Gant reacts to leaving senate, offers SPORT reasons for resignation. Lacrosse teai 311 and Hoobastank sell out gets an easy! Blue for school's biggest over Eastern concert in history. ^ Stockton's news source since i ËM NHHHMmMNMMMNIItMMMMI wamiltfciA ^marnairiil^Uimimiifi Monday April 1, 2002 The independent student newspaper of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Volume 62 Number 8 Senate meltdown Tom Gant resigns in the midst of numerous allegations Shaun Reilly it turned out to be was ridicu- and 2002 candidates Angela but not recognized by Movva as it could The Argo lous." Tamm, Sarah Jones, and not be discussed during an emergency The Stockton Student Senate has had its According to Movva the spe- Quantay Hunter signed the meeting. However, senators continued to fair share of turmoil this year, but the cial meeting was not called to letters that detailed various discuss the allegations presented to them. events of March 28 may prove to be the indict Gant or to even discuss degrees of alleged campaign A motion to adjourn was defeated three most tumultuous of them all. in a special die issue ot the allegations infractions and unethical times before the out of order conversation meeting last Thursday candidates and sen- lodged against him. The meet- behavior by Gant. After the was halted. ators lodged oral and written complaints ing was supposed to have been letters were released to the "I thought that it was in the best interest regarding the conduct of Senator and called to talk about a September public, a number of the letter to resign because 1 honesty feel this senate Board of Trustees alternate Thomas Gant. llth Fund fundraiser and to writers expressed remorse that has not accomplished much this year and Gant went 011 to resign his position as sen- address candidates about elec- the letters were released and they need to move on," Gant said. "They ator and Academic Policies chair and with- tion protocol. some of them tried to prevent need to move on and get some issues done drew his candidacy for next year's Senate What the meeting turned into Thomas Gant the information from becom- before this year ends in four weeks. 1 think in a meeting with the bylaws committee. was far from that. A packet of ing further available to the my committee has done a good job this "Today was supposed to be a good day letters of complaint was handed out to all public. year. I would like to apologize to my com- for old and new senators to get together," senators present. Senator Joe Fisicaro, Senator Zach Robertson motioned to mittee and hope that they can get things Senate President Imani Movva said. "What Senator Nelson Morales, Senator and begin the process of a vote of no confi- done within the structure of the senate." Board of Trustee member William Geist, dence for Gant. The motion was seconded Gant was not officially charged with any (Gant continued on pg. 15) Senators attempt to stop Escalante Argo from publishing letters and threatens staff shares the Shaun Reilly uments. secrets of The Argo Initially, Senator Joe Fisicaro, On March 28, in a special the author of one of the letters, meeting of the Richard Stockton and Senator Jon Godin, asked for motivation College Student Senate, a packet the letters back. Argo staffer Dan of letters containing complaints Grote said that the letters were lodged against Student Senator discussed and presented in a pub- Kevin Kaneshiki and Board of Trustee Alternate lic forum and that they were pub- The Argo Tom Gant were passed out and lic record. Godin and Fisicaro The Richard Stockton discussed. The complaints left. College Student Senate ranged in severity but dealt pri- Senator and Board of Trustees Distinguished Lecture Series marily in allegations that Gant member Will Geist, (an author of presented Jaime Escalante, a was violating Student Senate another one of the letters) arrived prominent math teacher from Election rules and questioned then demanded to be given the California, on Tuesday in the Gant's character. Current sena- complaints. Townsend Residential Life tors and 2002 candidates signed According to Grote and Argo Center. the letters. Staffer Emily Wray, Geist said, For three decades, Escalante The Argo obtained copies of "This isn't a joke. Don't fucking taught college math, algebra, the letters after the meeting, print those letters." He then trigonometry, and Advanced sparking further controversy. reportedly left the office only to Placement calculus at Garfield A group of current Student return moments later with a larg- High School in California. His Senators and candidates for next er group to demand the letters. work in the field made him the year's Senate entered the Argo Zlata Khaitova, a Senate candi- subject of the critically office after the learning of the date, said that the letters were acclaimed 1988 movie Stand Argo's acquisition of the letters slanderous and the Argo was in Photo by Shaun Reilly and Deliver, as well as several in an attempt to recover the doc- (letters continued on pg. 3) Jaime Escalante delivers his message from the TRLC. (Escalante continued on pg. 5) The Argo April 1, 2002 Compiled by Argo staffers from reports and wire services Society National Briefs Weekly Weather Report Teenagers and young adults Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday who watch as little as an hour of Conspirator faces death television a day are more likely to get into fights, commit Federal prosecutors will seek a jail cell when terrorists hijacked * * * % assaults or engage in other types the death penalty for Zacarias four planes and crashed them into of violence later in life, accord- Moussaoui if he's convicted of the World Trade Center and the ing to a provocative new study. conspiring with the 19 hijackers Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania The more television people to commit the Sept. 11 terrorist field, killing more than 3,000 Partly cloudy with a Mostly cloudy with Rain with a high of Partly cloudy with a watch, the more likely it appears attacks, Attorney General John people. Legal experts said a high of 58 and a low a high of 57 and a 56 and a low of 37 high of 56 and a low that they will later become vio- Ashcroft announced Thursday. judge or jury might balk at of 41 low of 43 of 37. lent, an effect that researchers Now prosecutors face the diffi- imposing a death sentence on argued bolsters the case that it's cult task of arguing for the execu- someone who didn't participate Inmates fight against television that causes the aggres- tion of a man who was sitting in in the actual event. sion,. problems outside the system Lawrence Halbert, a 43-year- posted some issues on the old San Francisco Bay Area Internet at www.oldsaclaw.com. Nation native, and a handful of other Hospital workers counter with inmates publish an underground Gulag complaints at www.psych- If terrorists attacked the newspaper calld vvEchoes of the health.com/gulag0l .htm. United States with smallpox, Gulag," watched in amusement." doctors would be able to dilute Under such headlines as vvSpin the nation's vaccine stockpile to Doctor!" and Whom Can You create as many as 150 million » my driving? Trust?" the underground jour- doses, enough to vaccinate more IPad wants to know! nal reports on allegations of than half the population. The attacks by staff, forced medica- THE ARGO government also confirmed that tion and substandard condi- 70 million to 90 million doses of 5&ÛT1-DADS EYES tions inflicted on patients at the The Richard Stockton smallpox vaccine have been high-security ward. College of New Jersey found, unexpectedly. The vac- Teenage drivers may soon have Stories question the creden- Pomona, New Jersey cine is being tested for potency tials of staff physicians and and preliminary indications look more to contend with than cops report on what inmates call an 08240 positive. The two developments unjust state that forces patients Phone (609) 652-4560 mean the country may be in far From San Diego to Green Bay, 800-4MYTEEN are still hard termed sexually violent preda- Fax (609) 748-5565 better shape to counter a small- Wis., concerned parents are try- pressed to attract enough sub- tors, or SVPs, to remain inside The ARGO is not an official pub- pox outbreak than it appeared to ing to keep young drivers in scribers to make a profit. a mental ward even after be right after the Sept. 11 terror- lication of The Richard Stockton check with a slew of new services The parents who founded most they've completed prison sen- College, but is published indepen- ist attacks. that encourage other motorists to of these services blame a lack of tences for their crimes. dently by students at Stockton snitch on teens with dangerous advertising funds for their strug- Run by an editorial board College. driving habits. The services are a gles. But the biggest hurdle consisting of Halbert, a former CO-EDITORS-IN -CHIEF variation on those 800 vvHow's remains the stubborn resistance cabinetmaker, along with an Health Shaun Reilly My Driving?" numbers used to of rebellious teens, ever-adept at SVP who is a geologist and Dan Grote A North Dakota judge on keep tabs on millions of truck sabotaging parental restraints. At another who is a former week- ASSISTANT EDITOR Thursday rejected a lawsuit drivers nationwide. At least a least one phone service went out ly newspaper owner, the Gulag Emily Wray aimed at forcing the state's only dozen toll-free teen tattle lines of business because parents soon is compiled on the ward from NATIONAL EDITOR abortion clinic to warn patients have popped up throughout the realized that teens were removing inmate submissions that arrive Kristin English that terminating a pregnancy nation in the last few years.