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SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
I VOL LXXVI, NUMBER 21
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1983
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SU summer offerings
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Lady Bucs in playoffs tonight
Is The Megaphone an anachronism?
Viewbook reveals Southwestern
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Calendar
by Todd Olsen
Yesterday afternoon while Dean
Barbara Brightwell and a friend sat
in her office planning a Sunday school
Greek News
Sports
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is on the enforcement end of the law,
not punishment, but he has observed
that students pay more promptly since
this practice began. Most schools have
policies as strict or stricter than this
one according to Upthegrove.
(continued on page 3)
Dean Brightwell said that once
• another office she had been in caught
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operations of the Student Develop-
ment office.
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policy was instituted at the suggestion
qf students. The Traffic Appeals Com-
mittee, which consists mainly of
students, recommended this policy
because students were ignoring their
traffic tickets. This is the first year that
the policy has been in effect. In
interupting a women’s intramural
soccer game came screaming sirens
to the Student Development build-
rescue. Within minutes students were
flocking toward the sound wondering
what was happening.
"The smoke began coming from the
light and I thought it better to be safe
than sorry,” said Dean Brightwell.
She immediately called the fire
department and within two and a galf
minutes they arrived in force. The
fire began in the ballast of a
fluorescent light in the Dean’s ottice.
Apparently the fixture was old and
some of the wires were frayed which
this will simply exacerbate our present
shortage of parking spaces.
Warburton believes that students
that structural problems in the should own up to the responsibility of
building and in other campus paying the ticket or informing
structures were possible after they someone that they can not pay at pre-
studied the campus. The school has sent. There are several people students
since been regularly checking the can tell who will authorize the cessa-
possible stress areas. This routine tion of the accruing penalty. “This is
inspection resulted in Monday’s not a revenue-raising fund,” Warbur-
“Parking fines are too'bigh to begin
with,” she notes, “and the
withholding of grades is incentive
' enough to pay.” Hardy suggested to
the Student Senate that this policy be
re-examined and hopefully changed.
Bill Swift, Vice-President for Stu-
dent Services, was directly concerned
with this matter and insists that Hardy
did not have to pay such a steep fee.
“She, and any other student, can have
the accumulating penalty stopped as
soon as they get the ticket by talking to .
the chief of campus security, the
business office, or me personally,”
says Swift. “Virginia was sent several
warning letters and I talked to her
myself,” he added.
Sikes said.
' Sikes said the summer program for
gifted students is being planned with
the cooperation of the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department’s Inland Fisheries
Branch 1 '
Much of the scientific study whicf
the students will undertake Involves
study of fish and water in Lake
Georgetown. The lake was formed
when the Corps of Engineers built a
dam in 1980 across the north fork of
the San Gabriel River near
Social Science hall were also
experiences where the Georgetown
fire department acted expediently
and courageously.
discovery.
“The Fine Arts Center was built
during a drought,” Treible explains.
“The ground was so dry when the slab
was poured that later, when the soil
absorbed moisture, it puffed the floor
up (in the gallery area adjoining the
theatre)' That’s why the floor in the
gallery is raised.” +
He said the peculiar soil under the
Southwestern campus, which is the
dark, moist soil of the Texas
Blacklands, causes problems with
local buildings shifting as a result of
the change in the ground’s moisture
content. Because of this varied soil
Georgetown moisture level and its somewhat
Students will use Southwestern’s destabilizing effect on campus
_ . ... ... . . ... structures, most are built on piers,
computer lab facilities to analyze their These concrete extend
data, learning how computers may be from three to thirty or more feet
used by scientists in compiling, analyz- underground to solid rock. The piers
ing and drawing conclusions from rest on the rock, and upon them the
data. building is constructed. Kurth Hall,
instructors for that summer pro- for example, rests on piers running
gram are Dr. Jesse Purdy, assistant from three to thirty-three feet
professor of psychology; Dr. Bob underground.
Morgan, associate professor of “Southwestern was a forerunner of
biology, and Sikes. construction in this area on piers,” he
Cost of the program is $420, in- says. "The school made some tough
eluding room and board, tuition, decisions in those days when they
materials and sponsored recreational didn't have much money (in using
activities. Program participants will pier construction) "
have access to Southwestern’s recrea- Southwestern’s two oldest struct-
tiona facilities. (continued on page 6)
FA C theatre closed for repairs
University officials closed the Alma together. What has happened is that - Treible. “We think that within two to
Thomas Theatre early this week after the beam has separated about two three weeks repairs could be made,
a school maintenance worker found a inches where it was welded. When the though Ted Lucas (Dean of the School
structural flaw in the building early weld separates it begins to push out of Fine Arts) and I did announce in a
Monday during a routine inspection, the walls of the building, which means letter posted on the theatre doors that
According to Mr. Kirk Treible, that the floor could collapse and the it could be closed until May 1. We
vice-president for fiscal affairs, the ceiling could fall.” ' don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up
theatre, housed in the Fine Arts Treible says officials have closed about using the theatre if the damage
Center, was closed because there was the building for safety reasons until is worse than we thought.”
a chance that “the floor could the school’s structural engineers The group that would be most
collapse and the ceiling could fall” as arrive .in three to four days to assay profoundly affected by the shutdown
the result of the problem. The flaw or the damage. is the drama department, which
“stress point” in the theatre is "When we found the area we called regularly uses the theatre for classes
controversy
by Tami ,Curtis ■ . "
* ; Staff writer ton continues, “and there is no logical
PeWheelinginto a no-parking pzonerareason-for us-towhtuheimney im-
pulling to a stop with your left wheel to mediately if we can t get it.
the curb can become, a very expensive Warburton maintains that a policy
r mistake if not addressed immediately. of only withholding grades is not an in-
Due to a policy instigated last semester centive to pay. “If you put it off and
a five dollar penalty is added to the Put it off you still owe only five
original ticket every seven days that the dollars, ard in (he meantime you hope
ticket is not paid and this policy has that someone will forget about it or the
stirred some controversy. paper work will disappear,” says War-
Southwestern student Virginia Har- burton •
dy was guilty of three parking viola- ’ "Too often we think of our
tions last semester and owed fifteen privileges around here as . rights. We
dollars in fines, due to the weekly don’t issue warrants for arrest or im-
penalty. However, Hardy owed pound your car. We just use the penal-
$180.00 which she had to pay in order ty to motivate people to attend to their
to receive her grades. Hardy feels that tickets, he concludes.
this policy is an unfair means of Paul Upthegrove, chief of campus
garnering funds from S.U. students.- security, is quick to note that security
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previous years students weie told that
I they could not take their final exams, a
policy which involved faculty in keep-
ing up with violators and created ad-
ministrative problems.
Swift notes Hardy’s situation is far
from typical. A total of 112 tickets
were issued last semester and only 27
people paid any late charge.
, . . - Hardy maintains that she was unsure caused a spark. “Luckily,” said
howpong it going to take, u of how to stop the late charge from ac' Brightwell,“we were in the office at
."fthesworsthappens, he says, cumulating. “I talked to (security of- the time or the damage might be
"whichisif wehavetoc iethe whole ficer) Ernie Fuchs and gave him a date worse.” '' The Georgetown fire
thing.do tn rthe spring,’ enwe’l of when 1 could pay.” says Hardy, department quickly found the trouble
locations ” * other "but I don’t know if the fine stopped and subdued it, limiting the damage
ocatons,.,_____..... accumulating or not. I really thought to the lighting fixture and the
n . P . or tonight was that the policy was so outrageous that immediate area. The damage is not
cancelled in.theswake 0 „ they wouldn’t make me pay it, she extensive and will not inhibit the
disovery; That recital, to begiven -says, “and even when Bill Swift told
by Drusilla Hufmaster, 3 Southwest- me that the fine was increasing it didn’t
em professor, was to be conducted as really hit me ”
a memorial to Dr. Angus Springer, Kevin Warburton, present chair of
long-time head of SU s drama the Traffic Appeals Committee, was
department, and Mr. George R. not a member of the committee that fire- She stated that it was a
Brown, a major benefactor of the recommended the policy, but he gives frightening experience and that she
University. Both men died in it his hearty approval. “Some may hoped it would never happen again.
January. think that this is a trivial problem to be Thus when she smelled the smoke,
Treible said the problems with the concerned with but,” he continues, she alertly called the fire department
Fine Arts Center date to its "on a campus this size it is to be “safe rather than sorry.”
construetion.in.1954, and. were important." With the renovation of “Georgetown’s fire department
recently brought to the attention of LK we will lose 97 parking spaces and should be congratulated,” said
University officials during the “Mast- ... ... . . Pa Kng spaces, and The denartment’s im
er plannino» nrocess a Howetn this will simply exacerbate our present Erigntwen. Tne departments im
er Planning process. A Houston shortage of parking snaces mediate response is consoling to
architecture firm, Skidmore, Owings, WarburtonbeheveT that students students as wel as Dean Brightwell,
and Merrill, notified administrators L ,, , a students Occurrences such as the fire that
gutted the Sneed building a few years
ago and the fire that damaged the
located in the northeast comer of the in a structural engineer from Austin as well as dramatic productions,
theatre, between a metal overhead who said‘Yes, there is a chance some Dean Lucas was optimistic that
door opening to the outside at the major damage could occur’ so we repairs could be effected soon,
building’s east end and a work area closed it down,” Treible says. minimizing any disruption to the
located behind the stage. Southwestern’s cabinet of major drama department.
“That building has a stone veneer administrators will hear a report
and a concrete block construction,” from the engineers at 4 p.m. this “I don’t think anything scheduled
Treible explains. “The floors are Monday, he says. Students will be out by and for the students will be
supported by steel beams, and in the of school at that time because of changed,” Lucas said in a telelphone
theatre, because of the width of the spring break, which begins tomorrow interview last night. “It might be
floor area, no single beam could span (Friday). finished in a week, and then it won’t
the distance, so two were welded “We think it’s correctable,” says change a thing. It just depends on
The arrival of spring .
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Freshman Mark Graves absorbs the sun’s rays while studying on the month of March at Southwestern, sending students outdoors to bask in the
University campus on Monday. Clear, warm and sunny weather began the warm weather while - in some cases - they caught up on studies.
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Southwestern University will co- cafeteria. Besides their daily courses,
sponsor two educational programs in they will be involved in field trips and
May and July that will bring to leisure, cultural and recreational ac-
Georgetown students from elementary tivities. i
school age to senior citizens. Dr. ’Martha Allen, professor of
“Women in U.S. History,” “Indian history, will teach the course examin-
Pottery" and “Fitness Is Fun” are ing the roles and societal expectations
three courses being offered May 22-28 of women throughout U.S. history,
fr some 40 older citizens who come to from colonial wives to “Rosie the
campus as part of an Elderhostel pro- Riveter.”
gram. Program participants will be taght
This is the first time that by art instructor Mary Visser to use
Southwestern has participated as a techniques of Southwestern American
Cosponsor with the national Indians in hand-building and firing
Elderhostel program, according to original pieces of pottery.
campus coordinator, Dr. Nick Sikes, Dr. Tex Kassen, SU athletic direc-
associate professor of education. tor, will lead the fitness course, which
• About 40 students in grades six will use Southwestern’s gold course,
through eight will be on campus July swimming pool, tennis and racquetball
10-23 for a course on “Field and courts and conditioning equipment.
Stream: A Study in Applied Behavior Cost of the week-long program is
Research.” It is cosponsored with the $180. That price includes tuition, room
Gifted Students Institute for Research and board, and program-sponsored ac-
and Development. tivities.
In 1982 more than 500 colleges and Sikes said he first read about
universities in 50 states and Canada in- Elderhostel about a year. ago. “I
volved some 38,000 “hostelers. thought our campus sounded perfect
At Southwestern, the hostelers will for such a program. [We’reJ located in
live in a campus residence hall and pat a small town, off a major highway (In-
their meals in the University Commone terstate 35), and have a golf course,”
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