Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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 Extras on the side Validines lost year 500 Meals served year 640 Gallons of PFM ice cream consumed year 5000 Green parking stickers is- sued year 1500 ft Blue parking stickers is- sued year 1100 Parking tickets given year 5200 4 Minor accidents on campus year 30 SAB stickers sold year 2000 SAB movies shown year 30 Movies rented from Video Castle year 40,000 ft Ronzas delivered to dorms year 6000 MMSU sports teams 21 riMSU presidents since 1867 10 4 Seats in Baldwin Auditorium 1500 ft Seats in the Little Theatre 300 Lbs. of green and white com- puter paper used year 22,100 Rolls of toilet paper pur- chased year 67,200 races focus on visual displays and keyboards as students word process in the Administration and Humanities building computer room. The Language and Literature division installed a network system which increased computer capabilities. In order to take care of business. Julie Krutsinger uses the mainframe computer at the cashier s window. The mainframe hooked up with all students' accounts. '24 Academics

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Tradition includes change As the University con- tinued to progress, changes were made with- in the current administra- tive body. On July 1, Dean of Instruction Dar- rell Krueger and Dean of Students Terry Smith gained additional titles and responsibilities, and two new people were named deans within the administration. The changes were suggested and approved by the Board of Governors in May 1988 during a closed session. Krueger s new title be- came Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Instruction. He continued to work close- ly with faculty commit- tees responsible for the academic policies, but his new position focused primarily on the gra- duate programs. Krueger said working with the graduate dean was informal before his title change, and after the change the work was on an even more person- al basis. Krueger did not feel he had any extra re- sponsibilities with his new title and said that the title change was sim- ply a formality. Dean of Students Terry Smith became the Dean of Residential Colleges in addition to his former du- ties as Dean of Students. Smith worked closely with residence life, as well as with the new resi- dential college pro- grams. He also worked with the residential col- lege professors, giving them guidance and sup- port in their first year of working in the residential colleges. Another administrative change was the appoint- ment of Dr. Susan Shoaff as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, re- placing Ruth Towne. Shoaff began teaching here in 1980 and became an associate professor of art. Her new duties in- volved coordinating and administering the gra- duate program. Kathy Rieck, the ex- ecutive assistant to the president, became the new Dean of Admissions and Records. Rieck's for- mer duties included overseeing the admis- sions office and printing services. Her responsibilities changed to include work- ing with the Registrar s Office, Financial Aids Of- fice, and the Business Of- fice in addition to her for- mer duties in Admis- sions. An assistant to the president for 14 years, Rieck thought her new ti- tle reflected more re- sponsibilities. “It's a real honor and is spurring me on to try and achieve more, and also be of greater assis- tance to the students of the University, Rieck said, a University President Charles McClain attends a special event for prospective high school students. Despite the large number of people McClain meets, his ability to remember names was a well- known trait. At an election '88 forum. Dean of the Colleges Terry Smith serves as a panel member answering questions while Todd Flanders, instructor of Social Science, lis- tens to the forum. Smith as- sumed new duties after Missouri and Ryle halls became residential colleges.

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 University gets bytes The computer network implemented in the Lan- guage and Literature Di- vision brought promi- nence to both the depart- ment, its instructors and students. The potential of this system is phe- nomenal,” Edwin Car- penter, language and lit- erature division head, said. Dr. Carpenter said the system will allow both students and faculty more flexibility than self- standing computers. The network allows faculty members to access data bases across campus. Faculty are able to ac- cess students' files, cor- rect assignments and as- sign grades. There will be a time when no papers actually have to change hands,” Carpenter said. The fac- ulty will also be able to send electronic mail to each other.” Faculty will soon be able to type in, edit and read the mail off the computer. According to Heinz Woehlk, associate pro- fessor of English, the net- work has advantages for students as well as facul- ty. Woehlk said that the computer center is more efficient. A reason for this is with the network, all of the computers will have access to a printer. In the past, only certain com- puters could access printers. The network offers flexibility by allowing more than one word pro- cessing program to be used. The division offi- cially supports Horton's Textra word processing program; although PC- Write is accessible as well. According to Rick Watson, student man- ager of the computer center, Textra work- shops will be offered at the beginning of the year. An additional advan- tage is the new reflex spread sheet program that allows the ability to record students' grades on computer. The network also per- mits writing in foreign languages. One good thing about the network is that I can now use ac- cents,” Ruth Bradshaw, instructor of French said. According to Carpen- ter, network completion was anticipated before the start of the academic year, but unforseen prob- lems kept the network from functioning at its full capacity. Most of the problems have stemmed from try- ing to implement pro- grams that individual fac- ulty members have re- quested. Integrating new programs takes time,” Woehlk said. Approximately 81 IBM system 2 (model 25) computers were pur- chased for the depart- ment. They replaced IBM PC jrs and Zenith com- puters. Some faculty kept the Zenith comput- ers. The old computers were re-distributed by computer services. I Val Mocpiwtcc Students prepare papers in the computer room in Violette Hall. The computers in Violette did not offer the same opportunities as the computers in the Division of Language and Literature.