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2 Signpost-Friday, May 13, 19S8 Leaders, say what you mean Economists debate teachers' tax credit Scott Summerill Asst. News Editor Reva Smith Managing Editor Will Keim urged Weber State students at yesterday's Convocations to be ethical in whatever profession they choose. "Say what you mean, and do what you say," he said. Keim, a speech communication teacher and campus "minister at Oregon State University, lectured on leadership qualities and responsibilities. "It doesn't matter what you do, it's how you do it," he said.

"Be prepared to take a leadership role." Keim outlined the characteristics needed to provide good leadership into 1 0 categories. "Leam to listen to one Keim. He told students to listen to understand, not to be critical. "Listen to confirm," he said. People need to support each other.

"Everybody's bruised," he said. "How dare we abuse each other." "Be empathetic," he said. People shouldn't pass judgment on each other without first trying to gain some understanding of them. "You must take action," he said. "If you don't know respected, not liked." Keim said that as a democratic society, we all "share the responsibility." He said a leader's job is to delegate authority.

"Tell people what you want them to do, not how to do it," he said. "People like to be creative." Keim emphasized the need to be enthusiastic. He said people who go through life with a ho-hum attitude are just taking up space. "Either get excited about your job, or quit," he said. Keim told students to spend time in quiet reflection.

"Your constituents are the best judges of leadership," he said. "They are the ones to question the quality of your leadership." Keim said we must develop a stewardship in our work. "Pick up your life like you pick up a baby," he said. "You hold and cradle the things you love." According to Keim, you should always leave a job in better shape than when, you got it. "I would seriously question myself," he said, "if I left a job and no one was hired to replace me." According to Keim, a sense of humor is important to leadership too.

"The world is full of critics," he said. "Can you laugh at yourself?" Keim said students should not be afraid to admit to mistakes when they happen. The last item on Keim's list of leadership qualities was having patience with yourself. He said students shouldn't carry past mistakes around with them. "These skills will take you a Lifetime to master," he said.

"But, don't be afraid to be excellent." Economics professors Mike Vaughan and Dan Fuller debated the pros and cons of a tax credit for public and higher education teachers during yesterday's Issue Forum. Vaughan, who developed and supported the tax credit idea, said a teacher's immobility was a major reason the incentive is needed. Citing clerical workers, accountants and engineers as examples, he said, "If their salaries deviate, they can change jobs without leaving the city. Teacher don't enjoy that luxury. "If they (teachers) want to stay, and they're unhappy with their wages, they can't just find another job in the area.

They'll have to move out of Utah," he continued If implemented, full-time teachers would receive a $300 tax credit for each year of teaching, up to a maximum of $1500. Fuller, debating against the idea, said he was concerned about the increased amount of paperwork and legislation needed to implement the credit. In addition, he said it would be too difficult to define a full-time teacher. "Someone who offers an aerobics class through continuing education in their garage could be classified as a full-time teacher." where you're going, any road will get you there." According to Keim, students need to get out of the past, get away from tradition, and not be afraid, to change things. He said people who want to be liked are part of the "constituency.

he said, "must focus on being The Signpost Staff Editorial-Advertising-Production Spring Quarter 1988 Campus anti-racism problems abound Michael O'KecfTe CPS Reporter problems in recruiting minorities. 'While Ransby says those efforts may she calls them "concessions" to minority demands, not "independent innovations." "It's understandable to be skeptical," said Meyer Weinberg a University of Massachusetts" education professor who has studied campus racism. Ransby's University of Michigan, he said, failed to reach a court-mandated goal of 5 percent black enrollment last fall despite repeated vows to do so. "The university hasn't paid off." When minority students occupied a UMass building in February to call for stiffer penalties for white students who attacked a black student, Weinberg noted, there was "a long history of complaints to administrators left unanswered." i The sit-in, he said, forced the administration to examine the minority students' complaints "It called the public's attention to the' history of ihis relationship." Even relatively new insults continue to fester. In mid-April, a group-of University of Illinois fraternity members traveled to the University of where they broke into an Afro-American Studies class, and threatened a black student and professor.

(see ANTI-RACISM on page 5) Contributing Writer Mickey Beck Donna Brown Joe Francis Kathryn Ward Photo Editor Larry Jensen Chief Photographer Judd Bundy Photographer Matt Butler Hal Moore Graphic Artist Michael Christensen Steve Thorpe Advertising Manager Jolet Olsen Sale Representative David Bums BryanWtlley Production Staff Brian Bouwhuls Kentt Hepworth Kris ten Olsen Andrea Plumley Curtis Spackman EricSwedSn Marisa Wesnitzer Distribution 5. 'Leroy Sturgeon JeffBybee Advisor P. Larry Stahle Assistant Advisor Franceen Jones Secretary Leisel Wayment Editor-in-Chief Chris J. Miller Managing Editor Revo. Smith News Editor Ethan Yorgason Sport Editor Blaine Bringhurst Entertainment Editor YunHuiPak Weekend Editor David R.

Allison Sign-Off Editor JaNae Barlow Special Projects Editor Katy Frandsen Copy Editors Marylln Blakely Debbie George Susan Walker Assistant Editor Mike Butler Coral Lou Glenn Lynn Martineau Scott Summerill Pete Tesch Jtll TUensor Staff Reporters Tony Butler RayBdard Donna Green Mark'Hadley Charles Harrington Debra Luby Karon Packham Publisher Randolph Scott 11 ,3 (CPS) The anti-racism protests that have closed up buildings, attracted police, provoked suspensions and sit-ins and generally rocked dozens of campuses in recent months are, in fact, forcing changes at American colleges, activists and observers now say. Scores of schools have adopted tougher penalties for students who engage in racist behavior. Others have adopted more aggressive programs, to recruit more minority students and faculty members, and the efforts are starting to pay off. The University of Georgia, for example, on April 28 proudly announced it had recruited 15 new black teachers. At the same time, a Brandeis University poll of 13 peer schools found minority student applications for the fall, 1988, term were more numerous than ever.

"Protests," said Dr. Delores A. Austin of the University of California at Santa Barbara, "have placed these issues at the top of the agenda instead of the bottom or the middle." "The changes that have come about," said Barbara Ransby, a grad student and anti-racism activist at the University of Michigan, "are a direct result of student efforts." Ransby remains cautious, however. "We tend to be skeptical about broad public relations statements by administrators." "Our focus is on results, not promises." Protests against campus racism have occurred at the universities of Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, California-Berkeley, Iowa and at Dartmouth College, Penn State, Hampshire College, Williams College and scores of other schools in recent months. In response, many schools announced broad new programs to solve racial problems.

Notre Dame, for one, established a $12 million plan to increase its undergraduate minority population from 1 1 percent to 15 percent by 1992. North Carolina State pledged to hire more black faculty members and expand its African-American Studies curriculum. The University of Colorado began working with its black students to further increase black enrollment. The University of Nebraska appointed an 11-member commission to investigate the school's KWCR (cont'd from front page) Sanchez was quick to point out the many benefits Weber would experience from the wattage increase. "This would definitely add credibility to our broadcasting program," he said, "as well as give graduating communication students added The Weber State College Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during fall, winter and spring quarters, and once a week daring the summer quarter by the WSC Department of Communication.

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