The Torch. February 26, 2009

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Thursday, February 26, 2009
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LAST TWO NOMINEES
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Charlotte Borst currently serves as provost at Rhodes College in Tennessee.
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Kenneth Porada hails from Dominican University, where he works as provost.
Third candidate for
VUprovost stresses
collective decisions
Molly Smerika
Torch Staff Writer
Charlotte Borst, former provost
at Rhodes College, is the third candidate to visit campus as four finalists compete to become Valparaiso
University's next provost.
Students; faculty and staff attended an open forum on Feb. 20 to
get a better idea of what Borst has
planned for this
university if she
were selected for
the provost position.
"I don't know a
lot about this institution" Borst said.
"I don't know the
issues you're struggling with."
Borst is currently on sabbatical
from Rhodes College, taking time
off to write a book. She became interested in applying for the provost
position because she was "looking
for an opportunity to grow as a person."
"This is an ideal opportunity,"
she said.
Before holding the position
of provost at Rhodes College,
Borst was the dean of arts and sciences at Mount Union College in
Schenectady, N.Y. Before that, she
worked at St. Louis University
and the University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
Borst addressed the question,
"What is the role of the academic
in public life today?" by explaining
that in the past, academic life was
only available for groups of men.
In today's academic world, there
is a greater diversity of American
students, academic freedom and
proof that faculty and staff are
working together.
She said that service learning
has a positive impact on students.
Community-ba^ed learning is an
important aspect in academic life,
especially when
t w&nt to have deans
and chairs working
with me to make the
best for our students
and faculty.
Charlotte Borst
Provost candidate
combined with
classroom learning.
When asked
how she would
improve the
university's inconsistent com-
munication
between staff,
faculty and students, Borst said
that communication was very important to her. While at Rhodes,
Borst e-mailed weekly updates to
members of the university and
would like to implement a similar
system at VU.
"I think it's important to share
what's going on," she said.
If selected as provost, Borst
said she would want input from
the community, staff and students
See Borst, page 3
Fourth and final
candidate discusses
goals for university
Kathryn Kattalia
Torch News Editor
Provost finalist Kenneth Porada stepped out from behind
the podium Tuesday afternoon
to answer questions from faculty
and staff about methods of management, communication and his
wish to join the Valparaiso University community. Porada was the
final candidate to
visit campus as
the search for
VU's next provost
comes to an end.
Porada, who
currently serves
as provost at Dominican University in California,
said he believes
his background
in science and
psychology, along
with his experiences in teaching,
make him a viable candidate for
the position at VU
"I've been at Dominican for
seven years. I was drawn there
because I saw the opportunity to
make a great difference," Porada
said. "Now I'm looking for an
institution that's larger and more
complex and has an excellent
reputation. I'm looking for a place
whose value structure matches
my own."
Having overseen the expansion of Dominicans campus and
recruitment of a more diverse student population, Porada is excited
to see how he could contribute to
the growth and improvement of
VU as the university enters a new
transitioning period.
"There are a number of areas
this university is moving into that
match my skill sets very well," Porada said, specifically mentioning
VU's new strategic planning process under university president
Mark Heckler.
Porada emphasized the
need for administrators
and educators
to communicate, stressing
the importance
of establishing
certain methodology to achieve
goals and greater
understanding
between professors, students
and colleagues.
"We are all trained in different ways, but we share the same
values," Porada said. "There are
accurate methods of discourse we
use to seek out and disseminate
the truth. Methodology is a way
of looking at what expected outcomes are going to be."
See Porada, page 4
We should argue
the terms of
outcomes based
on methodology.
What is your office
attempting to
accomplish? What
are your goals?
Kenneth Porada
Provost candidate
2007 & 2008 Indiana
College Weekly of the Year
First call
to tip line
pays off
Anonymous tip
leads to Lankenau
alarm confession
Zach King
Torch News Editor
This week, the Valparaiso University Police Department reported that it had received its first tip
from the newly installed anonymous tip line.
"And it was a success," said assistant chief Charles Garber.
The tip line, which was installed
earlier this calendar year, received
an anonymous tip from a student
who called in response to a fire
alarm that had been pulled on the
third floor of Lankenau Hall.
The tip came to the tip line -
which Garber said functions like a
voicemail message box - approximately eleven hours after the 12:13
a.m. fire alarm was triggered on
the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 17.
The tip provided several names
of students who had been seen in
the residence hall corridors at
the time the alarm was triggered.
Upon receiving the tip, Garber
and VUPD Detective Sergeant
Daniel Schultz began following
up the lead and conducting interviews.
"By the next morning," Garber
said, "we ended up speaking to all
the folks, and at 9 o'clock (a.m.)
had it pretty much completed."
Though the tip named several
students, Garber said that only
one student was actively involved.
"We did get a student to confess that he activated it," Garber
said. "He basically used an aerosol
can and a lighter to make a torch,
and he was in a couple areas activating the alarm."
VUPD chief Becky Walkowi-
ak, who told The Torch in January
that the anonymous tip line had
been a "top priority" when she
took the top position in VUPD,
expressed satisfaction at the success of the tip line.
"We're just very happy that it
worked," Walkowiak said.
At the time of publication,
Garber was uncertain whether
charges would be pressed, as the
case had- not been passed to a
prosecutor.
"We're about to submit the paperwork to the prosecutor's (office), and this could fall into several categories,' Garber said. "One
category, if somebody pulls a pull
station that's mounted by the entrances and exits of a building,
there's a specific charge there. The
other one could fall into different
things such as reckless or mischief
or different categories. It all depends on what the prosecutor sees
in the information."
See Tip line, page 3
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