IVU.I 8 A 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- NATIONAL CAMPUS NEWS “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?" Crime fighting and - cracking skills will be create a degree program ai •College starting ir •id Williams, a 'estigator and ii -am. complete ucobsproi gree in mstca * FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2000 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."'
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