Harding University Scholar Works at Harding The Bison Archives and Special Collections 9-30-1994 The Bison, September 30, 1994 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.harding.edu/thebison Recommended Citation The Bison, September 30, 1994. (1994). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.harding.edu/thebison/1482 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Scholar Works at Harding. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Bison by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at Harding. For more information, please contact [email protected]. )1\ The 30 Septenzber 1994 Volume 70, Number 3 Harding University • Searcy, Arkansas ~ews M at a Glance Local •Dr. ,non. Diffine, Professor a[ EconomicS., recently.ptibiished a bOOk entiued ProfUes in ZJilterprise-Dellie.rt R. Be/4tm, !ffttre;mm.eun •1n ~~die ofi{;iSea;rcy camp3ign,, Cla:l:fl!Jl.g. ~M raiSed $]QO,QQO,oftbe ~1 .2 million j®l. ; Spring Sing '95. 1be hosts and hostesses are (from left to right) David Rubio, Erin Chandler, Chris Wagley and Tracy Falwell. Photos by jason Burt. Natfona.ly .. ." 11 ' qfi:4J~~~ "' 1' ~~ ... ., ' .,;>~" ·' ·. ;,_ ·' <:ofPO~· ""'"''"'~ W'ere :~:~~a¢t~ .ztnill.i cm Spring Sing 1995 hosts and hostesses chosen for, ~rid.dam~'ge1.1 :· catis.&l , by Carol Birth and Beaux and the jazz band at Harding. by tb.~ :ixxon :Ydldl:z on Bison staff writer He has performed in the Homecoming expects it to be "entertainingly diverse." sP:m. ~·Tl'ie ae~Ranitl$r bad "I am very excited about this year's musicals, Sound ofMusic and My Fair Since its inception 22 years ago, Students and faculty gathered in Spring Sing. Being part of such an Lady, and in a student-produced musical, Spring Sing has been produced by Dr. 'tb¢en f5eetang'!c ~re tttan Benson Auditorium Sept. 19, to get an ·s· 12!"· '"- ~ ...:..:n:,.. .... 11_·_'-~' *'· ,t·. , ~· event is a dream come true." Christmas Wishes. Also a member of John Ryan. He is being assisted this [0 ~ .. .., ~- - -~ ~.' ... w.. ,! · 4 early glimpse of Spring Sing '95. Falwell, a senior Spanish and Concert Choir, Rubio said he is "looking year by Dr. Stephen Frye, director/ From the 27 students who auditioned international business major from forward to getting to know the other coordinator; Dottie Frye, stage director/ to host the show, eight were chosen for Camden, co-hosted last year's Spring hosts and hostesses" and to improving choreographer; Steve Holder, music the final callbacks. Of those, Erin Sing, so she comes to the group with himself as a vocalist. director; and Dr. Warren Casey, jazz Chandler, Tracy Falwell, David Rubio first-hand experience. She also Wagley, a senior from Sikeston, Mo., band director. and Chris Wagley were selected. performs with her sister, Kris, and they has a double major in music and Approximately 12,000 people are Chandler, a junior elementary will be the opening act for Diamond psychology. He is also in Concert expected to be in attendance at Spring education major from Little Rock, was Rio tonight. Falwell said she is honored Choir and Belles and Beaux and has Sing '95. About one-third of Harding's an All-Region and All-State chorus to be selected as hostess again. performed in the musicals, Fiddler on student body will be involved with the member in high school and has Rubio is a fifth-year senior from the Roof and Sound of Music. Wagley, show, and 600-plus students are participated in Concert Choir, Belles Memphis majoring in social science. too, is excited about Spring Sing and expected to perform, Ryan said. Harding ranked #ll in the southern region by Vince Hernandez "Our primary mission for existence, asked to rate all the schools in the same based on the percentage of alumni who Bison staff writer the teaching of values and the category as their own institutions. The gave to a school's 1992 and/or 1993 University officials were informed development of Christian servants, is guidelines used were: (1) student fundraising campaign. Student selectivity recently that Harding has been ranked not rated at all by U.S. News, " Burks selectivity, (2) faculty resources, (3) combines high school class standing, among the top universities in the South said. "It is nice to be recognized by financial resources, (4) graduation rate ACT and SAT scores and other factors. by U.S. News & World Report. It is the national publications, but they don't and (5) alumni satisfaction. Harding is new to the U.S. News list, only Arkansas university to make the really touch what we are all about." Schools were divided into categories but has previously been listed in the list. Dr. Jim Carr was also very pleased based on classifications maintained by reputational college guides "The 200 The magazine's annual America's with the ranking. "Harding belongs to the Carnegie Foundation for the Most Selective Colleges," "Peterson's Best Colleges issue ranked the top 15 that list. Now we're getting the visibility Advancement of Teaching: national Competitive Colleges," "The Best Dollar schools out of about 500 regional that Harding deserves, which is universities, national liberal arts colleges, Values in American Colleges," and "The universities in each of four regions - something it has not gotten in the past." regional colleges and universities, Templeton Foundation Honor Roll for north, south, east and west. Harding Carr also confirmed Dr. Burks' regional liberal arts colleges, and Character-Building Colleges." was placed #ll in the South. information about Harding's ranking in specialized institutions. The specialized Although national rankings imply President David Burks was delighted Best Buys. "We are a good bargain for schools are ones that award more than prestige and honor, Burks put the with the ranking. "I was glad that, using our money." half their degrees in business, ranking in perspective. "Our mission their criteria, they ranked us as highly as To determine its rankings, U.S. News engineering or the arts. statement dictates what we are trying to they did." Burks said that Harding was & World Report surveyed college Harding scored its highest marks in do, not what their ratios are. We want also ranked #2 in the South by another presidents, deans and admissions the categories of alumni satisfaction (#1 to be the best university we can be, and ~ U.S. News publication, The Best Buys in directors at 1,400 accredited four-year in the South) and student selectivity (#3 if in the process they rank us highly, all American Higher Education. colleges and universities. They were in the South). Alumni satisfaction is the better." -! 2 The BISON • 30 Septembe.r 1994 a Closer Look fii)TEAKINGbm ryo testzng. - A re we vzo. l atzng. human rzg. hts. ? It seems that every day we, as humans, tread closer to products of the in vitrd fertilization process, since not every Scientists argue that this research is vital to fight ground on which we have no business walking. The first egg that is fertilized is placed into the mother's womb. While infertility, cancer and aging. The question, however, is not thing I learned in my freshman biology course is that this fact is disturbing enough to those who are uneasy about whether science and medicine could benefit from these new scientists are unable to defme "life." We can usually see the genetic research and "playing God," it is even more disturbing guidelines. The question is, are these experiments violating difference between living and non-living things, and we do a to hear that the United States is going a step further. the rights of an unborn human? Our society has become pretty good job of determining what terminates life. However, One of the recommendations expected from the NIH is concerned with the rights of almost every group imaginable. we have gone so far into the study of something we cannot the permission to create embryos specifically for Racial minorities, women. homosexuals, overweight people, even define that we may soon find ourselves on the other side experimentation. These embryos would not be allowed to handicapped people and gun-carriers have all made their of a line we don't remember crossing. develop longer than 14 days, in most cases, and absolutely presence known on Capitol Hill. So, who speaks for the The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will soon be no longer than 20 days in any case. To some, those may rights of the unborn? Many adamantly oppose the use of publishing its guidelines for the use of human embryos in sound like wonderfully sound, absolute deadlines that animals in lab testing, but few have spoken out against this scientific experimentation. Until last year, it was illegal for would prevent the manipulation of a living being. But who proposed form of testing. Don't unborn children deserve at such testing to be done, largely because of the opposition are we to say that life has not begun at 14 days or 20 days, least the same rights as animals? raised by pro-life advocates. Now, President Clinton has when we carmot even define the term "life?" Again, the question of when life begins is raised. The asked the NIH to develop recommendations, which are Another recommendation calls for creation of embryos NIH seems to think that a fetus is not a child with human expected to be published sometime this month. only for "compelling" research. Who defines "compelling?" rights until after the twentieth day oflife. However, for those The concept of scientific experimentation on human What you judge to be compelling, others might consider to of us who see a fetus as a child waiting to be born, we must embryos and aborted fetuses is not unique to America.