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Volume 1, Number 8 A Campus Information Service of The Journalism Workshops April 13,1995 Forstchen, Gingrich Anticipate “1945” by Amy R. Buckner Professor of Histotv Dr Bill Forstchen and Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich anticipate the June 28th re lease of their militarv adventure novel ■'1945”. The idea for the book began with Gingrich. In Februarv of 1994. Forstchen"s publisher sent him to meet with Gingrich. According to Forstchen, he and Gingrich hit it off immediately and agreed on a co-author ship of the book. The thrust of the novel is a ’what iC situation in which World War II never oc curred Hitler discovers the Manhattan Project the US is conducting to build the atomic bomb and launches a plot to destroy Manhat tan. ” 1945’’ has received a fair share of press with segments featured on “Hard Copy” as well as “Entertainment Tonight” . According to Forstchen, every major network as well as sev eral publications have overwhelmed him with phone calls and interview requests. Speaker Gingrich has also received a barrage of press. In late April of last year the House Ethics Com mittee reviewed the contract process involving the book. Forstchen expressed, “Too mueh atten tion is being placed on the sexual aspeet of the book and unfortunately it is distracting from everything else. This book is alternate his- Student Apathy Results in Unopposed Elections tor\'. Sex consists of about 300 words out of 120,000 so if people want excitement they should read Sports Illustrated instead. It is a Tom Clancy type book.” Forstchen stated, “I think Newt has re ceived unfair press. I've also experienced the unfairness directly. The press tries to lead you into inappropriate quotes. The media is liberally biased and they arc not interested in the truth.'’ According to Forstchen, the Democrats have launched a smear campaign against Gingrich regarding the book because there is not anything bad to say about him, Forstchen exclaimed, “Who the Hell are they anyway? They are a bunch of hypo crites.” by M. Janie King Results of the Student Government As sociation elections will be posted today by the election committee. Campaigning has been going on for the last tw'o weeks with speeches held last Tuesday, April 11. Running for executive offices in SGA were Karis Boyer (presently SGA vice-presi dent) for President; Junior Scott Bowers and international student Bob Kerich for Vice- President; Aaron Ship for Secretary/Treasurcr and Queen Musengwa for Student Activities Chair. Julie Parkerson ran for the off-cam pus representative. Candidates for class Presidents are Heath Peek for Senior Class, Amy Parsley for Junior Class Representative and Antwan Phelps challenging Chris Howard for the Sophomore office. Judicial candidates included Maura Buus for Senior Associate justice. Chris Baltzinger for Judicial Council Chair and Terrence Johnson for Sophomore Honor Court Representative. A problem that Elections Committee Chair Boyer found is a problem that has been common for the past two years. She ex claimed in her speech of Tuesday, "I've had to search for people to run for these elec tions. Most people arc running unopposed. We need people to run against us!" Jeff Reardon, Senior class President agrees. "In the elections my Freshman year, the competition was fierce. No one ran unop posed. People need to understand if they want changes to take place in this school, they need to stand up for what they believe. The best way to do that is through SGA." Junior Scott Bowers, one of the few can didates running opposed, stated, "I believe that the competition helps the candidates take ev erything more seriously. It's definitely good." Since karis boycr is running for an SGA position she has turned over the counting of votes to last year's Election Committee Chair, Janie King. Blue Ribbons Alert Students to Abuse by Melissa Brown Last year in North Carolina alone 94,146 children were abused. Since the Greybeard Players' spring produc tion Fortress deals with abuse, Alpha Psi Omega will be distributing blue ribbons for students to wear during the month of April to help increase aware ness of child abuse on campus. Assistant.Professor of English of Communications and Director of Fortress Brian Fuller will briefly dis cuss the ribbons' significance and how child abuse prevention relates to For tress' themes. Honor Students Take Atlanta King, Reardon Present Papers at National Conference by Zola M. Griffin Students in Montreat’s Honor Society, Alpha Chi, attended the 1995 National Con vention in Atlanta, GA on April 6-8, accom panied by Alpha Chi sponsor. Dr. Risher. Students in attendance were Seniors An gela Berry, M. Janie King, Jeff Reardon, Joy Stumph, and Mark Wright. Close to 1000 stu dents were present at the Convention from chapters as far away as Alaska and Hawaii. Attendees had a chance to attend busi ness sessions, exhibits and displays of art and Reid, Senior Class Honor Professors by John Langer On Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. in Howerton cafeteria, the Senior class spon sor the "annual teacher appreciation" dinner. The dinner will depart from tradition with only one speaker Environmental Science ma jor Senior Ann-Luise Reid as the main speaker. Janie King Vice-President of the Se nior class exclaimed “I am really excited about it because it is going to be different”. President of the Senior class, Jeff Reardon, stated “There will be a surprise” this year. The Senior class has also reinstated the "teacher of the year" award. The award is given to the professor which is voteS most deserving by the entire student body, A pro fessor can only win the award four years in a row, however since the award remained dor mant last year all professors start w ith a “clean slate” and all are eligible to win. During this time, the Senior class will present a gift to the professors, a financial do nation to a charity National Hydrocephelus Spina Bifida Foundation. Kevin Hord assisted the Senior class in contacting outside sources. The amount raised for the donation will be ap proximately four hundred dollars, King and Reardon have worked at mak ing the dinner move more quickly and be less tedious for all who attend. All are invited to attend the dinner. memorabilia, and discussions about differing aspects of the Alpha Chi Society. Students heard an address by Leon Harris, CNN “Morn ing News” Anchor, entitled “So You Want to Succeed: Who Doesn’t?” in which he discussed how he came to be a CNN reporter. Another large aspect of the convention was student presentations. In this segment of the convention, members had the opportunity to hear presentations from their colleagues in several disciplines, from philosophy to tcch- nology/mathematics. Reardon and King represented Montreat and the North Carolina Tau chapter, Reardon’s presentation in the field of English, called “American Pic,” was in the form of a short story interacting with lyrics from the song by Don McLaine of the same name. King gave a presentation called “Voices of Terror: Multiple Personality Disorder’’ in the psychology/so ciology realm. The students experienced an enjoyable and educational convention. However, some students saw the event as a travel opportu nity. SGA President Wright explained: “We spent more time wandering the city of Atlanta than at the convention.” English Communications major King disagreed: “They set up the convention so that each individual group had time to really get to know each other.”
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