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SanFOGHOR Francisco N UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO VOLUME 89, NUMBER 21 THURSDAY, APRIL 29,1993 The tradition of Grog Night ends...forever ASUSF budget almost ready for the Senate The Associated S tudents of the According to Coughlin, the bud University of San Francisco Bud get, which does not become public get Committee has completed the until May 4, does not hold many ASUSF budget for the 1993-94 major changes from this current academic year. The budget will year's budget. be presented to the Senate at the One change the Committee did May 4 meeting, though it will not make was to cut the Don Yearbook be voted upon by the Senate until for the next school year. Coughlin May 11. attributed this cut to a general lack Nearly $286,000 were allo of student interest in the book. He cated to AS clubs and organiza- said there is 25 cases of last year's II lions. book left over and only 86 requests "That's S 10,000 more than we for the 1992-93 Senior Record. wanted to give," Michael "We just couldn't justify the Coughlin, ASUSFTreasurer said. money," Coughlin said. Panel discusses military Josephine Arnaro Traditionally the "Grog Nights" were called base clean-ups foghorn Staff Writer "Senior Grog Nights." A set Thursday was set Angle Walum on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, The last '"Grog Night" of the year and, aside for settlors, 21 and older. I Special to the Foghorn was sponsored by the Scientists for officially the last "Grog Night" ever will be Several USF students arc Shocked to hear the Environment. held next Thursday. this is the last "Grog Night' Seniors' Kurt An alternative view to the Morgan began by discussing the Heather Angove, AS AP Dance chair said Haasch and Mike Lee said "Grog Nights" two military base closings in military's role in an environmental there are many contributing factors to why brought this on themselves. the Bay Area was presented by society by informing the audience ASAP is stopping "Grog Nights." "USF is trying to be our parents and, enforce a panel compiled of specialists of the 60,000 warheads produced by "The attendance dropped drastically from their morality on us," Haasch said. "Students in local base clean-ups. The the U.S. and the 500,000 tons/year last year," she said. "Last year you couldn 'I were getting fed up and went to other establish panel, moderated by Organic of hazardous waste in the U.S. as of even get into the Grog. Compared to this ments" Chemistry Professor, Tami this time. He stated that although year when there is only around ten people at Lee said, "This is the end of a tradition for Spector, featured: Nick Mor this waste in continually produced, the Grog Nights" USF students." . gan, EPA's Office of Federal very little is known about how to Economically the Grog Nights were suf The last "Grog Night" admission will be free Facilities Enforcements; Saul fering. The Grog's regular business days and beer will be sold for $1.25. Bloom, Arms Control Re Please see clean-up, page 3 have even been cut down, but the Grog will Katie Hanson, ASUSF Programming man search; Randy Freedman, U.S. remain to open Wednesday through Friday ager said, "We will continue to have Grog Navy Environmental Clean- XllSlClC* from 4 to 9 p.m. Nights if their is an interest. If someone wants Up; and Sam Murray, Bay Also, every other Friday die Grog will to dolt We are also willing to try different View/Hunter's Point's New things at the Grog." Bay View Committee. Features The panel discussion, held To keep the Earth on Cinco de Mayo, a symbol of re your mind, we've got It's time to Eco Rap (page 6) sistance and self-determination Forum dance USF for Latino people Brad can really write! Krisry Scott And some advice for the Patricia L Duenes and Concluding the war, Mexico would Foghorn Staff Writer Adrian Pantoja suffer further humiliation under the baseball team.(page 8-9) Lighting,special effects, fog, and an in Special to the Foghorn Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The credible surround sound music system will treaty had forced Mexico to give up Entertainment add to the aura of the "Wild Video Dance In order to understand the signifi its Californian and New Mexican A review of When Harry Party" to be held this Saturday in Harney cance of the Mexican holiday, "Cinco territories. Plaza from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. de Mayo," which occurs yearly on Angered by these humiliations, a Met Sally - even though The dance, which is sponsored by Associ May 5, it is first important to examine group of intellectuals, including a it's too late to see it ated Students Activities and Programs some key events in Mexican history to young politician named Benito Juarez (ASAP) will include a huge video projection explain why this victory in 1862 con formed a revolutionary movement to (pages 10-12) system with the selection open to students of tinues to be remembered and celebrated overthrow General Santa Ana. In over 4,000 videos. by Mexicans throughout the world. 1855,withthe support of the general College Living ASAP members recently attended a Na Prior to 1862, national moral in population, Santa Ana was over The Best of USF is fi tional Association of campus activities in Los Mexico was low. In 1836, General thrown. Angeles, Ca. The idea of the dance party was Santa Ana lost the Mexican territory of By 1857, a new constitution was nally here! (pages 14-15) shown as one of the several presentations at Texas. A few years later Mexican and drafted; ouUawing slavery, giving the the convention. United States forces were involved in people of Mexico a bill of rights and ASAP members said that the dance party a state of war. Because the dictator other liberal reforms. Despite the di Sports would be a great event to have on USF's Santa Ana failed to gain the support of visions within the revolutionaries, in Basketball team gains campus not only for the students' musical the Mexican people, the American 1861, Benito Juarez became the enjoyment and videos but also to hold an forces easily defeated and occupied some seriously tall Mexico in 1848. 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The original Ferris wheel carried riders 260 feet above the bisexuals know they are safe and welcome. ground; it had 36 glass-enclosed carriages, each of which The stickers bear the pink and black triangles that have could hold up to 40 people. become symbols for the gay-rights' movement The sticker The house that Catholic University The Ferris wheel brought to Troy for last week's carnival campaign was organized by the university's Committee to is the largest portable version—100 feet high. Eliminate Homophobia and Heterosexism. students built More than 1,000 people turned out for the games and rides Diana Goodman, interim head of URI's affirmative- at the Rensselaer carnival. action office and a member ofthe panel, said that displaying Fourteen students and two teaching assistants at Catholic The festivities also helped the campus mark its student- the sticker signifies that a person "will be nonjudgemental, University of America are learning about design and con government elections. understanding, and trustworthy" toward gays and bisexuals. struction as they build a 300-square-foot house that will She added that the campaign is a response to "a sense of gay eventually be sold at an auction. Student with "everything" invisibility" on the campus. The students are working from blue-prints that feature a the Navy wants dining booth and an alcove for sleeping. Convicted schools chief is After it is sold, the house will be moved from the Stereotype has it that blond women are dense and sorority hired by university university's campus. It could be used as a guest or vacation women are ditzy. house. So why are grown men walking down Commonwealth Bill Honig, who was removed from his job as California's Hofstra student charged Avenue saluting a blond-haired sorority president named superintendent of public instruction after he was convicted Jennifer Moore. on felony conflict-of-interest charges, has been named a with prostitution Moore, a Boston University senior, has earned the honor visiting professor at San Francisco State University. as the midshipman captain of the Boston area's Reserve Honig will teach graduate seminars in the School of A junior at Hofstra University has been charged with Officer Training Corps Consortium. Education and has become the director of a newly created prostitution and promoting prostitution in connection with She is the country's highest-ranking memberof the Naval Center for Systematic School Reform.