The Ithacan, 1991-09-19

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1991-92 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 9-19-1991 The thI acan, 1991-09-19 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1991-92 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1991-09-19" (1991). The Ithacan, 1991-92. 5. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1991-92/5 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1991-92 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Administration ponders·. Iran-contra affair leaves High-tech audio becomes a reducing faculty course loads · · .residual. scar reality in Ford Hall .. •.. page 4 ... page 9 ... page 11 '. TheITHACAN The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 59, No. 5 Thursday,September 19, 1991 28 pages Free S_tudying the Runners' high tongue to help treat speaking disorders Speech Pathology research team breaks new ground By Kate Springer Vibrating probes and tick.ling sensations are an intricate part of a research project in the Speech Pathology department. In 1974 Dr. Kalil Telage, an associate professor in the department of Speech" Pa tho logy and Audiology, started research test ing for oral lingual vibro-tactal sensitivity, according to Mandy Chester '92,a student on Telage's current research team. This current team is composed ofTelage, Chester, Shelley Lown, a second year gradu ate studentandBeverly Collisson, a first year graduate student "The research team is typi cally made up of graduate students but occa sionally we get an interested undergrad like Mandy," Telage said. "We are testing to see how sensitive a person's tongue is, or rather when a person can and when they cannot feel sensation: Chester said. Ithacan I Greg Hollmann According to Chester, the group has the Two runners enjoy a late afternoon jog around the track. idea that there is a link between the sensitiv ity of a person's tongue and severe commu nication disorders. "As normal speakers, we get sensory feed- - back from our tongue and we are wondering Future plans for f acuity if a person who isn't developing normal communication skills are getting that same sort of feedback," Collisson said. Collisson said that there might be a break handbook remain uncertain down in the area of the tongue that woul~ contribute to a person not receiving the im- Two separate committees work on handbook1s development "We are testing to see how By Chris Lewis new faculty," Dunnick said. --------------"We would like to have a final sensitive a person's tongue is, Some 34 years since its introduction, the Formerly, these details had been indepen decision on the progress of the or rather when a person can proposal for an IC faculty handbook is still dently distributed among the college's five being considered. schools, but the purpose of the handbook is to handbook by the end of the and when they cannot feel The idea for a faculty handbook stems incorporate these ideas together into a more year, yet this is not a guaran sensation." from a reference in old faculty contracts, and concise and plausible form, Dunnick said. tee." -Mandy Chester '92, twosimilarhandbookcommitteeswhichwere Dunnick said, the State University ofNew research team member formed in 1957 and again in the late 1960s, -Professor Kim Dunnick York oversees Ithaca College's Board of faculty handbook according to Professor Kim Donnick, the Trustees. portant sensory infonnation. current committee chairman. Although this body is empowered to, it committee chairman So far in the study, the research group has These committees were disbanded before probably would not override the pending Faculty Handbook Subcommittee and the gathered nonnative data to see if there are the book was ever devised, apparen-tly lost in approval of the handbook by President James administration may begin. parameters of sensitivity that normal speak- theshuffleofadministrativeredtape;Dunnick J. Whalen, Dunnick said. "History has not been very kind to prior ers fall into, Collisson said. said. The Faculty Council has already approved optimism in such Faculty Handbook talks, The process of testing is painless and The current progress of the handbook far the handbook, he said. "We would like to but we hope this time will be different," takes approximately 20 minutes, Chester exceeds the earlier endeavors, which never have a final decision on the progress of the Rosenthal said. said. The team begins by explaining oo the made it before the Board of Trustees, he said. handbook by the end of the year, yet this is George Schunk, chairman of the trustee's subject what they will be doing and what Thefacultycouncilhandbook~mmittee, not a guarantee," Dunnick said. handbook committee, sees the handbook as their role is in the study. a seven-member sub-committee of the Fae- The Board of Trustees received a draft being helpful in documenting an outline of The subject signs a consent form and is ulty Council, has worked since 1985 to create copy and met with the handbook committee the procedures to keep faculty from acciden showed the testing apparatus. According to the handbook; Dunnick said. in August 1991 for their first discussion about tally steering off the path. Chesler the equipment was designed espe- The committee includes Faculty Council · the book, Donnick said. Schunk said that the Board's subcommit cially for this study. The subject sits in a Chairman John Rosenthal, Professors Mike Dunnick said the meeting was positive, tee, including members David Sass, Arthur dentist's chair and their tongue is set under- Pagliarulo, Ron Havard, Ron Nicoson, Jim but acknowledged that no time line was set Narr and Lawrence Aleva, is still determin _ neath a vibratin_g probe. The probe causes a Markowitz, and Richard Creel, according to for the Board's approval. ing what the faculty considers important in ticklinfsensation on the subject's tongue. Dunnick. "The handbook won't be so restrictive the handbook. , Awareness trials get the subject used to The purpose of the faculty handbook is to that we 'II have to periodically revise it>'but it Former Board of Trustee member, the late the sensation. The subject is asked to push an inform both future and current teachers and will get the job done," Dunnick said. Bob Colbert, was also a member of the sub indicator button when they don't feel the administrators of such matters_ as tenureship, A meeting between the Board of Trustees committee. sensation anymore, Chester said. · sabbaticai application, new degrees, and pro- and the administration has been slated for According to Schunk, it is too soon to set "The results are then added to the data motions, Dunnick said. · sometime in October to discuss.pending con a criteria upon which the handbook will be collection," Chester said. The handbook will also serve to inform cerns with the handbook. accepted or rejected, or to set a date for this The team is-finishing up testing on. the staff members of working conditions, job Rosenthal, chairman for the faculty coun decision. "It's obvious that the Faculty Hand ·__ ~ control group consisting ofcollege age speak- pr~edures ~d responsibili~~Jacu_lty e~alu cil handbook committee, said he hopes to book Subcommittee has put a lot of long -·. ers wh.ose ages range from 18 to 23, Lown . ?,Uo~s.c~c~lum,andaddillon~opera~o.ns. have a writien synopsis of these concerns by volunteer hours into their work; it is a very ·. -·-· · ' · See "Tongue," page·~- _- The book wtll also be of value m recrmung late October so that discussions between the See "Handbook," page 8 J · Septemberl9, 1991 2 THEITHACAN Broken Counselor's Ithacan Inquirer hearts can By Tor Seemann be mended MMd____ ..:....J By Dr. Rosemary_ Clar~e process, there are things to do Question: You're in arelanonsh1p-- and to help yourself: What is your impression of Ithaca College's library? suddenlyoutoftheblue,it'sover. 'Y ·Shock & Denial -- face the The person you've loved and fact of the loss. Say and recog. counted on and with whom nize out loud that the person you've shared things you've never has left told anyone else, has decided to 'Y Anger -· It is natural to feel move on. You feel like the bot anger and important to venti tom just dropped out of your late it with someone who will world. Whatcouldyouhavedone listen. The more fully you al· to deserve this? low your feelings to come out What you're experiencing is the sooner they will fade & grief, a universal respon~ to l~ss. gradually disappear. And you are also expenencmg 'Y Bargaining-involves feel· change. ingsor thoughts like "there must When a relationship ends, we be something I can do" or "give Dana Taylor '95 are left with psychological needs me one more chance." Lorie Magnum '93 Lukas Tramp '95 to fulfill that were met through 'Y Depression -- usually OC· Music Psychology Exploratory the relationship. Two of these curs \\'.hen we acknowledge the harsh reality of what has hap· "At times it can be quite "The Gannett center lacks in "It'sbigandhaslotsofbooks. psychological needs are stimu resources necessary to com So far I've been able to get lation, and structure. pened. We are face to face with loud, but overall the library the loss and the ending. Crying is adequate for studying." plete in-depth research. This what I needed when I wanted Our need for stimulation is is a problem." it I like the lighting system." met through the relationship. is one way ofreleasing the pain.

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