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John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 10-7-1999 The aC rroll News- Vol. 75, No. 5 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: https://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News- Vol. 75, No. 5" (1999). The Carroll News. 1185. https://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/1185 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Great Lakes Theater Festival kicks off o.5 p. 7 The game of the millenium? THECA EWS Vol. 75 No.5 Serving John Carroll University Since 1925 October 7, 1999 Hamlin floods carroll nearly breaks Sewer blockage causes Mount's streak water backup Kelly Norris the flood. "We wanted them to have somethmg Asst. Campus News Editor concrete to do," srud Hanicak. "That way they Last Wednesday around 7 p.m .. the female would feel more in control of the situation." students residing on the ground floor of Hamlin Students held a different view. "At the Hall found their rooms underneath two to three meeting, the area coordinator made it seem like inches of water due to severe rain. John Carroll was going to retmburse us or re Water began to soak into the ground floor place our stuff. I feel like they were lying to us," hallways around near 6 p.m. Students began to said ground floor resident Breon Boyd. "They notice the puddles but did not alert anyone until also told us that we could just plug our comput the water began seeping into the hall more rap ers back in and they would reboot. I said, 'our idly at 7 p.m. "I was one of the first people down belongings are replaceable, but I'm not.' Those here that night and I cords were noticed the puddles in soaked." the hallway but At 8 p.m., thought it was from parents of some the ·-'""--rm--~ ground floor resident with wet vacuums Junior running back Glen Dragoiu Ashlee Rager. "The to help with the water began rushing clean up. The par in and our rooms ents helped as were eventually filled many girls as they with two mches of could until house pee yellow water." keeping services According to arrived at 9:30 Lisa Cambel, a first p.m. The clean up floor resident wit- crew, American ness. a security guard amved on the ground floor Building Maintenance (ABM), consisted of three soon after the complaints were made. "I don't people. 1\vo people were actually working in know why he was sent down here, he couldn't the rooms of the students and another man was do anything. 1 guess he was here to assess the working in the halls. ituation." "I did not like the attitudes of the residence According to Heather L. Losneck, asso staff." said Catherine Bums. a ground floor resi ciate director of residence life, housekeeping and dent. "They showed us little compassion and physical plant personnel were contacted by 7 p.m. sympathy in our time of need. They didn't an "The Area Coordinator immediately helped the swer our questions and just kept telling us that it girls get their stuff off the floor and then made had also happened earlier this summer. The only the appropriate calls. At 7:30. I arrived in Hamlin person that was nice to us was the woman in the and called the girls together to let them know cleaning crew, and she had to be back at John what was going on," said Losneck. Carroll the next morning at 4 a.m." Losneck and Mary Anne Hanicak, the area It took the cleaning crew a little over two Homecoming King and Queen Joel coordinator of Hamlin, told the girls to make a Amy Basista list of all their belongings possibly damaged by see HAMLIN, page 2 Editor of national magazine addresses religion and intellect Kelly Norris explaining her definitions, Steinfel examined emy of this complexity but the bearer of a tradi tradition is not, "arguing wtth the world for the Asst. Campus News Editor some of the questions on how the Catholic intel tion that says, th•s is not all there is. sake of argumg, but for helpmg our society to Margaret lectual tradition should be working at "There is more meaning in this world than see the world as it is." O ' Brien this very moment, and where she we can see with our microscopes and telescopes: "One, there's more to life than thts life." Steinfels, editor thought that tradition should be at than we can manipulate with our genetic cata Steinfel concluded. "Two. you may be in charge of Commonweal work. logues and surgical instruments." of your own life, but finally someone else is in Magazine. spoke She acknowledged that people She followed the final definition by say charge of you. Three. if you are only what you last Thursday on scan the horizons for signs of"affinity ing. ''We must argue thts in a style that recog get and you spend. you are not leading a fully the Catholic in between our beliefs and our world." nizes that we live in a world of contested ideas, human life. Four, we are all in this together." tellectual tradi Steinfels said, "We are looking not for contested world views, contested ends and there At the end of her speech, Steinfel an tion. something we have lost, but for some fore contested means." swered questions from the aud1ence. Steinfels thmg we have not yet found." She also To show people how to lead good lives , " I think that there are different reasons began by ad stated that. "We need to be Catholics Stetnfel said it was most intluenttal to be hving for men and women about why there is a drop in dressing both who argue the world." examples of good people. youth entering reltgious life." satd Steinfel. questions of Steinfels came to the defimtion By actually teaching youth about the "!think that there are many angry moth what's intellec Margaret O'Brien Steinfe/s that the Catholic intellectual traditton Catholic faith instead of constantly workmg for ers angry at the church and they do not enter re tual and what's a is, "the effort to pass on in the modem mQre money, Steinfel said it would create a huge ligious life and they could also have an influ tradition. world with all of it~ complex streams of mean- difference m the American culture. ence on their children. She said she felt people often speak of the ing." At the conclusion of the speech, Steinfel " I think there will be a tum in the tide-- I Catholic intellectual tradition because its present " To pass on a reasonable, credible, and summarized by restating her four main points. have 35 year old women asking me lately, 'is and future seem uncertain or improbable. After bracing sense of being Catholic, not as the en- According to Steinfel, the Catholic intellectual there more to life than this?'" 3 2 NEWS The Carroll News October 7 1999 The Carroll News October 7, 1999 WORLD JCU students to aid flood victims Carrie Mack Falbo sa1d that the volunteers cleaning supplies w1th them. Campus News Editor could be domg many types of work tn "We'll figure out something Beyond the for the expenses," said Falbo . All vol Politically Carroll by Jackie Bryk News briefs John Carroll University stu North Carolina, such as cleaning dents will be aiding victims of Hurri houses or bu ildmgs repackaging do unteers are asked to bring between Election 2000 JCU to celebrate diversity through cane Floyd next weekend in North nated foodstuffs, or even playmg with S I O-S20 a night for dinner, so that Carolina. the children at one of the shelters. they may aid the economy. Bell Tower Well FOPs, it is almost ovember 6. 2000. This former Democratic prejudice reduction workshop "It's such an overwhelming Mike Giancola, a Carroll alum "We'll be too tired to cook , is a special day that comes only once every four years. Senator Bi II Bradley Situation," said Mark Falbo, the direc nus employed at North Carolina State anyway. If we have to be at a clean Miami University's average GPA If you haven't guessed what it is yet, do not hold and Republicans Steve John Carroll University will present the workshop "Celebrating tor of the Center for Community Ser University, where the volunteer will up site at 8 or 9 a.m., we could be your breath. IT IS PRESIDENTIAL ELECT! ON DAY! Forbes, fonncr Secre ·.·· ..... .( diversity through Prejudice Reduction" from 9 a.rn.-4:40 p.m. on Sat., VIce. be staying, was one of the connections leavmg [the umversity] between 6 exceeds 3.0, causes concern , Okay, okay, so you do not understand what the tary of transportation Oct. 9 in the Jardine Room. The trip, sponsored by the cen that made the trip possible. They have and 7 a.m.," said Falbo. Miami University of Ohio President, James Garland, an big deal is. November 6 is the cornerstone of our Amen and labor Elizabeth Designed to demonstrate ways to eliminate oppression and to ter, will take place Thurs., Oct. 14 also made contact with the Federal This trip to North Carolina \ !:..... · ..~/ ~: nounced that for the first lime in the school's 190-ycar history, the can democracy ..

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