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VoLUME 78, No. 7 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1994 . Letter deeming sanctions for hazing still withheld as Sig Eps try for appeal BY BENEDEITA AGNOLI "Everyone who needs to know about it has been made want anything to harm or get in its (the appeal's) way. resolution which condemned Holmes' decision to in­ GREEK Lu'Ii RErORl ER aware of the situation," Holmes said. "It is not a secret." Holmes said Cartertold him that the situation should be crease the GAP's recommendation. Some members of SG Holmes defended his decision in a letter to the frater­ kept between the fraternity and the administration. are the only students outside the incident to have seen the The campus community is still in the dark as to why nity, which has not been publicly released. "I think that each case is individual and that there is a report. · Dean of Student Services Harold Holmes saw fit to in­ Interfraternity council president Christian Carter, a se- certain right to privacy which other organizations would Holmes said he is not angry .about the legislature's crease sanctions against the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity nior, said the letter is not the public's business. be happy to have ifthey were in a similar situation," Carter statement that decried his sanctions and condemned them tenfold toJO weeks for a hazing infraction. Sig Ep president John Cimaroli, a senior, has refused to said. as "arbitrary" and "capricious." · Both student Greek leaders and Holmes have· been discuss the letter and Holmes has said he will not release "It is no-one else's husiness but the Sig Eps' and I think "I save my anger for something that is worth it," he said. reluctant to r~lease a full report surrounding the incident, the report without the approval of the fraternity. they can work it out with the administration. It doesn't "I don't mean to downplay .the the bill, but there was no which comes before the Group Advisory Panel in appeal Cimaroli said,. 'The reason that I have been kind of need to be a wide open issue." research done before it was passed." today. under the table is that there is the appeal tomorrow. I don't Last week the Student Government legislature passed a Survey of seniors released BY CHRIS MITCHELL senior member on the taskforce. compiled into one mass sum to give an As a method of comparing Wake overall figure from which to compare Forest's results to those ofother schools, the university's results. "It's good to be The Office of Institutional Research Ross Griffith, the director of the Office able to say we are doing significantly released the results from its survey of oflnstitutional Research, along with the betterorsignificantlyworseinonething college seniors last spring, comparing task force, chose Brandeis University, than Colgate, Brandeis, Davidson or ·attitudes of Wake Forest seniors toward Colgate College, Davidson College and Richmond," Griffith said. such areas as future employment and Out of ·734 surveys distributed to university life in general to those of seniors last spring, 263 were returned, seniors from a select-group of compari- •• , Approximately 34 yielding a 36 percent participation. son schools. However, with an average participation The survey, recommended by the Pro- percent of seniors surveyed rate of 72 percent from the other four gram Planning Committee, was in its said Greek life had a nega- institutions, Griffith and the task force second year of administration to gradu- are currently devising better marketing ating seniors. tive effect on them, and strategies. The Higher Education Data Sharing almost 42 percent said that "One criticism of surveys is that if Consortium (HEDS) administered the you don't have enough participants, survey to approximately 200 colleges Greek life had a negative you don't have a valid survey," Seifert anduniversitiesnationwide.Ataskforce, effect on social life in gen- said. "What I did was run a demo- composed of three administrators and . graphic profile and I noticed that, ac- one senior, assisted in the test's admin- eral at the university. cording to the breakdown by major, the istration. actual population on campus reflected Administrators included Joe Milner, a the same type of breakdown we had in Glenn Thompson professorandchairmanoftheeducation the University of Richmond as institu- the survey. Gigabytes· go green department, Marianne Schubert, the di- tions fm comparison. "Even though we had a low return . rector of the university counseling cen- The choices were based on colleges rate, relatively speaking, it's still a de- Fresh111an JennyQrr works qn her portable computer while s1ttmg on the lawn between · ter,al}d~arkSei~ert UJeassistantdirec- that participated in the survey am;l were cent sample of students." ':"· --Be~'.@:~i!F1~4bltAs~·Residenee:Ha!"l~'"-· .. ,,. "'·- ,< :·· ·- • : .........,.,; .••• ,,,.,.:·::·f~~ t' ,.,~,- :~:::,: ~.-s·_~·, ·:::-··- ,., tor uf ·tbe.:.Wt<:e:.rlfiD\stifutiotniLB.e.:..!~·';USUally -mostsimilar-.to.WakeFotest ·: · -'· ·-~ -~:one.•exception::was. by' ,gel\der, · ,._;; .· . · .search. Chatlotte Knapp serveq. as tfje · . The results ofthese schools were theri .. See Survey, P~ge 5 Native German politics professor invited to observe elections ·1'1' BY ELIZABETH D. FISHER Germany Oct. 7. She will oversee the Oct. 16 an upcoming paper on German politics. officials she will meet. German studies and has published on the Ow GoLD AND BLACK REPORTER German national and state elections that are The trip, as described in a program Welsh Welsh is one of 14 other observers to over­ subject. held every four years. received from the German Information Cen­ see the elections. According to Welsh, she She said the trip is a unique opportunity and One of many faculty members bridging the Welsh said the purpose of her visit will be ter in New York City, will include visits to was nominated as a candidate because she is that she is quite excited about it. gap between· the university microcosm and to examine the development of the party sys­ polling stations, observation of the election an officer in several organizations that deal Welsh came to the United States as an the rest pfthe world, an assistant professor of tem as it is reflected in the election outcome returns and visits to the election parties. with German studies in the United States. exchange student in 1980. After finishing her politics will observe upcoming state and na­ and the differences and similarities in voting In addition, Welsh will attend meetings and Welsh said she was informed of her accep­ undergraduate studies at the University of tional elections in Germany next week. patterns between East and West Germany. receptions with prominent public figures such tance into the program 4 or 5 weeks ago. She Munich, she completed her post-graduate Helga Welsh, an assistant professor of poli­ She said she will also attempt to discern "what as Chancellor Kohl and the current chairper­ said she believes she was chosen because she courses in the United States at the University tics, took her expertise in European politics accounts for the similarities and differences." sons of the various political parties: Welsh is a native of Germany, has professional inter­ of Iowa, where she received her Ph.D. out of the classroom and across the ocean t<> Her observations will serve as research for said she was surprised at the high level of est in German politics, is active in promoting See Welsh, Page 3 SG committees look to improve relations among campus groups Bv LILLIAN NAsH' tees: Campus Life, Student Relations and Appropriations and faculty mixer as soon as possible. I think we, as outside their field of study or expertise. They can talk Sntm::Nr GovERNMENT RE'ORTER and Budget, discuss the actions up-to-date and the outlook students, can get a lot of good ideas from them and find out about basketball, Kuwait or jazz- it doesn't matter. It for their respective committees. · what they are willing to contribute to the issue." only needs to encourage student-faculty interaction," he After meeting Tuesday, the six standing Student Gov­ Senior Sam McGee, a co-chairman of the Student . McGee said the Student Relations Committee is consid­ said. ernment committees further defined their goals for the Relations Committee, is tackling the student-faculty rela­ ering reviving a program from the 1960's called the Co-chairwoman of the Student Relations committee, improvement of the campus community. In this second of tions problem. ·'That's been one of my issues for a long, Graylin Group. "We can't use that name, but the idea is sophomore Tina Schippers, said they hope to improve a two-part series, the chairmen of three of the six commit- long time and I would like to see a Student Government that students and faculty meet and talk about something See SG, Page 3 Honor Council focuses main goals BY LORI KoviTCH the Honor Council as a whole have been and put into ihe constitution. They also CoNTRJDtn JNG REPORTl:K extremely busy this semester hearing six want the code pdnted on plaques to be cases that were carried over from the sum­ hung in classrooms around campus. When a typical student hears the words mer months. Students have the option of Dickinson said he believes if stude,nts write "Honor Council investigation," the imagi­ appearing before an interim council in the out the brief code before each exam instead nation may conjure up images of a cold summer comprised of faculty, administra­ of just signing the test form, the code will courtroom filled with prosecutors eager to tion and students or they may wait until be reinforced. Students will have actual expel students who glance the wrong way the fall semes­ contact with the honor code rather than during an exam.

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