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October 24, 1988

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Monday, October 24, 1988 Vol 13 No 13 Grand Valley State University

Board of Control Studies Phoenix Building Question

At a meeting on October 14, the GVSU

Board of Control decided to delay

mak-ing any decisions on the future of the

Phoenix Building until Board members

review architectural reports regarding the

costs and value of preserving the

build-ing

The old Phoenix Furniture factory is

one of four buildings that Steelcase Inc

donated to the university last year In

August, the Board of Control

commis-sioned a report from preservation

archi-tect Richard Frank on the feasibility of

preserving the building for classroom

use

According to Frank's report, only the

exterior of the building has historic

val-ue, and it can be preserved Based on

Frank's estimates, plus costs for

profes-sional services, equipment and

furnish-ings, and state supervision, a classroom

conversion project would cost a

mini-mum of $8.9 million dollars GVSU has

obtained estimates for constructing a

new facility on the same site that range

from $7.5 to $11 million

Board Chairman Maxine Swanson

appointed a subcommittee of board

members to review the architectural

report and earlier engineering studies on

the building in detail to consider

appro-priate action on the property

The Grand Valley Forum is

pub-lished every Monday by the Public

Relations Office Copy deadline is

the Tuesday noon prior to

publica-tion All materials should be sent to

Sharon Coeling, editor, Public

Rela-tions Office, 24 Zumberge Library,

GVSU, Allendale, MI, 49401

Tele-phone: 895-2221 Grand Valley

State University is an Equal

Opportu-nity, Affirmative Action Institution

University Properties* Vice President Douglas J Smith urged the committee to consider three important areas in making their decision: the degree to which the building may have historical significance;

the advisability of converting it for uni-versity use; and the possibilities of ob-taining the funding needed for the proj-ect

President Lubbers urged the Board's prompt consideration of the matter

''With the winter season upon us it will

be very expensive for us to hold the building at this time," he said

Neither University Properties nor GVSU has funds available for fixing the roof, heating the building, and maintaining fire suppression systems remedies re-quired by city ordinance and by the fire marshal

Subcommittee chairman William G

Reamon said the group will have its recommendations ready by October 28

At that time a special meeting of the Board will be called to make a decision

In other action, the Board approved seeking a Capital Outlay Request for $16 million in state funds to plan and con-struct a Life Sciences Building on the main campus in Allendale

"Right now we're in the process of selecting an architect for this project," said GVSU Physical Plant Director Terry Sack "We hope to obtain Board ap-proval for our choice at the December Board meeting and have schematic plans for the new building ready by May." Sack explained that projecting a con-struction start date at this point is im-possible because of the various approvals from the state needed on any public university building project

* University Properties is the corporation responsible for administering the Stow and Davis properties given to GVSU by Steelcase

Lubbers Addresses Fall Forum

General education, international pro-grams, graduate education, and minority enrollment were four priority areas Presi-dent Lubbers addressed at the Fall

For-um held on Wednesday, October 19

"Maintaining the excellence of and revising our general education program

as needs arise are important steps for us

to take in helping to give our students the knowledge they need in order to function in this world," he said "I look

to the faculty committee responsible for oversight of general education to come forth with ideas to improve the programs

in their charge."

Lubbers recalled his longstanding inter-est in international education and said

he believes it is time for a reassessment

of GVSU's International Studies Pro-grams He observed, "I hold strongly to the conviction that the inability of most

Americans to speak more than one lan-guage and the pitiful lack of knowledge about world geography will be primary causes of our decline as a nation unless they are reversed."

He expressed his concern about the graduate education programs at GVSU, emphasizing that there is no question about the quality of the curriculum of the programs, but stressing the need for

a coherent formal graduate studies policy that can be articulated in separate gradu

-ate education publications

President Lubbers said he was gratified

by the increase in minority enrollment this fall particularly the' 35 percent increase in the number of black students enrolled He cited the work of the Mi

-nority Business Education Center as a significant contributor to that increase

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Theatre Season Opens With British Comedy

open on November 4 with a production

of "The Rivals," a classical restoration

comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Saturday curtain times are 8 p.m and

Sunday matinees will begin at 2 p.m

The plot of the 18th-century comedy

centers on three pairs of lovers gathered

at the fashionable resort town of Bath

"The Rivals" is the most frequently

and some consider it a masterpiece of

the English high comedy of manners

Director Roger Ellis sees many parables

to our own times in the play

"Central characters are in their late

teens and early twenties, struggling to

break free of parental control and to

express themselves independently," he

says "Wealth and social status are key

ingredients of the lovers' situations."

The roles of Jack and Lydia will be

played by Todd Lewis and Gina Gaskill,

GVSU students who were last seen in

the university's productions of "Pippin"

and "The Real Inspector Hound." Their

comic servants Lucy and Fag will be

and Mitchell Master The role of Mrs

Malaprop will be done by Karen Davis,

guest actress with GVSU for the fall

semester, who is also serving as style

coach for the play's language and

movement

Others in the cast include Laurel

Harms as Lydia's confidante Julia; Chris

Dingman as her worrisome lover

Faulk-land; and Dana Levine as Sir Lucius

squire Bob Acres and his servant David;

and Roger Ellis will perform the role of

Jack's father, Sir Anthony Absolute

Jill Hamilton, technical director and

staff designer for the university theatre,

will provide an eighteenth-century look

for the characters' costumes, and Thomas

Hamilton will design the lighting and

accom-panied by live 16th century harpsichord music

Tickets will be available at the box office on performance nights Admission

prices are $4 for the general public; $3 for GVSU students; $2 for senior citi-zens, handicappers, and groups of ten or more; and $1 for high school students and children

Lubbers Addresses Fall Forum

Continued from page 1

"That program within the School of Business has been extremely successful in singling out promising minority high school students and then working with

excited about being here and they feel good about themselves I would like to see similar programs instituted in other areas of the university."

Lubbers also addressed the issue of state funding and pointed out that the attitudes about and interest in higher education on the part of the Governor and other state leaders will continue to determine funding levels for state univ

er-sities He also cited tax policies and the general economic health of the state as important funding determinants

"Our 9.2 percent increase in enrollment this fall is an indication of future growth potential," he said He pointed out that

Welcome to GVSU LaDon Gustafson, director of conferences and career development

For the past fifteen years, she has

Schools, most recently as executive

Di-vision During her last three years there, she was on loan to the State Department

of Education as the State Literacy Coor-dinator She has a B.A from Michigan State University and a M.A from West-ern Michigan University

Glenda Pittman, admissions counselor She formerly worked as a staff advisor

in the Grand Rapids area where

econo-mic and population growth are strong, there will continue to be some pressure

on GVSU to grow '.'I believe GVSU could become a university of 12,000 students

during the next decade, and in doing so,

we'll adequately meet the higher

educa-tion needs of west Michigan and the whole state "However," he added,

"without a significant increase in the state appropriation, we are definitely limited in the number of students we'll

be able to serve in the future."

The Forum will provide a detailed recapitulation of the President's talk in its next edition

A videotape of the presentation is

available from the Office of Instructional Technology Call Joy Stark at extension

2116 if you would like to view the tape

for the Service Learning Center at Michi

worked for Grand Rapids Junior College

as an occupational trainer, where she

coordinated student services and the Dislocated Worker Program She studied counseling and personnel at Western Michigan University and has her B.S and

M A degrees from Michigan State Uni -versity

Glorie Sain, secretary in continuing

ed-ucation

She formerly worked as a secretary for

United Way of Kent County

Across Campus

The architectural design of the L.V

Eberhard Center is featured in the

No-vember issue of American School and

University, a monthly business magazine

serving educational administrators

na-tionwide

The Eberhard Center design is one of

112 published in the magazine's annual

architectural awards issue The Grand

Rapids architectural firm of Robert Lee

Wold and Associates designed the

build-ing

Theatre Fraternity

Seeks Members

reactivating GVSU's honorary theatre

fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega There will

be an initiation of new members at the

end of this month, and the fraternity will

sponsor an event in conjunction with the

production of "The Rivals."

Advisor Laura Gardner Salazar hopes

to identify all fraternity members in the

university community and invite them to

participate in these events If you are a

member, please call Salazar at extension

3510 or Carla Cavender at extension

3668

Telephone Number Correction

The telephone number for the

Tele-course Office published in the September

26 issue of the Forum was incorrect

The correct number is extension 6610 or

6615

Crime Prevention Sessions

To Be Offered

A class presented by Citizens Against

Crime will be offered at GVSU on

Thurs-day, November 10 The goal of the

program is to encourage people to take

responsibility for their own safety and to

give them practical tips on how to do so

effectively The class will focus on

safe-ty in various areas including home,

of-fice, car, and on the street

The session will last approximately one hour and will be held at 11 a.m in the Portside Room, Kirkhof Center, and re-peated at 1:30 p.m in Room 313, Eber-hard Center

Citizens Against Crime is a national public service organization with offices

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throughout the nation The Clerical, Office, and Technical Training and De-velopment Committee is sponsoring the class which is open to all faculty and staff Contact the Personnel Office at extension 2215 if you plan to attend

Public Broadcasting Notes Radio Station to Host

Election Night Festivities

WGVU-FM is inaugurating its first election night coverage with an evening

of "Jazz and Information." The "In-formation," or news coverage, will be extensive, with up-to-the-minute election results The "Jazz" portion of the eve-ning will feature Canadian pianist Oliver Jones, accompanied by a local rhythm section The election night festivities will be held from 7-11 p.m on Nove m-ber 8 In addition to "Jazz and Informa-tion," there will be hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar

The entertainment and reception will

be held in the conference room just outside of WGVU-FM's second floor stu-dios in the Meijer Public Broadcast Cen-ter

Members of the station's 88.5 Club (those joining at $88.50 or more) will receive two complimentary tickets with their invitations, and others interested in attending may purchase tickets for

$12.50 each Call Teresa Schaal at

extension 6711 for more information

Election '88 programming continues this week with the following specials on WGVU/WGVK/TV:

Monday October 24 9 p.m

"Campaign: the Choice." Correspon-dent Gary Wills will explore the political and personal histories of Bush and Dukakis, examining how their lives intersected with important

Monday, October 31 9 p.m

"Campaign: A Cry For Help." Bill Moyers will look at the American political system through the eyes of the people of Jamaica, Queens, a New York city neighborhood tom apart by drugs and violence

Faculty and Staff Sketches

Charlene Beckmann, assistant professor

of mathematics, presented a workshop entitled, "Toward a Lively Calculus Through Computer Graphics," at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics held

in Marquette on October 6 and 7 Irv Berkowitz, director of the School

of Social Work, was the moderator of a

United Way of Kent County on federal welfare reform The panel examined the compromise bill recently developed in a congressional conference committee to reform the federal AFDC program

Henry's office and the Michigan League

of Human Services also served on the panel

E Dawson Fisher, professor of com-munications, has been appointed to the Detroit Advertising Review Panel The panel, made up of advertising profes-sionals, business people, and public rep-resentatives, is advisory to the Better Business Bureau of Detroit and Eastern

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Michigan on policies regarding ethical

practices in local advertising

Robert Hoeksema, associate professor

of Spanish, directed the seventh annual

GVSU Spanish program in Mexico, held

from May 8-June 4 in Guadalajara The

participants studied the Spanish language

and Mexican culture at the Institute

Cultural Mexicano-Norteamericano and

lived with Mexican families in the city

Hoeksema is currently making

arrange-ments for the 1989 program Contact

him at extension 3476 or 3203 for

infor-mation

The title of a speech by Matthew Mc

Logan, vice president for university

re-lations, to the National Association of

changed McLogan spoke on "How

Ed-ucation and the Economy Will Affect the

Future of Grand Rapids." On October 25

he will speak on "Why is Energy

Man-agement Important?" at a forum for

non-profit agencies sponsored by United Way

of Kent County

Deanna Morse, associate professor of

communications, has been appointed to

the Media Arts Panel of the Ohio Arts

Council The panel reviews grant

ap-plications and awards over $200,000 in

grant monies yearly

Mary Seeger, professor of German,

served as speaker in the Mysterious

Michigan Series at the Cadillac Public

Library on October 13 The program is

funded by the Michigan Council for the

Humanities Seeger also spoke earlier

this year at the Gaines Township Library

The recent Grand River Valley Review

(Vol VIII, No.1), published by the Grand

Rapids Historical Society, includes an

Rapids by Wilhelm Seeger, professor of

German

Norman Ten Brink, professor of geol-ogy, presented a program entitled

"Groundwater Education in Michigan" at the Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association 22nd Annual Meeting held at GVSU on September 30 and October 1

Donald Hall, professor of physics, led a field trip aboard the D.J Angus for the group; and William Neal, professor of geology, presented a field program on collecting shoreline data for classroom use The theme of the meeting was

"Fresh Water Resources of Michigan."

Calendar of Events

Clerical Office and Technical Clerical assistant, Financial Aid

$8.04-$9.31

Television Equipment Operator, WGVU/WGVK-TV $8.46-$9.24 Secretary, Dean's Office, Science and Mathematics $7.54-$8.74

For more information, call Personnel,

University is an Equal Opportunity, Af-firmative Action employer

Tuesday September 27 -Friday November 4

10 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays; til 7 p.m on Thursdays: Art Exhibit "The New Figure," figure drawings by Dellas Henke, Kathryn Myers, and Judith Roode Calder Art Gallery

Monday October 24

12 noon Lunchbreak Poetry readings by poets Rosa M Arenas and David James Free Calder Fine Arts Center

Tuesday October 25

7 p.m.: Volleyball Hillsdale at GVSU

Thursday October 27

12 noon Lunchbreak The Asbury Brass Quintet A variety of music from various composers including Praetorius and Fats Waller Free

Calder Fine Arts Center

Friday October 28

7 p.m.: Volleyball GVSU at Michigan Tech Houghton

Saturday October 29

12 noon: Volleyball GVSU at Northern Michigan Marquette

1 :30 p.m.: Football SE Missouri State at GVSU

Sunday October 30 10:30 a.m.: Dialogue worship Portside Room, Kirkhof Center

6:30 p.m.: Catholic mass 132 Lake Huron Hall