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For more information, please contact [email protected]. olunteers voted to run Inter-Club· Council office proximately $60. discussing the choices, mostly for Club and from the planning area of the volunteer staff, ICC members voted From now on, a guest speaker will be scheduled to speak at every ICC meeting, Nutter Center are scheduled. unanimously to have the ICC office run The speaker for this past meeting was by volunteers, with a goal of keeping the according to Kellie Burnett, co-chairer of ICC. Jo Ann Wallace, coordinator for the Stu­ ·office open from 9 am. "We thought it would broaden our in­ dent International Exchange Program. She In other business, ICC members were in­ terest and knowledge on things that are answered questions form the floor about formed of their beer profits from the Oc­ going on in the university community," how students can be ambassadors to tober Daze. Beer profits totaled $2,178, said Burnett. meaning each ICC club would receive ap­ Future speakers from the Warehouse see ·ice·. page 5 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 NUMBER 23. VOLUME XXIV WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY DAYTON, OHIO 45435 ' tory of Wright State written by Charles W. logier son, as an advocate in Columbus; I also working team. We would meet frequently and Kegerreis; and details the university's did some lobbying for the university in its each week and discuss the progress of the growth and development up to 1984. very early days, and negotiated the first university. And through this over-seeing of "I only profiled the four principle arrangement in Columbus, whereby they the development he became known as Mr. W. Ingler, former secretary of founders of Wright State," continued In­ would stop being a branch of Ohio State Wright State. of Trustees for Wright State gler, "and those men were Robert University and Miami University. That's "Well, in 1978, Fred desired to write a .------19'6-71 and past public-affairs direc­ Oelman, Stanley Allyn, John Millett and how the university got started so fast. By history of Wright State and asked me to Novice Fawcett." The founders' l'--------1~ NCR, has written a book about the 1967 it had become an independent univer­ help him co-author the book. After his un­ of Wright State University. quadrangle developed with the first four sity with its own Board of Trustees." fortunate death in 1980, I realized that the book, entitled Founding and Fulfil/­ campus buildings, each of which were When asked how the idea of the book book had never really left the ground. I · 1964-1984 Wright State University, named to honor one of the founders. came about, Ingler said, "The formation of felt obligated to finish our future goal. I Ohio, chronicles the development "From 1961 through 1962, Oelman and the book evolved. I worked with a man then talked to Dr. Robert Kegerreis, Presi­ Allyn raised $6 million and gave $3 million g between Slate; from its early beginnings, who had become almost a legend on cam­ dent of Wright State University at the o believe. it was just a mere concept in the to Wright State. The money went to build pus. His name was Fredrick A. White. He time, and told him that I wanted to write n't enougi of a few community leaders, up to Allyn Hall. In 1964, Allyn Hall was open­ was the first business manager of the cam­ a book of the history of the campus, and ed to the public, and to my amazement, anniversary in 1984. f pus when it was still a subdivision of Ohio he endorsed that idea; supporting me in 3,000 students enrolled. It w~s a round­ ; enough f Wll the secretary of the first Board State University and Miami University, my future endeavors with the book." the-clock shift that has been rolling 'til f f?r the Trustees (BT)," Ingler stated. "The and after Wright State became an indepen­ The book profiles the Dayton Civic this day. I felt that the involvement these tr 1t on c of the BT was Robert S. chairman dent university, he became the first vice leaders who initially pushed for the ... who was my boss. And it was men had in the rise of Wright State was pres-ident of student affairs. In the early establishment of a public university in common for him to use me in public crucial to its success today, that is why I years, when we bought this land and built Dayton; highlights the terms of the univer­ !----ir.; work which he was interested in. the first building, Allyn Hall, we were a sity's first two presidents, Brage Golding See "History·, page 2 I served the Board as a planning per­ Lplayer's strike finally over 0The National Football League Upshaw said player reps voted to return ) players strike is over. Faced with an to work and strikers were reporting back ught of defections yesterday, Union to camps throughout the league. However, Gene Upshaw ordered the teams back Upshaw vowed that the fight against the rk, ending the 24-day walkout that management will continue in the courts. on Sept. 22. See "Strike", page 4 inside ... Competency testing page 2 Budget Board page 2 Men's soccer team page 3 Basketball starter will be sidelined page 3 Cross country squads run Ohio Invite page 4 Preparation for The Outfield page 5 Classifed Ads page 6 Comics page 7 Black leaders forum page 8 .__IGovernor f<icnaraL.eleste speaking at yesterday's Peace Studies Conference. I ____ __ ___P_h_otc by Matt Sho~ 2 ouARDIAN October 10.19s1 History Competency tests are" irreversible judgement" continued frCJm page 1 day, that is why I included ATLANTA, GA (CPS)-­ ed only as "diagnostic" Rted's study of what and 1985, compared to 8:? . deeply detailed profiles of tools. Making students take happened when student!> in percent of the black each.man and the key. rol~ Instead, Reed found "competency" and other Louisiana and North students. they played; from their schools use them "to pas'> kinds of standardized tests Carolina took competrnc>!y Similar results were begin irreversible judgment" on tends to make courses tests also discovered tt!ey found on the math exam. nings in the university and students' ability and "narrower" and keep took. a toll on minority tigh Without passing scores, in public office up W-1heir •. motivaticn. minority 'itudents out of school students. students cannot advance to deaths. These four helped Teachers whose jo!>s de­ colleges, ihe Southern More white students pass upper level course work, or Wright State grow 'til their pend on their studl!'nts' do­ Regional Education Board the tests on the first try, tlte graduate. Several colleges in last days." ing well on th: tt'sts tend to (SREB) said last week. study found. both states require the-tests, Starting from one "I was one of the skew what rhey ~each in l The tests, SREB resear­ Some 97 percent of white and the U.S. Dept. of building that emerged from first people to have a class to help students score cher Rodney Reed of the high juniors passed Norrh Education advocates that a cornfield, Wright State is serious dream about University of California at high, not necessariiy to Carolina's reading test on more colleges adopt similar now the ninth largest campus. There were 1 Berkeley said, shoutd be us­ educate them, tht SREE the first try between 1~78 tests. employer in the Miami of us; I had the dr Valley, with 3,200 full- and Allyn and Oelman hl4 part-time employees. The dream and a few university offers more than men in the Air Force""'......,.,_. Budget Board tells two clubs to re-submit 100 undergraduate-degree it. And from the programs and 30 graduate­ we dreamed that this By JEFF BURNETI posals to Budget Board the number of members in travel. The club was and professional-school not be a narrow, s yesterday. The SEA pro­ the SEA.It was also pointed Special Writer granted $140 to pay their programs in 10 depart­ institution, but a br posal for $400 was rejected. out by the Board that there instructor, and asked to ments: Business and Ad­ variegated institution. The Board cited a lack of wasn't an urgent need for resubmit the rest of the The Student Education ministration; Continuing wished to have plenty specifics in the proposal for the funds. proposal when the club Association (SEA) and the and Community Education; emphasis on the sci their decision. A major The Tia-Chi Club re­ could provide the Board Tia-Chi Club both Education and Human Ser­ and advanced tee concern of the Board was quested $1362 for operating with more information. presented (operating) pro­ vices; Engineering and as well as, we the lack of information on expenses, equipment, and Computer Sciences; hoped, medicine and Graduate Studies; Liberal business. But we eq Arts; Medicine; Nursing; wished for it to Professional Psychology; leading liberal arts ID!.Mi>--t You've thought about it.