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Show THE FORUM 4 April 13, 2005 Naomi Wolf To Discuss Sexuality Tv" Kayla Smith Staff Writer Trenna Ahlstrom To brainstorm ideas for their meeting with President Michael Bassis, a group of students majoring in education organized their thoughts using sidewalk chalk instead of a pad of paper so everyone could share. The students just felt so strongly, said one student, Brooke Simons. If our voices matter we wont go unnoticed or unheard. We are fighting for the education department Many education students feel that their department is not getting a fair share of increased tuition. Every year the tuition increases, but I dont see how that affects my department There has been no improvement It is the same equipment and same facility. Where is my money going? said Simons. Throughout the day passers-b- y stopped to acknowlthe students handiwork edge over to Bending get a better look at the statements and artwork on the ground, people on campus started hearing the students message. Many people on campus have felt the same way. Education needs more of a spotlight, said an unidentified observer. It takes something like this to get attention, said Simons. We pay tuition, so we own that sidewalk, said another education student, Katie Walcott. In a campus-wid- e ail sent to the college on March 8, President Bassis wrote, Some of these increases, for things like insurance, utilities and tech Staff Writer 1 Best-sellin- , 'ni' WV w ' ' J4 1 t' -'i , i u 3 V ; Naomi Wolf will speak in the Payne Gymnasium Wednesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. i X 'G. IT love the school of education here, said Walcott, when asked why she pays the high X- - i V d Education students use sidewalk chalk to brian-storwith with President Bassis about tuition increases. m nology support, are beyond our control Others, like modest salary increased for faculty and staff, allow us to maintain resources that are integral to the work of the college. My tuition does not go to my major. The professors do not get paid as much as professors from other departments. I want my money to go into the education program, said Simons. The change in next years tuition will be the smallest percent increase since Simons began attending Westminster in 1999. President Bassis also We have wrote in the been able to hold our undergraduate tuition increase for 2005-200- 6 to 6.86 percent. That is the lowest percent increase in the last several years and is below the increase ail fora discussion projected for every college in the state system. After the increase, our tuition will be less than similar colleges in the area based on last years data. According the US News and World Reports list of tuition and fees for private colleges and universities in the West for 2004-200- 5, Westminster ranked 35th for the most expensive college. For the 2004-200- 5 undergraduate tuition at Westminster cost approximately $18,132, with the most expensive school on the list, Pitzer College in California, cost about $31,438. We want to get our facts down. Do some research and come up with solutions as a class to present to President Bassis, said Walcott. I have a strong passion to teach and I tuition of Westminster to enter into a profession. Simons added, There is more to life than money. I love what I do. Walcott continued, We love Westminster, but love can only go so far. Education students are required to work as a student teacher in a classroom for their final semester to graduate from the program. Students are not paid to work in the classroom, and they are e required to pay in tuition order to register for low-payi- author of The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood, "TJN V g ng full-tim- student teaching. Student teaching is not an internship. We do not get tuition reimbursements and it is hard to have a night job, said Simons. We are not on campus that last semester. We have taken the knowledge that Westminster and our professors gave us and have taken it into the community, said Walcott Tuition increases affect every student at the college, not just education students. All students need to be asking where is your money going, said Walcott.es Wolfs lecture will explore the nature of the campus hook-u- p Wolfs lecture explores why hooking up is a symptom of something deeper: the reality that students are pressured with millions of sexual images but lacking a real set of values surrounding sexuality. In her lecture, Wolf goes past the extremes of abstinence till marriage and Maxim sexual values, according to her Web site. She forges, with the students participation, a realistic set of sexual ethics that will situhelp them address real-lif- e ations and take responsibility decifor their own value-base- d sions, states the Students for Choice Web site. Wolf describes hooking a result of students as up being victimized by popular culture. Young women, asserts Wolf, are in a sexual catch-2- 2 situation because they are labeled prudes if they abstain from sex but considered to be sluts if they are sexually active. Meanwhile, Wolf claims that young men are having causal sex because they feel socially pressured to score. While this description of sexuality on campus seems somewhat simplistic, the lecture by the Wolf will most be a certainly fascinating one. Tickets are free to ever-controvers-ial Westminster College Students and available for a charge of $5 to the general public.CS Festival Brings Bagpipers ing HTML code to create a specific page to ones tastes. Stan Sarkisov Staff Writer The first night of college at a party I was telling everyone to dance sexually with me. And there is a picture of me in a banana suit with a sexual face on MySpace, so my friend told me that Im a Sexual Banana, she said. Jamie Oyler leads the Westminster Society group on Myspace.com, the internet community. By signing up on MySpace, friends can keep in touch with one another. Im on MySpace to keep in toych with friends from high school, reunite with old buddies (and flings) and simply chat with current hom-miand colleagues, she explained. All it takes to sign up is filling in a general profile. MySpace can be taken further by adding pictures and learn es Trenna Ahlstrom From there participants make friends with other MySpace members and can leave each other comments. Oyler started the group specifically for Westminster students. People assume Im this dirty girl because of my sarcastic profile, so I get my fair share of disgusting from dirty men. Thank goodness, though, I can either block them or just not respond to their messages. The beauty of MySpace is you dont have to be someones friend. You can weed out the weirdos, Oyler said. While some people say their friends on MySpace are wasting their time, Oyler disIts not a huge waste agrees. of time because its fun and something to do while Im See MySpace pg. 8 Staff Writer Bagpipe player Sean Featherton demonstrated talent and versatility as he performed in the Shaw Student Center on Tuesday, April 5 as part of ASWCs International Week Featherton played tradi- In a performance remi- tional bagpipe standards such as Amazing Grace as well as a montage of songs including the theme songs to the Jetsons and The Empire Strikes Back. niscent of Mike Meyers So I Married an Ax Murderer, Featherton played Rods Stewarts Da Ya Think Im Sexy? as the crowd erupted with laughter. This kid is just awesome and hes only been playing for Westminster student Jamie Oyler, know as Sexual Banana on Myspace.com, heads the Westminster Society on the Web Site. bee Bagpipes pg. 8 |