The Wooster Voice

The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-2-1993 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1993-04-02 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1993-04-02" (1993). The Voice: 1991-2000. 63. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/63 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEWS FEATURE A&E SPORTS lio. Lesbian minister stresses What to do with a major in Antony & Cleopatra Baseball preview guide need for inclusion of all Religious Studies reviewed page 11 page 2 -- page 3 page 6 Band & Chorus tours in Men's lacrosse drops two WCWS changes hands Medieval times return retrospect in a row -- page 2 -- page 3 pages 7 & 8 back page J-Bo- ard lifts sanctions V O !: from OATs, Peanuts ELISE M. BATES The Peanuts held their initiaion activ- Assistant News Editor ity last Monday, said DiScipio. GARTH FOWLER The OATs were deprived of the Staff Writer second half of the planned pledge H . N V V ; activities due to an alleged hazing incident before initiation. OATs Presi- The Greek Life Committee lifted - .- ... the sanctions that were placed upon dent Peter Eyestone said. They had hi the OATs and the Peanuts after alle- nothingfevidence it was all supposi- gations of hazing were made earlier tion.'' GLC put the OATs on proba- this semester.The allegations followed tion immediately without due pro- specific incidents and student com- cess. plaints during the two-wee- k initation The OATs appealed their penalty period. to Associate Dean of Students Sophie According to GLC Chair Bob Penney, and then to the Dean of Stu- Rodda, the GLC reduced the sanc- dents Ken Plusquellec The next step tions after both groups proceeded took the OATs to the GLC again, who through the College's judicial sys- in turn referred the incident to the tem. Both organizations were then Judicial Board as hazing. informed they may hold formal initia- The Judicial Board found the sec- 7 a tion activitiesceremonies with "no tion not guilty. However, the OATs further activation activities." pending were told that the Judicial Board deci- GLC approval of the activitiescer- sion had no bearing on GLC "We emonies. were told to keep quiet," said According to Pi Kappa President' Eyestone,"to notgo to the paper. This Dawn DiScipio, the Peanuts were in- whole case is ridiculous." Bates, Cross formed by the GLC that, pending the Eyestone pointed out that the GLC photo by JOSHUA FAGANS results of the College's judicial sys- met five times over a course of two appeal get the days to decide to penalize the OATs, Publisher, director, author and poet Haki R. Mahubuti, director of tem, they "could to fifth named editors pledge class back and have initia- but they took two weeks to decide to Chkago's Institute of PosinVe Education, delivered an address at the tion.'' The Peanuts were informed lift the sanctions after the OATs were annual Diversity Conference last week. of TTie ate: that they had been found "not guilty found not guilty by theJudicial Board. on all fifteen charges of hazing" by The OATs are on a no restriction Conference speaker EMILY SILVERMAN theJudk Board on Feb.24,DiScipio probation with no loss of privileges' Diversity Assistant Editor said. The Peanuts sent their appeal to according to Rodda. OATs advisor self-knowled- ge GLC on Mar. 3, and the GLC re- focuses on Publications Committee has 1 The sponded by reducing the sanctions. continued on page 2, col. In continuing stories oflife with his Elise Bates and Erin Cross EMILY SILVERMAN appointed family, Mahubuti touched upon the Editors-in-Chi- ef of The Index, die Assistant Editor as intense struggles of the black urban Wooster's currently defunct year- designations The fifth annual Diversity Confer- poor in dealing with the predomi-nandywhi- te book. SAB eliminates culture around them, then Index was pub- ence, heid lastweekend, began with a The most recent and today, by speaking of his sister, 1989-9- 0 academic keynote address delivered by Haki R. lished during the who had her first child at 14 and six print for of Outstanding Seniors Mahubuti (formerly Don Lee), direc- year.andhas been out of two children by 24. He spoke of"the type due lack both interest and JUDY NICHOLS are voting. Junior Phil Jones, chair- tor of Chicago's Institute of Positive yean to of committee, of pain poverty dropped upon adequate funding. News Editor person of the Publicity Education.publisherand editor of the first-ye- was never married, commented mat ar students Third World Press, and professor of her.she and of Cross, a sophomore from Bedford, course by that time the age of 24, long-standing without University. is currently studying abroad. Bates, a The tradition of an- are"asked to make a decision English at Chicago State ionofBlack en-UtledMCourermgtheEros- there was no hope ofbeing married.'' sophomore from York, S.C, is ex- nouncing two Outstanding Seniors enough information.'' Mahubuti delivered a lecture ex-ptor- ed 13, Mahubuti's mother ordered Homecoming festivities has In forming its decision, SAB At cited about having the opportunity to during him go to the library and read Student Ac- options ofmodifying the nomi- Culture" in Mateer Auditorium last to resurrect thclndex. She believes that been eliminated by the Richard Wright's Black Boy, which decision was nating process, including requiring Friday. The talk, intended to explore Tor a college the size of Wooster, a tivities Board. The he at first refused to do but even tually nominees to obtain a set African-America- ns came yearbook is much needed. It is sad reached unanimously by the chairper- prospective "where it, Mahubuti signatures, involving fac- are, and where we're consented. Afterreading cornmittees last week. amount of from, who we self-hatr- that the past three years at Wooster sons of SAB aware "the ed in tradi- ulty and a3nimistradve members more going" included a poetry reading and became of have been lost" Several concerns about the had been raised in white stud Sopho- in the process, and having nominees an open discussion as well as the me.I "Nextyear'sbook will have many tion led to SAB's decision. ies. It was the first time I'd read more Peter Hahn, chairperson of the deliver speeches in Lowry Pit. SAB lecture itself. more candid shots than in the past. in- anything that said anything positive andTopk3Comrruto,com-mente- d decided, though, that the work Before beginning his lecture, Also, if the budget will allow, we Speakers about African-Amencan- sJ. se- volved in such modifications made Mahubuti expressed to the audience would like to have a larger book," that selecting outstanding was at this moment that Mahubuti. them impossible. his desire to "talk ivfrA you rather than It said Bates. niors is often perceived as a popular- made one ofthe several central points SAB decided that in place ofselect- you-- really want to listen to you, Both Bates and Cross have already ity contest at J his taDc self-knowled- ge. Too ing two Outstanding Seniors, all se- have some dialogue with you." He of college administrators, pro- Adding to this was Sophomore Jen many blacks never acquire insight metwith would be recognized as Out- then shared his early experiences as a the organiza- Campana, chairperson of the Public niors own existence,'' he said. His posed a buget, begun standing Seniors during Homecom- poor youth growing up on the Lower into their tion yearbook staff and inter- Relations Committee, who said, words were met with nods and rum- of a outstanding ing. SAB viewed such a system as East Side in Detroit. "It was a very viewed with potential publishers. There are many, many blings of affirmation from his audi- cam- fairer and more inclusive, although difficult life...poverty was a way of Assistant News seniors that are not as visible on ence, when be implored Bates is currently specifics ofhow this system will honor life," Mahubuti stated as he recalled particularly Wooster Voice, while pus, yet they are just as successful in the audience to be in a posi- Editor of The seniors has notbeen decided upon yet. receiving his first suit at the age of Wer Editor-in-Chi- achievements.'' - Cross was ef ofherhigh their tion where people outside your cul- Anothermajorconcern was the fact Junior Chris Farrell, President of sixteen. The suit was for his mother's school yearbook. Bom are members murdered in first-year not funeral She had been the Scot Marching and Syrrrphonic that students often do coL 2, col. 2 of whom they continued on page 2, 5 Detroit. condnued on page Band and boU annpus jobs. know the nominees for I nil Vjo --:(- 1 Page 2 NEWS April 2, 1993 Minister asks for inclusion New WCWS management IPO Program of the Week of all orientations in church to confront problems IPO Release station to get a better feel and appre i is so differ STEFAN A. BIELSKI ELISEM. BATES rt on the Experience living, working, and now as to what is male and what is Staff Writer ciation for before going air.

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