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Letters To The Editor
editor:
I would like to direct this
letter to Mike Wagner, the
junior Geology major who
seems to have rocks in his
head. I am referring to his
article in the February 14
Guilfordian "Fedyakin Speaks
Out."
Mr. Wagner
Although you may have a
valid complaint as to the
severence of Bill Burton from
our administration, your
article reeks of the reactionary
who states nothing but opinion
and attempts to support an
argument without proper
facts. You write "We feel that
the educational quality at
Guilford is on the verge of
falling below minimum toler
able standards." Whose
standards do you mean? Last
fall, a state commission
ranked Guilford third in the
state regarding quality educa
tion. After your initial
baseless statement, you pre
sent a list of "demandi' to the
administration "whose sala
ries we pay." That's not the
way it works, Mike, because
your tuition only offsets the
total cost of your education.
You later criticize Grimsley
Hobbs because you are "sick
of absentee administrating"
in reference to the President's
lack of presence on campus.
The responsibility of a college
President is to seek additional
funds and grants from alumni
and this requires time and
travel. Were it not for his
competence as President,
Guilford would not be
operating in the black instead
of in the red like so many other
colleges.
Mr. Wagner, your good
points are overshadowed by
your asinine "demands".
"The ones who hold the purse
strings hold the power" so
until the students at Guilford
bear the full financial
responsibility of their educa
tion, they have no right to
demand anything.
Respectfully,
A 1 Patterson
Dear Editor:
I was very much interested
in Mike Wagner's Guilfordian
letter of Thursday, February
14, 1974. It is encouraging
that students are now
demanding educational qua
lity rather than mickey mouse
courses with pass-fail grading.
Times do change! Most
gratifying. Happy Valentine
Day!
I would question, however,
that it is the students who pay
the bills here. I thought it was
their parents who did most of
that; if so, under Mike's
reasoning, it will be the
parents (not the students) who
will be choosing the faculty.
And what about business
donors?
Mike seems to think that
tenure protects the incompe
tent teacher; but with no
tenure no one is protected --
whether competent or incom-
petent! Tenure says merely
that to be dismissed there
must be a good cause to do so,
such as that the teacher is
incompetent.
As for salaries, this is
indeed an area of concern
since the cost of living is rising
twice as fast as faculty
salaries. Many of us are
subsidizing the students (or
their parents) by working at
less than competitive pay. I
wish Mike luck in raising
salaries!
Frederick W. Parkhurst, Jr.
Dear Editor:
Please secure me space to
air my defense to some
misunderstandings which
manifested from the recent
volatile meeting, for black
freshmen.
I didn't say that the black
man should kneel before the
white man. 1 didn't, what I
said, indicate any color
differences. I talked from an
individualistic point of view as
far as my being a student is
concerned.
I did say that racial cliques
are an impairing factor of
efficient integration, I did say
white men, in view of their
rich past experiences, have
had time to sophisticate and
concerned with the essence of
mankind as a whole. I said
black people can learn from
them a great deal without
being slaves. I said times and
views have changed since
slavery. I quoted Martin
Luther. Of course there are
still a bunch of prejudiced
fools in either of the two races.
Henceforth, I defy my color
as white or black but a human
being and a student at
Guilford. I have my future to
decide and there is no time to
brood over the misfortunes of
my ancestors.
John Ndusha
Sexist Quotes
Of The Week
by the Women's Center
"If you asked anyone what
makes up the criteria for good
research, I think most men
could not tell you." Robert L.
Johnson. Sociology.
"Social Class is a man made
creation." R.L. Johnson, (If
you only knew how true that
is!)
"Another man may holler
about the church and what
Religion means." R.L. John
son
"We have a need to sustain
the "Old wives tales". R.L.
Johnson
is very interested
in an English dance called the
Morris. This is a type of sword
dancing and was popular
during Shakespeare's time.
He hopes to teach the male
P.E. majors this dance.'
The Guilfordian
February 14, 1974
GUILFORD IAN
February 15, 1974
Dear Editor:
Amid the growing contro
versy over the expansion of
the East Carolina University
Medical School it has become
evident to me that the
students, the individuals who
would profit most from this
expansion, have apparently
not been properly informed
nor involved in the decision
making process. There has
been a failure in the media to
get down to the basic points of
the issue. (1) Are there
enough doctors in North
Carolina? and (2) Where will
all the students who are now
in pre-medical departments go
to medical school?
North Carolina has a very
poor physician-to-population
ratio plus the fact that 25% of
the physicians now practicing
will be 65 or older by 1980.
Many towns are without
physicians. North Carolina is
badly in need of a large
number of family practitioners
as well as additional physi
cians in the other specialties.
But the second basic point is
the one in which I believe your
readers will be most interest
ed. There are simply not
enough spaces in medical
schools in North Carolina for
all of you who are qualified
North Carolinians to go to
medical school - nor are there
enough spaces projected, and
other states are closing their
doors to out-of-state students.
North Carolina ranks 14th in
the states of the United States
in the relative number of
persons receiving bacculau
reate degrees from colleges
but 50th in the number of
spaces it provides those
persons wishing to go to
medical school.
If you are interested in
seeing the State take the steps
to provide the necessary
medical school openings to
meet the needs of qualified
North Carolina students, you
should contact your local
representative and tell him or
her to support the expansion
of the Medical School at
E.C.U.
There are to be hearings on
this at the Legislative Building
in Raleigh on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday,
February 19, 20, and 21, from
4:00 p.m. and you should
attend if possible.
Yours truly,
John R. Gamble, Jr., M.D.
Representative, 38th District
N.C. General Assembly
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College Presidents:
Middle-Class Reactionaries
College presidents are
classic representatives of
mainstream America grapp
ling with jobs that are
"reactive", "parochial,"
"conventional", and "illu
sory." This description was
made by Michael D. Cohen
and James G. March in
Leadership and Ambiguity:
The American College Presi
dent, recently published by
McGraw-Hill.
Sponsored by the Carnegie
Commission on Higher Educa
tion, the study surveyed
college and university presi
dents and other personnel at
42 institutions in order to draw
a complete picture of the
presidents, their job, and the
institutions they serve.
College presidents face
ambiguities as to their
purpose, power, experience
and success, said the study,
and their contributions may
often be measured by their
capability for sustaining
"creative interaction between
foolishness and rationality."
The study further described
higher education institutions
as "organized anarchies"
displaying "an organizational
setting."
The study concluded that
presidents are "most com
monly middle-aged, married,
male, white, Protestant aca
demics from a relatively
well-educated, middle-class,
professional-managerial, na
tive-born, small-town family
background.
nAiMim
Thursday, February 21, 1974
The study found the job of |
the presidency to be:
Reactive... Presidents....
allocate their time by a
process that is largely
controlled by the desires of
others."
--"Parochial... Presidents
are normally not strangers to
the institutions that choose
them., (they) tend to com
pare... (their) performance
with a group of presidents who
are in their experiential
neighborhood."
--"Conventional...The pre
sident comes to his job
through a series of filters that
are socially conservative
vis-a-vis his major consti
tuents."
--"lllusory... Important as
pects of the role seem to
disappear on close examina
tion. In particular, decision
making in the university
seems to result extensively
from a process that...makes
the president's role more
commonly sporadic and sym
bolic than significant."
The study said the nation's
colleges and universities are
characterized by "problematic
goals," "unclear technology,'
and "fluid participation."
"The organization appears
to operate on a variety of
inconsistent and ill-defined
preferences...(and to be more)
a lose collection of changing
ideas then...a coherent struc
ture," reported the study.
"It operates on the basis of
a simple set of trial and error
procedures, the residues of
learning from the accidents of
past experiences, imitation,
and the inventions born of
necessity."
"The participants in the
organization vary in the
amount of time and effort they
devote to the organization...as
a result...the boundaries of
the organization appear to be
uncertain and changing," said
the study.
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