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Professor Profile
Political activates enrich classes
By Teresa Shultz
Pollster, political analyst, author and
professor. Penn State Harrisburg's own
Dr. Michael Young is a man who is
used to seeing his name in print.
Young has successfully combined
several careers, and has become
somewhat of a media superstar.
In addition to teaching graduate
courses in politics and public
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dr. Michael Young, professor of politics
and public administration.
administration, Young proclaims
himself a pollster by profession, and
also does political analyses.
He is called upon frequently to give
his opinions on political matters and has
made hundreds of on.air appearances for
both radio and television. He is the
Salaries
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concerned that this inequity, resulting in
low morale, may affect the faculty's
productivity and, consequently, the
students' education will suffer.
This could become a more
detrimental problem when these students
advance to University Park and must
compete with students who have been
there for their first two years, with the
highly motivated faculty.
Unfortunately, this report was
released at an inopportune time because
of the budgetory problems. Hudson had
a solution to rectify this.
He said, for example, if the
University is given a five percent salary
increase to allocate, it could take a small
part of it, since Capital College does not
have a large number of faculty, and use
it to adjust the salaries. By using this
means, there would be no need to look
for additional funds.
De Rooy said, "As a reult of this
report, the president of the University
Senate has appointed a University-wide
task force on salary. The task force is
expected to begin work this year to study
the implications of this report and the
Taylor report, a report on the salary
differentials between genders."
Hudson said, "This report gives us a
message. It tells us how the central
administration evaluates our campus and
our students, and it says we are not as
good [as University Park] and that's
demoralizing."
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political analyst for Harrisburg's WHP
stations, and has also appeared on Cable
News Network (CNN) and done analyses
for National Public Radio (NPR).
Young enjoys being in the media
limelight.
"I like it," Young said without
hesitation. "I have a natural inclination
toward it."
He said he also enjoys it because he
believes he is performing the role of
translator.
"Academia does not get translated
well or is not understood well by people
outside academics."
Young is very much interested in
how the role of academics and research
gets translated into action.
Young's profession of polling makes
him interested in research.
Currently, he is associate director of
the Institute of State and Regional
Affairs (ISRA) here at PSH. He heads
up ISRA's research program which offers
polling services to government and the
non-profit sector.
In addition to his appearances on TV
and radio, his opinions and analyses have
been reported in such prestigious and
well-known publications as the
Philadelphia Inquirer , the Pittsburgh
Post Gazette, the New York Times,
USA Today, and the Los Angeles
Times, among others.
He has also authored several books
including The American Dictionary of
Campaigns and Elections (1987), which
is qyickly becoming a standard reference
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carping on the negativity and the
dirtiness of the Bush campaign was ment
to belittle George Bush's
accomplishment.
"In effect, we were being told that it
turns out Bush will win, but he will not
have won fair and square," Podhoretz
said.
Many people feel that the term
President-elect George Bush will be, in
actuality, four more years of Ronald
Reagan conservatism. But Podhoretz
points out that Reagan's views are closer
to John Kennedy's than Edward
Kennedy's views are today.
Podhoretz said that Reagan used the
old liberalism of Kennedy to get elected
in 1980 and re-elected in 1984. The old
liberalism favored a strong defense,
feared the expansion of communism, and
cut taxes to promote economic growth.'
Reagan, a former Democrat, switched
parties but kept the ideology.
When the post-1968, McGovern-ism
became labeled liberalism, Podhoretz left
the liberal establishment "to become a
founding prophet of the neo-conservative
movement." Ironiclly, Podhoretz bears a
striking -- if not peculiar --resemblance
to New York City's mayor, Ed Koch.
He had worked for the London Times
for nearly 30 years before becoming the
editor of the Commentary magazine.
Podhoretz, also a noted author, has
written six books; among them, his
most recent, "The Bloody Crossroads:
Where Literature and Politics Meet."
Profile
Education opened door
for support counselor
By Nathan Lee Gadsden
Some Penn State Harrisburg staff
members are required to wear many hats.
Student Support Counselor Felicia
Brown-Haywood is such a person. She
said she's often mistaken for the campus
affirmative action officer, and although
she is the PSH contact person for that
program, her responsibilities go far
beyond that area.
Brown-Haywood said she handles and
refers special problems for many student
sub-groups, including physically
challenged individuals, returning adults,
minorities, and commuters.
She said she "works to enhance the
retention efforts of all these groups."
Much of her time is spent providing
follow-up support for students involved
in various University programs; "Even if
Felicia Brown-Haywood, student support counselor
that means knocking on dorm doors to
get people to class," she said.
Her current line of work was not
always Brown-Haywood's career goal.
A native of Philadelphia, she
graduated from Cheyney State University
with a degree in therapeutic recreation,
which kept her on track to fulfill her
lifelong dream of becoming a physical
education instructor.
However, after a half of a year as a
substitute teacher, she decided against
pursuing that career.
She said, "I decided I wanted to be in
the helping field, so I got a job in a
hospital working with high-risk infants,
with thoughts of eventually becoming a
physician's assistant."
During this time, she also got
married and moved to Harrisburg.
After the unexpected death of her first
husband, Brown-Haywood said she found
the responsibility of being a single
parent to be emotionally and financially
draining, so she decided to further her
education.
She first attended beauty school to
pick up a trade to help pay her way
through graduate school. She then
earned a master's degree in counseling
from Shippensburg University.
Now remarried, Brown-Haywood said
she first came to PSH as a student and
worked as a graduate assistant in the
counselling center. She saw a gap
between PSH and the Harrisburg black
community and decided she could do
something about it.
In her present position, Brown-
Haywood says she must often serve as
"interpreter, liaison and mediator to help
bring people together. "But my goal in
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all situations is to get faculty, staff and
students to talk to each other without
me."
"Everyone at Penn State Harrisburg
must pay more attention to the diversity
of students and how they can blend and
complement each other."
She said we can't measure each
student against what a particular group
feels is the norm."
She continued to say that PSH is a
microcosm of the United States where,
by the year 2000, one-third of the
population will be people of color, and
"all students need to be prepared for
differences in cultures."
Brown-Haywood cited education as
the key which opened doors for her, and
it is the motivating force for her to show
others that for many people "education
can be the way out."