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Established 1927 The Ulliciai student newspaper 01 ueorgia souuiern university Mm* Friday A&E:' Ally McBeaP goes off the air after five seasons Volume 75'No 9 April 19,2002 %&** Page 10 www-stP-gasou-edu ON THE INSIDE: Pf AVFU '^ T\ A T T • Blockparty to be more organized this year; ■L^I1L,V ^ ™^^* university officials want no pan in festivities By Erik Howard University has no official involvement in the e vanmos @ hotmail.com planning, organization or sponsorship of Player's This weekend the annual Player's Ball will Ball. There are no University sanctioned events invade Georgia Southern and Statesboro but school scheduled on the Georgia Southern campus." Covering the campus like a officials want to make it clear that they have no Even if there are no events scheduled on campus swarm of gnats intention of supporting the event. there will be an abundance of visitors here in town Players Ball, which is a block party that covers and on campus. Today's Weather the entire campus, has grown considerably since its In years past, there has been as many as 15,000 beginnings in the late 1990's. participants in Players Ball. And with that many The event, which is a celebration for many people there will be a need for a strong police presence. Partly cloudy African American students and friends, has always According to Sullivan "under a long standing with a high of been held on the weekend of the spring football mutual aid agreement among the University Police 86° F and a low "Blue and White" game. It started off as a cookout Department, the Statesboro Police Department and of65°F. but is no w a weekend long event that is concentrated the Bulloch County Sheriffs Department, the mostly on Chandler road. University Police will work closely with local and Many students welcome the event however in an state law enforcement agencies to ensure the public official statement from GSU spokesman Mike safety of both the local residents as well as the many Only in America Sullivan obtained by The George-Anne it is made G-A File Photo • Some teenagers are charged clear that school officials don't. "Georgia Southern See Players Ball, Page 5 PARTY TIME: The 'Boro will welcome thousands of people ready to party this weekend. with serving tainted food to police officers. • An elephant celebrates its 40th TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Tbition increase to birthday. • A man has been living with his Women's Week parents' corpses for months. take effect this fall program helps to By Mathew R. Palmer Page 3 end domestic abuse [email protected] Unless you are graduating in the spring, get ready to dig By Angela Jones a little deeper into your pocket for college tuition come fall. tastiecakeOO @ yahoo.com Opinions The Georgia Board of Regents voted Wednesday to raise • • Adam Brady and Amanda Nearly 100 men and women, tuition by four to six —^^^^__——_„ Permenter are the new G-A arch students, faculty and community percent at Georgia nemeses. members turned out to GSU's first schools but maintain that "THE IMPACT OF "Take Back the Night" ceremonies, tuition in the University . • A reader witnesses the informal THE BUDGET CUTS power of Statesboro towing designed to help promote the System of Georgia (USG) companies. eradication of domestic abuse. is still "a bargain". This ON TUITION IS "I think it's important for males Page 4 decision marks "the first to support this effort, in order to let time in five year s that the UNDENIABLE, YET people understand that we are also annual increase has been Sports ATTENDING A • GSU Baseball whips Mercer affected by the women in our lives," at or above five percent," 11-4. said lohn Dolinski. according to a news PUBLIC COLLEGE • Adrian Peterson is considered a " I' m out here to show my support release. top pick in the NFL Draft. for the women in my life, and for UGA, Georgia Tech, IN GEORGIA IS anything that will make them feel all rape victims are white females, 18 Georgia State and the STILL AN relived and help them out," he said. percent are black females, and 1 Medical College of Wearing purple ribbons, percent is women of other races. Georgia will all see an OUTSTANDING symbolic of stopping the violence "These statistics are outrageous!" increase of six percent in n against women, and carrying hand said senior Sanpri Purdy. "There tuition while the 30 BARGAIN. made signs and banners, students, needs to be some kind of support regional and state staff and community members groups among African-American universities, including - THOMAS C. r\ marched 1.3 miles from the parking women, to help those who have been GSU, will increase by MEREDITH lot of Hanner Fieldhouse, around sexually assaulted." only four percent. That Sweetheart Circle and ended in front "It is a shame how women can be means that students will CHANCELLOR of Landrum. subjected to such a hateful crime, be required to pay an "~"~"^~ "According to the U.S. "It's absolutely outrageous!" said increased $39 per semester or $78 per year, from $966 to Page 6 Department of Justice, a woman is junior Sarah Keller. "Respect one $1,005. raped or sexually assaulted every another, and know that when someone According to data provided by the USG, tuition increased Features two minutes, so in the length of time says no, it means no!" nationally by 7.1 percent while Georgia increased by only it took us to march from Hanner here Dorman Hall RA EmmettMcCord three percent. • The new "Three Stooges' DVD to Landrum, more than 20 women feels that all males, regardless of "The impact of the budget cuts on tuition is undeniable, disproves the myth that all DVDs have been raped or assaulted," said race, need to treat women with respect yet attending a public college in Georgia is still an outstanding are of high quality picture and J.D Louk, graduate director of and decency." bargain," University System Chancellor Thomas C. Meredith sound. Dorman Hall. "Even if she is not respecting said. "In spite of the increases, which are required to keep In the last two years, 787,000 herself as a woman, I think that, as pace with inflation and operating expenses in order to Page 8 incidents of rape/sexual assault males and as men, all of us have a Allison Bennett/STAFF maintain quality, the University System maintains incredibly occurred in the U.S. WOMEN'S AWARENESS: 'Take Back the Night' Arts Statistics show that 81percent of See Domestic Violence, Page 5 was held this week to protest women being abused. See Tuition Hike, Page 3 &Ent£rtamment Praise of suicide bomber in student newspaper • The new film 'Crush' is an Colloquium focuses on enjoyable, dark new comedy. touches nerve at Ohio's Kent State University • Sandra Bulloch's new movie 'MurderBy Numbers' isataleof KRT Campus electronic copyrights a group of teenagers who try to On Monday, the war in the Middle East came home to Kent digital stater get away with murder. State University. It started with a provocative guest column written by a Muslim history professor that was published in the student-run Daily Kent Stater newspaper. The column is an ode to an 18- year-old female suicide bomber who recently killed herself and two others in Jerusalem. In part, the column reads: "O, Allah, protect the soldiers of Islam fighting in Palestine. Accept the martyr into paradise.... Let us take the pain of Ay at al- Akras and the hundreds like her into our hearts, so that the suffering awakens us to the terror done in our name and with our implicit silence, and moves us to action." Lewis Fried, an English professor at Kent, read the column as Page 10 a call to arms. He is urging the university to fire Julio Pino, the associate professor of history who wrote it. "Anyone who advocates the murder of citizens cannot be on outhern the faculty of the university," Fried said. "Our job is to create a good society." John Hardy/STAFF Events Fried, who is Jewish, also is insisting that university officials WHAT'S LEGAL AND WHAT'S NOT?: A lecture was held Monday contact the FBI to report Pino. to decipher the legalities of using Internet art for personal uses. ICULTY/STAFF COOK "(Attorney General John) Ashcroft put us on alert to report By John Hardy discussing the affects of the 1998 people who overtly advocate terrorism or support it," he said. "If [email protected] passage of the Digital Millennium Party will be held at Paulson this is not an incitement to terrorism, I give up my Ph.D. This is The issue of electronic copyrights Copyright Act on universities, fair Stadium at 11 a.m. Sat. a call for the killing of people. He poses a danger to everyone on and the fair use of such material were use of copyrighted material and how campus." among the topics of the Colloquium this relates to Georgia Southern.