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FRATERNITY jfcELPS CHILDREN CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN
By Link Ngo
Blood-thirsty draculas,
d i s m e m b e r e d bodies, hell
trolls, and the great pumpkin
patch were a few of the many
creatures that appeared at
Phi Sigma Kappa (Phi Sig)
Haunted House on October
31.
The Phi S i g H a u n t e d
House has been a tradition at
St. Lawrence Univerisity on
Halloween for nine years.
About 300 local kids and SLU
students visited the haunted
house.
. Over 50 Phi Sig brothers
participated and each played
a role in the event. Among
the-17 stations set up were
S a t a n ' s fire, chainsaw
masacre, and murder in Central Park. E a c h s t a t i o n ,
though different, was scary
a n d e x i c i t i n g , s a i d Eric
Adema ('92), chairman of the
Haunted House Committee.
Phi Sigma Kappa keeps spirit
. "My favorite station was
the mad doctor with Igor,"
said Laura Treanor ('94).
alive.
PhotdTby Kirk
Kringel
"The Phi S i g Haunted semester," said Adema.. "Our
House is the largest com-*" objective is to show all the
munity event during the fall kids in the community a
This was Perrin's first visit to
the haunted house.
"It's a really good program [Phi Sig] set up here,"
said Rita Brabaw, a mother
who's been bringing her kids
to the h a u n t e d / h o u s e for
several years. "It gets scarier
every year," she added.
"It's j u s t a blast,"- said
Adema.
"I was really horrified,"
said Liza Hyland ('93).
Admission to the haunted
house was free for the community. However,
the
brothers aksed for a one dollar donation from each SLU
student who went through.
Phi Sig will contribute the
money raised from donations
to the Canton Scholarship
Fund to 'help students further
their education.
STUDENTS BATTLE FDR RIGHT TO CRIME INFORMATION
By Amy
Reynolds
i C P S ) - Sttidertt journalists' frustration with campus
police departments' withholding of crime information in
compliance with the Buckley
Ammendment h a s reached
the federal courts in an official complaint.
On October 10, two journalists at the Univeristy of
Tennessee, one a t Colorado
State University and the Student Press Law Center jointly
filed the suit in Washington,
D.C., c l a i m i n g t h a t their
First And Fifth Amendment
rights have been'violated by
the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act, commonly called FERPA
or the Buckley Amendment.
T h e F E R P A guidleines
prohibits the release of any
student records, including police records from which students might be identified.
Schools that violate the law
by releasing such information
face the loss of federal funding.
Student journalists and
campus law enforcement administrators disagree with
the interpretation of the law.?
"We are hoping the (De- *
partment of Education) will
clarify the difference between
student records and police
records. Under the Buckley Amendment we can't even
share our information with
other law enforcement agencies," says Roger Serra, president of the. International Association of Campus Law Enforcement' A d m i n i s t r a t o r s
and the Univeristy of Wash-
ington's police chief. "We are
very much in favor of changing the law."
Until it does change, the
S t u d e n t Press Law Center
wants to stop the government
from penalizing schools that
violate the Buckley "Amendment.
"Our/whole point is to get
an injunction'against the Department of Education so
they c a n n o t c o n t i n u e to
w i t h o l d f u n d s from t h e
schools t h a t disclose crime
records>»to the press," says
Mike Hiestand; an attorney
With the Student Press Law
Center.
Hiestand s a y s the law
center's suit is based on the
recent decision in the Missouri case Bauer v. Kincaid
in which a judge found that
S o u t h w e s t Missouri S t a t e
Univeristy's refusal to release
campus police records was a
direct violation of both the
First and Fifth Amendment
rights of the student who*
brought the suit against the
school.
CKarlie Brown Makes 19 Judson
Party a. Success for Local Kids
By Brad Tips
On Sunday October 27,
the sisters of Delta Delta
Delta and the brothers of
Sigma .Chi sponsored the Big
Brother/Big Sister Halloween
party that took plade from 58 p.m. a t the Delta house.
The event was for the children involved in . the Big
Brother/Big Sister program
who live in various towns
throughout the St. Lawrence
county.
trey
Donahue
('92) helps children
swing into
Halloween.
Photo by Brad
Tips
AH the big brothers and
big sisters- dressed up for the
Halloween celebration along
with the children. There were
a number of events that took
place at the party, including
pumpkin carving' and
c o s t u m e judging c o n t e s t s .
Children with the scariest,
funniest, c u t e s t and most
c r e a t i v e p u m p k i n s and
costumes were awarded bags
of candy and McDonalds gift
certificates.
Among other events were
pinyata contests, banana and
7-Up races, and the viewing
of Charlie Brown's Great
Pumpkin. Throughout the
party, snacks,, beverages, and
pizza were available for the
children and their big brother
or sister.
Overall, the'party was a
great success thanks to those
students involved in the Big
Brother/Big Sister program
and to the Greek members
who attended the Halloween
party.