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Remembering Columbine, p. 4 Bison soccer p. 7 THE BISON Vol. 75 , No.17 Searcy, Ark., Harding University April 21, 2000 'Once in a Lifeti •ne' opens in Benson Spring Sing 2000 performances scheduled for tonight, tomorrow By Kelly Carter Bison staff writer he show of the millen­ \~ \ nium without ques­ ~ tion is Spring Sing ..:.~· ·_,"'., r 2000, at least in the . ~. l · T -- . minds of the hundreds of students ·"l , . participating this year. Show times for this year's pro­ duction, "Once in a Lifetime," are I tonight at 7 p.m., tomorrow at 3 p.m and again at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10 ($8 with a Harding ID) and are on sale in the Benson ticket office. A Disaster Waiting The hosts and hostesses for to Happen Spring Sing 2000 include: Jolene Dennis, senior, from Highland Villa, Texas; Shelley Lawson, sophomore, from Searcy, Ark.; Ben Howe, graduate student, from Searcy, Ark; and Joe Yale, junior, from Kennett, Mo. "I am so excited to be a hostess," Lawson said. "I was active in en­ semble last year, and in comparison Photo by Jim Miller - this is more vocal and less Members of the ensemble accompany the hosts and hostesses in just one of the musical numbers performed between dance." club acts. Spring Sing can be seen tonight at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at 3 and 7 p.m. in the Benson AJ.tditorium. "The energy is really high this year," Trey Talley, ensemble mem­ 'This year is sure to be another signed a specific section to judge, which ones will work" ber, said. "The show is destined to winner," Dr. Jack Ryan, producer, according to Ryan. "The show has a lot of elements be a crowd pleaser." said. "I try to choose for the audience to There is Something Besides perfor­ Ryan is in half [of the judges] take in," Yale said. mances by the charge of selecting based on their ex­ "It is the perfect mil­ in the Water hosts, hostesses the 20 men and pertise in a certain ~ ~ - ; "'-:;. · · ~, lennium show." and ensemble, au­ women who will area," he said. "The Spring Sing re­ dience members judge the club other half are typi­ quires a major time will be treated to shows. Each act is cal ticket buyers." •\ /t\.#': commitment from eight-minute so­ judged in four cat­ In the 27 years the participants. 1·'·" cial club acts. egories-choreog­ since its inception, ,,, · ;~.•... Many have put "Eight club acts raphy, originality, Spring Sing has de­ •, ...._ • 1:>- aside leisure time, will perform, a music and cos­ veloped many tra­ J. - .., ' .l ' schoolwork and rest number that is tumes - and then ditions. Last year, • for late night prac- larger than any considered for the the directors added tices. since 1991," Dr. Doin' Hard Time Sweepstakes award, one more. During Imagine This "God has taught Steve Frye, direc­ which is given to Tuesday's dress re­ me so much," Jill tor, said. the group with the best overall hearsal, tickets were sold for $2, McDonald, Shantih director, said. The eight shows include: Delta show. and all proceeds helped fund sum­ "It would be impossible to make it Gamma Rho, Delta Chi Delta and This year another award, called mer campaigns. through my crazy schedule with­ Kappa Gamma Epsilon with the Spirit award, was added to the "We are working hard to keep out prayer and good friends." Sleep Tight, Yeah "Imagine This"; mix. Voted the Christian spirit Like McDonald, Right Knights and Tri­ on by the and cooperation Micah Lewis, Kappa with "A club direc­ high," Frye said. Knights director, is Disaster Waiting tors, the Spirit "It is obviously learning firsthand to Happen"; Chi award, which very competitive, the to 11 that direct­ Sigma Alpha and will be pre­ but the focus is for ing a club show can Regina with "There sented before the individual to take. Is Something in the Sweep­ do their personal "I didn't realize the Water"; Zeta stakes, is for best." all the stress Spring Rho, TNT and Chi the club that Steve Frye is Sing directors have," Omega Phi with has most dis­ not the only Frye Lewis said. "Rumble in the played a that makes Spring Many involved Jungle"; Shantih Best Daze of Our Christ-like at- Sing tick. Dottie, say the best part of with "Sleep Tight, Lives titude. his wife, serves as Spring Sing was the Yeah Right"; Al- "This is the director of the Over the Hill friends they made pha Tau Epsilon, Gata and Sigma something we have wanted to do hosts and host- along the way. Phi Mu with "Over the Hill"; Ko Jo for a while," Frye said. "This year esses. "Getting to have a close rela­ Kai and Ju Go Ju with "Best Daze all the directors agreed that this is "The hosts and hostesses have tionship with a huge number of Rumble in the of Our Lives"; and Kings Men and something that needed to be such wonderful talent," Dottie people is why I feel honored to be jungle Omega Lambda Chi with "Doin' added." Frye said. "They come up with a director," Holly Nelson, Regina Hard Trme." Five men and women will be as- most moves, and I distinguish director, said. Group photos by Jeff Montgomery What is going on... Nelson Edwards, 95, of Tamarac, Shoaib Mohammed Ilyasi, producer Witnesses said the person who Fla., was charged with aggravated of the television crimestopper show, robbed a bank in Vancouver Wash., in Arthur Miller, playwright, and assault on a law enforcement officer "India's Most Wanted," was charged in July spoke with a deep, "male" voice William Styron, novelist, traveled to after he grabbed a rifle in an attempt New Delhi with harassment and so police were surprised to find Cuba as guests of the country's to protect his last citrus tree. Officials destruction of evidence related to his Kristin Pearsall, 29, inside a truck Ministry of Culture on a trip were attempting to cut down the tree wife's suicide, after his wife's sister matching the one used for the robber's designed to increase contacts in order to protect groves from citrus told authorities that Ilyasi pressured getaway. However, Pearsall admitted between intellectuals of both canker, which is threatening the entire his wife to get more dowry money from the robbery was done by John, one of nations. citrus industry in south Florida. her relatives. her five personalities. lnfonnation taken from ~>~h<·wnnl.l»ftr and the Arkansas Democrat Gault• 2 --------=-=-=--TheBI;.::,;:,;..:.'son --..:..::.L:_Apn~'l21,2=-=-=--::___000 - Op ini 0 ns ------ just some thoughts... ·Tom between two worlds For the past few when so many cite the As the months have rolled on and six-year-old would be better off with months, six-year-old Elian breakup of the family the controversy continues to grow, his father in-a world of few medica"! Gonzalez has become the unit as the cause for so Elian's possible deportation to Cuba doctors and even less hope, according symbol of a battle raging many of our social prob­ seems only to be possible with ensu­ to the April 7 issue of Newsweek. between Fidel Castro's lems?" ing violence. The grandfather of one of Elian' s Cu­ communist Cuban regime In fact, last week in a It would be easy to villainize the ban schoolmates was quoted in the and the world's regulator, desperate attempt to re­ Cuban-American family of Elian that Newsweek article as saying, "There is the United States. gain custody of insist on keeping him in Florida. It not enough milk, there are not enough When Elian first ar­ Elian,who Juan Miguel would be easy to note that Elian and clothes, there's not enough rice. It's rived in the United States, flew to the U.S. to work his mother, who died in the attempt to very difficult for children every day." I believed, like many other r - - out a solution with the come to the U.S., broke immigration Those family members who are Americans, that he should Elizabeth R. Smith boy's Cuban-American laws by escaping Cuba and attempting fighting for the right to raise Elian as be promptly returned to Bison editor relatives. to sneak into the U.S. they best see fit, cannot forget that Elian his father in Cuba. After Elian's Cuban-Ameri­ Yet, it is not that easy. As the family is a little boy, and neither can we the all, his father, Juan Miguel, seemed to can relatives, however, felt differently. and the Cuban community in Miami public. genuinely want the boy back, and at the No matter how loving of a father Juan continue to resist deportation, I have Although I still feel that Elian should same time be willing and able to pro­ Miguel may be, he cannot possibly begun to question my own ability to in some way be reunited with his fa­ vide a loving and stable homelife.