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Saint John's University
Volume CVIII, Number 11
Official Student Newspaper Since 1887
November 9,1995
$18,000 contract questioned
CSB/SJU locked into C6TV movie contract
By Michael P. Kraabel
Staff Writer
If you were tuning in Monday night to listen to KJNB on good old bluey you were up for disappointment: Open Mic would not be heard tonight; you would have to go to channel 26 or finally hook up to cable. What you saw instead was Murder in the First, a movie, in the place of blue screen announcements.
Monday marked the return of CSB/SJU's own movie channel. No, this year it is not under the control of C6TVand its "cast of hundreds."
This year movies, and only movies, will be the duty of the Joint Events Council's movie committee. The same people who bring you the weekend movies in the SBH will now be in charge of your very own living room.
During the first few weeks of school, it was discovered that C6 was over $4,000 in debt and was not able to raise enough money to pull itself out.
The senate decided not to grant the station club status this year, and the blue
screen seemed imminent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It was soon discovered that C6 had signed a three-year contract with Swank Motion pictures to provide C6 with movies. The remaining portion of the contract, signed by former student Charles Griffith and Joint Director of Student Activities Lori Smith binds the schools to $18,000 worth of movies.
Rob Bass, Saint John's senate treasurer, said, "It will cost about $4,500 per governing board this year, and $5,000 each next year to fulfill the contract agreement."
The money for the films will come out of ordinary student activity dollars of both schools and because the contract existed, there is no way the governing boards could have gotten out of the contract, except for a $3,000 contract buy-out, according to Jon Protaskey, SJS club auditor.
Originally, a committee was to be established between KJNB radio, Campus Video, and the JEC to choose movies, but KJNB was dropped from this equation.
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Haehn Campus Center to open
CSB prepares for dedication of campus center, entrance
By Tammy Oseid
Editorial StaffWriter
Plans for the Haehn Campus Center are unfolding as the center nears its grand opening, currently slated for Dec. 1.
The facility boasts student activities' offices, a pool, racquetball courts, McGlynn's (the new Loft), the O'Connell nightclub, an arcade room, multipurpose rooms, a large field house, a new aerobics center, a new weight room, an intramural center as well as meeting and conference rooms.
According to the mission for the HCC, "The campus center provi des a vari ety of servi ces and programs so that the students can 1 earn how to increase the quality of their leisure time. This learning establishes a lifelong pattern ofvolunteering, recreational activities and attendance at events which enrich a person's life."
The seven building managers who began training and preparation this week to maintain the facility are excited about the multipurpose nature of the center.
"It will emphasizes different aspects of student and faculty lives — it's a place where people can come together to eat, dance, work-out, study and be with one another," said Lorna Grant, a HCC building manager. "It is conducive to gathering and forming relationships."
"It will be one of the only campus centers that has intramurals connected to it, which promotes physical growth, and campus ministry, which promotes spiritual growth," said Jodi Pollreis, another building manager.
"The Haehn Campus Center facility, and the programs within it, provide opportunities to develop a sense of community for the students, faculty, staff and monastic members which affects each individual's feeling of belonging to the college," states the mission of the HCC. "It provides a laboratory for students to practice and develop skills in relationship."
"It will be a great place for students to congregate and expand on their learning in the classroom by getting together with faculty and Benedictines and sharing their experiences — extend classroom learning," said Ben Kmetz, another HCC building manager.
Though some students are concerned that the HCC will overlap many of the facilities already in Sexton Commons, the building managers disagree.
"Just as the O'Connell nightclub will compliment Brother Willie's as a non-alcoholic for underclass and underage students to hang out and not feel the pressures of drinking," said Kmetz, "so will the Haehn Center be different than Sexton. Each has it's own unique qualities."
Aaron & Kyhl ponder identity
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Strange Bedfellows hits the sheets tonight
CSB/SJU fall production Strange Bedfellows opens at 8 p.m. tonight at the BAC Forum theater. The comedy, set in 1896, pits suffragist women against their conservative husbands. In this scene they discuss the suffarage movement as it relates to their own family. Tickets are available at the BAC information desk for $2, or by calling 363-5777. (photo by Reggie Aligada)
Students address homophobia, racism
Weeklongprogramming receives $800grant
By Krisann Kleibacker
StaffWriter
Thanks to an $800 grant from the Minnesota Conference on Social Work Education and three hardworking St. Ben's students, the homophobia and racism awareness week at CSB/SJU will attempt to foster soci al understanding from a variety of perspectives.
CSB seniors Mary Novak, Ann Pfannenstein and Diem Tran applied for the the MCSWE grant and organized the weeklong series.
MCSWE offers $2000 annually for social work students to develop actual projects rather than simply dealing with case studies.
Various campus groups such as the Social Work club, College Democrats, FLAG, International club, the Asian students asso-ciation, Feminists for Change and LesBiGay club were also involved with the week's programs.
According to Pfannenstein, approximately seventy people were in attendance for both the Daughters of Africa theatrical event on Monday evening and Yako Meyer's discussion on homophobia on Tuesday night in Mary Commons.
The organizers are very pleased with the turn-out and feel that the response clearly shows the desire for such eye-opening activities.
Novak stated that they combined the topics of homophobia and racism because they both "come out of the same fear and ignorance that cause oppression."
Pfannenstein remarked that the most amazing aspect of the week was the positive attitude exhibited by the students. "The people offering services and time implies that the need [for such activities] definitely exists. The whole experience was really rewarding."
Tonight at 7 p.m. there will be a panel discussion on homophobia and racism in Mary Commons.
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Johnnies season near end?
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