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(D FP 8), M id . *1 c a n t give you a
■pacific number of violation*, however it would ba accurata to M y that thara war* wall ovar ona hundred.”
TVi* violation*, Black aaid, ranged from h otp late* in dormitory rooms, to inadequate extension cords and electrically overloaded receptacle circuits.
A number o f the violations also involved malicious vandalism to various firs protec
tion device*
Black said that the vandalism included discharged or damaged
See FIRE, Page 4
Police arrest security guard for thefts
Cam pus police arrested and charged an IU PUI security of
ficer with the theft of money from an office in the Rotary Building on Sept. 24.
David W Groom, 1»41 W Wil cox St., a security officer with the university since December 1987, was recorded on surveil
lance cameras taking 824 from a desk drawer in Room 337 o f the building, according to the arrest
In a Briefly item in T h e S a g a m a rt last week, the build
ing was mistakenly identified as the Medical Science Building.
During questioning, Groom, 25 , admitted to approximately six other petty thefts around campus, said Larry Propst, deputy chief of police operation*
for the Indianapolis division of the Indiana University Police Department (IUPD).
Groom was taken to the Marion County Jail. Bond was set at 8 2 ,6 0 0 and after posting bail Croom was released Sept.
27.
Croom worked as a hospital security guard Propst said that police noticed a pattern to the thefts that pointed to Croom as a suspect.
T h e graphics showed that when he was assigned to a See STOLEN, Page 5
School, learning revolution pushed by philosopher
By DAVE CLARK
“W h at you call learning, is nothing of the sort,” Dr.
Mortimer J. Adler, on* of Am er
ica's preeminent philospher*
and chairman of 1>i* Paideia Project, told the Indiana Board o f Education Wednesday.
"I t is,” he said, "m em oriza
tion.11
Adler, 86, spoke to the public on the same subject later that evening at the University Place Executive Conference Center at IUPUI.
Adler was in Indianapolis at the invitation o f the Indiana Steering Committee of The Paideia Proposal.
The Paideia (Greek for “the upbringing o f a child,”) proposal, Adler M id, calls for a revolution
ary change to primary and secondary education in the United States, from grades kin
dergarten through 12.
T h e r e are many fallacies about education and teaching,”
Adler M id. T h e first is that reading is taught in the schools;
it is not.”
W h at is taught, Adler went on to M y, is ‘ decoding.* Reading, as Adler uses the term, means learning to comprehend the sometim es complex ideas that words represent. To know that a specific arrangement of letters spell democracy is not the same as knowing what democracy mean*, Adler said.
The same coaching or leading process ought to extend to all subjects and all children, Adler
■aid. Rather, for example, than using a history text to teach his
tory, he M id, ‘ teacher* should use the great document* o f American history.”
Adler wrote in his book
"Paideia Proposal and Pos
sibilities,” that, *A constitu
tional democracy such as our*
doe* not rest only on the princi
ple o f political equality - the Ses TWO-TRACK, Pag* 4
i
While overnight lows fell into the mkf-30t, end frost warnings ran rampant acroM the state, Suzy Imlay and Randy Rothbaur managed to find a few stray bfta of fa l sunshine on campus. Photo By PAUL SUTTON
| J ^
Ralph Hobbs and Terry Ehmea of the IUPUI Physical Plan
up the 250-foot replica of the Vietnam Veteran's Memonal in Washington, D.C.. that was on display Oct. 8-10, located southeast of the Engineering and Technology Building.'* Photo By PAUL SUTTON
Senate to close doors for impeachment trial
By DAVE CLARK
17m IU PUI Student Govern
ment executive council is sched
uled to meet today in a dosed session to consider chargee brought by the Student Senate against Senator-at-Largs Linda Proffitt, which could result in her impeachment and removal from the Senate.
TTie executive coun dl,” Karen Marks, assistant for Student Ac
tivities and adviM r to the S tu dent Governm ent, said, ‘ will be meeting in doeed session," to review charges brought against Prolfit.
T h e executive council sent a letter o f chargM to Linda Prof- fit,” Marks added, “but I don't know what the charges w ere*
Glenda Sm ith, student body president, would not comment on the contents o f the letter that had b w n sent to Proffitt. In a press release given to The Sagamore, Smith stated that the Student Government would be
meeting today in B u s - nees/SPEA 40 0 8 at 8:1 6 p.m .
The pres* release went on to say that, ‘ due to rule* governing the subject m atter which will be under discussion at the time, the meeting will be held in exec
utive session: members only.”
A copy of the letter that the Student Government sent to Proffitt cites two charges, each with a number o f specifications as the reason for the trial.
The chargM stated in the let- tar, signed by Nathan C.
Brindle, student body viM presi
dent and chairman o f the 8enate, are: "Dereliction o f duty, per the Constitution for IUPUI Student Government, Article V I, Section B .l.a .,* which involve a number o f administrative duties that Proffitt is alleged to have not performed.
The second and perhaps more serious specifications are brought in Charge No. 2: ‘ Caus- See IMPEACH, Pag* 5
100+ fire violation s found during cam pus dorm ch eck
By WILLIAM RICK
A fire caused by a student burning Incense caused an estimated 82 60 worth o f damage to a third floor Ball Residence Hall room Tuesday.
Based on fir* safety violations found by the Department of Firs Protection Services, the damage
could have been \
On S e p t 1 and 2 o f this year, members o f the Department of Fir* Protection Service* at IU PU I found more than 10 0 fire safety violations while conduct
ing an unannounced inspection of Ball Residence.
Lowell Black, o f the Depart
ment o f Fir* Protection Services
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Fan causes false fire alarm in Natatorium
Clouds of smoke caused by a jammed air*
handler fan were responsible for a fire alarm nnd the evacuation of people from the Nntatorium for 46 minutes Tuesday afternoon.
Someone saw the smoke and pulled a fire alarm thinking there was a fire, said John Cline, building supervisor for the Natatorium/Physical Education Building and the IU Track and Field Stadium.
•"Die bearings seised up on the air-handler and burned the belts up on it,” said Cline.
The air-handler is in the diving and competi
tion pool area and is used to distribute air con
ditioning down both sides of the pool.
Cline said the fan was repaired the next day and there was no smoke damage to the building.
”We came out lucky on that one,” said Cline.
The Natatorium has had its share of bad luck recently. A windstorm last winter tore away part of the roof. In February, a cigarette dropped by a workman repairing the roof ig
nited insulation and roofing material, causing about $20,000 worth of damage.
Interns get second chance for General Assembly
The Indiana House of Representatives Re lienn StofT is extending iU internship applies tinn deadline from Oct. 7 to Oct. 12.
The internship program is open to college stu dents, as well as graduates and graduate stu
dents interested in serving on the House staff in the 1089 session of the General Assembly begin
ning in early January. For additional informa
tion contact Carolyn Wright at 1-800-382-9841 or 232-9260 in the Indianapolis area.
The British are coming, for education debate
IUPUI will host a team from Great Britain to debate the topic “Resolved, That Education is a Right and not a Privilege” on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 104.
IUPUI debaters will be Linda Proffitt and
Danny Devs re. Justine Foeh and Iain Morley will repreeent Britain.
An open forum will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Mary Cable 212 to discuss issues that affect British and American interests.
IUPUI disabled students group to reorganize
The Disabled Student Organisation will con
duct a reorganization meeting at 1 p.m. Friday in University Library 318. Anyone interested in the issues and problems facing the 458 disabled
students at IUPUI is encouraged to attend the meeting. Members do not have to be disabled.
Nominations for officers will be taken at the meeting and elections held.
UNCF stride 6.2 miles in trek for donations
A wnlk-a-thon will be held to raise money for the United Negro College Fund on Saturday.
The 10-kilometer walk will begin Old end at the IU Natatorium. Entrants may be eligible for t- shiru based on the amount of sponsorship the
‘S tr e sse d -o u t’author sp o n so rin g sy m p o siu m at W alker C en ter
Author of “Vietnam Blues" and "Stressed Out,” John Benjamin Carn is sponsoring a seminar, reading, lecture and symposium con
ducted by local and non-local writers at the Madame Walker Urban Life Center, Saturday, Oct. 22.
The activities are organized into a morning
s e s sio n and afternoon session. Cost to attend both sessions is $10, $4.50 for the morning see- sion nnd $6.50 for the afternoon.
Scheduled to speak are authors Cam, Eugene B. Redmond, Mnri Evans, and Haki Madhubti (Don Lee). Tickets may be purchased from Afri
can Visions Small Press, P.O. Box 642, In- dinnapolis, IN 46206.
entrant has obtained.
For additional information, contact the local UNCF office at 639-7477 and ask for Phyllis Cnrr.
CORRECTIONS:
A photograph of sophomore softball pitcher Karen Knox on Page 18 of last week’s Sagamort was flipped, making it appear that Knox is left-handed. Knox is right-handed.
In a story on Page 19, the name of the IUPUI tennis coach, Joe Ramirez, was mis
spelled.
In a story on Page 17, Greg Kemple and Steve Clark were misidentified. Kemple is a defender on the IUPUI eoccer team and Clark is a goalie. In the same story, Guy Cunning
ham’s first name was listed as Gary.
The Sagamort regrets the errors.
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L uaonaniiD is Thursday at noon.
TODAY
The Education Student Advisory Council (ESAC) is sponsoring a discussion by Doyls McAllister from the Indiana State Teacher’s Association on teacher contracts and legal rights at 6:30 p.m. in the Educetion/Socisl Work Building third floor commons. For mors in
formation call 274-0648. E8AC is now occupying cartel «1 on the third floor of the School o f Education. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
s e e
Dr. Bill Hughes from Andrews University in Michigan will speak on "Metabolism and Shell Growth of Living and Fossil Brachiopods.
Sponsored by the IUPUI Geology Department, the seminar is at 4 p.m. in Cavanaugh 435. For mors information call Jackie Bates at 274-7484.
TUESDAY
Students are invited to bring a resume to a "Critique Your Resume* workshop in Career and Employment Services, Business/
SPEA 2010, firom 2 to 3 p.m. Call 274-2554 for mors information.
s e e
The Adult Education Coordinating Center is sponsoring a work
shop on "Learning Ethically • How to Utiliza Personal Values in Academia" conducted by Wayne Olson of the Metropolitan Indian
apolis Campus Ministry at 6:30 p.m. in Cavanaugh 001E. Call Sherry Darrah at 274-2066 for mors information.
s e e
Women in Business is sponsoring a workshop on interview skills conducted by Betsy Hickman, a senior consultant with Career Consultants and Entrepreneurs Consulting Group, at 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Business/SPEA 4095. Call Pam Grohe at 888-5019 for mors information.
WEDNESDAY
The Black Student Union ie having a General Aseembly meeting in University Library 318 at 6 p.m. All members are encouraged to attend. Call Kim Scott at 274-2279 for more information or drop by University Library 006D.
s e e
The mathematical sciences colloquium this week is "Generalized Cuntx Algebras.” The talk will be delivered by Geoffrey Price of the U.S. Naval Academy in Krannert 059 at 3 p.m. Contact Bernard Morrel at 274-6923 or Gary Owens at 274-6918 for morq information.
THURSDAY
The Education Student Advisory Council will sponsor a student/
faculty tea in the Education/Sorial Work third floor commons. All education minors and faculty are welcome.
s e e
"Writing Complete Sentence*” is ths subject of the University Writing Center workshop in Cavanaugh 427 from 1 to 2 p.m. Ths workshop is designed for students in Access, W001 or W131.
s e e
The Indiana Health Students Association will be sponsoring a blood drive. Appointments can be made Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at desks in ths Cavanaugh Hall basement, ths University Library main entrance and ths University Place Hotel food court.
The blood drive will be Thursday at entrance #3 of the Business/
SPEA Building from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call Dr. Zollinger at 274-3591 for more information.
ADDENDUM
Tickets are now available for the 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner, sponsored by the IUPUI Black Student Union. TTiis year's dinner will be Monday, Jan. 16,1989, at the West End, 617 W.
11th St., nnd will feature William Raspberry, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Raspberry is a 1958 graduate of Indiana Central University (now the University of Indianapolis) and began hie journalism career with The Indianapolis Recorder, one of the nation’s longest running black newspapers. Tickets are $12 for students nnd $15 for community guests nnd faculty. The deadline for ticket reservations is Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. Tickets may be reserved by calling 274-2279 from 9 a m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Reservation forms can also be obtained from the Black Student Union office in University Library 006D.
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Faculty hears plans for Olympic center
By ANDREW CAREY . IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko announced to member* o f the Faculty Council Thursday that negotiations to secure an Olympic training center on campus are continuing.
As many as 200
athlete/students would be housed at the Warthin Apart
ments on the west end o f campus, but Bepko said that a stipulation of the possible U.8.
Olympic Committee agreement would be the construction of ad
ditional apartments elsewhere on campus.
Responding to a question about use o f athletic facilities by the Olympic hopefiils, Bepko stated that first consideration of the agreement would be fair compensation for land and facil
ity use.
One possible solution would involve including the costs of maintaining athletic facilities in leasing agreements for the land
occupied by the training center, Bepko added.
He said that the training cen
ter would bring “international attention to Indianapolis."
Council members also passed a resolution to accept changes made in the 1&20 retirement plan. •
Bepko noted that the vote will be used as a gauge of faculty opinion before the changes are presented at the University Fac
ulty Council meeting Tuesday.
The revised retirement plan would then be presented at the next Board o f Trustees meeting.
Significant changes in the plan include a proposed cap on the amount o f benefits received by retirees.
According to the memo received by Faculty Council members, the terminal base salary is 'th e “average annual base salary received during the final five years o f employment at Indiana University."
Henry Wellman, a faculty
Chancellor Gerald Bepko
member in the medical school, questioned current recruiting ef
forts which might be hampered by the Dec. 31 commencement cutoff date of 18/20 benefits for new employees.
Members of the Fringe Bene
fits Committee pointed out that any promised benefits would be honored.
Companies relax student credit rules
\|By KEVIN TRAMMELL Getting a good credit rating can be something like getting work experience: if you don’t have any, it can be hard to get any.
The government might still print money, but the country runs on plastic.
The problem is, like getting that work experience, how do you get a credit card if you don’t already have one? There are several ways: get a loan for a new car, house, entertainment system or a smaller purchase and make all your payments
Another way, is to apply for one of those ever-present credit cards.
Credit companies know that most college students are in debt and usually earn very little money. They also know that most have little or no previous credit history.
It is actually easier for college students to get credit cards now than it will be once they gradu
ate. Creditors are willing to dis
regard their usual financial re
quirements because they feel that students have the potential o f making the income needed to pay debts. „
“We get an average of about 40 applications a day,” Matt O'Brian, a representative o f the American Express company said.
O’Brian said, for the most part, the credit requirements are greatly reduced for students.
“To qualify, all a student needs is some sort of income, whether it is a student loan, or money from parents."'
He added that the income doesn’t have to be a lot, only steady, “There is no minimum income required.”
The bottom line, credit-wise, is
that credit cards can be a plus;
in an emergency they can be helpful. But they can be*abused.
Loan . defaults, or . even bankruptcy, can follow too close
ly for all except the most careful.
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Freshmen Dinner
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A good tirtie for freshinen to meet one another plus share in some great food and fun.
Call 632-4378 for reservations.
Come And See
October 24th at noon and 7:00 P M . An informal gathering for anyone interested in
learning about the Catholic Church.
Continuing Activities:
Mass each Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
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Bible Sharing on Tuesday, 6:45-7:45
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Two campus programs get commission scrutiny
Two programs at IUPUI ore significantly under enrolled, ac
cording to Commission for High
er Education figures presented during a meeting Sept. 30 at commission offices.
The programs, Associate of Science/Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology and Bachelor of Arts in Journalism have enrollments o f 66 percent and 30 percent, respectively, un
der commission projections.
Although the commission is looking at those programs, Dr.
Karen M. Rasmussen, director of Planning and Policy Studies for the Commission, said that no immediate action is expected.
“The commission is thinking about what (the figures) should mean, if anything," Rasmussen said.
“It could take longer to decide 'i f a program is not living up to
expectations,” she said.
Rasmussen also said that under-enrolled programs would not * necessarily be dropped,
“right now, there are all kinds of angles to look at. They won’t necessarily stop funding for a program that is under-enrolled.”
The issue of degree program enrollment, and its importance, came to the forefront two weeks ago, when the commission dis
closed that its figures showed that the Master of Science in Nursing program had no stu
dents enrolled.
At the Sept. 30 meeting though, Constance M. Baker, the dean of the IU School of Nursing, suggested that some of the discrepancy between her fig
ures and the commission’s was in how students are counted.
“Different campuses,” Baker said, “might show some nurses enrolled in another course o f in
struction because o f the classes they are taking."
At the suggestion of Com
missioner Clyde R. Ingle, the commission decided to reconsider how different meth
ods of counting students might affect the enrollment projects.
Rasmussen said that at the next scheduled meetirik8* this Thursday and Friday, the com
mission would begin to look spe
cifically at what, “if anything,”
should be done concerning under-enrolled programs.
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equal statu* of citizenship. It is also committed to the principle of equal educational opportunity
• equal in quality, not just in quantity. The one without the other makes democracy a sham and a delusion.”
“If every child is not given the same chance to learn the same subjects, then we have failed,”
he said.
The two-track system, he said, which shunts some children toward vocational schools and others toward universities and beyond, can do nothing better than “produce a two-class society,” of advantaged and dis
advantaged citizens.
Another common misconcep
tion is that “understanding” is taught in the schools. “What is taught is memorization,” he said. There is, Adler said, a very simple illustration to this point.
education makes a ‘sham’ o f democracy
"Imagine that you had to, today, without advance notice, take a test in some subject you had studied three or four years ago, one you had passed. Would you be able to pass the test today?"
Most would not, he said. If un
derstanding was the purpose of learning he said, then it would last for the individual's lifetime.
“You can't say, 'I understood that yesterday, but I don't un
derstand it today.*
The end result of the present sort of schooling is that students learn “to pass examinations.”
The ability to pass an exam
ination is not the key charac
teristic of a well-developed per
son, who “understands some
thing of himself and the world around him,” Adler said.
It is also incorrect, as the pres
ent educational system does, to presume that there are some
subjects certain students cannot learn, Adler said. "Yes," he said, those mentally deficient “might not be capable of learning some
thing about each subject." But, the rest, he added, “should be al
lowed to learn as much as pos
sible.”
Whether it is a little or a lot, Adler argues, each student should be exposed to the same ideas and concepts. T h e Paideia proposal takes the very radical position that all children are educable, at least to some de
gree"
In Indiana, about $70,000 from the State Board of Educa
tion will be used to Aind a teacher quality program which could result in the establish
ment of some aspects of Adler’s proposal, said Dr. H. Dean Evans, superintendent of Public Instruction and chairman of the board of the Indiana State
Board of Education.
“There’a no intent to impose (Paideia proposals) on any schools right now,” Evans said.
“If schools and teachers see some usefulness to his approach, ws want to be ready to imple
ment it, or some variation,”
Evans added.
One aspect of the Paideia proposal is the “Wednesday Rev
olution," a weekly class taught using the Socratic question-and- answer method.
About five years ago, the
“Wednesday Revolution” was in
stituted at the Goldblatt Junior High School in Chicago, 111.
"Our students,” Phedonia Johnson, Goldblatt's principal, said, "have changed, grown as people because of the Wednes
day Revolution.”
Goldblatt is an “inner-city school, in which about 65 per
cent of the students come from
familiee with incomes below the poverty level."
The stereotypical ideas about inner-city, ghetto children do not hold true with Goldblatt children.
T h ere has been a change in attitude toward school,” Johnson said, “a change toward learning, and even attendance has in
creased." Very few students are absent on the day that the semi
nar classes are held, she said.
T h ey (the students) are very eager to be a part of the semi
nar."
The students, Johnson added,
"certainly increased their read
ing skills, and the amount of reading. But more than that, be
cause of the seminar format, they now have the understand
ing that their ideas are impor
tant”
Fire inspector considers
Continued from Page 1
fire extinguishers, as well as fire alarm buzzers ripped from the walls or ceilings with only bare wires left behind.
Education is the key to making the residence halls and other campus building safe, said Winston Baker, director of Stu
dent Life.
“We have always taken a very pro-active approach to fire safety for our residents,” Baker said.
T h a t includes," Baker added,
“brochures on fire safety and regulations, as well as regular fire drills and continuing educa
tion.”
Baker also said that there are six resident assistant fire mar
shals on each floor at Ball Residence, who receive special
ized training from DFPS in the use of fire equipment as well as evacuation and related safety procedures prior to the begin
ning of the school year.
Black said the belief that some
all violations a serious matter
violations are more dangerous than others is incorrect.
“We make no distinction be
tween violations,” Black said,
“each violation that has the potential to either cause a fire or result in injury or death is a major violation.”
For some students at Ball Residence, news of the viola
tions did not cause concern.
“I’ve experienced fires before, so I would know what to do,"
said Ken Kain, a freshman at IUPUI.
“ I’m concerned, but not overly concemed/said Ron Blessinger, a junior in physical therapy “I’m more frightened of freshmen who have never been out on their own and bum papers and start fires in their rooms.”
Both Black and Baker agree that there is always room for im
provement in fire safety habits, but they also feel that progress
is being made on campus.
Black said, “If people under
stand the danger of fires, and also understand the safety pro
cedures and equipment ... we are making progress. We need to work together as a university community to reduce the poten
tial for fire, and to increase our awareness of fire prevention and safety procedures."
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Thefts from offices have administration, faculty worried
Continued Irom Page 1 ^ specific location that’s where we had the thefts,1' Propst said. “We tracked him for about a month."
"One' of the sad things is that so many thefts go on before you can determine a pattern,"
Propst said.
^Police used surveillance equip- ment in th e ’ NMical Science . Building also, but moved the equipment to the Rotary Build
ing because that building has less offices from which money could be stolen, allowing police to focus on a smaller area,*
Propst said.
Croom routinely worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift. The ar
resting officer, L t Diane Sweeney, was stationed at the Rotary Building that night spe
cifically to conduct surveillance on Croom, Propst said.
Croom also had two packs of batteries in his possession that Propst said Croom admitted to stealing from the Riley Hospital information desk.
Croom is a suspect in a series of thefts from the Medical Science Building, Emerson Hall, Riley Hospital, the Rotary Building and University Hospi-
Impeach
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ing injury to the good name of the organisation, disturbing its well-being, and hampering it in its work," in which Proffitt is charged with misrepresenting herself "as a spokesperson for the . IUPUI Student Govern
ment;" “the public mis
representation of the actions and/or probable actions of the Student Senate regarding the USSA bus (tour) and the con
troversy over the release of U.S.
Senator Dan Quayle's grades from the IU School o f Law - In
dianapolis."
Additional specifications in the second charge are "Threats to sue fellow members of the IUPUI Student Senate for slander on hearsay evidence;"
“Repeated public threats to cause administrators connected with the Student Activities Of
fice to be removed from their jobs;" and, "Use o f your Senate position to advance your own political and/or persona] agenda to the detriment o f the common interest.”
"Conviction on either of these charges," the letter continues,
“will constitute impeachment, and will be cause for your removal from office i n , the IUPUI Student Government."
Proffitt said that she believes,
"the student government is trying to infringe upon my rights of freedom o f speech, free
dom of expression and freedom of association
At some unspecified meeting, the charges were apparently de
veloped, although Proffitt is un
able to say exiactly when the meeting was held because "they didn’t even invite me to the meeting."
Smith would not comment on when the meeting that resulted in the letter to Proffitt was con
ducted, or whether Proffitt was, or was not, invited. *
tal, Propst said.
Last week, police received a report of the theft o f approxi
mately $175 from an office in the Medical Science Building.
Propst said it was not known yet whether Croom was a suspect in that theft.
Two weeks ago, the School of Journalism in the Educa- tion/Social Work Building had new locks installed on its office doors because o f thefts from the school.
The school’s associate dean, James Brown, said that the move was made because his per
sonal photography equipment was stolen from his office last fall and computer software was taken from the school’s main of
fice in May.
In both cases the doors to the offices were locked and there were no signs of forced entry, said Brown.
Also contributing to the move was the theft o f a personal com
puter from the office of a faculty member in the School of Social Work two weeks ago.
T h a t office is just literally three or four doors from ours,"
said Brown.
The $2,500 computer was reported stolen to 1UPD on Sept.
26.
"It was definitely an inside job,” said Joanne Sanders, as
sistant to the School of Social Work dean and development of
ficer for the school. “There were
no signs of a forced entry.
The computer was one of a shipment of new computers to the school and had only been in place for about a week and a half when it was discovered missing.
The school has considered in
stalling new locks, but with close to 30 full-time faculty“«nd additional part-time faculty, Sanders said the move “would cause a lot of confusion” and was decided against.
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Students should share cost of technology
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h is u n iv e r s i t y h a s t h r e e sources of funding: the Indiana General Assembly, various private and corporate grants and student fees.The whims of legislators and grant committees make them unpredictable resources. Student fees, however, are a more reliable source of income. And by increasing these fees, the university can commit itself to improvements it otherwise could not afford.
So it is with the proposed technology fee. These added funds would likely be used to upgrade existing computer systems on campus, to maintain and even
tually replace those systems and to staff additional computer labs.
The applications for such a fee are limited only by the imagination. Income from a technology fee could be used to finance satellite transmissions that would allow foreign language students to view television pro
grams from that particular foreign country.
Although lU-Bloomington instituted a $25 fee per full-time student per semester beginning this fall, It is too early to predict how much students at this campus might be required to pay.
A committee is currently studying this campus's technological deficiencies. The results of their report will then be studied in terms of costs and sources of funding.
While a technology fee is only one possible source of funding and will not necessarily be imposed, it is a viable and reasonable source of revenue.
Even a $25 technology fee, considered a high figure by insiders, would be less than half the cost of one credit hour of study at IUPUI.
As university administrators consider the technol
ogy question, they should consider appropriating a portion of the funds to upgrading computer technology that would benefit most students and making the remaining portion available to individual schools for projects targeted to the specific needs of their stu
dents.
lU-Bloomington has channeled all the money from its technology fee exclusively toward computer ad
vancements. This Is a narrow view of techolog/s possibilities that has left some Bloomington students disgruntled, according to a reporter at the Indiana Daily Student, their student newspaper.
Hands-on experience may make IUPUI graduates
‘ more competitive in the job m arket And students should be wiling to share the financial burden of up
grading the technology made available to them.
Too many good ideas are put on hold by the ad
ministration because of a lack of funding /B y paying the technology fee each semester, students are investing in their own education. What better investment is there?
—The Editorial Board
Sexist ideas offend reader
Morwick strikes out again
To the Editor:
I would like to address the fol
lowing comments to Mr. Rick Morwick in regard to his article on the Lady Metros of Oct. 3.
Mr. Morwick:
I was confused about what you were attempting to say in your column of Oct. 3. Are the Lady Metros as good or better than a men's team?
Or perhaps, ah, it might be more accurate to say that you were the Bob Uecker of the 13 year olds in your little league days?
Maybe you haven’t improved since you were 13? Finally, have you considered that you’re just no good? You left all these ques
tions unanswered.
I do think you’re lucky, how
ever, that none of the women,
“skirts" if you will, on the team knew your thoughts about them before your challenge. If I had known your sexist and ir
responsible pre-conceived no
tions about women, I would have been tempted to bonk you on the head with a fastball.
Joanne R. K ehoe J u n ior
O P IN IO N
P a g e 6 O c t . 1 0 ,1 9 8 8
Student wants greater access to pools
T o the Editor:
Tve just enrolled as a student here at IUPUI. I was happy to learn that for a fee of $8.50, a student could use the facilities offered by the School of Physical Education. Well — I am no longer excited about the facilities, just frustrated.
My first grievance lies in the fact that a student can only use the competition pool for a mere two hours a day. These hours usually conflict with my work schedule.
The public, on the other hand, has access to the pool from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. after paying for various available pool passes such as $35 for 25 visits.
Yet, the student of IUPUI who pays $61 a credit hour as well as a recreation fee can only use the pool between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. A student does have the option of obtaining a pool pass, but who can afford to pay the additional fee after paying for tuition and books?
Not being able to use the com
petition pool would not really bother me if it were not for the alternate pool, known as the in
structional pool.
This brings me to my second grievance. The instructional pool presents little if any prob
lems — until you get in. The temperature of the water is un
bearably warm — or should I say hot!
I swim 2,000 plus yards five days a week. Trying to swim a decent workout under this con
dition is next to impossible. If the temperature of the instruc
tional pool can not be lowered (drastically lowered!), then the competition pool should be more readily available to the students at no additional cost. Perhaps a few hours in the early morning
m
E d i t o r * I
such as 6 to 9 a.m. or even eve
ning hours.
Just why is it a student can not use the competition pool other than two hours a day? Is it because the department wants to avoid overcrowded conditions?
Well, if this is the reason, there really is no need for con
cern. It is a rare occasion when either pool, competition or in
structional, is filled to capacity.
This especially rings true in the case of the instructional pool.
Of course, this is probably due to the fact that the water is too HOT to swim in comfortably.
This excludes all those who en
joy swimming in an oversized bathtub.
This leads to my second ques
tion. Why is the water in'the in
structional pool kept at such a warm temperature? It is beyond comprehension that there could be a logical explanation for such a high temperature.
When I was a student at Indi
ana University at Bloomington, all recreational equipment and facilities were made available to students at no additional cost.
The students did not take a back seat to the public. The students came first
I wish this were the case here at IUPUI. It seems only rea
sonable that IUPUI, an exten
sion of Indiana University, should want to follow the tradi
tions of its mother campus.
D iane G oodw in
Classroom freezes learning
To the E ditor:
I am currently enrolled in Ac
counting A201, which, for the first time, is being taught on video lectures here at IUPUI.
The reason for this letter is that, ever since the beginning o f this semester, the classroom, Busi
ness 2000, has been extremely cold.
In fact, for two consecutive class periods (Sept. 27, 29), the thermometer on the wall has read 58 degrees. I am not the only one who has noticed this reading, which is not an ex
aggeration.
After questioning the proctor of the class, she agreed it was extremely cold in the classroom and said she had complained about it previously, but to no avail.
She told me that she would
mention it again, but that was over two weeks ago, and the temperature remains the same.
I understand that everyons is different, and that in some classrooms, certain people axe cold while others axe warm.
Usually, though, it is not that big of a deal.
In this classroom, however, I would be very surprised to find anyone who would say the temperature is just fine. Fifty- eight degrees is a temperature that one would expect to feel in a cave, not a classroom.
Maybe I’ll just have to buy a larger backpack and start bring
ing a space heater to class. I probably, o f course, would not be able to find an electrical outlet.
Paul Susem iohel J u n ior
“Yes. He’s got as much experience as anyone else who’s tried to be president-an attorney and Congress.”
“They’ve pulled up a lot of dirt that has made his credibility go down, so on that no.
Experience also has something to do with it.”
“No. I think he’s had the experience, but just what the hell does he know about?
Quayle strikes me as someone who was put on the ticket for demographic reasons.”
“Well, personally, I don’t think so, because I don’t think he’s had enough experience. Also, I’m a Democrat.”
“I don’t know. I just feel like th ey’re all trying to compensate for things going on in thc^past. And they don’t know what’s going on at all.”
CINDY DUSANG Freshm an
University Division
DARRELL SCOTT Junior
Business
IMER Art STEVE M
Painting Profe Herron School
PARASTOO BEHROOZI Junior
Liberal Arts
TERRI LAWSON Junior
Nursing
Oct. 10, 1988
The SAGAMORE
OPIN ION / Page 7New recipes bad enough to make you wanna gag
I'm well aware that I'm about to tramp over sacred and controversial ground.
Certain topics unfailingly arouse in
credible passion in people.
I could incite a plethora of readers to inundate our newsroom with scathing criticisms o f my opinions on religious dogma, political candidates or freedom of choice for abortions.
But I'm steamed about something else.
Recipes.
When I was reading a recent women's magazine, I pulled the handy 32-page cookbook out o f the issue with great ex
citement. New recipes. Yowza!
You have te< understand that I love cookbooks. I collect them. I'm a person who takes $5 into Kroger and comes out with a gallon of milk and a paperback edition o f Betty Crockert "Party Foods"
that had been prominently displayed at the checkout.
A quick count shows I have at least 91 cookbooks.
I don't have an unadventurous palate.
I've tried Ethiopian, Afghani, Viet
namese, Thai, Hungarian and Indian cuisine in addition to the more readily
A Clean Slate
Sherry Slater
available ones.
Hopefully, IVe established myself as fairly worldly and (airly obsessed with food. So one may understand my horror when I read these new recipes. Tve come to the inescapable conclusion that there are no more palatable food combinations to be discovered, and any new recipe merely relates a conglomeration of in
edible gook.
Take for instance Cheesy Pear-Topped Potatoes. The recipe instructs one to combine perfectly innocent baked potatoes with m e n onions, red pepper slices, pears, lemon juice, margarine, garlic and cream cheese. Could you just puke or what?
What could be the inspiration for a recipe like that? Was the nutritionist having a migraine, on a deadline and
going through a divorce all at the same time?
Maybe the creative juices just weren't flowing that day. A person could just fake it, she might have reasoned. Throw together some perfectly good ingredients and a tasty recipe is sure to emerge. But something went very wrong somewhere.
I could regale you with accounts o f the Savory Creamed Kale (kale, caraway seeds and sour cream) or Scandinavian Spinach Cakes (spinach, whole wheat flour, baking powder, yogurt and an egg), but Pm sure that kale and spinach lovers out there would write in and give me a good talking to.
Hey, I even like liver, but these recipes just don’t appeal to me.
I’ve planned a personal course of ac
tion. 1 will continue to add to my cook
book collection with a variety o f volumes as long as they are copywrited before 1988. I’m convinced that sometime in July of this year the limits were reached in the world of recipes.
Anything .^ifler that point is just a fbtile effort to clean out the cabinets and
f l/w &f
come up with a tasty dinner. Sorry, but it isn’t happening.
Please, out of some small respect for me, don’t write in asking for the exact directions to the recipes Pve mentioned. I don’t think I could stand it.
By the way, did 1 ever mention the time my sister cooked her Cheese Meal?
Once she decided to serve grilled cheese for dinner. And then for a side dish, well how about macaroni and cheese, she thought. And a salad? Cottage cheese would be good. And she sliced Colby cheese to top off the meal.
It wasn!t until she had placed every
thing on the table that she noticed she'd overdone the cheese by a bit.
I guess T should loan her one of my fookbookt. ^
Political debates useful tools in making voting decisions
Now that the first presidential and only vice presidential debates have come and gone, some of us might be wondering whether we should even have debates.
They do seem so meaningless.
Take this election, for example. Some of the most pressing issues this year are the homeless crisis; the environment and waste disposal, deficit spending and for
eign policy, including nuclear relations with the Soviet Union.
Some of these issbes have been ad
dressed by the candidates, but none have really been debated.
In fact, most people would probably agree that the main topic of the Bush- Dukakis debate was the question o f Dan Quayle’s legitimacy as a candidate for Vice President. Quayle was repeatedly asked questions on that same subject in last Wednesday’s debate.
Experience is important, but good policy can do more for our nation than abundant knowledge without the benefit
Campus Inquiry
the Sun
U n d e r
Ron Brooks, staff columnist of wisdom.
Even with this glossing of the issues in mind, these perennial estates are good exercises for several r e t i M k
One major advantage to debates is their journalistic neutrality. These debates can satisfy those who maintain that the media picks the candidate it supports and destroys his or her op
ponent. If there is any media bias, it is neutralized within the debate setting.
The questions are asked to both candi
dates, and "each candidate can respond and defend himself. But best of all, the media cannot comment or editorialize until the debate is over. The debate is
one candidate with his ideas and philo
sophies competing against the other.
Another advantage in haying debates is that viewers can judge whether the candidates have really done their homework. Even though the candidates rarely discuss the issues (sometimes they can’t for fear of jeopardizing their popularity) voters can often discern whether or not they have developed a policy in a particular area and to what degree that policy has been developed.
For example, George Bush stated in the recent debate that he was opposed to abortion ‘— a legitimate position on a controversial issue. When asked how he would handle the sudden surge of un
wanted babies, however, Bush answered,
“I haven’t thought it out that far yet."
This shows a poor grasp of the abortion issue. Even if Bush’s stand on the issue is good, he does not have the policy to ex
ecute it effectively. In this case, the debate revealed a candidate’s failure to
make a policyi^even though policy itself was not directly debated.
One final advantage of these debates is the viewers’ opportunity to determine which candidates can think on their feet.
A president needs to think quickly and clearly when he is debating a treaty or an arms agreemeht. This skill is even more crucial in a crisis. It is good to know which candidate has the character to handle himself well under pressure, and these debates can show that poise better than any other vehicle of campaigning.
With all of this in mind, voters should watch the last presidential debate to dis
cern which candidate can better describe his views in. terms of real policies and which candidate can respond more effec
tively when challenged by his opponent.
The debate can be an enlightening ex
ercise that may have some real value to voters as they nmke their journey to the polling places next month.
