The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter 93rd Year, No. 14 Florida's Oldest Collegiate Newspaper Stetson University DeLand, Florida Friday, January 23,1981 around Feelin'cold? Several items of clothing in the Office of Student Affairs were left behind by students during the last spell of cold weather. If you're missing a coat, hat or gloves and can identify them, please come by Flagler HaU, Office of Student Affairs, and claim them. Want a job? ~ Representatives from the following companies and organizations will be interviewing students on Stetson University's campus during the month of January 1981: Friday, January 23 - Sun Banks of Florida, Inc.; Thursday, January 29 - Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Company. Please stop by the Placement Office, 208 Carlton Union Building, to sign up for interviews and to inquire about other companies which will be making recruiting trips to the campus. Courting AU Stetson organizations are to check their mailboxes for nomination forms for Homecoming King and Queen. ftMen's organizations wiU nominate one person for King, and Women's organizations wiU nominate one person for Queen. Co-ed organizations may nominate one person for either King or Queen. All nominees must have a 2.0 G.P.A., and be well-rounded, outstanding students. Voting wUl be in front of the Commons on February 16 and 17. The winners will be announced at half-time during the Homecoming game. Parents' Follies Tryouts for the Parents' Weekend FoUies wiU be held February 9, from 4-6 p.m., and February 10, from 6-9 p.m. in the Stetson Room. Please contact Heather Owens, Box 1186, University Inn ext. 228, or Kim Streit, Box 677, ext. 394, for guidehnes and tryout times. On the Inside P. 2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 P. 8 P. 9 P. 13, Editorials Letters Burke On the tube Silver Dator Cloned? Sports Flu bugs entire campus By RENEE HUNT Senior Editor There's no other way to put it: Stetson is suffering from a flu epidemic. "One-third or more of the student body has the flu. We have been treating between 80 and 100 students per day through the infirmary," said Janice Hess, director of Stetson's Health Service. Hess said most of the students have upper respitory flu. The symptoms, which last about four days, include high fevers, sore throats, congested chests and sinuses, and body aches. A few students are also experiencing nausea and vomiting, Hess added. Although many of the students have temperatures of over 100 degrees, the Health Service is not admitting them because the staff isn't large enough to care for aU of them. The sick students are being checked every day and so far there have been no compUcations. According to Hess, the best treatment for the flu is bed rest, plenty of fluids, Tylenol for the fever, and decongestants. Antibiotics are being given in cases where the chest is badly congested to prevent complications. The antibiotics won't help the flu because it is a virus, Hess commented. "Flu shots won't help at this point because they contain a live virus that takes six weeks to birild up an immunity to the flu in the person's body," said Hess. She added that if a person is already beginning to get the flu, the shots could even make it worse. Hess said there is nothing students can do that will prevent their contracting the flu, but it wiU help if they don't let the body's defenses get low. AU students should eat right, get plenty of rest and not eat or drink from dishes after anyone who has the flu. Those students who have the flu are contagious when they are running a temperature, Hess added. They should be careful to throw away their tissues, not leave them lying around, and cover their mouths when they cough. Some students have been calUng the Health Service on the phone for help, but the infirmary is so busy the nurses cannot go to the students' rooms. The sick students must come to the Health Service themselves. The Health Service also cannot give out medicine through roommates; they must see the students in person. , "MONIQUE" is the title of this painting by Harry Messersmith. A retrospective look at his recent exhibition is on page 9. Photo by Bruce MacFarlane. Graduation speakers chosen without student input By JOSEPH NEGRON JR. Associate Editor The speakers planned for this year's commencement exercises scheduled for ftMay 17 have already been tentatively selected by President Pope A. Duncan without consulting the Student Assembly's Senior Affairs Committee, according to Vince ftLopresti, chairman of the committee. Lopresti said Duncan had selected the President of the University of Chicago and a JacksonviUe Baptist minister to speak at . this year's commencement. "I went to see Duncan and gave him a couple of names as suggestions," Lopresti said, "and Duncan said, 'We have already selected the speakers, but if they cannot make it, we wiU consider your ideas.'" Lopresti commented, "In other words, what Duncan was saying is that his ideas are first, students' ideas are second." TraditionaUy, the Senior Affairs Committee has given the administration a list of names to- choose from as possible graduation speakers before the decision was actuaUy made. However, in this case, Duncan made the decision without any input from the students via the Senior Affairs Committee. Lopresti advised that "in the future, the President should consult the committee and see who the students would like to have." Regina Sargent, president of the Assembly, was asked how she felt about an administrative decision being made without any student input. "It seems to me that it's our graduation. I understand there's no budget for the speaker, so it's kind of whoever the school can get. If more students knew about the situation, they might understand. Perhaps we could even raise some money." Sargent suggested that the committee would support the decision of the administration if the administration kept the committee up to date on developments. Presently it appears that there is no communication between the President and the committee. Sargent noted that the existence of the Senior Affairs Committee "gives the impression that students have a say-so, but they don't." President Duncan was out of town in the early part of the week and he was unable to comment on the situation Wednesday because of meetings with the Board of Trustees. Vice President and Dean of the ■ University Thomas Turner declined to make a formal statement. The fight that wasn't: election rerun next Wed. By RIK SCARCE Editor in Chief The rumors were flying after the Stetson Union Board election held Jan. 14. In the end a carefuUy orchestrated plan devised by members of the Student Assembly saw the controversy and rumor die out and another election scheduled for next Wednesday, Jan. 28, at a 30-minute Assembly meeting held last night in the CUB. Tom Brooks, who, along with Susan Ives and Joe Farinacci, was a candidate for the recently-vacated SUB at-large seat, filed a complaint on Jan. 15. He requested a hearing dealing with solicitations for another candidate, Ives, supposedly made by several of her supporters in violation of an election code section prohibiting campaigning within 50 feet of the baUot box on election day. According to students close to the controversy, Student Assembly President Regina Sargent spoke with several Assembly members as weU as Troy Templeton, SUB president and one of those accused of violating the code. In the end, Sargent determined that the actions of the accused were not malicious and a simple solution was needed. What happened was that Templeton was the only person accused. He plead giulty and the room was cleared of aU those not on the Assembly for a vote on the charges, as instructed by the election code. According to an Assembly member present at the meeting, despite an initial move for a verbal repremand of Templeton, the Assembly ended up voting unanimously against any penalty for him and it also set up next week's elections.