VIP's Lay Bricks for New Science Complex

University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1980s) Student Newspapers 10-29-1987 Current, October 29, 1987 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current1980s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, October 29, 1987" (1987). Current (1980s). 232. http://irl.umsl.edu/current1980s/232 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1980s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. .., October 29, 1987 University of Missouri-St. Louis Issue 587 ;Hungate Cegelka Caught , -. VIP's Lay Bricks For .Speaks On In Circulllstances by Kevin Kleine Nursing home staff and adminis -I :U.S. Courts New Science Complex managing editor trators chose patients for the study, : by Kevin Lacostelo " ' 1 but the director denied that fact in · editor , ' .." After being convicted of provid court. Two charge nurses and two ing false information on medicare "I believe that the legislature's claim forms, Walter J. Cegelka still receptionists back Cegelka's story. · responsibility is heavily one of wonders about the circumstances " No one from the previous nurs seeking to implement the will of the surrounding his case. ing home was allowed to testify," majority. When you're on the bench, Cegelka was sentenced to six Cegelka said. "It appears to me that one of your more serious responsi months in jail and a $25,000 fine for the expenses of Medicare are get bilities is to see that the right's of what he feels is a confusion of red ting out of hand and they are looking the minority are not trampled," tape. for scapegoats." · Judge William Hungate remarked · to the crowd of students assembled , " · at last 'Wednesday's Political Psychological evaluatIOns were Cegefka has done an immense · Science Academy meeting. "The given to patients of the Villa Capri amount of work with the mentally rich and popular don't need many Manor NurSing Home in Maryland retarded and in 1977 was appointed friends, they have enough of them Heights by Cegelka in which per to the President's Commitee on already." mission'was not received from the Mental Retardation and has tes Judge Hungate was the guest appropriate doctors. In his previous tified before the U.S. House and speaker at the Academy's October experiences, administrators of the Senate Commitees on legislation meeting, which was held at the nursing homes had gotten the per . , home of Professor Lance LeLoup, mission for Cegelka. effecting the handicapped. He has a Chairman of the Political Science doctorate in Special Education Department. Approximately 40 from Syracuse UniverSity and has students, staff and faculty had the "1 was assured by the director of been a teacher to the mentally han · opportunity to hear the Judge the nursing home that she would get dicapped. Cegelka has been on the · expound his views and experiences the doctors' permission," Cegelka UM- St . Louis staff since 1969 and is · with the federal judiiary. said. "After the evaluations I want currently an associate proffessor in "I like to think that the House of ed to sit down with them and listen the Behavioral Studies Representatives is the most rep to their thoughts on the patients and department. develop a treatment program. It's . ') resentative body you have," Hungate continued. "That's the the same kind of thing we do for the "The federal investigators didn't limit of democracy, they're all handicapped in the schools. even tell me that I was being inves elected, you can't be appointed to tigated until- the end of the inter the House, nobody goes into the view," Cegelka said. "Within five House that doesn't face the voters, minutes of their phone calL there it's very representative." Hungate At the time he was administering was a knock on my door and two men served as a representative for five the tests, Cegelka didn't know that were ' there. They whipped out terms before his appointment to the nursing home was having dif badges and read me my rights. At no the bench. ficulty with the state of Missouri. time was I ever told that I was being "The independence that we Since Cegelka's tests, the Villa investigated", Cegelka said. balance on the other side is where Capri Manor Nursing home has been BRICK LAYER~: Gov. John D. Ashcroft lays ~ brick for the new science complex in a ceremony on the judiciary comes in--with the October 21 while C. Peter McGrath, UM PreSident, watches. The $19.8 million, five-story complex is closed due to deficiencies in patient Cegelka's attorney, Missouri Sen. lifetime appointment. Part of the scheduled to be available for student use by Fall 1989. Nearly 150 people placed symbolic bricks near care and other areas. John D. Schneider.D-Florissant. price of that independence is to hold one of the walls of the site including state legislators as well as UM-St. Louis faculty, staff and "I was there out of my concern for will appeal the ruling. The Univer: out for unpopular causes, to protect students. the quality of the care and the sity of Missouri has assigned the rights of minorities. the people quality of life of the patients," Cegelka to administrative duties Cegelka said. ; while the case is going on. See HUNGATE Page 3 Inn~r- City Chambers Joins UMSL Teachers by Carolyn Kruczynskl reporter Needed cPS- About 82 percent of today's Anthony Chambers, Assistant ,:ducation majors want to begin Dean for Student Services at the their teaching careers in suburban University of Florida, has been or rural schools, the American . named the new Assistant to the Association of Colleges for Teacher Vice Chancellor for Student Education (AACTE) found in a sur Affairs at UM-St. Louis. vey released last week. Originally from Chicago, The education majors'wishes, the Chambers attended Illinois State group concluded, may mean large University where he earned his urban schools with minority student bachelor's and master's degrees. bodies are going to have a tough He also worked there as Assis time attracting teacbers to work tant Dean for Student Activities there. before going to the University of Typically, said AACTE President Florida. There he directed William Gardner, prospective mino.rity affairs and developed teachers are white women from sub and directed the University urban backgrounds. Only 5 percent Leadership Program. Tltis of the education majors in college ultimately resulted in the today are black; 3 percent are LEARN Program (Leadership Anthony Chambers Hispanic. Education and Resource Net continued. But even the prospective work). ;'This program is both co In addition to this, Chambers minority teachers did not want to is considering spending two work in inner-city schools, the sur SHADOWS: From left: committee members Doreen Hunter, wife of executive director of the American II curricular and academic-there Optometric Association, co-chair Mary M. Gilbert, Joanne Foreman and Bonnie Walker examine is a mixture of classroom and weeks in China next summer vey indicated. decorations for the ball. faculty with student activities," doing leadership work with the Inner-city schools, on the other said Chambers. Association of American hand, may need teachers more than , Chambers had to raise funds to Colleges. others. Educators predict that by - build the program and to develop Chambers arrived here at UM the year 2000 about 40 percent of the Optometry Ball To Brine an evaluation mechanism for the St. Louis on October 12 . As assis nation's elementary and secondary program. This program is still tant to the Vice Chancellor of school students will be minorities. being developed in Chambers' Student Affairs. He will serve as Entitled "Teaching and Teachers: Children Out Of The Sh;;dows absence. budget manager for the division Facts and Figures," the AACTE sur He has also helped to develop of Student Affairs, and will han vey did not suggest how to get Bringing children out of the dle student affairs such as majors interested in teaching in more than 17 ,000, which along with eyecare can be treated," Christen the Leadership America Pro shadows of poor eyesight is the goal funds from this year's ball, will be gram sponsored by the Inter grievances and discipline. He inner city neighhorhoods. sen explained. According to Chris of the second annual "Shadow Ball," applied toward renovation of the tensen, about 2,500 people are national Leadership Center in will also be in charge of provid Gardner, however, noted the a formal dinner dance put on by the ing minority student services results confirmed the 1985 findings center as well as to upgrade the loW screened for eyeglasses per year, as Dallas,Texas. School of Optometry. The event is to vision clinic in the center. "This was a summer-long and programs. of a coalition of education deans well as 3,000 children involved in be held on October 30 in the Great The benefit has raised over . the Head-Start Day Care program, leadership program for fifty se Chambers is very optimistic called "The Holmes Group," which Hall of the S1. Louis Public about his future at UM-St. Louis. warned of a pressing need to pro $44 ,000 for the cause, including a which is federallv run. lect collegejuniors. The program Library. donation of $10,000 by the Inter empbasized developing "I probably never felt as good duce more minority education Entertainment' will be provided about the direction I'm going as I majors. "We expect about 250 people to national Association of Lion's by the Fox Theatre Orchestra and leadership from an international Clubs.

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