The Guardian, November 7, 1989

Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 11-7-1989 The Guardian, November 7, 1989 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1989). The Guardian, November 7, 1989. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. /. lliance Babylon A.D. Victory! The band retruns to do a performance. Group comes ou t with new hit from Arista Lady Raiders defeat the Hurons three times in a Records. row. Page3 Page 4 Page 5 Mulhollan withdraws consideration of semesters By PHILIP E.L. GREENE "I have no pre ent plans to raise the issue in future years," Mulhollan said. News Editor The report headed offa vote by the coun~il The question which Faculty Vice Presi on whether or not to support such a change dent James E. Sayer had been "hanging over and the resolution which was to be voted on everyone like the sword of Damacles," was later in the meeting was withdrawn from the answered yesterday at the Academic Council agenda. meeting without a single vote being cast. Sayer responded to Mulhollan 's report by Whether or not Wright State would switch saying "I think now .. that this issue of the to a semester or remain on the quarter system academic calendar is resolved and we can was drawn to a close when WSU Pre ident move forward on enrollment management." Paige E. Mulhollan withdrew the issue from After the meeting, Mulhollan said that he consideration during his report to the council. feels there are too many other things going on Muylhollan opened his report by saying "I to consider the move at this time. had a different report, but have decided to In other matters before the council, the make one that I think will be of interest to all issue of racism was addressed by both Lewis of you. Shupe, chairer of the Student Affairs Com "In looking at the events of the last meet mittee and by Mulhollan ing, the main focus ofattention has been what Mulhollan said that WS U is a community system we will operate under," Mulhollan where he hoped everyone· felt comfortable but said. that, "unfortunately within the last month, the He aid that he had promised at the last actions of what appears to be a tiny number meeting to make a decision by the end of left the impression that racial tensions exist as December on the matter. a way of life at WSU and the attention paid to "I' ve now come to the conclusion that those few has magnified their numbers out of there's no need to delay the decision that all proportion to reality." long," he said. He called on the entire WSU community Mulhollan said that, over the last several to "take seriously the situation with respect to year , WSU has undertaken many initiatives multicultural activities on our cam pus and the which show promise for the future. He sited comfort that's felt by all people to speak out, the new general education requirements, the make it clear to absolutely all people that Writing Across the Curriculum program, and Wright State University does not intend to the enroll.nent management program as some tolerate thatkind of bigotry and ignorance and of these initiatives. Because of these, Mulhol that we intend to be heard on the side of being lan said, and other considerations, he an academic community which respects all was withdra w ing the issue of people and in which all people can find a semester/quarter system. comfortable place." The question of semesters was quickly dealt with at the Academic Council. From quarter to semester; could be a frustrating change By CONNIE HART of a change to semesters will determine how the times these classes are available, accord limited. Transfers could talce place at the easy ordifficult it will be for students to adapt. ing to Falkner. beginning of the fall and winter semesters , ... Special Writer In a semester system the student would A change to the semester system would but it would be impossible for transfers to Wright State University has a moral obli only go through the registration process two also alter the curriculum offered to students. occur in March. as they have before. gation not to hurt students who have followed times a year instead of three times a year, The content of the curriculum offered would Falkner said the students who would be the rules if the university decides to change Falkner said. This means the student would not change but the course inventory would be the most affected by a change to semesters from the quarter system to the semester sys purchase books twice a year instead of three, altered, Falkner. would bejuniors and seniors at the time ofthe tem according to University Registrar Lou would save the student money in the long run. A semester is 16 weeks long versus a ten change. Falkner said the earliest a change Falkner. Although a semester system would elimi week long quarter. Classes offered in a series could be implemented would be the fall of Falkner said a change to semesters would nate one negative process of registration in a of two or three would be combined into one 1991. In coming freshmen of the fall of 1991 affect students in three different areas. These year it would also limit the choices a student and two class series. Textbooks chosen for would experience little if any difficulty to areas are the registration process, the curricu can make about classes he or she may want or classes would also reflect the elongated term. such a change. Th P: freshman of 1989 will be lum , and the transfer of students in and out of need to talce. In a quarter system the student In a semester system transfers of students the group ·.v ho should be the university. Falkner said that the planning has three chances a year to choose classes and in and out ofWright State would also become concerned said Falkner. 2 THE DAILY GVA.R DIAN Tu d ay ~ 1 o t•mher 7 ~ 198'.; NEWS Peyote, a religious drug, appears in the courts lat in life. He' a Klam th By DEBBIE HOWLETI cation as heroin, LSD and the Bu h admini tration' marijuana in its religiou cocaine. The federal govern- Launch tand again t drug . ervices. Indian wh wa taken fr m ©1989 USA TODAY I Apple ment and 23 tale make ex- "The acramental use of pc "When i incere drug College Informatlon Network ception for peyote u ed in yote shouldn't even be con- u e an exemption to the the Native American idcred a drug," say Stev criminal law,' Frohnmaycr GLENWOOD, Ore. Church. Oregon d e not. Moore, a lawyer for the Na- a k . "The court will reach The pcrcu ive chant of a Ye terday (Monday), tive American Righ Fund. this de i ion cv ntually. It' Sioux u n dance ri pa t the U.S. upreme ourt H ay Or gon tt r- g in to take a ruling ne two agging dar . Alfrc h ar argumcn that Ore- ney General David way or the th r t paint Smith, chopping out th n' zero tolerance f r pe- Frohnmayer, a Republic n a fine, ri ht line.' rhythm on hi chcri hcd drum, con ider why a 59 "Peyote is seen as a direct pipeline to God. .. " year-old reformed alcoholic would eat peyote. yote violates the religious running for governor, is Moore equates the use "I was a Native Ameri "I am not a drug dealer rights of American Indians. "pandering to the drug para of peyote to the use of sacra can who grew up in a white awarenes ." or a drug addict," Smith says Smith challenged the law noia" by challenging a state mental wine by minors in world," he says. " I lost my However, Smith mid-beat. "I am trying to find when he was fued from his Supreme Court ruling that Christian churches, which is language; it interfered with igned a standard contract my way on a spiritual path." job as an alcoholism coun sacramental use of peyote is exempted from alcohol laws my culture." tipulating he would not use Smith's way involves a elor and denied unemploy constitutionally protected. in Oregon. Smith now lives at the drug or alcohol when he small, round cactus indige ment benefits. He has been Frohnmayer - whose He also argues that pe end of a quiet graveled road went to work at a priva te re nous to the Rio Grande Val upheld in every court. office stopped the state Phar yote ceremonies pre-date outside Eugene with his habilitation center in Rose ley. The tops of the cactus "Peyote is seen as a di macy Board from exempting U.S. law and most religions wife, Jane, and their two burg. The center did not occ peyote buttons - contain rect pipeline to God. This peyote - says it would have by thousands of years. "It's children, ages 7 and 2. The approve of his peyote use. and mescaline, a hallucinogen. It isn't an aid or thrill, it's a set a dangerous precedent: not like they're zonked out rites of his culture are an Do it again and you 're fired, ads is a sacrament for hundreds central part of the church," "Can you open the door a hippies." integral part of his life.

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