Pride
COLLEGE NEWS/FEATURES
Monday, December 2,1996
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KNAPP from page 4
to watch the other guys get to condi
tion together.”
As a senior in high school,
Knapp suffered sudden cardiac arrest
and collapsed on the court during a
Sept. 19,1994, pick-up game. Though
NU still offered the Peoria, 111., native
a full athletic scholarship, its doctors
declared him medically ineligible be
fore the 1995-96 season.
Knapp and his family filed
suit against the athletic department in
November 1995.
Since then, Knapp has re
ceived offers from other Division I
schools, but continued to hope things
would work out at NU. Last year,
Knapp watched NU’s games and prac
tices from the sidelines while waiting
for his case to go to trial. This sea
son, he may not be as patient with the
appeals process.
“If my status is the way it is
now when (he season starts. I’m go
ing to have to reevaluate the situa
tion,” Knapp says. “Every time North
western gets this pushed back further,
it’s more of a hardship for me, and I
don’t know how much longer I’m
willing to take it.”
Sympathy for Knapp’s plight
has come from all walks of the NU
community, with messages of support
currently scrawled all over the mes
sage board outside his door.
For his teammates, Zagel’s
ruling had provided hope.
“We just want to see him
play and just want this whole thing out
of the way,” said Wildcats sophomore
forward Joe Hamsen. “We plan on
having him around. Nick’s got a lot
of friends here, fits in well here, and
this is where he’s always wanted to
go”
But outside of Evanston,
where countless media outlets have
caught wind of Knapp’s story since
Zagel’s original decision Sept. 9, skep
ticism lingers.
“If Nick Knapp wants to play
college basketball, he should find a
school that gives priority to his ath
letic skills over his physical well-be
ing,” wrote Detroit Free Press colum
nist Charlie Vincent. “Northwestern,
a school that has always put other pri
orities ahead of athletic success.
should not be forced to compromise
on an issue as basic as life and death.”
A note about the case in the
Sept. 23 issue of Sports Illustrated
called Zagel’s decision “unsettling,
given Knapp’s history,” and cited a
Chicago cardiologist specializing in
sudden death among athletes, Peter
Diamond, who labeled Zagel’s deci
sion “a tragedy.”
In revealing the motivation
behind his decision in the Sept. 24
hearing, Zagel reiterated how vague
the parameters are in this case. De
spite hearing testimony from four car
diologists and several physicians, of
which two actually attempted to cal
culate Knapp’s risk of death, none
could provide scientific data specific
to Knapp’s condition.
“It may well have been bet
ter to leave the decision in this case
to a panel of physicians,” Zagel said,
“but Congress has put it in the hands
of the courts. We are out of statistics,
and into the persuasiveness of medi
cal judgment.”
Campus news from across the country i
ATHLETES from page 6.
deification, the public also likes the
games they play. Baseball, football
and basketball are the all-American
sports fitting right in with Mom, Uncle
Sam, apple pie and literally everything
else deemed wholesome and good for
you. Such a tradition could never be
broken for any reason.
The fact remains, though,
that athletes do commit crimes, and
whether they're the star high school
quarterback or the deified professional
athlete, laws should apply to them just
like they do everyone else. A former
football player, Raymond Claybom,
tried to kill his ex-wife, Mike Tyson
was involved in a rape incident, and
recently five freshmen on the South
western Michigan College basketball
team were accused of raping an 18-
year-old woman. Each of these crimes
were very serious and should not slip
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through the judicial system or be par
doned by the American public just
because the offenders were athletes.
The five young men accused
of raping the young woman have been
kicked off the basketball team at SMC
and are not allowed to participate in
any other athletic activities the school
offers. Local law enforcement has
been involved in the case more so than
the school because the alleged rape
occurred in an apartment off school
premises. So far, two of the alleged
rapists have been charged with first-
degree sexual misconduct; the other
three men were charged with third
degree sexual misconduct. All five
young men face a charge of aiding and
abetting first-degree sexual miscon
duct.
However, we must ask our
selves, is this enough? Are these the
strongest charges these individuals
should face? Probably not. Maybe
these young men should face a harder
sentence than just the ones the court
system can offer. One might ask if
the school could not discharge these
students permanently.
Perhaps, though, it is not just
the courts or the school which should
punish these men, but society as a
whole should punish them. The worst
punishment many athletes could face
would be social ostracism where they
would lose all the public fame and
glory they were so accustomed to and
thrived on. Perhaps such a punish
ment would be most fitting for crimes
any athletes commit. Perhaps society
should wake up and realize what re
ally goes on in the private lives of
our most public figures...our athletes.
Female cadets try
extra short haircuts
CHARLESTON, S.C.-
Three female Citadel cadets decided
their short regulation haircuts weren’t
short enough to blend in with the first-
year male cadets, whose shaved heads
give them the nickname “knobs.”
So they took matters—and a
pair of scissors-into their own hands.
The female cadets, among
the first four in the military college’s
first-ever coed class, emerged from
their barracks Nov. 7 with new hair
dos resembling a man’s flattop. But
the new look did not go over well with
Citadel administrators, who expect
students to adhere to uniform codes
of dress and appearance.
“Obviously, you can’t have
a cadet standing in front of the mir
ror, designing [her] own haircut,” siad
Judith Fluck, deputy director of pub
lic affairs at the Citadel.
The cadets--Petra
Lovetinska, Jeanie Mentavlos, and
Kim Messer—will likely be confined
to campus or given demerits as pun
ishment for breaking the rules. The
fourth female cadet, Nancy Mace, did
not participate in the makeover be
cause she is a Citadel band member
and wears a different uniform, Fluck
said.
Apparently, the women
chose the extreme haircuts as a way
to show they are as committed as the
male cadets. “They wanted to show
their unity within the corps,” Fluck
said.
This is the first year of
coeduation for the Citadel. The state-
supported college accepted women
into its corps after the Supreme Court
ruled in June that the all-male policy
at Virginia Military Institute was un
constitutional.
Administrators spent a great
deal of time on the “painstaking” task
of choosing a suitable haircut for
women, which was to be short, but
not as short as the men’s, Fluck said.
The Citadel’s regulation cut for
women is off the shoulders, off the
collar, and leaves ears showing.
The three cadets were sent
back to the Citadel barber, who “tried
to repair the damage,” Fluck said.
VMI announced in Septem
ber that its first female cadets next year
will sport shaved heads like the men.
That has angered women’s right ad
vocates and civil-rights groups, who
contend that shaving a woman’s head
is a form of humiliation.
Cadets indicted
in slaying
FORT WORTH, Texas-
Two former military cadets accused
of killing a girl as payback for a one-
night fling were indicted on capital
murder charges.
Prosecutors say they will
seek the death penalty against David
Graham, 19, and his fiancee Diaile
Zamora, 18, if the couple is convict®
of murdering 16-year-old Adrian
Jones.
The former cadets are ac
cused of plotting Jones’ murder after
Zamora became enraged at Graham
for having a one-time sexual encoun
ter with the girl.
Zamora, a former midship
man at the Naval Academy in Annapo
lis, Md., convinced Graham the only
way to make up for his indiscretion
was to kill Jones, say police.
In a statement to police ob
tained by the Dallas Morning News,
Graham, a former Air Force Academy
cadet, says he “convinced myself that
Diane was even worth murder. After
Diane gave me the ultimatum, I
thought long and hard about how to
carry out the crime. I was stupid, but
I was in love.”
Jones’ body was found Dec.
4,1995, in Grand Prairie, Texas. But
Graham and Zamora were not ar
rested until September, when police
say she revealed her role in the slayings
to classmates at the Naval Academy, i
UO cracks down ■
on cheaters |
EUGENE, Oregon-An es- !
pecially brash cheating incident a few ;
years back still stick in the minds of
administrators at the University of ^
Oregon. '
To ace an exam, a struggling ;
chemistry student pulled a test from a
stack of finished ones, erased the test- ^
taker’s name, and replaced it with his '
own. ;
He did that 14 times—one for
each page. ;
The chemistry professor, ;
however, soon noticed something was 
awry when the struggling student ;
pulled an A and the class overachiever I
didn’t even get a grade. ;
“He put the exam under a I
microscope [and discovered] that it ;
was erased,” said Elaine Green, UO’s J
associate dean of student life. “You j
don’t want to cheat in a scientist’s 1
class.” J
The university recently de- j
cided to rethink its cheating policy '
after an alarming survey revealed that J
nine in 10 UO students admitted to j
cheating on an exam or writing assign- }
ment. The number of reported cases ;
is also on the rise. J
Administrators blame the j
high number of cheaters on the fact
that most get off with a slap on the >
wrist, because outsiders to the cam '
pus community—usually a city attor;;^.,
ney who acts as the university’s heat-•^
ings officer—determine the punish^^
ment. If it were up to them, they’d be ^ ,
much harsher on cheaters. . •' j
The university is considering
a proposal to replace the hearings ofr^-,,.
ficer with a five-member panel of stur
dents, faculty, an administrator, and,._
an outside lawyer. ,
“The proposal, we think,
would do two things—empower stur, . ►
dents in the academic process, and _
give faculty a role,” Green said.
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Congratulationsy December graduates
Bachelor of Arts
Itza C. Baker, Spanish
Frank Borghese, History
Tammy S. Braxton, Sociology
Dena E. Briggs, Music
Eusebius P. Cadet, Business
Administration
Brian C. Clary, Business/
PGM
Antje C. Crawford, Spanish
Laura C. Dell, Business/Com
munications
Stephanie L. Greene, Sociol
ogy
Stacey I. Harper, General
Studies
Allison L. Hirschinger,
English
Connie E. Holloway, English
Larus Isfeld, International
Studies
Beate Maria Kanamine, Soci
ology
Gladys E. de Karp, Spanish
Ruben R. Maes, Spanish
JenniferB. McCreary, Writing
Amanda W. Post, Political
Science
Francis V. Rivadulla, Mass
Communications
Kimberly D. Smith, ArtjCe
ramic Sculpture
Kristy D. Smith, Art!Ceramic
Sculpture
Bryan W. Steinhagen, Writing
Quincy A. Tarrance, History
Heather G. Tomerlin, Politi
cal Science
Bachelor of Science
Melissa G. Allen, Elementary
Education
Christopher A. Baker, Busi
ness Administration
Kenneth R. Benik, History
Mae E. Blivens, Sociology
Julie A. Borja, Elementary
Education
Tina L. Boyles, Biology
Brien W. Brenfleck, Business
Administration
Wendy S. Bridgeman, Psychol
ogy
Jodie O. Bullard, Mass Com
munications
Patricia A. Butler, Criminal
Justice
Stacie L. Butler, Business Ad
ministration/PGM
Kimberly D. Campbell, History
Carter N. Catlett III, Criminal
Justice
Robin C. Christine, Accounting
Tracy J. Collins, Elementary
Education
Marcilla K. Colvin, Business
Administration
David M. Connolly, Business
Administra tion/PGM
Cecilia J. Copeland, Sociology
Alexander V. Curameng, Politi
cal Science
Jennifer L. Dunn, Business
Administration
Monica L. Dunn, Business Ad
ministration
Darlene M. Dykas, Middle
Grades Education
Kimberly L. Frazee, Elemen
tary Education
Raiford A. Gainey, Business
Administration
Ivan M. Garrison, Business
Administration/PGM
Joseph F. Garst, Political Sci
ence
Michael S. Glenn, Business
A dministration/PGM
Fiona M. Grogan, Sociology
William C. Holbrook, Business
AdministrationlPGM
Rhonda L. Horne, Psychology
Martha T Howard, Physical
Education
Norma J. Hunter, Special Edu
cation
Allan B. Jennings, Business
Administration
Rachel A. Juren, Criminal Jus
tice
Beate Maria Kanamine, Biol
ogy
Kristin M. Klarenbeek, Psy
chology
Rori S. Knight, Sociology
MachellL. Kolb, Business Ad
ministration/PGM
Christopher C. Krause, Busi
ness AdministrationlPGM
Lisa H. Lynn, Elementary Edu
cation
Deanna M. Lyon, Elementary
Education
Marcus D. Martin, Communi
cations
Joanne M. Masker, Elementary
Education
Victoria L. McGhee, Biology
Michelle L. McKinney, El
ementary Education
Sean B. Millard, Business Ad
ministration! PG M
Deborah L. Nelson, History
Tracy L. Ossont, Physical Edu
cation/Sports Management
Elizabeth J. Owen, Accounting
Anthony V. Palombizio II,
Criminal Justice
Scott A. Pelletier, Business Ad
ministration
Kirsten E. Pickles, Elementary
Education
Michael C. Platt, Business Ad
ministration/PGM
Ginger A. Preiss, Criminal Jus
tice
Sharon M. President, Business
Administration
Azrul Rashid, Business Admin
istrationlPGM
Carl A. Reid, Sociology
Gary B. Ross, Criminal Justice
Donnie L. Sanders, Sociology
Deborah L. Schweitzer, Busi
ness AdministrationlHealth
Care Administration
Kevin P. Schmuckal, Business
Administration
Walker W. Scott III, Biology
Cherissee C. Shepard, Crimi
nal JusticelSociology
Mineko Shimabukuro, Ac
counting! Business A dministra-
tion
James W. Smith, Elementary
Education
Alberto G. Sola, Biology
Debbie W. Starling, Sociology
Dee M. Stiles, Middle Grades
Education
Alvy E. Styles, Physical Edu
cation
Suzanne M. Sullivan-Davis,
Special Education
Melissa S. Sykes, Elementary
Education
Douglas W. Tabler, Criminal
Justice
Anita R. Tart, Business Admin
istration
Mary W. Tillman, Business Ad
ministration
William M. Tisher, Accounting
Melissa K. Troeger, Criminal
Justice
Jeffrey K. Waffle, Business Ad
ministration/PGM
Christopher J. Warnken, Physi
cal Education/Athletic Train
ing
Kimberly A. Webb, Sociology
Mark C. Weber, Biology
Mary A. Wherren, Biology
Cynthia M. Wiley, Business
Administration
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Brian S. Wilson, Business Ad
ministration
Sandra S. Woodard, Business
Administration
Denise M. Wyche, Business
Administration
Benny L. Wyrick, History
Teresa D. Young, Biology
David R. Zwoyer, Business Ad
ministration/PGM
Bachelor of
Social Work
Tonia R. Bailey, Social Work
Megan L. Burnett, Social
Work
Fiona M. Grogan, Social
Work
Robert L. Reeves, Social Work
Stacy A. Rushton, Social Work^
Kimberly A. Webb, Social
Work
Associate of Arts
Renadelca S. Alexander,
General Studies
Howard L. Brown, General
Studies
Edwin Guzman, Mathematics
Allan B. Jennings, Finance/
Economics
Kristin M. Klarenbeek,
Business Administration
Donna B. Leinbach, General
Studies
Loren D. McNearney, Gen
eral Studies
Amanda W. Post, Criminal
Justice
Darren R. Roberts, Spanish
Benito Rodriguez, Spanish
Larry A. Steele, Criminal
Justice
Brenda K. Tew, Business
Administration
Kevin H. Vos, Accounting/
Business Administration
Donald M. Warren, Business
Administration
Steven P. Young, General
Studies
Eligible for induction into
Alpha Chi (top 5% of
senior class)
Julie Badger
Sandra Kortjohn
Brian Wolford
Tina Boyles
Phillip Land
Lillian Yarborough
Current members of
Alpha Chi
Jo Bagley
John Chartier
Joshua B. Franklin
Joseph Golden
Rhonda Horne
Julie Jones
Micole Juarez
Tammy Maxwell
Rhonda McMahan
Christina Mickel
Yvonne Oates
Min Jeong Phillips
Carol Schaeffer
Mineko Shimabukuro
Alvy Styles
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