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The North Texas Daily
Friday, October 14, 1988
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
72nd Year No. 28
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Officials say
drugs cause
campus crime
A major part of campus crime is
related to drug abuse, Lt. Marvin
Richardson of the NT Police Depart-
ment said.
To educate students about this,
Richardson and Majorie Waters of the
H Students need to
know the symptoms of
drug abuse and where
they can get help. H
—Lt. Marvin Richardson
NT police
Counseling and Testing Center lec-
tured Tuesday evening in Crumley
Hall on drug abuse and ways to solve
the problems it creates.
“Many approach the drug situation
unknowledgeably,” Richardson said.
“Students need to know the symp-
toms of drug abuse and where they
can get help.”
The film “Drugs of Abuse,” was
shown at the presentation, outlined
different drugs and the effects of each.
The film said America has about 5
million cocaine users. One in five
Americans have used drugs on the job,
and about 10 billion tax dollars are
spent on fighting drugs each year, it
said.
Waters said, “The best thing you
could do for someone who has a drug
problem is not to deny the problem.”
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FINISHING SPIRIT— Sarah Frauenheim, Plano senior,
finishes decorating her apartment window at College
Inn with the Homecoming theme, Great New Traditions.
Scott Mikjre/NT Daily Staff
Frauenheim and her roomate, Collene Ryan, Lewisville
senior, wanted to help get NT into the Homecoming
spirit.
Editor persists
despite thefts
By M.C. Moewe
Staff Writer
Despite indications that most copies of his publication are being removed
from campus before students can see them, a Dallas publisher says he’ll drop
off more copies today.
Inner-Connections, a free tabloid newspaper dealing with psychology and
philosophy, has been delivered to the University Union for the past 18 months.
“You know that Shirley MacLaine movie that was on TV? Well, we deal
with those kinds of things every day,” said Eric Carpenter, publisher and
editor of the newspaper. “Those kind of things are normal to us.”
Dr. Mary Yates, Union director, said she noticed that the papers disappeared
quickly this month. "It’s not our people taking them. They’re either being
stolen or they’re developing legs and walking away.”
Yates said she often read the paper. “Apparently a lot of other people did
too. It was always gone by the middle of the month.”
About 500 papers are delivered at the end of each month and placed on top of
the paper vending machines on the second floor of the Union
Bob Martin, Denton freshman, said he thinks the papers have been being
swiped since the beginning of the fall semester. “During the summer I’d come
up (to the Union) and they slowly disappeared. When school began (this semester)
they just disappeared.”
In the two years Inner-Connection has been published. Carpenter said he
knows of one case of reader hostility. “A person called up an advertiser and
told him not to advertise in our paper because we're demons."
The 2-year-old paper has a circulation of 22,000 throughout the Metroplex
and other areas in Texas and Oklahoma
Besides NT, the paper’s biggest distribution spot in Denton, Inner-Connection
is delivered to Texas Woman’s University, Creations by Trish — a metaphysical
bookstore on West University — and four other locations in Demon.
“They (those stealing the paper) are not really hurting my effort to get my
paper out,” Carpenter said. “It’s somebody choosing what NT students should
or shouldn’t read.”
Martin said he thinks Inner-Connection is being taken by a well-organized
fundamentalist group on campus. “The Christian groups are the first that come
to my mind."
Carpenter agreed with Martin “We're not big on their list Probably because
psychics advertise in the paper. Fundamentalists usually teach you not to look
into these things or they’ll warp your mind ’
Eric Jackson, NT chief of police, said he's not sure that taking free papers is
a crime. “If you place something out for anyone to take then what’s to stop
someone from taking it and throwing it away?”
He said it’s probably in violation of the Student Code of Conduct and NT
Police would assist the Dean of Students Office in catching the g *ilty party
Golden NT graduate
returns to alma matter
By Darrin Spradley
Daily Reporter
Senior class president of 1938 Bo
Evans attributes his rewarding career
and ability to achieve to his alma
matter, North Texas State Teachers
College, now the University of North
Texas.
“I feel 1 have had a rewarding
career with ups and downs ... the
one thing I want to be remembered
for is that I went to this university. ..
It woke me up and prepared me to
do various things, and that came in
handy all along the way in my mixed
Bo Evans
up career,” said Evans, who grad-
uated from NT 50 years ago.
Evans, 72, is a World War II
veteran, has taught in the government
department at Columbia University,
and has worked extensively with the
State Department’s Bureau of Re-
search and Development. Evans is
a Jacksboro high school graduate
who has two degrees from NT. He
received a bachelor’s degree in eco-
nomics in 1938, and in 1941 received
a master's degree, also in economics.
Evans supported himself through-
out college while holding several
titles. Evans was president of his
senior class in 1938 and his fraterinty
Beta Alpha Rho Beta as a junior.
As sports editor of the NT yearbook.
The Yucca, Evans also became editor
and sports editor of the university
paper. The Campus Chat.
Evans expresses his pride in the
education he received and is de-
lighted with the strides NT has made
since his graduation 50 years ago.
“Chancellor Al Hurley has done a
hell of a job with this university in
building it up in every area,” Evans
said.
For related stories, See
Homecoming insert.
NT to open bids on dorm sidewalks
By Rachel Taber
Daily Reporter
The Physical Plant opens bidding
Wednesday for three new sidewalks at
a cost of between $7,(XX) and $8,500.
Construction on the sidewalks will
probably begin in late October and
should be finished within four weeks,
Don Denney, Physical Plant construction
manager, said.
The housing department and the
Physical Plant will share funding for
the project equally. The housing de-
partment half will come out of the
university’s auxiliary reserves, which
are leftover funds from auxiliary enter-
prises such as housing, dining services
and the University Store, Vice President
for Fiscal Affairs Phil Diebel said
Die Physical Plant's share will be
taken from money provided by the state
for the upgrade of facilities, Denney
said.
Two of the sidewalks will border the
area between Clark and Crumley halls,
known as Crumley Park, on Avenue C
and Maple Street. The other will run
diagonally through the park, from Clark
to Crumley halls.
The diagonal sidewalk is the result
of a proposal written by Dianna Held-
man, Crumley Hall director, which
suggested a paved walkway as a solution
to many problems caused by many
students’ using the area as a thorough-
fare.
The park is situated directly between
Clark and Maple halls and the majority
of academic, residence and service
buildings on campus.
Heldman noticed a need for the side-
walks last summer while organizing a
landscape project for the housing de-
partment.
According to Heldman’s proposal, the
problems were:
• property damage because of soil
erosion, which causes mud to slide
toward Crumley Hall during rains and
exposes tree roots, endangering the
health of the trees in the park:
• safety hazards resulting from uneven
ground and protruding tree roots, which
make walking across the park dangerous,
especially at night;
• increased maintenance problems when
students track mud into the buildings,
and
• the unsightly appearance of the park
because of worn, crusty paths in dry
weather and muddy paths in rainy wea-
ther.
The diagonal sidewalk was begun last
summer by the landscaping crew, which
comprised Kerr Hal! resident assistants
Chris Clem, Waxahachie senior, and
Lee Forest. Midland junior, and West
Hall RAs Doug DuRoss. San Antonio
senior, and John Pylate, Rosenberg
senior. The crew had to stop work on
the walkway because it had not been
approved, Heldman said.
Students have wanted a diagonal
sidewalk through the park for about five
years, and housing has always wanted
one, said Dr. Betsy McGuire, director
of housing.
Students’ complaints of shoes and
clothing ruined by mud and requests
for easier access to the rest of campus,
along with the other problems associated
with the park, prompted the housing
department to push for approval of the
sidewalk, McGuire said.
In past years, similar proposals have
been turned down because of a lack of
money. New money available this year
made it possible for Diebel and Fred
Pole, vice president for administrative
affairs, to approve the proposal
The strong interest of students and
the strong endorsement from the housing
administration and the Residence Hall
Association also prompted approval of
the proposal in early October, Diebel
said.
Highland
Maple Street
Director: TAs enjoy language program
By Mike Bolduc
Staff Writer
Many of the teaching assistants, teaching fellows
and research assistants who initially objected to the
Language Certification Program for International
teaching assistants and fellows and resident assistants
are now enjoying the course, program director Eva
Dickson said.
"At the beginning, many students didn't like it.
They resent anybody questioning their ability to speak
English, because they've been studying it for a long
time. They’re very, very successful students in their
fields,” she said.
That resentment has changed, she said. "Many
of the ones who were angry at the beginning arc the
most enthusiastic now.
“I really think they’re having fun with it. I really
admire the people in this program Americans just
wouldn’t do this (teach in a foreign country)."
She said some students are still dissatisfied with
the course. “I have students who resent the program
even now. Some of them arc very irritated with the
time involved. They arc extremely busy, more so
than almost anybody at school."
One international student, who asked to remain
anonymous, said the program was not helping much.
“1 am not learning enough to spend this much
time,” he said. “Even though it is free, 1 would
rather leam on my own.”
In the 1988 Student Survey, one of the most
frequently mentioned complaints of NT students was
the poor English skills of some teaching assistants
and teaching fellows. State law now requires that
TAs and TFs participate in an English program if
Fnglish i.> not their first language.
A summary of the student suggestions portion of
the 1988 Student Survey, administered in the spring
by University Planning and Analysis, said that many
teaching fellows and instructors have a poor command
of the English language.
"At least 50 percent of the problem is the attitude
of the American students,” Dickson said. "They
don’t give the TAs a chance, and they use them as
scapegoats when they don’t do well in their classes
State law requires all public universities that use
teachers of any kind whose primary language is not
English to establish a program to ensure that all
courses will be taught clearly in the English language.
Non-natives must pass a screening, which consists
of tests and a videotaped speech. Some arc exempt
from instruction and others are placed in the program
or denied access to it entirely.
Once in the program, the students attend a one-hour
lecture, a one-hour work session in which they make
five-minute speeches before a camera which are then
evaluated, and some attend intensive pronunciation
classes as well.
“We work on several areas,” Dickson said.
“One is cultural awareness, how the American
classroom differs from the international classrooms.
“There are two areas within that. First, the use
of questions. American professors like to ask and
receive questions. In many cultures, questions in the
classroom are rude Also, we try to get the students
to use eye contact.
“We’re not going to make huge pronunciation
changes. We can show them how to compensate for
any language difficulties.
“My biggest hurdle in the program is helping
those students who think they don’t have a problem
Until they recognize the problem, they won’t make
an effort."
At the end of the course, the students make
videotaped lectures on a subjects of their choice which
are critiqued by a panel that usually includes a
representative from the student's department
“Very seldom is there a disagreement (on the
panel’s ruling)," Dickson said. “Usually it’s an
easy, unanimous decision."
The top-level graduates arc certified for teaching
in a classroom. The second level is conditionally
certified, which means they can only teach with
supervision. The lowest level is not certified and
must either re-enroll or drop out of the program.
"About 50 percent of those tested are exempted
from the program, and about two-thirds of the ones
left pass," Dickson said
Registration dates for the spring program are Dec.
5, 1988, or Jan. 9, 1989, in Kendall Hall 252 Tests
will be given Dec. 6 and 7. and Jan 10 and 11.
WHAT'S INSIDE
RESEARCH FOR TOMORROW — As NT strives to increase its
research mission, faculty members scramble to find funding and balance
classes while students complain that research interferes with teaching See
Outlook. Page 2.
WORDS ON WASTE — Dr Patricia Bufflcr of the faculty of the
University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston speaks on envi-
ronmental hazards at 3 p.m. today in the Lyceum See Page 4
SWINGING — The alumni Homecoming dance features the One O’clock
Lab Band and music from the '40s. See Page 7.
GUNPLAY? — The head coach for the McNeesc State Cowboys suggests
the only way to stop NT quarterback Scott Davis is to shoot him. See
Page 8.
Weather
High today lower 80s
Low tonight near 60
South winds at 10-20 mph
Partly cloudy Saturday
Highs this weekend in the 80s
Lows in the 50s
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