Inside A piece of the rock . P. 4 Experience Theatre Company ... P. 7 Loss record set P. 9 Vol. 27, No. 11, October 19, 1982 Introduction of GER Dorms get 1982 WORLD SERIES Series would add to course load $18.00 by Karen Bemowski tee, the next stage in bringing according to the document. LOWER tickets of The Post staff about the reality of general edu­ Another ,area included under GRANDSTAND For showing enthusiastic sup­ cation requirements. quantitative skills is data inter­ 5 port of the Milwaukee Brewers COUNTY STADIUM The first step in getting general Temporary committee chairman pretation, in which studeius during their chase of baseball's education requirements at UWM Hank Woessner said general ed­ would be required to take a world championship, the resid­ was completed Oct.. 15 when the ucation requirements will be a statistics course. ents and staff of the Sandburg Ad Hoc Committee on General reality in a minimum of three to The GER document indicates residence halls were given a Education unanimously approved five years. students would also have to take a chance Friday to buy tickets to last a document containing proposed two-predit course or pass an SERIE^ weekend's soldout World Series education requirement changes. "Unequivocal" change equivalency test on the history games at County Stadium. The proposed general education "Is there going to be a general and usage of computers. Not only Brewer General Manager Harry requirements would impose strict­ change? Unequivocally yes," would students study the impact Dalton sold UWM the tickets er undergraduate requirements so Woessner assured. of computers on society, but they because the people at Sandburg students would strengthen "com­ If the proposed general edu-" would also work on computer had compiled a book of messages mon intellectual skills" and obtain cation requirements are accepted programs. which yoiced support for the a "broad body of knowledge," in the current form, several new team. The messages were bound according to the committee's re­ requirements would be necessary History, sciences covered in a book and sent to the Brewers. port. for a bachelor's degree from In the history and cultural area, So, at 2 p.m. last Friday, 27 The approved documentv was UWM. students woujd have to take World Series tickets, nine for each the result of a two-and-a-half year First, for the English require­ three credits in world history and game, were raffled off to Sand­ effort of the General Education ment, students would have to pass three credits in world literature. burg residents and staff mem­ Committee, created at the request a two-part Wisconsin English In addition, according to the bers. of the University Committee, the Placement Test and take five document guidelines, a student Seven tickets for each game executive committee of the Fac­ English/communication credits. would be required to take four NATIONAL l.KAGUE CHAMPIONS J were allotted to residents and two ulty senate. Two credits must be in communi­ semesters of a modern foreign per game were given to the staff. The approval of the report by cation courses which emphasize language or three semesters of an Only one entry per person was the 16 members present, how­ skills in oral expression, and three ancient foreign language. The allowed. ever, marked the disbanding of credits must be taken in a course high school equivalent of four The tickets were $18 upper the General Education Committee. where written expression skills years of modern or three years of grandstand seats but $2 were Committee members did not are strongly emphasized. an ancient foreign language would added to the price of each ticket to mind, though, they said. Second, in an area entitled also satisfy this requirement. 1982 WORLD SERIES cover the cost of obtaining the "I think we're tired," com­ quantitative skills, a student Testing out would also be permit­ $18.00 GArVIE tickets, a flyer announcing the mented committee member How­ would have to pass a series of ted. LOWER raffle said. ard Pincus, professor of geological tests in which arithmetic, al­ In the aesthetic and creative GRANDSTAND That was still cheaper than sciences, just, before he read his gebraic, geometry and problem- requirement, students would be COUNTY STADIUM 5 paying high scalpers' prices. motion to adopt the document. solving skills are tested. These required to take six credits in the Some of the winners indicated . The approved motion allows the tests would not "go beyond what creative and expressive arts such C 10 ' they were going to give the tickets document and any feedback from is normally included in a good first as architecture, fine arts and to younger brothers who would the report to go to the Academic year of high school algebra and a creative writing. SfcX 'mi\r\ StAI appreciate the tickets more. Program and Gurriculum Commit­ year of high school geometry," [Turn to p. 10, col. 5] National Pit Buffalo was found to be a well-armed pit by Michael Gauger tops of the buildings and lit it. Voila! A "blue of The Post staff light" district! Trivia. Millard Fillmore, one of America's most Buffalo, N.Y. - This, as Jack Webb would say, beloved presidents, is buried in Buffalo. I guess is the city. This is the notorious city squatting he didn't use his veto power when he should've. close to lovely Lake Erie, the heavenly waters that Another president, William McKinley, left a caress the western part of the state. lasting impression on the city when he was shot there during the 1901 Pan American Exhibition. Buffalo. Known the world over for God-awful Today, only one building from that exhibition snowstorms, the Bills of National Football League stands, and it houses the Buffalo Historical fame and, recently, the Courier-Express. Buffalo. Society. My friend said he and his accomplices A place that's been chasing the coveted "Armpit used to call it the "Buffalo Hysterical Society." of the Nation" title for years. (Cleveland has a stranglehold on that title, with New Jersey in hot Domestic tranquility. Speaking of hysteria, during a brief tour of part of the city, my friends pursuit.) told me of the large number of mental health and Buffalo-truly a strange place for a vacation in psychiatric treatment facilities there. Then they mid-October. But then, men do desperate things. told me people who will live in the city for a long So it was that I stepped from a Boeing 727 onto period of time have a two in five chance of this alien ground last Friday night. contracting alcoholism or mental illness. I had gone to visit some friends. It wasn't my Another thing: they hang traffic lights from fault they lived there, I told a sneering colleague, wires above intersections. Can you believe that? who predicted before I left that it would be Normally, the lights are on poles, like the ones in snowing even as the plane was landing. Milwaukee. He was wrong, but I couldn't help being Buffalo weather isn't that different from the haunted by what he said as one of my friends Milwaukee climate. Both cities are magnets for greeted me with a cheery item: "We're expecting snow and cold weather. But at least Milwaukee snow flurries tonight." (This, too, didn't come to doesn't add to its problems with weird street pass.) lights. That news, though, wouldn't discourage me I suppose I should talk about the good things in from keeping my eyes and ears open in Buffalo. One of them is chicken wings. A citywide anticipation of the city's attractions, which were: custom, the wings are made in a special hot Night life. Buffalo doesn't have anything to sauce. They're not as hot as the ones in Dante's rival Wisconsin Avenue, and there's not much to kitchen, but they're tasty. 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