THE February 28, 1989 Vol. 87, No. 37
ITISTA
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Brisch inaugurated By Laurel Anquoe
Student Writer Dr. Hans Brisch was officially inaugurated as the fourth chancellor for the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. The investiture was witnessed by a capacity crowd of academic and political dignitaries, faculty, students, and friends of the chancellor. Gov. Henry Bellmon, U.S. Sen. David Boren, Lt. Gov. Robert S. Kerr, and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education were participants in the installation ceremonies. In his address, Brisch said Oklahoma and the nation as a whole faces the challenges of leading a quality life and competing in a global economy and the key to success in these goals is education.
"We must increase the funding base for higher education," he said, and added that Oklahoma should boost funding to the level of its peer colleges. Jeff Shilling, chairman of the regents' student advisory board and Central State University student, welcomed the new chancellor on behalf of the state's college and university students. He said Brisch has already demonstrated a cooperative, sharing attitude and real concern for the betterment of students in Oklahoma. According to his biography, Brisch was born in Germany in 1940 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. He earned his bachelor's degree in political science at Park College and his master's and doctorate degree from the University of Kansas. Academic honors awarded
Brisch include Fulbright-Hays Fellow, University of Alabama Research Grant Award, Venice Seminar Fellow, Public Administration Fellow, Seminar Fellow-University of Belgrade, and NDFL Title VI Fellow. As an academic administrator, Brisch has served as assistant director and associate director for academic affairs for the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He has also held the post of assistant vice-president for academic affairs, executive assistant to the president, and associate executive vice-president at the University of Nebraska. He also has experience in state government as former chief-ofstaff for Gov. Kay Orr of Nebraska, a post he served for two years. Brisch is married to Dr. Margaret Gatton Brisch and has three children.
Parker assault case given continuance till March 23 Hans Brisch
Higher ed remedy needed, Boren says By Laurel Anquoe
Student Writer U.S. Sen. David Boren, DOkla., delivered a stinging assessment of the state of higher education in Oklahoma and called for bold measures to remedy the situation. The speech was presented Feb. 19 at the inauguration of Dr. Hans Brisch as the chancellor for the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. Boren said that Oklahoma must reconsider its priorities and described the turmoil at the University of Oklahoma as an embarrassment that may prove to be good because it will refocus priorities.
sale of land and business assets to foreign investors. Boren said the key to succeed in the international market lies in quality higher education. He cited increasing academic standards and new emphasis in the areas of foreign languages and graduate education as means to achieve success economically as a state and a nation. Higher education should not depend solely on annual appropriations and more stress should be placed on endowments, as permanence in funding would attract professors and students to the state, he said.
"The future of our state depends not in being number one in athletics, but by being first in academic achievement," Boren said, adding that emphasis should be placed where it belongs—in education.
Boren also suggested scholarships for future teachers and rechanneling general obligation bonds such as those used to fund highway projects to support educational improvements.
Oklahoma's senior U.S. senator said the United States is in a rapid decline as a world economic power that has shifted from its position as a creditor nation to a debtor nation.
The senator called Chancellor Hans Brisch "an outstanding choice" and pledged his support of the new education leader's efforts.
He said the U.S. has half the proportion of world wealth it had 40 years ago because of significant
"Nowhere is it written that Oklahoma schools can't be the best," he said.
By Danette Intrieri
Staff Writer The misdemeanor assault case against Dr. William D. Parker, Central State University's director of criminal justice studies and assistant dean of liberal arts was continued last week to 9 a.m. March 23 at the Oklahoma District Courthouse. Parker entered a plea of not guilty at the Feb. 2 arraignment to misdemeanor assault charges of choking his former girlfriend, CSU graduate, Edwinna Sue Madden. "Parker's attorney, D.C. Thomas, filed the continuance because he had not had time to properly prepare for the case," Assistant District Attorney Kerry Kelly said. Kelly said she could not cornment on the case since it was still being investigated, but added that there had not been any plea bargaining. Thomas was unable to be reached for comment. Madden, 26, of Edmond, filed assault charges Jan. 31. Madden, an assistant for constituent affairs in Gov. Henry Bellmon's office, told police Parker forced his way into her Edmond apartment around 8 p.m. Jan. 3, apparently intoxicated, and choked her until "she thought she was going to die," the police report states. Gary Wayne Hoppis, 39, of Del City, was on the telephone with Madden before and during the incident and called police, according to the police report. Edmond Police Captain Ron Cavin said Hoppis is a friend of Madden. Madden said she broke free from Parker and left her apartment, but returned later. Edmond police arrived about this time, the report states.
Cavin said Madden came back to the apartment complex to see if Parker's car was still there. When she saw that it was gone, she returned to her aparment, Cavin said. After the police left, the report states that Parker "started calling her," but Madden hung up on him. Cavin said Madden called Ed-
mond Mayor Carl Reherman, an assistant professor of political science at CSU, for help after Parker came back to Madden's apartment a second time, and Reherman talked Parker into leaving. "The young lady had called him (Reherman) for assistance," Please see Parker on page 8.
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A bouquet of flowers and a yellow ribbon were placed on a tree outside Central Cafeteria in memory of Kenneth Wright, a CSU football_ alayer who died last week. (Photo by Stan Pollard, The Vista staff photographer)