Chicago St. out of Mid-Con

ART OF AUTHORS Information Highway Robbery New exhibit features art Illegal downloading on the rise, page A4 based on literature, page B3 FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2006 TtVALPARAISO aUNIVERSITY' TORCS STUDENT NEWSPAPEHR CHICAGO ST. OUT OF MID-CON School, conference reach 'joint decision' on Cougars' athletic exit Dave Tomke compete against members that will reflect its evolving institutional pro schools, and offers championships in 19 dif of the Mid-Con in non- file. ferent sports. The eight school level may be TORCH SPORTS EDITOR conference matches in vol The move has led many to speculate a particularly troubling one for the confer The Mid-Continent Conference is on its leyball and men's and about the announcement's connection to an ence, because eight is the minimum number way to becoming an eight-team league. women's basketball. earlier report that the NCAA was investigat of schools required for an automatic bid to The conference announced Wednesday Officially, the school ing the CSU athletic department for viola the NCAA men's and women's basketball in a press release that Chicago State will compete as a NCAA Division I inde tions that could warrant the death penalty for tournament championships. University will withdraw from the confer pendent for the next year while searching for the department. The conference office offered no com ence effective June 30, 2006. a new conference. The Torch reported on the investigation ment on the possibility of adding more According to the Mid-Con, this was a Both Mid-Continent Conference offi on March 2. At that time, it was reported that schools in the near future. IPFW, North joint decision between the school and the cials and Valparaiso University sports media two men's Mid-Con basketball teams had Dakota State, and South Dakota State have conference. relations staff refused further comment been told to look for potential non-confer all expressed interest in joining the Mid-Con. CSU has been a member of the Mid- Wednesday. ence replacements for the next season in the Con since 1994, and offers seven sports to CSU president Elnora Daniel has said case CSU was punished severely. Contact Dave Tomke at both men and women. The Cougars will still that the school is looking for a conference The Mid-Con is now down to eight torch .sports @ valpo .edu. E-Mac-apation proclamation Apple users added to wireless network Bonnie Keane TORCH STAFF Macintosh computer users have some thing to be happy about. After months of waiting, they have finally been given access to Valparaiso University's wireless network. "The new Valpo... wireless network has been installed anywhere campus wire less is available," said UNIX Systems Administrator Simon Kissler. Although the majority of campus has had access to the wireless network for some time now, Mac users only recently gained access. "When we implemented the wireless network originally, Cisco Systems, the ven Kris Schuster/Torch dor of our security solution, indicated that President Alan Harre and Provost Roy Austensen answered questions from a group of about 25 students Wednesday in the Guild-Memorial the solution would... work for Windows and Hall lounge. The event was coordinated by the Guild-Memorial resident assistants. Macintosh as well as other operating sys tems," Kissler said. Unfortunately for Mac users at VU, this Harre, Austensen respond to students was not the case. "After we finished testing and imple Administrators provide answers to numerous campus hot topics mentation for Windows, our testing with Macintosh revealed that this did not work Jon Eaton "And we have to be thinking that our succes Harre's successor for completion. 'as advertised,'" Kissler said. sors will be doing things that we could never Architectural plans for the new Union As a result, Electronic Information TORCH STAFF have imagined." should be ready by the end of October, put Services had to work with Cisco engineers In a forum on Thursday, Valparaiso Harre has been president at VU for 18 ting the building on schedule for dedication to develop a way for all students to gain University President Alan Harre and Provost years. Last year he signed a contract with the in January 2009 to celebrate the university's wireless access, a process that has taken Roy Austensen gave students a rare opportu university for three additional years. Harre, sesquicentennial anniversary. In addition, almost all of this school year. nity to ask them face-to-face questions. who recently turned .65, has begun to focus plans are being devised for a new education Students will have the option of using Students and administrators assembled in a on molding the university that he wants his building next to Mclntyre Court, as well as the old or new wireless network through the Guild Hall lounge to shed light on issues cur successor to inherit. substantial additions to both Neils Science end of this semester. Starting this summer, rently facing the university and the student "We don't want to tie the hands of our and Gellersen centers. though, all wireless access will be through body. successors," said Harre. "We have to make Harre mentioned that another long-term the newly installed network. This new net Through the discussion over a wide sure our decisions open doors and don't goal for the university would be to attract a work uses the Clean Access program, with range of topics, the aims of the administra close doors." more diverse student body. Minority enroll which the majority of VU students are all too tion became clear: to solidify long-term One constant point of interest with stu ment at VU has hovered somewhere around familiar. goals that support the mission and image of dents at the forum was the various construc 10 percent of the overall student body in Freshmen Mac users Caleb Meyer and VU. tion projects that are scheduled to transform recent years. "We're doing things that our predeces VU several times within a number of years, Daniel Trubey are happy about this new net- sors had never imagined," said Austensen. ventures that will eventually depend on see FORUM, page A5 see MACS, page A5 Announcements A2 TONIGHT: 'BIG' VICTORY FRUSTRATING FLUFF FLAVORFUL Classifieds 2,7 VOLUME 99 ISSUE 25 VU nets win over Ridiculous headlines bring Calendar B2 Big Ten's best nothing but frustration, Flicker A8 ON GUARD page A12 page A7 Weather A2 FOR 91 YEARS age A2 A2 FRIDAY, APRIL 21 2006 THE TORCH Campus A nnouncements Timeline for spring 2006 Senate elections What Executive elections for Student Senate will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 24 in the Union. Senator elections will be held in the Union and in respective halls from 9 a.m. to 5 you need p.m. on April 26. Saudi Arabia Culture Night The culture of Saudi Arabia will be explored during an April 23 to know event at the VU Union. Saudi Arabia Culture Night begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The program will begin with a video about the country and its people and will be fol lowed by presentations from VU faculty. Muslim students will demonstrate and explain their evening prayer ceremony and answer questions about Saudi culture. Arabic snacks, tea and coffee will be served, giving participants the opportunity to meet some of the 80 Saudi students currently attending VU. WVUR's spring concert WVUR will host its spring concert on Friday, April 28. Three bands will perform in the Union Great Hall at 8:30 p.m. imme diately following comedian Rebecca Corry, who will start off the evening at 7 p.m. The entire night is free and open to the public. Bands scheduled to play include "This Is Me Smiling," "Nate And His Kite" and "Chimera Twilight." Students celebrate Shakespeare's birthday Theatre students at VU will celebrate the birthday of history's most renowned playwright by performing a series of scenes and songs from Shakespeare's plays on April 22. Students in Valparaiso's chapter of theater honor society Alpha Psi Omega will honor the Bard in an event at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble store in Valparaiso. The hour-long event is free and open to the public and also will include Shakespeare games "Whose lover are you?" and "The biting barbs of Shakespeare." "Romeo and Juliet" to end theatrical season A production of William Shakespeare's tragic romance "Romeo and Juliet" will conclude this year's VU Department of Theater season. The tale of two star-crossed lovers is one of Katelyn Ryan/Torch Shakespeare's most popular tragedies, and VU's production has Professor Bonita Neff talks with junior Kevin Grimoldby and senior Caitiin Hart, Public Relations partners displaying their been modeled on how "Romeo and Juliet" would have been project The Use of Public Relations in High Profiles/Celebrity Image Restoration Cases" as part or the seventh annual VU produced at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Performances are at Celebration of Undergraduate Research. Grimoldby and Hart's project was one of nearly 60 presented in the Center for 8 p.m. April 28 and May 5, 2 p.m. April 29 and May 6 and 7 the Arts on Wednesday. p.m. April 30 and May 7 in the University Theater. Tickets are sold out for the April 28-30 performances. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for senior citizens and students, and may be pur chased by calling the VU box office at ext. 5162. printed as a service of The Torch Citizens for Stant VUPD Citizens for Stant invites students to meet the Green Party can didate for Secretary of State in the 2006 election in Valparaiso r e D o r t on Thursday, April 27.

Load more