• - ···~. ,.. Ai~inghigh ;. Meaningful music. Index · ACC :aspirations · Exile arid age help A&E 85-8 Deacon Notes 82 ·.. group:pteJent::/. Briefly A2 Editorials A6-7 ........ ,, ~-" t•···~-- ..... - ~ ... ~·- ·~·&··: Calendar 86 Scoreboard 83 ::...idea]'lftoleratlin Cla8sifieds · 88 Sports 81-3 " '·• w~.~ ' 0< --~•.,.•"'-•'' ·: :A&E/85 ~:· : Comics 86 WorldWide A4 Visit our Web site at http:!Iogb. wtu.edu l I Volume 82, No. 11 •' . ·- . 0. pl~dgingsu~pended by nationals .. ' . \' . ,. ' ... ·... =.. ' ' l .. J ·~Y Travis Langdon .· . course of its involvement at the university, . After a series ofpledging difficulties and lot to do with the fact that I was kicked out, ' Assistant News Editor incffding an· AIDS taSk force, outreach to · Although it is not being investigated personal conflicts, the pledge was removed which gave me the freedom to help out the ! chil~tln. and 'underprivileged .community from the fraternity by the organization's pledges who shared my concerns. Most of l The Kappa Theta chapter of Alph* Phi meri)be~, ai4·to local veterinary clinics and QY the university, t~e organization had executives. Immediately after being dis­ the APO pledges get involved because they Omega; a coed fraternity dedicated.to lead­ parti'J;:ipation in the Special Olympics. its pledge program officially missed, the pledge learned ofanother viola­ want to do community service, and that's a ership and' community service, is currently H .,,llPllii>l' although it is riot being inv:es- · ·· suspended 0Ct..29. tion involving three pledges that was said to good thing. That's why people are sup­ under administrative review by its national the university, the org~:2;ation . have occurred. With this information, the posed to get involved," said the former ~hapter for pledge violations that allegedly pledge sought the !J.dministrative aid of pledge, who spoke on condition of ano­ took'place this fall. niPrl~ -------------------------- Correll, and, subsequently; the pledge pro­ nymity. "Unfortunately, the Kappa Theta ,,.·• , AP<HuiS been·involved in a number of gram was suspended. conuimnity service projects durilig the "My reasons for coming forward had a See APO, Page AS ·j Spike Lee discusses struggles in directing By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross That was not the case with me." Old Gold and Black Reporter When Lee had to choose a major at the prestigious Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., he selected mass On Tuesday night, Nov. 3, the famed director Spike communication for lack of a better idea. Upon gradu­ Lee spoke to a packed house in Wait Chapel. ation he knew that he wanted to pursue a career as Hoots and hollers greeted Lee, who nonchalantly filmmaker, but he needed further education to achieve replied, "Glad to be here. Sorry I couldn't get a game that goal. in, the season hasn't started yet." Lee applied to the top three film schools in the Lee said he had no intention of becoming a director country: the University of Southern California, the while growing up. University of California at Los Angeles and New York "Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I had-no.idea University. However, he said that he needed . · · people made movies," he said. ":Many filmmakers . ·· ·· knew at an early age that they wanted to make movies. 1 . ·- ..... See Lee, Page AS ~-To~""'· . ·. •, . BER LOO INKING Pumpkin .greats Fraternities have no intention of going dry TOP: A' student dressed as an ·angei leads By Monica Stankowitz The administration believed stu­ ment for dry campuses has regained two Winston-S$1em children around the Quad Contributing Reporter dents should have the freedom and momentum. ·dL1ring Proje~t Pumpkin Oct 29. responsibility of drinking. In addi­ Now the focus is on fraternities. RIGHT: H10 children play a game at the During the mid-'80s, there was a tion, the university said students The National Interfraternity Coun­ carnival on the Quad as part of trend of college campuses across under and over the legal drinking cil, which represents 66 fraternities event b·r·ouahtin . the nation prohibiting alcohol as a age resided on campus, so it was not in North America, strongly encour­ · · u~~rpn,velege~ c.t 1lld.(.E~1l1~j~J1l',IVinstQ!1;iSalem,.,,·r result of the drinking age being realistic to expect that alcohol would ages, "its member fraternities to 10 an .opporhlfi them:With a' safe; · raised from 18 to 21. not be consumed by those of age. pursue alcohol-free chapter facili­ · and fun Haiiii)Welen for its 10th year. · However,. not all colleges fol­ Today a new controversy arises. ties." . ' lowed the trend, including this uni­ With the significant increase in Currently, the NIC supports Jane Oslislo/Oid Gold and Black versity, which made an active deci­ alcohol related incidents on college sion to not go dry. campuses nationwide, the move- See Alcohol, Page AS !Hat~ group's planned protest inspires'Unite for Peace' vigil ! ·' • I \Vigil' ~·..... together campus community Westboro Baptist Church postpones planned Price and junior Susie Eggers were the protest again; now targeting December, January I co-chairmen of the Unite for Peace steer­ I ing committee that was responsible for By Heather Seely Ken Zick, the vice president for student I Students backgrounds, organizing th~ event. Eggers wanted the News Editor life and instructional resources, said he has ~eligions and gathered Oct. 29 vigil to provide students with the opportu­ no idea whether the group will show up or in Wait Chapel · uniteagainsthatredand nity to understand the experiences of oth- The Westboro Baptist Church recently not. pray for peace.·· . · ers. :; announced a new date for its planned pro­ "It could be a way of keeping their issues : The Unite for Peace vigil was originally "I would hope that they reflect on how I test of the university only to postpone the before the university," Zick said. - scheduled as a result of the Westboro hatred impacts their lives and also how it date again. Lawson said she thinks the group intends ~aptist Church's announcement that it impacts the lives of people they don't Stacia Harris/Old Gold and Black During the weekend, Westboro, an anti­ to protest in the city rather than on the ~ould protest at the university. Even know," Eggers said. "It's hard to be in the Students hold lighted candles during gay and anti-lesbian group that spreads its university grounds because Westboro's though that protest was postponed, the majority and: know how people in the the Unite for Peace vigil against hate. message through demonstrations, in­ primary contact has been with Winston­ ~rganizers of the vigil felt that it was still minority feeL!' formed the university that it would re­ Salem police. "Right now it seems like they . important to unify the campus against The vigil began as Father JudeDeAngdo groups as the Gospel Choir and God's Work­ schedule its visit for Nov. 28. The church are more interested in being in the city and patred.. offered the prayer of St. Francis and stu­ manship. Students who had both observed group had originally planned a protest for not on campus, but that is based on very ·•. : The tdea for the vtgll came from sopho- dents read passages from different reli­ and been. the target of discrimination told Oct. 28. preliminary information," Lawson said. Ptore Martin Price. Price slfid that when gious texts. their stories. Other features of the vigil in­ After the group members realized that Based on what she has heard from other ~e heard the Westboro Baptist Church Then Ken Zick, the vice president for cluded the reading ofMaya Angelou's "Hu­ Nov. 28 fell during Thanksgiving break, universities, Lawson said she expects the was coming, he thought that the commu­ student life and instructional resources, man Families" and a dance performed by they again postponed the visit indefinitely, church to apply fora paradepermitwith the nity should come together and stand up spoke about hatred in America, mention­ ' four students. Regina Lawson, the University Police Chief, city police. against the group's message of hatred. ing a nwriber of recent hate crimes. Towards the end of the vigil, audience said. "They typically establish communica­ . "Instead of having a protest, I decided "We come (to the vigil) because we members simultaniously lit their candle, at According to Lawson, a representative tion and follow procedures," she said. pn something more affirming,'' Price said understand that we cannot lock hatred out which time Joanna Iwata, the director of the from the church told Lt. Bailey Howard of But whether the Westboro church mem­ bfhis decision to hoU the vigil. "We had of the cainpus at our gates," Zick said. Benson University Center, sang her song the Winston-Salem Police that it would try bers will come or not remains uncertain. to do something that would spur us on to The vigil then centered around personal to reschedule for either December or Janu­ "They're an unpredictable group," Zick further action." statements and music by such student See Vigil, Page AS ary. said. Conference to focus on global medieval stU4ies ·i 8y Tim MacPhail According to Ulrike Wiethaus, an associ­ The first session ofthe conference, sched­ sor of English, and· Olga Valbuena, an as­ Wiethaus and Christopher Hodgkins, a Old Gold and Black Reporter ate professor of humanities and the coordi­ uled to begin at 10: 15 a.m., is titled, "East sistant professor of English. · professor of English at UNC-G, who will nator of the conference, the goal of the and West: Crossings, Pathways, Mirrors" According to Valbuena, her expertise in . speak about Pocahontas ... Continuing with its schedule of events daylong seminar is to gather all the faculty features speakers Paul Cobb and Claire the area comes from a partnership she has Three distinct sessions throughout the celebrating the Year of Globalization and at the university who teach early modem Schen, assistant professors ofhistory.