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October 2, 1987 Vandals Bend Goalposts, Problems at Bacchanalia

By Graham Rayman

Last weekend, the College (according to Security). The con- they blew by the gate and into the campus was turned on its end by a sensus is that it was a large group party. Later I approached two of series of incidents unprecedented of people who did it. Security them and confronted them about ' - - .. - - . in recent years in their concentra- Chief Carl Yund concurred, "When it. Neither had stamps, but they . - tion and intensity. Damages upon the posts were originally built still denied that they hadn't paid." damages were committed around they were spot-weld- ed in three There was also the problem and off-campu- s, ranging from the places. It had to be a group of of the theft of food. Some of the vandalism of the goal posts at heavy guys." The fact that one of Denison students approached the Severance Stadium to the activa- the lights at the stadium was food stand demanding free food. tion of five fire alarms, and the knocked out, presumably to con- The worker told them that they setting off of quite a few fire ex- ceal the act, suggests that it was a had to pay, at which point they tinguishers. The bulk of the inci- planned occurrence. The vandalism verbally abused, harrassed and in- Saturday night dents happened on will be expensive to the College . timidated her, said witnesses. between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., Sun- as the installation and purchase of When she went to get help they day. each post cost $5-600- 0. There is stole food. Behind the food stand, In total, ten different inci- a good chance that the posts will a group of Wooster alumni and dents were committed between 8 not be repaired or replaced in time students were barbecuing chicken. a.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday. for Homecoming Weekend. "We Assuming it was for everyone, The handicapped parking sign in don't know who did it," said Yund, some Denison students began tak- front of Lowry was stolen. False "but rest assured that all leads will ing it. They became abusive when fire alarms were set off in Dou- be pursued, and charges filed if the they were told to stop. One glass, Armington, Taylor and Ke-narde- n. perpetrators are apprehended." Wooster senior complained of The alarms set off in the Meanwhile, in the 1st Sec- having to fend .them off with a first three dorms occurred within tion (Betas) lounge, at around skewer. ' " " six minutes of each other, sug- nine o'clock, while the dorm was Earlier in the week, several gesting that they were planned. In mostly away at Bacchanalia, a fire Crandalls went to other colleges Armington there was also a win- extinguisher and a fire alarm were to invite their students to Bac-channal- ia. dow broken at a little after 11 set off. No one knows for sure This turned out to be a p.m. who did it, but the consensus is mistake. As Ned Weintraub com- There was quite a bit happen- that it was members of the Deni- mented, "We thought it would be a ing around campus during the son rugby team. good idea to invite other schools weekend; much more than on most At Crandall House's Baccha- to Bach, but appparently they 1 weekends. The- - 17th annual Bac- nalia other incidents occurred, in- don't hold the same attitude of chanalia was held at Beck's Camp- cluding gate-crashin- g, the theft of graciousness as students of The ground. In addition were both a food and the breaking and burning College of Wooster." home football game and rugby of the overhead lights and their game against Ohio Wesleyan and wooden supports. Several sources One of the Bent Goalposts (Photo by Margaret Lydecker) 3 Denison respectively. Because of have implicated Denison students, Continued on page Bacchanalia, there were also a lot including members of their rugby : of alumni back. The campus was team, in the acts. Crandall mem- much more crowded than usual. So ber and senior Nan Curtis com- ...... i the possioimy was mere mai mented, "While all the Wooster Students Start Underground Review more incidents than usual , would students paid, the Denison stu- occur. But few expected so much. dents thought that admission was The goal posts were bent on free. When the. gate attendant Saturday night at around 11:30 turned around to check something. by Rusty Hood

There is a new and exciting views (new and old), life musings, want to stress that this magazine project in the works this year at political thoughts and so much will not be of superior manufactur- The College of Wooster and it more. We prefer to refer to the ing, as are many other literary gives a refreshing new meaning to magazine as a literary grab-bag- ,' magazines. "We will probably ; the notion of literary magazine. so to speak." have it done by a computer and Fljirig into the Fray we go with, . The Underground Review , con- As mainstays of the fiction bound; we just don't have the ne- Lots of Campos News Including essays on the .Women's. ceived by sophmores Dan Stracho-t- a board on The Wooster Review cessary funds right now to do oth- Studies and Economics Departments, The SGA-Telephon- e and Bruce Kim, will undoubted- staff, Strachota and Kim have the erwise. What's most important is AffahvThefi in Douglass, fa addition Stratton Reviews ly be mistaken as an attempt to needed experience and genuine to really get this thing cooking ! Flowing Fibers'?, and lots o humor including Tales of take over where Mike Allen's love for putting together a literary Once 'we get an idea of how much ' the Truly Ordinary, Our Beef on 'Lounging, Pizza and Wooster Review left off. On the magazine. . "We don't think we .interest there is, then we can try contrary. The Underground Review need a staff because there won't be Politics, Shiltsy Going Nowhere Fast,, plus a whole-pag- e to expand. We're just trying to get is very different from any other as much evaluation about what a feel for it all." of stuff oa South Africa by Onaran, and Cross - kind of literary magazine. should go in and what should not. Drawing will also be fea- Country, Football," Field Hockey, . Women's Soccer, . Strachota says, "This Re- We want this project to be a real tured in The Underground Review . view is wide open to any form of fun piece of literature for all sorts "If they're good enough, they writing imaginable. Short stories, of people," adds Kim. limericks, record and movie re Both Kim and Strachota Continued on page 4 .Page 2: iThe Wooster Voice''

pcptillfiglhd Do Women's Studies Professors Equal Man-Hater- s?

By William Van Cleave A program of continually nately all too common cases I fessors was an addition to the I am stating mine. But there is a men and women who generalize increasing interest and debate at have even heard from students that well-roundedne- ss of their class- certain point at which opinions against the feminists who make The College of Wooster is the certain professors who help to room meetings and to my educa- have the potential to scare some up a portion of the faculty and entire depart- student body are expressing very Women's Studies Program. . This make up the program of Women's tion here at Wooster. In fact, I students away from Unfortunately, such seems narrow-minde- d views to a student interest stems not only from the Studies are man-hater- s. I must appreciated the experience enough ments. unique selection of interdiscipli- disagree with this extremely nega- to take another course from one of to be the case. body which I have always consid- nary courses offered by its faculty, tive approach to Women's Studies these same two professors this se- While I am on the topic ered to be very open-minde- d. but also unfortunately from an as- which is a very strong and posi- mester. of "those horrible feminist mon- Students who feel that the sociation between feminists and tive program on this campus. One student informed me sters" who make up the Women's feminists who make up the Wom- I would also en's Studies Program are pushy man-hater- s. Though I suppose Certainly the feminists who that "there is really nothing you Studies Program, attention to sev- may in reality be reacting to their man-hatin- g feminists do exist in help make up the Women's Studies can study in Women's Studies; it's like to draw your sup- new un- this world, woman-hater- s are not Program strive for equality for just a chance for a bunch of wom- eral male students who do not own fear of the and the an extinct "species" among the women, and at times they may ap- en to sit around and bitch about port the "man-hatin- g" hypothesis: known. It has always been easier human race either. The question pear forceful in their methods. men." This is simply not the Rob Abernathy, a junior who is to follow the mainstream and to to ask is whether the professors However, I do not feel that they case. Courses in Women's Studies majoring in Women's Studies, and succumb to peer pressure than to who make up the Women's Studies overstep their bounds. While work through literature, criticism, also the male minor in the pro- choose a unique path. Yet this in- rs strives develop Program are man-hate- ...or if they introduce and strongly sup- art, history, and sociology among gram (that's me). college to the they just do not allow sexism in port their own ideas in the classes other things. And while the focus There has also been one dividual. cam- So if you feel that the peer their classes. they teach, in my experience they of Women's Studies on this male graduate who minored in one pressure is getting to you, if Joanne Frye, Professor of also allow other ideas to flow pus is obviously women, of Women's Studies since the pro- you're overburdened by the aca- English and Chair of Women's freely. the more central themes of its gram's beginning in 1978, and demic mainstream or parental sug- Studies, defines feminism as the I have had the opportunity courses concerns gender stereo- there will definitely be more. gestion, then do something out- realization that "culturally women to take two courses with feminist types and roles for both males and Certainly those students and grad- landish, something "far out." Try are perceived as inferior to men professors and I do not feel hated females. uates do not feel that the profes- The detrimental factor a Women's Studies course.. and that there is something wrong by either one of them. Nor do I most sors of the program have any ill defini- the "man-hate- r" theory which Whether you be male or female, with this." Clearly, this feel that any other student in feelings toward men. in you will find yourself a edu- ., around this campus is better tion does not assume' that one these classes was disliked merely circulates In fact one of the founding must hate men to be a feminist. that it damages the reputation of cated person, and you may find because of his or her own gender members of the Women's Studies Too,-- , many students, both the Women's Studies Program and that you are more aware, both of or views of feminism. Program at Wooster was James male and female, feel that many of doing so makes many students the people around you, and of Though I did not know that in Turner, a professor of history. The feminists on this campus at- offered. Certain- yourself. After all, that's what a the they were feminists until I was avoid the classes program currently has a male force views upon ly opinions are important in mak- liberal arts education is all about. tempt to their well into their courses, this facet member in its faculty as well: extreme but unfortu ing a course decision; that is why others. In of the characters of these two pro Mark Weaver. At any rate, the News Briefs By Doug Isenberg On Academia: The Economics Department US to assist Poland In ing mines in the: Gulf. . obtaining economic aid. Clashes in Sudan re- The promise of the assistance to portedly kill 100 people In ease Poland's foreign debt is con- incident, report- By Thomas Karsten two days. The tingent upon a commitment by ed by travelers in the area, oc- government to bring southwestern town of The economics department at man society can satisfy its materi- liberal aits school, the teachers the Polish curred in the about internal political and eco- Wau and was sparked when a po- the College of Wooster teaches al wants, it is important to study have their separate ways of all nomic change, including the le- liceman was killed in the town two majors: business econ , how and why we produce the teaching, and the department's ma- galization of Solidarity, which the market. The fighting was carried taught by Professors Sell and goods and services that we do. Hu- to be spread widely jors tend US sees as a legitimate representa- out between the local tribal mili- Cook; and econ , taught by the man resource economics is the across graduate schools and the tive of the workers, but a demand tia and Sudanese troops. The peo- five other members of the depart- study of choices, efficiency, dis- job world. that General W. Jaruzelski consid- ple of southern Sudan have long ment. Majors in both fields do, of tribution, etc. The one thing eco- Professor John Cook, him- ers "suicidal" There would be no fought for an autonomous nation, course, take classes from the en- nomics tries to stress, moreover, a Wooster alumus, teaches self actual US funding used, but the US due to the tribal differences be- tire department. As a sidelight, is that material and means have only business econ courses, f government would use its in- tween the north and the south of the classical definition of eco- been, are, and probably always specializing in financial ac- while fluence to consolidate and resche- this nation which is larger than nomics is: "The study of the allo- will be scarce. Economics, then, counting and securities. Business dule the repayment of Poland's the US east of the Mississippi. cation of resources." basically teaches a systematic basically teaches econ, he states, outstanding loans through the Par- Professor John Cook com- method of analysis with which to business world thinks and Computers monitor how the is Club, an informal group asso- nearly 7 million workers. mented on the existence of the approach this central problem. decides. Business theories are ciated with international debt, study prepared by the Congres- two majors: "About twenty years Professor Richard Reimer is a spe- taught not so much that they will A though not with the International Technology As- ago there was only the econ ma- cialist in international money and actually be used in the "real sional Office of Monetary Fund or the World Rep. Don jor, which generally prepared stu- banking. He contends that eco- world," but so that the student sessment called for by Bank. Edwards (D-Calif- .). said the dents for graduate school. In the nomics is important because it is grasps an understanding of the that JCS Chairman says monitoring might add to early seventies, however, students an issue dealt with every day by "whys" and not the "hows" of computer Navy underestimated risks in- were beginning to move directly individuals, communities, nations the mind's skill the stress level of the jobs and business. It trains in Persian Gulf. The head of into business from college. The and the world. creased illnesses of the workers. in attacking problems. the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral econ major, therefore, The curriculum is not quite as way, I changed the The computers can keep track of business By the William J. Crowe, declared that stu- linear as one may imagine. The were rest breaks and productivity, usu- was developed to give these title of this column. You intelli- to dif- the military "overrated our ally of clerical workers, but possi- the they needed to . student is quite free pursue right-t-he was pretty dents skills first idea gence," and was not fully aware of make such a move after gradua- ferent sub-fiel- ds within econom- bilities for their use in jobs such the possible dangers of the Irani- ting." ics. The macro- - and micro-econom- ic as commodities brokers is foresee- an mine-layin- g operation. Addi- Professor William Baird, a theory courses are, how- able. Rep. Edwards said that the tionally, he claimed that too much human resource eco- ever, central to either major. use of the computers is an inva- specialist in information had been leaked with nomics, asserts that since no hu- - As is typical of Wooster as a sion of privacy and that people regard to the Navy's minesweep-in- g "should not be forced to surrender and ship escort plans, thereby their privacy and dignity when increasing the vulnerability of the they go to work." convoys. On a related topic, Cas- par Weinberger said that the US News compiled from The New would not hesitate to carry out: York Times. more attacks on ships found lay-- Page 3 rv The Wooster Voice' Wooster to Get Individual Telephones i By Sarah Kotchen n r Thanks to the Student After gathering as much increase has already occurred. "We Government Association, College information as they could, the tel- are going to ask the Trustees to of Wooster students will soon ephone committee compiled a re- increase the number of long- :," Rice, have the opportunity to have tele- port which was sent to members distance lines again," said phones in their rooms if they so of the administration and later to "we still feel that there are not choose. the Trustees. The problems with enough." Students will have to The issue was confronted the present phone system that the negotiate this with the Trustees early last spring when Julie Rice report cited are as follows: ,the later this semester. was elected president of SG A. Rice current situation is very inconven- recognized that the inadequate tel- ient, outdated and in certain cir- Presently, Bissman, Ste- ephone situation was a key con- cumstances could possibly jeo- venson, Douglass and Babcock are cern of the student body. "It was pardize the safety of students. In already wired and may be able to pretty obvious that the phone addition, there are not enough get phones next fall. Most other (photo by Dalex Walker) system was really poor." SGA long-distan- ce lines. college campuses already have a formed an ad hoc committee to phone system that allows for a what could be done. The phone in each dormitory room, look into When the pre- report was and students at The College of "Flowing Fibers" on the Wall committee was chaired by Richard sented to the Trustees in May, included Wooster can now look forward to Crouse and its members "they were very surprised to find Cureton, Artu-r- o enjoying this same privilege. The Susan Baxter, Steve the out that phone system was so Student Government Association By Amy Stratton Sanchez and John Yang. behind times," said the Rice. After is to be credited with this accom-

discussing the matter the Board of -- The committee drew up an plishment. Aside from SGA Presi- If "Flowing Fibers" has es- dressesthat's more than the cost

all-camp- us Trustees voted to allocate survey that was mailed dent Julie Rice. - other Cabinet caped your attention during the of books for an entire semester $200,000 towards a new up- to students asking them to ex- and members include Sandeep Bhatia, past two weeks, make a point of (maybe two!). But in any case. press their thoughts on the current dated phone system. This money Vice President for Student Affairs; strolling down the L.C. hallway I've 'enjoyed seeing them, on the

would cover the cost, for jacks in 1 -- approxi- X- f-- ; and wall to- . telephone system, with your eyes to the art wall. ,-- " .... each the residence: rooms. of hall day before it is too late. The dis- Fisher firaf tried weaving al mately 40 were returned. In addi- Student charges would include in- Cornell Carter, Vice President for play of handwoven clothing made most1 twenty- - yeafV"tg6i-- ' before tion. General Assembly represen- . long- Academic Affairs; Asha Panda, stallation, monthly rent, by Mary Lee Boes wetter Fisher graduating frtnT.1 Virginia univer people living: distance and disconnection. Treasurer; Ken Kline, Secretary; tatives asked in calls will be taken down tomorrow. sity with it degree in occupational their districts for feedback. The re- In addition, the Trustees, voted to Mandy Langley, Public Relations ,. generally, therapy, and during the past ten Dave Meade, The muted and sponse, favored . and strongly the need increase the long- Chairperson; -- number of earthy colors, ; and the "funky" years has become increasingly for an improved phone system. distance lines from IS to 23. This SS&SP Chairperson. styles that characterize the pieces ; serious about the craft. She has - she chose to display here are rem- - ; shown her work at several exhib- miscent of. ethnic-typ- e clothes of its, "including "Bayer afters,'', the ,thev sUtfes -- and, seventies. .'Twer-- ; "Beck Show", aw "Fiber Focus.' " '' ' stores in Ohio' currently handle 'f with, her largest show being the TwouThefe her clothing and accessories: The ; . current exhibit at Lowry Center. Clothes Nook in Strongsville and Since 1984 she has won several Ohio Signatures (a specialty shop prizes for fiber and crafts at the .: v,.4 i : for clothing made by Ohio craft-- .. Hinkley Arur HHdTC2fa Show. ers). The cost of making one of She is very active in guilds and items your very own is not organizations - weavers her tharing i too unreasonable, considering that together throughout Ohio." If you By David Coogan it is handmade, but I think it are interested in getting more in- probably falls outside the budget formation about Fisher or her for most budget-oriente- d college work, you can contact her at 283-160- 3. folk like myself. Prices run from more, and has been careful "Douglass has always been a On September 3, a Douglass door $30 for scarves to over $200 for - resident came back to her room not to leave her valuables strewn quiet, uneventful dorm," said Jim find her flute, her Foster of Security, "and yes, the and could not about the room. twenty dollars Jubilee card or the The' second resident, who had thefts have taken us by surprise." room. The next she had left in her to wait out the Labor Day weekend After the thefts, Security posted different Douglass resident day, a before she could call the bank, Crime Alert flyers in Douglass and Jubilee card discovered that her had her number and access there have been no further inci- card - and later, that continued from page 1 no L.Ufi- was also missing code changed on Tuesday, but kept dents. VANDALS $600 had been taken from the ac- her account number. This strategy . Carl Yund, also of Security, ' count. , maintains' the account but renders says most thefts occur in the hall- - . . resident, in coopera- The first the missing card with the old card ways, or when doors are left un- Woost- tion with Security and the " response, Curtis said that' The Dean's staff is withhold- number useless. . locked. Security made it clear that .In back and pro- Wis-niews- ki er police, got her flute Since the student reported the a thief does not need much time to Crandall will send a letter of ing comment because Sophie opened, a new Bank One account. din- test to the Denison newspaper ef- and Ken Plusquellec. the incident io Bank One within two . steal something. "A lunch or theft to Bank them to charge of handling She had reported the business days, she was reimbursed ner is all it takes," said Foster. fectively "disinviting two who are in the inci- probably events, are out of One the morning after with $550; .the remaining $50 "Most crimes could be prevented Bacchanalia." This is the series of dent. If her access code had been the only thing that can be done. paid for the missing card. through common sense." . miss- town, and because the facts just broken she could have been Security took this resident's The exact names of the Denison for the are not there at this point. ing approximately one hundred report on Thursday, September 10, students are not known dollars by now. The bank gave : Is it just a few rare incidents most part, and reparations are police. on-camp- and contacted "the Wooster isolation, or is Douglass los- As to the us vandal- her a hew access number with her of the in probably out of the question. Detective Mike Martin ing its reputation as "one of the ism, Yund commented that "if it new account. The student's flute is now handling Bacchanalia itself was a great Wooster Police safe dorms"? With two burglaries was our students, it is a signal was covered on her homeowner's case; however, Martin had ho and the in two days and the flyers similar success. Very few complained, that we are in for a bad year. But insurance policy. in- comment and will not until the signs that say Curtis said that Crandall did rather our students are not that destruc- When asked how the incident Dou- to street vestigation is over. The two Area," Dou- well financially. "It is too bad tive. I've been here 13 years and I affected her, the Douglass resident "Neighborhood Watch glass has suffered a blow to its re- that the Denison people had to just don't think the students are glass residents have no idea who putation. Which dorm is next? ruin a good time," she said. that bad." said that she has, been., locking her is behind the thefts". , Page 4 Truman Scholarship Announced Chilean Author Dorfman Lectures October 8

College of Wooster sopho- toward or planning to pursue a Ariel Dorfman, Chilean writer because of his work in cultural af- mores interested in a career in baccalaureate degree, have a "B" and journalist and current author-in-residen- ce fairs in the administration of Pres- - -- . government service at the federal, average or equivalent, stand in the at Duke University, ident Salvador Allende. Dorfman .- t . . state or local level are invited to upper fourth of the class, and be a will be on the Wooster campus spent ten years in exile in Argen- apply for a 1988 Harry S. Truman US citizen or US national heading October 8 to lecture (in English) tina, France and the Netherlands. Scholarship. toward a career in government. on censorship in North and South He came to Washington in 1980 Established by Congress in Interested students should America. as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wil- 1975. the Harry S. Truman Schol- submit a letter of application; a 1 The lecture. "Black Holes of son Center for Scholars, and "was a arship Foundation operates an on- statement of career plans, -- a list of Censorship. North and South," will Visiting Fellow at the Institute for going educational scholarship past public-servic-e. ;ctiyitiesc be given in Mateer Auditorium at Policy Studies rnm.I9Sl-19S- 4. program designed to provide op- other leadership position, a: car-re- nt 7:30 p.m. Four years ago his axile jwas portunities for outstanding US stu- transcript, and 600-wo- rJ - Dorfman has been called one lifted, and now he divides his tirae dents with potential leadership say discussing a public policy is- of the most important voices between Chile and a teaching po- ability to prepare for careers in sue of their choice to Professor coming out of Latin America, and sition at Duke. His articles appear government service. Gordon Shull, Truman Scholarship is best known in this country for regularly in the Village Voice and In April. 1988. the Founda- Faculty Representative, Kauke two collections of essays on the the Nation , the op-e-d pages of tion will award 105 scholarships 114, by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Octo- relationship between popular cul- the New York Times and the Los nationally. The deadline for all ber 13. ture and politics: How To Read Angeles Times, and in major Eu-

(co-author- Ar-ma- 1988 applications is December 1, Since the competition . for Donald Duck ed with nd ropean and Latin American news- 1987. this award is very severe, only Mattel art) and The Empire's papers. He has also appeared on The College of Wooster can students who can show considera- Old Clothes. Two of his novels "Nightline," "This Week With Da- nominate three" students for the ble past and present evidence of have also appeared in English: vid Brinkley." "CBS Sunday

public " 1988 competition. The scholar- potential for leadership in Widows (Pantheon, 1983) and The Morning" and other television . .T. -; " " ' ;- j i i i i ship award covers eligible expens- affairs should apply. Students with Last Song of Manuel Sendero news programs in the United n es up to $7000 per year for the less than a 3.4 average are advised (Viking. 1987). States, Canada and Great Britain. junior year, the senior year, and by Shull not to apply unless other Expelled from Chile in 1973 two years of graduate study. evidence or qualifications are out- To be eligible, a student must standing. ' - be a full-tim- e sophomore working Our Beef: Where is that NuttyJSign ?

Lounging In Lowry

By Dave, Dave and Not Dave

I don't know if it's ever had a procession of rockheads swagger- you something to do other than name before, but for now let's just ing to and from meals. And then make fun of people and talk to call it dead time. You know, that there are -- the pinheads trying to each other. Golly I miss that space between meetings or classes get some work done here. You little thing, and I wonder how we

" or meals that's just too short to know, they're the ones always could get it back. GRADUATE P, H do anything productive with. peering over their textbooks dis- BUSINESS VJ There's not enough time to get approvingly as you try to engage 3 SCHOOLS m back to your room, do the reading in a little witty banter. for your next class, exercise or Of course by far the best watch a good western. things that go on around here are Underground So, here we sit slowly mold- the Wednesday night Pit Flicks al- ing into those - four comfy red though we haven't seen them yet Review chairs, drained by a long and ardu- this year. We're also awaiting ous Bacchanalia weekend. Well, withbaited breath for the day when (Continued from page 1) we're only in three chairs Dave they put out coffee and doughnuts refuses to get his butt over here between meals, mmmm. And the and get to work. At any rate we new students should anticipate might make the cover; if not they spend a lot of time doing this, many a day and night spent warm- uill might find their way into the lounging, just hanging out and ing their chestnuts over the open issues," explains Strachota. Al- observing folks. fire, that is when it's not in use though poetry is not on the top Early in the morning it's a by the Short Course in of their list, Strachota says they little hard to get a seat. Literally Blacksmithing. will look at some. It is prose billions of bodies strewn about This all reminds me that it writing, however, that will consti- the place. One wonders why they was not always that I spent my tute the bulk of the magazine. The tjcoovee:! . bother to get out of bed. I didn't dead time making banal observa- creators also want to say that any Wednesday, October 7 know there were that many cata-toni- cs tions about the people around me. and all monetary donations would on earth. Around I haven't always had to scrounge be readily accepted. Lowry Center (The Pit) lunchtime we get the endless pro- for bits of discarded USA Today. Both editors encourage, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. cession of faculty heading into No, once there was a great alterna- "Please submit I This magazine is the PECGod knows what goes on tive to all this but it too seems to for the College we feel and hope over there. I've heard rumors have gone the way of Tuesday that there is a lot of creative ener- about the wrestling room, but I Convocation and required Chapel. gy and talent on campus that just don't know. And then there Only the seniors, faculty and staff hasn't been exposed. Our goal is are the couples romantically pos- will remember it, but at one time to provide a new and exciting way University of Akron Miami Unhraraity . turing in front of the fake water- there was a machine in Lowry that for people to put their imagina- in- Bowling Graeo Stat Unlvaraity , OWo Stata Unlvaraity fall, as if to announce their would flash news of the world out tions on exhibit. We know you're : Case Wealom Reeerve University OWo University volvement to the general popula- to us. It was right there, over the out there." tMrveraJtyc Cincinnati 1, Unlvaraity of Toledo tion. By the way, what is that bulletin boards by line one. OK, Submissions and ques- Oavatand State Unlvaraity State Unlvaraity green stuff in the fountain? And so maybe the news on it was three tions can be sent through campus Kant State Unhert!?y - ,, - ; '. , does it ever work ? It's also kind days old, at least it made the room mail to either Dan Strachota, Box of entertaining to watch the long '. . spin. in. a. neat .way.. Jt alsol gave 2815 JorJBrupe ftjny XJ20Pftil A "Communist" in Wooster: Nico criticizes Botha

by Yaiman Onaran

Invited by the International white voters could vote the central impose equality is a communist Students Association (ISA), Ni-chola- as government out of power. He went and will be punished.'" Every- Willem Kleynhans deliv- on to say that out of the 3 mil- body in the room raised their ered a speech about apartheid in lion registered voters only 2 mil- hands unanimously. That is the South Africa on September 23 in lion voted in the last elections, way they arrest anyone, accusing L Babcock Hall Main Lounge. The and Botha recieved 1 million him to be a communist, which ac- VED COUNTRY. speech was attended by approxi- which, in reality, only represented cording to the definition in the CRTIhEBelo r a mately 60 students who were all 2.98 of the country's popula- criminal code fits really any . mt"m I astounded and fascinated by the tion. black." speaker's energy, his ability to at- Nico continued his speech by "DO CHILDREN HAVE TO f"TW tract attention, and the facts he giving statistics about South PAY FOR YOUR COMFORTS presented about South Africa. ca. Nearly 80 of the land in WITH THEIR LIVES?" Nicolaas Willem Kleyhans, South Africa has been allocated to When it came to talk about to called Nico, is A.- - who prefers be whites who make up not even the investment issue, Nico was fu- 0 an Afrikaner living in South Afri- 14 of the population. The rious. "Is money so important for ca. He is the director of the Gali- amount of money spent by the you, Americans? Children in r j leans, a non-prof- it organization government on a black's educa- South Africa are dying everyday founded to serve people in need tion is one-seven- th of that spent so that you can have a good edu- regardless of their religious or po- on a white's education. The aver- cation, watch TV comfortably in B Students from Witwaltersrand 8 litical beliefs. He is one of the age monthly wage of a white is your warm house and live happily. University had put up this sign in front ot the Supreme few whites working for the rights more than three times as much as Do those small children have to Court Building m 1967. The words on the sign are taken from the title of a of blacks in South Africa. Nico that of a black. pay for your comforts with their famous book by Alan Paton. (Photo by Peter Magubane) has been in jail. He was taken by "ANYONE WHO TRIES TO lives? If the US did not support the "Security" Police, like all the Board of Trustees decided on a Univer- IMPOSE EQUALITY IS A the South African government gests the example of The others at that moment, plan to evaluate companies that sity Rochester di- present COMMUNIST" anymore, if all the companies in of which had during a service in a church and have holdings in South Africa, vested from all the companies "How many of you are com- the US divested from South Africa, was held for nearly a month. In with a view toward possible dives- munists?" asked Nico suddenly. Botha's end would come at that with holdings in South Africa but South Africa, those accused of titure from those companies. The was a Nobody raised a hand. "I'll read moment." in bad situation financially action is going to take three and had to buy them back again. crimes are guilty until proven in- you how the criminal law de- WHAT IS COW'S POLICY years, however, because it may je- Wooster is sensitive about the is- nocent. scribes a communist in South Af- ON APARTHEID? . opardize the financial position of sue and taking careful to- When forwarded a question re- rica," he then said. "Think once After the pressure on the ad- steps garding how Botha still ruled the more after I read it. "Anyone who ministration by the students last the College if it is done hastily. wards a solution. country, he explained that only disturbs public order or tries to year. The College of Wooster President Henry Copeland sug PROFILE What's Going on in S. Africa: Recent History South Africa By Yalman Onaran

The movement against of people. The African National 1987, more than 13.000 people Population : 36,270,127 : apartheid began in the seventies, Congress (ANC) claimed responsi- were imprisoned for more than 30 Blacks : 28,075,228 -- and the hunt-dow- n for blacks bility. A year later South Africa days. According to unofficial Whites : 4,576,690 started in the same years; in 1976 attacked three neighboring coun- sources 38,000 people were im- Colored 3,531,872 at least 600 people were killed. A triesZimbabwe, Botswana, Zam- prisoned in 1986, 8,000 of those Area 472,359 sq. mi. (about twice the size of new constitution was approved by biato strike the ANC centers. being children. Texas) referendum in 1983 which extend- A nationwide state of emer- Since 1984, the country Capitals Cape Town (legislative), ed parliamentary rights to the gency was declared in 198S, giv- has been swept by a wave of labor Colored and Asian minorities. On ing unlimited power to the securi- strikes, causing a rapid decline of Pretoria (admirustrative), (judicial) May 20, 1983, a car bomb ex- ty forces. The government says the currency to one-thir- d of its Bloemfontein ploded outside air force headquar- that from the middle of June, former value. Also the emigration President : P. Willem Botha, in office since 1978 ters in Pretoria, killing hundreds 1986, to the middle of February, of skilled people brain migra- Languages : Afrikaans (roots from Dutch), English tionincreased. In 1986, 80 doc- and Bantu languages tors, 263 teachers and 616 engi- Currency : neers left the country. One half Literacy Whites 98, blacks 50, coloreds 75 of the doctors who successfully Infant mortality (per 1000 live births) : completed their exams last year at the University of Witwatersrand Blacks 94, Whites 15, Coloreds 25 emigrated immediately afterward. A survey in January, 1987 showed that 42 of white voters want a new constitution without ISA campaigns to protest Botha today racial laws; only 27 prefer the current political status quo. The change of attitude in the Dutch Reformed Church (80 of South International Student Association ' Africa's parliamentarians are mem- (ISA) is starting a camoaign to pro- bers) may be a sign of hope. Un- re? test Botha today. Postcards like the " til now the church has been on one seen on the left will be distribut- the side of segregation, but now it ed to everyone this afternoon. ISA proclaims, "In God's eyes all peo- expects a large contribution to the ple are equaL" ThisT1 ! photoi was taken daringJ theAl riots in! August, 1971. campaign from the student body by The taking this picture. sending the protest cards to the photographer was arrested after "Honorable President" Botha. Kfacmhane , ' j rohntn tv Iptr .. i.Ill. J The Wooster Voice SAB Pittsburgh Trip Features Shopping and Fun ...

"f" By Kristy Bender

On September 12, fifteen first taste of a large American up everthing they had forgotten to COW students of various na- city. (No, Wooster does not bring to college! One of these tionalities, ages, shapes and sizes count.) natives, Michael Pastor, described set out on a journey taking them The first stop for the van-loa- d his hometown as "one big office far beyond the nuclear-fre- e zone of of Wooster escapees was the building" that has "cleaned itself Wooster, Ohio. Their destination: Allegheny Center Mall. This is up well" since its days as a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This what everyone had been waiting grungy steel town. Both Carl weekend excursion to the outside for a chance to do some heavy-dut- y and Michael said they enjoyed world was sponsored by the Travel shopping! After ample money-spe- themselves and felt that everyone Committee of the Student Activi- nding time, the group was glad to have had the chance ties Board. moved on to Oakland, a suburb of to get away from it all. Although the humidity Pittsburgh. Here was the main Next up on the S.A.B. travel 1 Vi , was suffocating and the van was dispersal point; everyone filtered agenda is a day in Columbus, crowded, the day proved to be a out of the bus and went their sep- Ohio. Departure time is at 9:00 worthwhile experience. Just the arate ways. AM this Saturday, October 3rd. view coming into Pittsburgh from Those who hadn't satis- They will visit the O S U library SATTA the Fort Pitt tunnels was enough fied their shopping hunger at the first before splitting up.. There Ohio's newest reggae their broad repertoire of popular to make up for the stuffyr three-ho- ur Allegheny Mall headed for the are two options. You can go the "dance-all-nig- drive. From a doubled ecker specialty shops on Forbes Ave- educational enrichment route band.Satta. is bringing its ht" reggae classics. Satta's combina- hot-spot- s. Ich-abo- side Mt. nue. Others the Carnegie which includes C.O.SJ. ($2 with performing style to d's tion of calypso, SKA, Salsa, bridge on the other of hit this Saturday. Satta's six R&B, and Rock N" Roll makes for Washington, the travelers could Carl Olson, the driver, I.D.), the Columbus Art Gallery n crowd-pleasin- Monangahela and hands-o- move- ($1 I.D.), and the Carnegie members once belonged to various g music. see where the checked out the with form analysis in is top reggae groups including Kaya, Allegheny Rivers meet to ment section located Library (free). The other route the included a mo- and South I-T- Ohio River. To the left was planetarium. It shopping at Lazarus Spirit-I- , and AL, so that each Their versatile style has the member of the band lends a color- routed them to success, sending Three-Rive- rs Stadium and to the tion break-dow- n exhibit using a High Street. Both include lunch ful personality to the Satta sound. them to festivals and colleges all right was a mass of modern office pitching machine and a voice at the Ohio Center and dinner at sound-frequen- This diverse blend of talent- over eastern North America, from buildings climbing into the sky. cy analyzer. Then the French Market. If interested, For many international stu- there were the Pittsburgh-ian- s sign up the Lowry Front ed musicians has created many, Canada to Florida. This weekend the native please at they come Wooster. dents on the trip, this was their who went homeward to pick Desk. original - sorigS that accompany to This Week's SAB Films: Gangs, Guns, and Guitars IPO... Did you know?

By Faisal Ansari -t- hat IPO stands for Interna that not all these students tional Programs Office? are seniors? Magical Mystery Tour: variety of circus artists, from the The Good, the Bad and that they bring with' them a you do Remember that musical Fat Lady to the dwarf, on board a the Ugly: that therefore not cumulative experience of over 12 necessarily, have to wait until phenomenon your elder brothers tour bus, the musicians embark on This was the last film in countries? your junior year to go overseas? and sisters talked about? No, no, their magical tour. There is plenty Sergio Leone's trilogy of not Elvis Presley, The Beatles are of good music interspersed with "spaghetti westerns." Clint East- that over 80 Wooster stu- the folks I'm talking about. Paul, dramatizations of the fantasies of wood returns as the "Man with No dents have returned to campus this John, Ringo and George made this various characters. So come and Name" and his trademark cool de- semester from study abroad? Come see us! musical in 1967 as a promotional see why Beatlemania once ruled meanor. Lee Van Cleef is there as gag for their album. Gathering a the music world. a sadistic mercenary and so is Eli Wallach as a Mexican gunman. Spotlight Showcase Welcomes Bird The common objective of the trio By Mary Harvey is to find a hidden booty, against the background of the Civil War. The Spotlight Showcase, John, Billy Joel, the Beatles and Leone spared no effort in portray- sponsored by the Student Activi- many others, Bird has had great ing the gruesome side of western THE 8EARCH 18 NOW ON! ties Board (SAB), is presenting a success in concert. His talent and life; the suffering and violence in "1988 MISS OHIO USA PAGEANT' attractive stage persona have cap- NO PERFORMING TALENT REQUIRED the film are vivid and grisly. This tivated audiences as he has per- If you are an applicant who qualifies and are western breaks away from the tra- between ages of 17 and under 25 by formed at many colleges and with the ditional John Wayne mode and es- February 1, 1988, never married and at least a such artists as Terri Gibbs and tablishes a genre of its own. six month resident of Ohio, thus college dorm Doc Watson. A successful students are eligible, you could be Ohio's songwriter representative at the CBS-nation- al ly televised also. Bird has had an Miss USA Pageant in February to compete for original piece reach the Top Ten $ 175,000 in cash and prizes. The Miss Ohio 5 over on the Independent Chart of Music IN USA Pageant for 1988 will be presented in the Row Magazine. This song was Grand Ballroom of the Marriott North Hotel in Night and the City: Columbus, Ohio, November 27, 28 and 29, The City in the title is positioned also on the Billboard 1987. The new Miss Ohio USA along with her London. It is not the London of Chart. expense paid trip to compete in the CBS-national- ly opulence the Bird was nominated for televised Miss USA Pageant, will pageantry and but receive a $1,000 cash scholarship and will select nightime city of gangland vio- "Campus Entertainer of the Year" a $1,000 wardrobe among her many prizes. All lence and sleaze. Richard Widwark in 1986 and has received wide HalHe BoucU girls interested in competing for the title must is a cheap hood attempting to praise from colleges and fans Miss Ohio USA 1987 write to: MICHAEL BIRD wrestling rack- alike. Some students have even Miss Ohio USA Pageant gain control of the 1988 de- talent- Trl-Sta- et. Herbert Lorn is the mobster very talented young performer this claimed that he is the most co te Headquarters Dept. CA, 347 Locust Avenue, Washington, PA 15301. termined to stop him. In the back- weekend. Michael Bird, a singer ed young performer they have ever (Phone 412225-5343- ) ground of this story are graphic and songwriter from Nashville, seen.' The College is very excited Jmllnflan nnAlln la October 1 7th. 1987. illustrations of the pervasive in- Tennessee, has been known to to have him perform here at -- mob-controll- Letters MUST include a recent snapshot, V.v humanity in ed areas. charm audiences everywhere with Mom's Truck Stop. You won't biography and phone number. . ' brief The most repulsive yet poignant his warm personality, appealing want to miss Bird's show this Fri- OSA et the family of Paramount Pictures Corporation, Mlss Is pert day, October 2, from 8:30 to mam Ohio USA is "A CarVern Production" parts in the movie are the brutal sense of humor and his "amazing" talent-Performi- op- wrestling matches. A classic musical ng 11:30 pjn. It will be a great among gangster movies'. songs by Elton portunity to be truly entertained! The Wooster Voice Page 7s Tales of the Truly Ordinary

By Graham Rayman

As an interesting sidelight, gets into some sort of trouble, or enough money to fly to Bermuda pleasantries, and told him of my he died at fourty-tw-o of nasal gan- this column was written during the has his credibility called into and live for a year, while pursuing . dilemma. He demurred for a bit, grene, not having the sanitary summer, and two or three days af- question, or has the press snap- an old high school sweetheart but with some pushing, he gave technology of today's hospitals. ter I had finished it, I happened to ping at his heels, this mysterious named Althea. in and told me about what was ac- Ronnie has a crack team of sur- pick up a copy of THE CITY cyst reawakens, and he goes into While all of this was most tually going on; a story very geons to complete this temporary sad condition. NEWS, a free DC paper. Their hu- the National Institute of fascinating, I decided to try to fo- top-secr- et he blurted. retardant of the mor columnist had written about Health(NIH) for tests, and some- cus his wandering mind on the "Ronnie has always had this His assertions of ignorance about the same thing. What - is it, I times an operation. The reason topic of his work. I had realized problem, "he began, "And it has the arms for hostages deals and wondered.. .Fate, Kismet. Nutty, escaped me. Of course I saw the that here sat a perfect chance to been a very unique one. Only one the shipping of weapons to the huh... apparent answers, i.e. the cancer discover the secret behind the person before him has been diag- Contra lead to a resurgence of the As the IC crisis went on and reawakens because of stress, or it President's nose. nosed with this disease; a man growth. During his helicopter on, I became sort of bored with it. is a coincidence; but politics is a Tell me more about your that it was named after. It in- flight to NIH his nose was report- Then one day I read in the paper discipline of subtlety, so I rea- work. I am so interested in the volves the alternate growth and ed to have grown four inches. that our president was having soned that these answers were medical realm," I said. recession of a series of mutant The pilot who witnessed this was trouble with his nose again. It Only what the public was sup- "Hey bartender, gimme anoth- cells on the tip of the patient's put to death on arrival. V - seems that a cyst or growth akin, posed to think. er," he said, then turning to me, nose, depending on the amount of "Was Reagan a wooden perhaps, to skin cancer had re- And the answer to Reagan's "Well, there really isn't much to stress at the time combined with child?" I asked, recovering from turned to trouble our leader of six mysterious recurring olfactory tell. I play around with chemi- the amount of fibbing the patient the shock. years. Now I have never been a malady would have escaped me, cals, while praying that the fund- has been doing in order to expli- "Few really want to speculate supporter of the man's policies. and rd have forgotten about it and ing doesn't run out. My role is cate himself from the stressful sit- on that possibility, though there

Pi-nocc- Which is not to say that I ever gone back to wondering about the only to compile the facts and sta- uation. Hence it is called the hio is a man hi his homfciuwm?who disliked him as a person. It is the effect that the Harmonic Conver- tistics for the big cheese research- Syndrome. Pinocchio claims to have knocked him to- same with personal friends. Many gence was having on the world, if ers, and of course I run some of first had this disease as a child, gether one Saturday using parts of of the people I consider friends it had not been for a chance meet- the damn boring experiments. It and according to our records and an old treehouse, nails and some happen to be political conserv- ing in a bar one Saturday night. really burns me. I spend years the work of Fairytale historians, epoxy. In addition. Cecil B. De-mil- le, ativesa condition impossible to I was sitting at the bar, and tens of thousands of dollars after he was turned into a real the famed director, is re- hU avoid on this campus. The presi- watching the tender sprint back on my education, and I'm only al- young boy, he continued to lie ported to have admitted on dent seems to be a nice enough and forth trying to avoid offend- lowed to work on my specialty once in a while. The condition deathbed to building Ronnie using fellow. In fact, many mothers ing anyone's sensibilities, when a once in a while." followed him into adulthood, parts of an old response to the-perfe- ct B would be proud to know the man well-dress- ed guy sat next to be. "Which is," I pryed, as I where, though he did not die of it, an industry need 4bt Wall-bange- know which who played George Gipp and He was already drunk, and as bought him another Fanny r. no one would totally trust him, movie actor. I don't young Knute Rockne. Even if he those who are already in such a and there was always speculation story is true, if either..." did show a certain affection for state often do, he began to speak Tm a nose specialist. I hear about the quality of. his honesty HU monologue has exhausted Notre Dame in those days. at me -- without provocation. I there's quite a call for folks like in relation with the growth of his , him, and he passed out on the bar. -- me to pay the bartender But a flash of concious-nes- s, found out he was a technician in me in the private sector, but I'm nose. He finally hit upon a way which left in revela- I realized a trend that even the cancer wing at NIH, and that under contract for a few more to retard the growth, which in- and excuse myself. The might have made the most astute observers of the his girlfriend had recently left him years." volved chopping it off with an tions Td heard man. political realm have failed to no- for a tackle and bait salesman in Unable to contain my glee at axe aided by his wizened accom- me a wanted ae, tice. ' Every time the President Florida. He was trying to save his admission, I cut through the plice, Geppetto. Unfortunately,

J- - Wo ' Pizza Politics and the Dewey-Truma- n Race

By Doug Fowler

break, ed to put Dewey over the top. exaggerated, too. away. This proved to be a novelty left before the summer all Hi, it's me again. Now that you've he would On the final week of school, Tru- It began as a normal school year for about two weeksuntil they re- indications were that recovered from our discussion man was gaining, but DeweyV Omigosh, Ohio. alized people were coming for the have the most orders from the in 1986 Lake -- everything (and wasn't it in time-machi- about ne pizza was doing Gary's Pizza was by far the most cars and not for the food. campus. something?), I am here to discuss well enough that the final edition What-chamacal- mid-Januar- y, the-rac- e Truman wouldn't quit, though. He popular among students at lit Finally, around something on everyone's mind, so- the Whatchamacallit Tribune, College. However, in was making sense. Truman's sent workers to the campus to of not to mention everyone's stom- the 12,000 the campus newspaper, printed the mid-Septemb- cialize with each of er, he was reportedly 31 different toppings had been a achs. That subject is pizza! Spe- headline: Dewey Defeats Tru- cooking hamburgers (a dir- big hit around the end of the first students and get a feel for what cifically, the wars between the caught In Wars. colle-giate- they thought pizza should be. The man Pizza word among pizza-lovin- g s) semester with their somewhat many -- pizza places competing for ty chocolate-c- as attend However, the polls and the paper to sell along with his piz- strange selections, such as owner went so far to our money. spoken too soon. A freshman overed nobody several classes and sign on as a had vegetarian za. Despite his protests of 1 am ants (which One would have to be a tutor! dorm put in an order of five pizzas all not a cook." he was forced out of had ordered in their six months of to not be paying attention to Dewey's with chocolate-covere- d ants (only . business. existence). There were rumblings in the coupons and other things that Many workers the second order ever with that left the race wide open. The A challenger arose in the person place at that time. these places have been sending. This topping) at 2 a.m. on the last day pizza parlors were soon of Tim Dewey. With his newly in- were complaining that going back They want to be remembered so remaining over the top vented time machine, he promised and forth in time was making, to put Truman's pizza that they will get your business dubbed the "seven dwarfs" by the a ' -- There would by two orders. college newspaper. With the race delivery within 30 seconds! It them age too quickly. during those times when you are over Lake Omigosh is an extreme ex- wide open, restaurants started worked like this: someone would soon be a court battle cramming for tests and don't have same hours ample of the politicking that goes sending coupons out in the mail order a pizza; they would cook it, whether working the time to go get something to eat, constituted on for your pizza money, but one every day. Some promised up to and then the delivery person twice at one time It can get pretty silly around exam working overtime. However, sen- never knowsit could happen ' five additional toppings free, would be whisked back in time to week, though, as in the story I am " here. af- before the pizza was ordered and iors doing I.S. projects found about to relate. The names have while others offered free pizzas One sent on his way. This produced in-- pizza within 30 seconds to be been changed to protect the- - ter only three purchases. , sales, and with three months quite handy, and they were expect . ; company began raffling cars. .'. stant, . . I i I y cent. In fact, the story iskind of y-- i i Page g Wooster Voice Musings On Omelettes and Youth

By Graham Rayman

The other day I was walking bowl, and gently crack two eggs are shown, the teenager is given I am twenty now, and yet this One time I was told that I was along, when I was hit on the head into it, then take a fork and whisk the opening to disagree. So be- sort of thing follows me, as I'm answering the phones wrong, (much like Newton) with the ques- it until it is a uniform yellow col- gins a long process where the sure it does most of us. Last sum- when I had never gotten a com-

it mean be or. Then when the butter is melt- -- 1 wanted white collar job, I was tion what does to young and the old clash. mer, in my plaint about it my entire life. An- ed, and before it burns, pour the that though young? to put ham, avocado, and bacon continuously reminded other, I was told that when fol- contents of the bowl into the on the are many different ways to in, and sprinkle cheese there ding letters into thirds, the bot- means skillet. Take a spatula and push a project, most of which seem For one thing, it top, which caused an argument. do tom should go underneath the top. twenty-fiv- e the sides of the yellow liquid to- but there is only one cor- spending the first No one really won. right, On a third, when we were outside people wards the center. Continue to do ex- way that will make years or more listening to This is a rather whimsical rect way; one aiding the press during the Festi- I believe this until the eggs are not running a happy. Over and over, tell you how to live. it ample of very serious part of the boss val of American Folklife, and I cate- anymore. Then use the spatula to doing a project, and a boss is separated into two or three life, which can give some even I'd be was putting boxes filled with subhead remove the omlette, and put it I would appear at my side and sigh gories, all under the of more bizarre examples. remerrr1 press kits into the only closet in When you onto a plate, then eat it. exasperation telling you what to do. ber working for my uncle, when with melodramatic the tent, I was told that I wasn't Then when I was fourteen, "right way," or are very young, your elders are he and some friends were building and show me the putting the boxes in the right Then, at she took me into the kitchen, and path. telling you what it is. their beautiful redwood and cedar the true places. said, "There are many ways to Inn, St Orres, around ten they tell you how to bed and breakfast All three times, the exasper- make an omlette, and a lot of dif- Califor- By the end of the summer, I use it. This goes on until young on the coast of northern ated sigh came down on me with a telling ferent things you can put into pick- had begun to doubt myself when adulthood, when they start nia. I was in the middle of leaden din. I guess all I'm saying do them. Ham, scallions, onion, confronted with even the simplest you all the different ways to ing up rocks around the building is that this garbage will follow us you the salt, pepper, bacon, avocado, pi-can- te of jobs. I started to ask my boss- something, and then tell site, which was about all I got to almost all our lives. Of course salsa. ..The list goes on. get- for exact and total instructions best way. If do there besides sweeping and es for the few of us who gain posi- I was I were you, I'd put the ham, avoca- for the before I would even begin a pro- For example, when ting the coffee and rolls tions of power it will not, but for up a fra- do, and scallions in when the bot- came over and told ject. But I finally realized that I three, my mother picked break, when he most of us, this pettiness must and tom is solid, and then fold it it wrong. He wasn't an incompetent. .It was gile, white spherical object me that I was doing be ignored. Be aware of it, and an Then when over, flip it once, and serve it right their petty, bureaucratic use of told me it was egg. proceeded to show me the just make fun of it, and don't bother I with the salsa, and a cold glass of combined with their con- was ten, she took me into the way to pick up rocks. I had never power, taking it seriously. - kitchen and showed me how to orange juice." known until then that there were ception of how the world should make an omlette. Heat the frying When that happens, when the so many subtleties to be that made me the object of pan and melt some butter. Take a path is chosen, but alternatives their discontent.

The Wooster women's or- outside the lower promenade. ganizations cordially invite you Come see what Greek women are Letters to the Editor Voice Staff to their one and only ICE CREAM all about!!! Please note that the RUSH, Friday October 2, 1987, scheduled October 14 rush has Editors from 6:00-7:3- 0 p.m. This event been canceled. Mary Cox, Graham Rayman will take place at Lowry Center In reading DalexNWalker's Christopher S hilts. Sports Editor "Wooster on Apartheid: The Cur- A Note From the Dean of Fa- Gregg B evens ee. Business Manager rent Story" (92587 Wooster culty: Doug Stuart, Business Assistant Voice, pp. 3-- 4) I discovered that Jfetor Lisa Fetterman, Layout Editor fjork Smites apparently I said something about Your interest in and support Lisa Bodeen, Copy Editor "doing good and doing well" in the first four events in the Fall of Gordon Finklestein, Photography relationship to divestment from are appreciated. Forum Series Editor South Africa. I say apparently be- A number of faculty and Production Staff cause two-thir- ds of the article's students have asked me to convey Jon Barclay content I do not recognize. to you and to the student body in Yalman Onaran Obviously I didn't do much good general their concern about the Kristin Helms (and I didn't do it particularly noise and early departures that Pam Rhoads well) in conveying to Mr. Walker also have characterized these the multiplicity of real issues and events. At the heart of an educa- good intentions in last year's tion in the tradition of the liberal Photography Staff Margaret Lydecker campus debate on investment and arts and sciences is respect for in- Laura Caliguiri apartheid. But I do have company; tellectual diversity, and courtesy Bob Murphy the reporter did no better in re- towards others. Please do your porting what in fact I said. part in honoring these commit- Writers The current story on "Wooster on ments by your undivided attention Amy Stratum Apartheid" is worth telling. Walk- and presence during the entirety of Rusty Hood er didn't do it. the Forum events. David Coogan Sincerely, William Van Cleave Glenn R. Bucher Mike Schlessinger WANTEB Dean of Faculty Doug Fowler Thomas Karsten Student to Handle of Nathaniel Elliot Distribution Kristy Bender Doug Isenberg The New York Times Sue Hollingshead Faisal Ansari On Campus. Policy Editorial Chuck Brady Editorials are the responsibility of the Editors, and do not ne- Sarah Kotchen Money cessarily reflect the views the staff. Earn and Bonus of Mary Harvey Letters to the Editors should by typed, double-space- d, and Andy Mayer should exceed one and a half pages. Anonymous letters Promotion Campaign Assistance. not Shelley Pearsall be printed. will not Susan M. Gale For Additional Information, Call Dave Neun 1-800-63- Dalex Walker BiU Roche, 1-2500 Mike Finnie n The Wooster Voice Page 9 Field, Fee, Frolic... Bacchanalia: A Pictorial

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By Michael P. Schlessinger and Nathaniel Elliott

The Scots crept past the Scots' defense then came through offense is likely to be led by Battling Bishops with an impres- - ' with a tenacious goal line stand sophomore tailbacks David Brown sive defensive showing by the after the Bishops recovered a fum- and Doug Oberdorf, who have score of 7-- 3 last Saturday. Led by ble on the Scots' 30 yard line. combined for an outstanding 431 sophomore linebacker Geoff Belz, The defense proved to be the most yards this season. Also, the Scots' who was named NCAC Player of consistent of the two teams, again offense will be tested by the Alli- the Week, the defense managed to compensating for the lack of of- gators' AU-Americ- an nose tackle keep the Ohio Wesleyan offense fense which has plagued the Scots Mike Parker and by senior line- out of the end zone for the entire for the last two weeks. In a suc- backer Scott Grava, who teamed day. Some of Belz' numbers which cessful attempt to run down the up for 27 total tackles against helped him gain that honor in- clock at the end of the game, sen- Oberlin last week. ; clude 19 tackles, including three quarterback sacks. He also had ior fullback Rich Carmel earned N.C.A.C. OVERALL three tackles which resulted in the majority of his 60 yards for STATS Wooster Women Drive Toward Goal (Photo by Bob Murphy) negative yardage for the Bishops.. the day with an impressive 45-ya- rd W , The only "Bishops score breakaway. . . 1, i EE PA (3-0- -0 2-- Wooster 3 0 0 '40 27 came on; thetcond drive of the . Wooster overall, 0 22-ya- Allegheny2 33' third quarter on a rd field' in the NCAC) 'will again look to 0 lr 47 Women's Soccer Downs ' r - ' CWRU 1 0 69. . - l . its defense to repeat and pick up 2 61' goal by Jeff Long. The Bishops for the lack of offense when they OWU 3 0 36 51? Muskingum, Wittenberg DENISON2 53 first drive of the second half wax ? are hosted by . Allegheny College 1.0 77 2- - terminated with an interception by (2-0- -1 overall,' 2-- 0 in NCAC) to- KENYON r 0 58 72 ;

The' , OBERLIN 0 3 0 14 38 Wooster's Steve Young. .-- morrow afternoon. Allegheny's. '.'- -' By Bob Murphy - : ' Victor.", ,..' .At'.-""-'sv.-? ..V .Vf .! .y 'i 5r.'y. r ' Then last Monday Septem- ,r The College Wooster . of ber 28, the Lady Scots took on Field Hockey Ends Losing Streak Lady Scots soccer team has won" Wooster Wittenberg College at Wittenberg, two of their last 'three games to and lost 3-- 1. Wittenberg played ' ' 5-- ' By ; put them at 3 for the season. Sue HoUingshead much better than Wooster in the However, the ma- team suffered 'a first half, and they were' able to A scfas, : passing was not good, the team in linda Brandt received an assist for jor setback in victory loser TThafs the way their over coast on that through the second general was not aggressive to the the hit-ou- t, and Jessica Skolnikoff Findlay College last - it's always been done here." September half to the win. It looked as if A winner says, ball, and the shots on goal were was also awarded an assist for the 24, when - senior 'goal - keeper "There must Wittenberg might shut' out - the not accurate. The Oberlin goalie stick stop. Seven minutes later, Dawn Crownover be a better way to do it." (by Syd- broke her arm, Scots, but late in the last half. ' time Ail-Americ- an, and first year student Mina. Jinn scored ney Harris) is a two putting her out for the rest of the . t Colleen Banks scored for Woost This is part of a handout that the Lady Scots needed to be very a beautiful goal off an assist by Coach Sheila Noonan gave the persistent on goal and they needed Michela Huth. Wooster did not women's field hockey team. It is to move the goalie. score again until the second -- half. season. Fortunately for the Scots, this attitude which' spurred the The "Wooster team was under With 27 minutes to go, Michela senior Susanna Holm,; who shared er, hi what turned out to be the team on to a tie and a victory this pressure the entire game. First Huth finally put one in herself; goal tending duties with Crowno- last goal of the game. One of the

1-- past week. they were down 0, then they did Off an assist by Anne Daugherty. ver, has taken over full time and-h- as bright spots of the game though tie the score up but could not Huth dribbled around the goalie performed very well. The was senior Kate Jones outstanding After dropping three games to break the tie in regulation or in and was able to put the ball across Scots will play Geneva College of defensive play throughout. Signif- Denison in overtime, Ohio Wes- the overtimes. Wooster also the line for a goal. Pennsylvania today at 4:30, and icant in this game was the ab leyan, and Ithaca College, the knew that to lose this game would This new system forced the will be here tomorrow as well, sence of leading Scot scorer Doch women's field hockey team is mean that they would-hav- e a hard- forward line to spread out and to taking on Marymount College of erty, out for the game with a leg looking forward to a new begin- er time trying to capture the con- depend upon each other. This is Virginia at 1:00 pjn.. injury. ning. Toward this end, a fine ef- ference 'title. Coach Noonan said, the first "team".'win that the Lady . Playing against Muskin- Despite their last loss, the fort was turned in by the Lady "We did well under the pressure Scots have had all year. It wis gum -- College last September 26, Scots still are generally playing Scots on Wednesday, September and we stuck it out. Not one per- not just one person who was --out-, the Scots ' pounded the Muskies to im- standing was, everyone. 4-- 23. Wooster traveled to Oberlin son gave up." This is a big it a 0. This was' Susanna Holm's College and, after double over- provement for the Lady Scots. Another aspect which helped first shutout of the year, and in time, ended in a 1-- 1 tie. Coach Noonan felt something Wooster. in the victory .was the fact the entire defense completely needed to be changed for the Ken-yo-n person to person defense. This Oberlin started the scoring well. .If Susan ah Holm can stay game on September 29, so meant that everyone was. marking late in the. first half on a cross in healthy the rest of the season, the she changed the "system." ' The all over the field, and not just in front of the goal to a player who Scots should not suffer unduly be- seemed to be unmarked. Wooster team would now play with only the defensive 25. Assistant coach Muskingham, Lead- cause of the loss of Crownover. three forwards, three midfielders, Marty Karoly said. The marking closed down . was unable to counteract that goal Down the stretch of the season, three backs, a sweep and a goalie. helped our defense in our defen- ing in scoring for Wooster was until the second half when forward the Scots .will soon start playing Docherty once . again, Ann Guinane scored off an assist This system proved to.be more sive, circle. There was not as Cathie who confusion had two of -- the Scots four goals. the bulk of their NCAA competi- offensively effective for . Wooster much and less fouls." by Jessica Skolnikoff. It was not tion. Thus, the Scots will be 3-- Muskingum's women's soccer, team the final- and moved the team on to a 0 The defense had only one corner until that goal that team working hard to get their game together. victory over Kenyon College. against them the entire game. is in its first varsity year, and ly started playing down pat for the important com- Wooster's Jen Dugan scored Wooster truly dominated them to Coach Sheila Noonan still petition to be starting up in the something missing with 20:09 left in the first half on the extent that there was never felt there was next week or so. ' ' i I 1 . any doubt in the game as to the TU .an. offensive penalty, comer. . -- Ce- The Wooster Voice

Shiltsy Going Nowhere Fast,.. Ski Club Announcement (But Desires Dinner, and Goes Nowhere that The Downhill Ski Club ': ' ' - be day trips to closer resorts such area dealers'.- . .;"- - which will soon be coming to. life; as Seven Springs, Holiday Valley ' (hose who weren't ...at all) Wooster cam- r nFor on The College of arid Peak and Peak. There is also able to attend Sunday's meeting pus had its first meeting Septem- the possibility of organizing a and would, like to get on, our list, By Christopher Shilts ber 20. The meeting went very week of skiing out west during please contact either: well, 50 students. " attracting about March. Stephanie Zachary, Box So you can grasp the impact not irritated. After all, you've Interest was expressed for Two of our fellow stu- 3110. Ext 2652 of this. 111 go slow. Jeez. I prom- only had about an hour and a half trips, which would in- two day ski dents are members of the Profes- or myself no puns I to get ready for dinner. leaving Friday night... ski- ised hate puns. clude: sional Ski Instructors of America Denison von Maur, Box But I've done it already. Yessir. FLASHBACK: Everyone, I'm ing all day Saturday and part of (PSIA). They are willing to lead 2957. Ext 2602 s-l-o- -w. sure, knows that this is the larg- returning campus Slow. As in Now slow to Sunday, and to group lessons for those who est freshman class ever (yes, I For weekend me means a lot of waiting. ..in late Sunday night. would like them. The club will be will say freshman this first year line. ..at Lowry... desiring din- trips it was thought conceivable inquiring about the possibility of student crap is driving me up the will ner... but there are hordes of peo- to go up to Vermont There discounts on ski equipment from ple and the pace is much like.. .a wall). We, the Wooste College

c-r-a-- w-1. Community, overbooked. As Julie Andrews would say, The problem was easily "Let's start at the very begin- solved, however, but maybe we ning." I'm sitting in the PEC hall should have erected another cafete- GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES icing myselfsee, I'm hurt. My ria somewhere. Oh? We already stomach begins to growl. Before I have one? AT continue, I want to make one So all the tired little athletes thing perfectly clear Lowry food scrape themselves from their THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY is just fine (if you disagree, go spected practice fields. TIMEOUT: somewhere else); the service, for I was just staring at the screen for the most part, is better than ade- a while, blankly, and I decided quate. Yes, it would be nice if that this is a pretty dumb com- there was some spaghetti left at mentary. HOWEVER: When I'm from The Ohio State about 6:32, but I can overcome showered and ready to eat, it Representatives that. And yes, sometimes I end up would be a pleasure to sit and University (OSU) will be on your campus at;tthe explaining what I'd like to eat dine, comfortably. Notice the about sixteen times. But that isn't word SIT. If it sounds like I'm cry- date, time and location specified below to .answer, the problem either. ing, you're right I'm crying bit- Now the football team, the terly. This little game has been in professional . your questions about graduate and soccer team well, let's not get existence since time itself. boring. All the fall sports end Now since you freshmen studies at OSU. Representatives from the practice at approximately the are indeed first-ye- ar students, why same time. Understanding that, I don't you run away and eat in Kit-tredg- e. following academic units will be available to meet mentally prepare myself for a bit There are too many of you '. of a wait patience has never been anyway. Besides, many of you with you: ; a strong virtue of mine. Lo and won't be back next year. So sacri- behold, whilst standing in line, I fice yourselves - to the athletes. discover that many people clog- And if you think about it, and do Interprofessional ging up the expressway are not eat in Kittredge, you make room Agronomy athletes after all. The athletes, it for upperclass non-athlet- es to eat Education and - would appear, are taking cuts, earlier. Thus, the tired, perhaps Architecture ' spoiled (but it's no time to feel stealing plates, in short, cheating . Biological Practice proud), athletesVhave a clean run- their way to the front of the line, way. And everyone lives happily much to the dismay of the non-athlet- es. Sciences Mathematics ever after. Too bad. I hope you're Business Medicine Minority Affairs NCAC Update Administration Chemistry Pathology Pharmacology WOOSTER'S BELZ AND THE COAST ON TV Education CASE RESERVE'S CONWAY & Preventive Medicine NAMED NCAC FOOTBALL Family Relations PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Human Development Psychology By NCAC News Release By NCAC News Release Hospital & Health Public Ge- Sophomore linebacker Two NCAC football games Services Admin. . Administration off Belz of The College of Woost-- . were produced last weekend and er and junior tailback Kurt Con- beamed to happy cable TV sub- The Humanities Social Work way of Case Western Reserve Uni- scribers. The Wooster --Ohio Wes-leya- n versity have been named North game was produced by Coast Athletic Conference foot- WB NX-T- V and broadcast to a tele- ball "Players of the Week" on de- vision audience of 10 million po- When: October 7, 1987 offense respectively. tential viewers in the Akron-Clevela- nd fense and a.m.-2:0- 0 p.m. non-conferen- 10:00 Belz (North Olmstead. OH area. Denison's ce St. Edwards') was the outstanding matchup with Olivet defender in an outstanding defen- College (MI) was produced by Di- sive game. The 511" 195 pounder mension Cable TV in Newark, Where: Main Lobby had 19 tackles, including three for Ohio to their coverage area in a loss and three quarterback sacks, Licking County. Dimension is Lowry Center in a 7-- 3 Wooster win over a tough planning at least one more broad- Ohio Wesley an University. cast this season. Cross Country Performs Well at Invitational Snoikin by Chuck Brady

The Wooster Invitational, One of the most encourag- Leading the way for Woost- ing signs for coach Craig Penney held this past Saturday on the er was senior Scot Mellor who ran arid his new assistant coach Jane College's golf course, is fast be- extremely well for a 5th place fin- Buch was the level of improve- coming one of this area's premier ish in 25:29. Todd Fach was cross country events. Over the ment that was shown over last Wooster's second man in 11th week's times on the same course. past few years, both the number place with a time of 25:56. Next Each of four women who ran and quality of participating teams the was Chuck Brady in 27th, fol- last week bettered their times by a have increased. Thus, the meet lowed closely by Rob Noble in minute or more. has also become a showcase for 30th. Scott Michalek. 37th, and In the men's race, there was Wooster's continuing improve- Chris Trivejs, 41st, rounded out a real battle for first place with ment as a major contender in the the Wooster varsity team. -- Ashland College beating Otterbein region. This year's strong fininsh The last race of the day was by one point, 52-5- 1. Wooster by both the men's and women's an open race for team members followed in 3rd place with 109 teams showed that Wooster is able not in the top seven varsity spots points, just ahead of Muskingum to run with the best schools in of their team. No team score was at 111. Wooster avenged an earli- the area. kept, but Wooster's contingent er two point loss to arch rival The women began the day's gave a respectable show display- Case Western in a big way, beat- racing with an impressive 4ih ing the depth of this squad. Curt ing them by 26 points. place finish, tops among the five Mann and Aaron Davies led the What made Saturday's show- conference schools also compet- Wooster pack in this race, finish- ing all the more impressive for ing. The Lady Scots were led by ing 4th in 27:35 and 5th in the Scots was that they arc still a THE MESH TIGERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA ARE HINTED R)R THEIR Stephanie Scierka who earned in- 27:46 repectively. far from reaching its HIDES WHICH ARE. USED IN THE. MANUFACTURE OF RWTEAU. dividual honors for her 6th place team that is One last word. The cross finish with a timeof 19:28. Lin- best. Sickness still plagues many country teams would like to ex- da Stevenson was the next Woost- of the Scots' top-- performers as it tend a warm welcome to Jane er finisher at lSth place in 20:07. has in the past two weeks. Says Buch, newly appointed assistant Patty Smanick returned for action Penney, "I'm very pleased with coach who will primarily take to place 29th in 20:33. She was where we are at this point in the control of the women's program. followed by Kristy Bender (32nd season. This meet gave us a good Coach Buch is a fairly well known ACOA in 20:35). Meghan Cartwright idea where we stand in the Re- local runner, and her help with the (51st in 21:17). and Kate White -- gion. But we have a long way to team will be greatly appreciated. " scl (90ih in 24:05). go- - DO YOU GUESS AT WHAT NORMAL IS? DO YOU TAKE YOURSELF VERY SERIOUSLY? DO YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH INTIMATE RE- Fun Run to be Held . Field Hockey LATIONSHIPS? (continued from page 10) DO YOU REACT TO CHANGES OVER WHICH YOU The SAB Recreation Commit- There is no registration fee, HAVE NO CONTROL? tee is sponsoring the 4th Annual so everyone is welcome to join The "New Wooster Field DO YOU CONSTANTLY SEEK APPROVAL FROM Homecoming Harvest Run. In past the fun. Prizes will be awarded to Hockey Team" is more offensive. OTHERS? -- years, the run has been a success top finishers. The gun will go off They out-sh- ot Kenyon 32 to 25, DO YOU FEEL DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE and this year is to be no different. at 9 a.m. sharp, Saturday, October and are ready to take on bigger ELSE7 2, SUPER-IRRESPONSIBL- is all stu- 10 starting line (and fi- battles. On Friday, October SUPER-RESPONSIBL- E E? The run open to C.O.W. with the . ARE YOU OR dents, employees, alumni, facul- nishing line) located behind the team travels to Maryland to ty and their families. Wagner Hall. play Frostburg (ranked 2nd in the YOU AFRAID OF ABANDONMENT? and then on Saturday ARE For those people who are Registration slips are availa- nation) DID YOU EVER THINK ANYONE IN YOUR FAMI- 2-m- ile 16th ranked Catho- looking for a quick run, the ble at Lowry front desk or at the Wooster plays TO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS? course will be just the thing. SAB office. A table for registra- lic University. LY WAS ADDICTED For more experienced runners tion will be open from 8:00-8:3- 0

5-m- there is the challenge of the ile a.m. before the race on Saturday. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. run. The course will be the So, bring a friend and come join ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS MEET TO one used by the cross country us. It's a great way to start off the SHARE THESE AND OTHER EXPERIENCES AND teams, which runs along the Col- spectacular Homecoming weekend. FEELINGS. lege of Wooster golf course. JOIN US. WESTMINSTER CHURCH HOUSE BASEMENT 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY

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