1986-11-07

              ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
NOV 7 1986
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Volume 93 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, November 7, 1986 Nu
Hitchens addresses issues
Christopher Hitchens, a
political journalist for The Nation
and The Times Literary Supple-ment,
will be visiting IWU on
Monday, Nov. 10, to speak to stu-dents
and address such topics as
Asia and terrorism.
Presently a Washington colum-nist
for The Nation, a weekly
political journal, Hitchens will
speak on "The New Asia: A
Reporter's Notebook" at 4 p.m. in
the Executive Lounge. Hitchens
has just recently returned from a
one month tour of Asia.
Hitchens will also speak on
"Terrorism: Pitfalls of a Pro-paganda
Term" at 8 p.m. in the
Davidson Room.
According to Greg Leyh, pro-mber9
fessor of political science at IWU,
Hitchens has a reputation for be-ing
provocative. "He is known as
a very articulate and candid
speaker and writer who is not
afraid to address the issues and
speak out," said Leyh.
Hitchens, who was formally the
Foreign Editor of the New States-man,
has an essay on terrorism
in the September 1986 issue of
Harpers, a popular literary
magazine.
Leyh said Hitchens also ap-pears
on television occasionally
as a political commentator.
Hitchens was educated at
Balliol College, Oxford, where he
studied philosophy, politics and
economics.
New FAB senator elected
Fright night
Maria Corrado performs at the annual Halloween Concert held last Thursday in Presser Hall.
Photo by Dave Ruggles
Two new majors being
By Kathy Nelson idea for a major is first brought
The administration of Illinois before the faculty until the time it
Wesleyan University is consider- is voted on, according to Israel.
ing two fields of study for future The faculty both adds and
development and possible addi- deletes majors in an on-going
tion to the curriculum as new ma- process. Within the last ten
jors. years, the majors of Music
The disciplines of international Theater, Arts Management, and
studies and communications are Math/Computer Science have
being explored by committees of been added; and the Urban
fculty members and students. Studies, Speech, and American
The administration first realiz- Studies majors have been
ed the need for improvement in deleted. The most recent addi-these
areas in June 1985, when a tion, the Math/Computer Science
report with recommendations major, was implemented in Fall
was issued by the Task Force on 1982.
1990. Student interest in the fields of
In 1980, then-president Robert international studies and com-
S. Eckley created the Task Force munications has led to special
to formulate goals for the Univer- contract majors inthese fields.
sity through 1990. These students are "test cases"
"The Task Force was not em- to see if these disciplines would
powered to create new majors, work as majors, Israel said.
just to do some creative think- Recommendations 1 of the
ing," according to Associate Task Force's report dealt with
Dean of the University Dr. Jerry the field of international studies.
Israel, who served as secretary It called for "a coordinated effort
of the task force. to establish an international
The Task Force proposed ten studies program."
recommendations in their report, The effort would emphasize
"Building From Strength." Two developing more coherent and
of these recommendations were visible ways to provide academic
in the areas of international concentrations in international
studies and communications. studies, developing more sys-
These recommendations did tematic and higher quality extra-not
specifically propose the crea- curricular programming on in-tion
of new majors in those areas. ternational issues, and exploring
Instead, according to Israel, the feasilibity of establishing an
"The recommendations were to International House on IWU's
explore additional work in those campus.
ares with the possibility of Last year an ad-hoc commit-developing
new majors." tee was established to study this
All new majors have to be recommendation. This commit-voted
in by the faculty. A one to tee has recently been expanded
two year process of research and into an eleven-member Interna-revision
passes from the time the tional Studies Advisory Commit-considered*
tee. Of these eleven, nine are
faculty or staff members and two
are students.
The faculty members are: co-chair
John Heyl, history; co-chair
Sue Huseman, foreign
languages; Margaret Chapman,
economics; Louis Verner,
biology; Jill McDonald, foreign
languages; Clair Myers, drama;
Bob Mowrey, library; Malinda
Carlson, Assistant Dean of
Students; and James Barbour,
the registrar.
The two students on the com-mittee
are Laurie Hoover, a
senior English/French double
major; and Shashi Menon, a
freshman foreign student from
India.
In turn, "each of the members
of the advisory committee is
chairing a subcommittee focus-ing
on a specific aspect of inter-national
studies," according to
co-chair Heyl.
The committee took as its
models Grinnel College, IA, and
MacAlester College, MN.
In the area of curicular deve-lopment,
the committee is work-ing
on raising the level of student
interest, adding new courses and
adding an international dimen-sion
to existing courses, accord-ing
to Heyl.
The subcommittee on faculty
development, chaired by Clair
Myers, has proposed several
ideas.
"We have submitted a proposal
for a Fulbright Scholarship-in-residence
from Western Europe"
aid Heyl. This scholar would be of
special benefit to the theater and
Turn to page 5
By Eric Gardner
Off-campus senator Laura
James was elected to be a Finan-cial
Advisory Board (FAB)
senator at Sunday's Student
Senate meeting. James becomes
the fifth of five FAB senators who
assist Treasurer Deb Hueneburg
in senate financial planning.
James, a senior, has been on
senate for three years and was a
FAB senator last year.
In other business, the senate
approved three senators to sit on
the Constitutional Revisions
Committee. Senators Brett Par-chet,
John Jamison and Krista
Sterns join Parliamentarian
Todd Bugg and Vice Prsident
Brad Weber on that committee.
President Jill Volk announced
that the University's Strategic
Planning Committee is well
under way. This committee con-sists
of Trustees Hugh Henning,
Marvin Bower and Robert Davis;
faculty members Robert Hippen-steele,
Karen Gervais and
Margaret Chapman; University
President Wayne Anderson,
Dean Wendell Hess and Volk.
The committee is concerned
with forming a university plan-of-action
for the next seven-ten
years.
SWHR Chairperson Renee
Drozdowski announced that
Festa Wesleyana will be held on
Nov. 16 from 5-7 p.m. in the Main
Lounge of the Memorial Student
Center.
Festa Wesleyana will consist of
a spaghetti dinner and entertain-ment
by IWU's Limited Edition
and the Kappa Pickers.
Upcoming dates of interest in-clude
Nov. 7, 8 and 9, when Out of
Africa will be shown in Buck. Fri-day
and Saturday showings will
be at 8 and 11 p.m., and the Sun-day
showing will be held at 2 p.m.
Senators who were absent from
Sunday's meeting were Heidi
Martz, Blackstock; Mary Cumm-ings,
Ferguson; and Dora Rent-meister,
Munsell.
Soon to speak at chapel
Dr. Kim Soon, a native of W.
Malaysia, will be speaking in
chapel on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Soon is of Chinese descent and
was raised as a Buddhist. His
conversion to Christianity
alienated him from his father,
but of this he states, "It is never
easy to trust God. There are
risks. God's grace was never
meant to be costless."
Dr. Soon and his wife served as
missionaries to the Chinese in
South Korea after he graduated
from Garrett Evangelical Theo-logical
Seminary. Soon was the
chairperson of the Conference
Religion and Race for eight
years, the chair of the Conference
Ethnic Minority Local Church
Coordinating Committee and
helped organize the North Cen-tral
Jurisdiction Asian American
Fellowship. In 1985, Dr. Soon was
appointed the Pontiac, Ill. Dis-trict
Superintendent by Bishop
Woodie White.
Inside:
Terry, Linville coverage ....... p. 4
D-F slips .................... p.3