The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 9-4-1997 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1997-09-04 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1997-09-04" (1997). The Voice: 1991-2000. 173. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/173 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ,i " ' r : ; ' " ' ' . 7 . -- . , " " - Volume CXIV, Issue 1 America's Oldest Weekly College Newspaper Thursday, September 4, 1997 Hie Colleffe ofWddster begins its 128th year chal- - CARLYE BuRCHETt ening in this world of physical lenges. He asked if we have elimi-- The academic year began with nated jhechallenge, the passion to Convocation held in' McGaw fcjlow, by making it almost impo- Chapel on Tuesday. The ceremony ssible to fail,- - for understanding; began as the seniors, dressed in their -- knowledge, is human nature, butJs black robes, and the faculty .walked 'also hard work. That is the ques- into the chapel to the Processional tions and controversy Currently . Trumpet "tune by John Stanley. swirling around education.' Hales - said, "Wel&s'ter should be able' to live ft President,-- Manton Hales : r- up to the challenge. Independent ' r opened Qocatioaby introducing " meffireKspakerStudent Govern- - Study is the animating principle. The First-Vf- ar Seminar is an intro--. ; men Association President Pat yv. duction to the idea, critical to edu- - i watts n- Wags gave a speech entitled "The cation, that an argument is a-co- ? when Welcoming of Repetition." He be- frontation between two people the stakes matter." ' Photo by News Services gan by saying that for those students ' - T who had never seen a Convocation, Hales said that the metaphor of nothing would be out of the ordi- ', the hurricane came from a book by ; Halley, who was over-- . Mark Kiper nary," and that the school year now Phillip beginning wQuldtiiso be like that, ' whelmed by three people who made 1977-199- 7 nothing out of the ordinary. In cir- decisions to do good. The decisions Frencfi pro- cumstances like that, he said, it is included a village, that tected Jews during the Holocaust, a . AaropRupert "easy to lose the passion and drive that we once brought to this man who spend 40 years of his life Mark Kiper '00 was killed on the J saving ships ahdffounded the fore-- " Place" i -- morning of Monday,May27rro a He continued, saying that "itisc runner to the Coast Guard, and a ' Connecticut woman who risked her - - work-relate- d accident. Services our obligation to ensure thatpas- -' marriage td round a drug rehab cen- were held on the following Friday. sion, though not the passion that ''" native Wooster, he was born on a Saturday ter. A of students hope for I Hales concluded by saying that . on Oct. 21, 1977, to Charles and night, lives on, even in the face of i we all live in hurricanes, but that ' . Joan Kiper. He was a 1996 gradu- , repetition. - al- -- those- that ate of Triway High School, where Watts then spoke of a few "survival comes to in lives, but also he was valedictorian of his class, people who achieved great things low people them stories. What wtfl president of the National Honor So- because of passion. He spoke of - create their own he the as- ciety and a member of the Fellow- Wooster alumnus Arthur your story be?" asked ship Christian Athletes. He CoSnpton, who worked for 20 sembled audience, adding that of up the played basketball for The College years researching the molecular everyone's stories added to photo by David heisserer dwelling in ' of Wooster, as well as during high structure of the atom, and of Cae- KaukeArch before the beginning ofclasses. community's, story, all hurricane. He then school. During his high school ca--. who saw migrant the eye of the j. sar Chavez, year the reer he was named All League for workers suffering and within 13 That a liberal education according ered exciting to dive into a pool of convened the 128th of Vir- have the need ' two years. All District Team hit se- -. years created a nationally recog- to Mark Edison of University of water, humans now College. Vice-Preside- nt Af- nior year, and Academic All League nized labor union for them. ginia, "Harper's' magazine "serves to "bungee-jump-." of Academic was then in- for two years. Watts concluded by urging stu- as "light education for bored stu- Other examples of "pushing the fairs Barbara Hetrick en mun- academic an- He had been Daily Record-Te- dents to keep their passion, by any dents." envelope" ranged from the troduced juid made The announce- of the Month, as' well as the means, by "going to the library to Hales began his talk by reflecting dane, as in people's eating habits, nouncements. These on the human need to push the en- of Tabasco sauce, once considered ments included newly promoted - Beacon Journal Student of see the Nobel Prize donated to the "Akron from the Week. school by the Comptons, or by velope, to go to extremes, propos- the limit, now considered child's professors and retirements history has bet- play, and season, early Sep- the college faculty. Hetrick also He was working for the Ohio De- ' putting a picture of people labor- ing that no time in a the of had partment ofTransportation over the ing in a field on your dorm wall," ter claim to this attitude than our tember, which is prime hurricane welcomed back faculty that "hurri- among those summer and a member of Church helping to keep passion alongside own time. season. People chase these been on sabbatical, presi- the Savior. ritual. Examples of this range from the canes that promise total destruction back on campus was former of goal Copelarid. The cer- flowers, the family re- Hales then delivered a speech en- humorous to the profound: in sports, and brutal death ... the being dent Henry In lieu of prayer from quested donations be made to. the titled "In the Hurricane's Eye. In where the marathon, once thought to come as close to obliteration as emony ended with a campus Rev. Linda Morgan-- Triway High School Athletic De- this case, the hurricane is the meta- the limit of the human body, is now possible." minister partment, 3205 Shreve Road, phor for the controversy swirling just one part of the Ironman com- Hales ifhea-spo- ke of academic Clement and the students and to-b- e less- - Wooster 44691. around education in this country. petition; where once it was consid lenges, which seem faculty processing out.. V Items stored over the Ser- summer in SGA large . JJ Academic Computing storage can be picked up in vices is offering computer Holden parking lot from classes in Microsoft Word on the V Over fifty student organiza- V Senior Polly Hicks has won a VTudvBin.Bradley will . 12-- 4 p.m. this Saturday. recruiting new Morris C Udall Scholarship for open the 1997 fcffumries " - Monday, ClarisWorks on tions will be Tuesday and Library Research this friday at Scot the second time in two years. with a lecture on "Education for V Xi Chi Psi and the Red members Online on Wednesday of next m fipm 4:30-6:3- 0 p.m. Hicks is one 70 recipients of the 21st Century. Bradley, a . Spirit Day of 209 p.nJ Cross will be sponcering a the scholarship nationr; former U.S. senatpr-wi- H jpeak in week in Taylor Hall at 4 1- on the IwryPatio. The Scot $5,000 Tuesday from -7 blood drive Band will perform at 5 p.m. wide. McGaw begining at 7:30 p.m. p.m. in the Lowry Lounge. 7" 7 ThorWoqpr Page 2 oice ThursdaySeptember 4, 1997 Thornton and Hetrick assume positions New VPAA and Housing Directorfindfirst weeks busy Jamie Mapes National Two new staff members have been --A hearing is scheduled Tuesday regarding the mental condition of on campus since the middle of the Unabomb defendant Theodore Kaczynski and his possible use of an summer getting acclimated with the insanity defense. Kaczynski will not be in court, but his lawyers might campus and their new jobs. Matha indicate how large a part his mental condition will play at the trial. Thornton was appointed the new direc- Kaczynski faces trial Nov 12 on a 10 count federal indictment charging torofhousing last spring, while Barbara ' .4. anti-technolo- gy Jl him with four of the 16 bombings attributed to the ter- Hetrick became the vice president of rorist known as the Unabomber. The defense has indicated it plans to academic affairs on July 1. & introduce testimony relating to Kaczynski's mental state, but says re- Thornton-toO- tf over the position quiring him to undergo a mental examination would violate his fifth of housingdirector after former di- self-incriminati- on, - Betty ftea retired last spring. amendment constitutional right against t . rector Thorntonwjlf not only be the direc- -- department . The of Education has suspended accepting applications tor of housing, but will also be co- to refinance student loans because of a huge backlog. Officials acknowl- ordinating residential programs for edged the temporary procedure last Tuesday after House Republicans first-year- s, a new position for The publicized the move.