Pippin Raises Curtain Tomorrow Night see page 3
Letters to The Editor.
2
Kappa Delta Celebrates 100 Years
5
Cooper's Comments
7
THE ROTUNDA
VOLUME 77, NUMBER* 5
SERVING THE LONGWOOD COMMUNITY SINCE 1920
A
OCTOBER 22, 1997
Hel :
Oktoberfest 1997 L.E.A.F. <**<"Increases P By: JEN GANDY Staff Writer
' hat do clowns, floats, firetrucks, and balloons all bring to mind? The Oktoberfest Parade of course! Crowds began to gather Saturday morning around 10:45 a.m. to watch the parade. Longwood students, many accompanied by family and friends, lined Redford and Madison Street, along with prospective students and their families. The parade included fire trucks, numerous student organizations, clowns, music, balloons, and candy. The parade was a great way to begin the day's festivities.
Environmental Awareness
W
By. REUBEN SKYE ROSE Staff Columnist
Spirit leaden walk in Saturday's parade
Longwood Students I Longwood Walk For Worthy Cause Forensks Society Off To A Great Start ^J By: MATT RTNKER Staff Writer
M l very year Longwood fl students raise money ■ J to help with Alzheimers Disease. This year the walk served as a kickoff for Oktoberfest. All of the money from the walk goes directly to Alzheimers research. Freshman Jamie Carroll said, "I wanted to do something that would help the people who suffer from Alzheimers." The walk circled the campus, beginning near the Lancaster building. The
group walked up to the baseball complex, then walked down Main Street back to the Lancaster building. Carroll said, "It was fun to go out there and walk with my friends for a good cause. It was neat to see that college students care for a disease like Alzheimers." The walk was broken up into two groups. The total number of participants was not known, but was thought to be close to a hundred. Brianne Oetzel said, "I went out to the walk for a good cause, there were lots of people out there."
rile Longwood Forensics Society (Public Speaking Team) attended the Bloomsburg Novice " Tournament at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania September 27. The eight novices from Longwood did extremely well, winning over twenty awards and certificates. Ronald Hill won first
See FORENSICS page 6
TT Then morningbroke, \/\/ oo Tuesday October 7 V 7, students and faculty *cte in for a treat as they Wy Longwood's main area. Written in chalk were such as, "At least deaths occur each year due to air pollution in the U.S.; Almost 1/2 of all American rivers, lakes, and creeks are still damaged or threatened by water pollution; Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to completely rebuild the country's entire commercial airline fleet; Aluminum beverage cans constitute 80 percent of all aluminum found in landfills." All of this information is valid and can be verified if one so desires to pursue such an endeavor. The chalking event was done by the Longwood Environmental Awareness Foundation (LEAF) in an effort to educate the Longwood community about the many troubling problems of the present day. One LEAF member exclaimed, "It is important to let Longwood < students know that environmental problems are human problems: air pollution kills people; (affecting
mostly children, the elderly, and people with asthma. Water pollution contaminates drinking water and can kill aquatic life, indirectly hurting fishing industries, etc. Once peopled understand that hurting the environment is, in fact, hurting ourselves, then maybe they will change their perspective and, perhaps, change the world!" ^^^ It should be noted that the worTd population has expanded tremendously within the last two hundred years and is now approximately 5.8 billion and rising (population has more than doubled within Longwood students' parents' lifetime). As population grows — at an exponential rate — natural resource use skyrockets producing more waste and pollution which intensifies the flame of environmental destruction and human suffering. In order to do the chalking, LEAF got the o.k. from Longwood faculty, but another group, or perhaps individual, without permission decided to attack LEAF. This other group wrote threats like, "Eat me liberal scum! Why don't you get in the trash can! Reagan for President 2000! Buchanan for President 2000! This is college not high school! Die Liberals!" This writing Is Illegal, dis-
See LEAF page 5