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By Jennifer GurecSd
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Are you really Seaming while
you sit in class, or are you ‘V ann­ing
the chair?"
Cultural andeducational critic
Ira Shor wit present his ideason
classroom leaching and learn­ing
at 7 p.m. tonight in the Art
Museum in Old Main. -
Empowerment of stu d en t is
Shot's call. His mild manners
during a low-key interview with
The Lumberjack lies in con trast to
his strong belief in how a class­room
should be run.
Shor, a professor at City Uni­-
- versityin New York, said students
should be constituents, not di-
T. entst of knowledge* he said. Stu­dents
should be consulted by the teacher, allowing them to have a
voice in what will be taught and how it will be taught Shor said
students need to feel as if they count and that their opinion is
important.
Classrooms need to begin to incorporate these ideas of etnpow-emeu,,
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»*<ui *herc *ou comedo Be. a
consumer of knowledge. Consider yourself a constituent o4 a
process; With rights toguesdon the process, question die teacher,
question the matfcriaif question the status q u o / he said.
Students must look carefully at the educational process, observe
howil is structured, what the power relation is between teacher and
student and what they-want from it, Shor saidi
Shor has a disparaging view about students* attitudes toward the
educational process: Students enter school as ferocious learners,
I very eager u> learn. Byjunior high or high school, they are bored,
i passive, alienated, and unhappy with their educational lives, he
said.
This, Shor said, carries over into college, where students have
Honors Week hits full stride
By Theresa Curry
The Lu m b e rja c k
Either the students are getting smarter or the professors are
getting belter.
The number of Northern Arizona University students achiev­ing
academic excellence is on the rise and next week is the time
to recognize them.
Monday kicks off NAU’s 14th annual Honors Week.
“(Honors Week) is to acknowledge the accomplishments of all
students who have earned at least 12 credit hours and have a GPA
of 3.5 or above. It is to recognize academic achievement through­out
the university," said Tamela Hyatt, honors week coordinator.
Many events will be held by various colleges and departments
to celebrate Honors Week.
The Department of Mathematics will host James H. Matis,
professor of statistics at Texas A&M L’niversitv. who will predict
when “killer bees" will arrive in Flagstaff.
“Those are in the news in Phoenix right now because they’re
finding colonies in Phoenix, so all of these things are very
pertinent to Flagstaff right now. There’s a lot of current informa­tion
that will be brought up during honors week," Hvatt said.
The Physics and Astronomy Department will host N. Frank Six
of NASA who wil I give an update on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Six has been with NASA since 1983 and has been working with the
Hubble Telescope since 1986.
Although all the speakers arejust as important in their fields,
Matis and Six are expected to be the two premiere speakers next
week because of their news-making topics, she said.
Hyatt said she thinks the number of people participating in
Honors Week may be growing.
“I think last year we started receiving more support from the
administration as far as publicizing and support in terms of
wanting the departments to do things," Hyatt said.
liana Landes, honors program office specialist senior, said
quite a few of the department and college faculty and staff have
been consistent in their involvement in Honors Week.
“I’ve been here 10 years and (many colleges) have been
repetitious in their sending out certificates and having recef£
tions and some of them are having convocations of their own.
Some are turning around and saving, ‘Hey this sounds good'. "
See HONORS, Page 8
Honors Program searches for new director
By G.E. Roybal
Tbc Lufnbcrjack
The Monday dead! me for a new NAU
Honors Program director has yielded
five candidates.
The director search, which was an­nounced
and advertised as an internal
search throughout March, is aiming at
selecting a new director bv the end of
this month, said Siuaene Shipley* Col­iege
of Arts, and Science dean.
Present Honors Program directorjoe
Shaffer will hold on to th e position umil
June SO, at which time he will move to
the history department.
Shipley said the decision to replace
Shaffer is based on the desire to
strengthen the program curricula. Ad­min
isuative support has been missing
from the program without a director
who has a doctorate, she said.
Find j ag a new di rector should not bit
construed as an indication of Shaffer's
leadership for the past three years, she
said, “but we’re strengthening what
needs to be strengthened."
Nicholas Meyerhofer, associate dean
of modem languages, echoed Shipley Is
sentiments, praising Shaffer* steward­ship
of the pfogsam.
The new honors head »hoaW be rep­resentative
o f a senior acuity po-moo
—■ with a doctorkte — to work in con­junction
wit h ihe new curricula, he said.
The search commitiec is “making sure
whoever is chosen is a good match with
this program,' he aid .
Shaffer said he will miss the position*
although he will still teach honors
classes- "It was a he&uva lot of fun.*’ |
Davis takes presidency*
• Concerns arise
over handling of
write-in ballots
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Volume 94, Issue 11 © COPYRIGHT 1996 Wednesday, April 3, 1996
By Nora Burke Joyce
The Lumberjack
The votes have been cast and
counted and Mark Davis will be the
new president of the Associated
Students of NAU.
Davis took 58.7 percent of the
vote, or 639 votes. Jeff Sears had
23.7 percent, or 258 votes. Melissa
Halter had 15.9 percent, or 173
votes.
Brian Davidson, senior, political
science major, has been elected
Vice President of Student Affairs.
Jennifer Reichelt, sophomore, hu­man
resource managemen t major,
has won the position of vice presi­dent
of academic affairs.
Both students ran unopposed.
Amy Impson and Karen Lynn
Roessig took Senator at Large po­sitions.
Impson had 61.8 percent,
or 673 votes. Roessig had 64.1 per­cent,
or 699 votes.
This was a banner year for
ASNAU elections, with 1,089 bal­lots
cast. Last year, 687 students
voted in the general ASNAU elec­tion
and 566 voted in a run-off
election.
One member of the elections
committee has some concerns as
to how the election was handled.
Brian St. John, chair of the elec­tions
commission, said there were
some problems with the write-in
ballots.
If a voterwan ted to write-in some­one
for senator of a particular col­lege,
the voter was supposed to be
from that college, St.John said.
Tuition plan means increases could spike annually
. Regents to discuss ideas that could equal hikes up to $174 a year in-state
Slews Analysis
Sy Ryan Van Benthuysen
■fhc Lumberjack
f Yearly tuition hikes may
become less than an option
4 - they could become a ritual.
I The Arizona Board of Re­gents
is considering a policy
4alled “indexing" for future
&itk>n setting,
f Indexing Defined
[ Under the recently pro­indexing
system, an­I
tuition would be based
i factors such as the price of
institutions, the Con-timer
Price Index or the
Education Price In­dex.
The HEPI measures the
change in prices of goods and
services benight bv universi­ties
and colleges, including
the salaries of faculty and staff.
The CPI measures the goods
and services bought by con­sumers.
The indexi ng system would
cause tuition to rise a set
amount every year.
“It is an attempt to make
the setting of tuition a prede­termined,
predictable pro­cess,"
said University Presi­dent
Clara M. Lovett.
Estimated yearly tuition in­creases
would be based on an
estimated 4 percent inflation
rate. Three proposed phase-in
periods — five, seven and
10 years — are being consid­ered.
U nder the five-year pro­posal.
instate students would
pay $174 more each year for
five years and out-of-state stu­dents
would pay $430 more
each year.
With a seven-sear phase-in
period, instate tuition would
cost $157 more each year for
seven years and out-of-state
tuition would cost $425 more
each year.
The 10-vear phase*in would
ca use tui tion t o rise $ 148 each
year for 10 years for instate
students and 5434 each year
for out-of-state students.
The three separate propos­als
are based on an estimated
4 percent inflation rate de­rived
from a national com­parison
of universities.
Proposal pooRbilities
Student Regent Mark Davis
said if the proposal sees day­light
it will m o t ttkely be in
the form erf the teven-vcar
phase-in.
See TUITION. P**e #
Proposed In-State Tuition tncreoses
Based on the indexing metftcd wilh o 4-percenf inflation rale and a se*en-yeor phase-
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Jeff Popp and Pete Scanlon/The Lumberjack
Junior hotel and restaurant management major Nicole Bell (above left)
and senior zoology major Tracy Dahl man the Bookstore polling site
yesterday tor the ASNAU general elections Gwen Slivers (right), part­time
computer services employee, scans voter OaHols >hi3 mnming.
The write-in votes are supposed
to be paper-clipped to the ballots
to ensure *the person voting was
from the college.
The write-in ballots were not
paper-clipped and St.John said it
was because of poor training of the
polling volunteers.
Voters are only allowed six write-in
ballots, which St.John said wasn t
monitored at some voting booths.
Fraud was “very possible,” St.
John said.
Elections code requires, “The
election resultsshouJd be tabulated
the night of the general, special, or
run-off election with notification
given to the respective candidates
as soon as possible."
There is also a possibility a candi­date
may refute the way the ballots
are counted because the elections
code states the votes should be
tabulated the night of the election,
but, Sl John said, the elections
code has not been adjusted to the
See ELECTIONS, Page 8