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et al.: The University THE UNIVERSITY News of campus programs and events Thinking About Tomorrow History shows us that Syracusans have often attempted to anti cipate the University's future. The 1930 Onondagan, for ex ample, contains a whimsical rendering of the Quad in the year 2030, predicting the place ment of a bubble-topped arena on the site of Archbold Stadium. Believe it or not. Rarely, though, has the University attempted to con template its future with broad institutional scope. Nearly three years ago, Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers decided to do just that, appointing the Chancellor's Panel on the Future. The 13- member faculty group was not to concern itself with far-flung visions of the 21st century, how According to the Chancellor's Panel on the Future, the Computer Applications and Software ever; it was asked to make Engineering Center (above), now three years old, suggests a course for the future. Th e creation of recommendations for a future similar research centers is one of many ideas the panel recommended in its report last fall. that is very near. Last semester, the panel's ploring new ideas"; increased finding their way into action. of materials on adult education, report came in. The panel, cooperation between the facul The Office of Undergraduate the world's preeminent reposi chaired by Richard D. ty and administration through Studies, for example, is devel tory of English-language mater Schwartz, professor of law and "university councils"; and new oping new, University-wide pro ials in that field . The library social science, conducted an initiatives in neighborhood grams for freshmen (for more contains 650 linear feet of assessment of the University of planning that would eventually on that, see page 36), and manuscripts generated over the today and presented suggestions serve as a national model. various schools and colleges are past 50 years. It also houses one for immediate courses of action. Generally, the panel said identifying possible new faculty of the country's largest collec The majority of the recom Syracuse must "demonstrate a positions to be permanently en tions of books, audiotapes, mendations are academically higher level of concern for its dowed. For Syracuse Universi videotapes, and photographs on oriented and carry a practical students, their welfare and ty, the future is now. adult education. bent. They include future." It suggested that According to Roger Hiemstra, • establishing small, inten through intellectually oriented Needles in a professor of adult education sive seminars for first-year seminars and basic liberal arts Haystack of Data and project director, the mater students; course requirements, the ials in the archive suffer from • creating new multidis University should "emphasize The staff of the Kellogg Proj ''very gross cataloging. '' ciplinary research centers; the spirit of free thought to ect also has the future in mind. Researchers attempting to use • endowing 20 senior faculty balance the prominence and at The project's implications for them must possess patience and chair$; traction of the professional the future of scholarly research persistence. • achieving a $250-million schools ... and provide a sound are profound. The immediate goal of the endowment by 1997; and liberal arts education for all The Kellogg Project has been Kellogg Project is to transfer • strengthening the links be undergraduates.'' funded by a four-year, most of those materials to op tween professional programs "I am confident that as a $3,716,400 grant from the W.K. tical disks. A relatively new and liberal arts learning. result of the panel's work," Kellogg Foundation of Battle medium, optical disks lie Some of the panel's ideas Chancellor Eggers said, "the Creek, Michigan. It is a vast somewhere between computer were more speculative. It sug University will be demonstrably new experiment in how libraries floppy disks and audio compact gested, for example, the devel better, and that we can now store information and then disks. They allow for the digital opment of at least two residen clearly define and work together make it available for use. storage of pictures- in this case, tial colleges, "which would toward a new threshold of ex The project resides in the pictures of the pages of books, comprise living-learning spaces cellence. " School of Education and per manuscripts, programs, flyers, with regular programs for ex- The panel's ideas are already tains specifically to its collection conference notes, and other 4 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Published by SURFACE, 1987 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 3, Iss. 1 [1987], Art. 3 materials held in the adult Who Makes the Rules? rehash the campus judicial pro violations, who's going to pros education library. cess but to investigate the cir ecute them. The advantages of transfer One out of five college-aged cumstances that lead to such in "We are trying, through an ring page images to a digital for women is the victim of forced cidents. By interviewing both exchange of views, to come to mat are numerous. An obvious sex. That is a sobering statistic, the female student and, sepa an understanding about what one is space; each optical disk one that the NBC News program rately, a small group of ran kinds of behavior are going to is equivalent to roughly 100,000 1986 investigated in a short seg domly chosen students who be tolerated." pages, and new technologies ment aired last fall. commented on the case, cor The moral of the story, accor may increase that tenfold. Regrettably, the phenomenon respondent Maria Shriver ding to one female student, is, Another advantage is perma is widespread, affecting many painted a picture of ethical " Women, when you say no, nence; digital information campuses. When 1986's pro confusion. mean no. And guys, if you hear doesn't tear or yellow at the ducers sought locations for Students indicated that the a no, take it as a no." corners. research, they included SU-not guidelines for appropriate If the program served its pur But the most important ad because the University is more behavior in dating had become pose, students throughout the vantage is access. Hiemstra or less affected than other fuzzy. Each tried to identify the country gained a broader under hopes to couple the optical schools but because of a par point at which aggressive sexual standing of their own actions. storage medium with high ticular incident of alleged sexual behavior becomes inexcusable At SU, two new groups have powered computer search misconduct that garnered exten but demonstrated widely diver arisen. Men Stopping Rape, of capabilities, similar to but more sive press coverage late last gent attitudes about a woman's which Wright is a co-founder, powerful than those associated summer. right to say no. is an awareness-raising group. with word processing. Using A female sophomore alleged "I don't think students real The Buddy System is an escort that system, a researcher sitting that junior Tom Watson accom ly know what date rape is," said system devised by two resident at a special optical-disk terminal panied her from a night spot to student Richard Wright. advisors. could specify search categories, her dormitory room one eve "One of the things that is receive an index of related ning last February and forced confusing about the whole mat The War Over materials on his or her screen, her to have sex. Last summer, ter is that apparently young peo 'Star Wars' choose an item to review, and a city court failed to indict Wat ple now feel that the totally immediately see it on the screen. son on charges of rape, but unstructured life is not quite Date rape wasn't the only topic There are other possibilities, Watson later pleaded guilty to satisfactory to them, and so of national scope on the minds slightly more distant. Software a misdemeanor charge of sexual they like to have more rules," of the University community may soon be available, for ex misconduct and was placed on the Chancellor told 1986. "But during the fall . The campus, ample, to "read the words" on probation. it isn't clear who's going to for and faculty members particular pages while their visual image is In a separate University hear mulate those rules, what those ly, were also giving thought to also being recorded; the resulting ing, at which both Watson and rules will be, and, if there are the federal government's computer text files would great the woman had their first op ly enhance the "search" func portunity to tell their stories, tion. And the Kellogg Project Watson was found not guilty of staff members are considering University infractions. The various telecommunication op judicial board's finding, seem tions that would make the col ingly contradicting the court's lection available, over phone ruling, caused a stir. Various in lines, to other locations. dividuals and groups charged The immediate result of the that the University, as an in Kellogg Project, according to stitution, had by inference con Hiemstra, will be better use of doned sexual misconduct. the adult education collection at Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers Syracuse. "The library has had conducted a separate review of very limited access," he says. the case. He determined that the "We're going to try to increase hearing board's strict reading of the number of users and do that University regulations was fair in a number of ways." and accurate, but he sup But, he warns, "We not only plemented the board's review have to make people more with a broader study of moral familiar with the library. We standards. also have to convince people to Chancellor Eggers found that use the very advanced Watson's behavior was "unac technology.'' ceptable in terms of the stan The long-range implications dards that we expect of students are broader.

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