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Campus /ednesdt ’rof L Page 2 The Battalion Wednesday, September 18,1991 recei The Battalion (OSPS 045 360) Member of: Associated Press Texas Press Association Southwest Journalism Congress Texas Intercollegiate Association P The Battalion Editorial Board Editor Timm Doolen Associate Editors Holly Becka Todd Stone City Editor Sean Frerking News Editors Douglas Pils Jason Morris Photo Editor Karl Stolleis Lifestyles Editor Yvonne Salce *orts Editor Scott Wudel Opinion Editor Carrie Cavalier Editorial Policy The Battalion is published daily except Saturday, Sunday, holidays, exam periods and when school is not in session during fall and spring semesters. Publication is Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters. The newsroom phone number is 845-3316. The Battalion is a non-profit, self supporting newspaper oper ated as a community service to Texas A&M Gniversity and Bryan-College Station. 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Advertising Advertising information can be obtained from the advertising department at 845-2696 Mon day through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by visiting the office in room 015 Reed McDonald building. Advertising Manager Patricia Heck Adviser Robert Wegener BATTIPS 845-3315 The Battalion encourages its readers to contribute story ideas and suggestions by calling BAT- TIPS, The Battalion's phone line designed to improve communi cation between the newspaper and its readers. A&M professor returns from Mediterranean island tpp< By By Susan Maguire The Battalion Dr. Marla Stone relays experiences teaching educators on Cyprus A Texas A&M professor re cently returned from a trip on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, but she wasn't there on a vacation — she taught other teachers about education. Dr. Marla Stone, a visiting as sistant professor of education and second recipient of the Fulbright Award for A&M's College of Edu cation in 1990, received the award based on her outstanding service to the University. Stone said her lectureship was made more challenging than usual because of the repercussions from Cyprus' civil war that ended in 1974. Since the civil war, Cyprus has been divided between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots, with U.N. forces enforcing a cease-fire between the two factions. "There is a physical line that each group must not cross," she said. Stone began her work on the island last January and returned to the United States in July. She lived in the capital, Nicosia, and worked on both sides of the line. She said she worked with the country's school supervisors and teachers. Stone said Cyprus' school su pervisors have more authority than their American equivalent school inspectors. Supervisors are in charge of everything from cur riculum to evaluating the teachers, she said. "I helped enhance the'skills of the country's supervisors," she said. Stone said a major problem she faced was that the secondary school teachers are taught more about their subject area than how to teach, because they are sent abroad to learn their specialization and are not certified to be teach ers. On the other hand, she said, elementary school teachers are taught how to teach in a three- year program, but are not author ities in their area. "I tried to show them how to teach more actively," she said. "I initiated a writing program to re vise their science curriculum, and I insisted that I have teachers on the committee. "That's the first time that teachers were involved in any de cision-making." Another problem, she said, was the lack of equipment and fa cilities that were available to the teachers. "It's not a third-world country, but there isn't a lot of extra mon ey," she said. Also, the student-teacher ratio was very high, she said. On the Greek side of the island, there are 35 to 40 students for every teacher, and on the Turkish side, there are 50 or more student for every teacher, she said. "It's an impossible situation for teachers," Stone said. Still, she said, there is a 100 percent literacy rate on the Greek side of the island because every one has to go to school. The rate is lower on the Turkish side because the same policy is not stronglye- forced, she said Stone said that languatj wasn't a problem for those sit taught. "For the most part, theGn understood English," she sai; "On the Turkish side, I dealtmair ly with secondary school teachsp and they have to teach lessons: English, themselves." Stone arrived in Cyprus which is 60 miles west of Syria,1 days before the start of theGiij War. She wasn't in much dange she said, but the refugee popnli tion shot up. 'My main worry was finding ^g es / this ( place to live," she said. Stone said she still is doir, consulting with the supervisor and teachers and work is done on the science curriculumrt support fc visions she began. Study Continued from Pa^ with their treatment. "This is one way that Medicare can look at cost containment without sacrificing quality," Bame said. "That's the purpose of my research." The faculty and patients of 56 units took part in the survey. They responded to questions concerning five environmental factors: temperature, noise levels, amounts of personal privacy, decor and lighting. Temperature drew criticism from both the patients and the staff. On the average, patients expressed concern over their inabil ity to adjust the temperature. They com plained of being too cold. While at the same time, staff members often felt too hot. The issue of privacy cropped up often on the survey of patients. Generally, pa tients wanted the option of deciding about whether to be left alone. Many of the dialysis treatment facilities consist of reclining chairs lined up along the walls, dorm-style. The dialysis machine sits to one side. The design allows the staff to keep better watch over the patients in case of complications. In the case of a drop in blood pressure, facial coloring serves as an early indicator of problems. According to Bame, this arrangement provides the patients with very little, if any, privacy during their three to four hour treatment. Some researchers even criticized the noise levels and decor of the facilities, more so than the patients. "What we think is that the patient sim ply becomes passive and puts up with the environment because they have to be there," Bame said. "If they're not there, they die." Employees, on the other hand, can choose whether or not to find another job. Health care centers have high turn-over rates. Bame said she hopes to discover whether a connection exists between a fa cility's poor design and a high turn-over rate. The answer could save health centers money in the long run. "If you have a lower turn-over, you save a tremendous amount of money from not having to orient and retrain new staff," Bame said. "We want to find out, given all that's known about turn-over, is there something with the actual design of thee vironment that may help lower thetr over," Bame said. Bame has teamed up with students fro the College of Architecture to developi signs which would better accommoda both the faculty and patients of hospitals Rodney Hill, associate dean forStudi Affairs of the College of Architecture, s; many students designed patient chai which incorporated individual radioa: television controls into the chair. In anofe design, each chair had a personal compu:: mounted on the side. "We tried to get the patients wherefe had their own variety, so it didn't becom; monotonous experience each time th? came in," Hill said. Cooper Continued from Page Cooper realizes, however, that study abroad programs can be ex pensive and not everyone can re ceive financial assistance. That is why it is important to form friend ships with international students at A&M and take advantage of the international courses that are of fered, he says. The key concept that will dominate future international business relations is whether or not people from different coun tries can interact with one another comfortably. Cooper says. Cooper, who has published more than 40 articles and eight books relating to international fi nance, says he is honored to be the first recipient of the Cullen Trust. He says the money will be used primarily for travel expenses and the hiring of graduate students. Before joining A&M in 1975, Cooper was an associate professor and director of programs in ac counting and finance at the Uni versity of Houston. He was also an assistant professor of account ing at Louisiana State University, and a lecturer in economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His speciality is finance and his writing focuses on financial markets and international busi- Cooper says his primary coj cern, however, lies within center and its future growth. "Our participation has helps the center financially, since where mos'f of our funding cfe from," Coopet says. "Most ofal it has put us among someoftk best schools in the country." It's Back It's Big It's Better than Before ! September 19&20 2nd floor MSC The Micro Computer Fair M icroComputerCenter Computer Sales and Suf^nEes Located in the lower level of the Memorial Student Center Monday thru Fridayl0:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (409) 845-4081 r INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE A profe f Finance ent S & ore that ooks in bi he new hi ullen Che ration. Dr. Doi s FINC 43 ry Manaj; Commerci ays the ch ng to beco "In a v ays. The fc which bee was desigi dents, buy obtaining x>rt. 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