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wed feb-oi http://reporter.stetson.edu WHAT'S INSIDE News 2A Recycling 3A Opinions 4A Life IB Drama 3B Classifieds 2A Sports 5B Etcetera 6a issue 18 volume 113 Florida's Number One Private College Newspaper e SPORTSr Rugby scores for the second time ever page 5b Answers to 1 LIFE: Children of a Lesser God gets a rave reveiw page lb Hat Rack questions By Elizabeth Thompson NEWS WRITER !"So what's with the Hat Rack's ihours?" is a complaint often •heard around campus this year. I Shawn Preston, a junior, said, "It Twas better when the Hat Rack was Jopen until 1:00." •;. Senior Hannah Wallace said, "Usually, I go to bed at midnight and I like .that hour between 11:00 p.m. and :12:00 a.m. when I can get some waiter or milk." : "I don't like that all of dining ser- ; vices close at 11:00 p.m.," said junior iJessica Pease. I "If I go to * WTO~_m^-^-- work out from : ""' " '*" 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., nothing's open when I get done. 12:00 a.m. is okay. 1:00 a.m. was great," Pease said. So, why is closing time at the university's in-house fast food joint at- 11:00 p.m. instead of 1:00 a.m. like it was last spring? According to last year's student surveys, the university's spring surveys, specific demographics based on incoming freshman profiling, and national demographics, students do not need Dining Services to keep the Hat Rack open past 11:00 p.m. It was only after reviewing all of these statistics that Dining Services made the decision to close the Hat Rack earlier than they did last year and open the Commons from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. for late night meals. Dining Services' original idea was for a Hat Rack closing time of 10:00 p.m., but when Student Government approached Dining Services about keeping the Hat Rack open an hour later, Director of Dining Services Paul Macaurelle was happy to comply. According to tracking numbers, the Hat Rack's customer count averaged 40 between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m., 25 between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m., and 15 between 12:00 and 1:00 a.m. With the Commons and the Hat Rack open late-night, Dining Services is averaging 250 customers between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. According to Macaurelle, with 5 "It was only ; after reviewing j all of these j statistics that ^Dining Services imade the decision to close \ the Hat Rack earlier than did last year" they _S____iSS___l see HAT RACK, page 2a -Reporter Corrections 1. "Hatter offense dominates," Sports, Issue 18. The information box was inaccurate. Stetson's record was (4-1) and Tennesse Tech's record was (0-5). Contact Us 421 N. 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Last 5 Comments ■> squally.;.;; •„ ■< < - _ --;,■/''; ■ = > sign tangmw ww'd be gwd ■, |Reporter Article (Meta) submitted by pcntipyy on Sat Feb 24th. 2001 at 05 27.13 PM EST ■ 1 nnfcc lilro wo arc ahnnf tn nofr a htini-h nf aH^articir ivr,iijc*'.':,!J.>*] -' :.Pp%Pj?:j *• x^'it-.X.'Ai , x£f££$! *, vt&kMw 'xfe^S'f SCREENS: The creators of www.stetsonsucks.com have established a site where students and faculty can express their comments and criticisms about the university without fear of censorship or retribution, photo art by brian campbell . By John Mills ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Stetsonsucks.com chal lenges, professors and administration, reports on events around campus and allows people everywhere tp listen in on the communications of Public Safety. The university's public relations representative, Brian Miller, said, "The university supports the academic freedom and freedom of expression provided by the site." The site was founded in September when the creator did a spoof on the university's internet site. The founder of the site, a senior here at the university, wishes to be identified only as Pontiphex. The hopes that the university has for stetsonsucks.com and the goals of the site as expressed by Pontiphex are similar. Miller said, "We can only do a better job if we know what the students think. Student opinion is a cornerstone of doing a better job for the students, and improving the university as a whole. I hope that our students feel that they can use avenues of expression other than those already provided by the university." "The mission right now is to start talking about stuff, to get all those problems out there and being discussed. Only through discussion will change occur," said Pontiphex. Under a frequently-asked questions section on the website, the following message is posted: "We re ally don't hate Stetson, but there are some things that go on here that don't get out to the public. Either the reporter [sic] doesn't get wind of them, or can't report on them for political reasons (no matter what you say, Stetson money funds The Reporter - Stetson owns The Reporter). Besides, stetsqnadministrationsucks.com was just too long to type." Both the university and Pontiphex hope the site will act as an agent for positive change in the univer- ___ sity atmosphere: The site has a teacher evaluation section where anyone registered on the site can praise or criticize any teacher or professor. _____>__*«_-. There are students who choose to praise their professors on the site. Currently, Dr. James Mallett has a review praising his investments class. However, most of the teacher evaluations are negative. The registration on the site is anonymous, and Miller feels that "the anonymity causes people to take the criticism on the site less seriously than if it were posted with the critics' names." •Pontiphex says that a live stream audio of Public Safety's communications is the best resource that the site offers right now. James Lockwood, director of Public Safety, has no plans to try to stop the broadcast of Public Safety's communications. Lockwood said, "Buying and imple- "We can only do a better job if we know what the students think Student opinion is a cornerstone of doing a better job for the students, and improving the university as a whole." R-rr m-irthr r i n in ii mi i twAirfr ■ Vi ii it im- r' f—* n—t-"-*- ^—" »n^^_^_^___^r ■" _'_ ^ ir." ■ ■ „_.-:. iiq menting the equipment necessary to block stetsonsucks.com from intercepting our communication would be overreacting and cost-prohibitive." Lockwood went on to say that any sensitive information is communicated via the telephone. Therefore, there is no real security risk being posed by having Public Safety's radio communications broadcast live on the Internet. Miller saw no problem with the Public Safety ,._,_ , broadcast but deferred questions regarding Public Safety to . Lockswood. Some students have expressed a concern about the university censoring the site or taking some form of legal action against the site. The site is not connected to the university's server, so the university says that it will not and cannot govern it. SITE CONTENT "There are millions and millions of Websites out there. This one just happens to deal with Stetson. We will treat it just like any other website," Miller said. Nick Ganesan, director of Technology Infrastructure Services, said, "If the site were being run by Stetson's server, it never would have been put up with a domain name as such. CIT would contact the author and request him/her to modify the web pages to comply with the 'acceptable computing policy' of Stetson University. Then, if the author failed to comply in the specified time, we suspend those pages from displaying and refer the matter to the appropriate judicial body on campus. The link to those pages will not be activated until we receive directives, depending on the offender either from Stetson's VP Council or from Student Judicial Affairs." Miller said there are only two instances in which the website may come under legal scrutiny: if a case of libel or slander occurs or if the university had an issue with the site regarding trademark laws. see WEBSITE, page 2a The site allows individuals to register accounts, submit stories, vote on site content and other interesting options. Site Sections: News—reports recent events from around campus Movie Reviews—new movies that users want to share opinions on Editorials—comments on articles and other occurences on campus Teacher Evaluations—evaluations of classes and professors by users SOURCE: WWW.STETSONSUCKS.COM Propped doors could create problems By Elizabeth Arzillo NEWS WRITER The last time Constance and Howard Clery saw their 19-year-old daughter was on April morning in 1986 when they dropped her off at her Pennsylvania campus. Five days later Jeanne Anne Clery, a freshman in college, was found dead in her dorm room. She had been raped, sodomized, beaten and strangled. Her assailant, a student who lived off-campus, returned to the scene five minutes later thinking he had dropped his- wallet. That is when he bit her on the face and breasts, to make sure she was dead. This is a horrific story, but nevertheless, it is a tnie account of just one of the many vicious crimes that take place all over college campuses because of propped doors in our residence halls. During the trial, evidence showed that the three "automatically locking" doors leading to Jeanne Clery's room had been taped by students so that the locks were disabled. It was 6:00 a.m. when the assailant tried the first door. .He found it unlocked because Clery's roommate had lost her key and "If you were to look at crime on campus involved propped doors, you will see why we continue to pursue this issue." she had left the door open for her. Clery was asleep; her roommate was gone for the night. If you are thinking this will never happen to you, think again. Michelle Espinosa, Director of Residential Life, said "Students put themselves at great risk for such a simple thing. If you were to. look at crime on campus involved propped doors, you will see why we continue to pursue this issue." "Stetson students think they are behind a protected gate because they are at school," said Allison Westberry, as sistant director of residential life. "The community is in our backyard, and the city is in front of our buildings." Alli Westberry knows all too well the feeling of having the "protected gate" torn down from around her. She was a sophomore at UF during the Gainesville murders. "It doesn't become an issue until someone is hurt," Westberry said, "and at UF it was when something happened. It brought the reality that we were not immune from the real world." No one thought that on Apr. 5, 1986 a 19-year-old girl would be killed because they propped a door, but it happened and it will continue to happen unless we as students decide to make our living environments safer. . Elizabeth Arzillo is the head resident of Smith Hall. http://reporter.stetson.edu - mmMmmmmim gaiftwuBiw» _______ wmsmm