The DePauw, December 6, 1996

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MATT AND MONA
Our roving Student ID
reporters turn their cameras,
Indiana's Oldest College Newspaper Volume 145, Num
PHOTO BY MONA IANTIAGO
Roy O. West Library 'Spoof' paper
condemned
as anti-gay
• Sexual harassment
complaint filed against
student journalists
by Jessica McCuan
Long after the final pages of
the Nov. 15 Monon Bell issue of
The DePauw wcre sent to the
presses and many newspaper
staffcrs had left the newsroom, 10
staff members returned to The
DePauw's newsroom and worked
until early Friday morning draft­ing
a "spoor' newspaper called
The Bachelorette.
The'Bachelorette, a parody of
Wabash College's newspaper The
Bachelor, was created in response
to a Wabash parody of The
DePauw called The DeBauch,
Bachelorette's production and
content
, Two members of DePauw's
gay community have expressed
their objections in the form of a
sexual harassment complaint filed
at the Student Affairs Office, The
complaint was filed by music pro­fessor
Eric Edberg and student
Matt Kingston, both of whom
have announced to the DePauw
community that they are gay.
"Even though [The
IT's BEEN A LONG TIME
Though the authors of The
Bachelorerte maintain that their
parody paper's only intention was
to ridicule Wallies, many readers,
including President Robert
Bottoms and members of United
DePauw, Student Congress nnd
the DePauw faculty, have ques­tions
about and objections to The
Bachelorette] wasn't directed at
anyone here at DePauw," said
Kingston, president of United
DePauw, "it was grossly homo­phobic.
One of the things that
most offended me was the article
on 'Angels in America' that
ridiculed a reeent play 1 attended
that was performed on Wabash's
campus .... The crudeness of some
of the articles, for example 'Rectal
Prof. Mary English, dlredor of the Management Fellows program, rings the Monon Bell with her daughter
Laura while Prof. Robert Stark, chelr of the Department of BIological Sciences, watches during Tuesday
night's women's basketball game at the Lilly Center. The Bell was brought back to DePauw by the ~II
team after Its 31·13 ridory over W~balh College Nov. 16 - the first time since 1990.
See women'. basketball story, page 16. Sa BACHELORETTE, PAGE 4
Parking fines mean big money for DPU
by Matthew llntel
Freshman Aubrey Sekal makes the
University about $40 an hour.
Sekal's work study job is writing park­ing
tickets. She and other ticket writers have
collected more than $110,000 in parking
fines since the beginning of the 1993-94
school year, said Nick Pearson, ~niversity
budget director and financial analyst Sekal
said she issues an average of three to four an
hour, which comes to about $360 a week.
And since the University doubled parking
fines this year, the amount of money the
University collects is likely to skyrocket.
Greencastle meter maid Kim Sheldon
said the city makes about half as much
money as the University does from its park­ing
tickets. Sheldon estimated the city writes
parking tickets totaling about $17,000 annu­ally.
Pearson said records show DePauw
averaged more than $36,000 in parking
fines each year for the last three years.
Parl<ing Coordinator Mary Smith, the
administrator in charge of tickets, said she
was not aware the fines added up to such a
large amount of money. But Smith also said
she does not work around a quota of tickets.
"My reaction is 'That's a lot of money.'
1 feel it's,unfortunate, but at some point 1
would think learning would kick in," she
said.
This year, the University doubled the
charges for parking violations. The mini­mum
fine for a parking ticket on campus is
now $20, which compares to $10 I~t year.
Under the new system, if a person receives
a ticket and has been identified 'as, a repeat
offender (meaning they have already
received two or more tickets), an additional
$50 is ad d to the charge.
Even though the University raised the
fines, Smith said the number of tickets
issued this year has not decreased, bringing
in more money for the University.
'There are a lot of tickets that have
been issued this year. It seems as if this is
perceived as a negative because, in a way,
we're being faulted for doing a good job [of
ticketing cars]," Smith said.
I Smith said there was a reason for the
increased fines ror parking violations, but so
. far it hasn't helped.
"I had hoped the higher fines would
decrea~e the number of tickets. It hasn't But
it doesn't have to be that way. 1 guess it's
possible people are just lazy," Smith said.
Students who help write tickets for
campus police said they think the fines
should teach repeat offenders a lesson. But
they also said they realize a large amount of
money is being made off of students' fines.
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