the Samford Crimson
81st year, 22nd issue
to inform the mind, to voice the unheard
April 30, 1997
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World
Finn hang glides into
Russia
A Finnish man who wanted to
make Finland's longest hand-
glider flight accidently was ihe
first Finn to hang-glide into
Russia.
Kari Suhonen set off Saturday
hoping to break the glide record
of 140 miles, but strong winds
blew him across the border.
Suhonen landed safely in a
field 18 miles east of the border,
near the town of Svetogorsk. He
was returned to Finland on
Sunday.
Nation
Texas standoff
continues
Despite attempts to arbitrate,
some members of the Texas mili¬
tia continue to demand a referen¬
dum on the independence of
Texas.
The group, calling them¬
selves, the Republic of Texas,
say they are contested the illegal
annexation of the state in 1845.
The confrontation started
Sunday night when the group
took a couple hostage in their
home after months of property
conflicts between the family and
the group.
Mike Cox, a spokesman for
the Department of Public Safety,
maintins that there has been
some degree of progess made.
Hoffman dislikes
dress
Dustin Hoffman has filed suit
a $5 million suit against a publi¬
cations company because he dis¬
liked their choice of attire for him.
Hoffman. 59, is suing Capital
Cities/ABC and Fairchild
Publications over an altered pho¬
ton that Los Angeles magazine ran
of the actor in March.
The photo shows the star in his
Tootsie garb, only the original
red-sequinned dress has been
replaced with a Richard Tyler
gown.
According to court papers,
because the magazine listed pur¬
chase information, Hoffman “was
converted into an involuntary
clothing model without pay."
prepared by Heather Strehlow
Source: www.yaHoo.com
Convo
Today:
Summer Missions
Commissioning Service
Mon., May 5
Jason and Chamlee
Loscuito, US2
Missionaries
Wed., May 7
Daryl Healea, President
Student Ministries
SU expands women's athletics
by Kathy Kitchens
Staff Reporter
The athletic program at
Samford University is expanding
for next year because of Title IX, a
piece of legislation passed by
Congress 25 years ago.
As part of the Education
Amendment Acts of 1972, Title
IX prohibits gender discrimina¬
tion in education for schools
receiving federal funds, and is
especially used within the athletic
programs of colleges and universi¬
ties.
According to a poll in the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Samford University is ranked 8th
from the bottom in a list of 305
Division I colleges for being ‘sub¬
stantially proportional.’
A school passes the ‘substan¬
tially proportional’ test when the
percentage of female athletes is
equal (plus or minus five points)
to the percentage of female under¬
graduates. For example, since 61
percent of Samford’s undergradu¬
ate population is female, about 61
percent of the athletes at Samford
should be female to comply with
this rule.
Because Samford’s football
program brings in about 83 male
athletes for one sport, women only
constitute about 28 percent of the
whole athletic program.
“Some schools with football
programs like Samford would
have a hard time meeting the pro¬
portionality requirements,” said
Samford Athletic Director
Stephen Allgood.
However, in 1979 the Office
for Civil Rights (OCR) developed
a three-part test to help determine
a school’s compliancy with the
Title IX amendment.
The substantial proportionality
test is only the first of these guide¬
lines. The second and third parts
to the test maintain that a school
should strive to promote and pro¬
vide athletic opportunities avail¬
able to women and also to accom¬
modate the athletic “interests and
abilities” of the student popula¬
tion.
A school can comply with Title
IX by meeting any one of these
three rules.
“The effort we’re making is
toward continuing to expand ath¬
letic opportunities available .and
continuing improvement of the
women’s athletics," said Allgood.
Adding women’s basketball
and soccer teams to next year’s
sports lineup will bring in a net
add of about 35 or 40 female ath¬
letes, Allgood said. These figures
might not bring Samford in com¬
pliance with the proportionality
rule, but efforts are being made to
improve and expand the athletic
opportunities available to women
at Samford.
And these additions to the
sports program are not going to
financially effect the programs
already here and are not cutting
into scholarships, but adding more
to the program, Allgood said.
“We’ve been proactive and the
peer review visit from the NCAA
was very complimentary,”
Allgood said. ■
Carrie
Снпготт/Рнотоселгнех
God vs. the media
Religion columnist, Terry Mattingly, pauses to talk
with a student after speaking to a group of media
students Friday. See related article, pg. 3.
West Campus hit
by theft , vandalism
by Kathy Kitchens
Staff Reporter
“Brett English, come on
’down!"
Those last three words, syn¬
onymous with Bob Barker and
price-guessing games, would lead
third-year pharmacy student Brett
English to winning two trips on
The P.rice is Right.
Visiting Los Angeles for an
annual pharmacy convention,
English ended up on the Price is
Right as part of an afternoon activ¬
ity with some other conference
attendees.
“Some people in the class had
scheduled for some of us to go to
a taping for The Price is. Right,"
English said.
This venture to the game-show
world won him two trips: one to
New York City and the other to
New Orleans. However, from sit¬
ting in the audience to surviving
Contestant’s Row to playing the
Bidding Game, where one wins
prizes if he can guess the better
deal, wasn’t as easy as it may
seem.
English said the whole ordeal
took about four hours, and includ¬
ed a lot of off-the-scene happen¬
ings that the actual TV audience
never sees. Audience members
first had to wait and then in groups
of 10 went in to see the producer
and assistant. English then told the
producer his name, what he did,
and where he was from. Then the
group was whisked away.. .into the
food court?
“It looks a lot bigger on TV, but
the audience area was like the size
of the food court - there were only
BY
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RANDOM GENGELBACH
Staff Reporter
Fraternities and sororities are
paying more this year to fix prob¬
lems caused by theft and vandal¬
ism at their houses.
Samford owns the houses in
which Greeks reside in West
Campus, but the Greeks are
responsible for fixing many of the
problems that occur there.
Richard Franklin, vice president
and dean of students, said Greek
houses have specific rooms — such
as the main lobby, chapter room
and storage closets - that belong
to the organization. In these
places, groups pay for their own
furnishings, Franklin said.
Frank Parsons, area coordina¬
tor for west campus housing, said
there have been several instances
within the last year in which items
have been stolen from Greek resi¬
dence houses as well as other
buildings in West Campus.
Two vacuums bought in
January were stolen from the west
campus residence life office with¬
in two months, Parsons said. A
television was also stolen from
the Zeta Tau Alpha lobby. Parsons
said.
According to Robert Graves,
director of campus safety, both
Sigma Chi and Chi Omega resi¬
dence halls have had televisions
stolen during the last year.
• A color printer also was stolen
from the Alpha Delta Pi house as
well, Graves said.
Parsons said that everybody is
looking for someone to blame, but
no charges have been filed.
“Certain instances point to cer¬
tain people, but without proof you
can’t say that kind of stuff,"
Parsons said.
Graves said the burglaries
could be coming from inside the
Samford community.
Please see Theft, p. 2
Student wins trips on Trice is Right'
315 people in the audience,”
English said.
Everyone waited in suspense,
with their nametags taped close to
their hearts, for Rod’s booming
voice.
Besides Rod exclaiming the
next player’s name and saying his
now famous “Come on down!”,
the names of the contestants called
to Contestant’s Row are written
on a board for the audience to see.
The “initial shock of just being ’
up there” helped English keep his
cool even after his name was
screamed out on national televi¬
sion to advance to Contestant’s
Row.
After bidding on and winning
the $1,400 jungle gym and surviv¬
ing the marketing games of The
Price is Right, English was able to
meet Bob Barker at ^5 the
Bargaining Game.
“He was a nice gentleman, but
he didn’t talk too much,” said
English about his encounter with
Barker.
Then after all the waiting, the
agony in the audience and the
fight on Contestant’s Row,
English was up to the challenge of
the Bargain Game. Players win
prizes in this game by guessing
which product or price is the bet¬
ter deal, and for English, this
included two trips. “I just had to
bid on which trip was a better bar¬
gain,” English said.
English will get the $1,400 jun¬
gle gym in about 90 days after the
air-date of his show, but he has no
children and he is not married. But
English’s brush with fame on
national TV did win him a trip to
Ifcw York and New Orieww.