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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1980s) Student Newspapers 10-13-1983 Current, October 13, 1983 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current1980s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, October 13, 1983" (1983). Current (1980s). 105. http://irl.umsl.edu/current1980s/105 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1980s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. oct. 13, 1983 University of Missouri-St. Louis IS$ue 462 Nursing school moves toward accreditation Barb DePalma Martin said that a nursing reporter school cannot be accredited until it graduates its first class. Since Th e UMSL School of Nursing the first class graduated last has taken the first step toward May, the school decided to begin becoming accredited by the accreditation proceedings. A Co uncil for Baccalaureate and two-volume report was written Higher Degrees, the accrediting by UMSL nursing faculty, stu­ body for nursing schools. Two dents and administrators deal­ council representatives recently ing with issues looked at by the visited the school to investigate accreditation board. This report, its operation and purpose. Their along with a self-study, was sub­ final report showed no weak­ mitted to the nursing school ac­ nesses in the UMSL School of creditation board. The purpose Nursing. of the site visit was to clarify and " I feel very good about this," confirm any information they said Shirley Martin, dean of the had questions about in the report School of Nursing. "Here are two or study. people from outside who came to Dedicated Spectators: The rain didn't dampen the spirits of these spectators as they par­ "The site visitors said that it tiCipated in the dedication df the UMSL soccer stadium. school and looked quite thor­ was a well-organized and well- oughly. Their report was very favorable. " See "Nursing," page 2 Enrollment tally drops Funeral services held for Shuman byless than 2 % dents, age, degrees granted, en­ Funeral services for Charles Shuman and eventually drow­ by the Coast Guard about Mary Murphy-Overmann W. Shuman, a mathematics ned him. 1,000 yards downstream on reporter rollment in courses by class instructor at UMSL, were held Smith, in an interview with the hydraulic. level of student, ethnic back­ Proving last year's predic­ ground, and schools and colleges Monday, Oct. 11. , at the She­ the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smith and Mr. Shuman pard Funeral Chapel, 9255 said that they had been pad­ tions, the fall 1983 enrollment from which students transferred. taught kayaking classes on the has dropped, but only minimally, Allen said that enrollment Natural Bridge Road. Mr. dling toward a stretch of calm UMSL campus,' using the pool Shuman drowned Friday, Oct. water. Their route led be­ according to Associate Registrar figures are more than Simply a in the Mark Twain Building. Glenn Allen. Final figures show head count. "Basic trends and 7 while kayaking on the Mis­ tween the hydraulic and a The courses stress safety and sissippi River. small island. less than a 2 percent decrease budgets are built on fall semes­ how to handle kayaks in rough in enrollment. ter enrollments," he added. Mr. Shuman, 36, had been Both men found themselves water. The area near the Enrollment totalled 11,558 Manager of the Budget Bob kayaking along with Herman trapped by the wall of water. Ch;:tin of Rocks Bridge has students, either part time or full Proffer said, "Everyone is given Smith, 40 , an associate pro­ They had been wearing life been known as exceedingly time, in the College of Arts and a permanent budget base from fessor of sociology at UMSL. jackets and had stayed with dangerous. Smith said that he Sciences, School of Business which to work." But an increase The pair had been paddling in their capsized kayaks. "Life had been lucky to escape. Administration, School of Edu­ or decrease in enrollment means the river below the Chain of jackets don't help very much," Mr. Shuman graduated cation, School of Nursing, School a change in campus fncome. Prof­ Rocks bridge when they were Smith said. "The water's too from Normandy High School of Optometry and the Graduate fer explained that in order to plan caught up in a " hydraulic" or strong." in 1965. He earned his bach­ School. This figure does not in­ current and long-range spend­ "hole." Mr. Shuman became en­ elor's degree from Dartmouth clude students in the Continuing ing, the university relies upon Kayakers use these terms tangled with a throw rope on College and also held a mas­ Education-Extension Division. fairly accurate predictions of in referring to river con­ his boat, and was unable to ter's degree from Washing­ "Transfer students remained enrollment trends. ditions. They are under­ free himself. Smith was strug­ ton University. relatively constant," Allen said. An increase in enrollment or a currents created in the water gling to save himself at this Mr. Shuman was Single. fluctuation slightly above a pre­ that thrust the water back point, and could not attempt to Surviving are his parents, Mr. Allen is charged with the res­ upstream. dicted drop," might result in the rescue Mr. Shuman on his own. and Mrs. Robert W. Shuman of ponsibility of recording and re­ At this particular location, authorization of temporary Smith freed himself from St. Louis; his sister, Susan porting various figures required a concrete slab had been spending for var ious projects," the hydraulic and went for Horstmann of Creve Coeur; by state law. Forms, to be filed in placed In mIdstream, forming said Proffer. This would be due to help to the St. Louis water­ and his grandmother, Mar­ triplicate, request information the hole, and the resulting works on Riverview Drive. not only on enrollment " head the slight increase in campus guerite Shuman of Richmond income provided by the addi­ undercurrent had trapped Mr. Shuman's body was found counts," but the number of credit Heigh~s . tional students. hours, geographic origin of stu- But the other half of the budget revenues comes from state ap­ propriations. Said Proffer, "En­ Salvadoran education devastated, Reinert says rollment declines would likely affect our appropriations." and hoped they would get per­ in San Salvador had 15 good school, for example, is in a tene­ Allen is forecasting a con­ Daniel J. Johnson mission to see them. reporter buildings before the war, the ment house and students sit on tinued gradual decline in UMSL The group stayed together and finest library in Latin America, a the floor. They have a library enrollment as fewer persons never separated during the time good faculty and a variety of pro­ with only 200 books. The medical graduate from high school. Education in EI Salvador is in a it was there, Reinert said. People state of " unbelievable devasta­ grams and departments, he said. school is under similar cir­ who were afraid to visit them Like other Latin American uni­ cumstances, he said. tion" because of the raging civil during the day did so at night. war there and the United States versities, it was a community in The only other university or The National University, a itself with no public streets run­ college of any quality there, inside should do something to correct major public university located the situation, the Rev. Paul ning through it and its own sec­ Reinert said, is the Universidad Reinert, S.J ., chancellor of Saint urity force. Centroamericana (UCA), a Jes­ Louis University, said here As the war began, people fled uit university with 6,000 stu­ Visiting Las Vegas left Friday. to the university in fear of what dents. Bombs constantly go off columnist Matt Hall with was going to happen and set up there, he said. some very astute obser­ Reinert and seven professors tents to live in. Guerrillas and "Students that attend know vations. page 7 and administrators from univer­ communists infiltrated the uni­ they're going at a big handicap," sities across the country were versity and students had to carry he said, " because the big com­ sent to EI Salvador by the arms or hire bodyguards for pro­ panies will not hire graduates Faculty in Exile in Latin Amer­ tection, he said. from UCA on the grounds that The UMSL soccer stadium ica, an organization formed by After a shooting incident, the they automatically have been was dedicated Tuesday exiled Latin American pro­ army destroyed the school. Win­ brainwashed and are pofitical night, and hundreds of soc­ fessors and teachers. The organ­ dows were shot out, library books subversives. " cer loyalists turned out to ization has its headquarters in were sold off, and lab equipment "What I'd like to impress on watch twin UMSL victories. Mexico City and its subhead­ was scuttled in the campus lake. you ," Reinert told the audience, page9 quarters in California. The president of the university, "is that I'm afraid our State Reinert said the organization several professors and some. Department doesn't realize that arranged for them to see all the students were killed, and the the ravages down there are going key people in the c,puntry, includ­ heads of departments were put in to go far beyond people being ing President Alvaro Magana and jail. killed in war or damage to pro­ editorials ...... ... page 4 h.eads of the ministries of educa­ perty. Long after the' war ends around UMSL/ The uniuersity has tried to con­ tion, justice and finance, and to there's going to be two or three classifieds .

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