Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Phoenix Student Newspapers 2-18-2015 Phoenix, 2015-02-18 Student Life Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/phoenix Recommended Citation Governors State University Student Life, Phoenix (2015, February 18). http://opus.govst.edu/phoenix/112 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Phoenix by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Governors State University’s THE PHOE NFebruary 18, 2015I • VolumeX 16 • Issue 8 The Legacy You Stand On The original entrance, off Stuenkle road, to Governors State Univeristy, leading to the home of Lou Manilow which still stands today. See the feature article about the history and legacy of GSU’s academics, philosophy and the campus itself. See p. 2. By Kyle H. Horn where administrative offices served as chose their own learning objectives Editor in Chief the first heart of GSU. and, after completing a seven-and- In 1970, Engbretson rented a a-half-week learning “module,” were In 1968, the state of Illinois factory building in Park Forest South, given a certificate of competency hired a president for a university that hired faculty and staff and began that signified their understanding did not exist. Bill Engbretson’s job teaching 730 students. It was a facility of the material. Students were not description called for him to supervise of higher education for students who constrained to studying within an yet-to-be-hired faculty to educate originally attended community college elected major, such as a major in fine students who were not yet enrolled. for their first two years. In the early arts, but designed their degree from A year later, the charter was signed to ‘70s, the main campus was completed their chosen modules. build Governors State University. on land donated by Lou Manilow, the An example of such a degree, Before there was a main son of Nathan Manilow for whom taken from GSU’s 40th anniversary campus, President Engbretson, for GSU’s sculpture park is named. program narrated by Tony Labriola.... Original GSU President Bill whom Engbretson Hall is named, set When Governors State was Continued on p. 3 Engbretson up shop behind an auto-repair store established it gave no grades. Students Alabama justice challenges Supreme Court on same sex marriage By Gregg Greer unconstitutional. validity of the injunction, Alabama and recognition of it in Kentucky, Contributing writer Alabama’s state chief justice, state law still remained in effect in the Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. Same Roy Moore, ordered the state’s case. He said that if the Supreme Court sex marriage is legal in more than 30 After issuing several limited probate judges not to issue licenses for does rule that there is a constitutional states, including Illinois. rulings on same sex marriage, the gay and lesbian weddings. According right to same sex marriage, then states Tyler Mueller, President U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to to a New York Times report, Justice would be bound by that ruling. of the LBGT rights group at GSU hear four cases on the matter this Moore asserted that the order did not In January, the country’s thinks it’s very important to have term, with arguments likely occurring apply to the probate judges. highest court announced that it would the Supreme Court ruling in favor during the last week in April. The Times reported that hear the four cases and said it expected of gay rights. It’s a very large step in The issue reappeared on Judge Callie Granade, who issued to rule on the power of states to ban civil rights for America and not only the nation’s front pages last week, the original order, reiterated her order same sex marriages and to refuse to to have the court judgment rule in when the nation’s top court refused saying that it applied to all judges in recognize such marriages performed favor of same sex couples but also to to uphold a temporary ban on same the state. in other states. Specifically, the court be recognized would help same sex sex marriages in Alabama. A federal Judge Moore said on Fox will review a decision by the U.S. couples throughout America once the district judge had ruled in January that News Sunday that because the Sixth District Court of Appeals that judgment is finalized and accepted. the state’s ban on such marriages was Supreme Court ruled only on the upheld bans on same sex marriage Editorial My thoughts on the Brian Williams situation The Phoenix needs By Sheila Perry honesty. This incident should serve Business Manager as an example to us all to be very YOU! careful of what we do or say, and state Ten years ago, Brian Williams only the facts. Don’t get caught up made a bad judgment call and it came in the crossfire of fabricating the truth The Phoenix Newspaper back to bite him. I think we all have in order to gain popularity or status. made bad decisions that we have Make sure of the facts before your is currently looking for regretted. I look at the word believe, state it and live life with integrity. and it has lie in it, so people tell little white lies to make their story more WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS interesting . One of the biggest lies that to showcase their talents people have told for centuries is the Santa Claus myth, and when children and help bring our university grow up they find out that there is no Santa. Do they crucify their parents? What Brian Williams has the best in higher education done is to break the code of ethics in which news was established. Tell the news coverage and true and report the news so that people have a reliable source, in which they can count on. Brian Williams’ has entertainment! lost the confidence of many and has damaged his career, that took him For more information many years to achieve, but only one mistake to destroy. contact The news as we know it is based on adhering to moral and ethical News anchor Brian WIlliams, photo principles, and most importantly courtesy of Wikimedia.com [email protected] PHOTHE E N I X The PHOENIX is published twelve times annually. We welcome articles, suggestions, photos, commentary, cartoons, and letters to the editor on issues that concern you or the greater GSU population. We reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity, legality, and interest to our GSU readership. All submissions must be credited, and include the submittors full name, graduate status, and field of study. Address Correspondence to: Phoenix Newspaper, Governors State University, 1 University Parkway Room E2543, University Park, IL 60466 Faculty Advisor: Dr. Deborah James Editor-in-Chief: Kyle. H. Horn Associate Editor: Brian C. Bock Online Editor: Brenda Torres Staff Writer: Bob Meyers Business Manager: Sheila Perry Editorials and Advertisement: [email protected] (or) 1(708) 534 - 4517 Advertising Information: 708-534-3068 Feature Do you know your campus? dwindling student enrollment unusual architectural role. Instead began to increase. Despite the larger of a foundation, steel and concrete student body, the decade also brought support columns were driven into the budget cuts. GSU’s music and theater ground and the buildings were hung departments declined and eventually from them. disappeared. Some areas of the campus As time went on, more were forgotten, such as the no-longer- changes occurred. The conversation used outdoor stage between Modular pit in E lounge was covered to create a Two and the lake. The university’s larger lounge area. Walking to the far greenhouse located between E and F end of the lounge reveals that the floor buildings eventually became storage is hollow compared to the concrete and finally was removed. All that floor in the middle. The multi-media remains is a raised brick platform. dome, a planetarium-like room filled As it evolved to a more with speakers and projectors that traditional school, the campus went could deliver surround video and through some other major changes. sound was removed and the Hall of One of the biggest was the introduction Honors was erected. of walls. Originally, GSU was an open By the 2000s, the campus took Original guiding concepts and philosphies of Governors State University, campus with walls only in the media on many of the aspects and details that Continued from p. 1 instructor evaluations and finally a department to enclose darkrooms make it the GSU that is so familiar to notation signifying pass or fail. and studios. Evidence of this is visible its community. Most recently, GSU ....is one in “Urban Planning and In 1976, Leo Goodman- at every supporting column where, opened the new F building after Ethnic Studies through the programs Malamuth became GSU’s second if viewed straight on, one can see a renovation. With that, the campus that of Invention and Creativity as well as president. He instituted grades, slight gap between the drywall and started as an idea, became Governors Language and the Human Condition,” transcripts, a provost, and credibility the concrete column since the walls State University as it is today. which came in a set of three, five- among other institutions of higher were not built at the same time as the inch binders with statements education. original supports. and verification of competencies, During the ‘80s, the once- Those columns also play an Tony Labriola Labriola: You probably inferred that out to be Communications—at that By Brenda Torres I “bounced around” a bit, early in my time—and I have never regretted Online Editor career.