November 15,1977
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BY TANE DATTA
Students should have a
channel through which new
course ideas could be
presented to the faculty and
administration. Faculty
members could then decide if
they were interested or capable
of teaching these courses. If
not, the administration could
search the outside community
for either qualified instructors
or other institutions capable
of providing the desired
courses. With this channel
opened and faculty/admini
strative help students would
have a dramatically broadened
liberal arts education. Student
interest, motivation and
creativity would be challenged
while an education fulfilling
the needs of the individual
student was being obtained.
I presently know of no such
channel existing or readily
available to students. If
there is one it should be widely
publisized and presented in
the freshman packets.
I'd like to see courses offered
in nutrition, communications,
and nuclear power. The nutri
tion course would explain the
different pathways food takes
through your body and what
the effects of pesticides, pre
servatives, artificial flavor
ings/colors are. Also included
would be comparisons of
different diets ie meats vs.
vegy, macrobiotics, fasting
and purification etc. A
communications course of my
liking would teach the technical
aspects of radio and television
production, how to gain access
(use) of public media, and also
explore the influence media
has in our country as part of the
fourth establishment. Nuclear
power is rapidly becoming
a major issue in the United
States. The need for unbiased
discussion and information
could be critical to our future.
I challenge the Guilford
faculty to provide these
courses and others that
students want. I challenge
the administration to open a
channel of communication -
to draw on the resource of
student creativity, helping
them develop and partially
design new courses, finally
I challenge students to
design and publicize new
course ideas - even if it takes
a year or more before reali
zaiton of their ideas.
To accomplish these
purposes a new section will
become part of the Gopher
College News. This section
will simply state the title of the
course and a brief description.
Any student with a course
idea should get it to Tane
Datta c/o Gopher College
news Box 17121 in Founders.
Any submitted course will be
printed.
It is my hope that the faculty
and administration will read
this column and take steps
towards implementation of the
courses. By doing so the
goals of which James Gutsell
talks about promoting intellec
tual growth and freedom, self
education through the class
rooms and stimulation of
natural curiosity might be
accomplished. Most important
students might find courses
within and outside their major
necessary to fulfill their
personal educational needs.
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A gardening magazine is out
with the astounding news
that one hope for meeting
U.S. energy needs in the future
may lie in none other than
cockroaches.
Organic Gardening and
Farming magazine explains
that methane fuel can be
obtained from a gas produced
by the bacteria which live in
the bellies of many different
kinds of animals.
One of the creatures which
produces this gas the most
efficiently, says Organic
Gardening, is the common
cockroach. The magazine
adds, however, that the
specific techniques to harness
the fuel produced by those
crawling roaches has not
yet been solved.
A 15-year-old Texas boy,
wearing a wig and women's
clothing, successfully freed
his 13-year-old younger
brother from a Dallas county
juvenile detention home by
pretending he was his mother.
The Home's chief pro
bation officer, Don Smith,
said that no one in the place
suspected they were being
taken in by a confidence
scheme. According to Smith,
the 15-year-old simply
telephoned last month, imitated
his mother's voice and said
"she" would be stopping by
in several weeks to take legal
custody of the younger boy.
The unidentified youth then
sashayed into the detention
facility, decked out in a blond
wig and his mother's clothing,
signed the necessary papers
and took off with his brother.
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The CIA has been secretly
funding experiments at a
San Diego Hospital, using a
computer to monitor human
brainwaves.
The San Diego Union
reports that the brainwaves of
volunteers are being analyzed
by computers as the subjects
look at photographs and are
presented with "true or false"
questions.
According to the published
report, the computer attempts
to determine if the volunteer
recognized a specific photo
graph of a human face or is
thinking "true" or "false"
without hte volunteer saying
anything.
The CIA confirms that
the experiments are currently
in progress under a SIOO,OOO
dollar agency grant. However,
the agency insists that the
experiments are not attmepts
to develop what might be called
mind-reading lie detector
devices.
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The U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization service has
announced it will hold a hear
ing to determine whether to
send Mexican student
activist. Hector Marroquin,
back to Mexico.
Marroquin has asked for
political asylum in the United
States. He fled to the U.S.
in 1974 after Mexican police
launched an extensive search
for students belonging to a
radical political group at his
university, allegedly in connec
tion with the shooting of a
university librarian.
Marroquin had quit the
group the preceeding year.
Two of the five students hunted
by Mexican police have
since been killed by police,
while a third who was
arrested simply disappeared.
Marroquin returned to
Mexico in secret earlier this
year to see a lawyer. He was
arrested by U.S. Immigra
tion authorities as he tried to
President Carter's Middle-
East peace efforts have
won him approval from an
unlikely quarter Cairo's
hashish smugglers.
A Cairo newspaper reports
that smugglers had been
trying to flood the market there
with a new brand of hashish
dubbed "Carter, a man of
peace."
Police say they have made
several arrests and broken
the ring. The White House
has had no comment on any
aspects of the reports.
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"English 100" isft't a very
catchy course name, so a
university in Pennsylvania has
come up with one better suited
to its students' interests.
Next semester. Temple Uni
versity will be offering an
introductory literature course
titled "Incest, Adultery and
Murder," a course the catalog
says will deal with "taboos
and otherwise illicit blood
relationships."
Required reading for the
course will include such
shockers as Wuthering Heights,
Oedipus Rex, and The Scarlet
Letter.
re-enter tne United States. He
is currently serving a three
month jail term for attempting
"illegal entry" into the United
States.
Marroquin's attorney,
Margaret Winter, has filed a
federal court challenge asking
the Immigration \agency to
give Marroquin a full hearing,
so that the student leader
can explain his reason for
seeking political asylum.
Marroquin contends that if
he is "excluded" by the U.S.
Immigration service, he will be
handed over to the Mexican
police, and will be killed.
The Immigration and Natural
ization service has announced
that Marroquin will be granted
an "exclusion hearing" to
decide if he will be allowed to
stay in the United States. The
service said, however, that
the student activist will not
be permitted to talk about
his request for political asylum
at the hearing.
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The FBI is reportedly trying
to track down and question
a 29-year-old Colorado man
who has been mailing low
grade uranium waste material
to hundreds of America's
power elite.
The Village Voice reports
that Leigh Hauter has mailed
the dirt-like material along
with a cover letter to members
of Congress, Governors and
leading business executives to
dramatize the hazards of
a nuclear industry.
The letter warns each recip
ient that the dirt-like substance
is low-grade radioactive waste
product; the letter invites
them if they doubt the
warning to check it out
with their own geiger counters.
Hauter's letter also stresses
that the material was not stolen
from a guarded atomic site.
He says he gathered the waste
in public areas lying along
streams, on public roads and
in fields near where uranium
mining and processing are
taking place.
The letter adds in its
words "You have just come
in contact with radiation. There
is no practical means for
limiting access to this mater
ial .. . It is a necessary
by-product of the nuclear
industry."
While the FBI has been
attempting to reach Hauter,
he told the Voice by telephone
from Colorado that he has not
gone underground. He
stated: "I just thought this
would be a great time to visit
a lot of my friends who happen
to live in the remote sections
of the Rocky Mountain region."
The California State
Bar Association has voted
overwelmingly to push for
the criminalization of prosti
tution.
Delegates to the annual
meeting of lawyers in San
Diego last weekend passed by
a 321 to 117 vote a resolution
which calls for the removal of
criminal penalties for the
act of accepting money in
return for sex.
The vote followed debate in
which prostitution laws were
called "ironic and hypocritical."
Proponents of resolution also
argued that existing laws work
primarily against women,
especially poor women, and
that male customers of prosti
tutes are rarely arrested or
prosecuted.