Serving the college community for over 50 years Vol.55No.23 William Paterson College April 3,1989 New room selection: The Beacon, two editors Residence Life simplifies process BY LAURA. SOFEN priority to suites of three or one apartment hall to smother win state competition NEWS EDITOR four wishing to remain in will be next. Residents who do The Beacon recently Boom selections for the their present apartment. not have suitemaUa will placed second for general fall 1989 semester will be Those who do not want the choose into a room last, excellence in a state-wide done on a "two-week, same room will choose rooms Wh college/university journal- stretched-out basis to avoid through a process that gives After the Apartment resi- ism competition sponsored long lines, and will take place priority to four and three- dents have been accommodat- by the New Jersey Press in the residence halls With member suites and then to ed, current lowers residents double suites, based on class will have the opportunity to Association (NJPA). hours more convenient for stu- status, Whiteman said. In addition, Craig Ha- dents, said Patricia White- move to t&e Apartments. Stu- man, assistant director of resi- "We're trying to be equi- dents must! meet the age re- ley, sports editor, captured dence life. table," Whiteman said, "by quirement of 21 years or have first place for sports writ- making Apartment selection 52 cre&ite, Whiteman said. Last year room selection first to accommodate those al- ing and Todd A. Dawson, The awards will be was done in Wayne Hall in Boom selection for the editor-in-chief, placed sec- presented this Friday at ready there." Towers will begin April 17 in the middle of the afternoon. Boom selection for the ond in the division of opin- the NJPA's annual spring Beginning with the a radius lounge yet to be an- Apartments will take place in nounced.. As in the Apart- ion writing. conference. Apartments the week of April Pioneer lounge and will begin 10, residents will have the op- ments, Ml suites have first with residents who choose to priority. portunity to exercise "squat- stay in their present rooms. ter's rights," which gives first Those wishing to move from 8<w ROOM, pug, B Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker closes lecture series BY JAMES SCKLESINGER bury our elders in small, 500,000 years. It starts short- or Purple. NEWS CONTRIBUTOR southern towns." ly after the first woman fig- "I used to do a lot of Walker^eoited First they ures out how to build a fire," walking in the country, and I Alice Walker, poet and said, 9. poem written "because she said. began to na&arwtt wtomd Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, recited reasons ijftiat people g^ve vbT poetry and prose at Shea Cen- wiping out indigenous cul- "I'm going to read the part or. What lT6«lhsed"was that ter for the Performing Arts tures and indigenous peoples." where Celie stops writing to half of the flowers, are the col- last Friday. She recited the poems God as Charlton Heston, and or purple, so ifs just A matter She began reading Buri- Listen, The Diamonds On begins writing to her sister of seeing what's there." al a poem from Revolution- Liz's Bosom, and My Daugh- Nettie, who, unlike Heston, When asked how she ar- ary Petunias, which com- ter Is Coming. loves her in return," she said. rived at the names of her memorates her experience in Walker's most recent ac- In a question and answer characters in the book, Walk- her home town of Eatonton, complishment is The Temple session after the reading, er said, "Many of them are Georgia. "It gives a sense of of My Familiar, a novel she someone asked Walker where named after my relatives. I the ritual of the church to calls "a romance of the last she got the title for The Col- See WALKER, pags 9 Read-in focuses on censorship BY PATRICIA GRIFFIN gerous to defend freedom, it is me to like the book," Lapham STAFF WRITER far more dangerous not to," said. MICHAEL FREEMAN Wertheim said. Other readings were from NEWS CONTRIBUTOR Wafa Hoaien, a Moslem Aldous Huxley's Brave New student, said she read and en- World, Allen Ginsberg's More than 100 students joyed the book, but felt it was Howl and Charles Darwin's and faculty members gathered offensive to her people. "Peo- The Descent of Man. Before in front of Sarah Byrd Askew ple have used the Koran as reading Darwin, Ripmaster Library March 16 for a read- an idol to blind people and as said, "I think these people in coordinated by History pro- a political weapon to further that like to ban are the links fessor Terry Ripinaster. their own selfish interest. It is back to nowhere." WPC librarians Judith not to be followed blindly, al- Hegg and Jane Hutchinson though it is the word of God. Selections from Mark Hozien read from the Koran. Twain, Wilhelm Reich, began the readings with a Langston Hughes and Sig- statement from the American Professor of political sci- mund Freud were also read. More than 100 students and faculty members Library Association support- 3rint«d material ence Carole Sheffield read "Censorship is defying 'March 16. ing the freedom to read. from Margaret Randolph's freedom of speech. I praise in front of the Sarah Byrd Askew "We trust Americans to Women Brave in the Face Terry Ripmaster for organiz- recognize propaganda and re- of Danger, and Passaic ing such a progressive event," sist it. We do not believe cen- County Community College said Paul Plesnick, a junior sors are needed for that," English professor Mike Bear- majoring in communication. Hegg said. don read the Molly Blum pas- Mark Pulido, a junior English professor Stanley sage from James Joyce's majoring in computer science Wertheim read from Salman Ulysses. said, "I believe ifs [the read- Rushdie's The Satanic Vers- Other student speakers in.} what this campus needs to es. He said he found it neces- included Laura Harvey, who see more of. It's beneficial to a sary to read the book because read from Inherit the Wind free society." "the first responsibility of any- and Ben Lapham reading Junior Sue Davis, a his- one in a literary field is to from The Grapes of Wrath. tory major, said she is "all for guarantee free expression, re- "My seventh grade teach- protesting if it will bring gardless of how you- feel about er told me Steinbeck was a Sec READ, page 8 the book. While it may be dan- communist...but she did get 2 CAMPUS EVENTS •The Beacon April 3,1989 The Beacon April 3,1989 ,«—** 'NEWS 3 Escort service pending WPC disputes builders use of road i4 Sociology Career Day — tion interviewing and other ef- FUTURE meal on Tues., April 11th, at BY JOYCE M. STEEL ence. "We just ask what any BY LAURA SOFEN Both parties have three builder and WPC has the re- MONDAY Faculty' and former students fective methods; 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. RSVP required. For STAFF WRITER employer would ask," DeSena NEWS EDITOR weeks to submit the informa- sponsibility to maintain Col- to discuss the various areas of 12:30 p.m. in Library 23. WPC Christian.Fellowship more inforation call the JSA said. tion to Superior Court in Pa- lege Road. April 3 sociology, graduate study and at942-8545.> ; The SGA began interview- According to DeSena, the A Superior Court judge terson. WPC asked the New Jer- Catholic Campus Ministry professional opportunities in WPC Christian Fellowship -Small groups for fun, fellow- ing candidates last week for Escort Service will begin with ordered WPC and College The college was aware of sey Department of Trans- i Club - Bible study at the the field, 12:30 to 2 p.m. in - Small groups for fun, fellow- ship and Bible Discovery. All Basic Skills Department - the new Escort Service, which two teams of two escorts and Road Associates to provide de- the builder using the College portation to assess the situa- CCM Center (located next to SC203-5. ship and Bible discovery at welcome! For more informa- Testing on April 22. All stu- SGA President John DeSena one person dispatching the tailed information regarding Road access and questioned tion, but the D.O*.T. is unable Gate no, 1) at 4:30 p.m. For Tau Kappa Epsilon - Nin- 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 tion call Ken at 423-2737. dents who have not taken the expects to institute in the teams from a base in the SGA the use of College Road by the the legality and propriety of to do so at this time, Fanning further information call the tendo Challenge today at a.m. and 12:30 p.m. in SC 302. Basic Skills Test are encour- coming weeks. "We're just office. The service will operate commercial builder construct- that, said Dennis Santillo, di- said. CCCM at 595-6184. 12:30 p.m. at Billy Pat's Pub All welcome! Call Ken at 423- Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity aged to sign up. For more in- waiting for the equipment at initially every Monday thru ing an office building adjacent rector of college relations. "We want to be advised in the Student Center. All pro- 2737 for more information. - Spring Clothes Drive '89 formation call Sherissee at this point," DeSena said. Thursday from 9 p.m.