YSU Boasts Ivy League Educators KATHERINE HELLER History/Political Science
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THE INSIDE SCOOP Campus Opinions 3 Penguin Star • 4-5 Sports 6 Campus Calendar 7 Classifieds 7 See page 4 Volume 80, No. 48 Youngstown State University * Youngstown, Ohio Thursday, March 12,1998 YSU boasts Ivy League educators KATHERINE HELLER history/political science. ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR Manuel Frangos, a Greek-American student, junior, From the deserts of Africa to the civil engineering, said, "This class island of Cuba, YSU's faculty is helped me form good decisions on not only international - it's Ivy moral, religious and ethical is• League. sues." Dr. Victor Wan-Tahtah and Dr. 'There's always some type of Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez have class involvement," said John brought Ivy-League education to Zoumis, senior, combined sci• Youngstown. Both graduates of ences. Harvard, Wan-Tahtah and Wan-Tahtah also conducts per• Palmer-Fernandez studied and sonal research and participates in »vj_v:/ i ni rTiirn TOrTfi'wriiiTrif IIITI taught under the direction of Dr. the community. He founded "The Harvey Cox, Dean of Harvard's Concerned Citizens for a Safer ML School of Divinity. Cox recently Youngstown" due to his concern DONALD BERNIER, THEJAMBAR lectured to a "standing room only . for the growing homicide rate. He HEAL-O-COPTER: A Metro Health Medical Center helicopter visited yesterday as part of crowd" on Religion resurgence is also working on a book about a medical seminar for YSU's Paramedic program. Among the huddled group near the door and politics in Kilcawley's Chest• African American Catholics and a are Jay Womack, Kevin Rogers, Dr. J.D. Polk and several basic EMTs. nut Room. book about African missionaries Wan-Tahtah, a native of working in the United States. Camroon, Af• Wan-Tahtah plans to continue his rica, first be- work at YSU and delve into new came.interested areas of research and teaching. TELA DURBIN and in a state of constant redefini• people," said Tamburri, with a in Harvard after 'There are a lot of talented people ASSISTANT NKWS EDITOR tion. chuckle. reading about here. [YoungstownJ is a wonder• "To study hyphenated lan• Tamburri mentioned such au• Cox's involve• ful place to live," he said. Studying Italian can be more guages is a two-way street," said thors as Fred Gardaphe, Helen ment in the ecu• Palmer-Fernandez also graced than meets the fips. Dr. Anthony Tamburri. "You go forward and Barolini, Rose Basile Green and menical move- the graduation stage at Harvard. Tamburri, professor of Italian Stud• backward. You have to keep up Patrick Green in his talk. Tamburri Wan-Tahtah ment and asso. His life experiences, along with his ies and Comparative Literature at with the times, but you also have has published his own anthology, ciation with Harvard. education and desire to learn, com• Purdue University, spoke in to move backward and rediscover." From the Margin: Writings in Ital• "I wondered if I would ever bine to make him another valuable DeBartolo Hall Monday. Room Tamburri illustrated it was not ian Americana. Tamburri said in have the opportunity to meet some• asset to YSU's faculty. Originally 122 was nearly packed with atten• only important to know what ev• his anthology, he and his co-au• one like that," he said, comment• from Cuba, Palmer-Fernandez tive listeners to hear Tamburri eryone else is doing at the present thors include works of living writ• ing on how Cox drew him to grew up in New Orleans and be• speak on his take of Italian-Ameri• time when studying the "hyphen• ers who weren't previously pub• Harvard. "The only place I applied gan his post-high school education can culture. ated languages," but also to know lished. He said he was lucky to do my doctorate was at in Georgia, then continued at Dr. Salvatore Attardo introduced what went on before. enough to find a partner in Purdue Harvard." Harvard, earning multiple master's the speaker by saying he is "one of Tamburri gave the names of University Press who would not His hopes and determination degrees and a doctorate in ethics. the top scholars in this field of Ital• several authors of Italian-Ameri• only publish the book but also became a reality when Wan-Tahtah . He, too, remembers Cox's in• ian-American studies in the coun• can works and anthologies who he make the book look exceptional. found himself at Harvard studying put into his education at Harvard try today." says are essential to know when Tamburri described his book as, and servirig as a teaching fellow and his personable and engaging studying Italian-American culture. Tamburri spoke of Italian- "Points where people can look up with Cox. 'To be able to teach with personality. "(Cox had] one of the The list didn't include many po• American and its hyphenated coun• Italian-American literature." him was something very special. I most engaging and imaginative etry writers, though. terparts, such as Irish-American, [had the opportunity to] learn from classrooms. .He created a total African-American and French- "Poetry combined with Tamburri his vast resevoir of experience and experience." American, as being undefinable semiotics might scare off a lot of Continued on page 2 knowledge," he said. Palmer- Not only did Wan-Tahtah ap• Fernandez Parking services preciate him as an educator, he also said his per• Parking drives us nuts said Cox would always take time sonal goal is Here's a few of the services MEGAN VUTECH maintain each deck. for him and showed concern for his to keep, : Parking Services provides: ' CONTRIBUTING WRITER The cost of a parking permit academic career as well as his per• "striving for also helps cover some of the park• sonal life. excellence" • Aid with jump starts, "They have to do something!" ing services offered, said Wan-Tahtah's experience with in research , lockouts and other car ; exclaimed Kim Duttle, junior, den• Scarnecchia. Cox at Harvard directly impacted and teach• troubles. tal hygiene, as she ran to class. Students have complained his own teaching style at YSU. He ing. He said "I have to leave earlier every day about malfunctioning access cards. said he wants students to feel free it is impor- Palmer- just to get a parking spot," said "Some cards are bad," tamtocpn- Fernandez I Lend lug wrenches, to talk to him whenever they need Megan Villani, junior, photography. Scarnecchia said. to. Also, he strives for excellence stantly try to, "improve yourself jacks, gas cans or other Parking is something most students Students who have malfunc• in his students and encourages cre• and achieve a level of excellence." emergency items. face everyday and almost no one tioning access cards should take ative thinking. He takes these goals into the enjoys it. them to Support Services in the "I like to make my classes lively classroom where he tries to "ex• i Provide one-day parking "Permit prices pay for the en• basement of Tod Hall to be fixed. and get my students to think for pose all views to the same level of tire budget," said Joseph Scarnecchia said the access- permits. themselves. I try to push them to scrutiny." He stresses the impor• Scarnecchia, director of Support card activated gates are for secu• do and to excel," he said. tance of students taking their own Services. rity and control. They help make Wan-Tahtah's students agree. views and examining them equally i Provide special parking He said Parking Services re• sure people who are supposed to When asked about his teaching with the opposition. Palmer- for temporarily disabled ceives no money from tuition or park in the faculty and dormitory style, words such as invigorating Fernandez said he engages stu• students, faculty and general fees. lots get to park there and help slow and mind-opening are used. dents in discussions and expects : As an example of the monetary staff. "He has a real open format — size of that budget, he said $75,000 Parking he encourages analysis on every• Harvard SOURCE: JOE SCARNECCHIA to $200,000 is spent each year to Continued on page 2 thing," said Kerry Collins, senior, Continued on page 2 2 The Jambar Thursday, March 12,1998 Harvard CAMPUS BOOK & SUPPLY AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY Continued from page 1 the students to write well-devel• oped essays. "My primary aim is to intro• duce a body of scholarly literature on a given topic and examine it," he said. He also emphasized the importance of "exploring new ar• eas of inquiry." NEED CASH NOW? When Palmer-Fernandez, is out• side of the classroom, he enjoys researching the ethics of war. He has examined issues such as when war is morally and legally justified, political assassinations and the 00 KS AT concept of surrender. "War is one of the most endur• ing of human institutions. War as a social institution is more endur• ing than the structure of the fam• ily," he said. Through his research, he has written and edited several books such as, "The Legal and Moral Doc• SUPPLY trine of War" and "Moral Issues: Philosophy and Religious Perspec• tives." He also enjoys studying medical ethics and said his work at the university has led him to serv• RECEIVE ing the community through lectures on hot topics such as cloning. At YSU, he teaches medical ethics to for your Books nursing and physical therapy stu• dents and several courses in reli• gious and moral ethics. Palmer-Fernandez said he is happy at YSU and expressed the importance of education for every• one. "Education is meant for all — that's what we do here. [Education is] the primary task of colleges and universities in democratic society.