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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1986-87 The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 4-23-1987 The thI acan, 1987-04-23 The thI acan Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1986-87 Recommended Citation The thI acan, "The thI acan, 1987-04-23" (1987). The Ithacan, 1986-87. 23. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1986-87/23 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1986-87 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Nazi~·dep~rted •.. Breslin speaks ••• Softball stteak ends .•. I _:page-5 page 8 page 16 THE The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Issue 23 · April 23,· 1987 16 pages*Free Forum: Profs dispute role student of evaluations apathy must go Ryan calls system 'monster' BY CHRIS SWINGLE at the end. BY SUSAN FEATHER Teacher evaluations: some students Ryan questions whether students. say they're a waste of time. Yet, "What does an Ithaca College have the basis for such judgments, futures of some Ithaca College facul degree mean?" That was the main and wonders if they realize how ty depend on them. question posed by approximately 46 strongly their ratings affect teachers' "They're a little bit like Frankens students and faculty who met last professional standing. Wednesday to discuss IC's core cur- tein's :r..cnster," said Jake Ryan, Students agree that some people fill -riculum committee. chairman of the politics department. out evaluations with little idea about The purpose of the two-hour open "They were developed to give facul how much impact they have. "I have forum, sponsored by the College ty systematic feedback; what they've no idea how much they weigh them," Democrats and STAND (students and achieved is a ·crucial level of power- said sophomore Marge· Eilertsen. I'm not sure they should be that," he Joe Chilberg, assistant professor of Teachers Against Nuclear Disarma Corporate CorrunWlications, says the ment), was to allow students and explained. Evaluation forms become faculty an informal discussion on the part of a teacher's file, and affect forms don't account for a student's academic policies of the college. The· chances of receiving tenure. mood while writing the evaluation, or newly created faculty core curriculum Evaluation process other influencing factors. "How committee was also represented by The evaluation forms vary among much credibility do you give the evaluations of every student?" he four members. the six schools, but essentially ask "Are we challenging you enough, students at the end of each course to asked. Credibility and in the right ways?" Associate rate the course and teacher. The stu Provost Paul Hamill asked students. dent must judge his/her instructor's According to the Journal of In He believes IC is "on the verge of effectiveness, personal interest, at- structional Development, schools con becoming an even better institution," sider them quite credible; "Systematic and students, faculty and staff work grading, accessibility outside student ratings of instruction have ing together can help make that hap- . classtime, and background knowledge been and still are readily accepted and pen. He said that institutions should i of the course content. Students in endorsed by faculty. In a recent study be looking for motivation·of students dicate. their-class standing, major, (1984), 67 percent of private and 72 and "cenain kinds of experiences ·---··_·,__ ij{ cumulative average, and expected percent of public institutions surveyed grade in the course, but not their always use student evaluations as a students don't appreciate at the time D'IIACAN/ADAM RDSNER but which later on become imponant names. Additional questions cover source of information for evaluating on a life-long basis." UNLIKE IC: Fifteen Cornell University Students were physically remQv course content and order, textbooks, teaching performance.'' Author Mary Student awareness ~ from Day Hall last Monday for protesting the University's investments amount of work, and pace. Students in South Africa. see System page 3 Mike Mendelsohn, a member <'f may also write additional comments the college Democrats, said that t .: sees a distant relationship between a · degree and society. "The picture of Labor urges public to boycott Coors society painted in a student's mind" is not accurate, said Mendelsohn, and more ethics need to be discussed here BY PA TRICK M. GRAHAM representive of the AFL-CIO and the seizures and ignores senority. They the Contras in Nicaragua and is highly in classes. "Students need to be more Representatives from labor unions coordinator of the conference, said said in addition Coors has a history influential with shaping Latin aware of what's going on in the and student groups called on all New the public "must be educated and in of busting unions, violating civil rights American policy. He also speculates world," .and stress less graphs and' Yorkers Monday at a Cornell press formed about Coors' uncaring, and discriminating against women that Coors, through ties to ultra hard facts, according to Mendelsohn. conference to support the two-month unethical policies." He also said the and minorities. conservative organizations, has According to Paul Cole, the AFL swayed the national agenda to agree "Fear is a large factor in people's old statewide boycott of Coors beer. the Company's failure to send a CIO state representative, the boycott with the Right's philosophy. minds ... they deal with fear by exter Initiated by the AFL-CIO and stu representative to the conference show began in 1977 after workers went on They also cited that Coors, along nalizing," said Dave Gregg, a dent labor groups, the boycott emerg ed their irresponsibility and obvious strike, protesting civil rights viola with 40 other companies, paid no in STAND member. He believes if ed in the wake of the Adolph Coors guilt. tions. "They brought scab workers in come tax in 1984 while "their workers students are afraid to voice their opi Company's alleged anti-union, sexist "We requested they attend the con and the striking employees were not who deaned their toilets did." nions in college, it will only be worse and racist attitudes and its financial ference but they failed to do so," he allowed to vote on whether or not they out in the "real world." backing of right-wing organizations said. "Nobody from the company has wanted to keep the Union ... They Gregg thinks the curriculum should such as The Heritage Foundation contacted us since the boycott began." which seeks to eliminate federal stu The labor representatives charged [Coors] broke the union." '' Why should we support dent loans and grants. that the company subjects employees Cole pointed ,out that William a company like this?'' see Forum page 4 Steven Ravnitzky, a Cornell student to polygraph tests, physical search _and Coors empathatically opposed the · -Warzeka Equal Rights Amendment, and challenged the Civil Rights Act some years before, saying it would under Tom Warzeka, President of the mine the rights of whites. Syracuse Labor Council, said Coors' 'Octopus' entangles West Hill The Rocky Mountain News grab for the New York beer market Third in a series cem." And if you live on West Hill, sc!tool, but that is now impossible," reported that William Coors said in a will, if successful, hun those workers of neighborhood articles there's a lot to be concerned about: Peck said. 1984 speech to minority business in beer companies that recognize the rights of its workers. Those companies A clock ticks away on the fireplace the Octopus, fire safety, housing im Although education and the dosing owners in Denver that "blacks lack include Budweiser, Miller, Genessee mantle as someone plays a choppy provement, and crowded schools to of schools is a highly important issue, the intellectual capacity to succeed. and Matts. melody on a not-too-distant piano. A name a few areas. the main topic of conversation with One of the best things they [slave "Why should we suppon a com parakeet chirps while the houses' Peck and the West Hill Civic Peck is the infamous Octopus. , owners] did for you is to drag your pany like this? We should keep our owner lounges back in her chair and Association's goal is not to do things "There are always traffic problems ancestors over here in chains." Pay-off money here in Central New York," looks out her front window. by themselves. "We want to make the and pedestrian problems," Peck said. · Warzeka said. She sees the City of Ithaca below, residents of- West Hill aware of what "People have been trying to fix [the The NAACP and Hispanic groups Coors has invested $25 million in glances over to the towers of Ithaca is going on, and to help them vote ef Route 96 area] for about 50 years.'' had previously endorsed the boycott, to an advertising campaign to change College, and peeks at Cornell's East fectively," she said. "We have gotten When Peck and the association but according to Jerry Farelli, the its image to a "preppy, upscaled im Hill. ' a lot done, and have gotten people a surveyed residents of West Hill, the State College Director of the AFL age," Cole said. "Coors has the "The view is great from West lot more active and aware." majority of the complaints filed sur CIO, Coors "bought them out" when highest advenising budget of all beer Hill," she says. The association was organized in rounded the Octopus-not only the $625 million was pledged to the groups over the next five years.

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