0 ocroBm 2a. 1993 VOLM 37 NO. 8 Assessment plans near final stages Organizers urge students to become involved in planning process for evaluations At UWSP, an academic assess­ Thoyre stresses that the assess­ budget, he said. more job for people who are al­ by Collin Lueck ment committee made up of ments will be designed to "The mandate is coming down ready pretty dam busy." of the Pointer faculty and student repre­ scrutinize the curriculum rather from system ... but with no fund­ Administrators and SGA rep­ sentatives is currently laying the than ~e students. ing attached, so it's going to resentatives agree that student Students and administrators groundwork for the program. "We need to detennine if the squeeze our existing budget participation is essential to the are expressing their concems Each department within the curriculum is doing what the even more tightly," said Eric success of the program. and expectations regarding the university is required to estab­ faculty and the administrators Yonke, academic assessment Student input is necessary to new assessment program soon lish its own method of assessing believe it should be doing for committee chair. insure that the assessments are to be implemented throughout students graduating in their students," said Thoyre. Another concern of students is measuring what they are in­ the UW system. respective majors. A major concern of students is the possibility of additional tended to measure, said Yonke. The assessment program has "There are certainly differen­ where the money to cover the class requirements which would Hawkins, who has been repre­ been mandated by the UW ces in the way students leam in cost of the assessment is going increase the time needed to earn senting students at the academic Regents and the North Central the various departments, " said to come from. a degree. assessment committee's meet­ Accreditation Association. David Kunze, SGA president. "We want to make sure that the Thoyre explains that the as­ ings, said that the committee UWSP needs to comply with Department heads will be un­ cost isn't passed on to students." sessments will not be used as re­ "seems to value what we have to the mandate in order to retain its veiling rough drafts of their as­ said Max Hawkins, SGA quirements for graduation and say." status as an accredited univer­ sessment plans to the academic academic affairs director. will not become an additional "If students don't participate, sity. assessment committee within Thoyre asserted that no addi­ hurdle for students. this isn't going to go anywhere," "It's not a question of whether the next week. tional fees will be assessed to The assessment program may said Thoyre. we want to do this," said These plans will be piloted next students as a result of the actually be tougher on the facul- Yonke said that if students Howard Toyre, vice-chancellor semester and will be revised if program. ty than the students, according have any concerns or ideas to of academic affairs. "We have necessary. The official assess­ . Because the state is not provid­ to Yonke. make the assessments more ef­ to, and there's a lot riding on us ment program is scheduled to be ing funding to cover assessment "The faculty is feeling pretty fective, they should be in con­ putting together a good in place for the fall 1994 costs, necessary expenses will overwhelmed right now," said tact with the department chairs program." semester. be reallocated from the current Yonke. "This comes as just one in their major. Trick or treat Left: J ack-o-lanterns . adorn the yard of 2016 Main Street. Ri[Iht: Keith Odeen Jrom the Plover Jaycees poses as Jason to scare visitors at the haunted house located in the Centerpoint mall. The Jaycee haunted house, in its 15th year, runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. (photos by Chris Kelley). House fire kills UW-LaCrosse student A fire at the Alpha Xi Delta Crosse. As the police officers arrived at sorority house. The women that lived in the sorority house in LaCrosse Two other students of UW-­ the scene, they found the house The building had working fire building will be staying with claimed the life of one univers LaCrosse, Anne Rentmeester, engulfed in flames, which kept alarms and extinguishers, offi­ sorority sisters off campus, said sity woman and injured two 22, of Waukesha and Kurt them from entering the build­ cials said. Jay Scott, student services coor­ other students on Sunday. Danielson, 21, of Appleton ing. Margaret Annett, 82, a neigh­ dinator at the university. Melanie Pierce, 20, of Maple were being treated for smoke in­ The first and second floors bor and owner of the building The cause of the fire remains Plain, Minn. was pulled out of halation and were listed in were ablaze by the time the fire said she was awakened by under investigation. An official the burning house at 3:45 a.m. serious condition. department arrived. screams and an orange glow for the university said there Sunday, and later pronounced Patrolling officers in the area The fire was extinguished at coming from the flames. were no signs of a party at the dead of smoke inhalation. discovered the fire at 3:39 a.m. 5:39 a.m. Extensive damage "When I looked out of my win­ house. Pierce was a sophomore, A 911 emergency call was was done to the first, second and dow, flames were shooting majoring in social work at the received by the Lacrosse Police attic floors. Heat damage also about 10 feet into the air,' she See editorial page 3 University of Wisconsin--La- Department a short time later. affected a building next to the said. rtATUm~ ·oUTDOO~~ &)()QT~ Protect yourself Wildfire burn~ Football team from ·STD's over the weekend . dominates Stout (See page 9) (Seepage 6) (St:e page 13) E::j ;1 =t-i'Z3 ! =t OCIOBEQ 28, 1993 DACJ! 2 BRIEFLY Healt~ officials probe student illness An official from the local Wilson noted that a couple of happened." by Kelly Leeker health department and several student workers had not been STEVENS POINT ·· School News Editor nurses from Health Services feeling well that week and three taxes for the Stevens Point Area were called in to investigate the full-time employees had been Over 1500 students were School District will decrease for The Portage County Health situation, Wilson said. absent from work because they served chicken nuggets at De bot the first time in over ten years, Department last week inves­ Officials have not been able to were ill. Thursday night, according to the School Board decided Mon­ tigated four cases of students be­ pinpoint the cause of the ill­ The four students that became Wilson. The fact that only four day night. coming ill after they had eaten nesses. Tests, including stool ill displayed the same symptoms people became ill decreases the The board set a tax levy for at the Debot Center. samples from the students, as these full-time workers, he chance that food poisoning was 1993-94 which is up 5.1 percent Four students went to Health revealed nothing, according to said. the cause of the problem. from last year but approved a tax Services late Thursday com­ Wilson. "Many things could have hap­ rate of $17 .57 per $1,000 equal­ plaining of diarrhea and vomit­ "In fact, [health officials] gave pened when you 're serving such County health officials were ized value, a 3.8 percent ing, according to Food Services us a good clean bill of health," a mass of students," he said. unavailable for comment Wed­ decrease from 1992-93. Director Jerry Wilson. he said. "We don't know exactly what nesday. The district cut its proposed budget by $179,000 since last month and raised the proposed tax levy by $1.1 million. Al­ Policies prompt Viterbo editor to resign though the tax rate was raised, it is still lower than the previous by Chris Kelley Because Viterbo is a church­ publication board consisting of "I lost respect for him by the year. run college, Lumen reporters faculty members, students and Photo Editor way he handled this," Evans are not protected under the First two professional journalists. said. "It shows he doesn't care Censorship of gay rights ar­ Amendment. "Advocacy-journalism is not about Lumen. He's attempting ticles and attacks on his charac­ The paper operates under consistent with editing a to tum it into another gay rights ter forced the resignation of the school policies that prohibit mainstream newspaper," he issue." MADISON ·· Wisconsin Atty. editor of the Viterbo College censorship by administration or said. Gen. Jim Doyle and U.S. Sen. student newspaper. faculty, but mandate that the Foster, 26, a gay rights activist, Herb Kohl Monday urged Lumen editor Darren Foster paper respect the Catholic views Foster announced his resigna­ said he suffered "emotional citizens to call their state legis­ said he was coerced into not of the college. tion to the press Saturday. duress," and was discriminated lators in support of handgun publishing stories which may "It's an ambiguously stated Evans said he was informed of against because he is control. have gone against the school's policy that is occasionally in Foster's resignation by a La­ homosexual. Doyle wants his proposal to Roman Catholic doctrine. conflict," said Lyon Evans, ad­ Crosse Tribune reporter. restrict the sale of handguns "The adviser asserted I was ad­ viser to the student newspaper. Evans recommended that "They have violated my with barrels measuring four in­ vocating a gay rights agenda," According to Evans, when a Foster not publish certain stories rights," he said.