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the Samford Crimson
80th year, 17th issue
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Nevus
Venezuela:
Students take
spring break trip
page 2
Sports
Baseball:
Samford upsets
Auburn
page 4 .
Features
Leap Day:
Leaping through
history
page5
Editorials
It's not so bad:
Columnist says
look at bright
side of Samford
page 7
World & Nation
Boston:
(AP) Lamar Alex¬
ander has given him¬
self an ultimatum —
if he doesn't win the
Florida primary next
week, he's out of the
race. Bob Dole is the
front-runner in
Florida, and Alex¬
ander said if Dole
wins there on Super
Tuesday, he'll be the
nominee.
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Capitol Hill:
(AP) The White
House is rejecting a
plan being put to¬
gether by Republican
congressional leaders
hoping to reach a
budget agreement.
The plan would offer
more social spending
for programs (educa¬
tion and job trainmg),
but President Clinton
would have to agree
to savings in benefit
programs.
Convos
March 6:
Faculty Lecture:
Gerald Bray, Divinity
School
I t l I | 1 I I j i 1 , • , j ,
March 11-13:
Christian Focus
Week: Leonard
Sweet, Bethel Theo¬
logical Seminary
to inlorm the mind, to voice tht
March 6, 1996
Samford's crisis management questioned
by Robert Strickland
Staff Editor
The Jan. 30 rape charges have
created some controversy and
speculation about Samford's crisis
management techniques.
Although the Office of Pub¬
lic Relations’ official statement
concerning the alleged events said
the university acted according to
its “established procedures,” on-
and off-campus sources have dif¬
fering opinions.
While some said they be¬
lieved Samford actively covered
up the facts, others said they felt
the school's reaction was right on
target.
Most fell somewhere in be¬
tween.
Vice President of Student Af¬
fairs Richard Franklin said most
crisis management manuals rec¬
ommend that organizations ap¬
point one representative to com¬
municate with the public in diffi¬
cult situations. He said Samford
has appointed Bill Nunnelley, di¬
rector of Public Relations, as the
university's media liaison.
- Nunnelley said, “Samford
chooses to act redemptively to¬
ward persons involved in arrest
situations, out of a concern for all
individuals involved, and routinely
does not issue press releases on
such incidents.”
David Shipley, a professor in
the Department of Journalism and
Mass Communication, said the
public relations departments of
colleges and universities have been
“double-handicapped."
He said colleges and univer¬
sities have traditionally used pub¬
lic relations for fund raising and
alumni relations rather than crisis
management.
'Traditionally, non-profit or¬
ganizations. including the vast
majority of higher educational in¬
stitutions, have been slow to learn
the lessons of crisis management
RoeexT Strickland
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Cards get swiped
Sophomores Scott Cohen and Becky Trapp put the new Samford Card to
use in the food court. The new cards finally arrived on campus last week.
Campus Safety warns of mail fraud
by Kristie Willis
Staff Reporter
Students should be on the watch for mail fraud,
said Director of Campus Safety Robert Graves.
Since last semester, Graves has been invest¬
igating claims of mail fraud on campus.
The possibility of fraud was
brought to his attention after some stu¬
dents received postcards from the
Student Advisory Department
of a company called
CAP, Inc. out of Atlanta. '
The postcards told students that they may be eli¬
gible for certain grants, scholarships and financial
aid programs available in the private sector.
The postcards then told students that a limited
number of applications could be processed and urged
students to call a toll-free number for more informa¬
tion. Graves had one of the security officers, acting
as a parent, call the number and express interest in
the financial aid offer.
The officer was told that he had to pay $299 over
the phone with his credit card in order to be eligible
for financial aid.
Both the Postal Inspectors and the FBI are inter¬
ested in this case because it involves interstate com¬
merce. However, for Graves, the concern hits closer
to home. “We will build a federal case of this because
this company is trying to rip off students,” he said.
Graves advised any students who get financial
aid offers from CAP, Inc. to handle the mail as little
as possible and bring it to the Campus Safety Office,
where it will be checked for fingerprints and filed. ■
Pharmacy alumnus donates $10 million
as practiced by corporate
America,” Shipley said.
“Student protection is public
relations,” he said, “and corporate
performance always precedes any
public communication.”
Other faculty members would
only discuss the matter off the
record.
Channel 6 news reporter Lee
Whaley said Samford officials put
the station on hold for hours be¬
fore releasing a statement about the
alleged rape, which he said was
“literally a statement as to the
Samford policy rather than actual
details of the incident” ,
please see Crisis, page 2
Theologian
highlighted
for Christian
Focus Week
by Michelle Henderson
Staff Reporter
Leonard Sweet, dean of the
Theological School at Dean Uni¬
versity in Madison, N. J., will be
the featured speaker for Chris¬
tian Focus Week.
The event will be held
March 11-13.
Sweet, author of numerous
0 articles and books,
including the best¬
selling Faith
Quakes, is the asso¬
ciate editor of Jour¬
nal of the American
Academy of Religion.
He served for four years as
a professor of church history at
United Theological Seminary in
Dayton, Ohio, where he was also
a former president.
He is recognized as a lead¬
ing interpreter of American cul¬
ture and is considered one of the
great communicators in the
church today.
Sweet will speak at 10 a.m.
in Reid Chapel this Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Following Tuesday’s lec¬
ture, faculty and staff are in vited
to the Auxiliary Room in Burns
Hall for a reception and a chance
to meet and talk with Sweet,
Local pastors are invited as
well. ■
by Elizabeth Ragland
Staff Reporter
An alumnus of Samford's
School of Pharmacy recently gave
$10 million to the school — money
that was specifically given for up¬
grading and changing the building.
‘ 1 Clay tori MdWhortif, who
graduated from the School of Phar¬
macy years ago, is a retired Chief
Executive Officer of Columbia-
Hospital Corporation of America.
He has already given $3 million to
the school, and the other $7 million
has been placed in a trust fund,
which the school will receive upon
McWhorter’s death.
The money will be used for
growth and expansion. “Starting
April 1 , Ingalls Hall will have a face
lift,” said Tony McBride, associate
dean of the School of Pharmacy.
“There will be a new wing added to
the school.”
Creating more study space,
building new laboratories, and pro¬
viding more technology construct¬
ing classrooms are some of the pos¬
sible uses of the money.
Along with these possible
changes comes a change in die name
of the school. Right now the school
is referred to as The Samford Uni¬
versity School of Pharmacy. The-
new name of the school will be The
Samford University McWhorter
School of Pharmacy.
To celebrate the changes being
made in the School of Pharmacy, a
dedication day is being planned for
May 10. ■
Tuesday schedule change
Class schedules will be
altered due to Tuesday’s lec¬
ture. They will be as follows:
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8 a.m. classes conclude at
8:50 a.m.
■9:30 a.m. classes will begin
at 9 a.m. and conclude at 9:50
a.m.
■Normal class schedules will
resume at 11 a.m.
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