Bryant University's campus newspaper since 1946 Volume 72, Issue 10 November 19 2004 Tonight's big premier of 121 in MAC By Ti ·tina Anlal helped name the and different genre" of than in past years. We are also annual . he mu ie. FOT this year's 4th trying Lo bring more e citem nL StaffWriter how. hart;s lhal the annual show. tbe theme j, this year People are very upbeat This year' 121 event is show' purpo. e I "Our World ofWond rs: ' and wiJ I bring an exciting new the InrernatlOnal luden! to help people sec The how will began with /lavor to ill that we 've n ver had Organization'.. biggest event of "eye to eye:' by the United Stales and con­ before." the faJl 'cmester, as well al the sharing imiIar tinue to take its autlit;nce The egmcnt Jeade :, finule to Bryant University' perspectives through Vietnam, such a' Taharu James With the International ducation Week. regardles~ of Columbia, Portugal. Italy, Caribbean segment. hay!: worked vcr 600 peopl are expected to where people are pam, Tbe Caribbean, endless haul', putting together attend 121 in the MAC Lhi from. 121 is also a India. Western Africa. and thell parts of the show. They Priday at 8 p.m. stimulatmg nux­ Brazil. even tarted pIanning their ego The e.·pectations are ture of traditional Will DeMell. ment ru early as the summer. high, bur !.he almo phere is ure dre from vari­ Public Relations Chair for Many of the sections 10 create an excitulg how. Jenny ous cultures. the ISO, says the " cg­ Tam , a senior ISO m mber. beautiful dances, Students culturally dancing for last years 121 ments are more innovative Cont'd to page 5 performance. Bryant's Picture of the week Acutal names for the residence halls By Emilie Lavoie the named hall ' were so honorable to Staff Writer rc eive such recognition. hould there be something actually making that recogni­ Hav you ever visited other cam­ tion known? Why is It that lhe e building pu 'es and noticed the difference between names arc not actually used? ls it better to their Ie ident halls and Bryan!' ? Mo. t call th rt:!'iidence ball -imply by the olher school have narue, for the bUlld­ numbers they are currently referred to or illgs, not JU t numbers. Although everyone would it be a belter idea lo eaU these refer lo resIdent hall 00 cam­ pus by their ioruvuiual num­ bers. a little kno\\'ll fact IS the. e building. do actually have names. -tablih cd names can be locatcu III some of the VII. lage balls. The plaques bearing the dedication: ar located inSide the mum entrance of each halJ. III HaJJ 15. a plaque i noticeabl Immediately In Ide the entrance. The plaqm.' slales Photo by Meghan Hanlon the ground breaking date for Photo by Ry811 Stranz the buildmg, along with the Plaque representing the real name for Hall 15. A student tests The Human Race Machine presented by Senate, SPB, day ofth building's d dica­ and ICC. The Race machine was located in the Rotunda during tion, (he name of the president of the col· bUildings by name originaUy dedicated lege at the time, the committee for the to them? International Education Week. Some of the things the machine building, and th.e architectural taff. As Wllen asked aboUl changing the allowed students to change was their age or see what their kids might weU as Hall 15, Hall 14 has a similar halJ names from nWllbers 10 names, AJ look like. plaque inside the entrance to the building. Mahar. a freshman said, "The donns are With this infomlation, many questions may arise: If the dedicatees of Cont'd to page 4 FRI SAT SUN Bryan Sergeant's survival guide Read abollt Bryant Volleyball People speak out against manu­ for the Thanksgiving weekend being named Divisio Champs factured pop culture. Is there Frnd out student's suggestions and this week's Top Dog . HOPE for America') on pOSSible additions 10 the Plus. check out your new Bryant Bryant Campus. Horoscope! The Archway Nafona News Page 2 Ret rning soldiers struggle to adjust to norma lives n cam u s B,· amer Madhani 131 11 . weapons of mass de ·trucllon and ince r turning to cam· unimpurtunt cili 0 Tnnunl! 111' ollicers can help we haveJl'1 found links betv,een pu last pri nA , Asche, who o cr th UJ11111 'r. (KR7i them str. ightcn lui thdr b~ne- I-Qaida and Lraq." sened south of Baghdad. l11ilJ. Rhodes omplcted £II 'er fits but universities have no one teve Asche. 24 . another stud nt 'Ith the IIUn I ationaJ Candidates . ch 11 at Quanti\,:o. l\ Ill!! 011 the hood of de 'igllatcd t ht:lp the oldiers at Illinois and a veterall 0 the Guard's 333rd l\ltltlary Police s.. and as s on he graduates, tlle Hum ee he used a hi bed \lith the transition from battle· Iraq war. echoes man) of the unit said al limes he has be 'n he will go on active dut) as a for much or the ...at, Brandon tield to classroom. criticisms rom war opponems consumed b) fer.:iillgs ofbltter- s C m.llieutenanl. He i taking Nordhoff would put on his ear­ Ithough the Iraq war on his campus _ the a [T n mi- ness and frustration . Arabic. Hebrew and panish this phones. tum up the volume on has not generated the unrest on I cost to fight. the loss of bout three montlb semester because he Ulinks th his Discman to drown uut battle­ campuses the Vietnam War m~rican and Iraqi lives and after arrivlllg in Iraq, Asche was languages might cume in handy field n ises. and imagine him c!lf brought in the I960s and what he sees as questi nable badly burned in an e.xplo i n. in future military operaLi n . at a party back on the IndIana I 970s, divided opinion n " Du ing a chIL~e 01 an Iraqi Be ore headmg to Iraq. Uni\crsit. campus, the currem conflict is --------------- vehicle that raced through b.: was an lInderachi<.:ving ~tll­ Atrer one such dr<.:am, ob\ ious. me returning "Going to war changes a U.. checkpoint. a Humvee dent sc.raping by with a 2 0 Nordhoff detwnined when he soldIers omplain their you,...1 feel 200 percent dif- crashed into thl! one Asche grade-point average who spent retumed to campus, he would clas mal s and professors was riding in. He pent se er­ mor time at the campus bars pledge a fraternity and make up often have J shallow view fereDt than the people in 31 day in I) drug-induced than III the library ince coming for th social liIe he 10 t while of the war and thev do not Bloomington and a lot of the kids coma alter being airlifted to a baok to chool. he has regim nt­ deplo. ed, ub bis Indianapolis­ show enough support for military hospItal in Germany. ed his lifestyle and dramatically b~ed Marine reserve unil the [TOOps . at the unh'ersity. It AI 6~foot-4 with a foot­ raised. hi grdde He has mad up for I st "Jnevilably in ball player build, Asche Rhodes has shut him­ time \\-ith hi social life. but for classes, you have these kitls looks the piclur of health self off from campus life m part. Nordho and man} oCthe thou­ Yo ho criticize the war and and youth. But his hand! • he said, beeause most of his sand of Iraq war veteran5, the criticize the president and - the corporal. a junior from " repaired by skin graft!>. are civilian classmates would not tran iti n from war zone to cam­ d n'l know what they're Tal"- Kirksville Ind. as wrin"led and [eatherv understand things about hi war pus has not gone smoothly. r ley ing about." said CpJ Daniel as an elderly man's. experience. and they would slum acknowledge they struggle to Rhodes, a Marine reservist "I just want to be over him if he tried to explain. mend war wounds, mental and from La Orange. III ., IIntl a WITh iI," the romer sergeant said While Rhodes said the phy ieal. while trying 10 readjust senior in political sCience at ule planlling by the ar hit ct ofthe f coile!! . war experience helped him to the reLative trivia Ii or life as Uni er:;it} ofTliinois In war. Still. it angers him when he -Barry Romo. national mature, NordhoIT said his lime a stuu~nt. Champaign. "I wanlto say to sees classmales make s\'.eeping oordinator for VieLnam Veterans in Iraq made;: him long for As Ihe olde t pledge in them. 'Do you real ize [hat you'r criticisms of the war, which he Against {he War. recalled per­ Bloomington's parties and bar this year's AeacIB fraternity sitting bere in a classroom, liv­ said belittle the sacrifice he and haps the most turbulent. emo­ scene. In phone calls and e-mail, class. NordhoU: 21 . often feel ing freely. because we're willing other soldIers made. tlollal tim in his life was when hi' friends on campus asked him '. awkward. Partying wh.i[e many to fio-hl"'" Earlier this seme tel', he returned to campus in San whether he;: was safe and how he of his Marine budd Ie are still in '" Other veterans have the student newspaper published Bernardino, Calif., after servlllg was coping He repli d with Iraq now seems frivolous, And returned ( campus Yo iUI doubts twO stories on its front page in Viemam in the late I 960s.