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Show May 8, 1992 The Signpost 5 Ten students qualify for business competition, but none will attend BY ARLINDA GALVIN Staff writer of The Signpost THE TRIP WILL COST ABOUT$1,000,ANDTHE STUDENTS CAN'T COME UP WITH THE MONEY. WEBER DOESN'T HAVE A SET FUNDING POLICY FOR THE COMPETITION. Ten Weber State students have won the right to compete in a national business competition, July 4-9 in Chicago, but none of them will be able to attend due to a lack of funds. The annual competition is sponsored by Phi Beta Lambda, a national co-educational professional organization for business students. The students qualified by taking first or second place honors in statewide competitions held in April at the Salt Lake Hiltonand the downtown campus of Salt Lake Community College. The competitions were attended by business students from every four year school in Utah, except the University of Utah, all area technical schools and junior colleges. Weber State had several students go to the national competition last year in California, but this year none of the ten students will be able to attend the competition. The students do not have the funds to attend, or they can't get off work or miss school during that time, said Nancy Hoyt, advisor of Phi Beta Lambda at WSU. The competition is during the Fourth of July holiday, making traveling to and from Chicago very difficult."With air fare and other expenses, the trip will cost the students about $1,000. A lot of students can't come up with the money and Weber State doesn't have a set funding policy for the competition," Hoyt said. A lot of other schools sending students to the competition are paying for the trip. Weber State students have the option of fund raising or trying to find a business that will sponsor them to go. Laura McKee, a senior, took first place in competition categories for machine transcription and administrative assistance. McKee also took second place in a competition for future female business teachers. Another senior, Kay Huntington, took first place in management. Sophomores Lynette Saundersand Jenica Fuller took first-and second-place honors, respectively, in thecomputer-applications category. Wendy Stock, a senior, took first place in economics. Greg Wohlschlegel, a junior, took first place in a competition for future male business teachers. Karl Jorgensen, a senior, took second place in the same competition. Huntington and Wohlschlegel also took second place in a team business decision-making event. Connie Miller, a junior, took second place in machine transcription. Andee Verhaal, a junior took second place in the competition for future female business teachers. Weber State students took in 14 additional honors that did not qualify them for competition. Those winners are: Jennifer Leatham, senior, third place, future female business teacher; Jennifer Murray, sophomore, third place, information management. Otherl winners include: Greg Wohlschlegel, third place, economics; Adam Child, senior, fourth place, computer concepts and fifth place in computer applications; Richard Dirkson, junior, fifth place in accounting; and Carloyn Ericksen, senior, fifth place in management. TENURE (continued from page 1) doesn't help, the next step is addressing the dean, he said. "Nearly all such complaints get taken care of at one of those two levels," he said. As of Oct. 1, 1991, there were 433 full-time teachers at Weber 230 were tenured professors, 85 were working toward tenure and 118 were not on tenure track, " tudetltS UK OUT COtl- said Christo pher Clark, institutional studies coordinator. Shane Stewart, stu dent bodypresi- dent, said he has talked with students on both sides of the spectrumthose who believe attaining tenure increases a professor's teaching enthusiasm and those who believe professors slack off after receiving tenure. Students have the right to "competent academic instruction" and "access to faculty members in formal classes, during scheduled office hours, and or by scheduling appointments," according to the VVSU Policy and Procedures Manual. "I think there may be some teachers who take advantage of their stability in tenure, who may become less receptive to their students."Students are our consumers and we need to treat them well," said Randy Chatelain, associate professor of child and family studies. Richard Grow, psychology department chairman, said he has not noticed any diminished attention to duties or less concern for student's needs among tenured professors in his department. "By the time you've been around an individual for seven years and observed their behavior, you have a good idea of who you're dealing with," he said. After a professor has been an outstanding faculty member for seven years, the professor continues to be good after receiving tenure, Grow said. Smith agreed; "Professors will overproduce in the last few years before a tenure decision and almost drive themselves into the ground, trying tolook impressive then they go back to normal." "It may appear like they're slackingoff,but whatyou werelook-ingat was an increase in activity just before the tenure decision," Smith said. sumers and we need to treat them well. " Randy Chatelain 1 II ' x - , . " : " - ' v : : i I . . . . t: --.. l.'" " -i . " . V . BRIAN SCHIELETHF SIGNPOST Initially donated to WSU from Buick, Weber's Auto Tech program will give this car to Hillcrest High school. The high school won the car in a WSU-Buick automotive contest. The airbag had to be detonated first though to prevent possible hazard., during Thursday's airbag demonstration. 1 : . : : Pres. Bush walks Los Angeles riot zone LOS ANGELES (AP) President Bush walked the streets of Los Angeles' riot zone Thursday, expressing horror at the destruction and shame over the racial animosities that helped trigger it. He declared, in a voice shaky with emotion, "Los Angeles is going to recover. This is a great city." He shook his head and gri maced at the charred remains of a row of washing machines and dryers in what was once a laundromat. 'This is just wanton lawlessness," he said. Dereke Carr, manager of a supermarket that was saved from destruction by its sprinkler system, talked solemnly and privately with the president in the wreckage of his store. Bush later said that Carr had told him his own employees had joined in looting the store. "Horrorand dismay" was what he felt, Bush told reporters during the tour. 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