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wed OCt-02 I N S I D http://reporter.stetson.edu SJ.E.T S..O _N U N .I...V .Ein..S ITY eoorter WHAT'S INSIDE News 2A Opinions 4A Life IB Classifieds 2A Sports 5B Etcetera 6a issue 6 volume 115 LIFE: DeLand Music Festival showcases talent page lb Medical clubs want healthy, united campus By Julie Farricker . ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The American Medical Student Association rediscovered its service roots this past Saturday October 11, 2002. AMSA helped with the Conklin Center for the Blind White Cane Awareness 5K Run/Walk. Twelve volunteers met at the Daytona Speedway at 7:00 a.m. . Saturday morning. The students helped . with the refreshment tables and park- . ing. This is not the only event AMSA is involved in around campus. AMSA holds meetings every other Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Sage, room 221. They usually focus on bringing health professional speakers in to talk to students. They also bring in speakers from health professional schools. This year they have expanded their role on campus. AMSA also began its involvement in the Florida Student Tobacco Reform Initiative Knowledge for Eternity (STRIKE) program. Earlier this year, AMSA received a multi-thousand dollar grant to promote the end of smoking on the university campus. They will bring ad campaigns to campus similar to the TRUTH advertisement seen on television. The university can expect the first STRIKE to come during "The Week of Healing" (November 17-23) when AMSA teams up with MedEx to promote a healthier and more educated campus. STRIKE is a college student-based program funded by the State of Florida's College Advocacy Initiative through the Florida Department of Health as part of the tobacco settlement money, resulting from the state's landmark lawsuit against Big Tobacco. It represents an effort to implement a comprehensive program empowering college students from across the state to spread the message of.tobacco awareness. STRIKE has four primary goals, and the first is to increase awareness of tobacco and its harmful effects. Next is to increase prevalence of tobacco cessation, then to increase the number of students involved in tobacco prevention activities, and, finally, to change college and university policies to ensure that Florida's campuses will become tobacco free. Another group on, campus also interested in medicine and focused on service is MedEx. MedEx wants to stress the importance of a liberal arts education, hoping to bring an end to this campus division on November 20-21 with the "Arts in Medicine" seminar, consisting of key- see MEDICAL, page 2a I Florida's First Private College Newspaper OPINIONS: Apathetic peers are lacking motivation page 4a ^Reporter C'ORRE CTIONS 1. "SAFAC lacks balance on board" NEWS, Issue 5. Only one ofthe members ofthe SAFAC committee is a member ofthe Baptist Collegiate Ministries. 2. "SAFAC lacks balance on board," NEWS, Issue 5. Oonly three ofthe seven members are registered Republican voters. Contact Us ■ 421 N. Woodland Blvd. #8409: DeLand; FL 32720-3751 386.822.7224 FAX 386.822.7233 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] University expands budget cuts campus-wide By Teresa Schwarz EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The budget has been the center of much controversy lately. The most recent surprise came in the form of a letter from the university President Doug Lee. The letter commented on the balancing of the "DeLand campus operating budget" that took place in 2001-2002 "with over $2 million in budget adjustments." The President blamed the national economy, "shrinking endowment earnings," "rising employee benefits costs (such as health insurance)," and "a greater reliance on institutionally-funded financial aid" to justify the more drastic measures this letter was. addressing., "Given these realities, we have decided to postpone the implementation of- exempt staff salary increases that were scheduled to take place on September 01, 2002," Lee stated within' the letter. "Additionally, administrative members of the president's staff will receive no salary increases for the fiscal year 2002-03." . This ^was later rescinded in another letteV "from the president, which stated, that-the increases would be awarded, but the president's staff would still receive no salary increases for the 2002- 03 year. The letter also announced that the administration" would be conducting an immediate financial review in order to create a plan to address these issues. Though not contained with the president's letter, the faculty of the College, of Arts and Sciences received an e.mail from Grady Ballenger, the dean of this department, that explained the changes that will affect the faculty in-response to the budget crisis. Ballenger's e.mail announced the upcoming-confidential budget planning meeting that was only open for tenured faculty who held chairs on the Faculty Senate. The most daunting task of this meeting was facing the problem of reducing the university's budget. Ballenger also highlighted several questions this group would address— "which adjuncts are essential, which lecturers have priority, which faculty lines must remain after retirements or resignations, and what analysis would justify ending or scaling back an academic program?" "A great deal of emphasis is being placed on the 25 or so hires in. the college since 1997," Ballenger said, "...it is regularly pointed out that student credit hours have not increased as we would'have expected from these additions in faculty." Ballenger and the faculty are in the process of creating an advisory subcommittee that will meet frequently with the dean to work on the college's see BUDGET,page 2a CIVIL LIBERTIES First Monday discusses Patriot Act CONSIDER: The panel for First Monday consisted of two professors, a dean, and a media attorney, photo by dan puchalla By Jen Wilson LIFE EDITOR A group of interested students and citizens gathered in the Stetson Room of the CUB Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. to listen to four panelists discuss civil liberties in America. The event, called "First Monday" (which was held on a Tuesday because of fall break),' was hosted by the Stetson Young Democrats, and was intended "to bring attention to a critical public policy issue," according to the First Monday website. First Monday is a yearly event sponsored by the Alliance for Justice to get young people active in. political issues that affect them. "It's an event that we do yearly with Young Democrats through the Alliance for Justice in Washington, D.C1.," said Maya Yankelevich, a sophomore Spanish and psychology major and president of the Young Democrats. This year's panelists included Dr. Anne Hallum, Dr. T. Wayne" Bailey, Dean Grady Ballenger, and David Bralow. Hallum is the chairman of the Political Science De partment and opened up the discussion by giving ari overview of the various acts that have been passed and concern civil liberties of American citizens. Hallum explained that "the encroachment on our civil liberties because of threats to national security isn't new." Hallum compared the new acts being passed to other occurrences in history, such as the Alien and Sedition Acts and the McCarthy era. , ■■•-- - — The main act of concern Tuesday night was the USA PATRIOT Act, which was passed on Oct. 26, 2001. The USA PATRIOT Act, which is an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," was approved by the House and the Senate rather rapidly and without legislative debate. In short, the Act is undoing the Foreign International Security Act. First Monday focused on three main points of the USA PATRIOT Act: government access to information and student privacy, infringment on the "There is no real freedom of discussion and independence of mind, [in America]." constitutional right of freedom of association and speech, and how the act is representative of overreaching and unchecked government power. All of these new policies pose threats to the liberty that Americans have not only been accustomed to, but also that our goyernment was founded on. With the new act, "the lines are blurred," said Hallurh. It is much easier for the Justice De- - — -■' .partment to eaves drop and get wiretaps. Hallum said that the Justice Department can legally "eavesdrop on communication between suspects arid their lawyers when the Attorney General has reasonable suspicion" under the USA PATRIOT Act. Student information can be transmitted to the FBI and CIA without any suspicion of wrongdoing on behalf of the student. According to panelists at the discussion, the USA PATRIOT Act is an infringement on the civil liberties that form our nation. Bailey; a professor in the Political Science Department who specializes in civil liberties and the Constitution and also a recipient of the. Florida Demo cratic Convention Award last year, felt that "we create issues by the way we define them." He explained "the hallmark of any democratic society...is a free and independent' court system." While ours is far from perfect, he felt that the checks and balances put into effect by our founding fathers are a crucial aspect of this system. He goes on to attack the infringement upon noncitizens' rights; the United States is no longer required to treat them the same as citizens. "The American Constitution, with all its limitations, has served us well and brought us through many crises. Our founding fathers and the balances that are there will helps us save ourselves if we are smart enough to not give up on the Constitution," said Bailey. Ballenger applied his background in English and literature to look at the words of the PATRIOT Act. He felt that it is important to become active in the political situation in America. "Don't be afraid of being passionate or an extremist, but be well informed," said Ballenger, encouraging students to be real patriots. Ballenger quoted Alexis de Tocqueville when he said, "There is, no real freedom of discussion and independence of mind [in America]." Ballenger encouraged us as students to read newspapers from other countries as well, to get an outside view on American politics. "We can't be lulled into imagining we have all'.these freedoms...you individually have to figure out what is going on," said Ballenger. David Bralow, an attorney who has experience with right to public access cases as well as newspaper experience, looked at what the PATRIOT Act means for the press. "There is no end to Bush's war on terrorism, and the only checks, on it are going to be a zealous press," said Bralow. Bralow explained that the news obtained by the media must be protected from the government, and the PATRIOT Act violates this right because the media can't provide the public with information. Jen Wilson can be contacted at [email protected]. Campolo sees Kingdom of God serving poor By Dan Puchalla MANAGING EDITOR * . University community members and DeLanders alike congregated in the Edmunds Center Monday, Sept. 30 to welcome to campus one of the giants of Christianity today, Tony Campolo. Dr. Campolo is founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. EAPE is a Christian organization devoted to working with inner-city churches who reach out to the impoverished of America and the world. The goal of EAPE is to build the Kingdom of God through these missions. And building the Kingdom is what Dr. Campolo came to DeLand to talk about. "Face up to it," Campolo said to the audience, "you have everything you* need." Campolo said that the democratic- capitalist society of the United States is so efficient in producing "stuff that most people can easily acquire, the essentials for survival. However, to keep the system functioning, people need to continue buying products. "It is your American patriotic duty to buy what you don't need," said Dr. Campolo. But people will' only buy this "stuff if they feel they need it. That's where .marketing comes in, says Campolo. "They know we don't need, the stuff, so they tell us that the products will meet certain psychological and spiritual needs," he, said. Dr. Campolo gave as an example a famous commercial released several years ago that showed people from all cultures on Earth coming together on a grassy field singing in one voice "Coca-Cola" while a voice from the sky said, "It's the real thing." "If you buy into this system, something will die inside," said Tony Campolo. "Living out your lives on the values system of this country will kill you emotionally." He said- that the result of this culture is that there is no more passion, and this is what will destroy us. Moreover, this kind of living is not Christian. "To be Christian in America today see CAMPOLO, page lb http://reporter.stetson.edu - ^mmtM^mBEa&Ea®awaamtfmaamam^wr ■niitiMi