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P E Wins Psychology Award University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2000s) Student Newspapers 9-16-2002 Current, September 16, 2002 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, September 16, 2002" (2002). Current (2000s). 127. https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s/127 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 (2000s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME 36 September 16, 2002 ISSUE 1061 Ledger hits screens Friday .. See page 6 THECURRENTONL INE.COM UNIVERSITV OF M ISSOURI - ST. LOUIS ~ Campus charge declined byUMSL BY .JASON GRANGER ..... ......... .......... ~ bookstore News Editor By KIM SILVER Chancellor BlancheM. Tonhill staff writer announced her retirement Thursday at the eleventh annual Founder's Day At the beginning of the semester Dinner, stunning the crowd of 500. • ' UM - St Louis students arrived Oll Touhill's retirement will go into effect campus and headed to the bookstore. December 31, at which .point an They got in line and prepared to spend interim chancellor will be appointed. a small fortune on books and supplies. Touhill made the announcement Most had no idea of the changes that official at a press conference held had been made. September 13 at the I.C. Penny The administration revised the Conference Center. io! student charge policy. .Students could 'Try as we may, few people ever no longer charge items on their realize their life's dream; I am one of student accounts throughout the those rare lucky people," Touhill said semester. During the firSt weeks of Thursday night. ''For most of my adult classes; students were allowed only a working life I have wanted to be only $400 line of credit. two things: a teacher and Chancellor of The last day students were allowed the University of Missouri-St Louis." to make charges using their student Her announcement came after she III identification card in the University received the Sigma Beta Delta bookstore wa~ August It 28, 2002. Ambassador Award of Excellence. remains "undecided" what the policy The award ''honors individuals who will be for winter semester 2003. have made significant contributions to Previously, students could use their humankind through excellence in student identification cards to make management and administration." charges on their student accounts in Touhill came to UM-St. Louis as an the bookstore during the entire assistant professor of history in 1965, semester. The available credit limit where she quickly ascended the ladder was $500. of the university'S bureaucracy. There are exceptions to the new Chancellor Touhill went on to become policy. Some studehtg who made. it to the first female to earn full professor the bookslOre before classes began status at UM-St Louis, as weI! as the discovered that the books they needed first female tenured faculty member were not in stock. These students and first female Vice Chancellor for -,I should not worry, because the Academic Affairs. administration has taken this into Touhill will remain at the campus will consideration. Students be for one year in emeritus status, at allowed to use their identification card which time she plans to write a history if tc make charges on their a=unts of the University of Missouri- St Steve Seebeck!· The CI/r,enl the books they need are late arrivals. Louis. The book, which will chronicle Even when students payoff their the University's history from 1983 to Chancellor Blanche M. Touhill smiles at the crowd at Thursday's Founder's Day Dinner. Touhill announced her retirement effective ~. accounts, no further student charges the present, will be her second about December 31 after receiving an The Sigma Beta Delta Ambassador Award of Excellence. Touhill said she plans to serve as chancellor will be allowed in the bookstore this the university. Her first book reviewed emeritus, staying with the campus to help with important policy decisions and to write a book chronicling the history of the university semester. Students will not be the history of the university from its since 1983. At the Founders Dinner, Touhill said "My lesson: believe in public education, treasure public education and support public allowed tc enroll for the next semester inception to 1983. education for all our sakes." if they carry an old balance. on their Her decision to remain on in accounts emeritus status and accepting the whole." we have accomplished much." system in Missouri, but Touhill short history," Deputy Chancellor In addition, students who Voluntary Early Retirement Program Touhill said her decision to retire During Touhill's tenure at UM-St insisted that her decision to retire had Donald Driemeier said. "She ~ registered late for classes will also be means she will receive $60,000 on top came about with the approaching Louis, nineteen new buildings have no bearing on the budget cuts Gov. understood ho~ to turn a vision into allowed to charge. their books using of her pension. She has offered to completion of the new performing arts been added to the campus, including Bob Holden has handed down in the reality. What she has accomplished their student account assist the new chancellor in any way center. Touhill said when she received the Anheuser-Busch Conservation last year. here is truly amazing. The facts really "In the long run this policy will be possible. word that the construction would be Complex., the Nursing Administration Touhill's decision to end her career speak for themselves." good for students because they will '1 stand ready to help my su=ssor finishing, she decided it was time for Building, the William Clay Center for at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Touhill has made no immediate incnr less debt," said Mitch Hess, in whatever way to effect a smooth her tenme to end. Molecular Electronics and the shocked the crowd on Thursday night plans to teach again but d.id not close manager of cashiering in the cashier's administrative transition," Touhill said. 'TImes move on and so must I, Millennium Student Center. as she let the attendees know of her the door on the idea. She said that her ~. office. "The irnmed.iate change will be making room for other dreamers and There is some speculation as to decision. plans for the foreseeable future include 'We are not trying to turn people unsettling for some, but I predict great doers," Touhill said. "Please remember why Touhill is leaving in the middle of "I think Blanche will be her book and important policy away from buying what they need for things await my successor and the tonight as I will remember tonight-as a the current economic crisis that has remembered as the most progressive decisions that need to be made before classes.... We are sorry for the University of Missouri- St Louis as a time of celebration-because tcgether crippled much of the public university and effective chancellor in UMSL's her retirement in December. inconvenience om changes may have caused students," said Gloria Shultz, Director of Auxiliary Services and Bookstore Manager. )!..' "I thought it was odd," said Crystal McZeal, freshman. Many students and p staff are still not aware of the policy changes. Some admit they saw signs e wins psychology award displaying August 28th as the last day to utilize the student account cbarge By SHANNON CROSS career counseling and development bisexual persons In fact, Pope is is a specialization within the field of psychology from the University of option but did not fully understand staff writer profession over the last twenty years." considered by IDany to be the psychology. It is similar to clinical San Francisco. He originally wanted ~ how the changes would affect them. Perhaps What was most important grandparent (If the study of this issue psychology, but deals with more to become a Dean of Students, but Margaret Crowley, senior, was Mark Pope, associate professor of to his election, though, was Pope's in counseling psychology literature. healthy individuals going through life after working in the field of "surprised that the student charge counseling and family therapy at contributiOlis to the vocational Croteau mentioned in his transitions. counseling with a group of heroin option had stopped." UM-St. Louis, holds many psychology of gay, lesbian and nominating letter that "[pope's] work Though Pope has already addicts ill the south side of Chicago, Stephan Shannon, seillor, describes accomplishments and awards in his . has always been pioneering, accomplished much for LGB rights, he discovered his love for counseling: the reVlSiOn as "a major field. On September 1, 2002, he hung perhaps more so than any of he continues the fight. His cnrrent 'They were an incredibly tough inconvenience that is not helping yet another award on his wall of the other counseling project is trying to add sex.ual group," he commented, "but I "', students." Informal questioning of success. psychologists leading the orientation to the non-discrirnination discovered the power of counseling I 00 staff and students reveal that he is Pope was elected a Fellow of the LGB affirmative movement, policy for the faculty and staff in the and how it can change people's lives ." not alone. An overwhelming 91 Counseling Psychology Division of pioneering counseling University of Missouri system. A Pope was born in St. Louis but percent of both students and faculty the American Psychological services, pioneering policy is curreritly in effect for quickly moved to a small town in that participated agree that the policy Association (APA). This award is an advocacy efforts, pioneering students, but Pope and many others southeast Missouri.
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