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arts & entertainment perspectives sports Texas native Corey Jeff Smith’s Smitty’s Quarterback Morrow boasts a new notes going strong after MacPherson breed of country five years leads his deacs into Northern Ill. Page B5 Page A8 Page B1 Press Box: College Football 2002: the Old Gold and Black breakdown Page B1 thursday, august 29, 2002 “covers the campus like the magnolias” volume 86, no. 1 Twenty-nine students cited in A.L.E. sting A.L.E officers crack down on alcohol possession and consumption by minors in a “Cops In “Just because somebody bought beer is not enough to stop a car. Somebody youthful buying Shops” operation targeted at youth offenders. alcohol is reason for a traffic stop.” By David Irvine Chet Jessup Old Gold and Black Reporter Supervisor of A.L.E district VII Students expecting to ease back into campus life got a rude awakening this week when 29 were hit with alcohol-related charges. claim that they were not guilty of any violation at According to Chet Jessup, supervisor of Alcohol all. Junior Blake Lingruen was charged with aiding Law Enforcement District VII, which serves six and abetting an underage person in the possession counties including Forsyth, 36 people were charged of alcohol Aug. 24. with a total of 42 alcohol and drug violations between Of legal age himself, Lingruen said he went into Aug. 21 and the early morning of Aug. 25 in Winston- the Food Lion at 7760 North Point Boulevard last Salem. week to buy a six pack of beer. He went in and out The majority of the citations were for possession of the store with his underage friend, a sophomore, of an alcoholic beverage by an underage person, for whom Lingruen said the alcohol was supposedly but other charges included aiding and abetting an never intended. underage person in the possession of alcohol and After the two had driven away from the store they purchasing alcohol by an underage person. were stopped by agent A.C. Boles. “They pulled me Twenty-nine of those cited were identified as uni- over and said that because the friend walked into the versity students. store with me it was contributing to a minor, knowing The increase in arrests was due largely to the agen- that he never touched it,” Lingruen said. The friend cy’s “Cops In Shops” operation, which is conducted was charged with underage possession of alcohol. on a periodic basis and places undercover A.L.E. Lingruen said that his lawyer, James Quander, agents and Winston-Salem police officers in conve- plans to fight the charge in court on the grounds of nience and grocery stores to spot any illegal actions entrapment. The Old Gold and Black was unable to involving alcohol. reach Quander for comment. “What we did last week and what we’re doing for Underage junior McBryde Grannis told a similar the next couple weeks is the same thing we’ve done story. Grannis said that he was out with three friends, for the last four years,” Jessup explained. “We work in one of whom was 21 and stopped at Food Lion to the northern section of town and around the outlying buy alcohol. “The agent followed us out and pulled Sarah Leer/Old Gold and Black areas of the university, looking for underage people us over outside of the Polo exit,” Grannis said. “He Rock on trying to buy alcohol or trying to catch those individu- didn’t take that we were sober for an answer . and als who are old enough and who are trying to buy (the agent) gave her aiding and abetting and the three Pat McGee, lead singer of the Pat McGee Band, performed Aug. 24 on Davis Field. The outdoor concert was alcohol for people underage.” Some of the students arrested last week, however, Cops A5 part of the orientation program for incoming freshmen. See , Page Theme Sig Ep’s day in court, hearing scheduled By Jamie Dean ing an animal. If convicted by the county Student Life and Instructional Resources. be heard. If permitted, the fraternity Old Gold and Black Reporter courts, 23 other Sig Eps, initiated in the The program will focus on organizational will have a hearing before the Student spring, will also face charges from the uni- ethics, alcohol abuse and the ethical treat- Life Committee in mid September. Months after national speculation about versity on an individual basis. ment of animals. If the fraternity violates Harold Holmes, an associate vice a pig in a park, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fra- The Sig Ep’s national charter was sus- any university group responsibility prin- president and dean of student services, ternity brothers will get their day in court pended indefinitely last May and the orga- ciples or any of its members incur signifi- ordered the three-year suspension May up for nization faces a possible three-year charter cant individual offenses during the time 7 following a May 2 judicial hearing. in early September. The Forsyth County Animal Control Department charged suspension from the university pending of its suspension, it may permanently lose Though Holmes is ultimately respon- 23 Sig Ep members with misdemeanor an appeal. Sig Ep must also complete an university recognition of its charter. sible for Sig Ep’s sanction, he consulted counts of animal abandonment and allow- educational program designed jointly by Sig Ep must first convince Sarah Bar- with a group advisory panel comprised ing livestock to run at large. the Office of the Dean of Student Ser- bour, an associate professor of romance of two students, one administrator and The president and vice president of Sig vices, the Office of Student Development languages and chair of the Student Life debate Ep each face a single count of abandon- and the Office of the Vice President for Committee, that their appeal deserves to See Sig Ep, Page A5 By Jeff Harvey Old Gold and Black Reporter It is unclear whether a young tradition at the university will be continued as confu- sion surrounds the declaration of a formal Thetas theme for this academic year. According to Kevin Cox, director of media relations, two years ago James Thompson, dean of the school of medi- cine, asked that the 2002-2003 academic vote to year be designated as “The Year of Health and Medicine” in conjunction with the school of medicine’s 100th anniversary. According to Cox, the university approved Thompson’s request. Cox disband anticipates that “The Year of Health and Medicine” will be used to promote the By Nick Phillips centennial celebration primarily on the Old Gold and Black Reporter Bowman Gray Campus, but he points out that this theme will also be used in After several years of low recruit- association with events on the Reynolda ment numbers, Kappa Alpha campus, particularly the Oct. 10 opening Theta sorority voted to disband convocation. last spring. This marks the third “The Year of Health and Medicine” has Greek organization to exit campus received very little publicity on the Reyn- in six months. olda campus, however it appears to some Senior Kelli Karasiewicz, presi- that a formal theme will not take shape dent of Theta, said in a written outside of the School of Medicine’s cel- statement, “The members of the ebration, according to Cox. Zeta Omicron chapter decided According to Sandra Boyette, vice-pres- that it would be in our best inter- ident of university advancement, “The est to close after the spring 2002 Year of Health and Medicine” is a “uni- semester.” versity-approved theme” in association Connie Carson, director of Res- with the medical school’s centennial. idence Life and Housing, said, Furthermore, according to Cox, a “The Thetas were struggling with theme is already in the works for next numbers for a few years, and the Zach Klein/Old Gold and Black year. “The Year of Dialogue, Understand- national and local charters were ing, and Reconciliation,” supported by Guess who? not satisfied. Locally they made a a grant to the university from the Lilly decision to close last April. Cur- Liliting Banshee Comedy Troupe members junior Jake Morris, sophomore Geoff Martin and senior Julia Schmidt performed Aug. 27 in a rently they do not exist at the Theme A5 sketch portraying university administrators in a town hall meeting intended to dispel rumors for incoming freshmen. See , Page See Thetas, Page A5 A2 Thursday, August 29, 2002 Old Gold and Black News Cheerleader hits the jackpot as ‘the strongest link’ By Lauren Pressley show. She was unable to bring any friends For several months after the filming, Butt Old Gold and Black Reporter or family members with her because of had to be careful not to disclose any infor- the show’s need for confidentiality, but mation about the outcome of the show – Rarely are college students’ bank says she enjoyed spending time with the she had signed a one million dollar con- accounts envied by others. But when other contestants once filming was fin- fidentiality agreement. Butt, who loves to senior Mary Claire Butt struck it rich, that ished. talk, said, “It was really hard not telling all changed. “It was fun because we were all about the anyone, but I had a lot of fun misleading When Butt first received an e-mail from same age and we had the common thread people.” her coach about the college cheerleading of being college cheerleaders,” Butt said. When the college cheerleading edition edition of NBC’s The Weakest Link, she After filming was completed, the contes- of The Weakest Link aired in June, Butt hesitated to send in an audition tape on tants had dinner together and then sat was in Washington D.C.