Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Debuting at Ripon on Fnday, October 5, a new harpsiccxd found a home in a recital ha'J in the C.J Rodman Center for the Arts on lower campus. Professor Donald Spies dd the honors of playing the beoutiful instrument for the first time. At left, top: Lorry Fahnoe checks his mafcox in the new central madroom. At left The Student Senate Executive Staff Jason Patterson. V.P. Activities, Jim Wohn. President. Joe Cullen. Treasurer. June Issoc. Joe Endrizzi Missing. Jube Lynch. The Student Senate exercises the legislative and ex- ecutive functions of government on campus. It meets once a week, usually in the glass room in the commons, and carries out the business at hand, relying on informa- tion from student representatives from each living group on campus. Highlights of the year included the addition of a central mailroom. the successful completion of budget hearings, and the fun and excitement of such events as Home- coming. Winter Weekend, and Springfest. A central issue in the meetings of the student senate during the 1984-85 academic year was the increase in the drinking age from 18 to 19. The state of Wisconsin plans to increase that age to 21 in order to get needed funds for its highways in the next few years. The Senate had to adopt a new drinking policy to be approved by the Executive Committee of the Hill. (For more informa- tion on the policy, please turn to page 28). During the Summer of 1984, a central mail room was constructed in the tower level of the Harwood Memorial Union. Every student picks up his mail here, and can also find information from various clubs and watch TV on the large screen TV. Adjacent to the mailroom the Union office was built. Left Joe Culen makes a point at a senate meeting in the commons Student Life J 9

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DJs, Professors, Government, And Music Wilfiam J. Schang, associate professor of English, was presented the Senior Class Award at the Ripon College Awards Convocation. The award. according to this year's presenter and senior class president Jim Garden, is annually given to the faculty member that year's graduating class feels had the most influence on its stay at Ripon College. Each senior is allowed one vote. Gar- den said. Schang also was the top vote- getter in 1982. The award is a true honor, Schang said, because of the recognition from the students and the quality of previous winners. Most significant to this award is the strict criterion by which students abide while voting, said Dean of Faculty Doug- las Northrup. They simply feel that he is an outstanding teacher. Schang joined Ripon's faculty in 1969. after completing a teaching fellowship at the University of Michigan. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate de- grees at Michigan. He currently is on a one-semester sabbatical. (Story courtesy of College Relations) WRPN Staff Prepares To Boost Wattage WRPN DJs and Executive Staff, back row. left to right. Kevin Corbett. Mary Jantscn. Kent Appleby. Ruth Schumacher. Mfce Gondar. Chris Boydston. Hugh Wronski, Greg Lews Dan Ortkoff. Station Manoger Paul Witt. Robert Young. Mott Russ. Mike Pierson. Ne Henderson. Maureen Forty. Dora Kdbourn. Chris Templeton. Lisa Utmen. front row Sue Woods. Jm Hart. Brad McDonald. Ed Creech. Dave Perry. Dove Sorum. Trevor G ei John Smith. CMf Anderson. Schang Honored By Senior Class WRPN-FM provides the campus and close surround- ing Ripon community with public service announce- ments. news, and music. DJs are selected at the be- ginning of each semester and placed into a program according to their choice of show format. WRPN pro- vides a variety of music, from Christian to rock, show tunes to classical. The primary objective of the station is to provide the campus with an alternative to the stations in the area, as well as to bring to its listening audience news and other information about the Ripon campus. The station is found at 90.1 on the FM band with a total wattage of 10. During the 1984-85 aca- demic year, plans were put into the works for the station to increase its wattage to 250. Along with that are plans to move the frequency to a different num- ber on the FM band. The increase in wattage should take place in the Fall of 1985. WRPN broadcasts from 7a.m. to 12a.m. on week- days, and 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. on weekends. Action 90 news airs each day at 6 p.m. News is selected from various campus events and from the Associated Press news wire located in the news room. DJs take news from that wire when the time comes every hour to do the news on their show. The Executive Staff for 1984-85 included Paul Witt, station manager. Chris LeLand, Jeannie Dancy. Susan Woods, and Rhea Bell.

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Appeal Of Student Union Improves Mailroom, TV, Union Office, And Games Added Walking down into the same old deserted mailroom in the evening to check the same old empty mailbox, you see something new, something different! — two guys scurrying around distributing flyers, lettering posters, and generally organizing things. They are Ken Carlson and Gib Malm, coordinators of the something new. something differ- ent Student Union office. The Student Union office is an ex- perimental effort to provide a stu- dent service that has never existed on this campus before. says Carl- son. We're trying to give a ‘Stu- dent Union' effect. There should be students in the Student Union! Ripon is one of the few campuses where the Union is not a Union at all; infact, students rarely go there for any other purpose than to check for mail. “It's physicoily not very adapt- able. Nobody really wants to come to a room (ike this. Carlson ex- pressed the attitude of the entire student body. Who wants to waste time with a bunch of metal chairs sitting around a big-screen TV on a cold linoleum floor? The new Union office is going to change all that. Nicer chairs, some carpeting, and a posted Prime Time schedule will draw more students. “We want to make it a place where you can come and sit down to watch ‘All My Kids' for that half hour before your one o'clock class. said Malm with enthusiasm. During office hours (7:30-9:30 weeknights except Tuesday: 9:30- 10:30; Saturday 3:00- 5:00. Sunday 1:00-3:00 and 5:30-7:30. the Union workers will keep an eye on the TV equipment in the mail- room and to signout Rigrii Ken Cafteon (r ght) and G fc Malm sit cut de the Stu- dent Union Office where they wotk the available Student Senate-fund- ed VCR for use in the lounges or in individual rooms. This will give those incoming ‘dry' freshman classes an- other alternative to going down- town drinking; going downtown to rent movies! One of the most important aims of the Union office is to become an information center. Once they get a telephone, they will be able to answer any question about which part of the administration to take a problem to. If Carlson and Malm don't know the answer, they'll find out for you the next day. “What we hope we'll eventually become is a ‘magic phone number' for people, explained Malm. “If they've got any questions, they can call this number. As another informational service, the Union office will be organizing bulletin boards in the central mail- room, sectioning off a space for each club. Malm and Carlson are also considering organizing a ride board. (These boards will serve the double purpose of being informers and also covering all that empty white wall space!) The Union office will also provide other services that aren't generally available in the off-hours, such as the non-profit ‘mini-bookstore' where students can go to buy emergency pens, typing ribbon. etc., for those last minute, late-night papers. ‘The Union office will also be distributing emergency aspirins for those last-minute, late-night headaches!) All at the same pri you would pay at the bookst during regular hours, the mini-book store is a straight service to the s dent body. Offering many other services t can't be found anywhere else campus, the Union office will working to make life at Ripon more enjoyable. Carlson and hope to be used as part of the center staff. According to C “In these two weeks we've here, about three people a ask for packages; it would make sense to make that t rarily part of our job. And for t sports fanatic who couldn't lug ol equipment to Ripon. the office be renting out college-own camping equipment and cr country ski equipment at rates. Finally — although first foremost in the minds of those are dreaming of 'real' college life] complete with SPRING BREAK Carlson mentioned “The other t g| things that Gib and I hope to do and haven't received any tion to but also haven't receivi much support for — is to org trips down to Florida during break and Christmas trips to Jock son Hole. Ripon's new Union of- fice is one of those bri- liant students ideas that has been kicking around Student Sen- ate for the past t years looking for o place to settle Finaly with the help of Dean Young (advisor to the Student Senate) two work grants were writ- ten into the budget and a few days after the semester started, the Student Union of- fice found its niche in the central mailroom