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Alarm malfunction, frozen pipes cause flooding in science center Fallen ceiling tiles lie on lab tables in the science center following Friday's flood-ing, while a clean-up crew turns their attention to the floor. Scott RobowskilThe Argus By Krystina Lane Staff Writer Classrooms, labs and offices in the Center for Natural Science Center and Research were found soaked last week, as a result of problems with the heating, ventilating and air condition-ing system. Michael Vinson, a custodian in the science center, said he ran upstairs when a chemistry professor found water covering the floor of one of the labs last Friday. "There were two to three inches in some places," Vinson said. By the time the water was shut off it had already leaked into the lower-level rooms. It took six hours and about 20 people to mop up the mess from the three floors, Vinson said. Selena Stubbs, a sophomore physics major, arrived around 8 a.m. and saw professors running back and forth between rooms. "Nobody really knew what hap-pened, they were just concentrating on getting things cleaned up," she said. When Stubbs looked into a physics lab she saw and heard water coming from the ceiling. "It looked like a rainstorm," she said. According to David Bailey, head of the natural science division, cold air somehow reached a sensor, activating an alarm that turned off the blower that pulls outside air inside. Because air was still being vented out, but no new air was coming in, the resulting drop in air pressure inside the building pulled open the outside door to the unfinished greenhouse on the third floor. "If you would have tried to enter the building at the time, you would have experienced problems getting the doors open," said Ken Browning, vice president of business and finance. see FLOOD p. 2 IWU senate seat changes voted down By Kristine Nielsen Staff Writer A proposed revision to the Student Senate constitution regarding the distribution of senate seats was the subject of intense debate at Sunday night's senate meeting. Poor attendance at senate meetings by representatives from student organizations prompted the Constitutional Revision Committee to recommend that the automat-ic senate seats guaranteed to the Black Student Union, Council for Latin American Student Enrichment, Gays and Lesbians of Wesleyan and the International Society be eliminated. The revision would have instead made five senate seats available to any group on campus, with at-large student elections determining which groups would be repre-sented. Currently, any senator who misses more than three senate meetings loses their posi-tion for the year. Of the four groups with guaranteed seats, BSU is the only group that has not lost their senate position due to "This will be a trial year to see if things improve. " -Tricia Dailey, Student Senate President excessive absences. "I don't think that [BSU representation] should be jeopardized because some other groups may not have been attending the meetings," said Antwane Cowen, president of BSU, who objected to the committee's recommendation. According to BSU member Carla Nicholas, the committee "does not under-stand the capacity in which our senators serve us," because other senate members do not attend minority group meetings. According to off-campus senator Derek Roach, the revision was not intended to be a punishment to any group, but as way of bringing "new blood and vitality" into the senate by opening up seats to other groups who have expressed interest in having a representative. Last fall, members of Habitat for Humanity approached Senate with an interest in obtaining a position. "This is simply a reflection of the fact that some organizations grow and some die off," Roach said. see SENATE p. 2 Spike Lee talks movie-making, not controversy Filmmaker Spike Lee gives an interview while signing an autograph for sophomore Wellesley Scott III. Lee's appearance drew a crowd of more than 3,000. Jeff Millies/The Argus By David Brown Editor-in-Chief In the few minutes before Spike Lee took the stage, audience members buzzed with excitement as they looked forward to kicking off Black History Month with an earful of controversy. But Lee, who has built a reputation as a moody, tough-talking champion of black issues through his films, avoided the expected controversy last Thursday night at the Shirk Center. In fact, when Lee ended his speech and began the ques-tion/ answer session with the audience, he asked them to refrain from asking questions about how to solve problems like homelessness or racism. "I don't have the answers to those dilemmas," he said. Lee instead gave an overview of his experiences in filmmaking, how he decided to go into films, what it was like to work with different actors and advice to those interested in making films. "I got tricked into thinking I could be an overnight suc-cess. That's a myth and a lie," Lee said. "Ninety-nine percent of those who succeed do so through blood, sweat, tears and starvation." Many students were disap-pointed that Lee's speech ran contrary to its title: "Issues of Race and Class in America." "I expected something a little different, like the topic they put on the signs," said senior Lynn Ellerbruch. "I thought that we paid a lot for him to come, and that we didn't get our money's worth." Ellerbruch, along with many other students, reacted negatively to the ques-tion/ answer session that fol- Clearing up the controver-sy, see pg. 5 lowed the speech. Student Senate originally posted signs asking that stu-dents interested in asking Lee a question should write it on a notecard, which were to be collected, sorted and read to Lee. But before the speech, a spokesperson for Lee told Tim Lindberg, issues and programming commissioner for Student Senate, that Lee wanted to talk to the students directly. What followed was a bar-rage of comments and jokes on The New York Knicks (Lee's favorite basketball team), requests and solicita-tions from aspiring singers and actors and some serious questions about racism in see LEE p. 2 IWU celebrates Black History Month By Erin Gallagher Staff Writer This February, Illinois Wesleyan is celebrating the achievements of African Americans during Black History Month with both established events and some new additions. The month's activities began on Feb. 1 with Student Senate's guest speaker, Spike Lee, and Wednesday's chapel presentation by Pastor Brad Watkins II, of Bloomington. Though the month-long celebration is having its 70th anniversary, this year marks the first Student of Color Weekend at IWU. In an attempt to increase the number of minorities on Illinois Wesleyan's campus, the Black Student Union has planned events for prospective students this weekend, Feb. 9 to 11. "Student of Color Weekend is something that we just thought up this year as an opportunity to invite high school students interested in Illinois Wesleyan on campus and let them see Wesleyan from a different perspec-tive," said BSU president Antwane Cowen. By planning the event for this weekend, prospective students will be able to join the IWU community at the anthology of African American music and the perennial favorite Soul Food Dinner. The anthology of African American music is designed as a historical outline of African American music and will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Main Lounge this Saturday. The Soul Food Dinner, planned by heads of the multi-cultural events committee Carla Nicholas and Cowen, will be held at 5 p.m. in the Main Lounge this Sunday. In addition see HISTORY p. 2 O.P I N I O N A case in favor of school policy -pg. 5 FEATURES Pair of plays reveals delights and fights of mating game - -pg. 3 The Oracle solves the cruddy study ' room mystery -pg. 4 rMe reac en's basketball ches 20-0 mark -pg. 8 Lady Titans roll over CCIW foes -pg. 8 Committee to distribute revised sexual assault policy Monday By Amy Malefyt Staff Writer First of a two-part series The Illinois Wesleyan community will have the chance to discuss the newly revised sexual assault policy after it is distributed campus-wide on Monday. The university's sexual assault policy was over-hauled this summer by the president-appointed Task Force on Sexual Assault. The task force completed the policy revisions and a series of rec-ommendations about safety and security. The policy went to the task force for both "a general review and to address specific concerns as a result of several incidents last spring which marked the first time students brought forth inci-dents to be adjudicated by the policy," said Darcy L. Greder, assistant dean of student affairs-resi-dential life. Greder now chairs the two-year Committee for Campus Culture, formed to implement the origi-nal task force's recommendations and "look at the campus in an effort to create a community that serves well the needs of both students and those who live and work here." Toward that end, the committee will send the new policy to students living in residence halls, sororities, fraternities and off-campus. The policy will be given to faculty members at their faculty see POLICY p. 2 - -- -- -- -p-----------~ - -- II 'L " rl lr ' ''
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Title | 1996-02-09 |
Publication title | The Argus |
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Year | 1996 |
Decade | 1990 |
Publisher | The Argus, Illinois Wesleyan University; printed by The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL from 1894-2009 and P&P Press, Peoria, IL from 2009-present. |
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Full Text | Alarm malfunction, frozen pipes cause flooding in science center Fallen ceiling tiles lie on lab tables in the science center following Friday's flood-ing, while a clean-up crew turns their attention to the floor. Scott RobowskilThe Argus By Krystina Lane Staff Writer Classrooms, labs and offices in the Center for Natural Science Center and Research were found soaked last week, as a result of problems with the heating, ventilating and air condition-ing system. Michael Vinson, a custodian in the science center, said he ran upstairs when a chemistry professor found water covering the floor of one of the labs last Friday. "There were two to three inches in some places," Vinson said. By the time the water was shut off it had already leaked into the lower-level rooms. It took six hours and about 20 people to mop up the mess from the three floors, Vinson said. Selena Stubbs, a sophomore physics major, arrived around 8 a.m. and saw professors running back and forth between rooms. "Nobody really knew what hap-pened, they were just concentrating on getting things cleaned up," she said. When Stubbs looked into a physics lab she saw and heard water coming from the ceiling. "It looked like a rainstorm," she said. According to David Bailey, head of the natural science division, cold air somehow reached a sensor, activating an alarm that turned off the blower that pulls outside air inside. Because air was still being vented out, but no new air was coming in, the resulting drop in air pressure inside the building pulled open the outside door to the unfinished greenhouse on the third floor. "If you would have tried to enter the building at the time, you would have experienced problems getting the doors open," said Ken Browning, vice president of business and finance. see FLOOD p. 2 IWU senate seat changes voted down By Kristine Nielsen Staff Writer A proposed revision to the Student Senate constitution regarding the distribution of senate seats was the subject of intense debate at Sunday night's senate meeting. Poor attendance at senate meetings by representatives from student organizations prompted the Constitutional Revision Committee to recommend that the automat-ic senate seats guaranteed to the Black Student Union, Council for Latin American Student Enrichment, Gays and Lesbians of Wesleyan and the International Society be eliminated. The revision would have instead made five senate seats available to any group on campus, with at-large student elections determining which groups would be repre-sented. Currently, any senator who misses more than three senate meetings loses their posi-tion for the year. Of the four groups with guaranteed seats, BSU is the only group that has not lost their senate position due to "This will be a trial year to see if things improve. " -Tricia Dailey, Student Senate President excessive absences. "I don't think that [BSU representation] should be jeopardized because some other groups may not have been attending the meetings," said Antwane Cowen, president of BSU, who objected to the committee's recommendation. According to BSU member Carla Nicholas, the committee "does not under-stand the capacity in which our senators serve us," because other senate members do not attend minority group meetings. According to off-campus senator Derek Roach, the revision was not intended to be a punishment to any group, but as way of bringing "new blood and vitality" into the senate by opening up seats to other groups who have expressed interest in having a representative. Last fall, members of Habitat for Humanity approached Senate with an interest in obtaining a position. "This is simply a reflection of the fact that some organizations grow and some die off," Roach said. see SENATE p. 2 Spike Lee talks movie-making, not controversy Filmmaker Spike Lee gives an interview while signing an autograph for sophomore Wellesley Scott III. Lee's appearance drew a crowd of more than 3,000. Jeff Millies/The Argus By David Brown Editor-in-Chief In the few minutes before Spike Lee took the stage, audience members buzzed with excitement as they looked forward to kicking off Black History Month with an earful of controversy. But Lee, who has built a reputation as a moody, tough-talking champion of black issues through his films, avoided the expected controversy last Thursday night at the Shirk Center. In fact, when Lee ended his speech and began the ques-tion/ answer session with the audience, he asked them to refrain from asking questions about how to solve problems like homelessness or racism. "I don't have the answers to those dilemmas," he said. Lee instead gave an overview of his experiences in filmmaking, how he decided to go into films, what it was like to work with different actors and advice to those interested in making films. "I got tricked into thinking I could be an overnight suc-cess. That's a myth and a lie," Lee said. "Ninety-nine percent of those who succeed do so through blood, sweat, tears and starvation." Many students were disap-pointed that Lee's speech ran contrary to its title: "Issues of Race and Class in America." "I expected something a little different, like the topic they put on the signs," said senior Lynn Ellerbruch. "I thought that we paid a lot for him to come, and that we didn't get our money's worth." Ellerbruch, along with many other students, reacted negatively to the ques-tion/ answer session that fol- Clearing up the controver-sy, see pg. 5 lowed the speech. Student Senate originally posted signs asking that stu-dents interested in asking Lee a question should write it on a notecard, which were to be collected, sorted and read to Lee. But before the speech, a spokesperson for Lee told Tim Lindberg, issues and programming commissioner for Student Senate, that Lee wanted to talk to the students directly. What followed was a bar-rage of comments and jokes on The New York Knicks (Lee's favorite basketball team), requests and solicita-tions from aspiring singers and actors and some serious questions about racism in see LEE p. 2 IWU celebrates Black History Month By Erin Gallagher Staff Writer This February, Illinois Wesleyan is celebrating the achievements of African Americans during Black History Month with both established events and some new additions. The month's activities began on Feb. 1 with Student Senate's guest speaker, Spike Lee, and Wednesday's chapel presentation by Pastor Brad Watkins II, of Bloomington. Though the month-long celebration is having its 70th anniversary, this year marks the first Student of Color Weekend at IWU. In an attempt to increase the number of minorities on Illinois Wesleyan's campus, the Black Student Union has planned events for prospective students this weekend, Feb. 9 to 11. "Student of Color Weekend is something that we just thought up this year as an opportunity to invite high school students interested in Illinois Wesleyan on campus and let them see Wesleyan from a different perspec-tive," said BSU president Antwane Cowen. By planning the event for this weekend, prospective students will be able to join the IWU community at the anthology of African American music and the perennial favorite Soul Food Dinner. The anthology of African American music is designed as a historical outline of African American music and will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Main Lounge this Saturday. The Soul Food Dinner, planned by heads of the multi-cultural events committee Carla Nicholas and Cowen, will be held at 5 p.m. in the Main Lounge this Sunday. In addition see HISTORY p. 2 O.P I N I O N A case in favor of school policy -pg. 5 FEATURES Pair of plays reveals delights and fights of mating game - -pg. 3 The Oracle solves the cruddy study ' room mystery -pg. 4 rMe reac en's basketball ches 20-0 mark -pg. 8 Lady Titans roll over CCIW foes -pg. 8 Committee to distribute revised sexual assault policy Monday By Amy Malefyt Staff Writer First of a two-part series The Illinois Wesleyan community will have the chance to discuss the newly revised sexual assault policy after it is distributed campus-wide on Monday. The university's sexual assault policy was over-hauled this summer by the president-appointed Task Force on Sexual Assault. The task force completed the policy revisions and a series of rec-ommendations about safety and security. The policy went to the task force for both "a general review and to address specific concerns as a result of several incidents last spring which marked the first time students brought forth inci-dents to be adjudicated by the policy," said Darcy L. Greder, assistant dean of student affairs-resi-dential life. Greder now chairs the two-year Committee for Campus Culture, formed to implement the origi-nal task force's recommendations and "look at the campus in an effort to create a community that serves well the needs of both students and those who live and work here." Toward that end, the committee will send the new policy to students living in residence halls, sororities, fraternities and off-campus. The policy will be given to faculty members at their faculty see POLICY p. 2 - -- -- -- -p-----------~ - -- II 'L " rl lr ' '' |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |