"'LetEach Becone Aware" Founded 1957, Incorporated 1976 Volume XXXIX, Number 21 Monday, November 13, 1995 : First Copy lFree- University Senate Passes (quality of Teaching Propos1a, _w BY ENEILRYAN DE LA PENA departmental and university-wide for commuting students. order to gain student support. "I think [students] should at Statesman Editor training program. "There was a lot of least be able to understand their The University Senate . "In general, [the proposal] discussion," Mackin said, teachers, but-I think they should passed a. proposal at last 3. All teachers,- in will help the.students,-" said referring to the University Senate be strict on [enacting the Monday's'meeting that will undergraduate' course-both' Nicole Rosner, :Polity vice voting on the proposals, -last proposals]," said Natalie Jacobs, ultimately improve the quality of faculty and TA's-must speak, president and member of the Monday. "There were still a lot a sophomore. "A teacher can still teaching at Stony Brook, English at a level appropriate to Undergraduate Council, of people disagreeing with it.- be pretty, good at handling the according to James Mackin, classroom instruction or other referring to the TA's who do not The vote came up 37 to 5 in favor accent, but they must get their professor and' chair of the teaching duties. fluently speak English. "I don't of adopting them." Since the point across." Undergraduate Council. think it's fair that students go into proposals have been passed in the Sophia Campbell, a junior, Mackin, along 'with 4.' When possible, faculty classes while they can't Senate, they are now currently in -strongly agreed with the members of the Ad Hoc should be given credit for understand the TA." effect, said Mackin. proposal, and said, "It's good Committee for Education of the teaching USB 101, and The proposals were Many students agree with. because there are a lot of teachers University- Senate and 'the professionals. who teach it be presented last spring to the the proposals, especially the part that you can't really understand Graduate Council presented the compensated in 'appropriate University Senate by the Ad regarding the requirement of what they're saying." As a result, proposal to the University Senate, ways. This course should be HOC Committee and were nearly English fluency for all instructors she said that "It was hard for me who passed it with a 37-5 vote. taught only by faculty and staff defeated in totality. It was whose native language is not to really get into the classroom." The proposal read as who wish to do so, and only by subsequently revised with the English. These instructors, "I think. [the proposal's] follows: teachers who are effective in that "Undergraduate' Council's including TA's, must pass the good because some of those capacity. modifications " Mackin said. "Speak Test" before they are [TA's] should not teach a big 1. All large lower-division Rosner added that "It was allowed to teach., lecture class,"' said Richard courses, especially freshman 5. The University should! criticized last semester mainly by Many students said they Cheung, a sophomore. courses,. .. should be taught by expand and coordinate the use of faculty and it was rewritten and commonly fall asleep or totally -John Cicale, a graduate our most effective teachers in educational technology in reorganized." lose interest in a course because student, said "If anything, it could those courses. academic courses on campus. Earlier this semester, the of professors who have foreign only end up being helpful to proposals were presented to the accents and are not able to students because to effectively 2. The university should 6. Faculty or professional Polity Senate '-by Mackin, convey their points across due to communicate, you have to be require that all graduate Teaching staff mentors should be appointed Professor Norman. Goodman and their limited- proficiency in Assistants complete a for each residential college, and Professor Egon Neuberger, in English. Please See PROPOSAL, Page 3 Eileen Stevens:; Mother to America 0 1 BY BROOKE DONATONE To date, at least 62 students have physical abuse; it's psychological Statesman Editor -INDEX died in hazing, since Chuck. M.ost abuse as well. Not being able to talk "Do you want to see my office?" recently, there was a New York Tech to anyone outside of the fraternity or NEWS (pages 1-5) Eileen Stevens asked. student from, Central. Islip, Long sorority for weeks on end and I walked into the room filled with Island who was forced to jump undergoing sleep depravation is also wall to wall plaques and awards for through a ring of fire as part of part of hazing. Senate .her achievements on passing the anti- initiation. I don't know if he got into "There are a lot of 'Drink 'til you -Page 3 Drop' parties and some people don't Kristallnacht hazing bill. I'made a feeble attempt - Page 3 not to make- it obvious that my jaw wake up," said Stevens. Not enough OUR PITIFUL CAMPUS dropped at least two inches. She non- education on alcohol consumption and Take:a Look! chalantly pointed to the framed front- its effects are discussed. Ninety-eight -Page 5 page of the Daily News, of which she percent of hazing incidents are alcohol -was on the cover, and offhandedly related, she said. EDITORIAL (page 6-7) said, "I was Woman of the Year in In 1979 only three states had anti- EDITORIAL: 1983." ' hazing laws-. It was always the Preston, Voting Eileen Stevens may be quiet in her attitude that "boys will be boys" and -Page 6 own home about her "accidents happened". But it became accomplishments, but not when she apparent that these hazing incidents LETTERS lectures. weren't accidents and they could be The Saga Continues... .-'Page 7 In 1978, her son, Chuck, died at prevented. Stevens knew that I Alfred University because of alcohol legislative actions were needed. FEATURES (pages 8-12) poisoning, due to hazing. He was "I felt that if there was a specific locked in the trunk of a car so he could law, it might, in a proactive way, deter THE FINAL GRADE drink a pint of bourbon, a fifth oof these kinds of things," Stevens said. Sister Machine Gun wine, and a six pack of beer. "Each [of the three states] had a law -Page 8 The idea was that he would vomit because of a tragedy and, usually after -the next morning! and everything the fact, people would be aroused and Blood Wedding would be fine. But Chuck never woke give it attention. But what was very- -Page 10 up. It wasn't his experience with troubling to me was that these drinking'that killed him, it was his incidents involving hazing were SPORTS -(pages 13-16) lack of it. treated as accidents and isolated Other pledges wound up in Eileen Stevens incidents." But these incidents Football Crushes UMass-Lowell critical condition that-night from a happened more often then people fraternity party. However, neither the the fraternity, but he did make it into thought. - Back Cover fraternity nor the university claimed the Stony Brook Burn Center. Stevens began to lobby as a one SCARLET & GREY responsibility. 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