Edwardian (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1987 Page: 2 of 8
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January 30, 1987
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Editor-in-Chief: Brent Jenkins
Managing Editor: Vincent Cheves
Business Manager: Michelle Mitchell
growing vital campus such as St.
Edward’s. So, we changed it! But such
a big switch was slow, and before the
semester was over $5,000 was taken
monly given reason for the exodus of
educators is the lack of job security.
Printing: Powell Offset
Typesetting: Futura
We should all be proud of the
progress the University has made —
you as student and editor of the paper,
and myself as an alum, yet we cannot
become complacent nor forget that
this progress resulted from the criti-
cism expressed by the forum which
this newspaper helped to create.
I hope that you have the courage
to address these issues not just because
I think them important but because it
is important for the University to
reflect on them — its administrators,
faculty, students and you, as editor,
should give the University this much.
Few of us have any problem
recognizing the true danger of the
current trends in education. But have
we been totally accurate in identifying
the source of the problems in educa-
tion? Certainly, the problems with the
educators have been a major factor
in the decline of U.S. education. But
educators are not the only particpants
in education, for what is an educator
without an educatee?
Welcome Back to good ole SEU
after what I hope was a enjoyable and
at least somewhat relaxing Christmas
break. Here’s hoping that the last few
weeks of classes haven’t been too
much of a shock as far as workload
is concern.
beautiful showing
off its facelift than
it was hiding its
lines and wrinkles
behind a facade of
greenery and the
grime of a hundred
years."
Contributors: Vincent Cheves, Brent Jenkins, Dana Lehman,:
Terri Marshall, Mike McElwain, Jan Presto, Helen Bippee,
Elizabeth Starr, Fr. Boger Temme
name will be changed. We felt it
fitting to have this first issue of the
semester be a fond farewell to the
name Edwardian. The Edwardian and
its newsmagazine format have been
very effective in its own right for the
last few years. Certain aspects and
ideas that were generated only through
the Edwardian and it’s past staff
people will most definitely continue
to stay with the publication.
Again, I hope the new year is
treating you well and I look forward
to hearing from you .
And there in lies the rub: the
students are also an essential element
in the educational process, and with-
out their involvement, interest and
cooperation, the entire educational
process can become difficult, farcical,
and downright nightmarish. Just ask
any instructor. We did just that.
Interviews with experienced, dedi-
cated and committed instructors and
administrators yielded a grim picture
of today’s students.
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Edwardian
3001 S. Congress Ave.
Box 1029
Austin, Texas 78704
(512) 448-8426
Edwardian is a monthly newsmagazine published by the
students of St. Edward's University. The opinions expressed
are neither those of the staff or the individual writer and do
not necessarily reflect those of the University.
Photography Editor: T.J. Marshall
Staff Photographers: Steven Jackson, T.J. Marshall
Copy Editor: Jeanine Cadena
Distribution: Bandy O'Beilly, Jason Blair
Advisor: Damian Morgan
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not so very far away Austin was
humming along steady as an old
typewriter. Some things never change.
Some things here, however, had
changed.
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No one needs to tell us the price
to be paid for the decline in our
educational quality. We witness that
price being paid everyday in our
failure to compete with other markets,
in the overall lack of dedication and
ethics evidenced by many profession-
als. and in our own growing suspicion
that the US is no longer the clear
frontrunner in the global race. Forget
studies, teacher evaluations and edu-
cational reforms — these are impor-
tant considerations, but they pale in
comparison to the one simple develop-
ment that can revitalize the US
educational system: students need to
become students in the traditional
sense, seekers of wisdom and knowl-
edge, interested and involved in the
educational process.
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Letter Policy
All letters to the editor must be signed and/or authorship known to
the editor. Signatures will be withheld upon request.
The editor reserves the right not to print any letter which is deemed
as libelous or defamatory.
Priority will be given to those letters which are newsworthy and/or
current to the concerns of the University.
The Edwardian reserves the right to correct letters for punctuation,
grammar, and spelling, while retaining the original intent of the writer.
Education has been the cause of
much concern in the United States
recently. Although the importance of
education is recognized as an always-
essential consideration on the agenda
of citizens, legislators and educators,
several recent events have served to
underscore that importance and to lend
an urgency to efforts to revamp what
often seems to be a declining quality.
First, there was the recent Japanese
study comparing their educational
system with our own. The Japanese
did find that the US educational
system encouraged creativity in its
students more than did their own
. system, but this positive finding was
Gone was that distended feeling I’d
always had when travelling the dirt
road to the annex. And the anxiety
I’d always felt about renovating Old
Main and building the RCC was swept
away in a flash. Our campus is
infinitely more beautiful showing off
its facelift than it was hiding its lines
and wrinkles behind a facade of
greenery and the grime of a hundred
years. To me, these things are quite
rewarding - but others are not.
Is it really true that black enrollment
is down in the Southwest? What
happened to the basketball team? Last
year it was putting our University’s
name in the papers every week. And
now? I’ll just mention the crowded
parking in passing. True, it is no
major issue, yet it too is an aspect
of this university that you, as editor,
should be concerned with making your
readers aware of.
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As students at St. Ed’s we have a
responsibility to be a partner in the
educational process. The worst
teacher in the world cannot fail to
educate when the student desires to
learn and is interested in the material;
the best teacher in the world cannot
help but fail to educate when faced
with an apathetic, disinterested or
hostile group of students. While
drugs, street violence and other
negative factors have contributed to
the decline in quality of the students,
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mitigated by the feeling that prompted
the study in the beginning: U.S.
schools, technology and products have
been taking a beating at the hands of
competitors. This is a switch — since
the Russian’s Sputnik mission beat the
U.S.’s own space program by being
the first to make a manned voyage into
space, the emphasis in the U.S. has
been on education that could keep for
us our dominant global position.
Today, many are throwing their hands
up in failure over the shortcomings
'of our educational system.
Second, there has been a renewed
awareness of the role played by
dedicated individual teachers in main-
among students that education is
acquired because of its value in
securing employment — at times, the
old ideal of learning for learning’s
sake seems a thing of the past.
taining the quality of education.
Strikes by teacher unions for more
money have forced the public to face
the fact that they have not been truly
committed to supporting education.
Third, the recent flight of top
educators from Texas institutions of
higher learning has taught Texans that
there is a price for excellence in
education, be it taxes or public
policies that guarantee job security for
qualified educators. The flight of
educators from these institutions has
been attributed to, first and foremost,
the relatively low salary level of
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out of the newspaper’s budget for
“infrequency of publication.” No one
over at student publications could
argue with that. So, instead of a final
Christmas issue, folks here at the
newspaper started planning for this
spring semester.
That brings us up to this issue.
Changes are still occurring, even as
this issue is reaching you. But the
majority of these changes are prima-
rily fine-tuning what was once an
award winning newspaper. I know the
staff, faculty and students will be
happier with this semester’s newspa-
per. And our promise to remain
responsive to the SEU campus is still
our pledge and goal. It is for this
reason that the student newspaper’s
Recently I had the opportunity to
stroll across the campus. Classes had
435 just begun for Spring, and I was struck
% by the familiarity I felt with the
University.
Students congregating in the Rat,
knocking back coffee and doughnuts
before hurrying off to class.
Groundskeepers going about their
tasks in the cool morning sun, while
This spring semester is the start of
many things here at the student
newspaper and the end of a few
others. It is no secret that last semester
had its share of disappointing mo-
ments for the publication. It may,
however, not be well known that this
past fall had a good number of positive
events as well. I feel this could be
easily said for many areas here on the
St. Ed’s campus. Yes, I feel it would
be safe to say that we all have
challenges to face this spring semes-
ter. The first issue of the student
newspaper is also a sad farewell for
the newspaper’s name, Edwardian.
Last fall, as many of you noticed,
Student Publications changed the
format that was originally designed for
the name of Edwardian. The format
change was at the SEU communities’s
request and also because it was felt
by student publications that a once-
a-month newsmagazine could not
effectively meet the needs of a
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