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Check out the Mediterranean music festival on page 5. Off roadin' on page 11 Vol. 83; Issue 47 Youngstown, Ohio • xvioiv.thejambar.com Thursday, March 29/2001 n CSC's closing puts many out of work. BY AMANDA SMITH case took place at YSU, on so- jambar Editor called "neutral ground." Currently, CSC is in what they After 37 years at the same mill, termed the midst of "winding Friday will probably be Local 2243 down" and "mothballing" the Vice President Fred Spahlirtger's facility. The company that once last day on the job. employed 950 hourly workers in Spahlinger is one of 50 work• 1999 now employs 50, CSC's attor• ers remaining at CSC Ltd. The neys and representatives said. The plant is cold; that is, production "skeleton" crew is there to meet has stopped, and all that remains demands of a few remaining steel to do is "mothball" the plant — to orders and to close the plant. The ready it for the long wait until a company expects to cease activity buyer comes along and makes the completely by mid April, which is plant operational again. the closing date for bids to be sub• I BELIEVE I CAN FLY: Jose Galincez, sophomore, respiratory therapy, takes time out For Spahlinger and almost mitted for the company's resale. near DeBartolo Wednesday for some Frisbee with friends. 1,000 former CSC workers and The effects of the company's their families, questions remain bankruptcy will spread further after the mill's closing; questions than the loss of the workers' jobs, about pensions, 401(k) plans and ' according to Dr. Sherry Linkon, co- medical benefits. director of the Center for Working Spahlinger, 59, said, "I can Class studies. always think about retirement, but 'The closing of a major plant BY ADAM ISAGUIKRE the proposal, the University of signed a waiver stating they you never think about losing your has a couple of effects on a com• The Maneater (U. Missouri) Missouri system Board of Curators wished to receive details about the medical benefits. Once they're munity," Linkon said. "People lose voted narrowly to adopt a violation. The policy, written by gone, they're gone for 1,300 peo• jobs, but also, [the closing] affects Editors's blote: In light of the parental-notification policy Stephen Lehmkuhle, UM system ple." all the people those workers spend pending decision at YSU on this topicThursday . The policy passed in a 6- vice president for Academic Behind a raised table in money with." as reported in the March 20 issue of to-3 vote, with curators Hugh Affairs, and a committee, would Kilcawley Center's Chestnut Linkon cited instances in the The jambar, xoe decided to includedStephenson , Mary James and Paul only allow notification on a second Room Wednesday, representatives case of earlier Youngstown steel this article to shoxo how other univer•Combs voting against the policy. 'offense or a "severe" first offense. and attorneys for CSC Ltd., sat mill closings, where not only the sities across the country are handling Under the policy, parents or Board President Paul Steele next to U.S. trustees and explained mills closed but also restaurants parental notification of student alcohollega l guardians would receive said the policy would increase par• to a room full of creditors and for• and movie theaters that depended policy violations. written notice that their children ent-student communication. mer employees why the steel-mak• on revenue from people who had violated campus alcohol and "I have been involved with ing company was forced to close its worked in the mills. (U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo.— drug policies. education for most of my life, and doors. Linkon said the effects of job Despite student efforts and the rec• Any other information about one of the keys to student success The First Meeting of Creditors ommendation of the Academic the offense would have to come in CSC's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy See CSC, page 2 Affairs Committee to vote against from students, unless the parents See ALCOHOL, page 2 Professor receives honor from YSU groups Psychology professor serves YSU ^Brown-Clark was recognised as a role model for African-American women. campus and community BY PATREKA ADAMS adjunct assistant professor in psy• Jambar Reporter chology at Fordham University in and for other women on BY VALERIE BANNER the Bronx. jambar Editor campus who feel that r. Beverly Gray, professor, Though she has taught at var• their struggles on cam• psychology, has dedicated ious institutions and has lived in Africana studies, the office of pus wfth sexism and more than a decade of her diverse places, Gray said YSU stu• Equal Opportunity and racism are continuing." life to instructing students at YSU. dents match up with some of the Disabilities, the Center for Student Dr. Victor Wan- Gray's major accomplishments best. Progress and Multicultural Student Tatah, associate profes• reflect not only her extensive edu• "I've taught at other institu• Services recognized Sarah Brown- sor, philosophy and reli• cational background but also her tions, and I've found that YSU stu• Clark for her contributions to the gious studies, and direc• commitment to serving her com• dents are just as competent as stu• community and this campus. tor of Africana studies, munity, both on and off the cam• dents I've taught in the private sec• Brown-Clark, associate profes• said, "This is our way of pus. tor," she said. sor, English, and Municipal Clerk saying we appreciate her Before coming to YSU in 1987, A native of Cleveland, Gray of Courts was presented with a and encourage her to Gray resided in New York, where said though she loves Cleveland, framed certificate noon keep doing what she's she graduated cum laude with a she's come to like Youngstown a Wednesday at a ceremony in the been doing. As she said degree from Adelphi University. lot. Debartolo Stadium Club as part of in her speech, we recog• She later earned her master's "I've grown, very fond of Women's History Month. Dorothy nize that she's turned a degree in , psychology from Youngstown. I've met some great Collins, coordinator, Center for new page in her life." BROWN-CLARK AND WAN-TATAH Fordham University's Graduate people her — people that have Student Progress/Multicultural Brown-Clark's School of Arts and Sciences and traveled and can see beyond their Student Services, said the theme speech was titled -"Turning the when she was a student, Brown- then a Ph.D. -in psychology from immediate environment They are was "Challenges facing African- Pages of Our Lives: A Perspective Clark was her mentor. that same institution. While in as cosmopolitan as people [any- American women" and Brown- on African-American Women." Brown-Clark said she is New York, Gray served as'an assis• ' where) else," she said. Clark was recognized as being a Collins said, "It was an honor always glad to see former students tant professor in the department of Today, Gray is a tenured, full role model. well deserved, for she wasn't only like Collins succeed. "I wanted to psychiatry at New York Medical professor. In addition to having a Brown-Clark said the honor my professor, she was my mentor." do more than present information - College in Valhalla and as an was "a positive statement for me In fact, Collins noted that I wanted to touch lives," she said. See GRAY, page 11 2 The Jambar Thursday, March 29,2001 ALCOHOL, continued from page 1 is parent involvement, "Steele said. the option to follow the rules and 'Tarental. notification will help to "To me, this is a very simple way to not drink,",Minor said. , bridge this gap/' get parents involved with, students MU Chancellor Richard Wallace said he was impressed Forum Health Trumbull Scheduled to attend are at this crucial stage of life." Wallace said" that based on last by the students' arguments against Memorial Hospital is now Mahoning County Sheriff Roger Johnson, legislative year's number of campus alcohol the plan, but that didn't change his accepting applications for its Randall Wellington, Dennis director of the Associated Students and drug violations, he estimated opinion on the issue. summer program for premedical Mangan from The Vindicator of the University of Missouri, who the new policy would affect about "I learned that there are down• students. Students in" the pro• editorial board, Dr. Anne York presented reasons to oppose the 70 students a year on the MU cam• sides to the issue," Wallace said. gram will spend time in area from the YSU history depart• policy to the board's Academic pus. "However, my position rests on the hospitals under the supervision ment, Edna Pincham from the Affairs Committee, said such a pol• Curator Connie Silverstein belief that this will have an impact. of medical staff, nursing and Pincham Initiative Resource icy doesn't treat 18-year-old stu• said it seemed the students expect• The purpose of the notification is department supervisors. Taking Center, and Jim Callen from dents as adults. ed the UM system to do nothing to seek help, to change lives and to place July 9 to Aug. 2, the pro• Northeast Ohio Legal Services. Johnson also said the policy about alcohol violations. save lives/' gram is designed to expose stu• Bob Black, WFMJ-TV 21 news unfairly targets students who live "I feel there is an obligation by Kim Dude, assistant director dents to the overall operation of anchor, will mediate the panel in the residence halls because the school to report illegal activi• of the Wellness Resource Center at an acute-care general hospital.

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