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c Volume 9, Number 6 College At Lincoln Center, Fordham University April 15-28,1987 Out With Old Spring is Here! Core Curriculum In With New Goes Back To Dohrmann Leadership Basics Fruitful, Says USG By Mary P. Dtxon By O.T. Mfflsap The long-awaited core curriculum wul arrive at Lincoln Center this fall semester. The Mellon As candidates campaigned this month for Committee designed a new, more unified core United Student Government senate and executive program. The new courses will affect freshmen board positions for the 1987-88 term, the issue and new adult students entering the College at common to almost every candidate was in one Lincoln Center. form or another creating a new sense of commu- The program was finalized last spring and will nity at the College at Lincoln Center. Although it be instituted in September. It will consist of two remains to be seen whether the USG can shake the general courses, "History and Knowing" and doldrums from CLC's students, the outgoing "Language and Knowing." Students will also be members of the 1986-87 USG, and those running required to take a two credit composition course. for re-election, seem to have put the reputation of The new program is based to a considerable the club back on a solid footing this year. extent on Excel and Freshman Interdisciplinary During the 1985-86 school year, the USG was Program, both which will be affected by the new marred by a lack of student interest in running for core curriculum. Proficiency Requirements, Area senate positions, the one-month disciplinary pro- Requirements, and FIP will be phased out. For bation of then-president Robert Picistrelli, the adult students, the new core will replace the Excel expulsion from school of a sophomore senator, package. As a division, Excel will be dissolved. the resignation from the USG of two others, and Dean William Tanksley noted, "We just changed the routine absence of the majority of the voting the focus of FIP a little bit. The whole program is members of the body from most meetings. Only full-fledged which means every freshman coming when threatened with dissolution by a student "St. Elsewhere" Star Is in will be taking one of these seminars." petition did the 1985-86 USG pull itself together. The new seminars will consist of about 20 But according to outgoing USG President students per class, according to Tanksley. The Laura Dohrmann, this year was different. "After GradSpeaker new curriculum will also be a change for faculty. the fiasco of last year we did a good job," said Faculty will no longer just be teachers but will Dohrmann. "We did away with proxies, got rid of also assume the responsibility of being student By Adriana D'Andrea in the Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldier's Play with advisors. Tanksley expanded on the role by say- people [USG senators] who missed more than - Dave Davis on (Broadway). three meetings, and met each week, which was ing, "Part of the responsibility and part of the Television and film actor and CLC alumnus Washington started out in Fordham playing bas- new," she said. Her review of the past year was ; iiiiL •, j not Just the class, but the advis- Denzel Washington was chosen as the speaker for ketball and unsure of his choice of major for his echoed by several other USG members, who also the commencement ceremony to be held Sunday first two years in college according to Associate gave Dohrmann high marks for her leadership May 24,1987, according to Assistant Dean Patri- Professor of Theatre/Drama David Davis, who and persistence. cia Circelli, head of the College Activities Com- worked closely with Denzel ten years ago. Medi- Dohrmann, and other USG members, listed mittee. Washington is a 1977 CLC graduate and is cal school and even ministry (Washington's father their sponsorship of the open forum with Father currently starring in the TV series "St. Else- was a minister) were, two of the paths Washington O'Hare at CLC as one of their best achievements. where." once considered before he responded to an adver- According to USG presidential candidate Geri tisement for auditions for 77ie Emperor Jones to Corrigan, Vice President for Student Affairs Washington transferred to CLC from Rose Hill in 1975 as a junior when he first acted in a be performed at CLC. Davis said he took out the Joseph McGowan and CLC Dean William ad in several Fordham publications because he Tanksley will be the guests at another open forum Fordham production called Vfe \e Got the Music. From thereon, he played in Emperor Jones and was having a difficult time finding a "really pow- to be held in April at CLC. Corrigan also said that erful" black actor to play the role of Emperor this year the USG invited representatives from Othello, both performed at CLC. Upon graduation, Washington attended the Jones. When Washington auditioned for the role different departments at the University to attend "He first blew me away," said Davis, "he was USG meetings and get feedback from the stu- American Conservatory in San Francisco. In the fall of 1977, just a few months after graduation, immediately apparent to me as a major talent. I dents. Tanksley said that the USG has been send- was stunned." Davis thought Washington was so ing him minutes of their meetings this year. "It's Washington started in his first television movie, playing the husband of track star Wilma Rudolph. good, he took him to Davis' own summer theatre been very useful, to know what's going on," said camp in Maryland the following summer. In Tanksley. In the years following he has appeared in: Flesh and Blood with Tom Beringer and Suzanne Washington's senior year, Davis called the Wil- DEAN TANKSLEY "The student government has been more visible liam Mbrris, Agency and "They saw him and this year," said Tanksley. Compared to other Uni- Pleshett, Carbon Copy, A Soldier Story, and ing. They will not be carrying them just through Power directed by Sidney Lumet with Richard signed him," said Davis. versities though, he said "most places are more "The fellow knocked me off my behind—he was the semester, but through a year and a half." political." "But Lincoln Center probably has the Gere and Gene Hackman, (all films) and in the Tanksley pointed out the fact that every faculty television movie The George McKenna Story, as brilliant," said Professor of English Robert Stone (who also worked with Washington upon first see- member will have some kind of advising responsi- continued on page 14 well as St. Elsewhere. Washington has also played ing him act during a read-through of Othello and bility, something which has not existed at CLC every time sat as close up front as he could. "I before. CLC Sobers Up For Alcohol have never in my life seen a 22-year-old take over The program is geared towards insuring the that part like he did. It was devastating—it was writing, thinkingn;and communication skills absolutely breathtaking." Afterwards, said Stone, which are necessary foundations of undergraduate Awareness he too "called every agent in town." "He had eve- studies, said Tanksley. It will also provide a continued on page 14 By Adriana D'Andrea 100 raiilion people—half the nation's popula- continued on page 14 tion—who use alcohol "at one tune or another." To increase awareness about the use of alcohol About 10% of those who drink ate said to be and drugs, particularly at CLC, the Counseling afflicted with alcoholism, he said. Herman To Assume New Position As Center along with Career Planning, Student Alcohol is a '•powerful toxin which kills cells, Activities and Student Affairs at Rose Hill has including brain celts each time it is used, includ- Admissions Rep planned a series of activities for April, which is ing socially," Carroll said. Some of the conditions nationally rccognued as Alcohol Awareness associated in oneway or another with alcoholism - By O.T. Mlllsap One source, who asked not to be named, said Month, according to Assistant Director of the are a sharp affect in appearance, anemia, diabe- that control of advertising budgets for admissions Counseling Center Dr. Bill Carroll. tes, psoriasis, acne, hepatitis, some kind of can- Barely three months after assuming the post of recruitment has been a key issue in discussions of Aside from raising the consciousness of the stu- cer, malnutrition, fetal alcohol syndrome and Cooperative Education Coordinator, Joanna Her- strategies to reverse declining enrollment. memory loss. "The influence of Oic toxic effects dent's, faculty's and administration's own use of man has vacated that position to accept another On her selection of Herman for the new posi- of alcohol ftre pervasive. They don't cause dis- alcohol find drugs, the program will also have job at CLC, according to Assistant Dean Ully tion, Hirsch said, "In the short time she's been ease—alcohol exacerbates pathological condi- mem realize the use of these substances "family, Hirsch. Herman will now be working in the here she's been a dynamite salesperson, and that's friends, fellow students and of society in gen- tions," Carroll said. admissions office as a recruiter of adult students, exactly what's been needed [in admissions]." eral," said Carroll. Carroll related the stresses a typical college stu- said Hirsch. According to Carroll, one of the first activities dent at CLC might face as one of the possible "I adore this office," said Herman of Career Asked about Herman's performance as Coop- undertaken by the Counsel Center was "to survey causes of substance abuse.