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. 4 Returning home Date with •~ • Dave' '"" 0 f A • Index - ·.~., . '1 " :. : Loss to Seminoles --su ·hopes-1~ A&E 83-5 Deacon Notes 82 will ease sate: ot Briefly A2 Editorials A6-7 ' I • \. '" ... Calendar 84 Scoreboard 82 concert. tickets'·:- Classifieds 85 Sports 81-2 Comics 84-5 WorldWide A4 A&E/83 --~ J. ~ .. Visit our Web site at http://ogb. wfu.edu Volume No.16 Judicial branch. hears. ·: ' 141 cases in fall By Jared Klose down by Harold Holmes, an associate vice pertaining to driJgs or alcohol or both. un~ cation and misrepresented himself about were three charges of driving while im­ Assistant News Editor president and the dean of student services, der such eircunistances, students are auto­ his identity and his status as a university paired and 20 for alcohol abuse, a term that and one was challenged before the Judicial matically eligi~~e for an opportu.flity to ap­ student. The student claimed not to be is defined on pages 43 and 44 of the 1998- The judicial branch of the university saw Council review. peal to the co~~il. enrolled in the university when in fact he 1999 Student Handbook. its fair share of activity this fall, as 141 According to Judicial Officer Clay Hipp, The other twa-suspensions were decided was. "We are a passive body that receives cases were decided before the various adju­ "suspension is the presumptive sanction for on by the Honor and Ethics Council. One Hipp said that when the 40 to 50 cases reports from a number of sources including dicating bodies, including the Honor and drug use." student was foUnd &ruilty of plagiarism, still pending are taken into account, the students, campus police and other areas. Ethics Council and the Judicial Council. In In most instances, students dissatisfied and the other was suspended for decep- number of cases generated during the past We do not emphasize any one area over any the most serious orders of business, four with the results of a case first appeal to the tion. - semester will work out to be about average other. We don't make legislation and we students were suspended. Honor and Ethics Council, and after that to In the sec~>n~ case, the student was ini­ for the university. There are usually be­ don'ttrytocrackdownohcertainareas, but Of the four suspensions, two resulted the Judicial Council. The Judical Council, tially founq._ co~uming alcohol while un­ tween 400 to 500 cases heard during the it is inevitable that a large number of the from illegal possession/use of controlled though, is not required to grant a hearing derage. Furtheimore the student was found course of the year. violations will result from situations in­ substances. The two decisions were handed unless the defendant's case has charges to be in posses~ion a fake form of identifi- Included in the 141 cases decided so far volving alcohol," Hipp said._. ~·7-: !" _...~': ·~~ " .Civil rights Mflfmative leader lives action talk on in letter splits panel By Heather Seely News Editor Forum remembers King, Almost 36 years after he originally wrote "A Letter from Bioningham City Jail,'_' the.Rev ..-Martin Luther . __ ;.~i.vf! rigb!~_.ma!_ter§~." --- King Jr.'s message continues to be heard. · Maya Angelou, a Reynolds professor of American By Brad Gunton studies, read King's letter Jan. 18 in Wait Chapel as Old Gold and Black Reporter part of a weeklong celebration of King's life. King originally wrote the letter to religiouS leaders The university held a town hall meeting that who had criticized his tactics as "lmtimely." With her Katy Harriger, a professor of politics and mod­ reading, however, Angelou addressed a more diversi­ erator for the meeting, said came from a desire to fied audience. include a discussion ofcurrent civil rights issues The near capacity crowd at the chapel included in the Rev. Martin Luther King Celebration people of different ages and diverse races, coming week, especially because each side of the issue from both the university and the Winston-Salem com· uses King's legacy in its arguments. munity. The Philomathesian Society and theMLK Week Chaplain Ed Christman and Dolly McPherson, a Committee sponsored the meeting on affirmative professor of English, gave introductions to the event. action Jan. 20 in Pugh Auditorium. McPherson provided a brief history of what she The meeting featured speeches from three called a "lyrical and furtive epistle." She told of how panelists, Charles Richman, a professor of psy­ King, who normally did not respond to his critics, was chology, Robert Whaples, a professor of eco­ moved to write this letter on the margins of newspaper nomics, and Ella Bell, a professor of manage­ columns and the scraps of paper and toilet paper that a ment at the UNC-Charlotte. friend provided him. "Affirmative action is an important public Angelou, who was greeted with a standing ovation, issue of the day and it has an effect on students' provided a short introduction, saying that she could not lives," Harriger said. ' cut a word of the lengthy letter. Richman, who favors affirmative action, was "Courage is the most important of all virtues," the first panelist to speak. He said that affirma­ Angelou said. She said one could not be consistent in tive action was a necessary result of racism and any aspect without courage. discrimination. The letter she then read resounded with many of "If we did not have unfair situations past and King's common messages. "Injustice anywhere is a present, we would not have had to invent affir­ threat to justice everywhere," King wrote. mative action," Richman said. King mentioned many of these themes when he Bell, the next panelist to speak, agreed with the spoke in the same chapel Oct. 11, 1962. King was the necessity of affirmative action. She said that first black man to speak at the university, which earlier affirmative action had played a vital role in her f ; in that year became the frrst southern college to inte­ life, because her childhood in the South Bronx grate. did not afford her the same opportunities as Almost four decades later, his famous letter drew a white children. standing ovation from the crowd that was reminded Maya Angelou, a Reynolds professor of American studies, reads the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "A tliat "the time is always right to do right." Letter from Birmingham City Jail" Jan. 18 in Wait Chapel as part of the King celebration week. See Panel, Page A3 Students offer aid Senior to continue studies at Oxford Scholar plans to pursue Russian, European culture to Honduran village By Jay Cridlin shiprecipientJenniferBumgarner. "I think Old Gold and Black Reporter that you can get very wrapped up in the Rhodes Scholarship as a name and all the By Praneetha Akula worked with Honduras Outreach Incorpo­ For many, the two words "Rhodes people that have been Rhodes Scholars. Old Gold and Black Reporter rated, an organization that provides a health Scholar" would be intimidating. But when And I try not to fall into that, because I feel and medical clinic and works with ani­ one realizes the number ofcurrent political like at least for me personally, it's sort of a This past Christmas break, while most mals as well. and economic figures who have received negative way to look at it, because I ulti­ students sat at home takjng pleasure in The organization prioritizes the various the honor of the same name - among mately want to do my own thing, and I want simple things such as sleep and engulfing villages in Honduras according to levels them, Bill Bradley, GeorgeStephanopolous, to use it for the things that are important for plates of mom's home cooking, 11 stu­ of need and then sends different groups to Robert Reich and even President Clinton me." dents traveled to Honduras for lO days work in the village. Half of the group --the significance and pressure ofa Rhodes At 21, Bumgarner recently learned that ·• with relief service, in the aftermath from made the journey to the village of El Scholarship seems even greater. she had become the seventh university stu­ the onslaught of Hurricane Mitch. Pedrero, which consisted of an hourlong However, at least one 1999 Rhodes dent since 1986 to receive a prestigious Led by Dr. Jim Wofford of the School bus ride, followed by one hour of hiking. Scholar is handling the pressure with a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. of Medicine, the group flew into "The village we went to had lost 26 steady hand. In the fall, she will travel to Oxfordshire, Tegucigalpa. houses," said senior Zach Miller. "It was "For me, I feel like the whole thing is England, to pursue an education in Russian After the students arrived, they pro­ something you have to kind of keep a per­ Senior Jennifer Bumgarner was re­ ceeded to a ranch where they lived and See Honduras, Page AS spective on," said senior Rhodes Scholar- See Rhodes, Page A4 cently named a Rhodes Scholar • • l' • Old Gold and Black News Senior campaign surpasses quarter of goal By Tim MacPhail educate seniors about the importance of "We have a goal of $40,000 of which paign committee is attempting to inform as Old Gold and Black Reporter alumni contributions," she said. we've raised$12,000,''Payden-Travers said, many seniors as possible about the benefits The donations will go to such expenses as "The reality is that tuition only covers noting that the contacts are expected to of donating by sending them letters outlin- Although seniors still have a full semes­ faculty salaries, scholarships and study 70 percent of (the university's) annual result in more donations.

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