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There is no doubt in Janet Badia’s mind that censor-ship is a problem on cam-pus.
“We put flyers up ... and they’ll be gone,” said Badia, director of the women’s studies program. “We’ve also had people ... take everything off [our bulletin boards] and write pretty dis-gusting things [on signs].”
Most recently, the women’s stud-ies department was informed by stu-dents that their posters had been cov-ered up by someone else’s - which was a word-for-word replica of an online list: 7 Ways Feminism is Destroying American Women.
The list says that feminism “makes them argumentative, uppity, and dif-ficult,” and “makes her proud to be ugly,” among others.
The women’s studies department isn’t alone in this, however, as other departments and organizations have voiced concern. The Japanese Club, for instance, said their flyers were taken down before the Student Life Office was scheduled to remove them.
Student Organizations and Ac-tivities Coordinator Thomas
Landis said, “I haven’t seen anything, but we have had a few complaints about different organizations and dif-ferent departments feeling like their posters were getting taken down ma-liciously.”
The act of tearing down posters doesn’t seem to be anything new, ei-ther, as Landis said someone was tak-ing down every flier that was posted in the engineering building last year.
“Just indiscriminately every flier that got posted got taken down,” he said. “That was an easy one to solve because we knew who to talk to. We did end up getting that solved.”
Often, however, the cases aren’t solved, as it’s difficult
to surveil a public campus. In Badia’s case, she said the department called campus police and considered set-ting up surveillance after many flyers were taken down over the summer, but when their concerns were voiced, campus police “suggested we were ‘in-viting the harrassment.’”
The department decided only to take action with surveillance if the problem became worse or continued, she said.
Interim Chief of Police Anthony Colone declined to comment on the situation, saying that he was “not fa-miliar with the investigation.”
Former police chief Jeff Davis stepped down to Lieutenant of Com-munity Policing July 1.
The Assistant Dean of Students, Robin Newman, said that she didn’t think the campus had “vandalism is-sues,” and mentioned that sometimes
people take flyers because they want to go to events.
“There’s no easy way to tell [who would be taking them down] since flyers stay up 24/7 and there’s people here on campus almost 24/7. It really could be happening at anytime, [on] any day by any person,” Landis said.
Landis said that when someone is caught doing so, they typically receive a verbal warning, and in extreme cases they are referred to the Dean of Students.
One way the student life or-ganization tries to combat
flyers being taken is by asking student organizations not to take their own flyers down when they expire after two weeks.
“That way, something like this doesn’t get perceived as ‘Oh! You’re damaging my organization,’” Landis said.
Instead, people from the student life office go around the campus two times a week to remove outdated fly-ers themselves.
The office also enforces the Chan-cellor’s Posting Policy, which lists the different requirements for postings throughout campus.
“While it’s petty vandalism, it’s disconcerting when it happens to your department or organization,” said Badia.
IPFW is not an exception to the many campuses that make
headlines each year for free speech is-sues.
For example, a student in No-vember 2010 was arrested by cam-pus police after dismantling an anti-abortion display called the “Genocide Awareness Project.”
Though, in the case of flyers, the act of censorship among students may be more subtle, its presence is there nonetheless.
“They really monitor if a student is seen taking posters ... if it’s a viola-tion of student code. If it’s a violation we’ll enforce it,” Newman said. “We can’t do it if we don’t have any names.”
Fostering healthy free speech may be a difficult feat on a campus with over 13,000 students, especially when surveilling the bulletin boards is next to impossible.
Nassim Abdi, women’s studies professor, said the situation concerns her, not just because it’s a violation of free speech rights, but because “we could get banned by our own preju-dice.”
“Campus is one of the unique en-vironments that provides us with the opportunity to open our minds to dif-ferent perspectives. Ignoring, or even worse, rejecting such opportunity is dangerous,” she said. “If not on a university campus, where else can we learn to listen to other people’s per-spectives?”
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Says he will build off the job market growth.
His plan is to get rid of overseas tax breaks in order to urge companies to operate in America.
Wants the economy to be built from the middle class rather than the up-per class.
Has capped federal student loan re-payments at 10 percent of income.
Got rid of the No Child Left Behind mandates on individual states.
Says he’s “investing in community colleges to provide education and career-training programs.”
He’s still behind the Affordable Care Act, which stops capping or cutting in-surance coverage when an individual gets sick, makes rates for coverage equal among the sexes and makes preventative services, prescription drugs and monthly premiums more affordable for the average middle class individual.
Wants energy independence by 2020, and hopes to keep money America puts overseas for oil back into the states.
Says he will increase trade while competing with China.
Wants to up education access to help match unemployed individuals with jobs.
Says he wants to cut the deficit.Will “champion small businesses.”
Says federal funding is raising the prices of tuitions and is increasing burden on people with few job oppor-tunities.
Says he will “strengthen and simplify the financial aid system,” welcome private sector participation and re-place regulation with innovation and competition.
Wants to immediately issue waivers to all 50 states to avoid the Affordable Care Act, and will work to repeal it as soon as possible.
Wants to “pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a new health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens.”
Wants to cut spending to programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
Says he will cut back on military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan and stop spending on special interests.
Wants to put “educational funds in the hands of the people who use them,” al-lowing parents and students “a vote as to which schools are best and which need im-proved.”
Wants to end the Department of Education to get rid of federal regulations and man-dates, giving the deciding power to parents and individual schools.
Wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act to limit regulations and mandates which he says will “allow innovation and competition to make health care more affordable and more accessible.”
He then says he will allow individual states to innovate.
John GreggHis main focus, he says, will be to create jobs and strengthen the economy throughout the next four years. According to his plan, he will begin a “‘re-shoring’ initiative,” with a goal of getting manufac-turing jobs back in the state, and there will be a tax credit for each job the companies bring. Gregg also wants to strengthen small business in the state and increase exports from Indiana businesses.
Mike PenceAccording to the Pence campaign, he will be focusing mainly on six areas of improvement: building private sector jobs, attracting new investment opportunities in the state, “with emphasis on manu-facturing, agriculture, life sciences and logistics,” increasing elemen-tary students’ skills in both read-ing and math, increasing gradua-tion rates, raising the quality of the state’s workforce and health, safe-ty and wellbeing improvements among Indiana families.
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US House of Representatives
Kevin BoydBoyd says he will work to pass leg-islation which protects farmers, pro-test Social Security and Medicare, help to get funding for Fort Wayne’s Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing, strengthen public schools and “pass a responsible budget, bring jobs to northeastern Indiana.”
Marlin StutzmanStutzman does not show a specific plan of action. However, he lists his views on issues such as the defini-tion of life, jobs, national defense, energy, spending and taxes, among others, on his campaign site. That information is available at gomarlin.com.
IN State Senate District 3
Earline S. RogersRogers is running unopposed in this election.
IN House of representatives
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Charlie BrownBrown is running unopposed in this election.
Attorney General
Kay FlemingFleming says she will work on pre-ventative measures regarding con-sumer fraud and fraud prosecu-tion, work closely with the sheriff’s departments and Sheriffs’ Asso-ciation to ensure the sex offender registry is accurate, organize an ad hoc task force to help protect children, use resources efficiently and establish offices around the state with the purpose of creating awareness of local issues and to be readily available for assistance.
Greg ZoellerZoeller is up for re-election.Though Zoeller doesn’t list exact issues he will fight for, he says he will stand up for Indiana citizens “whether it is protecting seniors from identity theft, safeguarding children online or helping strug-gling families avoid foreclosure scame,” according to a press re-lease. More information about him can be found on gregzoeller.com.
Superintendent of public instruction
Joe Donnellyjoeforindiana.com
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Richard Mourdock richardmourdock.com
James Johnson, Jr.No known website.
Amy WillisNo known website.
Glenda ritzritz4ed.com
Andy Horning horningforsenate.com
Tony Bennett tonybennett2012.com
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Very good caricatures of Romney and Obama, the extended arms grab your attention visually and in keeping with the theme of the story. Very good work.
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While the university is experiencing cut-backs and expecting a budget short-age of close to $4 million, the individual departments and programs must con-tinue to keep their sights on the most important part of the college equation: student achievement. The department of Visual Communication and Design (VCD), though not immune to changes, has put emphasis into making sure these changes have the students’ best interests at heart.
Lower enrollment has been cited as one of the reasons IPFW is experiencing such a shortage, but this has not been a problem within the VCD. According to department chair Haig David-West, in-terest has grown significantly over the last four years. With enrollment now around 400 students, it is the largest de-partment housed within the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
David-West believes that the rise in enrollment has come from the notoriety IPFW’s VCD program has received on a regional and even national scale.
“The curriculum was completely overhauled two years ago, four new full-
time faculty were recently hired and a new conceptual paradigm is currently in place. Consequently, our students are winning loads of regional and national professional awards. New and transfer students rush to VCD not because we happen to be located in their neighbor-hood, but because we have become a school of choice in design education,” said David-West.
While the department prides itself on this sense of excellence and com-mitment to quality, it may only be one piece of the puzzle for students looking beyond the university.
Joining the department only after first attempting to major in pharmacy, chemistry, computer science and busi-ness, Tony Gerardot finally found his niche in the computer art and design major, a decision that was based more on personal preference than prestige.
“I always enjoyed making anima-tions and special effects in films, so why
not do what I enjoy for a living. It’s not work if you really enjoy the process. I don’t know the reason more students are enrolling in VCD other than that they enjoy the arts and want to enjoy what they do the rest of their life,” said Ge-rardot.
With possibly the most practi-cal speculation, graphic design major Simone Mullin-Leclear said, “I believe the upsurge of enrollment in the VCD department is due to the fact that it is a really versatile degree. Now that tech-nology has made everything so readily available to us, designers and photogra-phers are so essential to helping a busi-ness become unique and memorable.”
Whatever the potent mix of reasons behind it’s growth, the department con-tinues to see larger senior classes, who take part in the BFA exhibitions with the final product of their senior thesis.
While the department would like to see a gallery on campus sometime in the future that would allow them to house the BFA exhibition on their own turf, they have not yet encountered serious problems with one lacking. This semes-
ter’s senior exhibitors will be presenting their work at the Krull Gallery in the basement of the Allen County Public Li-brary – a space that David-West believes will have no problems accommodating future senior classes.
Each of the 20 student exhibitors will still have their usual six to eight feet of display space this semester, which might change in the future if the enrollment within the department continues to rise. Although, even with the all important space factor squared away, the senior exhibition has not gone completely unchanged.
In addition to providing space for the students to display their projects, the department also funds the printing and mailing of invitations, brings an exter-nal juror to assess the pieces and orga-nizes the awards ceremony and opening reception. This semester, patrons to the opening reception will see no refresh-ment table and their invitations to the
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event will be popping up in their inbox rather than their mailbox.
James Gabbard, a continuing lecturer on photography and the exhibit coordinator, believes that the lack of food will not have much affect either on the students or the number of individuals who attend the opening reception, and that the move toward electronic mailing is one that the department has considered for quite some time, irrespective of budget.
“We’ll still create some posters and postcards, but we’ll do digital mailers rather than printed. Changing from printed mailers to electronic mailers is something a lot of places are doing and it’s just a logical step in the digital age. Instead of bulk mailers, we’re going to do a targeted mailing of potential em-ployers. While the crowd will still be the same, we might actually have more of a crowd that potentially will hire our stu-dents,” said Gabbard.
Mullin-Leclear’s senior thesis is designing the election campaign of Barbara Grundy, a local third party candidate running for congress in the 2014 elections. Since she began the conceptual process back in May 2012, Mullin-Leclear has been designing logos, posters, bumper stickers and pamphlets – all the necessary trappings of an eye-catching campaign.
As many of the elements of her senior thesis might convey, Mullin-Leclear is an advocate of print media, but even she recognized the potential in changing over to an electronic mailing database.
“Electronic marketing is growing rapidly and it is the most cost effective way of reaching a large amount of peo-ple very quickly. In fact, by switching to an electronic invitation, we may be able to reach many more potential attendees that may not have been invited before due to cost,” she said.
The attendees, particularly those working in the design industry within the Northeast Indiana region, have been the target of many of the changes to this semester’s BFA exhibition, including the choice to invite a panel of local judges rather than a single juror from another university.
“In the past four years, VCD has invited prominent design professors from leading universities across the country to adjudicate our BFA exhibitions. The goal was to ascertain that the quality of our students’ work was at par with national and international standards in academe. With successive external jurors piling encomiums on our student’s work, some even comparing them to graduate level work, we have achieved our goal. Effective this year, we are moving in a different direction,” said David-West.
The plan this year is to invite indus-try leaders from around the region to judge the students work, and instead of having one juror, the panel will include
three professionals of differing exper-tise. Including individuals from differ-ent niches on the visual communica-tion and design spectrum will hopefully solve some of the problems students have encountered in the past.
“I’m actually pretty happy about the change in jurors. Previous senior exhibitions were judged by a single in-dividual who may or may not have had any knowledge of each individual ma-jor. Since the exhibition features people from photography and graphic design, as well as computer art majors, I didn’t think one person could judge all that,” said Gerardot.
Gerardot’s senior thesis involves the use of augmented reality to illustrate the story that follows after the race between the tortoise and the hare. Merriam-Webster defines augmented reality as, “an enhanced version of reality created
by the use of technology to overlay digi-tal information on an image of some-thing being viewed through a device.”
While Google may be developing glasses that display information about the wearer’s surroundings right on the lens, augmented reality isn’t widely known or understood by many outside of it’s specific technological sphere.
Gerardot said, “The actual applica-tions for it are enormous, but as of now
mostly unexplored. The concept has been around for 10 years, but we are just now reaching the point where it can be used in everyday life.”
Gerardot’s project has utilized his animation skills, but has also required him to learn the coding required for the augmented reality side of his project to work. Getting his project in front of an industry professional who recognizes the time and work required, as well as the applications his work can have on the job, is likely to do more for his ca-reer than showing it to one judge who may not have any knowledge in Gerar-dot’s field.
“We had a juror last semester who went up and told a couple students that they didn’t quite understand what they were doing, but a judge in that field would. What we’re going to do now is bring in industry leaders, owners of de-
sign firms, commercial photog-raphers to judge work. Instead of one judge trying to figure out everything, we will have a panel of three judges, each experts in their field. The other thing is, that puts our students in front of the
people that are doing the hiring in the area,” Gabbard said.
For seniors, this opportunity is two-fold, allowing them to show off just what they’re capable of while also shining a light on that work for a crowd of poten-tial employers. This immediate blending of the university into the professional world is what makes this year’s changes important – saving a little money seems to be an afterthought.
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“Effective this year, we are moving in a different direction.”
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On Wed., Jan. 31, Mitch Daniels made his first visit to IPFW since be-coming president of Purdue University. During that time he visited with small groups of specially-invited students, faculty and administrators during the morning and held an open forum in the afternoon.
Though Daniels came late from his meeting with administrators, he stayed over the time that was originally grant-ed in his schedule. The forum gave an opportunity to ask questions for those who weren’t invited to meet with him privately.
Closed to the general public, most of those in attendance were faculty and administration, though there were some students in the crowd. Most of the
questions asked, including the single question from a student, were focused on one thing: what can Purdue and IPFW do about money?
The affordability of IPFW is multi-faceted. Students want lower tuition rates with the same value of degrees, and professors want to ensure they have quality pay and good programs for students and everyone involved wants more money allocated to them from the state to avoid inevitable cuts on ev-ery level.
Currently, IPFW is facing a budget deficit due in part to lower enrollment rates. Out of the 15 public colleges in Indiana which receive state funding, IPFW is in 13th place in dollars per capita.
Daniels’ answer to this problem? “Somebody’s gonna be 13th.”
Of course, that wasn’t the entirety of Daniels’ response. The rest of it was reminiscent of his waste not, want not policies as Indiana governor. Rather than considering IPFW as a special case, he considered budgets to be a problem for all universities to solve.
He added, “Before I become too much of a special pleader for just ‘give us more, give us more,’ we’re gonna have to make sure that our hands are clean, so to speak.”
He also seemed skeptical that more money from the state was the solution to budget problems within universities. He claimed that within the last 10 or 15 years until very recently, a lot of money
was coming in to college funding.According to Daniels, Purdue and
its regional campuses, including IPFW, will need to show that they are spending money on the “must do items” rather than the “nice to do items.” The effort it will take to keep costs low and quality high is going to have to come from all levels of the institutions.
“It’s gonna have to be everybody’s job, and particularly in an operation that is 70 percent salaries and benefits and so forth,” he said.
“But it didn’t wind up making it more affordable. Quite the opposite happened. The more money came in, the more sticker prices went up … It’s said it’s one of the cliches you read in all the books about higher ed: we’ll spend
whatever there is,” said Daniels. “You know, I mean it sounds good in isola-tion. But you wake up one day and you’ve got enormous costs.”
Investigation of administrative bloat was a suggestion from the audience for how to reduce costs. Administrative bloat is the disproportional increase of positions and spending in the administration versus faculty positions. It has become a large issue in the Purdue system, especially recently when Purdue professor J. Paul Robinson presented to the university senate on the problem. Robinson serves as chair of the senate.
During a Nov. 19 meeting, Robin-son challenged Purdue administration to eliminate bloat, saying, “I am today issuing a challenge to the Purdue ad-
ministration. Deal with it, or ... I will on a monthly basis expose a clear case of administrative blight and I will expose it nationally.”
Robinson has been doing that. He exposed an inflation of faculty numbers by Purdue’s reporting of post-doctoral students as faculty, according to the Journal and Courier. He also exposed Purdue’s high legal spending fees, over $2,000,000 in legal action against facul-ty alone in the last two years, which has prompted Daniels to hire an in-house legal counsel.
Though Daniels criticized admin-istrative bloat in his open letter to the people of Purdue and targeted it as a place to lower costs, he was less firm in his answer at the forum. He reiterated
that over-spending and waste would have to be examined throughout all of the universities and did not point out any particular strategy for identifying and eliminating it in the administration.
He also did not provide a direct re-sponse for how to change the way suc-cess is measured for Indiana colleges.
Now, success of a university in terms of graduation rates is counted in a way that makes IPFW’s numbers ap-pear very low. A student is only counted as graduated if they are a first-time stu-dent, started in the fall and finish in four years. Those criteria do not cover many of IPFW’s students, and that in turn af-fects IPFW’s state allocations.
These metrics were brought up in some of the meetings Daniels had be-
fore the forum, with students, faculty and administrators.
For Daniels, other priorities come first. Making sure that students are suc-cessful needs to happen because, he said, students who don’t finish their de-grees don’t advance themselves and end up instead with useless debt.
“So I think we have to associate with the goal of successful completion, whatever that means for a given student, and then say hey, let’s catch up here in terms of how we know we did a better job because the way we’re counting to-day is misleading us, which always leads to bad decisions,” he said.
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What does transparent mean to you? Some IPFW Faculty Frustrated About Budget Cutting Process 8
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Kristan Mensch
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Like much of the conversation at IPFW this year, the January faculty Senate meeting revolved around the 2013-14 budget, which will reflect $8 million in reductions. The uni-versity is facing a $4.2 million dol-lar deficit this year, which could be-come more steep depending on fall enrollment and state funding. Last fall, IPFW enrolled 13,771 students, down from the record-breaking 14,326 in fall 2011.
Instead of just crunching the numbers in the Senate meeting, however, some faculty were express-ing concerns about a lack of involve-ment and transparency in the bud-get-cutting process.
In the Dark
“As the Senate has been press-
ing for increased transparency, we seem to be getting less,” said Senate member Michael Nusbaumer. “In my 36 years as a faculty member, this is the first time budget cutting has even been considered, let alone done, without input from the rank and file faculty at the departmental and program level.”
Though it has been said IPFW’s deficit was known about as early as last spring before Chancellor Emeri-tus Michael Wartell retired, faculty member Stan Davis assured the Senate that each candidate for chan-cellor was told about the financial problems during the closed-door hiring process. Chancellor Vicky Carwein, who began working at IPFW in September 2012, said she has been working with administra-tion on “marathon days” to come up
with budget reductions.“One of the things I would like to
know is what does transparent mean to you?” Carwein asked the Senate. “We literally have hundreds of pages of budget documents on Vibe. There is lots and lots of stuff out there.”
Page after Page
In fact, hundreds of pages of documents are publicly available.
Vibe, a campus collaboration site, has more than a few documents posted, including Purdue’s 91-page 2012-13 budget summaries and a spreadsheet of IPFW’s budget plan for Fiscal Years 2013-15.
Still, Nusbaumer said the spread-sheets aren’t helping much.
“Transparency is not simply about the specific numbers and bud-
get, but it is also about the operations and decision-making process,” he said. “There has to be a better under-standing of how this process is going to go, and start with understanding what the process is that we are using to get to that $8 million reduction.”
The process may not be so clear, though, as Carwein said confusion is bound to happen.
“[When] we start putting stuff out there it is going to start gener-ating more and more questions and more and more confusion,” she told the Senate. “The budget is very com-plicated, and we are doing our very best at getting the information out that you want and need.”
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While the cut and dry financial
information is available, some fac-ulty members don’t share the same view of transparency as IPFW ad-ministration.
“I am watching a budget-cutting process where I do not know what the process is,” said Nusbaumer.
Essentially, Carwein said the process started—at least with ad-ministration—weeks before she be-gan working at IPFW.
“What I have been [used] to in budget development is a department chair sits down with their faculty and looks at departmental priorities and they formulate a budget, and that budget gets sent up to the Dean, and the Dean at some point in the pro-cess meets with the departmental chairs and gets all their budgets to-gether.
“Then after that there is a college
budget that comes forward to the in-stitution. So then there is a Univer-sity budget committee that is com-posed of faculty, staff, administrators and they go over all these budget proposals. Then it goes on to the dif-ferent levels at that point,” Carwein explained.
She said IPFW administration hadn’t looked at an academic budget, and that many cuts are going to be eliminating empty positions.
“To get to $8 million we are prob-ably going to have to do layoffs, but we have not bedded the whole pack-age yet,” she said.
The university is also talking about reducing costs from athletics, hosting basketball games at Gates Sports Center rather than the War Memorial Coliseum.
The contract between IPFW and the Coliseum, which requires the
university to play 10 games there, expires in April. According to Vice Chancellor for Financial Affairs Walt Branson, IPFW doesn’t have to pay the Coliseum anything if attendance is more than 3,001 people. Carwein compared Gates to the Coliseum with the description of a “hall that is three-fourths empty.”
“Our average attendance was 907,” Branson said, which costs IPFW $2,500.
“Basically our season ticket reve-nue is about $4,000 per game. We end up spending around about $3,000 a game at the Coliseum and we would get all of that back at Gates,” Bran-son said. “We played around with projections, if we keep the games in the Coliseum we are projecting that we will net $18,000 at year end. If we moved back to Gates we would net about $50,000.”
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Carwein and the vice chancel-lors’ “marathon days” of budget planning were Jan. 28 and 29. On Jan. 31, Carwein sent an email to the campus community, saying that they had drafted a plan for balancing the 2013-14 budget and were eliciting feedback.
“We expect to have the plan fi-nalized by March 1,” she said.
Among four principles Carwein said were being used to “guide all discussion and resulting decisions,” was involvement with a transparent process.
The budget year will begin for IPFW July 1.
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One Of the things i wOuld like tO knOw is what dOes transparent mean tO yOu? we literally have hundreds Of pages Of budget dOcuments On vibe. - carwein
transparency is nOt simply abOut the specific numbers and budget, but it is alsO abOut the OperatiOns and decisiOn-making prOcess. -nusbaumer
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In January 2009, an IPFW student logged into anonymous rating site Rate-MyProfessor.com. It was the first day of the spring semester, and the student went to engineering professor Wilson Liang’s rating page. After rating Liang poor, the student left a comment.
“This is why Universities are be-coming useless. They hire Professors who are foreign and cannot clearly speak English here in the US. I’m all for diversity, provided that the diver-sity (horrible accent), doesn’t hinder the student’s learning. Easy A, but I’m disappointed half the content was not taught. He can’t hear or speak.”
These kinds of comments are not uncommon. Nearly every international professor has his or her accent men-tioned on the website at least once.
“This guy not only mutilates every english word, he also creates new eng-lish words to mutilate,” commented an-other user about a different professor.
Twitter has its own sphere of ac-cent complaints. “I have no idea what goes on in my history class all he does is mumble in his accent and bobs his head back and forth,” one IPFW Twitter user
said back in September.“Is it just me or is listening to asian
people converse one of the most an-noying things?” another IPFW student Tweeted just this week.
At IPFW, there are 110 international faculty; professors who come from coun-tries other than the U.S., where English might not be the native language. Ac-cording to IPFW Human Resources, no English proficiency tests are required for professors.
The student who commented on Liang’s page is among the 72 percent of surveyed IPFW students who responded that they have had difficulties under-standing a professor. Over 30 percent of students said that they have actually avoided taking a class because the pro-fessor had a foreign name.
This isn’t only an IPFW phenom-enon. Discussion and complaints can be found all over. Some of the complaints that can be found are even harsher than the anonymous RateMyProfessor com-menter.
“Seriously only I would get stuck with a Japanese speech professor, and yet another foreign professor for English.
STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY!” said one.“From the day I first set foot on a
college campus as a student in 1971 un-til today, I have certainly been aware that there are students who occasion-ally have difficulty understanding pro-fessors, often those who are non-native English speakers, sometimes those who are from obscure places like Texas,” said Steven Sarratore, Interim Vice Chancel-lor for Academic Affairs.
Sarratore took a short glance the the RateMyProfessor comment before explaining the process of hiring profes-sors at IPFW. Liang himself declined an interview with The Communicator.
“Understand that we have hired professors, and we met them before we hired them. So in that process, faculty search committees and oth-ers have kind of vetted the faculty … we don’t strive to hire people that we think nobody’s going to under-stand,” he said.
In addition, most inter-national faculty completed their doctorates in Ameri-can or British universities.
Understanding an accent during a lecture might be harder, however.
“When you’re trying to learn a topic that’s outside of your normal range of understanding, you’re trying to learn new vocabulary as it is, you’re trying to learn new concepts, and to have to translate a thick accent or a unique dia-lect or vocabulary into something you understand and then into new termi-nology, that can be really difficult,” psy-chology major Jennifer Dumford said.
Dumford added that being able to “dance around” a concept and explain it in different ways is something that na-tive English speakers and non-native speakers with a high English skills can do better.
Other students said that it’s not about the accent, but the teacher. Stu-dent Kenny Zuber said, “It’s more of the conveyance … if they can explain it to you easily or not, that’s what it is.”
Even one person’s accent might be more or less acceptable to different people. A wide variety of factors influ-ence language, among them the social setting, background, ethnicity and race of the speaker.
Talia Bugel, a professor in the Inter-national Languages and Culture Studies department at IPFW, said that depend-ing upon the speaker and the ideas and beliefs that the listener holds, it could become more or less difficult to under-stand different accents that differ from their own.
For example, if a student idealized Sweden and re-
ally likes
Jessica Geyer
Sweden’s politics, a Swedish politics pro-fessor wouldn’t be a problem.
“You’re going to love that Swedish accent in his English, most probably … Even without being aware, you will be ready to go the extra mile to under-stand that person and learn from him or her. You would even take someone with a very thick, very hard to understand Swedish accent speaking English,” Bugel said. This understanding comes from the positive attitude of the listener.
On the other hand, if a student feels threatened or insecure in face of what is heard about China, their attitude might affect how they perceive a Chinese per-son’s accent, the student will try much less to understand. “And any accent will be incomprehensible if we have a nega-tive attitude toward the people or the culture or the political system that uses a specific language,” Bugel said.
That could help explain Liang’s RateMyProfessor page. Just underneath the negative comment toward foreign professors, a student rated him helpful and didn’t even mention his accent.
“It’s not always easy to accept people who speak your language with a foreign accent. And I think that it is even more difficult when those people are the ex-perts in the subject and thus, they are in charge of the class,” said Bugel. That means that professors, who tend to be in the highest positions of power as far as the student is concerned, could be even more misunderstood depending on the preconceived notions of the listener.
Sometimes an accent can even be heard when none exists. Bugel comes
from Uruguay, and is a native speak-er of Spanish. But with her white skin and blond hair, she doesn’t fit the stereotype of a South Ameri-can. People have told her that they thought she had a German accent.
“I have a Spanish accented Eng-lish and that’s okay on the phone. When people see me, there is a mis-match there that is difficult to pro-cess,” she said.
“Wow,” said Ken Christmon, Assis-tant Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (ODMA) as he flipped through several comments from RateMyProfessor and from Twitter.
“Some of the comments … vio-lated some rules of civility. And civility is something that we’re working on as an institution,” said Christopher Riley, Assistant Director and Coordinator of Career and Technical Education at ODMA.
Christmon said that he doesn’t see these comments as a problem of racism, however. Rather, he said it is an oppor-tunity to learn.
“The safest place to experience oth-ers and to learn about the world … is within the opportunity of learning at a university,” he said. When it comes to accents, it’s the opportunity to learn through language.”
“Quite frankly, chances are good that all of our students in this particular kind of world economy will be interact-ing with those who speak English … with accents,” Sarratore said.
However, when students break the rules of civility, it becomes a problem,
said Riley.“Some of the com-
ments could definitely be determined as racism,” he added.
And, like racism, “Those statements that are made are rooted and
grounded in the foundations of igno-rance,” said Christmon about the on-line comments
“This person here,” he said referring to the RateMyProfessor comment, “it’s a little bit better for me because now at least I can see, I know a little bit of some-thing about you. I’m concerned about this, but I’m also concerned about those who make racial kinds of decisions ev-ery day … and they never stop to learn is what they’re doing or how they’re do-ing something affecting somebody.”
Like Sarratore, Christmon recom-mends to students to engage with their professors and build a relationship with them and gain understanding.
“Without that relationship it’s very easy to go off into a veiled feed where you really don’t have to confront what you call a problem,” he said, gesturing to the comment.
“Venting can be a start, but we have to move from venting to healing, from venting to education, from education to empowerment. And once you have the education, once you have the knowl-edge, then you have the ability to make some better choices,” Riley said.
Bugel has tried to gauge IPFW stu-dents’ attitudes toward foreign languag-es, but didn’t succeed in finding enough subjects to survey. She said that she wished she could collect that informa-tion, because then the university would have something tangible to improve upon.
“When you know, you can take
adequate steps with awareness,” Bugel said. “The problem is never with truth, with reality, with some-thing specific, with a fact. Because then we have the fact and we adjust ourselves or the fact accordingly. But
when we don’t know, we just say, well no I’m not going to go there. Like, I won’t take that class.”
Awareness of why an accent be-comes bothersome or difficult to un-derstand and why another one is so easy could potentially help students succeed in classes with international faculty. Though sometimes it is conscious, peo-ple often make linguistic judgements unconsciously, not even knowing that it is a type of prejudice.
Some people, like the RateMyPro-fessor commenter and the Twitter users even find it acceptable to put these lan-guage biases into public.
Discrimination against a person because of their language, dialect or ac-cent is called linguistic prejudice, or lin-guicism. It’s a subject that many scholars have treated in books, articles or shows like PBS’s “Do You Speak American?”
Linguicism can be scoffing at some-one who pronounces “ask” like “axe,” mimicking a Japanese person’s accent or telling someone who doesn’t speak English well to “go home.”
“Linguistic prejudice … is one of the last prejudices that we still don’t feel ashamed of. And we hold that prejudice openly. And we even openly joke about it. Most people aren’t proud of their rac-ism, or their classism, or their macho-ism. We tend to overcome or hide or ad-dress prejudices. The only prejudice that we still are not ashamed of, because we don’t find it a problem, is the linguistic one,” Bugel said.
This is why Universities are becoming useless. They hire Professors who are foreign and cannot clearly speak English here in the US...
- Anonymous via RateMyProfessor.com
Have you ever had trouble understanding a professor with an accent?
Have you ever avoided taking a class with a professor who had a foreign name?
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the university. The cash reserves equal
between $18 and $20 million.
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develop a learning commons
at the library. IPFW pays for
these types of things regularly,
but they were always paid for
with cash on hand and not
factored into the budget.
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