CAPITAL TIMES, January 24, 1990
NATION
On campus: across the USA
Security
DISTRUST AND LOW MORALE.
That's the bottom line in a
recent report on the U. of
Minnesota police department.
The study was conducted by
an organizational consultant,
who found the system
"highly competitive, with
very few promotional
opportunities." And the
problem seems widespread:
"Feelings of distrust, a lack of
respect and discouragement
have been expressed by
employees throughout the
University."
Student groups
THE COLONEL'S A GENERAL
annoyance to Chinese
students at the U. of
California-Berkeley, who
want Kentucky Fried Chicken
to close its outlet near
Tiananmen Square in
Beijing. They threatened a
gerneral boycott of all
Colonel Sanders' franchises
in the U..S. KFC vice
president of public affairs
defended the outlet as a rare
opportunity for equality and
advancement,
capitalism and democracy
Wednesday and Thursday
PENN STATE NITE
DJ every Wednesday
Live bands every
(No cover with Penn
Party
with us every
Wednesday and Thursday
" PENN .STATE NITES"
10:00 - 2:00
Trivia Games
and Prizes
Residence halls
SHEEP DON'T RUN NORTH IN
NEW YORK. As part of pledge
activities for Delta Kappa
Epsilon, 20 Pace U. students
were blindfolded and dropped
off minus IDs and money.
They were instructed to
respond to questions about
their acctineters with the
phrase, "Sheep run north,
sir." A local police officer
stopped and questioned their
actions. The pledges
responded as instructed.
Unamused, the officer issued
disorderly conduct tickets,
after arresting and strip
searching the pledges.
A RETURN TO ANIMAL HOUSE?
Two days of "party till you
drop" led to snctions for the
Kent State U. chapter of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Besides
serving alcohol to a minor,
SAE members trashed a
Holiday Inn during a
dinner/dance. They tore out
bothe a wal in a men's rest
room and an elevator phone,
had sex in the whirlpool and
sauna and with their doors
and drapes open, and dumped
beer in the whirlpool.
Daily Drink
Specials
thru Friday
Saturday
State ID)
Because of the incidents,
alcohol is banned from all
events and members must
maintain a 2.6 GPA.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN A HECK OF
A DANCE- if they hadn't been
caught. Members of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity at
Washington Stated - U. went on
a stealing spree to furnish
their house for a dance. The
stolen merchandise, valued at
$5,000, included construction
materials, an antique plow,
two fake , geese and a
cemement Virgin Mary.
FULL INTEGRATION OF THE
GREEK SYSTEM is the topic of
discussion at Ole Miss, where
members of a white
fraternity dumped two nude
brothers- bound and marked
with racial slurs- at a nearby
black college in September.
But the final decision doesn't
rest just with university
officials, said U. of Mississippi
Chancellor Gerald Turner.
"The administration should be
involved, the 'students
themselves-black and white
and the national
organizations."
A GIANT STEP was taken at the
U. of Cinvinnati, as white and
black fraternities and
sororities mixed at a party last
month. According to Warren
Hayes, former president of
the Association of Black
Greek Letter Organizations,
"It took this long because no
one wanted to take a chance."
But now Delta Tau Delta and
Phi Beta Sigma, along with
Chi Omega, Delta Sigma and
Zeta Phi Beta sororities, are
showing - that leadership
means taking a chance to
promote brotherhood and
sisterhood.
Legal issues
THE SPIRIT EXPRESS came to
the U. of Kansas to play
basketball- but their halftime
show upset some people in
the crowd. Barious members
of the Spirit team preached
Christian doctrineand
recounted spiritual stories.
According to one irate season
ticket-holder, "It amounted to
a relgious service, plain and
simple." Some feel that KU
may have violated the
principle of church/state
separation in allowing the
production.
RAP SONG AND MUSIC
VIDEO PROMOTE
ABSTINENCE as the best way
to prevent pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases.
Developed by a nurse at
Haskell Indian Junior College
(KS), both the song and the
video target teen boys,
educating them about the
consequences of unplanned
pregnancies.
HOMOPHOBIA IN THE HALLS
was the topic recently at Ohio
State U. The Gay and Lesbian
Alliance presented two panel
discussions to inform
residents and their advisors.
Calling hoomophobia"ann
errational fear ... from and
uneducated viewpoint,"
Alliance Vice President Mike
Scarce explained that "the
dicscussions were to educate,
so nobody gets hurt and so
everybody understands."
Student goverent
WANTED: LEADERS. REWARED.
The posters aren't up, but the
idea is in the air. The student
association senate at the U. of
Vermont is considering
offering stipends to executive
board membbers.. Stipends
would open up government to
students who need to work
their way through school,
and the policy would
recongnize the
resoponsibililty and time
commitment of being a board
member
Student press
SUSPENDED FOR RUNNING A
PRO-CHOICE AD,the editor of
Marquette U.'s Tribune now
says he was wrong to supportt
the ad and . did not fuly
understand university policy.
Acter the ad- which
supported abortion rights
rallies- ran, administrators at
the Roman Catholic school
suspended the editor, Greg
Myers, along with the paper's
advertising andd business
managers. Meanwhile, editors
of Georgetown U.'s student
paper decided not to publish
and edition containing a pro
choice advertsement.
THE DAILY COUGER IS UNDER
ATTACK at the U. of Houston.
Protesters have asserted that
the newspaper routinely
ignores issues of particular
interest to minorities. Most
recently, they complain, the
Cougar failed to cover
homecoming, when a black
woman was crowned queen.
And the Black Students Union
maintains that the paper is
short on campus news,
relying too heavily on wire
service stories.