Athletic Debt Draws String of Petitions
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THE DAILY CAMPUS Tuesday, April 28, 1992 The independent newspaper serving the SMU community since 1915 Vol. 77 No. 117 Students open world of science to others Athletic debt By JAMIE HENSLEY Mesquite, Jonathan Burton, a senior Contributor to The Daily Campus chemistry/math major and president of the chemistry society, said. draws string SMU students are igniting the "Younger kids get mere excited. minds and imaginations of elemen We are targeting this group because tary students by performing unusual they haven't been turned off to sci experiments with everyday items. ence. Their enthusiasm is terrific. In a program which started this Students are natural scientists of petitions semester, SMU Chemistry Society because they are curious," said members introduce children from Patty Wisian-Nielson, associate elementary schools in the Dallas professor of chemistry and faculty By ASHA MIRCHANDANI long-term," he said. area to the wonders of science. adviser to the chemistry society. Contributor to The Daily Campus Bunsis said, "SMU can be a mod On Thursday, society members Burton said the demonstrations el to the rest of the country that you turned iced tea into the color of showed students chemical and A series of petitions has arisen on can be successful at athletics and grape juice, made large soap bub physical properties. DC photo by Chad Soriano campus regarding the future of still have a strong academic pro bles and nylon threads, and per The most popular experiments SMU Cheqiistry Society members illustrate scientific exper SMU athletics after the university gram. Athletes are not taking any among the children were supercon- formed experiments with liquid iments to students at Seabourn Elementary School in Mes reported a larger than expected bud one else's space. There are enough nitrogen and oscillating clock reac Please see SCIENCE quite Thursday. Society members hope to introduce ele get deficit in the athletic program. professors and dorm space for ath In response to the faculty petition tions at Seabourn Elementary in page 2. mentary school students to the world of science. letes and more students." begun in Dedman College asking There are several copies of this the university to consider making petition, and Bunsis said he changes in the athle'ic program, believes at least 50 signatures have Judicial including withdrawal /rom Division been accumulated so far. Up and over I football competition, two assistant Another athletic-related petition professors of accounting, Howard was drafted and circulated in con Bunsis and Philip Drake, drafted a nection with a Student Senate reso review petition to support SMU remaining lution to show student support for v in Division I. * * t t '•» ' " V • the university remaining a competi The petition, which began circu tor in Division I athletics. Of the lating last Tuesday, provides two 312 students who signed the peti complete main reasons for remaining in tion, 92 percent indicated they were Division I. It states, "One, athletics in favor of athletics remaining in \ and the concept of the student-ath Division I. Serious case plan * 0 lete is an essential element of the The resolution was passed unani mission of the university. Ihe sec mously by the Senate Tuesday. to be announced ond is economic. If SMU were to Jeff Zanarini, Students' drop from Division I athletics, then Association vice president and co By JESSICA HALL the overall financial health of the author of the resolution for the peti Contributor to The Daily Campus university will most likely dimin tion, said, "Moving athletics to ish." Division II would definitely have a The committee reviewing%he Drake said, "The (first) petition, negative impact on the university judicial system's handling of seri we realized, was giving the wrong admissions, current students and ous crimes has decided SMU's cur impression that all the faculty sup walk-ons." rent judicial system should hear ported it, so we started another peti " There are a lot of students that serious cases, but must be revised tion to show this was not true. are in support of Division I athlet to'handle better these situations, "We wanted to show that there is ics," he said. said Louis Avallone, Dedman an equally strong voice on both College student senator and mem sides of the issue," he said. Brad Adams, business senator and ber of the committee. Athletics draws a large number of co-author of the bill, said he The committee was established people together for a unified situa believes moving athletics to last semester by SMU President A. tion and also creates national expo Division II would be the first step Kenneth Pye to examine the SMU sure for the university, he said. to getting rid of athletics as a judicial system's hearing of serious "Getting rid of athletics would Please see PETITIONS crimes. financially hurt the university in the page 3. Jim Caswell, vice president for student affairs and chairman of the committee, said the recommenda tions are scheduled to be released Senate to vote on today, pending Pye's review of the proposed procedures. Pye called for an internal study by judicial resolution Caswell in September to modify the judicial system because ques tions arose about the capability of IK By TOM ALEXANDER "One of the roles of student govern the SMU judicial system to handle Contributor to The Daily Campus ment as defined by the Student serious crimes, such as rape. Code is 'to insure student expres "The nature of this issue is so The resolution regarding the sion in the formulation and applica complex and so emotional that it's University Judicial Council and^ie tion of institutional policies affect important for students to get the SMU Student ("ode of Conduct will ing academic and student affairs.'" final word without reacting in a be voted on in today's Student Todd Stewart, appropriations knee-jerk fashion to rumors about Senate meeting. chairman and co-author of the reso the process," Avallone said. "The The resolution addresses the issue lution, told senators last week when (evaluation) process was constantly that through a committee to review he introduced the resolution, "The evolving." the university's handling of serious issue surrounding this legislation is This study was prompted after an crimes, the council is trying to the student's right to self-govern- acquaintance rape case was tried bypass Senate approval by defining ment" last spring by the SMU judicial sys issues that are currently in the Stewart also said he disagreed tem. Pye agreed with the Level III Student Code. with the members of the serious board's decision to overturn, on The resolution states, "That the crimes review committee who have grounds of insufficient evidence, Committee will attempt to define said student concerns were repre the guilty verdict handed down by offenses such as Sexual .Assault sented by student members of the the Level II board. which are currently part of the council. Stewart said that "student The serious crimes review com Student Code in their proposed body concerns were ignored." mittee includes Caswell, Avallone, revisions to the Judicial Code with "It says in the Peruna Express that Pat Terrell, dean of student life; out Student Senate's considera students who serve on the Jim Breeden, professor of history; tion." University Judicial Council are not Harriet Hughes, director of under to act on student concerns," Stewart xvlixiiiiW ::DC:^oto AHfeon V.Smiift. Authors of the resolution said the graduate records in Meadows Men's basketball team junior guard Mike Wilson assists Junior center Greg Kinzer dur- council should not submit revisions said Monday. School of the Arts; Carol Weber, to the Judicial Code without the Jim Caswell, vice president for Please see JUDICIAL approval of Senate. Please see SENATE page 3. The resolution also states that page 3. Week's events to recognize University presents annual awards tragic memory of Holocaust for service, scholastic excellence By KRISTINA LEE Contributor to The Daily Campus "It is important to ' i •• '•! f ;'f v. it i '••• By ASHA MIRCHANDANI member of Alpha Psi Lambda; Nate Office for the Meadows School of Staff Writer of The Daily Campus Crain, academic senator; Richard the Arts; and Martha Satz, assistant Yom HaShoah, a time of remem remember those who Cuccia, Dedman senator; Jennifer professor of English. brance for Jews who perished dur perished during those Students, faculty and staff mem Dawson, chairwoman of Program "When I was an undergraduate I ing the Holocaust, will be recog bers were the recipients of many Council's Literary Festival Com would look at people who won the nized in the National Days of years of terror." awards at the Awards Extravaganza mittee, Richard Franco, president of award with awe," Banes said. Holocaust Remembrance which — William M. Finnin, Thursday in the presence of about the Senior Class Council and "When I found out I had won, I began Sunday. 150 people. Meadows senator; Marcy Grant, was very pleased and realized that it chaplain to the university. Mummm "It is important to remember those The "M" Awards, the most presti Students' Association president; takes a lot of people to help me do the job that I do. This award was who perished during those years of community memorial service at gious university award, were pre Christopher Lake, founder of the not only won by me, but by a lot of terror," William M. Finnin, chap- 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the sented to 10 students and five mem Habitat for Humanity Inner City people." Iain to the university, said. Shearith Isreal Temple on Douglas bers of the faculty and staff by Project; and Mindy Tucker, busi ness senator.