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erv vBmrn nr'rrFnR" - F1.1" 4AQD(LJbl Vwit 091 11 /T AJLi.A JEJLIhL ~Aim I ~ FRHOS The Sou'wester w< Vol. 75 No. 2 Rhodes College Thursday, September 8. 1988 1848 I iii- II- r' I I Roundtable Discussions Begin A Scene from Labor Day Beginning the task of enhancing the $60,000 alloted for Tuthill reno- well-publicized College policy on ac- lines of communication between all vation may best be put to use met this quaintace rape - one that would parts of the college community, the week. Further details on the project offer a step-by-step guide to victims, President's Roundtable held their will be announced to the student and one that would make it clear to first meeting Tuesday afternoon. body as they become available. all members of the community what Composed of a select group of stu- Dean of Student Affairs Thomas steps the College will take when a dents and faculty, along with the ten Shandley told the Roundtable of the rape is reported. Faculty member members of the Cabinet, the work that has been done towards in- Carol Danehower urged for the Roundtable discussed the plans for stituting a student activities fee. This adoption of a comprehensive sexual remodeling Tuthill Hall and Hardie fee - that each student would have harassment policy that would state Auditorium, the proposal to institute to pay - would create a student- guidelines and penalties for all of- a student activities fee, and problems supervised activities fund. He also fenses against members of the com- affecting student life here including noted that this would take at least munity. Daughdrill asked Shandley sexism, racism, and acquaintance part of the control over how much to begin work on a draft of such a rape. each student group is alloted away policy, with student input, and make President Daughdrill served as from the Student Affairs department a progress report at the next Roundt- moderator of the meeting and all 30 and put into student hands. Discus- able discussion. members were present. He opened sion centered around whether a fee The next meeting of the Roundta- the discussion by expressing his op- would be covered by financial aid ble is October 18 and the agenda in- timism that. through the Roundtable, and how it would be administered. cludes student attitudes and morale, the future of the issues affecting The last item on the agenda, titled Rhodes' image, and how the College College will be more visible - and "student abuses," focused on the uses statistics to compare itself with thereby insuring that the whole problem of sexual harassment and other schools. All students and fa- input on community may have some acquaintance rape at Rhodes. A culty are invited to the meeting important decisions. Many of the number of the student members ex- though only Roundtable members student members also expressed op- pressed the need for a specific and will participate in discussion. timism that Roundtable discussions would help improve communication between students and the administration. Student members of the Greek Organizations to Roundtable are Ann Dixon, Doug Halijan, Veronica Lawson, Brent Make Presentations in Oct. Carter, Andy Robinson, Keiko another traditionary white by Beverly Burks sorority Ishida, Conrad Lehfeldt, Julianne were invited to visit Assistant Editor the Rhodes Johnson, Kristin Murray, and Gab- campus, meet with administrators riel Shirley. Five Greek organizations will and students and learn about the Several previously announced make presentations to the Rhodes school, then speak to students about projects were discussed at the meet- student body and administration their backgrounds, ideals, and ing. Tuthill is to be converted to a sometime in October as they petition reasons for wanting to colonize here. space more suitable for the social to be allowed to colonize chapters on Representatives from Alpha needs of the campus as well as to the campus. Representatives will be Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta provide more meeting and office Students were in class this past Monday instead of observing the tradi- responding to invitations from (traditionally black sororities), Phi space for student organizations. As- tional Labor Day holiday. Most of the administration and staff took the Rhodes' Panhellenic and Interfrater- Mu, Delta Gamma, and Phi Beta day off, but the faculty voted to continue business as usual. sembly Pres. Ann Dixon said the nity Councils. A traditionally black Sigma (a traditionally black frater- committee that will investigate how fraternity and sorority, as well as (Continued on Page 6) Longtime Rhodes Archivist INSIDE Goodbar Morgan Dies at 80 F. Grant Whittle takes a look at Greek rush, suggesting that Inde- Monroe Goodbar Morgan, Jr., Memphis) as a second semester pendent's participate in a kind of Social freshman. Commission will hold known to decades of Rhodes College "non-rush." Page 3. "FallFest" on Sept. 16-17. Bands alumni as simply "Goodbar," died at During and immediately after col- will play in the Amphitheatre both Methodist Hospital in Memphis Au- lege, Morgan worked at Memphis' The woes of Stewart residents nights. gust 1, after a long illness. He was 80 Cossitt Library and even considered continue. Page 4. years old. a library career. But when World Jason Parrish Elections for all freshmen As- Alumni secretary at Rhodes for 27 War II broke out, he joined the Air talked to several students who sembly, Honor Council, and So- years before his retirement in 1973, Force. Within four years he had attended one of the major political conventions cial Regulations Council positions Morgan joined the college in 1946 as worked his way from private to this summer. Page 5. will be held September 12-14. veterans coordinator, overseeing the sergeant, to staff sergeant and finally There are also positions open on registration, record-keeping and to technical sergeant, a step below the Honor Council for one housing of World War II veterans. the highest rank for an enlisted man. Though most students don't know sophomore and one senior male He assumed the duties of alumni sec- about it, the Clough Collection as well as a junior male position retary several months later, main- During what was to be a brief visit contains many fascinating on the S.R.C. taining and nurturing the college's to Memphis after the war, Morgan items. Page 5. ties with thousands of alumni over was offered the veterans job by the "For most alumni, Goodbar was Rhodes," said President the years. late Dr. Charles E. Diehl, longtime Daughdrill. Kisner and Whittemore review The new "Asia In-Rhodes" film "He will be sorely missed and long Morgan was born in president of Rhodes. Morgan had "Palestine One Mile", the new series will begin on September 16 Hernando, remembered." Miss., May, 1908, but he moved to been at Rhodes ever since.' album by local band Think as In- with a screening of the 1987 Memphis when he was five to live "For most alumni, Goodbar was cas. Page 6. Oscar-winning film Platoon. with relatives after his parents' Rhodes," said College President be sorely missed and long remem- The first annual Rhodes Student death. He attended elementary and James H. Daughdrill, Jr. "He was a bered." The football Lynx open their sea- Leadership Retreat will held on high school in Memphis, spent a brief loving link to their alma mater, a per- Although he officially retired 15 son this Saturday at Maryville Saturday and Sunday at Pinecrest semester at the University of son who never forgot a face, never years ago, Morgan continued to College in Maryville, Tennes- Camp outside Lagrange, Tennes- Alabama, and finally enrolled at overlooked a friend and never serve as part-time archivist and full- see. Page 7. see. Rhodes (then Southwestern At strayed far from the campus. He will (Continued from Page 7) Opinion 2 Thursday, September 8, 1988 AIDS: Rights, Realities, and Letters to ACROSS CAMPUS Rhodes The Editor Do you feel that the addition of a new tradition- Doug Halijan ally white sorority, as well as those of a histori- To the Editor: cally black fraternity and sorority will benefit For those members of the Rhodes Rhodes? AIDS is a reality in Memphis, Tennessee. Statistics show that the number College faculty who don't already I'm not sure a black sorority would be a good idea, because of cases in Shelby County is doubling every eleven months - meaning that know, Labor Day is a national holi- the disease is spreading faster here than it is anywhere else in the southern day observed by almost every or- it might seem that there is a difference between black and United States. Moving even closer to home, it is a virtual certainty that soon, ganization (such as businesses and white students and that you have two different systems to if not already, a member of the Rhodes community will test positive for the colleges) in the U.S. Yet the Rhodes accomodate them. I don't think we need another fraternity AIDS virus and, finally, a member of the community will develop the disease faculty, who have the final vote on itself. Despite the feeling that many of us have sometimes that Rhodes' is the academic calendar, decided over at all. somehow an existence sheltered from the "real world," AIDS is a reality for the summer (without notifying stu- Kerry Wilkes many college students nationwide, and it will be a reality for us soon whether dents of this until classes had already we want to believe it or not. begun) to hold classes on Labor Day, The addition of two sororities would be good because the I realize that this sounds like the kind of hype and hysteria that has followed Sept.

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