The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 03, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 2005 Page: 1 of 8
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Move over Koroova and the Cove...
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Trouble in Pirate Bike paradise?
First-year Lori Higginbotham thinks that Pirate Bikes chase away
squirrels and students alike A look into why she just doesn't like
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A&F.: ACI. Festival Irom two students’ perspectives 7
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THE MEGAPHONE
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
“Morality, like hi1. means
drawing a tine someplace. "
Oscar Wilde
Si i i i \\m it ‘29, 2005
Vol 98, Issue 3
Rita wreaks havoc on TX
Student families, other evacuees flocked to Southwestern
By JENNY HOWELL
Megaphone Staff Writer
.lust when we thought it was
all over. Rita came.
I or the past couple ol weeks
we have been donating to the
victims of hurricane Katrina.
I hey all were caused a great
loss, and they lied to cities like
Houston. Dallas. Austin, and
other areas. College students
were enrolled in new schools,
some of them even came here.
Life \\as stowing down, and
relief efforts were becoming
quiet effective. Then came
Rita.
As the next big tropical storm
began building, meteorologists
suspected that we might be in
lor something hig. t hen, as Rita
slammed through the Florida
Key s people began to head for
the hills. Houston evacuated
all of those victims of Katrina
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who had found shelter in the
city. I he city of Galveston
began a voluntary evacuation
and soon the roads were jam
packed. By luesday September
20 they began evacuating the
southern parts ol Houston, and
everything to the east.,
Wednesday the University
of Houston decided to close
their campus for Thursday and
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While many Texas college students marked Hurricane Rita's arrival by having "Hurricane and 'Rita" parties, the
storm forced some Houston businesses, Such 'ris this pet store, to board up for the weekend.
Friday and rented hotel rooms
in Wichita Falls for all of their
student athletes and all of their
students who did not live close
enough, or did not have the
resources, to get home for the
storm. Rice University closed
their campus as well. Grocery
stores everywhere ran out of
water and batteries, as people
prepared for the worst.
Predicted patterns of the.
ever-building C ategory 4 storm
lell people from places like
Friendswood and Alv in heading
westward, and at 4:30 p.m. on
Thursday all livestock trailers
were forbidden from entering
Maple Street may relocate
Traffic troublesome for students; city getting involved with SU
By MARY BETH PINNELL
Megaphone Editor-m-Chief
Move over Maple
Street! Despite pleas from
Southwestern President Jake
Schrum. the Georgetown City
Council decided in a September
13 meeting that Maple street
would not close to thru-traffic
as earlier suggested. Instead,
city and school olficials will
consider realignment of the
street il a funding agreement
can he reached between them.
With the rapidly growing
population in Georgetown
city officials predict the traffic
congestion on the popular
campus cut-thru will only get
worse in future years. Currently
Maple is used as a main entrance
for campus visitors as well as
the exit for most of the traffic
on the east side of campus.
In last February's City
Council workshop session.
Schrum cited safety issues in
regards to SU's Masterplan as
one reason why it's important
to cut down traffic in the future.
I he plan calls for two new
residential buildings along
the end of Maple, where the
larger of the two athletic fields
currerH-k lays. ----------- • —
If the realignment of
Maple is decided on in the
upcoming months, the plans
for the buildings as well as the
placement of the current parking
lot on the west side of the street
will be re-evaluated.
-According to Georgetown
City Manager Paul Brandenburg,
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If the city and Southwestern officials can agree on a way to share the financial responsibilities of the project
Maple Street may face realignment
if the realignment look place
the traffic signal on University
Avenue at the same place and
the crossing at 7th Street in the
same location, hut would move
the road over to the railroad
tracks. I he road would run
along the tracks until the place
where Maple meets 7th at the
north end of the road.
Currently Georgetown
officials are estimating the
cost to realign Maple and will
begin the planning process with
Southwestern representatives
next week to see i fa cost-sharing
agreement can he reached.
"It s similar, or could be
compared to. a developer
agreement. We have plans
that need to go through a city
approval process." said Richard
Anderson. SU Vice President
of fiscal Affairs. "We look
forward to the conversation w ith
the City on try ing to see how we
can make this a reality
Anderson is involved in
SU’s side of the planning
process along with Bob Mathis,
also in Fiscal Affairs.
At this point in time a
spending limit has not been
set by either SU or the City,
hut the upcoming meeting will
discuss cost issues as well as
issues regarding abandoning
the existing road. I he deadline
for both parties to submit a
proposal to the City Council for
realignment plans is December
13,
evacuation routes. This was
getting serious.
Ritas somewhat
unpredictable and constantly
changing path left thousands of
Schools, including many major
universities, closed for Friday.
see RITA on pg. 2
Hauerwas plans
to shock, engage
students
By BRITTANY SNODGRASS
Megaphone Staff Writer
of what’s to come, then
every listener is in for a ride.
Hauerwas combines salty
Come prepared 4a listen, speech and irony to engage his
question, and be shocked audience and provoke them
as Stanley Hauerwas, into thinking critically about
in conjunction with Christianity.
Southwestern’s 2005 Willson These tactics aim to shock.
Lectureship, presents his views leaving both “liberals” and
on Christianity and its place in "conservatives’' alike in states
today’s society: >*■.,<l —of frustration and disgust.
Time Magazine named But don’t let this keep you
Hauerwas “America's from coming. Hauerwas wants
Best Theologian” in 2001, his audience to do a double-
characterizing him as “a take and question what he’s
volatile, complex person with said in order to keep them
an explosive personality and engaged.
high-ehetgy siyte.,v Hauerwas----------His methods have become
will deliver two lectures on famous in theological circles,
Thursday, September 29, the such that to call something
first at 11 a.m. in the Lois a “Hauerwasian” is to
Perkins Chapel and the second characterize it as an ironic
at 7 p.m., also in the Chapel, argument.
The titles for these lectures Hauerwas’ credentials are
are “The End of Religious extensive. After graduating
Pluralism” and “Why No One from Southwestern, he went
Wants to Die in America,” on to gamer degrees from
respectively. both Yale University and the
A 1962 graduate of University of Edinburgh.
Southwestern University and In 2001, he delivered the
native Texan, he currently prestigious Gifford Lectureship
holds the position as Gilbert T. at the University of St. Andrews
Rowe Professor of Theological in Scotland.
Ethics at the Divinity School A prolific writer, Hauerwas
of Duke University in Durham, has written and published more
North Carolina. He also holds than 25 academic and popular
a join appointment in the Duke books on a variety of subjects.
Law School. His book, “A Community
“Hauerwasiscontemporary of Character: Towards a
theology’s foremost intellectual Constructive Christian Social
provocateur” saitf Time. “[He] Ethic,” was selected as one
has been a thorn in the side of of the 100 most important
what he takes to be Christian books on religion of the 20th
complacency for more than 30 century.
years,!! ______________ Hismostrecentbook.“With
Reverend Beverly Jones, the Grains of the Universe: The
Chaplain of Southwestern, Church’s Witness and Natural
agrees. “He is a provocative rheology,” was published in
speaker often shocking 2001.
audiences with wit and humor. Both lectures are free
arid often presenting at once and open to the public. A
common sense with unusual reception and book signing in
combinations of ideas, helping the Bishops Memorial l ounge
to open the way for fresh will follow the 7 p.m. lecture,
thinking on important issues,” Copies of “With Grains...” will
Jones said. be available to purchase at that
-If history is any indication—time.-
The humpy road ahead
According to ’ statistfess
President Schrum cited in
February, a minimum of 250
cars' are parked along Maple
each day and approximately
11.500 people go out into the
street each y ear w hether to cross
the street, chase sports balls
from games taking place on the
fields, or vvallk from their ears.
Schrum also said that 85
percent of the traffic on Maple
is unrelated to the Southwestern
campus.
Chief Brown of the SUPD
recently sent out a campusuide
email alerting members of the
student body about the extension
of the speed humps and
increased traffic enforcement
along the road.
The two speed bumps
were installed on the street
two years ago. and they were
extended to meet both curbs by
the Georgetown Transportation
Services Department in the last
few weeks. School and local
officials hope the extension of
the humps and increased patrol
ears will help enforce the 20
mph speed limit that few drivers
obey, however students feel
different ly
"I think a 20 mph speed
limit is ridiculous and I'm really
sad that I can't swerve around
the speed humps anymore."
said senior Ali I lend Icy.
I he Southwestern Police
Department is not involved
in monitoring speeding along
Maple, hut on-campus officers
stay focused on the safety and
parking issues along the busy
street
see MAPLE pg. 2
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