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Volume 76 No. 56 Youngstown, OH Tuesday, January 7,1997 Course was not all fun and games H&HS granted LYNN NICKELS New Jersey — where they ob• Assistant News Editor served, as well as were responsible for individual presentations. master's "It's hard to teach a course if you can't see it. You have to get degree In response to the interest in the real experience. It would be gambling raised by Issue One in hard to teach oceanography here BETH ANNE TURNER November, YSU offered a one• in Youngstown. There's nowhere Assistant News Editor time course in gaming last quar• legal in this area to go [for gam• ter. But the course was more work bling]," said Campbell. YSU has been authorized than play. Campbell said he was hoping to award a master's of health Thirty-six students signed up to position YSU's program as the and human services degree. It for Professional Aspects of the number one gaming program in the is scheduled to be implemented Gaming Industry which covered state if Issue One passed. The hos• this fall, after being approved by casino layout, detecting cheating pitality management field is the the Ohio Board of Regents at its and casino surveillance tech• fastest growing industry in the December meeting. niques. Students also learned the country and the world, with gam• The graduate degree pro• rules of casino games like roulette, ing being the fastest growing seg• gram will have two distinct slots, craps, black jack, baccarat, ment within the industry, accord• tracks— health promotion and poker and keno, spending approxi• ing to Campbell. health and human services ad• mately I5minutes per class period Campbell, however, said he ministration. actually playing the games. never thought Issue One would Study areas for the new The course was not as easy as Lon Balmenii, The Jambar really pass, nor did any of his stu• degree program will include it sounded, said Bob Campbell, Bob Campbell taught a course in casino operations last dents. He said no one was encour• management information sys• coordinator of the hospitality man• quarter in/esporise to the Issue One discussions. aged in class to vote either way, tems, applied statistics, organi• agement program. Students were one trip. two field trips — one to a riverboat however, the majority of the stu- zational behavior and staffing, required to do a research paper, Students applied their casino in Tunica, Mississippi and grant development, current is• take two exams and go on at least classwork to the real world during another to casinos jn Atlantic City, Gaming.... continued on page 2 sues type courses, gerontology, strategic analysis and program planning. Prof pulls professional experience into classroom "The degree developed to respond to changes in the health LORI BALMENTI and human services industry," Contributing Writer "I jumped into art said Alice Burger, assistant to without any con• the dean of health and human A new assistant art professor services, and associate profes• has more to offer students than the scious decision• sor, department of health profes• basics of sculpture and design. sionals. Commissioned by the city of making, without The curriculum for the new Baltimore, artist Greg Moring graduate degree is designed to earned his living as a sculptor for any understand• meet the expressed needs of more than twenty years. His de• health and human services em• signs can be seen throughout the ing of what the ployers and employees, and to city, including works in the Balti• rest of my life was provide allied professionals a more Transit System. A develop• "bridge for career enhance• ment ordinance in the city, which going to be like." ment," said Dr. John Yemma, allocated 1 percent of municipal dean of the college. buildings total construction or Greg Moring renovation costs to artwork, pro• The department of health vided the funding. and human services selected they possess a gentle gracefulness. 1,100 graduate students and cur• Working in metals fabrication, In an impressive and somewhat, rent seniors to participate in a Moring's work combines large puzzling principle, his sculptures survey to determine whether scale recognizable shapes with entice onlookers to engage in in• there was enough interest in the fluid and curvilinear organic Lon Balmenti, The Jambar teraction with his work. program. forms. The artist and his work: Greg Moring poses with one of Some of his. works possess The poll was designed to Inspired by the works of ab• his sculptures at his Youngstown studio. majestic dignity, while others, like gauge student response to the stract expressionist sculptor, David a well-trained dancer, seem one started college as a pre-med major In one decisive moment, he program and designate a conve• Smith, and surrealist painter Joan with their environment—embrac• but became discouraged in an ad• walked out in the middle of class nient class schedule. Seventy- Miro, Moring's designs combine ing movement with ease and agil• vanced chemistry class. The and went to speak with an advisor three percent of the respondents the playfulness of childlike ait with ity. classroom's windows happened to about changing majors. When the sophistication and style. Although Moring said creating works of overlook the art building and generally these works are massive, art wasn't always his dream. He sculpture studio. Prof. continued on page 2 3&HS continued on page 4 Weather WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY rt&a Today 28 31 26 23 . |§| Scattered snow showers Snow flurries Partly Cloudy Chance of Snow *" ' Chance of Snow ; 's new colle YSU Media Services - Ohio's new to evaluate a number of perfor• Noting that the funding incen• In other business... higher education funding formula tives recognize mission-specific mance standards, including ac• • President Leslie Cochran, reported on the Metropolitan College received a strong endorsement countability, economic develop• performance, Cochran said the Project. Later, the Board authorized the transfer of $100,000 from the from members of the YSU Board ment and student access in their new formula will be especially General Fund contingency reserve to fund centers at Austintown Plaza, of Trustees. annual funding considerations. beneficial to YSU, which has al• Eastwood Mall and Southern Park Mall. Cochran also marked the During their Friday, Dec. 13 Previously, enrollment was ready developed performance stan• progress of construction on the new College of Education building. meeting, the Board signed a Reso• the major deciding factor in deter- dards in line with those cited as ex• Plans call for the building to be completed before Fall 1998. lution of Commendation for the mining the funding levels for emplary by the Commission. • The board authorized the granting of an honorary degree to Dr. Ear• Higher Education Funding Com• Ohio's 38 higher-education insti• "Our mission, as stated in our nest Perry, a 1959YSU graduate. Perry served on the University Board mission, citing its "dedication and tutions. Vision 2000 document, stresses of Trustees from 1984 to 1993. commitment to shape a new future The plan also assesses issues access and diversity, economic '•The Board approved the combining of the University's equal-oppor• for higher education in the state." related to affordability and stresses development, the integration of tunity and affirmative action policies. The new policy states, "YSU is The Trustees pledged their a commitment to increase the teaching and research and service committed to a campus environment that values all individuals and support of the commission's new state's funding share to 65 percent to the community among other groups, and to non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all per• funding process, which evaluates (up from its current 50 percent goals developed to provide a high sons .without regard to sex, race, religion, color, age, national origin, criteria related to enrollment, per• share). quality learning experience while sexual orientation, handicap/disability, or identification as a disabled formance and tuition in determin• YSU President Les Cochran contributing to regional and state• and/or Vietnam Era veteran. The University is also committed to the ing the funding needs of each in• calls the plan "revolutionary for wide needs," he said. principles of affirmative action and acts in accordance with state and stitution. Ohio's colleges and universities," "These are the very goals that federal laws." J Under the plan, the Ohio citing its potential to "reshape the Regents will be looking to fi• • The Board approved a $160,000 budget for the maintenance and Board of Regents will be required higher education in the state." nancially subsidize" operation of a Pete and Penny's store in the mall. ISssay Contest - Cash Prizes Gaming DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES Continued from page 1 1996-97 Essay Contest for Majors and Minors in Philosophy or Religious Studies Cash Prizes: -dents did support it. With the defeat of Issue One and legalized riverboat gambling in the valley, Campbell said Youngstown may have lost more $200 for the 1st place paper in philosophy than it gained. $200 for the 1st place paper in religious studies "I was disappointed for our students and Youngstown. We are ex• $100 for the 2nd place paper in philosophy cited to get 400 jobs with a new prison, but just think of the loss of the $100 for the 2nd place paper in religious studies 2000 jobs the gaming industry would have brought," said Campbell. He predicts that every state that touches Ohio either has, or will Current YSU majors and minors in philosophy or religious studies are invited to compete for cash prizes in have, legalized gambling in the next five years. People will go to other an annual essay contest sponsored by the department of philosophy & religious studies and underwritten by states to spend their gambling dollars instead of keeping those dollars The Philosophy Circle-the support group of the department speaker series.

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