Eckerd College - Logos Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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L .3 75 LIJ it 3 4-1 5 Ll. 'Q lf? Cx : 3 Q E Q O Q! dunnis' view I - ALlStI"8ll3'S athletes BFE tOUQl'l!!! LasT sprlng I sTudled In London and Thls pasT January I spenf my wlnTer Term ln AusTralla. AusTralla follows England In many ways, Including sporTs. However, AusTralla has developed a few of Thelr own sporTs, such as Rugby and Aussle Rules. In boTh counTrles The main consensus of The publlc and Those who parTlclpaTe ln sporTs ls ThaT American sporTs aren'T near as physical Iy demanding as Theirs. I had ofTen heard commenTs such as, 'your aThIeTes don'T wanT To geT any bruises or scars because They may have To appear on a T.V. commercial Tomorrow.' American sporTs are very dlfferenf from many oTher counTrles. AusTraIlan aThIeTes are popular for Thelr sporTs, noT The klnd of shoes They wear or whaT klnd of car They can flT Thelr overslzed bodles lnTQ The Two counTrles are playing almosT separaTe games. U.S. sporTs have become exfremely commerclal. OTher Than The co merclallsm, There are many oTher differences. EqulpmenT ls deflnlTeIy a negaTIve Issue wlTh The AusTraI Ians. AusTraI Ians only wear al mlnlmal amounT of safeTy equlpmenT. Are U.S. sporTs compeTlTors as Tough as Thelr InTernaTlonaI counferparfs? A U.S. fooTbaII fan would be surprlsed To see an AusTraIlan fooTball maTch. AusTralla has Three Types of foofballz rugby, soccer and Aussle rules. The IaTTer Is The mosT comparable Type To U.S. fooTbaIl excepT no safeTy equlpmenT ls worn. Nhlle U.S. fooTball players proTecT Themselves To The fuIIesT exTenT, Aussle rules players wear only a mlnlmal amounT of safeTy equlpmenT. They feel lT's more manly To play The game wIThouT all The pads and helmeTs ThelLS. players use. AusTrallans feel The sporTs They play separafe The men from The boys. CrIckeT ls a popular sporT Throughouf The world, however, The U.S. has noT yeT adopTed Thls sporT. Crlckef Is comparable To baseball excepT The players do noT wear gloves and The bafs are qulTe dlfferenT. The baTs are approxlmafely flve To seven Inches In wldTh and Two and a half feeT In lengTh. The plTcher ls called a bowler and he bounces The ball Towards The wlckef la Three fooT Type of TargeTI Trylng To hlT IT. The baTTer has To hlT The ball and If The bat I hlTs The wlckeT, The baTTer Is ouT. Once The baTTer hlTs The ball, he does noT have To run. Only when he feels he can make a successful run does he move. The dIsTance he runs Is abouT equal To ThaT of The dlsTance befween home and flrsTI AT The oTher end of The run Is anoTher baTTer and wIckeT so Tre runners musT change posITIons To score one run. If The viewer Tries To compare IT To baseball, he will have a hard Tlme undersTandIng The game. AI- Though There are slmllarlTles, There are also many differences. Amerlca's besT known sporTs are noT so popular ln oTher counTrles, buT wheTher or noT oTher counTrles are more successful In dlvldlng boys from men In Thelr professional sporTs ls up To The Indlvldual viewer. XT Mary Zimnik, EDITOR and DESIGNER Dan Cameron, PRODUCTION MANAGER to the EDITOR Dawn Smith, MAGNEARBOOK EDITOR Kitty Waclawski, ADVERTISING COORDINATORXPERSONNEL DIRECTOR Melissa MacKinnon, HEAD STAFF WRITER Valerie Cerny, FICTIONS EDITOR Robin Dunn, SPORTS FEATURE EDITOR Ricky Kephart, HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER Karen Torrisi, DARKROOM PRODUCTION Sue Johannes, OFFICE MANAGER Heather Schwab, ASSISTANT OFFICE MANAGER Trish Cole, COMPUTER OPERATORIASSISTANT to the EDITOR WRITING STAFF Thom Allman Melissa Kub Jenniler Black Mike Lee Stacy Bonner Kim Boss Michelle Buckholz Brian Mahoney Sean Moberley Stacey Plummer Brian Creighton Barbara Ray Howard Cullimore Shana Smith Ron DePeter Brian Stella Grace Gannaway Julio Veaz Katie Gugg Edward Williams Heather Hanson Tim Wilmont Tally Jaeger SPORTS STAFF David R. DiSalvo Eric Toledo Mark Richardson Cheryl Toy PHOTOGRAPHERS Curtis Arnold Darrell Ptalzgrat Mark Davenport Carlton J. Pierce Judy Gascoigne Cricket Rowe Bruce Lee Steve Wilcox PRODUCTIONIART STAFF Leah Bamtord Mary Alice Harley Jen Bushey Polly Melton Jackie Cerny Dawn Regan Helen Cornwall Sherry Sharrard Lauren Discipio Andre StanIeV Lisa Fritz Kent Yunk YEAHBDOK STAFFIPHOTUGFIAPHEHS Kelley Blevins Maria Meuch Kim Poston Heidi Steinschaden Kevin Stewart Michele Vilardebo IMPACT is published by the Eckerd College Organization ol Students on a monthly basis. Production is handled entirely by the stall. Contributions are encouraged trom all students, stall, laculty, and administration. However, this publication does reserve the right to edit any and all material submitted. 1'he opinions expressed in any article are solely that ol its author and do not neces- sarily rellect the opinions ot the IMPACT statt or the Eckerd College Community. Any articles, letters, or inquiries about advertising may be sem to IMPACT, Eck- erd College, Box N, Sl. Petersburg, Florida 33733, or to the Editor at Box 1147. 25

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attltude. Why then, should they take the test serlously? I belleve this very strongIy.n How can an lnstltutlon base admlsslon standards on a test that reflects even the hlnt of ln- equallty dlsplayed above In last year's average scores? lf this ls an unfalr test because of soclo- economlc lnequallty, Eckerd Col- lege would be dlscrlmlnatlng If lt used an SAT cut-off score ln Its admlsslon requirements. Look around you. How many students here are successful as community members despite average to low SAT scores? According to Smlth, 'I don't so much worry about the students wlth low SAT scores and hlgh partlclpatlon, but rather hlgh SAT scores and low partlclpatlon.' Afro-American Soclety President and senlor Ernestlne Johnston agrees, 'SAT's do not say what a student can contrlbute. SAT's do "SAT's are vieved by black as a test for whites, by whites. " -Mark Smith not prove your capabilities Anyone can learn lf they have a wlll to learn.N But even with a strong Wwlll to learnn and a shot at col lege ac- ceptance, blacks yet have another hurdle. That hurdle Just may tear apart all the good done by the Clvll Rights Movement. NLast funded, flrst cut from the hudget,' sald Welch at the FBSA conference. That's part of what Gramm-Rudman wlll do. Welch contlnued,UAfflrmatlve Actlon, Black Student Unions. 17- bllllon cut from domestlc programs -- welfare, soclal servlces -- poor peoplefblack people wlll be hlt from all sldes.n ls the Gramm-Rudman law lntentlonally dlscrlmlnatory, or ls lt Just an accldent? The Supreme Court heard arguments In late Aprll on the constitution- allty of the law. Untll any change ls made stu- dents, malnly black students, wlll suffer dearly. 'This wlll certainly accelerate the trend of decllnlng black and Hispanic partlclpatlon ln post- secondary educatlon,H contends Arnold Mltchem, director of the National Councll of Educational Opportunity Associations.lNptlce also, that blacks and Hlspanlcs are already hit with the lowest SAT scoresl 24 ls Gramm-Rudman law intentionally discriminatory, or is it just an accident? As much as 80 to 90 percent of the students ln black colleges recelve some flnanclal ald, Mltchem says. We're already beglnnlng to feel lt here at Eckerd as almost 751 of our students, black and whlte recelve flnanclal aid. As the award letters came ln many stu- dents saw federal ald belng cut at exorbitant rates. That's only the beginning. Reported by Welch, WGramm-Rud- man Is designed to reduce the budget deflclt to zero by 1991. Two-bil llon dol lars wlll be cut from financial ald in two years -- 635-mllllon from the 1986 budget, and that Includes Guaranteed Student Loans KGSLL . . private schools wil l increase tultlon by 71 per year. Programs with llmlted enrollment will go.. . black programs will be hlt the hardest.. . there will be layoffs and naturally, salary cuts for faculty.U So, as our Eckerd Administra- tlon works on its own five-year plan for academic excellence, Gramm-Rudman wlll be almlng at black students from the flnanclal slde. uSome say all those hard tlmes are ln the past.. . Thlngs are going to get worse, they haven't been good,n Welch added. "Some say all those hard times are in the past. . . things are go- ing to get worse, they haven't been good." -Giovanna Welch So, what are the posslbllltles for blacks ln higher educatlon? Where ls the future for any child that's not whlte? There are many probabllltles. Most look bleak though. The black individual ls faced with probably the most dlsturblng future ever seen before. They won their Clvll Rights and got a taste of equality. But, wlthout the slightest warning, those same rights so strongly fought for are being ripped from beneath the foundation of The black movement. Welch remarked, nwhen Martln Luther Klng's Era reaped lts benefits and we had people move into the area that they had never been before, It was slgnlflcantf However, Welch added that ln order to stay ln that newly discovered place, concessions had to be made. NOne way to stay In Integrated society was to keep our mouths shut. Mayors, Councilmen don't want to hear -- we had 20 years of Clvll rlghts, money for education, money to squander -- so we kept our mouths shut. NMany of us aren't wil ling to take a chance -- we don't want to lose what we had -- but all those programs that moved In our favor "You can never make the case that you've done all you can." -Dick Hallin ' 'One way to stay in in- gegrated society was to keep our mouths shut. " -Giovanna Welch are movlng rlght out the door.H As those opportunltles roll out the door, the tlme for change grows shorter. Wlthout educated blacks, who wlll go back lnto the black communltles and reach out to the black youth to change their bleak future? 'lf colleges keep squeezing black students, they Just set-up a dependent, young, black genera- tlon and I hope lt doesn't come to that,' contends Lena Wllfalk, Director of Mlnorlty and Interna- tlonal Student Affairs at Eckerd She adds, WKII I the Head fthe movementl and the Body wlll dle fthe peoplel.H

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