The Exponent, 1975-10-23

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Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
October 23, 1975
DeZonia proposes Northern name change
by Joani Nelson
Northern's name may be changed
to the University of Northern South
Dakota as the result of a recent staff
report presented to the Board of
Regents last Thursday by Com-missioner
of Higher Education Dr.
Robert DeZonia.
The Northern name change, which
is a major aspect of Dr. DeZonia's
proposal to reorganize the seven
state colleges into a single univeristy
system, will be considered by the
seven Regents at their November
meeting.
"The South Dakota University
System" would be the title of the
proposed system. Dr. DeZonia's
proposal includes four major
programs. The first would combine
the University of South Dakota and its
branches at Springfield and Madison.
Dr. DeZonia commented, "The
administrative savings, and ef-ficiencies
and above all — the
programmatic flexibilities of the
three-campus University of South
Dakota provide affirmative evidences
of' merger' of Dakota State College,
USD-S and USD-V for administrative
purposes."
Second, South Dakota State
University would retain its present
status as a separate university.
Third, Dr. DeZonia's proposal
would provide that the administration
of the South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology and Black Hills State
College be focused under a single
president of a University of Western
South Dakota.
Fourth, under a single university
system, Northern would be
designated as the University of
Northern South Dakota.
In suggesting that Northern be
considered a university in its own
right, DeZonia said, "Northern is too
remote from other campuses to
consider branching it, besides which
it is a comprehensive institution with
graduate offerings and thus merits
by Joani Nelson
The sunroom in Lincoln Hall may be
the site of all future art shows and
may possibly represent the end of
last year's controversy over whether
art shows should be shown in the
Johnson Fine Arts Center.
Although plans are only in the
preliminary stage, President Norbert
Baumgart and Dr. Lester Clarke, vice-president
and dean of academic
affairs, are presently looking
favorably on a proposal by James
Gibson, chairman of the art depart-ment,
to make the sunroom into an
art gallery. The sunroom is being
vacated on January 1, 1976, by the
Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education (DESE), which
has been using it as a resource center
for in-service educational programs.
The major problem facing Dr.
Baumgart and Dr. Clarke is whether
enough funds will be available to
finance remodeling the sunroom into
a room suitable for displaying art
shows. Gibson is presently
developing preliminary blueprints for
the new art gallery, and if all goes
well, the three hope to have the
sunroom ready for art shows by next
fall.
separate consideration as a
university."
However, Dr. DeZonia emphasized
in presenting the proposal that "no
major shifts in institutional missions
are contemplated." He said the main
reasons he proposed the single
university system was to obtain
'improved efficiency and economy,
Diversity, specialization and better
by Scott Mayer
Improving health services at
colleges and universities was the
general topic under discussion at the
37th annual meeting of the North
Central College Health Association.
Three delegates from Northern:
Carol Wahl, Aberdeen junior; Sara
Zulk, Sioux Falls junior; and Steve
Stahl, Mellette senior; attended the
two-day conference held October 16-
17 at the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis. Ms. Zulk is the com-missioner
of housing and student
services, while Ms. Wahl and Stahl
are members of the Student Health
Advisory Board.
College delegates from a four-state
area heard several authorities
speak on various topics concerning
health services. These seminars
included the areas of "Sexual
Manifesto for Young People,"
"Gynecological Problems of College
Gibson is enthusiastic about the
possibility of obtaining the sunroom.
He commented, "I'm satisfied that the
problem of where students may hang
their art is being taken care of, and
that the proposal to use the sunroom
has been favorably received by
President Baumgart and Dr. Clarke."
"The sunroom would make a nice
art gallery," according to Gibson,
who pointed out the advantages of
the proposal. "First," he said, "the
new gallery would provide an op-portunity
for studenti to have
receptions along with their art
shows." He explained that this is not
possible now, with the second floor of
Dacotah Hall, the fireside lounge in
-the Student Union and the Newman
Center being used for displaying art
shows. He added that the sunroom
boasts of large windows, a fireplace
and a small kitchen, all of which could
be used to make art shows more
enjoyable.
The second advantage of using the
sunroom for an art gallery, in Gib-son's
opinion, is that security would
be greater. In the past, some students
have had problems with pieces of
their art work being stolen from the
long-range planning."
Dr. DeZonia's proposal would
change the present system in that
there would be only four presidents
for the seven campuses, instead of
the present seven presidents.
Although the commissioner of
higher education would be renamed
a chancellor in a further effort to
eliminate bureaucracy under the
Students," "Improving Com-munication
with Patients" and
"Prevention and Care of Athletic
injuries."
At the first seminar, "Sexual
Manifesto," Dr. Robert Iles, executive
director of the Marcliff Foundation,
stressed the need for more sexual
understanding of college age
students. Dr. Iles pointed out that in
many schools, health services per-sonnel
are not able to aptly deal with
the sexual problems facing college-age
students today.
Dr. Iles believes that students
should have rights to a medical
service offering contraceptive
devices and treatment of venereal
diseases. "If a college health service
does not offer free access to con-traceptives,"
Dr. Iles noted, "it is not a
health service."
Stahl said that if these dividends
public places in which they have been
displayed. "The security would be
much better because the sunroom
doors could be locked at night."
Another advantage cited by
Gibson is that because the sunroom is
out of the mainstream of college
traffic, persons would not have to
attend controversial art shows if they
expected to find them personally
offensive. "Art shows are for a select
group of people — people interested
in art," he stressed. "You choose to
go to a small room in the Johnson
Center to hear a music recital just as
you should be able to choose to go to
a certain area to view an art show."
Gibson emphasized that "we're
seemingly headed in the right
direction now" as he noted that the
controversy over President
Baumgart's removal of a painting
from a senior art show last year has
calmed down. He felt that the
question of whether the removal last
year was justified or not is of
secondary importance compared to
the fact that art students may now be
presented with the opportunity to
display their art shows in a much
better atmosphere than ever before.
proposal, the Board of Regents would
be retained as the South Dakota
University System's governing body.
Dr. DeZonia also presented a staff
study to the Regents which projected
that there will be only a modest
increase in enrollment over the next
five-year period, which will be
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were added to Northern's health
service, the student activity ticket fee
would have to be increased. In ad-dition,
any increase in services would
have to be ratified by the student ser-vices
committee, President Baumgart
and the Board of Regents.
Dr. Marjorie Hartig, representing
the University of Minnesota,
discussed the gynecological problems
facing students at the second
seminar. She noted that several
gynecological diseases are reaching
epidemic proportions on many
college campuses. To curb this, Dr.
Hartig stressed the need for a nurse
practitioner concept, whereby the
campus nurse could fulfill many of the
duties currently handled by the
doctor. In addition, the need for
awareness of these diseases and
their effects was also stressed.
An experienced trainer for the
Minnesota Gophers was the speaker
concerning the prevention and care
of athletic injuries. Lloyd Stein
outlined several newly developed
methods of minimizing athletic in-juries.
He advocated the need for
better student trainer-physician
relationships. It was noted by Stein
that a poor relationship can severely
hinder athletic injury healing.
At the fourth workshop, Dr. Robert
Veninga, assistant dean at the
University of Minnesota, spoke on the
importance of interpersonal com-munications.
Various exhibits
displayed the means and the progress
feasible when achieving better
communication at all phases of the
college environment.
At a business meeting held during
the conference, Ms. Zulk was elected
the student representative for the
North Central College Health
Association. In addition, she will be a
delegate to the National Convention
of the American College Health
Association.
Stahl reported that several con-structive
ideas were digested by the
Northern delegation attending the
conference. "While our health ser-vices
can be termed satisfactory,"
Stahl added, "when compared to the
standard set by general convention
participants, our service can surely be
improved."
Sunroom may end art controversy
Seminar stresses health improvements