Grand Valley Forum, Volume 002, Number 23, March 6, 1978 Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU 1977-1978, Volume 2 Grand Valley Forum, 1976- 3-6-1978 Grand Valley Forum, volume 002, number 23, March 6, 1978 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum2 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Grand Valley Forum, volume 002, number 23, March 6, 1978" (1978). 1977-1978, Volume 2. 23. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum2/23 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1977-1978, Volume 2 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ran orum across Dance camP-us Alliance Any staff women who are interested in jommg a weekly noon-hour Bible study should contact Lynne Stephens in the library order department at extension ToPe,form 115 or Jody Bacinski in Seidman at extension 636. Dance Alliance, the Performing Arts • Center's modern dance company, will S.W.I.G. (Social Work Interest Group) present its spring production, also called invites its members and other interested "Dance Alliance," at Stage 3 in Grand persons to attend a discussion led by Rapids, Wednesday through Saturday, Judge John P. Steketee (Kent County, March 8-11 and March 15-18. Probate Court, Juvenile Division), who The performances will feature guest will speak to the class of SPS 354 on the artist Susan Rose and works choreo topic "Juvenile Justice" on Friday, March graphed for students by professional 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Laurel Room artists-in-residence Gretchen Langstaff, in the Campus Center. Muriel Cohan and Patrick Suzeau. Included in the program will be • "Suite Seven," choreographed by Gretchen Langstaff, and "Between Main The COT Liaison Committee will hold and First" and "Improvisations," choreo an executive meeting today, March 6, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the graphed by dance students. North Conference Room of the Campus Tickets for the performance are $2.00, general admission, and $1.50 for students. Center. The agenda includes discussion of For reservations call extension 485 a new salary proposal and a proposal to Bonita Rose, resident performing artist at Grand Valley, instructs a class on Monday through Friday, or 454-0481 be submitted to the Planning Board. If performance techniques in preparation for the upcoming Dance Alliance from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on performance anyone has any additional items, please concert. nights. call Nancee Miller at extension 272 . • Rabbi Yosaif Weingarten of the Chabad House in Grand Rapids will be in the Campus Center today, March 6, to inform Jewish people about their religion. The Chabad House is part of the Ott Named Board Chairman Lubauitcher World Chassidic group. All faculty, staff and students are invited to Dr. Arnold Ott, vice president of Doan meet with Rabbi Weingarten. secretary and assistant treasurer, respec in that pool, then proposals within the Associates of Midland, Michigan, has been tively. pool will be recommended on a merit elected chairman of the GVSC Board of basis . • Control. Ott, a charter member appoint In other action, the board approved a ed to the board in 1960, previously revised sabbatical leave policy establishing Visiting artist coming to campus for served as vice chairman from 1962 to a selection procedure to be used in cases The board also approved an appoint the 197 8 spring term needs a room or an 1969. when not all proposals deemed worthy of ment and evaluation policy for Grand apartment. Call G. Jaris, extension 519. award can be funded. Under the new pol Valley's institutes. The policy defines the A former resident of Muskegon and icy, applicants who have earned the most ranks of instructor, assistant professor, • Grand Rapids, Ott, 60, holds authorship sabbatical leave credit will have first con associate professor and professor. It also on more than 50 domestic and foreign sideration. Eligible proposals will be stipulates that peer group evaluations be The international students at Grand patents and 19 technical publications. He groups in three "pools," for applicants held as necessary for reappointment, no earned his B.S. degree and an honorary less than every three years, rather than Valley are sponsoring an international with at ·1east four, five, and six consecu Sc.D. from Central Michigan University annual as had been the policy in the past. festival this evening, March 6, at 7 p.m. in tive years of service at Grand Valley. the Multipurpose Room in the Campus and his Ph.D. from Michigan State Uni versity. Center. There will be a dinner, live enter The available money will be used to The board requested a report at its tainment and displays. Call extension 270 Lansing attorney Thomas Downs, a fund all the requests in each pool in the next meeting on Grand Valley's policy for free reservations. member of the board since 1974, was re order of most years of service. If there regarding faculty members running for elected vice chairman. Ronald VanStee are not sufficient funds to cover all re political office. President Lubbers told • land, Jean Ellis and Richard Hansen were quests within any one pool, but funding the board the policy has been to allow re-elected secretary-treasurer, assistant is adequate to cover at least one proposal faculty members to run for office pro The Michigan Academy of Science, vided they are able to meet their teaching Arts, and Letters has accept~d Grand and committee work commitments to the Valley's invitation to hold its March 23- college. 24, 1979, meeting on Grand Valley's campus. According to E. F. Gearhart, Parking Task Force dean of the College of Graduate Studies, about 600 persons are expected to attend. It is the first time the Academy's meeting will be at Grand Valley . Suggests Few Changes • Dr. Ronald E. Muller, of the American Last fall, a Parking Task Force rec University, will be on campus Thursday, eliminated the cause of confusion by visi March 9. He will speak on the topic ommended changes in parking and hand tors and said that the campus community ling of parking violations on campus. The "Multinationals - International Econom has an obligation to inform visitors of changes were approved and implemented. ic Crisis and World Hunger" at 3 p.m. in Grand Valley's parking regulations. It claimed that special parking for visistors Room 123, Manitou Hall. Subsequently, questions and criticisms Muller is co-author of the book Global would only create additional problems of about some of the changes were raised, administration and enforcement. Reach: The Power of the Multinational and Ronald VanSteeland, vice president Corporations, which won the 1975 for administration, reinstituted the task Sydney Hillman Foundation Book of the force so that it could review the new As for easier access to buildings by Year Award. He is a frequent witness regulations and recommend changes. handicapped persons, the task force rec before Congr~ssional committees and has The task force's review included the ognized that need on the one hand, and made numerous television appearances in need for visitor parking, parking for han on the other the desirability of limiting the United States, Japan, Europe and dicapped persons, and the use of a single traffic on the interior campus roads. The South America. traffic judicial officer. task force recommended that the access His visit is sponsored by the F. E. road north of the library be opened to Seidman Graduate College of Business The group decided that the new signs handicapped traffic and college service and Administration. that had been placed at reserved areas had (Continued on page 2) Arnold Ott Viewpoint Letter. to What'sReally Happening The Editor Orchids for the Records Office Something very nice is happening on the second floor of Lake Huron Hall. To the Family? For several weeks now the entire staff of the Records Office has been sweating and swearing over "module dumps," thousands By Nathalie M. Ostroot of half credits, and untold numbers of other misplaced modulars, all in an On campus, at meetings and parties, a decade, the changes we observe are apt effort to produce the first official College and virtually wherever I travel, as soon as to appear quite disruptive of familiar IV transcripts. people learn that my field of study is the patterns. The Records crew has waded in to a sea family, that question is posed: "What's of module credits, transfer credits, slips really happening to the family?" Some of paper, and student files ten times times, coming from young adults, the Let's turn to some specific changes. thicker than normal. Yet, despite bitchy question is tossed out as an optimistic Several recent demographic trends have assistant deans and faculty who have challenge , as though to say, "I'm breaking profound implications for the family, but trouble with their math, the crew has not free of my family, and I may never follow by and large they don't attract much at sunk but has accomplished a near miracle in their footsteps. That doesn't make me tention from my questioners. One is the in making the many pieces of a College a bad egg, does it?" More often, if the reversal - just since 1965 - of our 200- IV transcript fit together. questioners are older, the implicit con year pattern of younger and younger ages Nathalie Ostroot I wish to thank them. They deserve cern is that the family is falling to pieces.

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