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Volume 90 • Number 23 John Carroll University • Cleveland, Ohio April 30, 1998 ----~--------------------------- ---- ---·----------------- --- -- JCU A/1-Amercian JCU star signed by NFL London Fletcher Mark Boleky rai e by herself At the age of 12, cided to take up orgamzed foot Sports Editor his Sister wa brutally raped ball That year he earned all-dis­ headed for NFL Thosearound him have known Fletcher began spendmg more trict and all state honors for years he was too good to play time with a group of f nend > Fletcher followed a basketball here. which could probably have been cholar h1p to the D1vision I St This fact became clear to the con idered a gang. Francis (Pa), but transferred to rest of the football world last He knew he needed an outlet, Carroll after a year. "I began to Thursday, when recent John Car­ and sports became the easy choice. miss football, and I knew I could roll University graduate London Especially easy con idering ath­ transfer Ito a DIVISion Ill school! Fletcher made the rare leap from letics come JUSt about a ea y a without s1ttmg out a year," he sa1d Division IJitosigninganNFLcon­ breathing for fletcher. "Also, I could be only about 15 tract with the St. Louis Rams. At Vi II a Angela -St.Joseph High mmutes from my family and The 6-foot, 235 pound line­ School, he played on two state where I grew up " backer has been making big championship basketball teams. l hat move proved e pec1ally strides and overcoming obstacles It was not unt!l his senior year of valuable to fletcher's family, who his whole life. Last week's one­ high school, though, that he de- see NFL, page 3 year contract worth at least $158,000 represents just another rung in his extraordinary life lad­ JCU student investigated der. And his feelings about sign­ ing as a free agent tell you all you for alleged embezzlement need to know about Fletcher's de­ termination and the high expec­ Meagan Lynch to the Plm tl Dtaler. tations he holds for himself. Tom O'Konowltz Common Pleas Judge Timothy "I was actually kind of disap­ The Carroll ews McCorrn1 k ordered the univcr pointed, because I thought I A John Carroll University se­ sity last Wl'ek to allow the woman should have gotten drafted," said nioraccountmg major IS swng the to rake her fmal exams next week Fletcher, who was courted by over university to allow her to take her The student's 1denuty is not a dozen teams. "I knew I was up final exams, desp1te the fact that be1n!?, d1sdosed by the.> umvcrslty against some odds, thour.h. be she was suspcnth·J. unul thL yt•ar or tht:l.uy .\hut',.l < .< 11111 y Co\nt nf the I. I v l ommon Jk;,~.s. came from ." She was suspended and barred "My feclmg was to Icc her con· Those odds are nothing com­ from graduating wnh an account­ centrate on her exams. I didn't pared to what Fletcher has come ing major after the accounting want to have to have a hearing across in his life off the field. firm of Reboul and Henderson, before then," McCormick sa1d. Growing up in Cleveland's inner located in Shaker Heights, in­ Yet , her degree still remains in city, Fletcher was one of five chil­ formed the university that she had doubt, according to university of dren his mother had to virtually allegedly taken $9558, according see INTERN, page 2 The Road to Recovery ]CU senior and his brother recover after kidney donation and transplant Denise Glaros ney transplant would afford Eric a better unit, "totally out of it," he said. It took him fromJimi Hendrix, and his Superman ring, The Carroll News quality of life than dialysis ever could. about a day to regain his alertness, he said, which he dubbed the "miracle charm," be­ Javier Reveron may just have given his "I think it was harder for Javi to go so going into the second day.]av ier thought cause he said it made him feel better after brother Eric the most expensive Christmas through with the decision to donate his that there would be very few problems. he put it on. gift ever. It took him all of last semester at kidney than it was for him to have the ac­ "Then it hit me," Jav'ier said. "I felt so Although he did not experience any se­ John Carroll University to come to terms tual surgery," Eric said. much pain, I kept hitting theepiduraldrip." rious side effects from the five-hour sur with his generosity, but there was never a Eric was right The pain was pacified with a little help see RECOVERY, page 3 doubt in Javier's mind -over the holidays, "What we fear most are the things we he would donate his right kidney to Eric, don't know about and the things we have no who suffered from kidney failure since the control over," Javier said. age of 20. And Javier's fears were tested. Almost five months have passed si nce The postponing of the surgical dates on the transplant surgery,and the two are back four separate occasions contributed to the on track with their lives. Javier is finishing st ruggle Javier faced in giving up his power up hissenioryearatJohn Carroll and Eric is and his kidney. But the journey finally at home in lorain,finishing up his recovery ended on Jan. 9, as Javier and Eric found process. themselves in the waiting room of The But no matter how much time passes, Clevela nd Clinic early that morning. neither wi II be able to forget the paths they "The last time I saw my brother was took a long the road to recovery. when they were wheeling us to our opera­ For Javier, the eight-and-a-half -inch scar tion rooms," Javier said. "I slapped him a extending along the right side of his abdo­ high five and it was a blur after that." men will serve as a permanent reminder of According to Eric, the procedure ran a year when selflessness became a strong "rather smoothly." Since this was Eric's sec­ ally, but it will also serve as a reminder of a ond time through transplant surgery, as he rime when anxiety and depression proved received two pediatric kidneys in 1993 that stronger. failed three-and-a-half years later, he said For Eric, his greatest ally was experi­ he was bare! y nervous. "It's I ike an old song ence. Having been plagued with sickness and dance," Eric said. since he was 14-years-old, Eric knew that "I was more nervous for Javi because it hospital life was not easy. He was able to· was his first time going through this, or any filter out the emotion and concentrate on type of surgery as a mauer of fact ," Eric getting better. said. John Carroll senior Javier Reveron, left, sits next to his brother Eric, right, in their But Javier just could not deal with the Javier,22, made it through the procedure Lorain home after the two underwent surgery in January. Javier donated a kidney emotion, even though he knew that a kid- and woke up a few hours later in a nursmg to Eric, who was facing kidney failure. 2 NEWS The Carroll News, April 30, 1998 Student disputes roon1 selection News Briefs Ann Davis Director of Residence L1fe for Op· Weyers said ,"a freshman had seen Staff Reporter erauons said "Students who wish their room during the year and It IS a story of he sa1d, she said to retain their current room tn wanted to It ve in it next year" Religion professor's book published A fifth-year student, who wishes Rodman must fill out a Specialty According to Mary, Weyers went Former chairman of the religious stu(lies department, to remain anonymous, was denied Housing ApplicatiOn and sign up on to explain that her lthe Dr.JosephEKelly re.cendyhadhisbook"Conctse.Dictonary permission to remain in her dorm on Tuesday, April? in the Murphy f reshman'sl father donates a lot of of Early Christianity" published by the Vatican. The newly room 1n Rodman Hall for the next room ," Weyerssaid," theylstudents money to john Carroll,and he said, published book not only in dudes people, places and terms academic year. The student, who in question I filled out an applica· "it would be in the University's best related co early Christianity, but the Papal Seal of approval we wi II call Mary, was planning to tion but did not show up at the interest to let her It he f reshmanl on the cover. Dr. Kelly's expertise lies in the bible, Christian attend graduate school at john s1gn-ups" havetheroom". Weyersdeniesany icons. St. Patricl< and topics <:entering around evil Carroll and conunue to live in the According to Mary, she and her mcidence in which a student was dorms with her friends.