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JOURNAL AND COURIER LOCAL EDITOR PHILLIP A IORINI Phone 420 5231 ax 420 5246 9 mail fiorinijournal couriercom Journal and Courier on line: wwwjconlinecom After 54 years Lafayette man to get Purple Heart COMMUNITIES C3 Local I life County council approves election staff changes 2 registration employees will receive $3674 raises By Lorell leming Journal and Courier Citing a goal to get more qualified personnel to run the elections the Tippecanoe County Council approved a salary ordinance Monday that would give two voter registration employees a $3674 raise each But only one of those em ployees Republican Terri Probasco will take on added responsibility Probasco will have responsibilities in both the Tippecanoe County Elec tion Board and voter regis tration offices The duties of De mocrat counterpart in the vot er registration office Belva Pritchett change But because the law requires that both voter registration em ployees to be paid the same Reiling said Pritchett will re ceive the same raise as Probasco and annual salaries will go from $22401 to $26075 The two supervising voter registra tion employees Deborah Seders and Ramona Krueger will continue to be paid $26575 a year When things are slow in the voter registration office Probasco will work with elec tion board part timer Demo crat Shirley Condon in run ning the election process The money to fund the salary in creases will come from the voter registration budget Merger on hold This intermingling of staff between the voter registration and election board is the first step in efforts to combine the offices But efforts to unite the offices have been halted for now A proposed law to merge the offices that was headed to the state legislature for ap proval is being scrapped The election board is sug gesting that a politically bi partisan committee be ap pointed to reach an agree ment on either merging or re organizing the oflltes In the meantime the elec tion board has offered the change in duties as an interim reorganization The board is comprised of Re publican Bob Reiling Jr De mocrat Kent Moore and County Clerk Betty Michael a Republican is not the best way to handle Reiling said is a The salary ordinance which was embraced by coun ty council with a unanimous vote Monday had been de feated in a 4 3 council vote when it was originally pre sented eb 9 But ap proval was based on the con dition that a bipartisan plan be developed by Jan 1 2000 Although the idea of shar ing a staffer or two did not sit well with some local De mocrats Moore told council: Democrats will be pleased if this is Part timer sought Council president Jeff Kessler agrees this is the best solution right now elec tion process these days in volves more computer usage and Terri Probasco brings that experience to the The main duty of election board workers is to handle the overall operation of the elections That involves var ious tasks such as preparing ballots setting up polling places and coordinating and training poll workers The job of voter registra tion workers involves regis tering voters processing reg istration forms and educat ing the public Ruth Davidson the Tippecanoe County Republi can chairwoman has to ap point another Republican to fill the election board part time slot vacated by Probas co who left the position last year to take the full time vot er registration job That part timer will be a floater working for both the voter registration and elec tion board offices Probasco and the part timer will nev er be working in the same of fice Reiling said Purdue begins review process By Kevin Cullen Journal and Courier With $200 million in fed eral funding and student aid at stake Purdue University is working to ensure that its accreditation is renewed for 10 more years with no strings attached Every decade Purdue must prepare a detailed study" for the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities then submit to an on campus review by an accreditation team The NCA is a Chicago based organization that ac credits schools in a 19 state region Accreditation is all but mandatory Carolyn Jones assistant executive rice pres ident for academic affairs told the faculty senate Mon day afternoon She is chair ing the campus accreditation steering committee very difficult to attract faculty much less students to a non accredited univer Jones said are reluctant to hire (gradu ates) from a non accredited Only accredited schools qualify for federal funding and student aid In Purdue's case that totals about $200 million a year self study now being developed will be fin ished in May A North Cen tral review team will read that lengthy report then vis it the West Lafayette cam pus Nov 15 17 to tour facil ities and interview students staff and faculty In the spring of 2000 the team will announce its deci sion Purdue President Steven Beering said no doubt that Purdue will be accred ited But he wants a full 10 year accreditation not a lim ited accreditation with fol low up by the NCA to check on the progress of sub standard programs Beering was part of the NCA accreditation team that was sent to Ohio State Uni versity Of five Big Ten schools up for re accreditation Ohio State was one of three that was subjected to continued monitoring Purdue's five study com mittees will examine cam pus performance from the perspective of the cri teria then build a case for accreditation by document ing accomplishments iden tifying strengths and setting targets for improvement Reviewers could talk to 200 or so people during their three day visit Beering said he expects team members to as consultants offer sug gestions and advice and tell us if they feel we have met the a very detailed com plex complete Beer ing said totally differ ent than it was 10 years ago much more Ten years ago the review team focused on facts: the number of books in the li brary the percentage of fac ulty with the square footage of offices and labora tories they want Jones said want to see the results of how we are do ing in terms of what we set out to Beauty Beholder Curator: Ideals of society not always truthful safe or logical By Azura Domschke Journal and Courier obsession with thinness is an unrealistic trend embraced by human beings only recently from a historical standpoint ac cording to a program held Monday night in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Purdue University Graeme Reid curator of the Greater Lafayette Mu seum of Art took 1100 stu dents at the Elliott Hall of Music through a journey of the beauty of the human body as it has been per ceived by artists since 10000 BC Reid along with Sue Ab ney of Purdue Student Health Center told students that the lengths that people go to in order to achieve the perfect human form are unhealthy Accep tance of size not perfection is a more realis tic goal they said speech titled thetics of Beauty: The Ac tual vs the was complemented by slides of works from different eras of art Reid began with the sculpture of Wil The work depicts a woman who would be con sidered overweight today 20th century stan dards this woman would be obese I should point out what this carving is saying having enough to eat fer tility these are the stan dards of he said Greek sculptures on the other hand showed and bodies to fit geometric perfection Men had more pressure because ancient Greeks prized ath letic perfection as well Renaissance and neo classic paintings of the female body relied on real women as models people were the mod els used to reflect the phys ical (image) of the popula tion One can be sure Kate Moss would not (be) a model at this point in his In addition to artwork Reid focused on experi ments praised by society over the centuries that al tered the appearance of women and conformed them to standards of beau ty Experiments such as breast implants which be gan in 1903 thick white pancake like makeup acid See BODY Page C2 ft St A a At V'A" 1 bM 1 3 A SC i a By rank OliverJoumal and Courier THE STANDARD THE JUDGE? Graeme Reid used art to add to his speech on body image Monday night at Purdue Elliott Hall of Music Reid spoke as part of More activities Activities during Every National Eating Disorders Week: A body acceptance walk from the Stewart Center mural to the Memorial Mall will start at 3:30 pm Thursday of a self esteem event will take place at the Recreational Sports Center (formerly the Co Rec) during building hours Health Promotion Programs volunteers invite students to step on a scale which will reveal colors instead of numbers A corresponding fortune will be given for each color Student volunteers will be handing out candy to people walking around campus on a day to refrain from obsession with weight exer cise and dieting Jan 12 house fire claims second life Staff Reports A Shadeland man who suf fered bums from a fire that killed his wife in January died Sunday from his in juries Louis Bill 76 died Sun day afternoon at St Hospital in Kokomo He suf fered burns and smoke in halation from the fire His wife Harriet Bill 80 also died from fire related in juries Jan 12 She suffered bums over 90 percent of her body The home 4437 In diana 25 caught fire that morning while the couple was home They were trapped inside when a pass ing United Parcel Service driver on his way to West Point saw the blaze at the two story farmhouse UPS employee Larry Wichmann knew the elderly couple through his delivery route He parked his truck on the side of the road and ran to the house He kicked in the back door and heard screams for help Wichmann put his coat over his face for protection entered the home and pulled Louis out He tried to go back for Harriet but heat and smoke kept Wichmann from returning inside Wichmann he helped direct firefighters to find Harriet Wichmann 34 did not re ceive any injuries during the rescue He was treated for smoke inhalation and re leased ire investigators say a faulty electrical outlet was the cause of the fire News papers magazines and other items near the outlet helped fuel the flames Louis was a retired farmer and hpd previously worked at Brown Rubber Harriet was a homemaker The Bills were members of Stidham United Methodist Church in Shadeland Diversity a blessing challenge By Kevin Cullen Journal and Courier CRAWORDSVILLE William Gray likes to talk about a flight he took re cently The pilot was a woman the co pilot was a black man and the atten dants were Hispanic and Asian Welcome to the 21st cen tury says Gray presi dent of the United Ne gro College und He delivered a Black Histo ry Month lecture at Wabash Col Gray i ft i lege Monday night The face of America is changing faster than most people realize By the 2025 Hispanics will overtake blacks as largest minority group By 2050 whites will be outnumbered by minorities Gray called it a with implications so profound that it will test the basic values and de termine its role in the new millennium five percent of all new workers will be female or people of he told an audience of about 200 in Salter Concert Hall a change so sweeping that we seen anything like it since the wave of Euro pean immigration in the late 19th But unlike the European immigrants of 100 years ago many of immigrants share no common heritage or culture Integration will pres ent a more difficult challenge Gray who has headed the United Negro College fund since 1991has lived in two worlds He gfew up in North Philadelphia and although he excelled in four sports and graduated near the top of his class he was exclud ed from most top colleges be cause of his skin color The civil rights movement of the 1960s opened many doors He was elected to Con gress in 1978 and served as chairman of the Democratic caucus and majority whip He was the first black to chair the House Budget Committee and played a ma jor role in education funding He urged people to re member that the old always good Often more myth than reality can go back on your own not going he said a great nation but we have had cancer and warts too America today is a better place a stronger country because more in The greatest challenge of the 21st century will be open ing doors for everyone want ing an education was key to the old im migrants and it will be for the new he said we draw the circle tighter and draw standards to lock people Gray said we build a diminished Amer ica one that will riot be able to As president of the Unit ed Negro College und Gray talks with college students constantly far better people than many adults give them credit for More are graduating from high school than at any time in history and more are going to college than ever before the most engaged knowledgeable generation ever known including my own in terms of world he said convinced the strongest and best genera tion yet to come if they get tied to myths and find ways to be He urged college students to do more than to make a living learn to make a Murdock might get year round school By Muneera Naseer Journal and Courier About 90 percent of the families at Murdock Ele mentary School support a balanced calendar and may get their wish at the March board meeting of the Lafayette School Corp Superintendent Ed Eiler said he will make a recom mendation to the school board to make the change based on the parental sup port which exist when the school made a similar at tempt a few years ago Murdock would join Lin nwood Elementary also in LSC as the only Lafayette area schools on such a sched ule In year round school school officials prefer the term students attend the same 181 days of instruction as a reg ular schools but with short er breaks at different times instead of a longer summer layoff Miami Elementary School also was considering chang ing calendars but there was less support for the idea among Miami patrons Eiler said kept the threshold (for change) at about 85 percent Eiler said Supporters of a balanced calendar say the advantages include a reduction in the learning loss that takes place over the summer and less teacher burnout Students can take part in enrichment programs during interses sions If the board approves il recommendation about 15 Murdock students whose families support the balanced calendar will have to attend Washington Ele mentary School If approved bal anced calendar would be im plemented in the 1999 00 school year I BEAUTY BEHOLDER Curator: Ideals of society not always truthful safe or logical By Azura Domschke Journal and Courier obsession with thinness is an unrealistic If trend embraced by human beings only recently from a historical standpoint ac cording to a program held Monday night in honor of A A National Eating Disorders I Awareness Week at Purdue University A Graeme Reid curator of the Greater Lafayette Mu seum of Art took 1100 stu dents at the Elliott Hall of Music through a journey of the beauty of the human body as it has been per ceived by artists since ioooo bc Reid along with Sue Ab ney of Purdue tKM Student Health Center told students that the lengths that people go 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