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SU Dictator
Student has plans for
new hierarchy.
OPINIONS, page 7
Drag Ball coming soon
A sneak peak at Coming
Out Week.
FEATURES, page 3
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The Official Student Newspaper of Southwestern University
October 5, 2000
Alcohol permits banned until frats offer solutions
Kathryn Navarretf.
Senior Reporter
President Jake Schrum and his
staff will meet this Monday to dis-
cuss the issue of minor alcohol con-
sumption on campus and the role
played by the Greek fraternities in
particular. Each fraternity president
presented a proposal of solutions
to the administration earlier this
week.
After two recent assaults that
were related to alcohol consump-
tion by minors, Mike Leese, Associ-
ate Vice President for Student Life,
ordered a meeting between Debo-
rah Brown, chief of Southwestern
Police Department; the four presi-
dents of the Greek fraternities, and
the president of Inner Fraternity
Council last week. The demand put
forth by Leese was for each pres-
ident to review the alcohol policy
and propose ideas on how to better
enforce the rules in each house.
Along with their input and a
letter of recommendation from
Leese, Schrum and his staff will
decide if the proposals are accept-
able.
“Schrum will have the meeting
to decide whether he accepts the
proposals or whether he wants to
make changes,” Leese said. “Then
once he and his staff approve of
whatever the presidents suggested
then we will lift the ban on alcohol
permits.”
As of right now, no alcohol per-
mits are being issued to the fra-
ternity houses by administration.
Schrum’s staff also will create con-
sequences if there is evidence of
minors still consuming alcohol in
the houses. According to Leese, one
possibility for the first offense is
that a chapter will go on probation
and for the second violation they
will run the risk of becoming alco-
hol- free.
“It’s not whether we want frater-
nities on campus, it’s not whether
we want Greeks on campus, it’s not
even a matter of changing the alco-
hol policy, we are simply saying,
‘tell us how minor consumption of
alcohol will be enforced in each
house’,” Leese said.
Jay Carter, president for Kappa
Alpha; Travis Hunt, president for
Kappa Sigma; Andrew Varner, pres-
ident for Phi Delta Theta; Drew
York, president for Pi Kappa Alpha;
and Jay Widmer, president of IFC
meet to discuss the terms. As
a group the five agreed on a
plan to alleviate the situation that
each house will be responsible for
upholding. The main twojtoncerns
for them was creating campus com-
munity awareness and reviewing
guest policy for each house.
“There is an adequate need for
campus community awareness to
those who are not Greek and even
Frats/ page 2
Godspell makes its debut
Courtesy of SU Theatre Department
Godspell, the Theatre Department’s first production of the year opened last night, and will continue performances this week
and next week. The musical, orignally centering around rock n roll, now based in a rave setting in this production, stars Chris
Meyers as Jesus and (surrounding from left to right) Randi Fowler, Lisa Slaughter, Justin Smith, Josh Batenhorst, Katherine
Clouser, Kelly Hayden and Jesse Fernandez. For more information on Godspell see Entertainment, page 4.
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FDA approves
abortion pill
Robyn Brand
Megaphone Staff
Twenty years after its invention
in France, the abortion pill will be
made available in the United States
within the next month. On Septem-
ber 28, Mifepristone, or RU-486,
was approved by the Food and
Drug Administration for distribu-
tion.
The pill, which can terminate
picgiiancies up to 7 weeks after
conception is surrounded by con-
troversy and is expected to have
some effect on the upcoming presi-
dential election.
“I think the majority, the over-
whelming majority, of the Ameri-
can people will support it,” stated
A1 Gore, “1 strongly support a
woman’s right to choose; my oppo-
nent wants to take that away, he’s
made that clear.”
A1 Gore’s stance follows the
common Democratic ideal of
choice. The Democrats feel that
taking a pill is the same is having a
surgical abortion, and that a wom-
an’s right to choose includes the
right to choose the method.
Many of Southwestern’s Young
Democrats are supporting Gore’s
opinion.
“My stance is that it is not the
Government ’s place to restrict what
a woman can do with her body, and
this is the same thing," said Lewis
Woods, President of Young Demo-
crats.
Republicans are taking the oppo-
site side, saying that any type of
abortion is wrong, and taking a pill
does not change the situation.
“I think the FDA's decision to
approve the abortion pill is wrong.
People on both sides of the abor-
tion issue can agree that we should
do everything we can to reduce
the number of abortions, and I fear
that making this abortion pill wide-
spread will make abortions more
and more common, rather than
more and more rare.” said George
W. bush.
J ust as the Young Democrats are
supporting Gore, Young Republi-
cans are agreeing with Bush.
“I don’t agree with it. I’m basi-
cally against abortion, and that is
abortion. Taking a pill is a lot dif-
ferent than undergoing surgery, so
I think it would make it easier
for someone to do it,” said Megan
Bush, Young Republican Member.
Some Southwestern students do
not feel that it should be outlawed,
but are a little skeptical.
“I want it to be legal, but know-
ing people, I know they will treat it
as birth control," said Sophomore
Claire Campbell.
Others see the convenience
Ru-486 will provide as a positive
thing.
“If you’re going to have an
abortion, it’s usually became you
can t care for the chi Id for whatever
reason. A lot of times girls, espe-
cially young girls, will try to self-
abort because they can t afford to
have an abortion.
FDA/ PAGE 2
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issues
Sara Springfield
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Megaphone Staff
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What will happen to the global
environment if every family in
India buys a car?
Why do Americans waste so
much food and energy?
Is asfngle global consumer cul-
ture covering the world?
What is really causing Global
Warming?
These are all questions raised in
Dr. Wilk’s study called The Global
Consumer Culture Project.
' For over twenty years now Dr.
Wilk, Anthropology instructor at
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nology to develop bigger arid better
goods, and Once we are bored with
the newest of the new, more tech-
nology is made, and the cycle con-
tinues.
The media always jumps in and
tries to convince people that they
need new things, and this is becom-
ing an overwhelming problem that
not enough people are interested in
solving.
It is this problem with con-
sumer culture and the global media
(including the problem with eth-
ical issues and disciplinary prac-
tices) that Dr. Wilk is primarily
concerned.
Dr. Wilk agrees that this is a
Indiana University, has studied tty* , ..... ..... .
social and economic organization very difficult problem, and it is not
of typical households in Belize, possible to pinpoint the one reason
rica, and the United States, as to why people buy what they do,
lay’s culture, we as people and why our society is obsessed
ming more and more con- with creating new goods, arid con-
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much ‘stuff’ we
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He would also like to build the
research needed to solve this prob-
lem and to help American’s realize
that “the cornucopia is not bottom-
less-the things we buy come at a
price, and where there is wealth in
one place, there is poverty some-
where else.”
Dr. Melissa Johnson, assistant
Anthropology professor, invited Dr.
Wilk to speak to our campus about
this.
His speech will be titled “Global
Consumerism and the Environ-
ment,” and will take place on
October 9lh at 4 p.m. *in Cullen
Auditoriutp.
Dr. Johnson met Dr. Wilk when
she was attending graduate s chool,
as he was her advisor.
ShC says that Dr. Wilk is “by far
i the most stimulating professor I’ve
vinting people that they cannot live ever had. He always pushes my
community and his, and his friends’,
lifestyles.
The two were so vastly differ-
ent, that he decided to pursue the
study of how our rich, materialis-
tic society is never happy, although
we have a great deal more than the
best of the poor villages in Mexico,
Belize, or anywhere else in the
world.
He came to the conclusion that
all people, not just the “evil” ones,
are the driving destruction of our
environment and our consumer cul-
ture, always creating new technol-
ogy so that we are not bored with
old and no longer interesting mate-
rialistic goods..
Wilk came to the conclusion
that we have not yet advanced
from seeking pleasure in material
things to seeking happiness in other
people, -i
It was this idea of happiness
I of with forming mean- without with these new things. thinking.” . V... * versiis technology that Dr. Wilk
elationships with the people As Of yet, we do not have the Dr. Wilk first became interested was interested in, and thus decided
us, and becoming more' knowledge or technol
in the betterment of our this problem, but Dr.
to solve in anthropology when he was. a to continue to pursue studying.
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have a great deal of mpte- edge.
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rial items, but society as a whole is a - He will begin with himself, and ruined cities,
never happy with what they actu- will start to become mow involved He was able to look at the pov-
ally have. in his own community and with erty stricken villages and people,
WealWays implement new tech- local efforts to downsize consuhter and compare them with his own
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