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Board approves tuition increase Deacon Dollars The board of trustees approved

tentative recommendations for tuHion and housing fees at its recent meeting.

· By Heather Seely News Editor

The board of trustees approved tentative recommendations for 1999-2000 student fees, including the lowest tuition increase in the decade, at its meeting Feb. 4-5.

The 4.7 percent increase of $970 will raise tuition to $21,420. Although the per­cent increase is the smallest of the decade, the dollar increase is comparable to other

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recent years (excluding 1996-97, the year of the implementation of the Plan for the Class of2000), falling into a range of$850-$1,000.

The increase is tentative and will not be fully approved until the March meeting in which the trustees will vote on the entire budget. However, the increases of all stu­dent fees will not exceed the preliminary figures approved in the recent meeting.

Last year tuition increased 5 .I percent.

President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. said the lower increase was part of a plan to keep the school affordable to all students.

the university's tuition placed 36 of 41. Last year, theuniversitywas the cheapest

of the three North Carolina schools on the list, ranking behind Duke University and Davidson College.

"We are committed to keeping Wake Forest accessible to a diverse group of students," Hearn said in a press release. "As part of that effort, the university is deter­mined to slow tuition increase as much as possible."

In Barron' sProfile of American Colleges for"most competitive" private institutions,

If the other two do not increase their tuition, the university's tuition will surpass Davidson, making it the second most ex­pensive school in the state. Single*

Double* $4,080 480 13.3 $3,780 330 9.6

See Trustees, Page A9 'Rooms in S1uden!Apar1melrts and Polo Residence Hall

Analysis courses OK'd Faculty adopts spirit of quantitative reasoning classes

By Theresa Felder Managing Editor

The faculty approved the prin­ciple of a quantitative analysis re­quirement Feb. 8, though with a smaller majority than supported the first five proposals of the Curricu­lum Review Committee.

Under the requirement, "Each Wake Forest. undergraduate will take at least one course that requires

, . . quantitative reasoning either as a qualifYiiig Ci:nmeoffering in Divi­sion II, as an elective or as a major course requirement."

Courses such as biology 1 13, chemistry Ill and 116,physics I 13 and 114 and math 108-112 would satisfy the requirement, and a sub­committee of the Committee on Academic Planning will determine which other courses will qualify, said James Powell, the secretary of the faculty and an associate profes­sor of classical languages.

"(The committee was) well · aware that the one-course

requirement is not doing much more than making ... an

important gesture to solving a society-wide problem."

Claudia Thomas Associate dean of the college

Clliuaia Thomas, an associate dean of the college and the chair­woman of the Curriculum Review Committee, said the motion is im­portant as the 21st century ap­proaches.

"Science and technology have be­come so integral to our culture that we wanted to ensure everyone who leaves Wake Forest would have at leastminimumexposure"to a course involving statistical reasoning, Tho­mas said.

The faculty also did not want the university to be a school that did not have such a requirement.

"Thatjustdidn'tseemright,"Tho­mas said.

The Curriculum Review Com­mittee debated limiting the require­ment to Division II but decided to include options in other depart­ments, Thomas said. "We decided that we'd keep it broad because there are some students who under­stand concepts better when they're presented in (the) context" of eco­nomics, sociology or another sub­ject involving quantitative reason­ing.

The faculty was also thinking in terms of"maximum flexibility for students," Thomas said.

Thomas said the requirement is somewhat symbolic. "(The com­mittee was) well aware thatthe one­course requirement is not doing

See Curriculum, Page A9

Staff salary increases cut during fiscal constraint

Seniors Tamara Payden-Travers and Leslie Alverez talk in the sun Feb. 10. The unseasonably warm weather drew many students out onto the Magnolia Quad to bask in the sun.

By Jared Klose Assistant News Editor

Many university staff members reacted with displea­sure to a memorandum sent last month by the president's office, although it addressed the topic of staff salary increases. The letter delineates a deviation from the annually expected 5 per cent pay raise that staff mem­bers had grown accustomed to and replaces it with an incremental raise of 2.5 percent for the following school year.

A plan with no major increases for faculty and staff salaries, which taken together comprise the school's largest expense, was thus adopted by

the committee.

Homogeneity hurts progress By Jay Cridlin -the lack of cultural diversity.

Old Gold and Black Reporter

The chances are that if you have attended this university for any sig­nificant amount of time, then you have heard at least one comment about the nature ofits student popu­lation.

"This school is nothing but rich white kids."

A 1998 study by U.S. News and World Report showed that among comparable schools such as Duke, Vanderbilt or Rice universities, this university is by far the least diverse.

According to the letter, university expenditures have outpaced tuition increases in the past two decades and although tuition payments constitute the largest source of income for the school, the Budget Advisory Com­mit_tee was asked by President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. to fix the tuition increase next year at a rate ofless than 5 percent.

"There is NO diversity here." It is an issue that continues to

attract criticism from both white and minority students on campus

Ofthis university's students, 88 percent are white and a great

With that in mind, the committee was forced either to fmd new methods to generate revenue or curtail the amount of money being spent by the university. "Ever)'one here looks the same,"

students say. See Diversity, Page A5 The 1999-2000 budget reflects an endorsement of

Library launches Voyager catalogue By Travis Langdon

Assistant News Editor

Students, faculty and staff gathered in the atrium of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Feb. 9 for a reception to announce the recent implementation of the program Voy­ager, a new online catalog system.

The reception began with a few brief words from Library director Rhoda Channing outlining the structure of the new system and the events leading to its arrival 11t the university.

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The new system will offer several im­provements over Dynex, the previously existing system, including a departure from a text-based system to a more user-friendly hypertext format. This means that users will be able to use a mouse to select links, rather than typing letters into a keyboard.

Channing also thanked the people who supported the effort to install the Voyager program, including President Thomas K. Hearn; Ken Zick, the vice president for student life and instructional resources; and Jay Dominick, an assistant vice president.

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Each of the men spoke at the reception, in unanimous agreement with Channing's enthusiasm about the endeavor.

"Voyager is the latest generation of li­brary infonnation systems," Channing said. "It's a major step forward for our library."

Voyager also features hyperlinks, which will provide users with internet links to subjects related to the topic they are inter­ested in. Making the internet easily acces­sible from the catalog was something that

See Voyager, Page A4

the second option. A plan with no major increases for faculty and staff salaries, which taken together com­prise the school's largest expense, was thus adopted by the committee.

It is a solution that has not sat well with staff members.

"We don't stack up very well right now," said a staff member who wished to remain anonymous. "Even when you get a raise, then they increase the cost of faculty housing or something else. I don'tthink it's fair that we're being passed over. There needs to be some

See Salaries, Page A5

Celebrate we will Dave Matthews stopped at Wait Chapel Feb. 9 during his acoustic tour. For more information on the show, see Page 83.

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Physics professor puts astrology to the test By Brad Gnnton

Old Gold and Black Reporter

With statistics and experiments, physics professor Eric Carlson put astrology to the test that all sciences must pass in order to gain acceptance in the scientific community.

Carlson's lecture Feb. 6, "A Scientist Looks at As­trology," was sponsored by the Triad Area Skeptics Club, of which Carlson is president. According to Carlson, he started the organization in order to "pro­mote rational thinking and skepticism."

The focus of Carlson's presentation was using the scientific method to prove or disprove astrology, the belief that the position of the sun, moon, planets and stars eitherinfluence or are correlated with our lives. In one demonstration, he used the audience as subjects, giving each person a list of horoscopes that had ap­peared in the newspaper the day before. T'rte audience members were then asked to pick the two horoscopes that best described their days, and Carlson revealed

which horoscope matched each zodiac sign. If the horoscopes were accurate, then more than five

of the 30 audience members should have been able to pick which horoscope was theirs.

However, only two people found that their horo­scopes actually matched their day. Therefore, the horoscopes did not seem to be effective in predicting the future.

Despite this demonstration, Carlson noted that there are several different fonns of astrology, and many professional astrologers do not believe in the sun-sign astrology as seen in newspapers. He listed several experiments that had also shown astrology to be false and one well-known experiment that seemed to verity astrology. However, further investigations seemed to suggest the results of this experiment were biased.

"You might think that corrections are always good, but they're not if you're biased," Carlson said.

In addition to the tests, Carlson gave a number of reasons why astrology lacks merit. First of all, the dates listed in the newspaper for each zodiac sign are

ROTC navigates way in training weekend Course gives students experience they need

By Marina Mach Contributing Reporter

Although the university offers classrooms for liberal arts education, for authentic mili­tary training situations, the ROTC program must go elsewhere.

Sixty cadets from this university and Winston-Salem State University found the appropriate surroundings this past week­end at Fort Bragg, N.C. . The ROTC program ventured on this once-a-semester outing to concentrate on land navigation and team building.

"Many students don't realize that ROTC is actually training for a job," sophomore Nathan Huff said. "After college we will be in charge of soldiers; it's not just a game."

"The terrain was really challenging because the map that we had was not really accurate, we really had to use

what we had learned." lan Stevens Sophomore

kill you makes you stronger ... and I really learned a lot," Huff said of the weekend.

As this was the first field exercise, ROTC freshman were gradually introduced to the idea.

They completed their first field exercise paired with a senior and returned to the university a day early.

"There's really no good solid evidence that astrology works, and on top of that there's no

scientific reason that it should w~k." Eric Carlson -

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often incorrect. The 12 constellations that constitute the zodiac are those that the sun appears to pass through as the earth revolves around it, but there are actually 13 constellations through which the sun appears to pass. However, because the Babylonians bad a preference for the number 12, they decided not to include the constellation Ophiucus in the zodiac.

"There's really no good solid evidence that astrology works, and on top of that there's no scientific reason' that it should work," Carlson said.

Though astrology has no scientific basis, it still claims numerous devoted followers. Carlson suggested

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"People see these reams of data, and they think this is science," Carlson said.

Also, astrology gives people a sense of certainty in their lives, which Carlson said can be c.omforting in an unpredictable world. Howev'*, he said·that this cer~ tainty could sometimes tum out to be harmfuL

"Astrology columns commonly say soriiethfug like 'you will be with. a Libra,' and if you do .that you're eliminating yourself from contact with a sigrtificant number of people," Carlson.; · · ,

Graduate student Harik Yochum said that Carlson's use of scientific reasoning was an interesting approach to discussing astrology. ·

"It was cool to see hin:i apply statistic.s ·and the scientific method to astrology," Yochum sa,id. ·

Freshman Calvin Sims agreed. , · . ."1 thought it was really interesting, and it w,as educa-

tional too," Sims said. ·

Land navigation is an essential skill for cadets to master, Huff said.

After several days of preparation, the ROTC battalion left the campus early in the morning Feb. 5.

The university and WSSU students were well-prepared for the challenges Fort Bragg had to offer.

A student kicks a pieces of plasticware jutting up from the Magnolia Quad. The ~embers of Student Environmental Action Coalition stuck the plasticware there to .make tl'l!utudent body. aware of the waste made by the Pit

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Senior Davis McElwin said the weekend consisted of intensive day and night field i:raining, as well as a field leaders reaction course. Fort Bragg is an ideal setting for both activities with preset obstacle courses and a challenging field training course, he said.

"No one got lost - it was really good training, and everyone improved a lot over the weekend," McElwin said.

Stevens said, "Teamwork was one of the underlying principles that was taught in field training, the fact that we are a very cohesive group showed through."

SEAC forks Mag Quad in protest By Travis Langdon ·

Assistant News Editor During daylight hours, cadets were given

five hours to locate five points across the course, using a compass, a map and a pro­tractor.

The top three participants in each grade level in the field training course were awarded ribbons, but most notable was the performance of sophomore Stephanie Anderson, McElwin said.

· butthis proved to be wmecessary after the entire supply disappeared within hours of its placement on the Mag Quad. The sto-

ln attempt raise awareness about len plasticware was later found in plastic ARAMARK.'s decision to return silver- bags, apparently having been thrown in ware to the Pit, members of the Student the lounge of the Delta Sigma Phi frater­Environmental Action Coalition organized nity.

thing like that, but we were a little disap­pointed in the student body."

Not to be defeated, members of SEAC quickly obtained the stolen utensils and replaced them in the ground of the Mag Quad late on Feb. lO so that their message .could be recognized by students. "The terrain was really challenging be­

cause the map that we had was not really accurate, we really had to use what we had learned," said sophomore Ian Stevens.

Anderson was awarded a new Lensatic compass for her excellence in land naviga­tion.

an effort to "fork the Quad" Feb. 7. "When we first realh:ed that the silver- SEAC hopes that the statement will help students realize the amount of unnecessary waste created by disposable eating utensils and take advantage of the permanent sil­verware thatthe Pit now offers as a result of the organization's work.

She said she was honored to receive the award and felt it to be an important learning experience. "I didn't expect to be good at it," she said.

Cadets remained in the field for the dura­tion of the course and ate "meals ready to eat," pre-packaged army rations. A similar course was completed during the nights with a large swamp in the middle of the course providing an added challenge, jun­ior Diego Lummis said. .

"It was a very rewarding experience be­cause it was so difficult-whateverdoesn 't

The ROTC program will spend one more weekend in field training this semester, during which cadets will sleep in tents and work on assault tactics with mock combat.

"Next time FTX (Field Training Exer­cise) will be much more intense," Huff said.

To do this, SEAC members placed ware had be~!! taken, we got in touch with plasticware in carefully designated rows, Jim Coff~;y (thesuperintendentofgrounds) · creating the feeling of a graveyard on the because we thought it was facilities man­Magnolia Quad. The utensils used in the agement that had picked up the display, statement were collected over a period of and we had permission to set it up from the five days from the Pit, and the display was university's public art sculpture commit­meant to represent the amount of waste tee," said junior Connor McGowan, a that is created by using disposable flat- ll' SEAC member. "We later found out that it ware. was just something that a group of stu-

The organization intended to remove dents had done to be funny. I don't really the plastic utensils after its meeting Feb. 9, understand why anyone would do some-

"When we were thinking of ways to promote the silverware at the Pit somebody mentioned that they had forked a yard as a joke in high school," McGowan said. "We thought it would be funny to use that idea to draw attention what we were doing."

BRIEFLY Campus organizations may have their announcements listed by sending e-mail to news@ogb.wfu.edu, faxing to Ext. 4561 or writing to P.O. Box 7569. The deadline for inclusion in each week's paper is 5 p:m. Monday.

lnterVarsity to present two-part discussion

lnterV arsityChristianFellowship is presenting a two-part series on "Indictments Brought Against Christianity"beginningFeb.l2, "Is Christianity Sexist?" and Feb. 19 "Is Christianity Full ofHypocrisy?"

The lectures will be part of the regular meetings 6-7:30 p.m. on Fridays the Reynolda Hall Green Room and are open to anyone inter­ested.

Career Services Office to host career fair

The Career Services Office will host its inaugural Career Kaleido­scope Feb. 18 in Benson 401.

Experienced professionals repre­senting media, international, artis­tic, law enforcement and human resource fields will attend to make presentations and answer questions on these careers.

This forum is open to freshman through graduate studFnts of all majollS who are interest~d in intern-

ships, summer jobs or full-time employment.

Interested students must register in Career Services in Reynolda 008 by Feb. 12.

Call Career Services at Ext. 5902 for more information.

Biology honor society accepting applications

Tri-Beta, the biolcgy honor soci­ety, is accepting applications for membership.

Applications and information can be found online at www.students.wfu.edu/tribeta and in the foyer of Winston Hall.

Applications are due at noon Feb. 19 in the biology department office in Winston 226.

MBA school to hold infonnation session

The Babcock Graduate School of Management will hold an informa­tion session for its evening and ex­ecutive MBA programs.

The session will ~ke place from

10 a.m. to noon Feb. 20 in Worrell · 117.

Applicants sought for student assistantship .

Applications are being accepted for on student assistantship at the Worrell House in London. The stu­dent will arrive in London on May 21 or 22 and depart July 1 or later.

The student will assist with func­tioning of the house during visits by students and faculty from the Calloway School of Business and Accounting and the School ofLaw.

To apply submit a letter of appli­cation and at least one letter of rec­ommendation to Paul Orser, an as­sociate dean of the college, l 04 Reynolda Hall, by Feb. 22.

Sophomores need to declare majors soon

The time is here for sophomores to declare a major. Sophomores should sign up for an advising ap­pointment at the departrnent(s) of their choice Feb. 22~26.

The advising conferences will be held March 15-26.

Any sophomore who does not plan to declare a major at this time or who does not plan to return to the university in Falll999, must notify Hallie Arrington in the Registrar's Office.

Applications available for Royall Scholarship

The department of classicallan- . guages is accepting applications for the William Royall Scholarship, established in 1991 by a gift from the family and friends ofRoyall and his son, William B. Royall.

Royall came to the university in 1859 as a professor of classical lan­guages and later was the first full­time professor of English.

Royall's son was a professor of Greek for 63 years.

The scholarship provides an award of $500 for excellence in classical studies with preference given to students who plan to travel abroad to classical sites.

Applications are available in the department of classical languages, and the deadline is March 5. ·

Applications available for Hearn scholarship

Applications of the Thomas K. Hearn Jr. Scholarships for Excel­lence in Leadership and Service are available in the Volunteer Services Office and by the Benson Univer­sity Center Information Desk.

Rising seniors who have demon­strated leadership and service to the university and have accumulated at least a 2. 7 5 grade point average are eligible to apply.

The deadline is 5 p.m. March 16. Applications should be submit­

ted to the Provost Office inReynolda 204 or sent to P.O. Box 7688.

Spanish speakers invited to have lunch

The conversational Spanish table is coming back. It will meet from noon to 12:50 p.m. Wednesdays in the Benson Food Court. All levels of Spanish speakers are welcome.

Applications being accepted for Spain · Applications are now being ac­

cepted for study aqroad in Salainahca, Spain, duringthe Spring

2000 semester. See Cathy Harris in Tribble B20 I

for an application, or contact Viol eta Padron, an instructor of Romance languages, for more information.

Correction

The photo on Page A5 of the Feb. 4 issue incorrectly identified the photographer. Stacia Harris actually took the photo.

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Speech urges homosexuals' rights Amnesty International lecturer promotes global human-rights concerns

By Jenny Blackford Editor in Chi~(

Michael Heflin, the director of Amnesty International's new Out Front program, described dis­crimination on the basis of sexual orientation "the most pervasive and accepted fonn of discrimination in the world today" during a speech Feb. 8.

Heflin, speaking to a crowd of more than 75 people, told how 12 countries still kill people who are gay, lesbian and even those that support gay-rights move­ments. Amnesty International has been successful in documenting a number of cases in these countries and even helped one woman from Romania gain release from prison.

Two weeks ago, Chile repealed its sodomy statute, but Heflin is dismayed at the actions of other Latin American nations who stand by and do nothing while ;'private death squads" harass and harm lesbians and gays.

"Young people, in general, are much more tolerant and ahead of their elders in tolerance."

Michael Heflin Director of Amnesty International's Out Front program

issues of human rights violations against lesbian and gay people," Heflin said. ·

Domestic issues were also addressed, as 15 states still have sodomy statutes in place. North Carolina's sodomy statute makes any same-sex sexual relations a felony carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Out Front and Amnesty International are trying to get the remaining states to repeal their sodomy statutes as well.

and ahead of their elders in tolerance," he said. He alsc encouraged the audience to get involved in Amnest) · International and other groups in order to be mento~ ·. for the next generation and be "ambassadors of toler· ance."

Heflin warned, however, that as homosexual issue~·. and people become more visible they are often morf ' vulnerable. Hate crimes in this country have increased ' dramatically in the past few years he said. In New Y or~·. City, for example, hate crimes have increased 80 per· cent in the past two years.

Heflin also spoke to Katy Harriger's, a professor ol· ' politics, Constitutional Law class earlier in the day. · Heflin addressed the significance of Supreme Cour1 ' decisions in the area oflesbian and gay rights. He alsc ·, said that 170 cities and counties have amended theh • anti-discrimination policies to include sexual orienta··, tion, but the court has yet to classifY sexual orientation·· as an issue of anti-discrimination policy like race and religion.

The speech was part of the Year ofGlobalization and. Michael Heflin shared stories of atrocities com· mitted against the minority group, but said situ­ations are improving in many areas.

In Brazil and Colombia, for example, action on the part of private individuals has resulted in kidnapping and deaths of gays and AIDS educators. Out Front is ;'trying to create a worldwide network to address the

Heflin said it was promising, however, that more gay-rights organizations are springing up across the country. "I think things are headed in a more positive direction," he said, praising the work of support orga­nizations in high schools and on college campuses.

"Young people, in general, are much more tolerant

Diversity and co-sponsored by the department ol women's studies, the gay-straight student alliance and the university chapter of Amnesty International.

SG Student Government meets at 7 p.m. every Tues­day. The committees met this week. Executive officers may be reached at Ext. 5293 or Box 7292.

Academic · The Academic Committee is continuing its effort to evaluate the degree to which the University is fulfilling its proposed goals for the Class of2000.

Also on the committee's agenda is a project to eliminate the discrepancies be­tween the level of difficulty in different first year seminars. · The committee surveyed students about their seminars and hopes to have a consen­sus by next week.

The issue of computers also played a role in the Academic Committee's meeting. Specifically, the committee is considering ways to let students keep their e-mail ad­dresses and update their ThinkPads after

graduation. Also pertaining to computers, the committee is trying to promote a newly revamped Web.page offering critiques of various professors at the university.

The committee is also preparing the de­tails of"Meet Your Major Day," in which students can meet with the faculty from different areas of study. The event has been tentatively scheduled for March 2 from 1 0 a.m. to 3 p.m. in either the Benson Univer­sity Center or the Reynolda Hall Green Room.

Appropriations and Charter The Appropriations and Charter Com­

mittee postponed its meeting until today. When the group convenes it will discuss

plans to create a pamphlet advising organi­zations interested in obtaining a charter what steps need to be taken.

Campus life The Campus Life Committee is waiting

for the results of a recently distributed so­cial climate survey about the weekend ten­dencies of students. The committee plans to use the results to help create more recre­ational options available.

Anotherareaofinterestin the committee's meeting pertains to Student Health Ser­vices. The committee reviewed positive and negative student anecdotes about their experiences with Studemt Health Services hoping to make suggestions as to how to improve the program.

The committee is also working on a pro­gram in which students would be randomly selected to have dinner with the university's deans to give them feedback on student concerns.

Judiciary Next week the Judiciary Committee will

present a bill recommending that the book­store carry only blue books with the honor pledge or statement on them. The bill will recommend that the books have an extra signature block so that students can sign the honor pledge.

The committee might also present an­other bill on the process of appointing com­mittee chairmen. The bill would recom­mend that chairmen be appointed in the spring after the election of the speaker of the house instead of in the fall.

The committee continued its work on a pamphlet on the judicial system.

Physical Planning

struction at the general assembly meeting: lastweek. :

The committee listed places on campus · with drainage problems and will present the list to Physical Facilities. .

The committee also plans to talk with ·: Residence Life and Housing and Resident · Student Association about change machines in the residence halls and getting dryers fixed.

Next week the committee will present a bill about adopting a street near campus.

Public Relations ·,

The Public Relations Committee is fo- · · cusing the majority ofits attention to adver- ~ rising and promoting the plans to build a ' new re<.:reation center and a parking deck on campus. Student interest for both projects .' was recognized through a constituent sur- •

The Physical Planning Committee dis- vey that the committee recently conducted, cussed the parking deck and the inforrna- and the group is now discussing ways to . · tion that was presented relating to its con- · maintain a strong level of support.

Intramural Indoor Tournament· · ..

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Where: New Indoor (next to

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WoRL n'WIDE Judge rules Moonies subject of discrimination SAO PAULO, Brazil- The New Hope Ranch, whichservesasthe Rev. SunMyung Moon's center of Latin American opera­tions, has been vindicated by a Brazilian judge, lawyers said Feb. 10.

The judge ruled Feb. 4 thatMoonandhis group were victims of religious bias. He revoked the ord.erthatthey leave the ranch.

The ranch was founded three years ago. It belongs to Moon's Association ofFamilies for Unification and World Peace, formerly the Unification Church.

The 74,000-acreranchcontainsaschool, researchcenter,meetinghouseandadining hall. I twas broughtunderchargesofpollut­ing the two rivers in Jardim, the town that the ranch is located in, 620 miles northwest ofSao Paulo.

The evacuation of tb.e more than 1 00 inhabitants of the ranch was ordered by a judge substituting for Judge Gemldo de Ahneida Santiago, who was on vacation at the time that the charges were brought.

Santiago reversed the evacuation order, believing it was motivated by "religious prejudice."

Animal House college might eliminate fratemfties

wasannouncedFeb.10., Officials were not speCific about whether

the plan requires Gree~ to go coed or to disband their groups altogether, but it was initiated because of concerns regarding drinking and social fragmentation prob-

. lemsamongthestudents. James Wright, the Ivy League school's

president, said that this will be the biggest change for the college since 1972 when women were admitted.

Part of the plan is the amassing oftens of millions of dollars for the construction of new housing, dining and social areas.

Dartmouthhashadfraternitiesformore than 158years.BecausethetownofHanover has approximately 7,000 residents, and the school itself has 4,300 undergracjs, the Greek system constitutes a major part of the social life on campus.

Falwell says 'Teletubbies' character is homosexual ROANOKE, Va.-TheRev. Jerry Falwell, acontroversialright-wingminister,hascon­demned the popular television show "Teletubbies" ofhaving a homosexual cast member.

Falwell accused Tinky Winky, a plll'ple teletubbie with an upside-down triangle on hishead,Feb.lOofcarryingapurse. Tinky Winky has a male voice.

Steve Rice, a spokesman for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, said that the purse is actually a magic bag.

"The fact that he carries a magic bag does not make him gay," Rice said. "It's a children's show, folks. To think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children's show is kind of outlandish."

: Hugh Howards, an assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, demonstrates knot theory to his calculus class.

HANOVER, N.H. - Greek life at Dartmouth College may soon be forced to conform to organizations more like Alpha Phi Omegaandothercoedfraternities. The college that inspired Animal House has put an end to single-sex Greek organizations in an effort to promote "respectful relations between women and men," according to a letter addressed to the students. The change Howards took the group outside and had them join hands in a circle and then try to undo themselves. Compiled from news services

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the program's supporters felt was very impor­tant.

"It was a dream for us to have an online catalog that was seamlessly connected to the web," Zick said.

However, library patrons will not be the only beneficiaries of the new system. Electronic re­sources librarian Susan Smith said that Voyager will also be a major assetto the library's staff in terms of organization.

In addition to the research tools that the new system will provide users, Voyager will link the catalogs of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, the Professional Center Library and Coy C. Car­penter Library at the School of Medicine.

At the meeting, Hearn said that he was enthusiastic about the implications of such a system.

"We've heard from some of the faculty at the professional center who think the new

system is light years better than Dynex was. I think this is because people have gotten used to something that looks like

an internet search. They tend to like point· and-click and graphical user interfaces

instead of the older text-based systems." Rhoda Channing

Director of Z. Smith Reynolds Library

"We expect everything to be finished by the endofthesummer,andthereasonwesaythatis because we're completing the process in phases," Smith said.

"Our next phase will be to bring up an image server so that we can start using digital images on the catalog."

"This creates a growing sense of unity be­tween our three schools and the students, faculty and others that use those libraries' resources. We look forward to more collaborations like this in the future," he said.

Voyagerwas among four systems considered by a team of library staff members from the university's three schools.

To evaluate each of the systems, the team used the existing online catalogs at Kansas State University, the College of William & Mary, Eastern Carolina University and the Worrell Professional Center before ultimately deciding on Voyager.

Also expected to be available on Voyager is a citation server, which will allow users to access information from the catalog and certain data­bases from the library. Prior to this system, multiple databases could not be reached from the same server. · ·

Students and faculty will be informed of the new features as they become available.

Channing said that Voyager will not cost any more than the old system did once it is imple­mented.

Although this process is not complete, esti­mates indicate thatthe expense will be similar to what it was when Dynex was installed. Channing attributes this to recent improvements in tech­nology.

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Rhoda Channing, the director ofthe Z. Smith Reynolds Library, addresses students, fac· ulty and staff at a reception for the launch o1 Voyager, an on-line catalogue system, Feb. 9 in the atrium of the library. Voyager will replace the text-based Dynex system.

Although the only part of the new system currently available to users is the on-line catalog system, the library staff expects additions to be made without delay.

And although the new system was only re­cently installed, Channing said that the feed­back has been very positive.

''We've heard from some of the faculty at the professional center who think the new system is light years better than Dynex was. I think this is because people have gotten used to something that looks like an internet search," Channing said. "They tend to like point -and-click and graphical user interfaces instead ofthe older text-based systems."

PoLICE

Maker of indoor slide referred to dean

In Luter Residence Hall, a stu­dent created a slide by lining a hall­way floor with a sheet of plastic and then covering it with water at 8:42

' p.m. Feb. 6. This incident was forwarded to

Harold Holmes, an associate vice president and the dean of student services.

Theft Keys and a wallet belonging to a

student were stolen from a Davis House lounge area between 12:15 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. Jan. 30. The student left the items unattended in the lounge area. The wallet con­tained $10, a credit card and an identification card.

A student's driver's license and

BEAT credit card were taken from a table in the Benson University Center food court between 5:30p.m. and 5:34p.m. Feb. I.

Feb. 6, $40 was taken from a student's wallet. The student left her wallet unattended from 11: 15 a.m. to 11:21 a.m. in a Davis com­puter lab.

A case containing 100 compact discs belonging to a student was taken between 9 p.m. Jan. 30 and 3 p.m. Feb. 3 fromaNorthResidence Hall room.

The items were worth about $1,300.

The student waited to report the missing items until Feb. 7.

Damage Someone damaged an emergency

telephone outside the main entrance to Bostwick Residence Hall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Feb. 6.

A student received a hara~ing e-

mail from someone between 2:30 p.m. and 3:17p.m. Feb. 4.

A student reported someone cut the window screen to his Efird Resi­dence Hall room between 3 p.m. Jan.28and 12:01 a.m.Feb.l.

A vendingmachineinPoloResi­dence Hall was damaged between 8 a.m. and 8:40 a.m. Feb. 2. Food items worth $10 were taken from the machine.

A metal statue, belonging to a student, was damaged between 10 a.m.Jan.29and7p.m.Jan.30. The student, who was working on the statue for a class, had left it unat­tended outside Luter. Damage to the statue was estimated at $75.

Miscellaneous A group oflocal high school stu­

dents,includingsomewhohadbeen drinking alcohol, were walking on campus near the path to Reynolda Gardens at 10:14 p.m. Feb! 5. A

University Police officer noticed some of the high school students had beendrinkingalcoholafterstop­ping the group to tell them the gar­denswere closed. The students were asked to leave campus and escorted home.

At 10:50 a.m. Feb. 6, a Univer­sity Police officer charged two un­derage students in Poteat House with consuming alcohol. The of­ficer was in the residence hall in­vestigating a noise complaint. This incident was forwarded to the dean's office.

A University Police officer asked two teenagers to leave campus after they could not give a valid reason for being on campus. The incident occurred at 11:47p.m.Feb. 6inLot Q, nextto the Scales Fine Arts Cen­ter.

University Policehandled36 calls from Feb. l to Feb. 7 including 16 incidents and investigations and 20 requests for service. ,

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big at Navytourney By Jessica Reigle

Contributing Reporter

Sophomore Amy Powell dominated the U.S. Naval Academy tournament recently, beating out more than

· 70 other debaters to be named the top varsity debater of the tournament.

Powell claimed the award with 226.5 points, a full three points ahead of the second place speaker, an impressive margin considering that top speakers' points frequently differ by a mere half point.

The tournament was held Jan. 29-31 in Annapolis, Md. and consisted of more than 70 speakers from 35 different colleges and universities. Since debate still tends to be a male-dominated event, with males comprising two-thirds of the participants, Powell's ranking as top speaker is even more outstanding.

The top speaker of a tournament is decided by a panel of judges, who give ratings to each individual speaker. The debater who has the highest ratings at the end of eight rounds is then named top speaker.

Powell, who debated for four years in high school, said she works very hard to develop her debate skills. "It takes a lot of work, but I really enjoy the activity. Being named top speaker (in Annapolis) was a big step," sne said.

"Debate enables you to develop very important critical thinking and communication skills," Powell said of the hard work she consistently puts into each debate.

Powell and her teammate, sophomore Mark Y opp, who finished as the third-ranked speaker in the tour­nament, also had a successful weekend for a team. They effectively debated the case to protect breast feeding in the workplace. "Mothers should be able to

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"It takes a lot of work, but I really enjoy the activity. Being named top speaker

(in Annapolis) was a big step."

Amy Powell Sophomore

breast feed in the workplace and not get fired," Powell said. ·

After the preliminary rounds, they were the top seed with a 7-1 record and reached the semi-finals before an unfortunate loss to Harvard.

"Powell andY opp were the best team at the tourna­ment," said Allan Louden, the director of debate and an associate professor of communication, who spoke very highly of Powell's talent as a debater.

Powell gave due credit to her fellow debaters and said that she thought they made an excellent showing as a squad.

Louden has high expectations for the team as the season draws to a close. Although the squad made only a mediocre showing at the Owen L. Coon Tour- · nament held at Northwestern University February 6-8, Louden expects to qualify three teams, the maxi­mum number of teams that can be qualified, for the national qualifier. That tournament will be held in South Carolina.

"We will most likely go to nationals," Louden said. "I expect several pairs to do well and get to nationals."

Powell agreed, saying that not only does she hope to make it to nationals but once there, will strive to work to the elimination rounds.

David Weinstein, an associate professor of politics, aids a student with his ThinkPad. Many professors use computers in their classes to stimulate their students' interest in the subject.

WAKE WATCH If you have a question about something on campus, send e­mail to news@ogb.wfu.edu.

Why do frat parties have to stop serving drinks at close at 1 a.m.?- K.V.

According to a spokeswoman in theo:fficeofresidencelifeandhous­ing.

The regulation is in the alcohol policy.

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stop being served at I a.m. and the parties must close at 1:30.

Why are there rows of plastic utensils stuck in the ground on the Magnolia Quad?- T.P.

According to sophomore Kirsten Nantz, a member of the Student Envi~onrnental Action Coallition,

the utensils were placed between Reynolda Hall and the Benson Uni­versity Center to raise awareness about the wasteful nature of plasticware.

Volunteers from SEAC collected the used knives, forks and spoons from the Pit for five days and then set. them up as a display of public art.

never faced such measures. By acting prudently now, we can insure ourselves against that future possibility."

"I see it as availed threat," the anonymous source said. "I feel Hearn mentioned the other layoffs that have recently taken place in our city as a warning to

kind of protection for us as a group." not go against this." Some staff members are also upset at the wording The recent policy change has also been seen by

ofthe letter and have pointed to one section as being some as a growing trend in university policy. The particularly threatening: source said that the people in power have bought into

"This work can prove benificial to us in identify- somethii1g other than looking out for personnel. ing savings and can be achieved without the kinds of "A lot of people took jobs here because of the stringent measures layoffs and cut -backs that have academic environment, but things are changing. Staff occurred at other universities. Just before Christmas, members are plugged and unplugged when they are Winston-Salem had an unpleasant reminder of such no longer up to date with the latest computertechnol­measures in the corporate world when RJR an- ogy. Nobody has any job security anymore," the nounced its cutting of 1,000 jobs. Wake Forest has source said .

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number of these are upper-middle cl~dents from the northeast. Only eight percent of the university's population is black.

Senior Lakevia Hall, the presi­dent of the Black Student Alliance, said she thinks that there is a defi­nite difference in the cultural com­position at this university.

"I have friends that go to Duke and Carolina, and they were telling mehowit'salargedifferencewalk­ing on this campus and then on their campus," Hall said.

This fact adds an unfortunate irony to this year's theme of Glo· balization and Diversity.

Even though it has been an, ad­ministrative goal since the mid-80s to increase black enrollment to 1 0 percent, progress is slow.

Barbee Oakes, the director of multicultural affairs, said that in many cases, the school's primatily white culture is a disadvantage in attracting students.

"I do know that there are some students who have come here for various scholarship interviews -both black and white- that have chosennottocometo Wake Forest because of the lack of culture," Oakes said.

"Most students who are really well-educated today know that when they get out into the work force that they are going to be ex­posed to pepple of different cul­tures, and so it's really disadvanta­geous for them to come to a school where they are so limited in terms of their ability to interact," Oakes said.

Hall agrees. "It's not that there's no diversity, but that it's really not as much as you would expect com­ing to a university to get a little bit of experience with all kinds of cul­tures."

Top academic recruits from all races are being frightened away by the university's homogenized cul­ture.

Those minority students that do

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real interest by the majority of the-­population on campus in activities ~ that deal with diversity." 1

The future of multicultural : progress at the university is uncer- : tain, and there are differing opin- ' ions as to what the university will do.

Although Oakes thinks that the next 10 or 15 years could be prob­lematic without an increase in mi- 1

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choose to come here often experi­ence difficulties fitting in and fully enjoying their stay.

"There are some minority stu· dents who graduated number one in their class in high school. But for sollle of those - both male and female - their high schools may have been 95 or 98 percent black," Oakes said.

"So to come to this culture where it is exactly opposite of what they were used to in high school-just the whole social outlets, the feel­ing of support in the classroom, sometimes feeling isolated from instructors -that's very hard for them."

"I think the university's trying, but it's not really giving the atmo­sphere that minority students need to feel comfortable on campus," said junior Vaishali Patel, the presi­dent of Asian Student Interest As­sociation.

"There are a lot of things that keep minority students from feel­ing at home on this campus."

Minority students sometimes feel that ~tudent Union's choice of events leave their interests out of campus wide events.

Even when university events do reflect a stronger effort to promote globalization, there is somewhat of a lack of interest in supporting them.

"A lot of times when we tried to do programs with diversity," Hall said, "only the students who are multicultural show up. I don't see a

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"In order for us to increase di- • versity on the campus, I think that we have to work with the majority as well and make sure that the • people who are coming into the school are people that are open­minded and not so ethnocentric," ' Patel said.

Hall expects any progress made · to be done so as the result ofeffort • on the part of the students.

"I think (the administr&tion) has ' known all along that there are some I

serious racial issues here but has , chosen not to deal with it because ; nobody was making them deal with • it. So I think that when students_ : voice their opinions and say 'We ; have a problem with this,' that the~ 1

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OPINION This column represents the views of the Old Gold and Black Editorial Board.

Commit to people, not expansion

T he past few years at this university have been a time for growth and new developments. The Plan for the Class of

2000, the construction of the Inforrna­Systems Building, Polo Residence

Hall, the continuing construction on the Connector Building and even the Benson Center, which is only 8 years old, all are · of this burst of growth.

it is time for this growth spurt to to an end. Much like the pubescent

•ccl~<'~'c' who must grow out of that mt::tmt)usperiod of rapid, awkward growth and change, the administration

to up and assume its adult

The university has already made the first steps to fulfill these goals by

· · their responsibilities to the stu.de11t by increasing tuition.

Wait a mmute, by increasing tuition? Before each student reader compiles

all-too-fan1iliar list of"Why-1-sbouldn't-have-to-pay-more-tuition" complaints, students must realize that i l'IN'I"ITCI1n 0 tO the administration this iS a , .• ~.~~"'"'tuition increase.

year President Thomas K. Hearn has called for a $1.2 million dollar in the university budget in order to

prevent another steep tuition hike. According to the Winston-Salem

.Jm.1rnt11 the cut "would save each of the 3 ,800 students at the school about $315."

So, although tuition is increasing by 7 percent, raising tuition by $970 to

$2 I ,420, this will be smallest tuition increase in the 1990s. The basics: Be

you will be paying only $970 more year rather than $1,285.

This is a good thing, or at least a better - right? If only it were that

· According to the Journal, "Tuition at Forest has increased 130 percent

. the 1989-90 school year." The administration knows that if it

't decrease tuition, statistics such these will keep students from consid­

this university because of its mt:late:d tuition costs.

Hearn claims, "We are committed to "'"'''~'U'J'. Wake Forest accessible to a arv·ers:e group of students. As a part of

effort the university is determined to slow tuition increases as much as possible."

However this "commitment" is empty. Although students will save about 15 next year in tuition, they will have face 5 to 13 percent increases in

Hv•·M·l: '" costs. oil:s•~;<my the means of acquiring the

money from students has just been shifted. The university's "commitments" are growing less and less credible as

goes by . . Althoug,t we would applaud their

realization that tuition cannot continue to increase at such a rapid pace, these

scheming financial antics are reminiscent of the broken financial commitments to the university faculty and staff.

Though the Old Gold and Black has already gone to bat on behalf of the faculty, another much larger part of our university is in dire need- the staff.

And although the faculty is a very visible part of university life and the educational process, the staff is truly the backbone of our university. Without the housekeeping, food services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Facilities Manage­ment staffs along with the numerous secretaries and administrative assistants across can1pus, how would this campus run?

The students, to whom the administra­tion is "committed" would not be able to live in clean residence halls, to do research for their classes, to get help when they were troubled or medical attention when they were sick. Basically, this campus would be forced to shut down.

Staff salaries are some of the lowest salaries on campus, and they are suffer­ing the harshest effects of the univer­sity's refinancing plans.

The expected salary increase that the university staff depends on is 5 percent, but the administration has decided to slash this percentage in half to 2.5 percent.

Now, staff salaries will barely keep up with the current inflation rate of2-3 percent per year. Also, with the often very low salaries that many staff mem­bers receive every penny counts.

The university has had its time of growth and development, and now it must realize that money does not grow on trees for staff members to harvest, nor does it grow on incoming students for the university to fmd a way to snatch.

It's time for the university to decide its priorities: Are expansion and technology paramount, or should the focus be on the people who give the institution its character, namely faculty, staff and students?

Lowering the annual tuition increase is a step in the right direction toward commitment to students. Now the administration needs to re-evaluate the budget to figure out how the belt can be tightened without squeezing important staff positions out of the picture.

With the size of the university's endowment and the Capital Campaign looming in the near future, the funds are out there somewhere. What type of statement is the administration making if it focuses of the Capital Campaign on physical improvements while forsaking people who work hard every day to make this institution what it is?

The money simply must be put to responsible use in order to fulfill yet another worthy commitment to all those who keep this campus in business: the university faculty and the staff.

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LETTERS

Leak's coach offers unwelcome comments I am a 1994 graduate of this univer­

sity and an ardent supporter of the school and athletic programs.

I, as many Deacon faithful, was ecstatic over Independence High's C.J. Leak choosing to enroll as a scholar­athlete.

I an1 extremely dismayed and of­fended, also as many Deacon faithful, at the disparaging and pejorative com­ments made by Leak's high school coach, Rusty Jester.

I find it very disappointing that a coach of a progran1 so close in proxim­ity to this \)lliversity would comment that he is "disappointed" in any of his athlete's choices for college, much less a school as stellar as this one.

Jester's comments seem to be rooted more in his own dismay at the possible national recognition he could have achieved by riding Leak's coattails.

Sounds like "sour grapes" to me; his star player followed his heart and head and made an honest decision, but Jester can't see past his own fading images of possible glory.

With the typical class of this univer­sity, Coach Jim Caldwell did not respond to Jester's asinine comments.

I know I speak for many Deacon faithful when I say that Jester shouldn't count on many warm welcomes at any gan1es in Winston-Salem.

TO THE I would like to publicly congratulate

Leak for enrolling at this university and welcome him into our athletic and academic family.

Jason G. Grimes, '94 Smyrna, Ga.

Construction will not jeopardize salary raises

As representatives of student interest, the responsibility of Student Govern­ment is to explore viable solutions to problems confronting the university. Three issues that have emerged in recent years include the parking problem, the lack of a strong social climate and inadequate faculty salaries. SG is actively seeking solutions to these problems.

These solutions include a parking deck, a recreation center and the increase in faculty salaries.

Students have identified all three of these initiatives as important long-term priorities for the university.

It is important to understand that, though SG supports these and other initiatives, they are not mutually exclusive.

These initiatives will likely be funded through different means. And even in the unlikely event that all three initia­tives are placed in the capital campaign, they would still not be in competition

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The capital campaign is a fund­raising effort conducted approximately once every decade. Each unique item included in the capital can1paign diversifies the possible options for donors, thereby increasing total dona­tions to the capital can1paign. SG is not advocating a recreation center or a parking deck at the expense of faculty salaries, and we would never advocate a recreation center or a parking deck at the expense of the fmancial ruin of the institution. As long as these priorities are not financially threatening, and as long as student interest is strong for each, then SG will continue to advocate and pursue these initiatives.

Susie Eggers, SG President Ryan Opel,·

SG Speaker of the House Taylor Campbell

SG Treasurer Ryan Patrick SG Secretary

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getting s~er. ith Valentine's day app­roaching, I have to say the one thing that is on my mind ... I hate this holiday.

As a matter offact, I dislike this day as much as the insidious actions

go along with it, like men proposing

Joe Gera STUDENT COLUMNIS'I

m::un~''"' between periods of a hockey don't do,this. Women, see,

Falls, N.Y., where a prospective groom rigged a between-periods promotion so dtat his targeted fiancee removed a blindfold to see a banner across the goal cage that read: BESSIE, WILL YOU MARRY ME?- HERB.

Funny how the guy always gets his name in there·- what, just so the ques­tion is absolutely clear? Would Herb marry someone who could think the question had come from somewhere else? Sure. We men, unfortunately, are idiots.

I bring this up only because, with the inalterable approach of still another Valentine's Day, these conspiratorial acts of cuteosis are going to spring up coast­to-coast, and in the past years they've gone on without condemnation, so I decided to condemn them. Occasionally, in the middle of this stunt, someone will have a reality spasm, and the thing comes close to failing. But not often enough. · Once, two Tampa aquarium divers

nearly went their separate ways when the

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These conspiratorial acts of cuteosls are going to spring up coast-to-coast, and in the past years they've gone on without condemnation, so I decided

to condemn them.

maq pretended to dive to the bottom of a large fish tank in front of a crowd of moms and kids to retrieve a "treasure," which turned out to be an engagement ring. "Will you marry me?" he said through the tank to his female co-worker.

She put her face up near his and said, romantically, "I'm going to kill you."

Unfortunately, she didn't. She married him.

;In the spring of '95, Jeff and Jody were on a Northwest Airlines flight some . 30,000 feet over North Dakota when the

cabin ft.lled with smoke. Thinking as fast as he could, Jeff whipped out his engage­ment ring and proposed, later explaining, "We talked about getting married, and this looked pretty serious, so I thought, 'do it now."'

Jeff with the old what-the-hell-it-looks­like-l'm-going-to-die-anyway pitch. Oh, they love that.

While it's been proven beyond any doubt that stupid will-you-marry-me tricks can cause full-blown television specials hosted by Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers, that horror alone hasn't done enough to discourage them.

A lot of this can't be prevented, but ifi were the commissioner of all four major sports, my first executive order would be that there'd be no more of this silliness.

Unless ... There's always an unless. Here's the deal. You can propose or get

married at our events under one condition, namely that every major development in

your marriage be played out in a similar forum.

"Boston calls time out and decides to talk it over, Jack, and out at center field right now, that looks like Bob and Sharon. Didn't they get married here in a pre­season game, can you remember, Jack?"

"Unfortunately." "Looks like another ceremony. We'll

look at Jumbotron and see if we can get a better look. She's handing him a docu­ment of some kind."

"She's trying to direct his attention to the scoreboard."

Here it comes: BOB: HERE'S THE RESTRAINING ORDER! SHARON."

"This crowd loves it." , Meanwhile ... "What's the plane circling the stadium,

Lanny?" "Got a trailer, says: LINDA: OK IN

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES, PARTIAL CUSTODY. FINAL OFFER. BARRY."

Overseas volunteering enriches a vacation

A writer recalls her Honduran holiday.

F or every college student, return ing to school after the lengthy winter holiday can be a bit jolting. This year, it put me into

culture shock. I trekked across our pristine campus,

weighed down with bags, with the mud

Kristie North G\!E$T COI.l'Mi'IS'I

of the Honduran colUltryside still imbed­ded deep in the tread of my hiking boots. This was a world so far removed from everything I had been immersed in for two weeks: the dirt roads lined by young boys herding livestock, the bridges washed out by the torrents of Hurricane Mitch, the breathtaking vistas formed by God's hands rather then those of man.

As I looked around at what I had always considered to be normal life, I wondered why I had been born into this world rather than the other or not that either is any better or worse, just differ­ent in so any ways as to be virtually incomparable. Every value and aspiration that I have established, every decision that I have made, has been a product of my circumstances in more ways than I ever realized.

I thought a lot about what we strive for. This campus is by nature a college of many perfectionists, people with perhaps more ambition than is really healthy (myself included). I observed something that sounds pretty obvious: The primary material goal of man is to fulfill his needs, while secondarily he strives for what others in his society have ... in other words, for some measure of success.

But what is success? Because of my American perspective, I had always envisioned this concept in terms of a big house, a fancy car, a row of framed diplomas. In the villages I visited, I learned that success in their culture is an outdoor shower and a wooden floor instead of dirt. By the standards of the Honduran countryside, almost everyone in America is successful. I came to a new realization of just how arbitrary material standards of success are, and the fact that they will never end. There will always be a fancier car, a better promotion.

Why am I choosing to publish my private ruminations in the campus newspaper? I guess in some small, hopeful way I am trying to share what I learned. I could tell about the Spanish faux-pas I made, the children I sang with, the waterfall I jumped off of, the relief supplies that I distributed, but that isn't what was most important to me. What I took out of it more than anything was just seeing our world from a different perspective. A perspective that, out of necessity, values function over prestige. My nasty old station wagon can go the same places as a luxury car, a big house can't keep me any drier than my dorm room, and let's face it, after 11 days of rice, beans and goat cheese, the Pit is a banquet.

This is not to say that I am planning on selling all of my worldly possessions and moving to a hut in the backcountry,just that I am questioning my ambitions, my perspectives, and the motives behind them. I'm not sure where all of this pondering will lead me, but it is making me lUlComfortable, so I must be getting somewhere. I was talking to a Honduran man one night who, referring to his nation's Third World status, told me that "la pobreza esta·en Ia cabeza" (the poverty is in the head). Thinking about that man, I wonder if the rat race mental­ity that, in a sense, makes us spiritually and emotionally poor, doesn't have the same origin.

" February holiday elicits contempt from the single A "Bah humbug"to the day of the cupid.

]elisa· Castrodale STliDENT COll'M~ISl'

n::~rk'Pron Sunday's box that makes me that yet another Valentine's Day is

us. Yippee, she said, dripping with sar­

Valentine's Day is not a holiday. It an illusion that was begun by greeting

companies to perpetuate another 1uuo•1vu called love that leads to a reality

heartache and thus create a need for ~ Sorry I Hooked Up with Your

R.oc>mrnat<:" cards. mn:ll<m me being perpetually single

like a blind window "'""hPr for the occasional guy) I despise

this day and all that it stands for, includ­ing (but not limited to) heart-shaped boxes full of anything other than live scorpions, big-eyed stuffed animals and any song included on the Power Ballad CD collection.

I haven't liked Valentine's Day since fifth grade when I frrst felt the warm, cuddly feeling I have since recognized as bitterness. Anyway, I felt secure in my ability to woo the coolest boy in Mrs. DeFilippo's class. I didn't really know what wooing was, but I was damn sure I could do it His name was Carlos, and he was the first chosen in gym class, he could belch the National Anthem, and he could read, which in my fifth-grade class meant a whole lot.

I had given him a special New Kids on the Block valentine and asked him to the dance that was going to be held later that day. He accepted my offer and we walked hand in hand to the cafeteria, which had never looked more romantic. Yes, our dance was in the cafeteria, but the PTA had hung streamers, they'd dimmed the lights so you couldn't tell that they hadn't mopped the floor after the meals, and the lunch ladies had even painted their moles to look like little hearts.

Anyway, I was pondering whether our first child would be named Carlos Jr. or Darth, when I got the news. It was broken to me gt;ntly -someone yelled from the

cookie table that Carlos had dumped me for Mandy who was ... urn ... one of those "early developers." I slunk out of there, slipping in a puddle of creamed com on the way out. I cried to hide in the bath-

room until one of the PTA mothers caught me. And did I mention that I had a perm and really bad teeth too? Anyway, it was then and there that I vowed to fight against Valentine's Day, com and guys named Carlos forever.

Since then, my love life has been like a fairy tale - Grim. I have since spent every Valentine's Day cherub-hunting 'fith automatic weapons. Its no coinci-

dence that Cupid rhymes with stupid. I have very little respect for a holiday that embraces as its icon a fat naked winged infant who supposedly buzzes around sending love-tainted arrows into the posteriors of the unsuspecting. It sounds less like the emblem of a celebration and more like a serious drug flashback.

The other symbols ofVD (tee hee) do nothing but irk me. Flowers die. Besides, I'm allergic. Nothing says "I love you" better than giving hives to your sweetheart. I also hate those little candy hearts and all their inane messages. Until they have some that say "I Need My Space" or "Your

Brother is Hot," I can live without 'em. So I guess we singles (I know I'm

not alone here ... somebody else is bonding with the video guy at Block­

buster or I would have been able to rent Can't Hardly Wait weeks ago) we singles can do a few things to brighten our day on SlUlday.

"How can we do that?" you may be asking yourself. Well, it entails trying to bring the smiling, hand holding, candy buying, lovey-dovey-pukey-pukey, puppy walking, flowers blooming, doves flying out of their hair, Carpenters songs playing for 'em couples down to our level.

First off, you can counteract their toxic levels of cuteness by renting some seasonal videos to cheer you up. I ll.ighly

recommend heartwarmers like Rose­mary's Baby or The Amy Fisher Story. Next, look around you at all the couples playing tonsil hockey. Realize that even though they're sharing love, they're also sharing germs. It's mono season kids, and the Epstein-Barr virus is a gift that' 11 keep on giving. Go home and buy stock in pharmaceutical companies. If all else fails, get really drunk. Nothing is less attractive to the Snugglers than seeing someone lying on the sidewalk, scream­ing nonsense like "I've got GNOMES!" Make a nuisance of yourself for the sake of others.

Despite my exhortations against the holiday, I still may go out on Sunday. There has to be someone out there for me. He could be some guy in my English class. Then again he could be in Bangladesh stirring monkey parts into a large pot. Worst case, he could be the 70-year-old man widl an oxygen tank reading the book about emphysema in Barnes & Noble.

Anyway, to all you "love people," live it up, enjoy it while it lasts ... just don't make me watch. To everyone else, feel free to try to change my mind about this holiday. Go ahead. Buy me candy. Send me flowers. Hell, I'd even take a stuffed animal. 'Til then, I'll be getting ready for ne~t year by, you guessed it, buying stock m Hallmark.

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Defeat the 'not yet' syndrome Observances recall our past pioneers.

If these leaders throughout our history and within our different ·

At the end of the fall semester I attended a dinner program sponsored by the Wake Forest Club and the Chaplain's Office wherein five students spoke of their volunteer experiences locally and abroad.

A s we move into the spring, it seems to be a time of celebra­ting key events such as the observance of Martin Luther

King Jr. Week, the Asian Student Interest Association Week and Women's History Month. One of the

communities would have pulled back and said, "no, not yet," or that they weren't ready yet to move forward with their agendas, how different

would our society be now?

Parks and Joanne Robinson, organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s) to lead a national platform on civil rights?

These students were Julie Ashe, Carey King, Joseph Barker, Katie McKenna and Stephen Leach. And as they spoke, it was evident that they gained something very powerful from their volunteerism.

Had they all said, "no, not yet," that they weren't ready for their experiences, something not only would have been lost for them but the different people's lives whom they touched and changed via their service and leadership. Joanna Iwata

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wonderful aspects of these observances is that it reminds us all of the "good works" which preceded us by the generations of leaders who came before us, such as King, Mahatma Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks.

What would our world be like if Mahatma Gandhi did not introduce the principles of non-violence to advance social and political issues without force or cost of life? Or what would our society be like now if Parks would have said she was not ready to stage the Montgomery Bus Boycott and sit in front of the bus going against black and white racial barriers?

When I think about all the· campus­wide initiatives pulled together by our students such as Project Pumpkin, community forums on race relations, vigils for peace, doing volunteer work not only locally but in India (City of Joy) or Honduras (Hope Scholars), taking on leadership roles within our student organizations, or engaging in innovative research projects -what would our university be like if we had students who said, "no, not yet" to advancing various causes?

And as I reflect on many of the privileges we are able to enjoy today (that were different for our parents and grandparents), I am grateful for the courage and vision our national and world leaders had then to do the right things in light of the challenges they faced.

If these leaders throughout our history and within our different communities would have pulled back and said, "no, not yet," or that they weren't ready yet to move forward with their agendas, how different would our society be now? Would we still be living in a segregated society wherein the majority privileges render all minority groups as second-class citizens in their own countries? Who would or would not be allowed to vote? Who would still be seated in the back of our buses?

In reflecting more on all of the differ­ent opp01tunities that surround us at the university to advance special causes to improve our "quality oflife" index within our community, I am hopeful that we can exercise our courage and vision in innovative and responsive ways.

For instance, how would our lives be as women now if a cadre of women such as Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., would have determined that they were not ready to advance the women's right to vote? Or what would our lives be like now if King would have turned down the women who approached him (Rosa

If they all said, "no, not yet," how would their decisions then change the course of our history, if not our lives today?

And as leaders, I hope we can continue to work towards counteracting attitudes of "no, not yet" to cultivating a "yes, right now!" mindset ... as there is no time like the present to create our own historical notes in our own unique way!

Speech agenda too passive Soyinka's message emphasizes peace over truth.

When I heard Wole Soyinka speak at Convocation, I was quite impressed

with his command of the English language. In fact, I had to wait for the printed version of his speech.

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After making sure I understood what exactly he was getting at, I was still bothered by the same uneasiness that lingered with me through much of Feb. 2.

Our guest made some good points, no doubt. His vision of the separation of church and state was worth some attention, and his denunciation of violerce done to others in the name of God or Allah or whomever was, of course, justified. People can't go around murdering others just because they hold different beliefs.

Though I was impressed with his vocabulary, I must presume to improve upon Soyinka's laud of "tolerance."

There's something about tolerance that I canltolerate: the .

tendency for it to lapse into meaning "passivity." To a culture as fraught with apathy as America is, as evident in this business with the president, a message of "tolerance" is what we do not need to hear.

The Nobel laureate asserts that "what we must pursue therefore is not a competitive, bruising arena for the claims of ideology or religion, but an open marketplace of both ideas and faiths." With utmost conviction, I can say that there is nothing worth my faith that is not worth a fight.

Certainly, to shed blood at such differences is terrible, but there's nothing wrong with a few ideo­logical bruises here and there -they sharpen the reflexes of novices such as myself. Such bruises heal quickly, but mental and spiritual atrophy is an ailment from which one cannot make so quick a recovery.

So what exactly is wrong with this "open marketplace of both ideas and faiths?" More than one thing, but here's just one thing to think about. Before the market­place, truth was a fighter in the arena; now, it's a vegetable outside the coliseum.

Philosophers have managed to kill God. Must we kill truth, as well? Does it no longer breathe and move? Does it no longer possess the power to convict us or change our minds? Will we sit and eat until our obesity paralyzes us? Come, now - we all know how we feel about obesity in this country.

If we think that truth is merely a cold, abstract reverberation of our teachers' voices bouncing off the corridors of Tribble Hall, then there's nothing more I can say on this subject. However, I don't think that that's the case, espe­cially for those who have taken the time to read this.

If Soyinka would permit me, I'd like to substitute the word "patience" for "tolerance" lest we risk the loss of the least bit of passion for what we believe, lest peace be purchased with the vitiation of truth. We must not value peace over truth. In fact, ifi may appropriate and add to the words of another poet, W .B. Yeats, "passion, precision, and patience" must guide us in our relations with people of diverse backgrounds and foreign ideolo­gies.

One more thing, ifi may. Soyinka seems to advocate democracy as the best system of govemment. If this is so, then the traditions of certain religious groups and certain formerly Baptist tmiversities should not be revamped merely because we take offense to them.

As G.K. Chesterton pointed out, tradition is the democracy of the dead. That is, it's giving our ancestors a vote. Tradition says that we won't hastily change old activities, songs, etc. just because we, who happen to be walking around on earth at present, dislike them. I hope this university remembers this amidst the current fad of multicultunalism.

Old Gold and Black Editorials

Holiday history lesson unsavory

The Mag room's. menu was offensive. Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves Blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern

breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar

trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop. Here is a strange and bitter crop. -From "Strange Fruit," by Lewis Allen

T he Magnolia Room in Reynolda Hall offers an alternative dining experience for all members of our campus community. It offers

long-time-no-see friends and weekly lunch partners a chance to dine in a room not illuminated by fluorescent lights, featuring glasses of sweet Southern tea which is brought and refilled by its workers and all that is courtesy of the

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Deacon One card. I myself frequent the Mag Room, and it was during one of those routine visits that I happened across "a strange and bittercrop."

On Feb. 3, the Magnolia Room offered the following unique menu in honor of Black History Month: turkey & swiss sandwiches, fried chicken, chicken and dumpling soup, macaroni & cheese, chicken salad, pinto beans, veggie pot pie, mustard greens, cabbage, sweet potatoes, com bread and biscuits.

I was completely outraged (not sur­prised, howev.er) that a university­contracted component would have the audacity to play into stereotypes and serve fried chicken, greens and cornbread to celebrate black history. I thought everyone now recognized that blacks are just as much a part of the fabric of this country as this country is of them, and if Americans don't know that, political correctness implies we have progressed enough to keep prejudices and stereo­types to ourselves.

Fried chicken consumption has nothing to do with race; if it did then how could one explain the millions of non-black

Americans who can't resist that crispy battered skin either? I didn't know we got a KFC on campus to celebrate the contributions of our black students, or because this is the only food that these integrators could enjoy. Was it put here to give them a sense of home?

Initial offense aside, the supplemental insult was the reaction and tone of management. I didn't necessarily think the meal was suspect until I asked the Magnolia Room manager, Susanne McEwen, about the menu selections. I approached her, while adding cabbage to my plate, about as casually as one asks about the weather, yet.her reaction was defensive. She insisted on revealing the race of the chef and went off on a tangent about last year's unsuccessful African meal.

She acted as if the chefs blackness and the failure of last year's mysterious "African rice" somehow neutralized the insult. Her need to disclose his race proves that she herself knew the meal was minimally insensitive if not totally stereotypical and insulting. And as far as her ranting about the African dishes, black people in America know very little of their true African country or actual tribe of decent, so whose people from which country on the continent and whose black history in America did that address?

I am not faulting the Magnolia Room staff and management for attempting to celebrate Black History Month; I am excited that they even thought to. The room was very nicely decorated with a barrage of posters, albums and paintings of political, social, historical and musical mainstays ofblack contributions to American life, knowledge and culture. The problem lies in the creation of a separate menu for the occasion. The culinary contributions of African­Americans are pervasive, so any meal consumed in America could be and is a black meal. In fact, that would have been ' the best way to recognize the additions of African-Americans.

Essentially, the decorations would have sufficed, African-Americans are and eat everything that is American, so the special menu is unnecessary. If anything, in this context, it is derisive and not celebratory or enlightening just as McEwen's attitude displayed.

I'm tired of being viewed as different and of being separated because of antiquated mainstays of slavery and Jim Crow. Please understand that fried chicken and watermelon are not essential to the lives of black people. Think about that the next time you stop at a traffic light, the brilliant invention of our Afro­American brother Garrett A. Morgan, and ask yourself then whether a chicken wing really pays homage to him or any other African-American innovator.

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Fathers and daugbt, namic relationship ful and inevitable chan' covery Series looke( tionship in ~ts present and Daughters" Feb.

The discussion hm four guest speakers ~ their experiences and: the topic. Mike Ford, 1 student developmt Ilesanmi, an assistan1 religion; and Paul Rit man of the departmen: exercise science; shar edge they have gain their daughters.

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From left to right: Paul Rlblsl, Linda Nielson, Joanna Iwata, Simeon llesanmi and Mike Ford called for open communication between family members in their panel discussion.

Father-daughter relationship explored in Discovery Series'

By Alissa Mears Contributing Reporter

Fathers and daughters have a dy­namic relationship full of challenges and inevitable changes. The Dis­covery Series looked at this rela­tionship in its presentation "Fathers and Daughters" Feb. 9.

The discussion hour began with

"Intimacy in appropriate ways teaches girls to have respect

for themselves both physically and mentally."

Mike Ford Director of Student Development

four guest speakers who explained "Intimacy in appropriate ways theirexperiencesandsentimentson teaches girls to have respect !for the topic. Mike Ford, the director of themselves both physically and student development; Simeon mentally," Ford said. Ilesanmi, an assistant professor of Ilesanmi said that his perception religion; and Paul Ribisl, the chair- ofafather-daughterrelationshipwas manofthedepartmentofhealthand influenced by his childhood in a exercise science; shared the knowl- very strict household. edge they have gained in raising He said his father was more con-their daughters. cemed with the behaviorofhis two

ThefourthguestLindaNielson,a children than With their concerns. professor of education, teaches a However, Ilesanmi also said that course on the relationship between he plays quite a different role as a fathers and daughters. She gave an father to his 5-year-old girl. . overyi~w of _the pop1,11.ar IIliSfOn- . . l!e said that his daughter is more ceptions and mistakes that prevent · likely to come to him, and not her a healthy and intimate relationship. mother, when she wants some-

Ford began the hour with his idea thing. of the three most important ways a Several ofthe audience members father can create an intimate rela- agreed with this and explained that tionship with his daughter. He talked it is because of the idea of "daddy's about the need for open communi- little girl." cation, the importance of creating The need for individuality was a SJ)ecial memories for his daughters popular topic brought up by Ribisl. and the necessity of imparting to "I wanted my daughter to have them the knowledge that their lives independence, do what she wanted are truly sacred. . to do and be what she wanted to be,"

, Ford also emphasized the impor- Ribisl said. tance of demonstrating love to his Ribisl, the father of a 30-year-three daughters through affection. old, gave advice to the fathers of

younger daughters. He said that he made the mistake of leaving his wife to handle his daughters' per­sonal concerns, but he said now he wishes he bad made more of an effort to be involved in their per­sonal lives.

One member of the audience de­scribed how beneficial it is to share personal concerns with fathers. She said that she was reluctant to talk about her relationship with her fa­ther, but when she fmally did she realized that a father's advice is "instrumental as well as fundamen­tal in our relationships with other men."

The initiative to develop this more personal relationship is not the father's sole responsibility, Nielson said. · She said that fathers have an im­portant bearing on girls' lives, and they want to be a prominent com­ponent in their lives. It is the moth­ers' job to getoutoftheway so that fathers and daughters can establish this new level of closeness, she said.

Many of the members of the audi­ence asked how they might bridge this gap with their fathers and make him a more influential part of their lives.

"The next time you call home and your father answers and says 'just a minute, I'll go get your mom,' talk to him instead about what is going on in your life," Nielson said.

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And although the cultural-diversity and quantita­tive-analysis requirements do not alter the number of courses students must take, they are further restrictions that detract from students' freedom to shape their own education, Frey said.

more than making ... an important gesture to solving a society-wide problem," she said. "But it's a start."

Don Frey, a professor of economics, disagrees with this mentality.

The measure is more of a "feel-good" action than a concrete plan, he said, and since most students usually take at least one such course, the measure is "relatively meaningless."

., Thomas said, however, the committee hopes that with a foundation in quantitative analysis students will take further courses involving such skills. "We'd also like to encourage faculty to incorporate quantitative reasoning into their courses," she said.

Frey also disapproves of creating another restriction for students in their academic careers. "Adding more and more requirements is just another way to make a restrictive curriculum even more so," he said.

The current basic and divisional requirements com­prise about 16 courses students must take, and in the last five years the faculty has added ftrst-year seminars, created an additional division for the fine arts snd approved adding a cultural-diversity requirement, Frey said. "If you look back five years, you find that we've done nothing but add requirements to tell lower-divi­sion students what they have to do instead of giving

'them more leeway," Frey said.

· Such restrictions do not encourage students to act maturely in choosing their schedules, because the faculty is essentially spoon-feeding the students "just like a Victorian parent," Frey said.

He added, "If we're so concerned about people graduating with quantitative know-how, we must look at admission standards," since the university gives more weight to verbal SAT scores than to math scores.

In order to help students grasp quantitative reason­ing, the Curriculum Review Committee plans to pro­pose the creation of a math help center comparable to the writing center, Thomas said. In approving such a motion, the administration would work out the details of training students to work there, funding it and finding a location for it, she said.

With 11 of the 18 proposed items in the Final Report of the Curriculum Review Committee remaining to be discussed, it is unclear whether the faculty will be able to finish discussing all the items before the end of this academic year.

Two additional meetings have been held this aca­demic year, one in December and one in January, but no further ones are likely, Thomas said.

Any items not considered this year will be taken up when school resumes in the fall. "They'll just go on until it's over," Thomas said.

Trustees 2,591 undergraduates received an average of$12,683 in aid.

increasing salaries to above the na­tiona! average as stated in the Plan for the Class of 2000.

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Middlebury College in Ve~ont has the most expensive tuition in the category with $30,475. This university's tuition, however, is more than $3,000 less than some Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale universities.

As part of the plan to keep tuition down, this university is also exam­ining the financial aid process.

Of the $32.9 million given in fi­nancial aid last year, the university

. st~plied $16.9 mi~lion. Atotal_s>f

The recent fiscal constraint is also a by-product of the effort to keep tuition lower. According to Paul Escott, the dean of the college, in order to lessen increases in tuition, the largest source of revenue for the budget, the university must abate increases in faculty and staff sala­ries, the largest budget expenditure.

Hearn asked his vice presidents to cut $1.2 million from their budgets, about six percent of the university's $181 million budget this year.

The act has angered many faculty members w\lo feel the university has fail~i_!b_kee_p_ its. promise of

The trustees also gave prelimi­nary approval to tuition increases for summer school and the law, management and medical graduate schools. Tuition for the divinity school was set at $10,500 per year.

Tentatively, housing costs will increase in the range of 5 percent to 13.3 percent depending on the type of room requested with fees rang­ing from $2,870 to $4,080. Resi­dent advisers will see a 13.3 percent decrease in costs to $1,800.

The tentative auto registration increase is 2} percent to $125.

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By Brent McConkey Contributing Reporter

Winston-Salem isn't that bad. Okay, I said it and thus opened myself up to

an unlimited amount of criticism from my classmates.

Sure, there's no nightlife, few restaurants, the air reeks of tobacco when it's cloudy, Moravians are big and every street name is some variant of"Reynolds," but it does have at least one redeeming quality. Winston-Salem is surrounded by several natural points of interest.

Many of you would probably scoff at my declaration. Of course the humble North Carolina state parks don't quite measure up in terms of majesty and grandeur when compared to the Rockies out West, the Green Mountains of the North or the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, which many students have grown up with.

However, the intimacy of nearby peaks such as Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock, and considering that the most spectacular natural view around campus is the Quad, makes these places ideal destina­tions for the student looking to break the weekend party routine and perhaps get in touch with his scenic side.

Many may recognize Pilot Mountain as that little rocky nubbin' visible on the northern horizon when making that weekly trip to Super Kmart. In actuality, it is a unique geological formation with a rich and fascinating archaeo­logical history deserving much more scientific explanation than I am able to give.

The important thing is that it's a huge rock, approximately 1 ,400 feet high, with pine trees on top ..... You can't miss it. --

Pilot Mountain State Park contains three primary trails, all of which are easily manageable for even semi-active human beings. These trails offer pleasing views of the surrounding countryside and even a serene, long-distance look at the Winston-Salem skyline.

Although the peak itself ( affec­tionately referred to as the "Big Pinnacle") is off limits because of safety concerns, excellent views are available throughout the park.

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Before setting off for Pilot Mountain, which is about a 30 minute drive from campus, students should be aware of one particularly dangerous aspect of the park.

The peak is continually circled by large, carnivorous birds .\mown as ravens. My vision of the raven before visiting Pilot Mountain was one shaped by the Edgar Allan Poe

.. poem in which the solitary bird sits._ peacefully"rap, rap; -rapping olfthe · chamber door.

This vision changed dramatically· when I apparently surplised one of these great beasts as it roosted on a ledge by the trail.

As the magnificent bird swooped at me, causing my life to flash before me in a terrifying nightmare of black feathers, my naivete of these creatures ended then and there. I realize now that the raven was only attempting to protect its well-being by scaring the bejeezus

out of me (well done, bird), but it was enough to make me wary of any more close encounters with these moody fowl. Don't say I didn't warn you.

A second attraction within driving distance of campus is Hanging Rock State Park, located

. just to the north near Danbury. The name itself adequately

describes.the..park's main attrac­tion;'1i 2Q(}!.fobt tall rock tower rising quite stunningly against the grassy surrouildings. Hanging Rock Trail, a designation dripping with creativity, leads directly to the sununit of the peak, providing an outstanding view.

This vista is certainly warranted also, considering the difficult final stretch of the hike which puts the "ugh" in tough. ·

Thankfully, as far as I can tell there are no grudge-bearing birds on the peak. However, an even more vicious creature has taken their place - children.

Because of its convenient location, Hanging Rock is popular among families, resulting in vast gaggles of children taking to the mountain. These children seem to find particular interest in darting and leaping among the many perilous ledges and cliffs of the peak, resulting in either a height­ened blood pressure for Pro Humanitate hikers such as me or a twisted form of entertainment for others. Either way it keeps things interesting.

The other great attraction of Hanging Rock State Park is the variety of impressive waterfalls spread throughout the numerous trails. Despite the temptation, I don't suggest entering any of these falls for various health and/or practical reasons (wet feet don't adhere well to mossy rock - trust me).

Otherwise, each of these sights is reason enough to make the 45 minute drive, as there's nothing like the soothing resonance of a waterfall to avoid beginning that critical Spanish 153 project.

Both Pilot Mountain and Hang­ing Rock have camping areas available for those wishing to devote even more time to the exploration of the natural areas surrounding Winston-Salem. Or maybe you're just craving some s'mores and you realize a cozy, open campfire in your dorm room is a possible honor code violation.

This student strays dangerously close to the edge at Hanging Rock state park, 45 minutes away from campus. Above: That "little roc~ nubbin"' Pil~t Mountain i~ i.ust a 30 minute drive from campus and offers many h1kmg and campmg opportumt1es.

In any event, both these parks provides a wonderful opportunity for students to temporarily distance themselves from WFU-Disney and to enhance their appreciation for nature's finer features at the same time. So take your homework, your sub sandwich and your hiking boots, and see for yourself just what greater Winston-Salem has to offer.

Who knows? Maybe you too will be surprised. ( Right: The Lower Cascade Falls ara tucked away at Hanging Rock. i •

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Senior Heidi all corning early in the Deacs tried to Terrapins.

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With a minute selves down by three. who drained a three

·• Following a free Deacons turned the foul. The team got a made only one of unable to connect on that would have won

The Demon uci:l~;u•ll take on the ACC the eighth in a row ping them to 6-16

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· Diamond Deacs ready for big hit By Paul Gaeta Sports Editor

those accomplishments one step further as the team opens its season with a three-game home series against Evans­

the 400-win plateau which would make him only the 8th coach in ACC history to accomplish such a feat.

innings pitched. He will see action out of the bullpen.

MacDougal, who was 6-5 overall last season with a 4.15 ERA, will start in the openerFeb.12.Basebal/Americarated him as the third-best prospect in the ACC, and in its 1999 draft preview, the magazine had him as the 26th-best col­lege player and 15th-best pitcher avail­able.

Forget last year's action on the foot­ball field. And throw away the perfor­mance last season of the Tony Rutland and Steve Goolsby-led basketball team. The best story in the 1997-98 year of Demon Deacon athletics was the play of the baseball team.

ville at Hooks Sta- . dium.

Ranked 17th in the Baseball America preseason polls, Head Coach George Greer has the talent and depth this season to be as strong as ever. Greer, in his 12th

Greer's greatest weapons will be on the mound this sea­son with his two stars, senior left­bander John Hendricks and jun­ior right-hander Mike MacDougal. Hendricks, a· pre­season first-team

After years ofbeing overlooked in the formidable ACC, with a conference of collegiate baseball gods like Florida State and Georgia Tech, the Deacons (43-23 overall) came out of nowhere and shocked the baseball world win­ning the ACC Championship.

season at the helm, is the winningest coach in the school's baseball history holding an overall record of383-258-2. He needs 17 more victories to eclipse

All- American selection by Collegiate Baseball, had a stellar season last year.

Second in the rotation will be junior Eric Schmitt, a right bander who stretched his career record to 13.-1 with an 8-1 season on the mound last year. Rounding out the starting rotation will be sophomore Scott Siemon while

This weekend, the Deacs look to take He was third in the nation with 13

wins and posted a 3.14 ERA in 143.1 See Diamond, Page B2

Terps avenge loss, defeat Deacs68-66

Cardiac Deacs grab win

By Brian Barrett Old Gold and Black Reporter·

The Demon Deacon women's basketball team reversed a trendofbad shooting in a last second loss to Maryland Feb. 6, 68-66.

·• Despite the loss, the game was as exciting as they come, as the Terps had to rely on clutch free throw shooting and a smothering defense in the final seconds to hold on for the win.

The crowcnti Reynolds GYffirtasiumwas on itS · feet almost the entire game, as the teams battled through 19 lead changes.

Sophomore Janae Whiteside's 13 points led a · quartet of Deacons in double figures, along with senior Emon McMillan, sophomore Olivia Dardy and sophomore Kristen Shaffer.

Senior Heidi Coleman also added nine points, all coming early in the game on three pointers, as the Deacs tried to keep pace with the hot-shooting Terrapins. ·

Trailing by five at the half, the Deacs exploded out of the gate, hitting 10 of their first 14 shots on

' their way to a torrid 59-percent second half field­goal percentage.

The numbers are even more surprising when one considers the shooting troubles the team has had of late, often finishing games with a percentage under 25 percent.

Despite the hot shooting, Maryland stretched its lead to double digits early in the half, and it wasn't until junior Brenda Mock -Kirkpatrick hit a jumper from outside with 10:26 remaining that the Deacs finally regained the lead, going ahead 47-46.

The score remained close for the rest of the contest, as the biggest advantage by either team came with 7: 17 remaining, when Kirkpatrick put in a layup to stretch the lead to four. ·

With a minute remaining, the Deacs found them­selves down by three. The team turned to Whiteside, who drained a three to pull the Deacons even.

·• Following a free throw by Branka Bogunovic, the Deacons turrled the ball over and were forced to foul. The team got a break when Kelley Gibson made only one of two; however, the Deacs were unable to connect on a last-second three-pointer that would have won the game.

The Demon Deacons travel to Duke tonight to take on the ACC frontrunner at 7 p.m. The loss was the eighth in a row for the Demon Deacons, drop­

.. ping them to 6-16 overall, 2-8 in ACC play.

Team pulls away late in game, tops Tigers, 79-69

By Paul Gaeta Sports Editor

The Demon Deacon men's bas­ketball team, looking to get back on the ACC win trail, scored a big win over Clemson Feb. 10, 79-69 at Joel Coliseum.

With their backs against the wall, the Demon Deacons stepped up the intensity of their game in a virtual "must win" against the Tigers.

TiedforseventhplaceintheACC with Virginia, a loss against Clemson would have dropped the team to the bottom of the confer­ence with the Tigers. Yet, the well­rested Demon Deacon team, off since Feb. 4, turned it up behind the ~uge play of freshmen Craig Dawson and Darius Songaila.

Dawson scored a career-high 19 points, 16 in the second half, and Songailachippedin 15 points as the Deacons remained perfect at Joel Coliseum against Clemson.

Although the I 0-point margin might have made the game seem like an easy Deac win, it was hardly that.

The Deacons, infamous for mak­ing any game close until the final whistle blows, finally pulled away in the tight battle with just six min­utes remaining, and even after that, it was still close.

The contest started well for the Deacs, as the team dropped its first three shots for a quick 6-2 lead. After a layup by sophomore Rafael Vidaurreta, however, the Deacons went scoreless for almost four min­utes, and Clemson capitalized.

Three straight baskets by sopho­more center Adam Allenspach and a pair of three-pointers by junior Andrius Jurkunas and Tony Christie, respectively gave the Ti­gers a 19-9 lead.

Clemson then hit its own score­less drought, and the Deacons got

hot, going on a 25-14 run to close out the opening half with a 34-33 lead.

Clemson and the Deacons battled back and forth for the first 14 min­utes of the second half. But with a little more than seven minutes left,

Songaila sparked the team to go on an 11-0 run. Songaila grabbed a big offensive board and then dished a beautiful pass to Dawson who laid it in.

Three Vidaurreta baskets, includ­ing a thunderous dunk over two Tiger defenders and two long-range bombs by O'Kelley and Dawson, gave the Deacs a 67-58lead.

From there it was a free throw contest, and the Deacs were solid at the line, preserving the lead and topping the Tigers.

The win puts the Deacs at 4-7 in the ACC and 13-10 overall.

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Dave Odom talks with fresh­man Broderick Hicks and Robert O'Kelley drives to the basket.

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Rafael Vidaurreta Men's Basketball

It was no coincidence that the biggest play of the Deacons' 79-69winoverClemsonFeb.lOalso proved to be the play that iced the victory. Vidaurreta's thunderous slam over two Clemson defend­ers was one of the best dunks Joel Coliseum has seen in a long time. It also stretched the Deac lead to 65-56, a margin the Tigers would never be able to make up. The crowd in Joel was rocking as fans stood up and screamed their fa­vorite cheer - "Rafael, Rafael, Rafael."

Sophomore Forward

quarters at Indoors By Jared Klose

Assistant News Editor

Deacon tennis standout, sophomore Marie! Verban, was eliminated on the sec­ond day of play in the 1999 Rolex Intercol­legiate Indoor Championships, the third leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Associa­tion Collegiate Grand Slam, after having advanced to the quarterfinal round of the event. Singles play at the hard court venue b_egan Feb. 4 and was hosted by Southern Methodist University at the Brookhaven

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Country Club in Dallas, Texas. After posting straight set victories in the

first and second round matches, which included an upset of the No. 3 seeded player in the tournament, the unseeded Deacon was defeated by Marissa Catlin from the University of Georgia and given a taste of her own medicine as she was swept out by scores of 6-2 and 6-2.

Although Verban had gained some con­fidence in her first two matches, in the

See Verban, Page 82

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Top reasons to avoid the NBAcircus

By Sean Blue Assistant Sports Editor

The opening of the NBA's lock-out-shortened season Feb. 5 has given me a lot to think about over the past week. w Mainly it has allowed me to think j: PRESS of the top five reasons not to watch ::5 the NBA (or as I like to think of it, ~sox the top five reasons the NBA u.. sucks).

Luckily, this list did not take long to compile, it was more a matter of deciding on the top five reasons rather than finding the top 500 reasons. So here we go ...

No. 5-The New York Knicks in an attemptto get rid of their bad-boy image got rid of perennial bad boy John Starks, however, replaced him with the NBA's poster boy for trouble, Latrell Sprewell.

Sprewell served the longest non-drug related sus­pension in NBA history last season (68 games) after be physically assaulted his coach with the Golden State Warriors, P. J. Carlesimo. The Knicks signed Sprewell after team GMEmie Grufeldhad announced that the Knicks would never do anything to diminish the reputation of their organization.

Well, Ernie, I guess when your reputation is as bad as the Knicks there really is not much you can do to diminish it any more. Certainly signing the league's most volatile player and the only player to attempt to kill his head coach would not diminish that famous Knick's reputation.

No. 4-The leaders of the Eastern Conference are perennial basement dwellers, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Milwaukee Bucks. With their 3-0 starts this season it's the first time over the past three seasons that either team has been above .500.

Last season the 76ers went 31-51, and 22-60 the season before. The Bucks fared slightly better, going 36-46 last season and 33-49 the season before. This massive tum around by both organizations just goes to show one of the inherent problems with the NBA today- the massive recycling of players and teams. Players no longer show any loyalty to a team and will jump ship at the first sign of a larger contract. This makes it increasingly more difficult for fans to follow their favorite teams and players.

Although it is good to see some teams other than the Bulls, Lakers and Knicks winning and sitting atop the conference, it's not good to see teams making sudden and massive rises and falls in the NBA.

No.3-The NBA and television stations have not yet accepted the fact that Michael Jordan is RE­TIRED. So instead of just letting him retire and go off into the sunset (towards the fairways and greens of the nearest golf course) they are clinging to his image and hoping to still capitalize on it. What I'm talking about is the television stations and NBA advertising of Chicago Bulls games with clips of Jordan. Memo to David Stem and the producers of TNT and NBC: Michael Jordan is RETIRED. GET OVER IT!

No. 2 - The NBA is without its hardest working player, Dennis Rodman.

With all the flack that Rodman gets for his off the court (and occasionally on the court) antics he has been one of the hardest working players in the game over the last seven years. Rodman ranks 1Oth all-time in rebounds and also owns the record for most con­secutive rebounding titles. Rodman bas won the rebounding title every year since his second season in the NBA while he was with the Detroit Pistons. Since that time Rodman has not lost the rebounding title during his career that has spanned three different teams.

Rodman also brings a great deal of experience to the table with his five championship rings with two different teams. Rodman is arguably the greatest rebounder the game has ever seen. While ranking I Oth all-time in rebounds, only two of the players above him have played in less games. And although Rodman is still a player in the NBA, the NBA's official Web site does not recognize his free-agent status and left him off their list of players. However, the retired Jordan is still listed in the players section.

And the number one reason the NBA sucks ... No. 1-MICHAEL JORDAN HAS RETIRED. The NBA has lost the greatest player it has ever

known. Ever. Jordan has done more to revolutionize the NBA than Mendel did to revolutionize genetics.

Jordan's fan appeal and spectacular play elevated the NBA beyond a sort of cult-following and occa­sional pasttime for Americans to a sport of global fan appeal. Jordan has been more recognized than Bill Clinton in the United States, Boris Yeltsin in Russia and Mao Tse Tung in China. The NBA 's biggest hope to regain fans was to keep Jordan on for another year, but they were unable to accomplish this task. Jordan brought many new fans to the NBA just to watch him play the game. Now without Jordan and the recent lock-out, the NBA has lost a large portion of its fans.

With all the problems and just downright stupidity running around the NBA, why would anyone want to watch?

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B2Thursday, February 11,1999

GoH team finishes 12th at SMU/OSU tournament

The women's golf team struggled during their final round of the SMU/OSU Chal­lenge and fell from ninth to 11th place in the

18-team tournament. After two rounds of

play the Deacons stood in a two-way tie for ninth place with Texas, but shot a 324 in the final round to fall to 11th overall. During their first two rounds the Deacs shot a strong

306 both days and were within 12 shots of first place.

The Deacons were shooting in the 70s for the most part during the first two rounds but the final round saw only one Deac, senior Kristen Wagner, shoot under an 80.

Individually, sophomore Marta Prieto led the way for the Deacs finishing in a seven­way tie for 12th place. Prieto shot a one­over-par-72 in the second round to record the fifth best round of the tournament for any individual, but shot an 81 in the final round to drop from ninth to I 2th place.

Junior Kelly Kirwin finished with a 235 overall and tied for 38th in the tourney. Wagner's 79 in the final round helped her move up two spots from 46th to finish 44th in the tourney and freshman Nicole Faniola finished with a 239 to finish in a tie for 54th place. FreshmanKatieBrenny dropped three spots during the final round and ended up in a tie for 66th.

Wellman confirms change to '99 football schedule

Athletic director Ron Wellman officially announced the addition of the University of Alabama-Binningham to the 1999 football schedule in place of Tulane.

Rumors began circulating about the cha­nge when the tentative schedule was re­

leased in the beginning of January but were never confirmed until Feb. 5 with Wellman's announcement.

The UAB game will take place Oct. 23 at Groves Stadium in­stead of the originally scheduled Sept. 4 date with Tulane.

The change was made after discussions with Conference USA officials (UAB and Tulane are both member schools) about the recent reorganization of the Conference USAandthereadjustmentofmemberschool schedules. The change of date pushes the Deacs' regular season opener back one week to Sept. 11 at Army. The Deacons' first horne game will not be until the third week of the season, Sept. 25, when they host N.C. State.

The pushing back of the regular season opener eliminates the Deacons' bye week and the final game of the regular season for the Demon Deacons will be at home against Georgia Tech on Nov. 20.

Baseball to open season at home this weekend

The ACC baseball champion Deacons will open their regular season Feb. 12 at home against the Evansville Purple Aces. The Deacs are coming off a great season in which they went 43-23 and captured the ACC crown before finally bowing out in the NCAA tournament.

Evansville and the Deacons have met only once before in a 1991 game that saw the Purple Aces down the Deacons 4-2.

The Deacs, however, return seven oflast year's 10 starters in the field and seven pitchers. The Deacs return, among others, senior standout, first baseman Jon Palmieri, who earned pre-season All-American hon­ors and captured the ACC batting title last season while setting school records in hits, RBis and doubles. Senior John Hendricks earned All-American honors last season and pre-season All-American honors this season after posting a 3.14 ERA and re­cording 13 victories last season to rank third in the nation and set a school record.

The Deacons also return sophomore Cory Slavik at third base. Last season Slavik earned freshman All-American honors for posting a .375 batting average and hitting seven home runs and 47 RBis.

Junior Mike MacDougal will most likely open the game for the Demon Deacs. MacDougal posted a 6-5 record with a 4.15 ERA last season and has been ranked as the third-best draft prospect in the ACC.

The game should prove to be a good season opener for the Deacons as they be­gin their quest to reclaim the ACC title and advjlnce back into thejNCAA tournament.

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ACC baseball to provide exciting season By Kim Gaffney

U-Wire

The Atlantic Coast Conference has long been recognized as one of the top confer­ences in college baseball.

If the nine teams across the southeast region of the country can pull off on the field anything like what they look like on paper, 1999 should be one of the conference's best years ever.

With the NCAA bracket expansion to included 64 teams, a seven-team represen­tation for the conference might be more than likely.

Pitching seems to be the dominant char­acteristic for the conference from Georgia Tech, voted No. 1 in the conference's pre­season coaches poll, to Maryland and Vir­ginia, who were picked 8th and 9th. What is returning on the mound has dictated early season predictions.

"We are where we are, and I think that our kids took a little slap in the face being ranked 71 st in the country because of what we have on the mound," said Wolfpack pitching coach Mark Fuller.

"Carolina has two possible first-round draft picks, Wake has a 14-game winner, Florida State is Florida State. Throughout the conference there are strong pitching staffs."

More than eight of the conference's re­turning hurlers have earned AU-American honors, either last season, in junior col­lege, or for the 1999 pre-season.

Clemson Clemson returns 10 of its top 12 hitters

from a year ago who helped the Tigers hit an ACC-leading .326 while compiling a .434 on base percentage. Jack Leggett's

Clemson team is led by 1998 ACC Rookie of the Year Patrick Boyd. The outfielder, who was a member of the USA National team this past summer, has been selected as a pre-season First-Team AU-American by Baseball America.

On the mound, the Tigers return Third­Team All-American R!'an Mottl, a right­hander who has 19 wins in two seasons and a career strikeout-to-walk ratio of3.05.

Duke The Blue Devils return just II letter­

winners from the 1998 squad, but the Dev­ils look to make up for quantity with qual­ity. Leading the return on the field is a trio of 1998 All-ACC First Team players.

With the duo ofJeffBecker and Vaughn Schill on the left side of the infield, the Devils should have a strong defense be­hind returning ace Stephen Cowie.

Schill has been named a pre-season All­America pick by Collegiate Baseball and is one of the team's top returnees at bat. The junior led Duke with a .367 average at the plate and a .935 fielding percentage as well.

Cowie logged an 11-2 record on the mound last season, going 3-2 againstACC competition while striking out Ill in 126.1 innings.

Florida State Perennial powerhouse Florida State has

no plans to disappoint fans this season. The Seminoles' storied history includes

21 consecutive NCAA Regional appear­ances, nine top I 0 finishes in the last I 0 season, 17 50-win seasons and nine trips to the College World Series in the last 12

Verban on big points had an affect on the match results. "They were hardcourt, but the courts were really fast though

Continued from Page B I and my timing was off."

years. A pair of aces top the 1999 roster for the

Seminoles. Nick Stocks, a memberofTeam USA this past summer, posted a confer­ence best 2.35 ERA in 1998, en route to a spot on Baseball America's Freshman Ail­America team.

Jon McDonald joined his teammate on the Freshman All-America squad and Team USA after posting a team-leading I 0-4 record.

At the heart of FSU's lineup is NCAA Atlantic II Regional MVP Matt Diaz, who broke the Seminoles' freshman home run record last season.

Georgia Tech Georgia Tech was pegged by confer­

ence coaches as "the team to beat," but the Jackets will have to watch out below.

Tech was 41-22 in 1998, finishing the season as the runners-up in the NCAA Midwest Regional and found themselves in the top 10 nationally in three publica­tions pre-season polls.

Tech's most notable returnee to the mound in All-American Chuck Crowder, whose 1998 statistics included a 12-4 record and a 3.03 ERA.

Maryland Seniors Casey Trout and Mike Wooden

have been named as co-captains on the University of Maryland Terrapins squad.

Trout, considered the Terp's top return­ing position player, started all 57 games for Maryland last season, hitting .332 and collecting 48 RBI's.

Wooden has been a starter on the mound for the Terp's all three seasons that he has

been in College Park. The right-hander is considered Maryland' best in 1999.

UNC The UNC Tar Heels will have to make

adjustments after losing long-time coach Mike Roberts and his son, shortstop Brian Roberts, the ACC Player of the Year in 1998.

Under the reigns of former Tar Heel player and first year Head Coach Mike Fox, junior Kyle Snyder will lead a five­man rotation on the mound.

Snyder finished the 1998 season win­ning four .consecutive decisions, and al­lowingjust four earned runs in 34 innings. At the plate, outfielder Jarret Sh~arin, a memberofthe AII-ACC team one year ago, returns despite being drafted in the lith round.

Virginia Virginia returns just one of its top five

hitters, by the numbers from last season, sophomore catcher Mark Rueffert. The six­foot right-hander batted .362 but played in just 32 of the Cavaliers 55 games in his freshman campaign, picking up just 94 at bats.

Only three returning Cavaliers stood at 1 the plate more than 100 times last year.

Head Coach Dennis Womack will have the help of an experienced pitching squad. All five ofthe Cav's top hurlers return, but with a combined 1998 record of 19-13 and only three posting ERA's below 4.00 in 1998.

Kim Gaffney writes for The Technician. the student newspaper of N C. State.

Diamond Continued from Page B I

sophomore Josh Bartlett and freshmen Adam Heaps, J.J. Moult and David Bush will see relief action.

quaterfinals she found herself up against an opponent that seemed un­beatable.

"I played Catlin in the fall in the All­Americans that we played in Califor­nia and I beat her in that match, but she was coming back from mono then," Verban said.

Verban, currently ranked lOth nation­ally by the IT A, had advanced to the qua­rterfinal round by knocking off Ole Miss's Agnes Muz­amel (6-3, 6-3), the

Going into the tournament, Verban said she set a few goals for herself "I knew I wasn't going to be seeded, so I wanted to get through my first round match because they're always the toughest ... physically and mentally. It's important to get comfortable with your game and the courts. I also wanted to try to stay focused," Verban said.

Verban qualified for the champion­ships by winning the Southeast Re­gional in Winston-Salem.

With the tournament concluded, Verban's overall singles' record re­mains excellent as she moved to 22-6 on the season.

Behind the plate for the Demon Deacons will be ' the experience of senior Andrew Riepe. A starter at the most grueling position on the diamond in 64 of 66 games last season, Riepe still hit .283 with II homers.

"Last week she played really well. I don't think she could have played any better. She remained very consistent through the match and used a lot of spin and moved the ball around the court."

Verban also said that her impatience

No.3 seed in the tournament and the third-rankedplayerinthecountry,dur­ing a second-round match earlier that morning. In her first round match, Dee Dee Harrington of Southern Method­ist University was ousted 6-4, 6-4 by the Deacons' lone representative in the tournament.

Verbanwill fill the No.I spot for the Deacs when team match play begins this weekend. The team will open its 1999 season against Tennessee on Feb. 13, in Knoxville, Te1m.

ACC considers boycott of Auburn By Paul Kardous

U-Wire

The fallout of Auburn's cancella­tion of the Florida State football game has begun.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that it has obtained a letter from ACC com­missioner, John Swofford, to Auburn Athletic Director David Housel, in which Swofford states: "If this is the way Auburn University is going to conduct its business, I feel it is my obligation as conference commissioner to ask all of our member institutions to seriously evaluate whether it makes sense to schedule Auburn in any sport."

"I feel it is my obligation as conference commissioner to ask all of our member institutions to

seriously evaluate whether it makes sense to schedule Auburn

in any sport." John Swofford

ACC Commissioner

The Sentinel article also states that the letter was sent to Housel before a decision was made on whether to can­cel the FSU game.

ScoREBOARD MEN'S BASKETBALL UNC

WFU N.C. State

Standings Md.

ACC Overall Three-Point Field Goals Per Game Duke 11 0 23 I Md. 9 3 21 4 Trajan Langdon, Duke UNC 7 4 19 6 Robert O'Kelley, WFU FSU 5 5 12 10 A. Harrington, N.C. State N.C. State 5 7 15 9 Terrell Mcintyre, Clem. WFU 4 7 13 10 Jason Floyd, Ga. Tech Ga. Tech 4 7 13 10 UVa. 3 8 13 ll Field Goal Percentage Defense Clem. 2 9 13 11

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Free Throw Percentage Ga. Tech Pet WFU UVa. .733

"We have received the letter. We have reviewed the letter," Housel said. "We received it before we reached our decision."

The Tigers have scheduled Appalachain State to replace FSU on the schedule.

Auburn, however, was not the only school to back out of a football game with an ACC school. Kent State chose to replace North Carolina with Pitts­burgh, catching the Tar Heels by sur­prise.

Paul Kardous writes for The Au­bum Plainsman, the student newspa­per of Auburn University.

62.4 UNC 9 4 63.5 Clem. 8 5 65.3 N.C. State 7 5 66.5 Ga. Tech 6 7

WFU 2 10 Md. 2 10

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Duke Ga. Tech

Pet Clem. .385 WFU .390 UNC .397 .411 Three-Point Field Goals Per Game .415

Duke UNC .716

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL WFU Duke .716 UNC WFU .710 Ga. Tech Md. .707

Standings THIS WEEK Scoring Defense ACC Overall Avg Duke 12 0 20 4 Feb. 11

Arguably the Demon Deacons' best player on the field this season will be senior first baseman Jon Palmieri. A first-team, pre-season All-American, like Hendricks, Palmieri was tops in the ACC in batting (.438), slugging percentage (.727) and on­base percentage (.498). He set school records in doubles with 30 and RBis with 78.

Palmieri continued his exceptional play over the summer in the reknown Cape Cod League. He batted .307 using wooden bats to lead his team, the Chatham A's, to the league championship. Baseball America tabbed him the best pure hitter and best defensive first baseman in the conference.

Sophomore Corey Slavik, a freshman All-Ameri­can, last year will return to man the third base position. Slavik hit .375 with seven home runs and 47 RBis last spring. Slavik's classmates, Chase Voshell and Jason Aquilante, will get the starts at shortstop and second base, respectively.

Two of the three outfield positions will hold starters from last season. In right field, senior Ben Danosky, who hit .292 with 12 homers last spring, will get the start. He was the lone Deacon to start all 66 games in '98. Speedy Scott Daeley, who led the team with 17 steals, will return to center field for another seasori. The left field spot will feature the play of several players: junior Ricky Mendez, sopho­more Carlos Brackley and freshman John Kubachka.

Sophomore Danny Borrell, a freshman Ail-Ameri­can, will resume his role as designated hitter and as a weekday starting pitcher.

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6 16 Baseball vs. Evansville at I p.m. Women's Tennis at Tennessee in Knox-

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. - 1'Anyone at this school who has ever hefted a guitar and tried to play was put to shame by Dave Matthews

and Tim Reynolds dur­ing their visit to Wait Chapel Feb. 9 as part of their acous­tic tour.

The sold-out crowd agreed thattheam~oy­

ing little yellow bracelets they had to wear to try and get tickets through the,lottery were well worth there­Wstd of the Student Union spon­sored show. '-.Matthews usually tours with his band during the spring, SUllliDer and fall, but in the winter, he mellows out and sits down to play with guitar player extraordinaire, Reynolds.

with, but of course, is ar­ranged foronlytwo acous­tic guitars. It is amazing to hear a song that is written for electric guitars, a vio­lin, saxophone, flute and drums be flawlessly· ex­ecuted by only two people in an unplugged style.

A few songs really stuck me as being outstanding, including the song "Crush" off of DMB's new album Before These Crowded Streets.

The way Dave weaves his lyrics in with the doubled guitars is inti­nitely more impressive than heard on the album. Another musical master­piece was "Stay (Wasting Time)" from the same al­bum. This song was al­tered to be played in six­eight time, giving it a swing feel which allowed a plethora of guitar solos and all out jams by the musical geniuses.

These acoustic shows,

The concert was also a night of laughs and witty retort from the duo as Dave and Tim used the intimate acoustic show to their advantage.

~eynolds has played hundreds of shqws with Dave Matthews Band as.~ guest artist over the years, and his"presence and musical skill en­hance the show immeasurably. But it i$ performances like these where tl;i~ true talent of the two shine through and are pleasantly show­caSed.

The setlist consists of material a typical DMB fan would be familiar

as an avid concertgoer will notice, allow for a more intimate atmo­sphere despite the large crowds. Dave has a chance to talk to the crowd about anything and every­thing. Dave joked around about the

holy venue of Wait Chapel, and spoke his mind on religion and his previous concert stop at the univer­sity in 1994. We also learned that Dave believes dying of an Afrin overdose isn't cool, and that he gets

pretty ill if you stand up at these shows. And Lord knows, don't re­quest Freebird 'cause you will get it, and I don't mean the Lynyrd Skynyrd song either. This show was certainly an awesome musical ex-

perience,forboththehardenedDave Dave and Tim, they recently re­Matthews Band lover and the new- leased a CD, Dave Matthews and comers to the show. Dave and Tim Tim Reynolds Live at Luther Col­pleased the crowd for the entire lege. It captures what the acoustic show,andnobodyleftdisappointed. shows have to offer, as anybody in

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In the Western Classical tradition of the last.2oo years, from the Americas extend­ing; through Russia to east Asia, the sym­phony orchestra has been the medium through which many of the most public statements have been made. Even today, a city's symphony orchestra remains a hal­lowed institution of the music-loving pub-lic. · . That is not to say that the most profound

musical statements always, or even usu­ally, come out of this muscular and colorful institution. However, composers' efforts in this public venue always give the commu­nitY of music appreciators a special mo­ment to pause and reflect on the accom­plishments of those composers and their place.

Ludwig von Beethoven is a classic case in point; although many of his most pro­found, subtle statements were in the realm of chamber music, his symphonies cer­tairuy represent most of his public state­ments and landmarks.

The Secrest Series event Feb. 7 was cer­tainly a special date in the year's Secrest calendar. Was it the highlight of the sea­son? Although it is very tempting to use that

As the afternoon went on, the audience really connected to an

orchestra that was, heart and soul, devoted to giving its Russian gifts to

Americans.

word, a more considerate pronouncement may be in order.

Classical achievements have a distinctly weighty measuring stick for symphonic efforts.

The Secrest Series, therefore, reflected the centrality of the symphony in schedul­ing an especially talented group for this year's orchestra concert.

The Russian State Symphony is one of the most respected orchestras in the world, and the heights of the afternoon showed why.

Another typical feature of orchestras tour­ing in other cotmtries is the role of cultural ambassadorship; this orchestra brought some of the greatest Russian statements in music to the other side of the Western world -Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich.

It is often said that there is no perfor­mance like a Russian performance ofRus-

sian music. As the afternoon went on, the audience really connected to an orchestra that was, heart and soul, devoted to giving its Russian gifts to Americans. The perfor­mance got better with each individual piece, starting with an unremarkable performance of Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony and peaking with a rousing encore from a Shostakovich ballet.

The most moving piece on the program, however, was almost certainly the Sym­phony No. 2 by Rachmaninov. A com­pletely engrossed effort by the orchestra coincided with one of the most revered pieces in Russian symphonic literature.

This piece was why God invented the Russian orchestra.

A stage spilling over with fantastic string sections filled Wait Chapel with the soar­ing, thoroughly romantic music of an indi­vidual composing his way out of that seem­ingly pervasive Russian version of angst.

Perhaps the Prokofiev was less than in­spired, together, in tempo and in tune be­cause the orchestra was improperly warmed up.

The instruments arrived very late, and the orchestra was still trying outthe hall a mere 15 minutes before the 3 p.m. start.

Such problems were resolved by the sec­ond half of the concert allowing the

Rachmaninov piece to work its brooding magic.

Prior to writing the piece, Rachmaninov, afflicted seriously with writer's block and terrible depression, worked with a psycho­analyst who repeated over and over to him, "You will write music again. It will be good. You will write ... "

The music's long, cautiously confident lines stemming from this therapy appar­ently touched the audience deeply, for it leapt to its feet at the conclusion and de-

manded encore after encore. Gratified by this special communion with the audience, Maestro Polyanskyrewarded it with no less than three such musical treats.

The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, per­formed by Russian superstar Vladimir Spivakov, gave unity to the program, in addition to its Russian origin and flavor, in its also having been a sort of therapeutic piece for its composer.

Tchaikovsky, totally wrecked by the worst time in his life, set about putting his life back together by writing a series of extraor­dinary pieces, of which this is one. Spivakov visually and musically communicated the colossal struggle that characterizes this piece.

Although he hurried through many pas­sages that beg to be savored, as he is often wont to do, and his technical side fell con­siderably short for one who has been brought up in an age of perfected recordings, his sparkling power and total engrossment in the meaning of the music must distinguish his performance as one of the great high­lights of the musical year.

These performers gave their Russian hearts to their audience during a wonderful afternoon of ambassadorship in a most meaningful way, through the universal lan­guage of music.

. Final tour shows Billy Joel's sensitive and silly sides '"

Plans made to abandon rock for classical music after tour

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By Suzanne DuBose Editorials Editor

While students were welcoming Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds to campus Feb. 9, fans of a different sort were saying good-bye to a legend.

'\. No more than fiv..: minutes J' ./) away from the resonating walls of

Wait Chapel, Billy Joel was con­%. tinuing an artistry he has prac-

ticed since 1967. Joel's long history on stage

was obvious through the casual style with which he performed. Only two songs into the concert, Joel abandoned the set list and

a5ked the audience what they would prefer to hear next, "I Love You Just the Way You Are" or"She's Got A Way."

No rules, no convention and no restrictions were going to bind this night. Joel's freelance style not only kept the packed coliseum guessing, but his band as well. Joel even had to ~reak for a minute in the middl~.of

Even more surprising, Joel did not feel limited to his own work but also charmed the audience with hits from Elvis Presley and snippets of

James Taylor and Ben E. King.

the concert to clue his compatriots in to his latest idea. "When you write the songs, you can play 'em any way you want," Joel told the Winston-Salem Journal.

Switching between two electric keyboards and two baby grand pianos, Joel gave every side of the 360 degree audience his attention.

While the crowd called out, begging to hear the oh­so-classic tunes, Joel wove stories of delight. Tales were told of his fling with Elle McPhereson, ties were drawn to his two ex-wives and he jokingly referred to his first few low-selling albums.

With fans raging in age from 70 to I 0, the crowd was almost as diverse as the music. Without any new material since his 1993 Rivera/Dreams album, Joel is using this tour as his opportunity to commemorate his entire career in rock 'n' roll. i

Joel will tum 50 years old this year. To mark this As Joel told the New York Daily Times this tour is milestone, he has decided to step out of the spotlight most likely his last, concluding in late March. and survey his life's work. Joel told the Times that he only "went on stage to get

"For the tirst time, I'm really listening to what I'm girls," and now as a proud father and with a steady playing during a show," Joel told the Journal. "I'm girlfriend he doesn't need the "ego aspect of perform­hearing my voice, I'm seeing the lyrics and chords. ing." And you know, some of this stuff is pretty good." · After I6 solo albums, more than 35 top-40 singles,

Although Joel appeared to focus on his 1970s hits, five Grammy awards and more than I 00 million copies tunes such as "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "River of of his albums sold, Joel is cutting his ties with the pop-Dreams" were not forgotten. rock industry.

Even more surprising, Joel did not feel limited to his Now he hopes to focus his talents on his original love own work but also charmed the audience with hits from -classical music. Elvis Presley and snippets of James Taylor and Ben E. "People seem to get a little upset about that," Joel told King. the Times. "People who love rock music are afraid of

Joel soothed the stands with tender love ballads that classical music. People who love classical music are knocked audience members to their seats and rocked afraid of rock music. If nothing else, maybe I can write them into a fervor with his up-beat rock n' roll. some music that will bring the two camps together in

Playing for over two hours and singing whatever some way." inspired him at that moment, Joel emitted an over- Joel may believe the idea of classical music is upset­whelming need to live in the here and now and to give ting some fans, but many more are just upset to see him his audience everything they could possibly desire. go.

This even included wrestling with a stuffed animal Returning to the stage for his encore performance, and twirling a microphone stand. Joel struck the old, familiarcords,playinghis audience's Fo~ this concert was more tha.njust one of hundreds heart strings as well as those of his baby grand piano.

of Bill~ Joel p~rformances, th1s concert was one of "Play us a song, you're the piano man, play usa song several mtematLOnal stops on Joel's way out of the rock tonight, because we're all in the mood for a melody and 'n' roll business.,y ··you've got us feeling all right." ( ,;

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Exhibits

Re-Newing: Recycling in a Shrinking World. The exhibit looks at how cultures recycle artifacts from other cultures. When: Through March 20 Where: Museum of Anthropology Info: Ext. 5237

Games

The Newlywed "Not" Game. Campus couples compete against one another to see who knows each other the best. When: 7 p.m. Today Where: Pugh Auditorium Info: Sign up to compete in Benson 335 before Feb. 1 o.

Movies

Much Ado About Nothing. An all-star cast stars in Shakespeare's play about two men looking finding women to marry. When: 9 p.m. Today Where: Pugh Auditorium Info: Free

Ever After. Drew Barrymore stars in a Cinderella remake where Cinderella is more of feminist and the prince isn't so understanding of her deceit. When: 7 and 10 p.m. Feb. 12-14 Where: Pugh Auditorium Info: $2

The American President. Michael Douglas stars as a president who is put '

into the spotlight when he decides to date one of his political associates. When: 9 p.m. Feb. 16-18 Where: Pugh Auditorium Info: Free

' The Manchurian Candidate. A Korean war hero is investigated, uncovering dark and sinister secrets of the government and army. When: 6:30p.m. Feb. 17 Where: Pugh Auditorium Info: Free

Music ., ,.

Jive 'N' Java: Djoliba of Guinea, African Dance. Shorty's revives its concert series with a new twist as it brings some colorful dance to campus. When: 9 p.m. Feb. 15 Where: Shorty's Info: Free

Theater

Hedda Gabler. A clever woman rebels against her bored life by taking advantage of every one around her for her own benefit. When: 8 p.m. Feb. 12,13,17-20.2 p.m. Feb.21 Where: The Mainstage Theater Info: $5 for students, $10 for adults

Studio Series. Akhmatova and 'dentity Crisis. "Akhamatova" is a politically tense, poetic drama set in 1950's Russia and "'dentity Crisis" is an inventive, antic and mercilessly black comedy about modern psychiatry. When: 7:30 p.m. Feb.15 and 4:30p.m. Feb. 16

Where: The Ring Theater Info: $2

ELSEWHERE

Concerts Cat's Cradle. Feb.11: Moe and Trailer Park Profits. $12. Feb.13: Hipbone. Feb.17 Combustible Edison. Where: 300 E. Main St., Carrboro Info: (919) 967-9053

Ziggy's. Feb.11: Clutch, Drown and Sheldon. $10. Feb.12: David Allan Coe. $10. Feb.13: Eve 6 and Marvelous. $10. Feb.17: Charles Green and Vallegho. $5. Feb. 18: Viperhouse and Carmie. $5. Where: 433 Baity St. Info: 748-1064

Exhibits Pipes, Pedals, Keys and Bellows. Each day pieces of the largest surviving organ by David Tannenberg will be assembled by organ builders George Taylor and John Boody. When: Through March 14 Where: The Gallery at Old Salem Info: $3

Music AS·IS Jazz Band. A mix of musicians from New York City and Winston-Salem converge at Reynolda House to jam. When: 8 p.m. Feb. 12 Where: Reynolda House Info: $8 students, 725-5325

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Film merges director's 'gods and ntonsters'

By Rad Hallman Old Gold and Black Reviewer

Bill Condon's exploration of the last days of the enigmatic director James Whale offers Ian McKellan

the chance to show audi­ences the talent and artistry that has made him one the most respected of British actors.

Gods and Monsters de­picts the last days of Whale (McKellan), the director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, and the hy­

pothetical circumstances of his mysterious death. The film opens with Whale playfully doing an

interview next to his pool. The interview becomes a game for Whale as he tries to get a peep show from the young man interviewing him in exchange for answer­ing questions. The games end suddenly when Whale suffers a mild stroke.

The stroke does not physically inhibit Whale, but it seems to allow a flood of sense and memory into his head that he cannot filter out. The past begins to come back into his present as he fights against his own deteriorating condition.

One day, Whale notices his gardener, Clay Boone (Brendan Fraser), and invites him in for a drink. He asks Clay to model for some sketches because he is fascinated with Clay's facial features. Clay reluc- · tantly agrees and they soon become friends.

When Clay finds out that Whale is gay, he begins to believe thaf the old man's intentions are less than pure. He then realizes that his actions are fueled by a fear of something that he should not fear and he once again allows Whale to draw his countenance. As Whale's memories begin to come back in greater force and his mental inhibitions become fewer, he tries to take his relationship with Boone to a different, unexpected level and his death occurs under the same mysterious conditions in which he lived.

Gods and Monsters is a stirring character study of a man who was a truly creative artist on his own tenus although his horror films have become a sort of modern kitsch.

At one point, he tells Clay Boone that his films were supposed to be funny because they were about death, and he could see no other way to portray it. This seemingly contradictory summation of his films is a particularly apt way of describing his own life.

Gods and Monsters follows the modem tradition of films that tell the story of someone who creates art while creating a life that mirrors their own art in an

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McKellan is able to shed light onto the psyche of this often forgotten figure in American lore

while leaving the audience with no clear answers.

indirect way. Being a gay man in 20th-century Hollywood was

not a particularly easy task. Although this alienation aspect is not played out in obvious tenus, as would be expected in a lesser film that tries to appeal to simple, hot-button emotions, it is apparent that Whale sees himself as a sort of recluse. There are beautiful flashbacks in this film that portray Whale directing Bride of Frankenstein where the subtle line he walks is readily apparent but his artistry seems to rise above that.

McKellan gives the best perfonuance of the year as the misunderstood creator of the horror standard. On screen, he is a fully realized person. One can see his mind as it becomes immersed in emotion, whether it is a past memory, a present experience, or a sensual mixing of both.

McKellan is able to shed light onto the psyche of this often forgotten figure in American lore while leaving the audience with no clear answers. McKellan's character suggests that we all have rea­_sons for our actions and our vocations, but they aren't always clear or able to be related in understandable tenns.

Condon's work as the director is impressive, as well. He structures much of the film in a mode similar to that of Whale's work making much of the film's action humorous, touching and frightening all at the same time. His melding of flashback with present and his portrayal of the relationship between Clay and Whale in tenus of the Frankenstein films is brilliant. Condon's film is a small one, but it is a character study that has not been equaled since Leaving Las Vegas. ·

Brendan Fraser does a good job as Clay Boone who becomes caught in Whale's endearing web, but it is McKellan who makes this film. Unlike Robert Duvall, who delivered a career-best perfonnance in a less than spectacular film, The Apostle, McKellan's per­fonuance exists in a great film.

Condon shows that smaller is better sometimes in film. Gods and Monsters will hopefully not be forgot­ten in ihe future because it is a stirring film that does justice to an enigma while illustrating in cinematic tenns the "new world of gods and monsters" where the gods are not separable from the monsters and perhaps no better or worse.

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By Matt Barrington Old Gold and Black Reviewer

Hole had sort of dropped off the alterna­tive rock landscape for a while, what with Courtney Love's acting career and not

having an album since the success of Live Through This.

I'd almost forgotten that Hole was a pretty decent band. Then Hole's new album, Ce­lebrity Skin, was re­leased a few months ago.

I was skeptical at first. Love had seemed to clean up her act when she went to Hollywood, and I was afraid that Hole's music would be severely affected and would lose the edge that it had previously possessed. .

But for the first time in my recent memory, the radio actually turned me on to this album by playing the first track, "Celebrity Skin." Thus, over Christmas break, I decided to spend some of that money Santa gave me and give the new album a try.

The album took a while to grow on me, but I'm glad I gave it the initial chance. Hole has stayed true to fonn on their third full album and has continued to pierce the listener's ears with guitars and Love's original vocal style.

The title track is one of the louder cuts

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from the album. It's a sarcastic view of what Hollywood is and how easy it is to become nameless among the countless number of people trying to become actors and actresses.

The verse, "oh look at my face/my name is might have been/my name is never was/ my name's forgotten," pretty much sum­marizes the feeling of the song.

Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pump­kins helped to produce and write this al­bum, and the songs that he contributed to have some noticeable differences.

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Whereas previously Hole would hav~ trouble ending its songs, the songs thai Corgan wrote have defmed endings that fit with the rest of the song instead of just ending the song with a scream or drawn~ out word by Love. :

Another track off this album that has hit the radio is the song "Malibu." This is another solid song and deals with the de~ sire to just get away from everyone by driving away for a while. ·

One of my favorite songs is "Northern Star," which changes tempo and tone, something rarely seen in music today.

Another good one is the slow, gut­wrenching, "Petals," the last song on t~e CD and continually repeats the chorus, ''tear the petals off of you/make you tell th~ truth."

Love's lyricism is good, if not spectacu~ Jar on Celebrity Skin. The lyrics are well­written and actually have some meaning, which is nice. ;

Eric Erlandson, who played most of the guitars for the album, should be com: mended for his performance and for being one of the more under-appreciated guitar players in music today. He also contrib~ uted to much of the songwriting on ~ album and really started to be a strong part of the band. Patty Schmel is solid on the drums, as is Melissa Auf der Mauer on th~ bass.

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