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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU 1989-1990, Volume 14 Grand Valley Forum, 1976- 12-4-1989 Grand Valley Forum, volume 014, number 18, December 4, 1989 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum14 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Grand Valley Forum, volume 014, number 18, December 4, 1989" (1989). 1989-1990, Volume 14. 18. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum14/18 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1989-1990, Volume 14 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~VALLEYAGRAND ~Q)~(UMD uNJi~1fv Q Monday, December 4, 1989 Volume 14 Number 18 Grand Valley State University GVSU Receives Award for Smoke-Free Environment GVSU received an award at a November The award was presented by Ann Drabczyk is sponsoring the program for faculty and staff 16th luncheon for its efforts to provide a of SAFE. State Senator Jack Faxon, noted working in the Eberhard Center and if this smoke-free environment in the L.V. Eberhard clean-air advocate, addressed the group which pilot program is successful, a similar one will Center on the Grand Rapids campus. included five other organizations who also be brought to the Allendale campus. SAFE, a coalition of representatives of received the award. Additional information will soon be sent local agencies and interested individuals who According to Charles Furman, WGVU/ to all faculty and staff working in the Center advocate smoke-freeenvironments, presented WGVK assistant general manager/program and anyone who wishes to see such a program the award to Dick Mehler, Eberhard Center manager, smoking cessation classes will soon on the Allendale campus should inform the building manager, and Sam Eiler, station be available to GVSU faculty and staff who Human Resources Department of their manager of WGVU-FM. work in the L. V. Eberhard Center. GVSU interest. Student Leaving for U.S.S.R. in January Will Be Visited By GVSU Group in May GVSU junior Tim Domsic recently learned In addition to earning 12-18 credits Domsic Rydel's group will travel to Leningrad in that he has been accepted into a Russian says, "I fully expect to be fluent or nearly so May where they will meet Domsic. Domsic studies program conducted by the Cooperative by the time I get back. It also allows me to is looking forward to serving as an unofficial International Educational Exchange based in see the Soviet Union at a very interesting tour guide for the group when they arrive. New York City. Through the program, time," added Domsic. Domsic noted that Upon returning to GVSU, Rydel's students Domsic will travel to Leningrad State three areas he will visit, Georgia, Estonia, and will enroll in a course based on the current University on January 31, where he will study the Ukraine, are experiencing political unrest political unrest taking place in several Soviet language, literature, and history until May due to many residents' desire to secede from republics as well as the history surrounding 27th. the Soviet Union . it. Students in this course will draw on Applicants to the program are required to GVSU Russian language professor information they gathered while visiting the have completed three years of Russian Christine Rydel encouraged Domsic to apply Baltic, Georgian and Ukraine Republics. This language studies to enroll in the Leningrad for the program. Rydel is also organizing a new course is a part of GVSU's Russian school for a semester or a year. Domsic is trip to five Soviet cities for some 22 students, Studies Program. According to Rydel, GVSU one of only 40 students from throughout the Russian Studies alumni and faculty. Most of is one of very few schools in the United States United States who are accepted into the the students who will make the trip are offering a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies. program each year. Domsic says he is aware Russian Studies majors and all of the students that at least 126 students from the midwest have completed two years of Russian language alone applied . The non-profit group also studies. awarded Dom sic a scholarship paying $4,700 of the program's $5,800 cost. Across Campus The Grand Valley Forum is pub­ To Help Make a Bad Situation of 220 bears has been set and presentation of lished every Monday by the Public Easier For a Child To "Bear" ... the gift will be made to the Michigan State Relations Office when classes are in The GVSU Hospitality and Tourism Police on December 8. session and bi-weekly during the Management Unit and the GVSU Hospitality Trooper Teddies cost about $5 each. If summer. Items must be submitted in Management Association are supporting the you would like to support this worthwhile writing by Tuesday noon to Susan Michigan State Police Department's "Teddies project of HTM/HMA, donations , will be Squire, Public Relations, 24 Zum­ for Troopers" program as their Christmas accepted through December 7 at 108 ·AuSable berge Library, GVSU, Allendale, fund-raising project. Hall. MI 49401. Telephone: 895-2221. The program, which began November 1 Grand Valley State University is an and concludes December 7, seeks donations Michigan Commercial License Equal Opportunity, Affirmative for the purchase of teddy bears, which are Regulations Change Action Institution. placed in State Police vehicles as a comfort Plant Services Department staff are to small children in a time of crisis. A goal advising faculty and staff who plan to drive Continued on page 4 page2 Faculty and Staff Sketches Lee Copenhaver, professor of Music, Mary Jae Reed, Director of Academic marks the 20th anniversary of this relation­ conducted a performance of the 65-member Computing and Instructional Technology, ship. Currently, GVSU student Glynn GVSU-Community Orchestra and the GVSU directed and coordinated a development team Washington is enrolled at the Center. Chamber Orchestra on Sunday, December 3, of32 programmers who developed an award­ While in Grand Rapids' sister-city, in the Louis Armstrong Theater. winning computer tutorial package entitled Omihachiman, Walczak represented Grand Lynda Crane, assistant professor of "Introduction to Statistics." This software Rapids and delivered a speech to residents Psychology, wrote an article entitled "Domain package was selected as the best tutorial tool who were celebrating their 35th year as a General and Domain Specific Processes in from a field of over 200 entries in a higher chartered city. Proportional Reasoning" which will be education software awards competition. This George Wolfe, directorofHospitality and published in the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. course was developed while Reed held a post Tourism Management, will be the keynote at the University of Delaware similar to her Roger Ellis, associate professor of Theater speaker at the 1989 Taipei International current position at GVSU. Communications, recently completed a Conference on Tourism, December 18-20 in dramatic reading of Stephen Birmingham's Patricia Scott, associate professor of Taipei. The conference will include presenta­ best-selling novel, "Shades of Fortune." Physical Education, has been selected as a tions involving nine Asian and European Ellis' narration will be released in February writer and editor for the "Michigan Exemplary nations. Wolfe's address is entitled "Tourism: 1990 for national distribution by the Physical Education Programs Project" under An Issue of Cultural Conservation." Bookcassette Corporation. the auspices of the Michigan Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and James Grant, associate professor of Dance, and the Michigan Department of Education, has written an article entitled Education. The writing committee is charged Coming Events "Written Narratives of Normal and Learning Disabled Students" which was published in with creating model teaching materials for a volume on the development of motor skills Two-Part Exhibit of BFA Candidates' the 1989 volume of Annals of Dyslexia. which is scheduled for publication in winter Work Set for Calder Paul Huizenga, professorofBiology, was 1990. December 4-8, BF A candidates and graphic a panelist for a presentation to 150 teachers design majors Brian Johnson, Paige Palmer James Scott, associate professor of from the Kent Intermediate School District and Wynn Wikman will exhibit their thesis Physical Education, served as a delegate to this fall. The panel presented the Reproduc­ works in the Calder Gallery. A closing the first International Olympic Committee tive Health Program of the Jenison Public reception for the exhibit is scheduled for World Congress on Sport Sciences. Scott Schools. Friday, December 8, from 4 to 7 p.m. represented the U.S.A. Wrestling Sport Donald Klein, professor of Accounting, Science and Medicine Committee and the The second part of the exhibit will begin recently attended the annual Michigan Federation of International Amateur Wrestling December 11 and wi ll conclude with a Accountancy Foundation Educator's Scientific Council. Over 500 people reception on Friday, December 15, from 4 Symposium in Ann Arbor during which he representing 44 countries attended the to 7 p. m. This second part of the exhibit will discussed the 150-hour requirement to sit for Congress in Colorado Springs. Roughly 50 feature the work of BFA candidate Nikki the CPA exam and the new format and speakers from around the world spoke on Wall. content of the CPA examination. topics concerning the physiological, The Calder Gallery is open to the public, Jitendra Mishra, professor of Manage­ psychological, biomechanical and medical free, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from ment, is the author of an article entitled, aspects of modern sport training and 10:00 a.m.

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