Regis University ePublications at Regis University Regis Alumni Publications Archives and Special Collections 1-1990 Regis College Magazine, Winter, 1990 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "Regis College Magazine, Winter, 1990" (1990). Regis Alumni Publications. 101. https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup/101 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regis Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Regis College Perspective 3 MAGAZINE David M. Clarke, S.]. President Robert L. Schmitz Vice President for Development and Public Helping Freshmen Succeed 4 Affairs Paul Brocker Director of Public Affairs Terri Brown On Campus 6 Editor Jeff Sheppard Director of Publications Becky Zachmeier Faculty in Focus 8 Production Assistant REGIS COLLEGE MAGAZINE is published four times a year by the Office of Public Af­ fairs at Regis College, W. 50th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80221. Development 9 It is the official news magazine of Regis Col­ lege. Regis College is one of28 jesuit institutions of higher education in the United States. The College serves more than 1,100 students in its four-year program on the main Denver cam­ AlumNews 10 pus, while its undergraduate and graduate degree programs for adults serve 6,000 stu­ dents in Boulder, Denver, Loveland, Colo­ rado Springs and Sterling, Colorado. ClassNotes 11 About the cover: We hope you like our new look. As you may have noticed, your alumni magazine has changed its name and design. We are now What Ever Happened to? 16 called REGIS COLLEGE MAGAZINE and we expect our updated look better reflects the times and spirit of the Coll ege. 2 Perspective Editor's note: Joanne Karpinski, chair of the English Department at Regis College, is on the Board of the Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities or­ ganization. She acted as a Russian speaking escort for a group of Boul­ der Valley high school students who stayed with Soviet families in Dushanbe last Easter. by Joanne Karpinski ecently I read an account of a fresh milk more mornings than not, The bride and groom, whom I don't visit to Denver by Vera Sob­ and there's always yogurt. Marek com­ know, are relatives of a city official for oleva, president of the bines his morning jog with a milk run. whom American guests add an extra R Moscow Women's Commit­ For more serious grocery shopping, shine to the occasion. I will never be tee. The reporter observed that Sob­ Lyuba takes a cab to the older, better introduced to the bridal couple, be­ oleva, with her perfect English and developed part of town. There's an cause custom decrees that they remain poised demeanor, would fit comforta­ open-air market where fruit and vege­ completely silent throughout the fes­ bly into any American feminist organi­ tables are much tivities. Seated zation. During my visit to Soviet Cen­ more plentiful among the ex­ tral Asia last March and April, I met than in the state tended family, I many women who would have ap­ stores, but Lyuba make the ac­ peared startlingly out of place in such feels uncomfort­ quaintance of a surroundings. Their experiences have able going there. pair of sisters. more in common with those of Third The Tadjik farm­ One has gone World women than with Western ers do not like the through the Rus­ feminists. Yet they, too, have Ameri­ Russians, and are sian-language can counterparts who are equally far not polite to school system, removed from the circle of profes­ them. But when and was a Kom­ sional privilege. a Tadjik says to somal (member My hostess, Lyuba, was on preg­ her, "Why don't of the Commu­ nancy leave from her job as an occu­ you go back to nist Party youth pational safety inspector. It's a for­ your Russia?" she organization). ward-looking social policy by Ameri­ points out that it She has plans for can standards--she can take a total of has never been a career in gov- Joanne Karpinski two years off before and after the birth­ hers, either--her ernment. The but I would not switch places with parents are of Polish extraction, and other attends the Tadjik schools, and her. She needs all the time she can get she has never even received a travel plans to raise a family. While obvi­ in order to provide a reasonably com­ permit to Moscow. ously fond of one another, they already fortable home life for her growing Such little extras as find their way have a hard time understanding each family. She doubts that she will go into Lyuba's and Marek's household other's speech. back to work after the leave is up, since tend to come through their good It occurs to me that the choice of they don't have a grandmother living friends Azaf and Poli. These two have traditional Tadjik culture might have locally and day-care, while available, given up on their musical careers and a lot of attractive features compared has an institutional quality. have established a custom-made cloth­ to the enormous burden that the com­ Lyuba, Marek and their thirteen­ ing enterprise in their apartment. It bination of family and career presents year-old son Sasha have just moved seems to exist on the fringe of legiti­ to Soviet women. On the other hand, I into their first private apartment--up macy, since it's not an official coop­ heard stories about the growing num­ to now, they have shared living quar­ erative, but it's clearly prospering. The ber of suicides among young Tadjik ters with other families. Never mind proceeds have allowed Azafto buy an women in rural areas due to the resur­ that the whole apartment complex impressive German electronics sys­ gence of the restrictions imposed by lacks telephones, that the water is shut tem, a VCR and a large variety of Islamic fundamentalism. off after midnight, that the concrete is American tapes on the black market. In October, I received a letter from already beginning to crumble and the He's in love with the blues. Lyuba. She and Poli have both had linoleum to curl. Sasha can finally Poli is also pregnant. The sewing healthy baby girls. Lyuba spent nearly have his own bedroom and even a pi­ machineisabighelptoherandLyuba, a month in the hospital, and finally ano. They have sold their car in order since both maternity clothes and baby had to have surgery for mastitis--a to make the down payment to the hous­ clothes are in short supply in the stores. problem solved in this country by a ing cooperative, which is an inconven­ Both women love the photos of my ten-day course of antibiotics. No anti­ ience when the nearest shop (the house in the mountains, exclaiming biotics were available to her. I recall equivalent of an under stocked Circle over the enormous kitchen and the that she thought I was six years K) is nearly a mile away, but they are family of deer in the yard. They younger than she, although it's actu­ so glad to have a place just to them­ wouldn't live in the mountains out­ ally the other way around. Her life selves that they decided to get preg­ side town, however-" only Tadjiks live would age me rapidly. nant again. there." Azaf and Poli are Tatars. Fortunately, the little shop has I am invited to a Tadjik wedding. 3 words may look like the beginnings of an outline for a manage­ ment course, but at Regis College they've become more of a formula for freshman by Terri Brown achievement. The College has been working hard to meet the specific needs of today' s freshmen and help them succeed. With changes in their lives ... worries about the future ... peer pressures .. .it's no won­ der they need positive guidance. Spe­ cial programs which help keep fresh­ men in school and on the road to suc­ cess include: orientation, personalized advising, the Honors Program, the Leadership Program and for special students requiring additional support, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• the Commitment Program and the Freshman Success Program. Leadership "Quite frankly, being a new student •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• can be a harrowing experience," said ... Dr. Tom Reynolds, vice president for Student Life. "Freshmen can experi­ ence homesickness as they leave their families and friends, they often have to begin making career choices, and then, they have to learn in a different mode than they are used to.'' Freshman Success Dr. Esther Mills, dean for Enroll­ from high academic achievers (students ment Management, points out that "the must maintain a 3:5 GPA in the honors first semester really is the key. What Program Director, core to graduate with honors) to non­ happens to students during that time honors students who arewillingto meet effectively determines how successfully Kerry McCaig, the challenge of higher caliber work for they'll be able to function in college there­ a particular elective course. after, academically and in every other labels her students According to Honors Program sense. If you want to make a difference Director, Fr. Adam Bunnell, "The pro­ in a student's college experience, the gram offers a challenging, interdiscipli­ place to make that difference is the first "diamonds in the nary curriculum to students seeking an semester." One of the outgrowths of intensive course of independent study this finding is to offer a freshman semi­ rough.