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Thursday, February 13, 1986
Page Two_____
Good News Brings
Nods of Approval
This week two announcements were made bv the admin-
istration that boosted the spirits of everyone on campus and
around the community — that baseball will be back next semes-
ter, and that faculty and staff will receive a pay bonus this
semester.
TWC has trulv turned the comer financially. Not only has
the Bawcom administration managed to lower the debt to under
$2 million, but has made a commitment to bring TWC back up
to the high standards it was once regarded in by the students,
faculty and a staff and community. Students make this campus,
Bawcom has repeatedly told the RAMBLER, and his belief in
us, our support and a concern for our needs were all major
factors in the decision to bring back baseball. The students
that were here when the announcement was made that baseball,
along with four other sports, was being cut remember the pain,
and frustration felt at the time. Many students who were on
baseball scholarships were not able to return the following
vear, and those who could afford to do so did not return be-
cause of a feeling of betrayal. Bawcom has announced that
there will be baseball scholarships — a limited number, but
scholarships nonetheless. That means an increase in students,
another sport to bring the campus together, and in return more
comraderie among students. One sport down, four more to go.
Perhaps those that remember the frustration and pain more
clearly than students during the hard financial time are faculty
and staff. Thev have been affected by a stagnated salary for
the last three years. Those who stuck by the school and be-
lieved in TWC were finally rewarded Tuesday when Bawcom
announced that there would be a pay bonus for faculty and
staff, effective this semester, and that hopefully an annual in-
crease in salary could not be far behind. The patience and
belief in the school that was ever present in the faculty and
staff reflected on the students, gave us hope.
Now the results are concrete for everyone to see.
Letters to the Editor
with the following, “AIDS, No
One is Safe”. The effects of this
type of journalism are taking
their toll. There is a severe
shortage of blood available for
medical emergencies. Dr. Margie
Peschel, Medical Director of the
Carter Blood Center recently re-
ported that people are not donat-
ing blood due to the fear of con-
tacting AIDS.
I praise journalists’ efforts to
keep us informed about the AIDS
issue. I would like to see re-
sponsible reporting devoid of
sensationalism and exploitation.
Sincerely,
Dr. James Cannici
RAMBLER
Dear Editor:
This letter is in response to
the one from Allison White print-
ed Jan. 30. In her letter she
reacted to my remarks about
AIDS printed recently in the
Professor's Corner Column. She
was critical of my statement
which described certain segments
of the media as responding with
yellow journalism to the AIDS
issue.
The yellow journalism to which
I referred concerns reports about
AIDS which do more to scare or
excite people rather than inform.
For example, the July issue of
LIFE magazine filled its cover
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Manned Space Flights Should Continue
by Kathleen Klitzke
Mr. Lon Clay Hill, visiting pro-
fessor teaching Astronomy at
TWC recently answered these
questions on the United States
Space program in the wake of
the Challenger tragedy.
Q) Why send manned Instead
of unmanned spacecrafts? Is risk-
ing human life warranted?
A) Those are two different ques-
tions and it really depends on
your purpose. There are some
tasks, particularly anything that
can be automated, that are much
better performed by machine. In
fact, there has been a recent
article in Scientific American
that argues rather forcefully that
the American space program is
out of balance in that the mqn
in space program is given more
emphasis than it should be.
Basically unmanned spacecraft is
much cheaper because you don’t
have to send up a life-support
system, which is terribly expen-
sive. The second part of your
question is partly a personal
question. For example, all the
astronauts knew very well that
we’ve been very lucky in respect
to this kind of tragedy. In 1967
we lost three astronauts in an
oxygen fire, the Russians have
lost four cosmonauts, and now we
have recently lost these seven.
But if you asked me if I were
willing to go to space, knowing
that I might die, yes I would.
I get a little sense that gov-
ernmental administration has
tried to make space financially
remunerative, tried to make
money up front off space. I think
much of the economic benefits of
space will be long term. Weather
forecasting has saved us millions
of dollars, and improved com-
puter technology has certainly
been a spin-off of the space-
program.
Q) What will the Challenger
tragedy do to the apace program?
A) I’m not sure it’s a true set-
back. I think it will cause us
to be more careful. This accident
looks like it may be a hard one
to track down, but if we can
find the source of the error it
will mean one more risk dimin-
ished. There are specifically a
bunch of space programs put on
hold. Both this mission and a mis-
sion in March had Halleys ob-
servation programs and now
those are gone. And the space
telescope which astronomers have
been waiting for for a generation
or so will be delayed anything
from two to six months I would
guess.
Q) Why war* evacuation meas-
ures for the astronauts removed
from current spacecrafts?
A) Well, in most cases such as
this explosion there is just not
enough time to evacuate. There
may be some cases in which you
could have evacuation measures
and we might even make a new
design. But at this point I’m
certainly not second guessing
NASA’s decision.
Q) As a scientist, do you think
the media handled this tragedy
appropriately?
A) I myself watched a replay
of the explosion shortly after it
occurred and have not watched
anything more on it. However
I’ve listened to National Public
Radio, and heard two or three
thoughtful conversations on the
topic. One person pointed out
that this in a way is like a
wake. So the TV networks are
really bound to carry coverage;
they don’t have a choice, because
the public demands this cover-
age. Apparently this is like see-
ing a loved one’s body for the
last time and accepting death.
This is what television does for
us in the case of the Challenger,
although I could quarrel with
some of the details.
There was an astronaut get-
ting ready to tell a group of
schoolchildren about the launch
which was just then taking place.
He got up to the podium and
received a message that the
Challenger had exploded. He an-
nounced that, and the students
were interested in that, but they
were more interested in the pro-
mise of space. I think that’s
proper. Space is an adventure,
one that has risks.
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passes only the University of St.
Thomas at $26,000, Jarvis Chris-
tian at $26,000, East Texas Bap-
tist at $25,700, and Hutson-Tilot-
son at $25,600.
Some faculty members say it
would take a 20% increase in
salaries to put TWC at the "na-
tional competitive average."
Tha Chronicle of Higher Edu-
cation, however, shows that
TWC’s average salary is not far
behind other "Church Related
Baccalaureate Institutions.” For
these institutions, the average
salary is $29,500. The average pay
increase for similar institutions
was 5.4% over the last two years.
According to Bawcom and
Harper, a 1% pay increase takes
about $50,000.
EDITORIAL BOARD OF
TEXAS WESLEYAN RAMBLER
Editor ......
................. Sandi Daniel
Managing Editor.......................... Geno Borchardt
Advertising Managers ........ Kevin Atwood, Beth Burleson
Sports Editor
.................... Sean M. Wood
Photographers
................Stacey Dobbs, Chris Dowdy.
Dean Roller, Toni Ubinger
Staff ........
Kristi Knox, Leigh Patterson, D’Anne Rhea,
Bill Day, Kathleen Klitzke, Doug Olvey,
Cristina Hernandez, James Saint, Colin
Christensen, Paul Linkletter
Cartoonist . .
Sponsor .....
................. Dr. Michael Sewell
by Sandi Daniel
Just when you thought it was
safe to put on your walking
shorts . . . winter hits.
It’s difficult to be a born and
bred Texan sometimes. We have
to answer to all those yankees
who are so puzzled and perplexed
by our Texan ways. Why, they
ask, did winter wait until Feb-
ruary to get here? Why not
October, November, December,
or even January, like any other
decent state? Just as perplexed
as they are, we just shrug our
shoulders, sneer a Texas sneer,
and drawl lazily, “Becuz, that’s
jest the way Texus is!”
I’m sure those yankees would
love to tie us up, lock us in a
trunk, and send us air express
to the great white north to
experience thalr kind of winters.
Actually, when you think about
it, we Texans are real wimps
when it comes to cold. We can’t
even lick an ice cream cone
without putting on a sweater
first. At the first sign of snow,
we board up our windows and
count the oak furniture sitting
in our living room just in case
we are cut off from society and
have to bum it as a survival
measure. We forget, in our
moment of fear, that there is a
7-11 just around the corner sell-
ing sticks of firewood at $50 a
hit. And avtryone knows that
come rain, sleet, snow or Christ-
mas Eve, 7-11 never closes.
Christmas day, the weather was
a beautiful 75 degrees. On my
wedding day, Jan. 18, the weather
was a springy 65 degrees. The
other day, as I drove by Stella
Russell, I saw students laying
out on the sun deck In their
bathing suits. This week, as we
hit what feels like record lows,
we reminisce about those won-
derful, sunny days of yore, and
wonder what sin we have com-
mitted to have the wrath of
God strike us so flercly.
I married a yankee. Kevin was
born In Wisconsin, and raised in
Kansas and Missouri. He has kept
me shivering with his tales of
below-freezing temperatures in
his home town. He has lived in
Colorado, and finally moved to
Texas In 1981. I used to think
he had chill bumps of steel, but
not so. Ironically, Texas has a
way of converting one-time snow
bunnies if they have lived here
for a while. I have watched this
man who once laughed in the
face of a chilly wind gust turn
into a true Texan who throws
on a scarf when the weather gets
below 80. And that’s even when
we are inside.
Funny the way we Texans are.
We think we have the biggest
and best everything. We have the
biggest mosquitoes, the best look-
ing men and women, the biggest
cattle, and the best fajitas of any
state. And, some will argue, the
biggest winters, when they hit.
But not so. Just ask any yankee.
But, oh well, that jest the way
we Texuna arel
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