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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1990s) Student Newspapers 2-15-1999 Current, February 15, 1999 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, February 15, 1999" (1999). Current (1990s). 296. http://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s/296 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1990s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NING STUDENT VOICE OF UM-ST. LOUIS Team recommends Anybody got an ' ark? full U accreditation BY JOE HARRIS senior editor After a visit last week, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools site team will recommend a full, ten-year accreditation with no follow up visits. Dr. Douglas Wartzok, dean of the Graduate School and associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, said that this is the best recommendation UM-St. Louis could get. This means that UM-St. Louis will not need anoth er accreditation review for a decade. "Worst case scenario is they can say, 'No, we'll only give you a provision al accreditation and we [are] going to come back in three years to look at things,'" Wartzok said. 'They could do something provisional which would cause a great deal of concern, or what they could do is give you the ten years of accreditation but say, 'We're goip.g to come back and have a focused visit on one. particular issue.'" Refusing accreditation outright was the most negative of the conse quences, but that hardly ever happens, according to Wartzok. "The best thing you can get is what we got which is no report, no revisit, just the full accreditation for the next ten years," Wartzok said. The site team ~ now make a report to the NCA. The first draft of this report will be sent back to UM-St. Louis for review. University officials will , look over the report and make comments or corrections on any factual errors. Then the corrected report will be sent back to the site team. Once the report is received, the site team will turn in a final report along with the University's comments to the NCA for official approval. Wartzok expects the process to take a couple of months. "Once the committee has said we're going to recommend this, there is no . ' perce.Q record that the [NCA] ever goes against the committee's recommendation," 3D percent bf men: Wartzok said. mte,teSt in sex, E:a.ll't The committee's visit tried to cover all aspects of student hie at UM-St. or suffer from some otileI"s(U!:urulm's Louis. Student activities as well as the different schools were evaluated by the function. committee. There were also open meetings with the committee for students, Tn what some call the m0St tom faculty, and staff throughout the week. prehensive U S. Sfl[. .survey sin me UM-St. Louis has always received the NCA's full recommendation, t'i48 Kinsey Report, the results are Wartzok said the NCA is starting to look at the assessment of student rn.ising qebro~'S , . learning. As a result, UM-St, Louis geared their presentation around this area. The tudy's resear"b.er said prob ''We wrote a whole separate chapter [in the Self Study] on the assessment Stephanie Platt/The CUTrellt lems witb sex can be amiliuted to of student learning," Wartzok said. .ewe wanted to put forth the effort right Traffic slowly negotiates several Inches of water on a flooded section of Natural .1IIything from emational.and health a t the beginning to shoW' everything we are doin g-ill that area rather than hav Bridge Rd. In front of the University's main entrance. The brief flooding, Which over problems to lack of riu'le, job pres ing them come back later and saying write us a special report on what you're whelmed street drainage for several minutes, was caused by storms which rumbled sures and money trouble. But they through the area, Thursday afternoon brlnglng high winds and heavy rains. said thev· aren r .sure 'which comes see NeA, page 6 firs.< - sttess en: problems v:i,th sac:. The report" author. sociologist Edward Laumann, said, "It give us a base for explaining why v,'e had this SGA leaders prepare to restart Homecoming .enonnollS respens~ to \rlagra.'" The; s~udy wa published in W¢$esday' Joum.u of the '99 events set Amenc.an Medical. Association. constitutional revision process The researobers based their find.. ings·eD tl)e 1'992 National Health anG for this week ByJ OSH RENAUD Social. rife Survey) acompilatioD of Student Government heads staff assistant BY SUE BR ITT interviews with abom 1.700 women Though shocked by Student Government Association staff associate and 1,40Umen. Comptroller Benjamin Ash's decision to withdraw from the develop ideas on document A variety of events will mark the cele The panOCipan~ Q§es 18 to 59, constitution revision process, SGA officers said the process was bration of Homecoming this week. In weFeasked if had vote on it and may-be have a special election by the end of the they c:xperiencea still a priority they would push forward. addition, Lech Walesa, fonner president year. D sexnal a.ysfuna:ion O'l't'.r several SGA President Jim Avery, Vice-President Michael Rankins, of Poland, will speak on campus, Last year, it was c!iscO\'ered that the 1993 revision of the con roon,w illihe pI;eviQUS year; S~ and Stu'dent Court Chief Justice Steve Bartok all expressed Thursday. stitution, which SGA had been operating under for several years, d~fum;tion was d.e:fm,ed as a reg>J.1ar regret over Ash's decision last week. His sudden exit introduced Walesa will be speaking in the J. c. had never been ratified, Don McCarty, adviser to the SGA, /a,c.k of ipter t mcGr pain rlurirq; an element of uncertainty on how to proceed, with several Penney Building during the same time pro'blems. achieving explained why the effon to revise the constitution this year is so ' I¥~sistent options now open. that the Homecoming basketball games il.lb{ieation. or important. an erecao.n 01'gas,m. "One of my goals is to get this done before the end of the year are being played in the Mark Twain 'rhe Study also .found! . "The constitution of the student government should reflect and we run out of time," Avery said. "I think at the next [SGA Building. Ltdi; of inrerestin sex the needs of the students now," he said. "There have been ~ the . assembly] meeting we should have [Ash's revised constitution] "[Having Walesa speak] is a big, big mOst comHlOq -Problem' for wu'.qUIO,',·1 introduced. People can look at it and then come back with any feather in our cap, being able to get him," wttkabout one..thir~ $<i~ney revisions at the next meeting. By the April meeting, we could see SG A, page 8 said Don McCany, the Student Services ularw didn't' W~t se.~ ,coordinator. "But, unfortunately, the ~e'rcent saiil they r~arly only day he's available is Thursday, so have orgasm... and 13 percent Mt.Providence scheduled for demolition we've accommodated that." . 1'asn't pleasurable. The week's events will include a ping About omHh.ird of w;en pong tournament and arresting tables. had per.sistent problemS'wtn Future ofprogram The winners of the ping-pong tourna maxing too early, ,,4Uk 14 DeJ·o· ~. ment will play an exhibition game during said-they halllO .mterest llU· ~""" '"U''''"''' remains uncertain the Homecoming basketball games on percent said they COlosi!')'te' Jatby die':nl~edi.31 Thursday. The arresting tables \vill be , no pleasure trom sex. .. BY SUE BRITT taking donations toward the mock The }iigher the edutarion level of staff associate arrests of individuals on Nonh and South The responden~, the less likel¥ tM.eo/ Mt. Providence, located at 8351 S. Campuses on Friday. Those arrested will , . we:£I;-·1;p r~ru-t. sexual, p.r9hleEns. Florissant Rd., is planned to be demolished be held in a jail built by Sigma Tau I' in the spring of next year, according to Gamma and located in the area in front of Marilyn Maguire, director of the Adult Day the library. (nde:x Services Ce.nter. "Arresting day is a fund-raising activi a[Mt. Providence] is going to be tom ry," McCarty said, "The monies will be down in the first quarrer of the year 2000," going to [UM-St. Louis'] scholarship :SULLEflN BONRD•• ••••• •.• • .2 Maguire said. "So, it concerns us a great deal program." Usually with arresting days FEATURES .;,.: • •• ••••••.•• 3 because the Adult Day Services Center has someone is arrested and then they try and 'CO:Mr.ffi TARY.: . .... ..... .. 4, been here now for about 14 years. The get people to post bail for them. Weli, ~01n:s • . •. ... ..• ...... '.5 l" building is going to be torn down this time this works JUSt the opposite. People, (}LASSlI11rn~s. • .. > • • •• • • • • • • • .7 next year and our cehter is either going to through the week, contribute money TaB NBRD TABLE....... ..... :7- , ' >\;' - have to close or move to another location." towards so-and-so being arrested," Maguire said the highway department McCarty said that originally the needed an access road and originally intend News~om - Stephanie PlattjIhe Current Homecoming committee wanted the Aciver.ti~g ed to take only a section of the building, but The Mt.