WHAT s INSIDE: PENGUIN STAR PAGE 6 Eddie Money performs live SPORTS . PAGE 9 Swimming and diving fall to Cleveland SPECIAL HOLIDAY ISSUE Volume 81, No. 19 Youngstown State University • Youngstown, Ohio: Thursday, December 3,1998 Aquatic competition mm H Reservations should be made before the show. lisii Mm CINDY MILLER PHI Assistant News Editor It's fun for all ages. Ward Beecher's second annual Holiday Lights show is scheduled for 8 p.m. Dec. 11 and 18 and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec. 12 and 19 at the plan• etarium. Sharon Shanks, planetarium lecturer, said, "The show is a col• lection of things for the holiday season. We've included all holi• days, not just Christmas. The show will explore the reasons for the Holiday A r+xttimamarmtr* I_IIS*UI CHADE. HOLDEN, THEJAMBAR Continued on page 2 A SWIMMER S HIGH: Alaina Kiipatrick, junior, undecided, competes against Cleveland State University in the 400-yard individual medley Tuesday in Beeghly Center's Natatorium. • - Development office runs a tight ship • One mistake could cost the university its YSU is among 19 universities to receive certification. tax exempt status. for accounting and convenience ecutive director of athletics, said prised of faculty, alumni, admin• ANGELA GIANOGUO CINDY MILLER purposes. the university conducted a self- istrators and staff. One person on Managing Editor Assistant News Editor "We are the accounting arm for study that examined these four ar• each committee was from athlet• An on-campus complaint about the university. Anything that sup• After nearly 3 years of coopera• eas and made recommendations ics. The committee sent its find• the accounting procedures of ports the university has to go tive effort between the YSU ath• for improvement. ings to a peer review team for fur• YSU's Development office through our central status," Staib letic department ^^^^1 ther recom• prompted an investigation into the said. and other faculty mendation. inner workings of the office, which She said record keeping would members, YSU YSU's self- 64 The certification process helped us get revealed the complaint to be no be impossible if every department athletic programs study, along more than a misunderstanding of on campus had its own account• have received better organized, formalize policies with the peer the Development office's proce• ing and records system. One mis• NCAA certifica• review were and procedures and closely examine dures. take could cost the university its tion. sent to a na• After becoming "disenchanted" tax exempt status. YSU was the way we operate the athletic tional certifi• with the university and the Devel• If someone makes a $100 do• among 19 uni• cation com• program. Pauline Saternow opment office, Virginia Phillips, nation to a specific scholarship versities that re• mittee that ul• computer science and information fund, the money goes through the ceived certifica• Associate Executive Director of Athletics timately de- systems, said she believed the of• Development office where a file is tion. This status «----«" cided in favor fice was skewing numbers to cre• made, the contribution is photo• validates the athletic program's President Leslie Cochran ap• of YSU certification. ate the appearance of a larger fund. copied and the records are updated. academic and financial integrity, pointed a steering committee to She said, "More than 300 divi- After receiving a thank-you Then the money is sent to either its compliance to NCAA regula• oversee the process. Four subcom• note from the Development office the financial aid department of the tions and dedication to equity and mittees were formed. About 50 for a contribution made to a spe• YSU Foundation, depending on student welfare. people were involved in the pro• NCAA cific scholarship fund, Phillips said where the scholarship is located. Pauline Saternow, associate ex- cess. The committees were com• Continued on page 3 she would never contribute again. Vern Snyder, vice president of YSU's annual fund is com• development and community af• Santa' hosts 23rd annual YSU Holiday Breakfast prised of all moneys coming into fairs, said "Credibility is critical. •The price per person is $6.25, and reservations are required. the university for scholarships, en• Every gift has a file, copies are tor and K.J. Satrum, executive di• dowments or general contribu• made of everything. If someone SABRINA SCHROEDER out the year. It soon turned into a rector, have the plans for this year's tions. gives cash, copies are made of the Assistant News Editor university, event, with all depart• holiday breakfast in full swing and ments on campus sending reserva• After being approved and ac• dollar bills." Holidays are a festive time hope to surpass the 700 people who tion requests to the planning com• cepted by the Board of Trustees He also said precaution is taken wherever you go, and members attended last year's event. mittee. and going through filing and re• in the deposit procedure. of the Kilcawley Center Student "It is a festive, social event for "The breakfast developed into cording procedures- in the devel• "The person that counts the Services staff are bringing the everyone," Sperlazza said. the departments coming together opment office, the money is dis• money is not the one who depos• festivities to campus for the 23rd The breakfast was first held in to say thank you and to enjoy persed to its designated depart• its it. It is a separation of duties," year. The event will take place 8 1975 as a way for staff members themselves," Satrum said. ment, office or college. he said. "[The money] goes and 8:15 a.m. Dec. 35 and 16 in of Kilcawley Center to come to• Cheryl Staib, director of the through here because it has to. The Kilcawiey's Chestnut Room. gether to say thank you for all the Breakfast annual fund, said all money has to interest is with the donor and the Bill Spcrlazza, associate direc• work that had been done through• Continued on page 2 go through the Development office university." The Jambar Thursday, December 3,1998 Furby captivates the Hanukkah adds to holiday season The Jewish holiday, which lasts eight days, begins on Dec. 14. minds of children and More than 100 years later, one . during which time a fresh supply NICOLE TANNER of Alexander's successors, of oil was obtained. Editor in Chief the wallets of parents Antiochus IV, took control of the Hanukkah is one;of the best- When most people think'of De• region and began severely oppress• known Jewish holidays, because of • The toy has sold out at stores across the cember, the first thing that pops ing the Jewish people. He placed its proximity to Christmas. In fact, country. into their heads is Christmas — Hellenistic priests in their temples, it's not even a very important reli• Christmas trees, Christmas lights, prohibited the practice of the Jew• gious holiday — Rosh Hashanah, Be careful, though, Furby can SABRINA SCHROEDER Christmas shopping and Christmas ish religion and massacred a great Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover and catch a cold if it is around other gifts. But more holidays take place number of Jewish people. Shavu'ot are far more important Assistant News Editor Furbies who have one. in December than just Christmas. Two groups opposed Antiochus Jewisrt holidays. Imagine you have been stand• Tom Christy, assistant manager One of these is the Jewish holiday, — the Chasidim, a religious tradi• "It is bitterly ironic that this ing in line for nine hours on of Wal-Mart in Boardman reported Hanukkah . (also spelled tionalist group, and a nationalistic holiday, which has its roots in a Thanksgiving Day to wait for the to The Vindicator that more than Chanukah.) which lasts eight days. group led by Mattathias the revolution against assimilation and midnight sale of the hottest toy on 200 people began waiting in line Hanukkah, also referred to as Hasmonean and his son, Judah the suppression of the Jewish reli• the market for Christmas, only to at 9 p.m. Thursday, and the dolls the Festival of Lights, is a celebra• Maccabee. They joined forces in a gion, has become the most assimi• learn that there are not enough for did not go on sale until midnight. tion of the miracle of the oil. Ac• revolution that succeeded, and the lated, secular holiday on our cal• the entourage of expectant parents He said that, although most cus• cording to a Jewish Web site at temple was rededicated. endar," the jewfaq Web site said. standing with you. tomers were well-behaved, some www.jewfaa.org, the story of Ha• According to tradition, the The celebration of Hanukkah This scenario took place last • problems started just before mid• nukkah dates back to the reign of menorah in the temple was sup• involves the lighting of nine week for thousands of people night. Alexander the Great. Under his. posed to burn throughout the night candles on a menorah — one for across the United States whose Tom Weber, store manager, also, rule, many Jewish people adopted every night. It's recorded in the each day the oil lasted and a children anxiously await the Furby reported to The Vindicator that the Hellenistic culture, in the same Talmud that; at, the time of the re- shammus candle that is a different Interactive Toy this holiday sea• "there just didn't seem to be way Jewish people in the United dedication there was only enough height from the others. son. enough." He would not give an States blend into American soci• oilto burn; for one day, yet it mi• This year Hanukkah begins exact number of how many dolls Furby can best be described as ety today.