A&E: Ruler's responsibilities... fWlWQ HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY Campus Chronicle FRIDAY. March 24. 2006 HIGH POINT, N.C QEP focuses on students' concerns By Briana Warner present here at High Point, but they have that the president delivered the week be- University English Staff Writer been on the periphery," said Dr. Jeffrey fore. For example, if the message of the Adams, director of Institutional Advance- president's seminar is related to health and professor In the fall of 2005, administrators ment and author of the QEP "The pur- wellness, students might travel the next sent an e-mail to all students asking the pose of the QEP is to take those programs week to High Point Regional Hospital to publishes question "If High Point University could out of the shadows and make them a fo- complete their civic engagement activity. English professor Dr. Ed do one thing to improve your experience, cus of our students' education." Students will then write a short essay Piacentino recently published a book what would it be?" Preliminary work with the QEP has about their experience and the connection and several articles. His book, entitled Some students probably deleted the already begun with planning and the ap- between the lecture and the experience. "The Enduring Legacy of Old South- e-mail without reading it. Others perhaps pointment of Dr. Kelly Norton as the new During the sophomore year begin- west Humor," explores modern and read it and decided that they didn't have director of Experiential Learning. Phase ning in 2007-2008, phase II of the QEP, contemporary southern writers like time to formulate an answer to the ques- I of the QEP will begin in the fall of 2006 the civic engagement requirement will be William Faulkner and Zora Neale tion. Many students, however, responded when incoming freshmen will have a civic built into the three-hour general educa- Hurston; it also examines popular cul- to the e-mail with an overwhelming con- engagement requirement. It involves a tion requirement in ethics. The ethics ture, as in comic strips, television sensus that High Point University needs one-hour course each semester during the courses will be redesigned to contain ex- shows and comedians like Jeff to place more focus on experiential learn- first year. The civic engagement experi- periential elements. After the sophomore Foxworthy. The book was published ing. Administrators will respond over the ence will package HPU-188: President's year, requirements will end, but faculty by Louisiana State University Press. next four years with the Quality Enhance- Seminar in Life Skills, with related com- and staff will greatly encourage students ment Plan (QEP). munity activity. Freshmen will attend the to participate in the study abroad, intern- New courses to The QEP, a 91-page document, out- president's seminar six-to-eight times per ship and civic engagement programs. lines four areas of focus that the univer- semester with one week in between each Phase III (2008-2009) of the QEP be offered by sity will improve and develop: civic en- lecture. During the weeks in between, stu- will switch focus to the study abroad pro- Education gagement, the study abroad program, col- dents will travel by university bus in gram. A Study Abroad coordinator will laborative inquiry and the internship pro- groups to complete an activity with a com- See QEP, page 4 Department gram. "Most of these programs have been munity partner that relates to the message Beginning in May, the university Enthusiasm will offer courses to complete licensure Martinson and Qubein: for academically gifted students. Those courses—Education 436: The Gifted makes job Child; Education 437: Teaching the men of vision, action Gifted Child; Education 438: The By Christopher Petree Trustees and the presidential search com- fun, exciting Emotional and Affective Needs of Staff Writer mittee chose Martinson for president with By Modu Kamara Gifted Children and Education 439: the hope that the next president would Staff Writer Trends and Issues in Gifted Education- An old axiom claims Rome wasn't have a "fresh and open perspective re- -will be offered in consecutive terms built in a day. This bit of cliched insight, garding High Point College and the chal- Climbing a flight of stairs more through the Evening Degree Program, though accurate in its essence, applies lenges it faces in the coming years." At than 10 times a day doesn't bother Jody and all courses meet the requirements well to campus. Although the most promi- the time. High Point College faced many Kabel Lohman, a librarian and also for the license for AG (Academically nent changes seem recent, after Dr. Nido hurdles that, in McCaslin's estimation, media service person. She loves her Gifted) issued by the State Department Qubein assumed office on Jan. 1, 2005. hinged on financial security. new job, which provides Lohman with for Public Instruction. former president Dr. Jacob C. Martinson "Martinson impressed the (presiden- the pleasure of working with students provided leadership and profound change tial) search committee not just because he again. And as for going up and down in the first years of his presidency, simi- had a vision for development, but also the staircase, from the basement media Honors Day lar to the current administration. because he had the credentials to achieve center to the upper floors of the library, Parallels between Qubein and his plan," McCaslin wrote. Martinson's "it is great and it gives me my exercise April 19 Martinson seem unlikely. Qubein, a busi- nine-year term at Brevard College saw for the day," she says. nessman, motivational speaker and phi- enrollments "increase 40 percent and en- When both of her job descriptions lanthropist, starkly contrasts with dowments grew from $2.1 million to $5.4 are combined, the list of duties is al- Honors Day Symposium Martinson, the quiet minister, theologian million," distinguishing Martinson as an most as long as this article. However, 2006 and former Brevard College president effective president, the sort of leader High as long as her job includes working who planned, according to Dr. Richard Point College needed. within a library. Lohman is happy and The Honors Day Symposium offers McCaslin, author of "Remembered Be Though Martinson didn't announce enjoys the thought of helping someone. all students the opportunity to present Thy Blessings," the history of High Point dramatic changes upon taking office Aug. "I really love to help people; it is a research to students and faculty. University from 1924-1991, no "revolu- 1, 1985, in 1990 Martinson began work wonderful feeling," she said. tionary changes" for, the then-named. on a 10-year plan created by the National Lohman's willingness to work Presentations run 15-20 minutes High Point College. However, both Commission on the Future of High Point with others is exceptional. David with question and answer Qubein and Martinson faced similar ob- College, a "plan that would improve aca- Bryden, director of Library Services, thereafter. stacles upon taking office, problems that demics by combining liberal arts predicts that Lohman's contributions to McCaslin identified as stagnant endow- coursework, including an emphasis on the university will be outstanding, es- All proposals must be sponsored by a ments and decreasing enrollment. ethics, with training for professional pre- pecially since "she was a fine art librar- faculty member. High Point College saw a positive See Comparison, page 5 See Librarian, page 5 change take place in 1985: The Board of Deadline for applications is 31 March. Page 2 Page 3 Page 7 Page 8 email applications to: Inter- Senior runs Petal Points Baseball or send to: Frederick Schneid In this issue: racial dating for public hitting the team holds Director, University Honors Program still an issue office right notes promise -Compiled by Amanda Roberts 2 Campus Chronicle EDITORIAL Friday, March 24,2006 March madness can Inter-racial dating has overcome spring sadness Spring is that time of year when all $3.6 billion in lost worker productivity. some people fuming sorts of things happen. It's the season of Even though High Point did not make By Ali Akhyari There was a hatred between two rebirth, of renewal. it into the tourna- Opinion Editor tribes that had been kept in check until Flowers are bud- ment this year, the death of the president sparked the fuel ding and you can that doesn't stop I realized there is a silent stream of that resulted in the murder of hundreds of see the activity re- the students from hatred and racism that exists in America thousands of people. There was a simple suming outside. being sucked into as I liberally dipped my french fries in a hate between people, a less than human People are every- the madness. puddle of ketchup in the cafeteria. Per- outlook existed. Because of that, blood where, playing Walk around haps I'm a little naive; I've proven that was spilled on a horrific level. basketball, loung- campus, and over my years of existence. But I never We've experienced the same thing ing on the Interna- you'll hear thought that people would have a prob- here in the United States with slavery and tional Promenade people talking lem with my dating a Caucasian woman. the aftermath as African-Americans were and, of course, you about the games, This hidden aggression wasn't scary to me considered less than human by another can probably find a how their bracket until we discussed the holocaust of group. It is simply inconceivable to me game of Ultimate is doing and Rwanda in the early '90s in a recent jour- that any human being can consider some- Frisbee going on gushing over an nalism class.