Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HOMECOMING: FULL OF EXCITEMENT Our kids didnit give up and neither did the fans. I'm proud of them. le proud to be part of a university With people iike that. Coach Koch This years homecoming was so packed with fun and exciting things to do, it left your head spinning and ears ringing till Tuesday morning. Michael Stanley kicked off the festivities Thursday night with an excellent concert. An appropriate beginning to a weekend reminicent of iiAlI those years ago. On Friday afternoon the games began. Contestants participated in tug-of-war, a pancake eatting contest, ultimate frisbee, and earth- ball. The games were culminated with the famous slimein. Friday evening at 8 pm. the VU bands put on an outdoor concert just before the bonfire. Kirby Lohrentz was crowned Queen, as Chris Clausen took Homecoming King honors. A peprally followed at 10:30 pm. Saturday morning the Homecoming Parade wound itis way through Valpo with throngs of alumnus clogging the sidewalks. The highest point of the weekend was reached as the Crusaders scored their first touchdown in a loosing effort against Ashland, 6-26. One thing is certain though, truly a good time was had by all! m

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16 FEEL LUCKY HThe handgun problem is misuse, not possession, said David Hiducke, a representative of the National Ritie Association tNRAt. Hiducke opposed Kathy Zartman, president of the Committee for Handgun Control, in a lively gun control debate on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the Great Hall of the Union. Zartman agreed that misuse is a problem. iiin August there were 97 handgun deaths in Cook County, she said. iiWe take it as a part of life, but it doesn't have to be that way. Japan has fewer handgun deaths in one year than Cook County has in a weekend? iISeIf-detense is a legal defense? she said. iiThat concept says nothing about the handgun. There is no such things that the second amendment protects handgun control. Commenting on the second amendment, Hiducke said, HAII citizens bearing arms comprise the militia. I know that 99.997722 percent of handguns are not used for crime. HWe have to separate crime and violence, stated Zartman. HThe handgun problem in America is not primarily a crime problem. Seventy eight percent of the deaths involving handguns were not committed during another felony. iiGun controi laws have no correlation with reducing crime, countered Hiducke. IiHandguns do, in fact, stop as much crime as they cause. Through the two hour debate, Zartman remained standing at her podium while Hiducke alternated between standing to speak and sitting down to shuffle through a large collection of notes. Although Zartman spoke towards the audience, Hiducke continued to raise his voice and began most of his answers by addressing Zartman as HMadam. What Americans want, Madam, they will get. stated Hiduoke, and cited such examples as marijuana, cocaine, and the repeaiing of the prohibition iaw. HI don't believe thereis going to be an absence of handguns. Im sorry. Handguns will not be outiawed. There will aiways be a market. HAnybody can make a handgun, Hiducke continued. iIGive me twenty minutes in any hardware store and I can make one. One of the questions asked was itShouid we just get rid of the Saturday Night Speciai and leave the rest of the firearms as they areT, Saturday Night Specials are small handguns that were named for their use in settling Saturday night arguments. In 1968, importation of Saturday Night Specials were banned, yet the small guns' parts were stiii allowed to be shipped into the country Both Hiducke and Zartman agreed that this law was discriminatory against minorities, due to availability of other, more expensive handguns. No one in Washington can define a Saturday Night Special, said Hiducke. He said that it it was a matter of being a small enough gun to conceal, he owned a gun with a 22-inch barrel that couid be concealed. Zartman said that in some cases the handgun can be more dangerous than a M .16 automatic, because the handgun could be easily hidden. On the subject of implementing gun control, Hiducke said it wouldnit work. iiTaIking about gun control is just a smokescreen to hide the word tcontiscationx he said. iiConfiscation of private property is illegal? iiDefine controi, said Zartman. iiHandgun laws are not overly enforced, they are not enforced enough. Hiducke quickly compared the gun to the ashtray on his table. itThis ashtray is as dangerous as a gun or anything else. One member of the audience picked up on Hiduoke's comparison, and questioned him on ashtray fatality figures. Another person from the back of the room asked, iiCouId you throw from there and kill me? tilt I really wanted to, I could, Hiducke answered. Hiducke's closing statement was directed at Zartman. iii have a right to live my life the way I want to live it, he stated. HThat is the probiem, Madam, you do not recognize my rights. Zartmanis last words were aimed at the audience in a request for action. HWhat really matters is when the bullet flies, the blood flows, and the grief gnaws at the victims when someone is killed unnecessarily, she said. iiThe children and the quarrelling lovers are victims; the families are victims. You are a victim. iiWe have no time to waste, she continued. Hln the time since this debate, 26 more Americans have been shot. m