Vol. LXVIII, Number “3
Tuesday, February 22. 1977

K3133

an independent student newspaper]

UK loses Teeter

to Texas J-school

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

Thirteen months ago, Dr. Dwight
Teeter faced the gargantuan task of
rebuilding the UK school of jour-
nalism. Now he‘s heading for one of
the most mveted jobs in the country.

Teeter was recently named
chairman of the journalism
department at the University of
Texas in Austin. UT boasts 1,100
journalism majors, the largest
number in the nation, and the school
of communications is housed in a
three-building, $12 million complex.

But last January, things weren’t
looking so bright for Teeter.

UK‘s journalism school hadlost its
accreditaton and was under fire
from administrators as well as local
media. Why had the major state
school lost its accreditation? There
were plenty of quick answers, but
the real sdutions were to be some
time in arriving.

At that time. UK‘s departments of
journalism and communications
were changed to schools when the
College of Arts and Sciences was
revamped. Teeter was named acting
director of the J -schooland faced the
task of improving conditions so that
the accrediting team would like
what it saw upon its retum.

Teeter is confident about UK

The jury is still outon that matter;
the wad on accreditation won’t
come until later this semester. But
Teeter is confident, which is why he
has no second thoughts about
leaving.

“I‘m optimistic," he said. “Our
faculty has gone from eight to 12
people and we’ve gotten all that new
equipment.” The University
recently invested more than $50,000
in an electronic video display ter-
minal editing system for the J-
school.

“0ur job placements are going a
lot better than they were. When I

took over, I was getting calls every
two a- three weeks from somebody
asking for a reporter. Now we're
getting two or three per .wee .”

Teeter said his main concern when
he started was “to strengthen the
faculty and get us in a position to be
reaccredited. it's easy to make
thirgs happen when they give you
funds and people to work with."

But there were some anxious
moments in the early going. “There
was no way of knowing if the ad—
ministration would bounce for an
electronic editing system. There
was no way of knowing if we could
get the faculty up to 12 people,"
Teeter said

But it all happened, and now
Teeter is heading south.

35 applicants beaten out

He got a letter last November
inviting him to apply for the Texas
job. “I decided ‘Why not?‘ ” he said.
“i wentdown there in December and
took a look. i liked the place and i
liked the people."

Dr. Robert Jeffrey, acting
director of the UT school of jour-
nalisrn, said a committee screened
35 applicants and narrowed the
choices to five. Those five were
interviewed and the field was then
cut to two.

UT’s president and vice-president
for academic affairs then in-
terviewed them—and Teeter, who
was recanmended by Jeffrey, came
out the winner.

“He was chosen for a variety of
reasons," Jeffrey said. “He has a
strong academic backgrourxl with
some scholarly work in journalism
law.

“He has a wide reputation with
journalists. both academic and
professimal. We wanted someone
with a national reputation, ad-
ministra tive experience and respect
within the administration and the

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friendly local scalper.

game by TVS.

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Wanta tidret to the Alabama game? Forget it—they’re all gone.
That includes student guest general public and just about any other
kind of tickets you could imagine, except for those provided by your

And chances are pretty good that the latter variety will be available
only to those with relatively unlimited financial resources, judging by
howquickly the game passes were snatched up Sunday and Monday. It
was the first time that Rupp Arena’s seats have all been claimed
before Tuesday morning‘s first light.

That‘s not all the bad news. You can just about forget a ticket to
Monday nigh t‘s Mississippi State, too. But it’s not too late.

A limited number of them are being offered this morning at 9 am. at
Mema'ial Coliseum. However, $4 student guest tickets may not be
purchased for the MSU or Alabama games.

The office of the Dean of Students implores you, if you aren‘t able to
use your tickets for either of the games, to turn them in.

There’s one more note, and then you can plan your game strategy.
The Alabama tilt will begin on Saturday at 4 pm. instead of at 7:30
pm. This change was made to allow live television coverage of the

 

 

 

 

Brainstorming

John Mon'ow huffs. puffs and blows his opposition away during last
night's session of the fifth annual UK Trivia Bowl. Morrow and his
teammates handily destroyed a team called “Big Mac Attack" ”0-20
at the Complex Com mons. where the Bowl is being held. A member of
the “Brainstormers” from Kirwan Tower. Morrow is a sophomore
who hasn't yet elected a major—perhaps because he doesn‘t want to
limit himself to any single field of learning. Members of the losing
team presumably went out for a burger after their loss.

 

Photos in am mm

Worldly education

Patterson School’s grads are intemationally oriented

By JENNIFER GREER
Kernel Staff writer

Karen Curry is currently a suc-
cessful market management trainee
for an international corporation, the
John Deere industrial Equipment
Canpany in Moline, Illinois.

Curry, in her mid-twenties, is the
first woman to work in the
management portion of the com-
pany, and her training involves
learning the technical and
marketing aspects of construction
and foresty equipment.

ltallstarted a few years ago when
she received her bachelor’s degreee
in political anthropology and
decided to pursue a career in in-
ternational business. The only
problan was that she couldn’t
decide how to get the education she
needed

“I wasn’t familiar with any of the
international studies programs
offered by the nation’s universities,
so i spent one year researching
various program and writing the
schools for. information," Curry
said.

Patterson School was choice

After much careful consideration,
Curry selected the University of
Kentucky‘s Patterson School of
Diplomacy and International
Commerce.

She is among several Patterson
School graduates who train with
domestic branches of their em-
ployers in order to gain the
necessary experience for jobs
abroad.

Many now hold responsible
postitions such as director of Latin
American operations for the First
National Bank of Memphis, senior
international business research
economist for the Norfolk and
Western Railway, and international
grain trading specialist for Cook
industries, Inc.

Patterson School alumni work all
over the world. They hold business
or government positions in Belgium,
France, Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil,
Turkey, and the Soviet Union.

Why Curry and other students
have chisen to attend UK’s Pat-
terson School over some of the

nation's more prestigious univer-
sities becomes clear when one takes
a look at its comprehensive
education program.

International aspect emphasized

The primary purpose of the school
is to prepare students for in-
ternationally oriented careers.
School officals stress that the
curriculum is aimed at providing
professional training for these
careers and is not merely an ex-
tension of an undergraduate liberal
arts education.

The word “Diplomacy" in the
name actually refers to different
public career possibilites in many
governmental agencies which have
international operations, said Dr.
Vincent Davis, director of the
school.

The term “International Com-
merce“ refers to career options in
internationally oriented business
and baritirg.

Davis said most Patterson School
students are more interested in the
private sector possibilites in

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business and banking, and so the
school‘s programs are more
strongly oriented in this direction.

The school offers an in-
terdisciplinary M.A. degree. It also
serves in an advisory capacity with
respect to the Ph.D. programs in
intemational studies in four related
departments—business ad-
ministratim, economics, history,
and political science.

Programs are tailor-made

“The typical M. A. candidate will
spend three semesters on campus,‘
Davis said. ‘The degree program
can be tailored to meet the career
needs of any particular student. We
usually sit down with each in-
dividual and put together a unique
program that will prepare him for
what he thinks he wants to do."

Most Patterson School students
think the flexibility of the academic
program is one at the school‘s
biggest advantages.

“With this kind of flexibility, you
can design and direct your own

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region

A two-week wildcat coal strike which idled up
to 14,000 southern West Virginia coal miners at its
peak, neared an end yesterday with only 4,300
remaining off their jobs. Al Lewis, a spokesman for
Eastern Associated Coal Corp, said only seven
mines were closed yesterday compared to 16
Friday at the height of the strike. Eastern strikers
voted Sunday not to return to work until an issue
over the company’s sick leave policy was settled.

Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. reported a
lace increase in profits for December to the
Federal Power Commission and a spokesman said
yaterdaytheincreasewasduetolarger salesof
mural gas brmght on by unusually cold weather.
Tom Ryan, public relations manager for the

company, said the net profit in December was $41.4
million compared to $17.4 million during the
previous December.

nation

One student was killed and five others injured
when a 40mm artillery shell exploded in the
classroom of a private school in Powhatan, Va. One
of the injured teenagers reportedly brought the
projectile into the building, but authorities were not
surewhy.

The Interior Department knew of production
cutbacks in offshore natural gas leases several
years ago but failed to do anything, the chairman of
a House subcommittee studying gas shortages
asserted yesterday. Rep. Abraham Karen, D-Tex.,

said if federal officials had followed directions by
then-Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton, this
winter‘s natural gas shortage might not have been
sosevere. .

AFL-CIO President George Meany said yester-
day organized labor not only opposes President
Carter‘s proposal for prior notification of wage and
price increases, but would refuse to cooperate even
if such a policy was adopted.

Federal environmental officials say they've
been made to look foolish by major miscalculations
as they tracked a mass of carbon tetrachloride
down the Ohio River. The EPA's Region V office in
Chicago, which has monitored the 70ton slug since
Friday when it was discovered during a routine
sampling of the Kanawba River in West Virginia,

estimates it will reach Evansville, Ind. late Friday.

world

A computerized telephone switching system in-
stalled at a French insurance company in Paris
was supposed to boost productivity, but a labor un-
ion says‘ the device spied on employes to the extent
of knowing when they went to the bathroom.

Half baked

Mostly sunny and warmer today with a high in
thelow 50‘s. Tonight will be partly cloudy and mild,
the low in the upper 30's. Partly cloudy and warm
tomorrow with a chance of showers. The high
tomorrow should be in the upper 50's.

(‘ornplled from Associated Press
and National Weather Bureau dispatches