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The State of Higher Suicides Shock INDEX National Education Features Page2 Campuses Page Mindless Banter 13 N4 0LL FI N4 Official Journal of the ___ Nations Foremost Technology Eflgtheeñn ti ti ii October 1992 Volume XLV No xiii New ACS Dept Consiruction Nears End Head Rules By Andrew Newton Murphys Law building The stateinspections could made thefront page take months The Academic Build- By Bueky Smith ing wasnt occupied until months Students to Staff Writer returning campus after construction due to differences this fall found much bigger Stu in construction and state regulations dent Center than when they left at Once Dr Michael Murphy born the new section is occu the end of Spring Quarter With the the in Indianapolis Indiana raised in pied old section of the Student frame of the structure Center will Boward County near Fort Lauder- completed be renovated This will work on the new section of the Stu thie Florith is the new head of the cause considerable problem for dent Center is its final Computer Science Department entering some campus organizations housed stages in the Student Dr MurphyauendedClearwater Center The Sting and The construction for the Stu will have High School then went on to gradu Log to relocate to the Stu dent Center took last Novem Activities ate Cum Laude from Florith State place dent work-room and the ben and the time to completion of IFC and University In 1968 Dr Murphys Panhellenic Council will the is project estimated to be 15 have to share offices graduate studies were interrupted by months But Barry Binckhead di- the Vietnam War Part of the $6.5 million project rector of Student Activities In 1969 he enter1 the United says includes new furniture for the Stu that technically Beers Construction dent States Arnîy as Private Murphy and Center According Barry is behind their own schedule achieved First Lieutenant served in citing Birckhead some ofthe old furniture trouble with soil rain and will remaiu 1971 in Vietnam as team officer utility- but therest will be doled relocation out the rest ofthe Plant and systems analyst in user-on- campus by Binckhead is Mr hoping to Operations or in ented data processing environment placed surpius into the new section move before on Beers Construction will receive Dr Murphy wasawanded the Bronze Winter and during Quarter says that $4.9 million for construction on the Star for Service Joint Service Com the entire project including renova Student Center making this project mendation Medaj for Achievement tion ofthe old section ofthe Student the first for Beers on the Southern and received letter of commenda Center will be of Tech tion from complete by July campus But this is the second Director of Intelligence 93 Mr Birckhead did cite state Southern Collection Tech contract for the ar inspection as one of the hold-ups chitects the new addition to the Li- In 1973 Dr Murphy started that causelate may occupancy of the brary being their first graduate school at Louisiana State University where he received his Masters in Mathematics He then Bill wenton Here is the Southern of Not Vetoed Yet toachievehisPh.D.in 1976 College Technologys President Stephen PaMng Cheshier in also at Louisiana State University an unprecedented pose The Sting Photographers were told to take Dr started at The Uni only action shots for this issue Dont ask how Dave Murphy us got Jen WaIler By held and how should the best park- him to do it versity of Houston Downtown as Photo by David Conrad got new job ing space be decided assistantpmfessonandwaspromoted Last Spring solution to this to professor of Applied Mathemati IBM Million Here at Southern Tech faculty was submitted Gives problem forappnoval cal Science and staff parking have long been Under this plan employees would Dr Murphyssurnmeniaresint heated issues have Many employees are assigned lots as opposed to at NASA/Johnson Space Center Dollars To not with with the Southern Tech happy current sys assigned spaces This idea would where he works on con- fuzzy logic tem of parking solve theproblem ofreserved spaces Press Release trols systems with the software tech- research and use of teaching quality As it stands now the employ- being taken nology branch Dr Murphy was Nine win- management principals ees have in assigned parking spaces There is only one problem In national awarded $30000 grant by NASA competition for were selected from 204 ners who thevariouslots around campus This few of the employees who have the for the IBM first Total fuzzy logic control Corp Quality national applicants notified system were of is policy assigned spaces not ef assigned places love them These the An author ofmany publications Dr Management awards Southem 23 September by Stephen fective Gary Cha.steen Chief of people have spaces close to of very Murphy still continues his research College Technology and Clark Schwartz senior vice IBM pnesi Southern Techspolice said that the their offices and do not wish to give Atlanta in fuzzy logic autonomous control University were awarded dent current often leads to the their system up prime spaces so that others and million in cash and adaptive systems equipment domino effect if That is one pro- do not have to walk across campus As the new head of the for theirjoint proposal to accelerate Grants continued on Com fessor or lowly student happens to to get to their cars puter Science Department Dr in park reserved space other than These objectors may lose the Murphy plans to work on SGA Meets Once balancing Again his her or own the otherprofessor is battle though President Cheshier the new masters degree without ig then forced to in anothers has said park that the new plan has not yet By Larry Philipp Meetings are open to all students noning the undergraduates He also and so on and so forth into been Never space shot down He said that every- drafted and plenty of seating is available conveys that the Computer Science There is no immediate eternity one has endorsed the plan and it has The meeting was shorter than way Department is good department to correct this since this been that he endorse the The most recent Student Gov the problem approved He Iasttwo but straightforward All fullofwonderfulpeople stresses would require locating all of the plan or another one its ernment Association meet- often student along same his will be SGA officers eight council changes evolutionary not and took employees having an auto mu- line ing place at noonish on and the advisor revolutionary Sep members faculty sical chairs of sorts The tember 29 in Ballroom of the other plan entails color- were present One student council father of two who recently Anothet problem with the cur- coded parking around StudentCenter Fordisoriented new member arrived late and the other campus remarried in of this he August year rent situation parking is the assign- Under this proposal arrivals the Student Center is the missing member was absent for employees enjoys reading novels Stephen King ment of spaces keeping the deci would have parking of building-in-progress-surrounded- medical reasons spaces when not spending time with his sions fair Should the decision be by-mud-and-mortar-and-lumber family SGA continued on made based on seniority or position Parking continued on EDITORIALS The Sting Staff Bill Finnick Editor in Chief Marc Pruitt Features Editor THE LOW STATE OF HIGHER ED Andrew Newton Advertising Manager Tony Perez Photo Editor Because bachelors are so common we create By Robert Samuelson degrees more degrees of dubious worth Does anyone College Press Service graduate Staff believe the MBA explosion has improved management Mackie Bowden Dave Punk Your Name cries from You wont hear much about this from college deans or You should treat the loud now coming David Conrad Jack Silver Could be Here and its and universities thatthelastbastion of excellence university presidents They created this mess are These colleges Anthony Jackson Bucky Smith Instead of enrollments facul in American education is being gutted by statebudget cuts biggestbeneficiaries Large suppoit large LaiTy Philipp Mirhonda Studevant Phony Names education ties More students liberate tenured faculty from and mounting costs Whatever else it is higher graduate Dan Punk Jen Wailer to concentrate on and re isnotabastion ofexcellence Itis shotthrough with waste undergraduate teaching writing Richard lax academic standards and mediocre teaching search the sourceofstatus Huber afotmercollege Faculty Advisor New Hero from the deanwritesknowinglyin anewbookHowpmfessorsPlay Truetheeconomic pressures- theivyleagueto Dr Thomas Wiseman Moosehead and Last two-thirds of the Cat Guarding the Cream Why were Paying More state systems- are intense year nearly in deans and stay within their Getting Less Higher Education Presidents for the and schoolshadtomakemidyearspcndingcutsto The Sting is published bimonthly students faculty staff and deans trustees.. call for more recognition of good teaching with official budgets It is also tnie as university jsidents of the Southern College of Technology The Sting is an pub- and salary ineentives The reality is closer to the arguethatrelieving thosepressuresmerelybyraisingtuitions prizes iication of the Southern College of Technology The ideas expressed make maners worse Students will experlenceofHaivardUniversitysdistinguishedPaleOfltolO and do and cuthng courses will herein are those of the editor or of the individual authors not be and less The university presithnts and deans gist Stephen Jay Gould 1o perfectly honest though lip or staff of Southern xIy more