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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 10-2-1992 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1992-10-02 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1992-10-02" (1992). The Voice: 1991-2000. 46. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/46 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEWS FEATURE A&E SPORTS , Homecoming schedule Tale of one city: A Minneapolis Gospel Football drops third I' - - i ...page 2 Wooster student's Sound chimes in ... page 14 International Relations Urban semester in Homecoming weekend Field Hockey loses Colloquium lecture Philadelphia tonight in McGaw leading scorer . page 2 . page 5 ... page 11 ...page 13 GO V f J Student salaries for leadership positions inconsistent i Campus Council debates student leader stipends and honoraria BETSY O'BRIEN The remainder of the $6480budget due to prior experience. Both posi- which receive honoraria. In addition, Managing Editor will go towards sponsoring a student tions are paid out of the physical edu- approximately 1000 students are cur- ELISEM. BATES leader activity, speculated Campus cation department's annual budget rently employed on an hourly basis by Assistant News Editor Council President Robb DeGraw. Despite the number of salary lead- the college, said Fred Dugan, Direc- Leadership positions and their Among leadership positions which ership positions, several key posi- tor of Personnel. ' honorarium funds were discussed last receive stipends are two editors of the tions around campus remain unpaid. DeGraw explained that the Voice J-Bo- week by Campus Council. In addi- Potpourri. The Student Government The head of Black Students Associa- editors and ard Chair receive tion to the positions which are funded Association and the Student Activi- tion, International Students Associa- money from Campus Council because by Campus Council, other honoraria ties Board give the editors $400 each. tion leader.and Campus Council Presi- of their time commitment and liabil- positions, funded by various organi- In addition, WCWS, the College dent are a few of the positions for ity for their jobs. zations, arc present on campus. Many radio station, has four paid manage- which no honoraria is received. Oth- Dugan added that the Dean's Office other leadership positions, however, rial positions. Among those who re- ers include SGA President, Goliard and other departments on campus still remain unpaid. ceive honoraria, the General Man- . Editor, New Student Directory Edi- make the decisions to pay stipends for The honorarium positions thatCam- ager is paid $800, the Program Direc- tor, Companion Program Coordina- time-consumi- ng positions. XI pus Council voted to fund include the tor $600, Assistant Program Director tors, Wooster Volunteer Network "I wish there was money to pay Judiciary Board Chair, Wooster Voice $200,and Assistant General Manager leader, and the Wooster Scot March- more student leaders," concluded Editors-in-Chie- f, and the Campus receives a salary of $200. ing Band Drum Majors. DeGraw, adding that the divisions are Council Secretary. The final salaries Other leadership positions include Last year, 45 contracts, or salaried hard to draw between which leaders are $1550, $1550 (spli between co-editor- s), two Intramural Directors who receive positions, went through the Student should receive stipends and the and $92S,iespectively. $700 and $1000. The larger salary is Employment Office, including those amount which each should receive. Professor McCall discusses content ofgreat literature NINALANY out a middle ground between the what students read and don't read." Staff Writer two extremes by taking important In his speech, McCall made ref- "Political correctness is a label literature from the past, yet paying erence to previous forum speakers. referring to the ostensible effects if attention to previously neglected "Does multi-culturali- sm mean many a teacher was to indoctrinate stu- authors. gardens with many different flow- dents with liberal ideas according "If we all shared knowledge of ers," he questioned in reference to to , stated Raymand McCall , pro- some core writers," he said, stress- Arthur Schlesinger, "or separate gar- fessor of English and Theater at ing the need for a canon, "we could dens with separate enclaves with The College of Wooster, in his fo- engage in some intellectual discus- 'No Trespassing signs?" rum speech entitled "Great Litera- sion or comparison." He also contradicted previous ture Is Never Politically Correct" Professor McCall encouraged forum speaker Charles Hurst's as- Monday night people to read many different types sertion that there is no awareness of He later qualified his statement of literature as much as possible. "I class differences by citing Theodore of the view from the political right. would like to make a case for plu- - ' Dreisser and Virginia Wolfe as ex- McCall's premise was that "no ralism - for letting many flowers amples of authors concerned with act of reading is ideologically neu- grow." questions of class. tral." He believes that reading books He asked the audience to "make Essential to the speech is a defini- by authors with different back- provisional judgements about lit- tion of "great literature." McCall grounds and ideas is a way to expe- erature... What is boring at age said that part of the definition in- rience the world. eighteen may become interesting cludes standing the test of time. He McCall addressed the debate be- later on." also pointed out that critics inflate tween the political right and left After the forum many students the value of contemporary authors, over the curriculum in schools. The were questioning how McCall's which makes it difficult to tell if right," he explained, "has a back-to-basi- cs speech related to the Seminar topic. they are "great" or not. approach and respect for McCall said, "Race, gender, class, In closing his lecture, McCall the traditional canon while the left and culture affect the way we read sent a message to the audience, "I is unhappy because the canon ex- and choose literature. trust that yout literary journey will cludes minority authors and "The words in the tide of the be adventuresome. PAUL BORDEN photo by women." seminar topic are all political, and "Hold yourself open and knock English and at the College, Ravmnnrl McCall. Professor of theater McCall said he would like to stake politics has the power to decide your socks off." addressed the political correctness of literature in his forum lecture. I Editors to make 130-mi- le walk fbricharity . .Jsee Mplpap; 1 Page 2 -- 1 I . iME WS October 2,12 -- r 7 Japanese journalist discusses media 11992 takes place this SAB speaker defends I weekend. October 2 distortions U.S.-Japane- se through 4. The theme is of relations I "Ugh.Camera.Wooster! !' ASHLEY VAUGHT Fujita compared this to the past drug legalization FRIDAY Staff Writer and said that 20 years ago the com- Teeter Totter Maraihon EMILY SILVERMAN drug contract cannot end up in court The International Relations ments would have been ignored. He 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. - Lowry Pit Chief Staff Writer (drugs are, after all, illegal) murder Homecoming Bonfire Colloquium held its first in a set of concluded that the fact that Ameri- . The Student Activities Board's and violence are the only means I 7 pjn. - Near baseball field forums designed toexpose Wooster can journalists reported the com- of Speakers and Topics Committee, in enforcement available. I Homecoming Performance students to international people and ment reflects differences in the rela- conjunction with the Urban Studies I Minneapolis Gospel Sound international concerns" Thursday. tionship, past and present. Generally, Staley imagined drug 8 pjn. - McGaw Chapel department, hostedakcture by Wright traffickentobesmartandratk)nal,as I Hiroshi Fujita, senior editor and "America is not ready to accept Bowling and Billiards State University (Dayton) Professor opposed to just plain' deviant. They I 9 - Scot Lanes editorial writer for Kyodo News Japan as a partner," said Fujita. As pjn. of Economics Sam Staley, yesterday simply want kj make money, "he stated, I SATURDAY Service, spoke on "Mutual Images another example.Fujita talked about - in Lowry 119. :. given ththeprofits to be made in the I Field Hockey Wooster vs. and Mutual Realities: How Media a growing sentiment in Japan last J Kenyon. 1 1 ajn. - Cindy Barr Staley, whose recent book. Drug drug "busibssware higher than those Reportings Distort the United S tates-Jap-an year called "kenbei" which in Japa- I Memorial Field Policy and the Decline ofAmerica to "be" made dipping 'burgers at I Homecoming Parade Bilateral Relationship" at nese translates to the "disliking of Cities, is an advocate of the legaliza- McPotiald's,". .. iaI ,.,;V. 1 2:30 p.m.-Memor- Walk Babccck Dining HalL other people" towards Americans. tion of drugs. He spoke of drug The'question," therCin lec- J way Fujita started with a joke about The attitude was the result of consid- Staley's trafjeking as a business, or an indus ture was that eliminate Football - Woostcr vs. Kenyon how his speech was