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.. TRAGEDY AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ly. Brian O'Rourke The WIDENER STUDENTS Editor in Chief University has taken several Flags at Seton Hall University measures to aid are flying at half-staff this week, the students after a fire claimed the lives of and DEAL WITH SNOW three students and injured 25 oth The University ers. The tragedy occurred on Jan. immediately set 19, around 4:30 AM in Boland Hall, up a hotline for a Freshman residence housing parents desir approximately 600 students. The ing information 25 injured students were taken to about their chil CLASSES ARE CANCELED hospitals and treated for burns dren. Boland and/or smoke inhalation. Hall residents Students escaped the blazing will be tem residence hall only to face the bitter porarily housed cold of the early morning. in the Bishop STORY ON PAGE 3 According to Jake Archer, a sec ' Dougherty ond-floor resident from Trenton, University students tied sheets together to Center. The climb down from their windows. Division of The Boland Hall alarm system Student Affairs alerted the Univesity Public Safety is providing officers, who in turn notified the emergency South Orange Fire Department. loans to stu The South Orange Fire dents needing , Department used the building's assistance to 1 stand-pipe system to successfully get home. 1 combat the fire. Many South ' According to Mariel Pagan, a stu Orange dent. "Wlieii we got out we didn 't dents volun when we lived in Boland last year." think it was real. II Many students teered their homes to displaced stu- believed the fire alarm was false dents. • In the article "Dormitory Blaze (four false alarms racked the build Thus far, investigators have not Probe Focuses on Fire Drills ing last semester on the first night been able to determine the cause of Records," by Joy Russell Perez, col of final exams). Since September 1, the fire. They are checking build-' lege dorms in New Jersey have 1999, Boland Hall has had 18 ing records, including reports on been required since 1995 to con alarms. Students didn't respond whether required fire drills were duct two drills per year and do as quickly as possible because they conducted. According to Vordana reports on the drills for the local fire didn't take this fire alarm serious- Ruggeri, "We didn't have any drills official. above: Kirkbride can be seen in the background Random Widener students enjoy sledding on the hill behind ACN below: the rear ofACN can be seen in the background Entertainment Sports WIDENER B-BAl..l.. Widener Rngs MAN ON THE p.3 SUPERBOWL PREVIEW Weather THE DOME PAGE 2 JANUARY 28, 2000 THE Two BILLS-A -DISSECTION OF MORALITY IN () PINION AMERICA Brian O'Rourke Morality in America. Editor in Chief Where is it? How can we measure it? How a society treats its individuals reflects its philosophy and morality in concrete terms. Let 's take a look at two Bills, Gates and Clinton, who constantly receive the spotlight from the media and the courts. Microsoft (Gates' company; for all of you who have been living in a cave your entire life) is currently being tried for monopolistic practices. The effects of this case are sure to have vast repercussions throughout the coun try; and quite possibly the world. Judge 1bomas Penfield Jackson has declared Microsoft a ''vicious monopoly" in his findings of fact. The target of thi~ trial is mainly Bill Gates. Who is Bill Gates and what has he done to deserve this? He has excelled at his job. No, his programs aren't the best. Most computer sci ence majors will tell you that. As a businessman, howev er; Gates is comparable with· such giants as Rockefeller and Vanderbilt, rugged individuals who achieved through persistence and intelligence. When he saw that the Internet would be the next step in computing, he inte grated Internet Explorer with Microsoft Windows-at no extra cost. In other words, and I paraphrase Judge Jackson, he improved the quality of the Web browsing software, lowering its cost, and increasing its availability; thereby benefiting consumers. The people hell-bent on bringing Microsoft down claim Microsoft uses its position to stifle innovation. Stifle Service (DHS) over Skywalker out there. Presently; innovation? Microsoft spends annually $100 million on sees the welfare of Philadelphia 's new Mayor, John Street, GIVE ME A MINUTE Internet Research and Development. They claim that 20,000 underprivileged believes that he has found the DHS' children. Most of Skywalker. In February; Alba Martinez will Microsoft is a monopoly. To contend that I quote Judge Dana Marinelli My outlook these children (or "clients" as reported by become the new commissioner of the Jackson, ''It is not possible with the available data to deter on life been Staff Writer has Case Managers/Social Workers) have experi Department of Human Services. Martinez mine with any level of confidence the price that a profit drastically enced at least one form of abuse, drug and will bas to fulfill high expectations, as a maximizing firm with monopoly power would charge for changed by the alcohol addictions, poverty and even aban result from a class action suit. Windows ' 98 comports with the price that Microsoft actu lives of 20,000 children. Over break I had the donment within their family. Her job will demand much effort in order ally charges." In other words, there IS no way to tell wifut opportunity to make some money, through These children have no idea what it is like to reduce the number of cases per worker. would qualify as monopoly pricing. There is no hard evi what I thought would include simple clerical to have a parent tuck them into bed, or take In addition, Martinez is expected to eliminate dence, but Jackson has declared Microsoft a monopoly. work. Who could be saddened by sitting in them to the park for a game of catch. Unlike the mishandling of children's files resulting Other crusaders claim that Microsoft is selling front of a computer, typing reports and print most of us, they get to experience being a in complications. (I.e. missed deadlines for Windows lower than it actually could to avoid being ing them out to the tune of one hefty wage? case number, shuffling from one foster medical examinations). labeled a monopoly. If Microsoft is selling low now, when Little did I know that my simple tasks home to another, hoping their parents will Not only was I deeply effected by these involved the gritty, drastic details of children attend their weekly supervised visit and children's lives, but I realized that one day exactly does it plan on selling at monopoly-level prices? in foster homes.. intense hours of therapy. these children will too be parents and work When the public isn't watching? Microsoft can't win: I was quick to realize how lucky I am for My outlook on life has changed because I ers in our society. We should not ignore real apparently it sells too high, or it is selling low only to hide growing up in a loving household. have seen a darker side of reality. But with ity. As good citizens, we must show concern the fact that it is a monopoly. Gates is under fire from the Philadelphia's Department of Human every Darthvader, there is always a Luke and contribute to the DHS ' efforts. public, the press, and the courts due solely to the fact that he has succeeded. Now take President Bill Clinton. Not too long ago, he QyOTE OF THE WEEK was in a tria1 that captured the nation 's attention. His affair with Monica Lewinsky was the topic of heated debate. The evidence against him was enormous and QgESTION OF THE WEEK incontrovertible. What happened? He got off (no pun intended) without even a slap on the wrist. Clinton criticized then-President Bush during the elec "The grass is always greener on the other side--but tion of '92, claiming that Bush was "kowtowing to the that's because they use more manure." butchers of Beijing" (the Chinese government in the time of the Tiananmen Square Massacre). According to - Schapiro's Clinton, Bush was too soft on Red China. What has Explanation Clinton done since with China? " Currently; Clinton is pushing Congress to give China a " Most Favored Nation ' s Status (or a Normal Trade HOMEWORK! WHAT'S THAT? AND WHAT IS THIS THING ABOUT HAVING TO I ~elation), a major stepping .sto~e for China 's a.ccepta~ce mto the World Trade Orgaruzation. If the US. gives China a Normal Trade Relation, there will be non-discriminatory STUDY TO GET GOOD GRADES?! tariffs on China's goods. Never mind Chinese spying and stealing US. ballistic missile technology; then selling arms to Iran, Pakistan, ..-_______________________________.. ,1 and Syria (all real good friends of the US.). Never mind THE DoME: EDITORIAL BoARD that China refuses to acknowledge human rights, enforc ing the one child per family plan with infanticide and EDITDR·IN·CHIEF Lindsey Hedden Tlu Dome is published by the editor will be printed unless Brian 0 'Rourke Dana Marinelli students of Widener University they are signed and contain a forced abortions. But let's overlook all that because for the coDege community on phone number. RELATIONS MANAGER Bill he's the President and this deal with China will benefit Fridays during the academic Ben Myers Colleen year. except during fmal exami The Dome does not endorse any the country economically (in the short run). A friend of NEWS/UNIVERSITY EDITOR Mike Sager nations and immediately follow advertiser or accept responsibil mine not too long ago said this of Clinton: "Yeah, he lied TBA Stan Wojculewski ing vacations.