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'T'^1 T 1 ne Lance St. Andrews Presbyterian College Laurinburg, N. C., Thursday, Dec. 7, 1967 ^ Vol. No. 6. No. 13 DORMITORIES DECK HALLS IN KEEPING WITH YULETIDE SPIRIT SENIORS DECORATE TREE at annual Christmas Party last Friday night. After the S.C. was dec'?d. Ui3 dorms were carolled, issuing in the Yuletide spirit to the entire campus. Hearlding the spirit of the season, the dorms on campus have planned Christmas parties to enhance the seasonal ac tivities. Wilmington girls will have a tree-trimming party tonight, dates invited. The girls will also have an “Angel Revela tion” party on Monday night. All week long the girls, dis guised as "Angels,” have been doing small favors and help ing to make life a little more cheerful before exams. Last Sunday night Albemarle Dorm decorated their main lounge at their Christmas gala. Albemarle girls are competing in a "door decoration" con test to be judged this Sunday. Orange Dorm will have a Christmas party tomorrow night. The inmates will decorate and have refreshments to the strains of stereo music. Orange is having an open house on Saturday night from 8:00 to 11:45, and on Sunday afternoon Davies Lectures On “Image of God” Horton Davi0s, from Prince ton University, lectured twice to English and Religion majors at St. Andrews Monday, De cember, 4. His first lecture, at 2; GO In the afternoon, was entitled "Im ages of the Man of God in Litera ture,” Horton dealt with three authors, Granam Greene, Ber- nanos, and Maiiriac and how they used the image of priest as manifestations of God. These priests were not the common pletistlc view. The priest of Greene’s work was a wniskey priest. In the Woman of the Pharisees, the priest was defrocked and no longer be longed to an order. Bernanos’s priest was a common country priest. Horton discussed the way the authors worked para doxically with these “men of God.” The evening lecture was a discussion of Graham Greene as a dramatist. Greene is a well known novelist but is al most unknown as a dramatist. When asked why he chose this topic he answered, “Because no one else is Interested in this area of study.’* Pass-Fail Grade Option On Trial Amherst, Mass.-(1,P.)-The Office of Institutional Studies recently conducted a national survey of the “pass-fail” op tion at the request of the chair man of a Faculty Senate sub committee on the campus of the University of Massachusetts. Results; At Pomona College, juniors and seniors have had the pass-fail option available in elective courses outside their major for the past eight years. All freshman seminars are gra ded pass-fail. A student is air lowed up to two courses a se mester under this option with a maximum of four such courses to count toward graduation. At Ohio State University, sen iors, graduate students and pro fessional students have been al lowed to take certain courses under the pass-fail system in selected schools and colleges including the Graduate School and the Schools of Medicine and Education for "several years.” The California Institute of Technology began a pass-fail grading system In the fall of 1964 as an experiment to “en courage the development of an attitude in which a student sees himself as a self-guided scholar rather than as a competing grade-getter.’’ Examination Schedule Thursday Morning C&C 101 block; 1, M.W.F. Afternoon C&C 201 block; 4, M.W.F. Friday Morning 3, M.W.F. Afternoon 5, M.W.F. Saturday Morning Freshman Math block; 1, T, T. S. Afternoon Basic Science block; 2, T. T. S. Monday Morning Language block; 7, T. T. Afternoon 2, M.W.F. (except C&C 101). Tuesday Morning 6, M.W.F.; 8, M.W.F. Afternoon 7, M.W.F. Wednesday Morning 4, T.T.S.; 5, T.T.S. Afternoon 6, T.T. 101 men-Tuesday Dec 12, LAA 708; women in gym P.E. 201 Monday, Dec. 11 LAA 7-8. Among the reasons for adopt ing this policy permanently was the fact that the freshman at trition rate decreased consi derably and that freshmen an xiety was not as evident. The morale among sophomores who had participated in the pass-fail program was also considerable higher. One negative effect was that some freshmen had "so conditioned themselves to the top awards that they suffered a real psychological shock when these awards, in the form of grades, were not obtainable.” At Tufts, Mount Holyoke Col lege and Lehigh University, stu dents were also allowed to take distribution requirements un der the pass-fail option al though at Lehigh foreign lan guages are excluded. At Santa Cruz, an experi mental evaluation program has been in effect for the past five years. As stated in their 1966- 67 Bulletin, "Evaluation will take three forms: faculty com ment, comprehensive examina tions, and grades.” Concerning grades, ‘Stu dents in lower division cour ses normally will be graded ‘Pass' or ‘Fail*. Students in up per division courses will be graded ‘Pass’ or ‘Fair except that a Board of Studies, in courses required for the major in its field, may assign letter grades to students pursuing a major in that field.” All freshmen at Stanford and the University of California I'Rprkelev) and second term JreshS Tufts university are allowed to participate in this program. At only two of six Institutions was the option limited to selected schools, but four of these respondents limit ed the option to courses out side the student’s Conclusions: Most of the re spondents felt it was too ear y to judge how successful their policy had been. One school, however, although feeling Uwa^ too early to justify any judgment, felt that all students were not using the pass-fail as had been intended. Practice seems split on whe ther it should be available in all schools. There is some indica tion that individual schools or departments should be allowed to decide which courses will be available. And finally, although a pass does not affect the GPA, fail often does. from 2:00 to 5; 00. Granville Grannies will cele brate at their tree-trimming festivities tonight. Refresh ments will be served with the dorm council providing enter tainment. The Concord girls decorated their dorm last night at their annual tree-trimming party. They will exchange gifts on Sunday night. Kings-Mountain dorm will entertain with a party tonight at the Shan-Gri-La Club. Re freshments will be served from the “keg/^^^_________ Wesleyan U. invites Poetry Submissions Wesleyan University in Mid dletown, Connecticut is now in viting poem submissions from undergraduates in American colleges and universities. Poems chosen will be com piled in. a new, semi-annual publication, THE ALKAHEST THE ALKAHEST will be launched in the Spring of 1968. The poems solicited must be original and not previously pub lished except in local, campus publications. The poet must be an enrolled undergraduate stu dent in an institution of higher education in the United States. The publisher will pay, on publication, $3.00 for each poem accei^ted. Submissions for the Spring, 1968, issue will-be ac cepted until February 1. Sub missions should be addressed to Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 06457. firm NOT ONLY DID THE SENIORS decorate a beautiful tree in the main lounge of the Student Center but these young ladies decided to decorate the president of the senior class as well.
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