January 28, 1993

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eHe CdlCfflTAtl "Reporting Midwe8tem State Univeraity News Since 1922'' Volume 71, Number I ◄

·11tureday1 January 28. 1993

MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY

MSUhonors

M.L. King Jr. By Michael Vendrick Editor in chief Mldweslarn honorod lhe '91e CIVIi rights ICll'lllt lh9 R.... Or Men •n Lulh•r King Jr on Jan 18 lo commemorate 'the servw:. tnd spiril of a man 1h11 shH 1ouche1 our lives today." Phillip 81rd1ne. MSU dean of students, said Kenneth Crumpton a re•

Ices lhan any pr8VJOUI pettod of American hlstory · There t re more mnom~s and women m President Clinh)f,-, cabinet than any of hts predecessors.· C rumpton said •Also, General Cohn Powell 1s the mosl powerful mdl4•ry f19Ure

porter from KFOX•TV in Wichita

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Faff•. was the fealured speaker He spoke about the monurMn· 1a1 changes that King was able IO bring ebo\.11 befo re his dealh •nd lhe slat• of th• Alncan• American male 1n loday's soc,--

Oly Before King began h11 ac• J,v1sm. Alrican-Amencans w.,e allowod only 10 s,t on lhe rear seots of a bos, Crumpton sad.

"The Rev Dr Mar1tn LU1h81" King Jr was 1n11rumental in ending ugregahon by hrst ~tng lhe way lo, IAlOSll rt Mt/

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• Mania Luther Kine, Jr. ceremony oa Jan. 18.

Ru~h Begins Feb. 4 By Ja.eph Diomede

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Feb A will be !he kick -off dlie for the Spmg 1993 RU&h The men of Alpha PN Alpha, Kappe AlpM, Kappa Sign., Ph, Sigma Kappa and Sign. Nu are gearing up fo, • week of ICINI·

From 10 a m to 2 pm on Feb 4, lhe IFC wilf hold a lralernity IOfum 1n l he Clark Student Center Alnum Each fraternity will have a labM w,th 11'1'oonation available tor prospec l1ve rushees Refreshmenl s 'NIii be

6N to a ttract new membershrp

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to NCh perspectrve Ofgamza-

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"Anoch• purpose of rush LS 10 educate 1ndepanden11 and incoming freshmen about fta tarnitiel and hopefully sho w !ham whal I hey can offer: Mic hael Gresham , lnltl· Fr,tarnlty Counc il rush chair•

place Time sklls w,11 be made av•Nble al a later dale

considered ·open hme • Each fr•tefM)' will be anowed 10 hok:1 the,r own luncilOf'IS dunng l heM dal. . The conclus10n of formal Feb

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pm , Feb 8 E•ch lla!ernity WIii be allo wed one hour 101 prospective rushees lo ·meet the bl'olhers· a1 the respective fraternity ho uses or meo1ing

ruah or the MSU greek sytlem can contact GrHh■m 11 322· 8112

At8pm , Feb 4. lhe lFCWlll sponsor • school-wide dance ,n Formal rush

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Student Senate to join Texas Student Association By Charlel c . .e

C<,pyEdltor The MSU S1udent Senate met on Jan 15 to consider per• tq),elk>n in • stat•wde ,tudent 90Vemrnen1 orgamzetton. as ,... Q lo review four prop01,ed

16 Th• Senetors dectded lo

;o1n th e Tena Students Auociahon, • slate-wide slu· dtnf organization des.gned lo htfp ensure ■ student voice ,n

more reasonable lhan other su,;:h orgaoo:ations On• of the main goals of TSA ie the prevenhon of the tu-lllOfl increase c uNently under d1scussoo wtMch would place tu1ho n al $46 per hour Other goats are to p,otect Pell Granl funding and to obla1n student representaoon on !he Board of Regents send dele• Midwestern gates lo TSA' s state conventlOl"I

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Feb 4 !hrough Feb 7 19'5UN,, ·-· Johnny

MSU Car ter. Governm en t Studenl "'8oeia1ion p,estdent, s.ad, -We ~ be getting lnlo the main stu· dtni k>bby1ng 0 1gan11a11on in

S1udent senalors also passed four bills 1nclud1ng 81II

92/ 93-2. 811192/93-1, 811192/9311 and BIii 9 2i93- 1o BIii 9219J·2 will. If paued by

Ttxas. and we hope lh1s will tho sludent bOdy in April 1n• hq, us 10 defend ouic;ell as a crease all s!udents ·,n!luence wntKer school • He also sa.d on !he 1egtS1a1111e process ol 1he TS.A·, membership dues were

• He u1d l here are more

Afrk:an•AmerlCl!ln males incar• ce,.ted now then ever before and more AIDS and gunshol· relat ed deal hs 1n Afucan • Amencan societies than m any other ethnic gr01.41

Crump1on said Afnea n ·

Amerk.ant wiH ~ u e to gar· ne, more prOffll'Mnl pot,iliont in today·• soc;.ty, but will alto have to do their pa,t 10 .-.er__. /TIOf9 ~k>y'menl opportuniltN lonl ·we have OtM" ~ Js,

·• aMd our MaQIC Ja." he said -We need to concentlltfe

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onnofa - no,ot,s• After Crumpton·• speech. Erica Woodard ol !ht Black Student Union. Ana Mo+ina of lhe Organ,ahOn of Hi.spank: Students and Johnny Carttf cl lh• S 1udenl , Government Associahon reMlted how King's actMsm 1ouched lhefr iv•.

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·11 makes you wonder what Dr Martin Luther King dlfJd for in the first place,· C"'""4on said

Kmg and his dream. for his dream IS our history.• Woode rd

Kmg WH shol to death by J.-nes Eart Ray on Apnl 4. 1968, whlla standing on a bak::ony of the Lorraine Motel m Mtff'C)hls,

Musical ertlertainment for the ceremony was provided by "True Fdelit)',' en a capt:,e41a gospel muse group from Iha Welch Street Churt:h cl Chntt.

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Fine Arts receives $2 million from Fain Foundation ByCharleoCa,e

Copy Ediior The MSU Qr.11SK>f'I of Fine Arts has 1ect11ved • S2 m1H10n grant from Mrs Ramon Wood lhrough lhe Fain Foundation. The granl will be paid in four equal instellmenls ol $500 thousand over the rie,,;I lour

yea" The DNISIOO of FN Arts will nol

spend the endowment

money. but WIil make UN of a port10n of the gentraled 1n!er• 111.. The 1ema1n1ng srnaU« por• IIOn of interest wdl be 1e1nvosled to allow the endowmen1to grow, Or Ron Fischli, interim director of the DMsion of Fine Arts. said

Although no decisions have yel been made as to !he actual apphcalfon of the funds, one area under consideration is the enhancement of scholarshtps in

the divl6K>n, F1&ehli Aid. F1sehh also satd, 'The en• IS the Wisest and 100$1 lasting dona110n an individual can make. and we feel very WNrrly lowa,d MB Wood for her constderahon of the value of the arts ·

dowment This means tha1 depar1• merts will begin to receive direct funds from !he endowmenl approximalely al 1he hme of lhe second mstallmenl

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ru!oh II slaled lo, Feb 12 Bd ~grnng, lhe lime when rushees t1rKf out whlCh tralemll1es hav• chosen them lo be,come candi• dates tor aci1Ve rnemberstup. wit takepwteefrom8am 1o12pm .nCSC 116 Sludent5 interuled In obtaining information ,,.r!ainlng lo

the CSC Ballroom.

we want lo.' he uld M1nouties now /'lave more righls end hold more poibcaf cA· wet

Sludenl Sena!•" lhrough I IU· den! bo6f ref«endOO"II

BIN 92/93- 1 rw lSed lhe lltU· boesd lo alow dent traffic e thrH member board during the summer semulfft

Rodriguez stops purchasing program By G. Patrick Fortner D S taff Wriler A memo,enchm conceming the use ol university resourcas wu issued to the MSU facutfy and staff on Dec. 10, 1992 by Or Louis J Rodri9uez, MSU p,esldenl. The memo slated some

MSU empk>yees were invONed

n a men::handi&e purch8H pro-

gram durmg campu, ofhc e hes were not in thll best K""iereist hours and used ce!Tl)UI rnalen- of Midwestern, and lherefore had l o be Slopped. he ud. als and ~ n t The memo aiso stal ed that The program invotved the to the c urrenl budget ens• due colle<:hve purchase ol va110U1 !he Mal e's cioM I CNhrt)' of and 'small items and odds and ends' higher education, MSU l aculty 11 discounl pncea due to bulk and staff have to be very careful purchases, Rodnguez said lo avoid any edion that could be Although no p1of11ee11ng or m1sconst1ued as improper or malice was Involved, the acl lVI· unelhal.

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Btll 92/93-11 ofhc,alty erealed the l.cutly apprec1111ion

commitN, whose IHk WIii be to organae and conduc1 a 'Fac!A:y Appreciation 0.y' ev«y tchool

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Y- 8111 92/93--10 WI" add lhe sele<:llon of 1n ' Outs1and1rig end Man' Gradua t e "Outstanding Graduate WorM,11' 10 the aMUal honon banquet

The Student Senale wilt hold «s nexl meeting al 6 p m . Feb 4 1n Ci.rk Student Center 104

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'T'rue F idelity," an• ca pell a 11n11in1J rroup from the Welch St reet C hurch of Cluut 1■ WSehlta Fall•, ho nottd the memory uf the late Re v. Or. Mart.in Luther Kint Jr. oa. .Jaa. II by performiof orilia.al muatCal R.le-ctiou in the C lark Student C••ter Ballf'OO&


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