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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN NOV 7 1986 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DEVOTED TO "Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." -Plato THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS 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
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Full Text | ILLINOIS WESLEYAN NOV 7 1986 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DEVOTED TO "Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." -Plato THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS 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 |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |