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TO WORK! Antl Still I Rise Student.'S, faculty should Professor and students not be th<.· only o11e~ Maya Angelou's new play offers study archaeological si~e in island nation. working on Labot· Day. once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. news/page 2 editorials/page 8 irts and entertainment/page 10 LDAND VoLUME 75 No. 3 WAKE FoREST UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NoRTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1992 ·Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive will kick-off Saturday at ASU football ga1ne BY RICHARD WRIGHT donate the profits from these events to the donate the money raised at last spring's "Pig through larger group-oriented activities," The fund drive was started in 1980 in COPY EDITOR overall campaign. Pickin"' event to this year's Piccolo Fund. Buckingham said. memory of Piccolo, '64, an athlete who The Strings society is planning to hold its The co-chairmen of the fund drive are se Brian's Song, a movie based on the life of achieved national fame as a player for the The 1992 Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive annual Frankfest Sept. 25 in Reynolda Gar nior Blake Buckingham, the vice president of Brian Piccolo, will be shown Oct. 22 in Pugh Chicago Bears. Piccolo died of cancer in 1970 will begin Saturday at the football game against dens. The Fideles will host their "Rock for the Interfraternity Council, and senior Auditorium so that anyone interested can learn at the age of 26. ' Appalachian State University at Groves Sta Cancer" night Oct. 8 at Baity's Back Street on Stephanie Edwards, the programming chair about the man who inspired the fund drive. Money raised in the drive is donated to the dium. Deacon Boulevard. woman of the Intersociety/sorority Council. ARA Food Services may also hold a carni Comprehensive Cancer Research Center at This year's celebration, to be held in con The "Tri-Delta Triple Play," a coed softball Buckingham and Edwards work closely val for all members of the campus commu the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. junction with the Athletic Department, will tournament for Greeks and independents will with the Office of Student Development to nity, Buckingham said, but plans for the event The '91 campaign raised $14,525. The include a free pre-game party for students take place Sept. 26 to Sept. 27 on Poteat Field. coordinate all events involved in the drive. are still tentative. campaign's goal is to exceed that amount, featuring a live band, food, non-alcoholic Teams of six players will compete for tro An important goal for the current campaign The Athletic Department is planning to Edwards said. beverages and the campaign's official kick phies and prizes. is to involve as many students and faculty hold the "Run With the Deacs" again this year The university will concludc'hc fundraising off announcement. A band party will follow the tournament, members as possible. with members of the basketball team. drive when it submits a final check to Bow Some campus organizations have already and will be open to all students. "We want this year's campaign to bring the Open to everyone, the event will likely take man Gray, most likely at a basketball game in set dates for fund-raising projects and will The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity will also entire Wake Forest community together place during Parents' Weekend, Edwards said. early November. Students indicted for teller card frciud BY BRAD DIXON Raleigh business, which appmently used to rent that box. The indictment alleges thc1\ they ordered Two suspended students and a former stu I 50 checks for HCS, and in November they dent pleaded guilty Sept. I to federal charges obtained a fraudulent ~•t:r:· li! •!:c- teller card that they used phony checks and automatic using a false student identtfiL·ation card of a teller cards to steal money from Wachovia fictional student named Martha Townsend. Bank of North Carolina. The indictment says they wrote a check for Larry Carlos Butler. of Winston-Salem, $560from the HCS account and cashed it. The Marlo Angela Harris. of 1\·lilton. and Nicole grand jury charged that the three later used the Solange Williams, of St. Petersburg. Fla., teller cards of two other students to cash 12 were indicted by a federal grand jury June 29 more phony checks, totaling S l 0.480. and initially pled not guilty. Butler and Williams pleat.ied guilty to four Scott Mebane, an assistant United States counts of bank fraud, but Harris only pleaded attorney who is handling the case, said the guilty to two counts, involving $4, 580taken three will be charged in Greensboro in No from Wachovia. vember for the federal offenses, which carry a In a separate incidcnl. ;·: · · _, .. .,, :t~ arrested maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and in April and convicic• l '. · . : n for state a $I million fine. charges, including two cou;;c~ (>J lxeaking, Butler, 21, who was sentenced to 14 years entering and larceny and two counts of first in prison Aug. 10 after he admitted to commit degree burglary. He admitted breaking into tingseveral break-ins on campus in 1991, was the Welcome Center, the campus post office a junior when he withdrew in January. Butler and two rooms in Poteat House, said Regina was involved in many campus activities, in Lawson, the director of Uni\ ersity Security. cluding the Student Budget Advisory Com Lawson said Butlerswh: z tdlercard sent to Ice, ice, baby mittee and the Black Student Alliance. junior Sage Hamiiton from the post office a Blue Ridge Ice Creams distributes free ice cream to sophomore Meredith Roberts Aug. 31 on the patio of the Benson Williams, 22, is an economics and politics teller card· from junior Todd Kilbaugh's room major who ran for Student Government presi in Poteat. Butler, Harris and Williams used University Center. Sponsored by the lntersociety/sorority Counci I to commemorate the 50th anniversary of women dent in I 991. Harris, 2 I, is a psychology those teller cards to ca.<;h checks, which re at Wake Forest, the event was deejayed by WAKE Radio. major and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sulted in the federal charges. sorority. She was also a resident adviser. Williams, who was the chairwoman of the Williams and Harris would have graduated Model United Nations Society, also faces in May but were suspended from the univer state charges of breaking and/or entering and sity because of the charges, said Kevin Cox, larceny for $3,100 of computer equipment Wakenet connects dorms to computers the associate director of media relations. taken from the Welcome Center. She will be The indictment says that in July 199 I, But tried Oct. 12. BY BRAD DIXON campus computer labs, Dominick longer busy, both phones ring than 3,000 phones," would not have ler, Harris and Williams rented a post-office Lawson said the investigatio'1 reve.aled that AssociATE MANAGING EDITOR said. But first they must pick up simultaneously, Dominick said. had the capacity to serve all cam box in Raleigh underthe name "Project Knowl Butler and Williams worked ''';.•ether tore their passwords at the Computer Dominick said, despite all these pus phones after the completion of edge" to which Wachovia sent a package of move two Zenith computers, tv.:o keyboards Because of a digital phone Center, he said. new options, one flaw has kept the Worrell Professional Center canceled checks for HCS Inc., a legitimate See Butler, Page 5 switch installed in mid-August, Previously, students could only some students from renting the for Law and Management in students can now access the cam access the computer network in Wakenet phone: Answering ma December.The digital switch can pus computer network in their their residence hall rooms with a chines do not work on it because operate as many as lO,OOOphones. rooms with a special telephone modem, Dominick said. "technologies are incomplete." He said the digital switch allows that Telecommmunications rents Telcom provides cables that "A lot of interested people were campus phones to match the"clean for $14 a month or $100 a year. connect from a computers to disappointed they couldn't have transmission" provided by South Jay Dominick, the network and Wakenet phone, which plugs into an answering machine," ern Bell, "which has been switch operations manager of the Com tl'te wall like a normal phone, Dominick said. ing all equipment to digital over puterCenter,said the special tele Dominick said. He said Telcom is examining the last 8 years." phone network, called Wakenet, Students could not install the possibility of providing voice The digital switch also prevents . ·"connects to any type of personal phones in their rooms untill988, mail, which serves the same func a problem of the old switch: stu . computer and uses new digital but with the new Wakenet tele tion as an answering machine. dents getting charged for long-dis telephone technology" to access phone, they can put callers on About35 studentsarenowrent tance calls that did not connect. the academic computer main hold, redial the last number called ing the telephones, he said. Bayliffsaid that with"'ring-back frame and the computers of the with one touch and save phone The digital phone switch, a fi detection," the timer does not start library, the department of math numbers for one-touch dialing. ber optic system that made until someone picks up. ematics and computer science and Afraid of missing an important Wakenet possible, also has the Bayliff said that if students the department of physics. call while on the line? Wakenet capacity for more phones than claimed they were inaccurately All students are automatically provides call-waiting.