John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 2-20-1992 The aC rroll News-Vol. 82, No. 6 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News-Vol. 82, No. 6" (1992). The Carroll News. 1032. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/1032 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Serving the John Carroll University Community Vo l. 82, No. 6 John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio 44118 February 20, 1992 Students elect new officers Taro Schmidtke Union. tion procedure this year wem very "I still want to try to get the smoothly. changes I proposed during my "I was very impressed with this campaign," said Parks. "Maybe t year's election," said Ncmanich. don't need the office to accomplish "It was a clean election. Il was what I'd like to sec done." very nice." Vice president-elect Luke "It was an excellent election," Adams said "I'm glad the election said Dcllaftora. "The candidai.Cs procedure is over. I'm looking were fair and did a good job." forward to the upcoming year and According to Dcllafiora, over to working with everyone." 1000 students voted in the elec­ Additionally on Tuesday, the tions. SU senaLCelected Diana Hartman "We had a good voter turnout as ncxttenn' s executive secretary which was also nice to sec." said and Monica Corcman as next Dcllafiora. term's executive treasurer. "The election process went Current SU President Joe According to both Judy well," said Biacsi. "There was a Cimpcnnan will be handing over Ncmanich, current chief justice, good turnout. It's nice tO sec stu­ his leadership to sophomore Kevin and Diann Dellafiora, elections dents concerned about what is Biacsi, who defeated sophomore commiuee chairperson, the elcc- going on." Joe Parks. · Luke Adams, a sophomore, ChairiDan answers won the vice presidency in a race against junior Michael Naypauer. financial questions Joe Clmperman, a secretary at the first national JUSTICE The chief justice position for convention, comforts Julie Smith, a John Carroll delegate, ·next tenn will be held by junior Chris Kazor have off-campus accounts. during the convention which was held last weekend. Brian Gagnon, who ran against News Editor Naypauersaid that this was a joint junior Greg Bauer. In light of increased question- decision between himself and "l - ; ••j ......... iRaQ{* fundpigjng wmmil&ee. Cimpc.rman. Debates, .diversity Biacsi. "My biggest. most general chairman Mike Naypauer held a "There was danger that if we goal for next year is to concentrate press conference on Tuesday and made too much money that the end in constitution on activities for the student body. gave an account of the financial University support would lessen The foundations have already been status of the committee, as well as because of lhe amount ofmoney," Taro Schmidtke See JUSTICE Centerspread: News Editor set for issues and I want to try and answering specific questions Cimperman said. "Personally I Photo essay and related articles concerning national JUSTICE achieve a balance between plan­ concerning his leadership. felt as president of the Union that This past weekend saw lhe be­ convention ning activities and confronting Naypauer began by submitting it was unfair because we're mak­ ginning of JUSTICE, Jesuit Uni­ issues." reports based upon his own books ing money that the University versity and College Students whole thing got completed in such Parks stated that he lhought lhe and the bank accounL The account should detract from us." Concerned With Empowennent, a short time," said Kathleen election process wem well and of lhe comm iuee was registered at Naypauer was also questioned as 90 delegates from 17 Jesuit Krucsi, a delegate from St. that even though he wasn' telected a TransOhio bank. According to as to why his division in the tour­ schools convened at John Carroll Joseph's University in Philadel­ he will continue to participate and Naypauer's books, thccommiti.Ce nament was paid in cash while University in order to delineate phia. "Now I know what the contribui.C to the workings of the raised$4023.06. Ofthc$8184.87 others were paid by check. He JUSTICE's mission, draft a con­ Founding Fathers [of the United WHAT'S·INSIDE: raised in revenue, $4017 was put claimed that this was an "indis­ slituuon and seta national agenda. States] must have gone through." directly into the Student Union criminatedccision," and added that This convention began Thurs­ After spending long hours be­ account whilethcrestwasputimo the winners of the indiv1dual day, Feb. 13 with a keynote ad­ hind closed doors on Friday and the separate fund raising account. contests were also paid in cash. dress by Fr. J. Glenn Murray, SJ. Saturday, the delegates from the The bank account records matChed The situation at the Flats was and ended on Sunday, Feb. 16 17 schools anived at a mutually Naypauer's figure of $4023.06. probed as well. Again Naypaucr with the signing of the drafted acceptable constitution that was Naypauer next addressed the said that he saw nothing wrong constitution. unanimously adopted. subject of five bounced checks. with the way he handled the According to the delegates, The constituuon consistS of a Two of these bounced during the Welcome Back Week trip to the drafting the constitution and de­ mission statement, JUSTICE's summer as the result of a misun­ Aats. He claimed that attempts ciding exactly what JUSTICE guiding principles and iLc; organi­ derstanding between Naypauer were made to infonn the three should stand for,comprised much Lation. There arc national, re­ ENI'ERTAINMENT••• l5 andSUPresidcntJocCimpcnnan. bars that more than one bar was of the debate that occurred over gional and school levels and there The Diviners The other bounced checks carne mvolvcd in the trip, but none of the weekend. According to Elmer will be a national convention each WORLD VIEW•••••••• 9 from the 3-on-3 basketball tour­ them were reached. Abbo, convention director, the year at a predetermined host nament. As he did the week be­ Other matters which were delegates had a variety of ideas, school. Albertsville's AlbeftVille secrets fore, Naypaucr claimed that these breached concerned the opinions and perceptions about The delegates will now Lake opened by Winter '92 bounced checks carne about when commiuee's concession stand at JUSTICE and what it should be. the constitution to their respective Olympic <Q<9 SU Treasurer Dennis McAndrew the Joe Piscipo concert and some "Many ideas were presented," schools and attempt to ratify it. games did not place money into the fund small expenses which Naypaucr said Abbo. "They all displayed According to Abbo, the fll'St raising account to cover the out­ had charged for food. The stand at great potential but there was a lot convention of JUSTICE was a SPORTS•... ••.•••.••• IS standing checks which had been the concert netted a loss of of diversity among lhem." success. Women's given as tournament awards. $215.01, and some questioned The debates centered around "It completely fulfilled my ex­ track places Several people questioned the why Naypauer gave away lhe re­ the present and future of JUS­ pectations in ways I didn'texpect, second in existence of an outside account at maining concessions to the vol­ TICE but everything was resolved but the end result was achieved. Cleveland TransOhio. It is not permitted for unteers atlhe end of the concert. at the end. The constitution was written," said city meet SU organizations in general to See Press Conference, page 5 "I'm really amazed that the Abbo. Page2 EDITORIAL The Carroll News, February 20,1992 Hey mtAn, if so.xs h~re editorial fhete ,are new holes; In +he ozone lo.yer. RA conflict needs settlement The first week of this semester Donna Byrnes, director of housing, decided not to allow resident assistants to be Student Union executive officers,editor-in-chiefofTheCarrollNews,orstationmanagerofWUJC- FM. But the office of student affairs reversed this decision last week. Next year RAs will be allowed to be secretary or treasurer of the SU, and the following year RAs will be allowed to hold any SU, CN, or WUJC position, except president of the SU. The original decision to not allow RAs to hold these positions was a good one. As B ymes explained in the Jan. 16 issue ofThe CN, such a policy would allow these three organizations to grow and maintain healthy, adversorial-when-necessary relationships. The policy was meant to pre­ vent possible conflicts of interest. However, it is imperative that everyone is given a fair chance to become an RA. As Dr. James Lavin, vice president for student affairs, said: "The current system is working well. Every student has to be evaluated based on editorial their time, interest and inclination." Reversing the decision was a bad idea. Nominations for the SU offices were accepted when RAs were not going to have the chance to occupy Is the SIC changing ignorance? these positions. The housing office's decision was then reversed, effec­ For the past semester and a half, the Student Issues Committee (SIC) has tively not allowing an SU secretary or treasurer to become an RA, even busied itself with getting settled. Since its inception this summer, the SIC though one can still occupy both positions. The problem comes not with has made huge soides in establishing itself as a viable Student Union issuing a new policy, but with reversing an old one.