INSIDE Taylor University Student News See page 5. tjfpland, IN See p.a,fe 4 Octoberh/CHO 11,1999 Volume 87, Issue 6 World, national and local Keep in touch with news out­ side the Taylor bubble. C.S. Lewis and Friends KAREN L. PENNER fry. 2 News Editor offers weekend seminar £ €>££&% & Taylor University will host the Art majors beware Francis White Ewbank and spring honors course SAC vice-president Steve Colloquium on C.S. Lewis and on Sunday. The public is invited Great Divorce, and The Lion, The attended the class last year and Klipp warns students not to Friends on November 12-14. and admission is free for all Witch, and The Wardrobe. proclaimed it as "very interesting risk expulsion. The conference will largely con- Taylor students, faculty, and This spring a team taught semi­ and thought provoking. I loved fry. 3 stist of readings of academic papers written by Taylor faculty, staff. nar will also be offered on C.S. the class. The Professors were students and other scholars. The Taylor University received a Lewis and related authors. The excellent, the topics were rele­ papers will discuss topics pre­ collection of Lewis' manuscripts emphasis in the course will be on vant to today's society, and the Homecoming sented within the writings of C.S. and first editions along with "..very interesting environment was inviting." The Introducing the 49'ers...no, Lewis and the other authors. those of authors George instructors will be Richard Hill, not the pro-football team. Peter Kreeft, Professor of MacDonald, Owen Farfield, and jffougW^pro- Kimberly Moore-Jumonville, fif- 4 Philosophy at Boston University, Dorothy Sayers, and Charles Robert Moore-Jumonville, David voking,rl lioyed and Christopher W. Mitchell, Williams in 1997. The cplletion, Nuehouser, and Roger Phillips*. Goldfish in the urinal? Director of the Wade Center at which is now housed in the the class." Guest lecturers include Edwin No need to worry. These Wheaton College, will be the Zondervan Library, was com­ -Jill Ogline Brown, book collector, and ladies keep Taylor's dorms colloquium's featured speakers. piled by Indianapolis physician Frances Ewbank, Professor squeaky clean. The three-day seminar will and educator Edwin Brown. reading and discussion. Honors Emeritus of English. Questions 5 include open discussions and the C.S. Lewis was a professor at Program credits will be given for about the seminar may be Lewis Carroll's Alice in Oxford and Cambridge this course, but students do not addressed to any of the instruc­ Wonderland play on Friday, con­ Universities and is acknowledge need to be in the Honors Program tors. Cetbccnse current sessions and an banquet as one of the 20th century's to take the class. The class will Students may visit the C.S. and Finch and Tuesday on Saturday, and a worship serv­ greatest Christian authors and take place Thursday nights in the Lewis and Friends internet web This dynamic duo steamed ice with a George MacDonald apologists. Among Lewis' writ­ Library Flood Room from 6:30 - site at www.tayloru.edu/cslewis, up the MT Cup Saturday. Sermon, given by Daryl Charles, ings are Mere Christianity, The 8:30 p.m. Jill Ogline, sophomore, for further information. fry. 6 Airband &&CCC& China turns 50! Davis Evans 'gets jigg'y' with Mark Moreland throws communism and the PRC. Cindy Norman across fry-. 7 the stage during their performance in last /fj /!H? €.. /J •iqti/ MS 4* m*'' w"' Thursday night's Football intramurals Airband. Moreland Competition heats up for and Norman's act, the the coveted T-shirt. Upland Community fry. 2 Dance Troupe, took first place at the com­ petition. The group also took home a $100 cash prize. Airband's second place winners were The Backstreet Boys, followed by First East Wengatz's entry from The Music <ve Man,Madame WEATHER Librarian. Monday NOEL SHUTT/ The Echo Sunny. Low 49, high 69. Phubbbbbs (that's five b's) Tuesday four "b's," graduated at the The Phubbbbbs is a tradi­ Sunny. For the record: end of last year, leaving the tion on The Brotherhood. He Low 44, high 73. On September 29 The Brotherhood to vote in a is typically elected by Brotherhood introduced new phubbbbbbs. The five upperclassmen, though Wednesday Nathaniel Elwell, the new "b's" stand for the number Broho members refused to Sunny. Phubbbbbs. El well's prede­ of past phubs, thus making comment on the criteria of cessor, Mike McGowen. Nathaniel Elwell the fifth his selection'. Low 52, high 58. who's title included only o\\ iter of the elite title. -Karen Penner THE ECHO 11,1999 NEWS or Id w< LJ mmm- EWS mmH NEWS i MUNCIE (AP) - Enrollment at Ball State University VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Frustration over NEW YORK, New York (AP) - American Home flooding in Mexico.has turned into violent confronta­ Products has agreed to pay three and three-quarters continues to drop. The University's enrollment numbers tions between protesters and police. Last night and billion dollars to settle thousands of lawsuits over diet for the fall semester are the lowest since 1986. A again this morning, hundreds of people blocked a drugs. The suits were filed by people who used the statewide advertising campaign, more applications and highway in the inundated city of Villahermosa. They once popular Phen-fen and Redux. A statement from greater freshman retention have not been able to boost were angry about government-built barriers that made the company says the settlement covers payment to attendance. Official say the slump is due to new admis­ the flooding worse in their neighborhoods. Police patients who were injured by the drugs, as well as sions standards designed to bring in students more like­ fired tear gas, beat demonstrators with batons, and future monitoring for those regarded as still healthy. ly to graduate. dragged some by the hair. One protester angrily chal­ lenged the police action, saying, "instead of helping NEW YORK, New York (AP) - Unabomber, Ted INDIANAPOLIS, Statehouse (AP) - An Indianapolis us, they beat us with sticks Why?" Elsewhere, Kaczynski, insists in an interview that he's not insane. murderer will most likely have her sentence reduced by crowds gathered outside the city hall in another dev­ He stated that he would prefer the death penalty to life more than 30 years. Carolyn Hampton was initially sen­ astated Jown coniplaining that Mexico's government in prison. Kaczynski tells Time Magazine he's confi­ tenced to 105 years in prison for the 1995 beating death was late in sending help. The official death toll of the dent of his sanity, and doesn't have delusions. The of a blind double amputee. However, the Indiana flooding is 342, but hundreds more are missing. interview coincides with the imminent release of Supreme Court has ordered that Hampton be sentenced I I Kaczynski's book. "Truth Versus Lies." Kaczynski again. The High Court says it is double jeopardy to JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) - Officials say a safe pas­ was sentenced in 1998 to life without parole for con­ convict Hampton of murder and also add years to her sage for Palestinian travel between Gaza and the west ducting an anti-technology bombing campaign that sentence for causing serious injury during a "obbery. bank is expected to open in a week. The 27 mile route killed three people and injured 22. He pleaded guilty will allow thousands of Palestinians to visit each to avoid a trial at which his lawyer had planned to EVANSVILLE (AP) - An Evansville man died late fri- other. A Palestinian official says there's only one offer an insanity defense, but the guilty plea also day night after jumping out a second story window. minor detail u> be resolved before the route opens saved him from being sentenced to death. Kaczyinski Police say twenty-seven year old Karl Armstead refused October 17 - the location of Palestinian-Israeli liaison also spoke about his brother, David, who turned him medical treatment at the scene and left with a friend in a office. The Palestinian authority says it will announce int© authorities. He said if their roles had been car. He-was later discovered passed out in a back yard how to obtain permits to use the route over the next reversed, and he had suspected David of being the and taken to Deconess Hospital. Witnesses say several days. The safe passage was outlined in the unabomber, "I would have kept it to myself." Armstead had been acting "paranoid" all night. Peace Agreement signed last month between Israel and the Palestinians at the Egyptian resort. That NEW YORK, New York (AP) - President Clinton has EVANSVILLE (AP) - An Evansville orthotic specialist accord marked a resumption of the peace process after addressed a gathering of gay activists in New York, his has renewed his offer to build an artificial food for an it was frozen for much of the three year rule of former second speech to gays last week. The President elephant. Carl Reicken sent another letter to officials in- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. attended the Empire State Pride Agenda dinner. In his Thailand after reading that the elephant had rejected the remarks, he said the reason he was there was because homemade prosthesis. The elephant's left food was KUALA LUPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Canadian it was "the right thing ro do, and you Jjave been amputated after the animal stepped on a land mine. reporter has been freed from a Malaysian prison after heard." Clinton's political relationship with gay Reicken says United Parcel Service has volunteered to serving four weeks for contempt of court.