The Stetson Reporter

wed OCt-00 I N s i D http://reporter.stetson.edu S T E T S.O. « . LL ti. iKx E_.R_.S...I T._Y e NEWS: Blackboard is used online by professors f page 2?'] issue T volume 113 gjprjda^t Number One Private College Newspaper Drive helps community with clothes By John Mills "NEWS WRITER ^Reporter Index News 2a Opinions 4 a Editorial 4A Life ib Health ib ■**' Classifieds 2 b Sports 5B Comics 6 a Calendar 6 a Horoscopes 6a Shout 6a Crossword 6a Contact Us 421 N. Woodland Blvd. £8409 DeLand, FL 32720-3751 904.822.7224 FAX 904.822.7233 '■;:■„.:. [email protected]. feporter_ne ws@ stetson.edu [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] sports©1 stetson.edu [email protected] X advertise© stetson.eda:X OPINIONS: Campaign boo-boos are reveiwed by student writer [ page 4a ] e grievance bylaw Helping the needy was the purpose of last week's clothing drive, which was sponsored by the Religious/ Spiritual Life Council. Maryalice Phillips, a junior theater major, came up with idea of the drive •when she discovered that the Neighborhood Center was "in urgent need of clothing." The Neighborhood Center is a nonprofit organization that offers clothing, medicine, household items, employment opportunities, and coun- ; seling to those who demonstrate need. ; According to Kelly Parsley, a junior elementary education major, the Neighborhood Center also has a thrift store for the unemployed. The store allows individuals to acquire clothing for job interviews using vouchers. I Phillips is on the board of directors at the Neighborhood Center as well as professors Dr. Gary Maris and Dr. Donald Musser. Phillips approached Chaplain Laura Walters-Baskett, who presented the idea to some of the Religious/Spiritual Life Council members at a council retreat. Everyone at the retreat liked the idea, and decided that the drive would be on the next meeting's agenda. "[When the idea was suggested at the meeting] everyone there embraced the idea," Parsley said. "The thrift shop was at an all-time low in the amount of clothing it had in stock," Parsley added. The clothing drive incorporated "many of the religious organizations on campus. Becky Kruse, a political science major and Wesley House member, and Brian Douglas, a marketing major and an Intervarsity member, were in charge of publicity. Parsley, a Catholic Campus Ministries members, co-coordinated the drive with Phillips. According.to Parsley and Phillips the clothing drive was a success. Eight boxes of clothing were collected during the drive. John Mills is a physics major. The Faculty Senate recently approved bylaw changes By Kaitlin Bellerose MANAGING EDITOR The Faculty Senate had a full slate at its three hour-long meeting on Oct. 2. The group ratified the revised faculty grievance bylaw, viewed the new Marketing & Communications promo tional video, and received Dr. Nick Maddox's presentation on the American Association of University Professors. "The big item from my point of view was the Senate bylaws," said Faculty Senate Vice Chair Tandy Grubbs. Last year Reference Librarian Jane Bradford revised all the bylaws except those pertaining to faculty grievances. "They [Bradford and her committee] intentionally left them off because the university was still working on the grievance section," said Grubbs. "The bylaws haven't been revised for about a decade." The accepted bylaws revision will now go up for approval by the univer sity faculty. If and when the faculty votes in favor of the changes, the changes will be voted upon by the Board of Trustees. "Any time that there's a complaint against a faculty member, there's an attempt to settle it formally. If the four-person informal committee cannot resolve the situation, then moves to a seven-member formal committee [which includes] four tenured faculty members," said Grubbs. The Tenure, Grievance, and Academic Freedom Committee will then make a recommendation of action to President Doug Lee who makes the ultimate decision. The Marketing and Communications video for attracting students to the university seemed to make the grade with the faculty representatives. "Everyone felt that it stressed academics appropriately," said Grubbs. "I thought the video was a big improvement over the earlier work," said Faculty Senate Chair Michael Branton. "It begins by talking about the quality of the academic programs at Stetson and ends on that note as well. There were a few specific changes suggested by senators, and also in a follow-up memo.by SGA President Brian Mistier, who attended part of the gallery NEWS ' opens in Duncan Gallery ART GALLERY: A couple of students look at the exhibit of Stephen Danko, "Horror Vacui," which opened Friday, Oct. 13th. The collection of drawings, paintings, sculpture and photography represent a 25-year survey conducted by Danko. His works contained themes of nature, the female body, architecture and skeletons, photo by kevin hale iscusses Central Asia LECTURE: Central Asian specialist William Fierman focused on post-Soviet Central Asia. i-n6>.. ;:•■ k,.:ilin uu.il ;x>dE Specialist speaks of transition problems in post-Soviet times By Kaitlin Bellerose MANAGING EDITOR "Does Nebraska border on South Dakota?" an preeminent Central- Asian specialist asked his audience Oct. 12. In the first Russian Studies lecture of the semester, William Fierman spoke with more geographical certainty about the current Central Asian political situation last Thursday in the Instructional Media Center. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and V;>\-'t\ ,-stan face il'ree common prob lems according to Indiana .University Associate Professor Fierman in his lecture "Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Blessings and Burdens of Independence." The five Central Asian states have been confronted with political,-identity and economic problems, said the director ofthe Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. Each state's political systems were described by Fierman. Coupled with the loss of a political system was the loss of an economic structure. "The Soviet system was in many ways a welfare state," said Fierman. The Soviet system provided subsidies and free health care and education and basically guaranteed employment. "Not a really efficient way to run an economy," Fierrnan said. The countries have had to change [ see SPFCCH, page ?.a] [ see SENATE, page 3a ] safac REPORT SAFAC gives activity funds to student groups By Katarzyna Walosik news writer SAFAC, the Student Activity Allocation Committee, met Sept. 23, to distribute activity money to several student organizations. Over 20 student organizations attended the Saturday meeting. "This is the second time I've went through SAFAC," said Garrett Epps, who represented the business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, "and we got the funding we requested." "The meeting went quite smoothly," Phi Alpha Delta member Victoria Watson said. "They had no problem explaining any information they needed. We did receive the funding we asked for." Explaining the responsiveness of the committee, junior computer science major Adam Schwarz said, "There was one member who I won't mention, but it seemed kind of hostile towards us because we were not doing fundraising and the committee thought we should," Schwarz. "But other than that it was very open and the questions were completely fair." "The SAFAC process was quite clear and friendly, but.perhaps too friendly," said Maryalice Philips, junior theater major and president of the theatre fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi. "We received...help to fund our Halloween and Christmas events at Stover Theater. However, we did not receive any help for what we planned to be the biggest event of the semester, a trip to Capone's Dinner Theatre in Orlando, open to the entire campus. We had hoped to make this trip accessible to a college student's budget by having SAFAC funding cover half of the cost of the first 30 tickets reserved. Now, we're not sure if we'll have enough interest to run the trip at all." SAFAC meetings are closed to the general student population. "If you saw Bob speak against the boxing club, and you were a member of the boxing club, you might not treat Bob very well in the future," said SGA President Brian Mistier. "It has historically been a good policy, and I support it." The only committee members given permission to disclose information are Darald Stubbs and Mistier. "Unfortunately, there is a lockdown on information outside of'what is given in the handbook. Darald Stubbs said all inquiries should be diverted to him or Brian Mistier," said chair of policy reform Chris Donovan. . Almost $14,000 was allocated by SAFAC. "The remainder of the Student Activities Fees will be used for emergency requests and spring allocations," said Mistier. "I was very pleased with the whole process and all of the.applications. I think we have a number of organizations planning excellent events for this semester." Katarzyna Walosik is a sophomore biochemistry major. EE W8»>«««»3Mte«>*l!«^ mm WIW 1MB