I CIust6r Groups Expand Covenant Community^^
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Knoxville, Tenn. —(I. P.) — The
major innovation in the “cluster
group” program at the University
of Tennessee this year is the addi
tion of “super cluster groups”—the
/^mbination of two 25-member clus
ter groups into 50-member bodies,
'Jach with faculty coordinators.
Since cluster students are taking
the same three courses, teachers are
now able to take advantage of
materials covered in the courses
which overlap, vary the times and
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places for class meetings, and
develop outside-the-classroom in
terests as a group.
This flexibility in curriculum and
class times and the higher level of
student-faculty interaction along
with the 'small group’ association of
one’s peer group level are the real
advantages of cluster groups,” stated
Dr. Ronald H. Petersen associate
professor of botany and assistant
to the dean of the College of
Liberal Arts.
The classrooms involved are those
of English and history, the two
largest freshman courses offered.
The average size for an English
class is 25 students as compared
with 40 students in a history class.
In the past. Dr. Petersen pointed
out, a cluster group in English
would stay together in history, but
some 10 or 15 non-clustered stu
dents would also be included in the
second class. “Under the new set
up, a cluster group in English can
hook up with another cluster group
to form an homogeneous ‘super
cluster group’ in history,” he stated.
During the past two years, cluster
.group students on this campus lived
in the same residence halls but
were mixed in with non-clustered
students. This year, however, only
two of the four “super cluster
groups” may experiment with the
residence hall aspects of the pro
gram. The emphasis ■will be class
room clustering. Dr. Peterson
stated.
He added that U-T’s program is
the only one of its kind in the
United States. The only similar
project is being conducted at Flo
rida State University. There the
students in the cluster groups ex
periment share the same classes and
live in the same residence halls
apart from other students.
The Community House ^
A Communal Experience
The Covenant Community
By Priscilla Barton
“Reality . . . the real world . . .
Does one really praticipate it in
today’s institutes of higher learn
ing?” This appeared to be the
recurrent question in a recent panel
discussion I was involved in con
cerning life in the Community
House where I live with nine others
from Wake Forest. My fellow res
idents include three girls, four boys
and a faculty couple. It is both a
communal and a community living
situation. Communal in the co
educational sense that was just de
scribed and community in that we
are all, in some capacity, attempt
ing to involve ourselves with some
of the needs of those around us.
The neighborhood is a transi
tional one and thus contains just
about everything but a common
denominator. There are blacks and
whites, young and old, and people
of both lower and middle income
brackets. Generally speaking we
have focused on the younger black
contingent by tutoring, setting up
an art class, and attempting to
plug into some of the already
established neighborhood projects.
Whereas some of us are still at
tempting to extract a creative place
in the community I have been for
tunate enough to have found a nine
year old girl who I am able to help
with reading two to four hours a
week. She lives just a few houses
away so that I also know the rest
of her family.
The communal aspect is also an
integral part of living at the Com
munity House. One is given the
opportunity to appreciate people
that in many instances they other
wise would never have known well.
(Unfortunately most males are
viewed solely from the prospective
of being a potential date).
While, at the same time, living
more casually cannot but help in
the promotion of greater spon
taneity and honesty between people.
This being especially rewarding
among people of the opposite sex.
The real diversity of individuals
is also a major aspect of the
communal situation. This is most
amusingly exemplified by one pair
of roommates. One has long hair,
a beard, and wears his beads to
bed and the other sold Bibles this
summer and swears by Richard
Nixon. There is no unifying factor
in terms of a religious or singular
motivating basis. More than any
thing this obvious variety has
proved very healthy as it served
to institute a kind of automatic
tolerance which has since evolved
into mutual respect and community.
If the question remains to be
answered as to whether or not
college is the real world I can only
respond by saying that of course it
is. But it also goes without saying
that there are quite a few other
real worlds at hand, having just
briefly encountered some of them
in the living situation in which I
am now participating.
. there are quite a
few other real
worlds at hand ... ”
Get Down To Earth
Astronaut Sees No
U.S.-Mexican Border
MEXICO CITY (LNS)—Touring
astronaut Neil Armstrong described
here his view of Mexico when he
was in lunar orbit 128,(XX) miles
from earth. He gushed, “We could
see no border between our coun
tries.”
If you happen to be on the
ground and a Mexican, you notice.
Operation Intercept, Nixon’s mis
begotten scheme to force Mexico to
stop the flow of marijuana into the
U. S., is well underway—and the
Mexicans are furious.
U. S. Customs guards have
started close inspections of auto
mobile and pedestrian traffic at all
border points. Delays as long as
six hours have kept outraged
motorists waiting in line in the
broiling sun at the international
highways leading from Mexico into
the United States. Some travelers
have been forced to strip naked as
inspectors searched for marijuana
and narcotics.
Two million Mexican commuters
to the U. S. have been affected by
the Customs search. The New#,
Mexico City’s English-language
newspaper, reported that thousands
of Mexican workers have lost their
jobs in the U. S. because of Cus
toms inspection delays.
The border towns that depend
heavily on the U. S. tourist trade
have been severely hurt by the m-
spections. The New# stated: “Bor
der cities are facing economic col
lapse.”
These are not merely the dis
agreeable side effects of the U. S.
crackdown on marijuana. The in
spections are not meant to effec
tively curb the flow of drugs into
the United States. Rather, estab
lishment sources indicate, they are
a strong-arm tactic desigpied to so
cripple the Mexican border eco
nomy that the Mexican government
is forced to upgrade their own drug
control measures, thus ridding the
U. S. of the whole “problem.”
The SalemitC'
the uncensored voice
of the college community ..,.
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The Bungalow- A Place To Go
By Ellen Carswell
Reynolda Gardens, a place all Salemites are aware
of, is the setting for Reynolda House, a rather unique
asset to the community. This large white house,
modestly referred to by its builder as “The Bungalow”
was built to house the family of R. J. Reynolds and
act as the hub of Reynolda—a small, self-sustaining
village Reynolds created.
Reynolds, the founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, and his wife moved into the house, built
by a Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keen, in
1917. A year later Mr. Reynolds died leaving the
1000 acre estate to his wife and four children. Mrs.
Reynolds continued to develop the estate by adding
the formal gardens, the blacksmith shop, and barns
for the livestock. Following her death in 1924 the
house became the home of her daughter, Mary Reyn
olds Babcock. She remodelled the house and turned
the basement into a recreation area with shooting
gallery, indoor swimming pool, squash court, mirrored
bar, and a bowling alley.
Mrs. Babcock and her brother Charles H. Babcock
gave a portion of the estate as the campus for Wake
Forest University. With Mrs. Babcock’s death in
1953, “The Bungalow” and 20 acres of land were gfiven
to create Reynolda House, Inc. a non-profit organi
zation which maintains the hpuse for enjoyment and
education.
The house today serves as the offices for the Pied
mont University Center as well as housing a large
collection of American paintings and antiques. John
Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Andrew Wyeth
are just a few of the artists represented. The House
is open from Tuesday to Saturday for tours and at
various other times throughout the year for lectures
and seminars. The grounds have also been converted
for public use. The barn has been turned into the
Nature Science Center while other buildings in the
village have become offices and studios for various
Winston-Salem businesses.