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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 26
>ar plan will reconstruct education
In respease te what is perceive as a national crisis, many states
have introduced sweeping educational reforms. All too often, such
reforms amount to liule more than demanding that already hard-pressed
educators somehow raise the educational standards of our schools.
...Seldom are such reforms accompanied by concrete and substantive
recommendations that will help educators get the job done. In essence,
most educational reforms take the form of policy-makers and educational
leaders giving teachers a single message: "Jump higher, and we don't
care how."
- from Education Dean Alphonse Buccino’i
introduction to "A More Literate Georgia"
By LANCE HE.
Staff Writer
Georgia public school teachers,
periodically targeted by well-
meaning but often ineffective ef
forts to improve the quality of pri
mary and secondary education, are
in for a real awakening from the
University.
With the help of a $1 million
gTant from the Coca-Cola Founda
tion, the College of Education will
develop over the next five years an
“education initiative" aimed at
changing the way every teacher
teaches every class in every school
district in the state.
Literacy is the initiative’s first
component and focus for the re
mainder of school year 1990-91 and
is a prototype for mathematics and
science education programs slated
for the remaining four years.
The component’s first element is
a position paper, “A More Literate
Georgia: An Agenda for Action,” to
be presented to the University
community and University Presi
dent Charles Knapp, who wrote an
introduction.
Tom Valentine, an associate pro
fessor of adult education who ed
ited the position paper, called it “a
document of great interest to a lot
of people in Georgia” that involved
“people working together who don’t
normally work together ”
He said they decided to free
themselves of the traditionally de
tached academic writing style,
making it more direct and inter
pretive.
“We hope the book mainly will
get people thinking,” Valentine
said. “It’s not designed to show tea
chers how to do their jobs. We’re
trying to clarify the problems for
policymakers and legislators.”
He said they will send the paper
to legislators, key state education
offices in Atlanta and state school
districts.
Elinor Ruark, an information
specialist in the College of Educa
tion’s materials center, said paper
supply problems have delayed pro
duction of the position paper. It
should be available to the public by
next week.
The paper consists of five chap
ters written by Literacy Task Force
members Stephen White, assistant
professor of elementary education;
JoBeth Allen, associate professor
of language education; Donna Al-
vermann, professor of reading edu
cation; Valentine and Joel Taxel,
professor of language education.
The chapters cover preschool, el
ementary, middle and secondary
school literacy, as well as adult lit
eracy and the social and political
dimensions of literacy.
The initiative’s developers are
scrapping the "top down” model of
change for an interactive program
that would fundamentally alter the
way schools operate.
On the way out is the old concept
of children as raw materials to be
taught identically and turned out
as finished products.
The paper’s main thrust is that
literacy should be taught as what it
is — the ability to read and eval
uate and to write meaningfully.
Teaching grammar skills and strict
comprehension exclusively doesn’t
result in a truly literate child.
‘The data say that American
kids ‘decode’ as well as anybody,”
but can’t get the content from what
they read,” said Education Dean
Alphonse Buccino. This is a result
of the “rule and drill” method of
teaching language and math
ematics, taught at the expense of
critical thinking skills.
But the changes won’t happen
overnight. Schools have to volun
teer to participate in the experi
ment, and it will need a conspiracy
of individual teachers and students
to make it work.
‘There’s a tendency to want to
sort of rush around and do it,”
Taxel said. “But it has to be done
brick by brick, piece by piece. We
have to be really deliberate.”
To give the top-down method a
wide berth, the initiative includes
Centers for Professional Devel
opment in schools around the state
where student teachers can prac
tice what they’ve learned at the
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Greeks
plan party
for kids
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
Two Greek organizations will
help some 35 to 40 ghouls, goblins,
witches and monsters enjoy a safe
night of Halloween festivities to
night, Duncan Moore, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity’s philanthropy
chairman, said Tuesday.
Moore laid members of his fra
ternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority will co-hoet a halloween
party for children from Parkview
Homes at the Sigma Alpha EpBilon
house and then take their, trick-or-
treating.
“We wanted to interact with the
community and provide theee kids
with some frin,“ he laid.
Moore said he started to develop
an idea for this party in September
so he contacted Jennie Maddox,
recreation center leader at Park-
view.
Maddox said Tuesday she has al
ready received 31 permission slips
from children's parents. Her reg
ular doily attendance at the recre
ation center ranges between 30
and 40.
'The parents really appreciate
this,’ she said. “Because now the
kids will havt one-on-one supervi-
rfon.”
Cheryl Ritter, Kappa Kappa
Gamma philanthropy chairperson,
■aid the sorority has helped chil
dren from this housing devel
opment in the past.
“We had an Easter party last
year and we provide tutors for
these kids every quarter but
summer.”
She laid this type of activity
benefits her and her sorority sister
as much as it does the children
they help.
“Who doesn’t feel good when you
do something positive.’
Computer thefts
could be related
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
The University isn’t the only
southern college that has had com
puters stolen recently and police
think the thefts may be related.
Over the past year several col
leges in South Carolina and
Florida have had costly computer
equipment stolen in similar
fashion to the thefts here, which
have added up to more than $50,-
000, Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton said.
Boynton said Tuesday that po
lice departments are looking into
the possibility that it's the same
people committing the thefts.
“There are a lot of similarities in
what was taken and how
(someone) took it,” Boynton said.
Boynton couldn’t release the
names of the other universities.
In the most recent theft here,
computer equipment worth $23,-
000 was taken from Brooks Hall on
the weekend of Oct. 6 when the
building was deserted. The doors to
offices with computers were forced
open.
In that theft and two other
thefts here spring quarter Macin
tosh equipment was the main
Several colleges have
had costly computer
equipment stolen along
with the University.
—Asa Boynton.
equipment taken.
University Police Chief Chuck
Horton said information from dif
ferent universities has been com
piled and is being studied by
detectives here and at other uni
versities.
Horton said the other universi
ties’ information has helped with
the investigation here.
Boynton said the information
has given police something to work
on, but he said they don’t have a
strong lead at this time.
The computers taken from
Brooks Hall are in the process of
being replnced. Because tnere were
signs of forced entry, insurance
under the state of Georgia policy
will cover most of the cost, James
Trieschmann, associate dean of the
College of Business Administra
tion, said.
Look for angels, breasts and cats lurking in town tonight
By KEVIN McGREEVY
Campus Correspondent
After the Bart Simpsons and Ninja Tur
tles are home safe tonight gorging them
selves on chocolate and candy com,
University students are going to be roaming
the streets in costumes of their own.
Andy Harwood and Mike Korey, both ju
nior music miyors, are going out in tandem
— as a pair of breasts.
“A friend of mine has these, well, really
big breasts that you can strap on,” said Har
wood, making the internationally rocog-
nized sign for Dolly Parton.
Television characters often serve as Hal
loween inspirations and it’s no different this
year, but it’s easy to see the viewing gap be
tween the pre-adolescents and University
students.
Is there a seventh-grader who could
name all of “Charlie’s Angels?” Jessica
Ericson, a junior advertising mqjor, can.
In fact, she and her roommates are going
out as the former policewomen-turned-pri
vate-detective trio. Ericson is going to be
Jill, Farrah Fawcett’s old role.
Stasi Valos also reached back into syndi
cation heaven for her coetume idea. Valos, a
freshman pre-journalism major, said she is
going out as "Jeannie," as in “I Dream of...”
The bottle trick should be good.
Daniel Pieken, a senior hotel and restau
rant management mqjor, said he was going
out ns a proctologist with big knuckles —
talk about scary.
“I’m going to try to talk my girlfriend into
going as my patient,” he said.
Good lucx.
Carol Morgan, a senior home economics
mtyor, said she will wear black leotards and
go out as a cat.
“And I’m going to keep my tail away from
you,” she said to Pieken in an interview on
College Square.
Charlie Ginste said he isn’t dressing up
tonight but last weekend he went out as In
dian pottery with some friends.
“We painted our faces, gave ourselves
extra eyes, you know, Indian stuff," the pre-
journalism freshman said. “When people
asked us what we were, we squatted down
like pottery.”
Death will walk the streets of Athens in
the form of the Grim Reaper, unless Dan
Anoff, a pre-journalism sophomore, decides
to lighten up and go out as Satan, his alter
nate choice.
Speaking of death, Heather Glover, a ju
nior business major, is going out ns a dead
person, but she doesn’t want to.
“My friends are making me," she said.
Glover said she and her friends are going
to put black make-up on their faces and
wear torn sheets smeared with Legion Field
mud.
Many students won’t be making it out be
cause of tests or lack of interest.
Woggles mix rock
of yesterday, today
By NOEL MURRAY
Entertainment Writer
Let’s explain something right
at the kick. The Woggles are not
“retro-rockers.” They may
thicken their soup with the vinyl
of old garage-rock 45's, but the
stock is a universal one.
Singer Manfred Jones bristles
at the accusation that all The
Woggles do is relive ths past.
This is a course in Under-
• landing The Woggles 101: The
Manifesto of Manfred Jones.
“Let’s agree right now that
rock is limited, okay,” Jones said
in • recent interview. "It’s not ex
panding. I mean, beyond three
chords ... that’s not rock and roll.
Rock and roll is about what you
do with those three chords, about
inspiration and feeling. You
know, it’e like — why’s that guv
screaming hie heart out? That’s
itT
A look at The Woggles Roll
Call of Heroes reveals a lot of
what they are: the Lyres, the
Fleehtones, the Wallers (not the
reggae bond), the Sonice, Flat
Duo Jets, Howling Wolf and Slim
Harpo. This is where they eat
their meals.
Jones does a blues show on
WUOG 90.5 every week and
drummer Kurt Wood has an
oldies show on WRFC (960 AM)
on Saturday nights. The re
maining members of the band
play in about five other bands be
tween them. Rock and roll is
what they do.
“We’re into the basic rhythms
of life that never quell man’s
soul,” Jones said. “Love. Makin’
love. These ore variations on a
very good theme.”
So what point are The Woggles
trying to get across?
Jones explained, "We’re
talking about the freedom to be
one’s self. That energy, that ...
complete blowout of teenage
angst.
“It’s like some guy, 20 years
old, been shirked for the first-
second-third-fourth time and it
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The Woggles: From left, band members Jeff Matthews, Eric Agnar, Kurt Wood and Manfred Jones.