Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1981-1982 Eastern Progress 3-25-1982 Eastern Progress - 25 Mar 1982 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1981-82 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 25 Mar 1982" (1982). Eastern Progress 1981-1982. Paper 25. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1981-82/25 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1981-1982 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 60/No. 28 Laboratory Publication of the Department of Mass Communications Thursday, March 25, 1982 Richmond, Ky. 40478 12 paces City Bill requests competency status By Stephanie Geromes Barr said, We're already ahead By Mark Campbell News editor of the game." Staff writer All Kentucky students in the field The National Teachers' (Examina- In legislative news concerning\he of education will be required to pass tion INTF.I now given U) students on city of Richmond there are now two a competency exam and serve a one- this campus their senior year, may bills posted in the House Committee year internship upon graduation, if be adopted as the competency test on Cities to raise Richmond from the amended bill that passed in last mentioned in the bill, according to third class city status to second ci- Monday's state Senate session is Barr ty status. also approved by the House. The bills, House Bill 589. in- The original bill was to allow The difference would be that as a troduced by Rep. Harry Moberly D- teachers to request decertification in competency test, the NTK would be Richmond on Feb. 23. and Senate areas of instruction that they felt used as a screening process with cer- Bill 400. introduced by Sen. Robert unqualified to teach. tain scores as a cut-off point. The Martin D-Richmond on March 8. are The amendment, however, spon- test is currently used at this univer- exact duplicates and were introduc- sored by Sen. Kd Ford D-Cynthiana sity only to evaluate the quality of ed because Martin didn't know that and approved by the Senate (educa- the education received here and the Moberly had already introduced tion Committee, adds the provision strengths and weaknesses of the such a bill'. for the competency testing and in- program. Martin's bill has passed the ternship requirement for teacher Barr said that putting more em- Senate and has caught up with certification for all students phasis on the NTE may make Moberly s bill in the House. They graduating after Jan. 1. 1983. students consider it more seriously are expected to die in the Commit- Dr. Dixon Barr. Dean of the Col- and the internship would probably tee on Cities there. lege of (education, said. "I support put more pressure on them after The bill would give Richmond "the bill...enthusiastically'.'' graduation. The courses and re- more prestige. "The City Commis- He said it was part of a "tplal ef- quirements for graduation, sion (in Richmond) had already fort to raise the quality of leaching" however, will not be affected by the voted not to become a second class and the people entering the teaching bill. city," said Moberly. "Senate BUI field. The first year of teaching in the 400 is going to meet the same fate Already the university, in com- stale will serve as the internship for as my bill. It's going to die in the graduates provided they pass their House committee right next to my pliance with a state regulation, has bill." raised the required grade point exit test or competency exam, accor- r ding to Dr. Ernest White, chairman Richmond Mayor Bill Strong said average from a 2.25 to a 2.5 for stu- dent teaching. of Administration. Counseling and the reason why the commission Educational Studies. voted the proposal down is basical- Barr said that in the past with the ly because it would cost the city teacher shortage, the universities Barr agrees with other teachers more to run as a second class city. and the state could not afford to who oppose a strict "paper and pen Strong said it would have been turn people away. Now he contends cil" test to assess competency in the more prestigous for Richmond to be that raising the standards for classroom. a second class "city. teacher certification will "attract better people.'' But White said that the com- The major requirement for a city petency lest, as it stands now in the to achieve second class status is for The university students will not bill, only provides for ^.pencil and the population to be over 20,000. notice any difference in the program paper test. Richmond's population is 24.000 here because of the bill, according to The inlership according to the bill which does not include the student Barr. He explained that this univer- population. sity has a system for evaluating and will allow a team of three people within the public school system to However. Strong added, that the testing students from the time they enter the education program as evaluate the performance of a new city's status "could be considered at teacher in the classroom for one freshmen until graduation. a later date." year, according to White. "I think that second class city This is to allow the students and status is something we ought to the school to strengthen their However. White said that obser- have." said Martin. "We've grown, weaknesses as they progress in the vations and testing will cost money its's a big step forward." Back-breaking work program. Therefore, a competency and ,no funding has been ap- propriated for the bill. ■ He added."The Chamber of Com- It's evident from the armful of books Doraey (food from Owenaboro carried, that he hadn't made plans to test will not be much different from merce should have been jumping up what students are already required "If anything defeats it. it will pro- travel to Florida for spring break. Returning to campus with him is Faith Cady from Ixniisville. who also spent bably be that." he said. and down demanding second classs spring break at home.(Photo by Steve Waltera), to take. city status" r Periscope Anorexia For five days a week, three minutes per day. university science instructor Dr. Duance Harding steps in front of Channel 18s Depressed, tempermental, ill typify anorexia victims cameras to explain and forecast the weather for the day. To see how Harding became a weatherman and what is involved in his By Beth Wilson ic victims have very low self-esteem. "I work with the students to get she said. work see Features editor Tim Eaton's story on Page 5. Arts editor "They have an overpowering feeling them to learn how to be mot Walker said that many anorexics Young, bright, attractive Donna of 'I'm not okay. I don't like me." positive about themselves ■ try to •vho seek treatment have read about apparently had everything going for And many times they've gotten teach them to be assert:'.e." Walker the disease in magazines or have her. Her college career was just that perception from their parents." said. taken psychology courses and beginning- u new place to live, new she said. According to Walker many realize it's a psychological problem. friends, a new life. Although anorexia nervosa is a anorexics feel they don't have con- "They often see themselves in CD&P use grows For Donna, however, that new life psychological problem, the effects trol over any other area of their lives magazine articles and it may scare was not as fun and exciting aa it are physical. so they control their eating. them," she said. should have been. Donna, a victim "When a person begins to starve According to Gilchrist. once an of anorexia nervosa. was depressed, himself and they don't provide their Walker said the nutritionist anorexic makes a comeback, there from undergrads tempermental and sick much of the bodies with enough nutrients to feel teaches the students what food does aren't any longlasting effects that time. good, the disease can become a life- and that not everything the in- she knows of. dividual eats will make them fat. It also includes Morehead State According to Dr. Wendy threatening problem," said Walker. Walker said. "As long as a person By Don Lowe Some anorexics require stays in counseling, the prognosis Staff writer University. Kentucky State Univer- Gilchrist. assistant director of Stu- Although the disease is prevalent dent Health Services, these symp- hospitalization. according to that they can be helped is good. The Use of the university's Career sity and the University of among young females. Dr. Mohan- tons are typical of anorexia nervosa. nad Shafii said in a November 1980 Gilchrist. "It depends on how much people I know who have remained Development and Placement Center Kentucky. progress they make as an outpa- Secondly, there is the Colonel a psychological disorder causing a article of Louisville Today, that he in counseling have been helped and by undergraduate students increas- tient. If they are hospitalized it's a that's consistant with the ed 71 percent from July through Connection, a computer based severe weight loss in many young has seen anorexics ranging in age people today. reward/punishment type of thing." literature." December of 1980 to July through match-up system that includes from four to 23.