Safe Break Educates Students Plan for Oass of 2000

I • • • m ~~ Wolfpack falls .1'... .·~. A new beat ;t~ Index .'ttJ. " ' ... A strong performance Nexus offers I A&E 85-6 Deacon Notes 82 upbeat sound on Briefly A2 EdHorials A6-7 i Calendar 86 Police Beat A4 unusual Classified B3 Scoreboard 82 instruments i Comics B6 Sports B1-2 A&EIBS I Visit our web site at http://ogb. wfu.edu Playboy to recruit students for ACC issue By Danielle Deaver Playboy will visit every school in the Atlantic Coast "If there's an off-campus business, or restaurant "Not to sound like a member ofthe Christian Coali Editor in Chief Conference this spring to select a female model from trying to solicit on-campus, in the open (not in a tion or anything, but for Playboy to consider coming to each for the issue. specific building) it comes through this office," Ford a school as historically religious as Wake Forest means Will a student bare (almost) all in the world's most The event is not affiliated with the university, which said. "I think it would be something that would not be Wake is not living up to its standards," said freshman famous soft-core porn magazine? Playboy magazine was never contacted by Playboy about the photo shoot. approved by this office because I don't think it's Shenika Watlington. will come to Winston-Salem April 20-21 to select a They have not been granted pennission even to hang consistent with the ideals of this university." "I certainly think it's a bad idea for the individual. I female student from Wake Forest for the "Women of fliers about the event, and probably will not be allowed Ford's concerns were echoed by many students, can't imagine a college girl doing that and being able the ACC" photo spread, scheduled to run in its October to do so, according to Mike Ford, the director of student some ofwhom thought the photo shoot conflicted with 1998 issue. developml':nt. the school's Baptist heritag. See Administrators, Page A5 SGpromotes Students referendlli1)) prefer life '' By Laura O'Connor Contributing Reporter "We do not want criminals on campus The biggest student-body to run the justice system." vote infouryearswill take place Ryan Opel March 24, when students de Junior Focus on residence life cide whether to pass a refrom SG Judiciary Committee co package which rewrites andre chairman places the current judicial sys attracts large numbers tem article. According to junior Ryan bership restrictions will require By Kate Cosgrove Opel, a co-chainnan ofthe Stu that the candidates have no Features Editor dent Government Judiciary_ Honor Code violations. "An Committee, there is a lack of Honor Code violation .is the Rankingjustbelow Duke University, faculty confidence in the cur most severe kind of violation Wake Forest boasts one of the highest rent system. that you can get at Wake For national percentages of students who Jive "Because the faculty does not est. We do not want criminals on campus for four years. According to have confidence in students torunthejusticesystem,"Opel Connie Carson, the director of Residence with the judiciary board, they said. Life and Housing, approximately 80 percent frequently do not refer cases to If a candidate has a judicial of students live on campus -a percentage the boards and administer jus violation, he or she must come which does not seem to fluctuate-much. tice themselves. They are afraid before the board and explain Carson said the university's social life is that students will not judge the reasons for the violation. centered on-campus. "This is very much a strictly because they are judg All candidates must release campus built around residene>e life," she ing their peers," Opel said. their judicial records in order said. With the exception ofNorth Resi Also, it has been thought that to run for election·. dence Hall and Student Apartments, the board members' election was With some of these changes, residence halls surround the academic more a popularity contest than the faculty and student body build~ngs. anything else. With the new will have more faith and confi Another attractive feature of campus system, the students will be dence in the judicial system living is that the university offers many more assured that the candi and Honor and Ethics Council, amenities, such as voice mail, cable TV and dates have a high degree of Opel said. ethemet connections, which are difficult to honor.- Judicial policy has been un find when living off campus. The proposed judicial sys derreformforthepas lOyears. The junior and senior years are the most tem will reform the election For five of these years, there The fair way of life common time for students to move off process. There will now be a have been investigations into campus. Students who relocate to off strict screening process in why confidence is lacJcing in campus apartments and houses often do so Arnold Palmer, '51, speaks about the university golf course, which his company is designing, in Brendle because they desire more spacious living whichonlytwocandidateswill the judicial system. Recital Hall in the Scales Fine Arts Center March 4. Palmer also attended a luncheon in his honor. be available for each position on the ballot. The student mem- See Student, Page A5 See Most students, Page AS Safe Break educates students Plan for Oass of 2000 University Police prepare for spring break with personal safety tips links university, ffiM By Heather Seely Assistant News Editor By Jenny Blackford that time the Babcock Graduate School News Editor of Management was using only Apple A group of students gather to watch a computers, and Anderson, President Tho coupleoftheirpeers participate ina drunken In January 1995, the Plan fortheCJassof mas K. Hearn Jr., Provost David Brown driving simulator. "I got you," sophomore 2000 was announced to the university com and other administrators all had Apples Blair Simpson shouts, pointing at junior munity. Among the 36 initiatives in the sitting on their desks. James Buckley, the JeffMansir as their displayed reaction times plan was -one president of Apple USA, was a board show that hers is better. that purposed member of the Babcock school. The students participated in the DWI ~ORPORATE looking at re To decide whether or not to make the simulator as part of Safe Break '98, which ~NTERESTS quiring students switch the administration used the crite University Police held on the Benson Uni to have comput ria of how much the computers would velsity Center patio and in Parking Lot C ers. Three years later, two classes of stu cost, how the corporation would help March4. dents are carrying around Think:Pads and when the university ran into problems, Donna Horosko, the prevention special technology is being integrated into all parts and how interested they were in working ist for the University Police, estimated that of academic life. with the university, Brown said. between 300 and 500 students come to Safe The level of technological advancement In the end, IBM won out. "IBM was Break each year on their way to class, the is due, in no small part, to the university's much more aggressive mostly because Pit or the Benson Food Court, though this relationship with IBM. Apple already had the business school," year she said attendance was slightly lower, According to John Anderson, the vice Brown said. The administration signed possibly because ofthe cold weather. Mansir Ashley Twiggs/ Old Gold and Black president for finance and administration, an agreement with IBM May 1, 1995, also said more people attended last year, . A student uses a drunken driving simulator that imitates the reaction time of an in August I 994 a silver-haired, masters of because it believed that more students and Simpson said she thought the event impaired driver. The simulator was part of Safe Break '98, held March 4. history graduate appeared in Anderson's would be using PCs after graduation. wasn't publicized very well. office asking why the university wasn't "Our students would be best advantaged Horosko said the DWI simulator, which when driving with impaired judgment. ing to see how blood alcohol level affected doing any business with IBM. This woman to prepare for what they would face once is provided by the governor's highway safety "I didn't realize reaction time was that your perceptions," Mansir said. was Cindy McEnery, '72, a sales represen they left us," Brown said. program, attracts many of the students each slow, and it took so long to stop," Simpson University Police provided many free tative with IBM. McEnery's visit began Once the computer company was cho year. said. novelty items, such as key chains and nine months of negotiations with IBM. sen, the software package needed to be The booths, which have steering wheels The simulator continually increased the The first six months of negotiations in ~nd brakes, show users their reaction time user's blood alcohol level. "It was interest- See Safe Break, Page A3 volved both IBM and Apple companies. At See IBM, Page A5 • ··r A2Thursday, March 5, 1998 Old Gold and Black News Female, minority applicants decline for '98~'99 By Sarah Rackley pleased," said Martha Allman, an declined, but the largest drop in is working, rather than just hearing organize and participate in activi Old Gold and Black Reporter "We have almost exactly the associate director of admissions. applications from a group of stu projections, he said. Starling did ties that will generate an applicant Interest in the university in. the dents has been from women. not link tuition increases associated ·pool from which we can choose a Think you've got a lot of work at same number of men's fonn of mailings, campus visits and "Wehavealmostexactlythesame with the Plan for the Class of 2000 good class," Starling said.

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