MUNICH server Nude, uns halt Me catalog distribution i. by Cerisse Brooks "However, it is not an effecti' Editor-in-chief ' way of presenting the campus parents of perspective students at Two photographs in the new 1990- the students themselves," Ard, 1992 Munich Campus catalog have added. halted its distribution outside Munich Campus 'until they can be removed "With regard to page 98, that wa~ by covering theni with new photo­ very simple decision," Arden said. graphs. "The impression that a profess One photo, on page 74, shows art was shot does not seem appropria students drawing a live nude model. or a desirable image of Muni, The second photo, on page 98, Campus," he explained. shows a copy of the Munich Observer "Although a reader of the artic with the headline "MC prof held at knows that it happened in China, jl gun point." looking at its headline gives a mi MC students recently received leading impression," Arden said. catalogs with the photographs still "The fact is a Munich, Camp intact, professor was not held at gunpoint, campus," he explained. The decision to COver the two The university printed 25,0 photos was made in Heidelberg, said catalogs for the first time this year Joe Arden, director of the European In past years, only 10,000 catalo Division of the University of Mary­ were printed. But mOre had to land. printed later to meet distributi With regard to page 74, Arden needs. said, "I think it is a fine photo. I am "Ordering 25,000 at one time kee pleased that Munich Campus has such Photo to be covered in new catalog. a good art prog'ram." Continued on page Registration procedures to change in fall term by Rebecca Leach Their schedules will be arranged tors for classes, students will register mitted to return for academic Staff reporter during the pre-registration week of on a computer. Faculty advisers will other reasons. the previous semester. be present. The remainder of non"returni ~ , , Munich Campus plans to change Unless changes are necessary, the Fiedler said she was "quite pleased" students were expected but simf I - ~-~~-ltsregistration procedure in upcom­ students' pre-arranged schedule will about this semester's Registration did not return, Fiedler said. ing semesters, according to Mary be in effect, Fiedler said. Day. Fiedler noted that enrollment About 1100 drop/adds took pia Fiedler, assistant to the dean for All the students will do is verify increased over last semester'. during Drop/Add week. Six or sev Admissions and Registration. on Registration Day that they have This semester, 125 new students new courses were added and sOl Fiedler said that the changes will returned and whether they need enrolled and 490 students returned. classes reopened, Fiedler said. occur next fall and spring ~emesters. changes to their schedule. Of the 113 students that did not , She said the number of drop/ad In the fall, returning students will "In the 1991 spring semester, return, 67 were not expected. was about normal. "No one waited have their schedules and will not registration will be totally com­ Of those 67 non-returning stu­ line over 20 minutes," she remark! have to register with the new stu­ puterized," Fiedler said. dents, 25 received their Associates of Overall, she felt the beginning dents, Fiedler said. Instead of registering with instruc- Arts degree and 42 were not per- this semester went "quite well." Lizards claim dismisssed Passing the time members "singled oU.t" by Kara Gerlach fraternity is a brotherhood, and they Staff reporter feel more comfortable here than anywhere else," Earhart added. The Lizards, Munich Campus' Dean William McMahon said, "It oldest fraternity, has lost 10 of its 15 was not an unusual year as far as the members from fall semester because amount of students who have been of academic dismissals, transfers or academically dismissed is concerned. disciplinary measures. It just so happens that a number of Some of the remaining Lizards feel Lizards are on that list." the university singled out their fellow "Munich Campus has the reputa­ members and treated them unfairly. tion in locarhigh schools for having "I think that the administration was a society that is dedicated to drunk­ trying to weed out the undesirables enness," he continued. "The Lizards 'by using methods that were unfair," give the university a bad name in this an unidentified Lizard said. respect." "A lot of the Lizards have the "I do not have a list of Lizards that reputation of hanging out with the I was trying to evict," he added. Students Erik Fox and Patrie McGuane start the wrong people," Mark Earhart (Xilla), "They were caught in a review of evening off by splitting a rack of beer. ' a Lizard, explained. academic performances just like photo by Erich Landry "Most of the Lizards feel that the Continued on page 4 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Students give Fires set in their views Munich' Campus Opinions page 2 on the decision administration to drop photos " building at Entertainment page 6 from the new end of last Poet',s Corner MCcatalog term page 9 ....... page 3 , ...... page 8 Sports page lU 2 Munich Observer February 1990 • • Inl0nS ., Parr Lounge On being a world citizen Many students who live in Parr Hall recently by John F. Aguirre how terrible and weird the country is. have complained about the fact that the Parr Hall Guest columnist The key to building a good attitude is·to have proctor's office will not reopen this semester. Munich Campus student" respect for the customs and beliefs of the people For about 100 students who live in Parr Hall, . the traveler is visiting. this means frequent long walks to the Brandl Hall This essay was written by sophomore John A traveler to another country can not look down proctor's office for things such as long distance Aguirre, winner of this year's first Matthias Buttn- on the foreign religion, government or lifestyle telephone calls, vacuum cleaner check-out, watch­ er Memorial Award. without biasing the visit. ing wide-screen television and refreshments. Once a visitor to another country has realized But if the complaining students understood All people are biologically alike. It is the vari- that the foreign culture is not weird or any worse Steve Curtis', assistant to the dean for residence 0us races, religions, ethnic groups and customs than his or hers--only different-ethen. the visitor life, and other area supervisors' reasons for closing that set the members of each group apart. , can experience the difference and gain from it. the proctor's office in Parr Hall, they might rea­ There are hundreds of vastly.different cultures There is no better way to find out more about lize it had to be done. allover the world. Despite the belief of many yourself than from learning about others. The According to Curtis, the main reason the Parr people, no o.ne culture is any better or any worse same holds true for cultures. proctor's office closed was that it was losing than any other culture. Americans can learn much more about their money. Often, when people are isolated from other own culture through visiting others. cultures, they start thinking that their culture-­ . The farmer from Nebraska will never know that "It was not a monetarily sound venture," he said. "their way of doing things"--is the right way and any other culture exists but his own unless the "We would only have an average of $6 to $8 a any other culture is "weirdJl Or "wrong." farmer travels to Asia, Europe or anywhere out­ night in sales but we would take out $15 a night in This belief is called ethnocentrism. side of the United States. salaries." Ethnocentrism is essentially a bias against other People can only· gain from learning the beliefs Some students believe the proctor's office would cultures. and culture of others different from their own. have made more money if had not stopped selling This perspective is especially true when people alcohol. But Curtis said that was not a factor. The only way to overcome this bias is to get out visit places like third-world impoverished coun­ "We just about broke even when we sold al­ and experience other cultures and do this with an tries or countries behind the iron curtain. Some­ cohol," he said. "But we didn't sell a lot of beer open mind. The more isolated from other cultures times people don't know how good they have it down there anyway." that a person is, the harder this will be .. until they experience some place that is worse. Whether it is a farmer from Nebraska Or a . A true "world citizen" can do all of these things. As for Parr students having to walk to Brandl to businessperson from New York, it is important to check out vacuums and watch the big-screen He or she does not have ·to settle permanently in go to other countries and get another view ·of life. any of the countries visited, or even adopt any of television, Curtis is making arrangements to move That is what being a "world citizen" is all about. the vacuums the practices experienced. and television into the RA Center in The most important thing visitors to another The thing that is important in being a "world Ehrensberger A-I, a closer walk for Parr students. country must have is the right attitude. Attitudes citizen" is that the visitor knows that there are "We want to make it more of an entertainment can make an astounding difierence in how people center," he said.