Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper Newspapers 1-25-2000 The Grizzly, January 25, 2000 Stephanie Restine Ursinus College Dan Reimold Ursinus College Emily Callaghan Ursinus College Brian Berg Ursinus College Kevin Wilson Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Restine, Stephanie; Reimold, Dan; Callaghan, Emily; Berg, Brian; Wilson, Kevin; Heil, Jennifer; Hoke, Erny; Gurk, Heather W.; Church, Jeff; Johnson, Diane; Shaughnessy, Fran; Braiterman, Cory; and Killeen, Sean, "The Grizzly, January 25, 2000" (2000). 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THE GRIZZLY --5£r Jamed ::Dewar Volume XXIV Number I The Student Newspaper of llrsinus College January 25, 2000 - Bear Country Blanketed by Snow em United States, leaving in its roadways slick and unsafe on Dan Reimold wake many frazzled motorists, Friday morning, creating un­ News Editor countless scores ofexcited school wanted headaches for faculty and children, and the first significant commuting students, forcing the Winter Storm "Amanda" snowfall ofthe winter season. cancellation and delay of many wreaked havoc on Collegeville, Accumulated snowfall at scheduled classes. Pa and Ursinus College this Ursinus totaled over three inches "Amanda" began in the upper past Thursday, Jan. 20, turn­ in certain spots on campus. Be­ Midwest on Wednesday , Jan. 19, ing Bear Country into a veri­ ginning in the early morning before it stormed over the Appa- table snow-man's land with a hours, the steady stream of snow 1achians and then shot up the blustery mix of snow, slush continued without interruption coast. Minnesota was hit with a and ice. throughout the day, before fi­ thick, white coating measured at Amanda claimed responsi­ nally tapering off and ending nine inches high and West Vir­ bility for numerous car wrecks, sometime after dark. Ice, caused ginia was struck with over eight Winter Storm Amanda took direct aim on Ursinus College this past school closings, and flight de­ by frigid nighttime temperatures inches. Thursday, dropping over 3" of snow. SraffPhoro blj Dan Xelmold lays throughout the northeast- dropping into the teens, left area Continued on page 2 Bigger, Better UC Beginning in the Year ... Fatal Seton Hall Fire Burns in Heart of Nation Emily Callaghan ever, a sudden phone call hours Dan Reimold before hernine am wake-up shat­ Staff Writer tered her dreams and her set News Editor routine and instead alerted her As the world embraces the A Seton Hall Univer- to a terrifying tragedy that had onset of a new millennium, we rum an Slty fresh­ played out across campus in the asacollege community are pre­ welcome man in her r:::===================::::::-- ear 1 y paring for several changes and input second se­ "It was panic. mornIng are anxiously anticipating the garding the possibility of mester, se\f­ h 0 u r s new experiences that the Everybody was just, ing the arts at Ursinus, incl described while she Ursinus College of the twenty­ 'Go! Go! Go!'" had house, the Ursinus rumor mill theater, studio art, dance, "crazy Irish first century promises to offer. soundly has been grinding away and is perhaps art history and music, Catholic" Walking to class in the bitter ---Seton Hall Student Nicole slept. swarming with ideas for further well. Mar y cold, many students pass by McFarlane Boland additions. Although no concrete Woolley lIelferich Hall, keeping them­ Hall, a plans have been confirmed as of was expect- selves warm with images of predominantly freshman dormi­ yet, we at the Grizzly have un­ the realization ofa growing ing business as usual on Wednes­ breaking a sweat in the brand­ tory located on the right side of covered just a few of the many "As students here have said day Jan. 19. She planned to new weight and cardiovascular the South Orange, NJ campus changes students can expect to and over for the past five attend her two morning lectures, rooms or on the 200-meter in­ had been the site of a tragic fire see at Ursinus in future years. they would like more art eat lunch with friends and study door track, all part of the new responsible for three deaths and The first ofthese changes may theater on campus," he said. " late into the night to get caught up P]oyd Lewis Bakes Field House, 62 injuries, six of them in criti­ come in the form of a new Com­ the committee is looking at on all class assignments. It was Whose construction is now vis­ cal condition. "I re- munications and Theater Studies richer programs might look 11 a weekday routine she had long ,.lywell underway. Building. This past fall, the arts before grown accustomed. How- Continued on page 2 OPINIONS A&E SPORTS NEWS FEATlJRES UC Student Named Local Weather Rape Speaker on Revolution in Church on Film: to National Field Forecast UC Campus Russia Top Ten of1999 Hockey Squad Page 12 Page 4 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 p NEWS January 25, 2000 Tragic Seton Hall THE Fire Leaves 3 Dead, GRJIZZJLY 62 Injured Continued from Front Page FRANCEEN member looking out my window,dazed SHAUGHNESSY and half-asleep, at this gigantic, surreal and scene," Woolley said. "There were fIre STEPHANIE RESTINE engines and police cars everywhere. People Winter Storm Blankets Bear Country Editors-in-Chief were huddled together near Boland, ev­ eryone was milling around, watching, "Amanda" has already been held ac­ DR. LYNNE EDWARDS waiting. And then we heard that students countable for three traffIc deaths in Iowa Stateofthe State Address, planned by and a 37 year old Michigan woman was Faculty Advisor had been killed." Early reports indicated the fIre had been ""lV":! '"'' Thomas Carper, was canceled killed early Thursday after she lost con. sparked by a lit cigarette thrown aside due to heavy snowfall and trol of her vehicle and collided with a DANREIMOLD carelessly in a third floor lounge on the were closed throughout Virginia, truck on a road littered with sl ushand ice. News Editor north side of the dorm. Other reports Carolina and Maryland because of Even as Ursinus College and the rest of surfaced targeting faulty electrical wiring storm. the northeastern United States tin ally ERNYHOKE as the catalyst for the inferno. After The nation's capital was hit hard as breathes a collecti ve sigh of relief at the Features and Photography further investigation, authorities are now II. Over one-third ofall flights leaving cessation ofwinter storm "Amanda," reo of the city's major airports were can­ ports of more snowfall have surfaced, Editor beginning to suspect the fIre may not have been accidental in nature and are not ed. District of Columbia public school with the first major accumulation pre· ruling out arson as a possible cause for the were presented with a snow-day dicted to arrive as early as the mIddle of CHRIS COCCA blaze. all non-essential federal government this week. Opinion Editor In respect to the fire's inception Essex were told to not report to work. County Prosecutor Donald Campolo re­ JEFF CHURCH mains tightlipped, commenting only, "It Firefighters assisted many fleeing fresh­ like him, friendly, always smiling and A&EEditor will be a painstaking investigation." man and saved countless lives, unfortu­ very easy to get to know." After it was sparked, the blaze spread nately arriving too late to come to the aid Classes were canceled for the remainder of three male victims. Two of the de­ oflast week and into this week, as school DIANE JOHNSON quickly. The building is not equipped with a sprinkler system and a plethora of ceased students were found lying in the offIcials investigated the matter further Sports Editors prank fire alarms pulled during fInals lounge and the third, John Giunta, was and tried to bring some sort of closure to week in fall semester caused many stu­ discovered in a nearby dorm room. John, the incident. But that will be a nearly LAUREN FLANAGAN dents to react slowly as the first fire beils a freshman education major from Vineland, impossible task, as the tragedy remains HEA THER GURK began to so"und. NJ, was a popular and well-liked addition fresh and much too vivid in the minds of Advertising Managers Then, as reality struck with the appear­ to the 10, OOO-student Roman Catholic many Seton Hall students. ance of smoke and spreading flames, stu­ university,locatedonlyfifteenmilessouth­ "I'm still in shock. Everyone is still In west of New York City. shock," Woolley said. "It all feels likea JENNIFER BRENNAN dents fled to safety down stairwells and through dorm-room windows. Woolley remembers him as outgoing very bad dream. And it's a dream I know LAUREN CYRSKY "It was panic," student Nicole McFarlane and always hard-working.