Sewanee Purple, 1994-1995
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(IIjE ctaancc The Official Organ of the Students of the University of the South A Legacy of 103 years of Student Journalism OCT. 4, 1994 VOLUME CLXXIV, N03 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE, TN 37383-1000 A Dream Deferred by James Karst trators and Fine Arts professors selected Now that the Fowler Center has opened, architect Graham Gund to design the new the University is poised to attend to the building. Among Mr. Gund's previous needs of the one academic department efforts is the new wing of the Boston Mu- deemed by the Administration as having seum of Fine Arts. He visited Sewanee and "unacceptable" facilities: the Fine Arts designed a new structure, situated on the Department. The plans for a new building comer of St. Augustine Avenue and Ala- are in and all that remains is the $6 million bama Avenue, next to Woods Labs. Since tag. price 1 99 1 , the design has been put on the shelf, Fine Arts professors are adamant about while the University capital searches for the The proposed Fine Arts Center, the six million dollar dream. the need for a new building. According to to begin the project. Dr. Pradip Malde, "Since I've been here, The Olin Foundation rejected the Vice- that the Fine Arts Celebrating Sewanee Women it's been recognized Chancellor's proposal three years in a row, Department has very inadequate housing." and Sewanee has turned to the Campaign by Stephanie Shepherd several parties on Friday and Saturday for Carnegie Dr. Gregory Clark agrees that For Sewanee to fund the project. A booklet alumnae. Celebrating Sewanee Women facilities are deficient and specifi- Hall's prepared for the Campaign lists the Depart- The University will soon commemorate will continue through Monday so that a leaking roof, cally cited such problems as ment of Fine Arts Building as the first twenty-five years of the matriculation of alumnae will have an opportunity to attend rotted windows, poor ventilation and a far as are priority, as academics concerned. women at Sewanee on October 7-10. The classes and the Founder's Day Convoca- Clark also pointed general lack ofspace. Dr. However, the University also needs a new weekend, entitled Celebrating Sewanee tion. One of the most interesting aspects of that controls out the 1920's style fuse box dining facility, renovations and endow- Women, will be a chance for Sewanee the weekend will be the Graffiti Wall. Carnegie. the electricity in ment improvements, goals that will cost in alumnae to remember and relive their years Alumnae have been asked to bring photo- insensitive The Administration is not excess of $90 million. Unless another at Sewanee. copies of pictures and memorabilia with to the needs of Sewanee's art students. In benefactor such as the late Robert D. Celebrating Sewanee Women has been them to be place on the wall. The wall will Williamson a 1992 letter, Vice-Chancellor Fowler comes along, the new Fine Arts in the works about a year and the schedule become a tribute to the twenty-five years of remarked, "Sewanee has outstanding building may sit in limbo for several more of events that has been created is more women at Sewanee. teaching facilities in all academic areas years. packed than Freshman Orientation. There Several activities may interest current except in the Department of Fine Arts." Drs. Clark and Malde stress that the will be presentations and discussions female students. On Friday, at 9 a.m., The letter was part of a proposal to the F. need for a new building is urgent, a senti- throughout the weekend, including the alumnae will be available in the Career W. Olin Foundation, which funds similar ment shared by Dr. Williamson, who wrote, Presentation of the Mary Sue Cushman Services Office to discuss careers in theil projects at other universities. Dr. "(This) building is critical to Sewanee's Scholarship and the Honorary Degree Re- professions. Also there will be a panel Williamson added that current facilities future." Since the rejections by the Olin cipients Panel. A silent auction and art discussion, titled Choices We've Made, are "makeshift" and "unacceptable for the Foundation, the future of the new facility show will feature works by Sewanee with women from several different classes proper teaching of fine arts." now depends entirely on the donations alumnae. Also included on the schedule of at9:30a.m.onSaturday. Anyone interested the functions should In 1991, a group of Sewanee adminis- received in the capital campaign. events is the women's field hockey games in attending any of Norris at extension 1 7 1 8 in as well as the women's soccer games. In contact Cindy Asking the Tough Question the grand Sewanee tradition, there will be order to register. expected programs, female professors are found more coming Sewanee professors, to teach three courses per semester, are paid Is the Price of a Diverse Faculty at Sewanee Too High? frequently on college campuses . "You're a set salary scale. In principle, Dean Keele, "what going to see more women being hired be- according to by Matt Boucher minority, "despite," says is fairly determined to part cause there are more women out there," the administration I think are conscientious efforts on the not con- assistant profes- sustain these requirements "I'm departments to identify available can- says Dr. Corrie Norman, While the College faculty is renowned for of vinced, given the state of the market, that encourage them to apply." sor of religion at Sewanee. diversity of knowledge and personality, didates and its percent- [raising salary and reducing course load lor tend to suggest Dr. Norman attests to a rising simultaneously void of cultural diver- Though the statistics it is Sewanee. Along minority candidates! is necessary," "conscientious efforts" fail to age of female professors at Since the University's founding, un- that these sity. Dean Keele "I am not totally convinced by first with three other women, she was appointed classroom realize the hopes of the Regents, it is ." dergraduates have attended a desirable of the seven available tenure-track any means that it is important to recognize the current politics to one led primarily by an ethnically homogeneous year. Accord- Yet even for those minorities con- minority faculty recruiting. positions in the college this According to figures of aggressive pool of professors. with teaching in a liberal ads en- mi- ing to Dean Keele, women now constitute cerned of the To begin with, the number of eligible from last academic year, only one College remains unattrac- Sewanee approximately twenty-five percent of the vironment, the posi- nority candidates for a position at College's 94 tenure and tenure-track This is due, in part, faculty. tive to many applicants. limited pool. Presently, in gradu- undergraduate racial minority. Yet is itself a tions was filled by a to location. Community, isolation, and a "We've been hiring more women fac- ate school programs of the nation, only the lack of faculty diversity at Sewanee is opportunities are three than probably percentage-wise you spousal employment and small percentage of the students enrolled is ulty not accurately represented by facts major areas of consideration lor interested number of would normally have been doing out of the with no non-white. Consequently, the figures alone. It is a complex issue candidates. For Dr. Norman, life on the pool," says Dr. Williamson, "and in that minorities receiving their doctorates is 'This is a perfect solution. diversifying through Mountain was very attractive: compared to those of sense we have been for a more relatively low when With an increasing demand continue to (continued <>n page 6) 4, gender. .My guess is that will the majority. According to the May multi-cultural approach to education, the The Chronicle of Higher be the case." recognizes the need 1994, issue of present administration current administration's hope of all doctorates It is the exposure Education, only 1 1.8% In this issue... to provide students with enhanced same trend minority students. that minorities will follow the meeting, awarded in 1992 went to minority faculty. At their last attracting to mi- as that of women, but the reality of creates a competitive market for Regents declared diversifica- This Shorts and Picks pg. 2 the Board of minority professors is linked to compen- candidates, thereby reducing the op- - terms of nority tion of the College both in the "star S3(; ; Many universities employ portunity for a diversified Sewanee fac- professors - as a main Point-Counterpoint undergraduates and system" toentice highly sought candidates. overall strategic plan of the ulty. Rush objective in the the resources to offer higher sala- On pg8 supply and demand are simply Having diversity] is a "The institution. "I think [faculty teaching load, other Vice-Chancel lor Samuel ries and a reduced Keele, out ofphase." says very high priority," says Robert provide high incentives for Sports PglO "The demand for black fac- schools can translating Williamson. the College. "[But] in academic Dean of can essentially minority professors interested ulty is so intense that they actual success is the real Sewanee, Natural Born Killers... pg 15 that priority into country." research. The focus for faculty at write their ticket any place in the problem." This approach is scenario was similar however, is teaching. positions In years past, the Indeed, of all the tenure-track by the requirements However, as they are more clearly reflected years, not one for women. available in the past two maintained by the administration. All in- integrated into graduate school by an ethnic rapidly application was even submitted " The Sewanee Purple Oct.