THE NORTHERNER Vol. 15, No. 22 Northern Kentucky University Wednesday, March 25, 1987 Lady Norse dreams end in overtime by Dane Neumeister NKU's Lady Norscl986·87 basketball Texas State, 64·55. missed, and the game went mto overtime. Sport.t ed1t.or dream season came to on end Jaat Thurs­ The Lady Norse, after trailing 33-28 at Riding the momentum of their com· dny as New Haven overcame a four-point the half, rallied with an 11·1 spurt and, cback, the Lady Nome jumped out to an ~5 The bitterness a nd di sappointment of deficit in overtime to defeat NKU, 77-74 , with Lori Tyler's basket, tied the game at early 74-70 overtime lead, but was held an otherwise spectacular season showed in the NCAA Div ision II semifinals in 58 with 5:3 1 len to play. scoreless the rest of the ga me. clearly on the faces of the women's basket­ Springfie ld , Mass. New Hoven then took a 64 -62 lead New Haven's Charlene Taylor scored ball team. Plagued by poor free-throw shooting with 3:49 left, but senior guard Meli ssa with 1:56 remaining, and cut the NKU Meli ssa Wood , the senior who had led and costly turnovers in overtime, coach Wood evened the score with 3:24 to play. lead to 74 72. the Lady Norse the entire season, had Nancy Winstel's team finished the season New Haven grabbed the lead again, It was a t this poi nt that N KU's poor ~7 given it her all. But it wasn't quite 25-5, NKU's second-best record ever. 66-64, but Wood again answered, tying free-throw shooting cost them the mosl. enough , and her tear-streaked face NKU had advanced to the final four by the game with 34 seconds left . Wood went to the line, but missed the displayed her frustration. defeating Wright State, 74 ~ 63, a nd West New Haven played for a final shot, but see Ladies, page J I ACJS arrives Academy brings national prestige by Steve Rohs Assocmte ed1tor NKU's acquisition of o national professional academy last week may mean much more than national recognition for the university. NKU officials say the award could bring similar honors to the university from other fi elds a nd could help change the perception of Northern as a local community coll ege. " It allows us to go after other (professional) journals and academies in other areas," said J . Michael Thomson, a political science professor at NKU, in an interview Satur· day. ''It's going to help the school acquire state, regional and national resources." At a national convention March 15, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) named NKU as the new home for its administrative offices. The offices, based at the Univnsity of Nebraska at. Omaha now, will be relocated to 402 Nunn Hall on May I. "It's sigliificant we're moving this year," said ACJS President Tom Barker in a phone interview Friday. "This year is our twenty-fifth anniversary. It will mean more publicity for NKU." The academy is a national professional organization which includes teachers and practitioners in the field of criminology-police work, the courts, and corrections. Thorn· son will be the editor of ACJS Today, the academy's newsletter. " Inside the university, it gives us a feeling we're ready Eric Kroenea/The Northerner for hardball competition," said Thomson, who was in­ • Chip Henry found himself with a bir d 's-eye view of the NKU campus last week. Henry, of Kel­ strumental in bringing the academy to NKU. " We ly Bros. Roofing, was putting new roof pa nels on t he Landrum Academic Center. see ACJS, back p age Y.E.S. Festival offers dramatic variety This week by Sue Wright Light in the Mill," by D.K. Oaklahoma, scripts. Sooner or later, 36 scripts are Florida F\lo: Three NortMrner editon St.a.fl'writer "The $88,000 Liberty Bell Sweepstakes" selected and then it's finally whittled headed lOUth to wet and wild Fort and "Sanctuary," by James C. Wall, were down to the chosen three. Lauderdale for sprina break. Catch their It's almost April and that means it's selected from over 250 entries to the " You really hove to think about what antiQ on pege 6. almost festival time for NKU's theatre festival. you are doing when you are reading all department. "The elimination process is unreal. of these," Conger said. The theatre deportment will present Reading over the scripts is just massive Conger said the festival is produced on­ its third Year End Series (Y.E.S .) a mounts of reading for months," Joe Con· ly every other year because of the huge Festival, April 9-19, in the Fine Arts ger, co-ordinator of the theatre division amount of work involved. Center. said. " It's very good work experience for The festival is conducted every other Conger, who is also directing "Sanc­ everyone. It takes our whole work force year and three plays are produced from tuary," said a panel of administrators, and divides them into three parts, thus scripts entered in the competition. The faculty members and others who ore in­ making it closer to the real acting world, three plays selected this year - "The terested is established to read the entered see Y .E.S., page 8 0318.tif 2 News The Northerner March 25, 1987 Laws slow Fort Lauderdale spring break by Susan Skorupa public rowdiness. "We expect a spring break of over "The tourist bureau here has done lots m 300,000 students this year," predicts to Coll~Kie ~ Sen1<:e And the collegians who are Fort of promotion attract Rludents, so we Lauderdale this month, a high percentage South Padre Island Police Captain Tom· don 't really expect any decreases in stu­ Fewer col1egians are going to Fort of them are male. my Atkins. " A situation like that you dent visitors." Lauderdale for their spring breaks this "The worst complaint 1 hear is tha.~ have to handle one day at a time." Not everyone is as enthused by the pro­ year, officials say, but more are heading there aren't enough women to go around, " We've noticed an increase in the spect of hosting thousands of students for other destinations like Bermuda, says Ott Cefkin, Fort Lauderdale's police numbers of students in the last several bent on having fun . South Padre Island in Texas and Daytona media relations director. years, probably because Florida went to Palm Springs, Cal., officials have sent Beach. Cefkin expcct.a about 250,000 student.a a 21 (year-old minimum) drinking age brochures to colleges in California and Observers attribute the shift in stu· to vacation in Fort Lauderdale this sooner than Texas did," he adds. "Last Arizona warning they will arrest rowdy dent tastes to new minimum drinking spring, down from 350,000 in 1985. year, Texas was still a 19-year-old state, students. The influx at South Padre Island, and now it's up to 21, so we'll see what ages, expensive lodging and even Fort see Lauderdale, page 9 Lauderdale's much tougher laws against however, keeps growing. happens." From The McConnell talks with administration, SG by Jean Bach Boothe said he expressed great concern Committee is to bring attention to the pro­ ~ Staffwr1ler to the senator aOOut the student financial blems that universities are facing by aid cuts that have taken place over the meeting with federal, state and local U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell visited last two years and the contin~·ing rise in politicians and discussing the situation. Wire NKU's campus Feb. 13, and met with Kentucky's college tuition. "This lobbying effort gives concerned university administrators, said John McConnell said that if the present people a chance to meet one--on-one with Dietz, secretary of external affairs for federal budget continues, no new money the people (politicians) who can make the NKU's student government. in the form of student financial aid would difference," Dietz said. McConnell, the guest of Student be provided and gradual cut.a would take "Northern has taken a real lead in the Best excuses' Government and Campus Republicans, place each year. lobbying effort," Dietz said, "While other spoke with NKU President Leon Boothe McConnell's visit to NKU was part·of universitites have had some influence of and other university administators on a lobbying effort by the Student Advisory see McConnell, page 13 In the latest edition o( Co,.,... such topics as the existing state funding Committee, which is comprised of Student USA professors recount the moat · cuts, proposed federal funding cuts, and Government/residents throughout the outlandish student explanations for the Foreign Student Exchange Program, state. why they were late for clasa. Amo111 Dietz said. 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