Sandspur, Vol 89, No 09, January 25, 1983
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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 1-25-1983 Sandspur, Vol 89, No 09, January 25, 1983 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 89, No 09, January 25, 1983" (1983). The Rollins Sandspur. 1605. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1605 21st Century Theatre Showtimes7:00&9:15 Super Large Screen Four Channel Sound System Fresh Deli Foods and Pizza Domestic and Imported Beer and Wine Happy Hour 4- 6 PM Reserved Box Seating Colonial (Rt. 50) Fashion Square Mall THEATRE 740 Bennett Road, Orlando Corrine 1 Mile East Of-Fashion Square Mall Every Tuesday Is Student Night Holt mt SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS Aida Grey Judy's Business Service Rollins Concert Series Annie Russel Theatre Kaplan V. Rand Saltsgaver, P. A. Computer Word Processing lily Ann's Taylor's Pharmacyt Cracker Jet Ski On Stage 21st Century Theatre Decades Pappagallo Whamarama Herbal World Park Avenue Hair Design Zack's His and Hers Hair Design Park Avenue Records January 25, 1983 vol. 89 no. 9 EDITOR diana chrissis MANAGING EDITOR emily goss FEATURES EDITOR judy jones ©©OifQDDDgl Y© & © Ooflfe N\®m V@Qfl SPORTS EDITOR I david greenberg ARTS EDITOR John tamow PHOTO EDITOR david reed M " M COPY EDITOR JC *e *F lizzjacobson SHERRY UNDERWOOD WORDS PROPRIETRESS 102 PARK AVE N. robert baker Carolina mejia WINTER PARK dana ballinger letitia myrick ann barzda brad norford carol-ann boler scott nelson goff briggs mary russo vassily barberopoulos angie sheridan ann barzda dale speigal Gmimb — Udtiwm 99 steve bell erica staffeld Sample our new scents in mikedonoian kathleen sullivan steve donaldson melanie tammen potpourris and peter erickson billviall imported fragrance. mike korens jay werba CALL CLARA FOR VOIR COMPLIMENTARY jenny lowe bill wood FALL BEAUTY MAKEOVER -f" 1 •!•• f '"3~ _J^ i, „ GRAPHIC ARTISTS 644-1025 laura galbreath 3t =5fc =*fc =?fc =?*: camille marchese PICTURES theresa bender david greenberg corey o'gorman scott roth Sfe/n&y-Ti. BUSINESS MANAGER KAPLAN karen Simmons Education*! Center AD MANAGER There IS a difference c.j. Jennings Course Class Starting AD SALES amy fieldling MCAT GMAT JAN. 26th laurie galbreath ILSAT-GREB, jfS^ MCAT FEB. 12th dean hardy GRE PSYCH/ '^D K P FEB. 23rd LAY-OUT GREBIO / ™M R DAT DAT-VAT/ pNMB GRE FEB. 28th savage prods. GMAT LEW PCAT /FLEX - VQE MCAT MAR. 8th The Rollins Sandspur, Florida's OCAT /NDB-NPB MAT / RN BDS , 2238 Winter Woods Blvd. oldest college newspaper, was Winter Park, Florida 32792 established in 1894 with the SSAI / CI San Jose Exec Ctr PSAT /SPEED- , following editorial: We reserve the right to cancel any class lor "Unassuming yet mighty, sharp SAT /READING which there Is Insufficient enrollment and pointed, well rounded yet Y* / Days, Evenings, or Weekends TEST PREPARATION I many sided, assiduously tena I SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 I cious, yet as gritty and tenacious 678-8400 Centers In More Than 80 Major US Cities as its name implies, victorious in Puerto Rico. Toronto. Canada •. Lugono. Switzerland single combat and therefore with out peer, wonderfully attractive and extensive in circulation, all these will be focused upon investi gation to be among the extraordinary qualities of the Sandspur." V. RAND SALTSGAVER, The Rollins Sandspur is a CO ATTORNEY publication produced GO by the students of Rollins O) Specializing In: College. Sandspur offices are PERSONAL INJURY & located in the Student Center, RIDE WRONGFUL DEATH Rollins College. The Rollins Sandspur is produced at The DEFECTIVE PRODUCT Type* People, 1524 Formosa LITIGATION Ave., Winter Park, FL. and (0 3 CRIMINAL LAW printed at the Oviedo Outlook, JET SKI Initial Consuhatkn: Oviedo, FL. w Available -Q Without Charge In an effort to establish a <D continuing dialogue within the LL. 16 West Pine - '. 1 ' W Rollins community, the Rollins • • HALF Sandspur promotes discussion a> indigenous to the scholastic +•» HOUR environment. Therefore this CO paper encourages students to •o Noon-6 p.m. voice their opinions or concerns c Barretts Marina on pertinent issues in the form o 441 & Lee Road *-• of letters to the editor. CO Orlando Letters will be printed on a o space-available basis. All letters • •RM 295-0817 must be signed and must be S received by the Tuesday before Extra 15 minutes 3 with this ad the paper appears. All letters Q. *«* should be addressed: Editor, X Rollins Sandspur, Box 2742, 0) :$Sl:$: Rollins College. c rollins college sandspur, January 25, pg Yale Computer- copy written by Diana Chrissis O.K., you've got to convince your Mom and Dad that a person can get Idiot Of The Year a good'education in the sunshine with water skis in the closet. Telling them that you're an hour from the ocean and the gulf and 20 minutes from Disney World probably won't convince them. Read on and you'll Once again the powers that be at Rollins College have a better case. have performed their magnificent settling act. After Academics are definitely a priority here but not the only interesting promoting a higher academic standard for the aspect of Rollins life. Most students spend four days a week in classes school, they settled for a number of entering with at least 2V2 hours of study time for each hour of class. In science, freshmen with questionable academic credentials. theater or music labs and studio time that ratio increases. The After an extensive and expensive national search, professors are demanding. They focus on individual student writing and they, settled for an •acting" Dean of the College. research. "Blow-off" courses are fewer and fewer but can be found with Now. after months of debate, the Professional some creative registering techniques known mostly by the seniors ... Compensation and Development Committee has which is usually too late! settled for the same old teacher evaluation forms. Major and graduation requirements are broad. Chemistry majors are Of course, the propsed evaluation form was far going to have to take Music Appreciation or History of the Theater and worse than the old one. The questionnaire printed English majors are going to dissect something before they get out of as a probable replacement attempted to shift the here. Business isn't a major, it's a minor, but at least one-third of the emphasis of the teacher evaluation to the student. place expects a business career. The Library stinks only because the The questionnaire begins with several inquiries facility is overcrowded (due to increased academic demands), but designed to besmirch the reputation of the everybody knows it and the powers are trying to secure a new one — evaluator. Only after creeping through a veritable will probably happen before the College's Centennial in 1985. How are mine field of ad hominum traps can the student your parents doing ... ? assume the monumental task of "grading" the The most famous departments are probably theater (Buddy Ebsen, professor (in the new forms only a token effort is Tony Perkins, and other grads), Music (Mr..Rogers ... as in "won't you made to solicit unquantifiable data). be my neighbor..." is a graduate) and History and Political Science, Students should be less than honored to Toughest department may be History — incredible expectations for participate in the grading system. The numbers one reading and writing. The Sciences are the best kept secret on the through five are no more effective in describing the campus. They have excellent facilities and a young, aggressive quality of a teacher than the letters A through F are teaching vs. pure research faculty. The English Department has in explaining the performance of a student. That professors ranging from o.k. to wonderful. President Seymour teaches highly subjective scale retains little credibility Freshman English which scared the hell out of last year's entering when applied by 20 or so students per teacher per class. Philosophy here is for administrators to teach. The Provost class. How can the highly intelligent men and teaches history; Dean of the Faculty, philosophy, Vice-Pres for women running this school actually believe that development teaches Utopian Literature etc. The art department could numerical questionnaires supply accurate data on be the weakest on campus. The winner of student awards for teaching which to base an evaluation of a teacher's usually are history or political science-type faculty because they talk competence? Yet, they do believe as they run the the most. The best teachers may well be in the sciences or foreign numbers through a computer and perform a variety languages. of statistical tests. The most recent evaluation forms were so unashamedly quantitative as to As for the student body... they listen to new wave, progressive or deter all but the most diligent students from they don't listen. The faculty listens to classical (or claims to). Jocks commenting extensively on a course. When one is talk to theater majors and research-type pre-med urchins may be on the ordered to use only Number 2 pencils for the debate team. There is a good crossing of interests among the students. benefit of the computer he has to question whether Troublemakers try to do it intellectually but usually don't. The campus anybody or anything else will give a damn about is small and secure, little clanger (Mom).