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Volume 95, Issue X
The Official Student Newspaper of Southwestern University
January 25, 2001
Crowded classes pose problems for students, faculty
Lacy Klosterman
Megaphone Staff
Many of you applied to South-
western University after reading
about the 11:1 student/faculty ratio,
and the average class size of 20
students.
Recently, Southwestern has been
unable to live up to the promise of
a small class size.
Several factors have contributed
to this year’s class over enroll-
ment.
Registrar David Stones stated,
“We know of no firm rule on this.
It is typically assumed that classes
here should be smaller than at UT
Austin. In Fall 2000, not counting
the 64 “900 numbered” courses,
with mean size of 2.38, and 50
applied music classes (mean size
5.04), we had 213 courses with 15
or fewer, and 216 with 16 or more.
There were nearly as many (74)
“regular” courses with 5 or fewer
students than with over 25 students
(78)."
An increase in class size is a
growing problem. This is espe-
cially a problem in the Communi-
cations department.
Chair of the department, Dr.
Christine Kiesinger, said that “the
department has grown in popular-
ity, so we do tend to teach most of
our courses at 20+.”
However, “larger classes tend
to hinder open, seminar-style dis-
cussions as well as student dis-
closures about lived, emotional
experience. I am not saying that
these things don’t happen, they just
don’t happen as often as I’d like,
given the content of the courses I
teath,” Keisinger added.
Kiesinger teaches in the area
of communication and close rela-
tionships. She feels that “larger
class sizes tend to disrupt the sort
of ‘intimacy’ 1 like to create in
my classes and I am not sure how
‘engaged’ my students feel when
classes are so large.”
Engaging classes are what many
students came to Southwestern
looking for. Kiesinger says fhat
with larger classes she is “less able
to 'see’ first hand how students are
grappling and responding to the
course material.”
The situation is similar in the
Psychology department.
Dr. Jesse Purdy, department
chair, said, “This semester 1 have
2 classes over 20 students. Physi-
ological Psychology has 31, which
is a junior/senior level course that
used to have only 6 or 7 students.
Research methods has 35 people in
it. l.ast semester it had 29. The
numbers are going up for some
reason.”
When asked how these large
numbers affect the education of the
students, Dr. Purdy responded,
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Megaphone Staff
Sarah Meyer/Photo Editor
Diversity Eduction Director Tanya Williams assists at the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration
luncheon. MLK week sought to unify students through events remembering the activism of Martin
Luther King, Jr___
Martin Luther King Jr. was born
on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta,
Georgia.
At age fifteen, King entered
Morehouse College, and by nine-
teen, he was awarded his Bachelor
of Arts degree in Sociology.
King went on to receive a doc-
torate from Boston University, and
began the activist life that made
earned worship from people across
the United States, and respect from
all over the world. —
After a long, weary journey,
Martin Luther King Jr. was assas-
sinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King Jr. became
famous from his “I have a dream..”
speech that captivated his audience
in front of the White House in
August of 1963.
However, the importance of this
dream is not simply for our remem-
brance, but for a continual renewal
of that dream.
“Continue to work with the faith
that unearned suffering is redemp-
tive,” said King.
Last week at Southwestern, the
campus united to celebrate King’s
life and accomplishments, and to
provide a reminder of how influen-
tial and rewarding it can truly be to
have a vision of the future.
The celebrations on campus
were extended to a week long event
that included a march to Macedonia
Baptist church, and a community
dinner on Monday, January 15.
On Tuesday, January 16, the
campus aired a documentary enti-
tled “A Force More Powerful,"
delineating the triumph of non-vio-
lent protest throughout the civil
rights movement, apartheid in
South Africa, and other presenta-
tions of nonviolen resistance.
On Wednesday, January 17, Dr.
David Gaines of the English depart-
ment gave a thorough presentation
entitled “King In- and Beyond- His
Times.”
The lecture was lull of facts
about King, however it also nar-
rowed in on the ways in which
King rose iu ihe level uf respect,
and esteem that he is a legend to
still today.
Gaines provided iasight into the
importance of King's childhood,
education, and family, which were
all influential pieces of his life.
They promoted his activism, and
drive, and led our nation into a long
battle to end oppression that still
remains a factor in our political and
social arenas today.
On Thursday January 18, the
chapel held a special service with
the honor of hearing Reveren Luther
Felder speak.
After the opening of the ser-
vice, the chapel was gifted with
the music of Crystal Guillory sing-
ing “His Eye is On the Sparrow,”
which gave the chapel a feeling
of serenity, warmth, and most of
alF peace from bustling classrooms
and daily routines.
Reverend Felder stood up to
speak, filling the chapel with his
inspiring words.
Felder’s sermon focused appro-
priately around the idea of having
a dream, a vision and therefore a
future.
He made references both to the
bible and to the words of Martin
Luther King Jr., and created for his
audience a world that would not be
inspired without the essential abil-
ity to dream.
“If you don’t have a vision, you
don’t have a future... if you don’t
have a vision you don’t have a
future!”
He asked the audience to repeat
after him, and together the spirit of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his
legacy touched them.
On Friday January 19, the
campus celebration of MLK Oav
came to a close with reflection and
cake.
Throughout the week, movies
were specially shown in the
campus channel in lieu of Martin
Luther King week, and were as fol-
lows: Mississippi Burning, A Long
Walk Home, Ghosts of Mississippi,
and Gandhi.
The celebration during Martin
Luther King Jr. week was entitled
“Reclaim the Spirit,” and the events
and gatherings proved to enhance
spirituality, and empowerment
through the remembrance of
Martin Luther King's life, and con-
tributions.
King has not simply come to
be remembered as a person.
He is the iconic representation
of all the people who fought to end
oppression and racism in the six-
ties. and of all the people who fight
to end oppression continual in the
wake of the millennium.
The week of celebration served
to renew in our community the
vital need for critical awareness
about racism, and to remind us to
continually dream of the world Dr
King dreamed of in August 1963,
and of the world we are still fight-
ing for in January 2001.
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Abortion decision generates controversy
Connie Hsu
Daily Illini (U. Illinois)
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(U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Illi-
nois - For the 28th anniversary of
the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court
decision, pro-choice and pro-life
supporters are busy promoting their
stand - from a women's right to
choose to have an abortion to the
unboms' right to life. On Saturday
morning, the men and women of
Planned Parenthood and the Cham-
paign Chapter of the National Orga-
nization for Women picketed U.S.
Rep. Tim Johnson's former law
office in downtown Urbana.
"We're here to demonstrate our
, support for a woman's right to |
choose an abortion and to send
Tim Johnson a message,” said Ruth
Wyman, president of Champaign
County NOW. “As a state represen-
tative, Tim Johnson voted numer-
ous times to restrict a woman's
right to choose.'
Pro-life organizations, such as
the registered student organization
Illini Collegians for Life, acknowl-
edge that pregnancy involves the
woman’s body and her health but
are also concerned for the health
and life of the unborn.
“They’re assuming the unborn
are not persons,” said Robert
tion of President George W. Bush,
who is pro-life.
“I can see the Bush administra-
tion weakening and putting restric-
tions on the Roe vs. Wade decision,”
Lampitt said. “However, I doubt
that the decision will be over-
Lampitt, president of Illini Colle- turned anytime in the near future.”
gians for Life. Pro-choice advocates agree that
As for pro-life awareness, Life legalized abortion might not be
for Everyone, a local pro-life orga- terminated during Bush’s presi-
nization, will be hosting a prayer dency, but say that restrictions
vigil for all religions at the Worn- surrounding abortion might affect
en’s Health Practice Monday night women’s health care and reproduc-
at 6:30. , tive rights.
“We hope to make some prog- “In the past eight years, we’ve
rpss in restricting abortion, because been able to rely on President
it’s obviously not a wise choice," Clinton to veto anti-Choice legisla-
Lampitt said. " tion that Congress has approved,”
Hopefully, legalized abortior Wyman said. “But now, with an
can be restricted by small gains anti-choice president and anti-
Even if‘we do overturn the deci choice majorities in Congress, a
sion, it may not solve the problen woman’s right to choose an abor-
of abortion i~ abstinence should b< tion could effectively cut off repro-
promoted.” ductive rights without officially
On Jan. 22, 1973* the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of legalized
abortion and a woman's right to
have one. Coincidently, the day of
the picket celebrating the decision
also coincided with the inadfeura-
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dismantling Roe.”
In addition to his pro-life stance.
Bush has also nominated conser-
vatives figures for many political
offices, including the staunch pro-
life advocate, former Sen John
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Ashcroft, for U.S. attorney gen-
eral. Joy Thornton-Walter, a board
member of East Central Illinois
Planned Parenthood, said the recent
political unfoldings might result in
the termination of a woman’s right
to choose.
“The Ashcroft hearings made it
clear how the issue of choice is
important to the public,” Thorton-
Walter said.
Meghann Walk, president of
University of Illinois College
Republicans, said the Roe vs. Wade
decision is unlikely to be overturned
or attacked. She said although
Ashcroft is pro-life, he has made
it clear he won’t let his personal
views interfere with the present
laws of the country.
“Buslh has said that America
is not ready to overturn Roe vs.
Wade,” she said. “He has said he
would concentrate on minimizing
abortion instead, like abstinence.
And if Ashcroft is honest enough to
reveal such an unpopular opinion,
then he should be honest enough to
uphold and defend the laws of the
country, which states that abortion
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