Students vote to overturn Senate resolution
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The Calvin College student body voted on March 13 to rescind a resolution passed by the Calvin College Student Senate opposing a possible war in Iraq. Calvin students turned out in extremely high volume to vote on the issue. According to the official results, 1,450 students cast a vote. Student Senate President Betsy Cooper said that more students voted on this issue than voted for Student Senate's Executive Team and Senators combined. Of those who voted, 855 students, or 59 percent, voted in favor of rescinding the resolution. 595 student, or 41 percent, favored upholding the resolution.
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Giant telescope hoisted into place
PHOTO BY LUKE ROBINSON
The Astronomy department will be seeing even further into space thanks to a new
telescope that was put into the Science Building last Thursday. See the Campus News
department for the story.
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Senate declines to rescind motion
Packed cheek by jowl into Commons Lecture Hall Tuesday were students, faculty and other concerned citizens who had gathered for a panel discussion on the Student Senate resolution on war in Iraq. The discussion was organized by Student Senate in anticipation of yesterday’s campus-wide vote on whether to overturn the resolution passed two weeks ago. Last week Senate received a petition to rescind the resolution. In such cases, Senate votes on the resolution again, and if it stands, as in this case, it is referred to the student body via a referendum of sorts. Senate president Betsy Cooper said she thinks Senate did not rescind the resolution because senators see a referendum on it as a good way of gauging student opinion.
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Student arrested on campus
A Calvin student was arrested on Monday in the Rooks-VanDellen dormitory by the Grand Rapids Police Department. The arrest took place around 1 p.m. on Monday. Several students were in the dormitory when the arrest took place. According to eyewitness reports, the student, who was a resident of first floor VanDellen, was taken out of the dormitory by officers and was taken off campus by police. The Grand Rapids Police Department confirmed that there was a police incident on Calvin’s campus on Monday, March 10, and provided a report number for the incident. However, the GRPD would not give any further details, citing a pending investigation.
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Deposed tobacco scientist speaks on industry evils
Without the usual private investigators following him, Victor DeNoble spoke at the Prince Conference Center Tuesday evening regarding his experience as a researcher with Phillip Morris that led to him testifying before Congress against the tobacco giant. “The seven major tobacco industry executives testified before Congress that nicotine had no harmful side effects; that people smoked cigarettes because they liked the taste of nicotine,” DeNoble said.
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