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MARIAN LIBRARY - DAEMEN COLLEGE February 2004 INDEX Valentine’s Day: Spirit and History Pg i Valentine’s Day: By Brittany Cozad which he sent in prison. Prior to his would begin a courtship and eventually execution for his crimes against marry. Spirit andHistory St. Valentine’s Day either makes Emperor Claudius, the legend states While the history of Valentine’s Day is people complain or rejoice at the that Valentine began a secret affair surrounded by religions, traditions and Health Officials opportunity to spend time with their with his jailor’s daughter and sent a love affairs, feelings on the holiday seem Smokers’ Warmth significant other. Although this day letter to her signed “From your mixed. Although we begin celebrating has been labeled the infamous Valentine.” this holiday by exchanging little cards “Hallmark Holiday,” Valentine’s Day Although many believe this holiday and feasting on sweets with our class A Tribute to Black hasn’t always been a day full of flowers could be a remembrance for mates during our elementary school History Month and candy. Instead, this tradition has Valentine’s death, this day has also years, maturing into adulthood causes been linked to several legends dating been rumored to worship Faunus, the people to alter their perception on the back to Ancient Rome. Roman God of agriculture, and February holiday. Is Valentine’s Day P g 2 According to an online Web site, the Romulus and Remus, the founders of simply an obligation to spend money on Promises to Keep true identity of Saint Valentine Rome. a loved one? Or, should we remember remains a mystery. Some believe he Every year on Feb. 15 in ancient the past when it was okay to just say, “I was a third century Roman priest who Rome, Roman priests would meet at love you?” Phil McAndrew continued to perform marriage cere the cave where Romulus and Remus Some Daemen students believe that a ‘toon monies after the Emperor Claudius may have lived. The priests would sac relationship shouldn’t be celebrated banned young men from matrimony. rifice a goat and the men would cut only one day out of the year. “If you love The Emperor believed these men the hides off the animal, dip them in someone, everyday should be Credits should serve as soldiers before becom sacrificial blood, and slightly hit the Valentine’s Day,” said Amber McKenzie, ing husbands. women with the skin to make them a senior secondary education major. Another story surrounding the Saint more fertile. Following this unique “You don’t need a special day to cele P g 3 contends that Valentine was the ritual, the men would pick a woman’s brate love.” Dear Homeland author of the first ever Valentine card, name out of an urn, and the two (Confined on Page 3) Security P g 4 Health Officials Show Smokers’ Warmth The Life of a By Amy Dehn Journalist: Paul documentation that the smoking ban state ban was put in place. has caused at least a 15 percent décline Establishments granted waivers will be Chimera For all those Daemen-ites who know in sales. All other counties in Western required to set up separate ventilated what it's like to withstand bitter cold New York require businesses to prove smoking rooms equipped with automat Substance Abuse temperatures just to have a smoke, a 15 percent loss in sales to obtain ically closing doors. Employees will not & Vocational there may be a warm front coming waivers, with the exceptions of have to enter these "smoking rooms," Services your way. Niagara County, which requires proof leaving customers to bring in their own After only six months, the New York of only a 10 percent decline, and food and beverages purchased elsewhere statewide smoking ban is loosening its Allegheny County, which is not allow in the establishment. Seantoon restrictions by allowing businesses to ing waivers. Erie County health officials have apply for exemptions. Last week, crite Already 150 businesses in Erie tacked on a $100 application fee, and P g 5 ria for obtaining these exemptions was County have shown interest in apply will require waivers to be renewed annu Prof. Cuddy released in Erie County based on rules ing for waivers, indicating that the ally, while Niagara . County waivers cost previously established by the New smoking ban has in fact significantly nothing to apply and are valid for two Responds to York State Health Department and impacted sales. years. However, Niagara County has Critic almost every other county in Western Waivers will also be granted to busi fined over 40 businesses for violating the New York already granting* waivers. nesses that can show a major invest state smoking ban, although less than Two Words: The waiver application will require ment was made to accommodate Bruce Campbell local bars and restaurants to provide smokers for restrictions before the (Confined on Page 5) P g 6 Wallace Camp A Tribute to Black History Month By Shemisa Ali A few Memorable Black All Grown Up! A Few of Black Inventions: February is a very special month of Figures: Ironing board: Sarah Boone the year. It’s a time to reflect back on P g 7 Horseshoe: Oscar E, Brown history. It’s a time to recognize the Oprah Calendar Boys Pacemaker: Otis Boykin extraordinary contributions made by Tupac Shakur of Daemen Super soaker: Lonnie Johnson African Americans that wouldn’t have Jesse Jackson Envelope seal: F.W Leslie been decades ago. Black history is also Colin Powell Audience Fire extinguisher: Tom J. American history. Everyone is a part Spike Lee M arshal Billie Holiday Members of Black history in some way. For Lock: W.A Martin example, by honoring those who Aaliyah Embrace the Elevator: Alexander Miles fought for the struggle o f equality also Louis Armstrong Music of Any Gas mask: Garrett Morgan contributed to culture and technology. Scott Joplin December Traffic signal: Garrett Morgan Black history dates back to the hot Muhammad Ali Peanut butter: George W. sun and beautiful grasslands of Africa Jackie Robinson Carver before slavery began. Africa, as evi Halle Berry P g 8 dence proves, was the origin of the Advertisment V Doorknob: O. Dorsey Stevie Wonder Guitar: Robert Flemming Jr. first being on earth before the nature Ray Charles Helicopter: Paul E. Williams of evolution. There lived noble kings Maya Angelou Refrigerator: J. Standard and beautiful queens who made Africa Mae C. Jemison Cellular Phone; Henry Sampson a flourishing land of art, music, and Bill Cosby Automatic gearshift: RB Spikes (Continued on page 7) P a g e 2 Promises to Keep By S.D. Wright and somehow one cultural boundary had been the same sex, marriage or otherwise. All evidence respected, in the heat of bitter argument. And - the vitriol of Christian crazies laid aside - seems It is summer at the starlit hour. The shade of then it occurred to me that modem America is to indicate we are moving in that direction. this night is somehow more gray than black - as reflected in this scene, and how far our society Steadily and completely, the societal bound the vast concrete urbania, for all its shadows and has come in what is termed the gay rights move aries excluding gays and lesbians are being inconsistencies, sprawls everywhere. And yet the ment. crushed and removed. The hunger for change will oily creature sky hangs naked and close, this to all Oh, discriminatiQn does exist, an4 will always, not be instantly gratified, as burger-lust is sated eyes the black belly of the panther, whose legs are I imagine. But the world in which every human in a fast-food setting on a summer night. We hidden underneath the horizon, its inky fur being should hope to live - where man doesn't have, in the language of Frost, miles to go before speckled with stars. pass judgment on man as concerns his personal we sleep. Indeed, future men will see these times Alone, a fast-food restaurant sits on the edge of rights - is so near one can feel it. as part of a splendid progression: reaching, in the a parking lot, splashing arrogant and indecent Our country has changed and is changing: from end, complete social, political, and cultural amber light. My passenger and I are hungry as entertainment to law to government. Bravo equality for men and women of same-sex orienta hell, and we pull in. The dazzling drive-thru broadcasts a television show entitled "Queer Eye tion. A new morning, after all, comes in degrees, menu spills into sight, offering much in the way for the Straight Guy," where five gay men, one and despite any momentary despair, we cannot of color and cholesterol. This night in particular wittier than the other, reinvent a straight man so but recognize daily the night sky always is with the "burger lust" in us is strong. Another car as to improve his personal appearance and inner child. And so it is with the progressive social/sex- blocks our way, though, and we sit waiting for living space. On the same network contrasting ual agenda in the great country that is the United their order to be taken. views of homosexual men - one, more straight States. But wait. Fate, according to its nature, has pre acting and the other less so - are depicted on pared for us a scene, a study, a cause to be "Will and Grace." A new show is scheduled on a defended and a moment to be contemplated. The different network, featuring lesbians.' Gays repre car ahead of ours carries some militantly indeci sent their districts in Congress, with the most sive customers.