PROFILE: John Frankenfield ............................. 6 Asbestos Outbreak ............................................. 9 Evacuation at the UC ......................................... 10 Tips to Prolong Your Car's Life ....................... 12 cu \ 7Ull S'l'Ull\: Campus Aesthetics: Beautiful or Just an Illusion ............. 1S;17 Homosexual Rights .................................. 18 What's on Town? ............................................... 22 Movie Review: Apollo 13 ................................. 26 A look aat Judge Dredd ..................................... 27 Interview With The Urchins ........................... 28 In Concert: Sextacy ........................................... 30 PART ME Classifieds .......................................... 31 CD Reviews .........· ............................... 29 Editorial ................................................ 3 Fashion ................................................ 24 Film & TV ........................................... 26 Inside Music ...................................... 28 Law According to Murphy .............. 27 National Briefs .................................... 13 Cm·er Design: Luis .\liranda Photography: ···········•··········· 22 Mori.~ Stem W~ose Gra~es Are T~e~1 Do you know what grades you re­ ceived for Summer A classes? Many students' records have been "sealed" due to cashier's holds. This common practice of the University withholding information even after you've paid for your classes is not only ridiculous, but it probably wouldn't hold up in a court of law. At the outset of each semester, the University requires each student to either pay in full for classes or guarantee that payment will be complete by the half-point of the semester. This payment includes access to your grades. For instance, students who have incurred no parking fines will automaticall y receive their grades at no extra cost. Why does the University fee l that it can unilaterally add ex tra costs or contingencies to the basic contract entered into at the outset of the semester? Holding Summer A grades due to Cashier's holds is even more suspect, for the summer is in some respects held as one whole semester and in others to constitute three sepa­ In this Issue: ra te semesters,A,B and C. Which interpretation is correct? It Wonder why whenever you drive a vehicle you seem to kill it? depends on who you are. If you're a student who completed Perhaps you just don't know what kind of preventative Summer A classes and then incurred a hold d uring Summer maintenance your car needs and when its time to get it. B, the University will hold your grades, even though there Andres Gonzalez advises Don't Let This Happen To is no correlCltion between the two. Your Car, and gives some tips to help prolong your cars life. The grades that students earn in University should, be Please see page 12. their intellectual property. No one should be able to deny them access to their property, particularly after they've Finally, the SG Comes To An Agreement Over Budget already paid their tuition dollars. issues and decided how to spend your student activities fee The University insists that cashier's holds are necessary to to the best of their ability . If you want to know about some of the things they spent your money on take a look at page 13. coll ect on the debts that students owe. If this were applied only to students who owe tuition money, or as a registration Chris Harris gets backstage again and this time he got to talk hold, then it would be understandable. If the University with a pop/punk/new wave band called the Urchins. He disclaims the policy as state mandated, as is often the case, ventures Under the Sea with the New Jersey group and then the legitimacy of the rule at the State level must be learns about how they first started playing, what their music questi oned because holding records is not only unfair, it is video ideas are and what it was like for them to be in the unjust. studio. Please see page 28. ~ iOOl SlH~U:t 31\VH SlN30nlS : 3~VSS3W 1VNIWI18WnS ~ If you didn't get the chance to check out the Sextasy Ball a few weeks ago you must be dying to know what really went Editor-in-Chief .......... Ross A. Levy on at the Edge that night. Chris Harris was there and all he is Senior Editor ......... Bruce Strickrott able to say now is - Sextasy Ball: A Musical Orgasmic Assistant Editor ........ Jason Weaver Delight. Well, he does have a little more to say about the three bands, especially Lady Galore of the Lords of Acid. The Florida Atlantic Free Pr~ i!. published \\eekly. Production Manager..... Luis Miranda Funding i~ prol'ided h) the Student Body of FAU, Please see page 21. under the auspices of Student Government. The Business Manager ...MicheleAnne Levy opinion ~ of the writm are their own and do not n em~a r i ly renect the l'icwsor opinionsoftheStudent Photo Editor ............. Moris Stern Do you feel safe and secure when you are at FAU or in some Bod~-. Student Gowrnment or the Ad mini~tratio n of Layout/Design Editor... Katherine Sfeir state university building? The Free Press has found a few Florida Atlantic l!nimsity. The FAU Free Press is reasons for you to question your personal safety due to a pro,idrd free of charge to members of the FAU News Editor ..... Jolene Diamantine community - limit one per person. The FAU Free Press • • • • series of bomb scares, one of which was real, at the BCC/ resme~ the right to charge Sl.OOp er copy above the Entertamment Edttor ..J II han Powers Davie campus and the emergency evacuation of the Univer­ stated limit. The editorial office of the FAU Free Press Systems Manager ....... Matt Steinhoff sity Center due to and unknown dust in the air here In Boca. i ~ located at 229 Uni m~it y Center, Florida Atlantic Uni1ersity, 777 G l art~' Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Broward Editor ......... ·Shauna Tittle Please see Live Bomb Found at FAU Davie Campus on The FAU Free Pre\s may be reached by telephone at page 9 and The University qenter Under Red Alert on (-107) 367-2393. For adwtbing call (-107) 367-3766. Ad Sales Manager ........... Bryan Bates page 11. FAU Free Press · June14,1995 - ----- - ------------------------- ------ 3 Tile Adventures Young Timmy Gives into Another Lucky of Peer Pressure ... Ticket Winner '~ Comfy is Overcome by a r I !limy You're \11\:WI <llC'If;J~IIC) StnO\\ thai smC\kma ems 011 Ht)l~tr~li• l'-"Lr lun~·'· b••• I ht1 ) ou ,lk!ft) Strange Sense of Trouble! Lf'M)\V Ihal Vrobrn vou cm<'L,e Chyft(ll iS a l ~u cui Timmy Comes First... nlllo )(~til ccmllll \'cs l'unmy SllluL•nt can __ r I\IU.jU"' (IIIJ$oC )OUf J>cnJ.S IO he uod(tdc\tlof\Cd = Tab • look hoc T;..,) I one< """"cd. diCftfon aty l'mu "U al>lc 10 fully dc•~lop Pl.. ly '"""""""'· boh7 STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES JUDAIC STUDIES COURSES TO BE HELD IN PLANS FOR IMPLOSION CANCELLED CHANG ING THEIR WAYS THE FALL The July 4 Implosion of the Governor's Club was Stud~nt Health Services has changed the way they do "The Holocaust", Dhimmis: Jews and Christians canceled by the building's owner, Charles Palmer. His things to be f<~ster and more student friendly. Doris Under Islam" and two sections "Beginning He­ decidion to instead proceed with normal, non-e>..plo­ Strnrnos from th~ Student Health and Wellness Center brew" will be taught this Fal l. Dr. Alan Berger, will sive demolition techniques was announced shorlty s<1icl, "Students lwve been wai ti ng a long time just to get teach "The Holocaust" on Tuesdays and Thursdays after a contrasting news release was distributed on a reading on a Tl3 test." from 9:30 to 10;50 a.m. Dr. Berger is the holder of the June 14. FAU's Chamagne Brunch Fund-raiser was Tlw center is trying a new system for the summer and new Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair for the Study also canceled as a result. Palmer is going to have to the if it goes well they will begin the program definitely at of the Holocaust. Dr. Walid A. Phares will teach building razed in late September. tlw brginning of the semester. Now they are trying to get Dhimmis:jews and Christians Under Islam" on peopil' prepared in the Fall semester. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Dr. The women's clinic is made by appointment. They Phares is a visiting professor on Political Science. alo;n have a "Fast lane Service" now where students can One. class of "Beginning Hebrew" will meet Mon­ pick up birth control pills, get pregnancy testing, uri­ days and Wednesdays from 8:00 to 9:50 a.m. and nalysis, TB testin& Strep Testing, lab results, immuni­ the other on Mondays and Fridays from 12:00 to zations, treating for minor illnesses and injuries and 1:50 p.m. Non-degree students can register August physical exam \·vork-ups and appointments. 25, 8-5 p.m. and August 26, 9-1 p.m. Dr. Nahum M. Sarna is the acting director of the Judaic Studies POLICE BLOTTER program. For more information, call (407) 367-3840. DR. LARRY DECKER AWARDED EMINENT SCHOLAR FOR EDUCATION June 17 -Shots were heard from theT-17 area. The Chilrles Stewart Mott Eminent Scholar Award in FAU ART STUDENT EXHIBITING WORK Investigation revealed two subjects firing a 22 Community Education has been given to Dr. Larry E. semi-automatic pistol with a targeting scope. FA U student, Brittany Conner, will be represented Decker. "Weare extremely fortunate to have someone of 30 shots were heard. The subjects were held at in the sixth annual "Select Art Students in the State Larry Decker's caliber join us," said Dr. Jerry Lafferty, gun point and then turned over to the Boca Un iversity System Exhibi tion," which will be held dean of FAU's College of Education.