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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ► Activities ► Sports Big Sister Duane Virgil and the Karen Racer basketball Asheris team dealt Eastern one of its worst home many who defeat ever/B6 hasa 'Reason for the Season'/B5 ► Council on Student Affairs With student expectations high, and teacher standards reported to be low, are the people educating our children Making the grade? m *^2 - ■ * - , Don Knight/Progress m *4SS£| Adam Back, Student Association president, listens to Tom Myers, vice president of student affairs, during Friday's council meeting. 5; *<£ ' A. J E Pffv.^^^ (M Tech fee, ■ . franchising move on up aaaaw- Mandatory curriculum contracts for students sent back to committees BY DENA TACKETT pares the budget for the universi- Photos by Don Knight/Progress Assistant news editor ty, which will be completed in the spring, to consider compensating Tammy Rose, now in her 13th year at Waco, explains a lesson to her first grade class Rose was upset about the Herald-Leader article. In its Dec. 4 meeting, the for half of the $50 fee. Council on Student Affairs passed "As they prepare the budget, both the technology fee and fran- they will try to assist students by chising proposals, while sending reducing it to a lower fee," Myers Graduates feel survey not accurate the act concerning mandatory said. curriculum contracts for students Myers said the question still Prospective teachers can also fail back to committees. remains of what to do about part- BY DENA TACKETT plete her internship, which she must Assistant news editor pass before she gets her certification. these tests multiple times and still get a All three proposals were intro- time students. How much they She teaches physical education to job, the report said. duced by Student Association. will have to pay will be deter- When Ragan Rucker walked Rucker believes the tests have noth- mined by the results of the budg- grades kindergarten through fifth. The technology fee proposal into the teacher's lounge at She and her colleagues did not know ing to do with how effective a person will now be forwarded to et process also, he said Waco Elementary School could be as a teacher. Myers said there will be no what to think of the article, she said. President Robert Kustra, said one November morning, "We were upset about the article," "I know a lot of people who have Tom Myers, vice president of stu- problem finding uses for the the talk was not of what Little Jimmy or she said. "We feel the standards for failed the tests and are great with chil- dent affairs. money when the fee is imple- Sara did in class the day before, but of teachers are high, and we all feel we are dren," Rucker said. "One guy I knew Kustra will share the proposal mented. outrage and disbelief. highly qualified." failed the test over and over and had to with the office of government The Lexington Herald-Leader featured The Herald-Leader reported change his major, and that's bad affairs and planning which pre- See Move/Page A5 the first of a four-part examination of the Kentucky's low teacher standards result because the children were just in awe quality of Kentucky's school teachers from the fact that college students only with him. ► Vice presidential search titled The Learning Gap" that morning. have to carry a "C-plus" average in gen- "Doctors and lawyers can fail their The study focused on the standards eral education courses to get into the tests, so does that mean they are not for Kentucky's students, which are high teacher preparation programs. qualified?" since the implementation of KERA, com- • Also, the report said Kentucky allows Rucker said when she started out, pared to the standards of teachers in the some of the lowest passing scores in the she knew that Eastern had the best edu- state, which were reported to be low. nation on tests, such as the PRAXIS cation program around. Four finalists Rucker, a 23-year-old Eastern gradu- exam, which determine who becomes a The article also said many of the ate from Stanford, just began her one- teacher, and that most of those tests teacher education programs in the state year internship at Waco. allow students to miss up to half of the Rucker graduated in May and has her questions, while school-age students See Grade to visit campus Statement of Eligibility so she can com- would receive an "F." /Page A7 people, we tried to identify who BY DENA TACKETT would be the best fit for Eastern," Assistant news editor Whitlock said. "Actually, every- A student at The first of four finalists to one at the semifinalist stage was Waco replace Russell Enzie for the posi- very impressive." Elementary tion of vice president of academic Christopher Baldwin is dean of School completes affairs is at Eastern today to meet the college of arts and sciences at an assignment in with faculty, staff and students, Sam Houston State University in Mrs Rose's class. and to take a look at the universi- Huntsville, Texas; Stephen Doblin ty and community he could call is dean of the college of sciences Rose got her Master's home. and technology at the University degree from Eastern in The list includes Christopher of Southern Mississippi in 1992. She and other Baldwin, the first visitor, Stephen Hattiesburg, Miss.; Melinda educators feel the series Doblin, Melinda McClanahan and McClanahan is executive for rein- about teacher preparation Steven Pontius. vention and organizational and quality was misleading The 13-member search commit- improvement for the office of They believe the article did tee in charge of finding a replace- research and development of the not take into account the ment for Enzie narrowed the can- Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.; and Steven changes brought about by didates down to four this weekend KERA. "I feel like a lot of teach- after conducting in-depth inter- Pontius is vice president of aca- views with the 18 semifinalists. demic affairs at Austin Peay State ers are just worn out from the Over 100 applications were University in Clarksville, Tenn. extra work that comes with received from all over the country. "In a consensus view, these are KERA," Rose said. "I don't think the Doug Whitlock, vice president the best suited for President quality is going down. I think that of administrative affairs and chair Kustra and the rest of the faculty KERA really takes a toll on morale. of the committee, said he was to move the university forward." proud of the committee's deci- Whitlock said. sion. "From a pool of very qualified See Finalists/Page A5 Thompson voted in as faculty regent ► Inside ►Weether Accent B1 TODAY Merita Thompson BY ALYSS A BRAMLAOE being property filled out, for a total of spring, an accelerated time sched- Activities ' B5 Hi: 45 received 66 percent News editor :m, McAdam said. ule and the busy time of year the Arts B3 Low: 25 Thompson received 258 votes, election was held in, McAdam Classifieds A4 Conditions: of the vote in the was expecting this type of race for faculty Merita Thompson was Wayne Jennings received 46 and Perspective A2, 3 Cloudy announced as the new faculty Allen Eagle got 89 votes. turnout. Police Beat A4 n* 45, Partly cloudy regent. She wi regent at Monday's Faculty "Rita is very well known, and Thompson is a professor of replace Mary Sports B6-7 SAT: 47, Partly ctoudy Senate meeting. I think some people had their health education who was chair What's On Tap B2 SUM: 50, Partly ctoudy Fleming Marianne McAdam and mind made up before," McAdam of Faculty Senate in 1980. She Don Knight the election committee said. "I think that's why no one has served on numerous commit- ► Reminder /Progress out about 600 bal- showed up at the forums, and tees since coming to Eastern in lots. They received that's very disappointing 1972. Finals begin on Monday. Classes resume Jan. 11 for the spnng semester. back, but had because everyone was a good "That (being elected faculty to throw out candidate." ► TRF week seven for not But after an election last See Regent/Page A7 '/ Jt I I \ Perspective A2 Thursday. The Eastern ► Editorial THE RIGHT TRACK Decisions need to stay on straight and narrow Eastern's Council on Student Affairs made well-informed decisions dur- ing its meeting Friday. Now it's up to the university's top administrators to continue in those decisions. The council passed two of three pro- posals from Student Association during its meeting. All hold benefit for the uni- versity's students. The technology fee would cost full-time students $50 per semester. The fee would fund 100 new computers, a new computer lab with 24-hour seven-day-a-week access for the new computers, 22 to 25 new stu- dent employees hired to work in the com- puter labs and various other projects.