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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 9-27-1996 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1996-09-27 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), 1996-09-27" (1996). The Voice: 1991-2000. 151. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/151 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]. Tme Voice Volume CXIII, Issue 5 WoosterTRADITION AND EXCELLENCE SINCE 1883 Friday, September 27, 1996 Hillel celebrates Sukkot Confusion, chaos festival characterize SGA funding yet again EMILY COLEMAN zations receiving dissimilar amounts SANDRA KOZERA of funding. Five groups were not represented Asso- the ' The Student Government at funding meeting: Delta Phi Out-of-Boun- V J ciation allocated funds to campus Alpha, Delta Theta Psi. ds organizations Wednesday night. Dance Team. The Student SGAendedupallocating $8,704.75. Music Association and the Wooster falling well below the $17,000 re- Game Players. Watts took this as a quested by campus organizations. sig-- i that these groups "don't actu- Highlights of the meeting included ally want money that badly." SGA a debate about racism and a motion made a motion to allot no funds to to deny funds to non-represent- ed these groups, which now have two groups. ' weeks to appeal this decision by Of all the campus organizations contacting Treasurer Sarah Kruse represented at the funding meeting. '99. One senator noted that it was Images, a program designed to fos- made very clear to all the groups -- ter African-America- n women'sself-estee- m that they must have a representative I; .7 ' V:; on Wooster' s predominantly at the funding meeting. Anthony white campus, caused the most con- Kokocinski '98, liaison to the . ? i troversy among the senators. Sev- Wooster Game Players, stated that " r -- . v. , V eral senators were shocked and dis- he was told neither about the fund- appointed at the FAC's recommen- ing meeting nor its importance to - t dation of $25 for Images. The pro- his groups' funding. DonnellWyche 1 a SGA and photo by Eric Bakken gram had requested $ ,050. Trying '97, former senator to defend what some senators con- former member of the FAC, noted sidered a parsimonious allocation, that "unless the rules have been The sukkah on Lowry hillside was built on Wednesday by Hillel at COW. This structure is part of FAC members explained that Im- changed, only if they do not show Sukkot, the Jewish festival of harvest- - Rabbi Seth Reimer will perform a Sukkot service on Sunday at ages' funding proposal had been up at the FAC individual interview 7:00 p.m. in the sukkah. People of all faiths are welcome to stop by any time. The sukkah will be in poorly written and that representa- can they not get funds." place until Thursday. tives of the programs had been vague The Outdoor Club requested The Sukkah of today is meant to help remind the Jewish people of their history while at the same in their descriptions ofevents which $1665, but the FAC suggested that time providing a celebration of the harvest. When the Jews settled in the homeland after fleeing they would fund. they receive no funds: Representa- enslavement in Egypt, they became farmers. At harvest time, when they cut and collected the wheat In response, Henrietta Menzies tive Scott Doty '97 objected, saying and barley, they built sukkot in the Fields. In the heat of the day, the sukkot provided protection from '98 pointed out that SGA provides that the money was "essential" to the sun. At night, the farmers slept in them to get an early start on their work the next morning. To no instruction on the correct way in fund their fall break trip plans, since remind us of the sukkot of ancient days, we build a sukkah for ourselves when this holiday, the which to write funding proposals. In without the money the trip would Festival of Ingathering, comes. Because Sukkot used to be a holiday for fruit gathering, today the reference to the discrepancy between have to be cancelled. The trip is sukkah is decorated with real or hand-mad- e fruits, as well as items from the harvest such as corn Images' funding request and the available to any student for $50 with stalks and pumpkins. FAC's recommendation. Senator the help of SGA. In the past, ap- caption by. liana Brownstein '98 Sabiquah Muhammad '00 remarked, proximately 90 people per year have "We can buy another fencing hat or gone on Outdoor Club trips. The whatever, and we can buy lung FAC's justification for their recom- chunks, but we don' t care about race mendation was that the trip is "not Bissman beseiged by bottle bomb relations." On the other hand, Patrick available to enough people." Dave Laster '97 objected to "funding other posted for the bottle bomb because Watts 99, referring to the. overall SUSAN WITTSTOCK investigation. vacations," but Watts ar- for-serio- allocations for campus organizations people's This is the second incident this of the potential us bodily dealing with racial issues, stated, "I gued that it was the SGA's "respon- Wednes- month in Bissman. Stairwells and harm. "In the past we've had offic- A bottle bomb exploded think $750 is enough for race rela- sibility to fund some" money, since Bissman, hall walls were spray-painte- d by ers who picked up bombs that have day night on the east side of tions." SGA members accepted a they had funded things like equip- Security unknown vandals on Sept. 6. The blown up in their hands," said Kirk. according to Director of hostile amendment to increase fund- ment in the past and the money was first all-ca- m- Wooster police department is han- - There are currently 28 student Joe Kirk. The year's ing for textbooks for Images to$ 1 10, expected. SGA contributed $600 to be officers working for security, pus alert will soon posted total allocation to $ 1 35. the fall break trip, despite the fact with 6-- 8 on duty any given bringing the to warn students of the in- that this would decrease the number "We were there within 30 seconds night. Kirk said officers are According to Maggie Odle '99, cident. Setting off a bomb re- students able to go, which was the now doing more walk- "these books would be a great of can be considered a felony ofthe incident," said Director of reason for giving them no throughs of dorms, checking source for black studies majors as FAC's or an aggravated assault, Kirk. money in the first place. Security Joe various nooks and crannies well as women's studies majors." depending on whether or A controversy centered around like the ones in Bissman During this debate, Brian Fried- are injured. Kirk vice-preside- not people nt for aca- the Fencing Club's request for funds dling the case, though Kirk said he which were vandalized. Checking man '97, said. demic affairs, brought to the atten- for the purchase of four new masks. sec- knows of no new developments. up on the same areas multiple times "We were there within 30 tion SGA that the inconsistency The club now owns one extra mask; Security did not post a campus a night is one strategy for reducing of onds of the incident," said Kirk. in funding organizations coiild be some senators therefore felt that the Tor vandalism because "the crime, Kirk said. If an incident does Student patrol officers heard the alert the After club should only be given enough par- occur, timing it can be pin- construed as inherently racist. bomb explode and discovered rem- vandalism didn't pinpoint one the of "The narrower the window the meeting, Friedman clarified his nants of the bomb on the site. Kirk ticular group. It was vandalism in pointed. please see SGA FUNDING, time, the higher the chance of statement pointing out a possible said the case has been reported to that it wasn't injury or attempt to of page 3 incrimination," he said. racial motivation for similar organi the Wooster police department for injure," Kirk said. An alert will be ,,fvr..vV 4 4 Page 2 NEWS September 27, 1996 Campus Council Students plan trip to see AIDS quilt JAMIE MAPES at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. I Land about having AIDS. I want people arrive in Washington, D.C., at 8 to be more informed," said Hooker. debates charters Wooster students will visit the a.m. Saturday morning. While in the Kane also feels that students ALLEN J. WARD AIDS Memorial Quilt Display in capitol, students will get to see the should see the quilt because, "AIDS replacement for SGA president Washington, D.C., from Oct. 11-1- 3. entire NAMES Project AIDS Me- is both a health and social issue and Campus Council addressed sev- Stephen Penrod '97, then made the The trip, sponsored by SAB, stems morial Quilt with over 45,000 people need to be more aware," she eral topics, including continuing motion to strike a section of the from interest generated by the dis- els. The quilt covers 15 city blocks said.

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