Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 4-26-1994 Arbiter, April 26 Students of Boise State University Although this file was scanned from the highest-quality microfilm held by Boise State University, it reveals the limitations of the source microfilm. It is possible to perform a text search of much of this material; however, there are sections where the source microfilm was too faint or unreadable to allow for text scanning. For assistance with this collection of student newspapers, please contact Special Collections and Archives at [email protected]. Boise State University Tuesday, April 26, 1994 • Volume 3, Issue 29 • Free ----~--- -----~---- ------~------- BSUponders academic policies Dawn Kramer c~lcul.ation and th~ suggestion of allowing Editor-in-chief first-time students In a class to register first Eve Costello gathered the most commentary. BSUFaculty Senate Chief Copy Editor Lamont Lyons, a BSU professor of teac~er education, said the CPA and regis- Students, administrators and staff met tration proposals are" contradictory to academic proposals last week to discuss nine proposed what we want to do." changes to academic standards which Allene Cooper, a professor in the BSU The following policies Proposed Policies passed the Faculty Senate this year and are English Department, also said the CPA' have been passed by the currently being considered for adoption by and registration proposals would be Faculty Senate. They have 1. Students may enroll President Charles Ruch. "detrimental to students' progress." not yet been approved by in a course a maximum of Charles I?avis, chairman of the Faculty BSU student Mary Hauff said she also President Charles Ruch. th~ee times. Letter grades, Senate, presided over the hearing in which disagreed with the proposed changes to Since they were not WIthdrawals and audits faculty and students gave their opinions CPA. approved in time for pub- count toward the maxi- ?bout the proposed changes, which "So much is riding on your CPA; if you lication in the university mu~. (.Coursesdropped Involve CPA calculation, drop/ add poli- have one bad semester, that's it," she said. catalog, they will not be during the first 10 days of cies and registration procedures. effective until at least fall From the beginning of the meeting, the • Ponders continued 1995 if they are approved • Changes cont. proposals to average all grades for CPA on page 2 by President Ruch. on page 2 Judiciary: Frat must pay for vandalism Hollee Blankenship semesters to the BSU Women's Staff Writer Center . According to Jankowski, Kappa Because the Kappa Sigma fraterni- Sigma must pay the Women's Center ty left its house on Lincoln Avenue in because the graffiti consisted of a spray-painted, broken-windowed deJ:ogatory .comments--dil'ected.~- condition, the ASB~li Judiciary toward women.· •.--. : .'; ''''':':'\,.\. Committee has placed the fraternity • Jankowski said he is apologetic for on probation and ordered it to pay the actions of ~is fraternity. He said he is satisfied with his fraternity's restitution. A complaint was filed by Student sentencing. "We're sorry it all happened. We Residential Life Director Dick didn't want to have to pay any McKinnon when vandalism was money at all, but since we. have to found after the Kappa Sigmas had pay, we're glad it's going to a good vacated the house. cause," Jankowski said. Fraternity members pled not Dave Boerl, assistant director of guilty before the Judiciary. According Student Residential Life, also said he to the Kappa Sigs, they thought being is satisfied with Judiciary's decision. asked by Student Residential Life to "I think the decision is appropri- evacuate the building meant that the Arbiter/Gordon Schafer ate. A number of crude comments building was going to be destroyed. toward women were made. I think They thought they were justified in The Kappa Sigma fraternity garnered probation and fines for graffiti the Judiciary was creative [in their "trashing the place," according to fra- and other vandalism inflicted on their former Lincoln Avenue house. decision]," Boerl said. ternity President Brian Jankowski. Joan Faber, president of the YWCA "We were under the impression it inappropriately. No one had said that office space. There was a great deal of student chapter and Women's Center was being torn down," Jankowski they could do that. We wanted them damage done to the building, he said. Kappa Sigma was placed on pro- volunteer, said the Judiciary's deci- said. [fraternity members] to be account- able for their behavior, and we did bation with Student Residential Life. sion came as a pleasant surprise. McKinnon said he told fraternity "I think it's great. I hope it makes members that there was the likeli- not want them to feel that it was The fraternity must complete 180 appropriate, " McKinnon said. hours of community service, send a these guys think about what they're hood of the building being torn doing and the connection between down, but the edict was never set in McKinnon also said there was still letter to various organizations on the possibility that the university campus as well as their national their actions and the issues that we're stone. trying to address," Faber said. "Property had been destroyed would use the building for storage or chapter and pay $150 for the next six Dean search panel cries 'foul' Faculty want to know why picks for social science boss were nixed and search committee member, said Corky Hansen Association of University Professors the faculty was asked to give reasons News Editor will request that the second visit of one of five candidates for the posi- for not recommending certain candi- The search committee assigned to tion be delayed until the administra- dates, but the administration did not \ recommend the top candidates for a tion provides AAUP and the search explain why they rejected the com- new dean of the College of Social committee with the criteria for its mittee's top three recommendations. Sciences and Public Affairs is rejection of the top three candidates "We're still not getting the analy- requesting an explanation from recommended by the committee; sis of the administration," Blain said. President Charles Ruch and Provost "There's got to be some objective Communication Department Daryl Jones concerning their rejec- criteria here," said Jane Foraker- Chairman Robert Boren said the fac- tion of the committee's top three Thompson, criminal justice professor • Dean picks continued candidates. and AAUP president. on page 3 The BSU chapter of the American Michael Blain, sociology professor ---- -- -. - Tuesday, April 26, '1994 2 Arbiter Ccncer clolrns News life of BSU'driving .•Econproffilled time program director at BSUwith vtqot. humor Martin Rebensteiger arrived at work Monday, Staff Writer April 4, feeling poor. The Martin Rebensteiger Sauer traveled across the globe, visit- next day he was at St. Staff Writer ing Antarctica, Greenland, New Zealand Robert Castleberry, Alphonsus Regional and other foreign places. His hobbies director of BSU's Truck Medical Center, where the The author of a paper called included skiing, golfing, scuba diving, Driving Program, died cancer was diagnosed as "Cointegration Constrained Vector Error ice climbing, rock climbing, sailing and Thursday, April 14 of can- terminal, having already Correction Models as a Means for butterfly collecting. cer. He was 56. spread to his lungs, liver Overcoming Spatial Autocorrelation "He loved life and he lived it," said Castleberry was credit- and bones. He was in the and Spatial Heterogeneity in Space- Economics professor Christine Loucks. ed with establishing BSU's hospital for 10 days and Time Processes" might be expected to be Lichtenstein described Sauer as "very Truck Driving Program in underwent' . three dry and utterly withdrawn into his sub- modest about his travels" and "the kind its current form. He chemotherapy treatments ject matter. of guy who got the most out of every worked in trucking all his before passing away. But Doug Sauer, economics professor day of his life that he could." life as an owner and oper- Hibbard attributed and the author of the paper, was any- Everyone who knew him said he had ator, and first came to BSU Castleberry's continuing thing but dry and withdrawn, according a fabulous sense of humor, and he in 1985 as an instructor work to his strength of to his colleagues. Until his death from enjoyed teaching economics. with the program while will. leukemia on April 12, he was active on "1 think it was his sense of humor still managing his own "He was so tough he many levels. that kept him going right up to the business. He completely didn't acknowledge the "He was able to relate to students in a end," said Lichtenstein. revamped the program to sickness," Hibbard said. way some of us older folks can no ASBSU President CJ Martin said he meet federal standards Castleberry frequently longer," said Economics Department remembers a professor who seemed and was responsible for worked when he was sick, Chairman Peter Lichtenstein. larger than life in front of a classroom of getting it approved by the and donated many hours Sauer taught economics at BSU for students. State Board of Education. in excess of the maximum only two years, but in that time he "If you saw him in the classroom you While running the pro- allowed to the program. became very popular with both faculty thought he could conquer the world," "We couldn't get him to gram he did all the mar- and students. Martin said. keting and sales, and made take a day off," Hibbard Lichtenstein said he received a num- "He was not going to die when he the program completely said.