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- t- LD FRIDAY, OCTOBER WAKE FoREST UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NoRTH CAROLINA 26, 1990 (Volunteers ARA Management, Provide Employees Disagree td Halloween Bv Scorr GRANT worlcer can leave at any time." · He said the building was constructed in the '50s LlSA Sl'oNCLER -DiD GoLD AND BU\CK REPoRTER 0u> CloUl AND IJu.CK RI!PoR'1111l when theft may not have been as great a problem_as I A letter by an ARA employee printed in the Old it is today. He said he will try to have somt:?ne w1th Disadvantagedcbildrenwhomight Gold and Black Oct. 19 has upset and confused a key to the gate available as-often as possible. riot enjoy a safe Halloween in their · ARA management, while generating support Putnam said his intent was to avoid placing locks o\vn neighbo~oods will find tricks among many ARA woikers. · · on individual doors. He said it was considered a and treats atWake Forest Tuesday. "I found the letter to be quite disconcerting. I am decision beneficial to the employees. Putnam said · 7·Proj~ PUmpkin, a programspon" not aware that I have rruide any decisions based on the racist implications in the letter was a very per so~·by the Volunteer Cmp;_ will personal likes or dislikes," said Barry Halliday, the sonal insult and had no basis. He said there is not any bi.ing about 250 children to Luter and director of food service. instance where he dealt with someone unfairly. Bilbcock Residence Halls from3:45 Executive Chef Craig Putnam absorbed the most Putnam said the charge involving the firing of to5:45 p.m. · ·. ·· · criticism in the letter, which said, "He needs to be employees over breaks and punishment over phone · ·Costumed student volunteers will removed (from ARA management)." callsandsickleaveisnotfair.Hesaidheallowsmore eSCOrt the children as they trick-or Concerning the accusations brought against leniency than implied in the letter. treat through the two r¢sidence halls. him, Putnam said, "I am not the person portrayed ARA employees at Wake Forest receive only half At least 20 booths will be set Up for in the letter. I am extremely upset about the mis a day of sick time for every month of worlc and no . aC:tivities. One oflast year's project, ·interpretations. I feel my intentions have been paid vacations, Martin said. Management has told the haunted house, is also returning. misrepresented." . employees that, because they worlc at a campus ::Libby Bell, the chairwoman of Synthia Martin, an ARA supervisor, said many dining service, they are not entitled to the same PidjectPumpkin, said the project has of the claims in the letter are true. Martin, an ARA benefits as the employees of other ARAservices, she COipe along way since its inception employee since 1981, said Putnam is ''trying to be said. last year; In one year, the num~r of · something he is not." "We are considered part-time employees for full <jJ'Iildren riarticinatine has doubled. She and two other ARA employees, Crystal time work," Thompson said. .. ·~With the increase in the number of Thompson and Adrian Switzer, said Putnam disci Many ARA employees who have been worldng · children coming, Bell said the vol plined employees for not worlcing during a fire on campus for over a decade are still making less unteer focus has shifted. They con alannin the Benson University Centerearlierin the than $4 an hour, she said. Martin, who is paid $5.25 centrated on individual help before, semester. The fire chief told the workers not to an hour, said she would still be undeq>aid if not for ~Ul now they are asking groups to return to the kitchen until instructed, but Putnam her recent promotion to a lower ~,Danagement posi lend a hand. Almost all ofthe campus wanted employees to clock out for the time they tion. Greek organizations are involved. were not working, Martin said. Putnam did not entirely deny the statement that he The agencies working on Project Halliday and Putnam addressed one of the main lowers morale, but said it could be true depending Pumpkin are the Downtown Church American Graffiti accusations in the letter involving the new alarm whooneasked.HallidayandPutnam,bothofwhom Center, the Salvation Anny Boys' lock placed on the delivery gate to the Pit kitchen. filled their positions in the last year, agree that the an4Girls' Club, Experiment in Self David Winters. Nick Stark, and Jim stevenson decorate an out of town Halliday said: "No doubt there is theft and pilfer short-tenn problems of new management probably Reliance, the Battered Women's guest at the Chi Psi and Lynks Graffiti Party Oct. 20. age here. The cost is too great for ARA to not have play a role in low morale. Putnam said morale should Shelter and the Bethlehem Center. a lock on that gate. The gate only locks out, so a See ARA, Page 5 Committee Formed to Consider Changing Alcohol Policy Bv ERic WILLIAMS Council as an example. The IFC policy restricts a fraternity's ability to pur chase alcohol with chapter funds by mandating that, for n this ill respqnse to the increasing n~r.o~ alc!Jhol-relllted · every on~ fraternity-sponsored keg party, chapters must spira . ·····tfabilit)' lawsuil5' agairist umfer8ities across the. Jiatioit, bold !One })arty to which guestG•brlDgtheirl)wn ~. Wake Wake Forest has created a oonuhlttee tore'iiewitsCill'ttnt' with no two keg parties in succession. d-hat, alcohol policy. · Furthennore, the policy also mandates the promotion ~ction The current policy has remained essentially unchanged of alcohol education and fraternity participation in the :r. The from when it was established during the 1985-86academic SafeRides program. ement year after the legal drinking age was raised to 21. Of the six students serving on the committee, four are . Fitz "Previously, the only change made in the alcohol policy members of Greek organizations. However, Shennan orkejs )1~ been tinkering. This is the first time the policy has had said Greek-bias will not be a problem. ursuit. m-depth examination," said, Michael G. Foro, the eo "The Greek members ofthe committee know that bias chainnan of the committee and the director of student could be a problem, but we know there is a need to be deyelopment. objective," Sherman said. "In actuality, this may cause · According to a memorandum from Harold R. Holmes, us to lean more in the other direction." the dean of student services, and Elaine Massey, the Ford also points out that one of the Greeks, senior president of student government, the committee must Kevin Cokely, is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, which fulfill several responsibilities in addition to reviewing the prohibits alcohol consumption at its events. - c~ent policy. Ford said he hopes the review of current alcohol The committee will also review compliance with fed policy will lead to a campus-wide discussion. "We want D eral and state Jaws, assess campus attitudes and review the to talk among the students, faculty and administration policies ofcomparable colleges and universities. The final for their perspectives," he said. report and recommendations will be given to the viq: At the first meeting, the committee members intro president of student life and the Student Life Committee duced themselves and sent letters to comparable col for further action. based on the objective infonnation we find." but to abide by the law," Shennan said. leges requesting copies of their alcohol policy. So far, ·"The committee will not be determining policy," said Shennan also said the committee is not going to be "a Ford said campus attitudes are changing toward alcohol two schools, Davidson and Duke, .have responded. At IR junior Barbara Sherman, the co-chairwoman of the com tool of the administration" to create a dry campus. policy, as indicated by the new risk-management policy the next meeting, the committee will decide how to mittee, said. "It will only be making recornniendations "It is not the intentiono(th~·committee to be restrictive, unanimously approved Oct. 15 by the Interfraternity gauge campus attitudes toward the alcohol policy. res Wake Forest Professor William Kerr '·'"'! . Attends Conference in Soviet Union BY KlusmN DEAL for granted, like Xerox machines and computers, are considered great luxuries in the Soviet Union. Several Perestroika may have effected Soviet scientists were overwhelmed radical, positive change in Soviet to learn that Kerr had two personal 1 1_ political and social life, but Soviet computers in his own office. For them, scientists are still waiting for it to hit there is about one computer for every th~ir community. 20 researchers. William Kerr, a professor of phys Kerr said they expect even more ics at Wake Forest, attended a con problems now that the Moslem Re ference in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., to public of Uzbekistan, within which discuss "Nonlinearity and Disorder'' Tashkent is located, has declared its from Sept- 28 to Oct. 8. sovereignty from the Soviet Union. The conference concentrated on t - "Many scientists expressed their theories of wave propagation and how concern about a possible takeover by LS. it is affected by randomness, which ' fundamentalist Moslems," he said. Kerr has studied for about 10 years. "Such a change would create a gov The subject is too specialized for hint ernment not very sympathetic to the to teach, but he has advised several William Kerr, a professor of phys field of science." graduate reseaiCh projects analyzing ics at Wake Forest, visited the So Although the lack of resources lim it. viet U11ioo. its the quantity of work they put out, 'While he said he enjoyed studying he said they have shown excellence All Work and No Play ..