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The Red and Black • Thursday, June 23, 1994
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New education dean plans to
link teaching and research
By MICHAEL CASS
Staff Writer
Integrating programs to prevent
faculty burnout is the main goal of
the recently appointed dean of the
University’s College of Education.
Russell Yeany, who will take
over the position July 1, said the
college boasts an impressive but
overworked faculty.
**We probably have the best fac
ulty in any college of education
now in existence," he said. “But
we’re very spread out. That wears
people down, wears programs
down.”
To remedy that problem, Yeany
said, he wants to bring together
the college’s many interests.
“My top priority is to get our
various activities integrated,” said
Yeany, who served as acting dean
in 1992-93. “We need to make
teaching, outreach and research
more related.”
The college’s 220 faculty mem
bers teach approximately 2,000
students in undergraduate and
graduate programs. The education
school is also among the most pro
ductive research institutions of its
kind, Yeany said, and is involved in
numerous outreach programs and
clinics.
Joseph Riley, professor in the
college and head of the department
of science education, said Yeany
would be a good successor to Dean
Alphonse Buccino.
“I don’t use this word lightly,
but wisdom is what he’s noted for
and brings to the position,” Riley
said. “I think he’s going to listen to
the faculty and build on what Dean
Buccino already started in stream
lining the college.”
Buccino announced last
November his decision to resign as
dean and join the education facul
ty-
Yeany came to the College of
Education in 1975 as an assistant
professor of science education. He
was named director of the School of
Teacher Education in 1990 and
served in 1992-93 as acting dean of
Russell Yeaney, former
UGA professor, will take
over as dean of the college
of education on July 1.
the college while Buccino worked
in the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy.
Police volunteer to make summer house calls
By KRISTIN HUBERT
Staff Writer
Enjoying these lazy days of sum
mer? The University police depart
ment is.
“Our slow time is during the
summer,” said Sgt. Mike Sproston
of the University police Crime
Prevention Unit.
“I think everybody looks forward
to summer,” said Officer Lara
Rupert. “There’s a lot less people
and it’s a bit of a slower pace.”
Recent University statistics have
shown that the number of criminal
complaints decrease during the
summer months. In the spring of
1993 there were 416 criminal com
plaints compared with 263 in the
summer of the same year.
That total of 263 is the lowest
number of summer complaints in
the past three years.
Despite fewer complaints,
Sproston said the University police
maintain the same staff levels and
patrols, including foot, bike and car
patrols.
According to Sproston, many of
the complaints are “the same old
problem" - petty theft.
Last summer, of the 263 com
plaints made, 102 of them were
theft. During the summer of 1992,
over half (169 of 313) of the criminal
complaints involved theft.
Sproston said fraternity houses
are frequent targets of petty theft
crimes simply because of poor secu
rity. “They’re easy to get into,” he
said. “If thieves can’t get in within a
minute, they'll go somewhere else.
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So far this summer, items total
ing $1,163 have been reported
stolen from two fraternity houses,
but Rupert said many of the reports
are made in the fall when the stu
dents return after summer break.
“These are opportunistic crimes,"
she said. “Nobody is around.”
Because of the large number of
theft complaints University police
are offering to do security surveys
for students free of charge.
“We know basically how burglars
think and we can tell you how to
discourage them,” said Rupert.
During the security surveys,
which take 30 minutes to an hour,
a police officer will check a student’s
door and window locks, make sug
gestions for better lighting, examine
surrounding foliage and inspect
peepholes and sliding glass doors.
Rupert added that the officer will
also make these recommendations
in writing which the tenant could
then show to his landlord.
“I wish (students) would just give
us a call,” she said. “We’d be happy
to come on over.”
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Some HOPE students
fail to make the grade
By KEITH DEMKO
Staff Writer
Of the 1,166 students who came
to the University on a HOPE schol
arship last fall, up to 700 of them
may find their money cut off after
only one year because they failed to
meet the minimum grade point av
erage.
“It appears that as many as 60
percent of *93-94 freshman HOPE
scholars did not have a 3.0 at the
end of Spring quarter,” said Ray
Tripp, the University’s financial aid
director.
Review of student grades for the
’93-94 academic year began two
weeks ago when spring quarter
grades were turned in. The drop-off
in grades for HOPE recipients be
tween their senior high school year
and first year of college fits the over
all trend for University students.
The average high school GPA for
all students who entered the
University in the fall of 1992 was
3.33. but the average for all
University freshmen for the 1992-93
school year was only 2.59, according
to the Institutional Research and
Planning Office.
HOPE officials say they have
ruled out lowering the minimum
GPA for scholarship students, but
they may give students extra quar
ters to improve their grades.
“We’re looking at adding a one or
two quarter grace period to allow
students to catch up,” said HOPE
Special Projects Director Brenda
Hayes.
Under such a program students
would have to pay for the quarters
during which they work on their
grades, and if they reached the 3.0
level they could reapply for the
scholarship.
Tripp said he considers the 3.0
GPA to be a fair standard for schol
arship renewal because students
currently have the whole year to
bring their grades up to this level.
“The average covers all 3 quar
ters of the freshman year, so if stu
dents get ofT to a slow start they still
have the winter and spnng to catch
up,” said Tripp.
HOPE students have mixed reac
tions to easing grade requirements.
John Ready, a sophomore from
Marietta who came to the
University on a HOPE scholarship
and has applied for renewal next
year, said the minimum GPA should
be lowered to help students make
the transition to college.
“My first year average was a 2.9,
and I think it would be fair to lower
the minimum to 2.75 to give stu
dents a chance to adjust,” said
Ready.
Christina Hull, a junior from
Marietta who will be receiving a
HOPE scholarship this fall, said she
disagrees because lowering the stan
dard would be unfair to students
who meet the current minimum.
“I came here on an Alumni schol
arship, which required a 1300 on the
SATs, which was really high and
hard to get,” said Hull. “Before (the
HOPE scholarship), the standards
were so high, and if you have less
than a 2.5 you’re not really a good
student.”
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