The Stetson Reporter

S_T.E.T.!LO. N-.-U-N-X1VL-E R._S_IT__Y note from the editor | The editorial board will not be releasing an issue of The Reporter' next Wednesday, Feb. 2. The gap in our production schedule has been planned since last May (refer to your 'Rates and Dates' card). Please adjust your advertising plans accordingly. The board will release its next issue on Feb. 9, 2000. wed jan'00 ^^^0^^s^ii^^^^^^^f. issue 15 volume 112 SGA moves spring break 2001 to first week i by valerie futch | Last semester, the Student Government Association passed a resolution to align the university's spring break with other state universities. According to Dave Gobeo, vice president of the Student Government Association (SGA), the change will take effect next year. As part of the campaign prom ise of Salvatore Mancini, SGA president, and Gobeo, the break has been moved to the first week in March. Gobeo stated that the university's spring break used to be aligned with other schools. This practice occurred when the university had a winter term. Gobeo said that "Once the winter term was removed, spring break was moved back so that it was before all the others." The purpose of the current legislation was not just to secure it for one year, added Gobeo, "so we added a provision that would make it aligned for every following year." Future SGA presidents will be responsible, for making sure that the break stays aligned with other universities. There are certain steps that a bill must go through in order to be passed. According to Gobeo, the legislation was proposed during the second week of school. However, it was not passed.until Nov. 30. A bill must first be written by two senators. The bill is then sent to the appropriate committee. . After they investigate the bill, they report back to the senate favorably or unfavorably. The bill returned to the senate with a favorable decision from the academic affairs committee. The bill was debated and an amendment was added. According to Gobeo, the amendment that was added was to "ensure the process would continue in the future." Gobeo stated that the issue has been resolved for this year, and that "administration offered no objections to the bill, they just asked that we research it fully." In addition, Gobeo said that SGA has a number of favorable bills for this year. "The most recent one is the addition of a change machine in the CUB." This bill should be voted on this week, said Gobeo. "Other campaign promises such as 24/7 visitation rights for Stetson Hall are also looking positive, with mostly formal proceedings in front of us," said Gobeo. At SGA day last semester, there were many bills proposed to SGA by the student body. Accord ing to Gobeo, all of these bills are currently being researched. "We have a strong group of committee chairs this year, in addition to a large, active body. Last year's stifling problem of not making quorum has disappeared, and heated debates have become commonplace for SGA meetings," added Gobeo. "Hopefully, students will now be able to spend time with siblings and/or friends in the same state for break," he said. Valerie Futch is the co-News editor of The Reporter. • vvy r< £ (;0) w/ (8; tf HATS STOMP KNIGHTS: Erin Lockhart cheers on Will Robertson and the rest of the Hatters against the UCF Knights Saturday. The Hatters won 88-86. photo by paul davis [ read this story in Sports, page 4b ] New voice mai 'a hassle,' say students BY TERESA SCHWARZ | The student voice mail system promised last October has been activated for all the residence halls. The administration said they wanted to see how the faculty system worked before placing it on the student lines. The faculty has had voice mail since Jan. 1999. "It took a while to work out the logistics of running two voice mails through one phone line," said Jim Snyder, Director of Technology Infra-, 'structure and Support. The Center for Information Technology (CIT) chose a server-based system that runs through the phone lines. CIT staff members said it is the most widely used system health news f in corporations and colleges in America. They said that it is "proven technology," which works well with the demands of a campus. The system was activated on Jan. 19. CIT had 80 trouble calls that day. Some problems occurred because passwords created by some students prevented their roommates from accessing their voice mail.. CIT safd the system will run smoothly now. Voice mail can be checked from anywhere in the world, as long as the student has a room on campus. CIT announced plans to < w ui z < (9 have short training sessions during FOCUS and SOAR. Room changing will not cause problems with the system, according to Snyder. "It won't take three weeks for students to have their boxes changed, even if 100 people changed rooms in the same week." Snyder said. Nick Ganesan, Director of Networking Service and Support, said that problems could have been avoided if students had looked through the instructions more thoroughly. CIT issued a revised copy of the instructions, which they said should be [ see VOICE, page 2a ] "Like anything else, new, more complicated things cause problems... Students got confused because they are used the simple answering machines." Well Women's clinic now offers monthly services by valerie futch | Beginning this week, Health Services will be offering a clinic for female students. The clinic will be available for one day each month. An email that came out via student-announce stated that the services would be provided by a nurse practitioner from the Volusia County Health Department.. According to Hadie Kenner, the director of student health services, the clinic will offer an entire package of services for one price. A $60 fee will pay for an exam, a years supply of birth control, and any necessary laboratory tests. The clinic being held tomorrow, January 27, is already full. Health Services is. taking appointments for the next clinic and can be reached at 822-8150. Sara Cotner, a graduate from the class of 1999, brought to the attention of the Women's Council the fact that Health Services did not offer routine gynecological services for women students. According to Dr. Karen Kaivola, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, "the Council felt very strongly that these services should be provided on campus." "Not to offer them is to ignore the routine health needs of approximately 60 percent of Stetson's student population," added Kaivola. Kaivola added that she presented the needs of these services to the President's Staff while Cotner and Dr. Finnegan-Alford What: Well Women's Clinic When: Monthly at Health Services by appointment Who to Call: 822.8150 What's Included: Gynecological exam, a year's supply of birth control and any necessary lab tests. Cost $60 Cooper worked with Kemier to obtain the services. Cotner, a member of the Women's Council during the 1998-1999 school year, said that at one of the Council meetings a list of campus issues was brainstormed. She was asked to discuss issues that directly influenced women students. "I mentioned the lack of gynecological services at the campus clinic. Without these services in close proximity, students without transportation are particularly disadvantaged," said Cotner. Cotner was curious as to why these services were not offered at Stetson University when they were offered at other campuses across the country, even ones of similar size. "I agreed to research the issue," said Corner, "I talked to Hadie [Kenner] about the services already provided by the school clinic—like pregnancy tests—and about the feasibility of implementing additional services [ see CLINIC, page 2a ] Construction begun on the chilled water loop by julie gowan | The red ribbon has been sliced in half and construction has begun on the central chilled water loop. Clearing, for the 5,000 square foot building began last week next to the warehouse—the new chillers and related equipment will be housed here. "The new equipment will ultimately replace all the production equipment servicing each of the 27 buildings on campus with reserve capacity to serve additional facilities," said David Noyes, vice president of Facilities Management. The installation of the new' equipment is said to prevent equipment failures the campus has experienced in past two years. For example, the air conditioner failure in Chaudoin and Emily Hall, and the Carlton Union Building before FOCUS this past fall. [ read this story in News, page 3a ] Oscar Wilde play is 'beautiful to look at' by kevin snipes | "The truth is rarely pure and never simply." One feels.how true are those words of playwright and poet Oscar Wilde while watching Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival's engrossing production of Moises Kaufman's 1997 play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Based upon the trials that brought about the imprisonment and ruin of one of Britain's greatest writers, Kaufman's eclectic script is a combination of court transcripts, autobiographies, interviews, and personal letters woven together to present the dramatic downfall of Oscar Wilde. Wilde, after a life a fame and fortune, was arrested for committing acts of gross indecency (the oh-so-polite British euphemism for homosexual acts) which remained illegal in Great Britain until the 1960s. [ read this story in Life, page 2b ] Hatters defeat Owls BASKETBALL: Stetson Hatter Ricky McConnell tries to pass the ball around an FAU player, photo by valerie futch [ read this story in Sports, page 4b ] L nis story in rcews, page oa j t .— ~ J "' '. "a ■*. ......... , ... . , , .„ „ _>...~^,% ^.."^^y^"1^"'''."*"''' v-rr":;'-; ■; ■'- " j