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Halloween back with a vengeance
at Southern Illinois U.
by Matthew McGuire
TMS Campus
October 30, 2000
For the first time in six years, bars
and restaurants on the Southern Illi
nois University campus stayed open
for Halloween weekend. And with
out hesitation, a mob entered the
downtown area and wreaked havoc
on local businesses.
Carbondale police arrested 78
people over Halloween weekend, af
ter crowds broke storefront windows,
tore down business signs and set fires
in the streets.
“Most of the arrests were alcohol
related - public consumption, pub
lic drunkenness and underage drink
ing,” said Deputy Chief Steve Odum.
“At least a couple of arrests were for
the vandalism. But when you have a
group that packed, and things fly out
of the crowd that break windows, you
can't always identify who threw it.”
The arrests were split over Friday
and Saturday night, when crowds be
tween 1,500 and 2,000 gathered each
night in the downtown strip, about
three-quarters of a block long with
storefronts on either side of the street.
Revelers broke at least four store win
dows and pulled down several busi
ness signs by climbing telephone pole
to reach them, Odum said.
Jimmy John's sandwich shop, lo
cated in the middle of the mayhem,
had its sign pulled down Friday night
and windows broken Saturday night,
said shop co-owner Becky Butler.
Damage has been estimated between
$5,000 and $lO,OOO.
She spent the weekend sweeping
up glass, boarding up the windows
and removing the chunks of asphalt
that had been thrown into the store.
Students find nude man and abused sheep in college farmhouse
by Matthew McGuire
TMS Campus
October 31, 2000
A 46-year-old man broke his pa
role after students at Hawkeye
Community College found him hav
ing sexual intercourse with a sheep
in the school farm hayloft.
Richard A. Broderson was ar
rested for animal abuse, a misde
meanor punishable by up to two
years in prison, and criminal tres
pass, a misdemeanor carrying a
maximum 30-day jail sentence, said
Black Hawk assistant county attor
ney Daniel Davis. The county attor
Auburn U. mascot to undergo... sensitivity training?
by Billy O'Keefe
TMS Campus
October 30, 2000
Aubie the tiger, Auburn
University's mascot of 21 years, has
been choke-slammed all the way to
sensitivity training.
Auburn junior Joe Darby, who
along with two other students por
trays Aubie at Auburn's sporting
events, agreed to participate in sen
sitivity education classes after up
set viewers complained en masse
about Aubie's attire at a recent foot
ball game.
The group also agreed to submit
all future scripts and props for ap
proval before using them in games.
In Auburn's 17-10 loss at Missis
sippi State, television cameras
caught a shot of Aubie wearing a t
shirt that read “Aubie 3:16,” a play
on World Wrestling Federation su
perstar “Stone Cold” Steve Austin,
whose “Austin 3:16” T-shirt is one
of the federation's most popular
pieces of merchandise.
Of course, long before Austin
3:16 was delivering sit-down
piledrivers and Stone Cold Stun
ners, there was John 3:16, the bibli
cal verse proclaiming that “whoever
believes in Him should not perish,
but have eternal life.”
E-mails and phone calls poured
in. Viewers complained that Aubie's
And while furious by the vandalism,
she said she's equally annoyed by the
protection police offered over the
weekend.
“The police just sat there and
watched. There were 70 officers on
duty, including the police chief, who
just sat there
and watched,”
Butler said
“I went up
to him and
asked why he
was letting
this go on and
he said that he
didn't want to
jeopardize his
officers safety
he thought
the crowds
would retali-
Crowds
gathered
when the bars
closed at 1
and
weren't dis
persed until
after 4 a.m.,
when police
Carbondale police spray mace at two rioters as they attempted to retreat down Illinois Avenue
early Sunday morning. More than 2,000 rioters gathered in downtown Carbondale, 111., for the
unofficial Halloween celebration near the Southern Illinois University campus.
used mace,
she said.
“Everyone
disappeared
as soon as the mace came out,” she
said, “Why did they wait so long?”
Chief R.T. Finney was out of the
office until Wednesday and unavail
able for comment. Odum said that
police did not change their strategy
from Friday to Saturday night and
said when dealing with a disorderly
crowd, police need to proceed with
caution.
ney has not yet formally indicted
Broderson on the charges, she said.
Several students and a faculty
"Police found a blue nightgown next
to the sheep, but it was not clear if
it had been worn by Broderson, the
sheep or at all."
member found Broderson at 8:04
a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, naked in
“message” was a contradiction of
the separation of church and state,
as well as a covert promotion of
Christian ideals.
“In retrospect,
we can see where
the shirt could be
interpreted in
other ways and
we apologize to
anyone we might
have offended,”
said Darby. “This
is one of those de-
ctstons we stn-
cerely wish we
had made differ-
ently.”
Darby said that
Aubie was also
wearing denim
shorts and knee
pads in order to
emulate Austin's
ring attire, and
that references to
anything other
than Stone Cold
were uninten-
But Darby and
his teammates
told advisor
Debbie Conner
that the trio would not object to sen-
sitivity training.
Darby also announced plans to re-
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“We were cautions in our re
sponse," Odum said. “For officers
pushing their way into the crowd to
make an arrest would only incite the
crowd. So we were pretty cautions
about doing that. It's balancing call
for us."
The bulk of the crowd had been dis
persed at the beginning of each night,
and those who stuck around were
looking for a confrontation, he said.
"By the time we moved people off
the street it had begun dissipate on
its own. It was our goal to let people
disperse on their own," Odum said.
The destructive crowd was any
thing but the sort of behavior the
the hayloft with the sheep tied up in
a corner, police said. Police found a
blue nightgown next to the sheep,
but it was not clear if it
had been worn by
Broderson, the sheep or at
all.
The farm manager, a faculty
member at the college, later exam
spond personally to every complaint
the university has received.
"What happened as a result of Sat
urday is as far from what Aubie is
Aubie, Auburn University's mascot, pictured here
at a game against Wyoming on Aug. 31,2000.
really about as anything could pos
sibly be,” Darby said. “We have no
interest in controversy. We want to
“The farm man
ager and the students just
kind of stood there,
shocked, until the police
arrived," said Deb Mar
tin, director of public re
lations for the Waterloo,
lowa, college.
Carbondale city council had hoped to
see when they voted in March to al
low bars and restaurants to remain
open over the Halloween weekend.
After a similar debacle in 1994, the
city voted to close any establishments
that serve alcohol over the holiday
weekend to prevent a repeat
The school followed suit and in
1995 instituted a fall break over the
Halloween weekend when the cam
pus would shut down. The city's re
striction ended this year, but SIU still
scheduled the fall break. City and
school officials had assumed that the
break and celebration's five-year hia
tus would curb a repeat fiasco.
ined the sheep and found that is was
sexually assaulted, she said.
Broderson remained in the Black
Hawk county jail as of Tuesday, Oct.
31. The county attorney office said
bond was set at $75,000, while the
county jail reported that Broderson
was being held without bond be
cause of the parole violation.
lowa has no specific laws pertain
ing to bestiality, said Waterloo po
lice Capt. Steve Witt, and therefore
charged him with animal abuse.
“I don't doubt it happens, but in my
30 years on the job I can’t remem
ber anyone actually being arrested
for anything like this,” Witt said.
represent Auburn in a positive and
entertaining light. Hopefully, by tak
ing these steps, we can avoid any
thing like this happening again.”
But an editorial in the Auburn
Plainsman, the school's student
newspaper, says that Darby's only
offensive act is apologizing to those
who complained.
“What the hell are these people
thinking?” read the editorial. “Both
groups of complainers have misin
terpreted a harmless attempt at com
edy for a holy war.
“It's a cat. It's a joke. It was a mas
cot imitating a nationally recognized
and embraced performer. Get over
it.”
In 1970 s and 1980 s, the phrase
“John 3:16” become every bit as
synonymous with American sport
ing events as American churches,
thanks in part to Rollen “Rainbow
Man” Stewart, whose rainbow wig
and “John 3:16” signs became fix
tures at sporting events nationwide.
In the mid-19905, wrestler Steve
Williams adopted the phrase as part
of his new “Stone Cold” persona,
and sales of his merchandise set new
records for the WWF.
After existing for 18 years as a
cartoon tiger in Auburn's football
game programs, Aubie became the
university's official mascot in 1979
and has been on the job ever since.
In this class, professors
are the ones taking the
exams, not grading them
by Scott Powers
Knight-Ridder Tribune
October 31, 2000
ORLANDO. Fla. - Rollins Col
lege English professor Maurice
O'Sullivan doesn't lock students
out of class for being late any
more; he empathizes with them
instead.
Like many professors.
O'Sullivan used to send stern
messages occasionally to remind
students to make getting to class
on time a priority. Sometimes a
tardy student would find the solid
wooden door to O'Sullivan's
classroom closed. The student
would have to listen to the lec
ture in the hall, and pass notes
under the door to participate.
That was before O'Sullivan
signed up for Rollins "Spanish for
Professors" course this year. It
was before he was tardy himself,
more than a few times, and came
to realize how easy it was for
simple but important encounters
to delay him.
It was before O'Sullivan was re
minded what it was like to be an
undergraduate.
He's one of 45 Rollins profes
sors, deans, directors and staff
members who this year are sweat
ing through what is essentially
freshman Spanish. Rollins set up
the class as an experiment to im
merse more faculty and staff in
Spanish and Hispanic culture, to
both help them be a part of Rollins'
and Orlando's Hispanic commu
nity and increase the college's
prospects to work internationally.
But the class has become a phe
nomenon on campus. Class mem
bers rave about relearning the
simple joys and frustrations of be
ing a student again.
"We spend enormous amounts
of time as colleagues talking about
the process of teaching, the nature
of learning. But we do it mostly
from the outside, as teachers, and
from what we learn from our read
ing," O'Sullivan said. “It’s com
pletely different for us now w hen
(Spanish professor) Roy (Kerr)
hands out an exam for us to take
home. People start thinking, how
do I deal with this?"
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In this course, class distinctions
mean nothing. Everybody struggles,
regardless of whether they have doc
torates. or where they earned them.
"Ignorance in this particular case
is a great equalizer," said Barbara
Howell, an administrative assistant
w'ith a bachelor’s degree.
She has taken a little Spanish be
fore and sits in the advanced group,
but said the distinction is lost in class.
“There can be no hierarchy here,"
Howell added. "Our custodian
speaks Spanish; when we're going
off, we try to piece together a scn
and he corrects us."
English professor Lczlie Couch
concedes she has mangled more than
her share of the Spanish language in
class. Such foibles, she said, help
class members see past each other's
positions and pretensions.
“It's so cute to see them working
hard and struggling and laughing to
gether at each other's goofs," Couch
said. "There is no politics in this
Kerr, a professor of Spanish and
Portuguese, and Alberto Prieto-
Calixto, an assistant professor of
Spanish, hatched the idea and teach
the class. They expected only a hand
ful of people to voluntarily give up
two or three lunch hours a week for
a year. But 80 expressed interest. The
class was capped at 45.
“One of the things they told us
was, ‘We live in a Hispanic culture.'
I want to be able to listen to Spanish
radio, to understand what is said at
the grocery store, to talk with my
neighbor,'" Kerr said.
But it's clear that the students are
learning more than Spanish.
"I realize that when I'm teaching
accounting to my students, I may be
talking in a foreign language," said
Sherry Fischer, director of Rollins'
arts and sciences internship program
and an accounting instructor.
“Alberto sometimes has to talk re
ally slowly for us to understand. As
a teacher, you have to get that."
Teacher becomes student. And stu-
dent becomes teacher.
“I've been talking to some of my
students in Spanish. When 1 walk in,
they say, ‘Did you do your home
work?'" Fischer said. "I said, 'OK,
I'll help you in accounting if you help
me in Spanish."'