The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 37, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Page: 1 of 8
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The Optimist covers Sing Song 2003 Friday In a special
color Issue. We return Sunday with a recap of winners and a
Lectureship preview. Finally Tuesday we present compre-
hensive Lectureship coverage.
Sing Song hosts and hostesses
Some clubs
fail to meet
size limits
Past Sing Song
champs won't be
on stage this year
Jonathan Smith
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Several social clubs will
not be participating in Sing
Song this year because of size
and time limitations.
Trl Kappa Gamma Delta
Chi Itho Phi Beta Epsilon Pi
Kappa and Trojans arc
among the clubs that won't
be participating because
they do not meet the 40-
member minimum.
Tri Kappa Gamma cur-
rently has 16 members Delta
Chi Rho has 11 Phi Beta
Epsilon has six Pi Kappa has
39 and the Trojans have 22.
Threat
sends
prices
soaring
Probable war
means students
pay more for gas
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Student Reporter
With national gas prices
increasing steadily it's the
public who Is paying for it
literally.
The Abilene average for
regular unleaded gas is
$1.59 which is about 23
cents higher than at the start
of last week according to Jay
Carlile manager of Texas
Express No. 5. With the threat
of war looming over
America the end of the ris-
ing prices has yet to come
Carlile said.
Carlile said he doesn't see
a stopping point for the mar-
ket ahead but he guarantees
that with every increase like
this the market eventually
has to come back down
Advisers warn against overusing
Racking up credit
on off-campus stuff
could prove costly
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Student Reporter
Cat payment: $315; share
of rent: $127.25; groceries:
$109.46; Sing Song: $40. Using
student loans to cover these
Items: not so priceless.
Many students are using
weekend
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practice in Moody Sunday.
Smaller clubs do have the
option of teaming with other
clubs to reach the minimum
but for Kyle Topham senior
human communication ma-
jor from Thousand Oaks
Calif and Phi Beta Epsilon
president that was not much
of an option for his club.
"Usually Sing Song is
more about the clubs getting
together and showing off
what they can do on their
own" he said.
Social clubs have com-
bined in the past to meet the
40-member minimum; how-
ever club members have
found It requires more
organization to ally with
other clubs the Optimist re-
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Filling up is getting more
costly; prices in Abilene aver-
age about $1.60 a gallon.
again.
While Carlile is the man-
ager of a gas station he isn't
the one who decides the
prices for the pumps. Al-
though many factors con-
tribute to the rise of gas pri-
ces the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting
Country (OPEC)s the Inter-
national coalition of oil ex-
porters decides the cost of
crude oil as it enters the
United States.
Once OPEC sets its prices
for crude oil based upon
supply and demand it Is
taxed and sent to refineries
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student loans to cover the cost
of Items outside of tuition
which is legal but financial
aid advisers are warning them
to be careful.
For some students using
student loan money for every-
day needs comes as an alter-
native to working full time or
having their parents make
payments.
Several students refused to
comment on this Issue be
Taylor Hemness Junior broadcasting major from Groveton leads singing at "Worship on the Mall" an alternate chapel
planned in protest of the lack of student involvement in making Chapel decisions. About 63 students attended Tuesday.
Students protest lack of
involvement in Chapel
About 65 attend;
effects of alternate
program uncertain
Paul A. Anthony
Editor in Chief
A small group of students
sat on the university mall
Tuesday morning and con-
ducted a chapel in protest of
what they said is a lack of stu-
dent Involvement in recent
Chapel decisions.
"Worship on the Mall"
attracted about 65 students
and its organizers said they
were happy with the turnout.
"I was pleased" said
Katrina Kcichline junior
Christian ministry major from
Cheshire Conn. "I'm glad
File-sharing down but
Special day helps;
AIM still affected
byuseofKazaa
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Student Reporter
Bandwidth use reached a
critical level last semester but
after educating the university
on proper network etiquette
Bandwidth Awareness Day
organizers said the problem is
now under control.
Bandwidth Awareness Day
notified network users that fac-
ulty and students were running
too many programs at one
time consuming all of the
campus bandwidth and keep-
ing more Important appll-
cause they were unsure of
whether or not their use of
loans for purposes outside of
school was legal.
Melissa Mitchell senior
elementary education major
from Grand Prairie said she
uses her loan money to pay
rent buy groceries and pay for
events such as Sing Song.
"It Is a last resort and It is
also to make It easier on my-
self to not have to juggle
Worshipful protest
there weren't any people
speaking out and taking it in a
direction other than where we
planned."
The event was planned in
conjunction with gender
Chapel which Barnard said
already is not well-attended.
About 400 people attended
women's Chapel in Moody
Coliseum while fewer men
attended their version.
In total about 1000 stu-
dents less than a quarter of
the student body attended an
official Chapel Tuesday.
The three students
Kcichline; Aubrey Lycr junior
English major from Grape-
vine; and Clara Goodson jun-
ior secondary education ma-
jor from Glen Rose planned
cations from running
"Bandwidth Awareness Day
Awarencss Day
H
reminded us
all we are a
community"
said Dr. K.B.
Massingill
chief informa-
tion officer.
Many stu
dents said the Massingill
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increase the on-campus band-
width but organizers of the
special day said that would
only delay the problem.
Organizers said they hoped
users were shown the network
does not have unlimited band-
width and It matters how each
student and professor uses the
school and a job" Mitchell
said.
Student Financial Services
has a suggested budget that
considers tuition room and
board transportation and
other fees to be given to stu-
dents. A limited amount of money
exists that students can bor-
row for an undergraduate
degree and Initially that
money is for the student's use
the chapel earlier this month
after deciding students were
not being involved enough in
decisions made by the Chapel
Programming Team and
Chapel Task Force.
"We felt like the most
important thing was to
address student involve-
ment" Eyer said. "No one is
ever going to agree but we felt
it was important to voice our
concerns "
The group sent e-mails to
the student body Wednesday
but the chapel plans were
finalized when the students
met with Wayne Barnard
dean of Campus Life Friday
afternoon.
Barnard said canceling the
chapel wasn't considered.
on-campus Internet.
The committee chosen to
control bandwidth abuse noti-
fied the faculty to ensure they
were using an appropriate
share of bandwidth. In the end
the committee found students
use the highest percentage of
bandwidth on campus.
Massingill said file-sharing
programs like Kazaa are the
root of the bandwidth prob-
lem. Kazaa's software enables
users to connect with one
another directly through a
peer-to-peer network that does
not require a central server to
work properly.
Kazaa differs from other
programs that depend on a
central server and are easily
for school una whatever else
is necessary.
As for spending the
remainder of the loans on
items outside of school
Financial Services counselor
Debbie Oliver said it could
cause problems for students.
"I wouldn't advise it
because in a sense they are
living beyond their means"
Oliver said. "They need to
really watch closely at what
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"That wasn't my intention
ever" he said. "I'm not against
appropriate demonstration."
Barnard said turnout to the
protest would have little effect
on Chapel policy because it
doesn't appear the student
body has a united opinion on
the issue.
"How do you make mean-
ing of what happens? It's
impossible" he said. "It'll be
one more confusing state-
ment out there."
One aspect of the confu-
sion is the number of opin-
ions about Chapel voiced by
the students from concerns
about program direction to
questions about future plans.
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not out
blocked from the network.
Computer Network Services
is using new tools to monitor
the file-sharing while keeping it
available to students.
"We don't want to eliminate
file-sharing" Massingill said.
"There arc time when file-
sharing Is necessary for aca-
demic work"
Programs that move from
port to port cause other pro-
grams to either run slowly or
not at all. Popular programs
like AOL Instant Messenger are
slowed or disabled by Kazaa.
"Every day is a new chal-
lenge" Massingill said. "A new
difficulty comes up every week
but the problem is now under
control."
loans
their payments are going to be
when they are out of school."
Oliver said that due to the
current state of the economy
loans at low Interest rates are
easier to obtain.
Oliver also said she advises
that students should save left-
over loan money for the next
year use it toward summer
school or have it sent back to
the loan entity to pay off the
loan.
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