ALENDA LUX UBI ORTALIBERTAS "TheNation's " Foremost College Weekly Changing the way we live. Aphalanxat Patterson. Musical talent on display. Cameroncraziness. RLOcreatesoptions forhousing. Reynolds defendsthe frats. ChamberSingersimpress. Men'shoopslosesbigatDuke. Happy Thanksgmng | News 3 OPINIONS 5 A&L7 SPORTS 12 * Bill Giduz ♥Durwin Strlplin, Associate Professor of Chemistry,gives his two tablespoons of blood for the Project LifeBone Marrow Drive. 408 give blood for Project LifeBone Marrow Drive By LizNeiheisf.l pants. While this year'ssuccess was bonemarrowregistry. of this year's Project Life Committee, publicity chair Ginger Bond and Staff Writer undoubtedlyaresultofthesizablefresh- While manystudents cameout to headed by general chairperson Kate fundraistng chair Charles LeGrand. men class, an impressive number of support lovedonesand friendsplagued Stevens. "Ireally want tocommendthe Bond,ajunior whohas been involved The Project Life Bone Marrow upperclassmen who had never been by the ill-fated disease, the majority efforts of this year's committee," she with Project Life since her freshman Drive for the 1997-98 schoolyearcon- typedalso became involved. cameoutofasimpledesiretohelpthose said. "Itwasn't the workoffourorfive year,felt gratifiedby the resultsof the cludedWednesday witha final tallyof SeniorRyan Gist felttheimpetus inneed. "It'sagoodthing todoandit's people, but all 25 working in equal drive. Aspublicity chair.Bondplayed 408peopletyped. Thedrivetookplace to be typed after the father of a close easy," freshmanSarah Brautigensaid. amounts to educate and publicize on a leading role in advertising the drive in theMorrisonRoom of theUnionon friend was diagnosed with leukemia. "It could be anybody you know that campus and to raise money for the around campus, with a focus on the. Nov.19and20 from10:00 a.m.to3:00 "Ineverreally thoughtabout itinyears needsbonemarrow,"classmateMonica drive." freshmanhalls. p.m. eachday,allowingstaff,students, past,"Gist said. "(This situation)defi- Martinezadded. "Itwasreallyexcitingfor theCom- LeGrand, also a senior, worked and community members to partici- nitely madeit amore serious issue." All those typed wereeager to en- mitteetosee such agreat turnout,"said withT-shirt sales, letter-writingcam- pate. Classics Professor Peter Krentz, courage others to become involved. Meredith Benke. education chair for paigns, and variousother programsto This year's drive was the most whohastaughtatDavidsonfor 18 years, "Why not?" asked freshman Justin ProjectLife."The days ofthe driveare pool funds for this year's drive, sur- successful since the initial bone mar- cameout tobe typedafterhearing fel- Boner. "It takesfiveminutes topoten- really an experienceafter working so passingthenearly$15,000requiredfor rowdrivenearly eightyearsago,which low professor Susan Roberts speak tiallysave alife." hard. It's great to see how much has the driveby over$1,000. typed473people. It wasthe first drive about her own son's illness, and the The success ofthedrivewasdue, come together." in many years to exceeded400partici- need for constant growth within the innosmallpart,totheextensiveefforts Fellowcommitteeheadsincluded SeeProject Lifepage 3 Student,prospective treatedfor 'excessiveconsumption' ofalcohol By Sarah Ogden was scious. direct responsibility the episode. cess,"Boyle we DeanofStudentsLeslieMarsicano ' for said."Wethink handled News Editor notified, the policereportsaid. The prospectivewastaken toUni- "Ithinkit s aproblem,"saidBoyle, Risk Managing very well." The other episode of dangerous versity Hospital as well, and baseball "butit'smoreofaproblem withthekid PattersonCourt AdvisorandResi- Two incidentsof dangerous alco- consumption involved a 17-year-old coaches Dick Cooke andBrett Boretti and his host."not thehouse, although dence Life Coordinator Jim Barber hol ingestion werereportedtwoSatur- baseballrecruit who was visiting the werecalled. Boretti went to the hospi- "there is someregret"by PhiDelt. days ago. College." The prospective was found tal, whileCookecontactedtherecruit's "We wererelievedto findhe was SeeAlcohol page 3 OneDavidsonCollege studentwas "really intoxicated" in Irwin dorm at father. okay."Boyle continued. found"intoxicatedandunconscious"in 1:48 a.m. the same night, saidCampus "ThePhiDeltparty wasshutdown "I think we were on top of it." Richardson dorm at 12:39 a.m. after PoliceLieutenant DavidE. McLaurin. anhour early becauseof thisincident." Boyle said, pointing out thatmembers INDEX consuming alcohol at an unknown lo- The recruit, said McLaurin, had thepolicereport said. of the house helped take care of the cation, according toa Nov. 16 police been drinking bothliquor andbeer. McLaurin asked that names and recruit. "We (atPhi Delt) have been EDITORIAL 4 reportby CampusPoliceSergeantDave According to McLaurin's report, identifying characteristics ofthose in- very vigilant" observing alcoholregu- LETTERS 4 Harding. the prospective consumed alcohol at volvedintheincidentsnot be released. lations,especially becauseoftherecent OP-ED 5 The student was transported by the Air Band party at PhiDeltaTheta PhiDeltPresidentEllisBoylesaid casesof alcoholpoisoning at otherna- ambulance to Charlotte's University (better known as Phi Delt), leading to that hehas askedother Phi Deltmem- tional fraternities,hecontinued."That's ARTS & LIVING 7 Hospital,withthestudent'sHallCoun- the state of intoxication. The recruit bersabout thebaseball recruitand has not whatwe'reabout." SPORTS 12 selors following medics. Associate then returnedto Irwin and felluncon- foundthat the fraternityhouse bearsno "We think Air Band was a sue- FirstClass Mail 4 U.S. PostagePaid 'it's not Court-related. Ithink the Court gets a bad rap. Permit #7 Davidson HealthEducator GeorgiaRingleon recentincidents of alcohol poisoning Davidson.NC 28036 MONDAY, 24, 2 THEDAVIDSONIAN News NOVEMBER 1997 Liberianpoliticalprisoner speaks AmnestyInternational sponsors lecture By JessicaGoodson stageda peacefuldemonstrationchal- (prison). They were asking what the News Editor lenging the high cost ofrice, thestaple conditionswere, whowasstill alive." of Liberia.Tolbertdispatchedsoldiers But he also criticizedthe United Approximately30peopleattended who openedfire onthe demonstrators, Nations for not effecting justice as alecture Wednesday featuringWaylee killing 40 of George'scolleagues! readily as Non-GovernmentalOrgani- George of Liberia. His speech was In 1980, native Liberian (and zationssuchas AmnestyInternational. sponsoredbyAmnestyInternationaland member of the minority Krahn tribe) According toGeorge,the UnitedNa- hingedonhis experienceas apolitical SamuelK.Doeledacouptooverthrow tions heeds to improve in threeareas: N O T E S prisonerinhis nativecountry. the American-descended President, the enactment ofhuman rights policy, George relatedgraphic personal imposingmartiallaw.Doewasnomore earnest andcommittedenforcementof accounts ofthe atrocitiescommittedin humanethanTolberthadbeen,system- suchpolicies,andexertingpoliticalpres- Outpost delivery going well Liberiaduringthe 1980s under thead- aticallykillinghis opposition.Between sure on foreign governments that op- ministration of William Tolbert and 1980 and1985,Doe slaughteredmany press their citizens. "Foster Haselden, chair of the Student Advisory Committee to Auxiliary SamuelDoe. "rebels"fromTolbert'sadministration. Too often, he said, big govern- Services,reported that the Outpost delivery system has proveda successful William R. Tolbert ascended to In 1985, a new constitution re- mentsmakeaprofit sellingweaponsto endeavor,makingapproximately15 deliveriesanhour. thePresidency in 1971, following the stored civilianelections,butDoe falsi- rulers whooppress theirpeople.If they He alsoreportedthatallstudents willreceivenewCat cards withone strip deathofWilliamTubman shortly after fiedthe resultsofthe election, thereby have no weapons,theyhave nomeans andahologramphotographstartingin the fallsemester1998. Campusvending his election to a seventhterm aspresi- remaining inpower. ofactingontheir threats. machines will be Cat card-accessibleat thattime. dent. Duringhis regime, the Progres- Georgebecameamarkedmanfor "They should send weapons of sive Alliance of Liberia (PAL) was refusing to vote because, he said, he constructionlikebooks, andnot weap- Life, "Meredith Judy,Chair ofthe StudentAdvisory CommitteetoResidence formed, apoliticalpartywhichstrove to knewit wasrigged. ons of destructionlike guns,"he said. saidthat the lottery willoccurearlierthisyearthanin the pastin order tobetter bridge the gap between Americo- InNovember1985. anothercoup George is now a teacher at the accommodate students who are not granted first-choice housing. These Liberian (freedmen from the United attempt was staged to lure dissidents Friends School in Atlanta. He travels students willnow be immediately eligibleforoff-campushousing. RLOisalso States) and"Country People"(aborigi- intopublicly decrying Doe. Noncon- around to support Amnesty groups as workingon thepossibility of theme housing in Akers.Knox.andIrwin. nal Liberians). formists weretakenprisoners,stripped, living testimony to theireffectiveness. Americo-Liberians and their de- beaten,andoftenmurdered. If it were Georgesaid he will go back toLiberia "President BusterBurk and Vice President AnnHarriotFisherupdated the scendantshad imposedakindofapart- not for pressure from—theinternational someday, despite his negativeexperi- SGA on theworksofthePrioritiesPlanning Committee, whichinstitutes long- heid on indigenous tribes, generating