Page 2, THE PILOT
Tuesday, October 15,1974
Letters To The Editor
Dress Codes And Curfews
Dear Editor:
I feel that some changes
should take place in order
for Gardner-Webb to grow
and prosper
shouldn’t sign out in cases
emergencies. There
worse than that is the fact should be a way that a girl
that the guys come to the could get back into the dorm
Dear Editor:
I feel that it is high time
for someone in this school to
take up for probably the
most ignored and mistreated
group on campus—the day
students. Before you laugh
this statement off, bear with
me for just a few minutes.
Most of you reading this will
be boarding students who
are preoccupied with the
problems of living on cam
pus, and facing up to and
learning to live with such
things as required chapel,
curfew hours, the dress code
(particuarly hair for men),
and even cafeteria food.
However, the day student
“organization” (as it is
called on paper) is the larg
est so called organization at
Gardner-Webb, and it not
only has to face most of
what a boarding student
must face, but it has to lit
erally put up with no cam
pus communication, no
structural leaders help and
next to no parking! I shall
take these one at a time.
First, over a year ago the ad
ministration took the post
office boxes assigned to day
students in the CID building
away from then and used the
boxes for boeirding students.
The reason: so no one would
have to share a post office
box with anyone else. For
those of us who can remem
ber sharing a box, it was no
big deal, but evidently
someone thought it was. The
result: all day students lost
their post office boxes. This
effectively shut down any
communications the day
students might have with
anyone and crippled the day
student “organization.”
How can the day students
receive information, you
ask? Well, when the day stu
dents needs to be contacted
by the school he is mailed a
letter, naturally costing the
Day Students
college money. If the day
students are rounded off to
600 students, then it costs
the college 60 dollars just to
contact them. A flagrant
waste when it could be done
free! What is being done?
Last year the Student
Government Association in
stalled a little rack in the
post office for day student
letters. The complaint was
that it was never used. The
day students are not aware
it’s there. An announcement
has never been made. What
to do? There are a number of
solutions. One would be
return to the old way of
distributing mail with two
people to a box, or another
would be to distribute mail
by dorms. This is done in all
large colleges, why won’t it
work here? There are more
but let’s move on.
Next, there is no structu
ral leadership. Even though
last year the day student or
ganization had a president,
etc., to my knowledge not one
meeting was ever called. If
one was, no one knew about
it. I don’t know if officers
have been elected this year
or not, but unless communi
cations are improved there
probably won’t be a meeting
this year either.
Finally, parking for day
students is absolutely
ridiculous! They pay 15 dol
lars for the right to park
on campus and unless they
arrive by 7:45 they can’t.
There are just no parking
places. One has to look be
hind Stroup dorm on the
highway for a prime ex
ample. Cars are parked on
the shoulders down the road.
The day students will arrive
at their area only to find
first, that it is half occupied
by dormitory parking and
the rest were lucky. He has
to park off campus and face
the possibility of a parking
THE PILOT
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First, I feel that the girls’ has to plan everything down
dress code for Sunday limch to the last detail so she
should be discontinued. It’s won’t be late and get in
not fair that girls should trouble. When a girl has to
1 four year have to wear a dress to the be in at 12 on the weekend, it
institution. I am not advo- cafeteria if they do not go to puts a damper on plans. This
eating any drastic changes church. It’s really a hassle to doesn’t mean a girl still
in the rules, but Gardner- have to get up and put on a
Webb wiU never become a dress to go eat. What is of
university unless it makes
some changes.
cafeteria wearing their hole- after 12 without a dorm mom
ly T-shirts and jeans. The and R.A.’s having to stay
rules should either be dis- up. Why couldn’t a security
fine on top of his 15 dollars continued or enforced for guard let the girls in that
already paid. Parking places both sexes.
Secondly, I don’t feel that
he girls should have cur-
for all tickets received. The fews on the weekend. The out for all night. So, which
administration is screaming weekend is the only time a would be better—having
about building new build- student can call his or her girls being able to come in
ings, how about some of that own. Why should a girl have later than 12 or staying out
10 million for a new parking to be in at 12 or 1 when all night?
lot! Before you provide for studies don’t really demand
the students not yet here, her time? If she had chosen
how about providing for the to go home for the weekend,
ones that are here! Thank she could choose her own
must be made available! If
not the college should pay
stay out later than 12? After
all, some of the girls are get
ting aroimd this by signing
you for listening.
Robert Cribb
timetable. When a girl has
12 o’clock permission, she
‘‘^Concerned Female^^
Dear Editor,
Having carefully read my very worthy opponent’s—
“Concerned Male”—viewpoints, I am compelled to point
out one or two fallacies in his logic.
Firstly, it is irrelevant to bring other problems like the
“hair rules” into a discussion about curfew rules. The only
similarities are surface ones, in that both regulations are
discriminatory. “Concerned Male,” the length of your hair
does not infringe on your mobility. Short hair or not, you
may go anywhere you please at any time with no one hang
ing over you to make sure you follow the rules. The length of
your hair does not inhibit your freedom.
Also, you describe GW as “a Christian school.” Ideally, it
is. But it is in rather poor taste to use “Christianity” as an
excuse for discrimination.
This letter is not a vendetta against you—“Concerned
Male”—it is a request to use clear logic instead of slogans
and rhetoric.
Sincerely,
“Concerned Female”
Debating Team
Organized Here
Gardner-Webb is in the
process or organizing a de
bating team. The team will
travel to different colleges
throughout the year to parti
cipate in inter-collegiate de
bating tournaments. Any
one interested in participat
ing on the team is asked to
contact Jeff Osborne, Por
table 'Trailers, D-2, or drop a
note to him in P.O. Box 837.
A faculty advisor is also
needed to sponsor the debat
ing team. Volunteers, any
one? If so, please contact
Jeff Osborne.
HEW Title IX Continued
required for a school to pro
vide access to men’s teams if
it furnishes women sepa
rated opportunities to parti
cipate in the same type of
sports on the same level.
The regulation permits
separate housing based on
sex as well as separate
locker rooms, toilets and
showers. Concerning hous
ing, the regulation requires
comparabiUty as to the facil
ities, and nondiscrimination
as to their availability and
as to the rules under which
they are operated, including
fees, hours, and requirements
for off-campus housing.
Curfew hours wiU be the
major concern for most col
lege campuses and espe
cially Gardner-Webb. The
Members of the Association
of College and University
Housing Offices, welcome
and endorse the intent and
the spirit of Title IX. How
ever, the Association has a
few questions they need an
swered by HEW. The terms
“comparable”, “equal”,
“reasonable”, and “propor
tionate” all of which appear
throughout the proposed re
gulations, need to be de
fined.
The representatives of the
fifty-three colleges and uni
versities who are members
of the Association of Sou
thern Baptist Colleges and
Schools have already dis
cussed Title IX and the pro
blems which might appear in
the interpretation of the
terms used, and have made a
resolution encouraging
HEW to define the terms
precisely.
The Association of Sou
thern Baptist schools have
also committed on how some
of the provisions violate the
spirit of positive Christian
commitment, thus creating
moral and Christian conflict,
as it relates to the basic
health, safety, honor, re
spect and position of all per
sons.
Title IX is a part of Edu
cation Amendments Act of
1972 and that Act amends
the Higher Education of
1965 which states, “nothing
contained in this chapter
shall be construed to autho
rize any department, agen
cy, officer or employee of the
United States to exercise
any direction, supervision,
or control over the curricu
lum, programs of instruc
tion, administration or per
sonnel of any educational in
stitution, or over the selec
tion of library resources by
any education institution.”
This is where most of the
controversy comes from is
the inconsistency between
the two amendments.
Precisely how Title IX is
going to affect church re
lated schools such as Gard
ner-Webb is hard to tell as of
now, but it is a safe pre
sumption that this will bring
much discussion.
However Mr. Briggs,
Director of Financial Aid,
has pointed out that there
are several things that could
change. “Gardner-Webb
would lose our identity and
uniqueness if we had to com
ply with the rules as written
now,” states Mr. Briggs.
“Another important factor
is the loss of autonomy in
our higher education and the
complete loss of freedom to
govern our own institu
tions.”
The Pilot plans to con
tinue further articles on
Title IX, especially inter
viewing administrators on
their observation and pro
jections.