Western Illinois University - Sequel Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 214 of the 1975 volume:

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Hany Stoner will do anything to get one more season. Hmnmtsmpmmnm ' 1 13,5 c a B mm mm Q; The President Of Western Illinois University LESLIE When John T. Bernhard announced his resignation after a six-year reign at Western, rumors quickly spread over campus to the effect that nsomeone within the WIU communitylt would ascend t0 the Presidency. The speculation that followed some moments of genuine excitement felt all too seldom at Western toutside the sports arena, at leastl during 1973-74. A combination of befuddlement, amazement, sighs of relief, and a loud chorus of HWhols he'V arose late last springwhen the Presidential Selection Committee unflinchingly announced the exec- utive appointment of a man not only foreign to the WIU community, but one who hailed from a far- away institution that few students at Western ever even knew existed. To find out more about one Leslie F. Malpass, we asked Kent Kleiva, the self-annointed Hunter Thompson of Wee-U, if he wouldnt mind spending a day with the new President for the purpose of writing virtually the only copy that appears in this book. Following is Kleivals personal account of that session. On the way to the President: tiRoy, what type of thinking would prepare you for a Prez interviewiw ltNot too much; you cant go into this kind of story with a pre- conceived angle. But thatls your problem to write out, not mine? ltTrue. Still? I say, ltitls tough to go in blank to a story. Now, as a student, when he says no to plastic grass that wouldlve been seeded by student money, Ild say he,s an all right guy. But, if you think more on it, when tapathetic, is synonymous with thU studentf and then from nowhere students scream no, you have to figure that the Prez made the only politically viableXlogical choice. So, if you think that way, hels still your typical politico fl And with other conjectures thrown in, Roy, with his camera, and I, with Bic and paper, keep moving and talking. Really, therels no way to come on to this article except straight. More or less, in my imagination, this means twenty questions first, then conclusions and inferences later. Our appointment with Leslie F. Malpass, rookie WIU Presi- dent, is at ten olclock. In an address Doc Malpass made earlier in the year, he said no to using bond revenue funds for astro turfing the WIU grid- iron. In the same speech, before a combined audience of stu- dents, faculty, and administrators, he talked about streamlin- ing his executive committee structure, tenure concerns only the faculty could care about, and faculty-student ratios. So, these issues are nuts and bolts of any university, and, like members of the audience mumbled, ttltls a typical boring State of the University addressf, But beyond that yawn, Malpass described a new thorn in WlUls side. Maybe thorn isn,t the right word; shotglass would probably be better. Within his first months on the job, Malpass,s new domain has been labeled, by some, a ltparty schoolf, And while only time will tell how his administration will deal with it, the label ltpar- ty school,7 is bad news in higher education biz. He and his staff might as well square off against the devil if the image spreads. See: when the image of party school gets tacked on to a school, the fix is on that the schoolls going to suffer. Whether or not the image corresponds to reality hardly matters. Once the image is mustered up, no Prez or high-flown PR. firm can com- pletely exorcize it. And should the unfounded charges spread statewide, the ramifications of a school typed nparty Ufl are scary. Enrollment suffers, admission of quality students slackens twhat high school iipheenom in physics, or National Merit Scholar, would attend Boogie U.?l, and quality professors either leave or ignore positions of- fered by the party school. None of the consequences add to the attrac- tiveness of the school. Even the kid wo wants to take as much from an education as he can get is hurt by the image. The value of the diploma he receives from that institution puts the graduate near nil value on the job market. What employer tand the word gets outi wants a Party U. grad? Instead of flip- ping the sheepskin in front of Mr. Interviewer, the grad from that type of day camp should pull out his whiskey glasses for inspection. He could say, ttName any drink; I can mix it. What else do. you want to know about my higher education? So the party school label is a nemesis, and if youlre Prez ofthe alleged P.U. school, its a match of duking it out with the devil. Punch: write a conservative liquor policy for on-campus students. And miss: the devil- ry of that image has already crept over to parents of high school seniors a the parents asking the college recruiter, tils WIU a party? And such are the things that presidents must deal with. When we get to the Presidents office, the receptionist tells us to wait a second. About then Roy tells me the News Director for WIU is sup- posed to introduce us to the President. This seems strange to me. After all, why interrupt his day for a half- minute intro we could do ourselves? We could walk in, having already been announced by one of the secretaries, say hello, welre so-and-so, and thatls that. But we wait; not too long, but long enough for me to feel like Ilm being channeled from one level of something to another level of something. When the guy does show, we exchange hellos and names. So, with that info under his belt, John leads us into the Presidents office to tell the man that tiRay and Kim, here,, are going to follow him around this day. Between the time of entering the office until noon, on this Friday morning in winter, whats happening to Leslie F. Malpass is that hes becoming President Leslie F. Malpass. While welre tispecks on the wallf, as Malpass says, there,s bits and pieces of information that keep falling into Malpassis receptivity. Vice- presidents, phone calls, letters, memos, magazine articles are the diet heis consuming continually. Some of these things leave me cold. Others say a great deal about why a condition, in WIU at present, is the way it is. Then, other info I hear says even more about why that present condition will change. In one of those silences of his paper work and our twiddling of thumbs, an understanding of the Presidential office comes clear. Crude as it seems, an analogy goes that, as much as Sherman Hall is the adminis- tration building, it is also a dorm. And whats happening to the ex-Vice President for Academic Affairs of Virginia Polytechnic Institute is that large doses of peer counseling and peer informational flow are going in to Malpass. Like the new student on a dorm floor, thousands of informa- tional inputs are affecting his new ttlife? Being, too, that information is vital as much as possible, information is vacuumed up by the rookie Prez. When I think of this, I remember being a freshman. Out of a strange, alien environment that seemed to change constantly, I learned to navigate well enough to survive. And barely at that. The new exec has to be going through the same twilight zone a and at a more abstract level. Because, in a dorm situation, you always knew who thejerks were, and whom you couldnlt rely on. Thatls probably true in the administra- tion of a university, too. With the difference being, though, that you cant go to the boss of the situation and say, ttGet this clown off my floorfl The student has that ultimate easy option, but if youlre already the guy whols the boss, it isnlt that easy. So somehow a president of a university manages to put up with it. Or, in business organizational terms, tlcircumvent the internal dysfunctions of an office? On his next birthday, Malpass will be a fifty-three-year-old Taurus. The age is hardly important, and its even less notable. In fact, it would be truer to say of the man that physical attributes, such as age might imply, are the least means that should be used to evaluate the man. It could be said that hes over six feet tall and seems slim but does have a slight paunch. And that would be fairly accurate. Then it could be add- ed, if first impressions are respected, that he looks like Clark Kent, glasses included. But that really isn,t accurate, unless the judgement is in quick jest at the expense of accuracy. What is personally striking about the man is his speech. Forget his looking the part of Regent on High because of the way chemicals and luck have contributed to the appearance he affects. Rarely is his speech not a marriage of meaning and purpose. Precision is his salient charac- teristic, as much as a Durante nose might be on someone else. As befits human precision, his speech is not rapid, though his vocabulary is. Quickly he would spell out his understanding of a matter, interject clar- ification where key words might have been misunderstood, then finally establish a perhaps restate again for conciseness a what importance he drew from the matter. And, particularly with his command of Eng- lish, there is spontaneity in his character, which in turn adds to the import of his message. Trivia from the Vitae of Leslie F. Malpass tand from the mam: Attended University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, 1940-42. Degrees: B.A. C4D; M.A. C49l; Ph.D. C52l Syracuse - Psychology. More than respectable tennis player tplays twice a weekl. Deacon, Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, 1967-74. Recipient Gold Medal and Dimplome de Merite Agricole tOfficerl, Republic of Haiti t1974l. The best quote on his being WIU President: ttItls not tough on me personally. When people come into this office, they come to see the President? A speed reader from, of course, the Evelyn Woods speed reading course. Walks faster than most people can roller-skate. He and his wife, Winona, like to entertain at home. Lastly, there should also be mentioned what has to be his second-best quote. And though the situtation is too complex to explain why he said it, the words should be echoed again. Purely 0n the basis of the senti- ment expressed, ttWhat a way to run an institution,, has to rate. Before the noon tennis game tinstead 0f lunchl, a conversation laced with priorities took place. Harmlessly enough, Roy, tor is that ttRay ?l asked how long the Malpasses expected to stay. Good question was fol- lowed by good answer: uWe could stay five, six, easily ten years or long- er? What proceeded was more memorable than the numbers that stick singularly in mind. From behind the uncluttered desk, confirming expectations that a university president is a breed apart, his discourse - not talk, gab, or chat, but discourse a 0n challenge and values came. In no sparse words, he emphasized his concerns for quality education. He knew the Wom- enls Physical Education Department has gained national prominence; CtThey get the job donelll. He talked of certain departments that ex- celled, like ttislands out of the sea. And, of course, these were to be nur- tured further. He moved on to the university as a whole, embracing the idea that this university has a regional purpose to its being. And Via growth in all areas, graduates of WIU, the school, and the region could prosper even further. T0 the academic end, he saw no reason why a WIU grad couldnlt rank with a grad from any university in America when you came down to it. Then, too, the realization that WIUis reputation was incongruous, as some might say, with prestige or recognition nationally would find us back at the topic of instruction and motivation, and how this pursuit of quality highereducation needed more money, too. Know- ing Westernls been on the bottom of the fiscal totem pole for eons was another challenge to surmount - but no more important than any other brick that constitutes this ivory tower among the corn. Students, facul- ty, facilities, and administrative offices are all cemented together, and, in order to help one, all need help, Which in turn would help along the others. Roy mentions how, when friends of ours say ttWIUti to people, they smile and ask, tlHowls the partyTl or, ttNever heard of Make-om, Illi- noisfl More often than not this is so, and even the students going here start picking up and reinforcing that prophecy, tnever thinking that the school is in there head first, then the buildings and instructors are sec- ondl. And both of us, with the Doc agTeeing, say that neednlt be so. It seemed to Roy and me a lot of that was bought wholesale by any student whose attitude was lost in believing, in the first place, that WIU was a day care center for preschoolers andtor winos, and not an institution for education. To which the President, discoursing again, explained how that will be overcome. Towards the end of the day, nineteen of the twenty questions Iwant- ed to ask are still unasked. Its not that there havent been silences to pop a query on him, but those silences are labored moments, working moments filled more with concentration on the duties of the office than on time-squandering PR. for a pretend writer and an amateur photo- nut. I never once got the feeling that Leslie F. Malpass was not always the President. In terms of commitment, this is massively impressive. Considering the situation Malpass has entered, it has to be. What do you mean by Itimpiressivem? Offhand, the only thing I can think of is Brigitte Bardot at forty. To think that at forty years of age a mass of flesh is still beautiful Via its symetry of form. The thought alone knocks my socks off. On the other side of the issue: what Ilm not impressed with. Growing up, having known each authority figure in this country has only been capable of wreaking more havoc than chimpanzees in a porcelain shop, Ilm not impressed with authority. The pinna- cle of my unimpressibility for authority I express for presidents. And at the very top of that point, my loudest raspberry is di- rected to the President who leads the United States. The softer raspberries go to presidents in general. Unfortunately, all the presidents I have lived through were the type of people Frankenstein wouldnlt even create. Itis gotten to the point where I agree with Gore Vidal, on a more pervasive level, that, ItBy the time a man gets to be Presidential material, hels been bought ten times over? So, what,s this got to do with President Malpass? In between Brigitte Bardot at forty and a raspberry to American Presi- dents, Doc Malpass fits. On a scale of impressiveness, a double combination of Tinkereto-Evers-to-Chance, itls Bardot- tovMalpass-to-raspberries. In fact, hets shaded closer to the Bardot side than he is to raspberries. His symmetry of form has little to do with it; itls his symmetry of commitment thatls impressive. 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Q ; xi cw mm Wfkvuw; .wa R mkriings in ER WW. LL . x i Luna: u .. saw is . n c . 4' s, H '1'. s A hmraagu-u Editor ................... Roy Vana Associate Editor . . . Mary Wiermanski Photography Editor ....... Stan Lelm Staff Photographers: Glenn Marass, Wendell Smith, Mike Groff, Randy Fox, Joel Sones, Paul Lusk, Morgan Brunstrom Contributing Photographers: D. Hinds, John Trout, Mike Stanzak, John Orlandello Editorial Assistant . . , Cyndy Sanders Faculty Advisor ........ David Badger Credits David Badger: 11, 12, 24abd, 30, 60bd, 623, 630, 74a, 76, 78a, 83, 84bd, 853, 86f, 91bgh, 993b, 1080, 109, 110, 1143, 115b, 12030, 121, 126ab0g, 127f, 1383, 1393, 1400, 141, 1433, 145, 147bd, 148k, 153be, 162, 164, 165d, 1683, 169ad, 170b, 1726, 1820, 183e, 1850f, 1883d, 189, 1910, 192, 1943, 195abcf, 1963, 199h, 201a, 202aei, 203ilmqr. 207. Glenda Bliss: 150g. Morgan Brunstrom: 80b, 108b, 127abd, 159be, 1853, 197, 2010. Frank Christensen: 40b, 42b, 52-53 CNS: 15, 33, 46, 47b, 4806, 67b0d, 81, 82, 90ij, 1120, 113b0, 1140, 1183b, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 158, 1900. Michael Doonesbury: 13, 27b, 29, 49b, 58h, 680, 69, 71, 723b, 73bcd, 74b, 80368, 88b, 1270, 142d, 1670, 1840, 1860d, 1903b, 19lad, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2038. Randy Fox: 200, 35, 373b0, 383, 390 40d, 4230de, 43, 44, 45, 47deg, 48d, 49af, 51b0, 58i, 148j, 151jm, 1503, 176, 177b, 178, 179, 180, 181, 196g. Torn Gilmore: 107d. Mike Groff: 3130, 98b, 1520d, 1530, 160, 161, 193, 204. D. Hinds: 683bd, 117abf. Laurie Kirschner: 155. Stan Lelm: 2, 3, 203b, 213, 22, 240, 253, 34, 38b, 393b, 41, 48b, 58bd, 720, 740d, 75, 78bcde, 79, 880, 903, 92, 93, 94, 953bd, 97 defghij, 103, 1063, 1073bf, 108a, 122b, 127cg, 148g, 150e, 1523, 1543, 167d, 168b0, 169b0, 1703cd, 171, 1723b0dfg, 173, 174, 1773, 1823b, 183b, 185g, 191be, 196befj, 197b0hl, 200b, 202b, 203bchn, 208. Paul Lusk: 910d, 1483, 151b0, 1880, 199ij1. Glenn Marass: 6, 7b, 19, 21b, 25b, 26, 270, 58f, 62bd, 63abde, 883e, 91i, 963d, 1023, 106b0def, 1223, 1233b, 1243b0deg, 125, 140b, 1443, 14800, 1490, 1503, 151fglo, 1563, 1660, 183a, 1863, 196d, 1973. Kevin Menke: 183, 180, 188f, 201f. Michael Nelson: 733, 89b, 152b. Susie OVGrady: 56, 57, 66b, 670. John Orlandello: 156b0d. Scott Reed: 202d. Wendell Smith: 36, 600, 950, 9663f, 97ab0, 983, 123C, 1493, 153a, 166def, 167b, 198a, 20111. Joel Sones: 73, 23, 273,283, 31b, 37d, 54, 613b, 77, 96b0g, 140, 105, 120b, 153d, 1663, 184d, 1851, 197k. Micahel Stanczak: 28b, 403, 4730f, 483, 490deg, 50, 513, 66a, 673fg, 70, 1123b, 1133, 114bd, 1153, 116, 1170de, 1180defgh, 119abce, 148b, 150b, 186b, 187, 1960, 199d. John Trout: 64, 65. Barbara Vana: 58j, 620e, 126d, 1390, 1403, 1423b, 144b0. Roy Vana: 4-5, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18b, 5830gk1, 603, 610, 62f, 80d, 8430, 85bce, 863bcde, 87, 893, 90b0defgh, 9lef, 990, 100, 101, 107ceghi, 111, 1140, 119df, 1220, 124f, 1266f, 128, 136, 137, 138b0, 139b, 142b, 143b, 144d, 146, 147308, 148dhin0, 149d, 150d, l5lehn, 154b, 163, 165ab0, 166b, 1830df, 184ab0, 185bd, 185bdeh, 188be, 194cdefg, 195deg, 196hi, 197egi, 198bd, 1990f, 200de, 201bdg, 202fgi, 2033gko. P. Weiss: 203p. Mary Wiermanski: 85d, 913, 1481m, 149b, 1500, 1513di, 1673, 197d, 1993bgk. Last and lonely notes on this last page of this too-short book: Something around here isnlt happening that should be. And like the celebrated Mr. Jones, no one seems to know what it isnlt. But its been . going on too long, this unhappening, whatever it is, like a four-year lifetime in Macomb. We sleep and wake and walk half-wasted to make a class before it ends, while all around the real world rushes, frenzied, toward confusion, until sometimes, suddenly, the roof seems ready to drop due to faulty eight-year planning in con- struction. Like Thompson Hall l . l Shake 8L Bake . . . Yes, Virginia, its over now, and time to go; welve almost stayed too long already. Pack the bags and say good-bye, but donlt for- get that once you lived here and called it home. It wasnlt all hugs and kisses doing this, and we didnt meet all our deadlines e no, not like all good yearbooks should. But we only had two and we made the most important one, and no one ever batted .500 in the big leagues anyway. When it was all over, we knew weld learned a lot more about people than we did about year- books, and we laughd and screamed and shout- ed horray, downed some brew, and walked, hap- pily, away. No big miracles this time around e just some very little, man-made ones. We did a new thing never really tried before, at least not here, and maybe in the long run we werenlt quite daring enough. But that we did it is enough to make us proud. . Many thanks to some key individuals who filled some very key roles toward the production of the 75 SEQUEL: Beth Rochefort and her secretary, Cathy Grove; Jay Powers; Dale Voss and LVSA for their 24-hour darkroom; John Fairman, WIU news services director, and his boss, Leslie F. Malpass. Some folks we couldnlt have done without: Barbara Geiluvu; Mary Wiermanski; Stan Lelm; Glenn Marass; Cyndy Sanders; Tom Gilmore; Mike Groff; Wendell Smith; Mike Stanczak; Kent Kleiva; And lastly, but most- ly, David Badger. Others: Marylinda Zettl, Sherry Kerr, Mar- cia Didtler, Jyl Frowein, Candy Eisentraut, Janie Davidson, Morgan Brunstrom, Glenn Mullins, Paul Lusk, and our American Year- book adviser, Mike Hackleman And Joel Sones and Randy Fox. Thank you everyone for all you did. 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