John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 1-24-2008 The aC rroll News- Vol. 84, No. 11 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News- Vol. 84, No. 11" (2008). The Carroll News. 772. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/772 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]. 2008 Primaries See what’s happening as the race for the White House heats up. World News, p. 15 THE ARROLL EWS Thursday,C January 24, 2008 Serving John Carroll University Since N1925 Vol. 84, No. 11 Corbo gets modernized Max Flessner smaller renovations and refurbish- individual TV on each treadmill Campus Editor ments over break periods that stu- and most elliptical machines dents will notice and benefit from were purchased by the capital John Carroll University is see- right away,” said Vice President for budget. ing the need to have an immediate Student Affairs Patrick Rombalski. There were 12 individual TVs and positive impact on their stu- “The Corbo room is along that line added to treadmill’s and 7 TVs dents. One way that they did this of thinking - something relatively added to ellipticals. was renovating the Corbo/Cardio easy to do that benefits students in “I would say that the Univer- Fitness Center. a direct way,” he said. sity felt it [the Corbo Center] was The decision was made to invest The decision to make these im- an area that needed some work,” around $175,000 out of the Univer- provements was made at the vice said Sandra Howard, director of sity’s capital budget to making sig- presidential level and the Recre- recreation and intramurals. nificant improvements to the Corbo ation Department was not aware The items that the SAF money Center and to make the renovations of this until October when they had replaced were around 25 years old while the students were away on already began using some of their and were part of the recreation winter vacation. Student Activity Fund money to departments efforts to keep the The capital budget is the money upgrade the fitness room. fitness center up to date. They that is set aside once the operat- The new bars and plates for have been updating the cardio ing costs of the University are free weights were bought by the machines over the past several Photo by Max Flessner covered. SAF money. New carpet, paint, Junior Emily Krueger works out on a “The University is trying to do a large TV, new machines and an Please see CORBO, p. 3 treadmill while watching TV. CORBO ROOM: An individual TV on all treadmills and most ellipticals...New carpet, paint and weights... Rooming online Delaney takes office notification of an assigned date and Caitlin Huey-Burns Assistant Campus Editor time to approve a housing contract and choose their housing options. Story pg. 4 The Office of Residence Life Students under the age of 18 will implemented a new online system need to print the contract and mail it, for on-campus housing registra- with a co-signature to the Office of tion. Residence Life. Students will only Single room and be able to select their Substance-Free hous- dorm room and room- Please see ing will still be avail- mate using the online able. format, rather than editorial There has been through paper work as quite a bit of confu- has been done in the pg. 21 sion regarding the new past. system. Housing con- Online registration will not al- tracts will continue to be binding for low students to cluster, or to choose the entire academic year. a particular group of people with Housing Coordinator Marie Perri whom they wish to live, according was out of the office. Assistant Di- to several Resident Assistants. rector of Residence Life Kyle O’Dell Students will receive an e-mail declined to comment. Photo by Kate McCall Index Inside this issue of the CN Campus 2 Campus Arts & Life World News Sports Arts & Life 5 WJCU gets a new direc- How are the men’s and Features 12 Why has the writers strike Don’t miss what happened tor. Where exactly is the new created serious financial prob- in the world while you were women’s basketball teams do- World News 14 land that JCU purchased in the lems for the fashion industry? gone over break. Apple unveils ing? Don’t miss “Streaks of the Sports 18 University Heights area? CSS What’s in store for tonight’s the worlds thinnest laptop com- Week” and scoreboard. Check Editorial Op/Ed 21 has two new trucks, how’d they performance of Nuttin’ but puter. The abortion rate in the out the commentary on the Classifieds 24 pay for them? Station chief of Stringz? How is the new movie United States is the lowest in 30 Trinidad and Jones Jr. fight from Al-Jazeera visits JCU. p. 2 “Definitely, Maybe?” p. 5 years. p. 14 last Saturday night. p. 18 2 Campus January 24, 2008 www.wjcu.org/cn The Carroll News Journalists comes to JCU, discuss world media Natalie Terry employed many reporters involved Staff Reporter with Al-Jazeera English. Stebbins credited their switch to Americans are not paying enough Al-Jazeera with the station’s prom- attention to foreign news, or any ise of practicing journalism as free, news at all, according to Will Steb- controversial, and as a chance to bins, the Washington Bureau Chief return to the basics of journalism. of Al-Jazeera. The Arab news station is current- Stebbins spoke Tuesday after- ly available on TV in each country noon at John Carroll University located in the Middle East. alongside a group of professional In the U.S., broadcast of pro- journalists who discussed the cur- gramming is only found on televi- rent state of world media, par- sion in Toledo, Ohio and Burlington, ticularly media within the United Vermont. States. Stebbins said, “The only prob- JCU Communications and The- lems we face are here in the United atre Arts professor Richard Hen- States.” He commented that cov- drickson moderated the panel, erage from Al-Jazeera English is while Professor of Political Science available on live feed from their Pamela Mason introduced the panel Web site. and program. He compared the news station to the United States is geared toward Al-Jazeera English began in the BBC, which in his opinion never strategy of the candidates. 2006 and serves as the first 24-hour took off in the United States, similar Stebbins said, “Despite all of the English language news station to be to Al-Jazeera. attention paid to the election, we do headquartered in the Middle East. The news station, Stebbins said, not have any sense of what a Hillary The controversial location of is not on the radio because they Clinton or a Rudy Giuliani would Al-Jazeera does not come without rely on images to connect with their look like in office.” a price. audience. In agreement with White and Stebbins mentioned that the This is, in part, due to the chang- Stebbins views pertaining to the news station was at one time or an- ing role of the media in the lives of transformation of news media, other shut down by every country in Americans. Elizabeth Sullivan, columnist and the Middle East, except Israel. As Tim White, anchor of editorial writer for The Plain Dealer, He said that Al-Jazeera “threw WKYC-TV3, said, “Our business commented about the globalization open the doors and allowed all dis- is to harvest eyeballs and sell those of the media. senting opinions” to enter the news eyeballs.” Sullivan said, “Money is to be media. Stebbins agrees that the bottom made in the news business.” Photos taken by Robert Wietzlers Mona DeBaz, political science line is a motivating factor and since The Plain Dealer’s job, ex- Tim White (top, left) listens to Cynthia Dettelbach speak, while professor at JCU, commented on TV is by nature a very theatrical me- plained Sullivan, is to appeal to the American society. dium, it catches viewers’ attention. audience in Cleveland and that the Will Stebbins (below) discusses his role at Al-Jazeera. DeBaz said that Americans are Stebbins cautioned viewers to local newspaper in Cleveland is “not yet ready to start listening to find additional resources for a bet- trying to create more of a dialogue About Al-Jazeera news from the South,” meaning ter understanding of international with readers. events. Additional participants in the Americans are focused on stories - Al-Jazeera is an Arabic news station headquartered pertinent only to the United States. Al-Jazeera is one option to gain roundtable discussion were Fatina in Doha, Qatar. DeBaz challenged Americans this understanding. He said, “The Salaheddine, editor and publisher to look at international news as if it more opinion, the richer the under- of Al-Sahafa, Cleveland; Cynthia were their own local news. standing.” Dettelbach, editor, Cleveland Jew- - Al-Jazeera means “The Peninsula” in Arabic. Al- Jazeera English attempts to Stebbins challenged Americans ish News; and David Knox, reporter, break this mold with their mission to follow this method of news- Akron Beacon Journal. -Al- Jazeera credits itself as creating change within to serve the public. gathering while preparing for the The Cleveland Council on World the political and cultural spheres of the Middle East.