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James Madison University Thursday, October 23,1986 Vol. 64 No. 16 / Brushing up . Staff photo by STEVE EATON As renovation of Keezell Hall nears completion, workers Monday morning. Nielsen Construction Co. of Harrlson- I- Wayne Shlftlet and Bill Davis paint outside window trim burg started the $1.5 million project about a year ago. Rose provides link behind the scenes By Kyra Scarton when Dr. Ronald Carrier left JMU for a year to head editor the state's Center for Innovative Technology. After POWER serving as Carrier's executive assistant since the With two jobs and offices, he's a busy man — summer 1985, Rose was named vice president for barely able to squeeze in a 45-minute interview. PLAYERS administrative affairs at the JMU Board of Visitors The small datebook lying open on his desk says it meeting in April, when Carrier made his all. No desk blotter, a few other small desk announcement. ornaments, but other than that, relatively nothing to Last In a three-part series on the men who run JMU So he moves between the two Wilson Hall offices, show how hectic his days are. helping acting JMU President Russell Warren learn Otherwise, this one of his Wilson Hall offices is warm, even in the early morning, but air the daily operations in one and working with bare — only the essentials and some campus prints conditioning keeps the second-floor office personnel in the other. When Carrier returns. Rose on the walls. Linwood Rose relaxes in his chair and comfortable. straightens his tie. The late September weather is The transition between the two jobs was broken See ROSE page 5 >■ The CLEP University Council is considering BlQ JMU punter John Druiett has quickly a motion that would eliminate credit b - frC. emerged as the top punter in the CtSult y examination for mosi*$4uaent$. 2 lOOt Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Page 2, The Breeze, Thursday, October 23, 1986 Council to consider stopping test credits By Amy Porter Those exams are "specially intended for staff writer a JMU student," Reubush said. It is If the University Council passes a based on information learned by proposal today, CLEP tests will not be students in the course given here. accepted here for credit for most Reubush said 307 freshmen gained students, an administrator said. credit this year through CLEP tests. Of The proposal states only students these, 216 gained credit in College seeking a bachelor of general studies Algebra. degree will be able to obtain credits by Even though many students bcnefiltcd taking College-Level Examination by taking the algebra test, Reubush said Program tests, said Dr. Fay Reubush, students will not be greatly affected if associate vice president for academic CLEP credits are declined. JMU is affairs. considering changes in next year's State-oftheArt Performance ITDKSA90 However, incoming freshmen still algebra courses anyway, she said. siiitHmnmiitHiniHiHr mm Currently, the College Algebra taught may gain credit by examination through &TDK CAQn T the Advanced Placement exams given here is similar to high school courses. *,—~*~^m~, sJAA^V/ Position (2 pack) by the College Board in high school Dr. Robert Shapiro, acting vice and through departmental exams at president for academic affairs, said $3.89 each JMU, she said. CLEP tests are abolishing CLEP tests will have little With JMU I.D. affect on students. developed by the Educational Training and this coupon Service in Princeton, N J. "I believe this change is house Since AP exams are becoming more cleaning," he said. popular, there is no need for freshmen to take CLEP tests, Reubush said. CLEP tests were intended for older, CLEP tests originally were intended more mature people, like adults for use by non-traditional students, such seeking a general studies degree, he as adults who return to college after said. By administering CLEP tests to gaining knowledge through job older students, JMU can avoid experiences and self-study programs, situations where 60-year-old students Reubush said. must enroll in freshman English Several years ago, JMU started classes, he said. administering CLEP tests to freshmen Even if JMU stops giving credit for to offer them "a way of earning credit CLEP tests, the tests still will be for work they probably accomplished in available because they are part of a high school," she said. public program. Dr. Teresa Gonzales, Recently, "we are finding students director of the Counseling and Student who are coming in and earning credit Devlopment Center, will administer Our three-year and through AP exams," Reubush said.' As CLEP tests to interested persons. AP exams are being used by an two-year scholarships won't Credits earned can be applied at other increasing number of high schools, the schools that accept CLEP tests. need for CLEP tests has declined. make college easier. The difference between the two testing programs is that AP exams CORRECTION follow advanced placement high school <» Just easier to pay for. courses, while CLEP tests are based on individual achievements, she said. Both •Two Campusquotc statements were testing programs offer the same college reversed in Monday's issue. Junior John Even if you didn't start college on a credits if students score high enough. Martin docs not support the legalization Another way to gain college credits is of marijuana. Sophomore Susan Hurst scholarship, you could finish on one. through departmental exams at JMU. does support making it a legal drug. Army ROTC Scholarships pay for full tuition and allowances for educational fees and textbooks. Along with up to \e cBrBeze $1,000 a year. Get all the facts. BE ALL Found*! 1922 YOU CAN BE. EdHor Kyra Scarton T» mm frmt mlomt. a«Sf aciW am warn eawu. SW Managing edjor Mark Chamock world it imdmkud for mil llm eirnsOj wmidt mm k»«a Business manager MCfMM SCOffOfM ejsSjei hi esejej mmd AseaaBbj mmerror mud empreiMom.' CONTACT - Jmma ttmdixm CPT DAVID KIMMEL Newt editor Merle Oebom Assistant news edlor MJkeWHon PHONE 568-3634 Design/layout editor KanMetczak Tim tnmu c puMsftad Monday and Thursday OFFICE Features editor Pirn Vnkty mornings and datrfcuud throughout JMU. STADIUM F203 Assistant features editor Stapnen Rounfcvc Maing address k TV trmtm. Communication Sponserjiiof RobWaehbum Department, JMU. Harriaonburg. Va. 22907 Assistant sports edlor Senny Dearth For advertising, call 568-6696 For edaorial offices. Assistant sporm editor Meieea Amos call 566-6127. EdkorteJ edrtor CherteeLundy Comments and corrplants should be ctrected to Assistant editorial edsor twtVf Atwood Kyra Scarton, edlor Photo edSor MngUong Wlrs edlor Martin Rornfue Production manager Diane BenevtrJes Advisers F«p De Luce ARMY RESERVE OFFiCL^TRA^^ Assailant Business manager Jecki Bryant Alan Neckowrtz A* design manager GragTuMVav Oev*d Wendefcan The Breeze, Thursday, October 23, 1986, page 3 Scholar stresses threat of 'the bomb' place, Loeb said. By Alessandra Griffiths "People are afraid to act or state themselves in a staff writer position. One excuse being apathy," he said. "It seems !he closer one gets to concentrations of People should take an active position with regard to power, the more people believe that there is nothing the nuclear arms race, said a visiting scholar Monday. they can do," Loeb said. Dr. Paul Loeb, author and lecturer, spoke on "Living If the world experiences a nuclear disaster, humans with the Bomb" in Grafton-Stovall. will have no way of preventing death, he said. All will "People are used to thinking about these kind of issues in terms of reports in TV news, or reports from be destroyed and our present reality will become ^r "^^^^H obscure. the Kremlin, the summits of Geneva, or the Pentagon. ^F ^^^JPgH ... It all seems to take place very separately from our "No guards exist against the barbarisms of a nuclear lives, Loeb said. holocaust," Loeb said, using the German holocaust "People are more concerned with their immediate during World War II as an example. lives . football games, dates on a Saturday night 3| Evil is encouraged in many aspects of society, he and the paper due on Monday morning," he said. said. It is seen in films, books and TV, Loeb said. Americans should examine their personal Higher levels of evil can be seen in occurrences like ■ \ 1 the German holocaust relationship to the world's nuclear armament situation, ■ * ^E>^^^l Loeb said. "Massacring 6 million people is a different kind of ! evil which only took one madman to ignite," he said. Referring back to World War I, Loeb pointed out Wft:WP-M.'M Hi Ham * JH H^^^B By ignoring the nuclear arms race, people today are that early 20th century technology led to millions of indirectly contributing to evils like the German deaths. Now, nuclear weapons can kill people even faster. holocaust, he said. ""People are not willing to take risks because they "In fact.Nye can annihilate a single world pretty fear their own safety, therefore, they pretend to agree much in the single space of this lecture." Loeb said. Staff photo by JIM ENGBERT with the power-holding minority," said Loeb. Loeb spent three years^trying to find solutions to the Visiting scholar Dr. Paul Loeb People must take risks in order to maintain peace question, "How can we evade a nuclear disaster, how and world order, he said. do we comprehend it and how do we live with it?" The president. Congress, the Senate and all the He researched the Manhattan Project, a program that elected officials are supposed to know best, he said. Individual Americans must take on responsibility to led to the development of the first atomic bombs. "We make a judgement that the president knows best.. protect their country, he said.

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