1997-04-17

              Let him that would move the world first move himself

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The Record

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Saint John's University

Volume CX, Number 5

Official Student Newspaper Since 1887

April 17, 1997

Koestner shares stories of rape and life with packed

Date rape story

moves audience

by Nicole Kroetsch and

Sarah Brouillard Editorial Staff Writers

Rape survivor Katie Koestner shared her personal experience and offered suggestions to eliminate rape to students in the filled to overflow- ¦ ing Science Center auditorium at SJU last night.

"I didn't plan to be here tonight," Koestner said. She explained that she entered the College of Williams and Mary in Virginia in the fall of 1990 planning to double major in Japanese and chemistry. "But it didn't work out: none of it worked out."

A violent date rape prevented her from following through with her plans like the average college student. In her first year of college, she went on a date with a man that she

see Koestner page ii

auditorium

Funding of speech troubled SJU senate

by Nicole Kroetsch Editorial Staff Writer

The Student Advocates Against Sexual Violence ended a controversial struggle with the St. John's senate to fund rape victim Katie Koestner's speech last evening.

Molly Dose, CSB sophomore and co-coordinator of the SAASV, explains that bringing Koestner to campus was a year long process.

"We came up with the idea last year. Christine Imbra, former CSB director of security, suggested her. This year, we wanted to make it a priority."

The student advocates first approached the senates for the $2000 they would need to get Koestner on campus.

see Funds page ii

Date rape speaker Katie Koestner takes time after her speech to converse with SJU junior Lance Bodeen. (photo by Nick Lipetzky)

LSLR makes it to press after year of tribulations

Carlson and Casey relieved after struggles for funding and deluge of submissions

jEC eliminates middle-man for Pinestock

By Jon Brothen Staff Writer

The once endangered Lower Stumpf Lake Review now appears to be headed for full publication after the creation of the Co-Funding Board answered fears of limited funding. According to co-editor and CSB senior Megan Casey, the publication should be completely available and ready for display by the end of the year. Casey and SJU senior and co-editor Androo Carlson had feared the possibility of not having adequate funds for this year's issue.

"It's been last minute craziness," commented Casey.

LSLR was facing an eminent shutdown due to an unavailability of funds which the St. John's senate was unwilling or unable to provide.

Through joint coordination LSLR will be evenly funded by both St. John's and St. Ben's senates. The Co-Funding Board is scheduled to approve the request and advise that each senate appropriate $4,000 to

cover LSLR's costs. Casey said she and Carlson worked hard to reduce LSLR's cost $1,000 by not using a hard cover for the publication.

Casey felt the staff had to sacrifice "some quality" to meet the scaled down funding requests but that they are relieved the process is finally over.

The editors went right up to publication without knowing whether they would receive funds to print LSLR.

"We were just concentrating on getting the book done," said Casey. "I wish the senate had communicated better in the beginning of the year."

The chair of the SJS Allocations Board Mike Caputa said the coordinated format for funding programs like LSLR is "more appropriate" and "may set a precedent" for future funding ventures.

The LSLR had an unusually large number of submissions this year, surpassing any years in recent memory.

By KristSandness Staff Writer

The Joint Events Council has announced this year's headlining band for Pinestock as Freddy Jones, not to be confused with Freedy Johnston who bombed out of the 1995 indoor Pinestock.

The headliner fund this year is being used to get two bands instead of one. "This year we don't really have one headliner band, although Freddy Jones is our primary band," explained Mike Cohler, the JEC member in charge of signing the bands this year. "I guess you could say Freddy Jones is our headliner band."

The headliner fund this year was $25,000, $15,000 of which was spent on Freddy Jones, which leaves $10,000 for someone else. That someone else may be Edwin McCain out of Atlanta, Georgia.

"They are considered to be a really good live band. Out of all the bands, they are the best live band I have ever seen," Mike Cohler said. "They're just not as well known on these two campuses. The Freddy Jones band has some name recognition, but not too much. This year it was really difficult to get bands with any kind of name recognition."

Right now the band line-up is looking like Freddy Jones as the

main headliner, Edwin McCain as the second main band, Gutta Percha as the opening band, and either Mango Jam or Becoming Laslo (formerly known as the JoyFiends) as a fourth band.

"This year instead of going for name recognition, which we couldn't go for because either we couldn't afford the names or they were already booked or they weren't touring, I went for good live bands," commented Mike Cohler. "Freddy Jones is a really good live band. I've seen them live. Edwin McCain is incredible. Gutta Percha is, I feel, the best opener we have had so far and I've seen about five or six Pinestocks."

What goes into getting a band?

"Oh man, a lot of work. It's a lot of calling and calling and calling. Tons of calling," Cohler commented. "You have to call agents. You have to call middle agents. You have to call agencies that deal with middle agents and agents. There is no conventional way of getting a band."

JEC decided not to go with a middle agent this year and do the band hunting by themselves. Middle agents get 10% of the cost it takes to get a band to a show. Out of the $25,000 spent on the headliner bands this year, $2,500 would have automatically gone to the middle agent.

"I cut out the middle agent this year, so I can put that money back into getting bands," said Cohler. "It's more work for me. It's a lot more work forme! But, then, we can have a better Pinestock. That was my main focus; it's for the students."

JEC is divided up into doing different tasks to help make Pinestock run smoothly: Mike Cohler gets the bands; Kathy Algard and Sean McLean are in charge of security; Kate Boylan takes care of parking issues; Samia Tarraf and Joe Effertz are in charge of the venders and the novelty event, which will be jousting replacing last year's bouncy boxing; etc.

"This is really an all-council event. There are so many details that cannot be overlooked; that I wouldn't be able to do it myself or my co-committee, we wouldn't be able to handle ourselves. Everybody gets totally involved," Cohler said.

Due to the fact that the Palestra is under construction, at this point if the weather turns bad on Pinestock weekend, Pinestock will be moved to the Haehn Campus Center at CSB. One of the results that this will create is that alcohol will not be part of Pinestock since CSB does not have a liquor license.

The bands for Pinestock will be formally announced Friday.

St. Vincent Court

expands housing

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Johnnie baseball

opens season

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