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I think it would be .a good idea yy Ghandi, when asked what he thought about Western civilization STER VOICE Established in 1883 February 28, 2003 On the Web: www.wooster.eduVoice Vol. CXIX, No. 20 Tribune" writer is Student grabbed outside Lowry Sarah Core the front of Lowry Center. occurred in October on the north News Editor According to the posted Campus end of campus. In both cases, the graduation speaker Alert, a man "grabbed her from women kicked the man and A female student was attacked behind." The student said she escaped. by an unidentified assailant Feb. kicked the and he let To Sarah Core Sunscreen). The song shot to the attacker then keep safe on campus. Kirk 26, becoming the third victim in a her go and ran away. said News top fifty on the Billboard charts, to call Security if a student Editor series "grabbing" incidents Security sprouting an MTV video and a book of this Three officers arrived sees anything suspicious. "We school year. the scene rathe'r College officials announced deal for Schmich. "She's a wonder- - on immediately but were would check out a story and this week that Mary Schmich, a "There is not a whole lot of unable to locate the individual. The have it be nothing then have that Wooster Police columnist for the Chicago-Tribun- e, information at this moment," City Department one time you think 'oh. they prob- will be the featured said Director of Safety of was also contacted immediately. ably are safe' be that time (some- speaker at this year's Senior Security Joe Kirk. "We are work- The description given is that the thing goes wrong." said Kirk. Commencement on May 12. ing with the police to try and perpetrator is a white male around Kirk also stresses that students Schmich, known to many audi- match this up with other situa- 30 years of age, standing approxi- should make an effort to walk ences as the author behind Baz tions around the community." mately 6 feet tall with dark-color- ed together or call Security for an Luhrmann's 1999 hit single The incident occurred at hair. escort. "I would also make a "Everybody's Free (to Wear approximately 12:24 a.m. on Kirk confirmed that this strong recommendation (to Sunscreen)," writes a weekly col- Wednesday morning while the description matches that of the women to travel in groups as umn for the Tribune female student was walking past suspect from the two attacks that much as possible." "I'm happy to say that she has accepted my invitation," said President R. Stanton Hales, who Director Malekoff resigns post was a professor at Pomona at Wooster gave me focus to Malekoff has also taught a College while Schmich was a stu- PhotoCourtesyComicspage.com Ben Mitchell other things that I want to do. I First Year Seminar. dent and is his sister-in-law- 's Managisg Editor Mary Schmich think that being an administra- "Bob has been an close friend. She accepted the outstanding On Feb. 20 Bob for us," said invitation this spring. Columnist Malekoff tor made me want to spend athletic director announced that he will be more time closer to students," the Dean of Academic Affairs "She may be best known for a fill writer with a lovely way with resigning from his current Tom Falkner. fascinating phenomenon, or prank, words," said Hales, praising position as director of "He has always had a I guess you could call it," said Schmich for being both an interest- " physical education, athlet- have been a coach and strong sense of balance, in Hales, explaining that in 1997, ing and humorous individual. ics and recreation at the an athletic director, that he has been fully sup- Schmich wrote a column that was Schmich earned her B.A. at and College. The resignation portive of the athletic pro- a "collection of wry advice to col- Pomona College in Claremont, this is the beginning of a will take effect on June 15 gram and has an under- lege students" as what she would Calif., working in college admis- of this year. Malekoff has third step that I want to standing and appreciation say if she were ever to give a com- sions for three years before attend- served as athletic director " for academics." mencement speech. ing Stanford journalism school. take, Bob Malekoff said. since 1996. The school will begin a Within weeks, the column had She worked at the "Peninsula "I have a number a varied he said. national search for a replace- spread through the Internet, usual- Times Tribune" in Palo Alto, Calif., interests," said Malekoff. "I In his seven years at ment athletic director, currently ly misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut at the "Orlando Sentinel," and at have been a coach and an ath- Wooster Malekoff has over- there is no timeline for when a as a commencement speech he the "Chicago Tribune" since 1985. letic director, and this is the seen all aspects of the school's new permanent athletic director gave at MIT. She a year off, took attending beginning of a third step that I 22rteam athletic department, will be named. Two years later, Luhrmann put Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship want to take." headed the physical education Promoting a current faculty Schmich 's words to a remix of for Journalists before returning to Malekoff said that he appre- athletic program, and directed member to athletic director is Quindon Tarver's "Everybody's the "Chicago Tribune." Schmich is ciated his time at Wooster. "The the recreation, intramural and Free (to Feel Good)," calling it also the author the Brenda Starr of opportunities given to me here club sports programs. See "Resignation, " pg. 3. "Everybody's Free (to Wear comic strip. (hill Ihtti: ti4iin Speakers Events Announcements 314 Speaker: Randall Kennedy on Race 2128 to William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" 228 Bahcock International Apps. Due by 4 p.m. Gault Recital Hall, 7 p.m. 31 Freedlander Theatre, 8:15 pjn. 37 SPRING BREAK BEGINS.' 34 Lecture: Zen Calligraphy 35 Distinguished Lectureship in Medicine "TimeSlips" 38 Residence Halls Close, 10 a.m. Lean Lecture Hall, 7 to 9 p.m. Lean Lecture Hall, 7 to 9 pjn. 324 Senior Independent Study Due by 5 p.m. 35 Lecture: Zen & the Sitting Meditation (above) 35 Band: Yield, The Underground, 10 p.m. News 2 Editor: Sarah Core Assistant Editor: Christopher Beck Time traveling: Not just a thought of the future Sarah Church accomplish this seemingly impos- have enough me's to form a bas- Staff Writer sible task, he launched into the ketball team and play basketball -- moral, social, and ethical problems with myself." He did express a slight problem Last Tuesday, Feb. 25, the Chair that face the concept of time travel. with this idea. "That would be of the Physics Department, John Some major concerns about weird." Weird or not, herein lies the Lindner, presented the second y , time travel that Lindner included ethical dilemma that Lindner pre- the Faculty at Large 0- in his lecture are casualty viola- installment of sented: say said person was wear- series with his lecture entitled tions. For instance, we would all ing a gold watch each time he went "Time Machines." like to know what our parents - back in time. In his presentation, he tackled " were really like when they were might lead to the obvi- the probability and possibility of our age, but do we really want to This exploiting one traveling through time. chance meeting them? What if ous problem of the significant scientif- The problem with traveling they're obnoxious jerks? Also, of most history for through space and time is that in there's the chance that the small- ic discoveries in gain. order to achieve this, one needs to est misstep could trigger a chain personal economic did siich a exceed the speed of light. Thus, of events that could lead to your Professor Lindner non-existen- ce. presenting his the best bet for traveling through successful job of time data that surely he could sway time and space, according to By Sajal Sthapit Another possibility of Photo steadfast non-believ- er tran-versab- explained is even the most Lindner, is discovering a le travel that Lindner wormhole. Professor John Lindner excitedly discusses the theories behind some of that of unlimited duplication. "If I into considering the we all will These wormholes can theoret- the ideas of time traveling to a full audience. had a time machine," Lindner notion that one day As he ically help protect human's vul- states, "I could go back to yester- be surfing the cosmos. can nerable bodies as they thrust like to find a way to travel ed Lindner. day, meet myself, invite myself to says, "The mathematics imagina- through spacetime at extraordi- through space and time that After Lindner explained the go back again, where we can meet take us further than our narily high speeds.