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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Wooster Voice Vol. cxxiii, issue xi A STUDENT PUBLICATION SINCE 1883 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006 "Any man's finest hour is the moment when he has worked his . heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Vince Lombardi Potential president-visit- s Wooster was named provost at Bryn Mawr, he thing," said Kuncl. "The purpose of a Andrew Vogel helped solve a $5 million deficit liberal education is not to prepare you News Editor through cost reductions, reductions in for your first job, but what matters is force and later," he , private foundation grants. In what's done 20 or 30 years The College of Wooster's search that position, he has also doubled said at the presidential forum, which process to find its next president and research funding while still preserv- - was held at Freedlander on Monday. successor to R. Stanton Hales lias been One of the aspects that drew Kuncl a long and arduous one. However, this Presidential to Wooster was that Wooster is unlike long process is in its final stages as the many other academic institutions. committee has narrowed its search "This is a college that strikes me as I down to three. Search unusual, especially through the I.S. The first candidate, Ralph Kuncl, 2006 program. It's willing, to take the visited campus Monday as this antici- approach that the impact on the indi- pated process enters the home stretch. vidual is really what changes lives." Kuncl has a long list of academic Kuncl said that the collaborative ' degrees. He is a 1970 graduate of feeling between students and profes- ... Occidental College in Los Angeles, sors was very palpable here. "The fac- self-select- Calif., where he received his bachelor's ulty that teach here are ed. degree. In 1975 he received his It's a little different here. They come torate from the University of Chicago. here to work closely with students, In 1977 he received his medical degree just as the students here are self-select-ed V" from the University of the Chicago. In in the same way." 1996, he received his Executive Looking at his background, one of Medical Business . Graduate Kuncl's main strengths is being able to Certificate. From 1980 to 2002 he help guide a school through difficult DR. RALPH W. KUNCL served as professor of neurology at times. This was especially evident Johns Hopkins University. ing academic programs. when Kuncl, as provost, helped Bryn Ralph Kuncl was the first of three presidential candidates that Currently, . Kuncl is working as While most of Kuncl's work has Mawr navigate through a $5 million will visit the Wooster campus. Kuncl stressed the importance provost at Bryn Mawr College in been done at bigger universities, deficit just a few years ago. "Part of he has Kuncl is no to the liberal arts the role of a president is a heal- - of diversity on campus when he spoke at the first presidential Pennsylvania. In that position, stranger being had to deal with academic structural philosophy. "We say that liberal educa- forum on Nov. 13. (Photo by Chloe Reed). adversity. Within the first year that he tion is the best preparation for any See "Forum," page 2 Wooster exhibit celebrates 120 years of alumni magazine Caitlin Gillette tion instead. In 1967, the magazine Voice Staff title changed again from Wooster Alumni Magazine to simply Wooster as I'M if The Ebert Art Center of The it appears, today. For a period of time I. College of Wooster recently featured the magazine staff believed that i . , an exhibit devoted to the 120th Wooster produced the oldest alumni X 1 i ' anniversary of. Wooster magazine, an magazine, and published that tagline f alumni magazine produced by the in issues between 1956 and 1978.,-However- , i ; College. The exhibit was on display after careful research by the ii I ' 1 1 fea- 1 between Nov. 4 and Nov. and Council for the Advancement and i ! : .- i-' ..; - tured 35 covers from over the Support of Education, it was found ' years. ;'; " Originally a university, Wooster, that many institutions, including A T?Z V , Li M under its second president Archibald Earlham College and Lincoln Alexander Taylor, established a publi- University, had alumni magazines cation in 1886 entitled The Post older than Wooster's. ' Graduate and Wooster Quarterly for the Currently, Wooster magazine, which purpose of publishing graduate stu- has switched back to being printed dents' theses. In 1903, when Wooster quarterly instead of 10 issues a year, discarded its graduate program and includes articles prevalent to the became simply The College of College and class notes. Members of Wooster, the magazine was re-nam- ed the faculty and staff, as well as alumni Kelli Horton '10 Lindsey Lutz '10, who both interns for the Wooster magazine, The Wooster Quarterly and began to (left) and are focus on publishing alumni informa See "Magazine," page 2 attended the reception held in the Ebert Art Center (Photo by Mac Buehler). Registrar, students give online registration the thumbs up under-enrollme- SaraTaggart "Online registration works really nt. Managing Editor well," she said, stressing the ease Burton, Blair and Natalie with which students could register. Richardson, systems support special- Monday, Oct. SO served as the Yorks compared the new process to ist and assistant to the registrar, beginning ,of the College's second the arena registration from which stressed that all students need to year working with the new Datatel- - Wooster switched when taking on register for at least three courses. manufactured online registration the Datatel program. Some students, though it is a small program. As of press time, only "Arena registration was like a percentage, are under-enrollin- g, first-ye- ar students were still regis- marathon," said Yorks, likening the waitlisting their courses and then tering and, according . to the rush to the tables to "releasing the logging off of ScotWeb. Registrar's Office, things were going lions." "Waitlisting is not a course cred-- if extremely well. The Office reported Blair remembers the arena system replacement," said Burton of this minimal issues with registration so similarly, and claims that the new practice. far this year, maintaining there were registration process eliminates this Blair warned, "Don't leave campus -- really no consistent issues. ', stress. One reason is that students . un-enroll- ed, even if you know you The Office only answered about 15 can load their courses on ScotWeb can get into a course." Doing so, he , calls from juniors and seniors com- prior to registration. said, could put your financial aid bined, and only about half of a dozen "It's like appearing at all your package in jeopardy, stunt your from sophomores. !; tables at once," said Blair. progress toward your degree and Robert Blair suggested i "Registration... is so fast, not possibly even revoke your housing Registrar - - tt..--.- .. tt Hfc ii u in.-- in i i i- iiimihhiiwiii i miim'Tiinl first-yea- stressful, easy and convenient privileges. that the lower number of sophomore Help was provided in the Wired Scot for rs who had it's as long as everything goes according Online registration is intimately concerns was due to what he called "a questions about registration (Photo by Karin Johnson). learning curve" that occurred with to plan," commented Yorks. tied to the billing and other comput- the switch to online. on to the new system as fast as those students found the process as effi- This is where glitches in the er record-base- d processes, said Blair, By this he means that many con- unfamiliar with anything else. cient as the Office did. euphoria of a quick and easy online so it is important to sign up for at cerns are from upperclassmen who Despite some individual concerns, One such student is Kristi Yorks registration can occur, such as being least three courses. are still nostalgic for the arena-sty- le mostly due to w hat Office intern Wil '07, who registered for her last blocked from a course for which you registration, and less likely to catch Burton '05 called "user errors," many semester on Oct. 30. know you are approved, or chancing See "Registration," page 2 News 2 director, Viewpoints 3 The of libraries, -- Damon Hickey, writes that Features 4 11 Arts 6 there are numerous reasons Sports 7 behind the current library MEMBER hours. Viewpoints Editor Brian David Yontz talks to students Circle K sponsored Battle Sports editors Chris Frederico writes that the and alumni from the improv of the Bands on Nov. 11. Sweeney and Nick Holt o Dems may have the majority group Dont Throw Shoes. Proceeds went to VHVs debate the biggest game in associated' in the House and Senate, but Seepages. Save the Music campaign. the history of the rivalry collegiate they may not necessarily See page 6.