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High 50s Low 20s Rain with World scattered thunderstorms Former President Carter among Nobel nominees Inside OSLO. Norway (AP) — Former President Jimmy Is anybody stressed? WEDNESDAY Carter, Bosnian peace envoy Find out how to stay FEBRUARY 19,1997 Richard Holbrooke and Balkan relaxed during midterms. peace activists are among this See page 5 Texas Christian University year's nominees for the Nobel 94th Year • Number 76 Peace Prize. So far, I Of) individuals and 25 organizations have been nominated, Geir Lundestad, secretary of the prize awards committee, said Tuesday. House meets with "But nominations are stiil coming in, and we expect this to be the first year we exceed 130 nominations," he said. Faculty Senate on This year's prize, worth $1.03 million, will be announced in mid-October, Lundestad said. The committee evaluation process meets Feb. 25 to begin review- ing candidates. By JIM Taylor comments from students, are then SKIFF STAFF sent to the instructor. Nation In a joint meeting of the Faculty "The department chairs or deans Senate and the House of Student may request that the instructors ACLU official threatens Representatives Tuesday, faculty show them the comments as a factor to expose gav lawmakers members encouraged students to in determining salary decisions." BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — communicate with departmental Grant said. "But unless the dean Outraging members of the state administrators to make instructor asks to see those, the comments are legislature, the head of the evaluations more effective. only seen by that instructor." American Civil Liberties Union David Grant, an associate profes- Kitchens said he calls the forms in the Dakotas is threatening to sor of religion and chairman of the "student perceptions of teaching" expose gay lawmakers who Faculty Senate Academic rather than evaluations because of vote to ban homosexual mar- Excellence Committee, explained the limited effect the forms have on riages. the process of instructor evaluation. decisions concerning an instructor's "If they're going to be hypo- Faculty members are instructed to salary and placement. critical, then they need to have distribute evaluation forms to stu- Several students addressed specif- that hypocrisy exposed," Keith dents at the end of the each semester. ic areas they considered to be prob- Elston. who himself is gay, said Tenured faculty, he said, have a lems with the evaluation system. Tuesday. choice whether to conduct evalua- Brooke Batchelor, a senior prema- He made the threat to "out" tions in the spring semester. jor, questioned Kitchens about the lawmakers he believes are gay "When you do these evaluations, flow of evaluations from study in a column last week in a faculty don't see them for over a abroad programs. weekly arts and entertainment month," Grant told students. "That's Batchelor said she has taken four guide published in Grand long after grades have been entered, study-abroad trips during which she Forks. so there's no need to worry about an made negative comments on evalua- The legislation at issue instructor checking the handwriting tions. She said she was concerned would deny recognition of on the evaluations." because at least one instructor super- same-sex marriages performed He said completed evaluations go vised the evaluations and read them in other states and explicitly to the Center for Instructional as students handed them in. define a marriage as a union Services, where bubbled-in respons- "Where do the study-abroad eval- between a man and a woman. es are compiled for statistical uations go?" Batchelor said. "1 don't Councilman convicted reports. feel like my instructors are held to a He said a summary of the statisti- standard if evaluations are never of flinging ham cal data is sent to each department seen by anyone but that instructor." NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A chairman or chairwoman and dean Kitchens said study-abroad evalu- city councilman was convicted for comparison with other instruc- ations are not routed through and fined $250 Tuesday for tors in the department. The actual smacking a store clerk in the evaluation forms, complete with Please see SENATE, Page 2 head with a flying one-pound package of sliced ham. A judge found Paul Riddick guilty of assault and battery in the Nov. 16 incident. House to fund event, Anne Drablcky SKIFF STAFF Lynda Doss testified that Modern-day griot Kijana Wiseman took her audience to Africa Tuesday evening in the Student Riddick came to the store Center Ballroom as she sang, narrated and acted during her performance of "The Griot." where she works to return ham introduces b-ball bill that was spoiled. Doss said that when she put a package of fresh By Ryan J. Rusak Endara said the event will feature ham on the counter, Riddick SKIFF STAFF several activities, including initiation shouted, "Don't throw that ham The House of Student into an honor society for internation- Griot travels through history al students, a multilingual poetry at me!" Representatives will provide $1,250 knew Eve, we are all African. It's through their stories and songs. for an event to be staged in March by night, a food festival and a banquet By Kelly Melhart The councilman then threw SKIFF STAFF OK to be a human being, and it's Wiseman acted as a griot for the the International Students with a talent show. the package, hitting her in the It was a toe-tappin', knee-slap- okay to have fun. We can embrace audience and brought them the his- Association. Cody Dick, a Clark Hall represen- side of the head, knocking off pin', hand-clappin' good time in the past without living it." tory through her words, music, A bill that funds the event. tative, said the bill was the type the her glasses and bruising her the Student Center Ballroom Wiseman said she was trying to slides and costume changes. International Week, passed the House should pass. nose, she said. Tuesday night as Kijana Wiseman, give the audience members some- Ann Crassons. a lophomore House unanimously Tuesday. The "If we're going to pass bills for Riddick testified that the a writer, entrepreneur and soloist, thing to laugh about while they French and international affairs bill originally requested $1,500, but small organizations like we did last woman had "slung" the ham showed audience members how to were at the performance and some- major, said. "A real-life griot. this the amount was cut by the House semester, we should pass one for the onto the counter, snarled, 'Take enjoy learning history. thing to remember when they left. is monumental. The griot is a major Finance Committee. largest organization on campus," your damn ham" and called Wiseman's program, "The "I am truly an American," theme and a major part of West Patricia Endara, vice president of Dick said. him an "SOB." Griot," took the audience on a voy- Wiseman said, "The only thing I'm African literature." ISA, said the event will help spread ISA has 180 members. age through the history of all not is a minority. 1 don't buy that" Wiseman immediately involved cultural appreciation on the campus. One new bill, which requested Supremacist pleads Americans as she traced the path of She said thousands of years ago. the audience members in the pro- "We think the event is not only to funding for a three-on-three basket- guilty to conspiracy blacks from their tribal beginnings griots served as the "first six gram by demanding their participa- enrich our culture, but to give ball tournarnent sponsored by the PHILADELPHIA (AP) — in Africa to the age of jazz. o'clock news," and brought infor- tion in the nogs she sang and the Americans an opportunity to get to Delta Sigma Theta sorority, was The leader of the Aryan "We all come from the same mation from neighboring tribes know other countries' cultures and introduced Tuesday. It requested Nations in Pennsylvania plead- place," she said. "As sure as Adam and villages to other groups Please see STORY, Page 2 ed guilty Tuesday to plotting traditions," said Endara. a junior mar- Please see HOUSE, Page 4 seven Midwest bank robberies keting major from Panama, and using the cash to further the white supremacist group's cause. Halls will compete to raise roof Mark Thomas originally Low! speaks Airlines. pleaded innocent Feb. 4, short- By Andrew Raxroda SKIFF STAFF The TCI! Bookstore will also give ly after he was indicted with on politics Students who want to show sup- free books to the student who can four other men. all members or port of the TCU men's basketball associates of the "Aryan shoot 10 three-pointers in a 25-sec- By Anne Drablcky team will have the perfect opportu- Republican Army." His lawyer, ond period. and Klmberly Wilson nity today at 5 p.m. today in front of David Maynard, said Tuesday SKIFF STAFF Both male and female qualifiers that Thomas decided to change "Back to the Future: the Student Center. from the pre game contests will his plea almost immediately. Emerging Changes in the "Raising the Roof of Daniel - have the chance to win the tickets "He's guilty," Maynard said. American Separation of Powers" Meyer Coliseum," is a campus-wide during halftime. Maynard said prosecutors was the topic of discussion student-initiated party that was cre- Residence halls will also take part had not agreed to reduce Tuesday by Theodore Lowi, the ated this semester as a result of in the event. Thomas' sentence, a maximum John L. Senior Professor of Coach Billy Tubbs' letter calling for The head resident assistant! from of 25 years for conspiracy and American Institutions at Cornell student support in the Jan.