e written on a 60-space line and double- spaced. Letters must be submit- ted to the paper by 7:S0 p. m. on the Monday preceding th« date of publication. Dear Editor: The zoo animals of AC campus are hereby congratulated. Their barbarous table manners and conduct presented on Tuesday night, Halloween, could not pos sibly be unsurpassed as exam ples of their Soutihern gracious ness and good breeding. The cafeteria staff wishes also to express their thanks to their 300 Huns and Mongols who ex emplified the normal conduct of the average AC student. However, a special note of thanks goes to the students who either from habit or thoughtful ness, did return their dishes to the window. More than that, a special thanks goes to the hand ful of students who were gracious enough to lend some of their time to help the cafeteria staff clean up the wreckage. It’s somewhat reassuring to know that there are some human be ings left on this campus. Finally, I’m sure that the pa tience and graciousness that greeted this meal is deeply ap preciated by “The Cater’s Slater- ing Service”, and Mr. Grumpier will surely go out of his Way many more times this semester to try to break the monotony of the “usual” meal program. Chris Murphy Byron Wyndam G. C. Miller Slated To Address Group The Science Club will hold its next meeting Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. The guest speaker for the meeting will be G. C. Miller, of the N. C. State Zoology De partment. His topic will be “Science and Theology”. Telephorve Stock Is On Upswing SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CPS) — American telephone stock may be on the rise again if Universities followed Drury College’s lead in telephone classes. An English course in contem porary literature at the Spring field, Mo., college will be given via telephone this year. Several novelists and poets will speak and answer questions over an amplified telephone system. Among the speakers will be John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace, Wright Morris, author of the Field of Vision, and possibly Saul Bellow and John Updike. «p]V Perspective^^ Teachers Want Greater Voice In School Policy BY DR. REXFORD E. PINER Associate Professor of Education Atlantic Christian College (Editor’s Note: This article is grades themselves. These s.i. The Week I That Will I FRroAY, NOVEMBER 3 Midsemester Bull Dog Booster Club Dinner SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Supervising Teacher’s Meeting Choral Room 9:45 a. m. MONDAY, NOVEMBER Senior Solo Howard Chapel 8:00 Executive Board Rieeting 7:00 room 212 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Sigma Pi Meeting the first part of a study, made by Dr. Rexford E. Finer, as sociate professor of Education, concerning the teacher’s grow ing interest and concern in public school management. Be cause of the quality and in formation contained in the ar ticle, coupled with the ACC indent’s interest in education and the pofition of the teacher, Dr. Piner’s “PN Perspective” will be reprinted in its entirety in the Collegiate. Due to the length of the article, however, only the first half of it can be reprinted in this issue. The con clusion will be published next week.”) Careful observers of the teach ing profession are witnessing an upsurge of teacher-interest in the management of public schools. Increasingly this in interest has grown into collective teacher-demands for a voice in policy making, and administra tors and school board members are finding it necessary to sit at the conference table with teachers and listen. Accustomed to unilateral authority, many of these members are having to review their traditional position of exclusive res'ponsibility for determining over-all school polic ies. More Militancy Moreover, there is a growing militancy among teachers as they assert their right to be the new partner on the school management team. Braulio Alon so, president of the National Education Association, said while campaigning for this office: “I want to see the NEA a more aggressive, more responsive, more militant teacher associa tion . . .” Alonso exemplifies the “new” leadership in the na tion and in Florida, where both the FEA and NEA have invoked statewide sanctions. NEA president-e 1 e c t, Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, said in a New York speech last December: “Teachers have become suffic iently frustrated and actively dedicated enough to do some thing about the many problems that stand in the way . . .1 am not sure that teachers are yet as militant as they must be come . . .” To understand what is hap pening, we need some historical perspective and an understand ing of factors contributing to the current teacher unrest. In the earliest days schools were usually administered by town selectmen, there being no professionally-trained administra tors to do the job. In fact, until after the Civil War few teachers had gone beyond the elementary men hired the local teacher' teachers, provided a scl# house, set the rules, and oti> wise operated the local scb with complete authority. As towns and schools gj; however, and as the duties town selectmen multiplied school board was appointed elected to be responsible ^ this phase of the commur life. In either case, whether schools were operated by school board or by the l( selectmen directly, the goif ing body autocratically, patt* listically, and with com); authority over the teacher i the activities of the schoolj the examination of the pc was often administered by selectmen or board members, Help Needed With continued growth schools the tasks of admiiE tion became even too great school boards, who, after had their private businesses a result, they began to: superintendents to do their’ work” for them. Genec though school boards conti to set all school policies, it was the job of the s intendent to carry out ii tions of the board. As y passed and the complexit schools increased, and ass: intendents were better prep and united professionally,: began to advise the Ic which employed them, and played an increasingly lit tant role in the heretofort elusive policy-making functis: the school board. Teachers had little or not to say about how schools i run. It may even be said: until the last few years teai had no great desire to pat pate in the operation of sd beyond the immediate com of their individual classrt Now, however, the pictiin entirely different. Teachers,! the superintendents before! are assuming some of the pi: ■ making and administrative sponsibilities. PN Is Bom This change has now deve!: into the most significant u ment within the professioi , day, a movement varit known as “professional wf tions,” “collective negotialE “teacher bargaining,” anJ I other terms that indicate f ' action in dealing with boaii education. Whatever it is rf it is simply a formal anJ ment whereby the professioi ^ now be guaranteed some) ticipation with school boari arriving at decisions that» the operations of public scl* THE COLLEGIATE Published Weekly by Students Attending Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, N. C. Members of United States Students Press Association and Features Services Leased from the Collegiate Service. The views expressed on this pagre are not necessarily the faculty or administration at ACC. Editor: Jim Bussell; Business Manager: Karen Caseyi aging Editor: Michael Roach; Sports Editor: Ronnie DeM' Circulation Manager: Sylvia Griffin; Photographers: Haf Rogerson; Jeff Chase; William Pierman. Staff: Kay Germelman, Hilda Bass, A1 Cooke, B®**' Frances Gladson, Joyce Copeland, Joan Sabia, Ann Haf Scotter Ormond, Sammy Edwards, Jenny Tate, Carl Banks, Carla Isley, Carlotta White, Cherry Beech, Judy C” Clara Reilly, Cecilia Bailey and Gail Love. ^