Focus EMU, May 1, 1978
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Newsline Sportsline 487·2460 487·3279 Produced by the Office of Information Services for Eastern Michigan University .Faculty and Staff Volume 23 · Number May 1, 1978 Swaziland Curriculum Project Expands Future for Swazi Youth Applications for international For the past two and a half years, the student awards are now available in University has been involved in a primary the Financial Aid Office, 21 2 Pierce curriculum development project in Hall and at the main desk in Hill Hall. Swaziland, Africa. Funded by an Agency Any foreign student who holds a for International Development (AID) student visa and is enrolled as an EMU grant in excess of $2 million, the project undergraduateis eligible for the award. is designed to develop primary curriculum To receive the scholarship a student materials for grades one through seven. must live in the International According to an AID report, the Residence Center during the 1978-79 government of Swaziland has given high academic year. A total of 35 awards of priority to the development of a broadly $1,000 each will be awarded to b a se d culturally and economically currently enrolled and newly admitted relevant education system. The new foreign students. Applications for the curriculum must move toward national award are due Friday, May 12. Return goals, reflect national cultural applications to the Financial Aid backgrounds, meet the learning needs of Office, 212 Pierce Hall. the pupils and flow from a methodical assessment of the unique resources and * * * constraints effecting national development. The curriculum must be An exhibit titled "Carol Selby's designed not only to prepare the Swazi Historic Ypsilanti" will be on display primary school youth for expanding in the main lobby of the library from requirements and opportunities for May 8-14. The exhibit will feature a post-primary academic or technical number of watercolors from the training, but also to serve the basic "� ·, education needs for the vast majority of -------- private collection of Dr. and Mrs. Swazi youth who will not go beyond Dr. Richard Robb, chairman of the EMU Board of Regents, is shown during a Yisit to a William P. Edmunds of Ypsilanti. The primary school in Swaziland last summer. exhibit will be open during regular primary education. Llbrary hours. Everyone is invited to The grant provides for six advisers from seen as a cutting edge in Swaziland's And Evans feels Eastern's future in view the display. Eastern to work in Swaziland assisting in effort to modernize." foreign educational projects could be a the development of educational goals and Swaziland is a small (90 miles by 90 significant one. "If our project in * * * objectives, designing and ·writing miles) landlocked nation bordered by Swaziland is successful," h� notes, "AID materials, testing materials in pilot Mozambique and the Republic of South intend� to replicate the project in other schools and revising materials; producing Africa. While only 28 percent of the countries. In the next three to four years, Jack Harris, an associate professor in mass quantities of the tested and revised population is literate, 67 percent of the we may be able to generate projects in the Department of English Language materials; distributing the materials; primary age children attend school. Evans Africa, the focus of American foreign and Literature, will lead an "EMU providing pre-service · and in-service says that Swaziland is located in a very policy will shift from Asia to Africa. Campus HistoricWalk" scheduled at 2, training of teachers and educational strategic part of the world. Not only does Those with experience there could make 3 and 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 11. officials; and evaluating the effectiveness southern Africa possess great natural quite a contribution." The walks, which will depart on the of curricula and student learning progress. wealth, he explains, but it has a strategic Evans foresees projects in Botswana, hour, will begin at Starkweather Hall, The team of advisers includes a chief of location in guarding the sea lanes which Lesotho, Somalia and possibly Egypt. a recent addition to the National party, a curriculum specialist, an Eastern spent ten years working on a Register of Historic Places. The are vital because of America's dependence evaluation specialist, a teacher educator, on foreign oil. project in Somalia before all American program will begin with a slide show in an illustrator and a production specialist. advisers there were asked to leave. ''The the lecture room of Starkweather Hall One purpose of the recent evaluation Recently, AID concluded its biennial was to consider extending the project for Soviets replaced us there," Evans followed by a casual tour of campus. evaluation of the project with a six-day another four year.s beyond its present explains, "but the Soviets were invited to During the tour the history and visit to Swaziland. Executive expiration date of June 30, 1979. Evans leave last year because Somalia's foreign :architectural features of· some of the Vice-President Anthony H. Evans is optimistic that the grant will be policy has shifted again. older buildings on campus will be participated in the final week of the extended, but says the University has discussed. Everyone is invited to "There is a great deal of potential for month-long evaluation and subsequently some work ·to do if the project is to be attend. the University if we want it," he went on. was given administrative responsibility for successful. "Our ten years of experience in Somalia the project. Formerly, the project had "We have to anticipate vacancies and and our experience in southern Africa * * * been administered by the Office of we have to plan a year and two years give us unique qualifications for International Studies. ahead for replacements," he explained. additional overseas activity, but the The Madrigal Club of Detroit will Evans says he was most impressed by We hope to strengthen campus support of prospect of :\dditional projects is appear in concert on Saturday, May 6, the' "importance of the Swazi and the project, including better forward dependent upon faculty interest and in Pease Auditorium at 8 p.m. American governments attached to this planning, better staff orientation of support. AID wants to assure that our Founded in 1915, the Madrigal Club is project. I have been involved in numerous advisers going to Swaziland and closer institutional ties with the project remain dedicated to the study of choral overseas projects (he worked for AID cooperation with AID in Washington. strong. It doesn't want us to become music. The club draws its members from 1966 to 1969 and for the Peace "Clearly, the thing we need most now merely an employment agency. ::•formally, from Detroit and the metropolitan Corps from 1970 to 197 S) and rarely is faculty interest in working overseas. AID expects a participating university to area and presents two concerts have I seen such strong support. The Without it, we have no future in this area annually with the proceeds going to development of a primary curriculum is of activity." (Continued on page 3) support a student scholarship fund at the Interlochen Academy of Arts. The Third Consecutive Championship group is conducted by Charles E. Gleason, choral director at Cass Technical High School. The concert is free and open to everyone. Forensics Team Wins National Title * * * Eastern's forensics team won its third The win capped a year which saw the second; Joe McNally, a freshman from consecutive National Forensics EMU team capture the Michigan Wayne, with Steve Kantola, a junior from Association Tournament April 24 Intercollegiate Speech League title and Charlevoix, fifth; and Cindy Meier with A European cultural history tour, defeating second place George Mason the American Forensics Association Susan DeWalt, a junior from P\ymouth, featuring 15 major cultural events and University by the widest margin ever national championship, which Eastern sixth. j including performances by the Berlin between the. first and second place teams. won ust a week ago. Steve Kantola was second in the Prose Philharmonic, the Marionetten Theatre The EMU forensicators, coached by Eastern won two of the events for the event and Mike Garcia took third .in After and the Spanish Riding School, will be Dennis Beagen, totaled 382.5 points to first time, Rhetorical Criticism and Dinner Speaking. George Denger placed offered by the Office of International George Mason's 264.5. Ohio University Dramatic Duo. In Rhetorical Criticism, third· in Extemporaneous Speaking while Studies June 18 through Aug. 4. The was third with 247 points and Marshall Eastern had five of the six finalists. Ray Ray Quiel finished fifth in that event. tour will be conducted by Emanuel University finished fourth with 213 Quiel, a senior from Taylor, was first; Rory Rice, a senior from Dexter, was the Fenz, a professor in the History and points. The Eastern point total set a new John Morrison, a junior from Stevensville Philosophy Department, who has fifth place winner in the Poetry event and record for the highest number of points. was second; third went to George Denger, ge guided the tour for three consecutive George Den r finished sixth in the a junior from Marshall; Tim Ehlen, a Impromptu category. Finishing out the years. A special post-program The squad also broke its own record of senior from Royal Oak was fourth; and j excursion to Israel, Egypt and the the most finalists which it had set last finalist list was Sandy Maupin, a unior Dan Bernard, a junior from Detroit, was from Saginaw, who was sixth in Greek island of Corfu is available. Cost year. The old record was 12; the new fifth. of the tour is $988 which does not record is now 16.