University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2000s) Student Newspapers 8-19-2002 Current, August 19, 2002 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, August 19, 2002" (2002). Current (2000s). 122. https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s/122 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2000s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME 36 August 19, 2002 II ISSUE 1057 Searching for 'Signs'? . .. See page 6 THECURRENTONLINE.COM UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS Sociology UMSt··softball Summer Commencement Professor Etzkorn head·coach includes somber speech dies at 70 Professor K. Peter Etzkorn, Bonee resigns professor emeritus of sociology and a former associate dean at . the University of Missouri at St Louis, BY HANK BURNS to the financial move. ··· ·,. ..... • • • .................. 04 . .. .................... .... .. ... died of cancer . Sports Editor "We performed on the field, off the ~ Friday, August 2, ~l"~~ field," Bonee said. ''We were involved 2002; at his With a 4-J loss in the Great Lake~ in community . service.. 'lJ1e. softball home in Ladue. Valley Conference tournament on program now has a good reputation He was 70. May 3, 'the UM-St Louis softball that, not only are they a good team ended their season with a 31-25 academic school, that's a good overall record and an 8-10 GLVC softball program." conference record. With that finish, - "Now we're beginning to get the Head Coach t.esa Bonee's career good student athlete that's local [and] record with the Riverwomen went to will look at us; whereas before, we 90-67. weren't a viable option. Now we are, an exchange Eff~tive Thursday, Aug. 15, and taking your coach and reducing student after Bonee, "due to the fact that the them to part-time; that's going to hurt World War p0sition went part-time," resigned as the program. There is no doubt that's II. softball Head Coach. This comes going to hurt the program." l subsequent to the Athletic Athletic Director Pat Dolan said He completed his bachelor of arts '. degree there and later earned a master Department's June 21 notification that that the University did everything that of arts and a doctorate in economics three full-time coaching positions­ it could to make certain that the from Princeton University. baseball (Head Coach Jim Brady, 30- Athletic Department was not Professor Etzkorn · taught at 21 record in 2002), softball and substantially harmea. According to several universities before coming to volleyball Dolan, UM-St !.puis in 1969, when he was ( H e a d sports such hired as a department chainnan and C 0 a c h , soccer professor of sociology and Denise I know there's and anthropology. Sil veste.r, basketball He taught s.ociology at the 14-17 in budget cuts, but I took priority university for more than 33 years and 201)-were over the also was associate dean of the shifting don't think they gave department's graduate school and director of into part­ o the r • research. He retired in 2000. tim e everything they programs. Professor Etzkorn was a lover of positions " W e classical rnu..uc who concentrated his without could. could've cut research career on ethnomusicology, benefits. the sports the study of music and its social The , medicine, or , implications. He also wrote and A t li letic we coul4 ve edited several publications on the Department the sociology of music and editOO the cited the I" Ethnomusicology Journal. trickle- di rector I" He w as past president of the New down effect of the UM system's Dolan said. "It was just a dec.ision of Music Circle and played piano in recent budget cuts as the main reason programs. The league is basketball, so weekly informal sessions with I for the change. we need to protect basketball. Soccer friends. He also helped found a "Not only are we talking about a in St. Louis is sopowerlul [that] we major reduction in moneys, we're didn't want to affect that We didn't cl~ca.I chamber music series at the I' umveCSlty .. talking about no benefits, and you want to touch scholarships. ~ Professor Etzkorn was a Fulbright j have to have benefits," Bonee said. "We can't affect the building "I'm very disappointed in that the because we can't shut the building Professor in Vienna, Austria, and a 'I Richard Merton Visiting Professor in administration chose to do that I do down. Some things were a given:' Munster, Geanany. I not think it was a good decision, and Dolan continued. "I could've taken in In the early 1960s, he was a . we were notified very late, I think." from scholarships, but I didn't want to visiting professor at the American i Bonee feels that there could have . affect the student athletes. That was a University in Beirut, Lebanon. From I been other areas from which to cut. debate. We could' ve eliminated 1995 to 2002. Professor Etzkorn was i "1 know there's budget cuts, but I assistant coaches. but you would president of Mediacult, Inte:national l don't think they gave everything they dilute the program even more. It's Research Institute . for ' . Media, I could and looked at all1heir options," painfuL It's very, very difficult" Communication and Cultural ' Bonee said. "They're going to tell you As for now, no more major Mike Sherwinl The CUI'1'CllI Development, in Vienna they did, but I don't believe they did. changes in the Athletic Department On Sunday, August 11, summer graduates Biochemistry at UM-St. Louis, asked the Professor Etzkorn was a former I don't believe they looked at all their are imminent, but more could be on joined nearly 62,000 UM-St. Louis alumni. graduates to help continue to make the board member of the national board options or ways of making it work .. .. the way if cuts continue to trickle Associate Professor of Anthropology Van Reidhead reputation of UM-St. Louis grow as they leave the of Sister Cities International and St. 1 You're going to reduce three head down from the UM system. was the Master of Ceremonies for the event, University and make the transition into the work Louis-Stuttgart Sister Cities. I coaches but yet leave all the assistants "Nobody wants to go through which was held at 3 p.m. in the Mark Twain force. He was the 1978 chairman of the j the same. There's a lot of things going this," Dolan said. "Administrators Building. Other serious matters that Barton addressed St. Louis Sister Cities National I on, but I don't think the don't want to go through it. This summer's commencement speaker, were state funding cuts that have threatened Employees don't want to go through Convention. He had planned to be i administration made a conscious Lawrence Barton, began his address by infonning layoffs and early retirements, and the chairman of next yeat's convention 1, effort in trying to look at other it. Students don't want to go through the crowd that there would be "no jokes" during inequitable allocation of funds in the UM system. until he v,rithdrew due to illness. 1 options. That's my own personal and it. It's just hard times .. .. 1 wish the his speech. "UM-St. Louis' share of the UM budget has In 1984, he was awarded the I professional opinion." state legislature would have more "I am going to talk about something quite remained 12 percent over the last 20 years." Bonee said that her team, which respect for higher education and not Order of Merit, FIrst Gass, of West 'I serious," Barton said. 'The value of your degree Barton said. Germany. has been beneficial to the University keep cutting us away, but I may be depends on the reputation of the institution." "The Board of Curators needs to implement a Professor Etzkorn was a board " arid to the community, will suffer due thinking on my own with that." Barton, professor of Chemistry and plan for equitable funding across the campuses." member of the St. Louis Society for , the Blind and VIsually Impaired 'I A memorial service is planned for . 3 p.m. Aug. 24, 2002, at Ambruster- i Donnelly Mortuary, 6633 Gayton I'; Which life Road. Among survivors are his wife, I Hildy Garve Etzkorn of Ladue; two I is for you? sons, Dr. Kyle P Etzkorn of Ponte I Vedra, Ha, and Lars Etzkorn of i BY .JOSH BASHARA students express this newfound reprimand you in any way-tbe school Juggling work and school can be a idea? The same principle goes for Washington; a sister, Helga Etzkorn Ii ................... " ....... .. ......... ...... " ................ ........ independence with partying will be happy to take your money difficult game in itself, especially if times even when you might not have 4 of Karlsruhe; and two grandchildren. U Nebraska-Omaha throughout the summer after either way. To actually pass a class, you're one of those unlucky souls who any exams right around the comer. In lieu of flowers, memorial i (U-WIRE) OMAHA, Neb. - It's graduation. When fall comes around though, you have to start by at least has to work ·and attend school both Your teachers tell you to study for a contributions may be made to St one of the oldest obstacles in the and it's time to start college, many showing up.