The Stetson Reporter

w^^Km^i;f»gmm~< tww»^^^^ l«S»W««a»»^(«««*s««^»«»** "Florida's Oldest Collegiate Newspaper"'- Stetson University DeLand, Florida January 21, 1992 Volume 104, Issue 13 By Derek Ashworth and Becky Bridges This past weekend was a trip down memory lane for many former students of Stetson University, as they came home to the festivities of Homecoming 1992 held on this campus. The theme for the week was Stetson Evergreen, incorporating such themes as renewing friendships and recycling memories. An "Evergreen" homecoming combined the concepts of being environmentally aware and holding on to the memories and friendships of college. Former students could be seen strolling around the campus, sometimes with children tow, looking at their old residence halls, classroom buildings, and other favorite haunts around the Stetson campus. Alumni started signing in at 10 a.m. and enjoyed activities such as the Golden Hatters' Reception at the President's House, an International and Minority Student Reception at the International House before going to watch the parade. The homecoming parade start-. ed at 3 p.m., beginning at the Edmunds Center on East Pennsylvania Avenue, then moving south on Woodland, then east on Rich, and north up Amelia Avenue and back to the Edmunds Center. The parade was the first homecoming parade Stetson University has seen in some twenty years, though the parade had a been a tradition before that time. Traffic had to be rerouted, Cont p4 Spring Rush Is Now In Full Swing By Karen Beckett and Becky Bridges Spring rush for fraternities and sororities is finally began on Sunday and continues on through this Saturday. This rash is, for the freshmen and transfer students going through it, the first time that they have really been exposed in any real depth to the inner sanctum of the Greek system at Stetson. This week's group of rushees Is the first batch of new students to have to wait until January in order to rush, as part of the university's recently implemented deferred rush plan. Today is a day of silence, as sororities will not be permitted to be in contact with rushees. After Wednesday night's invitational parties, Thursday will also be a silence day. The last rush parties will be held on Friday night, when the preferential parties will be held from 5:00 to 7:15, after which bidding will begin. On Saturday morning bids will be delivered by Rho Chis, with a 10 a.m. candlelight ceremony following in Elizabeth Hall Chapel, Fraternity rush also kicked off on Sunday. Tonight and Wednesday night the Informal Smokers will be held from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. in the fraternity houses, and are by invitation only. Shirt Night will be held on Thursday night, also by invitation only, and rushees must be out of the fraternity houses by 10:00 that night. The number of students participating in rush this year seems to be smaller than the number that participated in last year's rash week. : > •if ■; ine urianao Naval Training Center Color Guard ' marched in the 1992 Homecomms Parade. ' 6 Operation Prayer Hits Campus By Becky Bridges News Editor In the midst of all the Rush Week activities, another week- long slate of activities has been planned for a state-wide program known as Operation Prayer. Operation Prayer first began at the University of Florida during the week of the Gainesville student murders in the summer of 1990. ?Last spring a similar effort was carried out by the Stetson community in the period immediately following the automobile accident which so tragically killed three Stetson sorority women. A C.P.R. (Continuous Prayer for Restoration) was organized, in which during a given 24-hour period there was a continuous prayer being lifted up from the Stetson campus. A similar event is just one part of the Stetson community's participation, along with colleges all over Florida, in Operation Prayer, which started Friday and continues on through this Friday. The vision of Operation Prayer is that Christians of all denominations would unite in prayer for one week for spiritual awakening and for local and world evangelism. Noon prayer meetings 'began Friday at Hulley Tower, and will continue to meet through this Friday. Jericho Walks began taking place on Sunday night, and will continue to take place eacii night through Thursday night, meeting at 10 p.m. dt Hulley Tower. Jericho Walks are when groups of people meet and divide into small groups and walk to various specific areas of, in this case, the campus to pray for the needs of that area of the campus. A concert of prayer will be held at tonight's meeting of Inter- Varsity Christian Fellowship at 6:30 p.m. in the Coffeehouse, which is next door to Rafters. Baptist Campus Ministry's vespers on Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Hall will also be a part of Operation Prayer through • its prayer time. Wesley House and Catholic Campus Ministry also observed Operation Prayer daring their activities earlier in the week. Friday a group of Stetson students will travel to Gainesville to participate in the University of Florida community's Concert of Prayer. The Concert of Prayer will be led by David Bryant of Concerts of Prayer International. Anyone interested in attending , the UF Concert of Prayer should contact David Willis or any officer of IVCF for more information. In- addition to all of these activities, another C.P.R. is being held, but this time C.P.R. stands for Concerted Prayer for Revival. Beginning this past Friday and continuing through this Friday, members of the Stetson community have agreed to pray during a fifteen-minute time slot each day, which adds up to around the clock prayer for campus, national, and world concerns. -