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Volume 76 Number 4
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Wednesday, September 25, 1991
Senate pushes for students on Board of Trustees
Neal Hutchens
Staff Reporter
The Student Goverment
Association Senate has
unanimously approved a
proposal seeking to add two
non-voting student repre¬
sentatives to the Board of
Trustees.
The board would have to
approve the plan, which
Senators passed at their Sept .
17 meeting. Pi Kappa Alpha
Senator Ken Whitehouse and
Business School Senator
Austin Alldredge were the
sponsors of the proposal.
Following a few minutes of
debate, the proposal passed
after one amendment was
added.
The amendement said the
Senate should select two of
its members to fill the board
positions.
The original language of the
proposal had said the stu¬
dents would be elected at large
by the student body.
“Having two students on
the Board of Trustees would
create a better flow of under¬
standing between the stu¬
dents and the administration.
They [student representa¬
tives] could take notes, ask
questions and report back to
the Senate,” Whitehouse said.
Whitehouse said he is not
aware of other schools with
students on their boards of
trustees. “We’re on new
ground," he said. “A some¬
what similar situation might .
be the desire of the faculty at
Auburn University to have
two faculty members on
See ’Trustees" on page 2.
Sorority promoting
sisterhood, service
By Debbie Sheffield
Staff Reporter
Gamma Sigma Sigma, a
service sorority with a chap¬
ter at Samford, is promoting
various charitable causes,
including the “Gift of Life,” a
program involved with blood
collection, bone marrow
testing and teaching people
about donor awareness.
National Secretary Mich¬
elle Slay, a former Samford
student, said the unique
thing about Gamma Sigma
Sigma is “it provides an out¬
let for service projects and
gives opportunities for sis¬
terhoods to develop. It’s the
best of both worlds."
In addition to helping
others, Slay said Gamma
Sigma Sigma’s purpose is to
promote friendships between
people of all races and
lifestyles.
Other projects vary from a
cerebral palsy walk-a-thon
to helping with the Ronald
McDonald House.
Chapter President Robin
Farmer said one of the more
meaningful projects Gamma
Sigma Sigma undertakes is
helping victims of family vio¬
lence. Members of the orga¬
nization go to a shelter for
battered women and help
clean and organize the facil¬
ity.
Farmer said, “I like to go on
site and help directly, rather
than j ust send money. It helps
develop your character, per¬
sonality ... You can clearly see
the results of your work.”
Freshman Melody Harper
said she is already excited
about the upcoming events
and looks forward to “making
a difference in other people’s
lives."
Advisor Mike Howell, head
of the biology department,
said, “These are a group of
fine young women who have
their hearts in the right place."
Phoio by Lynn Hadden
Alan Abercrombie poses with Foots the cougar, whose future in Homewood remains uncertain.
Students join fight for local cougar
Freshman officers elected
The following are the re¬
sults of the elections held
Sept. 18 and the runoffs on
Friday:
Freshman Senators
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Dill, president
Wendy Lee, vice-president
taiy Sehrope, secretary
Dormitory Senators
Anthony Scott Greer and Anr
Redmon, Beeson Woods;
Brad Heffner. Smith Hall;
Jenny Barnes and Amy
Cleary, Lena Vail Davis Hall
Kim Pique, A/B/C Dorm;
James Brown, West Campus
See "Elections" on page 2.
By Jamie Tuning
and Neal Hutchens
Staff Reporters
Samford student Angie
Pierce is on the prowl again
after she learned the fight to
keep Foots the cougar in
Homewood is not finished.
Pierce first became involved
in the controversy when she
learned the Homewood City
Council wanted Alan
Abercrombie to stop keeping
the cat at his Homewood resi¬
dence after a neighbor com¬
plained about the cougar’s
presence.
She collected 50 signatures
in support of the feline but
never gave them to
Abercrombie. After the
Homewood City Council ruled
the cat couldn’t stay in the
city limits, she thought the
issue was dead.
However, when a Crimson
reporter informed her
Abercrombie was still claw¬
ing away for Foots' right to
stay in Homewood she said,
“I will definitely pass the sig¬
natures on to him now.”
Abercrombie said, “My law¬
yer is working on this. They
[the Homewood City Council]
think this is over but it ain’t.”
“I have had a lot of people
call me at work and tell me
they support me,"
Abercrombie said. He also
said he has a list of about 300
names of people that live and
work around the area that
don’t mind Foots’ presence.
“The cougar has a lot of
friends,” Abercrombie said.
He said he has kept the
year-old cat at his Homewood
See "Cougar" on page 2.
SU makes U.S. News' top 25 list of regional schools
By Scott Jackson
News Editor
U.S. News and World Re¬
port has ranked Samford
among the top 25 regional
universities in the nation,
according to a Friday press
release from Samford Infor¬
mation Services.
For the third consecutive
year, the magazine has in¬
cluded Samford in its annual
“America’s Best Colleges”
survey. The 1992 edition,
which hit newsstands Mon¬
day, ranks Samford seventh
in the South.
U.S. News studied statis¬
tics on 558 regional univer¬
sities which offer “the kinds
of professional programs
found at largestate univer¬
sities and the inffinate setting
of a liberal arts college."
Factors in the ranking were
selectivity of student body,
quality of faculty, financial
resources and level of student
satisfaction.
“At Samford we operate
from deep conviction about
what a quality university
education ought to be,” the
press release quoted Presi¬
dent Thomas E. Corts as say¬
ing. “We’re not faddists who
restructure with each new set
of-buzz-words.
“The U.S. News and World
Reportsurvey has become in¬
creasingly sound and objec¬
tively-based, making recog¬
nition all the sweeter," Corts
said. "This university is get¬
ting stronger Wery day, and
maybe even stronger than we
thought if we tjave been no¬
ticed from as \far away as
Washington.”
Other Alabama schools
listed in the survey are the
Sam to
University of Alabama at
Huntsville, fifth among
Southern regional universi¬
ties, and Spring Hill College
of Mobile, 10th among
Southern liberal arts colleges.
No Birmingham-area school
other than Samford has made
the past three surveys.
Samford has also recently
been highlighted by Money
magazine and Peterson's
Competitive
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