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The Party’s Over
One Campus Will Close for Halloween
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Halloween, something of an unof
ficial national student holiday on many
campuses, is becoming an official
student holiday at one school this
year.
Not all students, however, are
happy about it.
“They wanted to stop the party,
“complained Ed Walthers, chief of
staff of the student government at
Southern Illinois University (SIU) in
Carbondale.
In what is probably the nation’s
most extreme effort to halt student
Halloween parties that often devolve
into chaotic, violent street brawls,
SIU is making all its students leave
campus from Friday, Oct. 26 through
Tuesday, Oct. 30.
“We (the school’s administrators)
have discussed a mid-semester break
for years, but the Halloween situation
hurried our decision,” explained SIU
President John C. Guyon.
The “situation” is the giant, unof
ficial Halloween parties that SIU
students - soon joined by students and
then nonstudents from all over the
Midwest - have held annually since
the mid-1970s.
As the years have passed the party
became progressively more chaotic,
often breaking into drunken brawls.
Injuries and property destruction
became common.
Despite the formation of a Hal
loween Core Committee to coordi
nate increased police protection, street
closings and bans on glass bottles, in
1988 the celebration spun completely
out of control. More than 300 people
were hospitalized with facial lacera
tions caused by broken bottles, one
person was stabbed and a woman was
raped, SIU officials reported.
Frustrated SIU and Carbondale
officials then announced a series of
measures to wind down the party
gradually, finally killing it this year
by driving most SIU students out of
town for the weekend.
“The Student Senate opposed” to
the forced holiday, Walthers said.
While Walthers thought the break
would be good for students’ studies,
he thought the reasoning behind it
flawed. _
Moreover, Walthers asserted some
students who can’t go home will have
no place to stay during the break.
But SIU spokeswoman Sue Davis
said the school had not heard any
complaints from students who had
nowhere to go, and that SIU would
stick to its plan to close all its single
student dormitories.
Married housing would remain
open, she added.
“This decision to close was made
a long time ago,” Davis said, giving
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The toughest ruling against alco
holic beverages in the country went
into effect at the University of Mary
land on Oct. 8, the first day of Home
coming Week.
The new university policy limits
the serving of alcohol to weekend
nights at both on- and off-campus
fraternities and sororities. It also limits
the of piirties and nrutidates that
parties "be'rhonitored by at ’I^Ast two
non-students from four campus secu
rity organizations, including the
campus police.
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An estimate 200-300 University
of New Mexico students chanted and
waved signs saying “Castrate Sigma
Chi” Oct. 5, protesting a “Mafia
Wedding” fraternity party that fea
tured a skit describing the “perfect
female sex organ.”
UNM officials suspended the
chapter after reading in the Daily
Lobo, the school newspaper, that
partygoers had been urged to grab
their loins and shout “Feel the power”
during the skit.
“Things that had been overlooked
before, boys-will-be-boys things, are
not okay anymore,” Jan Roebuck of
UNM’s academic affairs office told
demonstrators in front of the Sigma
Chi house.
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In a battle over their university’s
reputation, more than 2,000 Dart
mouth students filled the campus
green on Oct. 4 for a rally called
“Dartmouth Against Hate.”
Students staged the rally in re
sponse to a Dartmouth Review edi
tion containing an excerpt from Adolf
Hitler’s Mein Kampf on its masthead
instead of its regular credo. In addi
tion to the rally, the college’s Student
Assembly circulated an BxiX\-Review
petition, amassing more than 3,000
signatures.
“The Review does not represent
the views of the Dartmouth commu
nity,” says Student Assembly Vice
President Tara McBennett.
The Dartmouth Review, which is
not associated with the college, has
been the subject of controversy at
Dartmouth since it began publishing
in 1980. In the past it has garnered
criticism for its attacks on minority
groups, women, and its battle with
professor of music William Cole.
Cole, who is black, recently resigned
from Dartmouth after years of attack
by the Review.
Kevin Pritchett, a senior and edi
tor-in-chief of the Review, claims the
quotation’s insertion was “sabotage.”
His staff issued a letter of apology to
the Dartmouth community and vows
to identify and punish the person
responsible for the changed credo.
The Review's credo was altered to
read, “Therefore, I believe today that
I am acting in the sense of the Al
mighty Creator: By warding off the
Jews, I am fighting for the Lord’s
work.” Following its publication,
three Review contributors and the
paper’s president resigned.
Recently, Dartmouth students and
alumni have become increasingly
concerned with national press cover
age of the Review, and the effect such
coverage has had on the college’s
image. "ThcReview’s actions and the
ensuing negative publicity detract
from what actually constituted my
Dartmouth experience,” says recent
graduate Nancy Walcott. “I find their
actions completely irresponsible and
not indicative of the political climate
at the college.”
“Being here today we are part of
the amazing mobilization of this
campus,” says Amanda Roth, a so
phomore and president of Dartmouth
Hillel, the Jewish student organiza
tion on campus. “We must learn that
hatred against any part threatens the
whole. We must now work to pre
serve this unity.”
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students plenty of time to plan where
to stay. “This is not news.”
While SIU’s closing is the most
drastic effort to prevent student Hal
loween parties, other schools are
trying other measures.
In mid-September, city officials in
Boulder, Colo., announced a plan to
make it so hard for University of
Colorado students to get to the local
Halloween street party, held annually
since 1909, that they won’t try.
Previous efforts to make the party,
known as the “Mall Crawl,” safe
generally have failed.
Beefing up security and changing
the name to the “Boulder Boo” in
1989 did not prevent 40,000 people
from jamming into a three-block area,
climbing lampposts, breaking liquour
bottles, trampling lawns and starting
fiphts.
This year, city officials will sur
round the area with roadblocks and
sobriety checkpoints to try to dis
suade people from going to the mall.
Party bans have worked in the
past.
When the annual Halloween party
at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst whirled into in a 1979 riot in
which students vandalized local
stores, UMass officials imposed a five-
year ban on Halloween parties.
Yet Halloween celebrations have
turned dangerous at other campuses
as well.
In 1985 at the University of Illi-
nois-Champaign campus, windows
were smashed, bonfires were lit,
fistfights erupted and party-goers were
showered with glass from broken
bottles. A visiting Northwestern
University student was struck in the
head with a beer bottie, and lapsed
into a coma. He later had to undergo
brain surgery.
Amherst, Harvard
Top U.S. News
Lists of Best Colleges
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Amherst College and Harvard
University are the two best colleges
in the country, U.S. News and World
Report claims.
The magazine’s sixth annual rank
ing is among the most popular of
several such consumer “polls” of the
nation’s campuses, but is the least
popular among college presidents and
other officials.
Last year the National Center for
Postsecondary Governance and Fi
nance criticized the magazine’s rank
ings, for example, as being overly
“quantitative.”
Since the Yale Daily News first
began publishing an “Insiders’ Guide”
to campuses in the 1960s, groups as
diverse as Playboy magazine. New
York Times education editor Edward
Fiske, Peterson’s Guides and
Barron’s, among many others, have
compiled lists that rank campuses by
subjective factors like how hard their
classes are, how much they cost and
even how good their parties are.
Just weeks before U.S. News’ Oct.
10 ranking, for example. Money
magazine named Cooper Union in
New York as “America’s best college
buy.”
“We spend a lot of time listening
to college officials who critique our
rankings,” said Robert Morse, a senior
U.S. News and World Report editor
who oversaw the college rankings
issue. “We all do a lot of research into
(creating) better measures” of a
school’s merits, added Morse, who
said the magazine did change its rank
ing system this year to appease crit
ics.
The magazine ranks colleges on
their academic reputation, student
selectivity, faculty resources, finan
cial resources and student satisfac
tion.
Morse said this year researchers
gave more weight to schools’ finan
cial resources - how much money is
spent on each student - and less to
student satisfaction, measured by the
number of students who graduate in
five years.
The other three categories all re
ceived equal weight.
Morse said it was also the first
year the magazine ranked specialty
schools.
Cooper Union, Money magazine’s
“best,” notably was missing from U. S
News’ list of “best” overall campuses,
‘Their rankings don’t make any
sense,” Morse scoffed. “Cooper only
appeals to engineering students.”
Cooper did get named as the third
best engineering school in U.S. News’
specialty rankings.
Morse said the college rankings
“shouldn’t be the sole reason why
people choose to go or not to a par
ticular school.”
However, he added, “the schools
that make our ranking are inarguably
good schools.”
In an article in the issue, U.S.
News’ editors explain “when two
semesters at some private colleges
can cost more than the average Ameri
can earns in a year, the information
provided by the U.S. News consti
tutes a valuable service for those who
pay the lofty bills.”
(Editor’s Note; St. Andrews was listed
among Loren Pope’s “best buys” in
his book “Looking Beyond the Ivy
League.”
Pope describes St. Andrews in his
latest book - “An Ivy school alumnus,
when telling me about his son who
didn’t have Ivy League credentials,
said that nevertheless everything
turned out well because ‘we found a
great little college in North Carolina
that did wonders for him.’ I knew
without being told he was talking
about St. Andrews; so many of my
clients have said the same thing.”
The Best
Campuses
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The 10 best “big universities” in
the nation, according to the U.S. News
and World Report’s sixth annual list
of campuses that meet its criteria, are:
Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Prin
ceton universities, California Insti
tute of Technology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Duke Uni
versity, Dartmouth College, and
Cornell and Columbia universities.
The best “small” schools, the
magazine said, are: Amherst,
Swarthmore, Williams, Bowdoin,
Wellesley and Pomona colleges,
Wesleyan University, and Middle-
bury. Smith and Davidson colleges.
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