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2 THE WOOSTER VOICE: Volume CIV 5555$5555S5$S5 Publshed by the Students of the College owooster December 11, 1987 SSSSSSSS Number Lowry tables cant st stll By Scott Spangler comes to Wooster At the begnnng of the school year Howard Raber, Drector of Food Servces, rearranged the tables n Lowry Center dnng room The decso n Was made based upon complants brought to Raber by the Lowry dnng room managers and several food servce employees The complants concerned the routne trashng of several tables that were regularly occuped by the campus sectons Tradtonally, each secton and club has had a table Food Servce pulled apart the tables so that only four, or fve members of a secton could st at a table at one tme Upon seeng the change, the sectons were upset They came to Raber, expressng dssatsfacton Dur ng two InterSecto n Councl (ISC) meetngs, they met wth Raber, askng for a return to the orgnal algnment of the tables Raber subsequently agreed to return the tables to ther orgnal postons, on condton that any transgresson at any tme durng the year by one partcular secton would adversely affect all sectons, and the tables would be splt up j agan After a judgng perod, n whch the sectons showed they could keep ther acts clean, the tables were brought, back together ovef Thanksgvng Break J " Everythng was gong smoothly untl last Monday when Raber receved a complant from hs dnng room manager A secton had poured sugar all over the table, and bascally trashed t The dnng room manager had obtaned pctures of the ncdent, whch now st n a fle n Rabers offce, The presdent of the secton sad that the secton has found the culprts and reprmanded them, and has asked that the secton send a wrtten apology to Raber He sad hs secton has apologzed for the ncdent, and assures that t wll not happen agan Raber has, for the tme beng, decded not to do anythng about the, transgresson One student speculated that k mght be because all the other sectons would come down negatvely on mat partcular secton ByJeffBaab The Student Actvtes Board (SAB) s sponsorng a concert by de group "1964" to be held n the Lowry Ballroom tonght, Dec 11, from 10 pm to mdnght Admsson s free for Wooster students and faculty semform Dress s al Ths event wll be closed to the publc The event s an end of semesterholday concet and dance It s often the case that students are worred about classes and fnshng assgnments at the end of a semester Ths event s a chance for students to take ther mnds off ther classes People can come and lsten to the musc and dance f the musc moves them to perform a couple steps The group "1964" specalzes n the musc of The Beatles The In ths Issue Word?Santa Says read all about Mayers Au Revor, Tales of the Truly Ordnary Stores, Back Talk, Douglas from Douglass Holden Excavaton, Karsten on Relgous Studes, Crouse and the Persan Gulf, the Chem Majors response to Shltsy, Men s ana women s SlSU Hoops,News Brefs, and a W2J3l plethora of holday WS surprses llfmfsw Lennomembers, Mark Benson as John n, Gary Grm as Paul McCartney, Greg George as Rngo Starr, and Bob Mller as George Harrson, studed The Beatles n order to get everythng about them exactly rght, down to ther mannersms and accents They even use the same type of nstruments and equpment that The Beatles used n the year 1964 "If you would close your eyes," clams SAB drector Pam Allson, "t would sound as f you were lstenng to a Beatles album" 50mnute The show wll be n two sets The frst wll feature ballads and slow tempo songs The second half of the show wll consst of the rock and roll songs that made The Beatles famous Lady Scot Hoopsters season underway ByCJMtchcll Coach Hart had hgh hopes for ths years womens basketball season After a great start wth an mpressve wn over Bethany, the Lady Scots have lost sx n a row Wooster has lttle to be ashamed of They have been playng tough natonally ranked competton Ther most recent contest was the John Carroll Blue Streaks The Blue Streaks were a more experenced taller squad, startng four senors and one junor As many as three starters were near sx feet Woosters women dd play well, losng by only eleven ponts For the frst tme n four games, they played two halves of sold basketball Several of the players even had the stom ach flu The game dd feature one of Woosters glarng problems, not havng a consstent scorng threat and senor leadershp The problem s be j cause Wooster lost fve senors and three starters to graduaton The Lady Scots especally feel the lost of AH N C AC post Lsa Dment Coach Hart clams that any one of four or fve players can adapt to that role That player can be ether LaWanda TrCaptan Brenda Crawl or Junor Hel Coach Hart says that both can be bg scorng threats "LaWanda possesses great moves and can con trol the ball well and Brenda s tremendous nsde player " Another mportant player s Senor TrCapta n playmaker Lsa Tomasett, who s the only senor on the floor and pro vdes floor leadershp Coach Hart has tred to replace some of that senor leadershp lost to graduaton wth a large group of freshmen Wooster has seen four get some playng tme and play a key role already! Monca Hansen Krsten Larke, Donna Myford and Cher Owen These freshman wll play a key role later n the season as they are expected to mature n tme for league competton The Lady Scot s, v : contnued on page 7 Chuck Rch goes for a threepont er aganst Hram See the story on page 7 (photo by Al DeSIIver)

3 Page 2 UA rr Senor Phlosophy major John home football game earler ths Fnklesten) News Compled by Doug Isenberg INF Treaty sgned by Reagan and Gorbachev Both the US and the USSR wll elmnate all short and medum range nuclear mssles The 2,61 1 mssles nvolved wll be destroyed, though detals of how ths wll be done have not been released due to US fears that the nformaton s too senstve The treaty also ncludes the most comprehensve verfcaton process ever approved by the two superpowers Inspecton wll ental the placng of specalsts at "senstve stes" n each others country Though the Senate, has to ratfy the treaty to grant full US approval, both Reagan and Gorbachev have already spoken of even greater advances n the reducton of nuclear stockples held by both sdes The two leaders have each mentoned a goal of 50 reducton of the total nuclear forces US plot shot down over Ncaragua James J Denby, unnjured n the ncdent, s charged by the Sandnstas to be workng for the CIA n an operaton to assst the Contras Denby, who owns a farm n Costa Rca close to the border wth Ncaragua, s an assocate of US ctzen John Hull, an extensve land Pavlos poses wth frends at a year, (photo by Gordon Brefs holder n Costa Rca and strong supporter of the Contras The Ncaraguan government sad that t wll soon present Denby to reporters, though t s unknown as of yet what legal procedures aganst the plot wll be used Arlner crashes n Calforna under suspcous crcumstances, klls 43 Before gong down the plot reported hearng gunfre n the passenger cabn The prmary suspect, an angry former employee of USAr, boarded the plane wth hs former supervsor He had left a message wth a frend tellng her that he was gong to get the person that dd hm n He was fred after beng charged wth stealng from USAr General strke n Hat Poltcal canddates are formng allances and callng for the populace to support them n protest of the cancellaton of the electons General Namph y, head of the mltary provsonal government, has refused to hand over power to "some outft or gang that s gong to rp up" Hat The role of the US s crtcsed by both sdes News compled from The New York Tmes COLGATE UNIVERSITY nvtes you to consder a career n teachng Colgate Unversty offers the Masters of Arts n Teachng degree to lberal arts graduates nterested n teachng hgh school scence, mathematcs Englsh, and socal studes Generous fnancal ad s avalable to qualfed students For more nformaton wrte to: George E De Boer, Charperson Department of Educaton Colgate Unversty Hamlton NY Phone: (315) 0 THE WOOSTER VOICE December 11, 1987 Om Aadl3EEla: Relgous Studes By Thomas Karsten Teachers of relgon are surprsngly unanmous n ther answers as to why the study relgon s mportant They nvarably state that understandng relgon s mportant because relgon has had a profound mpact on the course of human hstory Relgon has both bred conflct and led to achevement and advance "Readng the news," as Professor Gordon Tat suggests, "wll demonstrate that relgon stll acts as a major catalyst n human nteracton Issues surroundng the electronc church, aborton, and the mddle east, to name a few, all have strong relgous overtones" Relgous studes are generally vewed wth suspcon Parents and students alke tend to beleve that relgon teachers are bent on ndoctrnaton or converson Ths Woosters relgon faculty emphatcally denes Instead, they stress relgous studes as an academc dscplne lke any other "Indeed," Professor Robert Smth says, "students are often surprsed by the heavy ntellectual demands whch the study of relgon places upon them" Relgous studes at Woo ster jpxdttqfgtos By Rchard M Crouse In 1979, just after the Ayatol lah Khomen came to power, Iraq declared war on Iran Both are major ol exporters located on the Persan Gulf, and both rely heavly on ol revenues to fnance ther mltary actvtes However, Iraq has an overland ppelne to the Medterranean, whle Iran does not Thus, n 1984 Iraq began a polcy of attackng tankers carryng Iranan ol n the gulf, and Iran retalated by attackng shps carryng goods to and from Iraq These polces were partcularly dstressng to the nternatonal communty, snce most of the shps nvolved were European, Amercan or Japanese On Oct 2, 1987 Lloyds of London reported that 375 vessels have been damaged or attacked snce 1980, 107 of them n 1987 As war dragged on, t became clear that Iran was wnnng Iraq began askng for peace negotatons, but Iran refused, clamng that the war would not end wthout an uncondtonal surrender from Iraq Ths frghtened other Arab countres, partcularly the moderate Persan Gulf states such as Saud Araba and Kuwat" They began supportng Iraq wth weapons and money The Unted States has clamed neutralty, and t has sold weapons to both sdes, but unoffcally t largely supports Iraq Ths year Iran began to attack Kuwat shppng n response to Kuwats support for Iraq Kuwat s an Amercan ally In addton, Iran set up sophstcated, Chnesemad e Slk worm mssles at the Strat of Hor however, does not root tself n mpersonal methodology Smth contnues: "We dont say that any aspect of relgon s or s not We smply take an openmnde d approach" Studyng relgon touches upon senstve ssues Students range from the apathetc to the fundamentalst n ther personal nvolvement wth relgon, and sometmes ths personal nvolvement does not easly accept other vewponts At Wooster, the relgon faculty s ntent on helpng students answer ther personal questons, and develop ther personal opnons The department cannot, however, cater to everyone, but t has been found that the departments wde range of courses accomodates most students needs "But at some pont," says Tat, "you have to have people express ther personal commtment to relgon If you dont, people never have to face up to the heart of ther belef And such expressons are good, as long as they do not turn the classroom nto a place of anarchy" In essence, relgous studes tres to develop n ts students a sense US nterventon Persan Gulf muz, the entrance to the Persan Gulf Ths means that Iran could cut off all Gulf shppng f t so desred In order to protect Kuwat ol shpments from Iranan attack, the Sovet Unon offered to lease three Sovet tankers to Kuwat These tankers would be escorted by warshps of the Sovet navy, and thus the Sovets would mantan a mltary presence n the Gulf Kuwat accepted the offer Concerned about the growng Sovet nfluence n the regon US polcymakers offered to reflag about half the Kuwat tanker fleet Ths meant mat such shps would be reregstered as Amercan shps and accorded the protecton of the US navy Crtcs clamed that such a move puts the US oh Iraqs sde, and that t mght drve Iran toward Moscow Further, they clamed that the plan was rsky and poorly conceved and that the US forces would be unable to protect themselves adequately Iran sad that the escorts were an excuse to extend US mltary presence n the regon Supporters of the reflaggng clamed that t would help restore US credblty n the Arab world, whch was badly damaged n the IranCont ra affar Presdent Reagan stated, "Our own role n the gulf s vtal It s to protect our nterests and to help our frends n the regon protect thersjn a word, f we dont do the job, the Sovets wll" The Whte House pushed of awarness about ther own and others relgons Ths s done prmarly through the study of relgous tradtons and thnkers Whle some colleges and unverstes stress eastern relgons to the near excluson of the JudeoChrsta n world, Wooster attempts to do both Indeed, Woosters dverse student body s a rch rescour ce for the faculty, snce t allows them access to belevers of many dfferent creeds The relgon department at Wooster recently changed currculum It s now dvded nto three broad areas: Relgous thnkng, Relgon n hstory, and Relgous ethcs Ths currculum s not, however, solated from the other dscplnes The faculty emphaszes the relevance of relgous studes to other felds, such as hstory, psychology, socology and phlosophy "In fact," says Professor Smth, "students have often remarked that they lke the relgon major because t cuts so broadly across all of de academc departments" n the through the reflaggng n July, bendng martme law by not requrng the Kuwat tankers to meet US safety standards for one year Snce then there have been a number of mltary confrontatons between US and Iranan forces On July 24 USescorted a tanker ht a mne, probably lad by Iran On AugustlO a navy F1 4 Tomcat fred two mssles at an Iranan jet and mssed In addton, on September 21 the US attacked, sezed and sank an Iranan shp whch was layng mnes On October 8, four Iranan patrol boats fred on a US survellance helcopter US helcopter gunshps attacked the patrol boats; one sank, two were captured, and one escaped On October 16 an Iranan mssle ht " a USflagg ed ol tanker Eghteen people were njured The US retalated by bombardng and destroyng an Iranan ol rg on October 19 Iran responded on October 22 by frng a mssle nto Kuwats man offshore ol loadng platform Iran has declared war on the US Kamal Kharaz, drector of Irans war nformaton offce, clamed, "The Unted States has entered a swamp from whch t can n no way get out safely" We can only hope that the Unted States somehow can escape from the perlous task t has set for tself

4 December 11, 1987 THE WOOSTERj VOICE Page 3 College contnues asbestos removal program V By Jonathan Barclay Those bg black boxes dottng the landscape between Lowry and Kauke are not Chrstmas presents "The plywood buldngs house flters beng used by the Serra Envronmental Group to remove asbestos partcles from the ar whle crews remove asbestos from underground steam lnes along Memoral Walkway Clnton HofsteUer, drector of the Physcal Plant, noted that asbestos must be removed so that employees can make muchneede d repars to the steam lnes safely The flters are "absolute flters," and wll remove almost all partculate matter from the ar, accordng to Hofstetter All asbestos removal and lne repar n the area should be complete n January, accordng to Hofstetter The asbestos removal along the Walkway follows addtonal asbestos removal and steam ppe repar at the northwest comer of Holden Hall several weeks ago Hofstetter sad that there had been some leakage and dranage n the area That steam ppe repar requred that steam be shut off from the entre campus north and west of Holden, whch les along the man steam lne All resdence halls and most academc buldngs were wthout hot water durng the day on several days just before Thanksgvng Break Serra Envronmental Group s headquartered n Ml Vernon, Oho, and s a "hghly techncal, nsured" company for work lke asbestos removal, accordng to Hofstetter Serra must meet federal Envronmental Protecton Agency and state requrements and undergoes tests for regulaton complance Vcepresdent for Busness and Fnance Wllam Snoddy sad that the asbestos removal from Holden and Memoral Walkway steam ppes and ther repar s a $50,000 package agreement The work currently beng done s part of a longter m plan to remove dangerous asbestos from the campus n complance wth government regulatons Other sectons of the campus steam lne, ncludng one area under Holden, reman to be cleaned out, accordng to Hofstetter He added that he s not aware of any areas on campus whch pose a hazard to students However, several "mechancal rooms" or access rooms used by employees are not yet free of asbestos The asbestos removal on campus comes after an nspecton several years ago Hofstetter also sad the steam lne repar wll probably contnue, because "A thousand feet of steam lne between Holden and the power plant has leaks and needs to be repared and replaced sometme n the next year," but he does not expect further problems n the area near Holden M v :r S&ur Workers repave northwest entrance to Holden Hall Hot Water was turned of durng the repars Ths Is also the locaton of the "Where n Woo" photo from last weeks Voce (photos by Margaret Lydecker) t 1 "V"v" The Wrters Block: By Andrew Mayer Arrvaderc J As ths s my last column Im at a crossroads as to not only what I should wrte about, but also the style that I should use to wrte t I mean some people lke t when I get all sentmental, and others are really happy when I play the "angry young man" As ths, s my last column, and I spend so much of my tme tryng to keep everyone happy (ths s sarcasm, for those who were unaware) so maybe Ill do a lttle of both, but dont count on t So many people have come up to me and told me how lucky I am to be gettng out of college Lucky? What the hell do you mean Im lucky? I may not be n love wth ths college, but I love college You get room, board, homework (whch does have t good ponts), and partes for four years You get to st around worryng about ntellectual problems for four years OK so you dont get graded n the real world, but ts also a hell of a lot harder to bullsht your way through a busness presentaton, not mpossble, but harder Of course freedom from school wll have ts good ponts, and IH have at least two years to decde what graduate school I want to go to when I get tred of that freedom Besdes my salary s pretty good, and I get to lve n the "fun cty" tself, San Francsco But f you really thnk gettng up at eght oclock n the mornng s better than havng one oclock classes you need a great deal of help But lke I sad, the pay s gopd College s also a socal heaven Where else but n school can you walk around dorms meetng new people just by walkng nto the rooms wth open door? Oh sure, youre not always welcome, but most people are happy to see a new face, someone to dscuss ntellectual ssues wth And partes! In the outsde world there arent four partes a weekend to attend, n fact most weekends there snt even one You also dont get free magaznes wth lots of Spuds MacKenze ads n them (I have a feelng that beer n general just snt as much fun out of college In fact Id lke to admt somethng In a very basc way, I have always hated beer) Maybe beng n college s one of the last thngs that really seperates us from our parents Even f every body no longer reles on them for support n a fnacal way we stll refer to ther place as home For most of us thats where we go between Chrstmas vacaton and the begnnng of second semester Its where we keep all our stuff, ncludng all those books we couldnt sell back to the bookstore, (anybody have a psychology text I can borrow?) And they treat you ncer when you get back, for a few days at least, but t stll s home What t wll be after graduaton snt clear yet, I thnk Ill have the same status as those people my parents have over for long weekends But what wll become of me, how long do we have before we become our parents? Once were on the fast track, the rat race, s there any turnng back? All I can promse s that f you meet me n ten years 111 probably stll be the same bellgerant asshole Ive always been Hey, someones got to bejpn theyoes Cred: I suppose ts concluson tme now, and Im really gong to mss ths school, and ths column Just remember t wasnt all just for fun It was my own lttle nche nere at Wooster, and thanks to Mary and Graham for puttng up wth all the BS And Scott heres your menton Bye everybody! WHATS THE NEXT BEST TTJTlSjrZ TO A TATrRTrAW VACATION? I A JJITannng Gftpack! f v r uc t no Aupoucu Open Daly Sat Sun , 8 6, College Hlls Plaza You can gve someone a place n the sun for only $2500 Our prewrapp gftpack ncludes ed a gft certfcate fa 10 tannng sessons and a TanPro Skn Care Kt to promote a beautful, healthylookn g tan WITH COUPON A HO Value! TANNING GIFTPACK Only $oc00 mj OArafralaS Not ( WMa4ll " WITH COUPON 10ff SHAMPOO, CUT I ftr BLDWDRY Reg $999 I OhmlOH NolwMMltanretaclhr LonfharhrMra,

5 Page 4 THE WOOSTERj VOICE Back Talk: Dont be a Scrooge December 11, 1987 By Shelley Pears all There are a lot of Scrooges out there At Chrstmastme, shoppng mall parkng lots become demolton derbes spltseconwth d reversng, hartrgg er acceleraton and drag races to parkng spaces Shoppers push from one store to another lookng lke Clnt Eastwood watng to kll someone It becomes a hgh stakes gamewll the sweater or te be cheaper at the Day Before Chrstmas Sale or the One Week Only Santa Claus Specal? Wll Aunt Mabel send a Chrstmas card ths year and should I have sent her one? It goes on and on and on However, there are ways to avod the Scrooges and beng a Scrooge, Whle everyone else s rushng out to buy the latest pece of plastc prefabrcated by machnes from Japan to Canada make somethng wth your hands Sew a pllow, crochet a scarf, refnbuld a brdhouse, sh a pece of furnture, desgn and watercolor some notepaper, bake a plate of cookes, wrte a lettera nd gve t to someone So ts a lttle crooked, a lttle unfnshed, a lttle unravelled the gft has come from yu It s not a clerks fault that the day before Chrstmas, you cant fnd the navy blue desgner socks you need for Dad Be knd to clerkssm le a lot They see enough Scrooges JUUUgCS Every year, you want to buy a more expensve, more elaborate gft for your parents Why not forget the VCR, the camera, the $4000 sweater and just tell them what you are really tryng to show them wth expensve gfts? Why not tell them that you love them? Send a letter and a pcture of yourself to a relatve n a nursng home who you "never have tme to wrte to" whle you are at college If possble, vst them Each Chrstmas many people n nursng homes get 2 3 baskets of frut, ponsettas and flowers, when what they really need s to hear a famlar voce They wll wn treasure uvuaus your jrwu letter vww and pcture or vst long after Chrstmas Some people have to work on Chrstmas Day turnpke booth attendants, dscount store employees, doctors, nurses to name a few Be especally apprecatve of ther sacrfce, gvng up tme wth ther famles to provde needed servces for you and others Thank them and wsh them a Merry Chrstmas And just a few lttle thngs: lsten to a Chrstmas concert by kds; go carollng; send a Chrstmas card and letter to someone youve lost touch wth; smle at people who look lke they UlCjr need a Ol smle Ht HAVE A MERRY CHRIST MAS! (Save me a parkng space) " r ; Douglas from Douglass: By Doug Fowler?, Ive already lsted my Chrst r mas wsh lst, so how about some yearen d awards? Presentng the 19S7 tj Year a Revew Awards, lve from mous selecton, The Good Guys Award goes, to Presdent Reagan and Sovet kajer ; Gorbachev for sgnng the INF The USFL Memoral Award The No More lnx Award, : goes to that whch left the btterest goes to the state of Mnnesota, They taste n sport fans rooothsth e NFL fnally produced a wnner after producng such losers as the NFLs Vk scab game earned ths honor n 1987 The Human Interest Award f ngs (04 n the Super Bowl) and goes to young ndvdual who cap1 ; Walter Mandate (only 13, electoral tared Amercans hearts the most votesml984) 18monh Ths years recpent s old Now, the moment youve all Jesrca McClore, whom we all remember as the lttle gr who was : glass chooses as Person of the f been watng for Douglas from Dou rescued from a well ro Texas after beng trapped for over two days B21 Cosby! whose televson The Most Overrated Award I show s always near the top He s goes to the person who receved the unarguabjy the best comedan and ac most publcty n the shortest tor of ths era amount of tme, then dsappeared Untl next we meet Merry from vew Olver North s a unan Chrstmas and Happy New Year Thngs to Remember I Ml Ma wmnm Communty Center sponsors dance I NntI Natl noetrv poetry contest offers $1000 prze, deadlne Dec 31 A $1,00000 Grand Prze wll be awarded to the poet who sends the best entry to the Amercan Poetry Assocatons poetry contest The deadlne for entry s December The contest judges wll choose 141 wnners and award over $5,00000 n cash and przes Entry s free "December vacaton should make t convenent for college students to send poems before the deadlne," sad John Frost, Chef Edtor Poets nterested n enterng the contest should send three poems, each no more than 20 lnes, wth M RIE1A LIFE TO AIM OLD BOOK ther names and addresses on each page, to Amercan Poetry Assocaton Dept CN3 6, 250 A Potrero Street, PO Box 1803 Santa Cruz, CA Poems sent for the contest wll also be consdered for publcaton n the Amercan Poetry Anthology, a leadng collecton of contemporary verse Durng sx years of sponsorshp the Amercan Poetry Assocaton has run 25 contests and awarded over $80,00000 n przes to more than 2,000 wnnng poets rr 1 Dont forget to choose your proofs for your pcture packages Orders are due TODAY durng lunch and dnner, n the Lowry Lobby Gq aihadlibuy nnn ffr M(Dmm The Woofer Communty Center wll spfesot a WMstmas Communty Dance on Frday, Dec 18, from :00 to 11:00 pm at the Center 241 South Bever Street Brush up your ballroom and socal dancng sklls! Dance and lsten to holday musc and the musc of the 40s and 50sja zz, blues, foxtrot, dxeland, waltz and polka Lve musc wll be played by the Clffh angers Swng Band Come and jon the fun Lght refreshments wll be served The admsson fee s $1 00 For addtonal nformaton contact the Wooster Communty Center at (21 6) s f Vs FOR YOUR USED TEXTBOOKS

6 December 11, 1987 THE WOOSTERj VOICE Page 5J Tales of the Truly Ordnary; Ths s the End By Graham Rayman The semester s wndng down The grades are soldfyng nto a concrete mass predesgned to smack the rents rght n the old wazoo (where n the hell dd that word come from?) The shock and slence of the frst semester of College for a whole lot of folks that the senors dont know, namely the frst year students And hey, everyones arteres have hardened just a bt more Ths column has been used for some stranger stuff, but why dont we talk about real lfe strange stuff It s all around us, especally ths semester Crazness n Kauke Probably the strangest thng happened only recently There they are, a bunch of Susan Newtons socology students lstenng raptly to her lltng prose, when n walks a man He s wearng a snster eye patch over hs left eye, and a secretve 007 trenchcoat that has really been through the trenches He speaks wth a raspy voce, steeped n mystery "Down wth the Humantes!" he cres, as he lets the trenchcoat drop to the floor He stands n front of the class, wearng only the eye patch and the sublmest of smles The class frst jerks back n shock, but then seeng ts only another streaker, resume ther typcal blank look All except for a few students n the back of the class They are conferrng ntently among themselves The man stands, fngerng a pece of chalk he pcks up He seems to be watng for somethng A precocous sophomore n the front row turns around, "Hey do you all have somethng to share wth the class? We have had enough nteruptons, wth the fre drll, the streaker, and all the slly questons" The group n the back of the class snorts at the soph, and turns back ther conferrng After a few more moments, they slowly, almost pensvely, reach to the floor, and lft whte cards wth numbers wrtten on them The mysterous mans eyes lght up, as they follow the cards ascenson toward the sky The room moves n slow moton now The cards rse and rse, and the numbers become clear: 85, 90, 65, 79 The man lfts hs arms, and roars wth vctory "Oh, youve made me so happy!!!" The amazng thng s that t really happened A Mystery for the Ages Ths s the scoop of the year here at the COW The students here have all seen the damage beng done to Lowry Center, and around campus Some of you may even have done t Or so was thought up untl yesterday(omnous Note, preferably from an Oboe) Hey, one cant blame securty for not fgurng out the mystery After all, who commts most of the damage to the campus from year to year? Rght! The students do It s natural to assume that ths year s no dfferent from any other Dont the years just run together here, and you feel lke the campus hasnt changed one bt, and youre stll gettng harrass ed by the same dots? (well thats" a whole nother thought) Anyway, the thng was that ths damage was happenng n a certan pattern, whch scared the hell out of Securty They fgured they were up aganst an organzed group of students Good God they thought, when they put they devlsh mnds to somethng, thngs happen These kds were even better organzed than say, SCN, ECOS, and even the average Intcrrrural sports team They Far mustered ther forces, focusng on the students, and found nothng Theores as to the damage were beng tossed around campus lke wet leaves on a Saturday rany day rakng One ascrbed to by a group of mltant Faban(the snger, not the Utopan theorst) Anarchsts n Kenarden held that some of Stephen Kngs "TommyKnockers" had jumped out of the pages of the dsplay copy n Flo O, had come to lfe, and were gong around scarng the lvng bejezu s out of furnture, art, and anyone wearng polyester Ths group was quckly put to death by a zealous group of Bakunn (the Utopan theorst, not the snger) Anarchsts who muttered, "Theyre musclng n on our terrtory If anyone s gong to foment revoluton on ths campus, ts gonna to be us!!" The Bakunns thought that the culprts were members of the Chos, a womens club on campus But everyone agreed that these folks were too nce to be at the heart of such horrble acts Alrght 111 come to the pont It was three am, and John Muttonhead was staggerng across campus, when he had a flash of brllance He went straght to Securty and told them who the culprts were Tm lell n ya,"he sad, "ts those 1 1 yearol d skate punks that hang around on campus Theyve been causng trouble all over Wooster!!" The Muttonhead was rght These rovng bands of skatepunk s, halng from a sxtes revval, full of the words of Johnny Rotten and Black Flag, were fomentng revoluton, and generally confoundng the hell out of everyone The story ends on a solemn note The next day, a group of skatepun ks callng themselves "The Grey Kds" attacked and took Galpn They held t under heavy fre untl dnner tme, when ther moms came and took them home They were grounded for two weeks The New Age Arrves Forget all that stuff about the Age of Aquarus, t s over Though t was supposed to last for 2000 years, a new mystcal force has taken over Wth the dawnng pf the Harmonc Convergence, old Aquarus packed up hs bags and splt for the coast, hopng to fnd some solace n an obscure Northern Calforna coastal town Now the relgon s peace wth oneself, accented by Phllp Glasss waftng tones, and led by one of the frst female messahs of hstory, Shrley McLane And t has come to Wooster Ths semester who could forget the heart rendng vgl on Kauke tower, as the planets algned, sgnallng the new era The whole campus must have been n Ichatxxfs to see the reformaton of longawat ed Tequla Soup," who played selectons from the Wndam Hll Sampler, ncludng peces by Mcheal Hedges and Shadowfax "Yeah, ths stuff s really evocatve," many were heard to say Countless students have vsted Compton to hear ther future from Manta, the fortunetelle r "She sad Im gong to make mllons n plastcs," one undergrad twttered Even the cyncal members of the student body soon converted New Age poems began appearng n Kauke, thumbtacked to the walls: "Feel the glory and the power of the rse of the sunharmonous strngs waftng over glowng sunlghts Ahe reflectons of many lftng ther song to the skesthe fngers on the hand Guest Comentary: Smokng out of hand n bondng nto a fst of love, and strkng out at nothng except sadness" Even the fundamentalsts have taken the New Age to heart, workng out a synthess of the teachngs of the 700 club FalwelL and the Kama Sutra Hey ts all Okay Im Okay, youre okay The latest news s that the school s gong to nvte the leadng new Age folks to college for next years Fall Forum One hghly placed admnstraton offcal sac "Hey, ts a feelgoo d type of thng We hear the students, and de word s out We already cancelled George Wll and Jeanne Krkpatrck, and we feel no gult about t No downtme Thats the beauty of the New Age" Last Words A suprse addton to next semesters currculum s an nterdepartmental course Concousn ess ttled "Stream of , a year, a decade, Nel Young, The needle and the spoon, fork knfe, restaurant, breakfast buffet, Ponderosa, vnyl" (The ttle s far too long to be completely lsted here) Speakng of Nel Young, take a pcture of hm and place t next to a pcture of Stephen Kng YouTJ fnd they are the same person Its true At the party for Kngs new book, they were both supposed to be mere, and they were Except that one was always n the bathroom, whle the other was sm oozng wth fans How does he wrte songs, tour, and crank out a horror novel every two weeks? Well, bye Dont take lfe too serously, because someguy s always watng out there wth a cream pe, just when you feel your best Lowry Aua 222 W LIBERTY STREET ) WOOSTER AUDIO TV VIDEO Carver Yamaha Sony JVC Folc Audo Dose Targa Claron We Servce Most Brands Auto Sound Installaton Avalable If you dont feel lke studyng n the campus lbrary, you want to meet someone to talk, or you just feel lke eatng, where are you gong to go to avod smokers? Maybe a dormtory lounge, or most lkely, Lowry Center Ether place you go, youll have to put up wth smokers Smokng s a proven health rsk It can cause lung cancer not "only n the smoker, but also the people around hmher who are breathng n the harmful ar Besdes beng a health rsk, smokng s rrtatng to ndvduals tryng to study, eat or have a conversaton For ths reason, smokng should be prohbted n most places where large groups of students and faculty gather In the afternoon, about 1500 students flter n and out of Lowrys man floor, ether on ther way up to eat, to get ther mal, or just to relax n chars and couches In ths large room the smoke of one cgarette can travel twenty feet and stll rrtate nearby students tryng to read or have a conversaton The dnng hall of Lowry Center s comprsed of one massve room wth an addtonal annex attached outsde the doorway Smokng s permtted everywhere n the cafetera, except for one secton noncarpct cd makes up 15 of the total dnng area, and s the only area n the entre student unon where smokng s prohbted Ths space flls quckly a unch or dnner, and thus, forces nonmnokcand smokers to cat ther rs meals together n a cloud of smoke Downstars n Lowry s Moms Truckstop, another popular gatherng place At Moms, students come U meet, eat or study It s consderably smaller than Lowry dnng hall, and smokng s permtted throughout the cafe I often prefer studyng at Moms to studyng at the lbrary, as do many other students, and I fnd t very dffcult to concentrate when smokng s nfltratng between my eyes and my books Smokng s dstractng to people that do not smoke Students arc permtted to smoke n buldngs and dormtores throughout the campus Wth the ncreased number of students on campus ths year, wouldnt t be a good dea to prohbt smokng throughout the densely crowded student unon and lmt the cafetera smokng secton to the annex as well as the far end? On a college campus, students deserve the rght to clean ar whle socally nteractng, eatng or studyng 4 t 1

7 ed, Page 6: THE WOOSTERj VOICE: December 11, 1987 Letters to the Edtors: Fre, protest and a correcton Dear Edtors: Dear Edtors: Beng a former Securty Offcer for the College of Wooster I was very pleased to see the artcle n the November 13 ssue of the Voce concernng fre safety (Wooster emphaszes preventon and fre safety pg 2) However, as a state certfed Fre Safety Inspector and a volunteer frefghter for the past seven years, I do wsh to pont out an tem that concerns me In the artcle, the fre emergency procedure s explaned n four steps The fnal step reads, "Leave the buldng" It s my opnon that ths should be step number two and should be done mmedately after notfyng the other occupants n the buldng of the fre (actvatng the nternal alarm) There are several reasons for ths Fre tself spreads verey quckly A rule of thumb n the fre servce s that fre doubles n ts sze and ntensty every three mnutes In the larger campus buldngs ths may not create a very great threat However, n a small house on campus the threat s more obvous In our modern age, we fnd many synthetc products surroundng us These products often create deadly gases when burned, such as cyande Even very bref exposure to these gases can be fatal I dont even want to thnk of the possbltes f a fre were to occur n the chemstry buldngthe pont s, that ANY fre presents an mmedate danger to yourself The tme t takes to seek a telephone or fre alarm box on campus s justfed when t may have saved your lfe A second tem that I feel needs to be addressed s how you would attack a fre you may dscover Whle t s safest to leave the fre and let the professonals deal wth t, you may have the desre to attempt to put out a small fre yourself usng one of the many fre extngushers avalable on campus It s mportant to remember that the fre extngusher s meant to be a "frst ad" devce n fghtng fre Wth ths n mnd, you should assume that f you cannot extngush the fre wth one fre extngusher, t s too bg for you to safely attack GET OUT and let someone put t out who has the tranng and equpment to do so safely It s not my ntenton to dscredt Ms Garlands artcle It s a very mportant topc and gvng attenton to t s long overdue at The College of Wooster Fre s a serous matter and needs to be addressed I commend the Voce and Securty Offce for ther efforts and hope to see more artcles on fre safety n future ssues Sncerely, Rchard A Nester As members of SCN, and as partcpants n the slent vgl to protest the CIA, we found the statement made by hstory professor Dr John Gates to be unrealstc The mpetus for change seldom comes from "wthn" the system that needs changng The catalyst comes from pressure on the "outsde" The Cvl Rghts movement was successful because of the protests organzed by Dr Martn Luther Kng, nonvole nt NonVole nt the Student Coordnatng CommUee (SNCC) the Natonal Assocaton for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other concerned ctzens Whte people n the South dd not decde to change ther ways; pressure placed on them from the outsde forced them to In lght of ths, t s nave to thnk that the CIA s gong to change by tself, for the people who are n charge do not want t to As ctzens whose tax dollars fund the CIA, we should publcly protest ther nsdous actons carred out n our name and n the name of democracy as well as use the power of our vote n order to force Congress to reform the organzaton We can no longer be slent about the realty of the CIA; we must speak out and work for change now The protest n front of CD&P was done n good taste The protest ers dd not heckle ntervewees as they entered the offce, nor dd they shout at the people who walked by As for Dan Brunelles comments n hs letter to the edtor, n no way s SCN responsble for the folders on the CIA and the FBI that, accordng to the secretary of the CD&P, "were taken from the offce wthout beng sgned out and returned some days later" It s offensve for Brunelle to even suggest t wthout any facts to back up hs clam The lterature put nto the ntervewees malboxes and the manner n whch we dd t cannot be compared to "Lyndon LaRouche and hs warped datrbe" The lterature comes from relable sources that are respected by many church and peace groups Addtonally, there s nothng llmanner llegal, or covert about wrtng down the box numbers of the CIA ntervewees whch were posted on a clp board on the wall of the CD&P offce Nobodys prvacy was volated and no one was harrassed any more than they would be by a K Pzza D coupon Furthermore, there was nothng chldsh and dshonest (as Mr Brunelle suggested) about our actons In fact, we note the rony of a potental CIA employee complanng that hs prvacy was nvaded Is Mr Brunelles letter not actually a smoke screen to draw attenton away from the real ssues? Are the CIAs covert actons moral and legal? Should students be fully nformed before they consder workng for such an organzaton? We stand by our actons and wll contnue to protest untl the organzaton that we pay for has been thoroughly reformed Molly Huber Tm Anderson Karen Taylor Dear Edtors: Lowell Weaver s a member of the band Symmetry, and s no way afflated wth New Chapter The pcture n the December 4 Voce s msleadng and detrmental to our future We played Ichabods Nov 6, and wll be Dec 12 Rch Brown Scott Nelson Lowell Weaver Tom Roedema Todd Cushng Classfed Advertsements THE WOOSTERj) VOICE Edtors: Mary Cox, Graham Rayman For Sale SpnetConsol e Pano Bargan Wanted: Responsble party to take over low monthly payments on spnet pano See Locally Call Mr Whte, Ext 102 Chrstopher Shlts Sports Edtor Lsa Fetterman, Layout Edtor Lsa Bodeen, Copy Edtor Gordon Fnkelsten, Photo Edtor Gregg Bevensee, Busness Manager Ida Wllams, Crculaton Manager 4RX Producton Staff: Photography Staff: EXAM THE 130 jl I MONDAY DEC M THURSDAY DEC 17 MO am IftOOtJB 22SP llsl? 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8 NORTH ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Sports Allegheny College Case Western Reserve Unversty College of Wooster Denson Unversty Kenyon College Oberln College Oho Wesleyan Unversty Shltsy Gong Nowhere Fast f By The anonymous Chem major Shltsy Gong Nowhere FastChe m major lashes back, exothermcall y Partll ;; So, Shltsy, youre an Englsh major? Oh yes, certanly Dd athletcs nfluence your decson to major n Englsh? Well UmNoButK nd of n a way Could you be more vague? Im not done You see, Tm nvolved n sports journalsm I lke wrtng sports columns for the Wooster Voce And n mat sense, yes, athletcs has nfluenced my decson My partcpaton n sports has had nothng to do wth t Are mere many athletc Englsh majors? Yes, a few Karl Perm, for one Im sure there are others I cant thnk of any rght now Do you thnk there are many athletc Chemstry majors? Patty Smank and Sher Shambl n are exceptonal athletes And John Papp was no slouch ether Why? Well I thnk a lot of people nterpreted our last artcle as lnkng a lack of athletc ablty wth majorng n Chemstry (The nerve of such people!) By the way Im askng the questons today The only reason Chem majors were mentoned was because you are a Chem major If you had been a Bo major, the Bo majors would be pssed off The pont evolved around ntramural athletes versus ntercollegate athletes And mght I nfer that the more serous students are ntramural athletes rather than ntercollegate? Isnt that rather a generalzaton? Sure, youre rght 111 retract that There are smply too many generalzatons on ths campus already So s that why there are angry chem majors? I thnk the ones that were upset were also the ones who are very senstve about beng labelled a "unathletc" whch mght be a euphemsm for "geek" Are you angry when people treat you lke a "dumb jock" wthout gettng beneath the surface to dscover how totally ntellgently strange you are? No J know better Not a bad atttude to cop But has there ever been a tme when you felt you were unfarly stereotyped? Yes, but t doesnt nvolve me beng a jock I lve n a wealthy suburb of Detrot and the school I attended catered to a wealthy crowd lam oftentmes lnked fnancally to the socety I grew up n My famly s comfortable, but not wealthy So the basc problem wth our prevous artcle s that mere are people who feel mat the term "Chem major" has negatve connotatons? The problem s the upset chem majors ddnt really read the artcle Partcpatng n ntramural sports nvolves the same basc ntensty as ntercollegate sports Thats what we were tryng to say I thnk my lne "I guess thats why Im a chem major now" was the controversal one I was smply tryng to pont out mat because I spent my we fne n hgh school teamng ndependently, rather than partcpatng n sports, I was able to take on a demandng major n college That s not to say that people who partcpated n hgh school sports cannot be chemstry majors, but n my stuaton I feel mat s ndeed the case That was my nterpretaton I dont thnk the readers realzed that you were a factual character n our column There are people n our secton who stll dont beleve Im factual Now you just gave away who you are Yes, ts Im Ned Fox Chuck Rch drops one In for the Scots, as John Mead and Matt Hestand look on (photo by Al DeSlver) Men blaze on streak The Scots mens basketball team(52 ) s rdng, hgh on a four game wnnng streak, after two wns n Rochester at the Unversty of Rochester tournament, a blowou t of Hram a week and a half ago, and most recently a wn over undefeated Mount Unon In Rochester, the Scots blew out an outmatched Vassar College team 906 1, as Rob Peterson scored 19 ponts and Matt Hestand added 10 rebounds Then aganst host Rochester n the fnal, Peterson agan had 19, and Hestand grabbed 12 rebounds Hestand was gven Tourney MVP honors Aganst Mount Unon the team started slowly, but pcked up the speed n another late frst half run, to go n at halftme wth a 13 pont feadthe second half the Scots ran S 1 A four game ther lead, based on a strong nsde game and excellent shootng from the floor to 23 ponts Coach Steve Moore also prased the teams takng care of the ball The team had only 1 6 turnovers for the game Chuck Rch exploded for 26 ponts for the game Mke Trmmer ntmdated the Purple Raders wth 8 blocked shots, gvng hm 30 for the season The fnal score was The team s now 5 0 aganst Dvson HI teams The Scots next play Grove Cty, at home, ths Saturday Over the break, the teams wll host the Mose Hole Classc, and then play John Carroll It wll begn conference play wth Kenyon on December 6 Come out and support the team t:; Mke Trmmer nals a turnaround J, as Mke McCormck muscles In on the bound, (photo by Al DeSlver) a Sophomore LaWanda Crawl (contnued from page 1) youth s not expected to be a factor for the entre season as they have been playng and learnng well They are talented enough to make Wooster compettve n NCAC competton The team also has a problem of puttng two halves together That s probably due to the extreme youth of the team and the fact mat they have not been playng together for that long of a perod They are httng the boards strongly They have gotten the reboundng edge n every contest Even though the team s young they play older They all accept ther role and responsbltes They knew early mat many players would be gettng playng tme Coach Hart plays a runnng and pressng style of play Wooster plays as many asten players : n a game The early competton has provded experence and seres of games to get the team acclmated to each other before league competton n early January Ths Saturday the Lady Scots are back at home aganst a tough Tffn team Tffn s wthout ther top player,62" center out wth a spraned ankle Caoch Hart wants a bg wn at home to ncrease momen tum and confdence M m II II u 2nd Year Basketball Coach Chrs Hart

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