcile I had heard rumors of the power and captivating deliberately orchestrated chords blended and elevated and Suzannah and Trevor. stuck somewhere in the center of my brain. That evening, insanity of the English Quartet known as VERVE. After All in all, the actors, particularly Sommer, Shurte, Doty and Lindamood do a VERVE set the standards for which bands of the '90's having my mind blown toth e back walls of The Tilt" in good job of putting on a play that needs a bigger stage than that which is available. should be judged while managing to leave egos and New York Friday evening during this band's American Due to lack of space on the Kroencke stage, one of the bedrooms is set back a bit images behind. debut performance, I came to a few striking realizations. further than the other two. While this "bedroom triangle" works fairly well, it seems to VERVE is all about pain. VERVE is all about escapism, The comparisons and superlatives used to describe distance the set a little too much from the audience. It is a shame that the VU theater nihilism, discontent and removal. Most importantly, Friday's show—and, more importantly, the band itself—are facilities cannot as of yet accommodate plays like Bedroom Farce tothei r fullest intent however, VERVE is all about expression at the very center not unfounded. Everybody in the music business wants to Bedroom Farce is directed by Richard Pick and will start at 8:00 P.M. on of everything they do. discover the next bandwagon to hop onto and call their November 6,7,13 and 14. There will be a Sunday matinee on November 8 which Without even an acknowledging glance towards the own, but VERVE transcends the politicking and slanted starts at 2:00 P.M. All performances will be in Kroencke Hall Theater. crowd, the band stumbled onto the dark, basement stage motives associated with this industry. VERVE is the and lost themselves in a haze of melodic, droning guitar. bandwagon which will drag us head first straight into the No flashing lights, no smoke machines—simply a band '90's. Fortunately, we do not have tog o kicking and aware of their music and nothing else. Surpassing even screaming, because these four acid freaks will take care of ,the most celebrated efforts of such gurus as Ride and it for us. , . "' ' X Ex7 literary review mieti "Mourning" tells of grief, healing Artist views writing process BY MEAGAN HENNESSEY specific surface details off of each case so that we can see how FLAME EDITOR they apply to our lives. This works well, as Wangerin has a gift for pinning down human experience. In telling of grieving, and In an interview with Amy Flesch, Torch reporter, Dr. practical ways of working through it, of accepting it, Wangerin as lonely yet euphoric, play uses examples so real and relatabie that you can feel yourself Walter Wangerin desribed his new book as an intimate BY JENNIFER VOIGT extended dialogue" and stated that he "wanted todramatiz e a wince and say "Yes, I remember." For example, he tells of a normal—even necessary and healing—human experience: our woman who lost her house in a fire and accepted it calmly—until Flame Arts Critic native ability to grieve, and by grieving toretur n to life again." In one day, several weeks later, when she knocked over a stack of oranges in the grocery store, she got down on her knees, and Rita Signorelli-Pappas, who read from her poetry at last nighfs Christ College his book, "Mourning into Dancing," Wangerin meets his goal. Symposium, spoke about "Catholic Girls," an anthology of works by women raised "Mourning Into Dancing" is a toto f different things—a bit began hysterically crying. This minor mishap is unrelated to the cause of her grief, but it strikes her sorrow, anger and frustration Roman Catholic in which a poem of hers appears. of theology, a bit of psychology, a bit of storytelling—but all strive When asked to submit her work for "Catholic Girls," Signorelli-Pappas towards the same goal: showing us that our grief is natural and and results in an outpouring of emotion. The image Wangerin uses to portray these emotions—a woman on the floor, crying, hesitated. "I don't think of myself as a Chrsitian writer," she said. "I did not want tob e should be accepted. In doing this, Wangerin sets up a labeled in that way." However, a friend called her attention to the various Christian juxtaposition of ideas and images, intertwining Biblical passages surrounded by rolling oranges—makes the experience so real that we can feel it happening tous , can remember times that images which permeate her work. Signorelli-Pappas conceded. Having been raised to make the parallels clear between our lives and the sacred Catholic, she admitts, images and feelings related to the Church are some of the stories. He reinterprets several Biblical stories, using his own we've lashed out because of grief thafs never been acknowledged. "most vivid images and memories from my childhood." In the end, though she risked precise language and metaphors tomak e the connection a label incongruous with her own identity as a writer, the women with whom she would between the Bible stories of suffering and redemption and those Wangerin's sharp images continue throughout the work. From a description of the crucifixion (His body is suffocating collaborate made her final decision to submit attractive. "This is exciting because one in our everyday lives. of the editors is one that I admire." In making these connections, Wangerin operates under itself) to that of a woman driving home recklessly, angry that the Though Signorelli-Pappas thinks of herself primarily as a poet, she likes "to one basic premise: that all of our losses, even minor everyday world is continuing status quo in spite of her pain, Wangerin write in a variety of forms." This includes short stories as well as reviews of books. ones, are actually miniature deaths. It doesn't matter how small uses images that make his points concrete and relatabie. She likes tocreat e a kind of "ferment and tension" which she feels frees her creatively. or insignificant the loss may seem—it can be anything from a The way in which Wangerin narrates helps us as well, for "If something doesn't work as a poem maybe it will work as a story," she explains. For littoral death toth e death of an idea or the absence of a friend- he is not someone pushing us to a belief but guiding us there, Signorelli-Pappas, her other writing serves as a "break from [the] concentrated, but the loss will affect us, and because of this, we grieve. It is comforting us, talking to us, and telling a couple of stories along shaped work" of poetry writing. only by accepting this grief as natural and right that we can move the way. "Mourning Into Dancing" can serve a lot of different For Signorelli-Pappas, poetry is the ideal form of writing. "Thoughts are through the process. purposes—spiritual advice, a guide to understanding yourself embodied in images for me. It took me years to figure this out" Therefore, she writes To demonstrate these ideas, Wangerin pulls examples and your beliefs, a collection of parables—but it serves all of "pretty visual poetry." She attempts to keep her poetry "close toth e senses." from his own life and experience as a minister, stripping the them remarkably well. Signorelli-Pappas is constatty reminded of the energy that writing demands. "It always askes everything of you, requires your whole attention." For her, it is h»k review "sustinence" a "central activity" in her life. Consequently, she illicits feedback from a circle of readers and friends which includes John Pappas, her husband, to whom she refers as her "editor in residence." Having this support is important to her. "I dont Letters show new side of star want tob e with people who are going tocompet e with me." On the whole, however, for Signorelli-Pappas, "writing is a lonely thing." She speaks of the artistic process as an "ongoing striving for the authenticity of the vision. BY DAVID HINCKLEY Dave Marsh also covered those rock 'n' roll star psychedelia meeting the You've got to keep doing it and doing it and doing it Usually I don't acheive it I'm NEW YORK DAILY NEWS areas in his Janis biography, and Laura coats, ties and polyester pantsuits of a trying to nail it" For Signorelli-Pappas, however, the struggling through the process Joplin doesn't deny Janis dabbled in small-town Texas high school class. reaps benefits. There's a euphoria when you finish a poem," she says, as well as an Considering what has happened xcess. "She was a 100 percent-er," says Amburn paints the trip as a anticlimax. 1 feel a sadness when a poem is finished." She feels "a sense of loss" with Jimi Hendrix for 22 years and Jim Laura, a soft-spoken woman with a Ph.D disaster, a bad idea gone worse, when the process comes to an end. "One is forever unsatisfied," she explains. Morrison for at least 10, we're past due in education whose jobs have included confirmation to Janis that she was a "I don't see (poetry] as a static form. I see my poems as in-motion," she for a Janis Joplin boom. running motivational workshops. "If she terminal misfit in anything other than the states. Her sister Laura figures the same did something, she did it all the way. rock *n' roll world. Signorelli-Pappas laments what she feels is a loss of imagination in thing. She also figures that the "But you have to remember, Laura says she hasn't read contemporary writing. Imagination, she says, "goes against the grain of the modern legacy of Janis, who died of an overdose thafs how the times were. You were Amburn's book, but stresses that part of world." She explains, "We use our imaginations to invent lives in which we can keep on Oct 4,1970, should rest in the hands either on the bus or you weren't" the reason she wanted to write "Love, making art." She sees imagination as being vital to arfs function in the collective life. of those who knew and cared about her. While Laura and the Joplin family Janis" was because "so much of whaf s Through imagination, artists lift people "out of themselves and their common Thafs how she came towrit e got considerable publicity lastyear over done on Janis is what somebody told to perceptions. Art is a way of escaping the everyday routine. People need the arts to "Love, Janis" (Villard. $22.50), a their legal move toshu t down a Seattle somebody else who wasn't there." be healed, for hope, for the new life that [art] gives them." She uses fantasy in her biography, and why she's helping show based on Janis' life, she says she's Laura was around for the reunion work, thinking of it as "fantastical transport," and theatrical imagery when she speaks Columbia put together a Janis CD box making no attempt to cover anything up weekend, and she says there were good about her writing. "I want to escape from my own personality. Ifs like acting but its set tentatively scheduled for next April. or put a false rosy glow around her sister. moments, too (though she and Janis had not on stage." She sees poetry as a performance. "I see myself as a show," she She's also helping assemble the The producers of that show a major argument). More to the point she says. "Writing is legitimate play." material for a Broadway play about Janis' maintained that the Joplin family just says, Janis left with an odd, almost ironic life. That, too, is on the drawing board for didn't want a competing production, and sense of contentment 1993, and a playwright has been hired. that information about Janis' life is on the "I think she went there feeling The proverbial just-discovered, previously public record. Laura Joplin says that isn't she needed to validate herself," says unreleased song has even been found, the point. Laura. "And she got what she needed _ 011^^313 2E 1 «I and prophetically, ifs called "I'm Gonna "The major issue in Seattle," she which is that ifs irrelevant what those Rock My Way to Heaven." Composer says, "was that they were using a lot of other people think. She needed her own Jerry Ragovoy says Janis loved the song copyright music." approval. After the reunion, our and was waiting to get a demo of it when The case remains unsettled, and hometown was not an issue any more." she died. it is not affecting Laura's plans for the Part of Laura Joplin's argument It's set to close the show. family's production, a centerpiece of too, is that while Port Arthur, Texas, may But the main goal in this flurry of which will be a series of letters Janis have set some people up to lead narrow activity, says Laura Joplin, is not to make wrote home in the '60s while she was lives, the Joplins' own childhood was Campus Paperback Bestsellers Janis a multi-media star. 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He is given some beginning of the movie, but as the film wears on, he grows tiresome. more character in this film than in the first, and has some great He also has a strange relationship with his son Chip—who has the most AND HADLEY BETH moments, as in the scene when he smiles as he takes care of one of thankless role in motion pictures since Christian Slater in "Robin Hood: FLAME MOVIE CRITICS Penguin's goons. As Bruce Wayne, Keaton assumes an unheroic Prince of Thieves"— that is never really explained. They seem to persona that is a suitable disguise, keeping people from figuring out he parallel Orville Reddenbocker and his grandson. There is really nothing Sequels often simply rehash their predecessors. This is the gets into a bat suit and fights crime at night about Schreck to interest us, he is just too bland. Walken seems out of common complaint of moviegoers after suffering through repetitive fare Michelle Pfeiffer is Catwoman. She transforms from mousy, place in "Batman Returns", and almost seems like he is in a different such as Lethal Weapon 3, or the endless installments of Nightmare on insecure secretary Selina Kyle, to the man-ravaging Catwoman in a movie, maybe "Weekend at Bernie's II" Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Nothing is fresh or new, simply stock scene that is visually stunning and creative. Although she and Batman Commissioner Gordon once again has a bit role in "Batman characters reprising their roles. "Batman Returns" is a departure from have an interesting relationship, it is hard to get a handle on her Returns" as he did in "Batman". And that is toobad , because Gordon is this approach and despite the film's other flaws, director Tim Burton character. Early in the movie, Batman saves the life of Selina, a diverse and tough presence in the comic books and none of that should be commended because of his originality. It is unlike its Catwoman's alter ego, yet Catwoman bears a grudge against Batman comes across on film. Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler and confidant, predecessor in so many ways that it stands quite well on its own. and goes after him. Catwoman's motivation for destruction in the film rounds out the notable characters. Alfred, who was also in the first film "Batman Returns" has moments of true inspiration. Unfortunately, these seems to be a sort of radical feminism. Her first action is to foil a rape. but merely a token presence, brings much more to the sequel. His dry moments are surrounded by a confused, jumbled plot line that branches After beating up on the rapist, she also chastises the woman for simply wit and more prominent role are welcome. into too many directions. being a victim. Catwoman also becomes quietly furious when the The worst element of "Batman Returns" is the fact that the The beginning of "Batman Returns" is an instant classic. Snow Penguin suggests that she should fetch his slippers and calls her a Penguin runs for mayor. Even in a surreal world, there has to be some falls heavily as the origin of the Penguin is explained and a freak is bom "sorority chick." Thus, Selina's Catwoman persona is a reaction to the kind of realism of character, and it just isn't realistic that the people of and then dumped into a seemingly endless murky river which winds into male-dominated world in which she used to be a secretary for Max Gotham would want a drooling mutant who bites someone's nose and the city's sewer system—ail to the dark and gorgeous score of Danny Shreck. She spends the rest of the movie trying to get revenge on eats a raw fish in public to be their mayor. Elfman. Elfman is the master of the film soundtrack, having done the Shreck, who not only pushed her out of a window, but suggested that But once again, Gotham City is awesome to look upon. Black music for "Batman" and "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" as well as a host of she had not been "domesticated" when she spoke up during a business towers jut into the dark sky, and it seems a suitable home for Batman. other movies. This promising beginning has a true comic book feel. meeting. The Batcave is equally impressive, as is the Batmobile, which has some But "Batman Returns" cannot sustain this power. Danny DeVito's makeup is the best part of the Penguin, making new and creative features. Batman himself has some new gadgets on The three costumed characters in "Batman Returns" are him a grotesquely fascinating presence. But the leering Penguin quickly his utility belt, and even utilizes sort of a Batboat But that gets inextricably linked. Giving as much screen time to Catwoman and loses steam. His constant sexual double entendres in most of his wrecked. Penguin as to Batman, Burton explores the personalities of the scenes are simply out of place and greatly take away from the As mentioned earlier, the storyline of "Batman Returns" is characters in order to understand the significance of their split atmosphere of the film. As with Catwoman, we can see the motivation jumbled. The movie tries to take on too much, and admirably fails. personalities and why they distance themselves from society by for fie Penguin's activities. Society abandons him at birth, and— There is a plan to build a power plant that sucks power instead of dressing as animals. The three characters understand that they are although a freak—he wishes to reenter it Max Schreck has a plan for producing it that never really materializes, a plan to frame Batman, and linked through what makes them different from society. Batman and the Penguin to be mayor and the Penguin quickly warms up toth e a scheme to kidnap all the first bom of Gotham as well as other aspects Catwoman especially share this understanding. Even during battle thought, and doesnt mind using dirty tricks if he can be loved by that never come together. The climax is disjointed, and adopts the all scenes, Burton also tries to explain the love between Batman and everyone—especially beautiful girls. When his plans go awry, he is too familiar cliche of everything exploding to finish a film. But the Catwoman by linking it to their split personalities. Since each is only chased by the citizens of Gotham to the bridge in which he had been themes, the symbolism and the irony keep "Batman Returns" interesting half of a person, they long for the other human side. At a costume abandoned years before. By jumping into the river for the second time, even when the plot bogs down in confusion. party, Bruce (Batman) and Selina (Catwoman), show up as the only two Penguin realizes that he will never be a part of society and sets out on a Okay, maybe Hadley and I got out of hand with this review and characters not wearing masks. After realizing their alter-egos, Selina dubious plan to destroy it. The Penguin, who has a pathetic overanalyzed here. But it is only because we care. We both grew up asks "does this mean we have to start fighting now?". In this scene, Duckmobile as opposed to the mighty Batmobile, is somewhat of a with Batman comics and want the screen representation to be as good Burton manages to point out the contradictory themes of duality and tragic figure that ultimately the viewer does not care about as the comics. And when it doesn't, we just get kind of cranky. parallelism found in their relationship. Christopher Walken plays the funny haired and icy calm Max "Batman Returns" had the potential to be a great film. It is a noble The four main characters in "Batman Returns" all deserve a Shreck, who will stop at nothing for power. Schreck is central toth e failure. looking at. Michael Keaton, once again as the Dark Knight, seems plot of "Batman Returns" and has at least one terrific line in the *eJhf/a TV brings return to theatrical roots for more music more books BY THOMAS O'CONNOR No amount of good citizenship can explain the and more arts Orange County Register similarly passionate relationship we have evolved to our presidential elections. If, as dramatist David Mamet argues, our only I didn't entirely realize how kinetic, how true national holidays are the Super Bowl and the thrilling a piece of theater this election has become catch the flame Oscars, presidential elections have become our until I spent a night last week sniffing the frenzy of a quadrennial passion play. Bill Clinton rally at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Set aside for a moment the Civics-100 version Mesa, Calif. of Tuesday's contest as a great collective roll of the Television doesn't capture Clinton's surprising dice that will shape our children'sfutures. Yes, of powers as a stump orator. It wasn't what he said, a course it will, but so will thousands of otherdecisions familiar litany crafted in routine oratorical terms, but fit* EYotUTIOrt if* c. C. STVEENT <%$&&SF ^ we make—or have made for us by forces distant or the skill with which he channeled the energy of unperceived—to which we attach no sense of drama. 20,000 people (an additional 10,000 listened from the 8PW^V'' —£v^jjWfW$g Consider Tuesday instead as the denouement parking lots). He is born to the tradition of Southern • "r * Baptist fervor, and it shows. p GOD IS ACC0R.Dlh(G T* of a giant national act of performance art, in which CERTAIN BIBLICAL we, like the chorus in ancient Greek drama, serve as George Bush's lackluster oratory, by contrast, X LOVE r*$SA6ES both spectators and players. actually improves on television, to judge by the one i Presidential elections transform Americans occasion I saw the president speak in person. His who normally pay no more attention to politics than to disconnectedness, his inability to move a crowd hog futures into political junkies, sage dispensers of emotionally from Point A to Point B, doesnt matter in office water-cooler wisdom. sound-bite snippets or commercials. JL © In a similar way, in medieval times, passion But television does more than level the plays were the original community theater, as much oratorical playing fields. In reshaping the way we about communal connection and exhilarating participate in national elections, it has actually entertainment as about religious piety. brought us closer to classic dramatic forms. XAX-^X • .-• •.•.-•-,.,-••••••••-••• •••• • -- I lUe Newest Book from Award- Winning Author and Valparaiso University Writer in-Residence, Walter Wangerin, Jr. Please join us in welcoming Mr. Wangerin, who will read fromMournin g into Dancing and will be available to autograph copies of it. Date: Sunday, November 8,1992 Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. Place: The Book Bag 2600 Roosevelt Road Valparaiso, Indiana For more information, call... SATNov 7 Union Great Hall L-( 219*464* 1111 )-* Admission Is FREE 10pm r : i WXXXX;;.XXX: MX:X XXX XXXX Xy:,:XXXXXX. ;XXXXXX.XXX, XXX:-.XXX X "llltll ji/* review Election day films show flickers darker side of politics community cultural arts update BY DAVE KEHR CHICAGO TRIBUNE Dr. Nicholas Toth, a professor at the University of The pundits always trot out Frank Capra in election years, as if his political Indiana-Bloomington will give a lecture on Tuesday, fables of the SOs and '40s- "American Madness," "Mr. Smith Goesto Washington, " Students across campus are invited to submit artwork November 10 at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Union. "Meet John Doe," "State of the Union" -contained the eternal truths of American for possible display in the "Call For Entries for a Juried VU Entitled the "Dawn of Technology," the lecture will take an democracy. Student Art Exhibit," sponsored by the Department of Art, the anthropological look at early human beings and implements In Capra's films, one does indeed find the definitive image of the decent, simple Museum of Art, and the FRIENDS of Art—VUMA. Entries and feature a simulated creation of flint Toth is a professor man of the people -as incarnated by lanky James Stewart or taciturn Gary Cooper- must be original and completed in 1992, fit through a 6' high of archeology at the University of Indiana-Bloomington and standing up on behalf of the little guy. by 3' wide door, and must be moveable by no more than two has worked in Africa, China, and South America. His But one also discovers a world dominated by ruthless businessmen-Claude people. The work must be delivered readyto present , and appearance is sponsored by the Valpo Society of the Rains, Lionel Barrymore, Angela Lansbury (perhaps the scariest of them all, in "State 2-D work must be mounted or matted to standard sizes. Archeological Institute of America and the VU Culktural Arts of the Union")-who find it almost childishly simpleto manipulat e the voting public. In Selected pieces will be on display from Dec. 2-11 in the Committee. film after film, Capra's sturdy Americans are shown voting in bleating herds for Mueller Hall Commons/Gallery. Additional prizes may also whatever transparent demagogue the business interests have created. be awarded. All entries are due Friday, Nov. 20, between If the commonwealth is finally saved, it isn't because the nation's "feisty little 9:00 and 5:00 in the Mueller Hall Commons, and will be il^kola Riabchuk, poet in residence at the University of guys," in their collective, democratic wisdom, have suddenly been able to see through judged the next day at 1:00 p.m. There may be upto thre e Michigan, will be giving a talk sometime next week. Entitled the deception being practiced upon them, but because the demagogue himself submissions per student, and all VU students are invited to "Ukrainian Independance and the Problem of Cultural collapses, confessing his fraudulence before the nation. The obligatory sequence of participate. Decolonization: A Case Study," his discussion will tackle the painful public abasement is the most striking constant of Capra's work, recurring with issue of the recent Ukrainian liberation. Riabchuk is the obsessive, masochistic force in most of his late films (Cooper in "Meet John Doe"). author of two collections of poetry, a widely respected book Capra did have a close contemporary, however, whose social vision was just as This year's annual Christ College Freshman Production, of literary criticism, and is a frequent collumnist for a leading sweeping, but far more nuanced, mature and complex. Inside Out," will be held in the Christ College Refectory at 4:30 and British journals as well as several papers in Poland. In His name was John Ford, and among the hundred-odd films he made in his 8:00 p.m. on Nov. 13 and 14. Tickets will be sold from 2:30to 5:0 0 addiition to this, Riabchuk has also been an active participant lifetime (1895-1973) were some of the most profound portraits of America ever p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9 in the box office (room 107) of Mueller Hall. in the recent RUKH democratic independence movement in captured in any medium: "Stagecoach," The Grapes of Wrath," "My Darling the Ukraine. More details will be released later. Clementine," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," The Searchers." Contained in Ford's filmography are three movies that are explicitly concerned with American politics and politicians: "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), The Last The Valparaiso University Symphony Orchestra will Hurrah'"(1958) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). present a concert, under the direction of Dennis The Valparaiso University Jazz Lab Band, directed by Friesen-Carper, on Sunday, Nov. 8. The concert will begin at But almost all of Ford's work is concerned with leadership in some way, for it is Jeffrey Brown, will perform in a concert on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 in the figure of the leader that the central conflict of Ford's America-that between 4 p.m. in the Chapel of the Resurrection. Admission is $6 for p.m. in Neils Science Center. Nationally recognized author Walter individualism and collective values-comes to a head. the public and $3 for senior citizens and students. Wangerin will be featured in the program, giving a reading of his Ford was born to Irish immigrant parents in a small town in Maine, and his own The program will feature the "Overtureto th e Barber of internationally recognized short story Ragman. political history seemsto follo w the typical pattern of the "self-made man," from leftist Seville, "by Rossini, the "Symphony No. 40 in g minor," by The program also will feature students from Modem sympathies in his youth (The Grapes of Wrath"), through the disillusionment of middle Mozart, "Gathering Together," by contemporary composer Dance I, who will perform with the Jazz Lab Band in Les age (his whole period of post-war pessimism, beginning with the deeply melancholic Roger Briggs, and the "Emperor's Waltz,"" by Johann Hooper's arrangement of Hexagon Mat Dance. Directed by They Were Expendable^ to a kind of misanthropic conservatism in his old age Strauss, Jr. Julia Mayer-McCarthy, the dance incorporates and ("Donovan's Reef," "Seven Women"). Friesen-Carper, conductor, received a B.A. from Bethel celebrates the limitations of this nonconventional But at every stage in his career, Ford's work is filled with a sense of questioning College and a Master of Conducting degree from the performance space. The traditional separation between and deliberate contradiction that defeats simple ideological labeling. Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He is currently audience and performer is challenged as the dancers race It has been claimed, for example, that producer Darryl F. Zanuck commissioned serving as music director of Indiana Opera North. athletically and with a sense of humor through this dynamic "Young Mr. Lincoln" in 1939 as a Republican rallying point for the presidential elections obstacle course.Admission to the event is free. of 1940. But aside from a few protectionist principles rattled off with almost comic ffcbert Siegel, well-known poet, novelist and translator disdain, Ford's Lincoln, as portrayed by Henry Fonda, has no propaganda to peddle or will give a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 in Huegli slogansto shout . The Valparaiso University Concert Choir will Hall. His appearance is in conjunction with WORDFEST, present a special performance of Handel's "Messiah," on He is, instead, an almost frightening figure, withdrawn and moody, consistently sponsored by the Department of English. photographed in an eerie half-light that leaves him isolated between brightness and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m. in the Chapel of the Resurrec Siegel has authored two books of poetry, five books of shadow, life and death. Ford and his scenarist, Lamar Trotti, don't shrink from tion. Performing with ihe Choir will be alumni guest soloists fiction, and several translations and foreign editions. He has portraying Lincoln as a crafty politician, whose deployment of folksy humor and and a chamber orchestra. The performance is directed by recieved the "Prarie Schooner" poetry prize, the Chicago homespun philosophy should be familiar to followers of Ross Perot. Eldon Balko, conductor of the Chapel Choir and Choral Poetry Prize, the Margaret Oloughlin Foley Award, an Something of Lincoln remained attached to Ford's use of Henry Fonda, which Society and director of VU's choral activities. Admission is honorable mentions and merit awards in the "Atlantic continues through several subsequent films, most notably "My Darling Clementine" $6 for the general public and $3 for students and senior Monthly's" College Poetry Contest Siegel has also been (1946), with Fonda as a sly and charming Wyatt Earp, and "Fort Apache" (1948), citizens. nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has won the Golden Fonda's final completed film with Ford, in which he plays a calvary officer whose rigid This will be the first of two major on-campus Archer award and Matson Award for his novel "Whalesong." discipline and lust for glory end by bring down disaster on his men. By this presentations by the Concert Choir this year. It also will He received his B.A. from Wheaton College, his M.A. from point, Ford's sympathies had shifted to Fonda's co-star in "Fort Apache," John Wayne, perform J.S. Bach's "St John's Passion" on Palm Sunday, John Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. from Harvad whose softer, slower manner suggestedto For d a different kind of heroism, self- April 4,1993. University. Currently, he is coordinator of the creative writing deprecating and even self-negating. program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee By the time of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), Ford seems to have become skeptical of any possibility of public heroism, as if the political process had become inherently corrupting, and heroism such an intensely personal, private act thatto celebrat e it would beto destro y it In "Liberty Valance," James Stewart plays Ransom Stoddard, a politician who owes his election as governor, then as U.S. senator,to hi s reputation for having killed the notorious outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) in a showdown, but the actual killer of Valance is Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), whose heroism costs him his fiancee (Vera IJnralnway'sU Miles), who marries Stoddard, and his name, as he retiresto hi s ranch a forgotten man. 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He said that he has been writing since elementary "In this intimate extended dialogue with my readers, I "Mourning Into Dancing" is just the latest of Wan- school, but became truly serious about writing when a high wanted to dramatize a normal—even necessary and heal gerin's profuse writings. He has written over 20 books in less school creative writing teacher said, "Wangerin can write the ing—human experience: our native ability to grieve, and by than 20 years, and that is excluding his many children's eyes out of a turkey at 50 paces." grieving to return to life again. Dramatically, by the use of books. While he usually writes a book and a half per year, Wangerin said that all of his books "begin in [his] personal narratives, I wanted to reveal the goodness of grief. "Mourning Into Dancing" took four or five years to write. enthusiasm" but that the writing itself becomes a new experi But to speak wisely of grief, I had to identify what death is. "Grief deals with any kind of separation," Wangerin ence. He said that his ideas for books come from personal And to speak clearly of death, I had to identify what life is, said. He believes that changes, particularly in relationships, experiences that he sees as being universally recognizable. ; and what God both intended and intends again for us." can cause sorrow and grief. , Wangerin was first approached about being the Emil This is what Walter Wangerin, Jr. said of his new book ^Life is always experienced in relationship, never in and Elfriede Jochum Chair about two years ago. It came at a "Mourning Into Dancing." The title comes from a passage solitude—in relationship to the entire natural world, in rela good time, as the Wangerins' youngest child was soon to from the Psalms, "Thou has turned for me my mourning into tionship to myself, and also in relationship to God," Wan leave for college, which would allow Wangerin and his wife dancing." The book was published three weeks ago by Zon- gerin said. "Mourning Into Dancing" gives a positive mes Thanne more freedom to move. The position he was dervan/ HarperCollins Publishing House. sage in which Wangerin says that "grief itself is not a bad approached for was an undefined chair with the purpose of Wangerin is the Emil and Elfriede Jochum University thing, it feels bad but it is not a bad thing." communicating the Gospel to the entire University commu Professor at Valparaiso. This makes him a writer-in-residence Some of the other books which Wangerin has pub nity. Wangerin helped define the new position as a writer-in- at Valparaiso, as well as a professor in both the English and lished include "The Book of the Dun Cow," which received residence. He said that he has enjoyed the teaching aspect of the American Book Award and was named The New York the position even more than he had expected he would. Your Hair ADMINISTRATION is worth Two new members named to University the Board of Directors at recent meeting attended VU. experience Fites is president and chief executive officer of The Valparaiso University Board of Directors Caterpillar, Inc. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineer at elected two new members at last weekend's on-campus ing from VU in 1956 and joined Caterpillar as a col meeting. They are Carl A. Brauer, Jr. of Ann Arbor, lege graduate trainee the same year. He received a mas Mich., and Donald Fites, of Peoria, HI. ter's degree in management from the Massachusetts Mane Elegance Brauer is owner and general partner in the Carl Institute of Technology in 1971, and is a former Sloan A. Brauer, Jr., Family Limited Partnership, a commer Fellow. In 1983, the VU Alumni Association presented cial development firm. He also serves as president of him with its Distinguished Alumni Award. the Brauer Foundation, which he established in 1977. He served in a number of capacities for Caterpil Brauer received his B.E.E. degree from the Uni lar, some of them overseas, before being named to his Receive JL5 /o off versity of Michigan in 1945. He operated the Brauer present position in 1990. Development Company and Brauer Investment Com Fites is also chairman of the National Foreign any Hair Service with pany until their dissolution in 1988 and 1989 respec Trade Council, and serves as a director of Mobil Cor tively. He formed his current partnership in 1990. poration and Georgia-Pacific Corporation. Several of his children and grandchildren have SPEAKER V.U. Student I.D. Card With selected stylists VU Law School hosts dean from Slovenia 68 W. Lincolnway • Valparaiso, IN 46383 •464-9109 BY STANLEY WRUBLE III 21 years, but this is the first time interaction between students and she has studied the system of legal professors. Torch Staff Writer Walk Ins Always Welcome education in the United States. "I think it is great that law The VU School of Law "The whole social and legal system professors at Valparaiso make them recently hosted Dr. Polona Kon- in Slovenia is changing," she said, selves so available to students out char, vice dean at the University of "and I want to be able to take back side of the classroom," said I2th ANNUAL CELEBRATION! Ljubljana Faculty of Law in Slove with me a thorough understanding Knochar. AVOID THE JANUARY RUSH nia. Slovenia is located in the of the merits of the U.S. system of Another interesting aspect of MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW! fromer Soviet Bloc country Yugos- legal education." the Slovenian legal system and soci Legal education in Slovenia is ety in general concerns their view BAHIA MAR HOTEL & CONOOS alvia, and rests on the border with • PADRE SOUTH CONOOS • Austria. Dr. Konchar's visit was in completely different than the sys of attorneys. SHERATON HOTEL & CONOOS tem found at a typical American According to Knochar, GULFVIEW CONOOsS« conjunction with the Central and • LANDFALL TOWER CONDO Law School. The legal curriculum "Attorneys are not degraded in YDOS- East European Law Initiative • HOLIDAY INN in Slovenia is taught as a four-year Slovenia as they are in the United - 5 and 7 nights - (CEELI) Program. undergraduate course. Students The CEELI program was States, and they are seen as helpful VOYAGER • DESERT INN begin preparing for a career in law public servants." •THE TEXAN-THE REEF' developed by the American Bar immediately after high school, • RAMADA INN Association to help foster law The legal system in Slovenia - 5 and 7 nights - whereas in the U.S., aspiring attor reform currently taking place in is a system of civil law, while the neys must achieve a bachelor's Central and Eastern Europe in the United States has a system of com • TOURWAY INN degree before completing the three post-Cold War world. mon law. The system of law in the •THE REEF year post-graduate legal program. 'S and 7 nights - Konchar started her Ameri United States relies heavily on Students in Slovenia also take as can visit by spending a week in our precedents and judicial interpreta many as 24 credit hours per nation's capitol and viewing various tion, while in Slovenia the sole basis semester. In Slovenia, exams are for law is the new constitution and SKI STEAMBOAT COLORADO! aspects of American government. • OVERLOOK LODGE • given once a year, and a studen may While in Washington, D.C, she statutes passed by the legislature. SHADOW RUN CONOOS- not advance on to the next level of Knochar said that the fact that - 2, 5 and 7 nights visited the U.S. Supreme Court, studey until he or she has mastered the U.S. Senate, the State Depart Slovenia's constitution has just the required material, although stu W ment and the Department of Com been created makes for an exciting dents usually have unlimited PORT ROYAL OCEAN merce. Knochar also visited the law period, of change in the Slovenian RESORT CONDOS opportunities to re-take the test. legal system. -5 and 7 nights - schools at Northern Illinois Uni Overall, Knochar seemed versity and the University of Akron Knochar said that she is "very excit impressed with the American sys fm before concluding her trip at VU. ed about the future and happy tem of legal education. She was about Slovenia being a sovereign HILTON HEAD ISLAND Konchar has been involved in RESORT CONDOS• particularly impressed with the nation for the first time in history." -5 and 7 nights • legal education in Slovenia for over VU Poesn'tthte look like fun? LAUDERDALE BEACH HOTEL -5 and 7 nights YOU, tootcan write for the 4Mb Torch, VU's student news ALL PRICING FOR ENTIRE STAY-NOT PER NIGHT paper. Positions In sports DON'T DELAY and news writing are CENTRAL SPRING BREAK ££J£ INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS 1-800-321-5911 always available. 7AM-7PM M-Tti, 7AM-5PM, 9AM-5PM Sal., Mountain Time FRI and SAT Nov. 6 & 7, UB BIJOU JRX ^_^ mmm _^ ^ /0Rk Call 5426 '•»'" WS4 Admission Is $2, 7 and 9:30pm 24 HOUR FAX RESERVATIONS (303] 225-1514 ^T*Sf$ ford eta ils "Depending o November 6, 1992 H^rdTimes 3VK0 AUDITIONS FOR VOCAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLES Auditions for Vocal Chamber Ensembles will be held on Monday, Nov. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 19 of the Arts and Music building. Group call backs will be scheduled for the following Monday, Nov. 16. Each ensemble will have a jazz, music theatre, or classical emphasis. The groups will begin rehearsing next semester for approximately an hour and a half each week. These ensembles, sponsored by the Music Department, will perform both on and off campus. Students selected for the ensembles will receive .5 academic credit for the semester. Additional information can be obtained from Marcia Lewis, Associate Professor of Music. LECTURE ON GROWTH HORMONES: 'BETTER THAN STEROIDS' Dr. Bill Wehrenberg will be speaking at VU about his research on human growth hormones and their development through exercise. Wehrenberg, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a world-reknowned researcher on the topic of human growth hormones. His lecture will present them as an alternative to the dangerous use of steroids preva lent in today's athletic community. Wehrenberg graduated from VU in 1973, and was recently appointed to the VU's Board of Directors. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Athletics, will be held at 7:30 pjn. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the ARC classroom. All VU students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. LECTURE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Janet French, Executive Director of The Caring Place, will speak on the topic of "Violence Against Women: A Civil Rights Issue," on Monday, Nov. 9. The lecture, sponsored by the Porter County chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), will be held at 7 pjn. in the Union West Hall. All interested members of the VU community are invited to Valpo People attend. Focus on Liberty Walker HISTORICAL HIKE OFFERED AT THE DUNES BY SHANNAN SCHMITT "artsy kinds of things," she said. Walker especially enjoys On Sunday, Nov. 8, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore will sponsor a hike through 150 years of human Torch Staff Writer printmaking. She once had a print life in Northwest Indiana. The two-hour hike will follow a trail between Bailly Homestead and Chellberg Farm, and will highlight the lives of Native Americans, fur traders, voyageurs and farmers who lived in the area during Liberty Walker, known to displayed in the Smithsonian Insti the 1800s. The hike will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Bailly/Chellberg parking lot, and will end at the Chellberg some as Liberty Bell, is not the tra tute. Walker won the regional and Farm, where participants can help feed Adrienne the pig, Misty the goat and Lottie the draft horse. ditional student. The 46-year-old state award for a print of a longhorn steer reproduced on a The program will be repeated at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14. English/ Art major is also a moth black piece of paper. The print was The Bailly/Chellberg parking lot and visitor center arc located on Mineral Springs Road, one block north er, grandmother, former teacher among the 25 most-liked during its ofU.S.20. and Huegli Hall's "Housekeeper of the Month" forOctober . month-long stay at the Institute. "I guess I'm the most non- Walker has also been an art FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER TO LECTURE ON traditional student here," Walker instructor. She taught art at Meis- said. ter Elementary for four years, at "THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE" Walker, who is widowed, the request of her daughter. Art lives in Miller, Indiana with her instruction was being cut fromth e Richard Dale Kauzlarich, deputy assistant secretary forth e Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, will mother and an exchange student budget, so when Walker's daughter visit campus on Monday, Nov. 16. He will deliver a public lecture on "The United States and Europe," that from Denmark. Walker said that came home from school one day evening in the Union at 7 pjn. she has had 21 exchange students and asked her mother to help, Kauzlarich, named to his current position in 1991, also holds the rank of Minister-Counselor in the Senior within the past three years. She Walker did so without a teaching Foreign Services. He graduated from VU in 1956. - enjoys having overseas visitors, certificate. although she admits that the lan As she thought back, Walker CCPC guage barrier can be a problem. said it was the strangest feeling to "I just talk louder," she said. walk into a Theology class on the Walker decided to enroll in first day and see a man who had Recycling and traffic on campus discussed college at the suggestion of her been an art student of hers when daughter. She applied on the last he was in the fifth or sixth grade. at committee's October meeting possible day and has never regret Walker has also been named ted it. "Parent of the Year" twice, and has been a cheerleader sponsor and a BY JEFF SARGENT "I like to study, and when I came back to school it was like I girl scout leader. Torch Staff Writer had found my home," she said. Walker was born Liberty Bell Walker is enrolled along with in Seattle, Washington, on March The Campus Community Policy Committee (CCPC) discussed recycling, among other campus issues, at its 3, 1946. She said that she got her October meeting. her son Buddy Kanizar, an Engi neering major, and her daughter unique name because her father CCPC took up the issue of coordinating a comprehensive recycling plan which is to be implemented in made a bet that if Walker was not 1993-94. CCPC is also investigating whether VU is mandated to purchase recyclable materials. The University's Jenny Kanizar, an Interior Design major who is studying in Cam born a boy, he would name his Environmental Coordinator will be invited to the next meeting to help CCPC coordinate with the administration daughter after his sister, whose on recycling issues. bridge this semester. They have been in the same English class name was also Liberty Bell. A letter was sent by VU President Alan Harre to the CCPC on the subject of the recently passed Clean Air Walker wouldn't change her Act. The letter was referred to the Traffic and Safety Regulations Committee to look forway s to reduce automo together, Walker said. Since her enrollment at VU, name. She said that she has actual bile use on campus. ly had some fun with it. When she Several Committees also gave reports at the meeting. Christine Teichman said that the Traffic and Safety Walker has done well. She has had a paper published in the freshman was ten years old, she flew to New Regulations Subcommittee is looking to increase its faculty and student membership. Anyone interested can con York to appear on a TV game show tact Teichman for more information. reader. "The assignment was to called "The Name's the Same." Professor Morrison reported that the Greek Grievance Subcommittee is still getting organized, and that a Participants on the show would ask faculty member is currently needed to serve on the committee. imagine yourself as a 30-year-old and write about your experiences in questions about someone's name The Inclusive Language Subcommittee gave no report, due to the lack of attendance of members. and try to guess what it was. And The next meeting of the CCPC, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 11, will be held in 116 Mueller Hall at life at that time. I guess I had an unfair advantage," Walker admits. if you happen to be down near 3:30 p.m. Items scheduled for discussion include VU's environmental policy and updates from the Greek Baldwin Hall, you will see Walker's When Walker isn't in class or Grievance Committee and the Traffic Safety and Regulations Committee. name showcased on the sidewalk: studying, she is working. She has "Liberty was here," with a big bell worked at VU for four years. For around it. three years she worked in food ser vice, and she made the move to Walker is not sure what the housekeeping back in March. future holds, but she plans to grad The Torch is Knowledge. Most of Walker's free time is uate a year from May, along with spent with her granddaughter, but her son and daughter. After that, when she does have a spare she thinks she might like to write ICrao^vvleclge is F^cxwer-. moment she's studying or doing children's books and stories. Look fir Valpo People, featuring VU faculty and staff You should be feeling better already each week in the Torch. This feature will spotlight a different member of the VU community each week. THE TORCH November 6, 1992 THE WHITE HOUSE Poor economy wasn't the only reason Bush lost; issue of trust, poor campaign tactics also factors BY MICHAEL KRANISH from the perception that he was out of became unglued with Patrick Buchanan's pri Bush came into power with a strong Boston Globe touch. mary challenge. At the same time, Bush and emphasis on foreign policy and an assump Moreover, Bush himself was not his party turned off many moderates with the tion that the economy would keep growing WASHINGTON-The seeds of Presi ready to say he was running for re-election. convention focus on the religious right and as it did during the Reagan years, promising dent Bush's defeat were visible in the Oval He had seriously considered not running social issues. 30 million new jobs in eight years. Instead, Office on an autumn day last year. again, associates said. The problems he faced And, finally, Bush vastly underestimat depending on which analysis is used, zero to Bush sat comfortably in his wing chair in a second term were so different than what ed Bill Clinton, believing the Arkansas gover perhaps two million jobs were created during as a reporter asked whether he realized that he dealt with in 1988. He was, as a friend nor would be plucked apart on the draft and Bush's term, and the nation plunged into the nation seemed hungry for change. The had put it, afraid to come in from the Cold fidelity issues that the president felt defined recession. president seemed unmoved. No, he would War, but the Cold War was over. Clinton's lack of character, presidential aides At the same time, Bush was burdened not call Congress into session to pass a new He hated campaigns, and now a new, said. Bush feared only one Democrat, New with the 1980s legacy of the savings and loan economic program. Bush said he would "just nasty campaign was York Gov. Mario crisis, the budget deficit and exploding health stay the course." about to begin, filled The Irony for Push Is that he Cuomo, who decided care costs. Despite the Reagan tax cuts, the The nation, of course, decided it did with the inevitable not to run. When Bush average tax burden of most Americans had attacks on his family. got little mileage out of his not want to stay the course. Bush eventually most significant accomplish finally focused on Clin actually gone up, and for many the standard tried to adopt the message of change, but it Barbara Bush did not ton, he was blindsided of living had gone down. crave another term as ments. He deserved credit for by independent Ross The irony for Bush is that he got little was too late. The president who once had a the Clean Air Act, the Americans public approval rating of 88 percent, who first lady. The president Perot—another sup mileage out of his most significant accom was in office during the fall of communism, himself "didn't seem to with Disabilities Act and several posed friend who, like plishments. He deserved credit for the Clean had been ousted. have his heart in it," other pieces of legislation." Buchanan, turned out Air Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act How could it have happened? according to a Bush to have no loyalty to and several other pieces of legislation. But associate who discussed the prospect of the Behind the scenes on that day in Bush. those bills were unpopular with many busi campaign with the president. November 1991 when Bush sounded so Still, for all these problems, many felt ness groups and conservatives, who became serene, a battle was underway for the soul of There are at least six major reasons Bush had a shot to win the race. Although disenchanted with the president, and Bush the presidency and the status of the re-elec Bush lost. A glib observer could say that all Bush has been criticized for having few undermined his achievements by trying to tion bid. Vice President Dan Quayle wanted six reasons were the economy. Millions of strong convictions, that is not really accurate. gut some key Clean Air regulations and by Bush to put forward a new growth package; Americans were concerned about their eco In fact, it was Bush's conviction mat govern failing to fulfill campaign promises such as Bush refused. The presidential pollster and nomic security, and they wanted government ment should play a limited role even during backing a family leave bill. future campaign chairman, Robert Teeter, to do something about it. the recession that led to his downfall. There is widespread agreement about wanted Bush to get rid of the chief of staff, But the other major reasons were also Bush broke his no-tax pledge the key turning point that foreshadowed John H. Sununu, and get the campaign significant. Bush lost the tax and trust issue because he, like Perot, was concerned about Bush's downfall. In November 1990, just as underway; Bush put him off. when he broke his "Read My Lips" promise; the deficit. But Bush could not gain any the recession-ravaged nation was looking for And the public was clamoring for the Cold War issue when communism col political mileage out of his historic budget leadership on domestic issues, Sununu, who change, for a leader who understood their lapsed; and the support of many women accord because it violated his "Read My was chief of staff, said Bush had completed insecurity about the future. Bush had refused when his party took a rigid stand against Lips" pledge. Thus, Bush lost two key his agenda, telling conservatives, "There's for months to acknowledge there was a reces abortion and alienated working women with Republican issues—taxes and the deficit—in not another single piece of legislation that sion, and then later said that a recession had the attack on Hillary Clinton. one act. When he later apologized for break needs to be passed in the next two years for occurred but it was over. He never recovered Bush never had a solid conservative ing his pledge, many voters were not sure this president." base, and his hold on that constituency what Bush stood for. servative Republican theories that have breath. Bush would often proclaim the CLINTON FROM PAGE 1 dominated the executive branch since problems simply didn't exist, they were fic THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1980. tions created by devious Democrats deter invective as the campaign came to a close Not only did Clinton break the mined to paint their negative picture of Perot lauds backers, urges them and Bush's plight became more apparent. Republican stranglehold on the South, but America the Beautiful. & Clinton would not even have been he also undermined the other key part of Clinton, always a little froggy with on anyone's list of long shots as recently as the Republican electoral base, the South his allergic nose and scratchy throat, fairly to unite behind new leader 1988, although he had built up an impres west. His appeal played well with the white croaked to victory. sive record over a decade governing a state male Democrats who had abandoned their Perot was the most radical of the BY DAVID JACKSON that had a bad reputation when he entered party to vote for Reagan twice and for three, blustering about the need for a half- Dallas Morning News office and big social problems, particularly Bush four years ago. dollar-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax in its school system. In that sense, the election results to buy down the deficit, promising to DALLAS—Ross Perot, whose multimillion- There were personal problems, too. signaled the beginning of another cycle in name commissions to attack the most diffi dollar presidential bid rocked the political establish Only 11 months ago, Clinton was U.S. politics and history—one that will cult challenges of the age and labeling ment, praised his supporters Tuesday for sending a being described as too controversial to carry the nation into the 21st century. "fruit-loopy" anything that didn't sit quite "laserlike" warning to Washington about public debt take the nomination because of allegations Clinton has already promised to right with him. and political corruption. of marital infidelity. Then, in New Hamp move quickly after his inauguration in Jan He found an effective but expensive "We need to all work together and work with shire, he was forced to fight charges that uary on a menu of Democratic social poli way around ABC-TV's Sam Donaldson the new administration and give it a world-class best he had been a draft dodger during the cy goals, among them some form of and just about everyone else on television. effort to get these problems solved now," Perot told Vietnam era. national health care, one of the dominant He became almost a regular on the "Larry thousands of supporters at the Grand Kempinski But from the New Hampshire cam issues in the campaign. King Live" show on Cable News Network. hotel. paign through Election Day, Clinton But he will also be looked to for Then he bought up half-hours of network Perot—hearing supporters' chants of "'96, struggled to keep the focus on the theme solutions to the vexing problems that TV time to brandish his charts and his •96"—left the door open for another campaign four he believed would carry him to the White damaged, and ultimately ruined, the Bush rhetoric. years from now if the two parties fail to reduce the House—that Bush and Reagan had set in presidency: continuing unemployent, poor Bush seemed to be running on $4 trillion debt or respond to international economic motion economic policies that threatened economic performance and structural hyperbole and pure adrenaline in the final competition. disaster, then stuck the middle class with changes that have put America at a disad hours and couldn't seem to find enough "We always got the safety valve, right?" Perot the tax bill. vantage in the world marketplace. bad things to say about Clinton and Gore. said. "You can bring that old stray dog out from the One measure of the power of the The economy was what this election Gore was "Ozone Man." The Democrats dog pound again." economy as an issue: Clinton carried the was all about, despite the distractions that were "bozos." Still, Perot saluted President Bush with three heavily Republican and always conservative popped up along the way—Clinton's But it didn't work. cheers and urged his supporters to give President state of New Hampshire, where the reces sometimes changing explanations of his Even as the Bush campaign turned elect Bill Clinton a chance. sion had pushed up unemployment num own record, Bush's tendency to fire away up the heat under its rhetoric, the presi "Our organization pledges to help and support bers, shattered dreams and, as the cam on a whole host of issues, and Perot's pen dent's negative ratings climbed, and the any programs that are good for this country, fair paign landed to do battle, left storefronts chant for finding simple solutions to prob polls began to show Clinton pulling away, enough?" Perot said. vacant and downtowns depressed. lems as complex as the Gordian knot. at just the right instant, 48 hours before Perot's concession speech ended a unique cam The size of Clinton's electoral vote With the droning reliability of a the polls opened. paign in U.S. history, one that began on a television victory undoubtedly will be interpreted as good adding machine, Clinton would tick talk show and made the Dallas billionaire a presiden a call for a sharp turn away from the con off five-pointsolutions , barely stopping for tial front-runner in the spring and early summer. Do You Want VISA & MasterCard Credit Cards? STUDENT SERVICES,B0X 17924.PLANTATION,FL 55518 Now you can have two of the most recognized and J[ Ew^I IwantVISA®/MASTERCARD®CredIt accepted credit cards In the world-Visa® and MasterCard® credit cards..."in your name." EVEN IF YOU ARE NEW IN Cards. Enclosed find $ 5 which Is 100% refundable If not CREDIT or HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN BEFORE! approved Immediately. 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A pasenger side starring Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter. This show will begin at window was smashed out. The value of the win 7:30 pjn. in Neils Science Center. Admission is $1. An officer observed two intoxicated male students dow is not known at this time. On Saturday, Nov. 7, Union Board will sponsor the Union Late along Union Street. Both were underage. No Nighter. The evening's events will begin at 8 pjn. with a talent show criminal charges were filed, but a report will be for Oct.31; 8:10a.m. featuring singing, juggling, poetry, music and more. All performers warded to the Dean of Men. are VU students. The final act will be professional stand-up comedy by Steve Feazel, beginning at approximately 9:15 p.m. Following the Several vehicles were vandalized while parked in U Oct. 27; 5:50a.m. Lot #8. Two vehicles had radar detectors stolen comedian, Union Board will show "The Silence of the Lambs" and A from them. The combined value of the detectors League of Their Own." The first movie will begin at approximately 10 A Scheele/Lankenau employee reported that she is approximately $140. pjn. and the second at midnight in the Union Great Hall. had observed a suspicious male at Scheele Hall. Leads are being investigated. Oct. 31; 11:54p.m. Oct. 28; 4:35 p.m. An officer observed a vehicle driving in an unsafe | union board A Brandt Hall resident reported that his Calculus manner on Linwood Avenue. The driver was book had ben stolen from Gellersen Hall. There stopped and it was determined that he had been are no leads at this time. drinking alcohol; however, his Blood Alcohol Con A bus trip is going to Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 14. Tickets go tent was under the .10 legal limit. No criminal on sale at the Union Information Desk on Monday, Nov. 9. Tickets Oct. 30; 12:54 aan. charges were filed. cost $5, and transportation will leave from the Union Turnaround at 9 a.m. The next CLYDE'S will be on Saturday, Nov. 14. CLYDE'S will VUPD officers assisted city police in raiding a party Nov.l; 2:18 a.m. begin at 8 p.m. in the Union Great Hall. "The Fly Trap" will be the at 355 Locust Street at which there was underage evening's entertainment—try your luck at the thirteen-foot tall Velcro drinking. Several subjects were arrested for Minor A driver was observed committing traffic viola wall, if you dare. Dancing will last from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Consumption of Alcohol and transported to the tions. It was determined that the driver had been Union Board will be sponsoring a Coffeehouse on Friday, Nov. county jail. drinking, but he was under the .10 BAC. He was 13. The featured artist for the evening is Cormac McCarthy, a well- released and no criminal charges were filed. respected singer/songwriter and performer. Coffeehouse will begin at Oct. 30; 10:03 p.m. 9:30 p.m. in the Union Great Hall. Open mike time is available after Nov.l 4:30 p.m. McCarthy. A Brandt Hall resident reported vandalism to her window. Damage was caused by a pellet gun. No An officer went to 652 Garfield in reference to a estimate of damages is available at this time. broken window. While there, the officer observed several fire code violations. The violations were He Ktsse* me My tf£ART HtS €*I6*ACC Oct. 31; 1:49 a.m. taken care of immediately. 5f NT THB BLool LWJ> j nun*. fftS TOUCH. CouftSMC. THRV Officers responded to a fight at 705 Mound Street. Nov. 1; 11:30 pan. A*Y V£I*VS. Minor injuries were sustained by participants and suspects were determined. Criminal charges of A candy machine at Huelgi Hall was vandalized. battery are pending. Several items in the machine were taken. Estimate of damages not known at this time. Oct.31; 2:00 a.m. Nov. 2; 12:24 a.m. An officer observed a Dau resident walking and J WAS oveftcomE /Vow J'AI /*€*- Am*, ALL - 0i WOMAN SHOVL} staggering in Lot #18. It was determined that the A Wehrenberg resident suffered a laceration to his WITH PASSION f /MNT ANh X J couufeNT KCFU2C HM* COA/TROL subject was intoxicated and under the legal drink leg while in his dorm room. Paramedics were WAftr AM AAflRTftxtf OV€R MCR BOty. ing age. No criminal charges were filed, but he called and the victim was treated at the scene. was transported to his dorm and released to an RA. Nov. 3; 11:40p.m. Oct.31; 6:10 a.m. A Guild resident reported that she had $30 stolen An officer discovered vandalism done to a vehicle from her purse. There are no leads at this time. LUTHERANS f>. LIFE: ^f&SUOFTHt:^ # %, ^ ^«A*vvMe/i, III Win $5 McD's gift certificate if yours is the first correct answer.Turn in to Math Club Mailbox in lounge across from Math office in Gellersen. VISIT EACH CITY ONCE FOR JUNIOR NURSING STUDENTS A NURSING EXPERIENCE AT MAYO FOUNDATION HOSPITALS - ROCHESTER, MN Here is your opportunity to work at Mayo Medical Center for the summer. Summer III is a paid, supervised hospital work experience at Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital, both part of Mayo Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. You are eligible for Summer III after your junior year of a four it year baccalaureate nursing program. It includes experience on medical and surgical nursing units or in operating rooms. would be Application Deadline: December 1, 1992. a crime For more information contact: mavo Mayo Medical Center if you Nursing Recruitment P.O. Box 6057 didn't Rochester, Minnesota 55903 1-800-247-8590 read Mayo Foundation is an affirmative action and equal opportunity educator and employer. the torch A smoke-free institution. THE TORCH November 6, 1992 CAMPUS CLIPS Student Painters is interested in hir Hello Union Board and Union Staff. I miss personaly like tothan k each and everyone of ing highly motivated students to start thier all of you. Keep up the good work. Shot for To Flame, Al, and Raid- What would I do MGS IS OMNIPRESENT. you for all your help, time , dedication and own business. We offer management train 40,000 this year. Party on. James. without you guys?! Here's to a fun and relax support last week with the haunted house. It ing, credit backing, and full time support ing weekend. Just think- Al gets to meet To the oldest party girl on campus: All I can was terrific and three cheers to youll You staff, earning potential of $8,000 plus. 1- God forbid, Dawn, you're acting SILLY! Hugene-well maybe notl With Delta love- do is laugh I What a night! You're great! made it happen and you deserve the credit 800-543-3793 Ask for Tom Smith Hugene's friend Your roomie You are the greatest sisters anyone could Hey Brothers of Delta Sigma Chi- How are ask fori! Delta Chi love, Patti Need help deciding what major to choose? all of you doing? Good luck with rush and To the green candle of Delta Chi Epsilon- The Dream Team will Conquer all in The Career Resource Library! located in the pledging. Take care and see you in a year. After all of those new dance moves- have Beirut.any challengers? Flame, Turtle, and Al- Thanks for under Student Counseling & Development Center) James p.s. I want a little brother!! you ever thought about trying out for the standing my mood swings and sticking by has the resource to help you. Drop in or call American Gladiators? Love, the fish room Jailbird- Happy Birthday! You are getting to me regardless of now awful IVe been. YOu 464-5002. Kristyn K. U2 lives forever- NOTI groupies. be quite the party girl. Better be careful! And are all the best and certainly have gone have no fear-l will go to the mall with you above and beyond the call of friendship. I Blue and black zippered shoulder bag, 10 by John Burke- Wie Gehfs? Wann kommst du Clinton Supporters beware, Dont celebrate next semester. A tiny fairy only hope to return a part of all that you have 17 inch. Papers and hard to replace docu nach Deutschland? J. too much. He may have won, but can he do done for me. Lots of love- Raid ments inside. Reward $25.00 Contact: the job. When he pulls us out of this crap, 111 Why am I inferior to someone in Christ Col Alumni Affairs Office 464-5142 Kristyn, Kathy, Sara, Debbie, Kristin, celebrate with you. Very Weary. lege? Lefs spice this thing up. Ifs been quite Heather-1 miss youl lame. Little A- Happy Birthday Chickiel Sorry I "Incidentally, what are you going to do about you aren't missed it last year-1 was a little tied upl At Auditions for Vocal Chamber Ensembles will the disaster?" "What disaster?" The leakage What a way to spend a week- Only least this year I won't be screaming for mor be held on Monday, November 9 from 7-9 of a script to MGS!" (the editor, as someone who has spent her $200.00!! Spend Thanksgiving week at the phine from a hospital bed. 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Talk to me after 30 or 40 games." there clues or even rumors that he tired of the probes into his It was last Friday in Chapel He said he was looking forward During Friday's game, John Magic was finished. He talked personal life, the rumors and Hill, N.C., an exhibition game to the season. We talked about son looked and played tired, dis about wanting to work on his innuendo about players who between the Los Angeles Lakers our families. tracted and disinterested. But so timing. He said he was bored supposedly feared contracting and the Cleveland Cavaliers. "Really, I had no idea (he do many veterans at the end of with exhibition games. AIDS by being on the same court Nothing was at stake and would quit)." an exhibition schedule. "I'm ready to start playing for with him? there was no reason for anyone to Friday against the Cavs, there Furthermore, the Lakers had real," he told writers. Or is he basketball's Ross remember anything about it - was nothing Magic about John been home only four days since Three days later, he said he Perot, a guy who is here, then except that it has now become son. He shot one-of-10 and had training camp started, so even never would play again. gone, then back again, craving Magic Johnson's latest last game. eight points and four rebounds. their young players were road So, you figure it. the public spotlight that comes One year ago, Johnson first But that was not his typical weary and appeared ready for Did his health cause him to from people wondering, "Will he retired because he had HIV, the training camp performance. He about 14 hours in the sack. quit? In an Associated Press story, or won't he?" virus that causes AIDS. Then entered Friday averaging 11 During the game, Johnson Johnson's doctors said HIV waS His press release said he came the tributes, his number points and 14 assists and shoot departed with a cut on the arm. not the issue. retired for personal reasons. He was retired ... then he came back ing 44 percent. The Lakers had Rumors were spreading Monday Did Johnson - at age 33 - sense probably will give a more to become the first retired player won all four games in which he that there was a huge commotion that his skills were eroding? Did detailed explanation of his latest to take part in the Ail-Star Game. appeared. and this scratch somehow was he discover that basketball wasn't departure. Next were the Olympics - "I need to adjust to the fact related to his decision to retire. worth the effort, that this just But he may not give The One another comeback. that the guys I'm facing now are Not true. wasn't fun any more? Real Answer because he himself Then training camp and NBC- bigger and quicker (than in the "Magic scratched himself," Or did he sense his own mor may not know. All he can be sure TV was cranking up those 'The Olympics)," Johnson said Friday, Cavs trainer Gary Briggs said. tality, knowing that HIV is a of is that his life was never the Magic Is Back" commercials. adding that he believed every "He left the game quietly. (Lakers death sentence, that every day is same after the letters HIV were And everyone thought he was. thing would be just fine. trainer) Gary Vitti wrapped it up. precious and days spent on the put next to his name. NFL Count the ways to salvage the Bears from midseason woes BY BERNIE LINCICOME Memorize the playbook. Steal Go berzerk. Always play a team with a Bay in Admit the draft is not enough. the 49ers' playbook. Run amok. its name. Avoid any team that Prepare for free agency. Notice Chicago Tribune Use a desk calendar to time Scare somebody. wins more games than it loses. what Webster Slaughter and the 40-yard dash. Don't brush. Stay out of domes. Whenever Keith Jackson are doing. Bribe a Panic seems reasonable. Interest Richard Dent. Rush See what Jim Harbaugh is possible, use a calendar with 1985 left tackle. Don't even think There must be at least 100 the quarterback. Dump the nick made of and pass some of it in it. about Jim McMahon. things the Bears can do to save el. around. Change the name of Soldier Admit that Bear weather is a the football season. Forget the dime. Irritate Steve Do it while there is still enough Field to Conscientious Objector myth. Admit Bear football is a Fire the coach. Bench the McMichael. of Harbaugh left to fill an aspirin Park. myth. Admit Bear defense is a starters. Stone a Tobin. Trash a Change the Bears' colors to bottle. Introduce Tom Waddle's myth. Admit Bear intimidation is Fridge. Throw a block. coral and blush. Let Harbaugh jump up and hands to Anthony Morgan's legs. a myth. Admit Bear heart is a Change the Bear fight song to Retire Mike Singletary. Find down on Troy Auzenne's face so Block for Neal Anderson. myth. "The Way We Were." John Roper. Replace Ron Rivera. he knows what if feels like. Bench Neal Anderson. Deal Neal Praise the punter. Cross all 10 fingers. Don't cook Regret Jim Morrissey. Write off Try Michael McCaskey at cen Anderson. Ask Lemuel Stinson to explain the pregame meal. Say a little Dante Jones. ter so he understands how hard it Choose one. why he continues to cash his pay prayer. Buy a saint. Chase a rain Shave a head. Get a tatoo. Kick is to replace Jay Hilgenberg. Suspect sympathy. Reject check. Point out to Darren Lewis bow. a pet. Pick a nose. Eat some bran. Use the space between Stan praise. Use anger. Send resumes. that the football is not often used Make a tackle. Pull a guard. Show some killer instinct. Thomas' ears for something Help Trace Armstrong. Hide to make an omelette. Think. Catch a linebacker. Crunch a ball Reveal a rudimentary spine. worthwhile, like a compost pile. Chris Zorich. Teach Alonzo Spell- React. carrier. Trade a Mark Carrier. Demonstrate a bit of character. Return to basics. Return a man. Don't take what the defense Free Greg Landry. Hire Tom Establish a reasonable doubt. Dis kick. Cover a zone. Rush a passer. Challenge Tim Ryan. gives. Take what you want. Be Landry. Reconsider the game prove the obvious. Reach out. Smack someone. Show them all old Dan Hamp flexible. Audible. Adjust. plan. Lose control. Never play on Monday night. ton films. Look up Buddy Ryan's phone number. Intramurals Team Bowling Wrestling Saturday's Box Score Flo's Team Tournament Tournament Gino's Saginaw Valley State 34, Valparaiso 3 KegT.V. Second Round 126 lbs. Brian Przybylski Clips VU svs 134 lbs. Kris Olson First downs 19 16 Alpha I over Alpha Xi III 142 lbs. Bob Trenner Zygotes 2 Rushes/yards 35/111 54/272 Beta I over Kappa II 150 lbs. RonBellavia Frankly Friends 0 Passing yards 256 164 Alpha Xi II over Alpha II 158 lbs. Matt Monroe Comp/Att/Int 17/47/1 8/10/0 Phi Psi I over Theta Chi I 167 lbs. Mike Hurt Delinquents 2 Sacks by. 1 6 Cleptos 0 Sig Ep I over Sig Tau I 177 lbs. JefFKrause Punts/avg. yards 7/29.7 3/32.0 191 lbs. Dan Curtis Slammers 2 Fumbles/lost 3/0 3/2 Individual Scores over 175 220 lbs. DonMacNeil Shazam 1 Penalties/yards. 6/81 10/91 Unlim. Eric Christie Time of Possession 23:56 36:04 Paul Melsness 179 Zygotes Lee Randall 183,194 Team Winner: Phi Kappa Psi Slammers MarkAnella 181,180 Valparaiso 3 0 0 0 3 Jeff Grimm 186 Just For Fun 2 Indianapolis 13 7 7 7 34 Erin Morgan 190,212 Co-ed Volleyball Blitzkrieg 1 Julie Flagg 177 Tournament Delinquents 1 - SVS -14:47 - Richmond 93 kick return (Hendrickson kick) 7-0 Connie Silcott 177 Flo's Team 1 - SVS - 8:56 - Mullins 1 run (Kendrickson kick blocked) 13-0 Clips 2 1 - VU - 5:57 - Edwards 33 field goal 13-3 Dorm Storm KegT.V. Passion 0 2 - SVS - 4:31 - Schaefer 74 pass from Sikora (Hendrickson kick) 20-3 Schick 3 on 3 Passion 3 - SVS -11:06 - Stalling 18 punt return (Hendrickson kick) 27-3 Tournament Advocates i 4 - SVS -14:16 - Schaefer 19 pass from Sikora (Hendrickson kick) 34-3 Overall Point Standings First Round Frankly Friends 2 B8cE's 1 Women: Individual VU Statistics: Phi Psi 4 def. Spiders Alpha Xis 335 Rushing: Royer, 3/21; Bell, 5/10; Allen, 11/9; Bobek, 1/2; Blitzkreig 2 Chis 243 Rayl, 13/1; Murphy, 2/4; Rolando, 0/-4. Some Can Dunk over Pikes III Why Ask Why 0 BCS over Creeping Death Betas 187 Passing: Rayl, 47/17/1. Sig Ep III over Delta Sigs Just For Fun 2 Receiving: Holok 4/63; Fenoglio, 4/58; Allen, 2/52; Lyon, 2/9; Sig Ep 4 over 3-North Writhing Armadillo 0 Men: Spicer, 2/17; Edwards, M., 1/40; Royer, 1/5; Sig Tau III over Sig Ep II Phi Psis 351 Murphy,l/12. Gammas over Alpha Xi II Qeptos 2 Sig Eps 334 Golden Cheesecake 0 Pikes 283 THE TORCH November 6, 199 2 NFL VU SCOREBOARD Bears' "generosity" hurts playoff chances Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference Standings BY COOPER R0LL0W (MIFC) (AU) BENGALS at BEARS TEAM W L T Pet. W L T Pet. Line - Bears by 9 Hillsdale 7 10 .875 8 1 0 .889 Key injuries - Bears: WR Wendell Davis (ankle), DE Trace Armstrong (knee) both questionable. Ferris St 6 2 0 .750 7 2 0 .778 Key stats - Bears' "generosity" against the Vikings (four turnovers) cost them the ball game and dropped Saginaw Valley St... 6 2 0 .750 7 2 0 .778 their give-take net from plus-six to plus-three. Bengals are exactly even in the give-take charts -15 each. Butler 6 2 0 .750 6 2 0 .750 Bears outlook - Are the Bears clearly out of the playoff chase? Not mathematically, but that hill on the hori Grand Valley St 6 2 0 .750 6 3 0 .667 zon has suddenly become a mountain. They've got to win 'em all and hope the Vikings falter. Ashland 5 3 0 .625 6 3 0 .667 Optimistic quote of the week: QB Jim Harbaugh: "I don't think there is any doubt that we are going to win Wayne St 3 5 0 .375 4 5 0 .444 this division." Valparaiso 3 6 0 .333 3 6 0 .333 Bengals outlook - QB Boomer Esiason finally got untracked, hurling 3 TD passes in 30-10 win over Browns. Indianapolis 17 1 .167 1 7 1 .167 But the Cincy defense remains one of the worst in the NFL and should be easy pickings for Harbaugh. Ben N. Michigan 17 0 .125 1 7 0 .125 gals (3-5) are making no January plans, except for unpacking. St. Joseph's 0 7 1 .063 0 7 1 .063 Cooper Rollow's pick - Bears by 7. BROWNS at OILERS Saturday's Results: Line-Oilersby 11. Outlook - Home-field advantage is critical to Houston, so look for an Oiler gusher this week. Oilers (5-3) MIFC: were victimized by a late comeback on the road Sunday for the second straight time, losing to Pitsburgh after Saginaw Valley State 34, Valparaiso 3 QB Warren Moon was knocked out with a concussion. He'll start. Browns (4-4) still trying to win with QB Butler 24, Ashland 21 Mike Tomczak subbing for ailing Bernie Kosar. Tomczak has thrown for 3 TDs, 2 INTs. Grand Valley State 34, Hillsdale 21 Rollow's pick - Oilers by 11. Wayne State 27, St. Joseph's 6 Ferris State 54, Indianapolis 13 COWBOYS at LIONS Line - Cowboys by 61/2. Outlook - Classy Cowboys (7-1) remain up there all by themselves atop the tough NFC East Division, and Tomorrow's Games: show no signs of tumbling. The Cowboys boast the league's No. 1 rusher (Emmitt Smith, 896 yards), No. 1 receiver (Michael Irvin, 757 yards), No. 1 defense, and so much charisma that owner Jerry Jones seldom stops MIFC: smiling. Dallas has trouble with run-and-shoot teams, but Detroit and Barry Sanders are having a down year. Hillsdale at Buder 12:30 p.m. "This is the lowest we've been since I've been here," says QB Rodney Peete. Indianapolis at Ashland 12:30 p.m. Rollow's pick - Cowboys by 3. Northern Michigan at St. Joseph's 12:30 p.m. Saginaw Valley State at Ferris State 12:30 p.m. PACKERS at GIANTS Wayne State at Grand Valley State 12:30 p jrt. Line - Giants by 9. Key injury - Giants: WR Mark Ingram (knee) I.R. Non-Conference: Outlook - Every opponent strives to come up big for a game with the defending Super Bowl champions, Valparaiso at Michigan Tech. 12:30 p.m. and the Giants succeeded Sunday night in Washington. The Giants club that whipped the Redskins 24-7 bore little resemblance to the lackluster team that went into the game with a 3-4 record. Coach Ray Handley will confront the Packers with the same ball control offense and stunting defense and hope the Giants' boo-birds lay off. Young QB Brett Favre is making Packer coach Mike Holmagren look wise. Game of the Week: Rollow's pick - Giants by 3. Hillsdale (7-1 MIFC, 8-1 Overall), coming off a big loss last week RAIDERS at EAGLES against Grand Valley State, now finds themsleves in danger of being Line - Eagles by 6 1/2. immersed into a battle for the MIFC tide. Butler (6-2) needs to win to Outlook - The Eagles' once-great defense has slipped to sixth in the NFL charts. But the big controversy in avoid elimination from first place contention, but Hillsdale should hang Philly is, of course, quarterbacking. "Don't count us out," Jim McMahon said. Perhaps he was talking to the on to move one step closer to clinching the tide. slumping Randall Cunningham, whom McMahon replaced at halftime of Sunday's 20-10 loss in Dallas. McMahon starts against Raiders' 9th-ranked defense. Rollow's pick - Eagles by 4. DOLPHINS at COLTS Line - Dolphins by 61/2. Mid-Continent Conference Standings Outlook - It's the second meeting between the two teams in three weeks and you can bet the Dolphins haven't forgotten the first one. They took the field in Joe Robbie Stadium as two-touchdown favorites Oct. 25 and stumbled off three hours later as 11-point losers. That 31-20 Colt victory was the first of two inexplicable defeats for the Dolphins, who lost Sunday to the Jets 26-14. Women's Volleyball Rollow's pick - Dolphins by 3. (Mid-Con) (Overall) VIKINGS at BUCS Line - Vikings by 6. TEAM W L Pet. W L Pet. Outlook - Bucs coach Sam Wyche says he doesn't know what's wrong with his team but he sure intends to Northern Illinois 10 0 1.000 21 5 .808 find out. The Vikings will be happy to help make Sam's appraisal easier. If the Bucs turn the ball over to Eastern Illinois 11 2 .846 17 9 .654 them four times as the Bears did Monday night, the Vikes can start printing playoff tickets. Steve DeBerg UIC 8 2 .800 16 9 .640 isn't doing much better than Vinny Testaverde as Buc QB. Western Illinois 6 4 .600 9 11 .450 Valparaiso 5 5 .500 9 17 .346 Rollow's pick - Vikings by 2. Wright State 6 7 .462 12 13 .480 SAINTS at PATRIOTS Cleveland St 3 8 .273 11 12 .478 Wisconsin - GB 1 11 .083 5 19 .208 Line - Saints by 81/2. Youngstown St 0 11 .000 6 13 .316 Key injury - Patriots: T Bruce Armstrong (knee) out for season. Outlook - Saints (6-2) keep playing them close and tough. Sunday, they needed Morten Andersen's 50-yard field goal with 9:14 to beat Tampa Bay 23-21 for fourth straight victory. Patriots' emotional coach Dick MacPherson (0-8) is hospitalized with stomach problems and tight end coach Dante Scarnecchia has taken over the ulcer bottle. Rollow's pick - Saints by 6. Men's Soccer JETS at BRONCOS (Overall) Line - Broncos by 6. (Mid-Con) Outlook - John Elway can't explain how he does it. The strong-armed QB has worked last-minute miracles TEAM W L T Pet. W L T Pet. responsible for three of Denver's five victories. "When you get into two minutes," he says, ""you don't have Wisconsin-GB 7 0 0 1.000 16 2 1 .868 time to second-guess yourself. It's like you're playing in the street." Jets (2-6) appear finally to have awak Wright St 4 2 0 .667 12 3 2 .765 ened. Browning Nagle reclaims starting QB job from Ken O'Brien. UIC 4 3 0 .571 7 11 0 .389 Rollow's pick - Jets by 1. Northern Illinois 3 3 1 .500 6 9 2 .412 Western Illinois 3 3 1 .500 6 11 1 .361 CARDS at RAMS Eastern Illinois 3 3 1 .500 3 10 2 .267 Line - Rams by 5. Cleveland St 1 4 1 .200 3 13 2 .188 Outlook - The Cards know how to please their fans. They've won only two of their eight games, but their Valparaiso 0 7 0 .000 1 17 1 .079 victims (both at home) have been the world champion Redskins and, last Sunday, the powerhouse 49ers. Now Phoenix goes on the road for two weeks. First stop: Anaheim Stadium, where a steadily improving Rams team (3-5) seeks 400th franchise victory. THE TORCH November 6, 1992 VOLLEYBALL CROSS COUNTRY Seven game winning streak ends Sub-par" Conference TIM HOERLE Tordi Staff Writer finish for both teams As of Oct. 13, the Lady Cru TRACY ROSEL have made a difference." The men's team was led by saders were a dismal 2-16. But Tordi Staff Writer senior Kevin Siek's 13th place fin fortunately this young Crusader ish in 26:42. He was backed up by team refused to let the season slip Mixed emotions ran through the Valparaiso cross country junior Dave Stenberg in 18th away. team's as they competed in the place with a time of 27:07 and Under the coaching of Cindy Mid-Continent Conference senior Jeff Smenyak finished in Harris and the senior leadership of Championships last Saturday at 42nd place in 27:55. Cathy Harrison the Crusader vol Western Illinois University. "We had sub-par perfor mances for the men," Straubel leyball team has won seven of their At the conference meet (which said. "We need to fill the gap last eight. VU had seven straight involved nine teams), the Cru sader women captured a seventh between Dave and Jeff. That's victories, five of which were place finish and the men held on what really hurt." against Mid-Continent Confer to sixth place. Coach Mike Straubel added: "They ran a ence opponents. Straubel was disappointed in his really hard course with a big hill However, their streak ended on teams overall standings, but he they ran twice. Considering the hill, some ran rather well." Wednesday when they lost a hard was encouraged with individual The University of Wisconsin fought match with Buder 15-17, races. "Going into the meet I thought at Milwaukee won the women's 18-16,15-12,15-8. we could reasonably finish in division and Cleveland State Uni Things are looking positive for fourth place," Straubel said. "We versity took the men's title. Val the Lady Crusaders, however. SERVING AN ACE did have some good individual paraiso will compete against these teams again on Nov. 14 at Their record is now 9-17, and Lady Crusader volleyballer Stephanie Schuricht serves. performances and some personal bests." the Region 4 Qualifying Meet at more importandy their conference Photo by Matt Dob&tien Indiana University. record is now 5-5. With this The women Crusaders were led by the 12th place finish of "This is an exciting meet and record they now stand at number freshman Chrysanthemum Davis. the highest caliber competition of five in the conference, with the top Follow the Ladv Crusaders in their She ran a personal best race with the season," Straubel said. "There four going to the playoffs. a time of 19:28. Davis was fol are forty-five teams and even some people who ran in the The spikers could still earn a quest lowed by senior Heidi Meyer in 31st place with a time of 20:15 Olympics will be there. I want us spot in the tournament, however, for the Conference tournament to make a respectable showing." as their last six games are against and junior Jenny Hoffmeister close behind at 20:17 in 33rd Straubel hopes his women's conference teams. The Crusaders every week place. team will get healthy and he wants the men to run closer play their last two home games on "We had our senior team cap in the together at the front of the pack. Friday, November 20 against tain, Starr Witherspoon, out Northern Illinois University, and VU Scoreboard, because of an illness." Straubel After the disappointing MCC finish, Straubel awaits next years Saturday, November 21 against said. "It would've helped if we competition which will be hosted Western Illinois University. located on page 15. would have had her. She would FOOTBALL Saginaw Valley State deflates Crusaders frfi* fa Measfers... JOHN E. LEADER yards compared to Saginaw's 105 Rayl led the Crusaders in Tordi Staff Writer passing yards, and led with 15 rushing with 49 yards followed There's some credit due this week in this haven of sporting excellence first downs to Saginaw's 9. The by Michael Allen with 25. v.rt- c<£ Vkiparaiso tJr'/ ; ; . X . ; score at half time did not reflect Defensively, Scott Petcu led "We weren't ready to play," finally risen above the haze of Gary industry to display their true abilities the effort put forth by the Cru the Crusaders with 15 tackles, was the assessment that Head and I want to thank them for the excitement they have given (hukubail) saders, according to Home. nine of which were unassisted, Coach Tom Home gave after a those of us who appreciate a good effort; and even better, an exciting win followed by Steve Moseley who disappointing 34-3 loss to Sagi "I told the players at half time on occasion. finished with 12 tackles, eight naw Valley State last Saturday to turn it up a notch because Sag For starters, the men's soccer team won last Saturday at Eastgate Field, unassisted. afternoon. inaw would do so and try to put proving for all to see that even a field "unfit for play at the collegiate the game away," Home said. "I thought Petcu, Jason Evans The Crusaders traveled to Sag level" can feasably produce a win for the home team. The men still finish "They did and we didn't, and and David Smith all had out inaw Valley with an improving 3- the season 1-17-1, but better late than never. Congratulations, guys. that was the main turning point standing ball games," Home 6 record hoping to add another Next, we have (k*dutb*U) the hard hitting, down your throat, exciting that lost it for us." said. "The defense only gave up and sometimes suicidal play of the volleyball team. win to what already is one of the 20 of Saginaw's 34 points. The best seasons in recent history. In the second half the Cru Three weeks ago, the women were in the doldrums of a 2-16 record. saders had a difficult time getting other 14 came from special They surrendered iead3 on a regular basis. Their set by set play varied like But playing in cold conditions teams." against a tough and physical Sag anything done offensively. After Perot's candidate standing, as they dominated one set, and were blown Next week VU travels to away the next two. It was a hard team to figure out. With a talented inaw Valley team, the Crusaders the impressive first half, Val Michigan Tech., which boasts an freshman contingent, fans were beginning to wonder, when the newcom seemed not ready for the game paraiso managed only 49 yards impressive 8-0 winning record. ers' experience would surpass their rookie standing, hopefully resulting in mentally. passing and only 4 first downs in This is the first ever match up more wins. Saginaw Valley set the tempo the second. between the two schools. Home It finally happened one cold (hatkabmU) day in October at the ARC for the rest of the game on the "Saginaw made some adjust ments at half time and started is confident his Crusaders can The evil Phoenix of Wisconsin - Green Bay were visiting. But the home opening kick off, returning Joe come home with a win. team rallied for an iiwpiring five set victory, Edwards' opening kick 93 yards blitzing the second half," Home "Although they (Mich. Tech.) Milwaukee visited next; three set sweep - Lady Crusaders. to score the game's first touch said. "Our backs were not pick know how to win, we can com Then things really started to roD. Northeastern, UIC, Youngstown down. ing up on the blitzes and let Sagi naw get to Rob (Rayl)." pete with them and we can beat State (twice), and Cleveland State. Seven wins in a row. A 9-16 record, A few plays later, however, them." Home said. 5-5 in the MIFC. VU manipulated a very impres Saginaw went on to score 14 Michigan Tech. plays as an Suddenly, in a two week period, through a school record tying seven sive seven play, fifty three yard more points while shutting down independent against some very drive which set up an Edwards VU completely in the second half, tough teams, and should give the paaao$:*R^^ field goal to give the Crusaders winning 34-3. Crusaders a good challenge. Xx ... M ,. ,.-.'. Z...... '. . .. ,-,.. ':*.^,.... • / their only points of the day. Although at the games end the "We can win and are learning remaining. At half time, VU was behind Crusaders out passed Saginaw (256 yards to 164), the score how to, we just haven't perfected The light of victory is finally shining bright in the hearts of all Val 20-3 despite dominating Saginaw it yet." paraiso sports fans. And it must be a good feeling. I've talked to fans Valley offensively. The Crusaders overshadowed most of the Cru saders' high points. who said they feel like a little kid on Christmas morning every time they completed 14 of 33 passes for 207 walk into the ARC. #- ;•-;;';>•: •XX'XX:XXX; 'XXXXXX;yXXX'^ :: : \ • ^••^ypy-^ij There are precious fe\ yet to be (bo&ettmU) miATapped, sporting events remaining before inclement weather keeps you inside.