t
79th Year, 19th Issue
Wednesday, March 15, 1995
Samford University, Birmingham, AL
Inside. . .
Page 3
ZTA Hoopfest
raises money .
Page 4
Tennis team
ranked at the
top of TAAC
Page 7
Graduation,
and other
fictional ideas
Iraqi sanctions
to remain
UNITED NATIONS (AP)
— The U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations is pleased
^ith the Security Council's
decision to keep sanctions on
Iraq.
Madeleine Albright lob¬
bied heavily to keep the oil
embargo and trade sanctions
until Iraq complies witha num¬
ber of demands, including
weapons inspections.
Gays in military
policy challenged
NEW YORK (AP) — Six
military members have taken
the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't
tell" policy before a Brooklyn
court. v )
A psychiatrist at a Veter¬
ans' Administration hospital
testified Monday that he's
never found evidence that
sexual orientation affects job
performance.
CON VOS
March 15 —
Christian Emphasis
Week: Mike Glenn, Pas¬
tor, Brentwood Baptist
Church; Re: Creations
Drama Team
March 20 —
AIDS Awareness Con¬
vocation
March 22 —
Jim Barnette: Minister
to the University
Student leader Tiffany
Conaway dies suddenly
By Lisa Wells
Staff Reporter
Last Wednesday, Samford lost
one of its brightest student leaders
when senior exercise science ma¬
jor Tiffany Conaway, 22, died due
to complications following a sud¬
den brain hemorrhage.
A south Alabama4' native,
Conaway recently returned to her
home near Mobile to be crowned as
a Mardi Gras queen, where she was
stricken with health complications.
Funeral services took place Sat¬
urday afternoon at Macedonia Mis¬
sionary Baptist Church in Daphne,
Ala. On Tuesday, a memorial ser¬
vice was offered in Reid Chapel for
the Samford community.
A minority-relations advocate,
Conaway worked relentlessly to
bring unity and cultural understand¬
ing to Samford. She spoke to fresh¬
men at orientation about diversity
issues and participated in a race-
relations retreat held to promote
communication and acceptance
between all students.
A driving force behind the reac¬
tivation of the Black Student Orga¬
nization on campus this year,
Conaway also assisted in planning
many of last month’s Celebrating
Our Heritage activities, specifically
Samford’s Night at the Apollo.
However, the young leader’s
greatest dream will come true this
semester. Due to her efforts over
the last two and a half years, the
chartering of the predominantly
black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta,
will take place on Saturday, March
18. This sorority “is a significant
addition to Greek life at Samford,
and truly would not be taking place
if it weren ’ t for Tiffany Conaway,”
Beeson Woods Area Coordinator
Joclle Rule said.
Conaway’s involvement at
Samford began during her first days
as a freshman. Hoping to positively
influence other students, she was a
resident assistant in Malcolm Hall.
Rule said, ‘Tiffany was not the
kind of person to sit back and wait
for things to come to her. I was so
impressed with her enthusiasm and
diligence while laying the founda¬
tion for Delta, last year as well as
her relationships with fellow stu¬
dents, that I asked her to apply for
an RA position.”
A strong leader for S am ford stu¬
dents regardless of race, ‘Tiffany
more than made her mark on this
Tiffany Conaway
campus,” Assistant Director of Stu¬
dent Activities Suzanne Martin
said. “She encouraged others to
explore their gifts and blessed us
with hers. Her passing was a loss
for Samford and for Alabama."
Senior international business
major Jaclynn Hill said, “She was
never afraid to try anything. She
should be an inspiration to us all.”
“Tiffany could have gone to
many other schools, but she chose
Samford,” Vice-President and Dean
of Students Richard Franklin said.
“When asked why, she replied,
‘I’d like to go to a place where I can
make a difference.’ And she did.”
Roiekt Strickland
/
Photographer
Come out and play
Last Saturday morning, freshmen Sam Nunnally and Keane Tarbell went downtown
to play with children in the area as a part of Ville Crew, an organization of students
who devote two hours to these kids a week.
Arts and
Sciences
makes minor
change
Departments to
control students'
requirements
By John Brock
Staff Reporter
The College of Arts and Sci¬
ences will no longer require that its
students acquire a minor.
Beginning at the first summer
term, each department in the Col¬
lege of Arts and Sciences will have
control over whether a student is
required to declare a minor. At this
time, the College ofiArts and Sci¬
ences is the only school that re¬
quires minors.
Some departments will require
that all majors in that department
must complete a minor, while other
departments will not.
This departmental system will
affect all entering freshmen, and a
possibility exists for non-entering
freshmen not to have a minor, de¬
pending on the department under
which the student is studying. Some
departments that will not require
minors may choose to make stu¬
dents who started with a minor to
complete the courses, while others
will abolish minors all together.
Roderick Davis, dean of Arts
and Sciences, said that the faculty
voted for the change, but the vote
was closc.'To give departments a
little leeway, we have given the
departments the choice of whether
or not to require a minor. Some
departments think minors are a hin¬
drance, and some think they arc a
help," he said.
Stephen Chew, chair of the psy¬
chology department, said that the
psychology department believes
that a minor is too restrictive on a
student.
On the other hand, journalism
Professor Dennis Jones said, "Mi¬
nors are crucial, and students need
to leave Samford with expertise in
something else other than their
major. I believe a minor gives a
student that expertise."
Students wondering whether or
not they are required to have a
minor should speak to the head of
the department in which they are a
major.
Registration brings headaches, scheduling problems
By Stacey Benedict
Staff Reporter
“I guess I’ll just have to put off
taking that class until next spring
and hope that it will fit my sched¬
ule,” junior biology major Chad
Williams said.
Early registration begins Mon¬
day, April 3, along with the head¬
aches that students experience in
trying to get the classes they need.
“I had a conflict with the Cul¬
tural Legacies lab, because I am in
labs for my major four afternoons a
week,” Williams said.
“I couldn’ t rearrange my sched¬
ule, so I’m forced to wait until next
year. They should have more times
when classes are available, espe¬
cially the afternoon labs.”
“Often it isn’t that classes aren't
available, it’s that the section or
time isn’t what the student wants,"
Martha Cox, dean of academic ser¬
vices, said.
“I understand that; I was a stu¬
dent myself. The problem is often
inflexibility. However, I will admit
sometimes scheduling conflicts do
arise."
While some cannot fit classes
into their schedules, others have
problems with classes being closed.
“There are a lot of classes that
everyone needs that are only of¬
fered once a year,” sophomore edu¬
cation major Becky Lewis said.
“I have had plenty of times when
I get to a computer terminal and
find the classes I need are filled.”
Some suggestions have been of¬
fered to help the problem of classes
being closed.
“I would like to see everyone
take classes in sequence. When you
are a freshman, you would take
certain classes, as opposed to sopho¬
mores taking other classes,” Cox
said.
“Often it is the upperclassmen
taking classes that they should have
had earlier that cause problems for
underclassmen.”
“It would be great if your advi¬
sor could go ahead and put your
schedule into the computer while
you’re there,” Lewis said.
“It may be more woik for them
initially, but it would save time in
the long run. So often you end up
having to come back to your advi¬
sor once you have taken it to a
computer and found that the classes
were closed.”
“I haven’t heard many com¬
plaints with early registration. The
biggest problem is with the pro¬
cess,” Cox said.
“University policy requires pay¬
ment before validation. This policy
is published. Whether everyone
reads it or not I cannot be certain."
Schedules are dropped from the
computer if payment is not made
by the deadline.
Then, the student must start over
at validation, trying to get his or her
Please see Registration, page 2
