THE NORTHERNER Vol. 16, No. 17 Northern Kentucky University Wednesday, January 27, 1988 Governor participates in ground-breaking New AS&TC now 'officially' under construction 7 BY KRIS KI NKADE budge t proposa l - to co ngratulate NKU . THE NOHTHERNER preside nt Leon Boothe. chairman BW Verst and others present on the new building. The Gove rnor of Ke ntucky, The Presi­ " This is a textboo k classic exam ple of de nt of KU and the Chairman of the Board whut we' re talking a bout in terms of of Regents all took part in prio rities, •· Wilkinson yeste rday's ground said yesterday in room b r~a kin g ceremony for See page 16 for a 200 of BEP. " Were go· the new AppUed Science rendering of what the ing to hnve to lop off a nd and technology building AS&TC will look like. allow to lapse some things now " officially'' under in th is state that a re not construction near BEP. n cc~ssary. but conve­ nient ... But conveniences ~ke the Applied ·. Gove rnor Wallace Wilkinson, in town for Science a nd Technology Cente r of Northern Erie Krosne1/ 1M Northerner th is cere mony a nd anothe r held in Gra nt Ke ntucky Unive rsity fall into that classifica­ Various leader8 ofthe community including Gove rnor Wallace Wilkinson (3rd from County, took ti me out of a hectic schedule tion of convenie nces of vital importa nce.'' the len), NKU President Leon Boothe (4th from the len ), Chairman of the Board - that includes the finalization of the state The hour-long presentation included ad­ of Regentll Bill Ver8t (2nd from the right) and others participate in the Grotu1d break. see ASATC, back pq:e ing cere mony for the new AS&T Center yeste rday af\e moon. I NKU prepares for SACS Academy plans anniversary BY JIM SIMON 1,600 me mbers. Barke r said that the p ur­ THE NO RTHERNER pose of the acade my is to .. promote profes­ BY DE BBIE SCHWIERJOHANN sionalism in the fi eld of criminal justice. It 's The Academy of Criminal Justice not an organiza tion of only policeme n: we THE NORTHERNER •• • 11 •'lll< le'IIT ...... f'~1 1 lffi l ....... o;>. OUIIl -..t.lli"ln' """'!on >U !Lotu. • I • ... • I .., .J , ....,.u l l-OJ••Jit>Un UO> Iyl Scie nces kic ks off its Silve r Anniversary encourage a ny student interested in the cele bratio n this April 4-8 by hosting its an­ study of criminal justice to join ." FY 19e6 In s imple terms, the SACS report is a nual meeting in ' "the cit y by the bay." The academy began in 1963 whe n a ''quality control organization,'' said Thomas ACJ president Tom Barker met here small group of po lice educators met at Rambo. chairperson for the 1986-88 NK U with other board me mbers in December to Washington State University and formed the Self- tudy Steering Committee·. finalize pla ns for the San Fra ncisco meeting ACJS prototype called the International In Nove mber 1987, NK U completed a that will feature 187 pa nels, including stu­ Association of Police Professors. The na me 22-month self exa mination for accreditation de nt panels, round tables and workshops. was late r changed at the group's 197 I unde r th e crite ria required by the Sout he rn The the me for this year's meeting will be met'ting in Chicago to bring together the Association for CoUeges a nd Schools. "Criminal Justice: Values in Transition." study of po ~ce science. courts, legal studies. Accreditation provides stude nts with and will attract ma ny of the Acade my's aee J USTICE. b.ack pal!:e gua ra nteed transfers to other schools a nd helps the m into graduate school since aU the basic sta ndards required by SACS wiU be met. " It tells people that your grades reflect Opinions from t he accredited courses." said Rambo. heartland of America On Ma rch 22. a committee of 17 people will come to NKU from a \'aricty of colleges in Southe rn Association. Each one will ha\'e a partic ular expertise. They have read th<' T he above graph is one of tho8e aee SACS. pase 10 found in NKU'8 eelf-etudy report. Do you approve or disapprove of the Do you think the country'• problems are Sports ......................... p. t 2 way Pre&ide nt Reagan i& handling no worse tha n at a ny othe r times, or that Inside: Rloom County . .... p. 14 hl s job? the country Is in deep and serious Clas.sifieds . ..... p. 15 trouble! UOT STR EAK: The Lady Norse lll..ikt• it 16 in a ro y, as the-y beat Ashland last ~a l ur­ U.S. Iowa U.S. Iowa da) . See page 12 for aUthe details and where Approve 51 percent S8 percent No worse 51 perLt! nt 44 percent NKU ranks nationall) . Disapprove 40 percent 52 percent In senous trouble •:J pereent 49 percent Hontecomin1: The big da) finally nme and 1\ey,s P· 2 y, e \ e sot all the detwls . VieY~pomt . p. 4 S.. page 6-9 . feature . p. 6 0242.tif Triv ia Q • Of the original six regents on the Board CAMPUS BEAT of Regent !'I at NKU, how many still serve on it today? A. Three of lhe original six regen,. still Wording of poll creates contradiction serve on the board. They are Ken Lucas, Elmer Haas and John Brookings. BY JEAN BACH • freedom of speech is given to all citizens. THE NOHTHERNER "'That's what America is s upposed to be about," said a sophomore business NKU students and facuhy members, major. questioned in a recent survey at various While moSI of lhe students favored Getting the wheels rolling locations on campus, overwhelmingly freedom of speech, a lit~e over half con­ favored the right to free speech bul were lradicled themselves by agreeing to I he Regents are chosen, site selected, problems arise divided, by a slight margin, on the iss ue questionnaire 1ha1 asked if a high school of a principal or teache r's right to ap· principal or leacher should be allowed Editor's Note: The following is a con­ Claypool said 1 were used as a consulting prove or review stories before they ap· to .. review and approve" stories in a stu­ tiriUatwn ofthe series The Northerner is ron.-­ (."O mmillee that would sound community opi­ pear in a student newspape r. dent news paf>er before publication. m'ng throughout the semester on the history nion and sec what the response would be. The poll, given by NKU 's precision of NKU. Plewe note that in lrut week•s edi­ .. II was obvious that there was a great journalism class, was take n the day after When the words ''review and ap· tion it 1uas incorrectly reported tluu Derrwcrat deal of support for the idea (from what the I he U .. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 prove" were deleted from the question /\'eel Breathill was go~mor ofK entucky when study showed)," Claypool said. vole I hal I he principal of Hazelwood Easl and replaced with .. censor," students the General Assembly passed the law crMting So, with the knowledge that the com­ High School in Mi ssouri acled legally responded more strongly. Almosl 75 Northern Kentlu·k)· State College. Republican munity was ready to take part, certain pro­ when he deleted two stori es from tlw pe rcent of those poiJed opposed censor­ Govenwr Louis Nww held the offire at thm jects began to e merge. school ne wspaper and thai he did nol ship of any kind, allhough censorship time. In one project, according to former NKU violate the students' First Ame ndme nt and "'review and approve" mean the president Frank teely. consultants studied righl to free speech. same thing. BY KRIS KINKADE sites for the eventual construction of the T he reasoning be hind the decision. This type of contradiction was also THE NORTHEilNEH school. Because th e Council on Higher according to Associate Jus tice Byron common among the faculty responses to Education required that at least 300 acrCs White. was that the school officials must the questions aske d in the poll. ''When the 1968 Democratic legislature of land be bought when building a college be able to determine whether stude nts The facuhy favored free speech passed the law (that created NKU) there was and that surrounding counties in the area in are mature enough to handle informa· unanimously , but 57 pe rcent also kind of a euphoria," according to Jim question each have a chance to bid on a site, tion of a sensitive matter. favo red revie wing and approving Claypool. NKU's archivist. "People were the choices were quick.J y narrowed down. NKU sludenlS agreed by a 3:1 slorics;58 pe rcenl said they opposed saying, 'Hey. great idea!.' So me articles in According to Steely. Kenton County margin that under the First Amendme nt censoring stories. th t.· paj)Cr were saying, 'this is long overdue.' nominated a site .. in the shadow of the And that was it.'' (Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky) air­ But the passing of the bill 20 years Ogo I>Orl; '' Boone County offered a site in the that ga,·c Northern Kentucky State College southern part of the county away from the a name did only that.