ORIOLES'STEWART .TRIES COMEBACK -SEEPAGE IO Volume 59 ®ln> iHtamt If urriratu> Number 45 Phone 284-4401 TUESDAY, APRII S, 1983 Newman Removed From Freshman Composition By LOURDES FERNANDEZ Bv LOURDES FF.llM AMTIR7 uIfreshma n composition),____..,_; it', s a crit,_i, of freshman composition, Newman trator as they can get, particularly taries are needed, since they serve M. __ Hurricane News Editor cal service to the students. It may says his sabbatical no longer is of when it comes to areas of adminis­ 70 teachers and over 3,000 students be immodest to say this, but I've such an importance, and he will tration that depend on professional "This program has grown so Ron Newman, director of fresh­ worked at this job 60 hours a week therefore ask for only one semester. man composition, has been removed speciality," Newman cited as one of much in size and sophistication that for 11 and a half months |a year)." "He has taken away, deprived the flaws. expecting one secretary to cope from his position of ten years after He added that the way Russo me, of one of the most intense moti­ refusing to resign. with all the demand struck me as handled the situation compels him vating factors for taking my sab­ There are two areas in the Eng­ unwise," Newman said. According to English department to think there are "political rea­ batical," he said. "One of the major lish department — rhetorical writ­ chairman, John Paul Russo, it is his sons" behind his removal. reasons I would have found it easy ing and literature. Newman says Newman said that he and Russo policy to rotate directors within the Newman said that he offered to to read, take notes, and write for 14 that specialists in rhetorical develop have differed on a number of department every few years. resign as of May 1985, instead of hours a day for two semesters, theories on how writing would best points, but have also cooperated on "Administrative positions ought immediately, but Russo refused that would have been knowing that I be taught. many things. "I can't help but think to change from time to time," said offer. was not only getting a book out of that my assertiveness may strike Russo. "Nobody should be in one According to Newman, there are him as too strong," he added. "I asked for those two semesters this, but coming back to implement only a few qualified specialists in position for over five years." because in my application for sab­ these designs. I feel so exasperated. Katherine Bell, the current asso­ the department. "His theory of ro­ Newman also said that the "curi­ batical, I had two projects: I wanted "I had a vision of bringing to the tating is difficult to defend," said ous coincidence of a disagreement ciate director, will serve as acting to write a book on how to teach culmination of my directing this director for the next year. Newman. "The rotation theory and dismissal at the end may be in­ across-the-curriculum writing and program," said Newman. "I doesn't have too many people to significant, but certainly is abrupt. According to Newman, the facul­ design such a program for UM." thought it was something I could draw on." ty book states that any appointment "I've served longer than I expect­ Across-the-curriculum writing really give the university." Another flaw, said Newman, is of director of undergraduate studies involves teaching professors in all This, he said, is why he offered to ed to, but while serving that long I should have the vote of the depart­ the timing. Instead of removing learned a lot about doing the job areas of the university to evaluate resign after returning from his sab­ Newman from his post when,Russo ment faculty behind it. the writing done by their students batical. well." But Newman says he won't fight first .arrived last year, he removed and requiring their students to Newman said there are two other him after a disagreement. Russo says he has rotated other Russo's decision, since Russo "has write. fundamental flaws to Russo's theo­ positions, such as graduate studies the authority." This is the kind of program New­ ry that posts should be rotated Th^ disagreement stemmed from (from John McCollum to Patrick Said Newman: "I've been run­ man expected to implement at this every three years. moving one of the two secretaries McCarthy) and undergraduate stud­ ning this for ten years and am university. "The students of this university in freshman composition to litera­ ies (from Skipp Francis to Robert proud of the teaching done here But, with his dismissal as djrector deserve as an experienced adminis­ ture. Newman said that two secre­ CasilloX Newman Johnson Space Center heart of space missions By CHARLES LAVIN of the most sophisticated communi­ in the MOCR monitor every part of Managing Ediior cation and data equipment avail­ the mission, from the operation of able. In this building — which con­ the control room itself to the crew's Editors note: Yesterday at 1:30 tains enough wiring to loop around medical condition and the condition p.m. the Space Shuttle Challenger- the earth three times — are all the of the spacecraft. Through the com­ embarked on its maiden mission technicians and computers to en­ plex electronics in the building and (see coverage in Friday's Hurri­ sure a successful space mission once the advanced communications net­ cane). With this article we embark the spacecraft leaves the earth. work involved, the mission surgeon on a multi-part series on the making The focal point of Mission Con­ can monitor the heartbeat and of a Shuttle mission. trol, however, is the Mission Opera­ blood pressure of a crew member, tions Control Room, more common­ the engineer can check whether the Courtesy NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, ly known as MOCR. It is here that equipment is functioning properly, Closeup view of a MOCR console HOUSTON — Kennedy Space Cen­ flight controllers monitor vital in­ and the crew can transmit TV pic­ ter gets all the attention these days formation about the mission and the tures from the mission — all from trot's support of the mission, an compare what is happening with specialists in other facilities, to pe, with Shuttle takeoffs; Dryden spacecraft, either from the consoles hundreds of miles in orbit. emergency control center at God­ what should be happening. This sonnet on other bases, and to the Flight Research Center gets all the where they are stationed or from There are actually two identical dard Space Flight Center in Mary­ data is seldom displayed unless mission crew — without having to attention with Shuttle landings. But projected displays on screens in the MOCRs in the Mission Control land will take over. something doesn't match. In that leave their consoles. the place with the most activity be­ front of the room. building. They can be used inde­ The heart of Mission Control is case, the information is distributed All this requires a half-acre of fore, during, and after a Shuttle The consoles include one or more pendently to control separate mis­ the Mission operations wing, to the MOCR consoles. This system computer banks and complex elec­ mission is Johnson Space Center. video screens, and switches to let sions, or one can be used as a bac­ housed on the first floor. This wing also computes whatever corrections tronic equipment. The system is so JSC is the heart of any space mis­ the controllers call up any desired kup should the other not be usable. houses all the computers, recorders, may be needed in position or veloci­ complex and expensive that its cost sion. It is here that spacecrafts are information on their screens. The In fact, a great portion of the control panels, and distribution ty of the spacecraft to prevent any "dwarfs the cost of the computers designed, developed, and tested. As­ main feature of the display system equipment and .personnel in the unuipment tbat U»e second, apd third tronauts are selected and trained in at the front of the room are the five MCC is there ror emergency pin- floors requ; "•fflPSlcalculationc s made by these M i&_ft_flF^lW^ &&_. its facilities. Most medical, scientif­ large screens that are used to proj­ poses, with up to five assigned bac­ One set of computers in this wing computers are made the instant the man. ic, and engineering experiments are ect everything from plotting charts kups per MOCR console during a processes incoming data from the data is received from the world­ But is is largely due to this sys­ carried out in its labs. And missions to actual TV images from the orbi­ mission. MCC is supported by an spacecraft and distributes it to the wide network of tracking stations tem, and to the technicians and are planned — and controlled — ter. The display system also in­ emergency power building, which MOCR and support rooms. It also that helps to monitor the mission, other personnel that operate it, that provides emergency power and air handles commands transmitted to thus enabling personnel to correct a shuttle missions can be carried out here. cludes other units which show the orbiter from MCC. The building with the most activ­ elapsed time, time remaining, and conditioning in case regular power threatening situation as it develops. — and completed — safely. Other computers process incom­ Another system enables the flight ity at JSC during a mission is Mis­ other information concerning any fails. And should something happen Next training for a Shuttle mission sion Control Center (MCC).