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January, 1970 the ram's horn pages Memoral service honors Martin Luther King rns^^m iS*l#$i||«**i$li* MS® Students all over the nation celebrated tfie birthday of Martin Luther King January 15. Students at SCC held a small ceremony on the front lawn of the college. Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner, was honored in a memorial service, at SCC on his birthday January 15, 1970. A group of about forty students held a brief ceremony on the front lawn of the school. In tribute to Dr. King, the students knelt with crossed arms and repeated the Lord's prayer. With arms still crossed, they sang "We Shall Overcome". Sam McBride spoke briefly during the commemerative ceremony. He said: "Dr, King, was a believer in nonviolence and a great man who should never be forgotten." McBride Dean's list Is impressive Winter quarter enrollment is 921, down slightly from the record Fall quarter enrollment of 1017. Students are registered as follows: college parallel 527, technical 275 and vocational 119. During the fall quarter a total of 138 students made the Dean's list. To be eligible for the Dean's list a student must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and have an overall B average, with no grade below C. The break down by programs is as follows: College parallel 79, technical 39, vocational 20. The vocational program had the highest percentage of students making the Deans list with 17 percent. Of the coffege parallel students 14 per cent were on the Dean's list and the technical program was last with 12 percent of its students making the Dean's list. Students who earned less than a 1.5 GPA were placed on probation. These students must maintain a 1.5 GPA or better for the winter quarter or they will be suspended. A total of 110 students were placed on orobation at the end of fall quarter. Students who were on probation, either by failing to maintain a 1.5 GPA or better for Students speak out Fred Badders, Dean of Student Personel Services, has suggested the idea of an open forum. The proposal was agreed on and approved by the officers of the S.G.A. and the first open forum was held Tuesday, January 20, 1970. Badders idea is to choose sixteen students at random. The students will formally be asked to attend the forum but they are not obligated to come. Different students will be selected each month. The originators of the open forum feel this random selection will give a larger number of students a chance for a more varied expression. The major goal of the forum is this large form of expression for student complaints, common issues, and helpful ideas, S.G.A. officers and administration personel will be present at each meeting to aid in the answering of questions. The administration feels that this to may be an innovation into the problems existing between student and school. This is brought about by the fact that directness is the most objective way. All individuals chosen to attend have the right to discuss any problems or ideas that seem important. We need writers the previous quarter or who were admitted by Admissions Appeals Committee and who fait to maintain the required GPA are subject to suspension. A total of twelve students were suspended at the end of fall quarter. Students out In cold Student housing is one of the many problems faced by Southeastern students every year. The growth of Southeastern as a Junior College has been the main cause of this problem. The number of students over last years roll has increased well over 30%, Southeasterns population is over 1,000 with 760 full time students. The citizens of Whiteville and Chadbourn are not ready to meet the demands of students desiring to live close to their campus. A shortage of living quarters may be the reason why many of our students are commuting from their home towns. The housing now in affect is very poor and rates are high for the average student. The two adjacent towns have very little to offer in housing our students. Of course many students are from the surrounding area and live fairly close to the campus. Students that are not residents live in trailers, motels, apartments, houses and with other residents. Southeastern has to do something about student housing so it can continue to grow in size and statue. Maybe the answer lies in dormatories for freshman students. said all blacks should help the dreams of Dr. King to become a reality. After McBride's speech Dr. King's favorite song, "Precious Lord" was sung by Miss Elvanda Alderman and Miss Lou Williams. The service was coordinated by George Smith, ON TARGET Educational change By DUANE DAUGHTRY Look around and you see change. Its everywhere. If you don't believe it look at everyone and everything. And compare. Compare what you have thought, or heard, or read to today and you see change. Call it alteration, modification, transformation, or even a switch, but its pure unadulterated change. One aspect of pressing change which we think requires examination is education. Ridiculous as it seems education is relatively minor when compared to other elements, religion or politics, which make up part of the metamorphosis of our society. Education is simply packed into the heads of young people. It is a composite of facts, figures, formulas, and this-is-how-you-do-it. We read somewhere that today's student is obsolete even before he leaves the building that everything he can do, a machine can do, and soon better and cheaper. Students are beginning to question the orientation of education to reality. They are lookinq at the hypocrisy and uselessness of things like mandatory attendance, prying social and intelligence tests, and grades. The argument for changing the educational system is to put life and the outside world into the classroom. This is not totally new. It started years ago with the distributive education classes and now in many larger cities the city itself has become the school. The students learn from association with the real world. These people are connecting their life with learning. Education is not different or separate from life. Education is life itself. It is the pure need for knowledge to survive. If we look closer to home, we can see the educational fires of change igniting at SCC. One math teacher at SCC has presented us with the dynamic possibility of no compulsory attendance. This way the student gets as much math as he wants out of the course. Also think of the personal responsibility one may acquire in learning on his own. On the other hand a student feels more comfortable learning on his own. An English teacher at SCC has attempted to bring the outside world into the classroom through discussion related to the problems and situations of everyday life. The noted educators of yesteryear are not wrong to emphasize the ideas of people like Shakespeare and Chaucer, but what about the student next to you, the neighbor you have to live with, the people in our myriad-numbered society. It's hard to get in school and impossible to get back in once you're out. Why shouldn't people be able to attend school whenever and for whatever they want to. How many times have you sat in a class, one you didn't even think would help you but was required, you were bored to tears, things you didn't want to hear were being thrown at you and you looked out the window and wondered, "How in the hell is this going to help me out there. "On Target" wonders if the learner shouldn't be allowed to learn what he wants to. Service to improve in new lounge According to Mr. W.L, Eddins, business manager, the present contract with the Macke Vending Company will be up for re-negotiation April 1, 1970. Their service here, in his opinion, has improved over the past few weeks. "We went through a session a month ago, explaining our expectations from the vending area. We do not expect to be without the little service type things such as napkins, spoons and salt, any more so than we do ^improper working machines or empty machines. "The alternatives as to vending companies are: our present company, Macke Vending, Canteen Vending, and Carolina Vending Company. "A hot-cold line of food is also invisioned for the new lounge. The company that is contracted must be able to furnish this type of food service, and also be able to do the upkeep on this service, "We are, frankly, trying to expand the service to the students. This service is not a money making one as we put back into the area our income in the way of maintenance, upkeep, etc.
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