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December 1972/January 1973 Volume 3 Number 8 University cuts $1,276,000 from budget

Wright State University has completed a series of budget cuts totaling $1,276,000 in the face of a less-than-expected fall enrollment and the resulting loss of income. The main campus budget, as originally adopted~ (left to right, at table) President Lionel Newsom, Central State University; Acting had cal led for expenditures of Pre ident Frederick A. White, Wright State University; President Phillip R. Shriver, $18,290,000. Miami University at news conference (December 21, 1972) announcing agreement Every element of the University reached among the three schools for the operation of the proposed Wright State was required to participate in the University School of Medicine. budget revision after Acting President Frederick A. White and his staff had made initial cuts totaling $363,000. WSU, Miami, Central State The University-wide effort had to produce additional savings of nearly reach med school agreement $900,000. When the final results were announced the budget had been 0 licials of three state universities in local contributions, will be forwarded reduced $913,000. outhwest Ohio have reached to Columbus on schedule. Firm The academic areas of the reement on the proposed school of agreements dedicating beds and University cut $560,000 to offset the medicine to be located at Wright State facilities to accomplish the program deficit, while administrative functions University. are now being executed by many were cut by nearly $296,000. A Announcement of the agreement hospitals and other health agencies in principal area of savings was in made at a news conference the area. A final decision on the estab­ personnel. Positions for new faculty December 21 by Presidents Frederick lishment of the school will be made by and staff which had been approved · _White of Wright State, Phillip R. Shriver of M. . U . the legislature and Board of Regents. were cancelled. Other major cuts were H iam 1 n1versity and Lionel It was agreed that Wright State will made in the areas of travel and ·. ewsom of Central State Un1versi ty. have administrative and financial communications. responsibility for the medical school. " In general," said Dr. Robert hA planning study for the medical The dean will be appointed by the Kegerreis, vice president and director c 001 • funds for which were appropriat d president and trustees of WSU "in of administration, "these budget legislatur e to WSU by the state consultation and with the concurrence revisions will allow the University to e, and were supplemented by (Continued on page 72.) (Continued on page 77.) 2

Jazz singer, ballet group, lecturer to perfo

One of the most prominent young jazz musicians of ow time, Leon Thomas, wia perform at Wright Stace University, as a part of the Artist and Lecture Series, Monday January 15 at 8:00 pm 11 Oelman Auditorium. For over two years Leon Thomas was the featured sinaer with Count Basie. He was gready influenced by Billy Eckstein, Arthur Prysock and B. 8. Ki"l­ Mr. Thomas, who was voted the number one male singer in Down Beat's 1970 Readers' Poll, hasan unusual style which combines scat with yodel. The Village Voice calls him " . .. perhaps the finest jazz singer working today." Mr Thomas is also known for his peace-and-brotherhood songs and for blues. All of these styles provide him with excellent opportunities to display his versatility.

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A lecture by N. Scott Momaday, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his brilliant exposition of the mind and soul of the American Indian in House Made of Dawn, is the Artist and Lecture Series Valentine gift to right State you. He will speak at 3:30 pm, Wednesday, February 14 in Oelman Auditorium. N. Scott Momaday Dr. Momaday draws upon his Kiowa Indian heritage as subject matter for many of his books, including The Way to Rainy Mountain and The journey of Tai-Me. He holds degrees from the University of New Mexico and Stanford University, serves as. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and is a noted essayist, poet, critic, and reviewer as well as fiction author. His primary interests are in the American Indian in conflict, the moral aspects of The Dayton Civic Ballet will white-Indian diplomacy from open t h e w i n t e r q u a r t e r the colonial period to the Artist and Lecture Series for present, and the Indian oral 1973. The performance will be tradition and reverence for at 3:30 pm, January 8 in the words as a major contribution to ew Liberty Hall Theatre on our American culture. tional Road. The program will include works of the Neo-Classic Dayton Civic Ballet period, based upon music of Vivaldi; the Romantic era, using steps conceived 150 years ago and contemporary dance inspired by Wilfred Owen'~ World War I anti-war poetry. The latter will be performed to an electronic score and reading of the poetry by Paul Lane furm er wSU ·instructor in speech' and theatre. The Ballet is one of only three com . . Pan1es m the United c:tes to be honored as a "Major mpany." The company the second Id ' 0 est regional ballet compan · 35 h y in the country' is in its 1 season. The com . me b pany is a charter R ~ er of the Northeast eg1onal Ball A in 1 et ssociation and ti 965 was designated a onal Honor Company. 4

Creative Arts Center boon to music depa Department getting own concert hall sans science lectures, movies and a

Wright State University's music variety of programming. Provisions Western Ohio Branch Cam W. h S . Pus department has never stopped have been made for two-way rig t tate 1n Celina, Ohio; and Di expanding since it was established with communication for instructional Martha Wurtz. Dr. Wurtz comes fr no music majors in 1964, despite the purposes. Ohio University, where she desi fact that its "concert hall" had to be the graduate music educa shared with a science lecture class, program . At Wright State, she movies, theatre productions, speakers direct the University's first women and countless University assemblies. chorus and write a proposal for These days will soon be far behind, the music department master, of music degree in mu as department chairman Dr. William education. Fenton looks foward to moving into will occupy one of the From a start of two full-time and the department's new wing in the six part-time faculty members, creative arts center, to be opened late most sophisticated and numbers have grown to include 1 next spring. full-time members and 15 part-time With the completion of the center, complete music facilities music associates. Half of the full-time the music department will occupy one faculty have earned doctoral degrees. of the most sophisticated and in the Miami Valley... Over the years, music organizations complete music facilities under one have also increased in numbers to roof in the Miami Valley, according to encompass two professiona Fenton. With the new facilities, the fraternities (Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia department looks forward to greater and Sigma Alpha Iota), and seven Building highlights community part1c1pation in WSU performance ensembles: the Fenton speaks with pride of the music efforts. A 75-piece Community Symphonic Band, Varsity Band building he will be occupying next Orchestra currently draws at least 50 Uni ve rs i ty 0 rch estra, University year. "We will have two performance percent of its membership from Chorus, Chamber Singers, Men's Glee areas in our wing," he says, "a concert citizens of the Dayton area. Club and Women's Chorus. In hall, seating 400, and a 110-seat recital Along with increasing the numbers addition, the department has been a hall. Both areas will give us the proper in the community orchestra, Fenton member of the National Association of accoustical space for performing in hopes the new center will attract local Schools of Music since 1970. any medium, whether solo, small chamber and ensemble groups to the Current student enrollment stands ensemble, such as chamber music, or campus for performances. He just over 120 music majors, according large symphonic bands." especially looks forward to a chamber to Dr. Fenton. Vocational goals of The highlight and focal point of the music series on campus. WSU 's music students range from large concert hall will be the 32-rank professional performance to music Casavant organ . Program expansion education to composition and Rehearsal rooms will provide In adaition, the new building will arranging to studio teaching to practice facilities for up to 350 music allow the department to expand to preparation for graduate school majors. Each room wil I be accommodate the varied interests of Wright State's curricula include the accoustically sound and designed so its stud en ts . study of music through solo that both instrumental and vocal This year is the first for a class in performance, ensemble performance combinations may be accommodated . opera production. This is one area creative writing, historical survey and "One excellent aspect of the which will be expanded with the move techniques of teaching. rehearsal rooms and performance hall to the new wing. A varsity band for Freshman auditions is the recording studio," Fenton points the 1972-73 basketball season is · e the out. "With this, we will be able to another WSU first. Francis Laws, a low This year, for the first tim '.. record any groups rehearsing or brass specialist from Indiana University. . has sc h e d u Ie d four audition performing simultaneously." University, has been brought in this dates for entering freshmen ~n a d. · will be A listening center, also part of the year as the Varsity Band director. state-wide basis. The au itions . . . nd will be new facility, will be one of the most Other new faculty additions include held at the Un1vers1ty a . de electronically sophisticated in the area. Dr . Julane Rodgers, a harpsichordist preceded by the Musical AptitU f 0 The center will have multiple channel from the University of Oregon; Byron Profile taken on the morning selectors so that students can choose a Kauffman, a choral director for the audition. 5

The creative arts center will house the departments of theatre, music and art. Music will occupy the wing in the right foreground .

''The impact of the new building h caused us to schedule these January-February Concert and Recital Schedule auditions in a more formal way then Wright State University Department of Music ever before," says Fenton. "We anticipate a heavier enrollment for The following performances are free and open to the public. n t year because of our new f; ctlities." Sunday/January 21 3:00 p.m. Chamber Music He added that with the dormitory Fawcett Auditorium and, . . the. presence of nearby housing '· c1ht1es. , the un1vers1ty · . has arrived at Monday/January 29 3:30 p.m. Student Recital point where it can serve students Fawcett Auditorium f rom any r . . egion, and 1s not lim ited to per ons w'th· 1 in commuter distance Sunday/February 11 3 :00 p.m. Faculty Recital The department believes th a~ to Fawcett Auditorium Dee Levitan maior in · . . music is to be invo lved Sarah Johnson oeat1vely · in the performance of mu 1c M " ,' ore than ever before Wright Sunday/February 25 8 :15 p.m . University Chorus ..,te sf T · . ' end ac i ities wi ll contribute to th is Oelman Auditorium and Orchestra 6 Early classroom experience and streamlined curriculum being tested in elementary educatio

The transition from student t t o eacher can be a difficu It and fri h . . g ten1ng expe rience for elementary ed . ucat1on graduates. At Wright State Univ . . . ers1ty Block gets juniors into the elementary school a pilot program 1s attempting to k . . ma e t hat trans1t1on smoother and to classroom, teaches them to deal produce new teachers better prepared to meet the challenges of the modern with non-textbook problems. day classroom. The competency-based pilot program, known as "B lock" at Wright State, is now in its second year and has enrolled 30 juniors. The philosophy of Block is to get students into the elementary classroom before their student teaching experience, to teach them to deal with problem situations "away from the textbooks," and to present their University classwork in a way which avoids repetition and fills the gaps left by traditional courses. "In the past we've judged the ability of the elementary education major on the basis of grades; Block makes its students go out into the classroom and use what they've learned," explained Beatrice Chait, program coordinator. "We think the • program makes them more effective student teachers when the time comes, and in the end, more effective professionals." In order to achieve th is degree of performance with their students, Mrs. Chait and six other faculty members at WSU have devoted a fraction of their . f teaching loads and a large portion o their spare time to making Block work since the late spring of 1971. They work together with the precision of smoothly-meshed gears --developing. courses that cover. such traditional elementary educati~n subiects. as language arts, soci·al studie. education,. science · education,d evaluation and child development'. ~n working to elim1niate. . . the repetition which usually pops up ·in these course when they are taught separately. . discipline Art, no matter how messy, can't be overlooked as an important part of education, To avoid repetition, cross- ~ r as this Wright State "Block" student learns while working with pupils at McGuffey subjects have been developed 0 Elementary School in Dayton . behavioral objectives, lesson 7 - The Rimers of E/dritch is scheduled for February 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 at the New Liberty Hall Theatre at 2438 National Road. Since The Rimers won for its author the coveted Drama Desk Award, Lanford Wilson has been hailed as one of the most talented of the new American playwrights. Eldritch, which the playwright describes as "one of the many nearly abandoned towns in America's Middle West" is the subject of the play. A murder Un iversity and its effect on the townspeople focus the drama on the comedy and tragedy of small town fears and attitudes. ******** presents George Bernard Shaw's first hit, Arms and the Man, is an amusing satire on the army, on heroism, and on the idealism which surrounds feminity. The title was taken tongue in cheek from the first line of Virgil's Aeneid, "Of arms and the man drama, I sing." Virgil's enthusiasm for military glory is debunked by Shaw on March 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 in the New Liberty Hall Theatre. satire ******** Tickets are available at $2 by calling 426-3500; on performance nights, ticket information is available at 426-6650, extension 730. Alumni interested in receiving flyers about performances should request that they be added to the regular mailing list of the Department of Speech and Theatre, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 45431.

pre entation, teacher-made tests and of the team, explained, "Unless we teaching experience. questioning-so that these topics come have more contact with our students "From the very first week of up once rather than several times in a than traditional programs allow, we student teaching, it was apparent that tudent's undergraduate career. can't truly help them to succeed." last year's Block students felt safe to "Rather than the students getting a "We hope to develop the kind of try new approaches, to critically philosophy here, another one over relationships with out students that we examine their own methods and there, we try to provide more want them to develop with their procedures and to question those of opportunity for an intellectual rather elementary school pupils," said Alice their supervisors without fear of than an emotional approach to Swinger, team member and reprisals," said Mrs. Chait. problems they might find in the coordinator of the Dayton Teacher "The students themselves cla room. We present them with Education Laboratory Center. acknowledged that their successful alternatives," said Dr. Robert Earl, At the beginning of their junior experiences in pre-student teaching­ a ociate professor of science year, students accepted into Block classroom participation, as well as education and a member of the team. start spending a minimum of two days their interaction with the Block In order to find out just how well a week in an elementary classroom, faculty, added to their sense of their teaching methods are going over helping the regular classroom security and their ability to With the elementary education instructor. accomplish." Mrs. Chait said. tudents, the faculty members have They spend at least three days a n olved students in their teaching plan. week on the Wright State campus attending their Block courses during To the Block professors, teaching is the fall and winter quarters. Instead of atwo-way street traditional grades, each student ATTENTION ALUMNI I "After par~icipating in Block receives a set of minimum competency P clllning se · [ ssions and evaluating the levels he must achieve during the Our apologies to those alumni who will ulty tearn as wel I as myself it is c ear to h ' quarters. Students are permitted to find out in the alumni insert to this . rne t at teaching can never in be a work at their own pace and edition that there was a reserved section Profe one-way process given by a encouraged to work together with for them at the December 15 basket­ elc s or to a student," said one other Block students on joint projects. ball home game. mentary education student Dr. William c 11· · The third quarter of their junior The slip-up was due to a combined 0 1e, a new member year is devoted to a traditional student December-January issue. 8

WSU grad designs student-probationer progra wins NCCJ scholarship

Students meet with probationers to develop relationships on a humanizing level in Hamblett's program

A Wright State University graduate student who grew up with a desire to help her fellow human beings has been awarded a $1,000 fellowship grant from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Southern Ohio Region. Presenting the grant to Patricia Hamblett were Victor Cassano, Judge Robert U. Martin and Max Isaacson, all co-chairmen of the Conference's Dayton Board of Directors. Miss Hamblett, a 1972 WSU graduate in sociology, lives on Corinth Drive in Dayton and is currently pursuing her master's degree in education, focusing on guidance and counseling. She was chosen because of a volunteer probation officer project she designed. The proposal calls for joint efforts by WSU's sociology department and the Montgomery County Adult Probation Department. The probation department will assign probationers to 25 volunteers, supervised by Miss Hamblett, to meet twice a week with the probationers and develop relationships "on a humanizing level," according to the report. Miss Hamblett believes this system "will help to eliminate discrimination economically and racially and should help to make productive individuals out Patricia Hamblett of those who might otherwise remain or become nonproductive, dependent members of society and Department this year. This project is the first of its habitual offenders." She says the program will enable kind in the country. more offenders to be put on probation, which would Career plans for the 1968 Belmont High School not only benefit the offender and his family, but also graduate are "still uncertain," according to Pat. "My society, since they cou Id become productive persons. goal has always been to become a probation officer This project is one of many which she has involved with Montgomery county," she says, "but working herself in as a Wright State student interested in with the Police Department is opening my eyes to criminology and corrections. Last year, she spent things I never realized before, so I might consider three quarters of her senior year independently something along these lines, if the opportunity comes researching victimless crime under the direction of up ." Ellen Murray, an instructor in the sociology Meanwhile, she manages to keep busy ~s department. The resu Its of her research were co-chairman of SAFER (Social Action for Everyones compiled into a paper authored by Miss Murray Rights), attending conferences and workshop~ _on entitled "The Decriminalization of Victimless Crime: criminal justice and helping to plan a new coalition Marijuana Use and Demographic Variables." on criminal justice in Dayton, called Justice for Al~; In addition, Miss Hamblett is one of four graduate "I've always been interested in h e Iping · people' students (and the only female} hired to conduct she says. "I've felt that if I coulq just help make research and write reports for the Dayton Police someone's life more pleasant, I'd be satisfied." 9

runnel to connect two quadrangles

issing link in Wright State two main building complexes- each of addition to the uncomfortable mJJOr m d" d .t 's facilities for han icappe which has a tunnel system - has been distance, the path between the n er 1 Y . . felt most keenly by handicapped academic building complex and the l . soon will be filled in. udcn h · d students during inclement weather. In center involves a four percent grade. Un1vers1·ty trustees have aut. onze . s with the arch 1tectu ral o11ation . rm of Eugene w. Betz Associates for ·on of a tunnel between State support sought n true [1 . . Hall and the Un1vers1ty F wcet t for handicapped student program (enter. The 8oo-foot tunnel will connect th main academic area ~o t.he The Wright State University Board of budget and federal funds designed to complex including the University Trustees has passed a resolution urging initiate programs and provide financial Center, the Residence Hall and th.e the Ohio Board of Regen ts to establish support for an estimated five-year Ph ical Education Center. Work 1s a special subsidy program to help period. pc ted to begin next su_mmer, support the University's handicapped However, the University has ording to Robert Marlow, director student services program. experienced a cutback in federal funds 0 campus planning and construction. The program, which now serves and anticipates a total lack of funds The tunnel will be paid for out of approximately 375 disabled students, within the near future despite an th 850,000 appropriated th is year has an annual operating cost in excess increasing disabled student population. r renovations and utilities. The of $80,000. In addition, an estimated The resolution asks that a special ment and first floor of Millett $125,000 of federal and state funds subsidy program be established for all H 11, now housing the library, will be has been invested in the University for state-supported institutions of higher comcrted to offices and classrooms special features in the physical plant. education which operate handicapped hen the new library building is These funds have enabled the student services programs. The amount completed early next year. University to take a leadership role in of special funds each University would The appropriation will also pay for the education of physically receive would be dependent on the additional elevator in Allyn Hall handicapped stud en ts. number of severely and moderately and another in Fawcett Hall. All program costs have been met by disabled students each institution The lack of a tunnel between the the University's current operating served.

Study skills for women Wright State University has created a Bolinga Center director sought course for women who wish to enter college for the first time or return to right State University has begun the black experience in America, the classroom after years of absence. ad\crtising nationally for a new Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The course, "Study Skills for director for the Bolinga Black Cultural The di rector's work is both Women," is an introduction to the art Re urces Center. The new director is administrative and academic and one of studying. Each woman's reading to ucceed Mrs. Yvonne Chappelle of the desired, but not mandatory, ability will be tested for speed, who has resigned after nearly two qualifications is the ability to achieve vocabulary and comprehension . A ear in the post in order to academic rank in some department of variety of other study aids and company her husband back to the University. individualized assignments will be used a hington, D.C. In addition to general to enable participants to compete Alphonso L. Smith, mathematics administration of the center, the academically in today's college profe sor and h · c airman of the advisory director has responsibility for its classroom. larch committee, said ads will be cultural programs, for the library The course will be from 7 to 9 pm P ced in se I · vera national publications holdings of the center, and for Mondays from January 8 to March 12. concerned · h wit black interests and counseling stud en ts. He also wil I serve No academic credit or grades will be Ith educ r w 11 a ion. The committee also as a resource person to advise on given for the class; its sole purpose is I advertise locally Th . curriculum development in black to aid each woman's individual e director will coordinate, development of study skills. For supervise and d . studies and will serve as the .icf · . irect a number of further information, contact the IV1t1es which . University's link with the community require understanding regarding black studies. Division of Continuing Education, 426-6650, extension 216. 10 Weather, score mar home opener with Miami

The Wright State basketballers' tube and on radio. Besides WLW-D's "perfect season" came to an end in fu 11 game coverage, Middletown, A big "first" in Wright State bask;­ game No. 3- to nobody's surprise. Hamilton and Oxford radio stations ball was accomplished Dec. 22 Miami University's Redskins were a broadcast the game, and WHIO-TV ran when the Raiders knocked off f . a force of a different color (no slur film clips. team o maior classification. They intended, all you genuine Indians) The best thing of all, though, was outscored Cleveland State 52_48 on from the Lords of Kenyon and the the way the Raiders recovered from a the Vikings' home court in Public Norsemen of Northern Kentucky Miami runaway at the very outset that Hall. State. Miami won going away, 84-59. left our boys behind by 22-7 . Wright State, playing only its Defeat was, however, one of only WSU Athletic Director Don Mohr third season at the varsity level, 15 two regrettable things that happened had been ribbed roundly by some in the NCAA's College Division on the most exciting weekend in folks when he scheduled the rather than University Division, bu; Wright State's less than three years of tradition-steeped athletic powerhouse there was nothing minor about the varsity basketball. The other was the from Oxford. The fact that Miami manner in which Our Heroes weather. Hazardous roadways riddled Coach john Ross' achieved the upset. They took the following a game-day snowstorm game-opening zone defense with some lead at 11-10 and refused to sur­ certainly held down attendance on a long, long shots that "had eyes" would render it even momentarily. night when fans could stay home and not have saved Mohr. But Bob Grote Raider Jim Minch, a iunior, see the action on television. did. made his first start of the season an But there was much more that was The freshman from Cincinnati came unforgettable one. He played the full 40 minutes, scored 19 points, positive. The UD Arena attendance, off the bench in the seventh minute estimated at 3,500, was the best there and the Wright State offense began to and took 15 rebounds. His totals were unequalled by either friend or had been for a Wright State move. The muscular Grote fired home appearance in home territory. From nine points inside of five minutes, and foe. Wednesday through Sunday, it seemed Lyle Falknor, his classmate from New time in his long and successful as though the Raiders were popping up Madison, chipped in with four. A 13-2 coaching career, he visited the other all over the area newspapers and the explosion by the Raiders! Suddenly it team's locker-room as a winning was a ballgame after all. coach. And, he did it before going into And it was to get closer. Gary Nuhn his own team's quarters. "I thought of the Dayton Daily News reported: they did a nice job," Hedric said "The final score wasn't the news this simply. "They deserve Mcleary leaves night. The news was the 38-34 encouragement.'' (Potential halftime score and the 42-40 score ticket-purchasers in the Wright State soccer post three minutes into the second half." community take note.) Leal Beattie of the Dayton journal Grote led all the scorers on view Larry Mcleary has resigned as Herald wrote : "History will show it with 21 points all told, and three times Wright State University soccer coach. simply as a 25-point defeat, but Wright Tim Walker blocked shots by Miami 5 Mcleary, who is a part-time State's 84-59 loss to Miami could great guard and '71-72 scoring employee and also a part-time student, mean much more to the champion Phil Lumpkin. When ' t of says he has two fu II-time job offers to Raiders ... The players, struggling to Falknor acquires the sor coach college soccer elsewhere next prove their program respectable, came aggressiveness already evident 1" year. They carry the stipulation that out of the game with Walker and Grote, it will give WSU a he must have completed work on his confidence .. . For 23 minutes, Wright trio that, while perhaps not as. fa;' master's degree. State played a whale of a game." afoot as desirable, will be effecuve Mcleary says he will work toward Winning coach Hedric told Nuhn quick. rned that goal by becoming a full-time and Beattie : "When these Wright State So far as Coach Ross was conce ,_ b. games w..•v graduate student at the university kids get some age on 'em, they're on December 26, the ig .t Classi' during the winter and spring quarters. going to make their mark." yet to come: the Colonial Ci Y . al He and his wife and 15-month-old son Hedric paid the Raiders the and Rose-Hulman Invitation live in Fairborn . supreme compliment. For the first Tournaments. 11

Enrollment up slightly! Debate team wins first but below projections JV trophy h State University's main campus veterans and another for parents of rd t nt for fall quarter, at 11,212, prospective students. hea OU . 192 higher than last year but is Several new members were added Wright State University's debate team lo enrollment projections by some to the admissions staff during the past has won its first official debate trophy tudents. year. They have contributed well to in junior varsity competition with a The decrease in enrollment, and the the student recruitment effort, both in third place finish in the Heidelberg n quent decrease in earnings, has the Dayton area and in major cities College Debate Tournament last eatcd a budget problem for the throughout Ohio. month. The result was that the number of Un er 1ty. (See story page 1.) In the tournament, Wright State WSU News talked with Walker continuing students went from minus competed against 25 other colleges len, director of admissions, about 875 (on July 28} to plus 594 on the and universities. The two members of th problem and about efforts made to final count. The deficit for new, the successful junior varsity debate rate it. transfer and returning students was team were Peter Parts, sophomore, Q. At what point did the reduced from 889 to 402. The overall 5744 Overbrooke, Kettering; and University become aware that there change, then, was an improvement Annetta Mikolanis, sophomore, 129 was a crisis looming with regard to from minus 1,764 students to plus 192 Locust, Fairborn. idmi ion for fall quarter? students over the official count in the Mike Wiesner, sophomore, 261 . Last July 28, registration fall of 1971. Brook way, Centerville; and Becky ti tic revealed that 1,764 fewer Q. What is the significance of an Sharp, senior, 1802 W. Washington, tudcnt had registered compared to increase of 192 in headcount? Springfield; combined to place in the th number for the same date in 1971. A. Considering the declining top ten teams in the novice debate Thi figure was composed of 875 enrollment picture nationwide, this competition. ¥.er continuing students and 889 increase is not bad. Some state schools and returning in Ohio actually declined in headcount this year. Locally, Sinclair Community Man and was done to correct the College increased by nearly 2,000 ·1wtion? students. Considering our past enroll­ machines . Mr. Pollock (vice president and ment growth, however, and our budget d rector of student services} met projections, the figure is disappointing. talk scheduled re ularly with representatives of Q. What will you do to reverse the era! offices to explore the problem trend? .ind possible solutions. The A. The admissions office will Man's fellowship communications office created two continue its stepped-up program to with his ma­ e i ion spot announcements one attract more high school graduates chines, and the or the graduate division and o~e for from all over. We have already made machines' admissions. The registrar sent presentations to groups of high school influences on his reminders to those who had not counselors in Cleveland, Columbus and daily behavior tcred and placed ads in Dayton Cincinnati. We will make more high have occupied and s · f. pnng 1eld newspapers. The school visitations and attend all much of the time publications office created a special possible college night programs. We'll of one of the 0 PPlement which was carried in the continue the efforts begun by Mr. professors of Dr. Ritchie a ton papers. The admissions office Pollock to tie in other university engineering at Wright State University. conducted special programs for offices who can help with our work. Malcolm L. Ritchie has been doing research for more than 20 years on Budget cuts from what goes on in the brain of a human ' page 1.) (See related story above.) forward w·th · . . when he is operating a machine. 1 its existing programs Od order Th. · indefinitely. The greatest impact in Dr. Ritchie will speak on "Machines Sch · is includes the new 001 of N · this area is on the proposed master's in Support of the Human Spirit," as ud f urs1ng and the planning degree program in library and part of the University's professorial y or the medical school " Som · communications science. The lecture series, Wednesday, January 1 7 bee e new programs which had n schedui d . University has postponed its efforts to in 101 Fawcett at 3:30 pm. The public e to begin were delayed seek accreditation for the program. is welcome. 12

:::0 ....ct> Consultant's report confirms ..,c: ::J :::0 rn ct> feasibility of area med school .0 c: ct> ~ ....Vl ~ Gilgan Associates, the medical addition," White added, "we seem ~ m school planning committee's to have a good general agreement consultants, have reaffirmed the on our present cost estimates in c committee's conclusions concerning comparison with the projections." 2 a medical school at Wright State. He added another encouraging Acting President Frederick A. note is the response by area <- White briefed WSU trustees on the physicians and scientists. "We have m consultants' findings at the received biographical materials II November 8 trustees meeting. from over 400 physicians, m "Their report emphasized the bi ochem ists, mi crobi ologi sts, -.... high quality of the medical services anatomists, physiologists and available in the area, the ability of related scientists interested in -< the area medical institutions to part-time to full-time involvement," support a medical education White told the gathering. program, the excellent community The trustees ratified cooperation support base available and the fact agreements with St. Elizabeth's that we do not need a Medical Center, Greene Memorial university-based hospital to support Hospital and the Cox Heart a medical education program . In Institute.

Agreement, from page 7. based on the size of the medical of the presidents of Central State and school, plans will be implemented for Miami." biomedical instruction to be given at An advisory committee to the WSU locations other than at Wright State. trustees will be established, composed Such off campus instruction will be of two representatives from each of under the direction of the dean of the the universities and the dean of the medical school. medical school. In addition to its The admissions committee of the concern with the program of the school of medicine will include at least medical school itself, the committee one representative from each of the w i II pay particular attention to cooperating universities. The repre­ undergraduate premedical programs at sentatives must meet the criteria estab­ the three universities. lished for faculty membership in the It was agreed that the proposed medical school, and the students must medical education program probably meet the established criteria for will have to be expanded in the future medical school admission. beyond the projected starting enroll­ "We are most pleased," President ment of approximately 60 beginning White said, "that this agreement has students. At an appropriate time, been reached. It signals the start of a new era of cooperation among the three state univer­ sities in th is part of Ohio with a venture of the utmost importance and will also re­ late to other health programs being conducted by other The WSU News is published monthly for the information of business, civic, educational and members of the Dayton­ legislative officials and other friends of Wright Miam i Valley Consortium. State University. Requests for additional infor­ mation about the University are welcomed. " This action is in accordance with the apparent EDITORIAL STAFF logical desire of the Ohio Linda Brownstein Carol Clark Board of Regents to promote Kathy Smith regional university Joe Burns coo perat ion rather than Alan Herbert duplication." Director of Communications Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45431 (513) 426-6650