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Abilene Christian University
Volume 78 Number 47
Wednesday March 20 1090
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Board OKs retirement plan
By Michael O'Connor
Optlmlat Staff
The Board of Trustees approved a retire-
ment incentive plan for some of the
tenured faculty at its meeting Feb. 19.
Faculty members between the aces of 62
and 69 may retire voluntarily and receive
a supplement to their retirement pay bas-
ed on their highest base salary in the last
10 years before retirement and number of
years of service.
Jozell Brister assistant to the provost
said a professor's years of service would be
multiplied by 1 percent and the highest
base salary would be multiplied by the
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Upward bound . .
KUF-TV7 operations manager Kevin Dunn makes his way
up the stairwell of the Don H. Morris Center Monday after-
Hooten Schultz to
By Rbelch Glbbs
Editor In Chief
Katie Hooten was named the 1990-91 edi-
tor of the Prickly Pear and Gretchen
Schultz was named the 1990-91 editor in
chief of the Optimist Monday.
Hooten junior news-editorial major
from Waco said she knows much more
than she knew last fall and thinks she can
do a better job.
She wants to produce a Pacemaker year-
Prickly Pear
book. Through competitions with other
colleges and universities the Associated
Collegiate Press picks the top yearbooks in
the nation.
The 1988-89 Prickly Pear was selected
as Ail-American a step below Pacemaker.
Hooten was assistant sports editor her
freshman year organizations editor her
Alumna
to perform
April 2
in Abilene
The Abilene Christian schools will be sponsor-
ing Holly Dunn 1979 ACU graduate and coun-try-and-western
singer from Nashville Tenn. in
concert April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Abilene Civic
Center.
Dunn who was a 1978 Sing Song hostess sign-
ed with Warner Bros. Records in 1989 and has
released among other hits "Daddy's Hands"
"Love Someone Like Me" and "Only when I
Love."
She has toured with Kenny Rogers and re-
corded the song "Maybe" with him according to
a press release.
She also has been nominated for three Grammy
awards has received the Country Music Associa-
tion's Horizon Award and a trophy from the
Academy of Country Music as top female vocalist
for 1986.
Tickets are available at Abilene Christian
Schools and Arrow Ford at 4001 South First St.
Prices are $8 for balcony scats and $10 for or-
chestra and lower-level seats.
result to determine the supplement.
For example if a professor had 40 years
of service and his highest base salary had
been $30000 then he would receive a
supplement of $12000.
The plan is constructed so it will not in
tcrfere with the faculty member's social
security payment.
The supplement would begin Oct. 1 fol-
lowing retirement and would be paid for
five years or until the professor turned
70 whichever occurs first.
"The plan rewards long years of ser-
vice" said Money "people who have
given their lives to Christian service."
Professors have until March 30 to enroll
noon. Cool temperatures remained In the area from the
weekend and are expected to continue through the week.
sophomore year and is presently editor.
Schultz junior news-editorial major
from Topcka Kan. said she thinks "the
Optimist has a very strong tradition and I
want to carry it on.
"Basically I want to keep up doing the
same great job that's been done this year"
she said.
Schultz said she would like for the staff
to spend more time together spiritually.
She was the associate news editor and
the copy flow editor of the Optimist her
Optimist
sophomore year. She presently serves as
managing news editor.
Hooten and Schultz were interviewed
and chosen by Dr. Merlin Mann associate
professor of journalism; Dr. Charles
Marlcr chairman of the Journalism and
Mass Communication Department; Kent
Barnett sales director of student media;
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in the plan.
Brister said about 20 professors are eli-
gible for the plan.
The plan is strictly optional said Dr.
Royce Money vice president and provost.
He said the board saw the plan as a way
to reward professors for faithful service to
the university.
Brister said the plan probably will not
be an extra cost to the university because
the university does not anticipate adding
new professors to replace those who retire
early.
She said it was too early to know how
many professors would participate and
what the total cost or saving to the univer-
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Dr. Dwain Hart dean of the College of
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sity might be.
The plan is being offered on a one-time
basis but the board will review the plan
annually according to a memo sent to
faculty members.
Professors who might qualify for the
retircmentprogram were briefed on the
proposal before the board meeting Brister
said.
Another meeting with potential partici-
pants the department chairmen and deans
was conducted at the end of February to
explain the plan as passed by the board
she said.
"We sec this as a win-win situation"
Money said.
Bacon
to replace
retiree
Cheryl Bacon director of alumni rela-
tions will become the director of the
Public Relations Division of the Journal-
ism and Mass Communication Depart-
ment. She is replacing Dr. B.E. Davis who
retired in December. Bacon will be an
assistant professor and will serve as ad-
viser of the Public Relations Student
Society of America.
She taught mass communication courses
from 1977-79. She earned a bachelor's
degree from ACU in 1976 in mass com-
munication and political science and a
master's degree in mass communication
from ACU in 1979. Bacon is a candidate
for a doctorate in educational administra-
tion from Texas Tech University.
Since joining the ACU staff in 1981 she
has served as director of new: information
director of information and publications
assistant to the president director of aux-
iliary enterprises and director of university
development programs.
Bacon has served the community in
many capacities including vice president
of the Goodwill Industries board of direc-
tors and board member of the Red Cross.
1989-90 editor in chief of the Optimist.
They were interviewed March 1 5.
Gretchen Schultz
SA campaigns
to start Monday
for lead offices
By Don Morris
Optimist Staff
Students planning to run for an executive
office in the Students' Association may
begin their quest for election Monday by
distributing campaign material and pick-
ing up a petition in the SA office.
Students will have until 5 p.m. April 6
to obtain the required 100 signatures that
will place them in the campaign race for
president vice president or treasurer said
Don Heycn SA vice president.
To hold the office of president or vice
president a student must have reached
senior status or have been enrolled at
ACU for at least three years. The office of
treasurer is open to both juniors and
seniors.
"I think there will be a lot of good com-
petition this year" said Heycn senior bi-
ology major from Stafford Kan. "I've
heard of at least four or five people plann-
ing to run for president."
The SA is planning a forum for April 9
at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Room of the
Campus Center. The forum is designed to
give students a chance to hear the views of
the candidates therefore preventing can-
didates from being elected on popularity
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Sistine Chapel p. 3
Restorers in Italy recently finished
repairing Michelangelo's greatest
work.
Johnson p. 6
Lady Wildcat guard Suzanne
Johnson was named LSC most valu-
able player for the 1989-90 season.
Social Club p. 8
Delta Theta recently changed its
name to Xi Beta Chi as part of its
rechartering activities.
'Daisy' Toot'
take top Oscars
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
Academy Awards celebrated movies
low in budget but rich in talent as
"Driving Miss Daisy" took the Oscar
for best picture and actress while
"My Left Foot" won for best actor
and supporting actress.
Jessica Tandy who played the
combative Southern widow who'd
rather walk in "Driving Miss Daisy"
became the oldest performer to win
an Oscar at age 80.
A surprised Miss Tandy wondered
aloud why the producers cast an ac-
tress whose career has mostly been on
stage to play a lead in a movie.
"I think I'm very lucky they trusted
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said backstage at the Los Armeies
Music Center. "I never thought of
myself as a movie actress."
The movie about the widow's
growing friendship with her black
chauffeur won four prizes the most
of any in the 62nd annual Academy
Awards on Monday night. It took
screenplay honors for Alfred Uhry's
adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning
play and the makeup Oscar.
Daniel Day-Lewis was named best
actor for "My Left Foot" the emo-
tional account of artist-poet Christy
Brown's battle against cerebral palsy.
Brenda Fricker who played Brown's
selfless mother won for supporting
actress.
The Civil War movie "Glory"
drew three prizes and another high-
priced war film "Born on the Fourth
of July" won two best director for
Oliver Stone and best editing.
Denzel Washington who played a
runaway slave turned soldier in
"Glory" got the supporting actor
Oscar. The film about the first black
regiment to fight in the Civil War
also gathered trophies for
cinematographer Freddie Francis and
for best sound.
Newspapers must
vie misperception
FORT WORTH Texas (AP) -
Newspapers must fight the public
perception they are causing the
avalanche of solid waste that threatens
to overwhelm the nation's landfills
industry executives said Monday.
"There is a national misperception
that newspapers are creating the pro-
blem" Sandra Hardy vice president
of Calkins Newspapers a Penn-
sylvania media company told a
members of the Texas Daily Newspa-
pers Association.
Newspapers account for only about
6 percent to 8 percent of solid waste
said Ms. Hardy who has worked in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to help
educate legislators and environmen-
talists on the industry's role.
Publishers in those two states have
begun to realize that promoting
recycling "is good public policy and
good business" she said.
Some city and state governments
have begun requiring citizens to sepa-
rate waste paper and two states al-
ready have laws requiring newspapers
to use recycled paper said Tonda
Rush director of industry affairs for
the American Newspaper Publishers '
Association. Eighteen more states are
considering similar1 measures she
said.
But the supply of recycled paper is
limited she said. Printing of an AN-
PA publication entitled "Read Then
Recycle" had to be limited because of
the scarcity of the -recycled paper used
to publish it.
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