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"Let one hundred flowers blossom; let one hundred schools of thought contend." TheStudent IDE- Navy Contract P The Reaqan Years P.v6 Dismas Option P.8 Seoul Mocs P.l4y Volume 83/Issue 4 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga September 23, 1988 Appeals Spark Probe of Education Professor By Khaled Mattawa courses over the past five years. Echo Editor These students have made more favorable than unfavorable comments, he A grade appeal by 12 students in the said. educational psychology program sparked Fowler has always received among the a four-month controversy resulting in an highest student evaluations in the investigation of a university faculty department, Stinnett said. However, he member. added, based on the information he has, Dr. Roy Stinnett, dean of the he feels the complaints warrant further school of education at UTC, said he review. is conducting an informal investigation of Stinnett said he will forward his findings Dr. Rodney Fowler's "instructional to Provost Sandra Packard and she will behavior, "but would not disclose have to decide whether a format the allegations made by the students. investigation should be conducted. Fowler, a full professor, teaches Students who filed the appeal said they in the department of educational had discussed the matter with Packard psychology and special education. and informed her of the complaints they The Echo attempted to interview made against Fowler. Fowler about the allegations, but he Packard did not reply to The Echo's declined to comment. attempts to reach her Tuesday, and on Stinnett said, "The allegations Wednesday she said she could not are of a sufficient number for me to comment on the matter because she was deal with, but I don't think it's observing a religious holiday. appropriate to tell you the nature of The controversy started in May, at the Fielding Freed these allegations." He said he has talked UTC health services held Its 15th and largest ever health fair this week,Dr . David Legg checks to students who have taken Fowler's See Fowler on p. 5 the heart rate of a student. Griscom On The Gipper: He's In Control Tom Griscom, former White House When he arrived in Washington last years. Even Griscom, in delivering the communication chief and holder of UTC's week to testify before a Congressional address at UTC's SGA installation George R. West Jr. Chair of Excellence panel on his nomination by President ceremony recently, poked fun at the in Public Affairs, was back in national Reagan to the Communications Satellite president. Referring to his "youthful news last week. Corp., Griscom was bombarded with indiscretions," and an Echo article which A recently released book claims that questions about the matter. noted that he, as Echo editor in the early Griscom and James Cannon, a long-time "And when I returned the next day (to 1970s, mentioned the Vietnem War only associate of former White House chief of Frist Hall], I had about 20 messages to call once and that he had never taken an staff Howard Baker, interviewed White people about this," he said. editorial position on the issue, Griscom House aides who recommended that the The aides who recommended said: " Sometimes, those reminders can 25th Amendment be invoked. The consideration of the 25th Amendment be slightly painful..." amendment provides for the removal of cited Reagan's detachment as the reason And he qulpped:"Now, I will admit that the president if the vice president and a for their suggestion, the book contends. I did not remember everything that was majority of the cabinet members declare Reagan, Baker and Cannon have so far mentioned in the [Echo] article but you him unable to discharge the powers and dismissed the idea that the suggestion was must remember I worked for an duties of his office. Baker requested the under active consideration. interviews after he replaced Donald T. Reagan's detachment, however, has Fielding FrMd/Sludenl Echo Regan in February of 1987. been a source of humor for the last eight Continued on p. 2 Tom Griscom 2 Student Echo/September* 23, 1988 Griscom on Reagan Continued from front page administration in which memory lapse their way out. At the same time there was his almost daily gaffes? It seems performance at the Moscow State was not uncommon." some concern about the way they were that the White House has to issue a University speech. The speech was In an interview with Echo editors handling a speech which the president clarification immediately after every good, but when the president started Khaled Mattawa and Davan Maharaj, was about to give in a few days. They had presidential press conference and answering students' questions, he Griscom spoke about the 25th announced the speech and were there Is a record of misspeaklngs. didn't sound as good. For example Amendment issue and defended wondering what to tell the press. My Griscom: Everybody misspeaks. The he could not answer a question on President Reagan's often criticized feeling was that they should have done question is really what is the model for the the American Indians... management style. The following is the other way around. You don't tell the perfect president? Is he a President Carter Griscom: Maybe that's our fault because excerpted from the interview: press you have something to say when who is stiff with detail or someone like we didn't prepare him for that question. Echo: Is It true that Invoking the you don't know what you're going to say. President Reagan who has a strong But that's the case in most speeches, you 25th Amendment was actively Echo: Was it incompetence or did central core and people around him to get never know what the audience is going considered? they have some other motive.... the job done. to ask. Griscom: That is not so. In fact, when Griscom: I am not saying that anybody Echo: What is President's Reagan the recent controversy arose, I had to was incompetent. You have to take into daily routine like? Echo: Be serious, what would search back in my memory to remember consideration the general atmosphere of Griscom: He arrives at the office a few Ronald Reagan be without a tele- the occasion in which it was mentioned. the place, how it was embattled, and minutes before nine and stays there till prompter? I did not interview any of the aides who largely some members of staff were about four thirty. He also has work sent Griscom: The same man he was before recommended this. Now, Jim (Canon] without any direction. Some of these up to him around seven o'clock. he was California governor or president. did. Senator Baker saw the president and people were my friends, and remain my Echo: Does he take regular naps as People don't know that Reagan wrote his said, "That is not the president I met," friends. We just had different opinions some previous White House staffers own speeches and scripted his own radio and that suggestion was immediately about how the issues should be handled. say? program. I've worked with him and I can struck down. I've worked with Senator Echo: How much did President Griscom: No. Throughout the time I tell you he is also an excellent editor. He Baker long enough to respect his Reagan's detachment contribute to was there, I did not see take any naps. can tell you what he wants included or judgement and opinion. this? You see, this is what is called that if something doesn't sound right, he Echo: Then why would these aides Griscom: Nothing. The president was Washingtonism. There are people up in picks it out immediately. It ail goes back make such a recommendation? alert and ready to v'ork when Senator Washington write these things without to what I was saying about getting the Griscom: You have to realize that the Baker saw him. I think he does a any basis of facts. accurate impression of Ronald Reagan, entire place was embattled, and it was in remarkable job for a man his age. Echo: Something the press the man. transition. A lot of these people were on Echo: The how do you account for mentioned was the president's The Great Communicator or What? Perhaps the worst "attacks" on elements (in Iran]..." (Israeli President Ronald Reagan have come counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir to from his own "buddies"-disgruntled staffGeorg e Bush, 7/24/86) and cabinet members have been eager to bash the old Gipper in print as soon as Reagan: "By the time I got out of the they leave office. Their behind-the-scenesArm y Air Corps, all I wanted to exposes of Reagan gaffes, blunders, do. was to rest up awhile, make love memory lapses, and outright stupidity to my wife, and come up refreshed to a have gotten more media exposure in thebette r job in an ideal world. As it came last twelve months than anything the out, I was disappointed in all these Gipper has actually done in the same timepostwa r ambitions." (Where's the Rest of period. Me?, his 1965 autobiography) Never a paper to leave "well enough" Reality: Reagan spent his war years alone, the Echo here reproduces for its acting in training/propaganda films. He readership a compendium of Reagan's slept in his own bed, presumably with hi^ greatest hits: then-wife. Jane Wyman; we suppose only Rear n would know whether he was Reagan: "Nineteen brave men died satisfied with her sexual favors after the during the Grenada rescue, serving their war.