September 20, 1974
Day Students Unite
by John Ladd
Day students, which now
number approximately 300,
now have an organization
working for them. Last week
elections were held for Day
Students officers. Elected as
Senators and alternates were
Susy Pollitt, Karl Herman. R.
Mumia Skimaka, Karl Wright
and Charles Alsop. John Ladd
was elected president.
A number of plans are
presently in the works for the
Day Students. The Urban
Campus has kindly allowed us
to use their lounge in the
Urban Center building. We
hope that a corner of this room
can be used to display
information pertinent to the
activities of the Day Students.
This should help aleviate the
past difficulties off-campus
students have in finding out
what is happening on campus.
Ladd will be in the lounge on
Mondays and Tuesdays from
12:30 to 1:30 to talk with Day
Students about suggestions,
gripes, etc. Anyone wanting to
help organize and plan these
activities is urged to come
by. Ladd can also be reached
by phone at 275-8794.
In the next several days the
Day Student organization
should have a campus
mailbox. The intramural
committee will organize a
tennis tournament for these
students if there is enough
interest. Contact Ladd if you
24 Hour Visitation..
Where it Stands
by Arturo Perez-Reyes and
Merry Allen
In the past few days there
has been renewed interest in
last year's self-regulating
hours proposal- in fact, it looks
like once again students are
ready to wage battle over the
issue. This article will try to
sum up the events of last
year's debate in order to avoid
fruitless repetition of what
happened before. Hopefully,
this will serve as an
introduction of them for new
students as well as aiding
Returning classmates to rede
fine their stance to meet this
year's needs.
are interested. A day student
get together of some kind is
planned for late September or
early October, with much
more in the planning stages.
These plans depend on
several factors. The admini
stration response so far has
been helpful, and allocation of
an adequate budget is
imperative from the Student
Senate. The most important
factor is the feedback and
input from the Day Students
ourselves. There are 300 of us
and out of that number we
snould be able to generate
enough enthusiasm and ener
gy to include all of the day
students in the community.
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On the face of it, the issue is
whether or not students
should be granted self-regula
ting visitation hours. Howev
er, the administration's refu
sal to permit this proposal has
clarified to true issue; whether
or not students need to have
something "granted" to them
at all, or should instead be
accorded the autonomy and
respect of their rights that
each human being deserves.
In this context, the debate is
another of a long list of
student confrontations with
the administration over their
paternalism and total disre
gard of how students feel they
need to live and study. The
Guilford that exists is not one
that students would create,
but one maintained by and for
a bureaucratic structure.
It is beyond the purposes of
this article to give an in-depth
recount of all that transpired
last year, so a brief summary
will be attempted. Although
the issue of visitation has been
alive and kicking on campus
for some time, it did not
precipitate any action until
Amy McCallister and Michael
Tove decided to tackle the
blatant iniquity of omens
visitation hours on campus.
Working together, they draft
ed a bill which was then
ratified by the Student Senate,
endorsed by SAC, and given
major support by a student
poll in quick succession. The
bill proposed that each unit of
living (Personel's obsure title
for "dorm") would democrati
cally establish its own
visitation hours. Although 24
hour visitation could be opted
for, so could any other
combination of closed dorm
hours that residents prefer
red. McCallister and Tove
hoped that this would end the
still current inequality of mens
and women regulations on
campus.
This absolute exci.ssion of
the students voice from the
regulations that governs their
lives set off some unrest. 30 or
40 people held a meeting in
the Binford Lounge, violating
hours in an attempt to bring
about a confrontation, how
ever, the demonstration was
ignored. Next a town meeting
was held to which trustees,
alumni, faculty, and Grimsley
T. Hobbs were invited. The
purpose of the meeting was to
provide a means for dialouge
and first hand airing of views.
It proved to be a raving flop,
mainly because there was
much rhetoric but no dialouge,
and the usual large amoung of
schlop Quakerism thrown
around that did not choose to
examine the issue in the light
of it's undeniable radically
humanistic tradition, but
merely confused the issue
beyond belief. For the most
part student rights were not
even dealt with, and in the
final analysis, the town
meeting did nothing but allow
the administration to co-opt
the students grievances. After
the meeting came exams, and
the final act was consumated
the day after they ended and
all the students had left
(again, as usual).
An open administrative
council meeting was held
where Bob Foreman (acting
president of the Student
Senate) agreed to a one hour
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extention of visitation hours as
a compromise to the senate
bill.
The lessons of last year are
clear; one there was not
sufficient student interest
about the issue, as was
demonstrated by the small
quanity of the people at the
town meeting (a significant
show of strength there was
crucial); two, what support
there was lacked unity (there
was no agreement over what
was to be the primary issue,
no organization, and there
fore, little collective action).
Because of these two
conditions, student dissent
worried the administration
less than the fear of alumni
and reaction (monetary repri
sal) to any further relaxing of
living regulations.
If the bill is to be passed this
year, it will only happen
through mass student sup
port. This support will have to
be rallied around one primary
issue and focused into usable
power by either the Senate or
concerned organizers.
In closing, we would like to
personally add that we feel
there are more urgent national
and global problems that
students could be working on.
In the end, a struggle for
visitation hours pales against
the harsher realities of a world
where many do not even
possess the necessities of life.
Although we see great value
in students gathering together
to achieve this goal, perhaps
the organizational energy and
student involvement neces
sary for the success of this bill
are better spent elsewhere.
From Blophile Club:
We desperately need a
truck for recycling especially
Wednesdays and Saturdays -
See Scot Oliver, English 10 -
We also need canoes, sail
boats and PEOPLE. See Scot.
Meetings are Tuesdays at 7 -
King 104