Focus EMU, July 28, 1975

ducecl by the Office of Information Services for Eastern Michigan University Faculty and Staff olume 21 - Number 2 July 28, 1975 Women's Sports, lntramurals Move On-campus enrollment for the Sum to Athletic Department mer Session is 6,506, an increase of 428 or six percent over summer By Jim Streeter and Kathy Tinney enrollment of 1974. The head count for the six and seven and one-half week Summer EMU President James H. Brickley has announced that effective Sessions has surpassed the 1973 July 1, the Women's Athletic Department as well as the summer enrollment by 557 students. intramural-recreation-club sports programs had become the Of the 3,282 undergraduates en responsibility of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. rolled, 322 are freshmen, 458 are Previously, the programs were under the supervision of the sophomores, 769 are juniors, 1,580 are Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. seniors and 153 are special students. Graduate students number 3,224. "This is solidly an administrative change only," explained There are 3,375 women and 3,131 President Brickley. "The Athletic Department should be men currently enrolled. responsible for all athletics, particularly with the current thrust The current head count figure for equal treatment of women that's occuring nationwide. reflects only those students taking "By the same token, the academic physical education Summer Session courses, and does not department should not have non-academic functions, and include those now registering for women's athletics is moving out of the area of recreation and into post-session workshops. the area of competitive sports," President Brickley noted. *** Administrative reasons also are the basis for the intramural recreation-club sports realignment. "Club sports, we think," The University of Notre Dame has President Brickley related, "will be the wave of the future forall named Astrid Hotvedt, a 28-year-old but major sports. Our ability to financeintercollegiate sports that are non-revenue-producing is diminishing. EMU graduate, as its first coordinator Robert England, director of intramural sports, Jean Gone, of women's sports. She will organize "We have always said publicly that intercollegiate sports were women's athletic director, and Albert E. Smith, director of and coordinate women's athletic pro self-supporting. Actually this is not true in all cases. The club intercollegi.ate athletics, will be working out the details of grams while retaining her former role sport movement will do two things: first it will take away the relocating women's athletics and intramural-recreation-clubsports as instructor in the physical education necessity for some of the spending in the athletic department; in the Department of Intercollegi.ateAthletics. department. second, it will make participation in these sports more available *** to more people. "In the long run, the Mid-American Conference schools may his department will benefit not only the two programs but also Co-captain of the 1975 Huron move some current intercollegiate sports to club sport status. the student body as well. baseball team Ken Bruchanski has They are under the same pressure to reduce expenditures that we "Intercollegiate athletics tends to be geared to the things I do been awarded an NCAA postgraduate are." so intramurals is a logical offshoot of that," Mr. England said. scholarship for $1,000 to begin post President Brickley also pointed out that the realignment will "I'll be in charge of scheduling all athletic facilities and I feelthat graduate study at the university or make it easier to sort out activities that are credit-producing from intramurals and open-recreation will get into areas giving us professional school of his choice. He is those that are not. It also provides for a little better coordination maximum use of all existing facilities." the first Huron athlete ever to win the of equipment and facilities. award. The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics formerly was in *** charge of 11 men's varsity sports. Now a whole new dimension has been added to the program. EMU baseball player Glenn Gulliver "The changes were made in the department after meetings is one of 19 players named to the between President Brickley, Jean Cione, women's athletic United States Baseball Federation director, and myself," Athletic Director Albert E. Smith said. Math Head To Retire Team which is competing in the "The general conclusion we arrived at from those meetings was Columbia (South America) Friendship that one program for· all athletics and recreation would be the Dr. Robert S. Pate, head of Tournament through Aug. 7. That best for what we want to accomplish here at Eastern Michigan the Mathematics Department for same team will also compete in the University. the past 29 years, will retire Intercontinental Cup Games to be held formally from active service at in Canada Aug. 14 through 31. "We felt that the changes were in line with the current trend EMU on August 8, 1975. to help raise the level of women's intercollegiate athletics," Dr. Professor Pate received his *** Smith added. A.B. in mathematics in 1934 Other reasons Dr. Smith cited for the move are: better from Nebraska State College, The Office of Minority Affairs is administration and management for all the programs under one Peru, Neb. While there he sponsoring a trip to Toronto Friday department, better scheduling and use of all athletic facilities and received the Swenson A ward as through Sunday, Aug. 8 · 10. For better help for all of the programs in becoming self-sustaining in outstanding scholar and athlete. details, see Activities Calendar, page 3. the near future. As a State College Scholarship recipient he studied graduate *** While the changes add a big burden to the men's program, Dr. mathematics at the University of Smith is confident that his department will be able to run Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., obtain Today is the deadline for automatic efficiently despite the additional work-load. ing his M.A. in mathematics in class withdrawals for undergraduate "It's an added responsibility for me and the department but I 1936. Professor Pate then Dr. Robert Pate students enrolled in six-week courses studied at the University of and Monday, Aug. 4 for those taking feel it's necessary.to help carry out, in it's entirety, the mission of the athletic department," Dr. Smith said. "We know the programs Illinois and was awarded his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1940. seven and one-half week sessions. The During his tenure at both the University of Nebraska and automatic withdrawal period is from will have to be more self-sustaining in the future so we will have to generate funds through gate receipts and other outside sources. University of Illinois, he was a teaching fellow in the Department July 8 to July 28 (six-week classes) of Mathematics. and July 8 to Aug. 4 (seven and We need revenues to handle the total intercollegiate athletic department." He joined the teaching faculty as an instructor in mathematics one-half week classes). at the University of Illinois from 194041. Before coming to Beginning Tuesday, July 29 (six Although the physical education department will no longer be Eastern in 1946, Professor Pate was an assistant professor of week classes) and Aug. 5 (seven and responsible for the programs, Dr. Smith is hopeful that the HPER mathematics at the University of Kansas from 1941-42, worked one-half week classes), withdrawals are Department and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will as a gas test engineer forBoeing Airplane Co., from 194243, was not automatic. To be considered fora aid each other in a big way. employed as a mathematician in Engineering Research at the late withdrawal, the student must be Laboratory of Applied Physics under a Navy Contract evaluated by the instructor as earning "Just because we made the changes doesn't mean that the administered by Johns Hopkins University from 194345, and an A, B or C at the time of the physical education department is now completely out of the then went to the University of South Carolina as an associate request, or the student must present picture," Dr. Smith added. "We will continue to work closely professor of mathematics from 1945-46. written verification of unexpected witb. them in sharing of facilities, sharing equipment and sharing Dr. Pate came to EMU as professor and head of the emergency circumstances which pre personnel. We see the two departments as being very compatible." Mathematics Department in 1946. He served in this capacity until vent him from completing the course. his retirement. Withdrawal forms for the automatic Ms. Cione, beginning her third year as women's athletic director, has been in charge of a rising women's program that now Professor Pate is a member of the American Mathematical period may be picked up from the Society, Mathematical Association of America and served in 1959 Office of Academic Advising, 229 includes ten varsity sports. The sports with varsity status for women include basketball, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, as chairman of the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Pierce Hall. Association of America. Total withdrawal from all classes softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, tennis, track and field and volleyball. There will be a retirement tea honoring Dr. and Mrs. Pate from for the term is initiated in the 3-5 p.m., Monday, August 4, in the Goodison Hall Lounge on the Counseling Center, 117 Goodison Hall. Bob England has been the intramural-recreation-club sports Eastern Michigan University campus. director for the past seven years and he feels that the change of All friends of Dr. and Mrs. Pate are cordially invited. Copy deadline for the next issue of Focus EMU is noon Friday, August 1 FOCUS PECIAL CENTER OF ON facult!": ROJECTS EDUC\TIONAL Marshall Tymn Is Science Fiction Buff ND RESOURCES ESEARCH By Michael Cheeseman DEVELOPMENT Shakespeare Science fiction is beginning to mean more than bug-eyed monsters and weird Celebration little men from outer space.

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