November 6, 2001
News
Language department celebrates
·Day of the Dead, page 3.
Focus
· McMahon and the WWF bring
R~w is War to campus, page 9.
Sports
Field hockey loses in overtime of
semifinals of MAC tournament,
page 12
Opinion
The war, Martin Lawrence and
foot fetishists, page 18 & 19.
Inside
NEWS ....................... ;.Page 1
FOCUS ........................ Page 6
SPORTS ...................... Page 12
OPINION ............ ....... Page 18
CAMPUS BRIEFS ..... Page 2
HOROSCOPES .......... Page 16
COMICS ..................... Page 16
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www.louisvillecardinal.com
Photo by Christian Oudard
The foam party ring was part of the kick of/for the week long celebrations of Homecoming
festivites. Homecoming culminates with the football game this Saturday at? p.m. when the
Cardinals take ·on the Houston Cougars, at halftime the king and queen will be announced.
Homecoming week
full of campus events
By Roo Mulligan
Staff Writer
When thinking of
·Homecoming, Qne natu­rally
thinks of the big
football game and seeing
old friends among the re:
turning.alumni. Here at
the University of Louis­ville,
however, Home­coming
means a whole
week of exciting events.
The kickoff event for the
wee!\ was the .Foam
Party on November 2 .
Several other events·
took place over the
weekend including a
skating party, window
painting and a cookout.
Tonight there will be
a comedy show at the
Red Barn starting at 8
p.m. Featured comedi­ans
will be Lavelle
Crawford and Spike
Davis. Lav'elle was
BET's Entertainer of the
Year and Davis hosts a
comedy quiz show on
BET's network. Tickets
are $5 in advance and $7
at the door.
Wednesday, Novem­ber
7th is the big event
at Club Masterson's .
The dance wiU feature
DJ Spicey Ice and is
from 8-11 p.m. They
will be announcing the
top five finalists for
Homecoming King and
Queen. Many of the
students are looking
forward to Club
Masterson's. Tricia
Hedges and Megan
McCoy, senior market­ing
majors, are both
looking forward to the
bonfir~, the dance and
seeing the King and
Queen elected. They
will definitely be cast­ing
their votes on Mon­day.
Tara O'Bannon, a
senior marketing/man­agement
major, is also
looking forward to
Club Masterson's. ·and
most of all, the game.
Thursday, Novem­ber
8th from 11 -1p.m.
wi}1 be the Golf Cart
Parade. All the organi ­zations
sponsoring a
candidate will have a
decorated cart although
any organization on
campus can participate.
The golf carts will be
decorated in a unique
fashion and will parade
around campus for all
to see. One nominee
for Homecoming King­saw
the parade last year
and is l9oking forward
to the event this year.
Thursday eyening
will be the bonfire and
pep rally from 8-1 b p.m.
in the gravel parking lot
at Papa John's Stadium.
There will be another
dance on Friday, No-
. vember 9 sponsored by
NPHC. It will take
place in the SAC Multi ­purpose
Room from 10-
2 a.m. and there is a $5
admission charge.
The King and Queen
of Homecoming will be
crow.ned during half­time
of the game on S.at­urday
afternoon . U of L
battles Houston at 2
p .m. at Papa John's Car­dinal
Stadium.
Saturday evening,
NPHC is sponsoring the
Step show, a much-an­ticipated
event by mauy
of the students. Another
nominee who hats par­ticipated
in the Step
show in the past charac­terizes
it as an opportu­nity
to see the Fraterni­ties
and Sororities com­pete
in synchronized
stomping, clapping and
chanting. They compete
to see who has the best
show. · He says it is ·one
of the best events at
Homecoming. Julie
See HOMECOMING, Page 2
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The Independ~nt Studen! Newspaper
.Gas·tnask
incident provides
Halloween scare
By Chaz Martin
Opinion Editor
On October 31, the
Department of Public Safety
was twice telephoned by
members of the Geography
Department. who reported the
presence of a man wearing a
green, military jacket, comple­mented
by a large bag marked
''US Mask/Chemical/Biologi­cal
Field N17 Series" There­sponding
officers were tmsure
whether the calls were con­cerning
a prank, a potentially
dangerous incident, or both.
Lieutenant Tom Fitzgerald
notes that they were "very
fearful of a bomb or rifle."
Officers Jeff Pearce and Bill
Unseld found the man in the
Anthropology class of Dr.
Purifoy and, after removing
the suspect from the room,
they interrogated him to find
if he presented a threat to the
University population.
The case may appear to be
one of a terrorist confrontation.
However, themaninquestion
was a student, Jason Oliver,
and the date of the incident
was on Halloween.
The Senior Honors stu­dent
claiffis that his costume
had not:hing to do with there­centAnthrax
scare and that the
choice of attire was for Hal­loween
fun. He adM that his
gas mask was removed upon
entry to his classes. Oliver
notes, ''It was just a Hallow­een
costume and I did notre­alize
that anyone would react
in such an extreme manner."
Lt. Fitzgerald does not see
the levity in the Oliver's cos­tume
choice. Within the con­text
of heightened national
security and widespread fear
of biological weapons, he be­lieves
Oliver was ''highly ir­responsible."
Oliver believes that the
two police officers in question
were out of line in their inter­rogation
ofhim. He claims that
they insulted him and stated
that he "was wasting their
time." He offered to conceal
his mask and bag for the du­ration
of his day, adding that
he wished to return to an im-
. portant class. He plans to file
complaints against the two of­ficers
.and has asked for apolo­gies
from both the police and
those who called them to report
concern over his g~ mask.
The responding officers,
. however, felt that an investiga­tion
was imperative and pro­ceeded
to question Oliver as to
the motives behind his costume
. choice, asking if the gas mask
was intended to be "a prank."
Although Oliver believes
the police officers were "per­petuating
hysteria" by detain~
ing him because of "a Hallow­een
costume," Oliver was re­leased
approximately 25 11)in­utes
after he had been pulle<;i
from class and was then al­lowed
to return. Oliver, how­ever,
claims that the incident
had placed him in such an emo­tional
state that he could notre­turn
to Dr. Purifoy's classroom.
· During the investigation he
was questioned repeatedly, but
neither he, nor his bag were
searched. Before he was re­leased,
Oliver was issued a ci­tation
for Disorderly Conduct,
which, after at least two court
dates, may yield a fine of 2~0
dollars, or up to 90 days in jail. .
The prospect of such legal ac­tion
has left Oliver in a shaky
emotional state.
''I had an emotional break­down
and it took hours for my
. fiance, family, and Dr. Purifoy
to calm me down.
As to the question of his
costume choice, Oliver adds: ''I
wish I would have dressed as a
pirate. Then they just would
have called me a scallywag."
· Despite Oliver's assertion
that he has been the victim of a
poiice overreaction, Lt.
Fitzgerald is confident that he
made the right call.
''It was a bad situation, and
he had a lot of people scared.;'
The incident has raised the
issue of secmity to a new level
at the University. The court de­cision
concerning Oliver may
clarify the new paradigm of
acceptable versus unacceptable
behavior, in light of heightened
tension in an uncertain campus.
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