MUShare The Carbon Campus Newspaper Collection 4-5-1993 The Carbon (April 5, 1993) Marian University - Indianapolis Follow this and additional works at: https://mushare.marian.edu/crbn Recommended Citation Marian University - Indianapolis, "The Carbon (April 5, 1993)" (1993). The Carbon. 67. https://mushare.marian.edu/crbn/67 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus Newspaper Collection at MUShare. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Carbon by an authorized administrator of MUShare. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE CARBON A Student Publication with a Sports Page April 5, 1993 ·They writhe upon the page in a veritable rage of adversity• - L. Ferlinghetti Theatre Department Sees Russia ST. PETERSBURG. CITY OF THE so goods and services were very Cz.ars and the sight of revolutionary CZARS inexpensive. internment. March 6-13. 1993 Out of only 43 reported days of sunshine Five members of the group opted to take St. Petersburg, City of the Cz.ars a year which the city is supposedly to the overnight Moscow trip and welcomed twenty-one alumni, friends, receive, we were given five swmy days. experienced history in the making. They students, and faculty for five swmy days The temperatures hovered around the were present on Red Square when the of theatre, sight-seeing, and shopping freezing mark, but with layered clothing, Communist Party demonstrated for the during the Spring Semester break of 1993 the warm Russian hospitality of our guide ouster of President Yeltsin. However, sponsored by the Theatre Department of and driver, and the excellent heating of their tour of the Armory, St. Basil's Marian College. the palaces, churches, and musewns Cathedral, and other points in the city A trip to Paris, City of Romance and visited, it was a comfortable trip. were, for them, overwhelming. Light is scheduled for Spring Break, The horror stories about the food in The rest of the group toured the Peterhof 1994. For further infonnation one should Russia was not experienced by the group. Swnmer Palace outside St. Petersburg on contract Dr. Jack Sederholm of the Each morning and noon fine breakfasts Friday and reported that this palace was a Marian College Theatre Department. and dinners were served. The Russians '' Ii ved in'' palace and not a made-over Among the top theatre productions seen like to take their time at meals so that musewn and the furniture and on the trip was an evening at the St. each noon dinner was at least ti ve courses appointments of the palace were Petersburg Circus, oldest in Russia, an long. Each meal consisted of an spectacular beyond words. evening at the Marinski Theatre to see the appetizer, soup, entre, coffee, and dessert. A special treat was given the group on Kirov Ballet company perfonn At the hotel there was a hard currency the way over when Finnair, our package GIESELL, and an evening at the Marty store available to buy snacks, and the tour guides, gave us a half-day tour of Theatre to see the opera EUGENIE hotel was equipped with three coffee Helsinki, Finland during a layover there. ORNEGIN with story by Alexander shops, and a restaurant for other meals. A special spot in our minds is connected Pushkin and music by P. Tsaikowski. Upon arrival in St. Petersburg the group with Helsinki on the return for it was Those who went on the overnight trip to was treated to a tour of the City. That there where we also laid over in a first­ Moscow also saw a ballet by the Balsoi afternoon a trip to Pushkin Village was class hotel at airline expense waiting for Theatre company. planned to see the swnmer palace of the the stonn on the East Coast of the U.S. to Participants found that the American Cz.ar. clear. dollar went far in purchasing major The second day was taken up with the All on the tour agreed that the people souvenir items. Maruschka dolls, fur Hennitage Musewn and the Russian were polite and friendly, the sights were hats, books, amber jewelry, and other western art collection. Nine rooms were spectacular and enlightening, and the items too numerous to mention were only devoted to French Impressionist alone. shopping and theatre the best anywhere. a part of the "shop until you drop" On the following days were tours of the Respectfully Submitted, atmosphere which prevailed during the Russian Museum where Russian art was Dr. Jack Sederholm, Chair trip. The Russian economy is on display, and a tour of the Peter and experiencing a high rate of inflation and Paul Fortress, the burial place of the Thursday, April 8: Be Prepared! At 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 8, Procedures to be followed on Thursday, the all-clear. 1993 Marian College will participate in a &2rill: 4. Designated "building coordinators" tornado preparedness exercise. This is 1. 10:00 AM - an air horn will sound (a will check the shelter area in their part of a series of exercises which are loud constant tone) in or near your building to provide assistance or give designed to test the various emergency building to announce the beginning of the further instructions if needed. communications and public warning drill. 5. 10:05 AM (approximate) - an air horn systems throughout Indiana. All Marion 2. Proceed immediately to your will sound the "all clear" by means of County public safety and hwnan services designated shelter area short, alternating tones. Return to agencies have been encouraged to (shelter location are posted in each normal activities. conduct tornado preparedness exercises campus building). this spring. 3. Stay in your shelter area until you hear page 2 Women's Colleges: In the Spotlight in the 1990s By Karen Neustadt discussion of the backlash against since the mid-, 80s.,, College Press Service feminism, and a growing realization that While 2 percent of today's female The Year of the Woman was also the sexism is still a major stumbling block in college students are attending women's year of women• s colleges. today's society. colleges, more than 24 percent of women A resurgence of interest in all-female ''Co-education was the great hope for who are members of Congress, who sit on colleges and universities brought a flood women,,, Sebrechts said. But through the corporate boards or who pursue a Ph.D. in of applications to admissions offices at years, Sebrechts noted, a small group of math or science have attended women's some of the elite schools in the United women remained loyal to women, s colleges, Rogers said. States in 1992. colleges, and continued to believe in the At Barnard College in New York City, "There has been an increase of advantages of an all-female student body. spokeswoman Beverly Solochek reported applications at 85 percent of our schools Sebrechts noted that by 1986, the ''great applications were up 17.5 percent this between 1990 and the present, averaging hope had tarnished'' the tides had turned, year, on top of a 21 percent increase last around 8 percent, but going as high as 60 and the first increase in applications at year. percent,,' said Jadwiga Sebrechts, women's schools in decades was ''Our recruitment office is working very executive director of the Washington­ reported. hard and creatively,'' Solochek said. based Coalitions for Women's Colleges. Why? Sebrechts points to the success of ''Being a woman's college in a year The nation's 84 all-women colleges graduates. when women, s issues are in the limelight include such institutions as Wellesley, ''Women's college graduates continued may have also helped- but that in itself Barnard and Smith colleges. In the mid­ to be disproportionately successful," she would not be the only reason.". ' 80s, the Women's College Coalition, said. ''The women you found in heavily Smith College at Northampton, Mass., which consists of 63 women's colleges, male dominated fields were women, s reported a l Opercent increase in new was fonned by the presidents of the college graduates. Virtually all women applications this year on top of a 24 schools to strengthen the voice of scientists of note are from women's percent increase last year. Applications women's schools. schools.'' from African-American women rose 24 Some admissions officials credit the "We're thrilled. Applications are up 21 percent. increase in applications to the '' Hillary percent," said Nancy Gillece, admissions "Women's colleges do better exposing factor,'' pointing to the famous Wellesley director at Hood College in Frederick, • women to women mentors, and teaching College graduate residing in the White Md. Gillece, who believes that women women how to take leadership House. have a different learning style than men, positions,'' said Stacy Schmeidel, But all-female colleges also have said they do better academically when director of media relations at Smith. become more attractive to young women competing with women. ''You don't just read books by great as a result of other factors, such as the ''We've had more media attention to the male authors, but books by women,'' she Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, a resurgence because of interesting and said. ''I think one thing that has really focus on the elections of 1992, touted as exceptional individuals who are in front helped has been the AAUW study that the Year of the Woman, a American of the camera," she said. "But women's showed the amount of gender bias in the Association of University Women study colleges have been enjoying the revival educational system." blasting gender bias in U.S.