The New Perspective: Volume 27, Issue 9

THE NEW PERSPECTIVE Thursday, March 4, 2004

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Falcone catches heat from Carroll community Not a lot of ‘warm, fuzzy feelings’ at Carroll College Elizabeth Martin & Sarah Smirl News Editor & Layout Editor

Frank Falcone is right. “It is pretty clear that [Carroll College doesn’t] have a lot of warm, fuzzy feelings on the part of every department chair towards the President of the college.” This has been especially true since the beginning of February.

On Feb. 4, all department chairs received a letter marked “confidential” from President Falcone. This letter pertained to the idea some faculty members had concerning the formation of a union at Carroll College. It informed department chairs that they are considered “supervisors” according to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and detailed their roles as supervisors regarding union activity.

Falcone maintains that a letter similar to the one he sent is standard procedure any time employees attempt to unionize.

“When you start talking about collective bargaining, there

Photo by Pete Seroogy

Carroll College President Frank Falcone.

is a very serious paradigm shift,” he said. “We move out of being a college community and we become employers and employ-

ees.” Falcone said that when this happens, the atmosphere at the college is much more rigid and adversarial.

The faculty response to the letter was mixed. Though the letter was sent only to department chairs, copies of it quickly spread to other members of the faculty and staff as well as students and alumni. It evoked strong feelings from those who read it, both in favor of and against the Falcone administration and the recent unionization efforts.

According to the Carroll College Faculty Manual, the duties of departmental chairs fall under the category of “supervisor.” After reviewing the manual, Jane Hopp, professor and chair of the Department of Health Sciences believes the college has this right. “Upon my review of my responsibilities as chair and my understanding of the National Labor Relations Act and the Supreme Court’s full opinion on NLRB v. Yeshiva University, which I have read, I conclude that the college is within its right to deem me as a ‘supervisor’ in my role as chair,” she said. Professor and chair of the Computer Science Department Gerald

Related Coverage Falcone’s letter to department chairs, page 3 Student reactions, page 3 ‘Loyalty Policy,’ page 3 Isaacs agreed with Hopp.

“This sort of language and directive creates an environment of insecurity and alienation among faculty,” said Rich Coon, associate professor in the Department of Sociology.

Kevin McMahon, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was surprised by the language in the letter. “I expected it to be more ambiguous,” he said. “It may have come as a surprise to some of our chairs that they had such influence on campus!”

Tim Fiedler, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, added, “It is very unfortunate that someone has tried to silence the faculty in this way.”

“What this administration See Letter Page 3

McMahon files second lawsuit ‘Most qualified applicant’ refused position

Jessica A. Bauer Editorial Assistant

In a continuing effort to regain her job after being denied tenure last spring, Charlene McMahon, assistant professor for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, filed a second discrimination complaint against Carroll College last week.

McMahon believes she was discriminated against because of her previous legal history with the college, and that is why Carroll College refuses to consider rehiring her as a full-time, nontenure track professor.

McMahon first filed a discrimination suit last October, stating that the college denied her tenure on the basis of gender, marital status and pregnancy.

She withdrew her complaint in December in order to file a lawsuit against the college in federal court. In the meantime, she applied for her position at Carroll, which is now non-tenure track.

In January, McMahon received a letter from the college stating she would not be considered “for any future employment or re-employment with the College.” Since then, the college has redefined the position several

times.

McMahon states that “what they did, in my opinion, [was modify] the position so that even if I were hired, I wouldn’t be able to teach [biochemistry].”

According to McMahon, only six applicants have applied for the current position. She said, “I know that I was the most qualified applicant.”

Last spring, McMahon and the other two professors in her department who were up for tenure, Joe Piatt and Kevin McMahon, were told the college would only grant tenure to two of the three candidates. The college informed the three that a non-tenure track position would be made available for the third who was not granted tenure. The college now says that she would no longer be considered for this position.

Michael Fox, McMahon’s attorney, says the college changed the job description of her available position and refused to consider her for the position due to the first discrimination complaint filed.

“The only logical reason they would exclude her [as a candidate for the position] is because of her previous complaint,” Fox said. This is considered retaliation.

The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), a federal agency that is handling the complaint, will assign an investigator to the case to determine if there is probable cause for the complaint.

Fox expects the investigation to take three to nine months.

As the EEOC has no enforcement power, after a decision is made, the issue will either be worked out internally, between McMahon and the college, or she can sue in federal court for retaliation.

McMahon and Fox hope to have a trial date for her tenure lawsuit case within six months.

Another tenure lawsuit was filed by Nelia Beth Scovill, Joel Heim, both assistant professors of the Department of Religion and Philosophy, and Penny Johnson, formerly of the Department of Graphic Communications, after they were also denied tenure last spring.

The case will come to trial by next December if it is not settled out of court sooner. A pre-trail hearing is scheduled for early November.

Claire Beglinger, spokesperson for Carroll College, declined comment on any issue regarding the four professors, as the college is currently in litigation.

Tons of talent

Photo courtesy of Morgan Weiner

Senior Jesse Pilachowski sang John Mayer’s “Why Georgia” for the Winter Carnival talent show Feb. 27. See page 9 for more Winter Carnival photos.

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Spring Break Not going anywhere exotic during break? Help the Carroll College Office of Cultural Diversity show about 150 Milwaukee high school students around campus. This is part of the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges and will take place March 13. Call Dolores Brown at x7378 if interested.

Study in Wales Want to visit another coun-

Like to volunteer?

Come be part of the 2nd Annual Wisconsin Ground Water Festival and help educate fifth and sixth graders. The event will take place April 23 at the Waukesha County Expo Center. You will have the opportunity to meet and network with others in the community. Interested? Contact Joe Piatt at x7156 or jpiatt@cc.edu.

Find diversity Every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. join in the International Experience Club. All are welcome.

There is no need to be an interna-

Campus Safety If you observe suspicious activity on campus, please contact Campus Safety at (262) 524-7300. Oncampus escorts are available 24 hours a day be contacting Campus Safety or by using an exterior blue light phone.

2/10/04 Responded to help a student who had fallen outside the Campus Center. Student was assisted to the Health Services.

2/17/04 Responded to a single vehicle accident causing property damage on Wright Street. Waukesha Police were called to take a report.

MENC benefit concert Carroll College’s Music Education National Council (MENC) will be holding a benefit concert all day March 27. MENC needs bands to perform for the event. If interested, contact Adam Salerno at asalerno@cc.edu or x3082. All proceeds will go to VH1 Save the Music.

2/21/04 Took report of the theft of a bike seat from the basement of South Bergstrom Residence Hall.

It is unknown when or why the seat was taken.

2/22/04 Took report of two individual thefts of credit cards from student rooms in Swarthout Residence Hall. It appears that both rooms were unoccupied and unlocked at the time of the theft. It is believed that the thefts occurred between Feb. 18 and 22. The Waukesha Police were also contacted and took a report.

2/22/04 Escorted a restricted individual off campus.

2/23/04 Responded to an accident causing property damage in lot 9.

Waukesha Police also responded to take a report.

2/23/04 Took a report of damage to a vehicle that was parked on lot 1 near the Bergstrom Complex.

2/24/04 Responded with Waukesha Police to 124 McCall Street for a report of suspicious males in the area. The males had left the area on arrival and a broken window was discovered on the building.

2/24/04 Took a report of annoying phone calls made to a student in North Bergstrom Residence Hall.

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E-mail worm reported A new worm has been detected in campus E-mails. The worm, named W32.Netsky.B, is rated a 4 on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most serious. It attaches itself to e-mail addresses and folders with the words “Share” or “Sharing.” Open e-mail attachments carefully.

Crime Beat 2/18/04 Took report of the theft of money from an unlocked locker in Van Male Fieldhouse. The theft occurred between 9 and 10 a.m.

April Karlen

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Corrections The Vol. 27, Issue 8 “Student Spotlight” incorrectly stated Gregg Wandsneider’s sister was older. Wandsneider’s sister is younger than him.

Lions, tigers and green polar bears Usually when one goes to the zoo, they see white polar bears. However, the clement tropics of Singapore Zoo have made Sheba and Inuka turn green from algae growing in their hollow hair shafts, which usually appear white because the shafts reflect light.

“The harmless algae are the result of Singapore’s warm and tropical conditions,” said Vincent Tan, a spokesman for the zoo. Sheba’s coat was successfully bleached with hydrogen peroxide a few weeks ago and Inuka will be given a similar treatment in three weeks, Tan stated. The zoo wanted to test Sheba’s reaction before bleaching Inuka. For now, Inuka remains speckled with bright meadow spots behind his ears, on his back and legs.

(Polarbearsalive.org) Do-it-yourself tattoos Drinking, drugs and hooking up—all things that happen at parties. But now a new trend is on the rise: “Poke and stick parties,” where kids tattoo and pierce each other for free. It has especially become popular

among athletes, using this ritual as an initiation processes.

“It’s more fun to have a friend do it, and it was free,” stated Erik Hansen, a 20-yearold from Minneapolis.

However, officials are now very worried about the risk of infections, blood-borne diseases and nerve damage. They have started a poster campaign to convince teens to get their tattoos and piercings done by licensed professionals. “Get the good design, not the bad disease,” states one poster.

The Oregon health licensing office has begun a Webbased campaign, while the Texas Department of Health library offers a video about the risks of homemade body art. The biggest worry is the risk of sharing Hepatitis B or C, or tetanus between people sharing needles.

“It’s not just something you can do in your garage,” says Shahn Anderson, a licensed tattoo artist.

Several states have laws that prohibit minors from getting tattoos, regardless of who is holding the needle. Other states, like Wyoming, want to ban them altogether.

However, some youths believe that banning “poke and stick parties” will just make them

do it themselves. “You can’t just outlaw things,” said Hansen. “It’s like prohibition; it doesn’t work.”

(CNN.com) Student suspended for swimsuit magazine A sixth grade student is now serving a suspension for bringing an issue of Sports Illustrated to school. Justin Reyes was looking at the magazine before classes Feb. 18, when Principal Kathy Garrison cited him for violating school policy on nonverbal harassment and possession of lewd or suggestive material. Garrison ordered Reyes to attend an alternative school for two days where students from several areas are sent when they get into trouble. Reyes and his mother refused to accept the punishment, so the penalty was increased to a three day out-of-school suspension.

Nicole Reyes, the mother, said that it was too harsh of a punishment. “It’s not like it was Hustler, Playboy or Penthouse,” she said. “The punishment doesn’t fit the crime.”

Superintendent Tim Swarr disagreed. Swarr said he had never seen Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition before. “I was shocked,” he said. “It doesn’t belong in public schools.”

(CNN.com)

Thursday, March 4, 2004

The New Perspective

Loyalty policy? What loyalty policy? what is involved in loyalty.” If it were regarding the responsibilities the job entails, then going against the administration’s policies would be insubordination, which is grounds for termination, said Hemmer, who served as a department chair for 31 years. However, “if loyalty means that you will fall in line and keep your mouth shut,” this type of mandated loyalty would violate freedom of speech under the First Amendment, he said.

David Loeffler, an attorney for Carroll College, said the wording of the letter is legal and that he provided counsel to Falcone concerning the letter.

mation regarding the location of this policy and its requirements.

Claire Beglinger, senior advanceNews Editor & Layout Editor ment officer for public relations, The last two paragraphs of referred the newspaper to the the Feb. 4 letters from Frank NLRA. Upon inquiry, Larry Falcone, president of Carroll ColBrennan, a field examiner for the lege, to department chairs discuss NLRB said, “I don’t know of a an obligation of loyalty. The loyalty policy that is associated details of this “loyalty policy” with the Act.” are unclear to many of the letter’s Loeffler mentioned that recipients and other who read it. loyalty policies are present in case According to Falcone, as law, however, the Wisconsin Bar defined by the National Labor Association was unable to cite Relations Act (NLRA) and case any specific examples. The Carlaw, “if you are a supervisor, there roll College faculty manual does are certain things you cannot do, not include a copy of a loyalty and that’s been defined in this policy. case as loyalty to your employer, Many professors were so if you’re a boss you’re offended by the president’s not supposed to be out insinuation that certain there advocating that we faculty members were not all form a union. That’s “I don’t know of a loyalty policy that loyal to Carroll College. what supervisory is.”

They do not know why is associated with the Act.” Congress enacted anyone would question National Labor Relations Board the loyalty of long-time the NLRA in 1935. The Act guarantees workers Field Examiner Larry Brennan professors, as well as those the right to form and who are Carroll alumni. join unions without Paul Rempe, acting the fear of managechair of the Department Few professors are aware of a of History, has stayed at the ment retaliation. Revisions to the Act have been made since then, binding loyalty policy. school long enough to teach two Gerry Isaacs, chair of the generations of Carroll College giving more rights to employers and setting restrictions on unions. Department of Computer Sci- graduates and stated that, “My The Act also created the National ence, said he was unaware of any loyalty to this institution cannot Labor Relations Board (NLRB), loyalty policy. “However,” said be impugned; indeed it is this Isaacs, “in every organization it very loyalty which drives my deep which enforces the NLRA. Section 8 of the NLRA refers is expected that employees do not concern for the future of Carroll to unfair employer practices, and perform actions which are detri- College.” He continued, “I do includes “threats” as an illegal mental to that organization.” not have to search through any “I have never heard of our policy manual for a definition of method of discouraging union‘loyalty policy,’” said Kevin loyalty.” ization.

In the letter, Falcone wrote, McMahon, associate professor “I believe deeply that real “The office of the President and in the Department of Chemistry loyalty is not the product of the Board of Trustees will enforce and Biochemistry. “It could be threats and bureaucratic paperthis obligation of loyalty, on similar to an atomic orbital; some work,” said Joe Dailey, associate the part of supervisors, through scientists have heard of it, but professor in the Department of sanctions, if necessary, including none have actually seen it.”

Communication. “Do we think “Some colleagues have loyalty comes out of a bureautermination of your employment with Carroll College, if such searched for references to such a cracy?” action is appropriate under the policy in existing Carroll College “This sort of coerced alleparticular circumstances.” Some documents, while others have giance seems to me to undermine professors have interpreted this pursued other ways to obtain a any real belief one could have section of the letter as threaten- copy,” said Tim Fiedler, associate regarding academic freedom professor in the Department of here,” said Rich Coon, associate ing.

Joe Hemmer, professor in Sociology. At press time, “none professor in the Department of the Department of Communica- of these efforts have been success- Sociology. tion, who teaches Carroll’s Com- ful in obtaining a copy of such a One professor’s final conclumunication Law course, believes policy.” sion: “Loyalty policies remind The New Perspective had a me of the McCarthy era of the the statement is threatening because “it never really defines difficult time obtaining any infor- 1950s.”

Elizabeth Martin & Sarah Smirl

Letter disheartens many professors Letter From Page 1

has done is take the ‘marketplace’ out of the marketplace of ideas,” said Pete Settle, professor in the Department of Communication.

“It is embarrassing and disgraceful.” Many faculty members, including Settle, believe that the letter was a “gag order” to faculty and undermines the principles of higher education.

In the letter, Falcone states that the pro-union sentiment held by many faculty members has created an adversarial, “us against them,” relationship between the faculty and Carroll’s administration and the Board of Trustees. However, many faculty members have felt that the relationship between the faculty and the administration and the Board of Trustees has been less than “collegial” since the proposal of a faculty union.

“Collegial is what we need, and collegial is clearly not what we have gotten,” said Joe Dailey, associate professor in the Department of Communication.

“President Falcone must be in the running for the single least collegial president of a college in America.”

Lamar Cope, professor emeritus in the Department of Religion and Philosophy, believes that while a move toward unionization may seem confrontational, “it can hardly be more confrontational than the style this administration has practiced from its outset.” He continued, “That confrontational style, centered in President Falcone and Board Chair Tom Badciong, is clearly the reason the faculty has been considering such a drastic step!”

Some professors remember when Carroll had what they would classify as a collegial atmosphere and a system of shared governance, including Deirdre Keenan, associate professor in the Department of English. “It has been a long time since the administration has afforded any genuine collegiality to many of us,” Keenan said. She believes the administration and the Board of Trustees created the confrontational atmosphere by not listening to faculty.

“I remember a time,” said a professor who wishes to remain anonymous, “when education, quality of life, safety of being oneself was a pride of this nation

and college.” The same professor also said, “I do need complete anonymity in this statement, as I jeopardize my position at Carroll.” The professors who have been disenfranchised by the current administration believe that fears of job termination, like this one, are the result of a system of governance that is anything but collegial.

The letter made McMahon somewhat hopeful. “Many of us will still support unionization and hope the language in the letter may encourage others to join the effort.” It has not had that affect on all professors, however.

“Before Dr. Falcone’s letter I was a member of the organizing council,” said Paul Rempe, acting chair in the Department of History, but now he is “not advocating for a union.”

“My approach to this whole process has been to look at unionizing as an opportunity for faculty to create a sense of common purpose and spirit of community,” said Coon, who shares the sentiment with many of his colleagues that a union “does not have to be framed as confrontational.”

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Falcone’s letter The drafted president received Feb. 4.

following letter was

by Frank Falcone, of Carroll College, and by department chairs

February 4, 2004 Some of our faculty have decided to work for a regime change. They would move from the current collegial consultative model of relationships between the faculty and the office of the President and Board of Trustees to a more adversarial trade union model. “Us against them,” as it were.

I am sure it comes as no surprise to learn that this office and the Board of Trustees oppose a turn away from the time-tested collegial/consultative model of academic governance. A move toward a confrontational model will not increase the faculty’s role in governance, and will, over the long run, threaten the quality of academic life at Carroll for everyone, including students.

But the union campaign is underway. For the time being, relationships at the College will be regulated by the norms of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

As a Departmental Chair, you are deemed to be a “supervisor” within the meaning of the NLRA because of the significant influence you have over the compensation, promotion, tenure, and content of the work life of your colleagues in the [name of department].

Under the NLRA, the office of the President and the Board have an enforceable right to expect that, as a supervisor, you will respect our policy of opposition to a trade union regime.

We expect you not to participate in any activities designed to build support among the faculty for a trade union model of governance; We expect you not to make public statements supporting any move among the faculty toward the model; We expect you not to urge any of your colleagues in the Department, especially junior faculty, to support the unionization efforts on behalf of the AFTWisconsin (AFL-CIO).

If you are a member of the AFT-Wisconsin (AFL-CIO) or any other labor organization, you may continue that membership, or you may acquire such membership if you desire.

The office of the President and the Board of Trustees will enforce this obligation of loyalty, on the part of supervisors, through sanctions, if necessary, including termination of your employment with Carroll College, if such action is appropriate under the particular circumstances.

If you have any questions about this Loyalty Policy generally, or in application to specific circumstances, please contact Dr. Lynne Bernier, Vice President for Academic Affairs.

I hope we can continue collegial relationships notwithstanding some sharp disputes over matters of academic governance here at Carroll. It is my firm belief that these disputes can be accommodated through the current consultative model through which Carroll College can continue to deliver a quality higher education to all students.

Sincerely, Frank Falcone President

Student reaction to Falcone’s letter The Paper, an underground student newspaper at Carroll College, printed the Feb. 4 letter to department chairs from Frank Falcone, president of Carroll College, in the March 1 issue. The following are student reactions to this letter.

“It seems that the ‘collegial confrontation model’ has already turned confrontational.”

Senior Megan Dunn “I didn’t know he could do that. It sounds illegal to me. I didn’t think supervisors could prevent the formation of unions.”

Sophomore Nate Covert “I know what he said was legal, but I don’t agree with how private school presidents can boss around professors.”

Anonymous Freshman “I think the letter is very contradictory. [Falcone] said that the move would threaten the quality of academic life for students when, in all actuality, he is already doing that.”

Junior Rena Lettsome “The letter sounded like a commander talking to his troops before a battle.”

Senior Adam Czajka “From a business standpoint I support Frank Fal-

cone. The thought of a union is a long-term solution to a short-term problem. Falcone’s going to be gone in two years, which will bring in a new administration.”

Junior Andy Hardesty “How can he do what he does? How can he make $300,000 a year off of my money and still have the gall to behave the way he behaves?!”

Junior Ryan Black “I was amazed that he would actually send such a document to the respected professors of his college. I am ashamed that Frank is the president of the school I love and call home.”

Junior Krysta Kaczmarzak “I’m not sure that the unionization will benefit the faculty of the college, but I think it is kind of extreme that the college is pushing the right to terminate [department chairs] if they choose to join or support the union.”

Anonymous Senior

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Task force created to increase school diversity Ross Hutchinson Staff Writer

A new task force has been created at Carroll College to deal with the issue of diversity, or lack thereof, on campus. The task force—composed of many leaders at the college—has had two meetings so far, and is responsible for devising new ideas and programs to enhance diversity at Carroll.

Kate Herrick, dean of students and the chair of the task force, feels that by having this task force, the college will be able to formulate a more comprehensive plan when it comes to diversity.

Herrick acknowledges that it will take time to create a plan that will appeal to the majority and still accomplish their goals.

While there is no mission statement as of yet, Herrick wants the task force to listen to various views from different constituencies on campus. Herrick believes her role in the task force is to facilitate discussion with faculty, students and administration to see what they can do to enhance diversity on campus.

The major problem the task force addressed at the second meeting, Feb. 18, was the minority retention and graduation rates for Carroll. The graduation rate for minority students at Carroll in 1999 was 19 percent, with only six of the original 31 minority students graduating from Car-

roll. Questions were brought up as to why the retention rate for minority students at Carroll is so low. Issues like social climate and financial reasons were discussed by the group. Dolores Brown, the director of cultural diversity at Carroll, suggested that Carroll is not recruiting aggressively enough. She also pointed out that there is no financial aid assistance, programs or scholarships for minority students at Carroll.

When asked what she wants the task force to accomplish Brown said, “Identify diversity issues on Carroll’s campus and surrounding community, and then provide some realistic recommendations to the senior staff.

In a more inclusive environment, I want students to want to be here and be safe.”

People are glad that the task force has been started. Herrick said, “Personally, I feel it is the right thing to do, but I also think it is the practical thing to do. Students will be prepared to live and work in a diverse world.”

Junior Jennifer Ball-Sharpe, president of the Black Student Union, added, “I applaud the school’s brief efforts in the last few years, but it is time to step up now. Admission should be more aggressive, and there should be better recruiting.” She also wants the task force to increase minority student retention, since, she said, she sees so many valuable

Photo by Sarah Lasee

Dolores Brown, far left, points out the graduation rate of minority students during a Feb. 18 meeting of the diversity task force while, from left to right, junior Jennifer Ball-Sharpe, Jennifer Maney, Kate Herrick and Roger Smith listen in.

students leaving Carroll.

Also discussed at the Feb. 18 meeting were Carroll’s plans for an upcoming visit by 150 ninth grade students from Milwaukee.

The Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, of which

The day(s) the lights went out at Carroll College

Photo by Susan Brastad

Senior Andy Vander Wyst, junior Kevin Raduka and senior Morgan Weiner hang out in the hallway of the College Street apartments Feb. 22 during the last power outage.

Pete Seroogy News Editor

Recent power outages at Carroll College have resulted in both student upset and local business outrage. The first time, Jan. 24, power all over campus was lost.

Clocks stopped at 9 a.m. and did not start up again until about 12: 30 p.m.

“The reason campus lost power was because a flag pole by the Physical Plant fell onto power lines in the area, throwing out power to residence halls and most of campus,” stated Rick Jessen, director of campus services.

Perhaps the students living in New Hall were the most put out by the loss of power. When the power went out, the fire alarm

went off, waking up residents and forcing them outside. Jessen contends that the power and fire alarms are not directly related, but that when the power went out, the sensors in the fire alarms malfunctioned. “We are talking to the vendor who installed them, but are not sure that anything will be able to be done about it,” he said.

Some students’ electronics were ruined because of the power surge. Students whose electronics were plugged into the wall without a surge protector ran the risk of having that piece of equipment fried. For those who had this happen to them, Carroll College is suggesting that they make a claim with the school’s insurance company to be reimbursed. So

far, only two students have made claims.

Carroll didn’t have the only buildings that were affected.

Several local businesses have complained because they lost power that morning.

“Five or six nearby businesses have sent in claims to our insurance company,” Jessen stated.

These businesses are claiming that they weren’t able to conduct business because they had no power.

On Feb. 22 power went out again, but the only Carroll buildings that were affected were the Carroll Street Apartments and the Barstow building. This was completely unrelated to the Jan. 24 incident. The power grid in the area went out because a city transformer went down.

Carroll College is a member, organizes a program that allows these students to visit participating colleges one Saturday a month.

It will take some time for the diversity task force to make any

significant steps to achieving their goals, but they are glad the task force is up and running. If you’re interested in learning more about diversity at Carroll, you can contact any of the student organizations for minorities on campus.

Vandalism at Carroll Ross Hutchinson Staff Writer

Vandalism is becoming a main concern on the Carroll College campus. Random acts of destruction are becoming more and more commonplace.

At the beginning of last semester, there were many car windows broken at the north end of campus. Recently, there have more vehicles vandalized in the Otteson Theater and Steele/Swarthout Residence Halls parking lots. It was reported that people along the railroad bed were throwing rocks at parked vehicles. Police, however, were unable to make any arrests regarding those incidents.

While vandalism is a frequent crime on campus, there are things you can do to prevent yourself from becoming a victim. According to John Harbeck, the director of Campus Safety, who has been working at Carroll since 1979, every year they have problems with vehicles being damaged in campus parking lots. He has been told by the Waukesha Police Department that it is not unusual to have vehicles vandalized in Waukesha. In most cases, said Harbeck, the culprits are kids.

Last semester, students in a night class in the Barstow building observed young males throwing rocks in the parking lot. Some of the students yelled out of the windows at them and they ran off. After the class was let out, some of the students found the windows on their cars had been broken.

Harbeck said that they try to prevent everything and that they have increased their patrols in the parking lots. They have

also asked the Waukesha Police Department to increase their patrols in the area.

“What helps prevent crimes such as these, is when everybody is walking around campus and they are looking for something or someone that doesn’t seem right,” commented Harbeck.

“People that do things they normally shouldn’t do won’t do them for an audience.” He also said that you should walk with someone at night, or call Campus Safety for an escort.

Although most of the cars were just vandalized, theft is still an issue. Harbeck said, “When you look into your vehicles there shouldn’t be any valuables visible.” Things like CDs, money and jewelry should be placed out of sight from the outside. If you have a CD player in your car and the faceplate is removable, you should take it off.

If someone is caught vandalizing property, the police will be contacted and charges can be filed against the perpetrator. If the alleged perpetrator is a Carroll student, a student report would also be filed with Student Life, resulting in sanctions from the college’s judicial system.

Carroll College provides various programs to promote the safety of its community.

They have escorts available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and there are both self-defense and martial arts classes available to students on campus. Locks are changed if keys are lost so someone else can not use the lost key. Key cards have also been helpful because if one is lost, the college can deactivate that key and issue another.

Campus Safety also has an engraver to write your name on your valuables.

OPINION Thursday, March 4, 2004

The New Perspective

Point

Point / Counterpoint

There’s no limit when it’s your health at risk Jessica Pairrett Staff Writer

Packs of cigarettes already cost too much—or do they? At the beginning of February, four surgeon generals unleashed an idea to raise the cigarette tax in Wisconsin to $2.00 per pack. Along with that, they called for nationwide support for smokers to help them kick the habit.

The verdict on the proposed raise: A lifesaving, good idea.

Health benefits for raising the tax would be great. First, smoking is terrible for anybody’s health. I’ve known enough people who have developed cancer or other diseases from smoking. Add that to the one person who dies every eight seconds from tobacco and we could save many people. If the smoking tax gets a boost, this will discourage many people from continuing their unhealthy habits, and it will also discourage others, particularly the nation’s teens, from picking up the habit in the first place.

A higher tax would deter teenagers who do not work and who cannot afford to smoke. They may resort to sneaking them from their parents, sure, but what if their parents do not smoke? If it is not readily available and retailers still check identification cards for minors, smoking would be a harder habit to start, and thus be less of a problem for American teenagers. Some retailers might be lax on checking IDs, but overall, the problem could be curbed.

Even if you don’t smoke, consider the smokers around you—even those you don’t know. How is it going into a restaurant and having to choose between a smoking or nonsmoking section? Fewer smokers in public areas make it easier for the rest of us to breathe. Many people have asthma and other breathing difficulties from smoking so why put them, or other healthy citizens, through the awful smell and toxin invasion?

Besides the proposed increase in the cigarette tax benefiting the health of many people, this tax would also help the

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nation out fiscally. More than $25 million accrued from the smoking tax would be dedicated to the “quitline,” indicated Tommy Thompson, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary. This service would be directly funded by smokers for other smokers, instead of taxpayers’ “$75 billion in direct health care expenses” states an Associated Press FOXNews.com story.

In addition to saving lives and lowering taxpayer costs, other benefits exist to raising the cigarette tax. First, a lot of people support the tax increase.

Many think the existing tax on a pack of cigarettes is already too low so the increase would be a good thing. Second, the money taxpayers currently pay for the health care of ill smokers could be put to use in other ways, like improving our nation’s schools and preserving programs. Many public schools are in desperate need of funding for programs such as music, and increased teacher salaries, especially in order to keep teachers in poor area schools.

Another program that could be saved and improved throughout the nation is the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program that is taught in many public schools, often to students in fourth or fifth grade. By implementing a higher cigarette tax, a whopping $4 million dollars annually (one cent per pack of cigarettes sold) could be given to public schools. Also, with more money being put to use in public school funding, schools could afford to have influential speakers, such as Patrick Reynolds, who advocates for a smoke-free America, show up for an anti-tobacco assembly. With persuasive speakers such as these, children will be more inspired to quit and perhaps urge their smoking parents to kick the habit as well.

Although smokers may be inclined to protest the proposed cigarette tax increase, the tax would prove helpful for health and economic reasons, to name a few. We all know that smoking is bad for us and those around us—why not kick the butts? Why not save some lives and increase the tax?

Counterpoint

Raising taxes not the way to end smoking Sara Harvey Special to The New Perspective

Increase the tax on cigarettes? It’s no joke. This soon may become a reality for the state of Wisconsin. To some this may seem like a good idea—especially those that are fueled on fallacies about health care, teen smoking, and getting people to quit by raising the taxes. But here’s a reality check for everyone: Higher cigarette taxes are an incitement to black markets and smuggling, unrelated to health care and getting people to quit, and completely ineffective at reducing cigarette use by kids.

Increasing the tax on cigarettes sounds good and feels good. We think we’re doing the right thing by society. The unavoidable consequences of inflated prices will be a flourishing and pervasive black market.

It will be inevitable that we would begin yet another war like our endless and fruitless “war on drugs.” But instead of sending troops to destroy Colombian coca fields, we’ll be combing the back roads of Wisconsin for contraband cigarettes.

Evidence from New York City, which passed an enormous $1.50-a-pack tax increase in 2002, stated that one of the unintended consequences of raising the tax significantly was a surge in cigarette bootlegging and illegal trade in black markets. These issues got so bad for the city that the New York Police Department had to form a special unit to deal with cigarette smuggling across borders and bootlegging within the community.

An increase in smuggling means, first, a loss of control. As of now, established retailers are easier to police for illegal sales to minors. If an increase should occur, however, those retailers will be replaced by informal sales networks selling cigarettes to those of any age with cash. So much for a better handle on keeping minors away from cigarettes.

Secondly, giving people an incentive to smuggle will increase crime. Much as in the prohibition of alcohol, the city will continue to divide itself into “turf ” as

more gangs fight for territory. People who would never think about joining a gang might do so, or even form one of their own because of the lure of easy profit in bootlegging cigarettes.

Lastly, increasing the opportunity to smuggle takes away from government tax revenue. It’s an unintended consequence from raising taxes, but we don’t have to look very far to see that it’s a problem.

Interstate cigarette smuggling is already one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., spurred on by big differences in state tax rates—ranging from $1 per pack in Alaska to a few cents in Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentucky. Any further increase could raise smuggling to epidemic levels, like those that already exist in Canada, Europe and Asia, while state governments lose an estimated $16 billion in revenue as a consequence.

Increasing the tax on cigarettes is also completely unrelated to the reduction in health care costs and getting people to quit. It is just a feel good statement that was created to influence nonsmokers to support tax increase on such things.

There’s no truth to it at all if you think about it.

It’s the premature deaths of smokers that keep the health costs down and saves the government money. Since smokers rarely reach an elderly state, they are saving the government money that it would otherwise spend on Medicare, Social Security benefits and other expenses related with elderly care. Essentially, trying to get them to quit and keeping them alive longer would only waste money.

This brings up the second point of raising taxes to try and get people to quit.

The exterior of this statement proposes what seems to be a good idea: “Just makes cigarettes too expensive and smokers will come to the realization that this habit is too expensive and quit, right?” Wrong.

Trying to get a smoker to quit by simply telling them that it’s going to be more expensive is like trying to tell the average See Counterpoint Page 6

Americans are cannibalizing their own jobs

Phil Totten Staff Writer

According to a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, over the past five years, the United States has lost 2.9 million factory jobs, with Wisconsin accounting for nearly 90,000 of those jobs since 1999. Over that five-year period, the national job loss rate works out to about 1,600 jobs per day, seven days a week. There are a host of reasons why Americans are losing their jobs; some say we’ve become more efficient, others say world terrorism is to blame, I say we’ve become a nation of chiselers.

Take new car buying for example. The purchase price of a new car is generally established

after a brisk negotiation between the car buyer and salesperson.

When the haggling is over, we can’t wait to make sure our friends know about the big savings we received from our friendly dealer down the street. Consumer Reports magazine is even in on the action.

For a small fee, Consumer Reports will provide a car buyer a detailed report on how much a particular vehicle costs the dealership and offers tips to the buyer on how to seal the deal for a few bucks over dealer invoice. After all, only suckers pay retail.

And now we apply that same car buying mentality when shopping for everyday items like shampoo.

To secure our business, the Wal-Marts of America are knocking down prices 24/7. To offer such deals, giant retailers put tremendous pressure on suppliers to drive down wholesale prices. To keep retailers happy, manufacturers cut costs. And one of the quickest ways to cut costs is to outsource manufacturing to cheap, foreign labor. In the process, the middle-class Americans Wal-Mart is trying to pull in

as customers are the very same Americans affected by foreign labor. The tighter the American middle-class budget becomes, the more pressure retailers put on suppliers.

Retailers know shoppers are not happy to find that bag of puppy chow purchased yesterday

“I say we’ve become a nation of chiselers.”

is on sale today for a dollar less. So big box stores get into a bidding war to pull in shoppers with their never-ending, non-stop storewide sales. All the while, Main Street America goes bankrupt.

I used to make it a point to look for the Made in America label. I hardly bother now. Everything is either made in China or assembled in America with Chinese-made components. And you know something? This is just the beginning. India and China are hard at work to take over America’s lead in the high technology sector. If that happens, then what will Americans re-train

themselves to do? There already seems to be a glut of highly educated unemployed Americans these days. A good friend of mine is an industrial engineer who works for Navistar in Chicago.

His facility builds truck engines.

A while back we were talking about the current employment situation. He said, “Tell your kids not to go into manufacturing.” My friend sets up outsourcing shops in Canada. He doesn’t like it one bit. But that’s what the paying public demands these days.

I was in the Grafton ShopKo the other day and overheard two women calculating between them how many pennies per ounce separated two bottles of shampoo. We want the best deal, and we don’t want to spend a penny more than necessary. Good grief!

Put one of the bottles in your cart and move on to the next aisle. Is it that important?

We want high-paying American jobs, but we’re not willing to spend the money on the items produced by those jobs. We’re no longer willing to spend $60 for an American made tool or kitchen appliance. So U.S. manufacturers

find low-wage workers in China and Mexico to produce $25 cordless drills and toaster ovens.

Sure, the consumer is happy, but I’ll bet the unemployed worker from Milwaukee Electric Tool or The West Bend Company combing the classifieds for work sure doesn’t see it that way.

Last month, Tower Automotive in Milwaukee announced it was sending 500 jobs to Mexico.

Tower builds truck frames. But apparently DaimlerChrysler can now get a better deal on Dodge Ram truck frames in Mexico than Milwaukee. So now the owner of that new Dodge Ram has a few extra dollars in his pocket, while the former Tower workers have empty pockets.

The American worker and the American consumer are trapped in a vicious cycle. Consumers aren’t happy until they’ve squeezed all the snot from Lincoln’s nose. And American manufacturers can no longer compete without the world’s cheap labor force. As long as American consumers expect rock-bottom prices, American consumers are going to continue eating away at American jobs. We can’t have it both ways.

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The New Perspective

Our Perspective

Senioritis setting in?

It’s 11:30 on a Tuesday night. You have a history paper due tomorrow. So, do you write it? You could, but, gee, Conan O’Brian’s coming on. Or there’s an e-mail you desperately need to answer. Or your friend’s throwing a party, everyone’s going out to the bars, or you really wanted to finish reading that article in Cosmo.

The excuses vary, but the scenario should sound eerily familiar to a certain portion of the students on campus—the seniors. It’s second semester, and senioritis is rampant on campus.

Is senioritis a malady that afflicts everyone and should be pardoned with a little sympathy and understanding? Or is it a dangerous problem that jeopardizes a student’s chances with graduate schools and future careers?

Well, there’s no denying that skipping countless classes, not turning in homework or papers, and spending numerous hours on AIM when you should be studying can be detrimental to your GPA. Putting in half the effort in classes that would have enthralled you earlier in your

college career seems ridiculous, especially when you consider the amount of money you or your parents are paying for your education. Not to mention the fact that going out several times a week means spending more money. Money that probably could be put to more…well, constructive uses.

Then there’s the question of creating bad habits. If you start putting off important tasks now, are you going be proactive in searching for a job or graduate school? Are you going to work on your résumé or catch a rerun of I Love Lucy? Are you going to check the job listings online or go out drinking on a weeknight?

It will be harder and harder to make the right decisions in those departments if you’ve developed a habit of procrastinating.

On the other hand, most seniors have worked like slaves for the last 3½ years to get to this point. Juggling one or more jobs, extracurricular activities, family, friends, a social life and your classes can be frustrating, to say the least. Surely seniors deserve a little downtime to spend with their friends before they graduate. After all, in a

few months they won’t see each other in the MDR or the PIT every day. Now is the time to create lasting memories and to relax. Seniors should be planning a great spring break, or going to Mulligan’s for Senior Night with their friends. After all, in a few months, the real world and all its responsibilities and restrictions set in. Why shouldn’t seniors enjoy a little free time now?

Seniors need to strike a balance between their responsibilities and last chances. Go have fun with your friends; go to Senior Night at Mulligan’s (or wherever else it may be held), go sing karaoke with your buds at some podunk bar, go to Mexico for Spring Break, throw an awesome graduation bash. Above all, have fun but be sure to write that Senior thesis paper before you start celebrating; a forty page paper may actually take about two to four weeks to research and write.

And if all this doesn’t work, keep this in mind: You could always be the infamous fifth year “super senior,” although that will cost you more money and time than you probably have.

Old Fart’s Corner

Hi-tech equals high stress

Steve Van Dien Staff Writer

Every night, a burning question sears my soul: Why can’t I turn on the TV? I grab the remote, push a button and nothing happens. So I push another. Zilch. One more time, one more button—ah, there’s a screen.

It’s blank, but at least it’s a screen. Maybe if I hit this button, too—eureka! Anna Nicole in living color—ooorgh . . .

Where’s the channel changing button?

While I’m searching for it, here’s another sizzling query: Why do the turn-on buttons seem to change every night?

It can’t be my exhaustion, after a long day of fourth-semester Spanish, Expository Writing and Human Genetics. Or those three or four Coronas.

Nope. I have the same trouble when I’m daisy-fresh and judge-sober. We OFs simply have to be dragged, howling like dying dinosaurs, into the hightech age.

Now, I can handle some moderately high-tech machines.

I mastered the microwave oven, after several attempts. SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) forgave me for the first one, during which I pushed too many wrong buttons and the kitchen blew up.

But OFs prefer their machinery simple. I hate wasting

thought on devices that require a 100-page instruction manual— even if I can understand it.

That’s why I loved my electric typewriter, which I used through high school and my long-ago UW-Waukesha years. It was simplicity itself.

No correction ribbons or other frills. Just roll in the paper, hit the “On” switch and go. It even had a certain charm, with all those Liquid Paper splotches.

Then my mother gave me an electronic typewriter. Supposedly, you could program it to print stuff like your name and address, since doing so yourself is so debilitating. But the instructions didn’t tell me how, because I don’t read Aramaic.

Lately I’ve made more progress. I can turn a word processor on, select a new file, write something and even save it to a floppy disc.

When I learned, however, that Human Genetics requires a Power Point presentation, I had a seizure.

Fortunately, SWMBO works for a technology firm. After I left the hospital, she gently led me through Power Point’s dark mysteries. Eventually, I copied four pictures off the Internet and inserted them into the presentation.

Of course, SWMBO had to size the pics. And let’s not get started on the (expletive deleted) scanner . . .

I cherish Sophia, my 1992 Chevy Beretta. She is blessedly simple. You crank her windows open or shut. You can’t confuse the windshield wiper switch with anything else. And the cassette player works as it should: You put the tape in on the side you want to listen to, then turn it over to hear the other.

Sophia, alas, makes frequent visits to the car surgeon, leaving me with SWMBO’s ’96 Geo

Prizm.

I have never entered this car without wondering whether I’ve wandered onto the bridge of the Enterprise. Carroll’s entire math department couldn’t count the control panel buttons. Pushing them requires both guesswork and courage, because you never know what’s going to happen. I long for the day when I find the right button to open the window I want open, without also activating warp speed.

Until last week, I didn’t know the Prizm had a cassette player. Then I noticed a tiny slit amid the button bunches.

“Is that a cassette player?” I asked SWMBO, who was driving, and whose casual command of every button leaves me breathless.

“Yep,” she said.

I pulled out one of my favorite cassettes, which SWMBO slid into the slit.

“Which side?” I asked.

“Doesn’t matter.”

“Huh?” “When it finishes playing one side, it plays the other.”

“You don’t have to take it out?”

“Nope.”

Now, I mused, this is something useful. Then I wanted to find a particular song.

I hit forward, backward, and every other button near the player. I pulled the cassette out, turned it over, tried again. Nada.

“Just let it play through,” SWMBO purred. “It’ll play what you want, eventually.”

I’m a patient guy. But when the cassette player decides it’ll play what I want when it wants to, I call for rebellion.

Well, OFs accept what they can’t change. And I’ve accepted a simple fact: With space-age technology, I’m dumber than dirt.

Now, will somebody help me pull my foot out of the TV?

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Letters to the Editor Kudos to Phil’s recognition Feb. 21, 2004 I just want to commend Phil Totten for an excellent spotlight on Gregg Wandsneider. I do not personally know Gregg, but I’ve always admired him from afar. Some days I see him walking around campus, and I am just blown away by his ability to attract people to him. There is almost always a buddy with him, and now I see why. His personality and outlook on life is just inspiring and contagious.

Being hard-of-hearing with

a moderate to severe hearing loss, I sometimes feel different and alone, but Gregg has renewed in me a new sense of purpose. He has shown me how to approach my handicap with a positive attitude. I can only hope to touch as many lives as he has.

Gregg, you’re my hero and role-model. Thanks for showing me a better way to live my life. Keep working hard, because you’ll go very far in life. You already have.

Respectfully yours, Lauren Radonski

Mars trip not worth it Lindsay Christianson Special to The New Perspective

Support, as well as uncertainty, has been looming in the air recently with President Bush’s plan to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020, and eventually to Mars. To support this initiative, according to the Milwaukee JournalSentinel, President Bush claims that $1 billion in new funding over the next five years will be all it takes, with $11 billion more that will be shifted from other NASA programs that are either unsuccessful or outdated.

The problem with Bush’s new space program initiative is that the plan has unrealistic goals regarding the money that doesn’t seem to be there for the long term; not to mention that it’s almost impossible to carry out. Think about it—did Bush consider the cost of fuel to support this initiative? Looking back in history, the Apollo cost about $25 billion to fuel. That was over 40 years ago—think about how much that is in today’s dollars.

After looking at Bush’s proposed figures to carry out this plan, it doesn’t seem viable. The money for this space program could be used for national issues rather than space voyage, which seems so unrealistic. The U.S. would be better off throwing the money out of the window if this plan were to be approved.

Issues such as national healthcare, education, environmental issues and many more seem more worthy of the effort and the future of our children than going to Mars. For example, there are 43 million citizens with no health insurance and many more with partial coverage and long-term care issues, which are huge healthcare issues in America compared to other industrialized nations. Healthcare is a human right and should be acknowledged as a main concern for Americans.

Another point to make

is Bush’s timing for proposing spaceflight plans. Our nation has serious social and economic concerns regarding national security and the crisis in Iraq.

With all the issues and threats to the United States, this should be the last issue that President Bush is concerned with. President Bush has his priorities all wrong. He needs to clean up the mess he has created before spending federal money carelessly. Federal money should be spent on national security efforts. Also, President Bush wants to clean up Iraq. What our country needs to focus on is the rebuilding of Iraq and getting our soldiers out of there.

The advantages of going to Mars in the future are…none that can clearly be seen. Unless, spending an enormous amount of money needlessly for exploration counts.

When considering the timing of this proposed initiative—when Bush is focusing on re-election—it seems all too convenient and familiar. A president who has shown no prior interest in the space program amazingly threw out this proposal from almost nowhere. President Bush was silent on the space program during his 2000 campaign. This just may be a plot to spark up support for him in the upcoming election. He does have a lot of competition and many people are less supportive of our President, so perhaps he is hoping that maybe this new initiative will increase his support.

This certainly isn’t uncommon to Republicans who are running for a second term reelection. The familiarity of Bush’s speech is so close to Kennedy’s famous Apollo speech that it’s scary.

After hearing the issues and concerns over the Mars initiative, it seems too unrealistic, costly, and his priorities are not sound.

In the future, we will see if there is support for this plan or whether Americans will feel that the money could be used elsewhere.

Cigarette: No new taxes Counterpoint From Page 5

person they need to stop eating because the prices are going up at the local Pick N’ Save.

Lastly, the loss of police control, and the need by smokers to find alternative channels to purchase cigarettes, can and will increase youth availability to tobacco, countering any kind of prevention program. To put the teen smoking problem in perspective, 44 million adult consumers are being asked to pay higher prices for a perfectly legal product because retailers sell cigarettes to one million

kids, violating laws on the books in all 50 states. The way to keep cigarettes from kids is to enforce those laws. We should prosecute retailers who sell to minors, demand proof of age and prohibit vending machine sales where youngsters are the primary customers, not raise taxes in hopes it will help.

So let’s not blow smoke about the benefits of raising taxes. There are none. Cigarette tax increases will kill your community, your government and eventually your children. It’s time we come together and find a better way.

Thursday, March 4, 2004

The New Perspective

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Politically Speaking

Muzzle the hoops fans? over its just-as-rude rival.

Of course, the losers really are the rest of us that want to scream, yell and cheer, but who have real concerns that staying at home may be far better on the ears and blood pressure.

Not to mention the concern as to whether the little ones should have to hear such abusive, nasty language. I mean it’s not like you’re deciding to take the kids to an Eddie Murphy concert and Greg Rabidoux, Ph.D. accept that stuff as part of the Staff Writer “routine.”

Either way, the NCAA ComAgree? Disagree? Just wish your mission vows to be reviewing all roommate would make less noise possible actions to try and return in the morning? Let me know your views at grabido@cc.edu. Dr. Greg collegiate events back to what its Rabidoux is an assistant professor actual mission once was—the in the Department of Politics. idea that these events actually bring students closer together The next time you’re at a with the community-at-large, not college basketball game and the drive an F-bomb fueled wedge yahoo in back of you starts dropbetween sports enthusiasts of all ping the F-bomb on the coach ages. Just think what it would be and players of your beloved like if beer flowed freely at colschool, can you demand he/she legiate events. That’s as scary as, be removed? Can you press say, the idea that many charges and have Mr. modern sporting records or Ms. Potty-mouth could really just be a byarrested? If so, for what?

“The sporting goal now product of steroids and Are they just exercising other hormone-growth their constitutional right seems to be how rude, offensive substances. Heavens to of “free speech”?

Barry Bonds, perish the When you purchase and obnoxious one side thought. a ticket to attend any can be over it’s just-as-rude rival.”

Finally, I, of course, sporting event are there urge all my readers to any limits on your behavcome and enthusiastically ior? Watch any nationally televised Laker game (and aren’t Talk about being spoil-sports. cheer on their fellow student aththey all nationally televised?) and But I can’t say I can fault the letes. Just remember to employ you too can be treated to witness- underlying frustration that many the “Mom” standard. You know, ing the playful histrionics of “Fat school officials and alumni feel if your Mom was sitting next to Jack” Nicholson as he lets the while attending sporting events you, would you yell the stuff you referee know that his call wasn’t they may fondly and nostalgi- might be yelling if she wasn’t next “as good as it gets,” all while the cally remember one way, and is to you?

And make room for those NBC cameras are reverentially now becoming a wholly different sport.

The sporting goal now “committee” folks, they might capturing it on film.

But let’s face it, there’s seems to be how rude, offensive actually be watching part of the mugging for the camera done and obnoxious one side can be game, too. by a professional like “Jack the Joker,” and then there is just boorish, possibly illegal behavior of fans, many of them students who are fully letting the players, coaches, referees and even the poor mascots “have it” in the form of cursing, abusiveness and even personal threats—all done while under the assumed cover of crowd anonymity. Recently, I attended a UW-M hoops game and a set of student-fans near me spewed out a nearly non-stop string of obscenities to one player during every time-out that would have made a sailor blush.

However, some schools have vowed to capture such nonsense on their security cameras and identify the fan, even through all the face-paint and fright wigs, and impose certain “sanctions.”

Some private colleges have also recently enlisted “communication committees” to sit at the game and report on who said what and under which context.

Pet Peeves

Monumental blunders

Bear Milne Staff Writer

Accidents happen; it’s a fact of life. Milk gets spilled and people have to clean it up.

People can be offended, upset or even outraged. Yet it’s kind of ironic sometimes, and that’s what makes life interesting.

Diversity has been an issue nearly crucified on the Carroll College campus, and yet some people can’t acknowledge the history that’s here, right under our noses. They add more history to Carroll and to Waukesha and Wisconsin as a whole than this campus and its programs do. Well maybe.

The history of the effigy mounds located here on Carroll College has been cited and appeared in print within these very pages earlier this school year. Arguments have been made in the past, to no avail, to further acknowledge the location and importance of these ancient burial mounds. They are currently designated with a plaque, conveniently located atop the earthen structures.

People still walk over them, it happens; people are ignorant. It wasn’t until lately (the Rev. Humphreys’ era) that the mounds were fenced off for commencement ceremonies.

Fencing, larger signs or any other alternative to promoting the awareness of the historic locations has been met with little favoritism otherwise.

Things seem to function adequately as they are.

Then, last Tuesday, Feb. 25, sculpturing projects debuted in the morning rays and wind around campus. One such had been located atop one of the sacred mounds. Informed of the error, it was addressed by the parties responsible and moved, a thousand apologies appreciated, really, no sarcasm. I blame no one.

I simply find it sad that many people still don’t even know, what they are, where they are, and what they mean. Isn’t it a subject on the tour for all prospective students? The history of this state and city is in those mounds, of this country, the history of those before the white man, when diversity wasn’t even thought of. And yet every issue of this newspaper seems to present a diversity aspect, or problem, or misdirection.

The hearts are in the right places at Carroll, I firmly believe that. What the problem is, as always, is awareness, then understanding. Once one is aware, then he/she can begin to understand. Preaching and shrieking will avail nothing, yet one gets a release (sorry if my voicemail was problematic, Rev. Humphreys).

I do wish to thank the art department for their creativity and yearning to display their work before the student body; we need more support for the arts on campus. I did enjoy the fish, it was unique (as was the Jesus on the bench).

Bible Stories 101

Homosexuality versus the Bible

William Humphreys Staff Writer The Rev. William Humphreys is the chaplain for Carroll College.

With The Laramie Project come and gone on the campus stage, with the Massachusetts State Court advocating constitutional equality for heterosexual and homosexual partnerships, with San Francisco’s city government marriages of gay men and lesbian women, and with marriage rites for homosexuals heating up in the presidential campaigns, this could be as good a time as any for some reflections on what the Bible might have to say about it all.

Folks who take the Bible seriously, just as those who take

the Bible literally, will notice intercourse. Jude 7 lists the pun- than heterosexual in orientation.

The Biblical material indicates, these four things about the Bible’s ishment of eternal fire.

Readers unfamiliar with the indeed celebrates, that we are all references to homosexuality: (1) There are no gospel references discussion may want to suggest heterosexual, and, to the same to Jesus having anything at all to that these references are pretty extent, we all have the same interdo or say about homosexuality. clear and pretty tough to dis- est in the other sex, we all lust in (2) There are several references count, if one pays any attention our hearts, we all have to work to elsewhere in the Bible that deal in the first place to what the Bible keep our sexual desires in balance with the rest of life. But what we clearly with it. (3) Every clear says about anything.

And yet, it must be noted hear when we listen is that this is Biblical reference to homosexunot true of human life. ality condemns it. (4) These days, with And, perhaps most people talking more important to my argu“If we affirm that heterosexuality is freely about sexuality and ment which follows, personal interests and Biblical references to a gift from God, experience, it seems clear homosexuality are about let us affirm the same about to many attentive and some form of abuse of caring family members heterosexuality. homosexuality.” and friends that homoCheck some refersexuality does not equate ences if you wish. with manipulation, vioGenesis 19:1-11 tells the story of Lot’s hospital- that Biblical references to homo- lence, and other forms of abuse ity to strangers challenged by the sexuality are all about the physical any more than heterosexuality men of Sodom. Judges 19:22-30 behavior of people understood to does. While advocates for men’s tells a similar and more violent be heterosexual. To finish the sen- rights, women’s rights, heteroversion of Genesis 19. Accord- tence then, it is helpful to under- sexual rights and homosexual ing to Leviticus 18:22, it is an stand that the Bible identifies as rights have wide ranging agendas, abomination, and Leviticus 20: sinful, abominable and evil, the most—not all, but most—would 13 says they shall be put to death. homosexual activity of hetero- agree that manipulation, violence I Kings 14:24, 15:12, and 22:46 sexual people. Simultaneously, and forms of abuse are not to and II Kings 23:7 refer to male there appears to be no indication be tolerated. And we’re noticing temple prostitutes. In the New that the language of the Bible more and more that couples of Testament, Romans 1:26 talks of reflects any understanding that the same gender are living happy, degrading passions and unnatural people can be anything other productive, caring and commit-

ted lives. Lesbian women and gay men contribute to nurturing families and viable communities; they can be religiously faithful and politically patriotic.

If we affirm that heterosexuality is a gift from God, let us affirm the same about homosexuality. If we affirm that living in loving, caring, committed relationships is a good thing for heterosexual partners, let us affirm the same for gay men and lesbian women. If we affirm that “the state” has any legitimate interest in the gender of parties to a marriage, let us affirm that the state has the same interests for heterosexual and homosexual relationships alike.

It is Biblically consistent to argue that homosexuality is wrong for heterosexual people.

It is also Biblically consistent to affirm that homosexual relationships for homosexual people are good opportunities to live out the love and care of God in real ways in this real world. The same, too, for loving, caring, committed heterosexual partnerships.

God bless us all as we work on the faithful expressions of who we are.

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Health Happenings

Have a heart, learn to keep it healthy Tim Dorneman Staff Writer Do you have a health or fitness question? Write in and “Ask an Expert.” E-mail your questions to tdornema@cc.edu. Tim Dorneman is the Recreation Coordinator and an assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science at Carroll College.

You may not realize it, but President Bush named February American Heart Month. The fact you are sitting here proves your ticker is still working. While you may have missed American Heart Month, your cardiovascular health is still an important issue. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is still the leading cause of death in America and stroke is our nation’s third-leading cause of death.

In order to maintain a healthy heart, it is helpful to be aware of the risk factors for heart disease. Normally, heart disease risk factors are divided into two categories: primary risk factors and secondary risk factors. The four primary risk factors for heart disease are smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and physical inactivity. Secondary risk factors include diabetes, obesity, stress, race, age, family history and high-fat diets.

If you take a second to think about all these risk factors, one thing that should jump out at you is that most of these risk factors are modifiable. Only race, age, diabetes and family history are out of our control; these are simply cards that we are dealt in life.

Now, before we explore the other risk factors in more depth, let’s look at how heart disease develops. One of the most common mechanisms in the development of heart disease is narrowing of the arteries caused by plaque build-up, technically termed arteriosclerosis. When plaque builds up and decreases or prevents blood flow in the coronary arteries (the blood vessels that supply the heart) it is referred to as coronary artery disease.

Common treatments for coronary artery disease are coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty.

Personally, I would prefer not to have my arteries surgically cleaned out or my ribs cracked open and my arteries bypassed using blood vessels harvested from other parts of my body. I would rather work at preventing heart disease from developing while I still have that option.

Our diet is one of our key prevention tools. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends that less than 30 percent of the calories we consume should come from fat. Of that 30 percent, no more than one third of your fat intake should come from saturated fats.

Saturated fats are solid at room temperature and are associated with increasing low density lipoprotein (LDL or bad cholesterol) levels.

The risk associated with high-fat diets and high LDL cholesterol levels stems from

damage to blood vessels that can occur from repeated collisions of LDL cholesterol with blood vessel walls. Plaque build-up is a byproduct of this blood vessel damage. When you go to the doctor and have a cholesterol test done, try to find out your LDL, high density lipoproteins (HDL, or good cholesterol), and total cholesterol numbers. Generally, total cholesterol levels should be kept below 200 mg/dL, although health professionals are beginning to recommend that total cholesterol levels should be kept even lower. LDL levels should be kept below 150 mg/dL and the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol should be less than five to one.

Two ways of improving your cholesterol levels are through your diet and through exercise.

Exercise helps to decrease LDL levels and increase HDL levels.

However, sometimes diet and exercise do not completely solve the problem. In these cases, medicines can be prescribed to help bring cholesterol levels under control.

High blood pressure can accelerate damage done to blood vessels by causing fat and cholesterol to collide with vessel walls at a faster and harder rate. These accelerated collisions lead to more damage, which in turn leads to increased plaque build-up. Blood pressure readings of 140/90 are considered borderline high.

However, don’t panic if you have one reading of 140/90 or higher, because high blood pressure is not diagnosed from one single reading. High blood pressure is determined from a series of readings of 140/90 or higher. If you experience a high reading, do not jump to any conclusions, but have your blood pressure checked regularly to see if a trend develops.

Smoking is considered to be the biggest health hazard in the United States. The death rate of heavy smokers is two times higher than non-smokers. Smoking increases heart disease risk by increasing aneurysm risk, causing vasoconstriction of arteries and accelerating the development of arteriosclerosis due to the effects of nicotine and carbon monoxide inhaled from cigarette smoke.

Stress is another risk, and one that is easily taken for granted.

Our bodies’ basic response to stress is the fight or flight mechanism. Your body reacts to stress by either preparing to stand up to the stressor or running from it.

Either way, we begin to mobilize fat for the energy needed to fight or flee the stress. When exercise stresses the body, mobilizing fat is a good thing because fat can be converted to make energy.

However, your body doesn’t distinguish whether the stress comes from exercise or getting into an argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Either way, the fight or flight mechanism is initiated and the body begins to mobilize fat.

If we rarely are under stress or can deal with stress well, this is not a big deal; however, most of See Health Page 10

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Home away from home Andrea Janey Special to The New Perspective

Shower shoes. Roommates.

Forgetting your ID to get into the building. Plastic mattresses.

Oh, the joys of living in a college residence hall! Each year nearly 53 percent of all full-time students at Carroll College seek residence on campus, each for various reasons.

Freshmen are required to live on-campus or live with their families and commute. Ryan Ringhand, director of residential programming, said there are several reasons why restrictions are placed on freshmen.

“One of the biggest reasons we require freshmen to live on-campus is to help students to become more acclimated,” Ringhand said. “It creates a sense of ownership and makes it easier to become part of the college community.” He also said living on-campus helps to build relationships with other students who live on-campus.

Many students think that Carroll’s requirement for freshmen to live on-campus is a good idea. Freshman Mark Weitkuant feels it’s a great way to get more familiar with the campus, and for others like freshman Katrin Schulz-Berg, living on-campus is even more than that.

“It’s more expensive to live here than it would be for me to commute from home, but I love it,” Schulz-Berg said. “I can do pretty much what I need to do when I need it, without having to report to anyone. It’s also more convenient,” she said, especially when it comes to

computer labs.

Freshmen aren’t the only people who like living on campus. Juniors Sam Bowers and Jenni Roth can both attest to this. Bowers, a resident assistant in the Bergstrom complex, said he would enjoy living on-campus even if he weren’t a Resident Assistant. “I like living here because I get to feel closer to the community than if I commuted,” he said. “I think I’d feel like an individual from another country.”

For Roth, living on campus is more a matter of convenience than anything else. “I don’t have to pay for gas to get here every day. I can roll out of bed and run to class,” she said. “Most of my friends are here, so we’re all in the same place, which is really nice, and we don’t have to worry about paying bills to live here, everything’s taken care of for us,” she added.

While many students live in residence halls, nearly 10 percent of students living on-campus live in the campus-owned apartments. Senior Katie Whitman decided to live in the apartments for her final year at Carroll.

“It’s nicer living in the apartments,” she said. “It’s quieter and there’s more space. I really like living there, even if it is farther to go. I think the only downside is that there’s no one to clean up like there are in the halls.”

While many students choose to live on-campus, 47 percent of Carroll students commute. Senior Emily Koss lived in Swarthout Hall for two years before deciding to move

Soaring to new heights

off-campus, and she said she really enjoys it. “I think it’s a great transition for after I graduate,” she said. “I still live with roommates, which is good, but at the same time, I’m still on my own.”

With the housing reassignment process taking place April 5 and 6, students are starting to consider where they want to live next year. For some students, deciding where they want to live entails thinking about which residence hall they want to live in, or who they want to live with, but for others like junior John Cornwell, deciding where to live next year had very little to do with the residence halls.

Cornwell decided to move offcampus for his senior year for several reasons.

“I’m sick of the hassles of moving in and out of the halls every time they close,” Cornwell said. “I also don’t like the fact that so many people have such disrespect for others on the floor.

I’ll be gaining more privacy and space, and, in the end, I think living off-campus is going be cheaper than the halls and having to buy a food plan.”

While freshmen are required to live on-campus, many students decide to return to campus life throughout their four years.

Some students consider the benefits of living on-campus to be a great thing, but others only live on-campus for so long, and enjoy commuting. Each living arrangement has advantages and disadvantages, but no matter where a student chooses to live, college life is a memorable time for everyone.

Photo by Nathan Brunner

Lt. Col. Jim Wates gives a speech on how “leadership traits and a liberal arts education prepares you for success” Feb. 23 during Career Day. Wates earned his bachelors degree in business administration from Carroll in 1981 and his masters in U.S. history from Norwich University in 2002.

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Thirty-four years of joy in the classroom Elisa Neckar Features Editor

When Professor of Theater Arts David Molthen—or “Ol’ Dave,” as many of his students know him—retires this spring, he’ll be completing 34 years of service to Carroll College, and 45 years as a member of Carroll’s community.

When Molthen first stepped onto the campus on Sept. 13, 1959, it was as a freshman. A triple major in speech, English and drama with a minor in secondary education, Molthen studied at Carroll under Dorothy Sainsbury-Steinmetz, a highly acclaimed professor and director.

He later went on to attend graduate school at Marquette University in Milwaukee before eventually returning to Carroll in 1970.

Molthen’s retirement and the pending departure of Associate Professor of Theater Arts Charles Erven this spring will be marked by a several days-long celebration of their work. Molthen lists parties, keynote speakers and workshops as parts of the event.

There will also be tours to Ten Chimneys, the home of Alfred Lunt and his wife, Lynne Fontanne. Lunt was a Carroll graduate, and he and Fontanne were

two of the United States’ most renowned actors in the first half of the 1900s. Participants in the celebration will also lay a wreath on the grave of May Nickell Rankin, Wisconsin’s first theater professor, and Carroll’s first female graduate and oratory professor from 1900 to 1931.

The celebration will also feature picnics and luncheons, a talent show of storytellers, singers and dancers, and speeches by elected alum, Erven and Molthen.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are expected to be in attendance.

Molthen speaks with great pride of the alumni that will be returning to Carroll for the retirement celebration. He can list “ministers, lawyers and teachers.

They continue on a daily basis our work.” He added, “It’s amazing.

Our students populate the staffs and the talent of almost every Milwaukee theater organization.

It’s almost a franchise!” He can also can cite a UW-Milwaukee fine arts publicist, two professors at Marquette and the managing director of the Sunset Playhouse who have been trained in theater at Carroll.

The alumni are part of the reason that Molthen has confidence that the theater department will go into the future with a con-

Photo by Sarah Lasee

Dave Molthen points to a photo of the first play he directed at Carroll in 1971, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

tinuing high quality of instruction. “I am confident,” he said, “that the department will move forward with the same quality in the future, with its broad-based alumni networks and affiliations, strength of professors, commitment of department faculty and the support the community and student body in a liberal arts setting have given us.”

Thirty-four years at one school is a long time to build memories. The proudest moment for Molthen came in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, in 1996. Carroll’s theater students

performed for government and embassy officials there, making Carroll the first United States college or university production company to tour Honduras. Their performances included The Apple Tree, a Broadway show in English, as well as four short works in Spanish. United States Ambassador William Pryce called their work the “finest in the country.”

Molthen also speaks with pride of the 1985 performance of Working, which Milwaukee Journal theater critic Damien Jaques called the “finest piece of theater in Milwaukee at present.”

But that fine work had a price: Molthen went for three days without sleep while Working was produced. “I damn near killed myself,” he chuckled.

Among the dozens upon dozens of other productions that Molthen has overseen, he can name a few favorites, like Purlie (1978) and 1776 (1973). But have there been any flops among all those productions? “I don’t believe in educational theater you have flops. You have pieces that don’t please…but sometimes you must compromise the artistic vision with the professor’s teaching,” Molthen said.

Over the course of his career here, Playgoers (THE 101) has been Molthen’s favorite class to teach. He has usually taught one or two sections per semester of the course, which is designed to develop standards of theater appreciation through performance field trips, reading plays, and oral and written theater criticism. Molthen estimates that he’s taken 5,000 Carroll students in a total of 50 or 60 sections on field trips to view theatrical works.

Molthen was also involved with the eight years of planning required to build Otteson Theatre See Molthen Page 10

Photo by Sarah Lasee

Photo courtesy of Morgan Weiner

‘Under the Sea’

Photo courtesy of Morgan Weiner

Carroll students take part in various events during this year’s Winter Carnival Feb. 23-27.

Top left: Freshman Jeremiah Webb won second place, and $50, at the talent show Friday.

Top right: From left to right, juniors Leah Passman and Amy Schollmeier, freshman Carolyn Hahn and sophomore Kristin Strzyzewski compete for money at the Carroll version of the Pyramid Game Saturday night.

Bottom left: Senior Adam Azajka bobs for snowballs during the carnival games Feb. 23 in the MDR. Photo courtesy of Sarah Boyle

Bottom right: Carroll students pack the P.I.T. to watch Friday’s talent show.

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Grand plans for future

Drew Shulman

STUDENT

SPOTLIGHT Josefine Ejebjork Staff Writer

If you know a student or student organization you would like to see spotlighted in the “Student Spotlight” column, e-mail eneckar@cc.edu with your nomination.

It’s certainly not the normal way a college student spends summer break: Senior Drew Shulman spent the summer of 2002 solving math problems. His work with magic squares during that summer eventually became a research paper that is now waiting to appear in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics. Shulman can claim to be the first Carroll College student to have a research paper published in the mathematics field while still an undergraduate.

The idea for the project originated at a meeting with Ciphers, the math club at Carroll. Ciphers is a problem-solving group that meets on Fridays to work on different problems from mathematical journals. At one such meeting, one of the problems concerned magic squares.

A magic square is a grid system in which each number appears exactly once, and the sum of all rows, columns or diagonals must be the same. The simplest magic square consists of one square with the number one in it. They can be simple one by one squares or complex ones with as

many smaller squares as desired.

Magic squares are classified as part of the field of recreational math or “fun math.” It is unclear where they originated, though the first record of them is from China around 3,000 years ago.

Shulman and David Feil, assistant professor of mathematics, realized that they could generalize the problem and “take it to new heights,” as Shulman explained it. This encouraged them to do some more research. They found that there were no previously published records of the same problem they were considering. They decided to explore the subject more, and their research eventually turned into a paper called “Ksets at Nth Order Magic Squares.”

In April 2003, Shulman was able to present his work at the annual meeting for the Wisconsin section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Feil is very pleased to have worked with Shulman, “It is always a joy. Drew is an enthusiastic student. He wants to know the answer” said Feil. He also remarked that Shulman’s willingness to look outside the classroom to seek answers was the key to their success in the project on magic squares.

“He asks the right questions,” Feil said.

Even though Shulman’s research and the results do not lead to any major breakthroughs in the world of mathematics, the process of researching and the

outcome of it is more important to him, personally. The publication of his work will help in the future when Shulman goes to graduate school.

“To have something published as an undergraduate is a big plus,” Feil said.

“It is nice to have under my belt,” agreed Shulman.

Shulman, a senior math education student, hopes to get into graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We find out in a few weeks,” he said. He chose UW-Madison because of its math program on number theory, which is the study of integers.

Shulman is currently planning to earn his doctorate so that he can become a college professor.

Although he originally wanted to become a high school teacher, he changed his mind as he became exposed to classes at Carroll. Shulman explained, “The material is more interesting [at the college level] and the students are more interested because they are there because they want to, not because they have to.”

Shulman grew up in Elkgrow, Ill., and math has interested him since his early years in school. “I just had a knack for it,” he said. It was not until his last years of high school that he knew he wanted to teach. That became his focus when he applied for college.

“The math department is wonderful, good people and good professors,” he said. Now that he is student teaching, Shulman says he misses attending classes. This semester, his last at Carroll College, Shulman is student teaching pre-calculus and algebra at Brookfield Central High School, under Ron Blaha.

Even though Shulman is in his senior year, Carroll might see him back on campus again, next time as a professor.

“I have thought about it,” said Shulman. “I would if I had the opportunity.”

Person on the Street

What’s the best (or worst) lie you’ve ever told?

Kristen Weber & April Karlen Graphics Editor & Layout Assistant

“I start on the [offensive line] for the Carroll College Pioneers.”

“I was talking to a girl and told her that I had to hang up because my dog was choking, and I made dog noises.”

Senior Kris Vanderkooy

“When I was little, I said I didn’t eat the cookie with the cookie in my mouth.”

Freshman Kristine Bakker

“I tell telemarketers my parents died in a car accident a couple of days ago and cry.”

Junior Mindi Mellen

Sophomore Bret Wapotish

“I was on a bad date once and I told the guy I had a headache so he would take me home.”

Freshman Jessica Capek

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“I told a scary guy I couldn’t give him my number because I was Amish and didn’t have a phone.”

Junior Catreena VanDeMark

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in 1976. Though Molthen says his colleague at the time, Wayne L. Christensen, foresaw what was needed for the theater, he was a bit “temperamental.” Molthen continued, “My diplomacy earned what he envisioned.” The groundbreaking theater became a model for other universities, including one in Costa Rica.

Molthen has some loose plans already made for after his retirement. “I want to write,” he said. “God, I have the stories. I have seen the world, and have enjoyed it.”

Molthen has traveled extensively in Latin America, working with a variety of countries’ theater programs, and was also was given an unprecedented chance to experience the theatre of Cuba during last school year. After his retirement, he hopes to travel back to Central America and to Cuba. “I will live with people, do what I can to help them develop,” he added.

The last 34 years have brought some nice surprises for Molthen. He can list some highlights: certain awards and nominations, and his experiences in Cuba and other Latin American countries. And most surprising?

The fact that “I learned to speak Spanish fluently!”

Among those awards that Molthen has been honored with are the Benjamin F. Richardson Award, a faculty award for teach-

ing, the Cordelia Pierce Hedges Chair in Theatre Arts and the 2003 John Bailey Award. There are many more—one whole wall in the front corner office in Otteson Theatre where Molthen has worked since 1979 is lined with plaques and honors.

Besides the abundance of awards, there’s something else in Molthen’s office that countless students have remarked upon—the carvings, pictures and statues of chickens. So, why all the chickens?

“We were tenant farmers,” Molthen explained of his early family life. Every weekend during his childhood, Molthen and his mother, father and brother would dress 50 to 100 chickens, inspect and weigh eggs, then deliver them to estate houses. Molthen feels that these experiences have given him the ability to converse easily with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds, from farmers to mayors.

“It gave me an amazing range of sensitivity,” he remarked. He also added cheerfully that he believed himself to be “feisty as a chicken.”

Hundreds and hundreds of students do and will remember Molthen for that feistiness long after he has retired. It is echoed in his teaching philosophy: “There should be joy in the classroom.”

There’s no doubt that in the last 34 years, Molthen has brought joy to countless students in his classrooms.

Heart disease risks Health From Page 8

us encounter stresses of all sorts repeatedly throughout the day.

The problem with repeated or chronic stress is that mobilized fat does not always make the full return trip to your fat store if it is not used. Fat that does not get back to the fat stores has to settle somewhere, and if fat is settling in the blood vessels, then plaque build-up increases and the vessels become increasingly narrow.

The last risk I’d like to mention is obesity. The concern here is the carrying of excess weight.

Interestingly enough, where we carry our extra weight can have a profound effect on heart

disease risk. If you carry your excess weight around your waist (“apples”) you are at higher risk for developing heart disease than people who carry their weight in their hips (“pears”). The key is the proximity to the heart. If fat is mobilized like we mentioned in regard to stress, apples run the risk of fat not returning to the original fat stores and settling closer to the heart.

In the last issue, I discussed the importance of physical activity. In the next issue we will examine the benefits and guidelines of cardiovascular exercise and how regular cardiovascular exercise helps to reduce the risk of heart disease.

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‘The Laramie Project’ simple yet complex Jill Ridenour Staff Writer

It’s difficult to sit stone-faced during a theatrical performance, especially when remnants of Hair still linger in the mind, and one sits searching for the same kind of life and energy that consumed the stage not more than four months ago. It’s difficult to do this, but it is possible.

The Laramie Project, which took place Feb.26-29 in the Otteson Theatre, is based on the true account of a 21-year-old college student from the University of Wyoming who was beaten and left to die in freezing cold temperatures. Personal interviews of the townspeople of Laramie, Wyo. were conducted and put together by the Tectonic Theatre Project.

The company visited Laramie six times to talk to the people of the town and within a year-and-ahalf, the play was finished.

As an audience member, you want to hate this play. You want to turn your back on it because you knows it’s true. It’s not another make-believe drama or classic tale that can simply be disregarded.

What this piece does is make you look into a reality that perhaps you would otherwise like to avoid.

The underlying theme of the entire play, and also the main reason the media went after this event with such force, is the fact that Matthew Shepard was not just a college student from Laramie, but he was also a homosexual. Hate crimes are a big issue in today’s society, but in concurrence with one of the characters in the performance, nearly all murders are hate crimes. However, it is when a certain minority group in particular is targeted that hate crimes get national news.

This piece would not have worked with just any actors, and

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Seniors Jeremy Nicklolai, Brian Hartman and Janelle Schmidt perform in The Laramie Project Feb. 26-29.

when one sits and watches the performance in its entirety, one can see why director Tom Bruno picked these particular actors to play their specific parts. While all of the actors were simply astounding in their challenging and great variety of smaller and larger parts, there were a few that stuck out.

Junior Ryan Black showed his immense acting range from his transformation from “Woof ” in Hair to the solemn and moving Rulon Stacey. While Black played many other parts in this show, he

made the part of Rulon Stacey, the medical spokesperson to the press about Matthew Shepard’s condition while in the hospital, a very personal and convincing role.

Likewise, nearly on the opposite end of the solemn spectrum senior Brian Hartman, as the notorious Rev. Phelps and then as the offender Aaron McKinney, more than showed his ability to overcome the challenge of becoming the characters of two very hateful men and being able to portray their sincerity in those

The ‘Miracle’ of hockey Kimberly Onsager Special to The New Perspective

Horrendous plaid suits and shaggy hair can only mean one thing—an 80’s movie! However, Miracle was not made in the 80’s, but is based on the 1980 Olympic hockey team of the United States. You already know how it ends and if you don’t, it’s known as one of the greatest sports moments in history, which should give you a clue to the outcome of the game.

The film begins with Herb Brooks, played by Kurt Russell, being interviewed by the Olympic Committee for the U.S. Olympic hockey team head coach position. Having been hired, the tryouts for the team begin. Not choosing the greatest players, but those who will work well together, Brooks ignores complaints and begins to train, condition and unite the rival college players, now teammates. Brooks trains the team to play a different style of hockey than they are used to, the purpose being to train in a similar way as their arch enemies the Russians and beat them at their own game.

After the “again” scene that will have you cringing, the team bonds and realizes that they are representing the United States of America and not just themselves as individuals. The film continues showcasing various games the team played before the Olympics. At this point, the team is still over the maximum player limit by one. Shortly before the Olympic Games begin, Brooks eliminates the last player, Ralph Cox, (the one with the best hair). Brooks answers all questions in order for the team to keep their focus in the game and out of the media circuit.

The 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Games begin and the underestimated U.S. hockey team slowly but surely wins game after game, as well as worldwide recognition. Finally, the movie reaches the namesake game.

Russia versus USA—the cold war was on the main stage at the Olympics. The sequence is action packed and nail-biting and I was waiting for the infamous Mighty Ducks’ “flying V” formation to be called. I won’t give away the movie ending, or how the game ends, but it was

not the gold medal game contrary to my belief. A few more sequences and narration wrap up the film.

The camerawork is exceptional in this film. The audience is placed directly in the rink behind a skater rushing down the ice. At one moment, the viewer is sitting in the crowd and the next moment they find themselves as the goalie with a rather large Russian player skating full throttle towards them.

The producer, Disney, stated the use of actual film and original players helped them create an accurate portrayal of the games.

Not only are the games precise, but also the uniforms, arena and even mannerisms of the players are used, all taken from film archives of the actual team.

Miracle is a feel good movie that will make it seem as though you won along with the team.

Rated PG, the movie has no bad language, and is two hours and 15 minutes long. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys sport films, more specifically hockey films or the trilogy of The Mighty Ducks films.

Do you believe in miracles?

hate-filled beliefs. As for sincerity in her acting method, senior Kelsey Lexow is a dramatic actress to the core. With each role, she used her impeccable sense of dramatic timing and skill.

While the messages each of the characters send with their words are powerful, there is one thing the audience must focus on through nearly the entirety of the performance. This focal point is the looming fence that seems to be on top of a mountain so high that all that can be seen is an end-

less expanse of sky and sparkling lights. This simple, and really the only, piece of the minimal set adds so much weight to the already high emotions that fall upon the audience throughout the show.

Emotion is the key word of this performance, and there were two main high points of sincere emotion in this piece. The first creates an image that is hard to forget and includes three brightly illuminated angels surrounding See ‘Laramie’ Page 13

‘Friends’

Paris bound ‘friends’ Jodi Lynn Banning Arts & Entertainment Editor

What a two weeks it has been for Friends! Joey dealt with another disappointment when he tried out for yet another part he was not qualified for. What was the problem this time? He had to speak French. Phoebe tried to help him, but it was hopeless. Then, he had to face the fact that Chandler and Monica are moving. He may not like it, but he doesn’t have a choice if he wants his friends to be happy.

How did he come to this conclusion? An eight year-old girl lectured him on it. All was OK when Joey found out that he’ll have his very own room in the new house.

Meanwhile, Chandler and Monica entertained Erica, the mother of the child they are adopting, for a weekend in New York. During the fun-filled weekend, the couple found out the father could be one of two men: a football player away at college on a scholarship or a boy who is in prison for killing his father with a shovel. Understandably, this shook the couple up just a bit. All ended well when they discovered that the football player is the only

possible father.

With all of this going on, Rachel must deal with her father’s heart attack. Ross goes with her to make sure everything is fine, but she ends up throwing herself at him. Ross refuses, which infuriated her. The couple decides never to have sex again, but find that it is not quite as easy as they thought it would be to stay apart.

After all of this was figured out, Ross found out he had been tenured. Happy news for him, but distressing news for Rachel.

It seems that Rachel had an interview with Gucci, but her interview took place at a restaurant her boss at Ralph Lauren happened to be at too. Not only was her boss there, but he sat right behind her. She didn’t get the job, but the worst part is that her boss fired her for not being a committed team player. As Rachel was moving out of her office, she ran into an old friend, Mark. For those of you who do not remember, Mark was the man Ross thought Rachel was cheating on him with years ago. Mark offered her an incredible job. What could be wrong with that? It’s in Paris!

Will Rachel go or not? Stay tuned to find out.

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Table for Two ‘She’s Come Undone’ Vic’s a fast dining experience a mesmerizing read Jessica Pairrett

Katherine Michalets

Staff Writer

Staff Writer

Life for Dolores Price is an up-hill struggle as she learns to live in a world that doesn’t always seem fair. As a 257-pound teenager living with her grandmother, Dolores seeks comfort and love from food and television.

In She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb, the reader is taken on an expansive journey through the life of Dolores, who experiences the world as we feel it at least once in our lives: frustrated and alone.

As a young girl, Dolores’ parents divorce, sending her into a tailspin that takes Dolores years to navigate. An array of characters enter into Dolores’ life—a gay guidance counselor, a hippie couple, a comforting therapist and a beached whale. Each leaves a lasting impression on Dolores and the reader.

After her parents’ divorce, Dolores and her mom move into her grandmother’s house. There, Dolores’ mom attempts to restart her life with new jobs and new boyfriends, leaving Dolores feeling isolated and alone, until she meets Roberta, a tattoo artist across the street.

After having a hard time in high school, Dolores makes an effort to start over in college, but a roommate who refuses to look past her appearance dashes her hopes of new beginnings.

Dolores quickly returns to being depressed, until eventually she hits a point of no return and sets out on a new path that will revitalize her spirit and give her hope anew.

She’s Come Undone is a humorous and poignant story that draws the reader in and never lets go. The novel is so well

written that Dolores becomes a friend the reader wants to help.

As one of the books placed on Oprah’s book club list, She’s Come Undone is a book with all the indications of a classic.

Lamb masterfully writes about coming of age in the 1960s and 70’s. Lamb’s talent for capturing the life of a young woman is very impressive.

Insightful images fill the pages that bring the characters to life. It feels like a privilege to be allowed into Dolores’ mind.

Lamb wrote, “I wasn’t listening.

If resurrection were possible, then so was God. God might be someone unpredictable. Dante, maybe, or John Lennon with his freaky ways. Or even someone with an average, forgettable face: A lady customer in pin curls at the superette, that old garlicbreath man on the bus ride down to Merton. God could even be the audiovisual boy at Easterly High School—a person who could flick a button and run your life in reverse…”

Dolores will make the reader laugh and cry. Not since Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye has a character mesmerized the reader so much.

Everyone likes chili dogs or hot dogs. Oh, you don’t? Well, how about hamburgers? Not really into those either? Why not a veggie burger? No matter your tastes, hopefully something will interest you when you try Vic’s Chicago Style Eats.

The other day, my boyfriend, Paul, and I decided to meet for lunch on a busy school day. Vic’s on Grandview in Pewaukee sounded like an appealing try. I had seen a menu prior to going, so that further influenced my decision to try the hot dog restaurant.

Although the menu advertised that this restaurant has been around since 2002, the building it resides in has been around even longer. By looking at the exterior, it was easy to tell that a McDonald’s had been in that location first. When Vic’s Fast Food Eatery took over, the Photo by Sarah Lasee owners had done nothing to change the building’s look. Even Leslie Soefker stands ready as she waits for customers to place Vic’s interior reminded us greatly their order at Vic’s located in Pewaukee. of being inside a McDonald’s. other alternatives like strawberry, of the fast food nature.

Old booths and tables, counter- chocolate, vanilla, pineapple As far as a romantic setting tops and condiment islands were and banana. The individual size for a dinner date, Vic’s would in their second generation, and of chili fries we had ordered to not be the most likely place to it looked as though the kitchen share were nicely sized as well. pick. However, this place would and overhead counter menus I enjoyed my jumbo-sized chili suit the going-out-for-a-casual, were in theirs too. dog and the slice of pickle that get-to-know-each other type of We stepped up to the date. Paul didn’t seem to counter and placed our really care for the restaurant, Vic’s Chicago Style Eats orders. The girl behind but he doesn’t really care for the counter informed us Where: 2820 N. Grandview Blvd., fast food. I thought Vic’s Pewaukee that our food would be to be a good, tasty alternaup shortly, so we took our Phone: (262) 547-0518 tive to the big fast food seats in a booth around Hours: chains like Burger King and Mon.-Sat. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. the other side of the place.

McDonald’s, and with a difSun. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

About five minutes later, I ferent selection of food too. went to retrieve the food Also, the prices were really and was pleased at what came as a garnish with the sand- reasonable for all that comes I saw. wich. Paul liked his Philly beef in a portion. So why not drive We had ordered Oreo sandwich, but thought that it through, carry out, or stop in cookie flavored shakes and they had too many green peppers for for a relaxed treat with someone turned out to be huge. Besides his liking. Other than that, the you’d like to spend more time the Oreo taste, the place offered food tasted pretty good for being with?

Brought to you by the Department of Mathematics & the Math Club In the following ‘staircase’ of squares, what is the total number of rectangles? Remember that a square is a rectangle.

One randomly selected correct solution will get two movie passes and popcorn.

Solutions must be submitted by noon on Wednesday, March 17 to be in the prize drawing. Submissions can be E-mailed to defeil@cc.edu with ‘Puzzler Answer’ in the subject line or can be submitted in hard copy to Professor Dave Feil’s office, 105 Maxon Hall.

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Life of Brian

Procrastination: Man’s best friend

Brian Hartman Staff Writer

Gather round, children, as I tell you about possibly the strongest force in the universe known to man, woman or Wookie. And that force, my friends, is Procrastination. For years, scientists have been trying to understand the mysteries of procrastination, but they never seem to get around to it. Perhaps you think that’s a silly joke. Perhaps you are a fool. I am here to warn you all that once procrastination gets its dirty little claws into you, things never will be the same.

There are warning signs procrastination is taking over your life. For example: Work can be easily divided up into several tasks to make it easier, right? But when procrastination is around, the space between these little tasks should be at least an hour, if not more. “Just a harmless break!” you may think, and then suddenly it’s 3 a.m., you’re in your underwear watching M.A.S.H reruns and that 15 page essay on silt you’re

writing contains nothing but the words “Silt is.” Welcome to Procrastinationville, population you.

Another big sign is when you start saying “five more minutes” before accomplishing any given task. Or even when you decide all of a sudden that your laundry isn’t done and it needs to get done right this minute.

Oh yes, procrastination can do many things. It can control the rate of time. Five minutes working on something important can feel the equivalent of, say, 7,000 hours, whereas a trip to the bathroom and a quick look at what’s on TV, five minutes tops, and—ba-boom—it’s next Thursday.

Procrastination can bend the will of strong people, people who normally can stop buses with their foreheads, to do its bidding, which is, namely, to not do what should get done and do something else instead. Procrastination can steal your money (I’ll pay the bill later), your significant other (I’ll call them once this show is over) or even your life (I swear I’ll step on the brakes just before the cliff, I’m just waiting for this song to finish on the radio).

I know some of you are out there nodding your heads. Yes, you’re thinking, you would look better in “hip-hugger” pants. No wait, you’re thinking yes, you know what procrastination is like.

There are many of us who have fallen under it powerful grip. Its allies are sleep, TV, snacks, video games, AOL Instant Messenger

and opossums. If you haven’t experienced the opossums yet, pray you never ever do.

But listen to me, we can overcome this procrastination, and we’re not putting it off this time, we are doing it now! It is a force that needs to be fought. Just think what might have happened if our forefathers and foremothers and foreaunts and uncles and forethird-cousins-twice-removed had never conquered procrastination.

George Washington might have never crossed the Delaware: “Guy’s, it’s late, it’s freezing, let’s just build a fire and have some fun and shoot our muskets in the air, and forget about the whole river.”

Abraham Lincoln: “Four score and seven years ago, our… um… I will tell you all about this next week, OK, Gettysburg?”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is… err…” The nation would be panicking. “What is it we have to fear? Giant spiders? The Germans? The possibility that one day a man named Richard Nixon might become President?!”

So you see, everyone, procrastination is the ultimate obstacle we must overcome if we are to get anything done around here, and I swear I will finish this column as soon as I grab a bite to eat and see what’s on TV. Five minutes, I swear.

Editor’s note: This is all we got from Brian. As far as we know, Brian is still sitting around doing nothing. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Horoscopes Mr. Mysterio Staff Astrologer

Pisces February 19 - March 20 A horse is a horse, of course.

Of course, when you meet up with a centaur this week, things might start to get a little bit more confusing.

Aries March 21 - April 19 Monetary gain is in the stars for you this week. Literally, in the stars. Billions of miles away. Too bad. The stars have this message for you, though: Ha ha.

Taurus April 20 - May 20 This week will find you in a happy mood. Of course, “happy” and “clinically insane” are sort of interchangeable terms in this case.

Gemini May 21 - June 21 This week holds many surprises. For example, you’ll finally understand the meaning of the term “horse feathers” on every possible level. Make sure to shower afterwards.

Cancer June 22 - July 22 All you need is love. And food. And water. And a nice TV, a car, a job, a house, and about $5,000 would be nice, too.

Leo July 23 - August 22 While it does remain true that wild horses couldn’t drag you away, a herd of angry, bitter rhinoceroses definitely seem to be able to get the job done with no problems at all.

Virgo August 23 - September 22 In the week ahead, keep this

in mind: After being separated from the body, the human head can still function for about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. Hey, what the—look out for that ax!

Libra September 23 - October 22 Add ½ cup chopped liver.

Stir well, and sprinkle with chives for an extra spice. Now take the chicken cutlets, broil for ten minutes, add parsley…

Scorpio October 23 - November 21 While it is true you write the songs that make the young girls cry, it’s mostly just because you write songs about reading their diaries in front of everyone.

Sagittarius November 22 - December 21 The luck is yours this week, thanks to an obsessive boyfriend with a knife and about 200 rabbits who now hobble on three feet. That, and all those horses without shoes, and the fields of clover cut down to find a fourleafed one. That guy’s nuts, isn’t he?

Capricorn December 22 - January 19 Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where that one priest guy rips out that other guy’s heart?

That was pretty awesome, wasn’t it? Nothing remotely like that will happen to you in the next week. But just wait till a month from now.

Aquarius January 20 - February 18 Trouble is on the way, but don’t despair. Well, actually, it is a lot of trouble…so in fact, despair away.

Cast gets it right ‘Laramie’ From Page 11

the hateful Rev. Phelps while he was condemning Matthew Shepard to hell during the trial.

If one was lucky enough to see the real event of these “angels” surrounding the Reverend, on the news or in a documentary film of some sort, this particular event was heartwarming and emotionally satisfying. The play portrayed this quite well, even with a bit of humor as the angels put in ear plugs so they would not hear the Reverend’s shouting.

The second high point was the conclusion with the speech

by Brian Hartman’s character, the limo driver of the town, about how Matthew was genuinely happy in his life and mentioned to him that Laramie seemed to sparkle. He said the last thing that Matthew saw up there by the fence was the sparkling lights, and as an added effect, sparkles of light were placed on a screen near the fence. This was a powerful ending and one that any audience member would remember.

Technically speaking, lights and sounds were seeming flawless and a wonderful addition to the piece. Also, words were projected on the top of the screen near the fence to let the audience know

where the play was in the sequence of events. The fact that they were not placed in glaring white letters in the middle of the screen, but at the top, and much more subtly, worked so that it didn’t take away from the actors.

One thing that was difficult to understand, however, is why some obviously male characters were played by women. Though it is a minor detail, it was somewhat distracting for an audience member who might have already had a hard time keeping up with the large number of characters entering the stage in short time periods.

One really had to pay attention in order to follow the characters appearing and reappearing at various parts throughout the piece.

Though the performance was, by nature, very segmented, it still had a good flow to it.

Carroll’s performance of The Laramie Project seemed to be a success itself, and it is true what sophomore Michael Mitchell said when playing the character of Father Roger Schmit, which he did astoundingly well. He told the members of the company that were writing the play to tell the story and make sure that they say it correctly. To the cast, crew and everyone involved, congratulations on doing just that.

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S.O.S.: A cry for students to ‘Stay On Saturdays’ Jill Ridenour Staff Writer

S.O.S.! Help! Save Our Ship!

Well, not quite. The new S.O.S. program on campus isn’t a cry for help, but a cry for more students to Stay On Saturdays. Carroll has gained somewhat of a reputation as a “suitcase college,” and one reason may have been that there weren’t a lot of activities for students to do on campus on the weekends. Student Life, in particular Susanne Fenske, the director of student activities, with the help of a few others, has created a program to make sure there is always an event on the weekend for students to attend.

The S.O.S. program is new to Carroll this semester, and according to Fenske, “all the events have been well received by the students.” The S.O.S. program is not to be confused with College Activities Board (CAB) events, however. While CAB does host many events on campus, S.O.S. is a separate program that alleviates some of the financial and time pressures on CAB that may otherwise deter these events.

As the brainchild of Fenske, the S.O.S. program uses funds that Student Senate originally gave Fenske for “PIT Programs,” to bring special events to Carroll, and also new funds that Student

Senate gave the S.O.S. program itself.

One of the main reasons for this program is the fact that students wanted more events on the weekends so they had something to do when they stayed on campus. In fact, Student Life did a survey of the freshman class pertaining to a variety of things, but one of the “patterns that was seen on the survey was that there wasn’t enough to do on the weekends,” said Fenske.

The survey holds true according to freshman Sara Bowlin who said, “I like (the S.O.S. program) because it gives you something to do on Saturday nights. Especially for people

who are too far to go home. I hope they keep it up because its fun.” While Bowlin has enjoyed the events she has attended, she commented that the Five Minute Dating Event was somewhat disappointing because “there wasn’t a big turnout. Probably because most people were too embarrassed to admit that they were lonely on Valentine’s Day.” Every weekend for the remainder of the semester, when there isn’t a break, S.O.S. will host an event for students to attend for free on Saturdays.

“There have been five events so far and all were well attended,” commented Fenske, “but whether it makes students stay

on campus on the weekends is not certain.”

Two of the most popular events so far have been ComedySportz and Bingo Night. A new event, Poker Night, drew a big crowd with over 60 people.

At Poker Night, everyone got $10,000 worth of fake money and played by the rules of the table they were at. At the end, raffle tickets could be purchased for $1,000 each.

Sophomore Willa Schroeder thinks that the new S.O.S. program is “a nice thing for people who don’t have a car, but more trips to places off-campus would be something I think more people would want to do.”

As of this semester, the events planned are all campus events, but perhaps in the future, maybe even as near as next semester, the program will evolve to include off-campus trips. Until then, however, it seems to suit the Carroll College community just fine, including freshman Jenny Smith who has attended several of the events.

“Believe it or not I actually like to do something on Saturdays besides sleep,” said Smith.

Some of the upcoming events are Game Show Night March 20, and the live band Repertoire on April 3. Because the events have been so well received by students so far, Fenske plans on carrying the program over into next year’s fall semester.

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SPORTS Thursday, March 4, 2004

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One curse will be reversed

Pioneers gear up for Florida, season

Chalk Talk

record too, because the chances of it happening aren’t all that great. But still, both teams are loaded, have a ton of pent-up aggression from last year’s meltdown, and they’re looking for blood, fresh blood.

I mean the blood of the dreaded Yankees. Even if the Cubs aren’t in the same league, they still hate the Yankees. The Yankees are the Darth Vader, the Hitler, the Saddam, the Osama, the Britney Spears of professional baseball. Never has a team been so hated. There’s no way anybody can root for them now—even you, Koronkoweiz.

As for the underdogs, I can’t wait to see if the Brewers and Rangers win more games than anyone ever expected. It would be heroic and a punch in the face to the evil empire located in New York City.

I can’t wait to see if Bonds

the Brewers! I was to see George Steinbrenner be sidelined with another injury and Maaak McGuiiaaa come out of retirement.

I’m soooo excited for baseball! Can you feel it? I want the Twins back in the playoffs, the Expos to shove it in everybody’s faces, Baseball Tonight with Peter Gammons, and more bench clearing brawls due to 90 mile per hour fastballs thrown at grown men’s faces!

Ryan Watterson I want the home run, the Sports Editor suicide squeeze, the pickle, the diving catch, the robbery, Warning: Please read this the seventh inning stretch, the column quickly, and imagine I’m manager ejected, the broken bat on a bunch of caffeine…because bloop single, the National friggin’ I am.

Anthem and the gapper.

Now, I know I wrote a I need baseball. Just one day column in October on baseball. without a Packer headline or how And I know I wore the same bad the Bucks are sucking! I live jersey in my picture, but I gotta for the spring when the sound talk about baseball again. It’s of a ball hitting wood can be my column isn’t it? And I know heard and it just creates a being in Wisconsin, you warm feeling in my heart. people don’t really read The pennant race, the much if it doesn’t have a “I want the home run, the suicide way fans trustingly pass Badger or a Packer in the headline, but here goes. squeeze, the pickle, the diving catch, money down the aisle for just an ice cream bar!

This baseball season I love this game! The is going to be awesome. the robbery, the seventh inning stretch fact that the game can No, scratch that. This and the manager ejected.” only be played on sunny baseball season is going days, with the excepto be wicked awesome! tion of teams that have I mean, I can’t remember another season that brought gets suspended for drugs. That a stadium with a roof and don’t on this much drama before the jerk prima donna deserves it. Not deserve it.

Okay, the buzz is wearseason even started. I haven’t seen for using drugs, but for being this much drama since my fresh- a complete arrogant (expletive ing off. Baseball is almost here. man year when I met a ton of deleted). I want to see Maddux Twenty-seven days until opening other freshman (mostly women) shine, Kevin Brown go down in day. flames and the Rocket get a fastPut your seat belts on and who lived for drama. get ready for a season to rememFirst of all, the Cubbies and ball hit back at his head!

I want to see the Sox win ber. The Yankees will fail and one the Sox are going to the World Series. I’d be an idiot if I didn’t it all; the Rangers make the of the curses will be broken. Take say that on the record. Of course, playoffs, the Cubbies make the my word, folks. I am after all, the I’m an idiot for saying it on the Series, the Brewers…um…yeah, Sports Editor.

Intramurals offer new sports as program enters transition phase Tabitha Menning Opinion Editor

With spring on its way, it’s time to think about what you’ll be doing outdoors to celebrate the new season. Carroll College Intramurals could be the perfect answer for you. With the addition of new sports such as dodge ball and kickball, as well as the classics, why not join?

Although the first session is already underway (it started on Jan. 26), registration for Spring II Session takes place now through tomorrow in the Campus Center during lunch and dinner, as well as at Ganfield Gymnasium in room 109. Some of the sports from Spring I Session are being played “pick-up” style, like women’s five-on-five basketball and dodge ball, so participants can just show up and play.

As mentioned, there are some new sports in the intramural line up this semester. Some of these sports have proven difficult to establish, though. When asked why dodge ball was a struggle to maintain, Tim Dornemann, recreation coordinator, replied, “Everyone wants it, but no one comes to play.”

Many students who expressed an interest in seeing

some new sports added to the intramural program just don’t have the time to play them now.

Junior Dan Dargets already participates in men’s five-on-five basketball, co-ed indoor volleyball and plans to play sand volleyball during Session II. When asked if he would participate in either of the new sports, he wasn’t sure.

“Probably not, since I have all night classes,” Dargets said. As far as next year goes, Dargets felt that “if I have enough time, then maybe.”

The construction of the new football field will also hurt the chances of intramural sports’ success this semester as many sports must now find new homes. As Dornemann put it, “This semester is kind of a transition because we lose field space.” Spring II Session sports, which start after spring break, will suffer the most.

Kickball will probably be played on Carroll’s softball field, while Ultimate Frisbee will be held inside Ganfield Gymnasium. As for soccer and sand volleyball, it’s up in the air.

Although the construction of the new field poses problems right now, rest assured it will present many advantages in the future.

“It will be huge for us,” replied Dornemann. For example, the

new field will enable many sports to be played at night since it will be lit. Other sports may be added to the intramural line up that don’t require the use of the field space (water polo anyone?).

On that note, how can new sports be included in the intramural program? Starting a new intramural sport could be a gradual implementation process, such as a group of interested students getting a student organization together. Also, if there is enough student interest expressed, and if the right ears are listening, a sport can be added to the intramural schedule.

Dornemann also suggested that an intramural council be started. With the addition of the Recreation Management major into Carroll’s undergraduate programs, it should be no problem finding members for this council, or at least individuals who would be willing to help out with the intramural planning.

“We’re not opposed to anything,” said Dornemann. “If we can get a budget for it, we’ll try to do it.”

For a current schedule of intramural sports being offered this semester, visit the athletic page through Carroll College’s Web site.

Sports Editor

Midwest Conference play begins April 9 when the Pioneers travel to Beloit College.

Baseball The 2004 Carroll College baseball team is ready to swing into action in the Midwest Conference. Before regular season play begins, the team will be driving 28 hours to Ft. Myers, Fla., for 12 games in seven days.

Head coach Steve Dannhoff says that the team expects to do well on the trip.

“We go to Florida to win games,” Dannhoff said. “Simple as that.”

He also looks forward to seeing how the newcomers to Pioneer baseball will do.

“Because of the volume of games we are forced to play and the need to keep guys fresh, we do end up getting the chance to see what the younger guys can do,” Dannhoff said. “But what people don’t understand is that we take a 28-hour bus ride, play 12 games in seven days and take another 28-hour bus ride. While the average student is relaxing and enjoying spring break, it is a tough and grueling trip for us.”

The Pioneer pitching staff is still being molded. No number one pitcher has been named.

Battling for the starting rotation right now are senior Andy Sershon, sophomores Nate Goggins, Matt Shafer, Steve Dombrowski, Tom Gaszak, D.J. Otto and Corbin Hollenbeck, and freshmen Mike Larson and Chris Foley.

“Our pitchers have more depth and are better than what we have had in the past,” Dannhoff said. “We don’t have that one person who stands out as our number one. It is just too early to tell who will grab the top spot.”

There isn’t a clear-cut favorite to win the Midwest Conference this season according to Dannhoff.

“I don’t think there is a favorite this year,” Dannhoff said. “There may be more parity this year than I have seen in the last five years.”

Offensively, the Pioneers will look to junior Aaron Soto and senior Chris Teske for support. Dannhoff expects additional contributions from junior Joe Beranek, sophomores Jared Stengel and Eric Rasmussen, and freshmen Adam BaumannNeylon and Seth Herbst.

Returning to the infield this season are sophomores Stengel, Rasmussen, Shafer, Gaszak, Goggins and Casey Micinski, seniors Chris Vahl and Teske, and juniors Aaron Soto and Beranek.

Dannhoff expects newcomers Bauman-Neylon, Herbst, Mike Larson and Chris Foley to make strong contributions in their first year.

Carroll plays its first home game March 30 at 4 p.m. against Maranatha Baptist Bible College at Frame Park in Waukesha.

Softball The Lady Pioneer softball team is looking to improve on last year’s 12-15-1 record. With almost the entire team returning, including three Midwest all-conference players, Carroll is confident that 2004 will bring success.

Second-year head coach Melinda Barth believes her team has as much of a shot at being conference champions as any other school.

“Right now, we’re probably ranked right in the middle of the pack,” Barth said. “But at this point we’re already further along than last year, talent wise.”

Carroll will be led by seniors Beth Wittnebel, Jessi Wege and sophomore Dana Bradley. All three made all-conference in 2003.

“We’re really looking to continue last season’s success and improve upon it,” Barth said.

As for the freshman members of the team, Barth has been impressed with what she’s seen.

“They have a lot of athletic ability,” Barth said. “Their attitude has been great. They are team-oriented and will probably get playing time on a regular basis.”

Pre-season for the Lady Pioneers hasn’t been the easiest of tasks. Every morning the team practices at 5:45 a.m.

Despite getting up early, the team actually enjoys the morning time slot.

“We like morning practices,” Barth said. “It gives athletes the chance to be regular students by having the rest of the day ahead of them dedicated to school.”

The biggest challenge Carroll expects to see is Lawrence University and St. Norbert College.

“They’re consistent winners,” Barth said. “The Midwest Conference has no teams this season that look to run away with the championship.”

Sunday, Carroll begins its annual spring trip in Ft. Meyers, Fla. They will play 10 games in five days.

“Our goal is to come back from Florida above the .500 mark,” Barth said. “After that, we hope to have a strong showing at the Cross-Over Tournament. We have to come out with a 3-2 record if we want to make conference.”

Last season, Carroll finished 1-4 at the Cross-Over.

The Cross-Over is one weekend out of the season where the North teams play the South in the Midwest Conference.

As for injuries, the Lady Pioneers’ softball team hasn’t had any this season. The only problems they’ve met are fighting off colds.

Ryan Watterson

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Pioneers’ season ends in championship game Bear Milne Staff Writer

They were one win away from earning Carroll College’s first ever NCAA playoff berth and representing the Midwest Conference at the NCAA Division III Tournament in Salem, Va. It was the first time since 1995 the Pioneers had been to the Midwest Conference Tournament, this time entering as the #2 seed.

Senior Kevin Lauer was coming off his career-high 32 points in Friday’s semifinal game against Grinnell College, a grueling 143-127 contest, in which five other Pioneers scored in the double digits, including senior Greg Monfre and junior Ben Hickethier, racking-up over 20 points apiece.

The Grinnell College semifinal game presented an entirely different type of basketball for the Pioneers.

“It’s a different type of game with a completely different style,” junior Jason Trimborn said. “There are three things you have to do in a game like that: don’t let them get second shot opportunities, make them miss three-pointers and get as many rebounds as possible. Once you break their press, then they’ll let you score.”

This win advanced the Pioneers to the finals, where they faced the Lawrence University Vikings, the number one seed.

Sophomore Viking Chris Braier led Lawrence in scoring with 26 points in front of a fullhouse at the Alexander Gym-

Photo by Sarah Smirl

The Pioneers’ sophomore forward Jason Scheper puts up a shot over Lawrence University’s Chris Braier.

nasium in Appleton, Wis. The Vikings crept out to the high of the half with an eight-point lead (17-9) following a three-pointer

from senior Chris MacGillis (who chalked up 18 points) with 9:48 minutes left in the first half.

The Vikings held a thin lead into

the half, standing 32-27, with point they’d never been in their Carroll striking to within a point history was great. We developed a good starting block to build of evening the contest.

Throughout the game, the off of. It was impressive doing it Pioneers and Vikings were neck- with only a second year coach.”

He also commented on and-neck in scoring. In the first half, Carroll shot a 37.5 percent what it’s like to lose in the finals. average versus Lawrence’s 42 per- The loss was a tough one for the cent for total field goals. Carroll Pioneers, who failed to beat Lawdominated the perimeter in the rence all season.

“It was especially heartbreakfirst half; nailing four of 12 for a ing not beating 33 percent averthem all year. age versus the We just couldn’t Viking’s two of “It was unbelievable; get over that 11. In the second to get Carroll hump,” Trimhalf, the Vikings maintained and to a point they’d never born said. “We didn’t have that drove, hambeen in their history one little extra mering six of notch that they 11 from threewas great.” had, that extra point-land and Jason Trimborn level we needed averaging nearly to go to in order 50 percent in to win the game. scoring as a total, over 54 percent from the It was their year and I guess it wasn’t meant to be for us.” three point line.

Next season, Carroll will Later in the game, MacGillis’ younger brother Kyle, a have almost all of this year’s sophomore, drained the rock roster returning “We only lose three playhimself for a three with 14:52 minutes left in the second half ers,” Trimborn said. “They are to give the Vikings a seven-point tough guys to replace, but we lead. The Pioneers charged on a have enough pieces in place and 13-4 run, initiated by junior Ben some young guys who will step Hickethier, to take a two-point up. We have the winning mentallead with 8:22 minutes left in ity and know how to get back to the game. The Vikings answered this point.”

The team believes that they by scoring eight straight points, taking a 72-59 lead with 2:20 can only get better in the upcomminutes left in the game. Carroll ing season.

“We’re all excited for next didn’t get closer than 11 on the way out, finishing the game with year. We have the right work ethic to get back to where we a 82-71 loss.

Trimborn’s first champion- were,” Trimborn said. “We are ship game was one to remember. going to prove that this year “It was unbelievable,” Trim- wasn’t a fluke, and hopefully host born said. “To get Carroll to a the tournament next year.”

Women’s basketball ends year on losing track Lady Pioneers say goodbye to five seniors, prepare to rebuild

Ryan Watterson Sports Editor

The Carroll College women’s basketball team wrapped up its season Feb. 21 with a disappointing 75-54 loss to Beloit College at Van Male Gymnasium. For five Carroll seniors, it marked the last time they would ever walk off a college basketball court.

Carroll finished with a 10-13 record overall (7-9 in Midwest Conference play). The Lady Pioneers finished in fifth place, three games behind Grinnell College, who earned the final playoff position.

Carroll needed to pull off a winning streak in its final five games in order to make the Midwest Conference Tournament. Unfortunately for the Lady Pioneers, injuries and illness hindered their chances as Carroll lost their last three contests.

“It’s really sad that the season is over,” senior guard Jamie Hartman said. “It was a great experience even though we didn’t do quite as well as we wanted to. It was a fun year.”

Junior forward Krista Rode sprained her ankle and was unable to play in the final game.

Senior guard Courtney Fryatt was also sidelined due to sickness.

Senior forward Erin Erickson will remember her time with the Lady Pioneers as a positive experience.

“Our team chemistry was better this year than last,” Erickson said. “Besides wins and losses, we had a great team atmosphere.

It gave me something to remember.”

Next year, Carroll may have to rebuild because of the departure of the five seniors leaving.

According to the team, they were a valuable part of the program.

“They have nothing but positive attitudes,” Rode said. “It will be tough losing five seniors who played a lot.”

Rode returns next season as Carroll’s lone senior. She led Carroll this season, averaging 13 points per game and 7.4 rebounds per game. She won’t be alone talent-wise though. Also returning to the lineup will be sophomore guard Jenni Poch, freshman forward Heather Meyering and sophomore point guard Melanie Foreman. The three will all be looked to for their on-the-court talents according to Hartman.

Carroll says goodbye to Hartman, Erickson, Fryatt, Heather Jones and Jill Gustafson.

Gustafson led the senior class, averaging 12.6 points per game.

Lady Pioneer sophomore Megan McDowell says getting back to the tournament next season is a realistic goal.

“Even with the lost of five seniors, we will still have a lot of experienced players for next season. And I think that it will help. We just need to continue to work hard and play as a team...continue to push each other in practice. I think that we will just have to find our own “groove.””

McDowell says the five seniors were great teachers to her and the rest of the team,” McDowell said. “Each senior has taught me many valuable attributes. From all the seniors, I have learned that leadership comes in many forms...both in actions and in words, and that you don’t necessarily have to be a “stand out” to be a leader. I think that I would like to portray many of the attributes that I have learned from them two years down the line when I am a senior. I admire them all so much. We have big shoes to fill.”

The Midwest Conference Tournament was held last weekend at Ripon College. The Ripon College Red Hawks became conference champions with a 64-55 win over St. Norbert College.

Photo by Elliot Wenzel

Lady Pioneer senior Erin Erickson pulls up for a jump shot during Carroll’s 75-54 loss against Beloit College in Van Male Feb. 21.