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Wesleyan welcomes alumns ILLINOIS WESLEYAN S2DEVOTED "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz TO THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS Volume 92 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, October 25, 1985 N Approve resolution Trustees denounce apartheid The Illinois Wesleyan Univer-sity Board of Trustees joined a growing number of institutions voicing official abhorrence of the practice of apartheid in South Africa. The trustees approved a resolu-tion endorsing the policy of "Social Responsibility in In-vesting" of the Common Fund Corporation and the participation in and sponsorship by the Com-mon Fund of the Investor Re-sponsibility Research Center. The Common Fund is a non-profit organization that provides investment management ser-vices exclusively for educational institutions. Wesleyan is a mem-ber. The investment policy state-ment of the Common Fund reads in part: "The primary purpose of The Common Fund is to max-imize the return on the assets entrusted to it, while main-taining a level of risk that is appropriate for its consti-tuents. "In conjunction with this purpose, the Corporation in-tends to act as a responsible investor regarding practices of portfolio companies which could be considered to cause substantial social or environ-mental injury. Investments will be regularly reviewed from this perspective, draw-ing on publicly available in-formation, reports developed by other organizations and direct research. "Topics of concern include, but are not limited to. such Radio station comes By Greg Tejeda News of the firings of Ellen Joyce, WESN public relations director, and Jonnell Simpson, music director, has spread to the campus and many versions of what happened exist. The controversy began Sept. 27 when Jonathan Thomas, station manager, dismissed the pair. The official reason given was that they "were not fulfilling the duties of their jobs." Thomas said various negative remarks from Joyce and Simp-son came to his attention, and he did not feel this was in the best in-terest of the station. He said, "Their credibility is shot." Of Joyce, specifically, he added, "How can I rely on a PR director who runs down the station on the side?" Joyce and Simpson said their remarks had been made only to another member of the executive staff, Don Burns, program direc-tor, and that they were of a con-structive nature. Joyce and Simpson did not tell anyone else of their remarks, and both feel that the versions which Thomas heard were distorted. Joyce holds Burns partially responsible for the firings. Burns does not recall ever hav-ing spoken privately with Joyce or Simpson in regard to the sta-tion. The only dicussions that he said he had with the two occurred in public places, such as on the quad or in the cafeteria. "It could have been heard and distorted by anyone," he said. Burns said that he never asked the two for their opinions. He add-ed that the decision to fire Joyce and Simpson was by the authority of the station manager only. "I'm not privy to his reasons for firing," he said. Lack of communication is an-other point brought up by Joyce and Simpson. A music budget was not given to Simpson until Sept. 26, the day before she was fired. This inhibited Simpson's ability to perform her job. Thomas attributes this to com-plications iri the budgeting pro-cess, which delayed turning over the true figures. Simpson sympathizes with this, but feels that Thomas should have informed her, as he did not. Simpson and Joyce also brought out an incident involving a message for station members left in Thomas' absence. It informed staffers not to try to contact him, as it was his birth-day, or they would lose their jobs. Thomas explained that the memo read, in its entirety, that people should not contact him unless they a) gave him lots of money, or b) wanted to lose their jobs. He meant the memo as a joke, because he was in a situa-tion where he would not be near a phone for several hours. Joyce said she now realizes the intent was satirical, but added areas as observances of the law, employee relations, operations in foreign coun-tries and consumer and en-vironmental protection... "Although the Trustees have the responsibility to seek to maximize the invest-ment return on invested as-sets, they do not believe that responsibility is inconsistent with action on the social responsibility dimension." In addition to supporting the Common Fund Corporation pol-icy, the IWU trustees' resolution calls for the establishment, in the near future, of a monitoring com-mittee of three trustees to ex-amine the practice of the Univer-sity's portfolio companies and to report regularly to the board's standing Investment Committee. under fire that a station manager should not allow himself to be away from contact for so long, even if it is his birthday. Both Simpson and Joyce men-tioned that when WESN was forc-ed off the air, there was no at-tempt made to inform the ex-ecutive staff of the move. Simpson said she went down to the station the next day, and, business as usual, turned the transmitter on and began broad-casting, only to find out later that the station was directed to be off the air. Joyce said Thomas told her he did not immediately inform her of the decision because he did not want to wake her (the station went off the air at approximately midnight). "Staffers should not have to contact the manager singularly," Joyce said in response to this. Thomas answered these charges of inaccessability by say-ing that he initially wanted to work with the programming de-partment, feeling it was crucial to establish it first. He intended to later move on to the other areas in detail. He added that he was access-able to staffers. "Don Burns was regularly able to reach me when there were problems," he said. Both Simpson and Joyce want remarks which appeared in Cam-pus Jock, a disk jockey newslet-ter, retracted. They also have re-' Turn to page 6 Royalty Senior KKG Mary Jane Helm was crowned 1985 Homecoming Queen at Thursday night's coronation ceremony in Westbrook Auditorium. Photo by IWU Publicity Department Homecoming begins Homecoming at Illinois Wes-leyan will be Saturday, Oct. 26 with a full schedule of activities for students and alumni starting Thursday, Oct. 24. Troy Sapp, Homecoming chair-man, and his committee, have selected "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" as the theme for the week, with appearances by Dor-othy and Toto, the Tin Man, the cowardly Lion and the Scare-crow. The reunion clases to be honor-ed are for the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980 and 1984, with alumni from the years immedi-ately before and after the reunion classes making up the "cluster classes." Student activities got under way Tuesday and Wednesday with the voting for Homecoming Queen. Mary Jane Helm, of Kappa Kappa Gamma was named the winner at the Queen's Coronation Thursday. The other queen candidates and the living units they represented were Leisa Dede, Alpha Gamma Delta; Susan Zile-wicz, Dodds Hall; Jacklynn Ann Wilson, Alpha Omicron Pi; Karen Kopan, Gulick Hall; Mar-tha Dickens, Sigma Kappa; Sheila Lorton, Pfeiffer Hall; Christie Claus, Munsell Hall; Diane Bullman, Blackstock Hall; Elizabeth Mulberry, Kappa Delta; Kristin Clark, Ferguson Hall and Mary Jewell, Sigma Alpha Iota. The queen and her court will be introduced prior to the Titan Games at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Wesleyan Stadium, and during the halftime ceremonies of the football game against Carroll College Saturday. The parade will start at 11:30 a.m. Saturday from the corner of East and University. It will follow a new route ending at the corner of Kelsey and Horenber-ger Dr., where the floats will be on display throughout the after-noon. The parade route will be south on East St. to Graham, east on Graham to Park St., north on Park St. to Beecher, west on Beecher to East St., north on East to Kelsey and east on Kelsey to the finishing point. The review-ing stand will be opposite Evelyn Chapel near the East Gate. Alumni activities will start Fri-day with Alumni Careers Day, sponsored by the Career Educa-tion Center. Selected alumni from various academic fields will return to spend the day visiting classes and talking with students. Among them will be C. Robert Berg '65, press secretary to Det-roit Mayor Coleman Young. Turn to page 6 umber 6
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Full Text | Wesleyan welcomes alumns ILLINOIS WESLEYAN S2DEVOTED "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz TO THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS Volume 92 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, October 25, 1985 N Approve resolution Trustees denounce apartheid The Illinois Wesleyan Univer-sity Board of Trustees joined a growing number of institutions voicing official abhorrence of the practice of apartheid in South Africa. The trustees approved a resolu-tion endorsing the policy of "Social Responsibility in In-vesting" of the Common Fund Corporation and the participation in and sponsorship by the Com-mon Fund of the Investor Re-sponsibility Research Center. The Common Fund is a non-profit organization that provides investment management ser-vices exclusively for educational institutions. Wesleyan is a mem-ber. The investment policy state-ment of the Common Fund reads in part: "The primary purpose of The Common Fund is to max-imize the return on the assets entrusted to it, while main-taining a level of risk that is appropriate for its consti-tuents. "In conjunction with this purpose, the Corporation in-tends to act as a responsible investor regarding practices of portfolio companies which could be considered to cause substantial social or environ-mental injury. Investments will be regularly reviewed from this perspective, draw-ing on publicly available in-formation, reports developed by other organizations and direct research. "Topics of concern include, but are not limited to. such Radio station comes By Greg Tejeda News of the firings of Ellen Joyce, WESN public relations director, and Jonnell Simpson, music director, has spread to the campus and many versions of what happened exist. The controversy began Sept. 27 when Jonathan Thomas, station manager, dismissed the pair. The official reason given was that they "were not fulfilling the duties of their jobs." Thomas said various negative remarks from Joyce and Simp-son came to his attention, and he did not feel this was in the best in-terest of the station. He said, "Their credibility is shot." Of Joyce, specifically, he added, "How can I rely on a PR director who runs down the station on the side?" Joyce and Simpson said their remarks had been made only to another member of the executive staff, Don Burns, program direc-tor, and that they were of a con-structive nature. Joyce and Simpson did not tell anyone else of their remarks, and both feel that the versions which Thomas heard were distorted. Joyce holds Burns partially responsible for the firings. Burns does not recall ever hav-ing spoken privately with Joyce or Simpson in regard to the sta-tion. The only dicussions that he said he had with the two occurred in public places, such as on the quad or in the cafeteria. "It could have been heard and distorted by anyone," he said. Burns said that he never asked the two for their opinions. He add-ed that the decision to fire Joyce and Simpson was by the authority of the station manager only. "I'm not privy to his reasons for firing," he said. Lack of communication is an-other point brought up by Joyce and Simpson. A music budget was not given to Simpson until Sept. 26, the day before she was fired. This inhibited Simpson's ability to perform her job. Thomas attributes this to com-plications iri the budgeting pro-cess, which delayed turning over the true figures. Simpson sympathizes with this, but feels that Thomas should have informed her, as he did not. Simpson and Joyce also brought out an incident involving a message for station members left in Thomas' absence. It informed staffers not to try to contact him, as it was his birth-day, or they would lose their jobs. Thomas explained that the memo read, in its entirety, that people should not contact him unless they a) gave him lots of money, or b) wanted to lose their jobs. He meant the memo as a joke, because he was in a situa-tion where he would not be near a phone for several hours. Joyce said she now realizes the intent was satirical, but added areas as observances of the law, employee relations, operations in foreign coun-tries and consumer and en-vironmental protection... "Although the Trustees have the responsibility to seek to maximize the invest-ment return on invested as-sets, they do not believe that responsibility is inconsistent with action on the social responsibility dimension." In addition to supporting the Common Fund Corporation pol-icy, the IWU trustees' resolution calls for the establishment, in the near future, of a monitoring com-mittee of three trustees to ex-amine the practice of the Univer-sity's portfolio companies and to report regularly to the board's standing Investment Committee. under fire that a station manager should not allow himself to be away from contact for so long, even if it is his birthday. Both Simpson and Joyce men-tioned that when WESN was forc-ed off the air, there was no at-tempt made to inform the ex-ecutive staff of the move. Simpson said she went down to the station the next day, and, business as usual, turned the transmitter on and began broad-casting, only to find out later that the station was directed to be off the air. Joyce said Thomas told her he did not immediately inform her of the decision because he did not want to wake her (the station went off the air at approximately midnight). "Staffers should not have to contact the manager singularly," Joyce said in response to this. Thomas answered these charges of inaccessability by say-ing that he initially wanted to work with the programming de-partment, feeling it was crucial to establish it first. He intended to later move on to the other areas in detail. He added that he was access-able to staffers. "Don Burns was regularly able to reach me when there were problems," he said. Both Simpson and Joyce want remarks which appeared in Cam-pus Jock, a disk jockey newslet-ter, retracted. They also have re-' Turn to page 6 Royalty Senior KKG Mary Jane Helm was crowned 1985 Homecoming Queen at Thursday night's coronation ceremony in Westbrook Auditorium. Photo by IWU Publicity Department Homecoming begins Homecoming at Illinois Wes-leyan will be Saturday, Oct. 26 with a full schedule of activities for students and alumni starting Thursday, Oct. 24. Troy Sapp, Homecoming chair-man, and his committee, have selected "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" as the theme for the week, with appearances by Dor-othy and Toto, the Tin Man, the cowardly Lion and the Scare-crow. The reunion clases to be honor-ed are for the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980 and 1984, with alumni from the years immedi-ately before and after the reunion classes making up the "cluster classes." Student activities got under way Tuesday and Wednesday with the voting for Homecoming Queen. Mary Jane Helm, of Kappa Kappa Gamma was named the winner at the Queen's Coronation Thursday. The other queen candidates and the living units they represented were Leisa Dede, Alpha Gamma Delta; Susan Zile-wicz, Dodds Hall; Jacklynn Ann Wilson, Alpha Omicron Pi; Karen Kopan, Gulick Hall; Mar-tha Dickens, Sigma Kappa; Sheila Lorton, Pfeiffer Hall; Christie Claus, Munsell Hall; Diane Bullman, Blackstock Hall; Elizabeth Mulberry, Kappa Delta; Kristin Clark, Ferguson Hall and Mary Jewell, Sigma Alpha Iota. The queen and her court will be introduced prior to the Titan Games at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Wesleyan Stadium, and during the halftime ceremonies of the football game against Carroll College Saturday. The parade will start at 11:30 a.m. Saturday from the corner of East and University. It will follow a new route ending at the corner of Kelsey and Horenber-ger Dr., where the floats will be on display throughout the after-noon. The parade route will be south on East St. to Graham, east on Graham to Park St., north on Park St. to Beecher, west on Beecher to East St., north on East to Kelsey and east on Kelsey to the finishing point. The review-ing stand will be opposite Evelyn Chapel near the East Gate. Alumni activities will start Fri-day with Alumni Careers Day, sponsored by the Career Educa-tion Center. Selected alumni from various academic fields will return to spend the day visiting classes and talking with students. Among them will be C. Robert Berg '65, press secretary to Det-roit Mayor Coleman Young. Turn to page 6 umber 6 |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |