Letter from the Publisher
Micah Stubbs
Issue date: 1/20/10 Section: Opinion
Sixthirtyone leads the January issue with coverage of the Roxana Rozsa and Robert Eugene Lorton Performance Center, currently under construction at the east end of Harwell field. Slated for completion in fall 2011, the Lorton PAC will house the School of Music and the Department of Film Studies. Further inside the issue, you will find coverage of a TU men's basketball team that is undefeated in Conference USA play this season. Flip a few more pages to read an account of a TU alumnus who has found fulfillment teaching English and traveling the countryside in Japan.
The pages of this newspaper are littered with symbols of success for the University of Tulsa. Our basketball team is winning at home and has recently proven it can win on the road as well. Our alumni lead exciting and successful lives, finding their vocations in places as distant as Nabari, Japan. When TU was unable to access the bond markets to fund the remainder of the Lorton Performing Arts Center, friend of the University and patron of the arts George Kaiser stepped forward to extend a low-interest bridge loan to allow construction to begin on schedule.
Under Presidents Lawless and Upham, The University of Tulsa has done a remarkable job of branding itself and as an academically credible, serious institution. This reputation for excellence will be lost if the University of Tulsa does not make good on the platitudes touted in its admissions office literature. TU must maintain high standards of academic rigor and foment a culture of professionalism among its faculty and staff.
In future editions of Sixthirtyone, we will explore university policies and practices that are inhibiting the University of Tulsa's ability to honor its commitments to incoming students. Ideas for this project are welcome.
A sampling of complaints and concerns experienced by the Sixthirtyone staff:
Why does the university continue to cut down old-growth trees on campus?
Why is the classroom experience in the required English courses so uniformly poor?
The pages of this newspaper are littered with symbols of success for the University of Tulsa. Our basketball team is winning at home and has recently proven it can win on the road as well. Our alumni lead exciting and successful lives, finding their vocations in places as distant as Nabari, Japan. When TU was unable to access the bond markets to fund the remainder of the Lorton Performing Arts Center, friend of the University and patron of the arts George Kaiser stepped forward to extend a low-interest bridge loan to allow construction to begin on schedule.
Under Presidents Lawless and Upham, The University of Tulsa has done a remarkable job of branding itself and as an academically credible, serious institution. This reputation for excellence will be lost if the University of Tulsa does not make good on the platitudes touted in its admissions office literature. TU must maintain high standards of academic rigor and foment a culture of professionalism among its faculty and staff.
In future editions of Sixthirtyone, we will explore university policies and practices that are inhibiting the University of Tulsa's ability to honor its commitments to incoming students. Ideas for this project are welcome.
A sampling of complaints and concerns experienced by the Sixthirtyone staff:
Why does the university continue to cut down old-growth trees on campus?
Why is the classroom experience in the required English courses so uniformly poor?
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Shane Hill
posted 1/25/10 @ 9:55 PM CST
I'd really love to hear what you and other students think is opaque about our student government.
CaptainUnderpants
CaptainUnderpants
posted 1/26/10 @ 6:24 PM CST
I support the look at the core english classes, namely because freshman year the professor I had was a graduate student (she was working on her masters if I remember correctly), which directly contradicted the statements by university ambassadors. (Continued…)
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