The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1985 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 79 Issue 17
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WITH BREAK
Fall, 1985
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August 27
FALL BREAK
WITHOUT BREAK (present calendar)
Feature
Dr. Lansford to research
toxicity
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August 24
August 25
August 26
December 10
December 13
Freshmen Arrive (Saturday)
Upperclass Arrive (Sunday)
Freshmen Register (Monday)
Upperclassmen Confirm
Classes begin (Tuesday)
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October 24-25
(Thursday-Friday)
November 27
ore
you?
Cecilia Pahlsson
August 25 Freshmen Arrive
August 26 Upperclassmen Arrive
see Fall Break, p. 3
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Administration
Cody Library
discloses
growth plan
Early this week, Cody Memorial
Library officials held an open forum to
discuss with interested persons the
long-range plans for improving the
library faciities at SU.
The kind of library buiding that will
be needed by Southwestern through
the next 20 years, without any
reference to existing facilities and pre-
sent library space, has been described
by Dr. David Kaser, library building
consultant. His complete 30-page
document is available for* study for
those who are interested, and may be
obtained from members of the Library
Committee and the Division chairper-
sons. The following is a brief descrip-
tion of this program.
The building program envisions a
simple, efficient, functional building,
probably rectangular, to house 270,000
volumes, 1000 periodicals and 360
reader stations. These numbers were
see Growth Plan, p. 3
Last semester, the Student Senate
considered the issue of a Fall Break,
that is, the recurring question of
whether or not to have a four-day
weekend some time after mid-term
week in the Fall calendar. After much
planning, debate, and a public hearing,
the Senate agreed to the need and
desirability of such a break. It then
considered six possible calendar ar-
rangements, each of which contained
this break. Consensus was reached on
the following calendar proposal:
Tuesday evening, 5 Feb. 1985, Mr.
Kirk Treible described in detail for an
assembly of RAs and SAs - later that
evening for the Student Senate - the
tuition, room and board changes of
Southwestern for 1985-1986 Accord-
ing to Treible, the three principal
goals of the university are to raise
faculty salaries to the 95th. percentile
for our type of institution; to follow
admissions policies which would
provide Southwestern with a more
“pluralistic and diverse” student
body; and to provide the student and
faculty member with better academic
resources
President Roy B. Shilling, in an
open letter to SU students and faculty
[for text of letter, see p. 7], discussed
the need for SU to raise its rates.
He claims that the increased rates
are necessary if SU is to continue
“reaching for academic excellence."
Tuition and fees, currently $4,900
per year, would increase by 12.2
percent to $5,500 for 1985-86. The
average room rate, double occu-
pancy, would rise an average of 9.5
percent from the current $1,580 per
year to $1700. The 21-meal plan would
increase by 8.3 percent to $1700.
The minimum increase for any one
see $.U. , p. 3
Walk for the
Hungry
Gary Kline
The ethos of our culture in these
times seems to encourage a preoccupa-
tion with personal welfare and securi-
ty. The scramble is on for the more
lucrative jobs and for Financial securi-
ty. The market for handguns is increas-
ingly brisk just as - on a grander scale -
defense spending escalates to un-
precedented levels. The quest for
security is fundamentally atomistic,
which leads to a bitter irony: as our
focus becomes more individualistic,
our personal security recedes and the
quest takes on a more and more
desperate character. The new arms
race brings the world closer to global
destruction and balloons the national
debt, undermining the long-term
stability of our economy. To compen-
sate, we reduce our commitment to the
weaker members of society, the victims
of the vicissitudes of life, and make life
all that much more precarious for
everyone.
There used to be a maxim which ad-
see Kline, p. 4
Earlier this week. President
Reagan unveiled the proposed budget
of the United States for fiscal year
1986. The $937.7 billion figure is the
largest for any government.
The budget allocates a 12.7 percent
increase in defense spending and calls
for the elimination of the Job Corps,
along with 24 other programs. Under
the proposed budget, Medicare and
Medicaid would be two big losers in
the appropriations game.
The steep increase in military
spending would provide funding for
both the MX missile system and the
controversial B-1 bomber. The
President defended his proposal for
intensifying the military buildup by
noting, “The Scriptures are on our
side.” .
The Biblical passages to which Mr.
Reagan referred in substantiating his
claim were not made clear, especially
in light of scriptural passages which
teach to the contrary (those who live
by the sword shall die by the sword,
et.al.) No other Scriptural writings or
teachings are known to advocate
military buildup, either, unless one
refers to the Old Testament (which,
by the way, was the “old law”) or the
Bhagavad-Gita in which Krishna
see Justification, p. 3
“I’m Nobody!"
This is how Emily Dickenson
started one of her poems. As a student
at an American University I am
familiar with the feeling. But just
because no one brightens up my door
and day with multicoloured signs,
telling me what a wonderful,
SUPERFINE, GREAT pledge I am,
doesn’t mean that I am a social
failure. Just because I don’t mind
eating alone in the Commons, doesn’t
mean that I don’t have any friends.
Group activity is simply not my cup of
-tea.
Sometimes when I am sitting in the
Commons, enjoying my meal all
alone, people sit down at my table out
of pure compassion, telling me how
lonely I look. It is very nice of them -1
don’t mind them doing so - but they
confirm my belief that Americans are
terrified of being alone. Americans
are convinced that loneliness is
something forced up one as a result of
see Pahlsson, p. 4
Thanksgiving Holiday
Classes end (Tuesday)
Finals Begin (Friday)
Dr. Edwin M. Lansford Jr., pro-
fessor of biochemistry who began
teaching at SU in 1962, will study
metabolic sites of alcohol toxicity. He
is co-author of 30 papers published in
biochemical research journals, co-
editor of Encyclopedia of
Biochemistry, and author of a chapter
'on vitamins as coenzymes in a 1980
book on human nutrition, edited by
R.B. Aflin-Slater.
Since the first Welch Foundation
grant to Southwestern in 1966, the
university has acquired with grant
funds some of the department’s first
laboratory research equipment, in-
cluding gas chromatographs, low-
temperature cooling units, ultraviolet-
photochemical reactor, high-pressure
reactor and high-vacuum glassrack,
Soulen said.
The Welch Foundation was
established by the will of the late
Robert Alonzo Welch, who had no
formal college education but was self-
educated to the degree that he ap-
preciated and understood the value of
chemical research to the betterment of
mankind.
The foundation gives grants to scien-
tists and institutions to encourage and
enhance chemical research in Texas.
“The Welch Foundation has been a
major source of funds for chemistry
laboratory equipment,” Soulen added.
“This support has made it possible for
a small undergraduate university to
provide marvelous opportunities for
chemistry students to develop
laboratory techniques and pursue in-
dependent research. Having this ex-
posure, as an undergraduate, to
research in the laboratory increases
greatly the student’s chances of being
accepted into a top graduate
program.”
A survey of the 58 chemistry majors
from 1974-84 shows that 23 of the SU
. graduates were accepted for study in
medical school, four in dental school,
14 in a chemistry graduate program,
and two in chemistry and chemical
engineering graduate programs. Eleven
took employment in industry.
Three-quarters of Soulen’s former
research students have gone on to earn
the doctorate or are presently studying
in a doctoral program.
February 1985
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