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Plays for a decade: Football gets new staffer\/T~7 THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1990 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY VOL. 67 NO. 31 Warren is finalist for college presidency By Wendy Warren that this will be the job that is In a 1987 interview, Warren said he news editor ultimately right for both them and would like to be the president of a mc," Warren said. school that is committed to educational JMU's vice president for academic Warren said he is competing against reform. At first glance, NMSU seems affairs is one of three top candidates for "two other really good candidates." to fit that bill. the presidency of a Midwestern Wade Gilley, senior vice president of NMSU's students know it as a university. George Mason University, and Kala "value-added" school because of its Dr. Russell Warren is vying for the Stroup, president of Kentucky's reforms. Like JMU, NMSU has a presidency of Northeast Missouri State Murray State University, are also five-year reform program to guide its University, a state-supported liberal competing for the post. educational initiatives. arts school in Kirksville, Mo. Warren, who was nominated for the Warren started JMU's five-year But his better-known rivals for the position, has questions about the job "academic initiatives" program in position and the fact that he has not "that I just haven't been able to pose 1985. visited the campus are making Warren yet," he said. "You do not get to learn "They arc a lot like us. Their unsure about his chances for the job. Staff photo by CHRIS TYREE about the institution deeply until the "I think that the chances are remote Dr. Russell Warren final set of interviews." See WARREN page 2 >• JMU pro-lifers March for Life About 75,000 pro-lifers demonstrated In Washington, D.C. Monday on the 17th < attend march anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the controversial Supreme Court decision in Washington legalizing abortion. About 15 JMU students from Catholic By David Schleck Campus Ministry and First Right of JMU staff writer attended the march that was organized by Several JMU students showed their support for the national pro-life group Respect Life. national pro-life movements Monday as they joined The marchers carried signs and banners about 75,000 other demonstrators for a march in opposing abortion. Washington, D.C. Staff photos by VASHA HUNT About 15 members of Catholic Campus Ministry and First Right of JMU, a campus pro-life group, gathered in front of the White House with other college students and demonstrators to mark the 17th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the controversial 1973 Supreme Court decision which legalized abortions. The demonstration included a telephone message from President Bush and a letter from Ronald Reagan, which was read to the crowd. The demonstration, organized by the national group Respect Life, also included several speeches by other politicians and pro-life activists. JMU sophomore Maryann Livingstone said, "The march is definitely the highlight of the demonstration." She held a banner that read "First Right of JMU, lovers and defenders of life." Livingstone to her first pro-life march with her mother when she was five years old, she said. The JMU group marched for about a mile, chanting "Life yes, abortion no" and "JMU wants life too." The JMU students were surrounded by hundreds of other students, including groups from Arizona State Unversity and the College of William and Mary. See PRO-LIFE page 2> Page 2, The Breeze, Thursday, January 25,1990 Pro-life > (Continued from page 1) set up a monument for women who have died from Christine Goldman, a JMU sophomore, said the complications from illegal abortions, but JMU's best part of the day for her was when she thought ". chapter was not present. of the inventions and medical cures that could Lisa Hammett, a member of JMUs NOW chapter, have been, if it weren't for abortion." said her group didn't think it was "worth the time" Kevin Krebs, a JMU junior said, "The best part, I to go to the march, because the chapter's main goal thought, was to sec everyone with the same goal, this semester is to promote public safety. unity of purpose." "I think part of the problem is the term JMU sophomore Chris Dobbs said he was pro-abortion," Hammett said. "I am not a person for surprised by the 27 busloads of Missouri residents abortion. If this country could decrease the number who came to the demonstration. "1 can't believe that of abortions by providing education and the wider many people showed up," he said. use of contraceptives, that would be great."! The Roe v. Wade case was first heard in Missouri. A few members of JMU's chapter of CCM who JMU freshman Kelly Murphy said the march was attended the demonstration said the public has a important because she doesn't think "people realize negative image of pro-lifers — including the that when a woman has an abortion, all her troubles bombing of abortion clinics and the publication of aren't over." graphic pictures of aborted fetuses. Julie Sheils, First Right of JMU's president, said, "I hate that image," said pro-life supporter Traccy "Our goal was to be there and to make our presence Spahr. "I hate those demonstrators. It doesn't make known ... to prove the fact that it's not a bunch of sense to take one life for another." 45-year-old white males who believe in pro-life." Livingstone said the graphic posters, like those at Demonstrators circled an entire city block while the march that depicted an aborted fetus' mutilated wailing in line for the D.C. Metro, as police officers head, turn her off. tried to direct the pedestrian traffic. Sheils said, "I don't at all approve of bombing "Stop abortion NOW," "Abortion is child abuse," clinics. The press likes to play that up. We have and "Pro-choice is no choice" were common slogans been unfairly associated with that minority." carried by demonstrators, who ranged in age from But Sheils said the graphic photos could be useful toddlers to senior citizens. to her cause. "Abortion is very shocking. It's about time this country gets shocked ... and realizes that Groups of nuns, monks and priests also attended abortion is not as simple as removing a wart." the march. One long banner read, "Forgive them, Sheils said the police often maliciously hurt father, for they know not what they do." pro-life demonstrators during peaceful rescue When asked why religion is more prevalent in operations, and the press often deludes the public pro-life demonstrations than in pro-choice ones, into thinking that the majority of Americans aren't Sheils said, "Religion places a value on human life, pro-life. Staff photo by VASHA HUNT and feminists who arc pro-abortion don't." "We'll win someday," Spahr said. "We have God Thousands gathered In D.C. to show their Members of the National Organization for Women on our side." support tor an unborn baby's right to life. Warren— > (Continued from page 1) for their liberal arts studies. And University of Richmond but withdrew uninterested in academic reform and faculty, like our faculty, seem to be NMSU was once a teachers' college, from the race after he became acting seemed to have a bad funding situation open to new ideas," Warren said. like JMU was before 1938. president of JMU. Dr. Ronald Carrier, with the state. Warren also has said that if he left Both schools have been listed by JMU's president, was serving as "I do feel a need, because I do want a JMU, he would go to a school with U.S. News and World Report as "Best president of the Center for Innovative presidency, to keep selectively easy access to state funds. NMSU's Buys in Education," and both have Technology in Herndon. looking," Warren said. "I don't want to departing president, Charles McClain, competitive entrance requirements — "I really discovered when I was leave here, but I do want one of those was known for his successful NMSU calls itself "The Harvard of the acting president that I liked this job," jobs, and I'm trying to find the right fund-raising efforts with members of Midwest." Warren said. "Since that time I've been one that would excite me to leave the Missouri legislature. Warren said the similarities between looking, I think, very selectively, here." In fact, when NMSU faculty were the schools attracted him to NMSU. because I've learned that I don't want In 1987, Warren said he might leave asked earlier this year what qualities "Ultimately I want an institution just any presidency." JMU after his academic initiatives were that accepts me as a person, that's a they would like to see in a new Last year, he was a candidate for the established. The program was fully president, they said the ability to raise home for me as well as a job," Warren presidency of the University of North implemented this year. said. "A presidency is a way of life. It's money for the school was vital. Florida but did not receive an offer. He But he is now tied to JMU with not just employment." also was offered the presidency of "another set of agenda," including the NMSU, with about 7,000 This isn't Warren's first attempt at a Bridgewater State College in freshman seminar program, a proposed undergraduates, and JMU, with about college presidency.