The Lumberjack, September 30, 1981.

              Volume 71, Issue 11 September 30. 1981
elected new ASNAU liaison
By Katla Riley
Associated students o f NAU has a new
liaison council woman. She is Phoenix senior
Cathy Krznarich, a telecommunications ma­jor.
K
rznarich is the winner o f Thursday’s run­o
ff election against Tempe junior Kimm
Fagan. Krznarich received 869 o f the 1,268
votes cast. Fagan received 399 votes.
As liaison, Krznarich's responsibilities will
include overseeing the ASNAU darkroom,
chairing ASNAU committees on housing and
financial aids, representing ASNAU at local
government meetings and acting as a liaison
between campus organizations and ASNAU.
In related action, ASNAU’s Supreme
Court voted to award the revoked $25
deposits of two candidates to ASNAU’s
scholarship fund.
Kimm Fagan and Connie Wiegers both lost
their election deposits for posting violations
during the liaison primary campaign. There
were no violations o f election codes during
the run-off campaign, said Vicki Fimea,
ASNAU’s chief justice.
In other business, ASNAU officers voted
5-4 Thursday to set aside $250 o f their
organizational allocations account for an
alcohol awareness week.
Acting on a mandate from the Arizona
Board of Regents, ASNAU will sponsor an
alcohol awareness week Oct. 12-16. The
establishment o f a campus Bacchus group is
also planned. Bacchus is a national alcohol
awareness organization.
Vice President of Administration and
Finance Mike Morgan and Junior Coun­cilman
Chris McMahon led the opposition
against the $250 allocation, claiming the
alcohol awareness program is already over­budgeted.
Vice President of Student Services Chris
Jeffers said ASNAU should help support the
program since it is sponsored by ASNAU.
Anhauser-Busch, a beer distributor, has
already donated $2,000 toward alcohol
awareness week. 'v
President Kenny Cail, whose vote decides a
tie, broke a 4*4 deadlock by voting for the
allocation.
In other action, ASNAU will set up a phone
service for students wishing to comment on
their internship or $40 internship fee.
Students who call in will also be asked ques­tions
about visitations and correspondance
from professors, how they got their intern­ship,
etc. The number is 523-4971.
ASNAU officers also approved six
Homecoming royalty candidates. Queen can­didates
are Glendale. Calif, senior Kathy
Fuller, Phoenix senior Michele Hood and
Scottsdale senior Jan Lemon.
Homecoming king candidates are Phoenix
junior Mark Davis and Flagstaff seniors Cal
Hall and Marty Murrillo. Royalty elections
are Oct. 1.
In other action, ASNAU officers:
-aw arded $70 to Associated Women
Students for reimbursement o f money spent
on bunk-bed supports.
-awarded $37 to Kappa Sigma for expenses
incurred during their muscular dystrophy
benefit.
-recognized a new Campus Activity Board
that will organize and promote campus
events.
-approved nine appointees to several of
ASNAU’s campus-life committees.
-announced that the deadline for submis­sions
to the ASNAU calendar is the 23rd of
each month.
-announced the ASNAU announcement
line will begin operating Oct. 1. The number
523-3880.
-announced ASNAU-sponsored perfor­mances
by Mickey Gilley and John Lee in the
dome Oct. 15.
There are still 27 unfilled positions on 16
ASNAU campus-life committees. Students in­terested
in serving on a committeee should -
stop by the ASNAU offices in the North
Union. Deadline for applications is Oct. 1.
Vacancies exisit in the following commit­tees:
curriculum, admission and scholastic
regulations, dome policy, finacial aid,
graduate council, health advisory, liberal
studies, library, safety, scholarship, teacher
education, university-organized research,
university series dean’s discipline committee,
university film progr'Sm and dean’s commit­tee
on student organizations
ASNAU meets 3 p.m. every Thursday in
the North Union, Room 208. The public is
welcome to attend.
Why do we eat the way we do?
By Martha Swartwout
Recently, eating disorders have been given
attention in the national press.
NAU is no different from any other univer-sity.
There are women on campus who suffer
from severe eating disorders, said Dr.
Leonard Wright, Fronske Health Center
director.
The health center and counseling center
both employ trained and experienced physi­cians
and psychologists who are not only will­ing
to help, but capable of helping students
with these problems, said WrigftK
"Now , with added personnel in the
counseling department, we can get to the crux
of the m atter," he said.
Wright divided those with eating disorders
into two general categories: those who have a
distorted injage-W fthemselves and conse­quently
cut ba?k extensively on their food in-take,
and those who go on eating binges and
then feel guilty and find a way to rid
themselves o f the food they have eaten.
The most important thing to note, said
Wright, is that the disorders are symptopis of
something larger a n d n u s t he treated.
* “ Why do you fed you need to lose 30 or 40
pounds?” “ Why do you noLeat for days and
then eat excessively?”
These are the types of questions that must
be resolved to get to the bottom of the matter,
said Wright.
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Lt. W.A. R oberts an d P atrolm an Stoddard of th e Flagstaff Police Dept, try
to calm th e crow d In front of th e Valley N ational Bank a fte r the holdup last
Friday. A pproxim ately $2,000 w as sto len .
Parking on campus: Explanations for color-codes
By Llaa B u rro w s
With increased parking fines and students
receiving more tickets, questions have been
asked regarding parking designations.
"The reasoning behind the color-coded
parking lots is to put people who live in dorms
as close to them as possible. There is also a
female over male priority for security and
safely reasons,” said Jim Mansfield, traffic
and safety administrator.
"Recently, faculty and staff color-coding
has been revised. For instance lot 15 near the
psychology building and across from Cottage
City is now a staff-only parking lot,” said
Mansfield.
Reason for added parking lots and new
coding is the change in the traffic pattern.
“ Now that there are the new roads on the
outer areas of campus there is more use of
those open lots around those areas,” said
Mansfield.
"A new parking lot is being built on the
corner o f Knoles Drive and Riordan Road.
This new lot has been designated as an open
lot to my knowlegde, however, on the map it
is shown as a faculty and off-campus student
lot,” said Mansfield.
"M y idea o f efficient parking is high-rise
lots. We could use the same amount of
ground, but would accommodate eight times
the parking space. There could also be offices
on the top floor of the lo t," said Mansfield.
Mansfield suggested that the ideal area, for
a high-rise parking lot would be at the south
end o f Cottage City.
"Student services, which is presently
scheduled for the Cottage City area, could be
at the top o f the lot. This would give the
employees a nice view. Also we could have
covered walkways to Ardrey Auditorium and
Cowden H all," said Mansfield.
“ I really think this would be better use of
the ground. We keep paving dirt. There is too
much asphalt around here. If you look at this
campus when the students are gone, it looks
like one big parking lot,” said Mansfield.
Mansfield said that there is a need for
students living off-campus to have designated
parking areas.
"W e arent trying to ‘cheat’ campus
residents of parking spaces. All faculty and
staff lots are open lots between 4:30 p.m. and
7 a.m.
“ Students should be able to walk to their
destinations during the day. If they can’t,
there are open lots near all of the classroom
buildings. There is no reason to park in an
unauthorized area," said Mansfield.
“ On other campuses they have all open
parking lots. I find that this woultfcause more
problems for students. For example, students
residing in Babbitt and Peterson halls would
have a difficult time trying to park near their
dorm because it is so close to the Liberal Arts
building," Mansfield said.
With the increase in parking lots and the
change in traffic patterns, many revisions are
being made in parking designations.
Brain drain: Industry, money lure NAU faculty
By Katie Riley
Brain drain: depletion o f the intellectual or
professional resources o f a country, region,
etc., especially through emigration.
-W ebster's New Wdfto Dictionary
NAU is experiencing brain drain. Already
some of our faculty have emigrated from
education to the lucrative attractions of big
business and industry.
Brain drain is not unique to NAU. Accor­ding
to a recent Ford Foundation study, it is
causing teacher shortages all over the country.
Nationwide engineering programs, for exam­ple,
are short some 2,000 instructors, the
study states.
The reason for the shortages-in engineer­ing,
math, the physical sciences-is well-documented.
Education simply cannot com­pete
with the high-paying benefits of industry.
F o r eJtample. the average NAU 1981
graduate with a bachelor’s in mechanical
engineering and no experience starts at
$22,920 annually, said Otto Berg, Career
Placement director.
The average NAU assistant professor earns
$23,048 for a nine-month period.
“ An assistant professor with a Ph. D. and
experience sometimes doesn’t earn as much as
a student with a bachelor’s who goes into in­dustry.
There’s definitely a problem ," Berg
said.
This year, NAU’s engineering department
lost only one faculty member to industry, but
several professors have mentioned Industry’s
attractions, said Clyde Holland, acting dean
o f the College of Engineering.
“ There are a number of faculty members
who mention that it appears rather inviting on
the industrial side,” Holland said.
"The real problem is that the number of
graduate students going into engineering b
minimal. We’re depleting our teaching
resources,” Holland said.
Holland cited a recent Exxon Education
Foundation program that is. designed
specifically to overcome the shortage of
engineering faculty members.
The program provides grants for engineer­ing
graduate students and helps supplement
the salaries o f junior, non-tenured faculty in
66 university engineering departments.
’ ‘The purpose of the salary supplement is to
encourage junior faculty to stay in teaching
positions when they are most vulnerable to
job offers from industry,” according to a
Sept. 23 Chronicle o f Higher Education arti­cle.
Holland emphasized that education does
have some advantages over industry-research
time, summer vacations' and contact with
youth, for example.
Engineering is not the only field troubled
by brain drain. The math department lost two
faculty members this year to industry, said
math chairman Michael Ratliff.
The phenomenon is fairly recent, Ratliff
said. The drain on math teachers may be due
to a growing need for computer scientists, he
said.
NAU’s computer science major falls under
the College of Engineering.
"The bottom line is the ever-more present
use o f computers. Industry and business need
people to program those computers. A begin­ning
computer scientist can make twice as
much as a beginning (public school) math
teacher,” Ratliff said.
“ For people who are younger and whose
salaries are not high, industry is an appealing
alternative,” Ratliff said. Older, more
established math instructors in d professors
seem to be less tempted by industry, he said.
But the shortage of math professors is very
real.
“ Five years ago when we’d advertise for a
math faculty opening, we’d get between
200-300 applications or interest letters. Now
we advertise and get 10-15.” Ratliff said.
Math teacher shortages in the public
schools have led to large numbers of uncer­tified
teachers being asked to teach math
classes, he said.
Ratliff quoted a National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics study that found 25
percent o f elementary and secondary-school
math teachers are not certified to do so.
Ratliff said another study in Los Angeles
found 43 percent o f public school math
teachers had not taken a college math course.
To improve .these statistics, the math
department * 0 offer a two-summer course
for teachers,^beginning this June. At the end
of the course, teachers will be accredited to
teach math.
"The emphasis will be to produce good-qualtiy
math teachers," Ratliff said.
The shortage of teachers qualified to teach
math and other technical subjects is obvious
even in NAU’s,College of Education.
"They are being drained a long time before
they make the committment to be teachers,”
said Ed Sage, curriculum and instruction
director.
"Anyone who is committed to teaching will
probably stay in teaching," he said.
Sage said there are only two math student
teachers this year, as opposed to the 6-10 of
only a few years ago. Sage attributed the drop
to industry incentives and to the schools
themselves.
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