Poge 6 — Smoke Signals, Wednesday, September 24, 1980
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This year's edition of the Lady Brave volleyball teams shown above:
from left, front row, co- captains Terri Tyler and Cheryl Hendrix: back
row, Lois Moe, Armelio Alexander, Sue Burke, Gwen Bergey, Heather
Holt, Pom Pellom, Teresa Tripp, Yvette Armstrong and Coach Janet
Collins. The Lady B s downed Methodist College, 12-15, 1614, 15-4, in
their opening contest.
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OREGON PLAGIARIZED STANFORD’S ANTI-PLAGIARISM STATEMENT.
Oregon’s teachers’ handbook’s section on plagiarism was lifted from Stanford’s
teachers’ handbook. A student who’d taken courses at both universities discovered
the crime while looking up professors to write recommendations for him. “The
thing that upset me the most was the hypocrisy,” says student Tak Sukekane.
The discovery led to a round of apologies. Both Oregon and Stanford officials ex-
cased it as “an oversight.” Though Sukekane continues to accuse Oregon of
“willful stupidity,” Oregon grad school Dean Aaron Novick says the teachers
handbook is being re-written.
HE‘S “ONE OF THE STARS OF THE HISTORY PROFESSION,” SAYS a
University of Maryland professor, but that didn’t help much-honored historian
Eugene Genovese, get a job at the College Park campus.
The Maryland history faculty voted against hiring historian Genovese, currently
at the University of Rochester.
Critics say it’s because Genovese is a Marxist, which makes him the third to bite
the dust at Maryland. In 1978, President John Toll blocked colorful Bertell
Oilman’s appointment as government department chairman. In 1979, the universi
ty fired tenured physicist E. F. Beall, a Maoist.
History appointments chairman Louis Harlan attributes Genovese’s rejection to
a departmental surfeit of 19th century American history courses, the Marxist’s
specialty. History professor Ira Berlin contends Genovese would have gotten the
jot anyway if his ‘ ‘political persuasions were different and his credentials were the
same.”
THE RECESSION HURT THE 1980 COLLEGE JOB MARKET. Hiring of spring
graduates was up eight percent, but earlier College Placement Council studies had
predicted a hiring increase of 13 percent over spring, 1979 levels.
The biggest decline was in business degrees. Employers increased hiring only
one percent, though they intended to hire eight percent more graduates.
Engineering hiring was up 21 percent, versus the 28 percent increase originally
forecasted. But there was a seven percent drop in all other, non-technical degree
areas. The Placement Council attributes the drop to a hiring freeze in the federal
government, which usually absorbs liberal arts grads.
THE COACH WHOSE PHONE HABITS INGNITED THE COLLEGE SPORTS
SCANDAL LANDED a new coaching job, this time with the as-yet unnamed Albu
querque franchise of the Ladies Professional Basketball Association.
University of New Mexico basketball coach Norm EUenberger’s November, 1979
phone conversation was tapped by the FBI. The FBI charged EUenberger was con
spiring to fix the academic transcript of one of his players to make the player eligi
ble for the 1979-80 season. EUenberger’s subsequent indictment led to allegations
of similar transcript f bang and fraud at more than a dozen other universities.
But EUenberger himself was acquitted in federal court over the summer, and
was hired to lead the women’s team because he’s “a celebrity and a winner,” ac
cording to franchise owner Mike Valentine.
THE 1980s ENROLLMENT CRUNCH COULD CLOSE 200 SCHOOLS, eliminate
53,000 faculty jobs, and wreck newly-hired women’s chances for extended
academic careers. A national Center for Education Statistics report expects col
lege enrollment to peak in fall, 1981, but predicts gloom thereafter.
It forecasts private, four-year liberal arts colleges — those most dependent on
full-time students for their revenues — will be hardest hit by the coming decline
the number of 18-to-22-year-olds in the population.
The NCES report calculates a decline of 191,000 students in four-year schools by
1988. One result: women probably won’t get a bigger share of college jobs because
colleges won’t be hiring, and men already hold 74 percent of the existing jobs.
THE NEW U. S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CREATED TO CUT THE
BUREAUCRACY, ACTUALLY EXPANDED IT. That’s the claim of Wisconsin
Sen. William Proxmire, who gave the department one of his “Golden Fleece
Awards” for the expansion less than a month after the department officially open
ed.
The facetious award, which the senator periodically gives out to attract attention
to government “waste,” was given to the department for fattening its staff and
otherwise beefing up its budget.” Proxmire, who is on the committee that writes
the education budget, claims the department has 157 more staffers than it was sup
posed to.
The department envelops almost all federal education programs previously
administered by other agencies. Proponents of the new department promised
centralizing the prc^ams would enhance efficiency without increasing staff
size
Department spokeswoman Elvira Crocker says Proxmire unfairly included
temporary woricers in his count. ™ . .
Prozmire*s last tangle with higher education cost him $15,000 in damages and
court costs. In March, Proxmire settled the money on Western Michigan professor
Ronald Hutchinson, who successfully argued that his 1975 receipt of the Golden
Fleece Award had been libelous.
THE GOVERNMENT’S ‘GET TOUGH’ ANTI-DEFAULT POLICY PAYS OFF,
AND MAY GET TOUGHER. Increased federal pressure on college administrators
to collect overdue loans from students helped lower the financial aid default rate
on National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) for the first time in history.
The “bad debt” on NDSLs was down to 16.04 percent in 1979-80, compared to
more than 17 percent the year before, according to Leo Paszkiewicz of the Depart
ment of Education’s student aid operation.
Joseph Califano, then secretary of the old U. S. Department of Health, Educa
tion & Welfare, threatened colleges with aid cut-offs unless they worked harder
to track down defaulting students. Congresss also threatened to cut the student
aid budget if collections didn’t improve.
The Carter Administration is sponsoring even tougher measures for collecting
other kinds of federal student loans. One bill would allow the Internal Revenue Ser
vice to give the Department of Education the addresses of graduates who have yet
to repay their Guaranteed Student Loans.
THE ‘DUNGEON MASTER’ SUICIDE WAS NOT A DUNGEONS AND
DRAGONS VICTIM AT ALL, insist the fellow students of apparent suicide James
Dallas Egbert III.
Egbert, 17 at the time of his death, disappeared from the Michigan State campus
fo 28 days last summer. A private investigator theorized the disappearance was
related to an elaborate Dungeons and Dragons game. The investigator found
Egbert well in Texas motel room, but hasn’t revealed further details.
A year later, on Aug. 17, Egbert died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wounds in Dayton, where he’d lived since the 1979 incident.
But Egbert’s acquaintances at Michigan State now vehemently disagree with
popular speculation Egbert was “disturbed” by the fantasy game or even his
homosexuality. Phil Boyer of MSU’s Lesbian — Gay Council says Egbert’s
homosexuality “was not an extaordinary problem”.
Few professed to knowing Egbert well, but all discount the sensational gossip.
They attribute Egbert’s problems to being a precocious 15-year-old freshman
“dumped in a dorm” with older, more mature people, as one member of the cam
pus Tolkien Fellowship put it.
Egbert’s “fairly obvious” problem, adds fellowship President Majorie Foster,
was that “when you’re very smart you sometimes get isolated. He needed some
time to grow up. I think he was very lonely.”
DESPITE POPULARITY, THE ‘SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES’ AREN’T WORK
ING, according to an Institute for Policy Studies report.
The Institute says the principles, a list of civil rights which American companies
doing business in South Africa pledge to observe, have only helped “modernize
apartheid in order to ensure its perpetuation.”
The principles themselves have become a popular compromise response among
administrators to campus demands that schools sell — often at a loss — stocks in
firms with South African operations. Instead of selling, administrators ask the
companies to promise to conduct business according to the principles.
Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, the Philadelphia minister who drew up the principles,
estimates that “almost 200” companies have agreed to observe the principles, and
that “close to 100” colleges have made such an agreement condition of continued
shareholding in the firms with South African operations
WOMEN’S SPORTS PROGRAMS ARE “ONE-HALF TO TWO-THIRDS of the
way toward being in compliance” with federal anti-sex bias laws, the American
Council on Education says.
Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally- funded institutions, will
probably make most women’s college sports budgets double by 1990, the ACE
report estimates. The ACE also found no evidence Title IX has cut men’s sports
funding.
“The question,” says Char MoUison of the Women’s Equity Action League Fund,
“is; is cup half full or half empty? Fifty percent compliance is a disgraceful
record.”
STUDENTS DON’T NECESSARILY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRING A
LAWYER TO COLLEGE DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS, a Rhode Island court rul
ed.
Three male University of Rhode Island students were accused of molesting two
female students, were brought before a URI board, and punished. They were
banished from URI dorms and temporarily suspended. The three later complained
their constitutional rights to due process had been violated because they didn’t
have an attorney with them. Therefore, they reason, their punishments should be
forgotten.
After numerous appeals, the state Superior Court disagree. It said, “there is no
constitutional right to counsel per se” for students when they face disciplinary
boards.
Loss Of Veterans
Forces Rebuilding
Of Lody B Spikers
Coach Janet Collins finds herself in
a rebuilding stage once again as the
Lady Brave spikers start a demanding
season.
Instead of the veteran nucleus she
had expected from last year’s improv
ing team, Collins has but one ex
perienced sophomore in the starting
lineup. Withdrawals of key players on
last year’s predominantly freshman
10-13 squad forced her to start over
again from square one.
“We will be a very young team, but
we should be very competitive,” Col
lins, who is beginning her 15th year of
coaching competitive volleyball at
Chowan, asserted.
“I will be starting only one
sophomore with experience”, she
pointed out, “so we will have to get
immediate help out of our freshmen.
Two sophomore hitters, both on
schoarship, did not return to school
this year so we will have to work hard
to make up for the loss of their talent
and experience.”
Sophomore Terri Tyler, 1979 All-
Region setter and best defensive
player, and hitter Sue Burke of Silver
Spring, Md., are the returning
sophomores. “We had a good
recruiting year,” Collins said “landing
seven outstanding high school
players”.
Freshmen recruits include setters
Lois Moe, from Wilmington, and
Teresa Tripp, from Chesapeake, Va.;
Yvette Armstrong, a defensive
specialist from Adelphi, Md; four hit
ters, Armelia Alexander and Cheryl
Hendrix from Oxiedo, Fla; Gwen
Bergey of Waynesboro, Va; Pam
Pellom of Wilmington.
“During pre-season practice, I have
been very pleased with the hustle and
attitude of his year’s squad”, con
tinued Collins,” and our objectives
this season are to be the best defen
sive team in Region X and to at least
equal last year's second place finish in
Retion X and, if all things jell, a first
place finish.”
The first home competition in the
new Helms Center is a scrimmage
against NC Wesleyan tomorrow with
the first “counting” home match
against Methodist and Spartanburg on
October 4 at 9 A.M.
1980-81 Volleyball Schedule
Dote
Opponent
Place
Time
Match
Sept. 25
N.C. Wesleyan (S)
Home
7.00
Dual
Oct. 1
St. Augustine
Opponent
St. Augustine
6.30
TrI
Oct. 4
Methodist
Spartanburg
Home
9 00
Tri
Oct. 6
Louisburg
St. Augustine
Louisburg
6:30
TrI
Oct. 10
Spartanburg
Brevard
Spartanburg
6:30
Tri
Oct. 11
North Greenville
Opponent
North Greenville
2:00
Tri
Oct. 16
ECSU
Greensboro
Elizabeth City
6:30
Tri
Ocf. 21
Louisburg
St. Augustine
Home
6:30
Tri
Oct. 23
Christopher
Newport
William and Mary
CNC
6:30
Tri
Oct. 28 '
UNC-Wilmington
Christopher
Newporf
Home
6:30
Tri
Oct. 31
Meredith
Ferrum
Home
6:30
Tri
Nov. 1
Louisburg
Invitational
Tournament
Louisburg
?:00
Nov. 4
Greensboro
Opponent
Home
6:30
Tri
Nov. 8
Nov. 11
Nov. 14-15
Lees McRae
North Greenville
Open
— NJCAA Region X
UNC-G
— Spartanburg
2:00
Tri
Dec. 3,4,5 — National Volleyball Tournament
Miami Dade South Florida
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