entertainment Years of Campus Coverage at its Best YSU—Dr. Cyndy E. The appointment of a new vice challenge. The goal of our divi• Anderson, as• president for sion will be to showcase the tal• to head sistant pro• student affairs ent of our students',' Anderson vost for plan• coincides with continued, "I have wonderful the first phase people to work with in the divi• By JUDISCHEPKA ning at YSU where youths of all ages can "rent a of YSU's re• sion, and I look forward to serv• contributing writer since July bed," while providing their own 1993, was re• alignment of ing our students, the University Norma Stefanik was named ar• sheets and towels. She also worked cently named personnel un• and the community." chitect for pres• as a project vice president der the Early Anderson began her YSU ca• ervation and architect on of student af• Retirement In• reer as an instructor in the former renovation in the B & O fairs. centive Pro• Business Education and Technol• YSU's Facili• Restaurant in gram (ERIP) ogy Department. In addition to her Ander• ties Mainte• downtown of the Profes• position as assistant provost, she son, who nance Depart• Youngstown sional Em• is an associate professor in the came to YSU ment. Stefanik in 1991. ployees Re• marketing department. in 1979, suc• is the first tirement Sys• ceeds Dr. Anderson is affiliated with a woman to be Stefanik's tem (PERS). Raymond number of professional organiza• hired as an ar• friend re• Dr. Cyndy E. Anderson Anderson will Dye, who will tions and was elected to Who's Who chitect at YSU. ferred her to begin serving now be YSU President Leslie International earlier this year. Stefanik's thesis the opening at under a two-year contract on July 1. Cochran's new assistant in The new vice president for for her MA was YSU, where charge of enrollment manage• "I look at this as a wonderful student affairs also teaches gradu• based on a stone she was inter• ment. opportunity and a tremendous ate level courses in marketing. house and its re• viewed exten• lationship to sively by a Western Re• panel of four serve architec• people from Seven graduate with Honors degrees ture. various de• .In 1980 partments. By CHRISTINA HANCHER Once in Stefanik partici• Rocco assistant news editor the Program, a pated in a work- Norma Stefanik Mediate, student must study program YSU's direc• At the recent take a certain at Hale Farm in Bath, OH, where tor of maintenance and building re• spring gradua• number of It feels good to have she worked part-time for three pairs, said Stefanik was chosen from tion, seven BS-MD Honors years. a list of three finalists. She will work students were the first to In 1981,whileinvolvedinthe on such projects as the Salata Com• rfnTeS'tCon Tt graduate with a YSU Honors g graduated Vith honors' work-study program, she applied plex, the newly acquired Phelps degree in years. Honors credit for a supervisory position for the Building, the rifle range in Beeghly The graduates included for regular disassembling of a historical stone Center and the Scholarships and Fi• Danielle Terese Conti, Mark classes and (cum laude) in three house that was being moved to Hale nancial Aid Office renovation in Franceschelli, Mary Christina must do a se• Farm. During that time, Stefanik Jones Hall, said Mediate. Hugenberg, Angela Tse-ming nior thesis. years with an Honors recorded field notes, took photos YSU recently purchased the Leung, Nicholas E. Maksim, A c - and prepared sketches of the his• former Mahoning Valley Association Shipla Kantilal Parbhoo and cording to torical house. Every stone, board of Churches building on Wick Av• Anup Kumar Sabharwal. Ritchey, an degree." and rafter had to be numbered. enue, which Stefanik will work on In the past 18 months, the Honors degree This feat took approximately to transform archives for a into draw• Honors Program has grown "says a student four months to accomplish. After ing center archives for historic pres• ervation. from no recorded students to has an obvious —MARY CHRISTINA HUGENBURG being moved to Hale Farm, the house sat in pieces for eight years The YSU architect recalls her approximately 350 students, in• love of learn• YSU Honors student cluding around 120 University ing, since cu• before being reassembled. from her childhood that her father Scholars and 230 other eligible mulatively he Stefanik worked for the would bring her through houses that were being built and show her where students, and it is still growing. or she does ap- » i.n , Cuyahoga Valley National Recre• ation Area in 1982, where she was each room was going to be. Stefanik According to Dr. Nathan P. proximately 25 percent more puter lab, a seminar room, lec• involved with various parkjorajects. designed her own home. "I never Ritchey, mathematics, director work than the normal student." tures, seminars and various She also helped convert an 1832 dreamed that I would actually be an of the University Honors Pro• Although many shudder at other resources and activities. farm house into an American youth architect someday and design my gram, this recent expansion the thought of more work, Mary Hugenburg added that a hostel. A youth hostel is a place own home," she said. seems to be a natural part of the Hugenburg believes it paid off. growing Honors Program is internal renovations going on "It broadened my horizons. sure to enhance the future of the in the spirit of YSU 2000. As Through looking more in depth University, for "as any indi• 1995 Elderhostel knowledge of the Program is into my classes and spending vidual part of the University becoming widespread through more time on them, I gained a grows, it can only help the Uni• active recruitment and word of better understanding of the sub• versity as a whole." to be held at YSU designed to stimulate the mouth, more students are ex• jects. I got a lot more out of my According to Ritchey, it is YSU—The first YSU thought process. The classes in• pressing interest, according to education," said Hugenburg sure to give more opportunities Elderhostel, a weeklong resi• clude "The Effect of Sports on students involved in the Pro• Hugenburg said that it made to the high-achieving students dential program for people age American Culture," taught by gram. her feel good about what she at YSU. 55 and over, will be held Aug. Dr. Jack Patrick, history; "Jazz, The Honors Program ac• learned and did at YSU. "It feels In the end, Hugenburg 20 through 26 at the Wick Pol• lock Inn and Kilcawley Center. Big Bands and the Swing Era," cepts all interested incoming good to have graduated 'with stated that in "going above and Up to 40 people will be en• taught by Dr. Martin Berger, students ranked in the top 15 honors' (cum laude) in three beyond the normal degree, you history, jazz host for WYSU- percent of their class with a years with an Honors degree," only help yourself." rolled in the program through the Elderhostel Office in Bos• FM Radio; and "American Art minimum ACT score of 26 (or she added. Persons interested in learning ton, MA. Twenty percent of the in the 20th Century," taught by combined SAT of 1140) or first "I'm excited about the fu• more about the Honors Program total number of hostelers can be Dr. Lou Zona, art and director and second year students can contact Ritchey at extension ture," said Ritchey. The new local residents or commuters. of the Butler Institute of Ameri• within the University who have Honors dorm provides Honors 3303 or refer to the 1994-95 Un• can Art. The main focus of the week a minimum 3.4 GPA. students with access to a com• dergraduate Bulletin. will be three classes, which are See ELDERHOSTEL page 4 2 THE JAMBAR THURSDAY, JULY 6,1995 Editorial O'Connell settlement: Why is it a costly secret? fter The Vindicator jaywalking? within Academic Senate, a also in the wrong, end up editorial writer Bertram de Next, why did the Univer• motion was made asking him to settling with her out of court? Souza's Sunday column on sity settle with them in the first resign, but it failed. Could it be Is the deciding factor a the YSU-Martin J. O'Connell place? If they were of ordinary that the motion was not passed person's status as an influential insurance settlement, fireworks of status would the University have because O'Connell's contribu• labor leader in the community an unusual sort filled the air above chosen to do the same? tions to the union talks were versus a person's status as.'a Youngstown. In his column, de In addition, de Souza raises rewarded? student? Or is it really the best Souza revealed that YSU's more interesting questions: Were Finally, when suits are filed interests of the University? insurance company settled the blood tests done when the against the University, who According to University O'Connell case out of court and O'Connells went to the emer• decides which settlements to sources, after the O'Connells the University has to pay an extra gency room? And if so, did the negotiate and which ones to take dropped their suit against the $4,500 in yearly insurance insurance company look into all to court? University, negotiations began premiums largely because of the of the circumstances? What about the case of Julie directly between the secret settlement. Why is O'Connell still , Buchheit, the student whom O'Connells and Buckeye In his column, de Souza sitting on the Board? A lawsuit YSU accused and prosecuted for Union, YSU's insurance THE JAMBAR revealed that neither Atty.