The DePauw, September 3, 1996

              FEATURES
Professor Robert Newton out­lines
his theory on the explo­sion
of FlightlWA 800
Page 10
September 3, 1996 Indiana's Oldest College Newspaper
Let the beero;
buyer beware
~ The University will
provide local merchants
with students' names and
birthdates this year.
by Mona Santiago
'nle University considered
. pUlling students' hinh dmes on ~lC
nelV student IDs., hut decided
against the idea because UlC cards
could still be falsely duplicated.
Denn Hill said the IDs could be u
"tool which people could modify,"
DePauw has tClUllCd up Wi~l making it easy lor minors to acquire
Urccncasilc merchunts to reduce alcohol.
underage drinking. Even though ulis plun is rela-
Denn ofStudcnL~Alan Hill said tively new" many are optimistic that.
local bars lUld liquor stores will be it will work. Dean Hill said liquor
given lists of student namcs and vendors will cooperate fully when
hiruKiutes. He lUld Judge Sally Gray given the new directory list and
also wamed freshmen Inst week Umt added that it would be to tllCir
some laws were 'getting tougher lor advantage to use il.
minors caught in possession ofalco· "I think it's lUl important issue
hoi or driving under the iniluence of that tllCse students need 10 under­alcohol.
stand ,Uld thai tllCy will lollow the
'111is year DePauw will give a law which is ~lCy mllst be 2110 pur-list
Ihal is separllle __________ chase and con·
from ~1C Direclory
of Sluff and
Siudenis. l1lC now
list will help liquor
slore IUld haT own·
ers to know tllC cor­reCI
ages of stu­dents
who allempt
to buy alcohol from
t/lCm.
'This is all we can do
to prevent underage
students from pur­chasing
alcohol and
it's just a step in the'
right direction.'
-ALAN HILL
sume alcohol,"
sialed DeIUl Hill.
If a minor is
cnughl driving
under the inllu­ence
of alcohol
(any percenlage
over a .10 percent
blorKl alcohol
level), he williosc
'1his is l~1 we his license and
CIUl do to prevent DEAN OF STUDENTS may foce exira jail
underage sludenls ----------time as well.
Irom purchasing alcohol and il'sjust Students disagree with whal
a slep in tllC righl direction," said DeIUl Hill and tllC Green~'USue com·
DcIUl Hill. munilY are doing. Junior Beth Wells
111e plan originaled wilh
inquiries Irom nuUlY local ,~cohol
mcrchanL~.
"We don 'I want UlC undemgc
kids in here," said SCOII Atwell,
owner of Andy's Liquor slore.
Alwell initialed the program by a~k­ing
DcIUl Hill if Ule direclory could
have ~le ages prinled ncxllo the SIU·
dcnL~' names in U10 direclory.
Minors caughl purcha~ing
alcohol with a Ihlse ID will have no
chance lilr u delerred prosecution
ca~. 111cre will he no chlUlce thm
this UlTcst will 110 kepi off the
llIinor's I\.'cord.
Like many liquor slore owners,
AtlVcll said he lears losing his liquor
liccnse, paying lines or serving jail
limo Ix:cause he mighl sell alcohol
10 U minor \Vi~lli~se idenlification.
'.
believes thai the liquor me!l:hants
won 'tlum away business, even if it
mcans selling to minors.
"I don'i think People who sell
I~cohol will look in the direclory to
lind our ages. 1l1Cy want our busi·
ness," said Wells,
Sophomore Nick Evangelides
~links that this phUl will work for a
lillie while bUI nol in the long run.
"Maybe lor a week. But just
like any rule, people will lind a way
to gel by ii," stated Evangelides.
For sophomore Krislen
FnUlklin,the queslion is nOI whether
~lC alcohol venders will go along
Wi~l Ule Iisl hut ifulis is violating her
civil rights.
"I ~link that this would be 1m
invll~ion of our privacy, which is nOI
liur." , I
PHOTO BY LUCY FDlQUSOH
Practicing his technique for the next Olympic Games, Junior Ben Clark flips while Jumping
rope in the Neal Fieldhouse. . 'V The King of jump
Tours, talk shows, Olympics on tap for junior Clark
by David neche
When you think of jump
rope, you Ihink of pig-Iailed lil·
tic girls on a playground.
So Ben Clark has been
made fun of mosl of his life.
Kids ridiculed him in e1emen·
tary school, snickered al him in
junior high . and jusl plain
laughed at him in high school.
But now, after enduring
years of questioning glances,
Clark has taken jump roping and
leapt inlo tho limelight. Clurk
has been on national TV and is of his sport. .
now gearing up to go on the talk In June, Clark went to Ihe
show circuil, and chances are U.S. Jump Rope Federation's
good thnl he will go 10 Ihe 2000 national championships, where
Olympic Games in Sydney. he traveled 10 Disneyworld in
Yes, one could say that Orlando. Clark performed indi­Clark's
Ihe one huving the last vidually and with his team on
laugh. . the stage of the Indiana Jones
Clark is a jump rope fanatic. Stunt Spectacular, ' eventually
He's been doing it since fourth coming away wilh Ihree gold,
grade, when n Iraveling Iroupe Iwo si lver and n bronze medal.
called "Jump Rope for the ButlO alark, ESPN's cover­Heart"
came to his elemenlary age of'the compelition was. as
school 10 promole filness. Now, SEE CLARK, PAGE 15
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