LAS Hot Jazzing up to Attract More Students

Busier C o lle g ia n Vol. 99 No. 17 Indianapolis, Indiana Februar^24^1906 Central Printing faces decision on necessity of location change location but that it would be By JOE DITS would include delivery sched Collegian Aaeistant News Editor ules on materials and labor. more costly to shut down the "That information is hard to shop. Central Printing is looking come by,” he added. "It's all Work in the basement of for a new location but is not part of the normal construction Jordan Hall consists of remov site whether it can move at all. process.” ing asbestos wrappings and Located in the basement of He said the information might several Obsolete pipes. Jordan Hall, Central Printing come in about two weeks. ”1 think they underestimated had to shut its doors while still The heat in the basement was the commotion,” McTamney doing business. Printing orders turned off for the construction, said. "There are many people are being accepted from stu McTamney explained. As a re in the decision-making process, dents and faculty, but they may sult, the print shop had to use and, unfortunately, I'm pretty not pick up the finished ma space heaters. When those* far down the line. It's very hod terials themselves; the materials proved insufficient for the cold to get information." are, instead, being delivered by air that blew in whenever the He admitted that the construc Central Printing. door opened, the print shop tion is • short-term inconven Tom McTamney, director of closed its doors and started ience for a long-term conven Central Printing, said he was delivering the materials to fac ience. looking at moving the print ulty and students. "As we have gotten in, the shop into the basement of Besides the present inconven subcontractor's schedule and Holcomb Research Institute un ience, another reason the print the physical plant's schedule til construction of Jordan Hall's ers want to move is that have not «»responded. It took a middle section is completed. construction work will also be little longer to remove the as Meanwhile, Ed Lyons, direc done within the print shop. bestos.” he said. tor of the Butler University Lyons, however, did not Collegian photo by Robart Hull Contractors will work on Physical Plant, said no decision everything from the ceiling and agree that the two schedules Box maker has been made as to whether Sophomore Chris Hanlin makes boxes for the rare up and any necessary painting in have not corresponded. Central Printing will move at the print shop, according to "There are bound to difficul books in Irwin Library. The boxes are needed to pro all. tect books with damaged bindings. Hanlin is s radio/ Lyons. ties when you are in business in "We are waiting for hard McTamney said it would cost the middle of construction, television major. information from the contrac to move all the heavy equipment whether you recognize them tor,” he said. Such information from the print shop to another beforehand or not," Lyons said. LAS hot jazzing up to attract more students By STEVE STOUT enrollment decreased about 41 combat this ever-growing Economic History.” It suffered happening at all,” Patricia K. Collegian Naws Editor percent from 270 students in crisis. Some have gone as far as the same dilemma—a declining Meszaros, dean of the College 1984-85 to 160 students during to put up posters around enrollment Recently, the his- of Liberal Arts and Science, Nationwide, liberal arts and the current year. campuses literally advertising history department changed the said. "What we have done in science departments are being According to a recent article their classes. O ttos have sent name to "Black Death.” The response to student interest is to forced to take innovative in The Wall Street Journal, enticements through the mail course content, however, was develop some minor pro measures to attract more between 1970 and 1983, the and have made personal phone not altered. Perhaps the specter grams." students as a career-minded number of degrees awarded by calls soliciting students for a of rats, panic and bodies stacked An example that Meszaros generation heads toward busi liberal arts departments such as particular class. in wooden carts seemed more cited was a student that had ness and engineering special English, mathematics and Another method that schools appealing to> students as the decided to become an English ties. history fell 60 percent. In that are using to jazz up their liberal enrollment skyrocketed from major, but was pressured by Last fall, Butler University same period, undergraduate arts courses and increase IS students In 1978 to a current parents or other factors to suffered its biggest enrollment degrees in business-related enrollment is to change course figure of 125 with many major in a different field such decline ever in the College of fields doubled. titles. An undergraduate course students being turned away. as computer science or Liberal Arts and Sciences, an Colleges and universities are at Indiana University in As far as course titles being accounting. That particular area of study that was the most constantly being forced to Bloomington was titled altered at Butler to entice m o LIBERAL, page 2 popular in the 1960s. Freshman search for other alternatives to "European Social and students, "I'm not aware of that Exiled minister condemns South African 'slavery' By TONY SCHUETH Cheap labor in the richest Collegian Managing EdHor nation in Africa combined with a strategic placement makes for South Africa is the only a battleground there between country in the world with legal Moscow and the United States, slavery, a South African Ngakana said. minister told a Butler audience The result is a terror of Tuesday. communism in the nation. "If The Rev. Maurice Ngakana, a you disagree with the Lutheran living in exile from government, you are regarded South Africa, presented a as being communist," Ngakana lecture, "Apartheid in South said. Africa: Situation and Respon He was considered a com ses," before 10 students in munist by the South African Atherton Center, Room 326. government because he dis In the Butler Campus Minis agreed with the government try-sponsored lecture, Ngakana The General Secretary for the said all of the corporations South African Council of invested in the country are Churches' division of Evangel merely living on cheap labor. ism and Mission, he also served "The people (multinational Architect dies Collegian photo by Robert Hull as a member of the African corporations) are not there to Council of Churches and the Irwin Library's architect, Minoru Yamasaki, 73, died recently, the current issue of help the South Africans, they Time magazine reported. The Japanese-American architect also designed the see AFRICA, page 2 are there for profit," Ngakana World Trade Canter in New York City. Irwin, photographed hare between tree said. branches, was built about 25 years ago. 2 The Butler Collegian February 24,1986 News JCFA offers free tickets Jordan College of Fine Arts is wish to attend an event need Notes offering free tickets to the only present their Butler iden- Butler community for perfor- tification at the doer to gain mances this semester. admittance for two persons. According to Dean J a c l^ ^ The only exception to this is the Myths of EatOn, the offer resulted from three**- “Romantic “ “Music '*13 Festival terrorism poor attendance at past JCFA performances, which require events in Clowes Hall. He be the i.d. to be presented at the revealed lieves free tickets may in Clowes Box Office for reserved seating. Professor Michael Stohl of crease the size of the audience. "It is unrewarding, in a sense, Purdue University will speak on "Terrorism: Myths to perform for a small audi Eaton said a study conducted and Realities" in JH 174 on ence," he said, adding that a lack by Clowes Hall determined that Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. of crowds has a negative psy Butler would lose little income chological effect on the per The lecture, which is free on the venture. The study re and open to the public, is formers. vealed that few members of the Full-time and part-time stu sponsored by the Interna university community attended tional Studies Program. dents, faculty and staff who JCFA events in Clowes. Jobs discussed — «— ■ — ^ continued from page 1 Susan Ivey and Barb Rog Africa — ers will conduct a motiva World Council of Churches in tional discussion for seniors the blacks psychologically that worried about searching for Nairobi, Kenya. some blacks have turned their These positions required him a job after graduation. They backs on their people and want to travel extensively and the will discuss "How You are to be white. government was not always able Not Alone and It's Better- "I have come to the United to keep tabs on the pastor. Late-Than-Never to Start States not only to tell you how Consequently, it was thought Your Job Search" on Wed pitiful my people are, but to tell that he went underground in nesday, Feb. 26, in AC312 you how pitiful we all are. Moscow and brought propagan at 7 p.m. "There is a certain naivity in da into South Africa. America about South Africa. Y-forms due The communist fear, coupled Americans are isolated about with the black and white things," Ngakana said. ' Those considering run conflict, results in a complex He said America has its own $ ning for office in the YMCA situation in the country. problems and we should not ask ought to take action soon.

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