"To Report The News Accurately And Without Bias" The University Echo The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 1886-1986: Celebrating 100 Years of Higher Education Volume 81/Issue 18 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga February 6, 1987 Pringle new council head by Drew Wright Echo News Editor Dr. Peter Pringle, communication Other duties beside those covered in department head, was elected Faculty the handbook also are routinely Council president last Thursday in a handled by FC presidents. Dr. Eric general meeting of the faculty. Schonblom, 1983—85 president, According to the UTC Faculty mentioned several of these including Handbook, a president's official duties serving as a UTC representative at include: presiding at Faculty Council numerous state conferences and meetings, reporting council serving as an ex oficio member of such deliberations to the chancellor, committees as the UT board of trustees receiving reports from council academic committee. committees, serving "as counselor to Schonblom said the FC president the president of The University of has a unique position on campus, The SGA presented awards to the 74 seniors with the highest GPAs in their majors and Tennessee" and carrying "the being only one of a small number of concentrations. The second annual award ceremony was held Feb. 4. Pictured are (I to r), Sandra university mace at all official officers elected by the entire faculty. Dahl, B.S. Human Services/Allied Health, Sandra Packard, Provost, and Dean Grayson Walker. functions". Also unique, Schonblom said, is the natural position a FC president has to speak for the faculty to the chancellor UTC professors lost at sea and to the president of the UT system. by Jodi Dillard Schonblom specifically mentioned Echo Editor the concerns he voiced to UT President Picture this: a catastrophic event The competitors are confident the the dialogue and hearing the other's Ed Boling about the merger agreement occurs and you find yourself one of importance of their field will gain them ideas on "why they think they should between the UT system and the three survivors—all UTC professors- favor from the audience. survive." University of Chattanooga. Equivalent floating on a raft in the middle of an In his defense Schonblom said, "The The debate is jointly sponsored by pay and entrance requirements for UT ocean. engineer is the person who is the department of physics and campuses were guaranteed in the There is only enough food and water responsible for the nature of our astronomy, and the UTC honors merger and not always followed. to sustain one of you until you can float possessions—what they can or cannot program. Schonblom said. back to civilization. Two of you face do." It's up to people, he said, whether Dr. Robert Marlowe, assistant As FC president Schonblom also death, and determining your fate will be they use those possessions for "good professor of physics and astronomy raised issues with Chancellor Obear. a jury of...peers and students? What!? or ill. It's up to the user, the engineer said this type of debate is similar to con't. to p.3 Yes, and you must prove your worth to doesn't determine that." those he experienced while studying at them according to the "sheer dint" of He feels the competition will be keen. Vanderbilt. "Generally one person your chosen area of study. You must "Clearly, the artist is engaged in each is chosen from a pure science, defend yourself as the most "useful enhancing our life space and the nurse one from humanities, and one from a and necessary'' person to "our culture, is concerned with our care and well- service discipline such as law or our world, our human progress." being—so one is dealing with quality of nursing. This is the stage set for the life and the other with life itself. That's "The idea," he said, "is that these upcoming "First UTC Raft Debate," to stiff competition," he said. people are set just willy nilly in the middle of the ocean—a result of some UTC be held Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 12 Stroud feels his discipline "speaks terrible calamity. Only one will make it noon to 1 p.m. in the Raccoon for itself—loud and clear." He is 18 8 6*1986 Mountain Room. The audience will looking forward to the opportunity to back to an island, back to civilization." reign as both judge and jury—the spend time with his colleagues and is He said each survivor will have to This Week Inside givers of life...or death. confident his peers and the students stand up and defend what they do, why The debate will feature "survivors" will choose him. "I'm not going to have they do it, and why what they do is Dr. Eric Schonblom, engineering any competition," he said. better than what the others do." Platoon department; Dr. James Stroud, music Butterfield sees the debate as an Marlowe feels the event will produce department; and, Professor Martha "opportunity to share why we enjoy both serious as well as almost slapstick —see p.9 Butterfield, UTC school of nursing. what we do and try to convince [the attitudes from the audience. "We Each will present a defense of the audience] we're the ones to survive. would like very much to strike a Wello! contributions of his or her discipline, "I have no idea how we got on this balance between the two—we want lots —see p. 10 attempting to convince the audience raft, but we are here," she said. of serious points to be raised. that "he or she would be the most "Ultimately, this is an interdisciplinary "I hope many of the questions from UTC vs. UTK worthy of survival in the face of a approach to dealing with and solving the audience will be critical and problem from which only one could problems." skeptical," he said. —see p.13 survive." Butterfield said she looks forward to 2 The University Echo/February 6, 1987 United States should stand on principle in Africa by Khaled Mattawa When it comes to dealing with Africa, of London in philosophy and education, conflict over territories causing "a lot Africa, Atkinson said that the fate of "we missed the point," said Dr. began his lecture by giving an overview of scattering," and a movement South Africa is very important to the Norman Atkinson speaking on African of the history of tribal movement into northward back into the heart of the region. "Where South Africa goes, so culture to a small group of students and Southern Africa. African tribes, in continent. will the rest of the nations in that area," faculty members last Thursday in the search for better land, crossed the The second major problem, he said, he said. University Center. Zambizi river and moved into Southern was European colonialism which Asked about the role the United "It's not that Africans have different Africa. There they settled and started with the Dutch in the 18th States should play in South Africa, values, but that these same values are developed a rich culture with a religion, century. In the beginning, the Dutch Atkinson answered saying "the United approached in a different way. This, the a philosophy and a moral code based settled in the cape area and had little States must stand for principle." white man could not understand," he on two main principles: holism and contact with the Africans. A century African countries, he said, "often hate said. humanism. later, the British colonized that area things the West does," because it talks Atkinson, a native of Ireland who But two centuries ago two major and forced the Dutch to the north. The of freedom and democracy but rarely received degrees from Trinity problems emerged. The first was land Dutch in turn fought the African tribes stands for them. University in Dublin and the University shortage. This brought tribes into off their land. Finally asked about what South Colonialism also brought about other Africa should learn from the problems. The first of these, according Zimbabwean experience, Atkinson to Atkinson, was the alien culture that maintained that the situation in South Your high-tech camera and high-tech filmcolonialis m tried to impose on the Africa is much more difficult. Africans. This caused estrangement Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, was 'I tf;! deserve our high-tech photo finishing and still does. To deal with this occupied by the British and was later problem, Atkinson suggested a cultural ruled by a white minority until 1980. 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