“It 'will never be “| don't think you deserve to convenient...just go do it." live in this $ Souhery if you dont ro Lindsey Hightower, senior, JMC Homecoming ma changes Crimes Past and present will col- brochure, NCAA Basketball tournament rate the campus with sidewalk chalk and lide this week as Homecom- news, a Birmingham newspaper, Time window paint as well as homecoming decline on ing 2000 kicks off. magazine,a style magazine, and an SGA floats. Friday night Sister Hazel will per- The Homecoming added scrapbook. fom at 8 p.m. on theWright Center stage. some new twists to the old The capsule will also include personal - The performance will be followed by a Pep traditions. Additions to this letters from Vice President and Dean of Rally and a pancake breakfast. campus year’s activities include a Students Richard H. Franklin, Samford Saturday events include a Barbeque lunch coffee house, a pumpkin-carving in the Caf, parade of floats, the cele- Recent statistics released contest and a tethered hot air bal- “Having a week-long event bration of Crimson’s 85th anniver- by Campus Safety reveal loon ride. allows more students to get that criminal acts at Another 2000 homecoming The Bulldogs take on Charleston Samford are on the de- event will be the 1976 time capsule involved behind the scenes.” Southern at 1:30 p.m. At halftime, cline. : extraction and the 2000 Time Cap- —Tricia Browning, Assistant the Homecoming Queen and her In addition, these acts sule burial at 10 a.m. in front of . Homecoming Director court will be presented. Festivities are noticeably fewer and less severe Davis Library. will wrap up to tunes of Iambic Un- than criminal acts at many other SGA President Scarlett Stewart derground at the McWane Center. schools across the state. said, “ I really feel fortunate this event President Thomas E. Corts, and SGA presi- Five dollar tickets for the dance are avail- Chief Henry Hope; director of Cam- landed on the year I am serving as SGA dent Scarlet Stewart, able in the food court lobby. : pus Safety, said “I think the university president.” Activities continue tonight with a coffee Assistant Homecoming Director Tricia as a whole is pretty much responsible The 2000 time capsule will include T- house in the Food Court from 8:30 until 11 Browning said, “Having a week long event for maintaining safety.” shirts from every SAC event, the Entre p.m. The first 200 students in attendance allows more students to get involved be- The Campus Safety Annual Report Nous, 2000 presidential campaign materi- will receive a free glass latte mug. hind the scenes and includes more ofthe includes crime statistics for the past als, the 50th anniversary Step Sing = Thursday at 4 p.m. students can deco- student body as a whole.” four years. On the whole, campus crime has declined, specifically in ar- eas such as petty theft andliquor law violations. Samford hosts Col ference The number oftheft incidents de- _ creased from 72 in 1998 to 42 in 1999. The Samford Problem-Based - Camegie Foundation for the Advancement their learning needs as well as give them Similarly, liquor law violations Learning discussion spread to of Teaching, delivered the keynote address. experience in dealing with real life prob- dropped from 24 to 18, with only2 in- more than 600 educators at a The conference also showcased five of lems while working in a group setting. cidents requiring arrest. : Samford’s eight colleges, plus 51 Samford Associate Provost and PBL Coordinator Samford-hosted PBL confer- In an October 25 story on campus ence. : John W. Harris said, “Students in PBL - crime in Alabama, The Birmingham “Problem-Based Learning PBL has been used extensively in past classes must master a body of knowledge. News compared the crime of four-year is a method and philosophy that actively . medical and graduate school environments in their subject, but because information in- colleges and universities within the engages students in the leaming process,” but recently has been integrated into the creases so rapidly, it is critical that they be- said Kristi Amdt, Samford’s director of the liberal arts education of undergraduates. come lem-solvers able to function in a the U.S. Department of Education, Center for Problem-Based Learning. In the PBL environment, students are team as we 3 show that Samford ranks among the The conference focused on how educa- given a problem in order to stimulate fur- Samford hosted the conference as a re- lowest of these schools in number of tors can continue to develop, apply and re- ther research. sult of two major grants from the Pew crimes reported. Charitable Trusts. It was attended by resen- fine PBL in the classroom. “This is different from the traditional In the past four years there have classroom where you are given all the tatives from eight countries. The Conference on Problem-Based been no violent crimes with the excep- Learning in Undergraduate and Profession- The school has received almost two mil- tion of four minor assault incidents al Education was held Sunday through times asked to research it from that point,” : lion dollars since 1997 from the Trust to and one sex offense in 1996. Tuesday at the Birmingham Sheraton hotel. Amdt said. | design PBL courses and document re- Chief Hope,said he and Campus Lee S. Shulman, the president of the PBL also aims to help students discover search. Safety “have achieved a plan where Campus Safety can be looked upon as a place to turn in times of crisis, for advice and for direction.” “+ Debate team places in tournament The release of crime statistics by ® colleges and universities comes in The Samford debate team ‘up the bulk oftheir research for debates. EE compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act made up of Jamie Radford ~ South debated in high school, but prefers of 1998. The act, originally the Cam- oa] ae .and Clinton South traveled to college debates. “I enjoy it more because pus Security Act of 1990, requires col-. aol Tuscaloosa recently to pull it’s a lot more in-depth and a lot more com- lege and university security and safety off a 5th place finish in the petitive,” he said. departments to fully disclose informa- td University of Alabama Although debaters are given list of i tion regarding campus crime, arrests, debate tournament Oct. 20-22. about 35-40 possible topics, they are not The team came away with a 4-2 record, sure of which topics theywill be debating beating teams from Emory University, the until they get to the tournament. Clery, a student at Lehigh University, University of Georgia, Louisiana State Uni- ~ “There is basically a lot of quick think- ‘who was raped, beaten, and murdered versity and Georgia State University. South ing at the tournament itself,” South said. in 1986 while in her dormitory room. was named the a At the University of Alabama, Radford and Jeanne’s parents then demanded action -~ nament. South debated whether or not more assis- after learningthat Lehigh had not ~~ After workive eoush the preliminary tance should be given to the countries in. prety wpwsad des 40 eisens |; rounds, Samford’s team lost in the quarter the greater hom of Africa. of violent crime prior to their daugh- finals to the team from Arkansas State Uni- Samford Debate is coached by Ben | ter’s enrollment. versity. The Arkansas team went on to win Kristan Rivers debates against the Coulter and is directed by Michael Janas, Campus Safety's annual report also the tournament. | British National Debate Team Oct. 19 both of the department of speech communi- serves as a safety resource for stu- Samford debate has two teams. Radford cation and theatre. dents. In additionto crime statistics, it and South make up one team and Kris Debaters on scholarship must travel to Samford’s next debate will be the Rivers and Chad Ezekiel make up the oth- four or five tournaments every year,keep at Franklin Shirley Classic Debate Tourna- er. “The debate team recruits just like the least 3.0 GPA and do at least one research ment hosted by Wake Forest University Samfordon University Library basketball team, > South said. project every week. These projects make Nov. 17-20. 3 : . y. ¥osey3 prAna x ares VLR RR RT Ee Eh ka 8 3 $058 takin % A ‘ ” \ ; + voy Era Ar NINE Re Sl al . AURA TA A Ve AC ERY A Outside Students compete in Tax Challenge ‘the Bubble Four students, seven 100 teams to compete in tea nual college and universitytax hours, no windows and all tax. : competition. Ce ~ Arthur Andersen, one of the Brad West, Claire “big five” accounting firms, host- Skinner, Allison USS Cole Headed ed the event. Brown and Brad Home Although the group did not Wood competed ini theArthur An- oh ‘place andwill not advance to the The USS Cole has left ~ derson Tax Challenge competition national competition on Nov. 17- Yemen on its journey Oct. 20-21 at the University of hey were pleased with their back to the United States North Texas. © = “~ : The four eribet group was performance. with a little help from Wood said, “It was an eye- put in a windowless room for sev- tugboats and a Norwe- opening experience to see how to work on a complex, gian heavy-lift ship. The en hours well the business school prepared hypothetical case study. Cole, expected to arrive us, not only for the competition, 3 in the U.S. in five weeks, ‘The end result was a written re- but for real world scenarios.” aR port evaluating the client’s situa- 2nd was bombed in anappar- oT making tas-planning rec- v tion and ent terrorist act in Octo- Brad Wood, Allison Brown, Claire Skinner, members were chosen on the ba- ommendations.