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Index February 28, 2001 Inside Volume 94 Issue 10 A & E. 4, 8, 9, 11 Dance concert Op/Ed . 2, 3 reviewed p. 9 Features . 4, 6, 9 Fun . 10 Greeks. 7 Eye-grabbing News. 3 - 6 Fiat Lux Sports . 11, 12 The Student Newspaper of Alfred University story Senate heads to runoffs for second straight year BY JAY WEISBERGER Schwerzler ran off against fresh- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF man Matt Washington, who took home 28.6 percent of the first vote. If you’re holding a public election Other candidates Jalal Clemens lately, things just aren’t going the and Michael Topp came back with way you hoped. 18.8 percent and 13 percent, Aside from that mess last respectively. November, Student Senate found Schwerzler was not surprised to itself heading into a second week see a runoff in the VP election. of elections after no candidate for “I think all of [the candidates] President or Vice President were expecting that there would received a majority last week. be a runoff,” she said. “We were Runoff elections were held the just unsure which two would come past two days. Definitive results — out on top.” barring a dreaded 50-50 tie — will Schwerzler admitted being a bit be announced at tonight’s Student surprised by the results — Senate meeting at 8 p.m. Washington and herself did consid- There was no big surprise that erably less advertising than Topp there would be a VP runoff — four or Clemens. candidates were up for the post, “I think [the VP] race is going to making a majority vote hard to be extremely close. It’s going to be come by. Last year, there were tough to beat [Washington],” she only two VP candidates and there said. still managed to be a runoff. “It was really an honor and a After the count of 476 initial surprise to be the second-place election ballots, Gretchen person,” Washington said. “I was Schwerzler led all VP candidates just shocked, but I’m definitely PHOTO BY PATRICIA STRICKLAND with 37.7 percent of the vote. SEE ELECTIONS, PAGE 3 Election committee member Bethany Carpenter checks names of voters during the initial Senate elections. Student research goes airborne Dill takes EGL post BY JENELLE SILVERS views, three candidates were STAFF WRITER invited to visit the AU campus. AND ALISON SAVETT Candidates interacted with FEATURES EDITOR students and faculty during their stay. Each candidate After months of searching, the taught the class Survey of job opening in the English American Literature that is co- department has been filled by taught by McDonough and Dr. Elizabeth Dill. Hoover. Next, a student took The search for a professor to each candidate on a tour of the fill the position soon to be vacat- campus, and answered their ed by Sharon Hoover began with questions. For all meals the can- an advertisement placed in the didates had on campus, students Modern Language Association and faculty dined with them. Job Bulletin. The 162 applica- After observing each of the tions received as a result of the candidates teach, McDonough advertisement were narrowed said, “It was tough to pick based to 14 by the committee com- on the one class they taught. The posed of Susan Morehouse, applicants clearly had different Michael McDonough, Louis styles.” Greiff, and Sharon Hoover. The The three candidates committee interviewed the 14 McDonough spoke of are Dill, applicants at the MLA conven- Dr. Hal Crimmel and Dr. Karen tion, and based on those inter- SEE DILL, PAGE 4 ΣΑΜ soon to break ground on new house BY JASON PILARZ brothers. COPY MANAGER Once lease papers are signed PHOTO PROVIDED BY NASA and plans are finalized, trees will AU Senior Theresa Totedo takes to the air, quite literally, while performing an experiment aboard NASA’s “Vomit More construction is coming soon be cut down and land will be Comet.” NASA’s plane allows for weightlessness through a series of dives over the Gulf of Mexico. to the AU campus, as the Board of cleared. About one week after Trustees has given fraternity that, heavy machinery will come in BY CATHERINE KEVETT and Robert Schaut. Their advi- study the contributions of Sigma Alpha Mu permission to and work will commence. PHOTO EDITOR sor was Associate Professor of interfacial bonding and matrix build a new house on Greek Row. Occupancy is tentatively sched- Ceramic Engineering Linda deformation on the interfacial “It is quite astonishing to con- uled for Jan. 1, 2002, said Hart. After a year and a half of prepa- Jones, with support from John shear behavior in model sider that a 12-year-old fraternity The approval of the construc- ration, four Alfred University Williams, a mechanical engi- fiber/matrix composite sys- chapter can succeed in a project tion by the Board of Trustees is a students and their journalist neering professor at Alfred tems.” such as this,” said Jim Hart, past “clear signal that the University were able to participate in University, who was also the Schaut explained in simpler president at ΣΑΜ. supports Greeks,” said Daryl NASA’s Reduced Gravity team’s journalist on the trip. terms, “We created small ver- Groundbreaking on the project Conte, assistant dean of students Flight Opportunities Program. Ebert and Schaut began the sions of ceramic polymer com- will come as soon as lease papers and advisor to the Greek commu- The group flew to Houston on proposal-writing process in posites in an attempt to mea- are signed, according to another nity. Feb. 7 and returned to Alfred October 1999. Totedo came into sure features of strength in brother, D.J. Hampton. This Conte noted that it was a “long, after ten days of training and the project in December 1999, those composite systems.” should take between three and hard process” to get the construc- experimentation on the zero followed by Kennard joining According to the Evening five weeks. tion approved, not because the gravity plane, KC-135A the team in Feb. 2000. The pro- Tribune of Hornell, “Ebert said The new house will open a wide University does not support The team was composed of posal was a 40-page scientific the plane looked like any pas- range of possibilities for the fra- Greeks, but because of the risk materials science/ceramic engi- description of what Team senger plane except the experi- ternity, according to Hart. The involved. neer students: recent graduate CERAMICS wanted to do. ments sat where the normal house will have a basement and The University has guaranteed Lea Kennard, senior Theresa Their proposal reads, “The seating would be.” first floor with a total of 8,000 Sigma Alpha Mu’s loan for the Totedo, and juniors Anne Ebert objective of this project is to SEE WEIGHTLESS, PAGE 3 square feet. It will house about 20 SEE ΣΑΜ, PAGE 3 February 28, 2001 Editorial — Page 2 Fiat Lux Fiat Lux COULMN Cloning race not the right thing Senate election BY MARGARET HONTI goal is to create eternal life said. STAFF WRITER through cloning. I understand that Ms. Vuchetich Hello? Are we nuts? Is this and many others are grieving over The Raelians are com- some kind of weird science fiction the death of their loved ones, but rules need change ing! The Raelians are movie? You can’t “replace” a that doesn’t mean that we should coming! Who are the deceased child! A baby is not a try and recreate them. Why not? A Maybe we should just assume two weeks for Student Senate elections in Raelians you ask? house you can have custom built! cloned person will never be the the future. They are a group com- This is human life we are talking same as the original. We have no problem with the policy of needing a majority to elect a posed of a geneticist, a biochemist about! The best-case scenario would be president and vice president. This makes sense. and an OB-GYN, as well as com- The desire for cloning is strong, more like a later-born identical Also, it makes perfect sense to pick the top two vote getters. Though it puter analysts, robotics engineers but so is the opposition. AU twin. may seem harsh to those below the line, it is a fair way to set up a runoff. and lab technicians, who are ready Professor of Biology Cheryl There are risks and dangers. What we have a problem with is the write-in policy. to take the world by storm. Emmons said that, “Just because Cloned cattle and sheep are often Write-ins are an important part of any election. They offer a chance for Under the direction of their the technology for cloning has been born dangerously large, some- alternatives to be raised to the candidates who are on the ballot. Certainly, leader, Rael, who claims to have developed does not mean that it times up to 60 pounds above the our society is built upon such an ethic. had an alien encounter with beings should be used. Remember the average weight. Because they are However, for the second straight year, a number of cartoon characters from other planets, they want to consequences of developing an so big and have no room to move took some votes. create the first human clone. atomic bomb?” while in the uterus they can be We are unsure if it made that much of a difference this year, but cer- Just a few weeks ago the race Everyone seems to have ques- born lame or with deformities. The tainly, if Bill the Cat votes had been discarded last year, it would have began, the cloning of human tions on the subject.

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