Miami Hurricane, April 05, 1983

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Newman Removed From Freshman Composition
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By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Ron Newman, director of freshman composition, has been removed from his position of ten years after refusing to resign.
According to English department chairman, John Paul Russo, it is his policy to rotate directors within the department every few years.
"Administrative positions ought to change from time to time,” said Russo. "Nobody should be in one position for over five years."
Katherine Bell, the current associate director, will serve as acting director for the next year.
According to Newman, the faculty book states that any appointment of director of undergraduate studies should have the vote of the department faculty behind it.
But Newman says he won’t fight Russo's decision, since Russo “has the authority."
Said Newman: “I’ve been running this for ten years and am proud of the teaching done here
Ifreshman composition!; it's • critical service to the students. It may be immodest to say this, but I’ve worked at this Job 60 hours a week for 11 and a half months |a year).”
He added that the way Russo handled the situation compels him to think there are “political reasons” behind his removal.
Newman said that he offered to resign as of May 1985, instead of immediately, but Russo refused that offer.
“I asked for those two semesters because in my application for sabbatical, I had two projects: I wanted to write a book on how to teach across-the-curriculum writing and design such a program for UM.”
Across-the-curriculum writing involves teaching professors in all areas of the university to evaluate the writing done by their students and requiring their students to write.
This is the kind of program Newman expected to implement at this university.
But, with his dismissal as director
of freshman composition, Newman says his sabbatical no longer is of such an importance, and he will therefore ask for only one semester.
“He has taken away, deprived me, of one of the most intense motivating factors for taking my sabbatical,” he said. “One of the major reasons I would have found it easy to read, take notes, and write for 14 hours a day for two semesters, would have been knowing that I was not only getting a book out of this, but coming back to implement these designs. I feel so exasperated.
“I had a vision of bringing to the culmination of my directing this program,” said Newman. “I thought it was something I could really give the university.”
This, he said, is why he offered to resign after returning from his sabbatical.
Newman said there are two other fundamental flaws to Russo's theory that posts should be rotated every three years.
“The students of this university deserve as an experienced adminis-
trator as they can get, particularly when it comes to areas of administration that depend on professional speciality,” Newman cited as one of the flaws.
There are two areas in the English department — rhetorical writing and literature. Newman says that specialists in rhetorical develop theories on how writing would best be taught.
According to Newman, there are only a few qualified specialists in the department. “His theory of rotating is difficult to defend,” said Newman. "The rotation theory doesn’t have too many people to draw on."
Another flaw, said Newman, is the timing. Instead of removing Newman from his post when,Russo first .arrived last year, he removed him liter a disagreemeht.
Th^ disagreement stemmed from moving one of the two secretaries in freshman composition to literature. Newman said that two secre-
taries are needed, since they serve 70 teachers and over 3,000 students
"This program has grown so much in size and sophistication that expecting one secretary to cope with all the demand struck me as unwise," Newman said
Newman said that he and Russo have differed on a number of points, but have also cooperated on many things. “I can’t help but think that my assertiveness may strike him as too strong," he added
Newman also said that the "curious coincidence of a disagreement and dismissal at the end may be insignificant, but certainly is abrupt.
"I’ve served longer than I expected to, but while serving that long I learned a lot about doing the job well.”
Russo says he has rotated other positions, such as graduate studies (from John McCollum to Patrick McCarthy) and undergraduate studies (from Skipp Francis to Robert Casillo).
Newman
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Participants in Greek Week showed off their talents Friday night during the skit presentation. On Saturday the overall winners were announced at the Greek Week Ball. Sigma Chi won for the fraternities and Kappa Kappa Gamma for the sororities
Williams asks for peace throughout world
Inside
Report on Vietnam
Part three of coverage of a symposium on Vietnam deals with veterans of that war/ PAGE 3
‘Here and Now*	,
Businessmen find a novel way to make contacta in the business world/ PAGE 4
*EI Grande’
The Ring Theatre brings a bilingual play to UM in ’El Grande de Coca-Cola/ PAGE 6
Sounds of music
Newton adds Juice to ber latest performance/ PAGE $ Students vs. alumni
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Entertainment /PAGE 6 Classifieds/PAGE 12
By ANDREA GROSS
Hurricane Staff Writer
“Justice, Peace and Reconciliation" was the topic of a lecture which concluded Religious Emphasis Week, sponsored by the University Chaplains Association and the University Lecture Series.
The topic — "Peace is Everyone’s Business” — was delivered by Betty Williams, winner of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Mai-read Corrigan — for their work in beginning the “Community of Peace People” in Northern Ireland.
Williams was born in a Catholic ghetto in Ireland. Her grandfather was a Polish Jew, her father a Protestant, and her mother, a Roman Catholic.
“I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and I have a broad perspective of ail religions. Organized religion always terrified me.” Williams said.
Williams became interested in her quest for peace when she witnessed “the senseless killing of three young children in Belfast, Ireland, August 10, 1976.” According to Williams, the peace crusade began slowly by knocking on doors, and after a six month fall off, it began to pick up.
“The purpose of our movement is to get the Irish people back to God and away from war. Our long range goal is peace throughout the world.” Williams said.
Williams believes that women’s voices concerning peace 'in our world has not been strong enough.
"Churches can be the greatest killers of mankind, when they defend wars. When you go to war
over any issue you have already U. the argument. I have seen what the bomb can do. I'm no idealistic fool.
Non-violence can win over guns bullets and bombs." Williams said Williams has recently completed
tier book Please Let Us Win and is presently living in Jacksonville, Fla. with her daughter and husband.
Miami Humcane/MARTIN APPLEBAUM
Old and new
Eric Lieberman. Speaker of the Senate, was replaced by 1983-84 Speaker . Senate Suzanne Jean, seated next to him. at the Senate meeting last Wednesd, New senators were also sworn in.	J
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Johnson Space Center heart of space missions
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Melanie Rohrer Rosborough, professor emeritus of German, who retired from UM in 1968 after 41 years of teaching, died March 29 at Doctor’s Hospital.
She first joined UM in 1927, one year after the university opened.
Said Lutheran Campus Chaplain Phillip Bigelow, who knew her well; “Melanie was a remarkable human being shaped and energized by her strong Lutheran faith and German roots. Consistently working towards fulfilling her visions of a fuller tomorrow for all people, she was a skilled teacher without being pompous and an effective organizer without becoming insensitive. Buoyant, loving and energetic, she helped give shape to her community and school.”
While at UM, Rosborough founded several organizations, among them the Florida Association of Teachers of German, the UM ‘German Club, the Lutheran Club, and the original Women’s Club.
At a banquet held in her honor earlier this semester.
Rosborough related how she had held student plays to raise money in order to have German books in the library.
She received the prestigious Order of Merit for distinguished leadership in teaching and scholarship and academic and cultural advancement of the university. She also has one of the dormitories named in her honor.
Other achievements include: national vice president for the South Atlantic Region of the American Association of University Women, president of the Miami chapter of the AAUW, first woman president of the Miami chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
She was also named "Outstanding Woman in Education in Dade County" by the Miami News in 1961; was selected as Outstanding Teacher by the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs, District II, in 1964; and named an Outstanding Teacher at UM in 1965.
She earned her B.A degree, Magna Cum Laude, at Hunter College and her A.M. at Columbia University. She was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law from Hartwick College in New York.
Rosborough
By CHARLES LAVIN
Managing Editor
Editor’s note: Yesterday at 1:30 p.m. the Space Shuttle Challenger-embarhed on its maiden mission (see coverage in Friday's Hurricane). With this article we embark on a multi part series on the making of a Shuttle mission.
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON — Kennedy Space Center gets all the attention these days with Shuttle takeoffs; Dryden Flight Research Center gets all the attention with Shuttle landings. But the place with the most activity before. during, and after a Shuttle mission is Johnson Space Center.
JSC is the heart of any space mission. It is here that spacecrafts are designed, developed, and tested. Astronauts are selected and trained in its facilities. Most medical, scientific, and engineering experiments are carried out in its labs. And missions are planned — and controlled — here.
The building with the most activity at JSC during a mission is Mission Control Center (MCC). This three-story building contains some
of the most sophisticated communication and data equipment available. In this building — which contains enough wiring to loop around the earth three times — are all the technicians and computers to ensure a successful space mission once the spacecraft leaves the earth.
The focal point of Mission Control, however, is the Mission Operations Control Room, more commonly known as MOCR. It is here that flight controllers monitor vital information about the mission and the spacecraft, either from the consoles where they are stationed or from projected displays on screens in the front of the room.
The consoles include one or more video screens, and switches to let the controllers call up any desired information on their screens. The main feature of the display system at the front of the room are the five large screens that are used to project everything from plotting charts to actual TV images from the orbi-ter. The display system also includes other units which show elapsed time, time remaining, and other information concerning any pertinent part of the mission.
Command and control personnel
Rosborough: loving and energetic
in the MOCR monitor every part of the mission, from the operation of the control room itself to the crew’s medical condition and the condition of the spacecraft. Through the complex electronics in the building and the advanced communications network involved, the mission surgeon can monitor the heartbeat and blood pressure of a crew member, the engineer can check whether the equipment is functioning properly, and the crew can transmit TV pictures from the mission — ail from hundreds of miles in orbit.
There are actually two identical MOCRs in the Mission Control building. They can be used independently to control separate missions, or one can be used as a backup should the other not be usable.
In fact, a great portion of the
purposes. with up to five assigned backups per MOCR console during a mission. MCC is supported by an emergency power building, which provides emergency power and air conditioning in case regular power fails. And should something happen in Houston to prevent Mission Con-
Closeup view of a MOCR console
troi’s support of the mission, an emergency control center at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland will take over.
The heart of Mission Control is the Mission operations wing, housed on the first floor. This wing houses ail the computers, recorders, control panels, and distribution that the second and third
One set of computers in this wing processes incoming data from the spacecraft and distributes it to the MOCR and support rooms. It also handles commands transmitted to the orbiter from MCC.
Other computers process incoming data on the mission itself and
compare what is happening with what should be happening. This data is seldom displayed unless something doesn’t match. In that case, the information is distributed to the MOCR consoles. This system also computes whatever corrections may be needed in position or velocity of the spacecraft to prevent any nrnblems.	.
^ln calculations made by these computers are made the instant the data is received from the worldwide network of tracking stations that helps to monitor the mission, thus enabling personnel to correct a threatening situation as it develops.
Another system enables the flight controllers to talk to each other, to
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specialists in other facilities, to pe, sonnet on other bases, and to the mission crew — without having to leave their consoles.
All this requires a half-acre of computer banks and complex electronic equipment. The system is so complex and expensive that its cost “dwarfs the cost of the computers mall the other buildings" on the u3sp, acccrolng tfi a ™ASA spoXcs'
man.
But is is largely due to this system, and to the technicians and other personnel that operate it, that shuttle missions can be carried out — and completed — safely.
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