The Lumberjack, December 13, 1990.

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Volume 85, Issue 29 © copyright 1990
By Phil Sampaio and Chris Eaton NAUrecords indicate thatjurich
The Lumberjack twice filed con flic t-of-inlerest dis-
‘Green’ students send protest letter to Bush
Group seeks new
energy sources,
local recognition
By Jennifer D o»ee
The Lumberjack
Students involved with the Green
Party are asking people who are
upset with United States1, involve­m
ent in the Middle East to put
their anger in writing.
The group is gathering signa­tures
for a letter to President Bush
that discourages military action and
encourages increased use o f alter­nate
fuel sources.
Students Mike Chamness and
Lori Davis wrote the letter. They
suggest in the letter that the money
used to keep our soldiers in the
vice president of student---------
at NAU and active member of the
Green Party. "People need to make
an individual decision to help the
environment; we can't wait for the
govern men t to do it.* -
“We all know that the U. S. is in
the Middle East because of oil but
it will eventually run out and once
it’s gone we will have no other fuel
sources unless we start developing
for fu tu re energy needs, ’
Chamness said.
“We want to get this letter to
Bush any way we can so we have
many people circulating the letter
and collecting as many signatures
as possible."
The Green Party is an non-vio­lent
environmental group that is
interested indecentralization. The
party originated in Germany,
moved to the eastern United States
and is now active globally.
Many Green Party memheis,
known as “Greens," are active in
helping to improve the environ­ment
and are interested in the
commun ity’s participation.
Chamness has organized a recy­cling
program at NAU to promote
environ m ental safety and the
Green philosophy. So far there are
about a dozen Greens on campus
and three or four of them are ac­tive,
Chamness said.
This group is trying to become
recognized as a political party in
Arizona. It is already a political
party in Alaska, and Green candi­dates
have run for office in Massa­chusetts.
The Green Party has members
in A rizona’s Pima, Coconino,
Maricopa and Yavapai counties.
Although they are not a political
party, they are seeking recogni­tion
in the communityand look to
make people aware of environ­mental
concerns.
Phyllis Hogan, office founder of
the Coconino County chapter of
the Green Party in Arizona, said
within the next two years a Green
candidate will run for office.
“Democracy has been lost be­tween
the Democrats and Repub­licans
because c orporati on s ded de
who gets the money and they just
decide what stand to take," Hogan
said.
“The Green Party represents
values that individuals can adopt
You don*t have to be Green toget
involved. Many people are inter­ested
in helping because they be­lieve
in a similar cause,” die said.
The Green Party has not had an
official m embership drive but
there are about five hundred
people on the Green Party mail­ing
list in Flagstaff.
“W e all know that the UJS. is in the
M iddle East because o f o i l ... once it’s
gone we will ha venoother fuel sou rces
unless w e start developing for future
energy needs.'”
— Mike Chamness
Arizona Green Party Member
Dave Siewer flh e Lumberjack
NAU’s 28-year-old tradition of lighting
luminaries illuminates the campus. Sm
story and photo# p*g« 11.
N ew s
The second annual mid-year
comiiiencemen Lceren;c>n y wi 11
lake place Dec. ?1 Page 2.
C o m m e n t a r y
Open debate: Should halluci­nogenic
drugs be used for re b-gious
purposes? Pageg.
F e a t u r e
Christmas traditions origi­nated
in Europe. Page 11.
E n t e r t a i n m e n t
Performers of “Another
Antigone "won ] 1 awards at. the
Arizona College Theater Festi­val
in Phoenix. Page LS.
S p o r t s
Lumberjac k men's basketball
team rebounds after a low to
the University o f Arizona by
defeabngFt. LewuCollege 101­95
Saturday. Page 17.
Athletic department
investigation closed
For the NAU athletic depart­ment,
the latest news isgood news.
On Thursday, Attorney General
Bob Corbin announced that a
criminal conflict-of-interest inves­tigation
relating to NAU athletic
depar tmen temployeesT omj urich
and Rick Smith has been closed.
Jurich and Smith were the sub­jects
of a state investigation into
alleged improprieties involving the
NAU athletic department and its
use o f G rand Canyon Travel
Agency.
The investigation, which began
in mid-August, ended in a victory
of sorts for the department, which
has been besieged by problems
stemming from recent coaching
resignations.
“Obviously, I’m glad it’s over,"
Athletic Director Tomjurich said.
“It’s unfortunate we would have to
go through something like this.”
Accordingto a press release from
the attorney general’s office, the
“overwhelming percentage of
travel purchases by the NAU ath­letic
department from Grand Can­yon
Travel occurred as a result of
independent decisions made by
c caches- or em phjprxs "othrr rhaTr
jurich and Smith."
Though the press release failed
to indicate which coaches and em­ployees
made such decisions, it
states that there is “disputed evi­dence,
inappropriate on which to
base a prosecution, that some NAU
athletic department use of Grand
Canyon Travel could have resulted
from requests byjurich or Smith.”
closure statements, on Sept. 20,
1985 (during negotiations for pur­chase
of the travel agency) and
March 17, 1986. Smith also filed
such statm entsonjan. 8,1986 and
July 19,1990.
Since the investigation, Smith has
taken the position of director of
intramurals.
During the time of the alleged
violations, Smith was the assistant
ath letic d ep artm en t director.
Jurich has main­tained
his posi­tion
as the ath­letic
director at
NAU since 1988.
Jurich said the
news o f the
closed case is
good for the
department’s image.
“It’s been a giant distraction,"
Jurich said. “I should have never
been involved in anything like this."
The former NAU place-kicker
also said that news of the termina­tion
of the investigation was not a
surprise, as he said he was inno­cent
all along.
“We got another distraction out
of the way, ” he said.
Despite the disclosure state­ments,
the press release said,“It
appears that neither Jurich nor
Smith had an accurate under­standing
regarding conflict-of-interst
prohibitions or ever re­ceived
proper instruction from
NAU officials."
jftiftefr main tai n st he neveracted'
improperly regarding the use of
funds within the department.
“1 have nothing to hide,” he said.
“(The attorney general’s office)
looked at every single penny we
spent in the athletic department. I
never was involved in anything."
The case was the first instance of
the state investigating NAU’s ath­letic
department.
*1 should never have been involved in any­thing
like t h is /
— Tom Jurich
Athletic Director
University crime stats reveal rising incidents
By Phil Sampaio
The Lumberjack
Despite being part of a student popula­tion
half thesizeof Arizona State Univesity,
NAU students may run more of a risk of
having a crime committed against them
than ASU students.
This is according to a recent Gannett
News Service report in which crime statis­tics
for all three state universities were
compiled.
The crime statistics for the academic
year o f 1990 show that for every 1,000
students at NAU, 40 will experience a
crime. At Arizona State University 28 stu­dents
out of every 1,000 will experience a
crime.
Arizona State University led all three
universities with the largest number of
violent crimes (119), and the most bur­glary/
larceny crimes (1046). NAU re­ported
a total of 10 violent crimes and a
total of 579 burglary/larceny crimes. Vio-lentcrimesinclude
murder, rape, robbery
and aggravated assault.
The recent crime statistics are sending a
chilling message to parents and students:
No longer are college campuses a safe
havenfrom the threat of dangerous crime.
In a seven-part series on campus crimes
published last week, USA Today reported
that every two hours and 12 minutes a
violent crime is committed on a college
campus.
Though colleges still are a safer environ­m
ent than the country at large, campus
police departments nationally are report­ing
incidents of rape, shooting and even
murder.
At NAU this year, a total of two rapes an d
six aggravated assaults were reported. Ari­zona
State University reported a total of 15
rapes and 103 aggravated assaults, and the
University of Arizona reported one rape
and 17 aggravated assaults.
NAU lead the University of Arizona in
the number of drinking an d drug violations
by 155 incidents with a total of 284 viola­tions.
But officials at the NAU Police depart­ment
cite a higher number of recorded
crimes as one of the reasons for NAU’s
current statistics.
See CR IM E, Page 4
L e a r n i n g f r o m
t h e H o l o c a u s t
Alfons Heck (standing), a former Nazi youth leader, and Helen Watertorb. a
Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, presented a dual lecture on the horrors of
the Holocaust in Prochnow Auditorium on Dec. 3. (Above) Heck speaks with
Benetta Fugitt, a junior zoology major, during a post-lecture book signing
lime. (Left)
When he was only 16 years old, Heck commanded 3,500 other Nazi youths
in active duty. He said after meeting Hitter and spending the majority of his
life looking up to him as a hero he was shocked to hear a superior officer say,
"Where in the he#- have you been?-Don't you know we aft eomnrwtiingi
genocide? We are all serving a mass murderer (Hitler).”
Waterford, who was forced to give up everything she owned, including her 5*
year-old daughter, said she felt a conflict between her religion and her loyaity
to Germ any. “I was Jewish, it was my religion, but our country (Germany) was
ours also." She said during her stay at Auschwitz, one of the largest German
death camps, she never got to say goodbye to her husband t>e1ore he was
killed.
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