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              THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL. 74 NO. 18 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1996 Sarandon speech to cost $10,400 By NEAL FALGOUST News Editor The Student Government Association approved a $10,400 allocation of funds to the Father Carter Lecture Series to pay actress Susan Sarandon to speak at Loyola on March 13. It also approved $58,000 in allocations to student organizations, $12,000 less than last semester. According to Lee Reid, political science senior and SGA congressperson at large, the series was originally funded for $14,000, but because of the overbudgeting of allocations to student organizations the program had to be cut back to $ 10,400. Cuts were also made in SGA's internal operating budget and in allocations to student organizations to balance the overall budget. A portion of the funds allocated to the series came from money donated by Katy Montgomery, political science senior, which she received for being SGA president. The remainder came from money not used by student organizations last semester. However, Tara Lipinsky, English senior and City College representative, believes that the responsibility of funding the series lies not only with SGA, but with other student organizations as well. "I feel the problem is that some of these other organizations could work harder, and they are not. We (Father Carter Lecture Series Committee) are going above just asking for money from the SGA. We are going out of our way to find some other donor," she said. Richard Houston, first-year law student and Law School representative, said that the money used to pay Sarandon could have been used in a more legitimate manner. 'These $10,000 are originating from student funds. And there are a great number of student organizations who are trying to do valid things, but because of this $10,000 they can't do that," he said. Reid also said that he believes the money will be well spent considering that $ 10,000 is not much to pay a speaker like Panelists discuss environmental issues By ROSE FRENCH Staff writer Differing opinions concerning the news media's role in environmental issues abounded, while attendance did not, at the Covering the Planet panel discussion on Feb. 29 in Roussel Hall. Six environmental reporters from around the country spoke about journalistic interests and questions relating to the environment posed by panel leader Lynn Sherr, correspondent for the ABC news show, 20/20. "The environment is something we all have a stake in," Sherr said. "We all feel the passion." Yet panelists stressed the journalist's responsibility to keep this "passion" in check when reporting. They also voiced concern about the term "environmental journalists," by which they are often labeled. "I'm uncomfortable with the linkage between journalism and activism," said Rae Tyson, reporter for USA Today. "We [panelists] just happen to have a specific area of expertise." Panel journalists stressed the idea of having an informed audience which has not been fed biased material. "An environmental journalist is an oxymoron," said Whitman Bassow, columnist for the global environmental magazine. Tomorrow. "Either you're a journalist or an environmentalist, but you cannot be both." Joel Makower, editor of the Green Business Letter, chooses to inform a business-oriented audience. In his newsletter, Makower reports on companies which are "degrading mines. I integrate green thinking throughout operations," he said. Associated Press editor and reporter, H. Josef Hebert, referred to environmental stories as "feel-good" pieces, while Times-Picayune reporter Mark Schleifstein likened environmental reporting to crime reporting. The only non-journalist on the panel, Timothy Andrews, media director and chief press officer for Greenpeace, U.S.A., made clear his stance as an environmental advocate and offered many opposing answers to the questions asked. "I came to Greenpeace a year and a half ago after ten years in the news business, so I know the other side of the coin," Andrews said. To accommodate the public's need for "The environment is something we all have a stake in." — Lynn Sherr By AMBER SHIELDS Whitman Bassow receives a makeup treatment prior to his appearance. Black cultural center brings controversy to UNC By CHRIS BONURA Staff writer Some unwelcome visitors dropped into Paul Hardin's office on April 16, 1993. At the time, he was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Approximately 70 chanting and clapping protesters found their way into his office — so also did a handful of Hardin's fellow administrators and a group of campus police. The protesters were there to take over. The police were there to make sure they did not. The Daily Tarheel (April 16, 1993) reported that the day before the protest, Margo Crawford, a staff member who led the protest, announced the visit on Hardin's lawn, saying, "This man is acting like a master; I'm not going to play the slave," and "If I wasn't black, I'd probably be chancellor anyway." A delegation of 16 student protesters and one UNC resident were arrested for disorderly conduct that spring Friday morning and escorted to Orange County Court. Later that day, 180 students marched to the campus police department to protest the arrest. The issue that caused such tension on the Chapel Hill campus was the debate over the Sonya Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. This protest was not UNC's first; in fact, it was the final battle of a two-year controversy. It came immediately after student protesters occupied the South Building rotunda for two weeks and a visit by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to the campus to make demands on behalf of the students. Much of the emotion that sparked the controversy started when Sonya Stone died in 1991. She was a professor of Afrocentrism at UNC-Chapel Hill. "After the memorial service students decided to take the center out of the cubby hole in the student center. Leon Litwack speaks on development of American culture By STEPHEN STUART Managing Editor In the 19605, events like the turbulent civil rights movement and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. not only changed America, but shook the nation to its roots, said Leon F. Litwack in his Feb. 28 speech entitled, 'To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock." "The nation appeared to be experiencing a massive breakdown manifest in every section, class and stratum, a breakdown in faith in its ideals, institutions and prospects." Litwack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed his impressions of this tumultuous era. He followed his lecture, which over 80 people attended in Nunemaker Hall, with a slide and film presentation. The Biever Guest Lecture Series sponsored Litwack's presentation. See PANEL, Pg. 6 See UNC, Pg. 6 See SGA, Pg. 6 See LITWACK, Pg. 4 Campaign Trai^ The Maroon will not appear next week because of mid-term exams. We will resume publication on March 22. One for One The baseball team wins hgh