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Volume 11, No. 5
Rosenberger President
SGA Election Results
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The newly elected SGA Officers and Senators were sworn in last Friday during a outdoor
ceremony. Shown here taking the oath of office are [[eft to right]: David J. Austin, Vice
President; Rosanne M. Rosenberger, President; John Clark, Treasurer; William Bertolet, Sr. El.
Ed. Senator; John Reutter, Sr. Hum. Senator; and Eric Jesche, Sr. Bus. Senator.
The re-establishment of a Dean's
'List at Capitol Campus was one of the
main topics discussed at the fourth
meeting of the Provost's Advisory
Committee on Student Welfare, which
was held Wednesday, April 30, in the
Gallery Lounge.
Dr. Daniel Poore, chairman of the
Faculty Committee on Academic and
Athletic Standards,• Awards and
Scholarships, reported on the Fall
Term deliberations of his group con
cerning a Dean's List.
Is there such a thing as "appropri
ate common knowledge?" Does a uni
versity have the right to require such
knowledge in its graduates?
These are some of the questions
with which the faculty planning com
mittee has had to grapple in consider
ing a core curriculum requirement for
Capitol Campus students. Dr. Michael
Barton, Assistant Professor of Social
Science and American Studies, is the
committee's chairman.
While ideas are still being dis
cussed, Barton said, the committee has
recommended that entrance and exit
courses be offered.
The entrance course might concen
trate on "great ideas" or "great think
ers." Its goal would be to help students
"think about many things at once
clearly." The exit course, with empha
sis on interdisciplinary problem
solving, would help students learn
"how to do many things at once
effectively."
In the 19th century, students had
quite a strict curriculum in college. In
Students To Get A Dean's List
A number of students, notably
Michael Cocciardi, Rhonda Wolfe, and
David J. Austin; among others, ex
pressed their desire tc have the Dean's
List re-established.
Two problems concerning the
Dean's List were discussed: grade
inflation and wide differences among
programs.
Dr. Gross noted that his personal
willingness to re-establish the Dean's
List was subject to the comments made
about this question by students, the
faculty and his staff.
Faculty StudieiCore Courses
the 20th century, they have had more
freedom to choose their courses. How
ever, rather then broaden themselves
through choices of electives, today's
students seem to narrow themselves.
In Barton's view, a 20th century
preference for free choices in schooling
has created a situation where intellec
tual pursuits give way to practical
concerns.
Presently, Barton said, the univer
sity requires mainly a certain number
of credits as qualification for gradua
tion.
Should the learning of "common
knowledge" be added to that require
ment? How can that term be defined?
Is it intellectual arrogance to presume
to offer such courses?
Many colleges have installed the
core concept simply by requiring stu
dents to take a little art, a little music,
a little science, a little literature,
etc.,Barton said.
'The fact that 'integrating' courses
are fairly rare should be a yellow light
for the committee," according to
Middletown, PA. 17057
Since the meeting last week, the
provost has decided to go ahead and
re-establish a Dean's List at Capitol
Campus effective this term.
All full-time undergraduate stu
dents (including non-degree and provi
sional) with a term grade-point average
of 3.5 or better will be eligible for the
Dean's List.
Students achieving the Dean's List
will receive a personal letter signed by
their respective program heads. In
addition, the student's hometown
newspaper will be notified of the honor
bestowed.
Barton. "Harvard debated this issue
for years and merely came up with
some distribution requirements. We
have those, more or less, already at
Capitol."
"Certainly there are difficulties,"
Barton said. "For example, can we
expect engineering students to handle
upper-level courses in the humanities
and humanities students to handle
advanced science courses? Frankly, the
structure of the school works against a
core course. We don't have four years.
The planning committee hopes it can
solve these problems."
Barton, in his report, quoted Alfred
North Whitehead, modern philosopher:
"The whole point of a university...is to
bring the young under the intellectual
influence of a band of imaginative
scholars." The committee, Barton said,
hopes to see that done through the
recommended core courses.
If the recommendations are accept
able to all the proper committees, the
proposed core courses, may be ready
for the 1981 winter term, Barton said.
9 May 1980
This year's spring election of offi
cers and senators of the Student
Government Association could be con
sidered one of the most intense student
elections -in the history of Capitol
Campus.
Originally, the election for SGA
officers was scheduled for Thursday,
April 24, but due to various problems
the election was postponed until Mon
day, April 28.
Also, the Student Court overturned
a decision by the Election Screening
Committee to disqualify eight of the
sixteen candidates because they start
ed to campaign before they were
approved.
Thus, because of the Student
Court's ruling, all candidates who filed
a petition had their names placed on
the ballot.
Although the student-voter turnout
was good at the Monday election, it
was discovered Monday night that the
ballot box had been stuffed with at
least 70 votes. Exact details on the
ballot stuffing are not available. How
ever, the officials who counted the
ballots were Jonathan Hostler, Sam
Bookheimer, and Keith Yundt.
The election was then rescheduled
for Thursday, May 1.
Surprisingly, 379 people voted on
Thursday -- about 90 or 50 more than
the previous Monday. In fact, Thurs
day's turnout waS the largest student
turnout at an SGA 'election in seven
years. Student-newspaper files indi
cate that 491 students voted in 1972,
and at least 392 students voted in 1973.
Following is the breakdown of the
election results; (candidates who were
running on the Pro-Keggar Party tic
ket are labelled PKP)
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT -- Rosanne M. Rosen
berger, 134; Dave Kinder (PKP), 124;
Jay Redman, 68; Joe Horvath (Write
in), 26.
VICE PRESIDENT -- Dave Austin,
125; Julie Kuhn, 113; Jeff Hague
(PKP), 102.
TREASURER -- John Clark (PKP),
178; Susan Kreiser, 145.
SECRETARIES -- Michelle Toole
(PKP), 208; Denise Dick, 116.
SENATORS
BUSINESS -- Eric Jesche (PKP), 102;
Meredith Livinston, 67.
ENGINEERING -- Mark Polins, 54;
Jon Ference, 44.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sandra Shirk, 74.
HUMANITIES -- John Reutter (PKP),
60.
MATH SCIENCE -- Robert Hessen
thaler (Write-in), 9.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION --
William Bertolet (PKP Write-in), 14.
GRADUATE -- Jitsuro Yamamoto
(Write-in),6
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