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2 Founded in 1867 as The Western Collegian &V.-mrrr(USP- S 978-52- 0) 27r is published weekly August through May, except during University vacations, holidays and examination periods. The views expressed in letters, columns and cartoons are the opinions of the writers and artists and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Journalism, Ohio Wesleyan University or the Ohio Wesleyan Media Council. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wrmiecript, Phillips Hall; Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio 43015. Telephone (614) 368-291- 1. Second class postage paid. Delaware, Ohio. Copyright: The Transcript 1997 Editor-in-Chie- f. Nicole Waksmundski Managing Editor Andrea Misko Copy Editor Katie Potthoff Sports Editor Pete Lawrence Production Manager Saad Tabani Production Assistant Carrie Barrion Business Manager Eric Ross Circulation Abi D'Amaro, Jeff Locher Advertising Managers : Chris Freeman, Dave Lyon Photo Manager Nick Swogger, Lisa Vardzel 27r xCrmisscript is distributed free to students on the OWU campus. Off campus subscriptions can be purchased for $17 per academic year. Subscriptions can be ordered by calling 614-368-2- 91 1 or writing to: 27r Transcript, Phillips Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015. The newsstand rate is 30 cents per issue. Dear Editor, We promised in March of 1996 to "cut the red tape," and I am very cognizant of that promise. I am not certain if we have succeeded in making the entire student body feel empowered. I don't know if programs like SpeakEasy, where you can anonymously voice your concerns, and Open Air, where Dear Editor, What else can we expect from the followers of Jesus Christ whose mean-spirite- d interpretation of the seventh commandment against adultery is staggering: Whosoever lookcth on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matthew 5:28)? His proposed solution to this problem of lust in the verses which follow is even more staggering. Before Bible thumpers impugn the sexual mores of President Bill Clinton, they should read more closely about the profligacies of David and the debaucheries of Solomon also found in the Bible. King David had an affair with Bathsheba and even arranged to have her husband die (2 Samuel 11). David also had a homosexual affair with Saul's son Jonathan (1 Samuel 18:1-- 4, 20:41-4- 2, and 2 Samuel 1:25-26- ). King Solomon had a harem of 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3). He also wrote frankly erotic poetry in the Song of Solomon. This may be partially explained by the fact that the "book of law" was discovered in (Elic t&rausrript ffileimegfraw, gfi-lirua- ni 5, 1997 Sunderlin's parents teach lesson on dealing with tragedy Wendy Sunderlin's mother and stepfather, Sharon and Bill Throop, appeared in a news report on rape on college campuses 1 1 on television staion WMCH's Monday news broadcast at p.m. Word of the report spread quickly on campus; it was the first time some students mentioned Sunderlin's name since winter break. It has been 12 weeks since Sunderlin took her life. I was not at Ohio Wesleyan last semester; I was studying in Florence, Italy, far from the large freshmen class and the crowded dining halls of OWU. I was not here when Casey Polatsek and Wendy Sunderlin died. Official news of the deaths from the University arrived late, carelessly stuffed in an envelope with issues of The Transcript. It was in an instructional memo from Blake Michaels, director off-campus of programs, not in a letter from University president Thomas B. Courtice. It arrived much later than the rumors of the tragedies did from friends at OWU. I did not know Casey Polatsek or Wendy Sunderlin. The other OWU student in Florence and I spoke about their deaths, and I imagined all the changes I would sense upon returning to OWU. I have not sensed these changes. The oftly mention of Polatsek and Sunderlin I have heard came when I asked my friends about the tragedies. This silence can be a good thing. Perhaps members of the OWU community are understanding and coping with these losses. Maybe students fondly mention their former classmates to one another rather than gossiping about them in small groups. This silence could also be a terrible thing. Last week some members of Delta Delta Delta (Tri-Del- t) sat outside Smith Dining Hall collecting money for a memorial bench for Polatsek and Sunderlin. As they tirelessly asked each passerby for spare change, students quickly shuffled in and out of the dining hall without acknowledging the small contribution box. It is difficult to believe that some of the OWU students with their new Jeep Cherokees could not afford to spare a dollar in memory of two classmates. The Throops chose not to remain silent. Mrs. Throop spoke to The Transcript after her daughter's death. Monday night, when many students may have felt they could successfully ignore what happened last semester, they went on television to speak of Sunderlin's alleged rape. They have not forgotten the November day when their lives changed; they have not forgotten the daughter they were so proud of, whose photos adorned their home in the interview. They also have not forgotten that their daughter told them she was raped on this campus by a student she knew. There is so much to learn from the deaths of Polatsek and Sunderlin, and it is sad that despite their deaths, many students have not given a second thought to fire safety or rape. We must speak and think of Polatsek and Sunderlin regularly. Talk to each other about a memory of Wendy from class or where you were during the fire at Phi Delta Theta. Sunderlin's parents are brave people who understand that death can provide a wake-u- p call. They should be applauded for talking to the public about their daughter, her alleged rape, and her suicide. Through talking and thinking of Polatsek and Sunderlin, their memories Vi II live on, and we can use this opportunity to learn from them. Next year's freshman class should know about Wendy and Casey. They should know what they meant to their friends and this campus, and they should know more about fire safety and rape because of them. Letters to the Editor you can give your opinion and listen to the opinions of others, have helped you. They have helped me get a better perspective on what other students are thinking and feeling. I hope that they have made WCSA more visible and accessible for you. But is it working? Are there other points of view we should be considering? I will never be satisfied representing the few that are interested and choose to stay informed; I want to help everyone at Ohio Wesleyan feel as empowered as I have by the students, faculty and administration. If you have other concerns that have not been considered, please let us know. It is as easy as dialing x3279, and you don't 621 B.C. under the reign of Josiah (2 Kings 22:8), more than 300 years after the Golden Age of Hebrew civilization in 980 B.C. under King David. The law was unknown to David and Solomon but was added hundreds of years later as an afterthought. Sanctimonious prudes should not hold President Bill Clinton to sexual moral standards which even the greatest biblical rulers did not follow. The Bible itself exposes their religious hypocrisy as a fraud. Jim Senyszyn Charlotte, N.C. even need to leave your name. Or approach me or any other member of WCSA directly. Or attend one of our Monday meetings at noon in the Bcncs Room. There are so many options, and it just isn't enough to have the options there if people do not use them. The only way to cut red tape is through more communication, and change may not happen overnight but it will happen. Let us know what you are thinking. For more information concerning WCSA, see this month's issue of Point of Order, available at the information desk in Hamilton-William- Center. s Campus Heather Mitchell ('97) President of WCSA Letters to the Editor Wife Writnscript welcomes and encourages letters to the editor that address issues of importance to the Ohio Wesleyan University community. Letters must be typed, signed and include a telephone number for verification purposes. Letters must be submitted to Wife Wnmscript, Phillips Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015, by 5 p.m. Thursday before publication. Wife Wrttuscript reserves the right to edit letters to 500 words for reasons of length only. Letters submitted on a computer disk in Word Perfect 5.1 are appreciated. . 1 1 1 1 . i
PHefriicsbay, ,3feliruar 5, 1997 Qllje tEranscript Black History Month is not Forget Muhammed Bilal. To pretend that because he lived for a year ina house paidfor by MTV with spoiled brats of all races and both sexes makes him a worthy lecturer for Black History Month should be insulting to black students at Ohio Weslcyan. Black history is an integral part of American history and cannot be properly understood when examined only through a series of lectures by pop culture figures during the shortest month of the year. Most people on this campus probably know black Americans endured slavery, lynchings and codified discrimination. Most also probably are aware that equality before the law without regard to race was an elusive goal for most of our nation's history. But few are likely to know how far black Americans have come in a relatively short time and what that says about them as a people and about the United States as a country. If David Duke and Louis Farrakahn got their wish and black Americans constituted a separate nation, the amount of wealth they own and create on an annual basis would make them the 14th richest country on earth. If you subtract the wealth owned and created annually by South Africa's white minority - which was the beneficiary rather than the victim of a system of extensive racial discrimination - from the rest of that country, it would be the 23rd richest. In other words, black Americans have been able to become richer in spite of slavery and Jim Crow than white South Africans were because of apartheid. Colin Powell, a black American, was commander of the world's mightiest military force. Some of the richest people in the United States are black. At the beginning of this century, when W.E.B. DuBois spoke of the DilbertR by Scott Adams HERE IN THE "DOGBERT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED THINKING," I HAVE DEVISED A, PLAN FOR ENDING POVERTY. FRO NOW ON, I WILL NOT TRY TO REASON WITH THE IDIOTS T ENCOUNTER. I WILL DISMISS THEiA BY WAVING tY PAW AND SAYING MBAH." In Righting Jim Antle '99 "talented tenth," he conceded that 90 percent of black America had virtually no hope of leaving poverty. Today betweentwo-third- s three-fourt- and hs of black America lives above the poverty line. According to Black Enterprise magazine, America's 100 largest -- black-owned companies reported an increase in sales of 10.4 percent during the recession in 1990 and had revenues of $87.2 billion. These are the real achievements of blacks in America, not some politically correct claptrap about who invented the fire escape ladder. The United States remains a (&amic& AY PLAN 15 TO WAIT UNTIL THERE ARE 50 ft A NY TALK SHOWS ON ' TELEVISION THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WITH WRETCHED LIVES CAN BE PAID GUESTS. JUST BECAUSE SOfAEONE THINKS DIFFERENTLY FROft YOU DOESN'T IAEAN HE'S AN IDIOT, DOGBERT. about MTV free country today in part becauseof the black 332nd Fighter Group, led by General Benjamin O. Davis (himself a veteran of more than 50 bombing missions) which downed 30 German planes during World War II and received 88 Distinguished Flying Crosses. The black 92nd Infantry Division lost some 3000 men fighting in Europe, winning 65 Silver Stars, 65 Bronze Stars and 1300 Purple Hearts. The black Red Ball Express kept supply lines open across France after the Normandy invasion. These are just some of the contributions made in one war; there have been black soldiers and sailors fighting for our freedom since the Revolution. While Oakland, Calif, educators would prefer to teach ebonies instead of Maya Angelou, black academic achievement often goes ignored. Dr. Thomas Sowell is widely regarded as the jk-- K a c 2 m o m t2 WHAT ABOUT THE POOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO BE ON TALK SHOWS? WE'LL ON nation's preeminent economic historian. Dr. Majorie Lee Browne of North Carolina Central University is one of the leading mathematicians. Dr. Charles Drew is a scientist who made major contributions to the use of blood plasma. All of these scholars are black. Stanford University provost Condolezza Rice, a black woman, .was the nation's leading expert on the Soviet Union and a principle adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush in U.S. -- Soviet dealings. So we can celebrate black history as a part of our nation's larger history, or invite irrelevant people to campus to lecture us. Maybe next year we can get the black guywho introduces "Singled Out" or have Jimmy Walker come and shout "Dyno-mite!- " in Gray Chapel. Or maybe we can celebrate the historic accomplishments of Americans of all colors year round. GET THEj "COPS "
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