"19E1CJIE ■ITISIT41!1, April 3, 1984
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Vol. 82, No. 47
Rape suspect turns self in
Vista photo by Steve Holman
Take me out to the ballgame" Rhonda Lawson, catcher for CSU women's softball team, gives her niece, Ashley Hutton, some tips on the fine art of softball. "
Teacher shortage predicted
By Melissa Mercer the state, an estimate of only 50 Concern over the declining percent of those graduating in numbers of students obtaining 1983 found teaching jobs. teaching degrees is leading many "Right now in public schools, universities to predict a significant we're trying to deal with the teacher shortage in the next five to budget problems," says Dale 10 years. Mullins, dean of the School of In a recent study conducted by Education. "They're not adding Texas Christian University, nearly staff or replacing resignations or two-thirds of the nation's retirements. How long they can graduating high school students do that without getting into difwould not consider a career in ficulty with the student-teacher teaching. Low salaries and meagre ratio, we don't know." promotions are apparent reasons Another dilemma facing those for the declining interest. with teaching careers is the disadIn addition to fewer teachers vantage of having experience. graduating from college, public Many qualified and experienced education is faced with a baby teachers are having even more difboom of the late 1970s, and con- ficulty obtaining jobs than recent sequently greater numbers of graduates. children entering school. The reason given in these cases Although Central State is that teachers with substantial graduates are among the most experience are locked into a salary highly accredited professionals in which is set by the teaching union
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and is too expensive for the school system to pay. "Of course there has always been a tendency to hire less experienced teachers to save money in certain areas, but I don't think there is much room to be that selective," Mullins said.
By Matthew Driskill Editor The Oklahoma County District Attorney's office is continuing it's investigation into an alleged rape of a 19 year-old CSU coed that occured early Friday morning in East Hall. A sixth suspect was taken into custody early Monday morning when he turned himself over to the campus police. Timothy Stone, 21, a senior from Dallas Texas was booked into the Oklahoma County jail on charges of first-degree rape and oral sodomy. Others charged with first-degree rape and oral sodomy are: Richard E. Hogg, 21, an Edmond sophomore; Dwain Banks, 24, a Dallas sophomore; Steve E. Brooks, 19, an Okmulgee freshman; Erachetti L. Carr, 21 , an Enid sophomore; and Lester Ray Baldwin 20, a Sherman Texas junior. Stone, Carr, Baldwin and Banks are members of the CSU football team. Hogg is an equipment manager for the team and Brooks is a member of the CSU basketball team. Hogg, Carr and Baldwin were released Saturday on $10,000 bond after a jailhouse arraignment that allowed them to post a bond over the weekend. Banks, Brooks and Stone were still in custody at press-time. Formal arraignment was set for 9 a.m. Saturday before Judge A.R. Swank. Police gave the following account of the incident: Shortly after midnight the woman received a phone call from Banks whom she knew, who asked her to meet him about 1 a.m. outside of East Hall. Meeting him outside, the man and the woman entered the building through a backdoor where they went to Bank's first floor room and talked for 15 or 20 minutes when seven other men entered the room. One of the men reportedly threatened the woman with a baseball bat although Roberts said the woman was not beaten. She told police that six men took turns raping and sodomizing her while two others looked on, but did nothing to stop the men from proceeding. The eight men eventually released the woman when she went back to her room in West Hall and called police about 2:30 a.m. Campus police officers took the woman to Oklahoma Memorial Hospital where she was given a rape examnation and then questioned for several minutes. During that time the woman identified all eight men who were in the room. Associate Editor Traci Baucom also contributed to this report.
Staff group insurance switched to Blue Cross By Matthew Driskill Dependent coverage rates will increase from Editor $56.83 per month to $64.10. Standard's rate for The Board of Regents for Oklahoma Colleges dependent coverage was $75.11. recently approved a new group health insurance plan Benefits will also change with some tradoffs exfor the employees and staff of the six regional col- pected. In Basic benefits the cash deductible went leges and universities it controls plus the University from $25 to $100. In major medical coverage the of Science and Arts located in Chickasha. deductible went from $100 to $250. The change in policy was adopted after Standard Nursery benefits were lowered with the maximum Life and & Accident Insurance notified the Regents allowable number of days for a nursery stay droppthat they would be raising their premiums after April ing from 10 to seven and coverage per day dropping 1. from $64 to $55. The Regents expect to save about $500,000 per The Regents solicited bids from other companies year by adopting the new contract according to Keith and the group contract was awarded to Blue Cross Allen, executive secretary for the board. and Blue Shield which was the low bidder. CSU President Bill Lillard said the increase, had With the new policy from Blue Cross, premiums the board stayed with Standard, would have jumped will still rise for staff and faculty, but will be less by 50 percent, but by going with Blue Cross the than the increase if Standard had retained the Regents were able to slow down the rate of increase contract. to about 11 percent. Under the new contract the monthly premium for Even though the group health insurance went to each active employee under the age of 70 will be Blue Cross, Standard still retains the group life in$47.49 as opposed to Standard's rate of $56.54. surance for the schools concerned.