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S'S OP PAi^ARO November 4,1997 Volume 20 Number 23 mmm ^i mimmm! @^ mm^ m §m i^mmm mMMmm Clinton pitches college presidents on benefits of reading tutors Colleges an nounce cation Department's fiscal-1998 bud tors. slots, he said. said. "We have to have a bipartisan College Press Service get. Clinton first called for an "army of Today's college siudents, he said, commitment to education that tran race,diversity Under Clinton's proposal, universi tutors" last year, pointing to national are "among the most idealistic and scends politics." WASHINGTON—Nearly 800univcr- ties are offered a financial incendve to statisdcs that indicate 40 percent of community service-oriented young At the meeting were educators from silies have pledged to sel aside work- set up student tutor programs.The gov American children read below the ba people we have ever had...and a re Yale, Southeastern, Gallaudet, campaign study funds for students who want lo emment would waive the requirement sic level in the fourth grade buke to the superficial and dpwnright Salisbury State, George Washington, leach school children how to read, that colleges pay 25 percent of work- The president said "it would be a wrong characterizations of Genera Pennsylvania State and Morgan State College Press Service Presideni Clinton announced Oct. 21. study wages and pick up the full tab for shame" ifthe program went unfunded tion X as not caring about the future of universities; Vermont State, Trinity, The president sat down with a 7-year- work-study students who work as read because the demand for the work-study this country." St. Mary's and Washington colleges; MIAMI—Twoeducation groups have old giri lo read "The Carrot Seed" to ing tutors. positions has been high. At Yale Uni He called for bi-partisan support Piedmont Virginia Communiiy Col announced a nalionai effort lo en drum up support for his tutoring pro The president's five-year, $2.75 bil versity, 300 students applied for 60 for the tutoring program. "Iti^gives lege and the Community College of courage colleges lo host programs on race and diversity. gram, called America Reads, at a White lion proposal also would pay 25,000 work-study slots; at the University of children a good education, and it gives Denver; and the universities of Michi House meeting with more than a dozen reading specialists to train student tu Michigan, 400 students applied for 84 young people the chance to serve," he gan and Washington. The American Council on Educa college presidents. tion and the Association of American The tutoring program faces opposi Colleges and Universities announced tion in Congress, where Republicans the new campaign Oct. 17. The effort leaders have drafted an allemative plan will be linked lo Presideni Clinton's emphasizing better training for teach Initiative on Race, which aims at im ers, called the Reading Excellence Act. proving race relations through Rep. William Goodling, R-Pa., who speeches and town meetings. chairs the House Education and "Higher education has a special Workforce Committee, said he would role to play in ihis national dialogue," like to work with the president on his ACE president Stanley O. Ikenberry education agenda "but we aren't here lold a news conference. "Barely 30 lo rubber stamp poor ideas." Lawmak years afler the end of legal ers so far have declined to allocate segregation... we know that lhe United States still has not resolved Ihe chal funds for the program under the Edu- lenge of equality of opportunity for all. What better place to engage Ihese issues than on our nation's campuses?" Already. 21 colleges have an Shooting, nounced special programs on race and diversity planned for their own suicide rocks campuses. The institutions include: WVU dorm Bloomfield. Hampshire, Haverford, Knox, Miami-Dade Community, College Press Service Mount Saint Mary's (in Califomia), Nassau Community, Olivet and MORGANTOWN, W.Va—A jilted Skidmore colleges; Barry, Bowling boyfriend pumped three bullets into Green State, Duke, Indiana Stale, Iowa State, Princeton and San Francisco his fonner girlfriend's new beau in *a Slate universities; State Universiiy of West Virginia University dormitory Rene Flores /The Paisano New York at Albany, and at Stony Oct. 23 before tuming the gun on him Brook; and the universities of Cali self. BeatFeat, held Friday, Oct. 31 undar the Sombrilla, gave UTSA atudents, faculty and staff a head start on this Halloween's fornia at Los Angles, Maryland and The gunman, Andrew Willis, 20, festivities. Check out tha photo spread on page 5 for more BestFest fun. Michigan. died later in the hospital from self- inflicted wounds to Ihe head. The vic- Some oflhe colleges plan lo offer dm, WVU studeni Nicholas Thomp courses on race and ethnicity; other will host speakers on multiculturalism. son, was shot in the chest, stomach and UTSA hosts business ethics symposium Cornell U. Several are involved in outreach pro leg and was listed in fair condition. He grams, such as assigning mentors to is expected to survive, the university "Foundations of Corporate Social Stevenson Services, Inc. Sanderfer ization," will be presented by Donald minority siudents. said. Responsibility" will be the topic ofthe will discuss the implementation ofher Mayer, a professor at Oakland Uni assists CSU The 18-year-old woman, also a Business Economics Symposium company's Business Practices Pro versity in Rochester, Mich. Mayer WVU student, was unharmed. The hosted Nov. 13 by the College of Busi gram and how it can apply to other will present frameworks for ethical library university did not release her name. ness and the Methodist Student Move corporations. Sanderfer serves on the decision-making and corporate sociaf. IU students According to reports, Willis drove ment at the University ofTexas at San boardof the Greater Houston Business responsibility in an age of globaliza- College Press Service for about two hours to the WVU cam Antonio. The symposium, which """"^"^"^""^ ~——— - tion. Mayer's research on business pus and went searching for his ex- is sponsored by United Commer- "ThO SympOSlUm allOWS StU- ethics includes intemational trade, FORT COLLINS, Colo.—At Colo protest girlfi-iend, who was visiting Thomp environmental issues, workplace rado State University, students were son in his dorm room. When Thomp ti^:^:r;2t' d^nts. lacuny members, busi-privacy and altemative dispute reso left without library books after a sur scavenger son opened the door, Willis immedi "The symposium allows stu- nossos and tho commuolty to lution. prise flood last summer destroyed ately opened fire. dents, faculty members, busi- Qnggge jp SO OngOlng diaiog The symposium concludes much of the campus library's hold hunt Several students who heard the shots nesses and the community to en- , . ^ i_ • with a panel discussion at 2 p.m. on ings. said they thought it was a Halloween gage in an ongoing dialog on die 00 the praCtlCe Of bUSinOSS "Building Corporate Social Re Bul in a special arrangement, CSU College Press Service prank. Thompson told police he ini practice of business ethics and ethlCS and thO rolO Of moral sponsibility through Community studenis in need of research materials tially thought he had been shot with the role of moral wisdom in cor- ..,;_j__, ;_ >,^_.-,^->,*.« ^.^.^tr^t Collaboration." Minette can read publications from the stacks BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Nearly 400 paint pellets rather than bullets, ac poratesocialresponsib.lity,"said WlSdOm 10 COrpOratO SOCial Drumwright, assistant professor in at Cornell University for the next year Indiana University students and fac cording to news reports. Jim Gaertner, dean of the College reSpOnsiblHty." the Departmenl of Advenising at or so while the campus recovers ils ulty members protested in front of a Following the shooting, WVUpresi- of Business. j/^ Gaertnor, Dean of the the University of Texas at Austin losses. fratemity house, saying a scavenger will facilitate the discussion. Panel Articles requested at Ihe CSU li hunt conducted by members was rac dent David Hardesty called for a re Three hour-long sessions will x u. • participants include Robin Radtke, ist, sexist and homophobic. view of WVU's security measures. be held throughout the day in die COllege Of bUSinOSS brary desk will be served up from the The protestors called for the ex When a tragedy like this occurs, it Retama Room in the University •——•^-^••^^^—"^-^^^^^-^^^ " assistant professor of accounting at Ithaca, N.Y., campus via the Intemet. rocks our entire family of students, Center at UTSA with a closing recepi- Ethics Roundtable and has been named UTSA; Andy Sarabia, a founding "We are blessed with a superb col pulsion of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, a faculty, staff and friends," Hardesty tion at 3:15 p.m. The first session "A as incoming co-chairman of the orga member of Communities Organized lection and dedicated staff, and it predominantly white fratemity, after said. "Our hearts ache for the students Corporate Model," will be presented at nization for 1998. for Public Service; and Nelson Wolff, seemed appropriale in CSU's time of details of the scavenger hunt for and families involved." 9:30 a.m. by Rita Sanderfer, director of At 11 a.m. the second session, president and chief executive officer need to share our riches with ihem," pledges became public. Writien in Willis was not a siudent at the univer business practices at Stewart & "Business Ethics in an Age of Global of Sun Harvest Farms. said Sarah Thomas, Cornell's librar structions told pledges, "You are all sity. ian. "The thought of a student body Black Men" and ordered them to seek and faculty prevented from access lo out such items as "Pictures of chicks material supfiorting leaming and schol making out," and a picture of "ANY Massachusettes women's college to go co-ed arship is too much for us to bear." FUNNY-LOOKIN' MEXICAN." ' Last July, a 4-foot wall of water News of the scavenger hunt were swept through CSU's campus, swamp made public after a group of pledges College of Our Lady of the Elms, an The college's five-year strategic plan "The attributes of a women's college College Press Service ing 15 buildings and washing 450,000 were arrested for stealing a sign.