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Business management found lacking page 4
Mideast viewpoints offered page 8
Bronchos win in record fashion page 10
University employee suspended pages 2
Central State University
TUESDAY November 20, 1990
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Administrators review alleged class dispute
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By Barbara Dewailley Staff Writer
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Soldier in custody for weapons theft JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)—An Army soldier who had served in the Persian Gulf and three other men have been arrested in the theft of a huge cache of military weapons and explosives, federal and local officials said Saturday. The material seized Friday and Saturday from a warehouse and one suspect's home in Jacksonville included enough military explosives to destroy an entire city block, said Willi Elison, agent in charge of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Jacksonville. Michael Tubbs, a U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant, had been brought back from Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia within the past several weeks, Ellison said. Tubbs was already facing possible federal firearms and explosives charges in connection with a January 1987 incident at Fort Bragg, N.C., in which two soldiers were assaulted and tied to a tree by two masked men who stole their rifles. V V See WORLD WRAP, back page.
Taking advantage of the light from a corner window, Tracy Owens and Sherita Montgomery study in the Max Chambers Library. (Photo by Dan Smith, Photo Services)
Fox executive offers insights on careers By Marie Bigger
Staff Writer
"If you think the world is not changing, you are not preparing yourself for a career in the future." That's what G. Douglas Fox said at the Career Day '90 Luncheon Wednesday in University Center Ballroom. Fox is president of Tribune/ Swab-Fox Company and chairman of T/SF Communications Co. He served as an adviser to four
Tulsa mayors and three Oklahoma governors. At the luncheon, Fox described an imaginary 21st century where each home has a TV with 2,000 channels and video cassette recorders that can show movies with alternate subplots and endings. "In 1990, we talk about the barbers and bleedings used in medicine in the 17th century," Fox said. "In 2010 they will be talking about us using knives in surgery." "People in the'90s tell us educaV See FOX, page 12.
Central State University administrators initiated a review of accounting professor Dr. John Nichola and his teaching performance after several students lodged complaints about his classroom behavior. Dr. Clyde Jacob, accadernic affairs vice president, said Nichola has been reassigned to non-teaching duties. Several accounting students, some of whom have asked not to be identified, said that since September more than half of the students in Nichola's Advanced Tax class have disputed his teaching procedures. They alleged Nichola was not receptive to questions and belittled them in class. They said several of them went to him to complain but were unable to solve the problem. "If you ask him questions in class he tells you to come and see him in his office or go to the library and look it up," Alan Wetzstein said. "He is very accusing and defensive when you do go to his office." Students said Nichola resigned in September. However, the resignation is not effective until May. "We started to feel afraid for our grades. Many of us felt as though he was trying to take us down with him," Wetzstein said. Many in the class are seniors and need to pass Advanced Tax class tt) graduate. Students said they complained in writing to the department chairman and the College of Business dean. This is Nichola's first semester at CSU. Previously he taught at the Florida Institute of Technology and Pasco Community College, also in Florida. He has also worked for the Internal Revenue Service. Nichola said it is six students who are complaining, and he suspects four of them of cheating on exams. To eliminate this, he said he began using several different versions of the same exam. "Then they wanted open-book exams," Nichola said. "They disrupt the class. They never ask questions about the class." He said these same students have many absences and are not qualified to be in the Advanced Tax class in the first place. He disagreed with their opinions of his teaching methods and said he believed the students in his evening class disagree with those students. Students were informed on Nov. 9 that Robert Terrell, assistant accounting professor, would teach Nichola's class. Terrell would not comment. Jacob said students should approach administration if there is a problem. "We encourage students to stand up for what is right and fair in the classroom," Jacob said. "When a student goes to academic affairs with a complaint of a faculty member, the first thing we do is give them a copy of the 'Appeal Procedures Available to Students,"' he said. "The student should first try to discuss it with the instructor, then the chairperson, then the dean of the college. If it is unsatisfactory, then the next step is the academic affairs vice president," Jacob said. V