https://archives.uwp.edu/files/original/74a499e7f17dca1302e27edf15e05b29.pdf c24df2ad00c8875151b0a65fbf898438 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource University of Wisconsin - Parkside Ranger News Description An account of the resource Student newspaper of UW-Parkside Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Issue Volume 3, issue 34 Headline Used for newspapers, the Headline element describes the main article of the issue. Lee Wagner takes PSGA Series Number The series number of the original collection. UWPAC124 Ranger News Text Any textual data included in the document 1 Lee Wagner takes PSGA Gary Nicolai of Ranger Staff Lee Wagner defeated John Kontz in last weeks election for President of the Parkside Student Government Association (PSGA) by a margin of 542 to 168. Wanger's running mate, Kai Nail, received 520 votes to ensure him the Vice-Presidency while Tom Olsen received 192. New Senators, with their vote count following in parentheses are as follows: Patti Lowe (401), Terrance Peck (371), Robert Turner (365), Glen Christensen (341), Leslie Burns (325), Robert Gregory (300), Bruce Wagner (279), and William Ferko (264),. Elected to the allocations com­mittee were Susan Modder (518), Sandra Bray (491), Niels Nielsen (431), Bruce Wagner (420), Timothy Seymour (416) William Ferko (415), and Warren Dagenbach (409). In an interview with this reporter Lee Wagner stated that the first thing to be done is to fill all the vacancies in the various committees as well as the Senate. He continued, "We want to establish a list of priorities basically consisting of the things listed in our platform." An urgent matter, Wagner emphasized, is seeing that all amendments recommended by the Task Force are placed on a referendum ballot so the students can vote on tbem. He also stated that work will be done towards placing students on divisional executive committees and all committees dealing with tenure so students will have a voice on what professors are retained or ter­minated. Lee Wagner continued, "We want to open the doors of student government to the student body so that students can voice their complaints and get involved. We want to impress on the students that PSGA is only a voice of the students and that actions we take should be a reflection of student thought. I would also like for all student organizations to become members of the United Council of Student Organizations, so that they will have direct input into student governance." Wagner went on "Times and meeting places of PSGA will be an­nounced, and students will be kept informed on what is hap­pening." Wagner encouraged all students who are interested in filling vacant seats in the Senate as well as any of t he committees to contact the PSGA office. "We would also like students to feel free to stop down anytime at the office since we feel the student government office is really the student office." In conclusion, Wagner stated, "Myself and other members of the Student Coalition would like to thank the student body for their overwhelming support in the election and we will try to perform in a manner which reflects our gratitude in your trust." Wednesday, April30, 1975 Vol. Ill No.34 2 THE PARKSIDE RANGER Wednesday, April 30, 1975 Functional government RANGER extends congratulations to Lee Wagner and Kai Nail on their election to the positions of President and Vice-President of Parkside Student Government Association. Now that elections have passed perhaps student government can begin to operate with some semblance of order and cohesiveness. The past government foundered on personal frictions and lack of authority-the present government should take immediate steps to see that there is no recurrence of that situation. PSGA can have power and authority, but power only comes to those willing to act and assume responsibility. Let us hope that the present administration realizes that they will only be granted as much power as they are willing to accept responsibility for. The endless hours spent by the last PSGA in debate over personal differences completely negated the few effective measures that were acted upon in intervening moments. It was not because the opportunity to act did not exist but rather the lack of imagination on the part of some senators and administrators in grasping the op­portunities that existed that turned PSGA from the worthwhile tasks that existed to impotency. Lee Wagner's record of civic involvement bodes well for future action by PSGA. Kai Nail's initiative and willingness to work is well demonstrated in the food co-op that he helped initiate. RANGER feels that these leaders deserve the respect and cooperation ot the students and administration. We look forward to a year of functional and useful student government. Kennedy To the Editor, Remembering Bobby It has been nearly seven years since the climatic events of Los Angeles sent millions to stare in uncomprehending disbelief at their television sets, or on a search for long-misplaced transistor radios. Robert Kennedy had died. We knew even then that life would go on, in our despair time had slowed as if to demand our awareness. A cause for hope was gone, like so many others of that decade. For those of us in our youth we came to see tr agedy in ways adults could never adequately convey. We came to know the knawing hollowness as integral to life, that death was neither cathartic nor romantic, but caused terrible scars on the souls of those who remained. In a very real sense much more than a junior senator from New York, the heir-apparent to a much touted Camelot, had been lost. Pascal once said that "man does no t show his greatness by being at one extremity, but by touching both at once". This was the essence of Kennedy's magic. He went beyond the traditional ubane, middle-class liberalism, beyond the sweaty red-neck populism of George Wallace, to appeal to the dispossed and disaffected in ways that defied the conventional wisdom of less driven men. It was an appeal recognized as authentic by those whom Kennedy was most con­cerned. White factory workers in Hammond who later would cast angry votes for Wallace, previously unregistered Chicanos in the barrio of east Los Angeles, assertive black nationalists of Bedford - Stuyvesant, all came together to give Kennedy the overwhelming vote of the alienated. On that fateful June night, as the votes were tallied in native american districts of South Dakota, all other con­tenders were reduced to Pat Paulson proportions of the vote, so enormous was Kennedy's margin of victory. The potential of that im­probable coalition evaporated with Kennedy's death. The meek would not inherit the earth, not for a while anyhow, and the war in Indo-China would grind on as places like Hamburger Hill, Kent State, and My lai came to be seared on the national con-ciousness. In time the Chicago convention, Wounded Knee and Watergate would be served up for after-dinner small talk. Since his death tragedy replaced the weather as a prime trivia-topic as it had become a recurrent phenomena. One almost has to accept on faith that things would have been different had Kennedy lived. The broad appeal of his personalized anti-war, anti-racist message was too real to be dismissed as media machinations or Camelot glamour. Kennedy was truly an existential politician in the finest sense. Going beyond the con­ventional as a man of action he created and defined the central thrust of his politics with his oft-repeated challenge to the com­placent, "This is unacceptable. We can do better." He would go to the universities and admonish the sons and daughters of the affluent with Dante's observation that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain quiet in times of moral crises. And he suffered real pain when those who took to heart his warning would quote it back to him whenever he felt compelled to compromise his convictions in accomodating a perceived political necessity. , The promise went unfulfilled, and entered a covenant with what might have been. The promise went unfulfilled, and entered a covenant with what might have been. It is with this perspective that I remember the life and death of Robert Kennedy. I remember him much the way Camus remembered his friend Leynaud, who was a fellow activist in the French Resistance during World War II. "Truth needs witnesses", he wrote, "and that's why I miss him today. His death, far from making me a better person as the books of consolation say, serves only to make my revolt more blind." -Mick Andersen Black students Natasha Foiling Since arriving at UW Parkside several choice bits of information concerning professors (especially tenured professors), classroom behavior has somewhat estounded me. It appears that some of our professors here at UW Parkside are unable to cope with the fact that there are Black students in this in­stitution, and sometimes in their classes. These poor professors have such a racist complex, and are so unprepared for any racial in­tegration situation, that the presence of Black students absolutely "blows their mind"! For example, one instructor assigned a reading to be done aloud in his class. The reading could be of the students choice. He said no more, no less. One Black student picked out a p iece written by Laughston Huges, which was written in Black dialect. After the student had delivered the reading, the instructor announced to the class that the next time a reading was to be done in class, it was to be done in "proper English". (Which is debatable in itself). In a class such as this, grammar is not the focal point, the art of writing and being able to orate is. If anyone is familar with Laughston Huges, I'm sure you will agree, that he is an artist beyond reproach! Another example took place in a sociology class. The professor reportedly told a Black student that this student was not qualified to talk on the Black way of life, because he was not a scholar in this area. The professor's argument Was that he has a PhD in the field of social problems, and his field experience was partially in a Black ghetto. He stayed there for a week. This man is obviously unable to communicate with, more or less, cope with Black students, that it's a wonder he hasn't banned them from his classes. How can someone become an expert on reading, and experimenting only for one week, on something Black people have lived all their lives. If people are really getting PhD's on this sort of research, then Har­vard, University of Chicago, and Princeton and Northwestern, (among others) had better make up a few million, just to pass out in Chicago and Detroit, and Harlem and Watts alone. You want experts, these places are crawling with them! A professor giving instructions on how to reach the information booth seems to think Black students are here for amusement. He said to the student who asked for instructions, in front of an entire White class, that the student was to walk down the hall till she reached "soul mountain" (the pyramid) and go down the steps a little beyond it. The student was not familiar with "soul mountain," (as is everyone but this professor obviously), and he laughed and said "that red pyramid where all the Blacks congregate." How many adds would you like to take on the fact that this would not have been his description of the pyramid, had a Black student been in his class. (Perhaps this is his way of releasing his anxiety about all us'n Blacks runnin' round). Some professors, however, not only think Blacks are incompetent in the learning area, but also Latinos. A Spanish student, said a Spanish word, "arroyo", in one of his classes, and the professor corrected him, saying he was not to roll his tongue while saying this word. It should be pronounced "aroyo". How can this professor tell a student who has spoken the language all of his life, how to pronounce a word. (This was not a Spanish class either) Forgive my ignorance, however, I've been of the opinion the professors are supposed to teach, instruct, assist, etc. students And their sole purpose for being on campus is due to the fact that there are students here. Anything else is secondary. In conclusion, it seems that, as I stated in the beginning there are orofessors here that are going to have to accept the fact thatBlack and Latino students are here to stay. "So I's guess ya'll is gwan to hav ta shape up, or ship out! Cause we ain't gwan no wheres! Congrats To the Editor, I would like to congradulate Susan Shemanske on her very perseptive and informative series on the present Kenosha County jail and the changes planned for sometime in the future. Having been active in the county jail reform drive for over two years I feel such public in­formation articles can only help hasten a change in the present structure. The facts as they are, stark and overwhelming, necessitate community response and community action. With this in mind I urge all interested Kenoshans to contact their county board member, as well as the county board leadership, and press for the establishment of a representative citizens' advisory board. The war on crime is too important to be left in the hands of a few public officials, or to the narrowing perspective of those involve d in the apprehension and detention process. A citizens' advisory board could, at its broadest level, serve not just to shape and mould but to inform and involve many decent people for whom "out of sight, out of mind" best describes their present actions. Again, "thanks" for y°ur concern. Mick Andersen MORE INFORMATION DownloadundefinedFull Screen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Parkside Ranger, Volume 3, issue 34, April 30, 1975 Description An account of the resource Student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wis. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975-04-30 Subject The topic of the resource College student newspapers and periodicals Student publications University of Wisconsin-Parkside--Newspapers Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Kenosha, Wisconsin Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Wisconsin-Parkside Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Board of Regents of the University Wisconsin System black students lee wagner parkside student government association (PSGA)