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let's begin again
thanks for the memories 14
rank and file 306
it doesn't grow on trees 352
names & numbers 382
the fat lady sings 396
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think. I can't tell you how
to act or what to say or
how to view the world.
We think of Don Quix-ote
as just a character in a novel; but he
is a part of all of us. He is unconven-tional.
He believes that he is a valiant
knight—dutifully attacking the ills of
society which take on physical shape
in his mind. It's so easy to agree with
and conform to society. Quixote can be
viewed as nothing less than a man with
ideals that don't conform to those of the
society which attacks and ridicules
him for being different. To place Quix-ote
in modern context is simple, for
Quixote is timeless. He is a radical
politician running for President on
some obscure ticket, he is a high school
valedictorian who decides to become a
teacher though the rewards will be minimal,
he was a white man who joined the civil
rights movement, he writes letters to the
editor and protests for what he believes to be
right. Quixote often goes unnoticed, unre-cognized,
and unrewarded, often scorned
and criticized by his own society. For this
reason he is the focus of this book—Quixote
the individual.
Mark Freid
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6 QUIXOTIC
w «,... V •• t Tulane we encounter the A locals the same way Don
Quixote met the people
on his journey.
Our lives at Tulane are
no different than that of Quixote and
Sancho Panza in Spain. Anyone who
knows Quixote knows that his actual
travels did not take him to far away
lands. He didn't stray far from La Man-cha,
but his mind and his perception of
the world took him places that no one
else could understand. I return home
each summer and speak of a place that
no one can understand. I picture this
place as a haven, yet my rational self
remembers the many difficult and try-ing
times when I wondered what it was
all worth. This illusion, this selective
memory, allows me to picture Gibson
Hall as the austere building that I want it to
be. I don't care if no one understands I want
to live in my illusions; I want to inhabit the
world my mind creates for me; I want to see
the world from within, not the way others
tell me it is. Quixote eventually realizes that
his true love Dulcinea is just a figment of his
imagination, but his love for her never dies. — Mark Freid
QUIXOTIC 7
8 QUIXOTIC
f you come to Tulane and
I
never stay home one Sat-urday
night to self reflect,
you've missed a vital part
of your education.
Mardi Gras is a great time to watch
people. We walk down the street, we
stare, we point, and it's accepted. When
1 was younger I remember seeing a
midget in the supermarket and my
mother told me not to stare. I was
fascinated. Here was a man who looked
somewhat like me, but was obviously
different; I had to satiate my curiosity. I
walked down each aisle hoping to see
this man that had so fully captured my
attention, and when I saw him, I pre-tended
to be reading the back of a
cereal box. We can't suppress this natu-ral
curiosity. We are mistakenly taught
at a young age to put blinders on and
not investigate people who are differ-ent.
But we must understand others in
order to understand ourselves. We hide
this curiosity of other people and their lives
in television, movies, and books, but never
venture outside to discover our neighbors.
At Tulane we never look past the narrow
confines of our very private society. The
world outside goes undiscovered as we al-low
no one to permeate the boundaries and
unfortunately too few of us ever walk out-side
the walls. —Mark Freid
QUIXOTIC 9
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Is it wrong to do the
majority of your awaken-ing
and growing during
your last year in college? I've only just
begun to realize what my true respon-sibilities
are in life. I don't mean being
responsible for doing my homework or
walking the dog. I mean my responsi-bility
to act on what I know is right.
This presents two problems. First, how
do I decide what is right and just? And,
second, how can a single individual
with no influence act on his convic-tions
and produce significant, satisfy-ing
results?
I was sitting in class the other day. It
was one of those classes where the
teacher allots 10% of the total grade to
class participation. I thought of what I
wanted to add to the discussion that
had begun with an analysis of the
American welfare system. I pictured
myself espousing my views, I pictured
the class reacting to my words, and I
pictured the professor's reaction. I de-cided
not to say anything.
As I now have this open forum to
make a presentation, I must assure
myself that all that I write makes me
proud to be me. We regress to the story
of Don Quixote. Here was a man who
stood for ideals that crossed the soci-etal
norm. He was scorned and ridi-culed
and his society tried to force its
views on him. Quixote, however,
proved his strength by facing his oppo-sition
and maintaining his unique out-look.
The words I write and those written
by the other writers in this book are not
printed to make you believe the way we
believe. They are presented to make you
think and question. If you read this page
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and don't understand my ideas but use
them as a springboard to furthering your
understanding of your own, then I have
completed my mission.
I read once how man expresses his
individuality by identifying himself as
a part of groups and subgroups. It
stands to reason that a person can as-sume
his individuality as a member of
numerous diverse groups. In doing so
he distinguishes himself from his peers
and how they define themselves
through other organizations. I want
now to break down all the walls, erase
all the boundaries if I may. Certainly
we're proud to be Americans, to live in
Florida, to attend Tulane, to be a Chi
Omega; but now I want to dispose of
those confining terms and dissolve the
boundaries that separate us. Let us not
look down upon Quixote because he is
different and doesn't believe as we do.
This book is neither about Chi Omega
nor Tulane, nor Louisiana, nor Ameri-ca.
It is about individuals; unique, in-teresting
and worthy of our interest,
respect, and quite often our admira-tion^
if only we took the time to dis-cover
and understand our brother.
If you look at the faces of the people
on these pages and substitute their
features with those of people you
know, enabling you to question what
you think of your fellow human being,
how you treat him, and how you view
the people around you who are differ-ent,
then I have satisfied my intent.
This book is a tool. We are not pre-senting
your memories of Tulane and
New Orleans 1988-89, we are present-ing
cues so that you can recall and
remember your special and unique
moments; no matter how quixotic they
may have been. — Mark Freid
QUIXOTIC 13
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Orientation '92,
Here We Go Again
Standing under the beating New
Orleans sun with my duffle and
trunk at my feet and my neurotic
mother at my side, registration
seemed like a Hurculean task. And I
was not alone; all around me were
other freshmen in similar predica-ments.
How were we to get into our
illustrious Sharp Hall rooms? After
an hour or two of pushing, pulling,
and dragging I was able to let my self
into my spacious dorm room; but
what next? What does one do after
one's mother leaves for home, one is
new in town, and one doesn't know
another living soul on campus? In
my case it was an orientation floor
meeting, where I met a lot of the
other guys on my floor and got a
slight clue as to how things work
down here. (Being a "damn yankee"
myself I was a little out of my ele-ment.)
The next few days were filled
with activities that were if not exhil-aratingly
fun, at least time consum-ing
(and time was one thing I was not
hurting for). I got to know the cam-pus,
and the area immediately off
campus and I met even more people
who were not in my dorm. (Yes, I had
not quite realized that there were
other dorms besides Sharp.) I was
also exposed to my first dose of Bruff
food.
The strange thing was that at first
it wasn't half bad. After getting my
keys (which felt something like a
descent to hell) and unpacking all
my worldly possessions (with a little
too much help from my mother), food
was something I could definitely deal
with. Besides, it was hamburgers, coke
on tap, and as much Captain Crunch
with Crunchberries as I could stuff in
my freshman mouth. Seemed pretty
good to me. Why did all those upper-classmen
snicker and shake their
heads sadly as we trooped into Bruff?
Soon, we too would learn the horrible
truth.
In between meals (poetic license) at
Bruff, my days were filled with tours of
the area and specific buildings on cam-pus,
I learned enough to write a doc-toral
thesis on the library, as well as
seeing an all too intimate view of the
Tulane Computing Center. I learned
where all the important places were on
campus like the UC and Bruff Com-mons.
Even during the times that were not
taken up by planned activities, I was
learning my way around different parts
of Tulane (The Boot, The Metro, etc
. . .), and I had my first trip down to the
French Quarter. Well, that is not entire-ly
true. I'm sure that almost all of you
reading this have had an experience
similar to the following:
Your mother, who comes down to
see her little boy (or girl of course,
but I'm talking about me) off,
wants to see the world renown
French Quarter. So she takes you
down there (riding the world re-nown
streetcar of course) and by
the third strip joint/bar she had
serious doubts about your attend-ing
Tulane. (You, of course, can
hardly wait until you can come
back on your own, with that 20
bucks that mom gave you to eat
with for the weekend.) So I don't
really count that as a visit to the
Quarter.
The guys from my hall were really
nice too. I remember being unsure
about what I was going to do for dinner
on the night before the Freshman Riv-erboat
Party. I mentioned this to a cou-ple
of my friends and the next thing I
knew, BAM, I was at Jax's eating half a
pepperoni and sausage pizza with a
cool glass of Bud, lying about all the hot
girls I had met so far (well not really
"How could it he that I was so
close to these people that I had
only known for some 70 odd
hours?"
lying, just exaggerating a little).
How could it be that I was so close to
these people that I had only known for
some 70 odd hours? They say that hard
times pull people together, well those
first few days were about the most
stressful days of my young life. (I had,
of course, not yet experienced the joys
of midterms at Tulane.) By the time it
was over we were true companions,
hardened by the first of Orientation
and ready for the beginning of classes
(or so we thought). — Nicholai Piagentini
16 STUDENT LIFE
STUDENT LIFE 17
ACTIVITY EXPO
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Meg Ballard is demonstrating her desire to
get invoJved by filling out an appJicalion to
join the Jambalaya sfa^.
The rain did not
prevent students from
joining organizations
On Wednesday, August 31, the day of
the Student Activities Expo, the night-mare
of the presidents and members of
campus organizations came true. The
U.C. quad quickly turned into mud suit-able
only for wrestling, as the rain contin-ued
to pour. All members of organizations
stood behind the U.C. windows watching
the rain, wondering if the Expo would
take place. Eventually the Division of Stu-dent
Activities gave the go-ahead, and a
majority of groups decided to set up in the
muck.
The Student Activity Expo was a neces-sary
event for both the organizations as
wells as the students, and each organiza-tion
set up a table in hopes of luring fresh-men
into joining their group. Sixty organi-zations
signed up to participate in the
Expo (although several cancelled due to
the inclement weather), including media,
sports, and special interest groups. Fresh-man
architecture student C. H. May was
impressed by the number of organizations
and said the event was a good idea be-cause
it provided opportunities for him
instead of hunting down clubs on his
own.
Making their debut this year was the
Volleyball Club, the Gay and Lesbian As-sociation,
and the United Jewish Appeal.
The Volleyball Club was able to form a
competitive group in response to the
Expo. Some clubs drew attention to them-selves
by using visual advertisements,
such as the Sport Parachute Club using,
what else, but a real parachute. As a result
their membership increased by 29 per-cent.
According to the president of the
Rowing Club, a rowboat was effective in
attracting new members, and increased
up to 80 percent. Tulane University Cam-pus
Programming (TUCP) filled up a rec-ord
number of eight sign-up sheets. As a
result, the TUCP committee of Lagniappe
was reestablished after having ceased to
exist the previous year.
Although the general consensus of the
organizations was that the Activities
Expo brought positive results, many
clubs, such as the Rubgy Club, did not
rely on the Expo. Although the event pro-vided
them with membership, eye-catch-ing
advertisements distributed around
campus also yielded new members.
WTUL, Tulane's own radio station, is an-other
example of an organization that did
not rely on the Expo for recruitment. Al-though
students were drawn to the WTUL
table during the event, many more stu-dents
were drawn to the studio itself.
Other organization did not benefit as
much as they might have expected due to
the rain. The Chess and Gaming Club re-ceived
only twenty-five new members, as
compared to gaining as many as forty new
members during the previous Expo par-ticipation.
As in the past, students tended to be
overwhelmed by the wide array of
choices available to them. Many signed
their names everywhere, like freshman
Brad Bruner who signed up for ten clubs
but is active in only five.
Throughout the Expo the rain contin-ued,
but this did not put a damper on the
Expo's success. Student interest was ne-verending,
and at the closing sign-up
sheets were completely full. Rain or
shine, student enthusiasm endured.
Melanie Horowitz & Jill O'Rourke
18 ORGANIZATIONS
Susan Glendening
Meianie Horowitz and /erry Adair repair
the computer sheets after a mad rush of
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Theenthusiastic/reshmen move/rom tabie
to table in hopes 0/ finding organizations
that interest them.
ORGANIZATIONS 19
President's Message
Tulane
Office of the President
Dear Students:
Tulane continues on its course through one of the most remarkable
periods in its history, and as this edition of Jambalava reveals, 1988-89 was
an especially prosperous and exciting year. You have shared in this period
of dramatic progress and you have been an integral part of the stimulating
intellectual and collegial environment on campus. This university is only
as good as the quality of our students, and you are among the best in the
nation.
I know your college experience will be one of the most important
milestones in your lives, and as you look through this yearbook of
memories, I would like to leave you with a reflection on the deeper
meaning of the education you receive at Tulane.
The world is growing smaller and more complex and you will be the
caretakers of an age of increasing specialization and rapid technological
change. As we near the 21st century, we need more young people who
possess a broad perspective in responding to the changing needs of our
world. Education is the key to this challenge, and your success in fulfilling
your dreams of the future will mirror the high value you have placed on
your education. You and other promising young men and women will
carry the standards of excellence and high achievement that have been set
forth for you into positions of leadership throughout our society. To be
educated means not only the acquisition of knowledge and expertise in your
chosen fields, but also the development of moral values, ethical integrity,
enlightened judgment, and concern for humanity. When you leave Tulane,
I hope and trust that you will take this understanding with you, and I wish
you all success and happiness in a world that will be the better for the
wisdom you have gained during your years here.
Sincerely,
Eamon M. Kelly
President.
Tulane University
New Orleans. Louisiana 70118
(504)865-5201
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OPAC 00e$ Public
Introduction of Oniim Caiaiog Marks a
Major Advance, in Library Computerization,
Picture this: a student trying fever-ishly
to locate the books for an English
term paper by manually checking over
tons of catalog cards in the library.
And now picture this: a student in-stantaneously
receiving information
for finding books required for research
by pressing a few keys on a computer.
Unless you are a very conservative
traditionalist who fancies being buried
in the catalog cards of the library, you
definitely want to be the student in the
latter scene. Good News! This scene
came true for all Tulane library users
on September 28 as the Tulane Univer-sity
Libraries Automated Network
(TULANET] was officially introduced
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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Librarian Mar/ane Drake checks out books for stu-dents
using the currenl computer system.
to the public in the main lobby of the
Howard-Tilton library.
Approximately 250 students, faculty,
library staff, and friends of the library
attended the opening ceremony, pre-sided
over by the University librarian
Phil Leinback. In his speech Mr. Lein-back
expressed his excitement over
the creation of TULANET and the
bright future of the university librar-ies.
Among the guest speakers was
President Kelly who gave thanks for
the financial support given to the li-braries
from friends and groups such as
the Pew Trust. Provost Lawrence dis-cussed
the role of library computeriza-tion
in providing a better learning envi-ronment
for the school. After the cere-mony,
the guests were invited to use
the TULANET terminals which were
decorated with blue and green balloons
throughout the library.
The TULANET systems consists of
the Online Public Access Catalog
(OPAC), Acquisitions, Serials, and Cir-culation.
At present only the OPAC has
been installed. Using the OPAC, library
users can gain access to newly catalog
materials which previously would re-quire
weeks to file in the card catalog,
and locate from any terminal in the
university libraries or their own PC
through the dial-in-service all perti-nent
records of books. The OPAC pro-vides
easy-to-understand instructions
regarding author, title, and subject
searches, with help screens at each
step for the novice. The reachability of
the terminals on each floor of the uni-versity
libraries saves a tremendous
amount of energy and frustration of re-peatedly
going back to the card catalog i
in search of the, catalog numbers to
books.
As other modules of TULANET be-come
operational, the functions of
OPAC will evolve. For instance, stu-dents
will be able to find out which
materials are already check out. Once
completely installed, the TULANET
will make checking out books an easier
task for the library users.— David Lee
David Lee
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Newly installed, the TULANET terminal occa-sionally
experiences technical dij^iculties.
Senior jo Ann /acobson uses the Psychological
Abstracts terminal, available be/ore the TU-LANET
^TULANET„^
9 out of 10 Seniors Surveyed Say:
Thank God For TGIF
Thank God It's Friday!" Uptown New
Orleans reverberated with the cry, the
emotion, the raw energy. By the time
4:00 rolls around, all the dorms are
empty and there's a sudden hush in up-town
student apartments. It shook like
an earthquake, but oh so much more
powerful. By now, Tulanians knew that
the U.C. quad and TGIF was the place
to be Friday afternoons to relax, meet
friends, plan parties, soak in the rays
and soak up the suds.
While classes may be important on
Monday or Tuesday, all that matters to
me and my pals on Friday is TGIF. I
must have checked my watch a hun-dred
times in that Econ class. Oh God,
he caught me staring out the window
while he was telling us about monopo-listic
competition. Oh shit, I know my
grade will suffer for this . . . but, hell,
this is Friday, JD and the Jammers are
on the quad, so who cares.
I remember back to my Freshman
year, oh so many moons ago. TGIF
didn't mean nearly as much to me —
beer on the quad (without getting card-ed),
getting a suntan, ROCK 'n ROLL,
and oh yes — senior girls, (blonde, bux-om,
and mature). I now realize how I've
grown in my four years at Tulane. TGIF
has taken on a whole new meaning for
me — beer on the quad (getting carded
but being legal), getting a suntan,
ROCK 'n ROCK, and oh yes — fresh-men
girls (blond, buxom, and imma-ture
you've gotta love'em). Wait, I seem
to have deviated from the subject at
hand. TGIF, right? Yeah, a couple of
hours partying on the quad and then off
to Bruff for what I swear was the best
crawfish gumbo I'd ever sunk my teeth
into. After a half dozen bowls, I was
ready for my official party nap, hoping
that the alarm would wake me in time
to hit the 'Tro.
. . . it's the only thing that
iceeps this senior from going
completely insane from all
the stress that arises be-tween
weekends.
Every now and then I hear some un-derclassman
(severe redicule deleted)
saying things like, "Dude, no one goes
to TGIF it's totally lame." All I've got to
say is, "Dude, YOU are totally lame!
You're obviously not going to the same
TGIF as I am." TGIF is not just another
party, it's the only thing that keeps this
senior from a small liberal arts school
in the south from going completely in-sane
from all the stress that arises be-tween
weekends. — Mark Freid
24 TGIF
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Watch out Real Madrid, this one's coming at your
right from the U.C. Quad.
After 144 years of practice, Michelle Ward. Anita
Vizcarrondo and Tracy Couill finally get it right.
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who says you need alcohol to have fun? Doug
Grady does it the Kojak way on a fine New Orleans
afternoon.
TGIF 25
Club Sports Council
The Tulane Club Sports
Council has evolved into one
of the main student govern-ing
bodies of the University.
The Council was entirely stu-dent
run, consisting of a six
member Executive Council
and the presidents of each in-dividual
club. This year's Ex-ecutive
Board was a blend of
talents, with Mark Brennan
(President), Richard Exnicios
(Indoor Representative), Bri-an
Rich (Off-campus Com-petitive
Representative), Su-sie
Shimamoto (Field Sports
Representative), Francis
Balding (Off-campus Recrea-tional
Representative), and
Rhonda Reap (VP of Finance).
Each representative super-vised
a number of clubs,
functioning as liaisons be-tween
the clubs and the
school administration, as well
as making sure that the club
officers properly carried out
their duties. In addition, they
oversaw each budget and
helped clubs with schedul-ing.
The Council as a whole
met the first Wednesday of
every month to make major
policy decisions for the Divi-sion
of Club Sports. They ad-ministered
discipline to clubs
which had committed infrac-tions
of the rules and regula-tions
set by the Council. In
addition, the Council meet-ings
acted as a support system
for the club presidents, offer-
Row 1: M. Brennan, K. Moon, D. Gehr, /.
Gilbert. F. Balding, M. Jones; Row 2: T.
Vuong, K. Achularao, B. Evans, C.
Tomarkin, K. Kane, S. Shule, A.
Sheffhauser, W. /ones; Row 3: S.
Shimamoto, /. Ohmes, /. Ho/Jingsiiad, R.
Exnicios, B. Nunn; Row 4: S. Breistein, R.
Rawner, T. Hahn, C. Schneider, R. Reap, M.
Thomas.
ing a forum for the exchange
of ideas.
This year brought many
changes to the Division of
Club Sports. Several new
clubs, such as Badminton,
Volleyball, Lacrosse, and Ta-ble
Tennis were formed. The
new Reily Recreation Center
provided facilities for many
clubs, such as Water Polo,
Fencing, and Boxing, which
had previously been unable
to operate on campus. In addi-tion,
the building had many
meeting rooms which the
clubs were able to utilize, so
they no longer had to com-pete
for rooms in the Univer-sity
Center. The Rec Center
purchased a great deal of
equipment specifically for
Club Sports which, along
with the expansive weight
room, allowed for better
workouts.
The Division of Club Sports
itself no longer came under
the jurisdiction of the Office
of Student Activities. While
they were still funded by the
Associated Student Body, this
year marked the move of
Club Sports, along with Intra-mural
Sports, into the newly
formed Division of Campus
Recreation. This division was
formed with the Recreation
Center to better serve the
needs of the sports activities
on campus. Coordinating all
the non-varsity sports togeth-er
led to fewer scheduling
problems. Both the indoor
space and the quads fell un-der
Campus Recreation's ju-risdiction,
so both Indoor
Sports and Field Sports were
affected. While the reorgani-zation
created more paper-work
for the officers — the
club gave its schedules to
their representatives, who
then went to the Division of
Campus Recreation — over-all
it benefited the clubs
greatly. Club Sports was given
first priority in scheduling as
per the policy of Campus
Recreation.
One of the problems that
arose with the new facility, as
far as Club Sports was con-cerned,
was the fact that
many clubs had members
and coaches who were not af-filiated
with Tulane. While
the clubs consisted for the
most part of Tulane students,
faculty and staff, the Club
Sports Constitution allowed a
ten percent nonaffiliate mem-bership,
who would not nor-mally
be allowed access to
the Recreation Center. While
these coaches and individ-uals
could not be permitted to
use Club Sports to gain access
to the building for their per-sonal
use. The Council
worked together with Cam-pus
Recreation to find a solu-tion
in the creation of a Club
Sports pass to the Center, to
be used only at designated
times. Accommodations were
also made for clubs to hold
tournaments in the Center.
Overall, this year was one
of growth and change for
Club Sports. New Clubs, new
facilities, and new organiza-tion
brought many improve-ments
to the Division of Club
Sports, allowing them to bet-ter
serve the needs of the
thousands of students in-volved
in Club Sports. — Irene Mann
26 CLUB SPORTS
Yoga
Yoga is an ancient practice
which has its roots in India.
For three thousand years,
yoga was a spiritual tech-nique
passed down only
from master to disciple,
since knowledge was held
sacred and kept from the
masses. Today many people
participate in yoga practice.
Most people begin yoga ex-ercises
to better their phys-ical
health and to calm the
mind. Through the postures
and breathing techniques of
the discipline, mental and
emotional tension can be
discharged.
The Tulane Yoga Club was
formed two years ago by stu-dents
who had an interest in
releasing stress and relax-ation
through meditation.
They had their largest mem-bership
ever this year with
twenty members. They re-mained
a very close-knit
group through participation
in workouts and social ac-tivities.
The club met once a week
for an hour workout with
their instructor, Jaggi San-deep.
Taking a casual ap-proach,
they concentrated
on relaxation and enjoy-ment.
The workouts focused
on stretching, followed by
acrobatic-type asanas (pos-tures),
concluding with
Susan Glendening
meditation and breathing
exercises. In addition to
weekly workouts, the club
went on two weekend re-treats,
one each semester, in
Pensacola, Florida. These
weekends were a perfect es-cape
from the anxieties and
distractions of campus life,
where they were able to give
full concentration to stress
relief and relaxation for an
extended period of time.
Club president, David
Wells, said the Yoga Club is
"always looking for those in-terested
in a slightly differ-ent
approach to mellowing
out." — Irene Mann
Susan Glendening
Dave Fishei utilizes the wall to e.xecule his head-stand,
a difficult balancing manuever.
Instructor /aggi Sandeep helps Lisa Samson into her
back bend during the acrobatic portion of the work-out.
How 1.- M. Subramanian, K. Davies. W. O'Dowd, R.
Rawner, F. Farer; Row 2: D. Finn. L. Loveday, D.
Fishei; How 3: D. Concannon, L. Samson. ]. Sandeep,
M. Sanders, D. Wells, C. Yoo.
CLUB SPORTS 27
OCTOBER
The Rush Guide
The late August arrival of the freshman
class signified not only the beginning of
school, but also the start of fall rush. This
year like most others brought with it
changes in the rush format for both frater-nities
and sororities. Sorority rush, which
in the past had been a three week ordeal,
was trimmed down to a ten day experi-ence.
This proved more demanding on
the girls as well as the rushees, but every-one
was glad to get it over with in such a
short period.
Fraternity rush, which has experienced
dramatic changes over the past four years,
continued to move forward by instituting
a more structured format. This year,
freshmen who wished to participate in
rush were required to register with the
Interfraternity Council and to visit eleven
fraternity houses during the week. The
new system worked out better than ex-pected,
as over two hundred and seventy
freshmen pledged fraternities by week's
end. The continued success of fraternity
rush despite dry rush has reinforced the
fact that Greek life has more to offer than
drinking.
Rush also marked the arrival of Greg
Boardman. Greg was hired over the sum-mer
to fill the newly created position of
Assistant Dean for Greek Affairs. Rush
proved to be a baptism under fire for the
new Greek Advisor, as he often found
himself simultaneously demanded by the
fraternities and the sororities. Fortunate-ly
for all, rush went off without any prob-lems,
unless one counts natural disasters.
This came in the form of Hurricane Flor-ence,
which forced the final day of frater-nity
and sorority rush to be postponed
twenty four hours. Despite this unfore-seen
event the Greeks managed another
very successful fall rush! — Jeffrey Taft
The names o/ those /unny letters on (he fraternity
houses are necessary in/ormation /or all freshmen
going through rush,
for Confused rushees
A Alpha
The Greek Alphabet
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By using this simplified map, even the most confused
freshmen can locate the houses.
30 RUSH
PI KAPPA ALPHA
Jerry Adair
S. Ardeu, M. Baily, C. Beem, S. Brandon, I. Brody, D. Burns, G. Chambers, G.
Cook, G. Corbett. D. Danzig, /. Ditta, S. Donley, D. Dubin, L. Elfbaum. S. Fisk,
G. GaehJe, K. Carte, P. Garwood, H. GJynn, B. GoJdberg, B. GoJdberg. A.
Guardia. S. Guerrero, J. Harris, D. Hazei, B. Iskandrian, P. Jensen. P. Klien. /.
KJingsberg, D. Korn, S. Laduzinski, C. Larimore, B. Lends, J. Livenslon, B.
McCuily, H. JVfcdanieJ, M. Miller, M. Moreno. ]. Morifz, C. Nicholson, A.
OldweiJer, B. Pace, D. Pardue, M. Rosen. D. Rosenbluth, G. RusseJi, A. Sacks,
D. Schnee, H. Shapiro, R. Shapiro, D. Shouiberg, D. Sissbaro, A. Smilh. /.
Smith, D. SoJomon, IVf. Spaid, /. StoJJer, S. Thompson, T. Tra^'canda, A.
Viener, B. Walk, R. WaJJ, D. Weber, K. Wilson. D. Wolin, D. Zucker
Dan Hazel, iveil on his ivay to breaking the Gui-ness
record /or cup baiancing, tokes time out /or a
photo.
TIKA 31
ALPHA OMICRON PI
A. Anderson, T. Babka, S. Bank, C. Beer, R. Berger, /. Boudreaux,
/. Bucko, /. CaJmes, D. Cambre, C. CampbeJJ, K. Cofey, D.
Cohen, B. Cole, M. Crane-Baker, C. Dorow, M. Ellenby, /. Evans,
A. Faust, B. Fischer, A. Friss, S. FutreJJ, D. Garner, S. Ginsburg,
C. Giusio, F. Grodin, M. Heinemeyer, A. Hoj^man, K. Jenkins, S.
Leggett, /. Lenczowski, S. Levine, K, Morkus, iC. Masters, C.
iWaypole, M. McGonicaJ, K. McKnew, D. Meiidosian, D.
Candid Campus
JWikkeJsen, M. Monnett, G. Monteil, M, Mund, S. Mutter, S.
Newton, T. Norman, A. Panagiotis, E. Pearce, T, Perchick, C.
PoJvent, W. Pritchard, E, Rich, S, Rogers, L. Sabga, R Sarabia, K.
Softer, B. Schwartz, /. Shapiro, A. Smith, M. Smith, L.
Stephenson, K. Stern, A, Strauss, D. Tenenouser, J. Tete/sky, C.
Todd, V. Warren, R. Wasser, S. Webb, F. Weinstein, L. Wright, D.
Zahn
Paula Ouder
The Alpha Omicron Pis prepare for their toga
mixer with theZeta Beta Taus.
32 Aon
i '&tM lerry Adair
Carolyn Ainsivorlh, Shannon Allison, Virginia Avery, Carol Barton,
Julia Benoisl. Ellen Benzing, Lisa Bingham. A Bird, Anne Bishop,
Brenda Blanton, Monica Bouchier. Jane Bradley, Kelly Bradley,
Lisa Broivman, Stephanie Brown, Jennifer Butcher, Tracy
Calcaterra. Krislen Calonicao, Christine Cason. IVIary Centrone,
Joy Chaslain, Laurie Chlebek, Gwendolyn Christian, Laura Cikul,
Celeste Coco, Elizabeth Condos, Elizabeth Conto, Mary Corder,
Laura Coltingham, Dana Coxe, Margarete Crocker, Susan
Cummings, Millie Currie, Elena D'AquiJa, Lisa Davis, Mary
Deyampert, Christine Edivards, Annemarie Bllgaard, Tara Estlin,
Jennifer Ferrel, Laura Fine, Julie Franks, Sarah Freeman, Michelle
Gagne, PauJa Giblin, Lizetle Giles, Elizabeth Gonsoulin, Anne
Graber, KelJie Greer, Aimee Grosz, /odi Gup. Allison Handley, Lisa
Hankins, Susan Hartman, flebecca Healey. Elizabeth Hill, Sarah
Hinshaw, Leslie Hodge, Susan Homeier. Josephine Hooten, Anne
Hoppe, Catherine Horrigan, Helen Horton, Whitney Hough,
Hayden Hughes. Deborah Jackson, Galin Jackson, Peyton Johnson,
Flebecca Joslin, Kafherine KahJ, Cynthia Kaiser, Rhonda Kalifey,
Je'ssica Kirk, Christy Kochan, Shannon Kuehn, Lauren Landry,
Sherry Landry, Claire Lang/ord, Jenni/er Lee, Julie Lewis, Heidi
Liljeberg, Sandra Litsinger, Andrea Little. Torry Loch, Ashley
Longwell, Kelly Luck. Marianne Madden, Mar/orie Marice, Cathy
Martin. Stephanie May, Elizabeth Mayfield, Amy McGehee, Ellen
McGiinchey, Sharon McGuire, Sara McKinley, Michelle McLeod,
Michelle Mourot, Vanessa Mullins, Molly Mur/ee, Keelin Murphy,
Jenni/er Nisbet, Thea Pagel, Alison Panico, Carolyn Parler, Vanetia
Patout, Elizabeth Patterson, Leigh Patton, Lori Perry, Richele
Pitalo, Cora Pizzo, Laura Popich, Amelie Margaret, Jenny
Pro/umo, Eugenie Provosty, Christine Pruski, Ti-acey Rannals.
Anne Rehkop/, Jenni/er Reilly, Diane Richardson, Mildred
Ridgivay, Suzanne Riekes, Paige Robinson, Jeannie Ross, Marian
Ryan, Kelly Scott. Jenni/er Sonnier, Elisabeth Stewart, Virginia
Sullivan, Sarah Swan, Samantha Temple, Kathryn Theus. Amy
Tippetf, Evelyn Trevor, Vera Troy, Janella UUoa. Mary Vanaken,
Karen Wallace, Miriam Washington, Stacy Watson, Anne White,
Brenda Williams. Kathryn Williams, Mary Wilson, Wendi Wilson.
Mary Winterfon, Elisabeth Wise, Diane Woody Jennifer Worth,
Yvette Worthington. Jenni/er Young, Rebecca Young, Susan Young
Chi Omega goes on the offensive against Kappa
Kappa Gamma in a /lag football contest.
Lacy Kerr
CHI OMEGA
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A C A D E M I A
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Ettiott and Kuttner tkctrify
t(te c(£.6ate ort Rea^onomic5
Innovative, challenging and pro-vocative
are just a few words that de-scribe
the Murphy Institute of Political
Economy. The Institute was estab-lished
in the 1980 to aid students and
faculty at Tulane in understanding
contemporary economics and political
problems through interdisciplinary
studies. It acts to help student perceive
how and why certain problems origi-nated,
as well as how they are interre-lated.
To further enhance the program,
the Institute sponsors various lectures
and seminars by visiting scholars and
public figures.
Just such an event was held on the
cool autumn evening of October 20
when the Murphy Institute sponsored
a debate entitled "America After Rea-gan:
The Economic Prospects for 1988
and Beyond." The participants in the
debate were Ben Elliott, former Direc-tor
of the White House Speechwriting
Office, and Robert Kuttner, National
Economics correspondent for the New
Republic.
Robert Kuttner began what proved to
be an electric exchange of ideas and
political rhetoric by digressing from
the subject of post-Reagan economics
and turning the debate into a Bush/
Dukakis campaign battlefield. He ex-pressed
his reasons why American citi-zenry
should vote Democrat in the
1988 election. "The economy of the
country for the past seven years has
experienced some growth, but this
contributed to all the money we have
borrowed from abroad. We owe it to
foreigners, and they want interest as
well." Kuttner jestfully added, "Mr.
Reagan has run up the Visa and Master-card."
In his rebuttal, Elliott continued on
the topic of the election and stated the
reason for his strong support of the Re-pubHcan
ticket. The 1980's have been
characteristic of the longest single eco-nomic
expansion in the history of this
republic. Growth is at 4%, inflation is at
3.4%, and unemployment is down. We
are also making our way into more and
more competitive markets. I don't
think we want to go back to the Carter
days," said Elliott.
The debate reached the climax when
the campaign rhetoric ended and the
intended debate began. As it contin-ued,
it seemed that the two men would
soon come to blows since neither was
willing to yield his position. Elliott
staunchly defended his belief that the
economy has been healthy and will
continue to be under the Republican
administration. Kuttner hotly criti-cized
that the Republican economic
plans look good on paper but will lead
to a larger deficit and a great enhance-ment
of the present illusion of prosper-ity.
The debate ended with Elliot's con-servative
remark, "America can be do-ing
better, but we're doing better than
we were . . . before." — Mario Castro
EJiiott argues that the economy has been healthy
under the Repubican administration.
Univ. Rel.
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This /ascinating sculpture is one of many creative
ethnic artivorks in the Center.
The Center was named after the landing of the
ship 'La Amistad" shown in mode! here.
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Discovaing Amistad's aikurai library
Every day students pass through the
doors of Tilton Hall and up the stairs to
economics classes. Few stop to notice
the double glass doors and the neatly
printed introduction: The Amistad Re-search
Center. Yet beyond these doors
lie a treasure of immense proportions.
"The Center is a manuscript library for
the study of ethnic history and culture
and race relations in the United
States." The collections of the Center
are extraordinary, containing manu-scripts,
letters, diaries, photographs,
periodicals, books, and works of art.
The Center serves as a haven for re-searchers
seeking information and re-sources
about social and political histo-ry,
especially about the history of Afri-can-
Americans.
The Amistad Research Center has its
own history, dating back to 1839 when
the ship, "La Amistad" (the Friendship)
unintentionally landed at Long Island
after a rebellious struggle between the
West African slaves aboard and their
Cuban captors. The Africans were im-prisoned
for murder and piracy but
eventually freed with the help of a de-fense
committee formed by Christian
abolitionists.
"The Amistad Committee evolved
into the inter-racial American Mission-ary
Association (A.M. A.], which since
then has been in the forefront of the
fight for freedom and justice." The
A.M. A. created a Race Relations De-partment
at Fisk University and in
1966 The Amistad Research Center
was established as a division of the de-partment.
In 1969, the Center became
independent and relocated to New Or-leans.
Today the Center is working to de-velop
programs to celebrate the sesqui-centennial
of the Amistad incident and
the 25th anniversary of the Center's
founding. The Center has recently suc-ceeded
in computerizing its informa-tion
for easier access to holdings and is
continuously making new acquisitions
in order to expand our knowledge and
understanding of the past. — Kelly Spinks
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;:^^^:^Z^MlSTAn CENTER 35
AC ADE M I A
David Lee
Oft Render (^ap •AV
Shirky Ckishoim discusses the vmportanct
of women in poCitics
Observing the chaos of this election
year, one is reminded that the world of
politics is no longer as concerned with
visionary ideals as it once was. Howev-er,
this is not true for Shirley Chisholm.
Almost twenty years after becoming
the first black woman elected to the
U.S. Congress, Chisholm shared her
dreams for the future of women in poli-tics
as the guest speaker of the Wom-en's
Forum. The Forum is an annual
event organized and implemented by
the Newcomb Senate. The Center for
Research on Women and the Panhel-lenic
Council contributed to the event,
which was held in Dixon Hall on Octo-ber
23.
Chisholm's speech focused on the is-sues
concerning women today and the
need for these issues to be accurately
represented by having women in poli-tics.
"This is a multi-faceted cultural
ethnic-gender society. Women must
enlighten legislators so that they will
stop ignoring 52 percent of the people
Shirley Chisholm, a native New
Yorker, has spent over 28 years in the
political arena. In 1968, Chisholm be-came
the first black women elected to
Congress. In 1976, she was the first
black to run for the presidential nomi-nation
for a major political party. . . For
the past six years Mrs. Chisholm has
been writing, teaching, lecturing, and
traveling around the nation in hopes to
create a new national state of mind that
demands peace, prosperity and equa-lity
for all Americans.
— Newcomb Office of Alumnae &
Development
in this country."
Chisholm encouraged women to use
their strengths and pursue their goals.
Her own experience serves as an inspi-ration
and model for all women.
— Kelly Spinks
Newcomb Hall
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AC A D EM I A
M^^f your future
Affyou want to ^now a6out fost-code^t opportunities
It is difficult to comprehend life after
college. Senior year brings mixed emo-tions
for students. Excitement and
anxiety go hand in hand as student pre-pare
for the Real World. For many this
means interviews and resumes, for
others it means graduate school.
The Career Planning and Placement
Center assisted students pursuing
graduate study by sponsoring the Gra-duate/
Professional School Day on Oc-tober
31. Students were welcomed into
the UC Kendall Cram Ballroom by thir-ty-
five schools from across the country.
Each school provided information lit-erature,
application materials and re-presentatives
to answer questions.
The day concluded with a workshop
to educate students about graduate
school preparation. Most graduate pro-grams
require specific entrance exams
such as the Law School Admissions
Test and the General Record Exam.
There are national and university
courses which help prepare students
for these tests. The application process
is also very important. Applications
must be correctly filled out, personal
statements must be written, transcripts
must be sent, and recommendation let-ters
must be obtained.
Thankfully, the support of the Career
Planning and Placement Center helps
students face the future with a little
more ease. — Kelly Spinks
Located in the basement of U.C., the Career Plan-ning
and Placement Center holds the key to the
future. Students may find many useful informa-tion
such as summer internships, graduate pro-grams,
and employment offers.
^2' CAREER PLANNING 37
ictories Against
OLLEYBALL
It was a time of change for the Lady
Green W'ave. Four days before the start of
the season, Dorothy Franco became the
new head coach of the Lady Wave volley-ball
team. Coach Franco came to Tulane
from the University of Minnesota where
she was the assistant volleyball coach for
four years. As well as her years of coach-ing
experience, Franco has brought with
her an impressive accomplishment of be-ing
on the first Olympic women's hand-ball
team in the 1984 Olympic Games.
With such a history it is not surprising
that she has earned full respect from her
team. As team member Sivi Elsensohn
commented, "I think Coach Franco is a
very good coach. She uses a lot of good
techniques. I think its a shame that this is
the only year she'll be able to be my
coach."
On the average, a volleyball team con-sists
of at least twelve players. This en-ables
the team to scrimage at practices
and also allows for substitutions. Unfor-tunately,
the Lady Green Wave had a ros-ter
of only seven players this year, leaving
only one player for substitution and mak-ing
it difficult to scrimage at the practice.
This major weakness made the avoidance
of injury Coach Franc's primary goal for
the season. Her goal was accomplished
and the Lady Wave was able to finish with
a winning record of 16 wins and 11 losses.
This is a very respectable and impressive
record considering their weakness.
Despite these weaknesses, the team
was able to hold their heads high and
form a strong bond that pulled them
through a tough season. According to
Coach Franco, "These girls have had a
great attitude and no matter how tough
the competition, they always gave 100%
and never gave up."
The team was led by three senior play-ers.
Laura Grazulis, the 6'2" middle hitter,
was an essential asset to the team. The
Erin Fogarty sets up (o block the spike /rom a Univer-sity
of South Alabama player.
Tina Prima gets prepared to bump the ball back to
the opponents court.
two captains, Kim Osterhoff Randel and
Sivi Elsensohn, ran the offense in a six-two
formation. They were strong, exper-ienced
players who leadership abilities
were an inspiration for the team.
Where does Coach Franco plan to go
from here? Her major aspiration now is to
build a powerful program, with the ulti-mate
goal of becoming a top twenty team.
In order to make these future plans come
true, there will have to be an emphasis on
recruitment. Countless hours have al-ready
been put into making the recruit a
success by acquiring top players from
across the country. With full support form
the University's administration, the suc-cess
of Coach Franco and the Lady Wave
is inevitable. — Stephanie Colen
Scott Hacking
38 VOLLEYBALL
'^^tmff The Odds
In preparation lo save a key point Anne Kuhn and Tina Prima leap up to de/end
South Alabama's shot.
/ami Carter follows through on her return as Tina Prima stands by.
The Lady Green VJave hudd/e around Coach Dorothy Franco, as she goes over
pre-game strategy.
VOLLEYBALL 39
Scott Hacking
Wilh a smashing serve, Co-Caplain Kim Osterho//-
Randel sends the ball over the net to their opponents
dismay.
After Laura Grazulis set up the spike, Tina Prima power-fuUy
lays it over ihe net.
Co-Captain Sivi Elsensohn shows intense concentration
as she drops to her knees in order to return their oppo-nents
shot.
Front row: L. GrazuUs, K. Osterhoff-Bandel, S. Elsensohn,
A. Amedee. Back row: T. Prima, A. Kuhn, Head Coach D.
France, Asst. Coach T. Reed, /. Carter, E. Fogarly.
40 VOLLEYBALL
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Southwestern La. 3
CaJPoJySJo 3
Northwestern 3
Rice 3 1
Tennessee 2 3
McNeese 3
NichollsSt. 3
LSU 2 3
McNeese 3
UNO 3 1
N. Iowa 1 3
UAB 1 3
S.Ala 3 1
Lamar 3 1
NLU 1 3
S. Carolina 1 3
Boston College 3
Georgia 3
NichoJJs State 3
USM 3
FJorida 3
N. Carolina 3
USL 3 1
UNO 3
LSU 3
USA 3 1
S. Mississippi 3 1
Hustle and determination are exhibited by Sivi Eisensohn
and Tina Prima.
Co-Captain Kim Osferhoff-RandeJ prepares to spike the ball
as Sivi Eisensoh, /ami Carter and Laura Grazuiis watch in
anticipation.
Scott Hacking
VOLLEYBALL 41
Seeing By Color
Who is free from
seeing by color?
A dead programming
of straight-jacket mold
Divided among
Us, Them and Other
thought without Thinking,
Ignorance's hold.
I put you under
Then shout, "Lift yourself
up by the bootstrap!"
Yet you can't. (Why, I wonder?)
We make a trap!
for ourselves-self-
justifying
Circular crap!
A barricade of tension:
who creates it?
Inferior superiority
What is apprehension?
Who is free from
seeing by color?
thought without Thinking,
And Hatred's brother.
—Ignacio C. Arrazola
42 RACIAL RELATIONS
RACIAL RELATIONS 43
Field Hockey ^
Field Hockey is a sport played
throughout the world by both men and
women. Its roots can be traced as far
back as 500 BC in Persia, though until
1887, when the first field hockey club
for women was formed in England, it
was played only by men. The game was
first brought to the United States in
1901.
The game of field hockey is a mix-ture
of ice hockey and soccer. Unlike
ice hockey, a ball is used and may only
be hit with one side of the stick. Unlike
soccer, no body parts may be used to
move the ball, except that the goal-keeper
may use his feet.
The Tulane Field Hockey Club is a
coed organization with thirty-two
members competing, approximately
one-third of whom are graduate stu-dents.
The team members coached
themselves, with the more experi-enced
players teaching the beginners.
The players are serious about their
sport, and the team held practice three
days each week. Though they are a
competitive club, club president,
Bryan Evans, said, "We play to have
fun."
The team participated in two tourna-ments
during the Fall semester, playing
against other college teams. These
tournaments were difficult for the Tu-lane
group, as they were out of town,
and few team members could afford
the time off from their studies to at-tend.
Club member, Susie Shimamoto,
said of the team that they were "defi-nitely
better than their record indi-cated."
In September, the team traveled
to Texas A&M, where they beat the
host team. They also played several
mixed games with Texas A&M players.
In October they participated in the
Rocky Mountain Halloween Tourna-ment,
where they came in fourth place
(a good showing since only ten mem-bers
were able to attend.) In addition to
these tournaments, the club played
against Vanderbilt and Houston, both
home and away during the Spring se-mester.
— Irene Mann
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44 FIELD HOCKEY
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The origin of the American sport of
bowling is credited to the Dutch set-tlers
of America who brought their
game of nine-pins to the colonies in
1623. The game was originally played
on a bed of clay or cinders with nine
pins set in a diamond shape. Bowling
was very popular and soon became a
hotbed of gambling. It was outlawed in
the mid 1800's, but one clever promo-ter
added a tenth pin in order to evade
the law. Thus, in 1860, American bowl-ing
was born with ten pins set in a
triangle. The game has since evolved
into both a recreational and competi-tive
sport. The latter are organized into
leagues and attend regular tourna-ments.
The Tulane Bowling Club was for-med
for those students interested in
bowling in a weekly league. The club's
twenty-two members were divided
into seven teams — "Crawfish", "Jello
Madness", "The Puds", "Three Blind
Mice", and "Gutterball Express". They
bowled every Wednesday for an hour
and a half, at the Mid City Bowling
Lanes, coached by club president Craig
Tomarkin. The teams operated with an
eighty percent handicap, so all mem-bers
began the season on equal footing.
At the end of the season, first and
second place awards were given to
both teams and individuals. The intra-club
competition was also used to de-termined
who could attend tourna-ments
outside of New Orleans.
This year, the club did not fare as
well in competition as in past years.
Normally, they competed against five
other college teams and participated in
three or four tournaments during the
fall semester. This season, however,
two of the teams did not compete, and
the Tulane team dropped to fourth
place against Louisiana State Universi-ty,
University of Southern Louisiana,
and Southeastern Louisiana Universi-ty.
Only two tournaments were held-in
LaPlace, Louisiana and Jackson, Mis-sissippi.
The club also travelled to Jack-sonville,
Florida in February to com-pete
in a tournament of the entire
Southeastern Region of college bowl-ing
teams. —Irene Mann
«3 BOWLING
BOWLING 45
AIDS
Fighting the Disease
Fiot the People
I'm not sure what more could be or
needs to be, said about AIDS. We all
received the pamphlet from Surgeon
General Koop and wondered nothing
more than whether this was a military
title, (and if so from what branch);
we've also heard the religious fanatics
claim that this was God's way of pun-ishing
homosexuals (did we really
need scientific proof that their word is
neither worthy of scripture nor tab-loid).
But, when our nation's universi-ties
get involved in education, you
know there are some facts to the fury.
In October members of the Tulane
Collegiate Organization for the Preven-tion
of AIDS gave away more than 3,000
condoms (and instruction sheets) to Tu-lane
students. The only question now
is whether the students will take heed.
Well, from the literature I've read, it
doesn't matter how much you learn in
Gale 102, if you don't practice responsi-ble
sex-You're DUMB!! But, then again,
why believe me? Jolene Connor, a
nurse counselor from Harlem, says,
"one sexual encounter with an infected
person can be all it takes to spread the
AIDS virus from one person to an-other."
But, I'm not writing this as a
scare tactic. The one thing that every-one
does seem to agree on is that re-sponsible
behavior reduces the risk.
Those people working in programs
such as the Tulane COAP are not
preaching. They are working tq inform
the public. Although the safest way to
eliminate the risk is to avoid sex and
drugs, it is difficult to preach morals
and even more difficult to convince
people to change their way of life.
Therefore, many organizations have
taken to a mass public education pro-ject.
These programs tend to be the
most controversial. Is it ethical to teach
intravenous drug users in the ghettos
to clean their needles and provide
them with the materials? Is it ethical to
provide student with condoms and tell
them to be careful? When C. Everett
Koop says, "We are fighting a disease,
not people," we must recognize that we
are also not fighting people's morality.
Finally we recognize three main
ways the AIDS virus is spread: having
sex with an infected person, sharing
needles with syringes with drug users,
and the unfortunate children that are
born to infected mothers. Three things
"It is difficult to preach morals
and even more difficult to con-vince
people to change their way
of life."
that don't promote the spread of AIDS:
casual contact in schools, parties,
pools, stores, and the workplace, hug-ging,
shaking hands, or an insect bite;
and a toilet seat. The words of Jamie
Henderson, an AIDS volunteer from
Los Angeles, certainly speaks the truth:
"People are afraid of AIDS, but they
don't have to be. We must tell people
the risk of AIDS. We must stop the
spread of the disease. The best weapon
in the world is information." What
more needs to be said? — Mark Freid
46 AIDS
AIDS 47
Tulane's best
busiest athletic
supporters
Cheerleaders
The cheerleaders scream. "Green".
The crowd responds, "Wave." This pro-cess
goes on for about five minutes.
"Green . . . Wave . . . Green . . . Wave. .
."
This cheer typifies Tulane's home foot-ball
games. For the twenty-eight mem-ber
1988 cheerleading squad, standing,
jumping and flipping in front of a stu-dent
crowd requires eight to nine hours
of practice per week. Encouraging stu-dent
involvement is what the cheer-leaders
try to achieve, according to Lisa
Dimegileo. senior Varsity cheerleader.
Tryouts are an essential tool for deter-mining
who will be a Tulane Green
Wave Cheerleader. JV tryouts were Sep-tember
12, 1988. Experience is not nec-essary
to become a JV cheerleader; some
of the guys on the team were not cheer-leaders
in high school. Eight cheerlead-ers
were selected from the twenty en-thusiastic
students who tried out.
Varsity tryouts resulted in three new-comers
to the six member team. In early
August, the Varsity cheerleaders at-tended
a five week National Cheerlead-ing
Association camp in Knoxville, Ten-nessee.
At the end of each year, all
cheerleaders that want to cheer again
for the following season must tryout
again.
In addition to pep rallies and alumni
banquets, the Green Wave Cheerlead-ers
accepted an additional responsibil-ity
to organize a new tradition, the spirit
competition and a bon fire for Home-coming.
According to Krystal Massingill, "one
thing that has made my freshman col-lege
year exciting is the chance to be a
Greenwave Cheerleader."
GO WAVE GO . .
.
— Melanie Horowitz
Row 1: Greg ZiJIioli, Mike Archdeacon, Scott
Corbin. Handy Nations. Steve PorcelJo, T.j. Dolan.
flow 2: Beth Patterson, Michelle Lima, Mary
Campo. Row 3: Denise BroH'n, Janeila UUoa, Lisa
Dimeglio.
Row 1: Katie Krepin, Vanessa Jones, Krystal
Massengill, Mindy Elserlow, Anne Turi. Row 2:
Adam Remington, Shari Landry, Christine
• Calzolano,/e//DimQttia.
48 CHEERLEADERS
lust what made you decide to attend
Tulane University? There are various
reasons people choose a university. But
whatever the reason, your initial im-pression
of the people representing Tu-lane
influenced your decision. And
who better to represent Tulane Univer-sity
than its very own students? We
have a unique group of students, known
as the Student Admissions Committee
(SAC), that does not leave recruiting
solely up to the Admissions Office.
Under the guidance of the Admis-sions
Office, SAC sponsors its major re-cruitment
activity. Preview Confer-ence,
during the Spring semester.
During Preview Conference, prospec-tive
high school seniors visit Tulane to
see what college life is really about.
S.A.C
These students sleep in the dorms for a
weekend, attend a few classes, and also
experience our various dining services.
This year the seniors were some of the
first to enjoy the newly built Reilly
Recreation Center at the party SAC
sponsors for them. Approximately 100
SAC members volunteer to be tour
guides, dorm hosts, group leaders and
resource persons. Other activities of the
dedicated SAC staff include Campus
Tours and Phone-a-thon volunteers
during the year.
According to Rochelle Meaux, "SAC
is the most important organization be-cause
it shows that not just faculty and
administration care about who comes to
Tulane, but so do the students". — Sherrie L. Spencer
Meg Ballard
Hon- 1: Hope McGowan, Laura Popich, Greg
FinkeJsIein./eremy Piatt. Charlotte Landry, Sherry
Myers, Jason Sanchez, Jason Faulkner. Steve
Golden, fioiv 2: Christy McCay, Kekey Kintner,
Kalherine Helrick. Rachelle Meau.v, Daivn Boyer,
Anita Everard. Roiv 3: Claire Bienvenu, Tammy
Everette. Brian Hogg. Cori Canty. Wes Waggoner.
Rory Becker, Karen Jackson, Amy Smith, Chris
Gross, leff Halloway. Keith Dougherty Row 4; Gage
Waggoner, Scott Hetrick. Richard Chouinard, ]ay
Weinberg. Lauren Rosen, Jude White, Richard
Harrelson. Row 5: Tim Gray Nickie Denick, Julie
Buchivald, Marc Perlson, Heidi Weiss, Beth
Herman, Shorn' Menachem.
"Folloiv me to McAlister Auditorium," Laura Stan-ley
says as she guides perspective students and
their parents around the campus.
Promoting
Tulane for
future students
Scott Hacking
S.A.C. 49
Jerry Adair.
The Green Wave make their presence know as (hey enter the Super
dome.
Tailback Michael Pierce, stretches to complete a pass against
Kansas Stale University. Thus enabling himsei/ to keep his rank as
2nd in the nation in all purpose yardage.
Melvin Adams surges /orward to the Florida Slate opponent, while
David Wiggins dives in from behind in response to an interception.
Jerry Adair.
50 FOOTBALL
Jerry Adair Jerry Adair
Defensive line coach, BiiJ Shaw goes over
what went wrong on the iast piay with his
defensive team after Universit.v of Tennes-see
at Chattanooga scored a touchdown to
take the lead 7-0.
Intended receiver Rodney Hunter fights for
the ball, while an FSU player intercepts.
Rick Crozier pounces on the ball as the
wave make a turnover.
FOOTBALL 51
aith in Greg Davis
OOTBALL
Greg Davis became Tulane University's 33rd
head football coach Friday, December 19, 1987,
the day before the Green Wave played the Univer-sity
of Washington in the Independence Bowl. Da-vis
succeeded Mack Brown who resigned to be-come
the head coach at the University of North
Carolina.
Davis joined the Tulane Staff in December of
1984 and spent three seasons as assistant head
coach. His area of coaching responsibility was to
the receivers. Davis coached all-American Marc
Zeno who broke every Tulane record for catches
and yardage received in a game, season and ca-reer
while playing under Davis.
Davis, 36, came to Tulane from Texas A & M
where he served seven years as the quarterback
coach. He began his coaching career at Barbe High
School in Lake Charles, LA from 1973-74, before
moving on to Port Neches-Groves High School in
Port Neches, Texas.
Davis played his college football at McNeese
State, where he lettered four years in football as a
quarterback, making all-Conference as a senior. — Jeff Seal
Q&A
Q:
A;
"What were you goals and aspira-tions
for this year?"
"My first goal is to have a win-ning
season. That is always the
first goal. The second goal is to go
to a bowl game. We aren't going
to a bowl game this year but I do
hope we end up with a winning
season. That will be our goal for
every season."
Q;
A;
How have you adjusted to the po-sition
of head coach?"
"You have to grow with a job.
Coaching is no different. There
are certain aspects of the job you
are ready for and other aspects
you can only learn as you go
along. Instead of being in charge
of 15 players, I'm now in charge
of 103 players, every day, on and
off the field.
Q:
A;
File Photo
"What do you plan for the future
of the Green Wave?"
"We plan on building a stable
program. We want to be winners
year after. We've already red-shirted
14 players. I also want
stability off the field and in the
classroom, however I want our
players to graduate. We want
them to be better people after
playing football for Tulane."
52 FOOTBALL
After a Strong Start
With Terrence Jones at the helm, Tu-lane
Varsity Football rolled into October
with an imposing 3-1 record. A season
that began with a promising 33-19 win
over Tennessee Chattonooga was halted
by a 13-30 loss to Iowa State. Two wins in a
row over Kansas State 20-16 and Mem-phis
State 20-19, brought Tulane football
back into contention with a three win and
one loss record.
The first team encountered in October
was intended to be a contest between Da-vid
and Goliath. The Green Wave was pit-ted
against one of the big boys, Florida
State, who ranked in the top ten in the
nation at the time. Also with a 3-1 record,
Florida State was a team to be reckoned
with. In the preceeding season FSU hand-ed
Tulane a monstrous 73-14 loss. With
that in mind, Coach Greg Davis comment-ed:
"Our players respect FSU and they
know they'll have to play extremely well
to stay in the ballgame." Playing with a
never-say-die attitude, the Green Wave
ended up with a respectable 28-48 loss.
Still reeling from their Florida State loss,
Tulane lost 13-38 to Southern Mississippi.
This was followed by a heartbreaking loss
of 35-38 to Louisville during Tulane's
homecoming game. Almost repetitiously
Tulane lost to Southern Louisiana 34-51,
thus closing out October with a three win
and five loss record.
continued on page 54.
Melvin Adams sails forward avoiding tackles from
(he Lousivilie Cardinals defense in Tulanes Home-coming
game.
Eric Racklin fights through a de/ender while Pat
Stant is about to sack the quarterback in an e-xciting
play pulled off by the Green Wave defense.
FOOTBALL 53
Wave Halted in October
Always reevaluating the performance
of the team is Coach Greg Davis, who
noted: "Terrence, by his own admission, is
in a little bit of a slump. But, there is no
doubt in my mind that he'll pull out of it."
Jones has thrown sixteen interceptions,
already, surpassing his season total of
thirteen interceptions he threw last year.
The team as a whole is putting forth the
effort, but the opposing teams are always
sure to take full advantage of Tulane's
numerous turnovers. There is also the
realization that the opposition seems to
effortlessly plow through deteriorating
offensive and defensive lines. To add to
the problem is an almost endless wave of
injuries that often occur to key players.
Teamwork is found throughout the Tu-lane
football program. In order to play
efficiently the team must collaborate as
one. Yet, as in every organization, there
are those who are the keystones that hold
everything together. One of the keystones
is Terrence Jones, who possesses out-standing
quarterback abilities. As a Heis-man
trophy Candidate, Jones illustrates
the quality player which he is. Another
Wide receiver, Jerome Mcintosh makes a graceful
midair snafcli in a 20-16 victory over Kansas State
University.
Breaking through FSU's offensive iine, defensive
back Danny iVfichaeJ rushes into a field goal attempt
while the rest of the wave is held tight.
key player, Michael Pierce, who averages
202 yards in all-purpose yards (receiving,
rushing, and kickoff returns), ranks sec-ond
in the nation in that category. There is
also wide receiver Jerome Mcintosh who
has spectacular catching abilities. On the
other end of the spectrum is the defense,
who is responsible for retaining the yards
gained by the offense. Outside linebacker
Leroy Brown has been racking up
numerous tackles and sacks. Another
player to note is Richard Harvey, who was
recognized by Sports Illustrated as defen-sive
player of the week.
On rebounding for the rest of the sea-son,
Coach Greg Davis commented: "The
great thing about football is it's like life.
You get kicked in the mouth on the foot-ball
field and you either lay there or you
get up and go about your business. It's the
same way in life and it's the same way as a
football coach. I'm not very pleased right
now and the answer to being pleased, is
hard work." So with some hard work,
onward into November!
—Sean Gerowin
54 FOOTBALL
4
lames Bourgeois
After pulling out o/(he grasp of the FSU last attempt
to tackle, Jerome Mcintosh strives into the end zone to
score /or the ivave even though the.v are defeated
28-48.
Terrence Jones spirals a bullet to Intended receiver
Jerome Mcintosh, but #99 of Florida State has jumped
in the line of fire in hope of an interception.
Melv'in Adams attempts to carry the ball to the first
down mark.
Jerry Adair
FOOTBALL 55
/ohn Cohen, HiiJary Resnik, and Adam Cohen
bring their pet to TGIH, giving Spuds some com-petition.
56 HOMECOMING
HOMECOMING 57
Tidal Wave '88
A Blend of trends
and traditions
It really is kind of strange because
I've always prided myself on taking
advantage of everything this institute
of higher education has to offer during
my four year stint here. But, this year,
1988, my last ride on the roller coaster,
was the first time I'd fully participated
in Tulane's homecoming fiesta. I had of
course been to the football game, drunk
my share of dome foam, and seen that
tiara placed ever so lovingly on our
queen's head, but I guess I just hadn't
ever really gotten into the spirit of
things.
They called it Tidal Wave '88, and
"they" weren't lying. This was a party
that never really died, and oh mighty
Bacchus would have been proud. It
began with a Thursday night bonfire, a
pep rally, and a parade all leading up to
a carnival on the quad. The Tulanians
entertained and really surprised me;
I'd never actually seen a whole show,
but they were great. And I dare say I
wasn't the only one who thought so
(I'm sure I saw that guy with the stringy
red hair who's always playing hacky
sack on the quad tapping his foot to the
beat of the tunes). For those of us who
hung in there he saw a typically ener-getic
show by those monsters of ROCK
'n ROLL, Dash Rip Rock. And, for those
of you that missed it, the party really
did continue at my pad. Yeah, I guess to
summarize Friday night Hemmingway
would have said, "the air was crisp, the
rides were fast, the music was loud,
and the beer was cheap."
Saturday was no less of an event, and
provided only one disappointment
(and it surely wasn't my date). We
trecked to that "Dome of Doom" to
catch our Green Wave taking on those
Louisville Cardinals — and as a true
Wavehead, the loss was disappointing,
but it certainly wasn't the worst I've
witnessed in my four years of Tulane
football. And, dancing till dawn at the
Hilton to Dr. John and the Neville
Brothers healed all wounds.
The night did grow long, my date's
"This was a party that never died and
oh mighty Bacchus would have been
proud."
toes did turn black and blue, and I did
turn into a pumpkin as Tidal Wave '88
came to a close. I awoke the next eve-ning
with a throbbing headache, un-able
to find the telephone to call in sick
to work. But as I lay in front of the
Saint's game, I tried to figure out why
I'd never done the homecoming deal
before and how I could convince my
parents to let me stay at Tulane just one
more year because who knows what
next year holds in store. Just don't miss
it!
—Mark Freid
58 HOMECOMING
usan Glendening
O
As dusk fell, the Carnival looked larger (han life,
love was in the air. and (he tide had just began to
rise.
Presenting the 1988 Tulane Homecoming Court.
Susai^G K Irene JVIann and her man Brandon Hudgens gaze
into each others eyes as the night grew iong and
the Id took over.
HOMECOMING 59
CREW
The sport of rowing dates roughly
back to several centuries before the
Medieval Era. Competition first devel-oped
in England as a means of settling
veteran's arguments about rowing
prowess. Rowing flourished in English
clubs and universities and soon found
flavor in the United States and Canada.
It received international recognition in
1900 when it was included as an event
in the Olympics. Today rowing contin-ues
to gain popularity as men of all ages
discover the appeal of the sport.
The Tulane Rowing Association tru-ly
defined the qualities of dedication
and sacrifice as it trained in the early
mornings of both the Fall and Spring
semesters. The women's squad,
coached by Sandy Taylor, practiced at
Bayou St. John near City Park. The
men's squad, coached by Bob Jaugstet-ter,
recently moved to the Orleans Can-al
near the shores of Lake Pontchatrain.
This season, the team traveled na-tionally,
competing from novice to var-sity
levels, and rowed against interna-tional
crews. The highlight of the sea-son
was the Dad Vail Regatta in
Philadelphia where the year's intense
training paid off, and the squads were
well-prepared to face the challenge of
the competition.
— Tim Conley
File Photo File Photo
60 CREW
CREW 61
Mairtiad
Arts
Aikido
The martial arts are ancient
forms of combat from the Orient.
Originally, they were attack and
defense methods of serious com-bat
consisting of primitive hand-to-
hand and stick-fighting tech-niques.
During the 16th Century,
the need for fighting skills dimin-ished,
and the martial arts be-came
influenced by Buddhist
concepts. They were transformed
from ways of killing to ways of
life.
Modern martial arts in theijr fin-est
form are more than a physical
contest between two opponents.
The ultimate aim of martial arts is
to free the individual from anger,
illusion, and false passion. The
various martial arts have names
ending with "do", meaning "the
way to enlightenment, self-realiz-ation,
and understanding."
The Tulane Martial Arts Club
was one of the more popular club
sports; boasting nearly one hun-dred
members, this club was the
second largest in the Division of
Club Sports. Instruction was giv-en
in Aikido and Tae Kwon Do,
with the Tai Chi division inactive
founded around the year 850 AD.
It remained an exclusive samurai
practice until 1868, when it was
combined with other ancient
martial arts and some new tech-niques.
This particular form has
enjoyed great popularity since the
end of World War II. The funda-mental
axiom of Aikido is that the
gentle can control the strong
through the study of technique.
The final objective is not to inflict
injury, but to use one's opponent's
own force to his disadvantage.
When performed correctly,
Aikido technique requires no un-due
effort.
The Aikido division of the Tu-lane
Martial Arts Club was the
smaller of the divisions with fif-teen
members. Instructor Dwight
Cramer taught two classes a week
for both beginning and advanced
students. They were not at all
competitive, concentrating on
techniques purely for self de-fense.
— Irene Mann
Claire Ellis
during the fall semester. The ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^HHHHH^^^^^^^^HI^^^^H members of the organization ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^IHl^^^^^^^^^^^^l
stressed the fact that they did not ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^H practice the techniques as a form ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--''f^^^^^^^^^^^^^l^^^^^^H
of combat. President Ken Moon ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K ''""'^ .'i-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^I
said of this that "We practice them
as an art, not a sport." ^^^^kj^BUh^^^^^^^^^^^^V ' 'V ^^^B^^^^^^H
The Japanese martial art of i^^^H^^P"^0^^^^^^^^^^Hlir -~
'
' v^ iR^^^H^H
Aikido, called "the gentle art", Ur^^^H ^^^^^^^r^mw ' 'T > ™ ' .WMmM
has its origins in combat forms
Jack Brigel and David Gross, wearing the Iradi-
(ional while tunic ond hel<ama fskirtJo/lheAilcido
master, demonstrate the "hand-skip" escape ^^^^^v^
method to the class. v.¥^ D. Gross, /. Stalman, G. Cazanaveiti, N. Piagen- ^^ T^ tini, /. Win/ieJd, D. /uge, /. Briegel. ^^^
Nicholai Piogentini practices the "unbendab/e;s ^^^^^^^ arm" technique on James Win/ield. w
'cd J^^^^m
62 MARTIAL ARTS
'~j \^ .^^Wi I
Tae Ravoiv Do
Tae Kwon Do is a Korean mar-tial
art which can be traced back
2000 years to earlier forms of com-bat.
The Tang Soo Do form pre-dominated
until 1910, when the
Japanese controllers of Korea out-lawed
the Korean martial arts.
The Korean people continued to
practice their own forms under-ground,
but much was lost and
the Japanese forms influenced
what remained. After the Korean
War, the nine styles which re-mained
were combined into one
form, Tae Kwon Do. It became the
Korean national sport in 1971, and
appeared in the 1988 Olympics in
Seoul, South Korea.
Tae Kwon Do is literally trans-lated
as "kick fist art". It is a hard
style, similar to the Japanese form
of Karate, but with a closed fisted
punch. This offensive style con-centrates
on punching and kick-ing,
but uses the feet more than
the other martial arts. In addition
Tim Clear and Nancy Liu prepare /or competi-tion
by practicing kicJcing combinations,
which are useful in sparring.
Member of the Tae Kwon Do class practice
forms. These slow, graceful movements enable
them to perfect their style and stance, which is
judged in competition.
to sparing, students of Tae Kwon
Do practice forms, which are used
to develop speed, proper breath-ing,
and balance.
The Tae Kwon Do division of
the Tulane Martial Arts Club had
sixty-eight members this year.
With four classes a week, instruc-tor
John Billera, the current Loui-siana
state Tae Kwon Do champi-on,
taught both beginner and ad-vanced
classes. Though they were
a competitive organization, they
stressed self defense rather than
aggression. The members of the
club did very well in competition,
bringing home twelve trophies in
both the U.S. Open Tae Kwon Do
Championships and the Louisi-ana
Open Tae Kwon Do Champ-ionships.
The 28th Annual Cha
Yon Ryu International Martial
Arts Festival Brought the club six
trophies. — Irene Mann
Row 1: K. Moon; Row 2: N. Liu, C. Livingston,
D. Gautier, /. Walker, M. Schneider, G.
Gramstad, S. Hallab, C. Tuttle; Row 3: M.
Rubman, R. Graves. T Lomicka, /. Stalman, B.
McGinnis, M. Romboletti. T. Seay, D.
McDermott, K. Wilfong, R. fClok, F. Baccay, D.
Juge, /. Hollingshad, T. Clear, /. Angrist, W.
Daniels, /. Billera.
S. Hacking
S. Hacking
TAE KWON DO 63
Halloween ain't just
Tricks & Treats
I've got just two things to say; in fact
two misconceptions to clear up. One is
that Halloween is not just for kids and
the other is that sure most Tulane stu-dents
are selfish and egocentric, but
every now and then they do contribute
something to society.
I know what you're thinking. How
could I make such brash statements,
knowing that I'll face a plethora of re-buttals
and still not put "name with-held
by request" at the end. Well, I'll
tell you, and I'll start with the latter
statement first. October 31, a Monday,
brought it's share of tricks and de-bauchery
from this normally conserva-tive
uptown campus, but it also
brought a little bit of fun to the neigh-borhood.
Not only did eight neighbor-hood
ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and one
sockhopper rape the bowl of tootsie
rolls and sweettarts at my pad, but oth-ers
got into the act too.
Unfortunately, the African-American
Congress of Tulane (ACT) doesn't get
the publicity it deserves. Many of its
members sacrificed part of their Hal-loween
tobringabit of joy to the kids at
Charity Hospital. Then Monroe Hall
sponsored its own Trickin' and Treatin'
for kids around the area, and let me tell
you that was scary. I mean a freshman
dorm doing something good for the
neighborhood. Don't they know their
contract says they have to play the ra-dio
too loud, annoy the neighbors, and
urinate on at least one lawn each week
to retain the reputation we've so pains-takingly
built as general takers rather
than givers of the Tulane community?
Well I hope they had fun being good
citizens and wreckin' everything. All
I've got to say to the ACTand Monroe is
. . . well, job well done (but don't tell
anyone I said that).
As for our own fun, we were as child-ish
as could be. I personally dressed
alternately as a member of the Village
People (with 3 others who have paid
me generously to remain anomymous)
and a lost Morrocan scouring New Or-leans
for a mate, well, not scouring,
perhaps searching, or just looking, or
just wandering, oh hell I was begging
and pleading and lifting up rocks! O.K.?
As for others at Tulane there were par-ties
galore-all those conservative
chicks from my infamous Micro class
had thrown all caution to the wind-one
"Mardi Gras is great fun, but Hal-loween
ain't far behind."
was a 1930's saloon girl, another
Howdy Doody, another the King, an-other
a lost Morrocan searching for a
date. My god, I could hardly look them
in the eye when I went to class the next
week. I'll tell you what, Mardi Gras is
great fun, but Halloween ain't far be-hind.
And, believe it or not, Tulane is
not all fun and games. — Mark Freid
64 HALLOWEEN
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A. Amdur, J. Arkin, L. Asher, D. Asrael, H. Baer, C.
Baker, C. Baker, S. Behar, S. Benjamin, S.
Berenthal, S. Berezin, B. Berk, R. Bindeman, D.
Bloom, D. Braunstein, M. Breitman, E. Broder, L.
Butnick, M. Clark, D. CJine, H. Cohen, /. Cohen, G.
Covin. /. Davidson, A. DeJJ, D. Draper, S, Dry, W.
Eichberg, M. Epstein, S. Feldman, W. Fink, M.
Fogeiman, M. Frank, S. Freed, H. Freeman, H.
Friedman, M. Frishman, D. Gladstone, D. Glass,
A. Goldberg, D. Goldberg, M. Goldman, R.
Goldman, B. Goodman, E. Grub, H. Halpert, M.
Hoffman, M.HoUmgswoTth, A. Hyman,D. Irgang,
S. Isaacs, A. /ones, M. /urick, /, Kalina, /. Kaliner,
D. Kalish, /. Kalishman, D. Kelly,]. Kemppainen, P.
Kjnealy, J. Knobel, E Kogen, H, Krichman, H.
iabkon, D. Labow, B. Ladden, /. Leavy, G.
Lederman, M. Levenstein, B. Levin, /. Lewis, G.
Littman, N. Lourie, B. Marcus, D. Maslia, A. May,
B. Meltzer, /. Miller, E. Model, M. Moyer, A. Nason,
S. Palmer, S. Panitch, L. Papell, M. Paslernack, P
Pastreich, T. Perkins, C. Polinsky, G. Ptak, J.
Randman, /. Reich, M. Reinstein, S. Robinowitz, S.
Jery Adair
Romick, K. Rosenberg, G. Rothman, M.
Rubenstein, R. Saiontz, S. Satin, A. Schain, M.
Scheer, fi. Schmelzer, A. Schulman, H. Schwartz,
/. Schwartz, D. Schwartzberg, E. Semel, E.
Shapiro, R. Sklare, A. Socol, D. Spigel, /. Stern, A.
Suzman, M. Suzman, A. Szatkowski. M. Thum, B.
TUckerman, C. TUckerman, D. Unger, D. Walner, /.
Weinberg, D. Weiss, J. Wilensky, R. Wineman, C.
Zaretsky, M. Zoller, A. Zwig
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Sigma Nu pass during a tough grid iron match.
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The Tulane Zeta Psi chapter shows their brothers
from Texas what Mardi Gras is all about.
S. Bass, S. Berman, M. Blank, D. Celentano, M.
Kolodner, A. Lay, D. Leach, A. Levinson, E.
MarshaJl, /. IVluskin, D. NettJe. D. Oso/sky. K.
Robitaiile, /. Rubio, JVf. SaJcedo, M. Stewart, S.
Unite, /. Walker, E. Weingold, B. Zupancic
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Goldmacher, E. Goldstein, R. Harris, /. Hoffman,
L. Ho;^ian, S. HuJett. /. Isenberg, /. /acobson, A.
Kagen, S. Kahn, D. Klein, A. KohlJ, A. Krupp, P.
La/os, B. Lederer, S. Levy, /. Lichstrahl, W.
Lombard, K. Luthringshausen, A. Margosis, D.
McMuIJan, R. Merenstein. L. Minsky, T. Ommen,
K. Oppenheimer, A. Prutting, M. Ra, A. Rabin. K.
Rabin, T. Reinstein, L. Ressier, /. Rich, T. Rifer. M.
Rodriguez, S. Rose, H. Samler, /. Schuster, D.
Schwartz. D. Schivartz, E. Seeger, D. Sherman, D.
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DERBY WEEK
The Sigma Chi fraternity held its annual Derby
Week November 1-6. The week's events included
a fashion show, a raffle, and a can-shake. All the
money raised was contributed to Students
Against Multiple Sclerosis (SAMS). The Derby
Week winner was Phi Mu, who just edged out the
always competitive Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Once again the event proved to be fun and suc-cessful.
The brothers of Sigma Chi would like to
thank the seven participating sororities and hope
for continued support in the future. — Jeffrey Taft
Sigma Delta Tau and Kappa Kappa Gamma watch their steps
in the hotiy contested six legged race.
Two tubs of water balioons sit contentiy, not realizing that they
are about to be tossed to extinction.
72 DERBY WEEK
Chi Omega coach, Greg Sapier, tries to inspire his troops to a well needed
victory.
Peter Woodruff
The high spirited Kappa Alpha Thetas demon-strate
their winning form in the six legged race.
Stefan SessJer tries to avoid the water balloons
being tossed bv the Chi Omegas.
Peter Woodruff
DERBY WEEK 73
Presidents Parade
From Coast to Coast
Well, the 1988 Presidential election
has now come and gone, and it's hard to
say if anyone besides Tim and Ira would
admit to missing it. The truth is, that for
most of us it was our first opportunity to
be true participants in the American
democratic process. Unfortunately a
nationwide 50% voter turnout rate tells
this writer that most of you didn't give a
damn. My thoughts on this are that this
is a real travesty (and for the first time
sarcasm has not reared its ugly head in
my column). Truth be known, apathy is
something that belongs in Psych 101,
not the election booth.
The problem with this year's election
could be blamed on several sources.
First we could blame the environment. I
read recently that only 30% of the vot-ing
public is issue oriented, and obvi-ously
the candidates read the same
book. (Polsby and Wildavsky's Presiden-tiaJ
Elections ). By focusing on this un-fortunately
well understood idea, the
candidates create a style that is self-per-petuating.
The more a candidate
slashed his opponent, the more the
press slashes them both, the more John
Q. Voter reads the newspaper, the more
copies of that paper that are sold, etc.,
etc., etc. I have to think after witnessing
this election that the press and the can-didates
make us non-issue oriented
voters. I find it particularly amazing
that there are 30 people out of 100 that
do understand all the issues (they were
probably trying to impress their girl-friends
—"Hey sugar britches, do you
know what I am? I'm issue 'Oriented."
"Oh you hunk!!").
I've now laid the blame on the envi-ronment
and will move on to victimiz-ing
the candidates. Issue oriented cam-paigning
or not, the candidates are
running for the highest office in the
land—THE PRESIDENT not just of the
United States, but of the free world.
How does it look when one of the candi-dates
is found to be plagerizing his
speeches? How does it look when a can-didate
is caught having cheated in
school? I remember when I was a kid, I
looked to the President, obviously not
understanding Watergate, and wanted
to be President. Do you think kids today
still want to be President? (Of Chrysler
maybe, of the United States I think not.)
My point is that the President, and
therefore the candidates, should be
men who want to produce honest
change from within. Unfortunately
"Do you think kids today still
want to he President?"
these types didn't run for the office in
1988 and we were left to choose be-tween
Bush or Dukakis. Now, don't get
me wrong, I don't feel that either man is
a bad man, nor do I feel that either
would have necessarily made a bad
President; however neither man is a
GREAT man. And, afterall, who do you
want making the decisions that will
most affect our new post collegiate lives.
Well, if you don't know, I'll tell you. We
want a GREAT MAN (orWOMAN)—Oh
God deliver us the King. Long live Elvis!
— Mark Freid
74 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 75
Tulane's
Diverse
Community
International
Tulane's International organizations
play an important role in cultural
awareness on campus. Each organiza-tion
strives to bring different cultures
together. Members of each organiza-tion
interact among their own people as
well as people outside their ethnic
group.
The Latin And American Student
Association's (LASA) purpose is to
maintain and promote the interest of
Tulane's academic community in Latin
American culture. LASA is composed
of 130 members of which 30% are
American and the other 70% are Latin.
Each year LASA has activities ranging
from social to political events. This
year LASA had the forum "U.S. Influ-ence
in El Salvador." This featured
Alfredo Christiana, recently elected
president of El Salvador and Carlos R.
Lopez Nvila, minister of the president
for Duartes' government. LASA also
sponsors fun social events including
the traditional International week
S. Pardell
dance, the biannual volleyball tourna-ments
and cultural dinners.
The Vietnamese Association's main
goal is to educate the Tulane communi-ty
about the Vietnamese culture. This
association, completing its third active
year on campus, also works with the
Vietnamese community in New Or-leans.
Each spring they take part in the
International Fair. During this week
they celebrate by cooking various Viet-namese
dishes and by putting on a
grand fashion show.
The India Student Association works
to expose the Indian culture to this
campus. The organization is composed
of 80 members. In the spring semester
the India Student Association also
takes part in the International Fair.
They participate by bringing a singing
group to campus, cooking and selling
Indian foods and putting on a fashion
show to illustrate Indian costumes. — Jill O'Rourke
Row 1: Catherine Perez, Jackie Barlia, Oscar
Range], Cesar Hinojosa, Elyam Rodriguez,
Ale.xandra Mojica. Row 2: Maiie Ferran, Marelisa
Balbuena, Marta Villarraga, Beth Timberlake,
Mariena Cairoi, Jose Deya, Rodrigo Saenz. Row 3:
Max RangeJ, Felix Roman, Michelle Perez, Victor
Parrilia, Frances Laborde, Maripi Gonzalez,
GuilJermo Helendez, Carlos Martinez, Laura
flozar, Ramon Vinos, Peter Noble, Fransico 0;eda,
Rafael Vails.
76 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Row 1: Hajiv Mistry, Ali Feroze, /ayarain
Balachander, Abhil Nagchauduri, Ramesh T.
Vangai. Row 2: Manjiv Vohra, Dipak Ghosh,
Ignacio Arrazoia, Paul Speck, Madhuudham Rao,
Jogannodha Rao. How 3: Padmini Raghuam,
Snehasish Ghosh, Akhataar Jameel, Sanjeev
Sharma, Anjaii Kumar, R. Srikanth,
Anantharaman Vaidyanthan, Ravi Roghuram,
Ajay Sree.
The Vietnamese Students' Association
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 77
Reilly Opens to
Rave Reviews
Fourteen Million Dollars for an ath-letic
facility for students seemed a bit
extravagant, but then again, the facility
is extravagant. Tulane's Reilly Student
Recreation Center opened to praise
and protest alike. Favrot fieldhouse
was finally torn down and the students
were given a belated Christmas gift in
the form of five basketball courts,
seven racquetball courts, two squash
courts, a huge weight and exercise
room with free weights, universal ma-chines,
and nautilus type machines, an
eighth of a mile track, an Olympic size
pool, a social pool, a gymnastics gym,
volleyball courts, and various rooms
for table tennis, aerobics and almost
any activity that comes to mind.
You look at the grand edifice and
your jaw quite naturally slackens. You
sigh as you enter the building. You
smile and touch your abdomen as you
tour the weight room. There is no de-nying
the splendor of the facility that
Tulane has finally given us, that Tulane
has owed us for so long. Not only are
the students pleased, but I've seen a
number of faculty members grinning
and bearing it as well. The complaint is
the same as always at Tulane: Money.
Did we need to spend $14 million? I
ask: Did we have to suffer with such
minimal facilities for so long? We con-tinue
to bitch about the lost $7B from
first semester when the building was
supposed to be completed. I'm willing
to forget it and be satisfied with what
we finally have. Tulane rarely listens to
our complaints, so I say let them take
the money and run. Lord knows I could
use it, but find out how much a mem-bership
at another health club is and
you won't be quite as vocal.
Our energies can now be turned to
benching our body weight, swimming
swiftly, perspiring profusely, running
rapidly, and shooting sharply. The Reil-ly
center is one of the foremost student
athletic facilities in the nation. It will
serve its purpose to current students,
and will be a great asset in recruiting
I've seen . . . faculty members
grinning and bearing it as well
new students and enticing professors
from other institutions. This is where
we find just cause to complain. Let's let
the administration know that we want
to improve our faculty; let's tell them to
open this mysteriously closed portfolio
of ours; let's tell them that we want to
see minority enrollment improved;
let's even tell them that we want ad-mission
standards raised. Then let's all
head down to the Reilly center to swim
some laps, play two on two, and have
some fun. — Mark Freid
78 REILLY CENTER
REILLY CENTER 79
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The Arts and Sciences Senate is more
than just a student government. This
organization structures programs for se-rious,
compassionate and informative
purposes. Matt Breitman, vice presi-dent,
stressed the changes that his orga-nization
underwent to better represent
the A & S students.
This year the Senate restructured its
old form to include programs that re-flect
the interests ofA & S students. The
nineteen member senate, comprised of
four seniors and five representatives
from each of the three remaining
classes, remained very active this year.
They helped with the advising system
for the students by having a majors day.
In March, at least one representative
from each department answered ques-tions
about requirements for each ma-jor.
The A & S Senate also established a
merit award for an A & S student based
on achievement.
Row 1: Dave Glass, Jay McDaniel, Matt
Breitman, Michael Suzman. Row 2: Dean
Heins, BiJi Lombard, Adam Rabin, Justin
Marcus, Rob Bindeman, ]eff Stern, Eric
Broder, Mike Hoilingsworth, Wayne Fink.
Row 3: Mike Epstein, Dave Asreal, Dave
Unger, Brian Berk.
During an A S- S Senate meeting, Scott Sei-gaJ
and Mike Epstein pay attention to the
senate president wliiJe iiamming it up for
the camera.
The Senate also worked with New-comb
College, the School of Architec-ture,
the School of Engineering, and the
Business School on a Rape Awareness
Week, addressing the problem of date
rape and rape protection.
This year was the year the A & S Sen-ate
made a serious name for itself. They
dispensed with programs such as com-puter
dating which the Senate felt was a
waste of the students' money and in-stead
implemented ones that would en-hance
faculty interaction. Two original
programs: wine and cheese mixers with
the professors and A & S at the Diamond
(beer and hot dogs for a quarter each)
remained.
The 1988-89 year has proved to be a
very effective and important one for the
A & S Senate, showing its responsive-ness
to the needs of students and its
desire for progress.— Melanie Horowitz
80 A & S SENATE
Newcomb
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What organization best expresses the
concerns for Newcomb College? New-comb
Senate. Obvious question per-haps,
but many students do not know all
the intricacies working within the Sen-ate.
In February, Crime Awareness Week
was an important project. In response to
many Newcomb students being raped,
the senators organized speakers and fo-rums
that talked about safe locations off
campus to live and safety.
Newcomb Senate is made up of many
committees, like puzzle pieces that
make up the whole puzzle. The
Women's Forum Committee brought
Shirley Chisolm to address women's is-sues.
A very different type of committee
is the Spring Arts Committee. Since the
1950's (not including the last two years)
this committee has had a tradition of
putting on an art festival for art and
architecture students during Parent's
Weekend. Another committee. The
Cultural and Heritance Committee, was
designed to initiate Newcomb propa-ganda,
and distribute alma maltas for
the annual Sophie Newcomb Memorial
Service.
The forty-five active members are ob-viously
a busy bunch. This year they
could not rest at just organizing com-mittees
but they also worked on revis-ing
their constitution in 1988-89.
President, Miche Moreau, described
a major goal of Newcomb Senate: "[It]
can and should be the organization that
new students turn to when they want a
voice for their concern to the adminis-tration."
It is also important to inform all
students of the Senates existence and its
important work on issues of concern.
Newcomb Senate is the vital strength
and compassion for Newcomb and
women students of Tulane. — Melanie Horowitz
Strong Senate
is vital to
Newcomb
Row 1: Miiiibeth Currie, Miche Moreau, jenny Lee,
Jodi Gup, Anne Birdsong. Row 2: Samantha
Shepherd, Celeste Coco, Eve Swanson, Colleen
Peyton. Row 3: Geyer Wise, Alison Conway, Dru
McGovern, Anisa Kelley, Kristin fCistner. Roiv 4:
Kelly Longwell, Ann Ainsworth, Lynn JCickham,
Claire Bienvienu, Laura Kelly. Row 5: Donna
Richardson, Courtney Thomas, Michal Fishman,
Ella Goodyear. Row 5: Katie Gibbons, Michelle
Pro/ont.
Not pictured: Julia Benoist, Anne Coffey, Denise
Fink, Kathy Goldberg, Georgia Houk, Meg
Lauritzen, Michelle McManus, Monique Meche,
Mollee Murphy, Susie Saba, /enni/er Shestack,
Lauren Zimmerman, Melissa Young, Alandas
Dobbins.
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NEWCOMB SENATE 81
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Located on the second floor of the
University Center is the office of the
Associated Student Body (ASB). It is
appropriate that the top of the organi-zational
hierarchy is found at the top of
the building that houses the majority of
student organizations.
The elected body of officers repre-sents
the eleven schools of the univer-sity
and it democratically holds the
power of student decision-making.
A unique responsibility of Tulane's
student government is the allotment of
student activity fees. The elected stu-dents
from the Finance Committee
(Board) of the ASB divide over $600,000
from the student activity fund to over
230 organizations and clubs. Other uni-versities
hire an administrator to make
this economic decision.
The ASB also uses the money to
improve campus life. It reacted to the
lack of efficient security by initiating
the installment of an emergency blue
light system, for which the ASB paid
half the cost. Another project is the Dry
Run Shuttle, a program showing Tu-lane's
and the ASB's concern for stu-dent
drinking and driving. Each Friday
and Saturday night the Dry Run Shut-tle
makes the rounds at several Up-town
bars and transports impaired stu-dents
back to campus. In spring of 1987
the ASB paid for the pocket park, the
location of many controversial forums
as well as a place to read in the sun
(when there is some).
Other accomplishments of the ASB
include the purchase of four new vans
in order to increase the motor pool for
student organizations.
An important aspect of the ASB is its
duty to help organize the many student
organizations and keep the communi-cation
open in the senate meetings
among the different schools. It pro-vides
a way for students to learn lead-ership
roles. "It [ASB] gives you a broad
perspective of what is going on — it
keeps you informed," commented
Stacy J. Sher, an executive ASB mem-ber.
—Melanie Horowitz
James Bourgeois
Will Schoel, AJan Weinlraub, Bobby Richardson,
Doug McGee
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AC ADE M I A
erry Adair
Afternoon in JCab
Mastering tfie jmt art of triai '\i error
It's Friday afternoon, one of those
perfect New Orleans sunny afternoons
that is just made for beer, frisbee and
TGIF. But noooo, don't even think
about it. You are going to be spending
the next four hours of this beautiful
day in the laboratory, a mandatory part
of many science classes which are re-quired
for graduation in this gracious
institution.
How about organic chemistry lab,
that most infamous and dreaded lab of
Tulane? Fortunately, only those sadis-tic
science majors must suffer through
this one, which entails a lot of time and
frustration for the actual experiments
as well as for the difficult write-ups.
The victims have few nice words for
organic lab but they do praise the help-ful
teaching assistants and the satisfac-tion
of a successful experiment (which
often constitutes not blowing up the
lab). Additionally, on the positive end
is the practical use of scientific method
and instruments and the opportunity to
work effectively in teams. All and all,
it's not a bad trade-off ... as long as it's
raining!
Wait a minute. Don't think you are
getting away so easily. Those right-brained
types and everyone fulfilling
language requirements get to trudge
Audio exercises are important in learning foreign
languages. In the language lab, students sharpen
their listening ability.
Perhaps the hardest laboratory course is bio-chemistry
lab. Here T.A. Renee Bergeron watches
junior Chris Hill as he withdraws a sample for
protein determination.
upstairs to the fourth floor of Newcomb
for their labs. Language labs usually
come in two forms. Some introductory
level courses hold formal labs one day
a week in addition to the regularly
scheduled class. However, almost all
100 and 200 level courses require un-scheduled
sessions which means going
into lab on your time and listening to
cassettes. Students have the chance to
improve their listening and grammar
skills as well as to learn the true mean-ing
of the phrase "butcher the lan-guage."
The flexible hours of the lab
means no excuses and since professors
usually test lab material, you better
start trudging up those stairs!
—Kelly Spinks
84 LABS
A C A D E M I A
business Zakes to ZdevisioH
A business student may rank at the
top of the class in finance, accounting
or organizational behavior, but without
top-flight skills in oral and written
communication, he or she will have a
hard time landing a great job, and a
harder time climbing the corporate lad-der.
This won't be the fate of a graduate of
the A.B. Freeman School of Business at
Tulane. In the Management Communi-cation
Center, students can literally
clean up their acts before going on the
career road.
Tulane is one of the few schools in
the country to require a core course in
management communication for MBA
students, according to center director
Judy Lease. Over 200 full- and part-time
business students will go through
the center this year, said Lease.
"Too often these skills are seen as
proficiencies with the idea of bringing
students up to a minimal level, rather
than an enhancement and enrichment
for students," she added.
Program exercises vary. Students
most often are involved in making vid-eo
presentations for classes or filming
mock interviews or negotiating ses-sions.
They learn the effectiveness of
the right gesture and pacing. Both stu-dents
and faculty take advantage of
editorial advice on papers and prepara-tion
of graphics.
The Freeman School's communica-tion
center houses a complete line of
audiovisual equipment, including
overhead projectors, video recording
editing and recently acquired camera
equipment, and computer graphics ca-pabilities.
The idea for the program dates to
1977. It was the brainchild of former
business dean Harper Boyd; Frank Jas-per,
adjunct professor of management
communication; and Edward Rogge,
former associate dean of Arts and Sci-ences,
now on the faculty of the com-munication
department.
"If we are to train people to think
within a business context, then this
type of program is absolutely critical
and every corporation stresses it," said
Jaster. Business communication skills
have become so important in the last 12
years, he said, that virtually every
business school has added courses, fa-cilities,
or both.
The resources may be small, but
their impact on students is dramatic.
"There's a big difference in how we
appear in the early stages, compared to
the improvements we make after
learning how to present our material
clearly with the right posture and ges-tures,"
said Michael Farrell, a second-year
MBA student. "You also have an
opportunity to learn these skills in a
nonhostile, nonthreatening situation."
Tulane business faculty agree with
students that the center has helped
them inside and outside the classroom.
They are able to use recording facilities
to improve presentation skills and
have asked center editors to go over
manuscripts for publication.
"By getting my presentation on vid-
Through video presentations, students and /acui-ty
improve their skili o] expression.
eotape, I was able to see the mistakes I
was making. I could practice the talk
and learn different techniques," said
Wayne Marr, associate professor of fi-nance.
Even though most people think
they have adequate skills, Marr said,
being up on the silver screen allows
you to really see how you come across
and helps you make adjustments in
you speaking style.
The subtle influence of the center
even reached into homes across the
country, when Tulane president
Eamon Kelly made a videotape to prac-tice
his introduction for a nationally-televised
Democratic candidates' de-bate,
held on campus in 1987. — Janice Lohr Fisher
Edited from
Inside Tulane
March 1989
BUSINESS 85
Monkey Melp
5tiufi£5 at tfie Primau Center kad to Better
treatment 0/ human dis exist
To many students, the Primate Center
may be synonymous with the Audubon
Zoo, but to the science community, it is
a highly respected center of research.
The Delta Regional Primate Research
Center, a component of Tulane, is lo-cated
35 miles north of New Orleans
across Lake Pontchartrain in Coving-ton.
Ongoing research at the Center is
aimed at gaining an understanding of
disease mechanisms in order to find
curse and implement preventive mea-sures.
Research concentrates in three
main areas: microbiology of infectious
disease, biochemistry of genetic disor-ders,
and urology. Within this frame,
specific projects underway at the Cen-ter
address current health problems,
such as a project to develop antibiotics
for new strains of malaria.
Primates are especially useful in re-search
of diseases affecting humans be-cause
of their close anatomic and physi-cologic
similarities, according to Peter J.
Gerone, Sc.D., director of the Center.
The Center currently has a population
of around 3,800 primates, including a
colony of monkeys 20 years old and
older, which is available for studies on
geriatric conditions such as arthritis
and osteoporosis.
Research done with primates has led
to the defeat of polio, yellow fever and
rabies, and because of the Primate Cen-ter's
research study of Hansen's disease
(leprosy) in sooty mangabey monkey in
1979, there is hope for earlier diagnosis,
more effective treatment and preven-tion
of this once-dreaded disease. Scien-tists
at the Center believe the long-term
value of their research will be in vac-cine
development. "This is the only
place in the world where research on
Hansen's disease is being conducted
with primates. We are very excited to
have this opportunity," says Dr. Gerone.
DRPCR researchers have made sig-nificant
discoveries about memory loss
in aging, and have also developed new
vaccines against cholera, dysentery and
the organisms that cause infant di-arrhea.
Other studies are being con-ducted
to find methods of earlier detec-tion
and prevention of kidney, bladder
and prostate disease. An Epstein-Barr-like
virus, which in humans can cause
infectious mononucleosis, cancer and
sometimes death, was isolated from a
rhesus monkey at the Center which had
contracted immunodeficiency disease,
and may provide a model for treatment
of the disease.
Recent work in another area, filaria-sis,
has sparked the interest of physi-cians
and scientists worldwide. A para-sitic
infeciton, filariasis, is classified by
the World Health Organization as one of
the world' six most widespread tropical
diseases, affecting between 250 and 300
million people.
The DRPRC, now in its 24th year, is
viewed by the nation's scientific com-munity
as a major resource. "Not a day
goes by that we don't get calls from in-vestigators
all over the country who
wish to do collaborative studies or re-ceive
biological specimens," says Dr.
Gerone. — Lucinda Anderson
Dr. /im Roberts, Professor of Urology, does much of
his research at the Primate Center.
Dr. Kenneth Soike is one of the senior research
scientists at the Primate Center.
86 PRIMATE CENTER
ACADEMIA
Michael Holliiigswuith
Attorneys /rom the New Orleans legal community
preside over round one of 1988-89 Junior Appel-late
Competition.
Courtroom Drama
Law students go on triai in Moot Court
Court, a place that commands respect
and solemnity, seems to stir and excite
our emotions and minds these days. Ev-ery
weekday afternoon we enjoy
watching trials of human suffering on
Divorce Court and People's Court. Once
a week we laugh at the misconduct of
judges and attorneys on Night Court. At
Tulane Law School, however, students
watch a different courtroom drama —
Moot Court.
As you might know, Moot Court is not
a TV show. It is a prestigious organiza-tion
devoted to the enhancement of trial
techniques. Only twelve out of about
nine hundred law students are selected
to the Moot Court board each year. Un-like
TV shows, which attract viewers
with gruesome details of rape and mur-der,
Moot Court appeals to students
with prestige and promises of better de-bating
skills. It sponsors trial and appel-late
competitions. In the former, stu-dents
argue subjects ranging from
assault to murder in complete trials. In
the latter, students discuss certain
facets of law, such as the First Amend-ment
of the Constitution. During the
1988-1989 school year. Moot Court par-ticipated
in four appellate competitions
held in the country. These included the
Jessup competition in which teams
from around the world compete for the
coveted Jessup Cup by discussing Inter-national
Law.
While most of us can satisfy the little
lawyer in our heart by watching TV
trail shows, law students strive to get
into the other side of the screen. With its
rigorous program. Moot Court provides
them with the necessary skills to
achieve that goal. — David Lee
Kirk Reasonover addresses the issue to the judges
while Julia Meraux smiles at his comment.
MOOT COURT 87
Fun and Frolic
Tulcaiians On Tdut
As I look out the window when I
write this I see the sun. This, in itself, is
not unusual, however it just now is
coming over the horizon, again, this is
not unusual. But then I think back to
Tulanians and to the year that we have
had and I think of the rising sun, a lot.
It would be just about now that I
would be plodding home from rehears-al
right before the show, trailing my
saxophone behind me and thinking of
all of the other members who would be
fading into the mist of the UC quad at
6:30 in the morning. Honestly, why the
hell do I stay in the group?
Outside of building the set the week
of the show, having a meeting that is
supposed to last for three hours, turn
into an all night affair, coping with
stress when the time for selecting songs
comes around, and organizing a show
without your instrumental coach who
moved to Florida, Tulanians really is a
lot of fun. Honest. No seriously.
I think that Tulanians, besides exist-ing
for the students, exists for the more
tangible reason of going on tour in
exotic places in the Southern United
States.
I mean, where else can one see the
lush, vast expanse of greenery in the
state of Florida while riding on a bus at
seventy miles an hour? Where else can
one, on his "winter vacation" mind
you, get up at 8:00 in the morning to
drive to the ocean and lay out for two
hours while commenting to the others,
"Gosh I think that's the sun, oh wait,
my glasses are just dirty."? And finally,
where else can one (in his virgin, ideal-istic
hopes of at least having a decent
bed to lie in a luxurious hotel) stride
confidently up to the front desk only to
be confronted with, "como lo pudiera
ayudar senor?" For a student of Japa-nese,
this made it very difficult to ask
for additional towels or even ask where
the bathrooms were. But this is a differ-ent
story . . .
So the year is finished. It is not the
unexpected hardships that keep me in
the group, by any means. Rather, I feel
at ease with the group and I know that
if I can talk to a friend in the group
about the relationship between his
drug usage and his continued success
in Pictionary, then I can tell him any-
Tulanians is not just an extracur-ricular
activity, it's an adventure.
thing.
Tulanians is not just an extracurricu-lar
activity, it's an adventure. It is an
experience to be had by anyone who
plays an instrument or thinks he can
sing.
So, if you feel like getting up at 7:00
to move the speakers and stands to the
Reily Center to play for that worth-while
dedication and if you enjoy a
really good sunrise for a solid two
weeks before the "show," I firmly rec-ommend
joining this group. If not,
please go to the shows. I think we all
would be happier. Plus, they're free.
—Neil E Blumofe
88 TULANIANS
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A group without a guitarist is like a room with no
lights. Here, Pierce Kee/e keeps the group in tune.
Elizabeth Shoss does Patsy Cline proud with her
rendition o/ the hit "Crazy."
You say you want a revolution and that's exactly
what the audience got as the group per/ormed the
classic Beatle's hit "Revolution."
TULANIANS 89
I^onsistency Pays
ROSS COUNTRY
It has been a strong, competitive season
for the Green Wave's cross country team
this year. "We went into the season with
optimism" stated Coach Dan Thiel. "We
weren't expecting a lot from the team
since six of the seven front runners were
gone, but they pulled out a winning sea-son."
The team gets the majority of its mem-bers
from walk-ons due to a limited
amount of scholarships alloted to the
cross country department. This often has
an inhibiting effect on the team's perfor-mance
because they are unable to have an
extensive recruit. Luckily for Coach
Thiel and his team, the walk-ons have
been quality performers.
The team is divided into men's and
women's teams. The women retained a
majority of their runners this season
which enabled them to enter the season
strong, improved, and experienced. The
highlight for the women's veteran team
was the walk-on of two freshmen: Rosane
Archery and Tari Marks. Rosane was very
consistent and became the best runner as
well as MVP for the women's team.
The men's team turned out to be a big
surprise. "We did not have high expecta-tions
since they were so young and had no
depth, but they really responded to the
challenge" said Coach Thiel. Oliver Spen-cer,
captain and the only senior member
of the team, gave the inspiration and lead-ership
the men needed to win. Another
asset to the men was the outstanding per-formance
of MVP Jim Burke.
Each member of the team puts in at
least three hours of intense training a day.
This includes weight training and run-ning.
"Everyone came to every practice
this year, which was an accomplishment
because it had not been the case in pre-vious
years. This built team unity and en-thusiasm,"
said team captain Monica
Omey.
The best meet of the season was at West
Florida. Both the men's and women's
teams came out victorius. This is a rare,
but happy occurance when both are able
to win.
Jim Burke and Oliver Spencer were the
two member of the team that advanced to
the NCAA regionals at the end of Novem-ber.
Jim Burke set a personal best and tied
a school record for 10,000 meters (6.2
miles) while finishing 63rd at the regional
meet in Greenville, S.C.
On an overview of the season. Captain
Monica Omey said, "I think it was our
best season yet. We had a tremendous
build up of team quality and everyone
was very dedicated. — Stephanie Colen
With Monica Omey on her heel and Sharon Web
not far behind, Tari Marl<s lead the way in a 5K
race.
.MIP — runner Terrence Houlahon gave e.xperi-ence
and strength to the men's team.
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Running an exceptional lOK ai (he lYCAA RegionaJs
in Greenville S.C, /im Burke sets a school record,
u'hile team captain Oliver Spencer is just steps be-hind.
Mark Thompson, David Ayolo. and iValdo Gonzales
competitively keep up the pace.
All alone Michal Hruby sprints lo the finish line.
Bottom Roiv: Rosane Archery, Tari iVIorks, Sharon
Webb, Ron' 2: Michal Hruby, Monica Omey. Marilyn
Feldmeier, fCoren Kruse, Row 3: Michael Re\'nolds,
iNfaldo Gonzales, Tom Welch. Oliver Spencer, /im
Burke, Terrene Houlan Mark Thompson, Scott
Balius, John McClanahan, Tom Voss.
CROSS COUNTRY 91
inally Wave
OTBAL
With three games remaining in the
season, the Wave rolled into November
with the opportunity to make a fresh start
after not winning a single game in Octo-ber.
Their record stood at 3-5, and unless
they wanted to finish 3-8, some serious
playing needed to be done.
The first of these final three was played
against Ole Miss. It was here that, after
four consecutive losses, the Wave began
to make things work. Led by Terrence
Jones, the Wave won 14 to 9. "Everybody
started pulling together. We wanted a
winning season and to do this we knew
we had to make things work." explained
full back Rodney Hunter. Holding on to
this attitude, the team headed into their
last home game of the season against
Mississippi State.
What had worked a week before work-ed
again. With the first possession of the
ball the offense took off. Led by Terrence
Jones giving key running plays to Rodney
Hunter and Michael Pierce, the team
drove down field for the first score of the
game, a twenty seven yard field goal.
Despite an injury to Terrence Jones, the
Wave persisted in making offensive gains
and with the aid of a tight defense never
lost their early lead. The 27-22 win over
MSU was a big one. It gave the team a two
game winning streak and some needed
confidence for the final game against
LSU.
The traditional rival took place in the
last weekend in November, and, as the
tradition has gone, LSU won again. "The
team felt confident of doing well and a
possibility to win this game coming off
our two game winning streak, but those
things that had been working just didn't
happen." stated Rodney Hunter. The
Wave kept up pace with the Tigers until
the fourth quarter, but from there until
the final whistle it was all down hill as
Tulane lost 44-14. Despite the loss. Wave
players had their highlights. Terrence
Jones rushed for 57 yards scoring both of
the team touchdowns and ending his
outstanding season as sixth on NCAA's
total yardage list. Jerome Mcintosh gain-ed
64 yards on five receptions to lead all
Tulane's receivers. Michael Pierce accu-mulated
113 all purpose yards, explain-ing
his ranking as sixth among NCAA
individual leaders in all purpose yards
gained this season. The "non-glory boys",
the defense also had their key plays.
Richard Harvey led the defense with
eleven tackles followed by Pat Stant and
Mitchell Price with ten tackles. With the
loss of the final game of the season the
Green Wave finished the season 5-6.
The Green Wave also said good-bye to
thirteen seniors. Doug Adams, Melvin
Adams, Jim Bishop, Tony Davis, Thurston
Harrison, Richard Harvey Rodney Hunt-er,
Terrence Jones, Kent Lattimore, Danny
Michael, Maurice Nelson, Eric Rackhn,
and John Ripoll. On the farewell Coach
Greg said, "You're always sorry to see
them go, but you wish them well, and
thank them for the help in getting the
program better from the time they came
in."
—Stephanie Colen
Maurice Nelson turns around in time to receive a
crucial pass /rom Terrence /ones.
IVfichael Pierce, 6th in NCAA all purpose yards,
signals to his teammates that they got the first
down.
Wins 5 Losses 6
TU OPP
Tennessee 33 19
Iowa State 13 30
Kansas St. 20 16
Memphis St. 20 19
Florida St. 28 48
S. Miss 13 38
Louisville 35 38
USL 34 51
Ole Miss 14 9
Miss St. 27 22
LSU 14 44
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Started to
After completion of a pass. Jerome Mcintosh turns around
and charges down/ield toward the endzone.
James Toney's completion in the endzone aided in the
victory against M.S.U.
File Photo
Front Row: T. Wiggins, /. Ursin, E. Hacklin. E.
Dickerson, L. Burton, T. Strickland, G. Chachere,
T. Harrison, T. Jones, R. lUcDowell, Smith, D.
Michael, J. Mcintosh, J. Shupak, /. Woods, C.
McCall, J. Toney, F. Green, S. Barre, M. Nelson, M.
Adams, M. Pierce, M. Neuse. Row 2: S. McCullum,
D, Antoine. C. Miller, H. Dennis. C. Dowden, D.
Sherer, D. Adams, R. Hunter, M. Thornhill. F.
Mallia, R. Crozier, K. Johnson, T. Clark, H. Chung,
Head Coach G. Davis. V Mulmore. M. Riley P
Washington, D. Sippip, C. Larry B. Guidry D.
DeClouette, /. Pearce, R Leslie, J. Young, J. Rink. D.
Wiggins. Row 3: R. Mack, D. Toups, K. /antschek. P.
Slant. D. McGowan. M. Young, C. Hobbs, P.
Cummins, B. Estep. B. Roscoe, F Contreras, M.
McFarland, J. Bishop, C. Herrman. F Plunkett, K.
Latfimore, D. Shoulders, T. Davis, M. Milich, V
Ernst, A. Treodway R. Sauter. O. Tigler. /. Ripoll,
M. Ferdinand, B. Dilon, J. Kinyo. Row 4: R.
Ben/ord, /. Martin, A. Browning, L. Marts, C.
Gorman, A. McQuaid. L. Brown, D. Davis, D.
Cohen, S. Melancon, J. Navia, R. Harvey M.
Martinez, R. Davis, A. McDonald, R. Clemment.
Row 5: K. Ferrill, B. Hicks, T. Howley /. Barksdale,
L. Zierlein. /. Devlin. B. Shaw, F Roll, J. Marshal, T.
Nunez, D. Christen. R. Butler, T. Smith, J. Tero, G.
Stump, H. McCroy C. Obermeyer, S. Anderson, R.
Martinez, Brunei.
SPORTS 93
A Private Moment
Twenty minutes before the game be-gins,
the Green Wave enters the locker
room for the last time. Their minds are
deep in thought for this particular
game is a special one. It is the final
home game of the season and the last
for thirteen seniors. As they enter, the
team divided into two rooms for ten
minutes. One by one, they enter, sweat
dripping off the tips of their noses from
the warm up. Each player grabs a chair
almost systematically and sets it up in
the front of the room in a semi-circle
formation, leaving a space which will
soon be occupied by Head Coach Greg
Davis.
While waiting for Davis to enter,
small talk and restlessness encompass
the room. A few last minute tape
touch-ups are made and Jerome Woods
shoots water through his teeth across
the room. Unobtrusively, the small talk
dies out and there is nothing but quiet.
Anticipation and anxiety linger in the
air. All heads are bowed in deep con-centration.
There is no movement any-more.
The silence is suddenly inter-rupted
when Jerome Mcintosh sticks
his head into the room, grins, raises his
first, and blurts out, "Alright!"
Finally, the whole team gathers into
the main room, yet making sure not to
invade "the space'; left for the Head
Coach. This room has a bright green
carpet that all on its own cheers, "Go
Wave!" Greg Davis comes in for the fi-nal
run through. "Get a knee and get a
hand". Without loss of a second, the en-tire
team drops to their knees and re-cites
the "Lords Prayer". It is an intense
moment as the room is full of deep
voices, humble to all for the moment.
As quickly as they dropped to the floor
they have returned to their seats,
awaiting Davis' last words of wisdom.
He talks through final plays and then
goes through the procedure of entering
the field. Since this is a special game for
the thirteen graduating seniors, they
will enter the field first followed by the
rest of the team. "Bust ass!" yells Rich-ard
Harvey from the back of the room.
"60 men for 60 minutes," Davis contin-ues
with sparked enthusiasm. "Let's go
establish what kind of team we are."
Head held high, Davis strides out of the
room and the team follows.
"Let's get them!" is heard among the
exited players. There are some deep
breaths and sighs as a few players take
one last minute to let it all sink in. Jer-ome
Mcintosh laughs and says, "Al-right
boys, time to do some scoring to-night."
"Come on!" shouts Darrell
Sherer. He looks back in a final glance,
knowing there is nothing more that can
be said. It's all up to the actions that
will take place on the field.
On the last wall of the locker room
there is a sign posted for all to see: "Play
like champions!" It is the wish of all
that this quote will come true. As the
National Anthem plays throughout the
Dome, the Tulane Green Wave football
players hold their heads high, anxious-ly
awaiting their entrance onto the
field. There are no more private mo-ments.
It is now time to perform — and
to perform well. — Stephanie Colen
Benl over in deep concentration Ronnie Clement pre-pares
himseJ//or the game against Mississippi State.
Coach Greg Davis gives his iast words o/ wisdom in the
pre-game pep talk.
Jerry Adair
94 FOOTBALL
Reaching Full Potential
The Green Wave athletic department
aims at being able to pull the most tal-ent
possible from their athletes and
bringing these athletes to their fullest
potential. It is also important to take
these athletes and aid them in becom-ing
responsible well-rounded people.
Terrence Jones has succeeded in both
of these areas.
Entering into the 1988 season Ter-rence
was a Heisman Trophy Candi-date
and listed by The Sporting News as
the top all-purpose quarterback. De-spite
a slow start for the Green Wave,
Terrance managed to excel. "I have a
competitive drive, I want the big
plays." This drive caused some of the
problems, as Terrence admits, "I might
have pressed too hard, forced plays
that shouldn't have been forced."
His competitive drive enabled him to
become Tulane's record holder in total
offensive, in a game (484), in a season
(2,934) and in a career (9,437). He also
became the record holder in passing
yards, in a game (388), in