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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2001-2011 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 11-12-2004 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2004-11-12 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2004-11-12" (2004). The Voice: 2001-2011. 371. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011/371 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: 2001-2011 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Since we've gone five days with- out a hate crime, we were reward; "he " V V oosterVoiceV ed with a new household item. W - Serving the College of Wooster since 1883 Comedy Central cartoon "Drawn Together" Vol. CXXI, Issue X November 12, 2004 "We Wish him well..." 8 vandals surrender Dave Brown leaves College mid-semester to Dean of Students resigned or was asked to leave. him," Jayson Rogers '06 said. By Cory Smith "We appreciate the work that "Everyone (in the campus com- By Andrew Fletchner incident occurred in Holden Hall and Andrew Waldman David has done here," Holmes munity) has a lack of concern on Staff Writer on Oct. 29. social issues, namely for minori- Voice Staff said in the memo. "We wish him "We believe that all those well in his future endeavors." ties and the way the campus com- The mystery of who vandalized responsible have been found," According to a memorandum Students had mixed reactions to munity responded to hate crimes." the walls of Holden and Holmes said. He further clarified sent from Dean of Students Kurt Brown's exit. Will Behrendt '06 Many students, like Rogers, Bornhuetter Halls with hateful that while the students did indeed Holmes to the Student Affairs said he sympathized with Brown. agreed that the entire social envi- language has been unraveled, as turn themselves in, this was pri- staff, former Director of "It makes me think he wasn't a ronment of the campus communi- eight students admitted to the act marily due to the pressure exerted Residential Life and Housing bad guy," Behrendt said. "He's ty, not Brown, is to blame for and turned themselves in last upon these students by Campus David Brown left the, College just a pawn in the administrative events in Bornhuetter and Holden Tuesday, Nov 2. Security's investigation. effective Nov. 4. game. This is some sort of admin- residence halls last month. On The information concerning "I think they thought we were ; A reason for his departure was istrative conspiracy." Oct. 8, Bornhuetter was defaced the apprehension of the suspected getting pretty close so they turned not given and it is not yet clear Others were not as radical in with racial and other hateful graf-Se-e vandals was relayed to students, themselves in," Director of whether Brown was fired, their opinions. "I don't blame "Brown," page 2 faculty and staff this past Security Lynn Cornelius' said. Tuesday at 5:19 p.m. In a brief e-m- ail, "We started interviewing students Dean of Students Kurt last Wednesday and found out a Campus sounds off on Code Holmes and Associate Vice lot of information from the there will there still be a Code of President for College Relations Holden incident." n 1 rr rrrp Social Responsibility and John Hopkins said that eight indi- Holmes could not provide any ' T 7r T7 Academic Integrity," echoing a viduals had turned themselves specific information about those ff similar question asked by David into campus authorities after accused, citing privacy laws pro- Armstrong '07 earlier in the panel "Campus Security's investigation hibiting the disclosure of any when he said, "Are you trying to began to focus on some of these information that might identify replace the whole Scots' Key?" individuals." the students. "I think the honest answer to Curiosity as to who perpetrated He did, however, say that the your question is we don't the acts of vandalism has been students involved, "were of vari- know," said Russell. "Some of us rampant ever since various hateful ous backgrounds," and did not fit believe that a properly drafted messages and symbols, including the stereotypical image of a per- Honor Code and we're using swastikas, were drawn upon stu- son who would commit this type the term genetically but a prop- dent doors and message boards. of crime. erly drafted Honor Code would The first incident of vandalism Holmes did not comment on the render most of what's in the Code occurred on Oct. 8 in " of Academic Integrity and Social Bornhuetter Hall and a similar See "Vandals," page 3 Responsibility unnecessary On Wednesday, Music Russell, Shawn Sweeney '06, Professor of John Stavnezer pointed out that some McDowell '06 Amy Susan and Professor of Psychology Jo Stavnezer schools with honor codes do have Scots "outwitt" opposition discuss the possibility an Honor Code (Photo by Jeremy Hohertz). of -- existing codes of social responsi- By Liz Miller Professor of Psychology Amy Jo bility andor academic integrity. In News Editor Stavnezer and students Shawn those cases. "The honor code is Sweeney '06 and Susan the kind of overarching," she said. Members of the campus com- McDowell '05. McDowell, Who attended munity were given the opportuni- "I envision a place where stu- Davidson College in North ty in a Wednesday meeting to dents are trusted implicitly," Carolina before transferring to sound off on the possibility and Russell said. Wooster her sophomore year, said means of implementing an Honor An example of a two-fol- d pro- she thinks an honor code would T . lit i Code on campus. posed Honor Code pledge was unite students, faculty and staff. Honor Code Committee outlined in a handout distributed Pointing out the October vandal- Member and Music Department by committee member Robin ism in Bornhuetter and Holden faculty member John Russell York '06 on behalf of the commit- Halls, she said, "I think there moderated the meeting, which tee that said in part, "I will uphold should be some big changes going took place in Lowry Pit at 8 p.m. Academic Integrity and a Culture on to fix problems like this." ' four-pers- Russell was part of a on of Honesty at The College of The committee has looked at panel that presented, from various Wooster." .Honor Code models at Davidson The Fighting Scots beat their long-tim- e rival, the Wittenberg Tigers, Viewpoints, their interpretations of Student Olivia Gordon '06 and Allegheny Colleges to form 64 to 58. On this note, they ended their regular season 9--0. For more what an Honor Code would entail. asked the panel, "If there is an details, see page 12 (Photo by Caroline Hotra). The panel also included Honor Code implemented, will See "Honor," page 2 News 2 Editors: Liz Miller Justin L. Hart Asst. Editor. Leah Koontz Palaszewksi 'explores' Mars Reasons for Browns PSI sponsors NASA speaker on Monday departure Unknown By Justin Hart This situation changed in 1971 NASA has for the future of Mars "We appreciate what News Editor when NASA launched Mariner 9. exploration. A first possible step Brown "This is the first spacecraft to go in sending David has done here." people to Mars would continued from p. 1 On 8 Monday, Nov. at 5:30 p.m. into orbit ; around Mars," be a plan possibly to send astro- -- Dean of Students in the Faculty Lounge in Lowry Palaszewski said. Its larger nauts back to the moon sometime fiti and on Oct.29, similar graffiti Kurt Holmes Student Center, Bryan Palaszewksi propulsion system allowed it to around 20 1 6 or 2020. Going to the appeared in Holden. from of the National Aeronautics in stay Mars' orbit and thus to take moon would be a way of what . Holmes stressed that Brown and Space Administration (NASA) more photographs of wider areas Palaszewski called "minimizing was not released for his handling "I expect to pull together a John H. Glenn Research Center in of the planet's surface. the risk for future missions." of the Bornhuetter and Holden search committee comprised of Cleveland gave a lecture p entitled In 1996, scientists discovered a This is because a round-.tri- incidents. He did not, however, representatives from across cam- "The Mars Exploration Rovers: tiny imprint in the Allen Hill visit to the moon would only take expound further on possible rea- pus," said Holmes. "If anyone is Historical Views and Future meteorite, which seems to come about eight days, while going to sons for the change. interested, I encourage them to Possibilities." bac- e-m- from Mars. "It looks ... like a Mars and back could take as long Sarah Hamerstone '06 thinks send me an ail outlining their After decades of sending space terium or the remainder of a bac- as three years. Thus, NASA could that Brown's departure is an oppor- interest in the process." probes to photograph scien- Mars, terium," said Palaszewski. test its spacecraft and equipment tunity for the College to redefine Holmes expects to hire a new tists have come to think there that This may be evidence that Mars on the shorter trip before commit- the Residential Life and Housing director by a target date of July 1, is ice on Mars. "We believe this could have had simple forms of ting the astronauts to a Mars trip Director's job description.