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Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential Nine candidates DQ'd natures as women. turnout was also the highest in James Allardice recent memory. Michael Vice -in- -Chief . former Editor Browne '01 received enough President Dan Quayle CX With the highest voter turnout votes to be elected, but was dis- in recent memory, SGA's hopes qualified after one poster was of a smooth election were dashed left in the mail room on Tuesday with the disqualification of nine morning. senate candidates on Tuesday. "It's a load of b.s.," Browne Security prepares for Nine candidates failed to remove said. "The rules they made were campaign signs from Lowry and so vague they could be manipu- Planned Parenthood Kittredge before midnight on lated any way they wanted them President. Monday night, in violation of the to be." Browne would have been --page 3 election guidelines, and were dis- elected had his poster been L JiiL qualified Tuesday night after the removed Monday night "One Christinia Evans '01 and Assistant photo by James Allardice votes were counted. poster won't change the number Dean of Students for Black Student Affairs LaTashia Reedus "The fact remains there were of votes I got" Browne said. participate in the panel discussion Monday in Lowry. rules and they did not follow "My biggest assertion is the them," SGA Parliamentarian manner in which the election Kresge sticks it to jilt- Daren Batke '02 said. Several was conducted," Zakir Thaver disqualified students and newly '01 said. Thaver was not dis- C.O.W. debates race ed Senators. elected Senators joined qualified, but was not elected. " -- Kathryn Bayer same stuff ... so we are all the page 5 Wednesday in calling for a re- "The rule should have taken State Writer same," she said. Evans ended her election. . affect the moment people were The College of Wooster's speech with the message she saw . "This, election was a farce," in violation. By waiting; it sends "Town Meeting on Race" was on a bumper "If you're Senator Prateek Sangal 03 said. a signal that they are waiting to sticker held Monday evening. - A large not outraged, then you're not "The students are not represented see what the results are before crowd accumulated in the Lowry paying attention." at all in the process. It's like the deciding to disqualify the candi- : Center lounge to participate in Peterson then presented some I'll iinvi&: cabinet is deciding who should be dates," he said. this associated event of the comments on the dynamics of elected, and depriving the stu- "The students' voting power is Wooster Forum 2000, which race and racism in a global con- The virgin and the dents of that right Candidates being mocked by this cabinet" revolved around the theme, "The "The next phase of the bat- notified that Sangal said. "My concern is not text veteran: two perspec- should have been Meaning a Democratic candidates broke the of tle against racism must take place morning, when SGA President that the -

on .- tives the fain Culture." . in the battle against whiteness ... Erik McLaughlin '01 found the rules, but that the no one was page 6 Panel members included and must take place on a person- posters still up. To have students told they were disqualified until Christina Evans '01; Dean of al, institutional and global scale. vote for people who they already after the election, and so their Students for Black Student To begin the task of abolishing know are disqualified isn't fair to votes have been discounted." Affairs LaTashia Reedus; whiteness is a step on the road to anyone. Those students wasted ", When candidates -- picked up Alphine Jefferson, a member of unmasking, confronting and theft votes," he said. petitions, attached was a list of the History Department who finally overcoming the inequality The . SGA cabinet did not election guidelines. Number served as the moderator; and that plague our society and our decide to disqualify the candi- seven on the list said that posters Wooster prepares for Charles Peterson, a member of world," he said. dates until after the polls had must be down by 11:59 p.m. on Blessid experience. the Black Studies Department Williams stepped up to the closed on Tuesday evening the evening prior to the election page 9 Hetrick was the first panelist to microphone first to say, "I think because there was "no way a in both Lowry Center and speak, posing the question, "Are to expect students to provide meeting could be called before Kittredge. we doing an adequate job of pro- leadership is inappropriate ... the then," .McLaughlin said. ; This election also marked the moting diversity?" She listed the leaders of the school have to take "There is no need for an emer- first time in recent memory that percentages of minorities attend- that responsibility. 1 think that as gency meeting," SGA Director of a "concentrated" group of inter- ing the College of Wooster and a faculty we are not committed to Publicity Elise Pilorget 01 said. national students ran for the SGA revealed that 3.3 percent of the making sure diversity happens. Lost in the controversy surround- Senate. "In the past SGA has been population is African-America- n, We need to be committed to ing the disqualified candidates blind to the international commu- Men's soccer blazes out .7 percent Latino, .5 percent diversity." was the record-settin- g number of nity," Bhalla said. "We wanted our of the gates. Asian and .2 percent American One student then asked the candidates who were on the ballots. voice to be heard and we worked -- 12 Indian. panel members, "How do you page The 45 candidates marked the together to get elected," he said. Evans spoke of her experiences decipher between at least the past highest number in in Philadelphia, saying, "People four years. The 38 percent voter (See SGA elections page 2) are people, we are all made of the (See Town Meeting, page 2) . 1 VI i v -Editor; Xaura Nesler Assistant editor: Alex Pries House residents raise questions ' nethj r-C- E Alex Pries Nao',:i . Assistant News Editor ctorofl I Life:? With the shifts in residential life This v Ys (" ; as Cc ex!! 1 addi-- c , .t i faculty and policy this year, the saw c.scuss.oii v. t . 1 - small house idea has been the nir! 2 retreat as v. .. a J i - - cv:.i- : the :-- i - focus of some uncertainty and per- fmittee cssisr.rr.e: raJ a j aan- tat I n f-- C ,s from haps confusion. According to ise of ir.forrr.atlori cr.J . -- ... "I sup- - presi- for Cour.c :i ca Love is Ageless program r-- " opportunities '. r tae year dent Kat Randall '01, individuals results of last year's I". ... who serve as volunteer program mi - ELidsky, Craig and Associates . 1 i KjLki tail. g stu-Jy- . contacts are now treated as though i ... Ions-ter- m plan:-'e- e . Greek 1 x .1- - . Council . ir f.Tarcis Ik. .'. they are RAs. .' C ' -- te t tmue'j She said, "They Dept. of '01 sa-es- J tl.at last year's f..'! : year's Housing are trying to make the plannir: retreat ie rere:.:: J l - . .' -- i t.a:ipus, volunteer contacts act like RAs." year. Council i ." kers e ; ' secon- s chair commented that the depart- poskive -- k. ee' ; j She ( i f:ek

cr-at-La-- kl ee k have ment of housing is trying to make d-year ? ' . Ane!y I small house life just like dorm l j'. .'a 'C2's ccrrert, "I ae theirJ ' .ncilrep- - life, which she feels will not work. tk it was reaky y -- ve. I : Darren I "At the end of each semester, I t:.. ; t it wa.s a f: will be critiqued in the same man- s:aa. j T.nenbaum by Keri Haddeland ner as an RA but they've had the Eieht residents of Calcei House, Photo Faculty Ik herself a J camera. year, J training for dealing with certain which is located on College Ave., posefor the Garrett T!c: ; last

y :z. New situations and I haven't They Fhilosr-rk- C.;.. I and continue to challenge students to ( .' kaadent'2 haven't explained what the conse- stressful ... it gives me a chance to eckoirj tea r cca- - ' "give a damn-- " as the Wooster ia '. r will I quences are or what the evalua- relax.". ments a : a.it tae 1. 2a ci a I'.y motto reads. rly Society program con- Vblunteer Network's ri-.-- held I tions are even for," Randall said. Humane retreat, a' c: - t'a -- said, WVN Chair Aaron Luebbe 01 a. Joe Director of Housing Dave Brown tact, Rob Schwartz '01 irrporta-ee cf cxecutir t':e ted said, " The small house program j stated that this information is "We're unique. Wooster is all objeeiii.es set c . ri - la is but rarely do idea began in the be fiklt started '- Finance! inaccurate. about being diverse t. V : ; - "I t- - :r concerned with sim- year's r:tr; about other species in with students ' ' - I Council! "We as a department haven't we think v e k k ' : ' tk- :j . Randall's program, Love ilar issues, which during that time Walton! even had a discussion concerning need." ' v : '. . n't mostly social activism." - were results! program contacts evaluations. is Ageless, involves students The WVN plays one of the largest We have been working on ideas spending their time at the Horn ady to roles in how small houses are distrib- but I don't know where that com- Nursing Center where they inter- eek's : uted and operated. Seventeen of all ment is coming from," he said. act with the center's residents. " the houses available to students are Despite these concerns, small Randall said, You can definitely a offer governed by the WVN as volun- house residents continue to be of see the difference it makes, they 1 also program houses. . Getting service to the greater Wooster get really excited. I even had a teer focus involved in one of these houses is community. .Hesson House resi- woman ask me to spend the night" ;:ionss relatively straightforward dent and Humane Society volun- The College's numerous small a the process. Luebbe said, "There are - teer Matthew Frank '01 said, "I house programs are a clear exam- options... join an existing think volunteering gives me the ple of students volunteering for two program or help create a new one. opportunity to meet people, do social improvements and change. beri year, there are at least 4 or 5 -- ) community outreach and in our Small house programs have been This he said. "dogs is not that in existence tor rougniy ju years new programs," J case, walking - Town Meeting Continued 1 human He," he,said. SGA Elections Con't (continued from page 1) , to try to educate, each other." , , . devaluation of '03 said, am Senior Jacob Johnson stepped continued from page 1) of Students Ken Plusquellec. Brian Sites "I just the microphone then say--, Several disqualified students "They are telling us that they what is racism, what is preju- concerned with outrage in. the up to " that doesn't end ; change, what can we ing, "I just hope it have stated they will contact aren't accountable for any of the dice and what . is hate?" In process of . and that people pass it on like Amnesty International, express- mistakes and we are accountable Peterson's opinion, "racism is do to avoid that from happen-- 1 here .. was ' wildfire. I am also sick cfhearing tiiat ing their concerns, with the elec- for everything," SGA Senator prejudice plus power. Jefferson ing?" Jefferson answered, "I minority ... I am not a minor ,. . tion process. Saad Khan '02 said. disagreed, and said "Black peo- not outraged that police officers word was the smoothest elec- a gene that keeps beat Rodney King, I expected a Iamundenepresented." Bilal Khan . said, "This issue "This ple do not have it s i change, Peterson We aren't going to tion we've had in a long time," them from being racist ... we are What outraged me was that black On the topic of isn't leaving. school Hunter Americans grabbed . Reginald remarked, "Ifyou find that any let it die. This is discrimination, SGA Treasurer Christian all capable of enormous human t institution is not moving in the and racism. We want a public '01 said. "No one voted twice, misery." Even though the pan- Denny, it said to me that this' or you want it to apology from SGA. everyone knew the rules up front elists may have disagreed on cer- nation racism has so corrupted direction that more of an obli- Next, Bhalla said a group of We did everything we could to tain subjects, Jefferson pointed the souls of so many black people move, then you have - in that direction." . students is will talk to Dean ensure a smooth election.- out that "we should care enough mat they have begun to take on the gation to push it 14 3. Security prepares for Planned Parenthood president Lindsey Bye cautionary, but when you talk ing healthier attitudes about sex. have more abortions," she said. Staff writer about this issue, it's hard to say We must free researchers to These issues and many more Due to the sensitivity involved who's going to come out," Kirk develop better birth control look to be part of Feldt's presen- in the subjects to be discussed at said. "However, the students here methods. We must become the tation Tuesday on campus. this week's forum. College offi- are used to dialogue over contro- leading provider of emergency Cheryl Dixon of Wooster's local cials are willing to go to any versial issues; these conversa- contraception," she said. Planned Parenthood is anticipat- lengths to be prepared for poten- tions are what college is all Maintaining a woman's free- ing the events of next week's

tial incidents. : . about Last week's forum went dom has also been PPFA's politi- forum. Dixon summarized the The President of the Planned without incident because stu- cal purpose. In her speech given issues involved in two major Parenthood Federation dents chose to discuss things in at the PPFA's Annual Conference, points: Association (PPFA) will be an orderly manner. I have faith 1997, she celebrated the victories of "The first is a woman's right to speaking Tuesday in McGaw that we can do the same with this PPFA's campaigning. choose," she said. "Not only the Chapel at 7:30 p.m. next forum," Kirk said. "In this last congressional ses- choice of abortion, but also the sion, we were able to sustain the option of really good medical Controversial figure Gloria Feldt -- Founded in 1916; Planned so-call- ed pre- . president's veto of the care, pregnancy and disease will deliver "Reproductive Photo courtesy ofJon Parenthood names their purpose "We to prin- 'partial-birt- h abortion ban' act," vention and prenatal care. Rights in America" as the second Gloria Feldt, PPFA President as: are dedicated the forum discussion of the semester. ciples that every individual has she said. . Congress already Planned Parenthood's medical Director of Security Joe Kirk erty, anyone not behaving in the fundamental rights to decide approved the ban, but in 1996, resources are excellent and they affirmed the decision to have a accordance with the College's when and whether to have a President Clinton vetoed that have enabled many women to full campus security staff and restrictions can and will be asked child, and that every child should decision. Addressing pro-choi- ce carry healthy babies to full term, uniformed police officers present to leave, according to 'Kirk. be wanted and loved." advocates, Feldt contested pro-li- fe if that is their wish. The second is as a precaution. Should attendees be unwilling to Feldt has been active in the policies: factual information on STDs and "Any time we that there is a cooperate, Wooster City Police reproductive-right- s movement "If anti-choi- ce legislatures contraceptives. There is so much possibility of a problem, we need will be present to handle any such since 1974. Leading conferences have their way, more Americans false information floating to be prepared for that," Kirk problems. The number of officers ' and delivering speeches, Feldt will contract infections that around. Women deserve to know

' - delivering her message endanger their health and future the truth," Dixon said, adding the said, v . is not set, but Kirk acknowledges has been Since the forum is taking place a definite police presence. throughout the nation. fertility and more Americans will statement, "Planned Parenthood foster-- face unintended pregnancies and is not only about abortion." , at McGaw Chapel, private prop-- "Our measures are simply pre "We must be out front SAB improving social scene Alicia Nathison bigger than us that have less expressed interest in bringing well-know- n cam- , STAFF WRITER to do (on campus)," Director of more acts to In an effort to improve the Lowry and Student Activities Bob pus according to Assistant campus, RoddasakL Director of Student Activities social atmosphere on :. r ' SAB is planning various Last year SAB started late Jennifer Schreer. r activities in hopes of appeal- night activities such as trips to "There are some groups that ing to more of the student Acres of Fun. This year some are just doing the college cir- body. With the debut of students are taking an active cuit, or they're up and coming, Happy Hour in Scot Lanes, role in the social scene. then there are the real famous the upcoming performance of "With fingers crossed, we're groups. We can't put all our and eggs into Dave Matthew Band this ; hoping that Gable House Saturday and future white Yost House will be able to because then we're done rafting and rock climb- open up a little coffee shop in (financially); that'sjt for the year,"s Amelia Kays water ; Jennifer Schreer and Bob Rodda discuss Photo by -- Schreer said. ing trips, SAB is working hard Gable House three , to four upcoming SAB events in Rodda's office. to provide a diverse range of evenings a week. It would be - Money is the biggest obstacle. activities and entertainment. a smoke and alcohol free envi- Every year Campus Council "I think the variety of things ronment. There would be a few grants SAB money in order to fun WRITE FOR NEWS we offer is right up there with, or computers set up for student use, ' entertainment for the year. ' ' . games," Rodda said. , . .. This year Campus Council better than other . schools.' card call Laura at x. 2598 There are (schools) that are Some students have granted John Zesiger . '01, Musical Entertainment Chair more money in order to bring Corrections in Blessid Union of Souls. potential One of Zesiger and Rodda's As journalism is a human process, lliere is a constant for .. . I g, J ...... ,,..' vw v: in news-gatherin- goals was to eliminate a' student mistakes. Errors can be nuide at any step of the mis- r:rcvI':'JI! . - editing, or printing. Vie Voice stuff strives to avoid such ' ; takes, when does occ ur, it is our policy to admit it and : " 'you're but an error C2XD;; .: '.: You' pay. tuition and ' i purpose. entitled to do what's here, promptly correct it. lids space exists for that . ( ' . 1 1 . , . . ., ,.w. U.i ii il iui i L We're riot1 going to charge you colle-gia- To complaint, please call the Voice office you're here to have a te repctrt errors or register a off-campu- s, ' ' on-camp- us (330)-263-259- 8 or email us at experience," Rodda j at ext. 2598 or up ' ' ' ' c:r;: at lowry uifo dzs:c saia. voicewooster.edu. T 1 ) f ? wpo Vtk ttsits Editor: Chris Powers Assistant Editor: Becca Stinson Allardice underestimates students To the Editors: bling structure of our political a huge factor in my decision on forums, be they amidst the marble Wooster, I've been extremely As a freshman, there is proba- buildings of Washington D.C. or gratified by the number of stu- bly cafeteria food that has spent the cornfields of Wooster, . dents who want to accomplish more time on the Wooster campus Besides the fact that the word great things here. than I have. "politics" carries such a repulsive ' As a quick example, the Soup However, in two weeks of liv- connotation, our country's civic and Bread campaign has inked a ing at the College of Wooster I engagement system, which is record 720 students to partici- have seen, felt and observed the shrouded in politics, is a complete pate in their weekly charitable dynamic of my new home well tumofT to the majority. cause. That's nearly 45 percent enough to refute various points Who wants to waste a night at a of our student body participating made by co-edit- or James meeting and talk an issue to death, in a voluntary activity for chari-- Allardice in his open letter to when the decision will ultimately President Hales (Sept. 1). be made behind closed doors? No, Wooster is not structured Allardice pegged Wooster stu- Who wants to spend time cam- to be a haven for world-changi- ng dents as apathetic, citing a glaring paigning for a President who proactivity, it's simply a place 'fee drought of participants in campus doesn't have one opinion that has- where we will be educated and political functions. n't been run through his partisan acquire the skills and knowledge In stating that Wooster is a machine? that benefit the individual in his microcosm of our "crumbling The moment students do mission to be a benefactor for society, Allardice cast each start to immerse themselves in society.

member of the campus (except campus and . national politics . And though it may not be a

beer-swilli- ng himself) as a will be the moment to start harmonious, civilly engaged . .' drone..; worrying. Utopia, it's quite far removed Mr. Allardice couldn't be more A quick scan of the campus from the stagnant, beef-soak- ed wrong. would reveal that people want to cesspool that Allardice portrayed Lack of campus participation help the world, though not neces- in his letter. Jr. speaks not to the growing apathy sarily in suits and ties. As the of our culture, but to the crum potential for service activities was --Dan George '04 Lowry annoyance: line-cutti- ng

To the Editors: than you. What I have to do with chocolate ice cream. my time is significantly more "It's 9:25 and I have to get I am writing to address a some- important than whatever you have to class." (As if no one else in what minor issue that continues to to do with yours, whoever you the damn line has a - 9:30 anger and annoy me when "din- are." Nobody has the gall to say class.) ing at Lowry's mess haJlNo, this to strangers. Before concluding, I will rTT 7H The Student Newspaper of I'm not whining about .the food. Nevertheless, these people, distinguish what a "cut" really The College of Wooster Hell, I. love the food, and that's through their inconsiderate, and . is. A "cut," at the least, incon- www.wooster.eduvoice hum- OICE after eating three years of ignorant actions, continue . to veniences those people' who -- lmEditors-in-chie-f: James Allardice mus, broccolini and chantilly insult others.'! do not care how . would have been in front of " y " :: Naomi Kresge V-- i potatoes. ; . long you have triumphantly . you. -- Staff Wrftrr Lauren fhirf " Editor: Kulcbawik ' JUlTreftz . . What really strikes me is a basic denounced racism, sexism, homo- have no qualms with those Managing Editor: Karen AuUe I issue which concerns human phobia or any other form dis-- individuals who the back of News Editor: Laura Nesler . Production AdtanM of enter News Am. Editor: Alex Pries Jessica Decker ; rights. . Many people see no prob- crimination, because if you will- the food line just to grab a roll or Viewpoint! Editor: Chris Powers ErinMcCana lem with "cutting" classmates in ingly cut one person in line, your a scoop of couscous, as long as Asst. Viewpoints Editor: Becca Stinson ; Features Editors: Leila Atassi line. Call it "line jumping if you opinions, then, are valueless and the line is not slowed in the Molly McKinney want, but there's a reason why hypocritical. process. That is the ' whole A&E Editor: David Powell Cedar Point will remove you from , To. clarify, I will list some point. Sports Editors Erica Bamhill ' ' ' ' '. .'' the park, . invalid Ann Raymond ' and ridiculous reasons that I do nave better things to do ' OflWManayM-- Asst. Sports Editor: BenMitcheU -- I Stacey Lim ' When you cut in front of a per- -, I have heard for why people than dwell upon a supposedly

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At HUM M IN 5VARVIV- - WE'C TV c &iu-- r survive ifwc lea iwt ' bubble II ... i t . Jk retre . T4if tuk wi Trouble in the In an editorial a method), makes me last year, I Lfii Atassi fed like a toddler www ri - w referred to the The College has College as "the plastic bubble-c-ut done a fine job of stimulating our off from the mud and dust of academic growth, all the while the "real world." With our faces suppressing our social develop- pushed up against the suffocating ment into adulthood. We're siding of our invisible force-fiel- d, encouraged, by way of threats to we observe what life is like for revoke our grants and privileges, "the outsider" and are taught ways to live on campus. All students 1 ArTUAU.Y IT'S ; . of emulating that existence in this must sign the food service agree- fAT K THAT TiK$Hi. But Peig(Bf? virtual reality microcosm. ment and pay for Momma Lowry CUM Upon arrival, every first-ye- ar is to feed us three times a day.- - How ppce4 full of excitement to finally be "on is that considered living on our cis nil Vil Five their own." No parents. No rules own? LcHvrV.' (except for those which also hap- Sometime during the summer, I pen to be state laws). An opportu- received in the mail a promise that nity to finally prove their worth. upon returning to campus, I would College is often the first time in an find a Java Hut and a baked pota- individual's life when he or she is to bar, but so far it still looks like finally treated like an adult. soggy noodles and rice to me. Parents and professors will even C'mon now, Wooster! Don't lie to tell you that, if only to remind you us. Change is great, but we would that only you are responsible for never know what we were missing your actions or failing grades as a if the College didn't lie about it SGA candidates: suck it up and deal consequence. My parents used to tell me there When I was first oriented to the . was a Santa Claus, but at least he bubble, I, too, fell victim to the would have left a baked potato in After a few years of observing want to be part of an organization assumption that I would be then my stocking had I asked for it the way politics work on this cam- Naomi Krfsge that takes itself seriously and actu- and forever an adult However, A couple months ago I hap- pus, thought I would never see ally does something, ' follow its I every year since then, the College pened to come across my birth myself saying this but SGA did down on the correct side. They rules yourself as welL - has found ways to remind me that certificate, and contrary to what everything right last Tuesday. checked those COW card num-be- rs Nobody made you run for I don't yet deserve that title or ' the College may believe, t am 20, They made sure triple-checke- d, on the backs of the ballots to SGA, and when you agreed to run respect, for that matter. - not four. When my mother was 20 , actually - nobody voted twice. make sure no one voted twice; you agreed to follow their rules No sooner had I unpacked my she was engaged to be married. They manned the booths at both they ran the information meeting for limning. Insistence on playing , posters and clothes this year than I One of the reasons I am not is dining halls at both lunch and din- where they handed" you your peti- by the rules doesn't mean taking was summoned to a hall meeting - because I want to spend these ner. They ran a clean flection with . tions with information sheets on the the law into your own hands or led by my R.A., the first -- of many years by myself, just being a more would-b- e Senators than in recent front stating' mat no posters were to running some sort of a dictator- weekly hall meetings that would young and (I'll admit it) still memory and a38 percent voter turnout remain in Lowry or Kittredge afterJ2 ship; suggesting that the rules ' suck an hour of my busy time and impressionable adult. I always that this campus is nothing : should be bent because of on fill it with discussions about ' enyisioned myself at 20 to.be in a extraordinary. .. your own special circum short of i insects and hair in the sink and place: where', I can exercise my . stance indicates a lack of ; Now,, I ; certainly can . ( So, you want to be. part of. missing window screens. All independence, instead of being empathize , with ,tjiose who if respect for the organization ' ' ! imoortant matters, mind you. shackled to adolescence, 'as the . last organization you were trying to join in feel they, were shafted ' an that takes I Honestly, you don't want to get College's condescension perpetu- fun tb the first place. Tuesday. It can't be ! some-- seriously actually out the shower and find I ates . with its childish program itself and I respect this year's of find out thaj ,all, your work one's scraggly hair stuck to your - requirements, unreasonable making posters and recruit- - does something, follow its cabinet for insisting that sick! These restrictions and false promises. ; its' ' members and I elbow. That's just ing( was nothing .but well. -- ypters. 1 ru(esyourselfst 1 i. must be addressed once and Maybe it's because our school members I issues an , exercise in learning . prospective tto 2 ?'! then never again. But every fourth is small enough to feel like a fam- d if disj-gruntle- 'play by' SGA's rules. I I would be I campaign. t 1 I hall meeting is required to be a ily, with parental figures and reck- waiting all the day i vote! respect its efforts to run a clean too if after am designated program." Horseback less youngsters that need to be day to find out whether I won a Ultimately, that's the bottom election, and I respect them more , riding. Bowling. Movie night To cared for and reprimanded. But I, was. never line. (The rules stated - and than anything for staying firm seat I discovered that inspire unity within the haU." even the folks 'know when it's running in the first place. everyone was informed "that no under fire. It -- shows they have . really in the time to just let go. We're very A posters were to remain hanging in some sort of respect for the organ- JJut jthe .same Cabinet ;that I first-yea- r. busy children with very time lead! sound acceptable to a btde was also the specified areas after a. specified ization they And I think all . tossed your .tickets ' eager to meet new peo- - to argue between I.S. and our an election run this could be a good first step resident that made this election a time. Period. And of 1 Cabinet r1i to rhf nnrvrrlassman it S lust teething rings. It's a dog-e- at --dog the first time like a serious, worthwhile endeav- -' toward a. year that's a bit more serious endeavor for - rs, i . - i ' i - lame as hell. These get-togethe- world out there! We'll try not to in my memory. They were the or" instead of, like a haphazard than endless playground par-liament- ary ' ! ! along with the new information fog the plastic when we gather at ones staying up until .the wee exercise in resume building as I sessions. ,' ' reports (a rendition of an age-ol- d the bubble to see it and re-count- ing believe it's been called before is. Kresge Co-Editor-in-C- hief hours counting Naomi is ! disciplinary system my siblings ballots make sure that all' those run according to certain specified The Wooster Voice. She ; Leila Atassi is the Features Co-Edit- or to of and I used to refer to as the "tattle-tale- " down-to-one-vo- Voice. te races came rules and expectations'. So, if you has no plans to run for SGA. ofThe Wooster FFATURF.fi 6 Editors: Leila Atassi & Molly McKinney The virgin and the veteran: two perspectives of the fair Lindsay Bye & Megan Monks never have been revealed had we "things have changed for the bet- Staff Writers simply come as spectators. ' ter." Beery also noted outstanding Arthur Beery of Beery's AgSoft structural changes such as the The Wayne County fair is one Computers & Supplies provided sanctioned pulling track for the ofthe biggest events in the city of many a colorful comment His tractor and horse pulls. The track Wooster. It even warrants a day first recollection of the fair was was added in the early 1980s area pubuc schools so stu- the year that there wasn't one, due when the tractor pull event was offfor ' dents can show their animals. to polio. Now, nearly 52 years moved from the final night to tne voice aectaea to sena ajatr since Arthur's first fair, his own Monday afternoons. virgin, Megan Monks "04 . and a booth sits at the site of the cider As true as these examples of the fair veteran, Lindsay Bye HM, to ; stand where he annually quenched Wayne County Fair may be, the give fresh and different perspec- his thirst since he was a boy. most solid shred of growth lies not tives ofthefair. "Now I have to bring my own in one of the 100,000 who attend - cider,' Beery lamented. annually or in the increase .. of Megan Monks, first tuner Sergeant Kenneth Harmon booths and organizations, but in -- recalled his fond memories and the family. "What is that smell? Why are photo by Amelia Kays the unfortunate mishaps of his 15 It's really the family connotation,' all of these people out in the rain? An overview ofthe Wayne County Fair. The fair began last years at the Wayne County Fair. Louarme Le Fever of Orrville said. Don't they know that the smell "My most memorable experience "This fair is successful year after Saturday and runs through tonight. ' niAifMi 0 nrhan was probably the night I was run ' year because generation after gen- mv fnitial iMimw to th Wavm out the words to "We're From the suade her into the fairgrounds. ' over," Harmon said. It happened eration choose to make it that County Fair. As a fair virgin, I : Country" by Tracy Bird, I began Upon traversing the gate and twice actually, but once was really way. My grandparents were was ready to turn around and walk to feel as though I actually was. receiving a stamp in the shape of a bad. I was directing traffic, I put ' involved, my kids are involved, right out of that swinging gate the The real challenge came at the cow on my hand, I took a long both hands out, you know, they and surely someday, their children second I walked through it. animal bams. My idea of a proj- look at my surroundings.. stop, you go. '' Only, they didn't will be too." "-- -- ' However, my friend persuaded me ect usually means some poster Numerous tents, laden with pud-- stop." ' " Beery responded to this, adding otherwise. board and a little bit of Elmer's, dies of rainwater, house a "It's all about family. Notjust your kin, As we walked around, I felt not a four-legg- ed snorting animal. menagerie of activities, including The fair overtime . your children and wife, but you fair slightly out of place. I had never However, I took a liking to the , health clinics, gristmills, furniture family. I have acquaintances from been to the fair before, did not ' horses, claimed a rabbit for my stores, farm machinery, cowboy When asked of the changes all around this county who stop own a cowboy hat, nor do I drive own and began talking to the boots and, of course, political he'd seen since his first years at by every year. Some I was in pick-u-p ;: - a truck, but I do love goats (don't tell anyone). . campaigns. I saw the booths of the fair. Beery responded positive-- 4H with, some I've met long country music. This was my first . It was the french fries that final- fair food, calling me to engulf after. Many folks, it's the only Grease-flavore- common thread with the majority ly did me in. d myself in funnel cakes, Italian "The buildings have seen quite . time I see them. And it sure is of the fair veterans. As we belted sticks, are actually incredibly . sausage and cotton candy. " a progression," Beery said, adding good." - i . - appetizing at a county fair. I was Finally, I observed the people. sold. o All ages were about, some with So if you happen to spot me hats, some with boots, some with sauntering through the horse belt buckles larger than their bams in my cowboy hat, or climb- faces. Many of the older folks ing into my pickup truck' next watched the parades of people - t ' ' year, don't hesitate to wave and from their lawn chairs, reminisc- Earn money and marketing-experience- ! say howdy! ing of fairs gone by. The nation's There were children tending 1 J leader in college marketing is Lindsay Bye, fair veteran goats, junior highers holding -- : i. s ' seeking an energetic, r hands and many a spectator, along - ' ; entrepreneurial student to I took a long whiff of that fresh for the games and rides. I recalled

1 - . promote products and country air. a smell most these scenes from fairs mat had - ' " t events It's . - .- i .k , : s ; on campus. familiar, and oddly enough, com- - ; long attended, and from the very ' forting. That's not to say I enjoy first moment, I felt at home. ' . . ... Great earnings : it, that's just to say that I appreci-

Set your own hours . ate it still hanging around. It feels Stories from thefair ' y - Part-tim- : ' - ' ! ' ;.. - e : like . home. , My partner did not Vi t No sales involved agree with my opinion, and it took -- Our two perspectives on the fair 1 ' 5-- 1 0 hours per week a great deal of convincing to per' varied greatly, but we both agreed ; wholeheartedly that the people of American Passage Media, Inc.4 FUN PART-TIM-E WORK Wajne County provided more Campus Rep Program Play i Children's, costumed from the experience than any fair : ! ' :r , characters , could.' We Kays ' - Seattle, VVA educational in foods or rides met photo by Amelia t Pregrade schools Good-pay- , - some of the most interesting peo- The'.glass-blowin- g flexible hours, car(neededT Call ple and, in turn, unearthed treas- booth is one ofmany craft booths at ihe Bob (614):297-868- 8 j ure troves of stories which could tWalne Countv Fain ill.lilltliillllKIIII t IlltllllllllllMIIIIIlHUllllllltliltllinili r-- 1 Digin' the new diner at Digger's J.:; 1:C3 m S. Airier Derek Somogy toward the college community. bargain prices. ' " ' ) Staff Writer What used to be the "couch and - In addition to typical bar foods - chair" lounge is now the sports and appetizers, the kitchen cooks I : r t f bar. Entirely separate from the up all kinds of oversized sand- t .' II .Mr .. ! l were away over' dance club and diner, the main wiches. Open much later than the yl ( While students ! -- A: .! t .' . y. the summer. Digger's underwent a attraction of the sports bar is the nightclub, the diner gives patrons 4 ''"-- J : ' , a ' . major renovation. While retain- large projected television screen a place to eat and sober up after a : ' .i a v. i r ( f Dine-i-n ing the previously existing bar and and, of course, the bar. From late night of partying. ' " ' ; if 1 nightclub, a sports bar and diner here, customers can order dinner, facilities are present, separate ' ' ! ; .'.!!t: ) !' . were added. drink a beer, sit back and watch all from the club and sports bar, and Aside from the on-camp- us the television they desire. all food items are available for Underground, Digger's is the only Since the dance club is two carry-ou- t. partydance club in Wooster. doorways away, this all can hap- Not much is new in Digger's Opened in 1993 by current owner pen in the absence of blaring nightclub. The cover charge is Rod Musselman, Digger's is music. Musselman's plan for this still $3 for those over 21 and $5 located in the lower level of the part of Digger's was to attract for the rest The bar, tables, DJ

College Hills shopping plaza. . older college students, professors booth and dance floor are all in Its physical location is reflected and other adults; consequently it the same places. The pool tables in the underground theme of the is for people ages 21 and over. and video games are still there ping-pon- g establishment - dim lighting, con-structi- on If all goes favorably in a too. But is gone, tool decorations, and November ballot decision. replaced by a black-lig- ht lounge. plenty of wood. Digger's may get a Sunday liquor Wednesdays will continue to be Digger's Sports Bar and Diner license, and the sports bar will "college night," but Musselman ' Super Bowl hopes that the new Digger's will C : n t i : ' a '! .e are . open Monday through remain open for - . Sunday and all other major attract students on other nights as r :.: . f ;' : Saturday, 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. The r j fI c.: open Wednesday Sunday sporting events. well. Thursday nights feature live ! ..'l r;,.' -- i vi; .1.:::. ms tb.it nightclub is at L;r ; s. J J "t; ,u-- ti include a entertainment, typically local t i. and its through Saturday, 8 p.m..to 3 Current bar specials -i. iharaUcrieJ apaMboJ . .i of t". 2 C" L- : t'.e I! 10' CO , cover bands or original musicians. activities from pitcher of beer and a basket of -s . resistance a.m. closed i-sv.- Digger's is various t! cb u-- .e j in Lis Tuesdays. ' ; wings for $10 and a 10 oz. NY Without a doubt. Digger's has to I'm. Between April 19'6 African 1 J.ilusc; "by and Steak with "County Fair" been improved. The sports bar when tbe TRC hearings be;', an The changes at Digger's began Strip Religions course. much-need- ed style fries for $10. is considerably nicer than its and their conclusion in 'J')'i, with improvements Professor Lc'.l attributes his diner is located in what local competition. The food is approximately 20,000 victims to the restrooms. From there, The interests in the TKC to an . 2,(XK) vic- a area next to the tasty and cheap. Drinks are , submitted statements; Musselman found himself adding used to be dark acquaintance at Steilenbosch guidance cheap. What else could tims testified in public hearings a partition, then a sports bar and restrooms. Under the of University, philosopher and manager Harlan, Musselman's intended market and 8,000 perpetrators of violent finally then the restaurant All the food Steve. TRC researcher Wib'ielm origi-n- al want? Just one thing: less boy-ban- d acts applied amnesty. In the- while, Musselman was creating a Digger's plan is to provide Verwoerd. "I didn't have the fir food at music, please. ory, the disclosure of "truth" is business marketed very much and freshly prepared TRC as something that would the means towards "reconcilia- be within my purview, within tion". What is missing from this the issues that I was going to equation, some critics of the discuss in my book until I got to TRC cite, is the notion of justice. South Africa and I realized, this It is this question of justice is a central issue of philosophy: 2 SVFs seeking all eligible persons; which Bell highlights in his it deals with jurisprudence, Searching for thapters on the TRC and his lec- 1.1 F, exciting adventure questions of ethics; it deals with or for an ture as well as "an example of a the answers to issues of oral philosophy and yvorld lively philosophical discussion through the of The Wooster ethics; and it is widely dis- going on in Africa." While some life and love? cussed by philosophical com- Voice. Must be and willing ' amount of healing and restora- flexible munities," Bell explained.' Ask advice tive values have emerged from posi- our The South African Truth and to experience new and creative tho hearings, the effect of the Reconciliation Commission experts to lend TRC on South Africa's future tions. No experience necessary. TRC was appointed by an act remains uncertain, if not over-idealize- d. you their Voice. of Parliament in 1995, a year after Mandela's presidential

1 "I think it's very frustrating Send questions inauguration just five years 1 for the people who deeply symbolic dismantling after the was to the Voice - believe in the process that irlghis . transi- Thy.rzdzy apartheid. During the . C.:: toi:c:.i'z.c:i of had the prospect -- designed and tion from apartheid's notorious ' - . - - - S : Oracle and possibility of reconciliation i ' - minority rule to the democratic between whites and non-white- s. " South Africa," questions ' 1 1 t. "rcw . . . . ( w ) c y Box 3187 " But tbe fact in South Afica is i l t ' -- ..I'.rg with the restoration of ' is r ; I - 3 .' . ( tb.a everyone just 'niut i 'je c : .t. r- - J to forefront of r ( - n 1 ' ' : n i . r j , r t t. st Mi 1 1 . -- v ; If!, f AllTS fit F.MTFKTATMMF.NT Editor: David Powell New art professors paint fresh perspective, experience the art department mainstays and the Naomi Kresge on a plane, she said, then drove that I found appealing, she said. Siewart, an addition to history faculty, said one of the departure late in the year of two Editor-in-chi- ef cross-count- ry from California to She would take the chosen peel professors . and an Ohio to arrive at the College the and arrange it as part of a pattern first things that impressed him at assistant Wooster was the quality of the adjunct ' instructor. Retiring roughly the past month and a week before classes started. Her starting at the foot of the bed. In Ebert Art Professors were George William half, Assistant Professor Marina impressions of Center facili- Olson, at the College since 1963, Mangubi has moved herself and the campus so ! 1 - r ties. He con- and Thalia Gouma-Peterso- n, at her works across a few thousand far have been tinues to rave the. College since 1968. Assistant land. Visiting Assistant po s i t i v e : miles of about the feel Professor Garth Amundson had Professor Erin Sotek comes to "Students are of the campus: been at the College since 1996, Wooster after performance art bright, hard--; "It's just a very while Assistant ' Professor Anne peels. Visiting - working, inter- with banana comfortable H. Albritton and Adjunct instruc- Assistant Professor John Siewart ested in what place. ... I tor Pierre Gour had been on staff is just glad to have an office with they do, open-mind- ed every- since 1997. : Oak Grove. and I think a view across the Grote cited the presence of were like that about body feels None of these art faculty -- kind of happy Department Chair and studio art ' I. . here before August; each of them Wooster, she to be here, he Professor Walter Zurko as a stabi- brings a new perspective to Ebert. said. said. lizing and encouraging force for Painter and printmaker Sotek, Siewart con- the seniors in the department, Mangubi's perspective comes whose special- trasted the inti- especially at the beginning of this tinged with a summer of exhibi- ties are pho- A: macy of the semester when they first learned Moscow, Russia. Her exhi- tography and PHOTO BY NAOMI KRESGE tion in campus with of the staff changes. She noted bition there, entitled "Music 'on Erin Sotek sits next to the vintage refrigerator in her studio office. the large-sca- le that, while not all the seniors had the Bones, was a collection of universities with which he has the had class with Albritton, Gour or prints inspired by her father's sto- mixed media, installations and Then she would turn her back on ' experience, namely, the Amundson, each had studied with ries of gramophone records print- performance art, also comes to the pattern, fluff her dress, mark a most University of Minnesota, where Zurko. "We love him," she said. X-r- ay the headboard and lie ed on used films in post-WW- II Wooster with a background in notch in B.A., and the "We're so glad he's still here." Russia. "On the bones' exhibition. She keeps slides of down. Five or 10 seconds later he took his University Michigan, where he Zurko himself also expressed was the slang term for the result- one exhibition, "A Peeling, in she would start the process again, of

. changes. '.-- optimism about the staff was interesting her studio at Wooster. , continuing it again and again for did work for his M.A. and Ph.D. ing records. "It said. , degrees. Siewart specializes in "It's exciting," he "It's how they were taking something ; For "A Peeling," Sotek created three hours a day during the two focusing the late always unfortunate when you very macabre and transformed it a performance space with dull weeks the installation ran. "My modern art, on 19th-centu-ry I 12-fo-ot Symbolist move- have to make changes ...but , work has a lot with the into . something pleasurable, reddish walls, a bed to do six-fo- issues gender and think sometimes it's good to get Mangubi said. The ideas and dressed in white sheets with a ot process," she said. The headboard ment and of J urban imagery. . new viewpoints." f issues behind the concept of recy- headboard and a stack of eventually bore 385 notches. . 01 Zurko, did say that the depar- . Studio art major Jill Grote . cling images interest her. , .1500 banana peels on the floor. "A Peeling" was conceived as three-pa- ' were unexpected. "It was a . rt sees the new faces in the art tures After ! Mangubi's . show, ended Sotek, .wearing a poufy white the second part of a , com-menta- ry posi- real surprise to us," he said of July 31 of this year, she "took it dress, would crawl off the bed and performance-ar- t series, a 'department as a potentially Amundson's departure to pursue down, packed it up, and jumped "root through the pile, find one on gender construction tive switch.; "What is that, when and consumption. Sotek said she you add chaos to a situation to a position in his home state of chooses hermedium by issue and .help foster growth? she asked. Washington. "We didn't know

disci-- ;at , "stated, that she enjoys discussing I "Art is such an independent f this was a possibility all. ' ' conceptual art, the .theory behind pline anyway, she said,"and it's Amundson is now, in a teaching

-- ideas, and per- -l position at - ynjversity of j pcC jSbe . said she lpyes talking 'good toihave new the, about'art. something which stands spectives to bounce ideas off of. Western Washington. - j x her in good, stead when it comes The shakeup in the. College art Gour, Amundson's partner, also ' Washington.' .t0; teaching: "I Jove, teaching , faculty comes after' the spring traveled' to Albritton the sharing of the ideas,'' she said. i semester retirement of two "art has moved to Sarasota, Fla., a h ' - location1 cldser to her six children, J J r'i to take a teaching position at the -- t f r- t . ) - Ringling School of Art) j : "'.- - h SECURITY' One professorial f. position remains to be filled for spring Good lyipney, Good Hours.,, semester.; The on-camn- us inter- view,process starts next week. An application process for re-hiri- ng If . M for thfe'r visiting 'professor posi 1 ) f i T -- -- t ? j j . ?; . t tions; will take place this spring.;

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f 1 linn I ' '' - V" Wl ' ' ' ' x -- V ;: Wooster blessed with Blessid : . , - I " ' ' I - tl' . Kate Wilson Roth, keyboards, bass and har- wings. Finding fame and fortune Staff Writer monica; Eddie Hedges, drums; has not been easy. The band has This Saturday night it's time and Tony Clark, bass. - The band just cracked the surface of star- ... kid- has many '''" for hot kinky sex. No, just hits out on the radio. Its dom. Angry Salad, out of 200 ding, it's Party on the Green, an most memorable songs are "I bands, won Rhode Island's outdoor party with live bands believe," "Standing at the Edge of WBRU Rock Hunt In 1995 they sponsored by SAB. This year's the Earth" and most recently were nominated for Best Debut I lineup is Blessid Union of Souls "Hey Leonardo." "Blessid Album at the Boston Music and Angry Salad. Blessid's better Union" has appeared on many telt . Awards. The band's success can known name hopes, to bring a big- evision shows, including "Donny be attributed to the good chem- ger crowd than last year's poorly & Marie," "Regis and Kathie istry between the four members: attended Party. Last year featured Lee," The Jenny Jones Show," Bob Whelan, vocalist and gui- Dead Eye Dick (who featured "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" tarist; Hale Pulsifer, drummer; that one song in "Dumb & and "Entertainment Tonight." Alex Grossi, lead guitar; and Dumber") and some other band The band was also featured on the Ryan Vesco, bass. no-on- e remembers. Besides the soundtrack for "Armageddon." Angry Salad began to tour bands, SAB will provide various With all these successes, it is nationally in 1998 in a custom-mad- e refreshments. Party on the Green amazing that they are playing van known as the Salad begins Saturday at 8 p.m. on the right here at The College of Shooter. They can be indentified Quad. Wooster. That's reason enough to by songs like "99 Red Balloons" r Blessid Union of Souls is soft attend. and "The Milkshake Song." "99 but energetic rock. Combined Angry Salad, despite the crazy Red Balloons" was originally by with the soothing voice and poet- name, is relatively easy listening. the german band Nena as "99 ic lyrics of lead singer Eliot They are a pleasant mixture of Luftballons." Angry Salad is a

ming Sloan, the other members of the Counting Crows and Hootie and new and up-and-co- band band make this a dynamic listen- the Blowfish. The band formed in worth checking out ing experience. The other musi- 1 993, straight out of Brown And, of course, if you aren't . PHOTO CXXIRTESY OF SAB University, and for the past seven interested in the bands, the Party cians responsible for this wiz- Blessid Union Souls will headline Party on the Green this years has been trying to spread its does have cheap alcohol. of ardry are Jeff Pence, guitar; CP. , Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. on the Quad Beginning Friday at Coen Brothers born in Blood, Victor Rortvedt Walsh to kill his cheating wife Coens' world is one of deeply Cinemark Staff Writer and her lover. The Coens ensure contrasting shadows and light Surfacing amid a sea of lowest that all does not go according to Ever-changi- ng angles and light- common denominator summer anyone's singular plan.' Frances ing reinforce the filmmakers' Movies 10 movies, the reissue of the Coen McDormand as the wife is the aversion to empathy. The only brothers "Blood Simple" was seeming protagonist, yet it is repetitive viewpoint one which What Lies Beneath (PG-1- 3) (1:20)4:057 :20, 10:05 fresh - make remarkably easy to see through pervades the film isthat from The Way of the Gun (R) (1:30)4:20,7 10, 9:55 like a breath of air that dank, seedy air, but the. camera's gaze on or Bring it On (PG-1- 3) (1:50) 4:25, 7:00,9:30 refreshing nonetheless. double-cross- es mix with from the oscillating ceiling 3) The The Replacements (PG-1- (1:35) 7:25, 9 40 The creative team behind fans. It is from their van- Coyote Ugly (PG-1- 3) (2:10)4:35, 7:05, 10:20 Big Lebowski," misunderstandings to weave a tage that we witness the ' The The Watcher (R) (1:00,3:10)5 20, 7:40, Cannes Film Fest winner web of murders and re-murd- ers events below. From 10:10 "Barton Fink" and the from which no one human eyes, the labeling Highlander Endgame (R) (1:10,3:15) 5: 25, 7:35, Academy award-winni- ng of good vs. evil would be 9:45 "Fargo" burst upon the emerges with clean hands ... inevitable, but the cam ' era's cold eye utilizes an Autumn! in New York (PG-1- 3) 5:00 fledgling independent 10:15-15- , film scene with their 1984 thriller any of the main character's eyes. alienating viewpoint to see all The Cell (R) . , - (2:05)4:30,7: 45, goings-o- n. 0 ;"Blood Simple." Sixteen years Walsh's sliminess somehow dimensions of the Space Cowboys (PG-1- 3) . (1:15) 4:00,7: 10.-0- ' later and with little changed, the becomes endearing, Dan "Blood Simple" has little cul- (2:15) 4:45, 7: 30, 9:50 Bait(R) film shines as one of the great Hedaya's hypnotic eyes entrance tural significance - it does not modern nous. - -- V ' the, viewer and John Get?', reveal anything about humankind ) Saturday and Sunday Only no 1 ( "Now in Russia, they got it all i Machiavellian Romeo is driven to that we do not already suspect In Sorry, no passes mapped out so that everybody : heinous acts out of unreciprocated fact, rarely has a film stood the ' The double-crosse- s mix1 test time in the thriller genre .; pulls for everyone else. That's the love. of --. 1 .All shows before 5 pan. only $3.75 theory anyway But what I know , with misunderstandings to weave with such an unremarkable thesis: - General Admission $5.75 for adults, about is Texas, and down here ... a web of murders and re-murd- ers anything that can go wrong wQ .Friday and Saturday after 5 p.m. $6 you're on your own." from which no one emerges with In the right hands, though, those ' 1 - Mon-F- ri - i 'So tale revenge clean hands yet still fewer misfortunes become a mainline : . First Matinee show $3 begins the of and betrayal, rife with dark humor emerge at all. Shot by' Barry into desire, fear and suspicion, and shadowy characters. Marty Sonnenfeld (director of "Get which make suspense and murder (Dan Hedaya) hires PI M. Emmet Shorty" and "Men In Black"), the a guilty delight See. 14 Volleyball falls to John Carroll

' l 'I U I I . j ,11 in will llll llll MiM,l.j.,iiM.i..ii iMIHil .H.I'H"Wt.WW"U- - Sarah Strickler contested, with the Scots falling extending until early November, WRITER - ' - STAFF 15-1- - ' "? . just a few points short at 1 the Scots preseason hopes for 7., - 16-1- u ... The women's volleyball team and 4, respectively. However, NCAC glory may yet be realized. opened their home " season in the third game, the Scots only Wooster will be back in action Wednesday night with a match mustered a single point and were this weekend as they travel to 1 ; 1 - Carroll. The team overpowered by the Blue Streaks Defiance, Ohio, to play a set of r against John ;u. ' entered the match after a week-lon- g 15-- 1. :. matches. On Saturday, the team break, before which they "We really played well in the will face Tiffin University at 1 began the season strong with a 4-- 2 ' first two games, Maggie Stigler p.m. and will meet the host Lady record. '03 said. "We were playing some Jackets at 3 pan. ' Last night's match evolved into really good volleyball. Wooster's home schedule con- a disappointing loss for the Scots. Wooster's record is currendy 4-- 3, tinues on Monday, when the John Carroll took control early despite a surge of wins at the Scots face off against Malone. and handed the Scots a 3--0 defeat start of the season. They are slated to play at 7 p.m. in The first two games were closely- - However, with the season Timken Gymnasium. record Bowers chases NCAAJ, rush squad in the coming year. under 100 yards rushing in the last James Allardice spent five years playing 28 games. Editor-In-Chi- ef Bowers

minor league . baseball before Last season Bowers rushed for Simply stated, he's a man coming to Grove City and terror- 242 yards against Wooster in the among boys. RJ. Bowers, Grove izing defensive coordinators. season opener as the Scots 31-2- Ail-Americ- 8 City's an fullback, has After high school. Bowers squeaked out a win over the made minced meat of Division III turned down a football scholar- Wolverines. Containing him may defenses for three years now, sur- ship to Akron, and instead took be all that coaches can hope for. passing NCAA all-ti- me scoring the opportunity to play baseball in Two years ago, when Bowers last leaders like Walter Payton and the Houston Astros organization, came to John P. Papp Stadium, the Ricky Williams. Bowers next who agreed to pay for his educa- Scots held him to just 120 yards. targets in the NCAA record books tion. ' Head Coach Mike Schmitz are some impressive names like Since taking over as the feature hopes the Scot defense will come Ron Dayne and Tony Dorsett." back in the 1998 season, Bowers . up with a similar effort on ' Saturday, when Grove City has averaged 219 yards rushing Saturday afternoon. : . ; all-purp- i.L comes to Wooster, Bowers will and 262 ose yards. He's The Wolverines enter - -- ' : n. ii- - - .si stake his claim for yet on the verge setting several Saturday's game with a 1- -1 -- likely of. ; j . x ' - - - - - : 5 26-year-- all-ti- me l old NCAA records and record, following an ; The ' another NCAA record. - "- ; 11..:. : ; - r running back will set the becoming the most decorated run- - , time win over Kenyon last

- ; ; At:.- 1 i r .:... Division L II or . led Grove City NCAA Division in . rushing ning back ever week. Bowers - ,.:;.!: ; char;-':- : ; record, needing just 155 yards on IIL with 155 yards rushing, including Saturday. ' Stopping him may be impossi- the winning touchdown in ove- " . ., iih-iii..- 1 . -- ...... 1.1 .1 ill,,. Mr r n. ! r r nr.1,li...i.r..f, nUTH Impressive, sure, but just anoth- ble. No one has held Bowers rtime.1'' ;r' I er notch on the belt for someone who lias his eyes set on a much bigger prize the NCAA all-ti- me career rushing record. At 6-- 1, 242 pounds, Bowers is as big as fullbacks in the NFL and out- weighs every linebacker on Wooster's roster by at least 20 pounds. How do you stop a Bowers?

; Four years after'he burst onto the Division UJ, scene coaches jare 7 lillisll) 9" I still trying to figure fiat out In j the future, NFL coaches may haye I to do the same thing ,, . ve'afid Indians announcer Tom Hamilton ( I He opted against leaving Grove I charactetiza-o- f : an sportscaster's ; . - regarding unidentified . City for the NFL after his junior ccbct '02. c. . in ?- -- .1 the wild as mediocrity race". 142 -- and two .. . 1! card "a year,, butwith his size, speed, ath-- tious for yards ::..,L..:r..iv.' two lor a i; s and r ! letic ability' and the statistics he touchdowns. u.kks the past' four The game was not even as his second career " i has amassed over $ - ! years, he could make an NFL close as the final score indicates, ... . . j. I i ; . 11 Digging for gold Down Under Josh Pantesco throughout his body. He staged a tial to win three golds and become Staff Writer comeback after undergoing brain the best middle distance freestyler surgery, despite the fact that ever, Dana Torres (US) is trying

The world has anticipated the chemotherapy had completely to becom ',': i i st-ev- er swimmer start of the Olympics for some stripped his body of all muscle. to win ft ur juTercnt Olympics, time, and they are finally here, His aerobic system was intact, following victories in the 1984, with opening ceremonies on Sept however, and expert physicians 1988 and 1992 games. 15 in Sydney, Australia. This rebuilt his body. After demolish- Track and Field. The US team year's have ing the competition in the 1999 of Michael Johnson (200m, already survived much controver- and 2000 Tours de France, he 400m), Maurice Greene (100m), S sy: the IOC Salt Lake City scan- hopes to cruise to victory. and Marion Jones (4 sprints, dal; the ticket lottery that provid- Gymnastics. Russia hopes to jump) is considered the greatest ed a suspicious number of VIPs repeat their World Championship group of sprinters ever assem- ' with great seats and the removal performance and gather five bled. Cathy Freeman is r jw . I : - of a Greek-Australi-an girl from golds, behind Aleksei Nemov, a Australia's human interest story: the torch relay to make room for ; dual gold medalist, and Svetlana she is an Aboriginal athlete from the daughter of an IOC leader. Khorkina, who won four. They the host country, where aborig- -' The Olympics, however, have sur- have been practicing intensely for ines are often denied rights. She vived Hitler, drug scandals and the last three weeks in Sydney and is not running for political rea- boycotts, and the record 200 are prepared for the US and sons, however; she is Australia's teams competing this year are . Blaine Wilson is shooting best hope for gold (400m) and for photo by Lkic I low 1 k.s W primed for action. for America's first ever all-arou-nd bringing attention to equal rights Tie .';mstcr offense looks to take on h'CAC foes this eekend. The sports to " watch for in gold. , in her country. She plans to wear Sydney: , Swimming. The US team the Aboriginal flag if she wins. ! . The greatest rivalry is should challenge the Aussies, for Boxing. Cuban Felix Savon splits pair between China's Tian Liang and whom swimming is a national was offered $10 million by Don obsession. There has been trash King to fight Mike Tyson, but he Russia's Dmitry Sautin on the 1. . a:; Mcrcj hurst scored ea:!y in talking on both sides, started by wasn't allowed to leave the coun- - platform. The contenders have -- 1 vr SfORTS Editor the first half, but the Scots traded first place at major compe- the US team selling shirts at trials try. He probably would have won ' remained close, holding the that read "Kangaroo It's what's that match, and this will be his 1! .' field hockey team titions over the last two years. '! Lakers scoreless for the for dinner." Gary Hall, a sprinter third gold if all goes well. CO; ; '.: J their non-confer- va The USA's Laura Wilkinson is remainder of the period. gold, said the US In other sports, both the USA men's 1. . '.cJuIe t!.is last week. America's best hope for gold poised for Mercy-hurs- t -- struck .early" would smash Australia "like gui-- and women's basketball teams prom- v. n its home opener despite breaking three bones in kt again in the second half v. ith tars." Dual gold medalist Kieren ise not to lose a game; the US t SL'N'Y I3rcK.JrK-.i- t. The her foot before trials. two quick goals to take a first-ev- er women's soccer team hopes to fend y courtesy of the Perkins called Hall a "drug cheat." cue 3-- Cycling. At the commanding 0 lead. Lind ay ' 17-year-- ' 1 Nonetheless, old Aussie off Norway and China in opening C1 si j play of Emily cycling time trial event in Atlanta Koar .';r.an '03 ended the scor- ' '. Ian "Thorpedeo" ; Thorpe, the rounds to repeat their 1996 World Cup 1. ,'; he, the team's in 1996, Lance Armstrong fin- ing fhnu. lit with a goal '(' of a world record-hold- er in the 200 performance and Terry Brands .'rer, sc ored t a i.'e ished sixth, unaware that cancer ; ,tsi f;i m Ileniardon.. - crush- freestyle, has the poten- hopes to reverse last year's -- was spreading from his testicles and 400 Good a in ing decision in the finals to win r iC""'..lCT pbyeJ v.c the 128 pound wrestling title. - , Ijl i.--;; 25 And the new sports include: to shots on THE synchronized diving, like in CAMPUS The -- tl. J y and Basketball Diaries' (no joke) and ., in..; 1 ? UNDERGROUND PRESENTS triathlon (you can't beat watching 'J :i 1 he people throw up). ' '.('. V;, ityhurst Some of the most interesting to ' ot.ly Happy Hour, 579 p.m. news this year so far has been the i' 9 p.m. -- 1 a.m.: torch relay. Most recently, a man Dance Party , got past security during the relay, '.ill ::C r- - grabbed the torch and attempted 1 : V Saturday : to throw it in the sea and put it Dance Party 9 p.m. -- 1 a.m. out In July, a teen tried to grab the torch, and last month a high school student tried to put it out 1 : -- H it-;-- Monday with a fire extinguisher when it 8-- 11 went through his school. And Sports Night , p.m. another fact: Australian slang for penis is "root" The Canadian Wednesday national team is, interestingly, After Hours Cafe 9 p.m. -- 12 a.m. sponsored by the brand "Roots." Canada doesn't find this very funny, but the Aussies and every- one else does. 12 Sports Editors: Erica Barnhill & Ann Raymond Assistant Editor: Ben Mitchell Women's soccer goes 3-0 at home advantage of weaknesses in the i , Lady Red defense and put togeth- er two goals early in the second period to give Wooster a 2-- 0 unas- advantage. The first was an : sisted header and the second came courtesy of a crossing pass assist from Hulke. . The Scots gained some breath- ing room when Lealynd Pazderak 01 took a feed from Cole and , buried it in the back of the net in the gamers waning minutes bring- J ing the final score to 3-- 0. Nicole Roman '03 grabbed her second win in the net with eight saves on the day. Wooster added to the win col- 1'iLE r::o"io umn in Tuesday's contest against , Photo By Amelia Kays Mount Union. Once again Cole Colin Derdzar '01 drives the ball pjst the dfc came up big for the Scots, mark, finding the back the net. r--t Lesley Hankin '04 escapes her of drawing first blood early in the first half off an assist from Erica Barnhill more the same until Beth Hulke (her fourth on the cam- be of ' . a ! to Sports Editor to give Wooster a 1- -0 r ci.t t'.e Hemminger '03 broke the tie with paign) ' , V.. :s x.. : 1 ! : ; kick. The Scots didn't advantage. " a penalty -- really is no -- Sometimes there .: : 1 i ' f c;. r co:i- - . Lis 1-- "."s "l 0 iong; they In the final minutes of the peri- The t:. !";''' M hold their lead for ' -- place like home. - .1 od, Hankin connected off a penal- f ! f :r ! t r '. 'i 1 . giving up two games in a . added to it less than ten minutes After ' ' ' 2-- ? ' to 0. v j . : . row on the road, the Women's later when Stephanie Hulke '02 ty kick to push the Scots lead soocer team returned to the sent a pass flying to Emily Cole ""friendly confines of Carl Dale '01, who headed it into the net for Walts was in the net for Wooster ' saves in her first Memorial Field last weekend the goal. . and booked eight a the year. trying to turn their nascent The Blue Streaks mounted . shutout of season around. comeback attempt a minute The home stand was good to face the The change of scenery worked; later, getting a' shot past them, but the Scots must :. road again the Scots recorded two shutouts Wooster keeper Adrienne Walts prospect of hitting the three-gam- when they take on and will ride a e win- '03,. who saved eight in the con- on Saturday ' ning streak into their NCAC open- test. . conference foe Earlham. That The Scots tacked on some matchup leads off another er at Earlham on Saturday. " The turnaround began last insurance when Lesley Hankin three-gam- e . road trip for Friday afternoon in the Scots '04 zipped a pass to Cole, who Wooster. char- home opener. Following a fired it into the net for her second Head Coach David Brown as a pregame memorial to commemo- goal of the match, taking the final acterized the Earlham match 3-- said, "Against rate the February death of team- score to 1. "tough game," and ready for mate Christine Hulke '02, The home field advantage Earlham, we need to be them Wooster took 'the field against .continued to' work well for the a battle. We have outplayed few-year-s. John Carroll hoping to recoup Scots on Sunday, as Wooster and not won in the last 3-- ' the their preseason hopes. produced a 0 shutout of We need to be ready to win was scoreless. Carthage College. Once again, battle of work-rat- e and inten-sity- ." The first period ' ' - Both teams scuffled back and the teams went into the locker .- 4-- 2 into forth with little to show for their room tied at zero. The Scots take a record took the match with the Quakers. efforts. The second half looked to . Hemminger, though, lit jus lii$'firtwW Ihitu

Football ,', . - Volleyball 'r; " Sept. 16 Grove City r Men's Soccer Sept. 16 Tiffin (at Defiance) Field Hockey Cross Country Sept. 16 at Earlham Sept. 16 at Defiance Sept. 16 Kenyon Sept. 16 at GLCA , ; Championships Women 's Soccer Sept. 20 Kenyon . Sept. 18 Malone Sept. 20 Ohio Wesleyan . Sept. 20 Kenyon (Gambien Ohio) Sept. 16 at Earlham at . .