Meredith Herald
Volume XIII, Issue 10 We attract bright, talented, ambitions students. Naturally we're a women's college. November 13, 1996
Seniors wait inside the Park Center for the weather co dear up so the Comhuskln' parade can begin.
Area schools look at
drinking problems
Cornhuskin’ storms in again
By Carcy Gore
It’s a scene we all know well, as well as one
we come to expect while tnidging by tailgaters
en route to the football games. After all, what’s
a tailgate party with the works without a cooler
full of beer? Or any party, for that matter? A
large majority of college students would be
quick to answer that question with a resounding
“not much!”
According to last Sunday’s News and Ob
server, officials atNC State, Duke, and Carolina
trying to crack down on the “alcohol-soaked
campuses” are fmding the task rather difficult.
Many agree that the trend, which once encom
passed mainly collcge-age students, has become
worse driven by tiie number of high school
students who consume in excess.
NCSU freshmen Anita Reed and Jamie
Rencher agree tliat high-scliooi alcoholism is
becoming an increasing problem.
“A lot of my friends' parents didn't care if
they drank as long as they did it at home,” said
Reed. “They would buy it for them most of the
time. One of my friends convinced her dad to
rentakegforherl6th birthdaypany.”
Rencher nods in agreement as botli girls
laugh.
“Seriously, though “said Rencher, smiling.
“About 15 to 20 percent of our senior class were
alcoholics.”
Dan Spence, a 198S Carolina graduate, had
his first taste of alcohol during his freshman
orientation.
“My O.C. (Orientation Counselor) took us
on something he called “The Fishbowl Crawl,”
he said. “We had to order and consume one
drink at every bar on Franklin Street. After
about the ninth bar I got separated from my
group and had to somehow find my way back
tomydorm-lcan’tremember being sicker than
1 was diat night in my entire life.”
Measures have therefore been passed to try
andcurbthese“introduction procedures.” Duke
has delayed its rush for both fraternities and
sororities until next spring, and this year’s
freshman class was relocated to East campus,
which has a reputation for being “dry.”
Carolina's oish was shortened by a week at the
request of the chancellor, who also increased
campus police patrollers. Other attempts at
strengthening drinking policies at both schools
include the banning of kegs and enforcing
B.Y.O.B. rules so that indents can not be held
responsible for distributing alcohol.
Recent crackdowns are believed to be a
direct result of last May’s Phi Gamma Delta
fire in Chapel Hill thaiclamied the lives of five
teenagers.
“One of tlie girls that died was a classmate
of mine. But alcohol and fraternities go hand in
hand. I just don’t see how they’re going to
enforce these policies. They can’t be every
where, and just because people get caught
doesn’tmean they’re going to stop" saidUNC-
CH senior Leigh Krolczeik.
Meredith, witli its bone-dry campus policy,
has had very few problems enforcing its alco-
See ALCOHOL, page 4
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Once the rain dissipated, the evening events
for Comhuskin’ 1996 got underway. Shannon
MacFarlane and Sara Muse, MRA Comhuskin’
co-chairs, asked the class of2000 and all of tlieir
2000 Maniacs to lead the student body into the
amphitheater.
Once the freshman had found their scats, the
Disco Dancin’ sophomores danced their way to
the song “YMCA” as they entered the theater.
The juniors marched and cheered their way
down the steps as they shouted “3-2-1 We’re
Back in the Ballgame.”
The seniors followed moments later, light
ing the way as if the steps were an airport
runway. It was their way to let the rest of the
students know that it was “time for them to fly.”
The five judges were as follows: Chrissie
Bumgardner, Director of First Year Experience;
Dean Sharon Cannon, Dean of Students; Amy
Avery, CareerCenter counselor; Lisa Pace, class
of ’84; and Betsy Monrison, class of ’77.
Ouce the judges introduced themselves, the
events began. Cornshuckin’ and apple bobbin’
brought loud cries of encouragement for each
class representative and the faculty representa
tives.
Dr. Lyn Aubrecht, psychology department,
shucked some corn as Dr. Carolyn Happer,
history department, donned her swimming cap
prior to bobbin’ for apples. Students cheered
Dr, Happer on as she retrieved the last of the
remaining apples in her tub.
The 1998 Bathtub Ring, sponsored by the
PHI’S, entertained the crowd with a few of their
favorite songs such as “Have Mercy.” “Rocky
Top,” “Seven Bridges Road,” and ending with
“Mountain Dew.”
Each class presented their skit, followed by
Hog Callin’, and then Tall Tale. The sophomore
class was disqualified from Tall Tale because
they ran over the three minute time limit.
After all acting skits were pcrfomied, the
freshmen class started off tl)e songs category.
Unlike last year, the rain did not wash any song
sheets away or drown out ihe words.
WINGS performed a take-off of the popu
lar soap opera “Days of our Lives” when they
See CORNHUSKIN', page 4
Stalking of students a
growing campus problem
By Tory Hoke
A stalking victim can change her phone number, hervehicle, her daily routine and even her place
of residence, but most people do not have the resources to change their places of employment and
education- Thus the college a pwson attends can become the home base fora stalker’s attention.
A 1990 FBI release estimates 1 in 20 American women will be stalked m their lives - about
200,000 victims per year - and 30% of all homicides of females are committed by a victim’s current
or former husband or boyfriend.
Stalking became a national concern with tlie 1989 shooting death of “My Sister Sam” actress
Rebecca Schaeffer at the hands of obsessed fan Robert John Bardo. California, the site of this
murder, became the first state to establish anti-stalking laws in 1990. Twenty-nine states had similar
laws by 1992, and the rest within three years. AlthoughSchaeffer did notknow her assailant, experts
estimate 75%-80% of all stalkings arc domestic • the stalker is an intimate of tlie victim. According
to the Cornell Women's handbook, “stalkers are likely to be someone that we know, and stalking
is much more than just being followed.”
Often there is little a stalking victim can do on her own to end the stalking. According to a report
by Clinton VanZandt. head of Van Zandt & Associates, a major crisis management and coiporate
security consulting company centered in Virginia, thestalker“believes that all he has lodo is pursue
her a little harder, a little funlier, and she will give in to him. ‘1 cm make her love me' [Vau Zandt’s
emphasis] becomes the stalker’s goal and obsession.” The report goes on to say that the simple
obsessional individual, one with a prior relationship to the victim, may say ‘If 1 couldn’t have her,
no one was going to have her,' Police departments and security offices all over the world have heard
this typeof irrational reasoning used tojustify the stalking and eventual assault upon a victim by her
obsessed pursuer.
See STALKING, page 6
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