The Reporter

Wednesday, March 18, 1998 IM > New chapel confessional is an ideal place for the guilty. Column^ Volume 110, Issue 21 feu ten ml t;" ;-J (904) 822-7224 . FAX: (904) 822-7233 News: [email protected] Life: [email protected] Forum: [email protected] Sports: [email protected] Ads: [email protected] General: [email protected] http://the-reporter.home.ml.org Various events mark women s history month. Life, page 1b Stetson University, DeLand, Florida By ANDY DEHNART Editor-in-Chief Tuition will rise nearly $750 next year, according to a letter sent to students by President H. Douglas Lee. The increase in tuition is about 4.96 percent. A new technology fee of $100 makes the total increase for tuition and fees alone about 5.05 percent. That is down from last year's increase of 7 percent. The letter cited "Faculty and academic programs," technology initiatives, facility improvements, and financial aid increases as advances" for the university. Lee said that the university is "positioning itself] to be less expensive than [its] competitive institutions," which include By ASHLEE JONES Staff Writer DeMoss The business department will hold their Fifth Annual Gender Issues in Business Day next Thursday in the Lynn Business Center lobby. There will be different sessions running throughout the day for Stetson's faculty, staff and the general public. The department is trying to raise awareness of gender and family issues in professional settings and ways to deal with them. The events will start at 11 a.m. and other activities will be occur throughout the day. "We are trying to emphasize the awareness issues in the work place. The main topic will be how to balance work, family and a personal life," said Dr. Michelle DeMoss. At 11 a.m., Jacqueline Merrill will be speaking about "Achieving Balance in Life Using Personal Mission Statements". Merrill is the founder and leader of CenterPoint in Aspen, a retreat for women. Following, will be an open panel discussion with Nancee Bailey, Campus Dean at DBCC West, Karen Roberts, Senior HR Representative at Pratt and Whitney, Dixie Morgese, Chair for the Volusia County Commission on the Status of Women and Rosemary 0' Shea, Partner for the Law Firm of B aker &Hostetler. "The only way to describe this group of speakers is Dynamic, Professional Women," said DeMoss. At 2:30, there will be a break-out session, which will be held in different room as posted. Each will be hosted by a Stetson professor and a panelist. Panel issues will be discussed in more depth and questions may be asked. "This will be a good time to raise the level of awareness for both men and women in the workplace. Sometimes people getblindsighted in the career world, but hopefully with this information they'll make some healthy deci- • sions," said DeMoss. To conclude the days activities, at 7 p.m., a roundtable discussionwith faculty and outside professional will talk about sexual harassment and discrimination. . "I think this year's discussions are very important and help students and faculty set boundaries between their work and personal lives. It's-important to be professional within your career, but everyone needs a personal life too. We hope that on Thursday people get good information to help them out," said DeMoss. Rollins, Furman, and Washington and Lee Universities. Of those schools, only San Antonio, Texas-based Trinity has lower tuition and fees. Jeff Hamrick, chair of the ad hoc tuition reform committee ofthe Student Government Association, called the Eercent decrease "a historic deviation :om the staggering cost of education increases of the past two decades." In addition to the increase in fees and tuition, the letter says that room rates will rise around 5 percent, and the average meal plan will also increase about 3 percent. Lee said that administrators "are sensitive" to the effects of rising costs. "In the 1980s, our tuition increases were below the median but still between eight and 10 percent," he said. Hamrick, who is also news editor of The Reporter, said that his committee was "not integral" to the decision-making process behind the reduction. "Students, who are profoundly affected by these increases, must be at the center of these decisions," said Hamrick. "Next year's permanent Financial Affairs committee should be able, in theory, to take a more active role. Unfortunately, many budget decisions are made even before the academic year begins." "In our five-year budget, we are planning for an average [increase] of 5 percent," Lee said. That figure is lower than an originally planned increase of 7 percent. Lee said that it "could be lower or could be higher," however. Stetson is "really competitively priced with quality Florida private institutions," Lee said. Stetson plans "to be at the bottom of the tuition scale." Hamrick confirmed this statement, saying that "Our research indicates that the cost of education here, even during the worst increases ofthe 1980s, remained arithmetically" beneath other institutions." Hamrick said that the university's percentage increases over the past two decades have threatened to send costs out of control. "If you look at the pattern of cost growth over the past two decades, it looks very similar to MODEL SENATE > This weekend, students mimicked senators in the U.S. Senate. p"-| if_r,>d Mm Photo by Paul Davis MODEL SENATE: Stetson students Michelle Duras and Alex Stoelzel applaud during a session of Model Senate, held this past weekend. Around 80 students from seven other schools participated. By ANDY DEHNART Editor-in-Chief C-SPAN came to life this past weekend at Stetson. Students portraying real-life senators presented bills, debated issues, and voted on proposals in full-Senate sessions. Started in 1971, the Model United States Senate brought around 80 students from seven outside universities to Stetson this past weekend. Senior Amanda Saguil, a political science major, co-chaired the event and acted as Vice President Al Gore, presiding over the sessions. She said that planning the event with co-chair Chris Eri has been "an ongoing process since Oct." Eri said that this year was "one of the largest Senates that we're ever had." The six committees held "meetings where they listened to bills, and had witnesses speak on certain issues," Saguil said. "Most of the work [during Model Senate] is done during committee meetings," she said. The committees "either pass or fail bills- if they pass, they have the opportunity to debate [the bill] in front of the full Senate," which met once Friday and twice Saturday, Saguil said. Judges awarded six participants best Senator awards, basing their decisions on things like effectiveness during committee sessions and the ability to stay in character. Model Senate gives participants "a good feeling for how things in the Senate work." Cleland. "A group of judges lead by Dr. Hallum from county offices [and elsewhere] observed the committee hearings and full Senate sessions," she said. Eri said, "You get a good feeling for how things in the Senate work." Senior Dan Herron, who portrayed Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), was awarded one of the outstanding Senator awards. Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA) addressed the full session on Friday night Cleland is a Stetson alumnus, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Stetson. Among participating schools were the Citadel, UCF, and Clemson. About 80 students participated, Saguil said. Selection for roles was determined on "a first come, first-serve basis," with Model Senate "experience being a factor," Saguil said. Chins Eri, a senior political science major, co-chaired the event, and portrayed majority leader Trent Lott. Dr. Anne Hallum, professor of political science, served as faculty adviser. Eri said that Model Senate is "a good experience in learning how to work with others because you have to compromise rather than telling them how to do things." bacterial growth in apetri dish," said Hamrick. Hamrick said "Regardless of how many dollars the cost of education is increasing here, if our percentage increases are higher we will eventually exceed the costs ,of even the most expensive institutions in the nation. There is no mathematical way to escape this." Lee argued that cost increases were necessary to maintain institutional quality. "We made a commitment in the late 80s to enhance program quality—that's what the money is going for," Lee said. Other institutions "tend to invade the quality ofthe academic program. [Stetson has been] very aggressive about not reducing quality," he said. See INCREASE, page 2a Lawsc isnum one in By STEPHANIE ADDUCI Associate News Editor In the March 2 issue of the U.S. News & World Report, a ranking of America's best graduate schools for 1998 was given. The issue ranked graduate programs from all areas such as business, law, medicine, health, education, engineering, and public affairs. The university is home to seven graduate programs including the Masters of Business Administration, the Master of Accountancy, the Masters of English, the. Masters of Counseling, the Masters of Secondary Teaching of English, the Master of Education and the Masters of Judicial Affairs. Only the university's law graduate program was ranked among the top thirty. In fact, the university was ranked number one in the law division of trial advocacy. Many people look to such rankings to help narrow down the schools to which they will apply. According to the U.S. News & World Report, some legal educators feel that "applicants pay too much attention to rankings of their schools" due to the decrease in law applications being submitted. As a result, the Association of American Law Schools has asked that the rankings be stopped. U.S. News & World Reportwill continue to publish such rankings. U.S. News & World Report feels that "any debate about rankings should be based on an accurate description of how they are compiled." In addition, they feel that "the educators make incomplete or misleading references to the U.S. News rankings..." According to the U.S. News <£ World Report, the Law School Admission Council and 164 deans "sent a letter to the estimated 70,000 applicants to American law schools criticizing rankings in general, using U.S. News's as an example." The letter that was sent out urged the applicants to "avoid the temptation of relying on rankings and to choose the school best suited to their needs," according to the U.S. News & World Report. The U.S. News & World Report ranked 174 law schools based on particular "measures of academic quality." See NEW RANKINGS, page 2a Stovall: Blacks fled to Paris to escape American racism STOVALL: The historian focused on black migration during the 1960s. By JEFF HAMRICK News Editor Last month on Feb. 23, Dr. Tyler Stovall, author of Paris Noir: African American in the City of Light, delivered the second Howard Thurman lecture to a group of approximately 60 individuals at the Stetson Room in the Carlton Union Building. ' The event was better attended than the first Howard Thurman lecture, although most of the audience consisted of visiting elderhostels. Stovall summarized the findings of his social research concerning the African-American flight to Paris during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Stovall indicated that approximately 3000 African-Ameri- "Eventually, Parisian blacks realized that they had a moral obligation to assist in the problems of the civil rights movement." cans fled to Paris during the 1960s to "find a refuge from American racism." "They believed that a steep contrast had developed between a racist America and a colorblind France," said Stovall. France was the ideal place for the small'exodus, said Stovall. "France is a country which is just as sophisticated and is treated with just as much respect, if not more so, than the United States," said Stovall. "They were hoping to move and find something better," said Stovall. "But eventually some of them grew tired of their new home and believed that the United States wasn't so bad, that perhaps it could change." Stovall said that a common saying during the time among the Parisian blacks was "There is more freedom in one block of Paris than in the entire United States." The Parisian blacks, who Stovall indicated were generally well-educated and white-collar, eventually realized "that they had a moral obligation to assist in the problems ofthe civil rights movement." According to Stovall, the civil rights movement was closely followed by the French, who generally looked upon Americans with disdain. These same Frenchmen simultaneously ignored their country's problems with Algerian dissidents and the coalescence of a fascist part in France. "France was made aware that America had a violently resistant South," said Stovall. "They observed the lukewarm support of men like John F. Kennedy." Stovall said that some of the French rejected the African- American presence in Paris. Other blacks were concerned with See PHONES, page 2a inside 233 sas FORUM: New world order threatens current establishment, 5a LIFE: New television I SPORTS: Softball team shows debut this month, 1b I off to good start, 5b He»J5^ii.5.\3La;^.£bruro>^'A.^5a.4 Et Cetera^ Ja_ JLife 1 - 3b if