.'11' ' II IT1 ''l Manhunt Devils dominate ~ Index ~ Duke's defense ~ A&E 85-6 Deacon Notes 82 I Briefly A2 Editorials A6-8 shuts down ~ lli Calendar B6 Perspectives 88 Deacon players Classified 84 Scoreboard 82 Sports/81 I Comics 86 Sports 81-2 ~ ~ Visit our web sfte at httpi!ogb. wtu.edu Cto require fres en to buy laptops By .Theresa Felder The plan is a result of consultation' through the Computing Initiative, will not result in an increase in interest loan over four years or receiving financial aid News Editor International Center for Computer Enhanced Learn­ tuition, and students will not be required to purchase a from the university to cover the additional cost, the . ing, a consulting firm which was begun last fall and is laptop through the university, according to a UNC press release said. Following in·the footsteps of this university, the Tar headed by Provost David Brown. press release. The funds for the additional financial aid - for a Heels will soon be equipped with laptop computers. Conversations about this university's program had Instead, incoming freshmen may bring their own projected 40 percent of the students-will come from Beginning in the fall of 2000, incoming freshmen begun before ICCEL was created, however, according laptops, as long as it meets the proper specifications. approximately $9 million in special academic-enhance­ who attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel to Jay Dominick, an assistant vice president. Students who opt to buy laptops from UNC can choose ment funds given to UNC annually by the North Hill will be required to have laptops, UNC announced Unlike this university's Plan for the Class of 2000, from three payment options: buying a machine from Feb. 12. the UNC plan, known as the first phase of the Carolina one ofthe Student Stores on campus, taking out a low- See UNC, Page A5 SG committees fill calendars By D~~ ~urand undergraduate application. SGReporter Campus-wide parties designed to bring together Greeks and inde­ In Student Government commit­ pendents are the primary responsi­ tee meetings this week, the Stu­ bility ofthe Committee on' Student dent Relations, Academic, and Ju­ Relations. In order to promote stu­ dicial Committees met to discuss dent-faculty integration, the com­ importantupcoining events on their mittee also organizes. student-faulty · respective ca~~ndars. mixers throughout the year. Notable devel9pments included Committee chairwoman sopho­ plans for a nutrition fair, student more Angela Moratti said, "It is talent search and major fair. our job to bring students together, Also, a student initiative intro­ duced a possible alteration of the See SG, Page A5 •' ... ' > :· .· .. ~ .. ' ' Students opt for Noel Fox! Old Gold and Black own curriculum Painting a masterpiece Workers repaint the doors going into the second floor Benson University center food court. The university often improves campus buildings through By Suzanne DuBose within the university's rigid divi­ routine upReep. Old Gold and Black Reporter sional requirements. "The notion is supposed to give In recent years, student interest students flexibility within the core in the university's open curricu­ requirements," Rupp said. lum program has declined. "I think it's really a good pro­ "Generally speaking we get gram ... it made my education at about half a dozen applications per Wake Forest much more enjoy­ Sororities have rich national history semester," said Susan Rupp, an able," junior Jennifer Bumgarner assistant professor of history and said. By Tyrese Howard and women's movements. sisters were interested in establish­ in the women's suffrage march of head of the open curriculum com­ "I came in knowing what I Contributing Reporter Twenty-two undergraduate ing an organization committed to 1913 - the group's first service mittee. wanted to do and taking divisionals women founded the Delta Sigma the promotion of high cultural, in­ project. "The number of applications has would have been a disadvantage," Sororities attract young women Theta sorority Jan. 13, 1913, on the tellectual and moral standards In 1980, sorority Founder Bertha gone down a lot," said Helga senior Andrew Frey said. In place who want to bond together in sis­ Black campus of among its members. In 1930, Delta Campbell and the then-national Welsh, an associate professor of of divisionals, students can take terhood. The predominantly black Howard Sigma Theta became Delta Sigma president, Mona H. Bailey ,led 8,000 politics and a member of the open substitute classes that are more rel­ sororities are no exception. QHistory University Theta, Inc. Deltas in a reenactment of that his­ curriculum committee. evant to their fields ofstudy, higher These groups have rich histo· in Washing­ Beginning a long tradition ofpub­ toric march. Deltas also participated Open curriculum allows highly ries, during which they have con­ ;,f~Month ton. The lic service, the founders of Delta motivated students more freedom See Open, Page A3 tributed much to Black History .. founding Sigma Theta represented Howard See Sororities, Page A5 Women find room at the top Students say leadership positions equallj; occupied by women By Travis Langdon emerged as leaders in numbers compa­ dent of Resident Student Association. Old Gold and Black Reporter rable to their male counterparts. Junior. Jennifer Bumgarner, who is Although consensus among women on the steering committee for the In a society constantly evolving to leaders seems to be that sex does not Women's Issues Network, said that distribute rights and power more equi­ hinder someone from attaining a high­ one issue that concerns women leaders tably to its diverse inhabitants, greater level position on campus, they think is the role females play in the class­ numbers of this is not necessarily what is found in room. She said that some women seem women find society. to be less likely to speak out in class, themselves Some attributed this difference to the because such assertive action is gener­ in positions more educated and open-minded vot­ ally associated with masculinity. ofauthority. ers or colleagues of a college setting. She also expressed concern that some This pro­ ''I feel like the level of equality be­ fields of study seem to be more male­ gression is tween men and women's abilities to dominated in higher-level classes be­ reflected on become leaders at Wake is pretty high, cause more men intend to pursue ca­ campus by the many female students at least among the organizations that reers in these areas, and she noted a who have distinguished themselves I've dealt with. In society, I guess it's a lack of women role models, both on Walking away awinner through outstanding achievements as little less balanced, but it seems to be and off campus. moving in the right direction. I think Students leave the Pit with a tray of goodies and walk toward South Campus. Students can both students and leaders. "I don't think that our administra­ From Student Govemment to the that is very important as this generation tion, or even necessarily our faculty, is rarely resist taking their food outside on sunny days. myriad of student-run organizations of women prepares to enter the work available atthe university, women have force," said junior Erin Grall, the presi- See Female, Page A3 '· "'. -, A2Thursday, February 19, 1998 Old Gold and Black News ,, '.• -NE University plans ' new golf course By Tim MacPhail Old Gold and Black Reporter "They want to build one of the finest courses in the country." Though students soon will be able A to boast about attending a univer­ Jerry Haas sity with its own championship­ Men's golf coach caliber golf course, they will have to take their clubs elsewhere to play. The state-of-the-art Wake Forest Palmer Course Design Co., owned E1 Golf Club will likely be located by Arnold Palmer, '51, will design peOI seven miles from the Reynoldacam­ the course. The layout is currently ever pus on the Brookberry Farm estate in preliminary stages. ticip near Robinhood Road in Lewisville. Both Wellman and Haas said the dinn "They want to build one of the new course will work to the great facu finest courses in the country," Jerry advantage of the university's golf each Haas, the men's golf coach, said. program, which already holds three they Ron Wellman, the athletic direc­ national championship titles. n tor, said that the course will not be "A course like this will allow our hous for student or public use and will be golf teams to continue the excellent hom available only to club members and tradition (they currently enjoy)," Ei, members of the university's men's Wellman said. hers and women's golf teams. The new facility will aid recruit­ or he Wellman compared the situation ing by increasing the prestige of the thed to that of other university athletic golf program, Haas said. It will be .."It complexes such as Groves Stadium, used as a primary practice facility oppo which is used by university athletic for the teams, he said, although they clas1 teams but not by students. will likely continue to utilize the Adri: An article published Feb. 7 in the on-campus Haddock Golf Center Alun Winston-Salem Journal reported and nearby Old Town Golf Club for this ( that several former university golf­ practice as well. "T ers had been contacted about be­ Well man said the new course the fi coming members of the new golf could be completed by the fall of atmo club, but university officials did not 1999 if all stages of the project go ence: disclose details ofthe project and its well, but no definite completion date a visi 1inancing.