A TRUE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER TranscripTHE T SINCE 1867 Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 Volume 148, No. 7 Stuy Hall to begin multi-million renovation Ohio Wesleyan honors memory of Alice Klund Levy, ‘32, who endowed $1 million to university in estate gift Phillips Hall vandalized By Michael DiBiasio Editor-in-Chief Graffiti was found inside and outside Phillips Hall Monday morning by an Ohio Wesleyan house- keeper with no sign of Photos provided courtesy of.... forced entry to the building, Left: Stuyvesant Hall shortly after it opened in 1931. Note the according to Public Safety. statue above the still-working white fountain. Public Safety Sergeant Above: Alice Klund Levy, pictured in this field hockey team photo in Christopher Mickens said the front row second from left, left a $1 million donation after her he is unsure whether the death in 2008, to be used for Stuy’s renovation. This will account markings found on chalk- for a considerable chunk of the planned restoration. boards, whiteboards, refrigerators and doors in By Mary Slebodnik have to use the money for a majored in politics and gov- ing her president of Mortar days and date nights because Phillips have any specific Transcript Reporter predetermined project or spe- ernment and French. She Board. normal heels echoed too loud- meaning. cific department. That deci- played field hockey along- According the 1932 edi- ly in the hallways. “Generally, such sym- A late alumna’s $1 million sion was left up to administra- side Helen Crider, whom the tion of “Le Bijou,” the cam- On Oct. 3-4, the board of bols represent the name of gift to the university might tors. Helen Crider Smith lounge pus yearbook, the bells played trustees approved the pro- a person or group, but we erase 80 years of deterioration Mark Shipps, Vice Presi- in Hamilton-Williams Cam- from the tower several times posal to make the gift from don’t know that,” Mickens from Stuyvesant Hall by 2012 dent for University Relations, pus Center is named after. a day and were used in recit- her estate the principal gift said in an email. “But it is and put a new spire on top of said administrators decid- She spent most of her life als each evening when Levy for Stuyvesant’s restoration. important for everyone to its tower. ed they wanted to sponsor in Southern California after lived there. Students signed Shipps said it would be a trib- realize that criminal dam- Alice Klund Levy, ’32, Stuyvesant’s restoration with she graduated. She gave to up weeks in advance to use ute to Levy if her gift helped age is, at worst, punishable died in Oct. 2008, and she Levy’s gift when they learned the university during her life, the ballroom. The copper on Stuyvesant look as beautiful by fines and/or jail time,” . and her husband Harold P. she served as a Resident including the Alice K. Levy the domes had not yet turned as it did when she lived there. Mickens said Public Levy left Ohio Wesleyan over Adviser in Stuyvesant when it and Harold P. Levy Presi- green. There was also a strict- “It was a very special place Safety has increased patrols $1 million from their estate. opened it 1931. dent’s Club Endowment. The ly enforced rule that women in the area but still par- Because the gift was unre- Levy came to Ohio Wes- campus recognized Levy as a who lived there had to wear tially relies on members of stricted, the university did not leyan from Erie, Pa., and leader and a scholar by mak- rubber heels except on Sun- See STUY, page 4 the campus community to report suspicious behavior. Director of Public Safety Bob Wood said it is possible that a door didn’t VIVA/SUBA to march against discrimination latch properly. Addition- By Malika Bryant secretary of SUBA. ally, he said the amount of Transcript Correspondent Of the three speakers planned, only one breaking-and-entering and of them, alumna Jennifer Henkle-Villaneuva, suspicious activity on cam- Members of VIVA, a Latino/Latina aware- a friend of professor, Rojas has been con- pus this semester is consis- firmed. tent with previous semes- ness group on campus, and the Student Union on Black Awareness (SUBA) will be lead- Sophomore Maria Del Toro, an active ters. member of VIVA said she doesn’t want the “Every year has its chal- ing “OWU March on Delaware: Standing Together against Discrimination” on Nov. 5, community to get the wrong idea about this lenges,” Wood said in an effort. email. “This year doesn’t in response to the incident that occurred with Professor Juan Armando Rojas on Sept. 19. “We are acting on behalf of human rights,” seem to be abnormal in the Del Toro said. “This is not just a SUBA- number or types of reports Beginning at 5:15 p.m., the silent march will begin at the R.W. Corns Building and VIVA issue. We need the majority’s support we are receiving.” in order to make a difference.” Wood also mentioned end on the front steps of University Hall where students and Delaware community Williams said she also sees how things can that there have been no be misconstrued. recent or “significant” members will discuss social justice issues in Delaware and the tactics of the Delaware “People will like it, and some won’t,” said instances of graffiti on Williams, regarding the march. She said she campus. Police Department’s. To ensure safety, Mick- “Three speakers have been scheduled for Photo by Sara Mays the event,” said sophomore Alexis Williams, ens wished to remind stu- Professor Rojas’ office door in University Hall See MARCH, Page 4 dents, faculty and staff to carry cell phones, call for help, walk with others - especially at night. If feel- ing threatned, go to a safe Colloquium broadens approach for new semester place as quickly as possi- ble, keep doors locked and “Theory to practice” applies multiculturalism, feminism and globalization with real-world experience in rapidly-changing world consider personal training courses By Mark Dubovec need to identify renewable reasons behind as well as the the Immigrant Experience.” The class will visit Hanoi and - More photos of Graffiti Transcript Reporter energy sources, and biofuels impact of the wave of Mexican “This course examines Ho Chi Minh City and include on page 3 may be a part of the solution.” migration in recent years,” how women are uniquely other important sites from the The Sagan National Wolverton said he Gitter said. “The classroom positioned as migrants in the Vietnam War. Colloquium and the Academic is planning hands-on portion of the course will give global economy,” Schrock “The trip will enable In this issue Policy Committee have experiments to develop students a solid understanding said. “It specifically focuses [students] to understand and announced six courses for the biofuels in the classroom and of migration, and the trip will on feminist perspectives experience the Vietnam War in upcoming Spring Semester considering taking the class give the people a real world on globalization and a way that goes beyond what Page 2: that will incorporate theory to to a conference sponsored by understanding of what they multiculturalism, the effects books, lectures and films can STRIDE takes leaps practice to the curriculum. the Department of Energy on learned back in Delaware.” of migration and globalization convey,” Flamm said. “It’s a Theory to practice involves the Biotechnology for Fuels. Gitter said the course will on women and their children tremendous opportunity.” a more hands-on approach to The course has a student fee involve a multidisciplinary and current controversies Flamm said the course Page 3: the classroom and applying of $750, according a Sagan approach, including surrounding immigration to will involve the history of the Health care debated real world experience, and the Colloquium flier. sociology, politics, history, the United States.” war, the culture of Vietnam university has set an academic “I think it’s a great geography, literature, Spanish, Schrock said the class and its impact on the course Page 4: goal to include more. example of applying theory international studies, botany will work in Columbus with of the war. He added that he Chris Wolverton, associate into practice by starting with and economics. newly arrived immigrants and is attempting to include as Bread & Puppet returns professor of Botany and a very theoretical question “Virtually all of our professionals who work with many different perspectives Microbiology, will instruct related to our understanding students will be affected by local immigrant groups. as possible, including a novel Page 5: “Biofuels,” which will focus of a fundamental process like migration and are welcome “We will connect our in- by Vietnamese author about Chi Phi Halloween on the development of next- photosynthesis and ending up in the course,” Gitter said. class learning with hands-on a North Vietnamese Army generation biofuels and the with an understanding of how “There are approximately ten activities in local immigrant soldier and a memoir by a production of fuels from waste that underlies a renewable million people in the United communities, so that through Vietnamese woman. Page 6: materials, diesel from soybean energy economy,” Wolverton States who were born in fieldwork, students can gain Flamm also said the trip is RJ on television oil and hydrogen and oils from said. Mexico. Such a large group firsthand knowledge of the a great bargain. Each student algae. Robert Gitter, Joseph A. of people has impacted not challenges these populations will pay $1000, but that will “The goal is to understand Meek Professor of Economics, only the migrants but also the face,” Schrock said.