Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The urC rent NSU Digital Collections 2-12-1991 The oN va Knight Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper NSUWorks Citation Nova Southeastern University, "The oN va Knight" (1991). The Current. Paper 87. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/87 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Current by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LLllLTS 10 thl' Fdilor Cook Book Promotes AwakLllillgs RLvinv POLlr)' Cornn Intramural Rl'(~IP SLL pagLs :2 & 3 lVllll Ii-CllI lurL Sl'L P~I gL I () seL pagL I:? Sl'l' pagl' l-~ 'l'L 1a!.:L 7 S~rying the Nova Univ.ersity community Smoking Issue Heats Up ~t Nova Perkins Loan Fund Nova Student By Belinda Gonzalez President for unofficial," states Mr. Falls Short to Serve In Gulf Academic and Student Green. By Cleveland Fergu.un An anonymous Services. However, if a By Kevin Hawkins phone call from the Mr. Green said that formal complaint is logged, III Hollywood - Mailman Dr. Lewis was not there, so a formal letter will be sent A few stUdents building was made to Human Walter Roquett he spoke to his to Nova asking them to probably won't be very Resource Services (HRS) a 'would have thought you administrative assistant. comply within 30 days to happy this semester when few weeks ago concerning were crazy four years ago, "I informed the the Clean Air Act laws. tuition refunds come due. smoking on the second floor if you had told him he would office that I had received an If Nova does not, Why not? Because Nova of the bUilding. have been in the Naval anonymous inquiry and that then county administrators University's Perkins Loan The anonymous Reserves. Nova may be breaking some will be sent out to check the Fund is suffering from a caller was not logging a He might even have of the laws expressed in area and perhaps hit Nova five month accumulated complaint, rather the caller with a fine. told you where to go. the Clean Air Act. shortfall of roughly was inquiring about the ~iclbla Four years ago, "I had .rt "Usually, people $50,000. Clean Air Act and whether Walter was into the street discussion, simply comply after the first About 30 Nova Nova was perhaps breaking scene. reminding Nova of what the letter; I really haven't had University students of will some of those rules. continued 011 Page 13 He was always Act stresses," said Mr. have had their Perkins Martin Green of the fighting. He was a member Green. Loans adjusted in late Environmental Health Green stresses that of a few gangs. Section in HRS received the January. "Maybe 5 or 6 the call was not a students will not have His father wanted inquiry and proceeded to complaint, that Nova was to change all that. So, he ·call Dr. Abraham Fischler, enough money to pay not fined, that no one came made him enlist in the Naval President of Nova tuition," said Geraldine down to Nova or does HRS :Reserves. University. Castora, Director of have any sort of "record" Financial Aid. He felt it would Mr. Green was then: on Nova. make Walter, "an officer Financial Aid transferred to Dr. Ovid and a gentleman." "The call I made examined student cases on Lewis' office (Vice Today, Walter was informal and a one-to-one basis to see Roquett, 19 a freshman whose award letters could from Caracus, Venezuela, most afford decreases in Students Speak Out About Persian Gulf Crisis received a call from his their Perkins Loans. "No 90% unwilling to volunteer to serve. recruitment officer to one's ever going to be By Sandra Watson and reasons that range from prepare to possibly go to It;S the Allied Forces. The happy and no one's , Cleveland Ferguson III "because he is the war. Allied Forces are perfect, " added Castora President" to "seeing no Walter went comprised of twenty-eight about the altered award other way to stop Iraq form through many emotional nations who all feel that letters. taking over smaller periods when he got the call Out of one hundred Saddam Hussein has About 96% of the countries." for training. students surveyed on the overstepped his boundaries affected students will be "Saddam is a Main campus of Nova by attempting to [maintain short around $250 in "Friends thought I maniac and must be University, 90% said that control] over Kuwait," he refund money. was being very cold the they would not be willing to stopped," stressed Mark said. first day. Then the next The school is trying volunteer to serve in the Bizokas, a freshman. Linda Scherman, a to make alternative plans of day, they saw me crying," US military armed forces in "I would feel freshman concurred. he said. payment with students who the Person Gulf. privileged to join our -Then they said, "Kuwait is entitled are unable to meet the Nine percent said forces in Iraq," he 'Oh my God! You are to the same freedom of costs of tuition. Said they would volunteer. One continued. governmem (hat we in scared!,'" he continUed. Castora, "Nova is very per cent was undecided. Louis Badami, a America take for granted," sensitive to the fact thl'lt it Walter now feels senior, stated that he she said. Out of the 90% who isn't the students TaUIt.' confident about his forced supports Bush's decision "The concept of would not volunteer, 77% The Perkins Loan change in plans. because of the allied forced democracy is no said they do support Fund receives money from "Now, I think it's a President Bush's' support. democracy at all," she great honor. I'm not really continued. two sources. One major declaration of war for "It's not just Bush, annual contribution to the scared because Iraq doesn't Continued on page 7 fund is a government have much of a navy. They Would you be willing to volunteer to serve in the US Armed Forces in the Gulf? allocation titled 'Our Fair only have gunboats and Do you support President Bush's declaration of war on Iraq? 100 students said: Share.' water mines. It's not a big The second source deal," I,e said. of income for the Perkins HIS family is worried. Loan Fund are the monthly loan payments by former "They are scared." loan recipients. The Perkins "Most of my family Loan is a revolving fund. members cry while we are This means that the money 'on the phone. They tell me [not to go. They can't being paid back to the ~nderstand school for past loans goes Why I'm doing his," he recalled. to new students who qualify .for the loan. "I just tell them it's ·~omething Nova University's I have to do," he ~ontinUed. shortfall in the Perkins Loan Fund is a result of loan While Walter first question !signed up for the reserves r::. .............. i ......... h •• Th_ "1_•. _ .... _.:_1.. .... second question repayment problems. Since P~,. 2 The Nova Knight EDITORIALS Editorial: Adversary System Needs Major Reform 9y Cleveland Ferguson adversary system as, Wif witness. lawyers seek jurors who everyone applies the III you set two liars to Michael Saks, would vote their way, a supposed concepts and exposing each other, journalist for the judge is expected to be theories of the adversary Statistics for the eventually the truth will Technology Review, cites impartial. The judge system, when the system American Demographics come out.W the definition of an expert regulates and instructs a is allowed to work for all Journal show that every If the adversary witness as anyone whose jury or, if it is a bench equally, then the process America will visit the system is to be reformed, knowledge of a SUbject trial, decides who won. will be reformed for the adversary system at least then it needs to be extends beyond the average Unfortunately, it is better. Just think statistics person in a particular field. once: to serve on jury, examined in three also naive to think of all show that you will most He also maintains that the working in the court significant areas: lawyers, judges as impartial, for likely be SUbject to an adversary process foster system, being a witness or judges and jury selection. everyone has opinions. The immoral riddled system perjury among experts in participating in civil or The largest moral and ethical fabric of that is used by the the event to please the criminal litigation. problem-causing area is the this country is being aristocracy in this country lawyers who recruit them. lfhe average lawyers. Many of their overtaken by greed, and to ensure that justice will It is particularly person's perception of the cases center on not all that monetary success as hardly ever be served on the entrepreneurial experts law is concrete. Many is known, but avoids those number one goals in life. your behalf. whose income is people feel that if they ever truths that hurt their Fortunately, it predominantly subsidized have a problem with cases. seems that many judges by lawyers that the Letters to another, then they will be Anne Strick, author are on a political agenda, as reformation process has to able to rectify it in the of the book Injustice For opposed to on of greed. the Editor be concerned with.