April 15, 1982 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI·SAINT LOUIS Issue 423 Salaries increased without cuts

Lacey Burnette Chancellor Arnold B. between 10.24 and 11.04. The next year. Associate Vice the state withheld 10 percent of first 8.5 percent of the increases Grobman said that the first-year Chancellor for Academic Affairs the allocation to the university. reductions may be unnecessary will be paid for through state Blanche M. Touhill said that UMSL may be able to fulfill because of a possible increase in funding, with the ad'ditional some departments will be In addition, Grobman said that the first-year requirements of state funding and higher student amount to come from campus requesting additional funds to the overall three-year plan does the Compensation Improvement fees. A Senate-House conference sources. Service and support offest funds they no longer will not look as positive. "I'm all in Program (CIP) without prograll' committee of the General As­ staff are receiving larger in­ be collecting because of the favor of the Compensation reductions, according to figures sembly has recommended a creases because their salaries elimination of lab fees and some Improvement Program ," presented to the Senate Coinmit­ state appropriation of about are farther from the market supplemental fees. Grobman said. "But we're tee on Fiscal Resources and $170.8 million in 1982-83 for the level. If the committee recommends probably going to have some Long-Range Planning last week. university. This year the univer­ The compensation increase a 10.24 salary increase for tough sledding in 1984-85. " sity received about $153 million. granted to service and support faculty and administration, Preliminary indications show The CIP is a plan to increase In addition, student fees will be staff was set by central admini­ $133,000 will be made available that UMSL may have to real­ salaries paid in the University of increased by 17 percent begin­ stration in Columbia. The in­ for other expenses. locate more than $900,000 to Missouri system to the average ning this summer. crease in faculty and administra­ Grobman.,approached the out­ meet th e third-year require­ of the Big 8-Big 10 schools: tion salaries has been left up to look on the CIP with guarded ments of the crp. At UMSL next year, service currently the university ranks the campus. The committee optimism. He said that there However. President Olson has and support staff will receive tabled a motion to accept 11.04 last in this group. The plan was salary increases of 12.04 per­ may be another state withhold­ emphasized that the needs of salary increases until after aca­ ing because state revenues are the program will be assessed ordered by UM President James cent. Faculty and administration demic departments have pre­ C. Olson. wi ll receive salary increases of not quite at the level required to annually and adjustments will be sented their budget requests for balance the budget. Last year, made as conditions dictate. Danforth critical of aid reductions

A second round of reductions necessary review of all areas of in student financial assistance as federal spending should start proposed by President . Ronald with the recognition that student Reagan should not be approved financial assistance is a long­ by Congress, according to U.S. term investment in human Sen. Jack Danforth (R-Mo.). capital - the skills and talents "The proposed reductions are vital to a healthy and competi­ not acceptable because they tive economy," Danforth said. threaten to bargain away the Danforth said the proposed 40 economic future," Danforth said. percent reduction in Pell grants "We cannot afford any but the is unacceptable. The need-based best-educated and best-trained program, he said, already chan­ new generation of Americans to nels 75 percent of its resources grapple with the challenges of to students from families with the 21st century. Nor can we adjusted gross incomes of trifle with basic access to higher $15.000 or less annually. In education in a world geared Missouri, the American Associa­ increasingly to specialized and tion of State Colleges and Uni­ technical knowledge. " versities estimates the changes "When the fiscal 1983 budget would reduce the number of Pell was submitted to Congress, I Grant recipients to 35,000 from expressed particular concern 58,000. about the effects of proposed The Guaranteed Student Loan reductions in these programs," program, he noted, was revised Danforth said. "At a time when in 1981 to include a means test educational costs continue to and a loan origination fee. He rise, cuts of the magnitude · said a major reduction proposed proposed cannot be justified." this year, the elimination of Danforth said budget authority graduate and professional stu­ CHANGE for major student assistance dents, is unacceptable. First, programs would be reduced by Danforth said, the suggested OF SEASONS: over one third under the propo­ alternatives to GSLs would re­ sals, to $4.3 billion from $6.4 quire payments within 60 days billion. on 14 percent interest, making Mother Nature "The difficult· and absolutely See "Danforth," page 3 had a change of heart and inside delivered temperatures Happy birthday in the upper 70s Comedian/Cartoonist Steve Gipson celebrated his birth­ day last week in the Summit Monday by entertaining students. after blanketing : .. page 7 the campus with In the fold Mike Larson has signed three snow recruits for next year's bas­ ketball season. ...page 14 , last week. The runner editorials ...... , .... 4-5 Kirk Deeken, a future Oly~ pic hopeful, broke the record around umsl ...... 6 for the mile and a half run in features/arts ..... 7 -12 Photos by UMSL intramural competition classifieds ...... 1 0 this week. ...page 16 sports...... 13-1 6 Jim Hickman page 2 CURRENT April 15, 1982

newsbrie. -~fs ." Book drive to be held

A drive is being sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Student Association, April 19-22, to collect books that will be sent to a university in mainland China. Containers will be placed in the University Center lobby and in the Arts and Sciences office, 303 Lucas Hall. Students are asked to donate any types of books except math and science. For more information call Larry Wines at SS3-SI04 or Anita McDonald at SS3-S19S. Las Vegas Day to be held on 9ampus

The first annual Las Vegas Day will be held Friday, April 23, from 9:30am-2:30pm in the University Center lobby. The day, sponsored by Peer Counseling, will include casino games such as Chuck-A-Luck, Wheel of Fortune, Roulette, Blackjack and more. A portable color television will also be EYE-TO-EYE: UMSL optometry student Andrew Sass tests intra-ocular pressure at the Governor's Helath raffled. The event is free to UMSL students. Fair in Jefferson City. UMSL optometric students traveled to the state capitol on March 24 to promote Vo lunteers are needed to run games and register participants. " Save Your Vision Week," a week of national concern for vision health care. The UMSL Student For more information call Claire at SS3-S711. Optometric Association provided the vision screening portion of the fair. Committee applicatiC!ns available r------., Philosophers to hold I Applications are now being Grievance, Student Affairs. Stu­ accepted from students for mem­ dent Publications, and Physical :JERRY ROBNAK'S bership on University Senate Facilities and General Services. annual meeting Friday committees. The Senate is the I AUTO BODY principle governing body of the Applications are available at I The Department of Philosophy and the College of Arts and university. Much of the Senate the Information Desk in the I~' 15 YEARS Sciences are hosting the annual meeting of the Society for the business is carried out by com­ University Center. The deadline I . EXPERIENCE Study of Political Philosophy. Papers will be presented tomorrow, mittees. for returning applications is Ap­ I...... REASONABLY in 302 Lucas, from 2-Spm and Saturday, at the Ramada Students can serve on such ril 27. Additional information I -- PR ICES Inn-Airport. At Friday evening's banquet at University House, committees as Curriculum and about the committees can be : ~ Free Estimates Peter Fuss. Professor of Philosophy, will deliver the presidential Instruction, Admission and Stu­ obtaned by calling the Student address. dent Aid, Library. Welfare and I SPECIALIZING IN PAINTING. Association office at S104. I FENDER STRAIGHTENING Several of the feature presentations will center on the -RUST REPAIR contributions of the Frankfurt School to contemporary political I thought. Professor Ulrich Sonnemann, UMSL Distinguished IBrlng In your I NSURANCE REPAI R Visiting Scholar, and Professor Steven Schwarzschild, Washing­ ~ rD{fia: ~..£td. IESTIMATE, FOR WE PAY MOST S50 or $100 I I"EOUCTABlES. We will work with you on thel ton University. will be the featured speakers. ,dents and da'Vge, to make II look like new. I ~ Secretarial' Bookkeeping ServicE COMPme TOWING SERVICE I I FllEE TOWING IF WE DO WOfIK 1600 Heritage Landing Hours 8:30-5:00, I COUPON I Year-end · funds available Suite 212 Evenings by appt. :100/0 OFF ALL LABOR: University of Missouri President James C. Olson announced St. Charles, Mo 63301 723-6976 : 429·7999 : that about $800.00 in year-end funds will be available. I ...... frI. N:aO, .....,2 I "This has been a most difficult year in which to generate funds Students Discount 20% I .,· ....~ _Rook"~ I for year-end distributions," Olson stated in an April 8 letter addressed to the four UM chancellors. •'The uncertainty of the . Typing-Taxes I I state appropriations, delays in the receipt of the appropriation and fluctuating interest rates have all contributed to the ,------..;.-..1 problem." Olson said that he hoped that the funds would be applied to - the "most pressing problems" and that special consideration should be given to proposals that provide for the following: For Evening College support for library or equipment purchases that have been deferred or cancelled due to recent shortages of funds; one time investments in technology or other measures that will save resources in future years; lessen the impact of current fiscal planning. Requests for funds are to be forwarded to Olson by students only! Apr'i123 . Are you tired of ever increasing,fees? H so, read on. Mental health issues H not, stop reading. Are you upset with the continual to be discussed decline in the quality of our library system? H so, read on. Are you concerned with the diminishing conditions Martha Boston, an Austin, Texas attorney who was lead counsel in the Landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, "Addington of the parking and lighting facilities the University has? v. Texas, " which established the minimum constitutional standard of proof for commitment to mental hospitals, will eve~g present a seminar at UMSL on legal issues in mental health Are you disturbed about the unavailability for practice. The seminar is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8, from 9am-4:3Opm in the J .c. Penney Building. The appointments with you assigned advisors? Are you tired registration fee for the course is 510S. of taking off work early in order to get to a campus Boston has taught mental health law at the University of Texas and the University of Houston, and is currently on the faculty of office that closes at 5 pm and finding out they closed the Galveston Family Institute, a family therapy trainiJlg center. She was chief legal consultant to the Texas Senate Committee on Human Resources on revision of the state mental health code, 10 minutes early? and she serves on a federal court review panel which monitors compliance by Texas state psychiatric hospitals with the ·eourt's 1bese are but a few of the ever increasing problems order for quality patient care .. encountered by the evening student The seminar will offer mental health practitioners an opportunity to examine legal aspects of mental health work including issues such as Confidentiality, consent, the dangerous client, and standards of care for treatment. Participants should The Evening College Council Is a 1>member an application that is available in the Evening learn to recognize legal issues as they arise in practice, and to' organization. The purpose of this group Is to College Office, 324 Lucas Hall, or contcr;t develop a practical synthesis between legal requirements and, cr;t as a liaison between the administration and Randi Davis, president, Evening CoII~e Coun­ therapeutic goals. The program will also cover interacting with students. The questions above are but a few of cil, ooncerning your interest in becoming a the problems the evening Council Is working member. attorneys and testifying in courts. on. Continuing Education Units (CEU's) will be offered for persons This year's elections will be held May 3 and It is up to If are really completing the program. . you. you concerned 4. Polls will be located In Lucas Hall. Please For' additional information, or to register, contact Joe Williams and want to work on this council, pIeaae submtt support us with your vote. of UMSL Continuing Education at 553·5961. . April 15, 1982 CURRENT page 3 UMC proposals draw fire

The announcement of reduc- raise the funds to improve salary college's budget by about iim proposals to meet the re­ compensation on the Columbia $500,000. quirem nts of the Compensation campus. A total of between $10 -reducing the administrative Improvement Program at UMC and $12 million will have to be budget by $1.9 million. have met with opposition from cut during the plan to increase -reducing the School of Nursing students and faculty members. salaries. budget by $500,000. According to UMC Provost The first round of cuts-totaling - eliminating the Industrial Ron Bunn, about 100 faculty and $7 million-were announced last Engineering program. This pro­ 100 staff members would be week. The proposals include: gram is not offered elsewhere in discharged over the next three -re ducing the budget of the the system. The four engineer­ years so that the university can college of Education by $1.2 ing programs that are to be left million, which is 34 percent of intact at Columbia are offered at its budget. Rolla. Some parking -eliminating the Co\1ege of Pub­ -reducing the extension budget lic and Community Services. The by $1 million and increasing fines increased college's budget is $1.1 million. user fees. -closing the campus police de­ Students and faculty in the partment and contracting with programs targeted for reductions Beginning in the summer ses­ the city. have been organizing to protest sion, the parking fine for non­ -closing the departments of the proposals. UMC Chancellor registered vehicles on campus clothing and textiles and housing Barbara Uehling has said that will increase to $10 from $3. and interior design in the the proposals are only recom­ ''The rationale behind this is College of Home Economics. mendations and will be that we have a number of The cuts would reduce the reviewed. students here that do not regis­ Photo by Jim Hickman. ter their vehicles, " said Dan POT LUCK: A view of a Mariilac parking lot shows the disrepair the Wallace, assistant dean of Stu­ Rolla professor wins award lots are in. Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services John P. dent Affairs. "By raising the Perry says that he hopes the lots will be paved this summer. fine, we hope to cut down on the number of tickets being issued. Douglas C. Wixson, Jr., UMR the University of North Carolina It would also be more fair for associate professor of English, in 1971. students who own stickers." has been selected as the 1982 The UMSL police will continue recipient of the Univ!!sity of During his six years on the to work directly with the Mis­ Missouri's Thomas Jefferson faculty at UMR, Wixson has Danforth souri Division of Motor Vehicles Award. He will receive a mone­ helped develop two English should not be approved." to check license plate numbers tary award, derived from the courses, one on the engineer as from page 1 •' The first goal of economic for all cars that do not display' a interest accrued from a $10,000 a writer and another on the liter­ ature and folklore of technology. the alternative of little use to policy must be to narrow upcom­ parking sticker. If t~e car be­ gift by the Robert Earll McCon­ students who are able to work ing budget deficits," Danforth longs to an UMSL student, a 10 ne\1 Foundation, and a citation He has studied and taught in only during the summer. said. "Progress toward lower dollar fine will be issued. All which will be presented in a Germany , France, Spain and Second, he said, the alternative deficits must come, I believe, violations for registered cars will ceremony later this spring. Switzerland. He has been a program is not yet operational in with balanced scrutiny of all remain at three dollars. Fulbright Professor in American Missouri and a number of other areas of federal spending and Parking stickers for the Fall Wixson received a B.S. degree history, a Danforth Foundation states. with some adjustments in fede­ 1982 semester will cost $24, one in mechanical engineering from Associate, and is now a member " Even if there is a case to be ral revenues. In the case of dollar less than the previous fee. of the National Humanities Fa­ the Massachusetts Institute of made for much less sweeping student financial assistance, re­ Students are also pro-rated culty. Technology in 1955 and a M.S. changes, which remains to be ductions were made in 1981 to throughout the semester and are Wixson recently accepted a seen, it certainly cannot be put limited resources where they half-price at mid-semester. in mechanical and aerospace yearlong National Endowment made until the revisions made in are most needed - with stu­ " This should give students an engineering from Stanford Uni- for the Humanities grant to 1981 are evaluated fully," Dan­ dents least able to finance their incentive to buy a parking stick­ versity in 1960. He received a complete a book on the radical forth said. " The greatness of the educations - and as part of a er," W allace said. Ph.D. in English literature from writers of the 1930s. American educational system difficult and necessary effort to isn't like an on/ off switch, with get control of the increase in major changes reversible at will federal spending. The new pro­ and on short notice. Reductions posals do not mea.sllre up as that would touch the basic part of a balanced economic integrity of higher education policy .. ,

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Student apathy here letters hits all-time record low

Stude nt involvement o n as students haven't been a year and th~n some. Al­ 'Our Thanks' this campus has always been face d with such pressing though this should not be a a long-running joke. UMSL issues as we have seen this candidate's sole purpose for students are known for being year. In the past. students putting in his or her name . it " To UMSL Staff and Student Body" People everywhere in life basically apathetic. But the that had held a seat on the does help provide some in ­ From every walk and station, lack of student interest in Assembly before as represen­ centive and compensation for From every town and city filing for Student Association tatives and ev~n students time spent in working with And every state and nation preside nt and vice president with no prior experience in Student Association. Have given us so many things shows we have apparently hit the Assembly competed for Intangible and dear, Monday. April 19 is the rock bottom. the job of student body presi­ We couldn't begin to count them all dent and vice preside nt. last day to file for e it her Or even make them clear . . . So far only one presidental­ Student Associat ion presi­ I only know we owe so much vice presidental team has dent. vice president or as a To people everywhere officall y announced its can­ But this year interest in the representative. Hopefully the And when we put our thoughts in verse didacy. Although this team Assembly has drastically de­ stude nt body wi ll have a It's just a way to share will probably not go unoppos­ clined. Surely from a student choice. The musings of a thankful heart, ed, the competition is slim. body of 12.000 there would A heart much like your own, I be more students interested For nothing that we think or write This is not a very good in taking an active role in Is ours and ours alone ... showing from students on a next year's student govern­ So if you found some beauty campus that held a students' ment. In any word or line, Day of Concern. spoke out It's just your soul's reflection In proximity with mine. against budget cuts and met Maybe students are not with curators at the recent aware of the fact that Student Thank You Again, rap session. Granted the Association president and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tyler Sr. and Lewis Jr. whole student body did not vice president are salaried turn out to these events en positions. Their salaries are masse. but surely we could paid from the Student Activi­ expect more than two, maybe ty fees we pay. Granted a four interested students. student would not strike it Says aid cuts are justified There has been more inter­ rich as president or vice est shown in student govern­ president. but it does cover Dear Editor: their need for such loans, based ment in past years' when we the cost of incidental fees for on such factors as the family's At the March 21 Student adjusted gross income (AGI) , the Assembly meeting, attended by size of the family, family medi­ Chancellor Arnold B. Grobman cal expenses, the cost of the UNlVERSrrY OF MISSOURI-SAINT LOuts and Dean of Student Affairs school attended, and so forth. At CUR RENT Sandy MacLean, a motion was present, only families with AGIs STAFF passed condemning President exceeding $30,000 are required The Current is published weekly on Thursdays Editor ••..•...... •....•...... •.•••.••.•••••. Cheryl Keathley Ronald Reagan's proposed to show need. But, as Gary L. at: Copy Editor ...•...••.••..•••.•• ...•.•.•.•...•. Jean We.ael "cuts" in student financial aid, Jones, the undersecretary of University of Missouri-St. Louis New8 Edltor•..••••...... •.....•...• .•...• Lacey Bamette stating in part " . . . if signed education for planning, budget Current Assl8tant New8 Edltor ••..•..•.•.••..•.•• Barb DePalma into law, this will mark the and evaluation, explained, this I Blue Metal Office Bldg. Features/ Arts Edltor ...... •.•..•...•. . Debble Suchan return of the days when only the has allowed much abuse. "As it SOOI Natural Bridge Road A8slstant Feature8/ Arts Editor• .••.. Steve Klearman privileged and wealthy few can stands," said Jones, "a family St. Louis, MO 63121 Sports Editor ...••...••...... •.JIm SclunllblUCh afford to send their children to earning less than $30,000 can Phone: SS3-S174 Assistant Sports Edltor ...... •..••••••• Roan TIpton college." Grievance Committee borrow up to $2,SOO a year at 9 Chairman Tony Calandro, spon­ percent interest - well below Sports ColumaJ8t ...... Jeff Kuchr 1 Advertising rates are available upon request by Aroand UMSL EdJtor ...... Suaaa ReD sor of the motion, voiced a list of current market rates - and the contacting the Business .Office at SS3-S17S. Photography Director ...... Sharon Kubatzky these proposed "cuts" in sup­ student can go to a community port of the motion. Unfortu­ Space reservations for advertisement must be Assistant Photo Dlrector ...... JIm Hickman college costing only $SOO or $600 received by 3pm on the Friday' prior to the date Typesetters•••..•••••••••••...•••••••.••.•...••• Marty 10... nately, I had not read the full a year. They can do whatever of publication. Elaine Robb text of the Reagan administra­ they want with the rest of the Jeff Lamb tion's proposed changes in stu­ money - invest it, buy a car, The Current, financed in part by student Production ChJef ...... Jeff Kuchao dent financial aid before this take a trip or whatever - and meeting, and thus was not they don't have to begin making activity fees. is not an official pUblication of the Producdon A8818tanta .. ~ ...... Leaa Nlewaid University of Missouri. The university is not Jeff Lamb prepa red to dispute these char­ payments until after the student responsible for the Current'. contents and Sharon Kobuh ges . . As the only dissenting finishes school. We (the admini­ policies. Bulaeu Manager...... YatN Sanden member to this motion, I now stration) just think i,'s fair that Advertlalaa Director...... Tom Straaahan would like to set the record everyone should have to demon- . Editorials expressed in the paper reflect the Ad eoa.tractloal.t...... Shlrtey W ....t straight. strate that they really need such opinions of the editorial staff. Articles labeled Circulation Maaaaer.•••.••••••••••••••.•••• KIrk Deekea One new provision of the loans, and if they need them, "Commentary" are the opinion of the indivi­ Gr8phlc ArtI.t .; ...... Davld TnauDei proposed budget would require dual writer. all applicants for low-interest See "L.eIW'I," .-ge 5 student loans to demonstrate April IS, 1982 CURRENT page 5 Letters

from page 4 any income level would be (Thus, if a graduate student at target 80 percent of such grant college costs in recent years at they can get t.hem," Jones said. eligible to get guarenteed loans UMSL received a 52,000 loan at money to families with AGIs the middle-income lever. Con­ Graduate students and stu­ of up to 58,000 per year at 16 percent for one year, annual below $12,000. Students from sidering that Mr. Calandro also dents at professional schools market interest rates, and they interest payments required while higher-income families would be made such deceptive charges at no longer would be eligible for would not have to begin paying in school would be 5320, less expected to rely more heavily on the Student Day of Concern, as subsidized (low-interest) loans. back the principal on such loans than one semester's incidental guarenteed loans. well as organized students to However, graduate students at until after finishing school. fees for undergraduate stu­ In total, the Reagan admini­ attend a recent rally protesting dents.) By stating the proposed stration will have a federal Reagan administration student CAM elimination of the subsidized commitment next fall to student aid changes, I suggest that he loans for these students while higher education of nearly $14 read the full text of these GUN & AMMUNITION failing to mention the available billion - a 2 percent increase changes, rather than relying on 7eoo fl'L.Oftla_NT "'O.D alternatives, Mr. Calandro has over the current year's commit­ such left-wing organizations as NOfItMANDY. "'0. a 31 a' needlessly led many graduate ment; and this at a time when . 01-15078 the U.S. Student Association (a students to believe they wouldn't Ford Motor Co. has laid off S4 group which throws objectivity be able to complete their edu­ percent of its upper-level to the wind) for his facts and NOW HAS VIDEO GAMES cation. management, and numerous la­ figures. After all, it's persons 9-8 M-F Another key change would bor unions have accepted wage sharing Mr. Calandro's political 52.-5079 reduce funding for Pell Grants freezes. The purpose of the ideology who frequently charge - direct gifts which never have proposed changes is to assure President Reagan with "shoot­ At the corner of to be paid back - from 52.2 that the poor will continue to ing from the hip." billion in fiscal 1982 to 51.4 have access to higher education Bellerive fI Florissant Rd. billion in 1983. Critics charge while reversing the erosion of Robert J . Wittmann that cuts in this area would hit traditional family support for Student Assembly Member hardest at blacks and the poor. But, in fact, these groups would Planned Parenthood be the least adversely affected. While some of the savings would Student upset with darkness of St. Louis - come from reducing the maxi­ . For contraceptive counseling and mum Pell Grant from the current Dear Editor: Evening school students are Q services. --pregnancy tests ... VD tests. $1,700 to 51,600, the bulk of the gouged badly enough with park­ savings would result from tar­ I am a student at the Rolla ing fees and tuition. The v!'ry Clinic Locations: geting such grants in favor of extension on the UMSL campus least we can expect is a safe those at the lowest income 4409 West Pine .. _.... _...... 533-7460 and my fiance is a student in the campus. Where were the cam­ 3115 South Grand. _...... 865·1850 levels. Under present law, fami­ UMSL evening division. I am pus police? Where were the lies with AGIs of up to 527,000 493 Rue St. Francois .. _...... 921-4445 writing to voice my outrage at maintenance crews? Why were may qualify for such grants. The the unsafe condition of the the lights out? Thank God the 2S administration would put the parking garage near Clark Hall degree temperature and the 20 Have questions? Call 647·2188 for birth control information upper limit at 518,000 and would on the evening of Monday, April mph winds kept the muggers S, 1982. and rapists at home! On the date in question, the This is not the first time this garage lights did not come on has happened. I hope that by University Program Board presents until after 8pm. It was pitch bringing it to your attention it black on the upper levels, yet will be the last. Copies of this not a maintenance man or cam­ letter have been sent to the pus police officer was in sight! UMSL chancellor, chief of police, The crime r;roblem, particularly dean of the Evening Col:ege and rape, is bad enough at UMSL student newspaper. without setting up the women in the evening college who had to Sincerely, venture alone into that garage! James Hojnowski

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• Miles Beyond will present the music of Willis Jackson from mid­ Friday 16 night-6am. This KWMU Student Staff Monday 19 Wednesday 21 • Last day to purchase tickets for the Production can be heard on FM 91 . Greek Banquet which will wrap up • Gree!t< Week '82 will hold a Greek Greek week next Saturday evening. God Compet ition wit h times and Tickets are $6.50 and are available at Sunday 18 places to be announced. the University Center Information Desk. • Creative Aging, a KWMU produc­ • "Pennies for Professors" a fund tion by retired persons, will feature raising program for the UMSL Scholar­ • Last day a student may drop a class ship Fund will be held from 9am- or withdraw from school. " Digging Up the Past: How You Can Help" and " The 30th Birthday Party 12:30pm in t he University Center • Disabled Awareness Wee!t< sponsors Lobby through Thursday. As part of the Muppet show "Kids on the Block" of the Friends of the St. Louis Art • TIle women's tennis team will play Museum (April 30-May 7)" from against Southeast Missouri State in a Greek Week, the professor with the from 11am-noon in the Summit most pennies will be the winner. Lounge. A panel discussion, " Facts 7-8pm on FM 91. game beginning at 8:30am at UMSL. and Falacies or Everything You Ever • Greek T-shirt Day will be held in • TIle softball Riverwomen will playa Wanted to Know About Disabled celebration of Greek Week '82. doubleheader against University Mis­ Persons but Were Afraid to Ask," will • Video programs for the coming week souri-Rolla at 3pm on the UMSL field. wrap up the week's festivities at 1pm include " Chick Corea" and " Alcohol : in 222 J.C. Penney . . Drug of Choice" weekdays except • TIle University Players present "Bus Wednesday from 9am-3pm and 5pm- Thursday 22 Stop" at 8pm in the Benton Hall 7pm Monday and Tuesday in the Theatre through April 18. Admission University Center Student Lounge. • " TIle Red Rockers" with special is $1 for UMSL students and $2 for the • TIle Women's Center will show the guests "The Nukes" will present a publ ic. film " Rape" at 10am and 2pm in 107A concert beginning at 8pm in' the J.C. • " Only When I Laugh," a film by Benton. Three rape victims will dis­ Penney Auditorium. Tickets are $3.50 Neil Simon, will lightup the screen at cuss their experience with each other for UMSL students and $6 for the UMSL's Friday and Saturday Nights at • Greek Week '82 begins its festivities and the filmmaker. general publ ic. Advance tickets are the Movies with two ~hows at 7 and with the annual Greek Sing in the • TIle softball Riverwomen will chal­ available at t he University Center 10pm in 101 Stadler. One guest may Marillac Auditorium at 7pm. lenge Southeast Missouri State with a Information Desk. .accompany an UMSL student at a • Playhouse 91 , a KWMU Student game beginning at 2:30pm on the • TNT.. lt's dynamite will present a reduced rate of $1 each. General Staff Product ion, will continue with the UMSL field. mini-concert featuri ng Bob Chase from admission is $1 .50. Advance tickets Advent ures of Sherlock Holmes in • An UMSL Senate meeting will be 11 am-1 pm in the Summit Lounge. are available at the University Center " The Engineer's Thumb" from 10- held f rom 3:15-5pm in 126 J .C. • TIle Women's Center will present a Information Desk. 10:3Opm on FM 91 . Penney. lecture " Sexual Harassment: V\lhat Is • Fusion 91 wi II feature the music of • Sunday Magazine, a KWMU public • TIle UMSL Jazz Combo will perform It and V\lhat To Do About It" by Kat Pat Martino from midnight-6am on affairs prog·ram, wi ll feature Jim Bar­ at 11am in the Summit Lounge. Schott, personnel representative of FM 91. faro, former news director of KWMU Monsanto, at 12:3Opm in 107A Ben­ and former Sunday Magazine produc­ ton. er, in "Barfaro Is Back" from 10:30- Tuesday 20 • Benjamin Spock will present a Saturday 17 11 :3Opm on FM 91. lecture titled "Nuclear Arms Race in • Last chance to see "Only V\lhen I • Sports Spectrum, a KWMU Student • Gallery 210 will open a new exhibit Context of Human Needs" beginning Laugh" at 7 and 10pm in 101 Stadler. Staff Production, will feature this titled " Senior Art Students' Show: at 1:30pm in 126 SSB. An UMSL student may bring one month a St. Louis Blues Special, a Painting and Drawings," from • "Poor Relief, Philanthropy and the guest for the reduced rate of $1 each . weekly Update of the NBA scene, a 11 :3Oam-3pm weekdays through Apri I City 1830-1911" will be the subject of General admission is $1.50. Tickets visit with a St. Louis Basebe.ll Car­ 26 in 210 Lucas. a lecture by Michael Rose from 2-4pm are available at the door. dinal and more from 11:3Opm-mid­ • TNT-It's dynamite will hold the in the McDonnell Conference Room, • Gateway Jazz. a KWMU Student night on FM 91. annual Greek Week trivia contest at 331 SSB. Students are welcome and Staff Production, will air locally re­ • Pipelfne will air the music of 1pm in the Summit Lounge. refreshments will be served. corded jazz. The :our jazz artists most "Human Sexual Response" from mid­ • The opening reception for the Senior • Parlor games, an annual event of requested by their listeners all month night-6am on KWMU. This Student Art Students' Show will be held in Greek Week, will be held at 7pm in will be featured . Gateway Jazz can be Staff Production can be found at FM Gallery 210 located on 210 Lucas from the Harris Turner Community Center heard from 11 pm-midnight on FM 91. 91. 11 :3Oam-1 :3Opm. in Bel-Ridge.

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Caring Friendly visitors brighten the lives of others

. Deborah Suchart social isolation is not due to poverty. In other cases, if they Visiti ng the You are 80 years old. You had a good financial situation, don't see your family as often as they wouldn't need a visitor so elderly may you would like, and many of badly." your friends have either died or "I can think of some situa­ provide students moved away. You don't have tions where the family is so enough money to live on, but strapped because of financial w ith new your rent and utility payments resources that they can't give keep going up. You are feeling very much to the older person," insights. lonely and depressed when sud­ Calsyn said. denly the telephone rings. The program has helped "Hello," the caller says, "this clients in a number of ways. IISome people is your friendly visitor." For a "We had one woman who had moment you feel a little better. lost a substantial portion of her say afterwards Someone cares. income and was having a very The Friendly Visitor Program, difficult time with making the that they see a field placement course offered rent payments. It took our volun­ at UMSL since 1978, was started teer the whole semester, but he their family in a to provide services and compan­ was able to get her a rent ionship to the home-bound, iso­ subsidy that lowered her rent by. whole different lated elderly. about 300 percent. If he hadn't "We were interested in that been there, she wouldn't have light. " group because we saw ourselves known about the help that was as helping to keep people out of available to her," Calsyn said. nursing homes and other more While some volunteers serve restrictive settings by providing such an advocacy role, others them with companionship and serve a more therapeutic one. support," said Robert Calsyn, . "We had one w.oman who was Visitors are as diverse as the chairman of the psychology de­ referred to the program after her According to Calsyn, many religion or politic(; or history of people they visit. Not all are partment. husband's death," Calsyn said. people choose to go into this the city. Sometimes a client will psychology majors-students Referrals to the program come "She was so upset that she program either because their have worked in a career that the majoring in English, social work, from several sources. Among couldn't talk to anyone for more own grandparents weren't around student is planning to pursue. biology, and other areas have these are Meals on Wheels and than five minutes without cry­ and they W?nt a chance to work "We have people both in participated in the program. the St. Louis County Older ing." with the elderly, or because they education and social work who Residents ·Program. Clients Visitors range in age from 18 to have had positive experiences had clients that could inform "At the same time, she had a 65. range in age from their mid-50s tremendous fear that she was with their own grandparents. them about the history of the Students derive many benefits on up. Most of the clients are losing her memory," Calsyn "Either of these extremes is profession or actually teach them from participating in the pro­ women. Clients live with a said. "She wouldn't go out and fairly common," Calsyn said. about the profession," Shaw gram. "One of the advantages variety of limitations that make wouldn't do anything. Our vol­ said. "One woman gave her of the experience for students is "Some students come in with getting out difficult. Many suffer unteer just sat there with her visitor a complete stack of notes that they can learn how people a preconception of what the from health problems-crippling while she was crying for five or on social work. She had worked deal with issues such as death elderly are like and want a on some famous old projects," arthritis, blindness, heart pro­ six weeks. By the end of the chance to see them in some blems, depression, or a combin­ visiting period, the woman had and dying-or learning to say Shaw said. goodbye," Calsyn said. . other setting," Shaw said. ation of problems. Others may enrolled in an art class, was "And we had one student who was having trouble writing term have no family around or have going to a dining center on a ' While there are many altruis­ Visiting the eld~rly may pro­ papers," Calsyn said. " Her strained family relations. regular basis, and chose not to tic motives for being in the vide students with new insights. client helped her with grammar For some, social isolation is have a visitor the next semes­ program, there are a number of "I think for everybody it triggers and sentence structure." due to a fear of crime. For ter," Calsyn said. "We had selfish reasons too. "It is impor­ ~ a lot of questions," Calsyn said. others, it is because they have helped her through the grieving tant to students who hope to get "How do I relate to my own Sometimes being a visitor requires great versatility. "We remained in old neighborhoods process." into graduate school or for those parents or grandparents? What had one volunteer who would go while their friends have moved Another situation in which the who are deciding if they want to are my obligations to them and and read the Bible to his client away. Others are forced to program was able to provide a go into the helping profeSSIons. how can I best spend the time that I have left with them? Some in the morning, then play poker adjust to a new home them­ service that no one else could Several persons have made deci­ people say afterwards that they with the second client he visited selves. provide was when a visitor went sions to pursue careers with the see their family in a whole in the afternoon," Calsyn said. "We have a very wide range to see a inan with Alzheimer's aging as a result of the course," different light." Training for the course con­ of types of people," said Keith Disease. The visits gave the Calsyn said. • 'It can also be sists of two four-hour sessions in Shaw, coordinator of the pro­ man's wife a small amount of important for those students who Students visit two clients each which communications skills are gram, "but there is also a lot of time alone-the only time during want to stop after a bachelor's semester, for one or two hours a diversity in terms of their cir­ the week that she had all to degree and work in the human week. Visits range from just cumstances. In some cases, their herself. services." talking to sharing an interest in See "Visitors," page 10

Photos by Jim Hickman. SHORT OF BREATH: Comedian-cartoonist Steve Gipson entertained the crowd in the Summit ~un~e of the University Center last Tuesday as part of the continuing T-N-T series. Stud~ts presented him With a birthday cake in honor of his 32nd birthday. page 8 CURRENT April 15, 1982 Health awareness campaign held April 21

21 , in the Mark Twain gym from • If you are diabetic, eat your Laura Dyer 10am-4pm. Free screening tests usual diet and take your insulin will be offered weight, blood Preregistration schedule or other medication. The blood April 18-25 has been designa­ pressure, anemia, vision and Preregistration for the Summit. test will show how well your ted Health Fair Week in the St. glaucoma. An optional blood UMSL Health F 3;ir is avail­ -Monday, April 19 - diabetes is controlled. Louis me tropolita n area. Ap­ chemistry test which tests for ble at the Student Health 8:30-10:30am, Underground; • If you are having the glau­ coma screening you must take proximately 45 Health Fair sites diabetes, cholesterol, thyroid, Center, 127 Woods Hall, 12:30-2pm, Marillac; and 3- the vision test first. during the week-long health liver and kidney diseases and Monday through Friday from 7pm, Lucas Hall. promotion campaign will provide other components that could 1-4pm or at the following -Tuesday, April 20-8:30- • Stop at the Summary and Referral station before you leave free health screening, referral identify potential health prob­ locations and times: 1O :30am, University Center; and follow-up. lems, will be available for the -Friday, April 16-8- and llam-lpm, Mark Twain the fair so the nurse can give Student Health Center, a de­ nominal fee of $8. Other tests, 10:30am and 12 :30-3pm, Sports Complex. you a copy of your test results. partment of the Division of depending upon medical assis­ • Do not take your forms Student Affairs, is committed to tance availability, also will be will be provided by the faculty choices in lifestyle and health home. One set of forms cannot ' this health-awareness campaign offered. and students of the UMSL habits affect your health. Your be used at different Health Fair and is sponsoring, for the third Health Fair is an all-volunteer School of Optometry and the health is your responsibility and sites. consecutive year, the UMSL project and at the UMSL site the School of Nursing faculty. Stu­ periodic checkups will help you • If requested, a copy of the Health Fair Wednesday, April vision and glaucoma screening dents will serve as medical to maintain good heaUh." results can be mailed to your doctor. volunteers. Phyllis Lee, R.N., Another focus of Health Fair coordinator of Student Health is to provide information about Lab work for the blood tests is Center, stresses the importance health and community resources. done by Metpath, Inc. St. Louis of these campus volunteers and Various health-related agencies area sponsors of the 1982 Health emphasizes that without these will be represented and their Red Rockers to perform Fair are KSDK Channel 5 , people the Health Fair would not literature will be available to General American Life Insurance be possible. anyone interested. "Health Fair '82 is available Cos. and the American Red new wave concert to anyone 18 years of age and Lee offered these instructions Cross. for Health Fair participants: The Red Rockers, il four­ R. Anderson, chairman of the over - UMSL students and the Lee is highly enthusiastic member New Wave group Concert Committee of the rest of the community as well," • Wear sleeves which can be from New Orleans, will per­ Program Board. "They do said Lee. pushed up for a blood pressure about this year's Health Fair form at 8pm, April 19 in the very well on the coast." Lee said pre-registration is not test. and is encouraged by its success J .C. Penney Auditorium. One In the March 28, 1982 issue mandatory but helps cut down in the past three years. She • Take regular medication at member of the group, Darren of the San Francisco Chron­ on paperwork that must be hopes that much of the commu­ regular times. Hill, is from St. Louis. The icle Datebook, writer Michael completed at the actual time of nity, and, in particular, many UMSL stud_ents, will participate other members of the group Snyder said that their youth­ testing. She added, "Although • If you are having the option­ in at least some, if not all, are James Singletary, John ful idealism is similar to that the health screening tests do not al blood chemistry test you must aspects of the fair - from the Griffith, anq Patrick Jones. expressed in the folk-rock in any way replace a thorough fast for 6 to 8 hours but you may blood tests to simply gaining a protest songs of the 1960s. medical exam by a physician or drink water, plain coffee or plain little more knowledge about area The Red Rockers was start· "Compared to other New health care provider, it will unsweetened tea and take all health agencies. ed in March of 1980 and has Wave groups, " Anderson provide an opportunity for you to prescribed medication. Said Lee, "I want everybody acquire d a broad audience said, • 'their style is similar to learn about your own health or to take the opportunity to get since that time. They have The Clash." health problems and help you to • Do not drink fruit juice or involved in everything." been invited to perform in Tickets are $3.50 for UMSL better understand how daily milk before the test. Cuba this summer. students and $6.50 to the " Some fricnds of mine in public, and may be purchased Boston saw them and said at the Information Desk .in they were great." said Cedric the University Center Lobby.

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