The Northern_er@] Student publication of Northern Kentucky University Volume 23 Number 28 1-lighlond Heights, Ky. 41099 Wednesday,May 4,1994 ~- ~~~":residents Ex~=~,:,~~~ Insights Delta Possibly Nathan Smith Talks Wingate Wants To Faces job Cuts About His Tenure Leave His Mark HEBRON The Cincinnati/ Q! What Is your ruction What was your reaction Northern Kentucky upon luving SGA? Q: International Airport'sdircctor when you found out you won the of aviation hopes the Boone A! I hope I've left the position? County facility w ill be spared office better than when I came. Relief. I was just so glad the brunt of Delta's plans to A! climinatcupto20pcrccntofits Q! What was your biggest it was over . I nccdcd the rest. 73,000jobs within3 -and-a-half accomplishment this year? Jeff (Ca rter) kept me up a lot of years. nights during the campaign. "At this lime, there arc no A: We saw that students And I campaigned hard - I've known schedule adjustments were becoming aware of SGA wanted this for two years. that would impact your and what SGA docs. Evidence What will be the first airport," a Delta vice president of that is the number of Q: wrote Robert Holscher, the candidates seeking office in the process or program you will aviation director. recen t election and the election change when you take office Airportoffidalsand economic turno ut. Also, the participation julyt? experts arc putting their faith of the senators in working on in concrete and steel. Amy Stephens/The Northerner A! T he first thing I'll do is '-------:--:-:--::--:-:-.l programs was good. SGA President Nathan Smith smiles as he Amy Stephens/The Northerner They sec l'::klta's $375 million recalls the successes and the shortcomings con tact African-American SGA President-elect Paul Wingate listens as cxp.msion at the Northern What was your biggest Q! ol this year's SGA. Student A ff airs and outgoing president Nathan Smith gives him Kentucky airport as proof that defeat? International Student Affairs pointe rs on how to run the organization. the airline is committed to the and ha ve those organizations region. elect a representative to sit on A: The inability to attain commencement so all gradua tes can invite Delta employs4,000 workers Having seen firsthand how NKU works student government as ex officio a Fall Break. I d idn't think it Q! at the airport. members. They' ll give reports however many people to watch as they want. wou ld be a big deal - I didn't administratively, what would you change Delta executives announced think it would be as about it? about their organizations every Q! What program not completed this year the cuts Thursday April28 and week and takl' back controversial as it turned out to said they hope most of the I think this year the administration information from the meetings will you pick up on n('lfl ye;u-? be. It wasn't exactly a defeat, A: to their organizations. reducti on can be made through though. One of the doors we has sta rted to realize that there is a good A! Faculty evaluations. Students a1 c attrition and early retirement. opened and one of the doors was outcome to getting students' input. When Butasm.1nyas4,01XJemployccs Q ·. Do you have a pet customf'rs . As custollll!rs, students have a right closed. We got halfway in. We administration is beating their heads on desks, to know what they're going to get. Students could be laid off. Delta expects trying to come up with answers, sometimes project? opened the door to the issue and he re fly blind. It would help prepare :·wdcnts to cut operating costs by $2 made contacts. The closed door students have had the answers all along. At billion by June 1997. A! Win ter commencement. better for students better for the class. Th·~~c ~ rc was that the support was not the same time, the relationship between the so many lcgdlitics and points of concern, Delta employs85 in Louis\'!::e stu dents and the administration could g row Northern is growing at a always there from the though, it m;.y be too big of a prOJ-.'Ct. It might and 46 in Lexington. (academic) departments. even more- there should be a team e ffort. SCA tremendous rate - it's the only Airline officials wouldn't say (state un iversity) whose have to go tu Frankfort to get it d··ne. We need could be the conduit bctwe<>n the two. Those student support. how their plan will affect Q! Finish this sentenc~: schools the the strongest student bodies, like enrollment went up in the sta te. Cine inn a ti I Northern Looking back, maybe I should Berkeley (the University of Ca lifornia at Northern is not accommodating Q: What will you change? Kentucky. or other Kentucky have ... Berkeley), arc some of the strongest in the those people at graduation airports. 1.: :::-lscher predicts nation. time. Winter graduates deserve A! This past year we had a Cabinet Delta prob.;.bly will delay its A! ... been less aggressive. as much recognition as spring planstoincrcascitsflightsfrom What does SGA do least eff ectively? (consisting of the executive council and the four Sometimes people sec me as Q ·. g raduates. It will help case the its expanded facilities. committee chairs). I'd like to sec senators more pushy, but reall y I'm just amount of guests who passionate about what I'm participate in spring Off-duty Officer doing. See Smith, Page 9 See Wingate, Page 9 Risks His Life FLORENCE An off-duty Neely's Performance African-American Grad Rates Kentucky State Police trooper was dragged several fcct as he Match Total University Rates tried to stop a motorist he An Outstanding One By Richard Wiley Student Affairs and Ethnic rate is about the same, suspcttcd of stealing video Staff Writer Services. cassette tapes from a Kmart according to the 1985-89 store, authorities said. Todd A. Breitenstein The retention rates of retention analysis summary. "I really enjoy being in the The accomplishment o f African-American students in The g raduation rate at NKU Trooper Stephen Wolfzom Staff Writer classroom," Neely said. graduating from NKU ha s comparison to while students is for blacks during 1985-89, was was shopping with his wife She tries to live by the same blossomed for Veta Williams. greater by one percent. 54.4 percent, and the Thursday Apri128 when he saw Professor Sharlottc Neely has advice she gi vcs her students, she Wi ll iams, a po litical science In 1985·1989, the retention completion figure for whites a man walking briskly from been named Outstanding said. Professor for the 1993-94 school major and African-American rate for white students was 94.4 was 54.4 percent, according to the store. Video cassette tapes " I tell the students to do studies minor from Owenton, percent, while the African- of the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire" year. the retention summary. Neely, who something they Ky., will graduate in the May American retention figures was "The graduation rates arc were falling from the man's can enjoy doing commcnccmcntt'Cn.'frony. 95.5 percent, according to the pockets. will be the only releva nt during a four year eighteent h for decades," Williams started classes at student persistence retention or more span because there is Wolfzom, a 15-year veteran, Neely said. NKU in the Fall of 1990. summary. identified himself as a outstanding not enough academic history, professor She has received "The Presid entia! The retention rate is defined between o ne-to-two years of policeman and questioned the noticcthatshchas scholarship paid the bills the as being a full-time, first-time man about the tapes. The man choscn,saidthc college, plus the leaving and award came as been promoted to fi r st two yea rs of school," freshman returning the coming of students makes it claimed to have left his sales full professor. Williams said. following spring semester quite a sur­ difficult to figure an accurate receipt in the store and moved Neely will spend Students mu st maintain a 3.25 seeking a bachelor degree, quickly to his car. prise. graduation rate," Graff said. HWhcn I was her summer in CPA to get the scholarship. according to the retention Accurate graduation "When the guy started the Arizona doing .. A $75 book allowance was summary. to ld I was percentages in the 1990s can car and put it in gear, Wolfic research on the supplied every semeste r at 'There Is more consistency in reached through the driver's speech l ess, come to life during the 1994-95, literally," she Navajo Indians, NKU by the Second Baptist the rctum of African American academic school year, Craft window and g rabbed the she said. church in Owcnton,H Williams students in the spring semester, steering whl'CI inanattemptto said. "I had said. laryngitis. Neely is the first said. following their first term and Possibly through retention, ste<>r the car into a parked faculty member The praise o f spiritual the following year," said Cary "It is a gfeat recruitment efforts can increase vehicle," said Trooper Jan from the applied guidance, along with Graff, director of institutional honor. There even more · because the best Wuchner, spokesman for the anthropologyand encouragement from various research. are so many great proCessors." way to advertise NKU's sta te police post at Dry Ridge. sociologydcpartmcntofNKU to NKU professors, African- "The retention rate is james Hopgood, chair of the product is gelling student "The suspect continued to win this award.