The Broncos’
VOICE
October 1994
Volume IV Issue #A
By Lesli Sample
A young woman slowly awak
ens out of a less than peaceful sleep
to grab at her bed coverings and
snuggle down deeper into the
warmth that’s provided by her body
heat alone. She glances across the
room at the heating switch on the
wall, as if the haunting look in her
eyes and a silent plea are enough to
make there be heat today.
The young woman lays a hand
to her swollen stomach and subcon
sciously begins a slow circular mo
tion. She vows once again that if she
can help it, her unborn child will
never have to live in conditions such
as these. It’s October, the fall of the
year, and there’s no heat. That
means there’s no hot water either.
With this realization, the young
woman sits up, stretches, and thinks
of all the times she took a nice hot
bath for granted.
Looking out her window, the
young woman realizes that the sky
is overcast... a bad sign indeed. She
was told that her ceiling would be
repaired, but she knew as she looked
out the window that today would be
another day of dodging pots, pans,
and bowls strategically placed to
catch the invading rain.
“At least I have lights,” she
thinks, remembering a few months
ago when there was no electricity.
She tries to block it, but an image
Examples of the madness: Hood Hall
Bathroom ceiling caves in due to leaking pipes.
flashes in her mind of a pitch black
room, a puddle of water, and a nasty
fall. She notices that the rain has
started.
The young woman slowly
climbs out of bed and searches for
her bedroom shoes. She bends over
to peer underneath the bed. Before
she raises up, shoes in hand, a fat
drop of water hits her arm and trick
les off slowly. Another day in Hell
has begun.
If this sounds like the opening
to some inner city story in which
the protagonist is yet another unwed
mother who rises out of the poverty
See Room Page 4
What Business Do They Have in Business?
By Rhonda Keyes
MBA students sat confused on
Wednesday evening as they listened
to a monologue presented by an ob
viously frustrated Fayetteville State
University (FSU) professor. The
relatively new professor was upset
because he felt his class was “drag-
ging”-a fault he explained was the
result of a disordered curriculum.
The professor’s basis: How can Pre-
Med student learn advanced busi
ness principles without having been
taught the fundamentals of those
principles? Essentially, what he was
saying is that he cannot teach apples
to grow like oranges, because their
seeds are different. Pulling his hair
out (figuratively), he went on to say,
“If we [he and the class] were at any
other university...[things would be
different].” He implied that other
universities-universities that do not
exf)ect their faculty to grow oranges
from apple seeds—are more selec
tive about which students enter into
an MBA program.
The Director of the FSU MBA
program maintains that forty-two
percent of MBA students have their
undergraduate degrees in disci
plines other than business. This phe
nomenon is not specific to FSU, as
George Anders, a Wall Street Jour
nal staff reporter writes, “A New
Breed of MDs Add MBA to Vitae,”
(27 September 1994, Eastern edi
tion). Throwing gasoline on the fire,
some expect that as more small
businesses develop, MBA programs
all over the nation will see the num
ber of non-traditional, MBA stu
dents (students seeking an MBA
without an undergraduate business
degree) increase.
What impact will this influx of
non-traditional students have on
MBA programs? An unspecified
number of FSU faculty and students
fear that an influx of non-traditional
MBA students may hinder the
learning process. Julie Casper, a stu
dent present during the Wednesday
night incident, and who holds a pre-
med degree, describes what she
feels is the problem, “I feel that the
class is moving on without me, and
that I am being left behind. I get lost
in the terminology, and it’s often
difficult for me to keep up because
I cannot predict what it is I am sup
posed to already know.” Julie adds
that she does not think the solution
is to have an instructor use two
hours of class time to explain a ba
sic concept to her, but suggests that
there be two approaches to an
MBA: a non-business major’s ap
proach, and a business major’s ap
proach.
Jay Glamalva, an FSU, MBA
student who also has an undergradu
ate degree in science, argues that a
separate program would be consid
ered “a break”, allowing MBA stu
dents to skate through the program.
He believes that the MBA depart
ment admits students based on
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