Lte ' ic _11 February 14, 2000 Celebrate Valentine's Day by read- ing about the history of the holiday for lovers, and some of the legends News 1-5 and myths that surround it. BLCKHSTRYMNTH Campus Notes 4 Classifieds 5 Opinions 6-7 Sports 8-9 Lifestyles 11-12 The iFaflri Call 599-3159 or an visit us at Tucker Hall Rm. 309 1uJ.91 T V cOF i Check us out online at /5 No. 11 *j(i%04I www.thefamtuan.com TALLAHASSEE, FL Meetings aside, students still waiting FAMU BY MERLIN JnBAPTISTE employees Contributing Editor While the 19th century Goodwar Plantation sitting east of the Tallahasse find FSU Memorial Hospital undergoes restoratie for the April opening of the main house black student leaders continue to expre' concerns about Gov. Jeb Bush's One ~hy Florida Initiative and Equity in Education Plan. The initiative, signed as an executive ::V1::i .JNDE and order last November, ends racial prefer ;M1ERLIN JnBAPTISTE ences and set-asides in state contractin, correspondent and and university admissions. However, last week, when hundreds o; .ontributing Editor students filled the Capitol rotunda, govern- BIBai It was Hattie ing themselves accordingly after marching Paul's fate to be in a classroom to the Capitol, FAMU student representa- on the second floor of the Gore Education tives Corey Alston, Aziza Bowzer. Complex (GEC) two consecutive Andrew Gillum and Melanie Roussell were able to submit a list of amendment. nights. for the governor to consider. "i first noticed the bag on The Famuan RaSHANI BOYNTON Thursday." said the senior custo- Left to right. FSU student Sen. Christopher M. Chestnut. BOR Chancellor Adam Herbert, FAMU stu- Please see MEETING! 3 dial worker. Paul said she com- Sdent Sen. Andrew Gil/urn and BOR member Steven Uhlfelder discuss the Equity in Education plan. pleted her duties, but didn't both- er the abandoned bag because she thought a student left it behind. However, when Paul returned Citizens air concerns for One Florida the following evening, with co- worker Freddie Johnson, the bag BY ANGELA GUMBS admission . The plan, expected to take was exactly where she saw it the Contributing Editor effect in the fall of 2000, has previous night. "This time, Freddie opened the Last Thursday's third been the topic of debate that lead public bag to see what was inside." she hearing to discuss 'o three public hearings including Gov Jeb said. Bush's One Florida Initiative had .ne joint legislative session in The workers still had no idea a turnout of more than 1000 peo- [allahassee last week. Mark Casteel, assistant to the that they had uncovered a trea- pie. sure until they saw a picture of The initiative passed senate president Toni Jennings as an the missing object in Monday's executive order last November, said 60 speakers spoke in each of Tallahassee Democrat. "ends racial preferences and set- he two rooms of the Knotts "I was excited to find out this asides in state contracting and 'i1ilding, the site of the hearing was something valuable," said university admissions." It con- .oncerning One Florida. Paul. tains equity plans for contracting It's not our order it's the gov- Florida State officials said the hiring and also in education. The ernor's," said Sen. Jack Latvala valued Jefferson-Eppes trophy, a equity in education portion R-Palm Harbor, who presided silver pitcher-shaped keepsake, includes a Talented 20 program over a portion of the hearing on dissappeared from the president's which guarantees Florida the fourth floor. high box of Doak Campbell Stadium school seniors graduating in the Students protested against the One Flonida Intiatve. Gov Jeb Bush's exec- late January without a trace. top 20 percent state university Please utiye order eliminating affirmative action, at the Knott Building on Thursday. see HEARING! 3 The trophy is a combined namesake of former United States :esident Thomas Jefferson and igrandson Francis Eppes VII, Once a year is not enough for love t. fee-time Tallahassee mayor. I have spent the past week abbreviated. I have abridged my other wsomen's interest maga- Though the Jefferson-Eppes thinking and talking about what I thoughts and my writing. I have zines feature the perfect wedding: trophy was given to FSUJ as a was going to write in this col- taken the most personal of my From the dresses to the lingerie to permanent loan from the El umn. It is impossible to write pleasures and pains, shoved them the reception. Those pastel-col- [allahassee Historical Society, when you have no inspiration and to the side, and written-no mat- ored candy hearts tell your secret aind inaugurated for the FSU and when writer's block has hindered ter how much it hurts or how~ bad love to "Be Mine." University of Virginia football your progress. But how do you it feels. Throughout the days leading to came in 1995, the winning team write when you have too much I am writing about love. Feb. 14. my ears fill with the takes it home every year. inspiration, too many words on It's hard not to think of love in incessant winging and laments of However, sometime between one subject? the season of romantic bliss. those wanting to be held and Jan. 22 and 26, the relic, once NATALIE T.J. TINDALL That was my dilemma. Everywhere you go, the Martha cherished and touched during supported by a wooden base So I have condensed. I have Stewart Living, Glamour and Please see TiNDALL! 6 Please see TROPHY! 3 News The Famuan/February 14, 2000 Divisions get 1-year accreditation BIEFS dieted. In an article last Monday the dean faculty offices. BY KARA PALMER said the school xwould fall short of ACE- "All in all, this could have been worse." LOCl'AL Contributing Editor JMC standard in tour criteria: governance. said James Haw kins, associate dean. budget, facilities and equipment, and fac- The team did point out a few strengths House Speaker's analogy offends somie The div isions of jour nalisim and media ulty. within the program. Members we rc TALL - House speaker of the School of Journalism. Media and AHA\SSFE John "We've got some problems." Ruggles impressed by teacher dedication to stu- Thrashet stood before the Tallahassee Graphic Arts has received a temporary said. "We can fix them in a year or less." dents, and the national reputation students Tiger B'y Club. a political and used accreditation status. The three-day process group, He said that provisional accreditation is have earned through internships at some of a basketball analogy to describe black law'- wxas completed last Wednesday wxith a pro- still accreditation, but only for one year. the largest media organizations in the maker Kendrick Meek's. D-Miami. opposi- visional accreditation recommendation by When the ACEJMC site team x a hbetre nation. The team also point'ed out that the tion to Gos_ Jeb Bush's One Florida a tour-member team. in 1994, the school alsr' students are focused and com- Initiativ e wxhich ends affirmative action. The div isions met 10 of the 12 criteria lacked governance. nuitted, and able to create "I truly hav e believed that wshite men requtired for full accreditation of the A faculty' representati, Opportunities for themselves. can't jump. I believed that until I started Accreditation Council on Education in said a school cannot lack t; Students said the team wxorking around Kendrick said the Journalism and Mass Communication. Meek" same criteria two consec.. o 'members treated them with a Jacksonville Republican. ACEJMC said the school lacks gover- tive visits, because that lot of respect and was vers Thrashei released a statement that blast- nance, along xwith adequate equipment and automatic grounds for pros co>ncerned with their well ed the St. Petersburg Times, for news coy- facilities for faculty and laboratory equip- sional accreditation or I(, ' being. er age of the speech. The speaker also said ment for media students. of accreditation. "The member for the PR he regrets offending any one, though he Lacking governance means the faculty. the division chair, the dean, the proxost One faculty member sail punblic relations) sequence desciribed the opposition to Bush's plan a~s he was not surprised at the a "whine-fest." and president are not on the same page. s as generally sincere, she provisional accreditation Standard one of ACEJMC standards sta- RUGCIGALES asked us questions that would tus. benefit us __ the students," Black national anthem has 100th birthday say s "the chief administratixe oflficer of the unit and the administrative associates "It's obvious that we need a ness facili- said Aaron Paxton Arnold, a public rela- MII AMI - Last we ekend. Flirida ty, a new space." said Phillip Jeter. associ- tions senior. Memorial College celebrated the 100th must proxvide intellectual, academic, and professional leadership to advance the ate professor. "Hopefully' in a year we will The Chicago native said, "I'm not sur- anniversairy of "Lift Es 'rxy Voice and be able to show progress to a new facility. prised that we got the provisional rating. James W\eldon Johnson. cause of the unit - both within the univer- Sing~xxwritten by Throughout the week the team met wxith we took a low blow when two of the PR in Jacksonv ille. with music composed by' J. sity and to outside constituencies." "We are working on a new tenure poli- students from the four journalism professors left." Rosamond Johnson, his brother. The song sequences: broadcast, public relations, Ruggles said he has been trying to was created on the front porch of the cy." said Dean Robert Ruggles.