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TUESDAY April 23, 2002 CHANGING: PARTLY CLOUDY Farmers adapt to HIGH: 57 I LOW 42 growing demand for goat meat; PAGE 2 New USG chiefs address apathy New administration tion of Sarah Saccany and Kevin fluke, but we see it as a problem." have to sing our praises." tor Lori Moser accepted nomina- says raising Yania. Yania reiterated his position: In other USG news: tions for the Organizational In their first reports to senate, "We need to work to find a solu- •Nominations for committee Liaison chair. Senator Brian awareness is priority. Saccany and Yania addressed tion. The first step is making stu- chairs were announced during Small accepted a nomination for student apathy toward USG. dents aware of USG. That will Monday's meeting. Off-campus the Finance chair. Senators "4.6 percent," Yania began. "4.6 increase our credibility." senator loel Freimark accepted a Catanya Elliot and Doug Dunkle is the percentage of undergradu- Saccany followed Yania's nomination for the Student accepted nominations for the ates that voted in the recent USG remarks with her requests for the Welfare chair. Senator Matt Academic Affairs chair. Moser By Jason Malone THi BG NEWS elections. Seven hundred thirty- following year. Lyons accepted the nomination and Lyons also accepted nomi- The Undergraduate Student eight out of nearly 16,000 stu- "We need to gel out there," for the Rules and Procedures Government began anew last dents voted in the last election. Saccany said. "Let's get out there chair. Senator at large Caroline USG, PAGE 3 Associated Press Photo night, under the new administra- "Some people may think it is a and do so much that they will Kelly and Arts and Sciences sena- SPEECH: Al Gore speaks about Bush's environmental policies yesterday. "The purpose is to show Greek unity Gore on campus and to show students who criticizes aren't Greek how awesome it is to be EARTH DAY 5K Greek" Bush NATHAN RODGERS. policies PRESIDENT OF IFC By Karin Miller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn.—AlGore Greek used Earth Day to unleash his harshest criticism of President Bush since losing the White House to him, saying the Week administration's environmental policies serve "special interests instead of public interests." "America is only as healthy as unifies, the air our children breathe, the water they drink and the earth they will inherit," Gore told recruits about 200 Vanderbilt University students and environmental activists yesterday. "But instead of embracing By Craig Gilford THE BG news the bipartisan national consen- The Interfratemity Council is sus to improve our environ- hoping to bring all its members ment, the Bush administration of Greek Life together and has chosen to serve the special enlighten non-Greek students interests instead of the public all in one week. interests and to subsidize the obsolete, failed approaches of This week on campus is Greek Week. Throughout the the past instead of the exciting new solutions of the future." week, the Interfratemity Council will be sponsoring The speech countered one events, including a home run given earlier in the day by Bush, derby today, a canned food who briefly hiked the snowy drive and "wear your letters Adirondack Mountains in New York before calling for manda- day" tomorrow, Greek Olympics on Thursday and a tory limits on the power plant emissions that cause the acid spring awards banquet Sunday. "The purpose is to show rain that plagues the pic- turesque region. Greek unity on campus and to show students who aren't Greek The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments were a start, "now how awesome it is to be Greek," said Nathan Rodgers, president we should do more," Bush said. Gore said Bush's "clean skies" of IFC. initiative would ultimately According to Chris Wilson, allow more emissions than per- executive assistant of IFC, both mitted under current law. of those goals can be met by "wear your colors day" and "What kind of world are we "wear your pin day," which was building when parents of little yesterday. leaguers have to be more wor- Wilson said the week can ried about them catching their breath than catching a fly ball?" serve as a sort of recruitment tactic without really being Gore said. "Yet instead of work- ing to reduce air pollution, the recruitmenL PMo Prwided Bush administration's so-called "They (other students)' will clean skies' initiative actually see how many people are Greek READY, SET, GO: More than 120 people from the University and City ran in the Earth Day 5k run sponsored by the Environmental Health and that will pique their inter- Student Group over the weekend. The event was held to kick off Earth Week. The overall male winner was Patrick Maynard, and the est," he said. RESPONSE. PAGE 3 overall female winner was Kirsten Owens. Both are University students. One thing members of IFC are aware of is the perceptions that some non-Greek students may have. "A lot of people still have the Animal House' stigma pinned on Greek life and we are trying Senator fights sex seminar Recycling may to get away from that," Wilson said. With the Greek Week activi- BylmSuhr duce a Senate resolution yester- Foundation spokeswoman, said ties, Wilson said that not only THE ASSOCIATED PRESS day that calls for the state health such conferences are safe, legal halt in New York can members of Greek Life ST. LOUIS — A Missouri law- department and attorney gen- expressions of free speech and show other students what being maker is asking for an investiga- eral to investigate the safety and assembly. She accused critics of By LARRY McSHANE budget gap. Greek is all about, but they can tion into whether an upcoming legality of such events. "using scare tactics and lies to ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER It's a notable retreat from the also go a long way toward eras- sex workshop on bondage, Calling the seminar a "private impose their beliefs on every- NEW YORK — The nation's recycling movement and one ing those stigmas. domination and sado- sex bash," the Southern Baptist one else." recycling movement has been that has been trashed by critics. The philanthropies this week, masochism is legal, joining a Convention said earlier this "What we're doing is a service steadily expanding for three Despite the opposition and the like the canned food drive, can conservative women's group in month that it would cancel — adults want safe-sex educa- decades — so much that it has plan's major political hurdles, be a way to show a positive labeling it a disease-spreading reservations with the hotel for tion," said Wright, whose group become almost standard prac- Bloomberg stuck with the pro- image of fraternities and sorori- tice for people to separate their posal when he released a new nuisance that breeds violence. its June conference. advises how to stage sex semi- ties. "What we have here is com- paper, plastic and glass. version of his budget last week. The website of St. Louis nars safely and legally. "Anything positive we do, we pletely off the reservation," Leather & Lace, the "Beat Me in But in the nation's biggest city Bloomberg would suspend loey Davis, the state head of — and the one that produces the the recycling of glass, metal and always like to have Greek repre- Republican state Sen. lohn St. Louis" promoter, said the sentatives there," Wilson said. Loudon told reporters Sunday Concerned Women for most garbage — New York plastic for 18 months at an esti- group educates about "free "Being Greek is not just to be across the street from a Howard America, appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg mated savings of $56.6 million. social, there's also a service Johnson hotel where "Beat Me expression of alternative Loudon on Sunday and said wants to temporarily do away The city collects more than in St. Louis" is to run Friday lifestyles and forms of loving." guests at the sex conference with most recycling in an effort through Sunday. Susan Wright, a National would release bodily fluids that to close a nearly $5 billion 6REEKWEEK.PAGE3 NEW YORK. PAGE 3 Loudon, 34, said he will intro- Coalition for Sexual Freedom pose a health risk. 2 Tuesday. April 23,2002 WWW.BGNEWS.COM www.bgnews.com/nation Sierra Club sues Tyson Foods FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Sierra Club is suing poul- try giant Tyson Foods for allegedly failing to clean up waste from four chicken farms in Kentucky. The law- suit, mailed to court officials yesterday by the environ- mental group, includes charges that Tyson failed to report releases of ammonia. NATION Duct tape artist not ready for job By Bill Lubioger For the last month, this native THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba, CLEVELAND — So many cre- Canada, was kind of an artist-in- ative minds have been crushed residence at Manco Inc., the by the fantasy-piercing, "When Avon company that makes and are you gonna get a real job?" sells the Duck brand of duct Todd Scott's isn't one of them.