E2L R T TERS

Wanser

didn't

keep promises

To the Editor:

Students did you know
your general service fee mo-
ney may pay our SGA presi-
dent a full scholarship? Is this
full scholarship deserved,
when she’is student teaching
and can not fulfill her obliga-
tions.

A few questions need to be
asked to you, Wendy Wan-
ser. Who will evaluate you to
see if you have done an effec-
tive job as SGA president?
Last semester you received a
full scholarship and no one
evaluated you. How can you
perform your duties as presi-
dent while student teaching?
I see you are a member of the
Hearing Board and Dollars
for Scholars Committee. How

can you be active when these
committees meet during the
day and you are unable to at-
tend.

When you campaigned you
tstate;l:l )éou would not student
eac uring your term as
SGA President. Tell us
Wendy what promises did
you keep? There is no hair-
styling establishment set up
in the Union, no mini-gro-
cery store, no professional
movie theatre (that you stated
would be in last semester. )

Tell us Wendy Wanser,
why a full scholarship from
students’ money should be
paid to you when you accom-
plished very little, if anything
this semester.

Name withheld by request

Soccer team gets
the “final kick”

To the Editor:

Tuesday the 19th at 9 p.m.,
the final game for the intra-
murals soccer tournament
took place. This game was to
be played by the two winning
teams - Hoagie's Heroes vs.
Village People. That same
Tuesday afternoon, however,
our team, Village People, was
disqualified. What happen-
ed? We were disqualified be-
cause the Icers, a team we
defeated, 3-2, Monday night,
protested the game. They
claimed that we, Village Peo
ple, had two Varsity socce:
players on our roster: Ed:
uardo Silva and Rodrigo
Amaya. This is illegal “in In-
tramurals. Again,...what
happened?

Before the tournament
started, Eduardo Silva (Cap-
tain of our team) went to see
Coach Egli, the soccer
coach, to ask him if Amaya
was considered a Varsity
Soccer player. Last semester
Amaya practiced and played
for the Varsity team a couple
times before deciding not to
play. Coach Egli answered,
Rodrigo was in no way con-
sidered a varsity player. With
this answer in mind, we in-
cluded Amaya on our team
roster and gave it to the In-
tramural office.

We made it to the finals but
on the day of the final game,
Village People found out in
the late afternoon that, at 1
p.m. we had been disquali-
fied. The Intramurals Office,
checking out the Icer’s claim,
had gotten in touch with
Coach Egli. This time, how-
ever, Coach Egli said that
Amaya was a Varsity player.
He had ONLY made a mis-
take. What kind of coach
doesn’'t know who his players
are? Or, is it that he lied to
our captain before the tourn-
ament started?

What about the Intramurals
Office? Why didn't they
check the rosters when the
tournament started? If this of-
fice is in charge of holding
the tournament, it should
make sure, at the start, that
no team has "illegal” players.
The Intramurals Office didn't
do it though, probably be-
cause from the point of view
of this Office, this was just “a-
nother’’ tournament.

The Coordinator and the
three graduate assistants in
ckarge of this office decided
to disqualify us without even
knowing what Coach Egli had
told our captain at the be-
ginning of the tournament.
They did whatever was eas-
ier--disqualify Village
People.

After defeating some of the
best teams in the league, at
times with only five out of six
players on the court, Village
People were disqualified, the
very same day of the final
game!

Hey Icers, it was fun to beat
you on the court on Monday,
and to watch you lose the fi-
nal on Tuesday. You have to
learn how to play soccer.
Soccer is not just a hockey
game without sticks. The day
you realize that, you'll under-
stand that the game is PLAY-
ED and WON on the court.
One gets to the final by play-
ing better than anyone else;
at least that's how it is in soc-
cer.

Hey Hoagies, congratula-
tions on winning the final.
We would have liked to be
the team you played in the
final, and we did everything
to deserve that game. Maybe
we'll be able to do that some
day, if, of course, the system
doesn’t screw up somehow a-
gain.

Fernando Vila

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Liberal Art majors
not that bad off

To the Editor:

~ The College Press Service
article in the April 15th edi-
tion of the Rocket, “Techni-
cal schools are growing,”
deserves a few clariflying
comments. Although it may
be true that technical
education is growing rapidly,
the idea that social work and
other liberal arts majors are
the dinosaurs of the job
market is not correct.

The article related the de-
pression and anger of Cheri
McKentley, who fears she
does not “have any hopes of
getting that $25,000 a year
job” when she gets her mas-
ter's degree in industrial so-
cial work from the University
of Wisconsin next fall.

In her own case Ms.
McKentley's advanced worry
may very well be justified.
Industrial social work, while
based on the liberal arts foun-
dation provided in under-
graduate social work educa-
tion, is a highly specialized
area of advanced study. In-
dustry prefers Ph.D. level so-
cial workers and psycholo-
gists. The demand for indus-
trial social workers, regard-
less of educational level, has
never been great. To a large
extent Ms. McKentley has
dug her own hole. To indict
the liberal arts in general or
undergraduate social work in
particular is unfair.

Our Social Work Program
at Slippery Rock, which was
recently placed in candidacy
for accreditation by the
Council on Social Work Edu-
cation, is designed to edu-
cate the “generalist’” social

worker, a graduate who has
skills to offer in a wide variety
of human service areas.

An article in the current
edition (April 1983) of the
National Association of
Social Worker's NASW News
may shed some light on the
employment of graduates
with degrees in social work.
The authors, from Temple
University, surveyed the so-
cial work graduates from 21
baccalaureate programs.
These alumni received their
degrees between 1976 and
1979. Of the students who
sought jobs in the field, 94
percent were successful even
though the majority rated
their job search as "difficult”
or "very difficult.” Over two-
thirds of those surveyed,
however, expressed satisfac-
tion with social work as a ca-
reer.

Another bit of optimistic
news is that the Pennsylvania
Department of Labor's "In-
dustry trends and Outlook"
projects a need for 42,000 ad-
ditional social workers
through 1990. This total re-
presents a growth of 61 per-
cent and makes social work
the fourth largest growing
occupation in the state.

I am not saying that every-
thing is peachy for social
work and the human services.
Funding for many agencies
has been cut. The biggest de-
pression since the Great one
has led to a dwindling tax
base from which to fund hu-
man services. We have a
president who sees the fe-
deral government's role as
one of building star wars wea-

pons, not helping the poor or

"distressed. Nevertheless,

human service needs which
are neglected must even-
tually be addressed.

Surely,’ technical schools
are reaping the benefits of a'!
changing job market; how-
ever, social work and the
other liberal arts areas are
alive and well at Slippery
Rock.

I fear that many of the stu-
dents who are after that tech-
nical education, particularly
those putting all their eggs in
the "“high tech’ basket, may
be disappointed. National
Public Radio recently report-
ed that the Atari Corporation
has exported 1700 jobs from
California to the Orient and
that Tandy Corporation, the
Radio Shack people, is re-
placing technical workers
with robots.

You English, history, and
yes, even social work majors
may not be able to start your
careers in those $25,000 a
year jobs as your parents did.
You might have to start in a
lower-level job and work
your way up. You will need to
be professionally flexible and
geographically mobile. It has
been said that the liberal arts
are important because of
their "humanizing and civil-
izing influence.” The liberal
arts do not always lead to fi-
nancial independence; they
simply make the world a bet-
ter place in which to live.

Michael Stowe

Assistant Professor & Social

Work Program Coordinator