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Fall 1997
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Barbara Cloud University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Laurie Fruth University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [email protected]
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Vol. 6, No.1 on the cover: UNlV memorabilia provided courtesy of the James R, Dickinson library, the Athletic Department, Wayne 4otk- Cleveland, Walter Vodrazka, Carl AI1Jfigerra¥y FedU¥~ Cook, Kari Coburn, and Bill Ireland, Photo by Studio West. 6 The Start of Something Big
E~~rlyUNL V fantlt)' 1··ecall the pletHU7'esof Edito•-: Suzan DiBella an-iving on camptH' at"~time when the good news Assistant Editor: Diane Russell was that tfm'e lJiasplenty offree parhng . Of Art Director: John Hobbes CIIU7'Se,the bad neTJJS was that a rattlemalze could Contributing Writers: Barbara Cloud, be IJJaiting tmde7'you7' des/e. L1urie Fruth Illustrator: John Hobbes BY BARBARA C LOUD Photographers: John Litty, Herb Herpolshcimer 4otk- AnJtiverrary FeaJ;ur'~ Ca.lcndar Editor: Gloria Zombro Advertising Coordinator: Becky Warson 1 0 Oh, The Things We Did Mailing List Coordinator: Stacey fish Some l!{thewt 1'nayhave been wacley. Sowte m-ay haJJebeert short-lived. Othen might have actually Publications Manager: Donna McAleer changed the cott7'SCof the tmivenity's destiny. But Director, U niversity P ublic.1tions and the UN LV events of the last 40 yean· that have Reprographics: Les Raschko cti11'te to be lmonm as r Alumni Association Officers President: Raf.1el Villanueva 18 Hangin' at the General l st Vice p,-es.: Jim Zeiter Store ... And Listening Closely 2nd Vice Pres.: Jim Ratigan Treasurer: Jim Kirkwood Fm' 11 years, linguist Gtty Railey has been Secretary: Ray Tuntbnd studying the dialect 1!{th e residents of a small Member-at-Large: Kevin Page town in Texa.r in search of the 1wigins 1!{African Alumni Association Board Members American Vemacula1·· English. What he .finds Tony Abmo Diane Dixon may shed .rome light on a crmtroveny that could Ron Drake Sharlene Flushman Russ Petersen Kirk Hendrick affect how millions ofchild7··en lea7'n language Bruce Ford Tina K111ncr Murphy sleills in our schools. Adam Keith Ralph Piercy BarryShinehousc Mary Westbrook BY DIANE RUSSELL UNLV Mngn.zinc is published in March and September by the University ofNcv~tda,La s 2-5 News Vegas, 4505 M;uyland Pkwy, llox 451012, Las Vegas, NV 89154-1012. World Wide 22-24 Calenda1~ Web Address: http:/ j www.unlv.cclu/ UN LV is an AA/ EEO insrirurion. 26-27 Class Notes FA/ , L /99 7 + 1 New Deans Appointed to Lead Six University Colleges Regents Approve Four New UNLV Degree Programs New deans have been appointed to CoLLEGE OF HEALTH SciENCES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS lead the Colleges of Fine Arts, Health Carolyn Sabo, interim dean of Elvin C. Lashbrooke, the former Four new UNLV degree programs - Initially, students will be able to brought in to teach each semester. Sciences, Business, Education, and UNLV's College ofHealili Sciences since associate dean of the Eli Broad College of a master of science and a Ph.D. in specialize in one of three tracks: The program is small; only 12 Sciences, and the Greenspun College of July 1995, has been selected as dean of Business at Michigan State University, has environmental sciences, a master of environmental chemistry, environ students per year will be admitted. Two Urban Mfairs. Their nan1es were that college. been appointed dean ofUNLV's College fine arts in creative writing, and a mental policy and management, tracks are available to students - one in forwarded to UNLV President Carol C. Sabo, who came to UNLV as an of Business. bachelor of science in culinary arts and environmental geology. fiction and one in poetry. Harter by Provost Douglas Ferraro assistant professor in the department of Lash brooke, management - have been Additional tracks are anticipated The bachelor of science in culinary following national searches. nursing in 1984 and was promoted to who had served approved by the Board of Regents. in such fields as environmental arts management will provide educational associate professor in 1990, also served as as associate dean The new graduate programs in health and environmental law. opportunities for the student planning to CoLLEGE oF FINE ARTs acting chair of ilie department of at Michigan environmental sciences, which are The new master of fine arts in pursue a career as a chef/ manager. The Jeffrey Koep, who served as interim radiological sciences and acting director State since now being offered, are interdisci creative writing, which is also program, which will begin in fall1998 , dean of the college for two years, has of the department of physical therapy. 1993, had also plinary programs involving faculty currently underway, is a unique will accommodate transfer students from been selected as dean ofUNLV's College She has previously from 11 different UNLV creative writing program with an two-year culinary arts programs, such as ofFine Arts. served as chaired tl1e departments, the Harry Reid international emphasis. the one at the Community College of He first came to UNLV as chair of coordinator of university's Center for Environmental Students are required to Southern Nevada. the theatre arts department in 1989 - a the graduate department of Studies, and the Desert Research spend one semester during their To be administered by the food and position he held until being appointed nursmg program general business Institute. three years of study in a non-English beverage management department and Elvin Lashbrooke interim dean. atUNLV, and business law The degree programs emphasize the speaking country and also are required to the dean of the William F. Harrah Koep currently serves as co-director assistant for 11 years. need to understand the consequences of complete one significant literary transla College of Hotel Administration, the of the SAG Conservatory in Las Vegas, professor of He has taught law and business using science and technology in the tion. Additionally, foreign novelists, program is designed to be a joint effort director of the National Senior Adult nursing at the courses at Michigan State, Cambridge service of civilization. short-story writers, and poets will be with CCSN. lr.1 Theatre Institute, national vice-chair and University of University, Notre Dame Law School, chair-elect of the Kennedy Center's Utah's College Stetson University College of Law, and Carolyn Sabo American College Theatre Festival, and of Nursing, staff DePaul University College of Law. chair of the board of directors of the nurse and head He taught matl1ematics at St. Society of American Fight Directors. nurse at the University Medical Center in Edward's University and served as a He has directed more than 100 plays Salt Lake City, and staff nurse at Holy matl1ematician and analyst for the during his career Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City. continued on pag e 4 and has acted in a wide variety of stage produc tions. He has Seniors Win NCAA Tennis Championships also appeared in movies and Two UNLV seniors, Luke Smiili and Australia, Smith was not seeded in the commercials. Tim Blenkiron, brought home nvo NCAA singles tournament; he was ranked 65th Koep has tennis championships last spring. when he entered. He then went on to won numerous Smith, who won the win without losing a set. awards, includ men's NCAA singles Blenkiron, a hotel adminis Jeffrey Koep ing nvo John F. competition, joined wiili tration major from Woodside, Kennedy Center Blenkiron to take the Australia, had never before Gold Medallions presented for contribu doubles championship as participated in an NCAA tions to excellence in theatre in 1989 well. Smitl1's victory tournament. The doubles and 1992. Koep is one of only nine marks the first singles title team, which was ranked 19tl1 persons in the United States to receive for Ul\TLV, and it was and was also unseeded, lost more than one of tl1e Kennedy Center only the second time in 20 only two sets in the NCAA medallions. years of NCAA champion competition. Before coming to UNLV, he served ships that the same player Witl1 tl1e victories, boili as chair and associate professor of claimed the singles and doubles titles in Smiili and Blenkiron earned automatic communication arts at Indiana University the same year. berths to this year's main draw ofilie U.S . at South Bend. An art major from Clarendon, Open. lr.1 2 + UNLV MA GAZI NE FA L L 199 7 + 3 Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies Established Professor Thomas Wright Receives Outstanding Faculty Award A $3.7 million gift from Robert T. are extremely fortunate tl1at concerned chemistry- empirical scientific investi and Diane Bigelow will fund a new citizens like Robert and Diane Bigelow gations into the natural laws of the The UNLV Alumni Association America. He has traveled extensively in Humanities Committee in 1996. academic position in the College of take an active interest in the sciences and universe - applied to the study of recently selected history professor support of his research; most recently, he Wright holds a doctorate and master's Sciences at UNLV. provide funds to bring the finest quality consciousness," explained Robert Thomas Wright as its 1997 recipient of served as a visiting professor degree in history from tl1e The Bigelow Chair of Consciousness scholars here to teach," said UNLV Bigelow, president of Bigelow Holding the Outstanding Faculty Award. in Costa Rica and Chile University of California, Studies will be filled initially on an arumal Provost Douglas Ferraro. Company. "There is a lot of important Wright, who is known for his through the University Berkeley, and a bachelor's basis by distinguished visiting science The new donation is a continuation research by clinical biochemists, neurobi expertise in Latin American history, has Studies Abroad Consor· degree in history from scholars. The first appointee is Charles of Bigelmv fanlliy gifts in support of the ologists, and others who are trying to been a member of the UNLV history tium. Pomona College. Tart, a former professor of psychology at Colleges of Sciences and Health Sciences understand consciousness. Our goal is department faculty since 1972. Wright served as editor His father, JohnS. the Institute for Transpersonal Psychol at UNLV. simply to help scientists unravel some of He served as chairman of the history of Halcyon: A Journal of the Wright, for whom Wright ogy in Palo Alto, Calif. "We are very interested in seeing the the mysteries of consciousness and department from 1978 to 1981 and as Humanities from 1991 to Hall is named, was the first "The students and faculty at UNLV disciplines of physics, biology, and ultimately benefit mankind." 1.1 dean of the College of Arts and Letters 1995. recipient of tl1e Alumni fi·om 1983 to 1989. He received the Association's Outstanding The author of more tl1an a dozen Governor's Arts Award in Faculty Award in 1975. Lied Athletic Complex Receives $500,000 Donation scholarly articles, Wright has written four 1986 and the Humanities Thomas Wright Thomas Wright is the 24th The state-of-the-art, 328-seat for study, classrooms, and meetings. We tion brings the total nun1ber of major books, all on the subject of Latin Award from the Nevada recipient of the award. 1.1 auditorium in UNLV's new Lied Athletic are deeply indebted to the Conrad N. donors to 15. Complex has been officially named in Hilton Foundation for The Barron Hilton honor of Barron Hilton, recognizing a underwriting the cost of this Auditorium is the largest New Deans department of pedagogical studies at tl1e GREENSPUN CoLLEGE OF $500,000 gift to UNLV for tl1e athletic outstanding facility for our facility of its kind on campus continued fro m page 2 University of North Carolina, Greens· URBAN AFFAIRS complex from the Conrad N. Hilton dedicated student-athletes." and serves a multitude of bora, among otl1er administrative Martha S. Watson, the former Foundation. The 65 ,000-square-foot, purposes. The area is used for positions. National Security Agency. He also had a associate dean of the College of Arts and "Future student-atllletes will be $8.5 million Lied Athletic study hall and tutoring during Readence has served as editor of a ptivate law practice in Austin, Texas. Humanities at the University of Mary inspired by the tradition of excellence Complex opened in August the day. During trairting hours, number of professional journals on land, has been named the first permanent that is represented by the Hilton name," last year and was built entirely teams can reserve space for reading education and is currently editor CoLLEGE OF EDUCATION dean ofUNLV's Greenspun College of UNLV President Carol C. Harter said. with ptivate funds initiated by meetings. Large-group of Reading John E. Readence has been named Urban Affairs. "This is much more than an audito a $4 million challenge gift activities, such as NCAA Research dean ofUNLV's College of Education. Watson, who served as associate dean tium - it is a place of learning that was from the Lied Foundation Trust. The orientations, can be conducted for all Qua1'terly. Readence, a member of the educa· at the University of Maryland for five specifically designed to fill multiple roles gift from the Conrad N. Hilton Founda- UNLV athletes and staff at one time. 1.1 tion faculty at UNLV since 1993, years, also served as acting chair of the replaced former Dean Dale Andersen in CoLLEGE OF department of speech communication May 1996 to serve for one year while a SCIENCES there. search was conducted to fill the position Raymond W. She was also graduate director of New Academic, Administrative Directors Appointed permanently. Alden III, the Auburn Four new directors ha,ve been Training, Inc. in Phoenix, has been uni\7ersity. She had serv d as assistant city Previously, Readence served as former director University in appointed at UNLV. ·named director of UNLV's physical manager to r tl1e cit} of Las Vegas since associate dean of the Applied Alabama from a Leroy Pelton of Salem State College therap, r program. A former instructm of January 1994, and, prior to that, she was for academic Marine Research Raymond Alden Ill 1987 to 1989 in Massachusetts has been hired to physical therapy at Purdue University, he director of marketing for tile Universit}' affairs and Laboratory at and director of direct UNLV's School of Social Work. is a licens d physic~ therapist and holds of Nevada School of Medicine. graduate studies Old Dominion University in Norfolk, tl1e basic course Before coming to UNLV, Pelton was certification as a strength and condition a Ann Casados-Mueller, formerly tile in tl1e College of Va., has been appointed UNLV's new at Auburn from both a professor in tile School of Social ing specialist and athletic trainer. Desert Research Institute's director of Education at dean of the College of Sciences. 1977 to 1981. Work at Salem State and executive Wallmann's appointment signals the recruitment and workplace diversity, has Louisiana State Alden had directed the Applied She has taught director of the Center for Applied start-up of me long-· ticipated physical been hired as ONLV's director of University; Marine Research Laboratory since 1982 English, Res ctarch and Development' in the therapy program in the College of Heal diversit}f initiatives . She will be respon coordinator for and served as professor of biological secondary college's School of Human Services. Sciences. sible for planning, developing, and advanced sciences at Old Dominion since 1988. Martha Watson education, and Previously, he served as chair of the a Lyilll.ft'te Boggs McDonald, a former administering effe ctive diversity p r,_ograms graduate studies Previously, he served as associate professor speech at the children and family services concentra assistant city manager for tile city of Las for students, faculty, and staff Casados in UNLV's John Readence of biological sciences; he held a joint universities of Maryland and Kansas, tion in the master of social work Vegas, has been hired as UNLV's Mueller, who worked a DRI for SLX department of appointment as assistant professor in Old Auburn, and Stephen F. Austin State program at Salem State. director of marketing and community years, s'erved as the tiirector of equal instructional and cunicular studies; chair Dominion in the department of biological University (Texas ). a Harvey Wallmann, the former relations. cDonald will be responsible employment opportunity for tile state of of the language and literacy interest sciences and assistant professor in Old She served as editor of the Qparterly director of physical therapy at Strength for establishing a marketing plan for the Nevada from 1989 to 1991. 1.1 group at UNLV; and head oftl1e Dominion's Institute of Oceanography. ]oumal of Speech from 1990 to 1992. 1.1 4 • UNLV MAGAZ I NE FALL 199 7 . 5 UNLV directly from graduate school at Deacon's discipline, but he ran into more "Jim Dickinson [Jan1es R. Dickinson, My smdents were mal 8 + UNLV M A GAZ I NE FA LL 19 97 + 9 I • / I . weI . Did I • • l ~ Some of them may have been wacky. Some may - have been short-lived. Others mighi have actually NLV ALUMNf, GET READY FOR and only a few·have . . changed the course ofthe a trip down memory lane-. , survived. . And, yes, or a flashback, depending on they were usually university's destiny. But the uyour era. such young traditions UNLV events and activities that Think back to your college years at that they h.ardly UNLV. Chances are that you'll recall seemed to qualifY. have come to be known as ccour participating in some really goof)r But they aie, after traditions'' are uniquely our own,. organized event or activity that seemed all, uniquely ours. · awfully important at the time. It might reflecting both their times and the have been the laugh-a-rnirrute Greased character of the institution. Pig Contest of 1974, the mud-in-your 1957-1967 And, for alumnt, rememberipg ,. eye Oozeball Tournament of 1988, or the; enchanting Spring Cotillion ofl957. The Early them is,' well, a hoot. Or maybe the event you remember had a more serious tone, like the one at whi ch . Years FRUTH .s tudents prote;ting north-south funding When the inequities hanged then:Governor Paul .Southern Regional · LaXalt in effigy. Diviston of the Whatever the event was - no matter University of • how serious or lighthearted it was - it Nevada opened somehow took on greater significance its d~ors in while you were in college. Even if it 1957, only a s t~te9 out as just a good laugh, by the few htmdred time you finished, it made you feel a par~ students attended classes in Maude of something bigger, something that' Frazier H all - the sole building on In 1967, students hanged then-Governor united you with other students.Jt was ' .campus. With so few students milling Paul Laxalt in effigy off the roof of Grani Hall I Above: This 1959 the stuff that ... we ll , memories are made fround between classes, "Nevada. to protest his decision not to increase Homecoming float of. You knew that one day, );ou'd look Southern," as it was commonly called aJ funding for t~e southern campus. depicts Beauregartl, back longingly to those heady days-of the time, must have been a pretty quid · the NSU wolf mascot your youth and wish you had as much place, right? Well, not entirely. A few gala who-attended' drank non-alcoholic that was eventually time now as you did then for the good events were organized, forming the firsr , punch, munched on cookies and cake, replaced because of things in life ';___ like drinJ 14 + UNL V MAGAZINE FALL1997 + 15 .. regularly attending the gan1es of the alcohol. The game has winning UNLV basketball tean1 was a grown in popularity in the favorite tradition. eight years since its The success of the Runnin' Rebels in inception. In 1996, some 1977 led to the creation of a basketball 80 teams fought ilie ooze alumni association - a group whose witl1out booze. primary purpose was to raise money to "It's the perfect fal l Oozeball -- volleyball played in a mud help fifth-year basketball players (who had event," explains Cook, who brought the pit -- became the campus activity of exhausted their eligibility) complete their idea to campus and coordinates the choice for many UN LV students during degrees. To raise funds, the group games, along witl1 JeffWells, UNLV's the last decade. decided to create a new tradition by campus recreation director. "I try to sponsoring challenge games between schedule tl1e event on an away-game former Rebel players and current players. weekend. It really empties out the dorm Student Union parking lot during ti1e "This was a great idea at first. Former rooms." campus Homecoming festivities. Many students and faculty protested the Wet T-shirt Contest players rearranged their schedules so that Another event tl1at evolved in the "But starting dlis year, tl1e floats will held as part of Mardi Gras festivities in 1978. they could come back and play, and there more socially responsible '90s was be paraded tllrough d1e Sam Boyd was a lot of interest," Albrecht recalls . Unityfest, a day-long celebration of Stadium parking lot before the game. Oh, The Things We Did Wet T-shirt contests, Best-Body Compe administration decided to confront the "But ultimately it became too costly. They diverse culmres, food, and traditions. Also, we have decorated golf cart titions, and Hot Legs Auditions were to alcohol issue head-on. A committee of were flying former players in from Miami "In 1996, more tl1an 30 different parades on campus down ti1e academic continued from page 13 the annual spring celebration known as UNLV faculty, students, and staff met to or New York, and they started spending smdent organizations participated in the mall, followed by a pep rally in ti1e was in order - an event at which more Mardi Gras. develop an alcohol policy for the campus. more money than they were making." Unityfest, some of which did not have a an1phitl1eater to signal ti1e start of comfortable attire could be worn. "Wet T-shirt contests were not the The resulting policy specified that Like tl1e Sno Ball and the bonfire that specific culmral affiliation but just Homecoming. But perhaps the biggest went before them, the challenge games Oktoberfest was born. only activities that were offered during persons serving alcohol on campus had to wanted to be involved," Martin says. change has been ilie increasing participa Oktoberfest was a day-long celebra Mardi Gras," recalls former student Carl complete an alcohol awareness training quietly disappeared. And, by the end of By 1990, Unityfest had formally tion of independent [non-Greek] tion of what the 1980 Epilogue proudly Cook, now UNLV's assistant director of program that would enable them to tl1e '80s most students seemed to have replaced Oktoberfest as the big party smdents in tl1e selection of ti1e Home proclaimed to be the number one activity alumni relations. "We had carnival rides recognize when a person had had had their fill of hedonistic parties. It event on campus. conling royalty." on campus - drinking. Oktoberfest and in the parking lot outside the Moyer enough. In addition, the policy restricted was time to have fim while making a Less noticeable was the gradual Tailgate parties, one of ilie few events its spring companion, Mardi Gras, were Student Union, and we had Lip-Synching the times and events at which alcohol difference. evolution of Mardi Gras into the Spring at which alcohol is still served, also huge hits on campus, thanks largely to and Pie-Eating Contests -and, of could be served. By the end of the Fling. Gone were tl1e beer and Wet T continue to grow at UNLV. the efforts of Entertainment and course, 25-cent beer." decade, ln\TLV had become a pretty dry 1988-1997 shirt Contests. Today, smdents blow off "We started tailgating 15 years ago in Programming Chairman Dave Gist who, But not everyone was enjoying the place . steam wiili oversized boxing gloves and ti1e parking lot of tl1e stadium. We would according to the Epilogue, "was in charge party. Many female students and faculty But drinking wasn't the only source The Socially human bowling tournaments. provide a barbecue pit, and fanlllies of partying, and party, UNLV did." members disliked the blatant sexism of amusement on campus during the late "Spring Fling is one of the four major would bring the food ti1ey wanted to Alums of that era gleefully recall the associated with Wet T-shirt Contests, and '70s and early '80s. For many students, Responsible Years events tl1at ilie university sponsors each cook," says Albrecht, adding iliat ti1ey antics of The Fox, a middle-aged, fun more than a few faculty members Learning to have fun without tl1e use year," explains Martin. "The other tllree later began offering food for ti10se who loving party animal whose claim to fame were put out when students chose of alcohol was tl1e challenge facing are Unityfest, tl1e Fall Welcome, and, of didn't want to bring their own. "Then, was chugging beers while standing on his 25-cent beer over attending class. students as tl1e university entered its course, Homecoming." four years ago we built a park wid1 trees head. And the administration was con fourtl1 decade. Homecoming is perhaps the only and picnic benches. We're working to "The Fox was great," says 1984 cerned that UNLV was quickly UNLV's current student activities student activity iliat has survived make tl1e tailgate parties fun and easy for graduate Rafael Villanueva, now the gaining the reputation as a party coordinator Sunny Martin describes tl1e unscatl1ed over ilie years. UNLV still fanlllies." marketing director at the Tropicana school in a party town. change in philosophy concerning student elects a Homecoming queen and king, Martin predicts that as UNLV Hotel and Casino and the president of As Vice President for Student events as representative of a national fraternities and sororities still build floats, continues to define itself in the future, the UNLV Alumni Association. "He Services Robert Ackerman explains, trend. and alumni are still invited to attend student activities will evolve to reflect would play the piano and sing these the administration saw the writing "On a national level, many campuses tailgate parties. But there have been a d10se changing definitions. incredibly raunchy songs. He was a great on the wall. adopted a dry-campus orientation in tl1e ferv changes. "UNLV is striving to become more draw. Hundreds of students would gather "It was difficult for us to go to late '80s and early '90s. The thinking vvas "When ln\TLV joined ilie Western purposeful in its planning," Martin around outside the Moyer Student the community for support of our iliat universities should not be sponsoring Athletic Conference in 1996, we added explains. "The point of student activities Union when The Fox was on campus. It strong academic programs when the events on campus that could lead to some bleachers to the stadium, and tllis is to create a campus community was a great time for students to get prevailing picture from UNLV was negative behavior." prevented us from driving ti1e Home where smdents feel they are a part of together, to socialize, and to have some of The Fox standing on his head Ooze ball, or volleyball played in a pit conling floats onto ti1e field," Martin the can1pus. And ti1ere are many ways The Fox led students in the singing of bawdy drinking beer," he says. of mud, was one of tl1e ways students to do tlut." fun." songs and the drinking of beer during says, adding that since then, d1e floats In 1988, the faculty and What the Fox was to Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest. found to have fun without the use of have been displayed in ilie Moyer Indeed. 1.1 FALL 199 7 + 1 7 16 + UNLV MAGA Z INE A.t'I GIN' ARO UN D THE GENERAL some believe it should even be acknowl store on a warm afternoon, edged as a second language. Hsipping a Dr. Pepper, listening Regardless of one's stand on the to the townsfolk tell jokes and talk about Ebonies controversy, Bailey says informa their lives. tion he and otl1ers are compiling about Nice work if you can get it - and AAVE should be of help to America's Guy Bailey has. teachers, many of whom have students in Bailey, dean ofU TLV's College of their classrooms who speak A.A.VE. The Liberal Arts and a professor of English, better such has spent many days of the last 11 years teachers at the general store of a small East understand Central Texas town, just listening to the AAVE, he says, residents chat. the better they Well, OK, there's really more to it can help their than that. Bailey, whose field is linguis students learn tics, not only listens to the residents; he standard and a colleague also tape record the American conversations and later transcribe and English. analyze the recordings to find out what they reveal about African-American Vernacular English as it is spoken in this small farming community. ailey Why? began Bailey wants to help settle a long Bhis standing dispute among linguistics study of tl1e HAN GIN' AT THE experts concerning tl1e origin of the speech of the Above: Linguist Guy Bailey records and studies the African -American African-American Vernacular English people of the Vernacular English conversations of patrons of this general store in the (AAVE ) spoken today by some African town he calls small Texas farming community he calls Springville. Americans. He is also interested in Springville in tracing how it has evolved. 1986 when he was an associate professor cotton-farming land in Texas," Bailey And, he wants to be on hand of English at Texas A&M University. says . It's what once would have been to follow its further Springville is a fictitious name he assigned known as a "tenant farmer community," ENE evolution as tl1e whose residents were sharecroppers who tl1e rural community for his research types of commu purposes. Because the scholarly articles farmed a piece of someone else's land for AND nities where he has written about his research include a share of tl1e proceeds. Because tl1e AAVE has lengthy transcripts of actual conversa sharecroppers were typically in debt to tions, giving the town a fictitious name the landowner for money loaned to was the only way to buy seed and for other its roots CLOSELY small farming towns in the American South - fade into history as For 11 years, linguist Guy Bailey has been quietly recording and listen more and more of their residents move to cities in search of jobs. ing to the dialect of the residents of a small farming town in Texas in His research has a practical applica search of the origins of African-American Vernacular English. His tion, too - one mat is tied to the preserve the residents' purchases made at the town's general current controversy over Ebonies, a term anonymity, he says . Otherwise, given the store (which was typically owned by the findings may shed some light on a controversy that could affect how recently coined to describe AAVE. The personal details often contained in the same landowner whose land they debate over Ebonies surrounds the issue recorded conversations, tl1e speakers farmed ), iliey tended to stay put. "Most millions of children learn language skills in our schools. of whether AAVE should be used in would be too easily identifiable, he says. people stayed in debt and couldn't leave, schools to aid in teaching students how Springville is a small enclave of about so it was kind of a debt peonage," Bailey BY DIANE RUSSELL to speak standard American English; 125 people, located "on some of the best says . FALL 199 7 + 19 18 + UNLV MAGAZ I NE He notes that although most research daughter of the Springville. We were different and unexpected iliat helped hin1 fill the void. American English in an attempt to on AAVE has been done in big American woman who owns interesting and a diversion," he says, "It just so happens that there were explain to educators how that language, cities- where African-Americans began the general store adding tl1at being a diversion n1ight have some mechanical recordings done with how tl1at dialect, works." moving in large numbers during and and all of the land helped ilie team's success in Springville. former slaves. These people were born in As for ilie origins of AAVE, two following World War II - it was in in town. She made " ot much happens there." ilie 1840s, '50s, and early '60s. The ilieories have persisted, Bailey says. towns such as Springville that AAVE, the initial intro As for the researchers, Bailey says that recordings were done in ilie 1930s and "Theory number one held iliat AAVE which was first heard among slaves on ductions for him, over the years iliey've become interested '40s as part ofilie WPA [Works Progress was derived from non-standard English Southern plantations, persevered into the and he eventually in more ilian the residents' speech Adn1inistration] Slave Narrative dialects spoken by whites and iliat many 20th century. becan1e friends patterns. Projects," Bailey says. of ilie non-standard features had So it was one of these towns that with another "Actually, we became pretty inter Although ilie recordings had since disappeared in white speech but were Bailey felt he needed for his research. In woman who works ested in the content of what people had been transferred to reel-to-reel tape and preserved in black speech," he says. effect, he was looking for a place where at the post office, to say, because as you become more and had been stored at ilie Library of "The second theory held tl1at black he could study an older form of AAVE which is located more part of this community, you Congress for decades, linguists hadn't speech, or AAVE, actually began as a kind than that spoken in large cities today. To inside the general Bailey, for right, chats with Springville residents. become interested in their day-to-day used them, he says. of Creole language and what happened do that, he needed to listen to the speech store. lives and how people are doing - "Basically, there are seven hours of over ilie years was that it had become de of people who never had moved to the Bailey's whether somebody has kicked a cocaine about ll or 12 people who were Creolized, so that it was very sinlliar to city. colleague, Patricia Cukor-Avila, who people. The investigators and ilieir tape habit or wheilier some body's garden is interviewed on tape. The sound quality American dialects but not identical to "Historically, AAVE was a rural joined his study in 1988 as a graduate recorders became an accepted part of ilie working." of most of the tapes is pretty good. And iliem." Southern variety of speech. Untill910, student and who remains involved today community. it just so happens that several of these A Creole language, Bailey explains, is 90 percent of all African-Americans lived as a professor at the University of North "It got to ilie point that we could people were slaves on plantations not far a language iliat began as an amalgam of in the South, and 70 percent of them Texas, made friends \-vith tl1e woman who just go to ilie store and sit down and turn etween the research tl1at has from Springville." two languages - for instance, ilie were in the rural South. By rural South, I runs tl1e general store. She, in turn, tl1e tape recorder on, and people would been done on modern-day The discovery of the recordings was a English spoken by slave traders and the mean communities ofless than 2,500 introduced them to her neighbors. Soon, come in and talk to us," he says, adding B AAVE in big cities and his own real boon, according to Bailey. Between language spoken by the people living in people." the project was underway. tl1at what's even better is iliat they've also work on ilie older form of AAVE most ilie people on the recordings and the western Africa when the slave traders But finding such a town wasn't easy, been able to make many tape recordings often used in Springville, Bailey had data current residents of Springville, Bailey arrived - but ilien evolved into a Bailey says. in which they are barely participants. on AAVE as spoken during most of this now bas speech information on people separate, more complex language. "Most of these old tenant communi hile many of the initial "We're iliere -in and out - but we're century. born from the 1840s to ilie 1980s. After his years of research on AAVE, ties have disappeared in the South. What interviews were one-on-one not really major participants. The problem he faced, however, was "So we have basically 140 years of Bailey has come to believe that neither led to their disappearance was the with residents of the town, "Now iliat we've developed good iliat iliere was little information on African-American Vernacular English. theory is entirely accurate - or entirely W AAVE available before iliat time. "The mechanization of agriculture. The what Bailey really wanted was to listen to relationslups with tl1ese people, we're That's a pretty good place to start off in without merit. mechanized farming didn't really hit the the townspeople talk an1ong themselves. often invited into ilieir homes for social question was : What did AAVE sound like making some inference about historical "There is some evidence for that South until after World War II, but when "One of the goals of this research gatherings," Bailey says. "For instance, in 1870 or 1900? development." Creole hypoiliesis. In African-American that happened, there was really no need is to study language that people use with one guy who we've interviewed almost "We don't really have much evidence Vernacular English the 'to be' verb can for laborers." As a result, many of the each other ratl1er than with outsiders. In every year since 1988 invited us after a on the language of the first African often be deleted. Somebody will say, 'She residents of the tenant farming communi other words, you're trying to look at few weeks to his house for a barbecue, Americans in ilie U.S. because, first of all, he controversy over the origins my sister,' or 'She a tall girl.' The 'is' is ties began moving away to look for work. natural linguistic interaction of residents and he invited one of his best friends. So iliere were no tape recordings and, and evolution of AAVE dates back deleted. This deletion of 'to be' is After some searching for a town of this community," Bailey says . we have some great linguistic interaction secondly, they were forbidden by law to decades, Bailey says, coinciding probably a relic of this Creole history. read and write. Some of them learned T where he could find "the oldest, most "There's something called 'the between those two men who have been roughly with the integration of American "However, many of the features [of conservative variety of AAVE," Bailey observer's paradox' in linguistics," friends for 60 years. anyway; there are a few iliings that were schools in ilie 1950s and '60s. When thelanguage] of young African-Ameri settled on Sptingville, a town wedged explains Bailey, who earned a doctoral "We do very little talking. It's mostly written by African-Americans in ilie integration began occurring on a wide cans that are commonly known are really between two rivers. It has only one paved degree in English linguistics from the them talking to each other and recount 1800s, but we just don't have many spread basis, for the first time large pretty recent developments. For example, road and exactly two places of business - University of Tennessee. "The observer's ing old stories. That's the kind of thing texts." numbers of African-American children the use of the unconjugated 'be,' as in, the general store and the beer joint. It paradox works like tlus: If you're a we're ultimately trying to get." That robs linguists of one of their had white teachers, who for the first 'They be working,' is someiliing iliat also has a school serving grades one linguist, you want to know how people Bailey says that aliliough he initially most valuable tools. time found large numbers of African linguists call 'habitual be.' That 'habitual through eight. When Bailey first arrived talk when they talk to each otl1er, but tl1e explained his study to ilie Springville "If we wanted to study white speech American children in their classrooms, be' does not appear in the speech of the in 1986, the school had 63 pupils, n1inute you interject yourself into the residents, he isn't sure how much of it in the 1800s, we could go back and look Bailey points out. oldest people," Bailey said. "It appears making it the smallest independent picture, they don't talk like iliey talk to iliey truly understand or how much iliey at old letters - letters of people who "Educators encountered speech in the speech of people born after World school district in Texas. Some of the each other. They talk like tl1ey talk to a really care. didn't have much education- and we patterns iliat iliey hadn't encountered War II. In fact, this is an innovation adults work in nearby towns. Others farm stranger, or an English teacher or "The truili of the matter is, they're could make inferences about ilieir before, and iliey were totally baffled. So that took place in big cities after World on a small scale. someiliing." more than happy to talk to us, they got language based on written documents," sociolinguists -and that's what I am, a War II when African-Americans moved Bailey was lucky in his discovery of Little by little, Bailey and Cukor to like us, and they understood iliat we Bailey says. linguist who studies language in there. It since has spread to small Springville. He happened to know tl1e Avila, gained ilie trust of the towns- were doing some kind of study of But then Bailey discovered someiliing society- began working on Mrican- continued on page 28 FALL 199 7 21 20 + UNLV M A G AZI NE + 17 Alumni Event: Board Meeting. 6pm. Richard oji(Shop: Leadership & Interpersonal Relacion SEPTEMBER Tam Alumni Cemer. 895-3621. :30pm. 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Artemus Ham Concerr Hall. 895-3801. received an income tax deduction, and For more information about this JANUAR made a substantial charitable gift to mutually beneficial opportunity, call UNLV. "With a charitable remainder Russ Kost at the UNLV Foundation 2-11 University Theatre: Winrerfesr Fight Work UNLV shop. All day. Black Box Thearre & Judy trust, our good fortune in the stock FOUNDATION at (702) 895-3641. * Events are subject to Bayley Theatre. 895-3801 . change/cancellation. 24 + UNLV MAGAZINE CLASS N01ES Randall McGuire, '83 BA Commu California, and the Thunderbird Juli Shapiro Rousseau, '91 BS law school at the University of Ari Ballard Communications and as a In Memory nication Srudies, owns and operates Hotel in Las Vegas. Education, '96 Master of Education, zona in 1995. He is currently a public relations coordinator at his own advertising agency, Advan is a resource room teacher at Green corporate/securities attorney for Bertolini's Resraurant. tage Media Services. The company Valley High School. She works with Snell & Wilmer. He lives in Phoenix. '70s '80s specializes in direct-response advertis learning disabled srudents. Scott Gnlbransen, '95 BA Commu ing, media buying, and television ad Carmen GW1Dels Rizzo, '92 BS nication Srudies, is the coordinator of production. Kristin Wohlrab Finley, '92 BS Business Administration, is the busi promotions and publicity for UNLV's Renee Brown, '78 BS Physical Howie L. Basuk, '80 BS Business Athletic Training, works as an athletic ness manager of Take One Inc., a athletic department. Previously, be Education, '81 Master of Education, Administration, started his own scrap Cheryl J. Walker, '84 BS Hotel trainer at Health South Sports Medi telel~sion production company in spent one year as an operations has been named director of player metal recycling company in 1990. Administration, completed her cine & Rehabilitation in Newark, Las Vegas. assistant and two years as a sports personnel for the Women's National His firm is called Barry Metals Co. in master's degree in business from Del. She also provides medical cover information assistant at UNLV. Basketball Association. She oversees memory of his late brother, Barry. He Nova Southeastern University in Fort age for area high schools. She is Michelle Conway, '94 BS Business .- 11, player recruitment and scouring, and lives in Phoenix. Lauderdale, Fla. She is now the staff married to John Finley, '92 Master Administration, is an account coordi Robert N. Morgan, '95 Master of John LaBounty, '74 she helps develop and administer accountant fo r Albertsons Distribu of Education. He works as an athletic nator at Shoru.-wiler/Marcoux Adver Education, is a teac her at the Shekou Vicki Tucker, '87 trainer for the Wilmington Blue tising and Marketing. Pre1~o u sly, she player-related policies and programs. Bruce E . Snyder, '81 BA Chemistry, tion Center in Katy, Texas. Pre\~ International School in the People's John LaBounty, a former member Rocks, a minor-league affiliate of the worked as an account coordinator at Pre1~ously, Brown served as an assis received a medical degree from Bos ously, she spent five years 1~th ITT Republic of China. He was a 1995 of the UNLV Alumni Association's Kansas City Royals baseball team. tant coach for the USA Basketball ton University. He is currently in an Sheraton as food and beverage con nominee for the Clark County Teach board of directors, died April 15. They live in Newark. Women's National Team in Colorado ophthalmology residency at the troller and banquet manager. She Catherine A. Watlet Dare, '89 BS ers' Hall of Fame. LaBounty, who graduated in 1974 lives in Houston. Springs, Colo. She was with the team Albert Einstein College of Medicine Business Administration, received her with a bachelor of fine arts degree, Brian Graf, '92 MA Political Sci in a staff support position when it at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital master's degree in taxation from was 49. A carpenter, LaBounty Rick Darnold, '85 BS Business ence, is an economist in the U.S. won the gold medal at the 1996 Center in New York. He lives in Golden Gate Universi ty in 1995. She contributed several of his own hand Administration, is a certified public Department of Labor's Division of Attention Alumni- The Summer Olympics. She has also Yonkers. now works as an international tax carved wood pieces to the Richard accountant who serves as vice presi International Technical Assistance in worked as an assistant coach at the manager for KPMG Peat Marwick in UNLV Alumni Association Tam Alumni Center, including the David Bloom, '82 BS Hotel Admin dent of tax and financial administra Washington, D.C. Pre1~ous l y, he University of Kansas and at Stanford Cenrury City, Calif. She lives in Santa offers a variety of social building's front doors, the large istration, is chief operating officer of tion for Boyd Gaming Corp. He is a served two years as a Peace Corps and San Jose State universities. She Monica. and cultural activities. For conference room table, and the Falcon Ventures Ltd. and owns the board member of the Nevada Resort volunteer in Guinea, West Africa. lives in South Orange, N.J. more information or to speaker's podium. A valued member franchise development rights and is a Association and serves on its legisla Mark Schrecengost, '89 BS Hotel join the association, call of the board, he was also instrumen franchisee of Quizno's Classic Subs in tive committee. H e was recently Administration, joined Trump H otels David S. Reid, '92 BS Business 895-3621. tal in establishing scholarships for art Administration, graduated from the Michelle Conway, '94 parts of Texas, Colorado, and lliinois. appointed to the Federal Information Casino Resorts as director of casino srudents. H e is married to Sheri Woodward Reporting Advisory Committee, marketing fo r Trump Casino Chi Bloom, '81 BS H otel Administra which will work 1~th the U.S. Trea cago. He lives in Cresthill, Ill. tion. She is a sales director for Mary sury Department and the IRS on Kay Cosmetics. They live in High updating federal gaming regulations. lands Ranch, Colo. He is also a committee member of the Tax and Finance Task Force of JohnS. Hamilton, '82 BS Hotel the American Gaming Association. AdminiStration, '83 BS Business Administration, is senior 1~ce presi Dawn M. Fisler, '86 BS Biological '90s William Buckmaster, '78 dent of development/acquisitions for Sciences, has her own insurance Carnival Hotels & Resorts, the company. The Fisler Agency, which nation's second-largest hotel manage hanclles American National insurance, Deborah Hall, '90 Bachelor of William S. Buckmaster, '78 Master ment company. He lives in Coral was established in 1988. Liberal Srudies, received a medical of Education, is an anchor and pro Gables, Fla. degree from the University of Califor Vicki Tucker, '87 BS Hotel Admin ducer with KUAT-TV, the PBS nia, San Francisco in 1995. She is istration, is the general manager of affiliate in Tucson, Ariz. He hosts now completing a family practice the Hawthorn Suites-Las Vegas. She Arizona Illustrated, a nightly news residency at Ventura County Medical oversaw the conversion of the H aw magazine that is the highest-rated Center in California. She lives in thorn Suites, which opened in May, locally produced news/ public affairs Ventura. from an apartment complex to a 284- program among PBS affiliates. When suite hotel. Previously, she worked as Vena J. Santana Sanders, '90 BA he lived in Las Vegas in the 1970s he the general manager of the Embassy Political Science, graduated from the was news director at KORK radio. He Suites-Houston and held manage Universiry of Arizona College of Law has also worked in San Francisco; I ment posts with The Hotel Group in in 1996. Currently, she is an associate I Visalia, Calif.; and Sierra Vista, Ariz. I Edmonds, Wash., the Plaza Hotel attorney with the law offices of He lives in Tucson. I Kuwait, Embassy Suites-Napa in Michael Ashe in Virginia Beach, Va. I John Hamilton, '82 I I Entries Notes, UNLV News and Public Information, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 451012, Las Vegas, NV 89154-1012 I I 26 + UN L V MAGAZINE FALL 1997 + 27 Listening Closely easier for you to learn Spanish," he says. According to Bailey, his work in "By the same token if I can sit down with Springville is the ultimate in fun - next continued from page 21 an African-American kid and explain to playing center field for the Atlanta communities like Springville. exactly where the differences are between Braves. "That's the way I take vacations. "At the same time, there are also standard English and his speech, it really I'll go back to Springville and spend a some older features of white dialects that makes the task of teaching standard couple of days doing field work. were preserved in black speech, for English easier. "DoiJlg the research, writing the instance, the pronunciation of 'ax' for "The real point here is trying to use articles- tl1ere's no work to it at all, 'ask.' That occurred in many varieties of tl1e most successful techniques for really. It's a lot of fm1. That's why I can white English and was borrowed into teaching kids standard English." still do it as dean, because I enjoy doing black speech," Bailey says. it," says Bailey, who came to UNLV from "What we found out is AAVE has a the U11iversity of Memphis in 1995 to really complex history, and you can't o listen to Bailey discuss linguistics head the College of Liberal Arts. "It's understand that history unless you in general and his work in something that whether I get a reward understand the kind of Creole origins, TSpringville in particular is to listen for it is irrelevant now. but at the same time also understand the to a man talk about a pursuit he obvi "There's a kind of real excitement more contemporary innovations," he ously relishes. and fun about creating knowledge. And, says. "It's not as if it were a Creole Yet, he ended up as a social linguist as basically, when you do research, that's language that's just becoming more like many people end up in their careers what you're doing. You're in tile process other varieties of American English. It's a through a series of chance events. of creating knowledge." language that has its own independent Majoring in English at the University of And, as far as Bailey is concerned, trajectory and development. To some Alabama because it was an easy subject there is more knowledge yet to be extent it's influenced by other varieties of for the avid reader, Bailey took a created in Springville. English, and to some extent it goes its linguistics course from James McMillan, InitiaUy, he thought that the town own way. one of tl1e premier linguists of his was on the decline and that his study "AAVE is not becoming white generation. Soon Bailey was hooked. might be brought to a forcible end when speech, it's not being lost, and it's not McMillan's classes, coupled with most of tl1e residents either. moved away becoming more like white speech; it's Bailey's own experience with the English to find work or died. developing in its own merry way." language, set him on his career path. But then tl1ings started happening in Bailey says he thinks one of the most "I grew up in a part of tile country Springville. For one, oil was discovered in important goals of those people arguing where outside of tl1at area tl1e language is 1994. While that directly profited onJy today about Ebonies should be to find "a not highly respected," says Bailey, whose one person - the woman who owns the way of helping school teachers have more speech stiU reflects more tl1an a trace of general store and all the land in town - respect for the language that the kids his AJabama roots. Tlu·oughout his life he it brought a variety of new people into bring to school." has heard comments from non-Soutllernc town on a regular basis. "The kids aren't bringing broken ers indicating- or sometimes stating AJ1otl1er change occurred at the English to school. They're bringing a outright - that anyone with a Southern school. Because tl1e Springville school systematic variety of English that's accent must be stupid. was viewed as safer thaJl the school in tile developed just like any other variety of "I think probably the thing that first county seat, a number of parents from English," Bailey says, noting that AAVE, attracted me to language was tl1e fact tl1e com1ty seat began bringing their or Ebonies, has its own set of complex that it carries social consequences, and I children out to the Springville school. rules as does any dialect. "I think it's was on tile negative end of some of Witll 120 students now enrolled, the helpful for teachers to understand exactly those social consequences," Bailey says. school district is building a new school. how tl1at language operates and where it "For me, it became an interesting tiling How tl1ese changes will affect comes from. to study. language in Springville, Bailey isn't "It's just like teaching a foreign "I used to tell my classes that the onJy sure. But one thing is clear: he's eager language. You can teach people a foreign thing I'd rather do than linguistics, ifl to find out. language better if you Lmderstand how could have had my choice of professions, "In spite of tile fact tl1at we tl10ught that language differs from their language. would have been to play professiona~tile community would die, it's kind of If I understand exactly how Spanish baseball. On the otl1er hand, shoot, I'd gotten a second lease on life," Bailey differs from English, and I can point out be retired by now and looking for work," says. "It will be interesting to see what tllose differences, men it becomes much Bailey says with a laugh. happens." 11'.1 I 28 + UNLV MAGAZINE University of Nevada, Las Vegas Non-Profit Org. UNLV Magazine U.S. Postage 4505 Maryland Parkway PAID Uni er ity Nevada Box 451012 v s of , Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-1012 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED