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_ I Coffee, caffeine, cramming - - Confidence, Women's welcome to college, kids! teamwork key soccer pulls ... Features, p. 5 for volleyball in together Augustana Mother Teresa second in through rough ATM surcharges steal victory triangle of deaths week students' money ... Sports, p. 11 ... Sports, p. 14 .. Opinion, p.8 ... Opinion, p. 8 Poet Derek Walcott explains the Wesleyan moves "moments that move our lifetime" to No. 54 in U.S. By Laura Flannery Staff Writer News rankings "In every lifetime there are moments that By Shelly Manning Colleges, however, reclassified move our lifetime, although we may not realize Staff Writer some schools a couple of years it at the time. For many of you, this may be one ago. IWU then was listed under of those moments." With that, Illinois U.S. News & World Report National Liberal Arts Colleges Wesleyan University President Minor Myers, recently released the 1998 rank- and is moving its way up within jr., planted a seed in the minds of the IWU ings for colleges and universities those rankings. community at Westbrook Auditorium on around the United States. "Being reclassified is to our Wednesday for the President's Convocation. Illinois Wesleyan University, in advantage because it allows us to Derek Walcott, a 1992 winner of the Nobel the category of National Liberal be compared to the best schools," Prize for Literature was the keynote speaker at Arts Colleges, placed in the Jim Ruoti, Dean of Admissions, the Convocation. In addition to reading some Second Tier along with other said. of his poems, he received an honorary doctor- Illinois establishments such as Because vast criteria are used, ate of humane letters. Augustana, Knox, and Lake these rankings act as a tool for "He comes to us today as the new Forest. comparison between schools Shakespeare. He is both playwright and poet," rather than a concrete, decision- writing abilities. Myers said of Walcott's making factor. Walcott said that most of his poems are "We're very conscious of the on life in the Caribbean. "This positions us quite based rankings. We need to see how the "It is a story of survival from India to the well [for future outside world views us and what it Caribbean. While we inhabit a place of beauty improvement]. Being in thinks we can work on," Myers and simplicity it is also a place of terrible sad- the top 40 is not unreal- said. ness. The sadness fades every day," Walcott Although "the university ana- said. istic." lyzes the results and looks to see Walcott read his poems that blended the -Carl Teichman what can be improved upon," the beauty and pain of the Caribbean. rank of IWU does not seem to be a "Where was their elegance, except in their Assistant to the President determining factor in the choices mockery," he said. Focusing on the sad journey of professors or students to come from India to the Caribbean, he reads "Things here Ruoti said. do not explode, they fade, they fade." "This positions us quite well "Professors are very aware of The audience sat still, hardly breathing, as [for future improvement]. Being in the rankings, but in a certain job the powerful words of Walcott set in their the top 40 is not unrealistic," said market you apply everywhere," minds. Not a paper shuffled nor a word whis- Carl Teichman, executive assis- said Prof. Pamela Muirhead, pered during the twenty minutes he spoke. tant to the President. English department chair. "It is "I felt that his poems were a good represen- To some critics, Second Tier not just a pure status decision, tation of his native culture," sophomore may not sound like a very high often it is a financial one." English and history double major Todd ranking, but the Second Tier is "With the way mathematics has Zoellick said. located just below the top 25 been in the last few years, the job "It was interesting to get the different per- schools. IWU is now number 54 in market is very tight. Professors spective of what life was like for him," sopho- the overall category as compared use the rankings as ballpark fig- major Jamie Gray said. more education to last year's ranking of 64. ures for comparison," math pro- "When you say Nobel, suddenly I realize IWU also jumped from number fessor Paul Kapitza said. I am," the Boston Globe quoted that's who 38 to number 28 in selectivity. "In our field ... if you are offered Walcott as saying. "It's hard to associate me "We're on our way to being a job, you take it," English profes- with that sound." among the top 25 in this catego- sor Stacy Shimizu said. After Myers' introduction, Walcott received ry," IWU President Minor Myers, Students also seem to look at the honorary degree. He humbly accepted the his jr. said. rankings as a way to compare honor on the behalf of his country. U.S. News & World Report is schools, not as a deciding factor in Walcott comes from the West Indian island just one of the many publications their choices to attend. In fact, of St. Lucia and lives in Trinidad when he is that publishes this type of infor- none of the freshman questioned not teaching at Boston University during the academic year. He is the founder of the mation. had looked at the U. S. News & "The general public must be World Report rankings when Theater Workshop and the New York Trinidad interested, because this is one of searching for a university. Festival. The Mark Taper Forum Shakespeare the largest selling issues [of U.S. Matt Schnabel, a freshman biol- in Los Angeles and the Negro Ensemble News]," Teichman said. ogy major, liked IWU after his Company have produced his plays. Areas factored into this ranking visit. Kelly Kostock, a freshman Along with several books of plays, he is also system include academic reputa- business administration/marketing the author of eight books of poetry. His poems tion, graduation and retention sta- major, applied to IWU have been published in The New Yorker, because of tistics, faculty resources, number its reputation as being highly Kenyon Review, The New York Review of of professors with terminal selective. Books, The Nation, London Magazine, degrees, student to faculty ratios, Even those students from out of Antaeus, and other periodicals. salaries of faculty state seem to "[Walcott's] has been a life of salute for a Playwright and poet Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize winner, delivers a talk on the and administra- have made decisions tion and acceptance rate and yield. based upon reputation and the lifetime of achievement of insight and vision," moments of time at the President s Convocation on Wednesday. John Vrakas/The Differences in size, number of remarks of family or friends. It is Myers said. Argus faculty, number of students and evident, however, that IWU has a size of endowments are also good reputation all around. included in categorizing the Despite IWU's solid reputation, schools before ranking even "The Second Tier is not where we begins. want to be. We want to be in the Marriott goes gourmet: More changes at Bertholf IWU used to be classified as a top 25," Myers said. four year comprehensive institu- tion. It ranked number one in this For more on U.S. News By Diane Tasic sandwiches, and some of them will would be nice for them to have, to the front line], having pasta, bread category for several years. rankings, see page 4 Staff Writer change from day to day," Welsh know when the dining hall is open and pizza all in a row. But it would The Carnegie Classification of said. or closed and when special meal be nice to have a third line for side Take a walk around Bertholf nights are," Welsh said. items like vegetables or mashed Commons these days, and you'll Some of the special entrees and potatoes because the lines are still probably realize that the cafeteria "We're here to support foods offered by Marriott this year too long," she said. ranks 54th has undergone several minor the university and its will include a waffle bar in "For the most part, it doesn't Wesleyan changes. students' needs. If there October, a bagel bar in January and really matter to me where things "There hasn't been a drastic various "special tasting" foods, are. What works, works. Even National Liberal Arts Colleges change other than the main, front are any questions about such as hot salmon pate in pastry. though the length of the lines is line formula, which will change off selections, we need the Marriott will also continue its spe- ridiculous, the servers are pretty First Tier and on. We're trying to diversify input. Come see us." cial meals themes, which will fast," sophomore Andi Carleton College (MN) the selections, give [Marriott] a the Thanksgiving Meal Grabemeyer said. include Second Tier different look," said Mike Welsh, -Mike Welsh and a Harvest Moon Meal, Welsh believes that the changes food service director for Marriott. Students seem to appreciate the in the food service and meals have Food Service Illinois Wesleyan University "We are trying to satisfy the stu- changes made to Marriott's meals, been positive. He feels that dents." Directorfor Marriott as well as to its cafeteria manage- Marriott continues to work hard at Augustana College Still, students who frequented ment. satisfying the needs of the stu- the cafeteria in years past will "There's a greater variety of dents. DePauw University notice the differences.

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