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THE BELLES
OF ST. MARY’S
Published in thirteen issues during the
school year, August to May. Monthly for
September, December, January, March,
and May; Semi-monthly for October, No
vember, February, and April, by the stu
dent body of St. Mary’s Junior College,
900 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, N. C.
27611.
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N. C. 27611. Subscription rate $1.00 per
year.
BELLES STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Sarah Hoss
Assistant Editor Rebecca Stallings
News Editor Patty Irving
Feature Editor Rebecca Stallings
Head Typist Lillian James
Circulation Head Becky Crittenden
Exchange Editor Linda Longing
Subscription Editor Ann Tyndall
NIXON AIDE EMBRACES REPORT ON
IRRELEVANCY OF COLLEGES
NEWS STAFF
Debbie Turner, Anne Little, Anne Jus
tice, Anne Buddenhagen, Susan Mid-
gette, Mary Mikel, Betsy Valiant, Sara
Ashby, Claire Spinks.
FEATURE STAFF
Ann Tyndall, Betty Ward, Mary Zay-
toun, Carol Harrison. '
TYPING STAFF
Susan Clay, Jane Eggleston, Tempe
Anne Lampe, Joan Graham, Ann Justice,
Sara Ashby.
CIRCULATION STAFF
Susan Clay, Cathy Foltz, Mary Harper,
Betsy Valiant, Courtney Cochran, Lynn
Dawson, Neale Turlington.
CARTOONIST
Kay Turner.
PROOFREADERS
Chip Dodd, Suzanne Ishee.
ADVISOR
Mrs. Catherine Barnhart.
(Reprint from Lynchburg Daily News)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Nixon administration has embraced
a Ford Foundation report contending
students are right when they say col
leges are irrelevant.
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, Elliot L. Richardson,
called the report “provocative, contro
versial and innovative and as signifi
cant a statement on higher education
as we have seen.”
Recent reforms in curriculum and
governing powers have left untouch
ed major problems of isolation, forced
conformity and rigidity in higher
education, the report found.
Haven’t some students been say
ing the same things about their col
leges? “There is a very substantial
core of validity in their anger,” said
Richardson whose predecessor, Robert
Finch, suggested the report.
The system, with its massive in
ertia, resists fundamental change,
rarely eliminates outmoded programs,
ignores the differing needs of stu
dents, seldom questions its educa
tional goals, and almost never advo
cates new and different types of in
stitutions,” the task force said.
We have seen disturbing trends
toward uniformity in our institutions,
growing bureaucracy, overemphasis
on academic credentials, isolation of
students and faculty from the world
— a growing rigidity and uniformity
of structure that makes higher educa
tion reflect less and less the interests
of society,” the report continued.
The Ford group headed by Frank
Newman, associate director of uni
versity relations at Stanford Univer
sity, suggested the root problem for
all higher education is the university
and its credential-laden faculty.
“The modern academic university
has, like a magnet, drawn all institu
tions towards its organizational form
until today the same teaching
method, the same organization by
disciplines, and the same professional
academic training for faculty are
nearly universal,” the report said.
“The shortcomings of the aca
demic university as a model for all
other institutions have been obscured
by the dazzling success of the best-
known examples,” it continued.
The study recommended new in
stitutions where students of all ages
are educated, with any preference
going to older ones; where practical
experience and not classroom lectures
is the primary teaching tool; where
professional practitioners have equal
faculty footing with academic Ph.Ds
and where instruction is offered by
television, off campus, and in tradi
tional classes.
It advocates decentralization of
state college and university systems;
formation of regional examining uni
versities whose sole function would
be to test and grant degrees; and
complete overhaul of professional ac
creditation agencies to encourage ap
prenticeship as an alternative to
solely academic preparation.
Whafs The Poop^
Allison Milam—are you a G'’®'
peach or a Georgia lenioa*
Beth Franz—due to the loss
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getting some obscene P’
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Where did the year go! Every
thing seems to be winding up now as
everyone looks forward to that sum
mer vacation. The Sigma-Mu com
petition is coming to an end with
only a few more events to be played.
In softball competition, the Sigmas
have one game and the Mus have
one game. The games should be
really close.
I he annual swimming meet be
tween the Sigmas and Mus was play
ed with the Mus coming out ahead.
Many people on the sides were
splashed but in that hot place, no
one minded!
The St. Mary’s Tennis team has
been on the road lately playing Duke
and Carolina, d'he matches were not
won but the individual games that
were won were quite an achieve
ment. It was odd that at Carolina,
some of the old St. Mary’s girls were
playing on the tennis team. Old
friendships were renewed, but this
situation made the competition even
stronger. Brett Elebash played a most
exciting game with Jean Little. Last
year at St. Mary’s Brett did a good
job playing for St. Mary's.
Minta Aycock came out on top this
year in the Annual St. Mary's Closed.
Minta won in the eighteen-hole stu
dent division. Other winners were
Mr. Biggs in the eighteen-hole non
student division, Anna DuBose in the
nine-hole student division and the
one and only jack Pisani won the
nine-hole non-student division. Ev
eryone who jilayed st*emed to have
enjoyed the tournament and espe
cially the dinner that followed!
Martha Blalock—How do
that ATO house iu tk®
hours of the night ?
Funkin’-How did that cold
er feel Sunday moriiino' ^
Winston Cobb—IIow was tb®
fight on Jockey Ridge?
Hey, Mol —Did you use au?' P^^ji
ers from 101 at the Pki
bouse last weekend?
Hey, Liz—They say y
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Lillian Janies not apply'*'®
school?
An undefeated tennis teai» •
no thefts on first Cruik?
beer on tap at Father-D""’
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a sunny “April’s Dream ■
no pigs?
no more beach weekends-
exams called oft’?!
SUMMER ! ! !
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