The Stetson Reporter

\J4 ■i > i 1 : • r a The Stetson ftorida's Oldest CoCttgiate 9{ezvs-paper For Your Information Phi Sigma Alpha sponsors NAFTA speech Phi Sigma Alpha, the poUtical science honorary, wiU present Dr. •WiUiam Nylen on April 1. Nylen wiU speak on "The EC and NAFTA: practice and prospects of regional economic integration." The event wiU be held in Night Lites, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. It is open to the pubUc, and participants are encouraged to bring a lunch. WGS Film series continues On Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m., in Flagler 213, the WGS Film series wiU continue with two videos that focus on U.S./Latin American relations. Gloria Ribe's From Here, From This Side incorporates texts by Mexican writers, images from Mexican melodrama, and Hollywood movies in order to interrogate Hollywood's version of Latin America. Martha Rosler's A Simple Case for Torture, or, How to Sleep at Night juxtaposes U.S. news reports, opinion pieces, texts, and Central Americans' testimonials to provoke thinking about how U.S. poUticiansand media create and exploit the concept of terrorism. Athletic Department auction to be held The Athletic Department will present its annual auction in the Edmunds Center on Friday, AprU 12, from 5-10 p.m.. The sUent auction begins at 5 p.m. Dinner will be served from 5:30-7 p.m., with desert served until 8 p.m. The Live Auction benefits at 8:30 p.m. until aU items are sold. The entry fee is $5 per person, which includes bidder ID number, dinner, desert, and music. The proceeds from this fund-raising event wiU benefit all athletic programs at Stet-. son. -Items ranging from antiques, fine arts, trips, vacations^, athletic equipment, sportswear, sports memorabilia, office equipment, to plants, professional ser-, vices, and dinners/lunches wiU be awarded to the highest bidder. The entire community is invited to participate. A Usting of avaUable items is available in the Edmunds Center ticket office. CaU the Stetson Athletic Department at Ext. 8124 with any questions. Career Forum next week The second annual Communications Career Forum wiU be next Tuesday, AprU 2, in the Stetson Room at 7 p.m. Panelists wiU include individuals from fields such as marketing, public relations, print and broadcast journaUsm. A reception wiU foUow the event. Calendar of Events Tuesday, March 26 BSU Lunch, Allen Hall Noon Wednesday, March 27 Counseling Center lunch (PDR) Noon Res.Life: info session (student lounge) 5:00 p.m. Intramurals: Men's BasketbaU (EC) 5:00 p.m. CSA: Band, Life in General (NL) 6:00 p.m. SGA: Pres. campaign debate (EHA) 7:00 p.m. Thursday, March 28 Women's Tennis vs. Toledo 2:30 p.m. Flame Outreach Meeting (Night Lites) 6:00 p.m. BSU Vespers (AUen Hall) 6:30 p.m. Intramurals: Flag Football(Hollis Field)4:00 p.m. Friday, March 29 Admissions: .Honors Scholarship Day Room Deposits due to Res. Life Health Services: HIV Screening(204-5) 5:00, p.m. Brass Ensemble (EHA) 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30 Admissions: Open House for accepted students Balloon Glow (Rinker Field) -7:00 p.m. Sunday, March 31 Palm Sunday Wesley House Celebrate Life CCM Mass (Night Lites) 7:00 p.m. 8:45 p.m. If you or your organization has information for this column, send it to the Reporter at Campus Box 8409, attention News Department Or contact the Reporter via e-mail. On the VAX, our address is REPORTER. Via the Internet: [email protected] The deadline for submissions is the Thursday before the release is to appear. Rape victim sues Stetson, Digs, and rapist for assault Stacy Gum The Stetson Reporter When Rika Zilant came to Stetson to visit her sister Calla in 1991, getting raped by freshman Delta Sigma Phi fraternity member Matthew Pugh was not included in her plans. Now that she's 18 years old, ZUant is suing Pugh, Stetson and Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, Inc., its' Alpha Chi Chapter and the chapter's Alumni Control Board,- Inc. The lawsuit, in excess of $15,000, was filed March 15. The 1991 attack happened at around 2 a.m. in Nemec HaU. ZUant was waiting outside for her sister. Against Stetson poUcy, the door of Nemec was propped open. Pugh, who knew Zilant was only 15^ approached her and said she'd be more comfortable waiting inside. She went into her sister's room and did not reaUze Pugh foUowed her.- Inside, Pugh "intentionally, unlawfully, and violently assaulted and battered" her despite her "vehement protests and supplications for him to cease and desist," the lawsuit states. At the time of his arrest, Pugh told DeLand Police officers that Zilant agreed to the act [oral sex] and protested only after it had begun," says a 1992 Orlando Sentinel Article. Pugh was found guUty of lewd and- lascivious assault upon a chUd and was placed on 15 years proba tion, according to' the lawsuit and criminal court records. He was also suspended from Stetson. At the time of the. rape, Pugh was drunk from an alcohol party at the fraternity house, even though Stetson prohibited the use and consumption of any alcoholic beverages, the law'suit says. . Pugh knew he was prone to "lewd sexual behavior, and other destructive and violent behavior after consuming alcohoUc beverages" and he still "knowingly and willingly" consumed alcohol, the lawsuit says. He wasalso aware that Stetson policy prohibited male visitors in Nemec HaU after 1 a.m. on weekends. The lawsuit says the fraternity control his behavior. "Alpha Chi Chapter had a duty to ensure that its members and pledges abided by the rules, regulations and See RAPE, page 2 imjI^^^^^^^^^Sm^mi Wiesel delivers speech on prospects for 21st century Andrew D, Dehnart The Stetson Reporter Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Laureate EUe Wiesel told Stet- .sori freshmen at the 1996 Stewart Lecture that they wiU "carry a burden of memories, of lessons, of experiences ... and give it to the next century" as the last graduates of this mUlennium. "You will be the link," Wiesel said. "On the Threshold of the 21st Century" was the topic of Wiesel's speech, held last Tuesday night at the Edmunds Center. Through anecdotes, stories, and lessons, Wiesel talked of ethics, as weU as the past, present, and future., "Everything is instant" today, he said, from "coffee" to "love" to "knowledge." Wiesel said, though, that "a chUd cannot grow up immediately ... it takes time. When events go too fast, what is lost is ethics. Ethics means, take every minute and savor it... every minute may be the last." Wiesel stressed that "we need the ethical dimension in everything. A teacher who behaves unethicaUy cannot teach ethics." Wiesel praised Stetson's new ethics course requirement: "The only place I didn't lobby [for mandatory * ethics courses], it happened — here." Anti-human regimes and ideologies cannot survive, and wiU crumble from within, Wiesel said. Nazism, Wiesel said, was "a movement filed with hatred." Communism "began as a grandiose manifesto for humanism." He added, "Both ideologies did not see in humans a human being, [but] saw them as objects." Wiesel is the author of over 35 works, in- eluding Night, ah account of his experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust. pvS.'.j.'jsM; y,"J<3 ' - < -Hyy?y - s Elie Wiesel Photo by Steve Nicks AjzA sorority members participate in Greek Week '96 activities — specifically the Olympics — on Hollis Field last Wednesday. New computerized checksheet f o be used Davina Yetter The Stetson Reporter The registrar's office is implementing an electronic checksheet program'for fall registration, according to Registrar Al Wehrle. The program, which Wehrle expects to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the advising process, will create computer-generated checksheets for students and faculty advisors," and wiU be used as a trial run this spring in conjunction with the office-generated sheets used in the past. The program, produced by the Iron Soft company in "Pittsburgh, Penn., was purchased for around $12,000' last April. The five staff members in the registrar's office went through an intensive training process last summer by the company. The office has since entered the course requirements for the,ISO- plus majors and minors into the system. Wehrle said the program was chosen because of the price, recommendations from other small colleges, and the concise display of information. The new checksheets include a personal evaluation of major and minor requirements, upper division credits, and electives. The form also gives a breakdown of overall, major and minor grade point averages. The checksheets are around one to 'rwo pages long. Wehrle said the new' system would be a "real time saver" for his ■ office, and that it would eliminate most of the human error in the process. Academic advising for summer and faU semesters will be AprU 1-4. Brown, Schwartzel unopposed for top SGA leadership positions Davina Yetter The Stetson Reporter. Only one ticket—Lindsey Brown and Jim Schwartzel—is campaigning for Student Government president and vice president for next - year, ' as of last Wednesday's candidates meeting, according to SGA Advisor David Riveness'. Other candidates may be added to the baUot before AprU 2, although campaigning began yesterday and a candidates debate was scheduled for tomorrow, said Riveness. ' — While other individuals had expressed an interest in running for the presidency to Riveness, he • said that no one other than Brown and Schwartzel had officially announced that they would run. All presidential candidates are required to have a vice presidential running mate, and elections wUl be held in the Carlton Union BuUding lobby on April 3. Brown and Schwartzel decided not to run on a prescribed | platform, but to continue many! current SGA agendas and work on i issues as they arise next year. "We're going to be there for the students to voice their opinions," said Brown. She added that her experience as this year's SGA vice president has taught her that the mos.t important issues that SGA has worked on appear suddenly, and need to be dealt with as they happen. Brown will be a FOCUS assistant coordinator next year, and she is the assistant chapter relations chair for Alpha Chi Omega The rising senior has also participated in Youth Motivators, Stu-| dent Strategic Planning CouncU, and Student Ambassadors. Schwartzel is the chair o SGA's radio station ad hoc com mittee and is a rising junior. Egaaaw^attiiSiaaa^agB: fc<- .