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This Transcription is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 1 No 13 September 25, 1991 • A Publication for Faculty and Staff ·w·..... WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been? Fifth Women's Studies Conference Opens
The WKU Fifth Annual Women's last year, and focused on the roles Meredith will host luncheon speaker lages," by Penny Sisto Thursday Studies Conference begins tomor that women are forced into when Dr. Dorothy Redford in Garrett at 3:30 p.m. in Ivan Wilson Fine row, and the program, which lasts their nation goes to war." Conference Center Ballroom. The Arts Center, Room 425. through Saturday, features special noon President topic will be "I Want to See Things "Other sessions will include ists from 24 states, as well as South Whole: Weaving the Past with the topics such as detective fiction, Africa, presenting papers on every Present to Make the Future." Tickets women's biographies and autobi thing from sexual harassment to are $8 ,and seating will be available ographies and problems in social refonTI. for those who wish to only attend parenting," Ward said. According to Catherine Ward, the lecture. The advance registration fee is English professor and a program According to Ward, Redford, in $10 for the general public, $5 for coordinator,"The general purpose of her book "Somerset Homecoming," Western faculty and staff and free the conference is to provide an presents a history of the slave for senior citizens and Western exchange of ideas among women's population of the Somerset planta students. Participants may scholars, including some presenta tion in North Carolina. register tomorrow in the Garrett tions that would be of general "Her book, which has an introduc Conference Center for $15 start interest to the public," Ward says. tion by Alex Haley, emphasizes the ing at 8 a.m. Among the major lectures will be importance on knowirtg our past," Conference coordinators in a session on "Mothers Against the Ward said. clude Saundra Ardrey, Nancy State" by Dr. Jean Elshtain, political Minnie Bruce Pratt will present a Baird, Erica Brady, Mary Bricker science professor at Vanderbilt poetry reading at 10 a.m. Saturday Jenkins, Charles Bussey, Lou-Ann University. Funded by the Univer in Garrett Conference Center. Pratt Crouther, Carol Crowe-Carraco, sity Lecture Series, she'll speak won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1989 Susan Knight Gore, Steve Groce, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Garrett for "Crimes Against Nature." Her Patricia Lockett, Mary Ellen Conference Center, Room 103. other works include "The Sound of Miller, Elizabeth Oakes, Ward "Dr. Eshtain's area of expertise is One Fork" and "We Say We Love and Michael Ann Williams. political science, and she has pub Each Othef." Conference phone number lished a number of books," Ward Vanderbilt University, Also, the Department of Art will is 4554. said. "Her latest book was pub speak s tomorrow III 7:30 p.m. i/1 Gllrrett 103 sponsor a slide show, "Threads of lished before the Persian Gulf War on ~Mothers Against the Stale~. Compassion, Fabric Art and Col- Planetarium What's Show Features Inside
WKU •Begins 'Sun's Children' Reaccreditation Process
Page 2 Hardin Planetarium wiU present Sun's Children, a pictOrial tour of the nine known worlds of the Sun, Oct. 1 through Nov. 31. The Russia• Coup Topics will include the fOnTIation of the Solar System and current facts about each planet. Show times are Tuesday and Thursday Page 3 evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Doors open 15 minutes before show time and shows are free. AnJnterview• with For more details, call the Planetarium at "Jim Wayne Miller 4044. pgs.4&5 On Campus Western Kentucky University September 25, 1991
President Meredith I Appointed to Council President Thomas C. Meredith Voss said the subcommittees will serve on the Constitutional will be meeting until November, • Improvement Policy Council of the when the full committee will meet. Kentucky Center for Public Issu es. A publiC symposium will be held Dr. Meredith will serve on the in early December, she said. local government subcommittee, The Kentucky Center for Public one of four subcommittees that will Issues is a non-profit research and be looking at Kentucky's Constitu education organization estab tion and recommending changes to lished in 1989 to identify and the General Assembly, according to analyze key issues in Kentucky, Executive Director Laura Voss. Voss said. Western is a member of Other subcommittees will be the Center and the dean of the looking at the corporation article, University's Ogden College of the executive article and merit Science, Technology and Health, judicial plan selection, she said. Dr. Charles KupcheUa, serves on the Center's board of directors.
WKUToBegin Reaccreditation Process
The University is in the process of completed and in place, the forming the steering committee University should be in an advan which will oversee the tageous pOSition," Alexander said, reaccreditation process by the adding, "But this doesn't meaD- we Southern Association of Colleges won't do a self-study; it simply and Schools (SACS). means we will be able to use Chairing the committee is Dr. much of the same infonnation and Livingston Alexander, associate data." vice preSident for academic affairs. Western and Murray State Directing the self-study is Dr. University are on simultaneous Joseph Glaser, professor of English. schedules for the process. "As soon as the committee mem The University of Louisville, bers are in place, they will present a Morehead State and Kentucky timetable for the process," said Dr. State have ju~recently completed Shuttle ~us Driver Pam Oglevie is the /illest recipient of $50 and a artifiadt from President Alexander, explaining the entire the process. Thomas Mueditl! for an Idea for Efficiency. She suggested reducing the number of Shuttle staps process takes about two years, with Alexander said WKU has met to increo.5e efficiency. President Meredith initillted Ideas for Efficiency to allow persons to ~ve a the 1991-92 school year set as the with University of Louisville voice in I1IJIking the University nHl more efficiently. Send ideas to the Office of the President, intense year of self-study. officials regarding the process, Wetherby Administration Building. All SACS member institutions, and that collaboration with the which include schools in 11 south other schools will probably also ern states and in Latin America, occur. must undergo the accreditation "The process is to be very PHONATHON UPDATE process every ten years. complete, very comprehensive. It "This is to allow some collabora is also a good way all of the tion of the various publics in differ schools can collaborate," Students Raise $48,715 First Week of ent states to assure that members Alexander said. Alumni Fund Student Phonathon meet the minimum level of qual "We want to produce a quality ity," says Alexander. dorument." Western's self-study will be The Alumni Annual Fund-Student Phonathon finished its first week comprehensive, and will include with $48,715 in pledges. input from studenfs, faculty and WKU students are usingJ2 phones to contact alumni from 6:30 p.m. staff. to 9 p.m. Sundays throughThursdays to solicit support for the Univer "Every aspect of the institution is sity during the 12th annual Phonathon which runs through Oct. 10. examined," Alexander said. This year's goal is $160,000. Last year, students raised a record "With the Western XXI document $143,500.
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Russia's Coup; A Historical Perspective
By Hugh Phillips People with some grasp of the supposed to enforce the seizure of overall history of Russia know that power: in the streets the tanks were the country has a rich tradition of manned by raw recruits, teenagers. political intrigue, palace coups and Where, everyone wondered, are the revolutions. In the 18th century the elite KGB units and the Interior palace Guards Regiments made Ministry's dreaded Black Berets? and unmade rulers with a rapidity Quickly there ensued the"Revolt of that bewildered even the most the Babushkas." jaded Russians. In 1741, the infant "Babushka" is Russian for Emperor Ivan VI Hruled"for about a "grandmother,H but that is a poor month before a conspiracy sent him translation for this powerful insti into solitary confinement. There he tution. Babushkas are revered, languished for a quarter-century. feared, respected and irrepressibly failing, understandably, to develop outspoken. When they took to the mentally or emotionally. In 1764, streets, wagging their fingers and this pathetic human, described by scolding the bewildered young one historian as "virtually subhu soldiers, veteran Russian-watchers man," was finally murdered. sensed the coup now was doomed. Only two years earlier, Emperor Dr. HwgIt Phillips Phofo by Rsldtel Griffith And so it proved, although not Peter III had met a similar (ate. before three young men lay down After only six months on the their lives on a Moscow street to throne, he had made himseU so one vile conspiracy after another trembled visibly as he perspired prevent a return to the dark repres unpopular that a group of aristo against the leader, be it Lenin or heavily. He explained that he had sive days the conspirators symbol cratic officers strangled him, with Stalin. Then along came been up all night, which was ized and longed for. the probable connivance of his wife Khrushchev in 1956 to say the probably true. But he also looked, By late Tuesday, the 20th, it was and successor, Catherine the Great. accusations of plots and treasons as a Soviet journalist put it, like a obvious that the counterrevolution With a straight face, the govern were fabricated by Stalin himself. man who has just committed his had failed and a magnificent ment announced that Peter had As the Russians say: 'The only "first criminal act." He hardly landmark had been erected in died from an "acute attack of colic thing that changes around here is exuded firmness and confidence. Russia's history. Perhaps the during one of his frequent bouts the past." Yanaev and the others had good people who fought against the with hemorrhoids:' Then in 1801, Which brings us to the at reasor ~or k.sccurity. They had coup were not entirely sure what Emperor Paull died from a "fit of tempted coup of August. It failed 10 carry out a most elemen they were fighting fo r. But they apoplexy" which WilS the official surely deserves a special place in tary measure to ensure their certainly knew what they were description for having the side of the history of Russian conspira success, i.e. securing loyalty of against. The future rem.:,ins uncer his skull crushed by a heavily cies. Initially the conspirators their mid-level commanders. These tain and the forces of "order and bejeweled snuffbox, while simulta looked like they held all the were the men who would have to discipline" have by no means been neously being strangled for good canis. KIyuchkov, Pugo,and lead the (mostly KGB) troops if routed once and for all. In a sense, measure. Little wonder that his son lazov, the heads, respectively of resistance arose. In one of the most the greatest difficulties are in the and successor, Alexander I. struck the KGB, the Interior Ministry dramatic moments in Russian future: solving the intractable many observers as markedly and the Armed Forces were all hist'ory, Kryuchkov met with a economic problems created by nervous and unstable. on the dais that depressing score or so of KGB officers Aug. 19. more than 70 years of Bolshevism With the 19th century, the palace Monday morning. Representing He told them they were to storm and somehow either reconstituting coups came to an end. But bomb real power, they nodded gravely the Russian Parliament by what the union politically or making its throwing revolutionaries quickly as the puppet, Yanaev, explained ever means necessary and arrest disintegration as peaceful as pos stepped into the breach. After that Gorbachev was "sick" and a YellSin. sible. It is impossible to overesti numerous attempts, a terrorist new emergency government had One by one, these men refused. mate the enormity of these tasks. group, The People's Will, assassi assumed power. Most ominous In an impotent rage, Kryuchkov But, at least for now, Russia has nat'ed Alexander n, the "Tsar for Russians, Yanaev promised a stormed out of the building. Soon rejected the old ways. No one Reformer,H who had abolished restoration of "discipline and it was reported that he had re knows what the new way will be. human bondage and enacted many order," the Soviet phrase for Signed. Then lazov and another other modernizing reforms. The repression and the free use of conspirator took ill. Meanwhile AbowllM lIuthor: Dr. Phillips is 1111 II55CICilJle revolutionaries reasoned that force. Moreover, there was no Yeltsin continued to rage against profrssor ill 1M Dq.nmelll of Ilutory wire because the Tsar held all political spontaneous outburst of public the assault on democracy and the sptNlius ill TM 5o~t Pn-iorl sina!' 19J7. lle power, his murder would be akin indignation on a large scale. crowds began to grow. Surprising sptnllM 1982-83 school ~rlll Moscow Stille to human decapitation; the body True, people began to ga ther to everyone were the soldiers University on lin IREX·FulbriSht JlWIJrd, lind politic would perish. The problem around the Russian Parliament dwrin8 tM summer of 1990 Mdid me#rch in with such thinking was that where Boris Yeltsin had raised 1M. Soviet Union for II Sftl)nd book. He willle.tJd Alexander U had a healthy and his voice in defiance. But the II Study Crowp lotM SotVt Union in MIlY reactionary son who immediately crowds were small in the fll'St 1992, lind currer/ly is suking stwn'5, faculty assumed power. hOUlS. lind stll/! wlto lire inlertSleti. He OIn be rtiIdW If one is to believe the official Yet there were signs that all 11/6347. Stalinist histories, the period from was not well for the conspirators. 1917 to 19S3largely consisted of While he spoke, Yanaev's hands
3 On Campus Western Kentucky University September 25, 1991
Miller's Writing Takes New Shape
By Sheila Co nway Eison
The writings of Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian region and the Anthology of Contemporary South chian material, it's that I'm working continue to take new shape. simple precepts of its people his ern Poetry, LAughter in Appalachia, with what I have at my disposal," he In addition to his poems, short metaphor for a rich storehouse of Going Over To Your Place, Home to says. stories and novels, he has a play in writings that range from poems Jericho, Tongues and Prophecies For example, Miller likes to write progress, His First, Best Country, and short stories to novels, and The Mu sic of What Happens: about subjects that deal with things and last May, as part of Horse Cave essays, and now his first play. Poems That Tell Stories. worth retaining from an older way Theatre's Kentucky Voices New He's still primarily, but not His books (there are 17) include of life, such as his line,"men showed Play Workshop, Miller was invited restricted to Appalachia, he says. Dialogue With A Dead Man, The between two times," who "yearn to give a staged reading of the story And he works all the time. Mountains Have Come Closer, Vein beyond the interstate's drone and about a middle-aged academic and He has so much of such a of Words, Nostalgia for 70, and whinelto farms and open country." a temporary return to his Appala variety, it's hard to categorize his Newfound. These are not necessarily observa chian roots. writings into a certain number of He has edited an anthology of tions related to the past, however. He's constantly being solicited for books, poems, essays, but the Appalachian literature for sec "It's a tension I like to work with material, ranging from poems, numbers or publications are so ondary schools, (J Ha ve a Place) as between traditional values and the essays and even a "novelization" of vast he's known everywhere for well as Jesse Stuart's Songs of a way of life that we would roughly his play, by publications such as his work Mountain Plawman and James call middle class urban American Naw and Then Magazine, an Appala Miller's poems and essays Still's The Wolfpen Poems. life," he explains, adding, "They're chian publication which has him have appeared in many maga He has been the subject of a 30- anybody in this country right now. booked for the next three issues. zines and journals, and in an minute color video, J Have a Place: They're men who 'awaken at traffic "My hands are in new things," he thologies and texbooks such as The Poetry of lim Wayn e Miller, lights; they still hear axes ringing in says. "These things go in cycles. I Contemporary Southern Poetry, A which has aired on educational dreamt woods, l and fora moment seem to be doing more prose right Geography of Poets, Geography and television stations throughout the they know themselves,'" he quotes now." Literature, A Kentucky Album, country. from his poem, Between Two Times. WKU and Bowling Green, Ky. United States in Literature, Before "It's not so much that I'm Some would argue it was his have laid claim to Jim Wayne And-After, The Made Thing' An working exclUSively with Appala- heritage that enabled Miller to Miller for the last 28 years since he produce his volume of Appalachian started teaching German and works, although chances are he'd Appalachian folklore and Shapes have found the right metaphor if folklife in the Depart- ,-~- he'd been born on Hilton Head, ment of Modem No, 1 never think to ask myself where poems come from, or why they South Carolina, in the tides, sand, Languages and beaches and cyprus trees, instead of Intercultural come at all, until someone asks, as you ask, I'll say they're good in Buncombe County, N.C. of what Studies. he calls "typical Appalachian A nati ve Appa and natural. I'll say they come because whatever falls into my life people." lachian, Miller He's one of those "Swarthy has made the keeps seeping downward, gathering like rain that finds it way by Germans ... Black Dutch," he says his Southern Grandfather called it, a corruption of underground rou tes down through a mountain, water seeking Deu tsch, which differentiated his kind from the fair-haired blue-eyed some place to come to rest and know a shape-a quiet Gennans. Busy, but unhurried, Jim Wayne pool, reflecting part of the world, remembering the Miller is comfortable, corduroy and quiet. Although famous, he's uncon taste of rocks it has run over, earth it has traveled d itional. He has a becoming humility when he gives his full attention to an through.-Jim Wayne Miller interview-he's used to so many. And although he says his days are always unpredictable, he puts first things fi rst in his busy schedule, then writes. "I stay about ten years behind," he says. "But that's not all bad. Sometimes I just blunder into something that's better than what I intended to do. That's part of the creative process too." In an interview in 1978, Miller touched on an explanation of his creative process when he said: "It's very rarely that I'll get a vivid concrete image. Sometimes it' ll just Continued on the next page
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An Interview with Jim Wayne Miller
Ctmlil1iUd from page /OIl.T lie there like a possum curled on with a Writing Across the Cur the ground, and I'll start poking it riculum Program. to see if it'll move. If it does, I'll "Imagine being a writer-in work it, over and over again, like residence there, but actually butter in my hands, until it be being right here, working comes something." through the computer," he says If it doesn't, it was learned he with laugther, admitting some will reach into his pocket or a file insecurity yet with the computer. folder of stashed-away ideas until In November he's off to the something he comes across in his North Carolina Writers' Network cache "gives me a cold chill or hits where he'll participate in ''Telling the pit of my stomach." Your Story ... or somebody Else's." He says another thing that's a Just a few more of his latest priority is his teaching. "I love to activities inlcude writing an teach. I've always thought the autobiographical entry for Gale luckiest thing that ever happened Research's Contemporary Authors to me was not to find much of a Autobiography Series. contradiction between teaching He contributed an essay to the and writing. In teaching foreign Mississippi Review's Spring 1991 languages and literature, fiction issue on poetry, contributed and poetry, you don't have to be a essays on Appalachia and writers writer, but if you do work in it, James Still and Alfred Leland there's a possibility occasionally, Crabb to the Kentucky Encyclope of bringing a little insight into the dia and gave a reading at the classroom." Kentucky Center for the Arts that For years, he has conducted will be broadcast as part of a Poetry in the Schools workshops Bicentennial Readings Project for youngsters, and right now he's sponsored by WFPL-FM in spending time as a Writer-In - Louisville and the Kentucky Residence for the Clinton County Center for the Arts. Schools. His poems are the subject of Through the Kentucky Educa two essays in The Poetics of Appa tional Television's Learning Link, lachian Space, edited by Parks he's communicating by computer Lanier JI. and published by the University of Tennessee Press this year, and a poem, Spring Storm, On Campus is puolished oiwakly on' is included in a Harcourt Brace Threads of Compassion: Fabric Art Exhibit Wednesdays during the QCJldemic ~r Jovanovich Canada anthology for and monthly during the summer oy the language arts. by Penny Sisto Opens Tomorrow office of University Relations: SheilQ Last November, he became the Eison, Editor, Fred Hensley, Director of third recipient of the Appalachian University Relations. Educational Service Award On Campus does not represent any A noon reception tomorrow in speciDl interest group. If opinions are presented by Carson-Newman sciousness to create pictOrial narra stated in any copy, maleriQl is attrilnlled. College in Jefferson, Tenn. the Gallery of the Ivan Wilson tives expressing emotions and We reserve. the right to accept or reject The Appalachian Writers Center for Fine Arts will offi dreams," she says. any materirll. Association Book of the Year cially open Threads of Compassion, Her work has been exhibited For assistance in University Relations, Award went to him in 1989 for an exhibit of fabric art and internationally, including major contact: his latest novel, Newfound, which collages by Penny Sisto which showings scheduled this year in DIRECTOR was cited a Best Book of the Year will run through Oct. 16. England and Japan. fred Hensley 4295 by the American Library Associa The Southern Indiana artist's At 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, she'll INFORMATION CENTER tion and was placed on Booklist's quilts include compositions discuss her work in Room 425 of the Sally Raque 4298 Editor's Choice List. inspired from such subjects as Ivan Wilson Center. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION He has received the AWNs homeless children, Vietnam Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 Sheila Eison 4297 Award for Outstanding Contribu veterans, Salvadoran refugee p.m. weekdays and weekends by NEWS & PHOTOGRAPHIC tions to Appalachian Literature campus and Tienanmen Square. appointment. SERVICES and his collection of poems, The She combines "an interest in Call Marsha Heidbrink, Gallery Bob SkiI'Pn" 4297 Mountains Have Come Closer, storytelling with a social con- Director, 3944. PUBLICATION SERVICES received the Thomas Wolfe Tom Mf!achQm 4295 Award in 1980. RAOJO-TV SERVICES Next On Campus: Wednesday, Jeff Younglove 4298 October 9 SPECIAL EVENTS GeM Crunre 2497 Deadline: Monday, Sept. 30 SPORTS INFORMATION (Men's) Paul Just 4298 Send to: Sheila Eison, Editor, (Women's) Sally Raque 4298 Wetherby Administration Building 119
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- Potter College of Ogden College Arts, Humanities of Science, and Social Sciences Technology and Health DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY Pat Carr and Peggy Steele pre sented workshops at the Interna tional Women's Writing Guild at Dr. Robert Hoyt presented Skidmore College in Saratoga Sense Organs and Early Behavior Springs, N.Y. in August. A play by Formation in the Fathead Minnow Pat Carr, The Grass Creek Chronicle, at the 15th annual Larval Fish won first prize at First Stage The Conference in Los Angeles, Cal. atre and was given a staged reading He also chaired a technical paper before Boston playwrights, and her session dealing with hatching, story, The Gate, appeared in the growth and mortality of larval summer issue of Appalachian Heri fishes. tage.
Shuttle May Have Foiled, but Summer Eclipse was Perfect, Coohill Says
Last Week's Midnight Shuttle maximum," he said. across the water at 1400 mph was edges (the eclipse shadow was Watch, planned by Dr. Thomas The meeting consisted of papers seen from our observing posts on a 160 miles Wide). The darkened Coohill, head of the Department and workshops designed to enhance hill above the convention center. solar disk was jet black and of Physics and Astronomy, was a the participants' knowledge of the During totality the sky appeared surrounded by a spiked corona disappointing non-happening various details surround ing an slate-blue with some light at the that includ ed several flares. when the spaCE shuttle Discovery event of such magnitude as the "Four planets were distinctly was rerouted because of bad eclipse and to prep participants on visible to the East. Although the weather. the proper techniques and proce view through telescopes at the The shuttle was supposed to fly dures to view, photograph, and site was more detailed, nothing above Bowling Green. observe as many of the related compared with naked eye However, Coohill recalls effects as possible. observations. Some scientists another experience this summer The eclipse was called The Eclipse wept, one collapsed from an worth recapturing. of the Millennium because it passed adrenalin rush, and everyone He gathered with scientists directly over the world's largest was shouting (in several lan from around the world at laPaz, telescopes in Hawaii and continued guages). Baja California, Mexico to attend into Mexico, and Coohill reports it "The most apt description was an astronomical meeting sched was estimated that this eclipse was that one felt like he was on a uled to coincide with the July 11 viewed by more people than all different planet viewing differ total eclipse of the sun. previous total eclipses combined. ent heavens. "laPaz was the ideal site to Here's Professor Coohill's descrip "In Hawaii someone shouted view this phenomenon since the tion: Encore, Encore, to which someone Dr. TIw1l1QS Coohill weather conditions were perfect "As totality approached, a clear added, Author, Author!" and the duration of totality was view of the moon's shadow racing
Dr. Charles Bussey, Department Gennany. of History, and Donna Bussey, Dr. Aaron Hughey, Depart Department of Nursing, published ment of Educational Leadership, Physicians and Social Research: had Give Program Selection the Julius B. Richard as Role Attention it Deserves published in Hot Model in the Journal of the Summer 1991 issue of Medical Humanities, SEAHO Report, a journal of the Spring 1991. Southeastern Association of Off Dr. Gary Housing Officers. Dillard, Dr. Thomas Noser, Depart Depart ment of Economics, has Eco The ment of nomic Rents and Severance Taxa Biology, has had tion in the United States Coal the first three of a multi Industry in the Journal of Busi Press series on freshwater algae ness and Economic Review, Vol. published by E. Schwizaerbart'sche 4, No.1, Fall 1990, pgs. 113-131. Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart,
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• On Campus Western Kentucky University September 25, 1991
for FY 1992. Dr. Livingston Alexander, Dr. George Roberts, Industrial Academic Affairs, $228,11 0 from Technology, $4,776 from the Blue the U.S. Department of Education grass State Skills Corporation for Sponsored Awards for the second-year Title III Industrial Training for Potter & Program, Strengthening Institu Brumfield. tions, to support the Teaching and Dr. Richard Roberts, Teacher Learning Center and project Education, $175,120 from the administration, plus develop a Kentucky Department of Education strategy to increase the number of to fund the Kentucky Teacher underrepresented students in Internship Program, provid ing Western's teacher education training needs fo r the schools. program. Dr. Wanda Weidmann, Math Dr. James R. Craig, Dean's ematics, $121,691 from the National Office, College of Education and Science Foundation for New Direc Behavioral Sciences, $95,000 from tions in the Math Preparation of the U.S. Department of Education Elementary and Middle School Teach for first-year funding of FIRST: ers. Kentucky college mathematics Schools and Teachers Program to faculty will collaborate to develop improve and reform elementary materials and strategies in prob schools in Christian County. lem-solving, small groups, technol Joan Martin, Center for Math, ogy, manipulatives and writing to Science and Environmental enhance elementary and middle Education, $51,000 from the school pre-service programs. Exxon Kentucky Department for Envi funding will be added to this ronmental Protection for Waste: A project at a later date. Hidden Resource, to develop and Dr. John Vokurka, Teacher publish an edition for secondary Education,$10,OOO from the WHAS science and social studies teachers Crusade for Children Inc. for 21, enhancing and refining those from the National Science Foun in Kentucky and to train facilita WHAS Crusade for Children Scholar basic skills which they already dation for RUI: Nuclea r Reactions tors to conduct distribution ships. These funds will be used to possess. Nucleosynthesis. The nuclear workshops for science and social provide tuition scholarships to Vokurka also has been research proposed. on this project studies teachers in the state. selected teachers of the handi awarded $38,688 from the Ken is divided into two sections.;. Dr. Roger Pankratz, Dean's capped who have been admitted to tucky Department of Education continuation and completion of Office, COllege of Education and and enrolled in a graduate program to employ an area program the heavy ion inelastic experi Behavioral Sciences, $85,000 from of advanced study which is de consultant to provide training, ments and experiments in nuclear the Kentucky Department of signed to provide them with cur technical assistance and liaison astrophysics. This is the second Education for School Performance rent state-of-the-art knowledge services to local school district year of a three-year project. Standards, a continuation award regarding the education of handi personnel. to fund the work of the Council capped children and youth ages 3- Dr. George VoulVopoulos, on School Perforn,ance Standards Physics and Astronomy, $43,500 Sylvia Kersenbaum Presents Final In Today Is Deadline For cHluLI,~t:Fee Shots Available Series of Beethoven Student Health Recitals Sunday Beginning today, anyone who October rides the Big Red Shuttle needs to Pianist Sylvia Kersenbaum will have a validated ID to ride. present the tenth in a series of There is already such demand to receive Flu recitals featuring works by ride the WKU Shuttles that \~tje"lthService Beethoven in Beethoven X Sunday Kemble Johnson, physical plant at 3 p.m. in Van Meter Audito administrator, has issued a letter rium. to all Shuttle riders explaining a There is no charge. fee process. Sunday'S program will featured. "Demand has grown so much nursa~Y'~~e> Sonata No. 19 Op. 49 n.1, Sonata that we have had to put the two unl,f3,30 p.m. No. 20 Op. 49 n. 2 and Sonata No. school buses back into regular ca 11 5641 320p.111. use," Johnson said, adding there is For more infonnation, call the also growing demand to pick up Department of Music at 3751. riders from other pick-up pOints in town. "Before we can to that, we have The Office of Uni~'er,ity Relallim, to make our present system work rc .... u/arly srli61~ n<'
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.' On Campus Western Kentucky University September 25,1991
ence. DUe 8--11:30 a.m., Luncheon An of Evening" sponsored by the 11:45 a.rn.-l:3O p.m., 2 - 5 p.m. COMING UP Medical Center of Bowling Green Tate Page Auditorium. KET and Arts Alliance, Inc. Annual Comment on Kentucky, Tate Page, fund-raiser with performances by 7-8 p.m. Education Reform Fo The Drifters and The Platters. 5 rum, Tate Page Auditorium, 8-9 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. show. Tickets p.m. Contact Doris Thomas, 1000 are $65 for dinner, concert and or Angie Woodward, 695-1102. dancing. Call 782-2787.
South Central Polled Hereford Sale. Approximately 50 head will 5 be sold. Agricultural Exposition Center, Noon. Free Admission. Community Leadership Confer Cal! 843-3542. ence. DUe, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Contact Doris Thomas, 1000 Pleasure Horse Sale. Agricultural or Angie Woodward, 695-1102. Exposition Center, 1 p.m. Free Admission. Call 843-3542. Football. WKU vs. Middle Tennes see. L.T. Smith Stadium, 7 p.m. Campus Tour for high school students interested in attending YMCA Western Regional Western. Sponsored by Office of Cheer leading Competition. Admissions. DUC 226, 9:30 a.m. - Diddle Arena, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 11 a.m. Call Debi Gray, 2551. Teen Summit sponsored by the Human Relations Council of 29 Barren River Area Development District (BRADD), 8:30 a.m.-3:3O p.m. DUC 305, 308, 309, 311, 349. Sylvia Kersenbaum, pianist, in Contact Mona Moughton, 6328. recital. Beethoven X. Van Meter Auditorium, 3 p.m .Ca1l3751. GRE Exams. Tate Page Hall, 8 27 a.m.- Noon. Call 4662. 4th Region Basketball Associa Women's Alliance.Speaker. Dr. tion Meeting. DUC 305, 2-3 p.m. Bluegrass Paint Horse Show, Dorothy Redford. Topic"l Want to Cal! Mike Cobb, 842-{)089. Agricultural Center, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. See Things Whole: Weaving the Continues tomorrow. Free Admis Past with the Present to Make the October sion. CaU Paul Reinbolt, 842-411 0. Future." GeCS, Noon. Luncheon September tickets are $8. Seating also avaiJable for lecture only. 1 6 Chamber of Commerce Coffee 25 Hour sponsored by Eaton Corp. DUC Movie, "Lawrence of Ohio Valley Conference Coaches DUe, 7:30 a.m. Call AD Sullivan, Arabia," 7 p.m. Runs through Oct. Meeting. DUC 305, lOa.rn.-3 p.m. 5th Annual Women's Conference. 781-3200. 5. Tickets are $1..50. DUC Aux Prg. Rrn. GCCB and aU. 8 a.m.-lO p.m. Runs through 17th Annual Hilltopper Days for 7 Sept.28. See story, page 1. Science, Technology and Health. Sponsored by Ogden College and 2 AIDS Update/Treatment of AIDS WKU for interested high school Bowling Green Regional College Infectious Diseases. Speakers and junior high students. Activities Teacher Orientation Meeting for Fair for 13 regional schools. Ac Melinda C. Joyce, clinical phar will include displays presented by teacher education students. Tate credited colleges and universities macist, Medical Center of Bowl various d eparbnents, lectures and Page Auditorium, 5 -9 p.m. Call across the U.S. will be available. ing Green and Mona Moughton, competitions. Continues through Dr. Donald Ritter, 4497. Diddle Arena, 1 p.m.-9 p.m. Call Will Nursing faculty. DUC 308, Sept. 27. Van Meter Auditorium, Jody Griffin, 2551. 5 -8:15 p.m. Call Mona Thompson Complex, Snell Hall, Moughton,6328. Science and Technology Hall, Planetarium, Environmental 3 Sciences and Technology Building 8 and Academic Complex. ~all Dr. Institute of Management Accoun 26 Martin Houston, 4448. tants, DUC 305, 5:30 - 8 p.m. Joseph Brooks, faculty clarinet recital. Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Women's Conference Lecture by Prof. Jean Elshtain, political 28 4 DVC Movie, "The Doors." 7 and 9 science professor, Vanderbilt p.m. Runs through Oct. 12. Tickets University. Topic:"Mother's are $1.50. Against the State." GCC 103, 7:30 Capitol Arts "Gala '91 - A Gem Community Leadership Confer- p.m.
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