Intercom Debates Image, Tuition Hikes Students Voice Concerns
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'TALL TALE' STAR MEASURES UP - PAGE 4 TCU DAILY SKIFF FRIDAY, MARCH 24,1995 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 92ND YEAR, NO. 90 Intercom debates image, tuition hikes Students voice concerns . - with Board of Trustees BY GINGER RICHARDSON "1 have a daughter here and would TCU DAILY SKIFF rather not see tuition increase to that extent," Scharbauer said. "1 think if Finding ways to improve the uni- we market ourselves as being as good versity's image while keeping tuition as Tulane, Vanderbilt or Wake Forest and fees at a reasonable level was the and then say, 'Oh, by the way, we're main issue of concern at Thursday's also $ 10,000 to $ 15,000 cheaper than f meeting between Intercom and mem- those schools,' that will be a draw to bers of the Board of Trustees. students." Student leaders and the Intercom members also asked the P» Trustee/Student Relations Commit- trustees to consider allocating funds ' j^J^jiiM^R*". tee also discussed what the financial for additional faculty, greater handi- ^^n . priorities of the university should be cap accessibility, residence hall ren- ^^^■^F # m. 'Mi,'. over the course of the next several ovations and increased scholarships years. — all of which would help improve Louis H. Barnett. a trustee from TCU's image, they said. Fort Worth, proposed increasing "The main thing we are concerned tuition to the level of schools such as about is image," said Scott Wheatley. ''*,'//'uM/t^^ i^k Tulane or Wake Forest to solve what a junior political science major and ™ %Jlmh some trustees and Intercom members student body president. "TCU has a considered to be the university's story to tell, and I think we need to be image problem. more proactive in telling that story." "If we want to be perceived as a Campus diversity and improving Tulane or a Wake Forest, or some the technological services available fflmiufttt other schools of that caliber," Barnett at the university were also discussed. said, "should we be priced like a Elaine Willey, a junior political ^^^^SwM^^^^: Tulane or Wake Forest?" science major and chairwoman of the Clarence Scharbauer 111, a trustee Honors Cabinet, said the university from Midland, Texas, said he could maintain its academic compet- BM\\\\\\\\\\\K opposed increasing TCU's tuition itiveness if the trustees allocated ■ TCU Daily Skiff/ Rebecca NewitI substantially because there were funds to hire additional faculty. Traci Twardowski, Panhellenic president; Sharon Selby, Student House vice-president; and Christi Campbell, Student other ways to improve the univer- House secretary discuss issues at the Intercom meeting Thursday. sity's image. see Trustees, page 2 Forum addresses Adjunct English instructor dies BY CHRISTI GIFFORD Corder said he enjoyed spending time with Mar- received his degree from TCU, he taught off and on. TCU DAILY SKIFF tin. "I was shocked and startled to hear about his Martin lived in Fort Worth his entire life, accord- diversity at TCU death," Corder said. ing to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He graduated Glenn E. Martin, an adjunct instmctor in English Daniel said Martin was teaching a class last fall from Lake Worth High School and received bache- and Ph.D. graduate of TCU, died Tuesday of a heart and missed one class due to a heart attack. Martin lor's and master's degrees from the University of Multicultural, homosexual issues attack, according to Biggers Funeral Home. returned to class the next week, Daniel said. Texas at Arlington. Martin owned Editorial and Lit- An official death certificate was not available at Martin received his doctorate from TCU in 1991. erary Services Co., according to the Star- Telegram, discussed; affirmative action debated press time. Daniel said Martin wrote his dissertation on the and taught at Tarrant County Junior College. "He had a weak heart," said Neil Daniel, a pro- metaphors of science writers. Daniel said Martin worked as a writing consul- fessor of English and chairman of the department. "He had a wonderful wit," he said. "Martin was tant and part time as a manuscript editor for Har- BY DAVID JIMENEZ "More minorities are in the Jim Corder, a professor of English and a member quite a story teller." court Brace. TCU DAILY SKIFF poverty level and have this unequal of Martin's doctoral dissertation approval commit- Martin taught freshman and sophomore composi- Corder said the adjunct instructor also worked playing field," he said. tee, said he worked closely with Martin. tion part time as a graduate assistant. After he as a freelance editor. Cultural diversity was the topic Senior neuroscience major Matt of Thursday's Frog Forum in the Flaherty said requiring a certain Student Center Lounge. minority population influences Chris Montez, president of the affirmative action. Organization of Latin American "When we talk about having 20 Former student given last wish: diploma Students, and Joel Plaag, TCU Tri- to 30 percent minority population, angle president, gave opening that influences affirmative action." speeches on the importance of Flaherty said. "The numbers are BY CINDY GARCIA Carter, who was supposed to have graduated in representing the Virgin Islands. Carter worked for de diversity at TCU. too small and you have to imple- TCU DAILY SKIFF May 1986, did not receive his diploma because he Lugo until 1991, when Carter was diagnosed with Montez, a sophomore philoso- ment affirmative action, and that is was having financial problems which prevented him AIDS. phy and math double major, said not justified," he said. Linda Moore, an associate professor of social from paying his TCU bill, said Wilma Carter, his Carter then came back to Texas to work for the diversity is inclusive. Anthony Johnson, a sophomore work and director of TCU's social work program, mother. Texas Alcohol Beverage Control Board in Austin as TCU tends to be generally exclu- premajor and multicultural coordi- walked into the cold, white hospital room, leaned Moore said Jonathan was a good student. a liaison between the board and the state. Mrs. Carter sive and students need to become nator for the Programming Coun- over her former student, took his hand and told him "He made an extremely high score on the LSAT, said. unified, he said. cil, said affirmative action is that TCU had decided to grant him his dying wish. but was never able to attend law school because he "Carter never lost his job or a friend," she said. "We need to make a community needed to make up for historical He was going to receive his college diploma. had no transcript," Moore said. But in 1994. under the recommendation of his together," Montez said. "It is some- discrimination of minorities. A tear slid down Jonathan Carter's face. Strug- Carter's mother said he didn't let his lack of a doctor, he did take a !ea\ e of absence. thing students need to want," "In a perfect world," he said, gling, the former TCU student said, "Mom will be diploma slow him down. After graduation, he went Moore said Carter loved TCU, and came back to It is a social duty of TCU to have "there would be no need for affir- very happy." to work for a law firm in Washington, D.C. as a legal his alma mater during his leave of absence from a diverse university, he said. Mon- mative action. Affirmative action is Those were Carter's last words. assistant. work to speak to classes about how he contracted his tez said Hispanics constituted 40 a way to equalize things." Forty-five minutes later, he went into a coma. The After working at the law firm. Carter went on to percent of the country's population Plaag, a junior music education next day, February 4, 1995, the 33-year-old died. work for Rep. Ron de Lugo, a nonvoting delegate see Wish, page 6 and only 3.5 percent of the popula- major, said the forum was impor- tion at TCU. tant for issues which need to be "Demographics of United States openly discussed. should be a guideline to demo- "People need to see other's TCU gets piece of Mars after trade with collector graphics at TCU," he said. views," he said. "We need to try and Montez also said there were 198 look through the other person's started his collection in the 1920s, he along with other meteorites, are minorities employed by TCU. More eyes." BY MICHA CORTESE than all other known meteorites. important research tools. Donovan than half those employees work in Plaag's speech, "Diversity TCU DAILY SKIFF It is a young 1.3 billion years old, said. "service positions" and only nine are Means Strength." focused on compared to most meteorites which The department traded a piece of said. administrators, he said. homosexuals being the "invisible There are only eight of what are are 4.5 billion to 4.6 billion years old, its collection for the slice of Mars, He said the Mars meteorite is Montez said TCU had made a minority." believed to be Martian meteorites, he said. which is worth $2,500, with collector believed to have come from asteroids goal to have a minority student pop- "Gay people look like everyone called "Snicks," and the TCU Geol- Donovan said it had isotope ratios David New, Donovan said. colliding with each other and, as a ulation of 20 percent by 2000. else." he said. "There is no charac- ogy department has gotton a slice of similar to Mars. That is why geolo- "Trading with other collectors result, hitting Mars at a very low However, he said that number teristic behavior that gays have." the action.