NATIONAL CAMPUS NEWS Shannon Faulkner paved way for 61 female cadets at Citadel by Marja Mills Chicago Tribune April 06, 2000 Shannon Faulkner spent less than a week in the Citadel’s corps of cadets, but her presence is still felt around campus Faulkner set off a storm of protest several years ago when she sued to enroll as the military college's first female cadet. Bumper stickers around Charleston read “Save the Males.” She received threats and her family home in Powdersville, S.C., was van dalized. After a bitter legal battle, a federal judge ordered the school to accept Faulkner into the corps, and a place was cleared for her in the student bar racks. In August of 1995, she moved in for the cadet orientation, otherwise known as “Hell Week." Faulkner lasted five days. Sick with heat exhaustion and overwhelmed by the stress of her ordeal, Faulkner spent much of that time in the school infir mary. Before departing campus, she held a tearful press conference in the “1 know that by me leaving today, so many people are either mad at me or disappointed in me," she said. "Some are elated. All I have to say is, I have to think about my own health right now.” As word of her departure spread around campus, cadets broke into cheers The following June, the U.S. Su preme Court declared unconstitutional Students carving out new home on Web by Billy O’Keefe Campus Correspondent Columbia College April 05, 2000 CHICAGO (TMS) Just about ev ery day, Nathan Marring slips out of his dorm room and into a bondi blue virtual living room he’s created for himself on the Internet. Marting’s home page www.public.iastate.edu/~nmarting/ homepage.html is one of thou sands onlowa State University's cam pus servers. Its centerpiece is Marting’s resume, but there are also family photographs and bios and all sorts of information concerning the Chicago Bulls, the Weather Channel, and Gamavillo High. “Sure, it goes in all directions, and some guy in Italy may not care too much about my family,” said Marring, a junior. “But I enjoy doing it, and I’ll keep it up as long as I can.” Contrary to new wives’ tales, not everyone is out to raise money or hell on the Internet. For every Amazon.com trying to solicit busi ness, there are literally millions of per sonal home pages that would like just a minute or two of your time Many if not most are maintained by college students. Not interested in the life and rimes of Nathan Marring? That’s fine. There are more than 10,000 per sonal student Web sites on lowa State’s servers alone, ranging from Jose’s “Page of Love” www.public. iastate. edu/~offsprng/ homepage.html which is more about music than love, to Dana’s “Wonderful World of Mystery” which isn’t so mysterious because most of the links are related to her work in architecture class. School administrators have greeted students’ rights to do more than surf the Internet on campus with excite ment and extreme caution. That’s be cause students are posting controver- U. of Texas student gears up by Julie Chen Campus Correspondent The University of Texas at Austin April 06, 2000 AUSTIN (TMS) Many students like to take it easy their last semes ter of college. Not Monty Markland. In addition to taking 18 hours of classes, the 22-year-old University of Texas at Austin senior is running for the Austin City Coun cil. “lf you want to live somewhere you ought to want to make it a bet ter place,” says Markland, a self professed optimist with wavy brown hair and hazel-green eyes. Party identity? Republican (i.e. free enterprise, beefing up local law enforcement, trimming administra tive bureaucracy). That slight ac the men-only policy of another state- classmates are happy about their be sponsored military college, the Vir- ing there, more are simply resigned ginia Military Institute. The Citadel’s to it. governing board saw the writing on Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Sha Peterson walks across campus on her way back to her barracks after working at the campus post office. As a sophomore, she is not allowed to walk across “the deck,” a large grassy area in the middle of the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. the wall. Soon after, it voted unani mously to welcome women. Four women enrolled the next fall, in 1996. Two of the four left the Cita del midyear, charging they had been illegally hazed and sexually harassed. They sued and reached out-of-court settlements. Now, 61 of the school’s 1,648 ca- dets are female Though problems persist, several of those women said the opposition is growing less intense: if not all their sial pages all the time and, more re cently, clogging campus computer networks by trading and posting mas sive collections of pirated music, soft ware, games, and movies. But the availability of student Web pages, in the eyes of students anyway, is to col leges and universities what air condi tioning is to cars: a nice bonus in the past, an essential today. “My older brother goes to DePaul [University, in Chicago], and they gave him his own Web account when he enrolled,” says Marjorie Tornko, ft sophomore at Columbia College in Chicago. “I was expecting the same thing when I came to Columbia, or at least an e-mail address. I was shocked to find out that they offered neither.” Natalie Hamilla, whose site, “Natalie’s ‘Bos Page,” www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/x/ tvchlsB/ is one of more than 26,000 student home pages residing on Penn State University’s servers, said that even the simplest home pages make for good practice—and that students need this practice. “Everyone is looking for people who can do this stuff,” says Hamilla. “I don’t care what you wanna do with your life. This is the way it’s going, and this is the best way to learn how to do it.” This new necessity is what most motivates schools, beyond all the risks, to include personal pages for their students. “Just like schools want the best books and materials and the best in structors, this is just another way to get ahead,” said John Zimmer, an ad ministrator for Northwestern University’s student pages directory, “Pubweb,” which encourages stu dents to experiment “on a modest scale,” as noted on the site’s main page. Don’t underestimate the weight be hind that “M” word. Schools volun tarily play the honor game with stu dents because their technical staffs are cent? Unmistakably Texan. Atti tude? Quite neoteric. “The youth of this city [people be tween 18 to 30] ought to be repre sented on the city council.” Markland says. “If you have stu dents running for office, if you have students getting involved with po litical campaigns, it’s gonna get naturally more students voting.” That’s important because “nobody’s gonna listen to what the younger portion of the population wants unless the younger portion of the population votes,” he adds. Not only does Markland face the expected low turnout for younger aged voters on Election Day (May 6), he is also up against four vet eran politicians. “I’m not intimi dated,” Markland says. “[But] they certainly have a good deal more of Emory Mace was one of those who had opposed letting females into the school. The commandant of the Citadel’s corps of cadets still wears his Citadel class ring, engraved “1963.” “My wife and 1 were both against women coming here because we thought there was a place for single gender education,” Mace said, “the bonding the males would have in this environment.” But, being a military man, he said, often too small to monitor every link and every move on every site. But those in charge, via the front page of the server and/or student handbooks and other literature, make their mes sage loud and clear: you may be our student, but that doesn’t mean we agree, endorse, or allow what you’re saying. They’re not kidding either. Just ask former DePaul student Charles Lowell, whose site, sporting obscene swipes at some fellow DePaul stu- removed wjtjioqtso much as a notice. * “One of the students called and complained, and poof, it was gone,” said Lowell, a 1999 graduate. “I guess that’s fair, but I would’ve liked some warning. I guess that’s the way it works,” Dejected, Lowell did not make a comeback attempt on DePaul’s Shrike student pages server, choos ing instead to open an account with Yahoo! ’s Geocities, which Lowell felt would give him more freedom to speak his mind. University of Texas student Julie Chen took a similar route, opting to host her “Texas Students for John McCain” page tx-students-for mccain.org with an independent company, Hypermart, because the University of Texas doesn’t allow its students to run political pages on its servers. Likewise, students at North western aren’t allowed to use their • pages for commercial use. Moon lighting entrepreneurs will have to go elsewhere, school officials said. Still, while ambitious students such as Chen are surfacing mom and more, the typical student is still getting his or her feet wet when it comes to un tangling the publishing intricacies of the Web. “I basically started this page be cause I wanted to try it,” Marring said. “I have no big ambitions here. It’s just something fun to do.” experience.” A former news editor and reporter for the campus newspaper The Daily Texan , Markland said he gained most of his political experience cov ering the Austin City Council meet ings and state legislative sessions. Then he grew restless with the per petuating status quo when it comes to how the council operates. “I think things need to change quickly and it’s just simple things, too,” Markland said. “Basic ser vices the city is supposed to provide. We’re probably the only major city with unsynchronized traffic lights. We’re short on police force. As our city continues to grow and expand and the population continues to rise, these little basic things are gonna become the sticking points.” Keeping in mind student needs, rules are rules and he is on board. Mace pointed out a benefit to the cur rent crop of young male cadets sweat ing and studying alongside their fe male counterparts: it could be prepa ration for what follows. “Something’s different than when I graduated 35 years ago,” he said. “You might be working alongside a woman or for a woman in the mili tary or civilian life.” The Citadel’s co-educational policy hit home for Mace. One of the first female cadets to enroll was his daughter, Nancy. Because of transfer credits from another college, she completed the Citadel’s requirements in three years and became the Citadel’s first female cadet to graduate, in 1999. She now works for a business consulting firm. School officials say they are com mitted to integrating women into Cita del life, and are encouraging more fe male applicants. A glossy recruitment brochure extols Nancy Mace’s success and that of other women on their way to earning degrees. “We are behind these women 100 percent,” said Heather Anderson, a Citadel spokes- woman A recent book about the Citadel, In Glory's Shadow, describes the some times brutal hazing including beat ings and cigarette burns that has occurred at the 157-year-old institu tion. Its author, Catherine S. Manegold, covered the Faulkner case for The New York Times. A few women currently at the Cita del, who did not want to be identified, said they have felt pressured to un- Coastal Caro backs removi flag from Statehouse dome by Natalie Burrowes Knight-Ridder Tribune April 06, 2000 CONWAY, S.C. Coastal Carolina University’s Faculty Senate on Wednesday, April 5, passed a resolu- tion calling for the removal of the Confederate flag atop the Statehouse. By a majority vote, the senate ac cepted political sci ence professor Ri chard Collin’s resolution that urged community members and elected officials to support the transfer of the flag to an other suitable CCU President Ron Ingle has called for the re moval of the Con federate flag on several occasions and supports the faculty senate’s de- Ingle CCU’s admissions department re ceived a letter from the father of an accepted out-of-state Hispanic stu dent, explaining why his daughter was not going to attend CCU. In the let ter, the student’s father said the Con federate flag flying atop the statehouse was a factor in her decision not to at tend. Collin, a faculty senate member, had planned to propose the resolution Wednesday and ask the senate to vote at May’s meeting. Gilbert Hunt, faculty senate chair, thought it would be appropriate to go ahead and vote. for city council run Markland has made the issue of af fordable housing one of his cam paign keystones. “The city council’s micromanaging policies constrict the supply side of housing, and that’s why prices go through the roof,” Markland explained, noting that current rates for housing around campus run as high $BOO per month. Speaking of money, how is Markland holding up against the bigwigs? Most of the funding has come out of his earnings designing Web pages and handling computer systems for a local company, as well as local individuals. “My parents gave me $100,” Markland said, although he’s aware of the weakness of his “shoestring” campaign. Well, not to mention his personal weaknesses: “I’m short. dergo lesser hazing, such as hanging from their arms until they drop to the ground. More said they have gotten lewd comments from resentful male cadets, and have been singled out for extra marching. Women say they face a dilemma when such hazing or harassment does occur. If they report it, they say, they may be ostracized by fellow cadets or get a fellow student kicked out under the school’s tough, “zero tolerance” policies. Faulkner, who graduated from Anderson College in her home state, now teaches high school in Greenville, S.C. She did not respond to calls from the Chicago Tribune seeking comment. Citadel sophomore Sha Peterson looks at Faulkner differently now than she did back in Chicago, when she was a 15-year-old watching the evening news. At the time, Peterson thought Faulkner was stirring up trouble for no good reason. With nearly two years at the Cita del under her belt, Peterson said she now appreciates what Faulkner did. Despite her self-confidence, despite the gold stars of achievement on her collar and the promise of a Citadel diploma in 2002, Peterson doubts she could have done the same. Even though Faulkner did not last long at the military college, Peterson said, she was the one who got women admitted, who tried to go it alone. “I have will,” Peterson said, “but I don’t know if I have that much will. She did pave the way.” lina U. faculty ng Confederate “If we wait until May, the issue could be gone,” Hunt said to the sena tors. “You will have a chance to have your voice heard,” he said. A motion to amend the resolution to a one-sentence statement failed 13- 10. Paul Peterson told his fellow sena tors the elegance of the one-page reso lution would speak well of the fac- "For some South Carolin ians ..., a flag of the Con federacy evokes emotional and historical images of a feisty and embattled people. On the other hand, many South Carolina whites and virtually all Af rican-Americans see this banner as a sign of covert racism and hate it. ” -Resolution written by political science professor Richard Colin, for CCU Faculty Senate semitism; for Palestinians, it signifies repression and frustration of their as pirations for statehood and self-gov- emment "For some South Carolinians, mourning the loss of ancestors who fought bravely, a flag of the Confed eracy evokes emotional and histori cal images of a feisty and embattled people. On the other hand, many South Carolina whites and virtually all African-Americans see this ban ner as a sign of covert racism and hate it. Our problem is not unique. Everyone’s heritage is someone else’s hate.” I’m hairy. My right eye is smaller than my left eye. I’m kind of ab sentminded. “I’m probably overly optimistic,” Markland added, quickly noting that most successful people are self-dep recating Regardless of the race’s outcome, Markland said his main reason for running is his incurable optimism and idealism. And because it’s fun, he said. “The first step of good manage ment is listening to people and let ting them feel like their concerns have been expressed you gotta let them feel like they can talk,” Markland said. “If I do get elected, my most important attribute is the fact that I’m a hell of a talker but I’m a hell of a listener too.” Ad promising free puppies, kitties clogs student government phone lines Five classified ads offering free goods ran in the March 31 edition of the University of Florida’s student newspaper, the Alligator , and had phones subsequently ringing off the hooks. That’s not too unusual, except that the ads, placed anonymously, were fake, and the numbers two per ad, ten in all were those of Student Government party members and can didates, none of whom were giving away any free puppies. The ads, which ran on election day for the candidates, offered, among other things, furniture, rottweiler pup pies, and Persian kittens, all for free. The outpouring of calls made it diffi cult for candidates to keep their phones and answering machines plugged in, let alone use them to communicate with fellow party members. For SG presidential candidate lan Lane, who was listed as giving away the free puppies, it was a good idea at a very bad time. "If it was done on Thursday, I prob ably would have thought it was funny,” said Lane. “The fact that it was done on Election Day I would have to say it was disrupting rather than funny.” "The intent is clear," said Mark Adler, whose number was listed along side Lane’s in the same ad. “The in- tent is to screw up communication.” Not everyone’s feathers were ruffled by the incident, however. Some shared the sentiments of presidential candi date David Winchester, who admitted the prank was a hindrance but never theless found it to be “hilarious.” Jeremy Kaplan, who ran for trea surer, took it one step further. He was honored to be involved. ulty senate The reso lution makes it clear that South Carolina’s debate over the Confeder ate flag is not pro vincial. Examples of political sym bols the resolution gives are the Star of David and the Red Hand of Ul ster. “I was happy they included me in there because 1 want to be in on the fun,” he said. Group wants U. of Michigan to drop course on gay male identity "For Is raelis, the Star of David represents a proud nation and a place of safety for a people trauma tized by anti - ANN ARBOR (TMS) —A conserva tive group is pushing officials at the University of Michigan to drop a course on male homosexuality that it says is recruiting and teaching teenag ers to be gay. The course, titled “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation,” is scheduled to be offered for the first time in the fall. Descriptions of the course, which will fall under the En glish department, state it “will exam ine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay identity” by analyzing the written, musical, and artistic works of gay men. Gary Glenn, president of the Michi gan affiliate of the American Family Association, sent an e-mail last week to UM’s president and board of re gents, state legislators, and Gov. John Engler, calling for the course’s cancel lation. The association’s Web site states that it strives to “expose the mis representation of the radical homo sexual agenda and stop its spread through our culture.” “UM actually wants to force Michi gan taxpayers to pay for a class to openly recruit and teach teenagers how to engage in a lifestyle of high-risk be havior that is not only illegal but many believe immoral, behavior that further increases the burden on taxpayers to pay its public health consequences,” Glenn’s letter states. University officials said they have no intentions of canceling the class. In a statement, Nancy E. Cantor, UM’s provost and executive vice president of academic affairs said, “We are com pletely in support of Professor [David] Halperin’s course and of his freedom to teach this course as he constructed by Billy O’Keefe Campus Correspondent Columbia College April 07, 2000 TMS Campus April 06, 2000
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