The Reporter, May 1977

The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.The Reporter • A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University/ Cullowhee, N.C./May 5, 1977 AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GRAHAM INFIRMARY Currently, we are having an out­break of rubella measles (three-day measles or German measles) on campus. The only danger this poses is to the unborn babies of pregnant women in the community. These women are en­couraged to see their obstetrician to check their antibodies against rubella. This test may have already been performed if they have completed the blood tests on their early obstet­rical visits. The dangers of rubella to the developing baby are major and minor birth defects depending on the stages of development. Other individuals develop a mild cold for 2-5 days and a fine rash over the body for the last 3 days. The patient is conta­gious until the rash begins to fade. Again, if you are pregnant and have been exposed to rubella, please see your obstetrician and check to see if you are susceptible. REGISTRATION SET tfOR SUMMER, FALL Early registration for the 1977 Summer School and Fall Semester be­gins with advising this week. Registration materials for the 1977 Summer School, and for the big one, FALL SEMESTER, are available on the second floor of Hinds University Center. These materials include the Manual for Semester Conversion and another helpful publication called "What's a Semester?" The Gtandroom will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10 for early summer registration. No appointment time is assigned for summer registration. When students pick up their registration materials for fall semester, they will be given a permit to register and an appointment time for early fall registration, set for Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 and 12. MATH CONTEST DRAWS 639 CONTESTANTS Students from Brevard High School won first place in three out of four divisions as their school took top honors in the seventh annual WCU High School Mathematics Contest held here Thursday. Second place went to T. C. Rober-son High School, followed by Tuscola High School in third place in senior high competition. Waynesville Junior High School won in the junior high competition. Some 639 students from 46 junior and senior high schools took part in the contest, which was sponsored by the WCU Department of Mathematics. Contest chairman was Ralph H. Willis, WCU assistant professor of mathe­matics. Chancellor Robinson presented $300 scholarships to seven top scores in the comprehensive division who expect to attend WCU next fall. Awards also were presented to three WCU students for excellence in mathematics. The Outstanding Senior Award went to Greg Hawkins of Murphy. Outstanding Freshman awards were pre­sented to Harold Coward of Sylva and Teresa Biddix of Marion. MOORE HALL BIDS TOO HIGH Apparent low bids opened April 27 on a proposed major renovation of Moore Hall appeared to exceed funds available for construction. The total of apparent low base bids on the renovation project was $643,194, and available funds, after allowances for architectural fees, required funds for contingencies, and engineering tests are somewhat less, according to WCU officials. Apparent low bidder on the general contract was Mountain Builders Inc. of Waynesville, $415,684. Other apparent low bidders were: plumbing, Plemmons Plumbing and Heating Co. of Waynesville, $37,345; mechanical, Bolton Corporation of Charlotte, $107,320 and electrical, Overcash Electric Co. Inc. of Moores-ville, $82,845. Moore Hall, erected in 1924 as a dormitory, is one of the oldest struc­tures at WCU. In recent years, it has been used as an academic building. The renovation work, designed by Jackson, Padgett and Freeman, Asheville archi­tectural firm, would convert it to classroom, laboratory and office uses and include building and roof repair, replacement of the plumbing, heating and electrical systems, and installa­tion of a passenger elevator. All bids received Wednesday are being reviewed by university and state officials. STUDENTS HEADED FOR MED SCHOOL Two Western Carolina University students have received University of North Carolina Board of Governors Medi­cal Scholarships. They are among five WCU students to be accepted this year for study in medical and dental school. The two scholarship winners are Michael Claude Burnette of Rt. 3 Canton and Debbie Kay Wright of Rt. 1 Garys-burg. The scholarship, which provides a $4,000 stipend and full payment of tuition and fees annually, is awarded to 15 North Carolina residents each year. The other students accepted for medical and dental study are Robert McDuffie of Asheville, Gary Grindstaff of Rt. 1 Old Fort, and Renwick Hood of Charlotte. Burnette will be attending the University of North Carolina Medical School, and Miss Wright will be attend­ing Bowman Gray Medical School in Winston-Salem. Both are biology majors who attended WCU on a Patrons of Quality Scholarship. Grindstaff, a graduate student in biology, plans to attend the University of North Carolina Dental School. He is listed in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" and is a dean's list student. A resident assistant, Grindstaff played baseball for four years at WCU. McDuffie is a 1974 graduate of Duke University, where he majored in French. He has been accepted at both Chapel Hill and Bowman Gray. Hood is a 1976 graduate of Wake Forest University where he majored in English. He plans to attend Jeffer­son Medical School in Philadelphia. Although McDuffie and Hood did not graduate from WCU, they each spent a year at WCU pursuing further studies in biology and science before medical school. "The level of instruction is just as good here as in places like Wake Forest which sends 30-40 people to medical school each year," Hood oiommented. He added that he enjoyed his post-baccalaureate study at WCU be­cause of the small classes and individual attention students get and the lack of intense competition found in some of the larger schools. COMING EVENTS Dr. Carl Vaught, associate head of the department of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, will speak at 7:30 p.m., May 5, in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center on "The Quest for Wholeness: Melville's Moby Dick." Taken from his manuscript, "Religion and Concrete Relection," recently completed for publication, the lecture will introduce a combina­tion of literary, religious and philo­sophical issues. Dr. Vaught received his B.A. degree in philosophy and religion from Baylor University and holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Yale University. The longest single-day Whitewater canoe race in the Southeast -- the North Carolina C-2 Championship — will be held May 7 on the Tuckaseigee River. The 25-mile race, according to coordinator Roger Roundtree, will attract some of the top Whitewater and marathon paddlers in the Southeast. The race will begin at 11 a.m. in the community of Tuckaseegee at the confluence of the East and West forks of the river. The finish line is the Barker's Creek Bridge in the community of Whittier. The race is sponsored by the WCU University Center Board, the Jackson County Recreation Department, and Cullowhee Wilderness Outfitters. Three WCU choral organizations— the concert choir, the chorus, and the community chorus—will join the Ashe-ville Symphony for a performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" Saturday (May 7) at 8:15 p.m. in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the Asheville Civic Center. The concert, which will include a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40, will be conducted by Robert B. Welch (acting head, Music). Tickets will be available at the door. NAMES IN THE NEWS Joe Allen, graduate student in mental retardation, who is national chairman for Alpha Phi Omega's Special Olympics project, attended a meeting of the board of directors of the In­ternational Special Olympics, March 14- 15, Washington, D.C. At the meeting, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, president of the International Special Olympics, noted that the Olympics at Western are as organized, as varied, and as large as many state special Olympics. Martha B. White (Nursing and Health Sciences) presented a workshop, "Nursing Care of the Patient with a Stroke," April 7 at Mayland Technical Institute to nurses from Yancey County. •This workshop was presented earlier by Mrs. White to nurses at District Hos­pital in Andrews and at Haywood County Hospital. Larry Te.. ango (Director, Speech and Hearing Center) contributed a presentation on "Care in Aphonia" at Haywood County. Betty Siegel (Dean, Education and Psychology) was keynote speaker at the Annual Conference of the Illinois Home-makers Extension Federation in Urbana, Illinois, March 16. At the annual meeting of the National University Ex­tension Association in Tuscon, Arizona, March 19-22, Dean Siegel, chairperson-elect of the Division of Administration, Policy and Planning of the NUEA, pre­sided over the division meeting of all deans and associate deans of NUEA-affiliated universities in the country. Following the NUEA meeting, Dean Siegel addressed on March 24 a nine-county meeting of teachers and adminis­trators in Belle Plaine, Kansas. The following day, Dean Siegel addressed 700 participants at a conference on women at Florida Technological Univer­sity in Orlando, Florida. Laurence French (Sociology and Anthropology) presented his paper, "Watergate and Its Impact on American Justice," in the current events and crime session of the Southern Socio­logical Society meetings held in Atlanta March 29-April 1. John Chapman, John Wilcox, Steven Yurkovich, and Ernest Smith (all Earth Sciences) attended the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section Geological Society of America in Winston-Salem, March 23-25. Following the meeting Dr. Chapman spent two days in the field investigating rocks of the slate belt near Asheboro and near Charlotte. Donald W. Josif (Earth Sciences) participated in the annual meeting of the officers and steering committee of the North Carolina Geographical Society at Elon College April 1. Jane Hyatt (Home Economics) was a participant in a workshop for home economics teachers of western North Carolina on new concepts in housing and interior design held at Canton Western Regional Education Center April 21. Arnie Nielsen and Bob Wenig (both Industrial Education and Technology) recently attended an International Conference on Indus­trial Arts Education in New Orleans. Dr. Nielsen also has been appointed to the State Advisory Committee for Industrial Arts Education. Judith M. Stillion (Psychology) delivered an invited address entitled, "New Approaches to Instituting Death Education" at the March meeting of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in Houston. Judith M. Stillion (Psychology) and Glenn W. Stillion, (vice chan­cellor, Student Development) made a presentation entitled "Techniques for Promoting Awareness of Sex Role Bias Among Student Development Personnel" at a recent meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators in Atlanta. Jeff Neff (Earth Sciences) is among 16 participants selected from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to travel to India for a 9-week faculty develop­ment seminar on Indian art, religion, and culture. The program is being funded by the U.S. Office of Educa­tion and the Southern Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies and is being directed by the UNC-Charlotte International Studies Program. Tom O'Toole (History) will participate in a teaching workshop on "The Third World: Africa and Asia" at UNC-Charlotte, June 20-July 8. Lee Budahl (Art) presented a slide-lecture entitled "Art Criticism for Children" at the North Carolina- Virginia Art Education Association Conference in Asheville April 22. Hubert L. Youmans (Chemistry) has been selected as a reviewer of instructional media for Journal of College Science Teaching. He also participated in the North Carolina Educational Computing Service "Computers in Chemistry" workshop at Research Triangle Park, March 25-26. Ed Vassian (Chemistry) presented a paper at the Middle Atlantic Ameri­can Chemical Society Regional Meeting in Newark, Delaware, April 23. The paper was entitled "Electrophillic Substitution of the Quasi-Aromatic Square Planer Nickel (II) Complex Ni(PnAO)-6H." Tom 0'Toole (History) taught a model lesson on ethnocentricism to a class of 6th and 7th graders at Fair-view School in Sylva, April 26. Andrew Baggs (Political Science) addressed the Jackson County Twentieth Century Club on "the Sino- Soviet Split" April 14. On April 15- 16, Dr. Baggs participated with 60 political scientists from 24 N. C. schools in the seventh annual con­ference of the North Carolina Politi­cal Science Association at Shaw »• University, N.C. State and at Meredith. Dr. Baggs was re-elected association secretary at the business meeting. William Lidh (Art) recently completed a woodcut portrait of John Jacob Niles. The portrait was pre­sented to Mr. Niles as a gift on his eighty-fifth birthday at the Music Educators National Conference in Atlanta, April 27. The presentation was made by James Dooley (vice chan­cellor, Development and Special Services), president of the conference. Lidh also received a commission from the North Carolina Society for Origi­nal Graphics. The Raleigh-based society will purchase the entire edition of the woodcut and publish a reproduction of it and information on Lidh in their brochure, "Collector's Choice." T. L. Huguelet (English) attended the Southeastern Renaissance Conference April 1-2 at Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Dr. Huguelet serves as secretary-treasurer of the organization. He will be planning the 1978 convention to be held in Lexington, Ky., March 1-5, 1978, and will be­come president of the 10-state regional theatre conference in 1978. Thomas B. Westcott (coordinator of counseling, CAP Center) has co-authored an article entitled, "Several Variables of Importance in the Use of the Cold Pressor as a Noxious Stimulus in Behavioral Re­search." The article has been accepted for publication in Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977. Betty Siegel, Mil Clark, Mary Jane Dillard, Nancy Sherrill, and Clarence DelForge (all Education and Psychology) gave a presentation at the national convention of the Associ­ation of Supervision and Curriculum Development in Houston, Texas, March 22. Richard Craddock, Betty Siegel, Tom Pickering, and Clarence DelForge (all Education and Psychology) visited the Wichita State Reading Center in Wichita, Kansas, on March 23. Cecil Cosper (Curriculum and Instruction) delivered addresses to the Phi Delta Kappa chapters of Win-throp College and Clemson University on March 19 and March 21, respectively. Platon G. Gailey (Curriculum and Instruction) attended Lecture Series IV at the Institute of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 19 dealing with neurological models for communication disorders. J. Harold Anderson (Curriculum and Instruction) attended the annual convention of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Develop­ment, Houston, Texas, March 19-23. The Reporter A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty arid Staff of Western Carolina University/ Cullowhee, N.C./ May 11, 1977 ' ' I M i l ? RESULTS OF FACULTY ELECTIONS Ten faculty members have been elected to various elective positions on the campus. Elected to the Faculty Senate are James Horton, Ellerd Hulbert, John McCrone, Alice Mathews, Joseph Meigs, and Steven Yurkovich. Joseph Meigs and Max Williams have been elected as representatives to the Graduate Council, and Henry Mainwaring will serve as representative to the University Tenure and Promotion Ad­visory Committee. There will be a run-off election. A run-off election for one remaining seat in the Faculty Senate was to be held May 10. Fred Hinson and Edward Price were on the ballot in that contest. WCU STUDENTS RECEIVE PHOTO AWARDS Two WCU students have received awards in the first annual North Caro­lina Student Photography Exhibit sponsored by the Department of Art. An honorable mention was presented to Stokes Gatewood, and John Daughtry received a special recognition award. They were among 10 students who received awards. The exhibit, which includes 89 photographs by 14 students from 40 N.C. colleges, universities, and technical institutes, will remain on display through May 12 in the art gallery in WCU's Carol Grotnes Belk Building. VISITING MATHEMATICIANS TO SPEAK The Department of Mathematics will sponsor visiting scholars from Duke University and the University* of Illi­nois in May. Dr. Thomas M. Gallie, professor of computer science at Duke, will lecture at 4 p.m. May 11 on "Calculating Electrical Activity on the Heart from Body Surface Measurements," and at 11 a.m. May 12 on "What You Always Wanted to Know About the Moore-Penrose Pseudo- Inverse but Were Afraid to Ask." Dr. Franz E. Hohn, professor of .mathematics at the University of Illinois, will present lectures at 4 p.m. May 23 on "Role and Training of Mathematicians in Society," and at 11 a.m. May 24 on "What is Automaton?" All lectures will be held in 309 Stillwell Science Building and are open to the public without charge. BRASS QUINTET ON TOUR AGAIN The Piedmont Brass Quintet is currently making a ten-day tour of Georgia and Florida that includes two concerts at the Arts Festival of Atlanta. The group will perform on the main stage in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, site of the festival, May 17 at 2 a nd at 7 p.m. The remainder of the tour will include conqerts, master classes and band clinics. The schedule includes stops at Rome, George, May 10; Cedartown, Georgia, May 13; Marietta, Georgia, May 14; and Tampa, Florida, May 20. The Piedmont Brass Quintet is spending this year in residence at WCU. Members are Mary Lazarus Teague and Ned Gardner, trumpet; John Woolley, trombone, John Sizemore, tuba; and Gordon Campbell, French horn. WCU INTERNS LEARN VALUABLE SKILLS The word "intern" brings to most people's mind the image of a harried young doctor acquiring practical expe­rience in the profession in a busy hospital after graduation from medical school. But there are other kinds of interns—artists, social workers, psychologists, political scientists, and journalists to name a few. And at WCU these interns are doing much the same things as the doctors— gaining practical experience in a profession or skill area learned in the classroom. Internships are not required for graduation in most programs, so what possesses students to leave the com­fortable world of the classroom for the intern's immersion into the hard world of work? B. J. Smith, coordinator of the social work program, said there are several reasons. "Some people just need a few extra credit hours to graduate," she said, "but many students do intern­ships because they want to see whether or not the^ want to be a social worker." *A third reason, and the most important one, according to psychology professor Taylor Huskins, is economic-students with work experience in their field of study find it easier to get a job. "We are finding employers want more practical experience," Huskins said. "That's why we initiated the internship program." Another reason that interns have better chances at finding jobs after graduation, according to Dr. Quinn Constantz, coordinator of the health, physical education, and recreation interns, is that internships enable students to make personal contacts with prospective employers while other students have to start looking for jobs from scratch. Debra Ellen-burg, a journalism intern with the 'estern Economic Development Organi­zation in Hazelwood, had another reason. "I was just tired of school," she said, "and wanted to get out into the working world." Many interns have even turned their internship into a permanent job. Dr. Hal Salisbury, WCU intern­ship coordinator, said "it's not an uncommon occurrence for students to get jobs with the same agency they served an internship with." All internships have several things in common. The intern must be an upperclassman and the intern­ship must be done in his major field of study. The intern is supervised academically by his advisor and on the job by the professional with whom he works. Karen Miller, a senior from Black Mountain majoring in sociology, is interning as a social worker with the Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa. In addition to participating as a social worker intern during the day, she has to keep a journal with complete field notes, read several books relat­ing to her job, participate in confer­ences with her advisor, and at the end of the internship, write a paper ex­plaining her experiences. "This experience has really taught me the difference between reality and theory," she commented. She also hinted that there may be a permanent job opening where she works soon and she hopes to a ->ly for it after graduation. Students can participate in in­ternships in several ways, according to Dr. Salisbury. "An industry may call for an intern, the student may seek out an agency on his own for internship, or students can apply through their advisor for an internship," he said. Internships need not be full time, either. Students can serve part-time internships and get only partial credit. Where do interns go to do their work? Almost everywhere, really-business, government, and private firms. Western interns have served in many different places including private law firms, police departments, Job Corps centers, state and federal mental health agencies, businesses