The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2001-2011 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-1-2008 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2008-04-01 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2008-04-01" (2008). The Voice: 2001-2011. 461. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011/461 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 2001-2011 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 he Wooster Vice Vol. gxkvih issue xxi A STUDENT PUBLICATION SINCE 1883 TUESDAY, APRIL I, 2008 "People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.' Robin Williams Cornwell first, presid nfc to J on frat more than a ' the president's home after being great things they have done for this and after reviewing the proposaf, the few goals in invited by Cornwell for a meet-and-gre- et. campus and surrounding community Committee on Social Organizations mind, one of is incredible." (CSO) accepted Kappa Chi's charter which was to "I was particularly interested to The Greeks are so incredible, in Wednesday. "Just in time for Lip integrate him- meet this fabulou s1 group of students fact, that Cornwell decided he want- Sync," Cornwell added proudly. ... I v , self into stu- early in my term," Cornwell ed to be one. "There is really no rea- According to Joe Kirk, Director of dent life. But explained. "I have heard nothing but son I couldn't join a Greek group," Safety at the College as well as no one, not the best from our faculty and staff, said Cornwell. adviser to the Greeks, the reinstate- even the presi- and I was impressed by the high Indeed, there is no College bylaw ment of the Krappers "is a great dent himself, standards of Wooster's Greek com- that forbids a member of staff or fac- stride for the clubs and sections. suspected munity." that t ulty from participating in the fall They will be a wonderful asset to our his aspirations Cornwell added that he was espe- rush process and joining a club or community." would exceed cially intrigued by the clubs and sec- section. As their community service proj- everyone's tions after hearing about the highly Last fall, after unsuccessfully rush- ect, the Krappers have adopted expectations. successful faculty reception that the ing Xi Chi Psi and Phi Omega Sigma, Christmas Run Park, where they will Since Inter-Gre- ek Council (I.G.C.) held two of the College's chartered sec- help repair both park benches and September, the last spring. tions, Cornwell did not despair. buildings. president hasP The faculty reception, explained "Obviously, I really wanted to be a Next year, rather than occupying a made' co-presid- ent it his Mike Doerr '08, former bro," he Q said. "But then I realized section in Bissman, the Krappers will duty to get to of I.G.C, was to share with the fac- that myriad groups have died out, reside in what is currently the presi- I know the stu- ulty that, even though the clubs and per se, and I could bring one back." dent's home, which will be converted dents. Through sections "are Social groups who have After doing an extensive online to a Greek' house, complete with a a series of din-- a lot of fun," the Greeks are primari- search and visiting Special .big screen plasma television and a President Grant Cornwell has joined the Kappa ners held at his ly service organizations, with each Collections at the College's library, ping-pon- g table. According to Chi brothers to further integrate himself into stu- - home on can. .member volunteering at least eight Cornwell felt he had found his home Cornwell, the section's official crest pus- - he ha hours in the dent life at the College (Photo, by Karin Johnson). community. "No matter with Kappa. Chi, also known as "The will also 'be painted on the house's ., made personal the letter," Doerr added, "we're all Krappers." This fraternity was last front door. Justine McCullough connections with nearly every' stu- Greek together." active officially at Wooster in 1999, Please ,visit h Up: en. wikipedia dent The REAL Pick 'Em Champion group. Referring to the reception, and unofficially as late as 2005, .org wikiStudentsociaIorganiza-tionsattheCoHege- of On Sept. 12, the approximately Cornwell said, "The fact that almost according to Cornwell's Wikipedia Wooster Just-ine.- .. "This 200 members of the College's Greek 75 percent of our faculty met with search. for more information on past and Dr. Grant H. Cornwell began his , population, who are grouped the Greeks after school hours to hear Cornwell, along with five male stu- present groups at The College of in position as president this fall with er clubs and sections, assembled at about their service projects and the dents, drafted a proposal last winter, Wooster. Black squirrels infect Wooster with the bubonic plague Chandra Asar After the Wellness Center's first case, other Residence halls," said Anderson. swollen glands, and who do not yet live their clothes!" Otherwise, students are Tabloid Editor Anderson said that subsequent patients "It's also pretty close to the Wellness . in Wagner Hall are highly encouraged encouraged to leave campus while they started coming in with greater frequen- Center, so we can have nurses and doc- to start packing their things and burn ' still can. Health officials have announced that . cy, and that it is now overflowing with tors stationed there." Wooster's black squirrels pose a threat infected students. The next step would be to invite an to the campus, as well as to Wooster cit- 'They're just running out of places extermination team to kill the black izens, since the rodents have recently to put everyone. And the town citizens squirrels. 'They weren't even original- been found to carry a highly infectious started getting it first, so Wooster ly from Wooster. They were intro- - disease: the bubonic plague. Hospital was already having a problem duced from Kent-Stat- e University, or" "We were very surprised when we with finding space for everyone before somewhere," said Holmes. "So that's had our first patient," said Nandy the campus started getting infected," probably why the black ones are taking Anderson, director of the Student Anderson said. over the other squirrel populations, and - Wellness Center. "At first we just However, despite Wooster's sudden why they're breeding so quickly ... at thought it was just a cold, because of infection, no immediate notifications this point, we feel that exterminating 7f his swollen glands, but then more were sent to the student body, since the them is the only thing we can do to pre- swells appeared on his body." first 14 victims were not directly asso- vent the spread of disease." t . Anderson explained that some of the . ciated with the College, and also since However, several groups have criti- ways the bubonic plague can be spread the first student victims were on the cized this choice. Anna Smith '08 from is through contact with small rodents men's basketball team. Greenpeace, Wooster Chapter, said, and flea bites, but it can also be passed Kurt Holmes, dean of students "It's completely unethical . have they from person to person. The combina- explained, "We thought the students even, like, thought about what killing 4 tion of the students' close quarters in got it from an outside game, and we off the squirrels would do to the dormitories, as well as the black squir- didn't want to cause panic since we' ecosystem? The plague is not a big t ! rels' ubiquitous presence on the cam- weren't sure whether the infection enough problem to warrant the murder pus, has caused the disease to spread would reach campus from the town." of these poor creatures." quickly. Now with the disease's quick prolif- Of course, other students feel differ- "You see them everywhere," she said. eration, recent discussions have been ently. Gregory Hyde '08, who is in such "Outside near walkways, in the attics in underway on how to prevent the spread an advanced state that lymph nodes are some student houses, in the garbage of infection. Administrators have dis- protruding from his body, said, "Dude, bins near Lowry. No matter where you cussed the possibility of quarantining it ain't no time to go all tree-huggi-ng! I 1 l are on campus, you run into them. So it those infected to Wagner Hall, and always knew they were up to some- Terrified students run in the I.S. march as plague-ridde- n squir- was inevitable that once they carried moving the still-healt- hy Wagner resi- thing ... kill them ofT! Kill them ofT rels swarm around them. The bubonic plague is infesting fill all!" the plague here, it would spread around dents to in the rest of the halls. "It's before they kill us . Kuyk-White- ). out-of-the-w- city quickly." relatively ay, away from Students who are experiencing Wooster and campus (Photo by Peterson Chuck Norris does roundhouse for Huckabee To our readers students will adapt to be least of which is former Arkansas gov- Emily Ryan ers extremely The Vice is published to the new pro- "Well, who do relevant issues facing ernor Mike Huckabee's failure -- to secure Female Hunter S.