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r-t. f, i I ! ft Page 2 tOmr Opimiom Eight Resignations Point To Administrative Problems ; The recent resignation of four faculty members all Ph.Dis from the Department of Romance Languages indicates to us the ex istence of a serious administrative problem in this department. Dr. John E. Keller, one of the country's most noted scholars in the field of medieval Spanish and the most published professor in the Spanish Department, has been with the University some 20 years. During this period he has time nd again rejected offers of in creased salary and advanced po sition from other universities. f Now he has decided to go to the University of Kentucky. Kell er told The Daily Tar Heel he jjvas motivated by the challenge of phairing the Department of Span ish and Italian together with the chance to develop new curricula as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kentucky. This opportunity seems enough to excite anyone in the field of ed ucation. But when Keller talked with the DTH he was anything but fiexcited about his plans. He talked bf his love for the University, and it was not for reasons of protocol that his statement of resignation began, "I have regretfully . . ." pis tone of voice, his well-thought-;ut sentences, his expressions gspoke words he did not want to say about his reasons for leaving. It seems strange to us that three associate professors in this same department have decided si multaneously to leave their sta tions here to go with Keller to Ken tucky. It seems strange that only last year four other full-time pro fessors resigned from the Depart ment of Romance Languages. A ninth resignation in ra. two- iVear period has been announced py a professor who has been' here 'only since July. Dr. Kessel S chwartz, visiting professor from the University of Miami who has published over 40 articles and reviews in professional journals and has written six books, says he will leave next June to return to a lifetime tenure at Miami. Schwartz was more outspoken in announcing his resignation than the others, citing what he called "great tension and administrative difficulty. This is a troubled de partment and has been for some time," he said. The pivot point of the unrest appears to be Department Chair man Jacques Hardre. Sources who choose to remain anonymous say there, has been for some time a state of constant disagreement among Hardre and other leading department members. Hardre suggested there is noth ing unnatural in the mass resig nations. "It is one of the facts of academic life that departments in other schools are always trying to raid our department of faculty members," he told the DTH. But, as we have already pointed out, it seems a strange fact of life that the raids should be so successful on this one department. The UNC Spanish department was ranked eighth in the nation this summer by the American Council on Education. This rating was based on the program offered, number of graduate students en rolled and publications of faculty members. Hardre has expressed his opin ion that the four resignations will not cause the department to lose its standing. We think he is talk ing through his teeth. The leading publisher of the department is leaving. Although Hardre claims this won't affect graduate work being done here, we have it from a reliable source that many grad uate1 students plan to follow? Kell- ver to Kentucky. - - ; Something is definitely amiss in the Department of Romance Lan guages. We challenge its chair man to explain and correct the situation. Village Needs Laundromat How do 650 families manage to ;-find enough clean clothes to wear i each day? : On weekends, some people jmake trips home, carrying with :them laundry bags of dirty clothes. Sunday they return to Chapel Hill bearing these same clothes but with one important .difference they are clean. In pother -families, the wives and mo thers bundle their children into -cars on Saturday for an afternoon M grocery shopping and launder ing. . , : Some industrious wives hand j;wash clothes. Others have saved ; done without those new shoes and J gone into debt to buy washing ma chines they could have afforded J much better later 6n. :; Sound like melodrama? it isn't. These 650 families live in University, housing in Odum and :, Victory Villages. The nearest laundromat is in downtown Chap j'el Hill quite a distance if you Jhave to walk or take a taxi. : According to housing director vJim Wadsworth, the University ; has been reluctant to build and ; equip a university-owned laundro l mat in the Village because of dis : approval from local merchants and the Umstead Act. J The Umstead Act in the Gen- eral Statutes of North Carolina states that a state institution can- not establish a business providing : a public service in competition 1 with private concerns. It also says that institutions cannot operate restaurants or food service plants. lYet, on our own campus we find the Pine Room, the Monogram Club and the Circus Room. Moreover, the married stu dents' housing at North Carolina J: State University at Raleigh does ;Jhave a university-owned laundro j: mat. How did State do it? ' In questionnaires given to all married students living in the Vil lage several years ago, 90 per cent of the students said they would like to see a laundromat estab lished. There has been no action taken. If student wives get tired enough of detergent hands to band together, perhaps the objections to a - university - owned laundromat will be overcome. JUDILYN SIPE 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. John Greenbackpr A conn XPA Kerry Sipe Feature Editor am Amiong News Editor Ernest Robl .. Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bob Orr Asst. Sports Editor jock L&uterer .... ... Photo Editor Steve Bennett. Lvtt Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Dorl wmpoeu, Feytie Fearrington Staff Writers Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Diu nass, joey Leigh Snorts Writ OTP Jeff MacNelly ..Sports Cartoonist xuce otraucn .... Ed. Cartoonist John Askew Ad. Mzr uuy iar Heel is the official news publication of. the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex- " "iu vacations. Offices on the second floor of Gra- lJT 1L leIePhone numbers: editorial, sports. newsGn.inn. v.- . , ' "w-aujlX, UUS- SS 'JT- .vertistog-933- N r vniA " lusu "apel Hill, Post o?LC'fS I the Subscription 7w ff-L fl" ter a w r semes ter, $3 per year. Printed by the Char1 Prill T.,v-t, uJf uie . t., v,napei Hill, N. C. THE DAILY TAR HEEL Friday, September 30, 1966 John Greenbacker it mi P "Rn" "I have come to feel that the only learning which signi ficantly influences behavior is ' self - discovered, self - di rected learning." There are few psychologists and educators that will agree unequivocally with the above statement of Carl Rogers, but there is enough truth in it for the consequential formu lation of an entirely new con cept of education. This reap d r a i s a 1 was prompted by the basic reali zation that modern educa tion was not get ting through to the students, particularly on the college lev el, and that it was this very kind of communication that makes the difference between an independent educated mind: and fumbling cipher. There was little concentra tion on the problem of educa tion reform in this country un til the riots at Berkeley, but since those eventful days the market has been flooded with studies and evaluations of the American system of collegiate education. There seemed to be unami mity on many of the causes of the student revolt. The eed. .Reform. Im Edeealtioii difficulties of undergraduate adjustment were compounded in the case , of Berkeley by competition and the comglom eration of 27,000 of the na tion's brightest young minds at one . campus. The students might have been able to adjust to these nearly intolerable conditions had they been offered a form of classroom experience that played upon the thinking pow ers of their minds and pro moted individuality. Instead they were offered lecture courses where a Nobel prize winner seemingly the size of an ant spoke of chemistry to a class of thousands. Some were even offered the benefits of televised "educa tion," when things got a little overcrowded. All it took was one little spark to blow the works sky high. The students came to realize that they had been herded about like cattle in stead of men, and that their minds were made to memo rize rather than to apply or to -create. Its a pretty ugly thing to contemplate. The question that all of these events propose is just what is the relevence of mod ern education to the lives of today's undergraduates? You don't have to be a stu dent at Berkeley to appreciate the inadequacies of the college intellectual experience. Just look around you on this cam pus: See the freshman, one of a thousand, absorbing on note paper the condensed wisdom of ancient Greece in a 50 min ute period of Modern Civiliza tion. He knows he must memorize it well before the first midterm, or lose his aver age. See the sophomore, who scrambles for a seat in the last row before his poli sci class with the aged Kenan professor. The good doctor takes attendence every day and it's a part of the final grade to come to every class each time. "Oh Jesus, there he goes again," the student thinks, as the man rambles on in his monotone of irrelevan cies. The student tries to sleep, or read the paper plac ed surreptitiously between his knees, or maybe work a cross word puzzle. See the junior who stops his professor's tirade to de batea point, only to have the man gloss over his question and continue on. See the senior, sitting alone and drunk, and wondering where , he is going or what he has done. The course read ings and class notes, the prod uct of thousands of hours of diligent secretarial work, had been discarded long before in the waste can of his room and 'And If Anyone Doesn't Like It, He Can Quit!' the inner caves of his brain. When the years go by, he will remember the wild times, the women, the great bull ses sion and somewhere the last faint glimmer of one profes sor's brilliance at pure com munication with his class. Though many in Chapel Hill don't know it as yet, there are places in this country where students are their own mas ters in the learning process. At the National Student As sociation Congress this sum mer, Carolina's student lead ers had a chance to partici pate in an exchange of views about the future direction of undergraduate education. They were blessed with the interest of a very competent advisor from San Francisco State College, the experimental school which has served as a guide for other projects of this sort across the nation. At San Franisco the stu dents not only take the courses they want, but they direct their own studies. They meet in class to exchange their ideas, and they tell of ma terials they have read that were solely of their own choosing. The ideas are fascinating: seminar groups; team teach ing; self - directed learning and research; pass-fail grades with personalized evaluation. At a large institution which admits students of varying abilities, a type of learning experience of this sort is not always practical, but the stu dent leaders felt it should be made available to all who de sire it. Student Body President Bob Powell and the six people who were working with him on these matters left NSA laden with a vast concept for re form. Powell knew that any changes that would come about would do so only after a long and slowly developed 1 process. He called it his "quiet revo- luuon- m education, and it is gaining the needed support and cooperation with every passing day. In the back of his mind Powell knows that UNC at Cha pel Hill now has over 13,00 students enrolled in its class es, and the figure grows every year. If the changes are to come about, they must be ini tiated before conversion be comes difficult and over 20,000 new minds are blighted by the system every four year .period. After 171 years of provid es quality education for the future leaders of North Caro lina, the University is now at mid-century. It must act soon to maintain its very relevency to the lives of its charges, be fore it is too late. Letters To The Editor Cairdllboardl Hits DTH DTH Fumbles Eor' f Daily Tar Heel: , On behalf of the UNC Card board , I would like to com- m for of the DTH for its fairly accurate description concerning the conduct of the students Jn the card section during the half- agree with you more. The cards can be dangerous and should not be thrown. Your comments in yester day's editorial (Sept 28 mL described the half - S as "ignorance." I n deed it out that this was conditioned oy the willful or otherwise neglect of the DTH stSTI. the Cardboard staff to obtain fhrffrae Publicity conceS the expected conduct of thosf who would sit m the card seC! Attempts were made tn reach the, student body(v DTH) to inform all new st!f dents about this half . tfm Phenomena and to reite J e dangers of card tnroS uam TLn 11131 son Pre: degree. ? a Yet all the .rvrw . was to stick a Qny not. - Saturday', nL.L nte ln fpot fw u l" me ef fect that the best student seats were in the card section! And, oh yeah, don't throw the cards. "The pen is mightier than the sword," and if I might al lude to this worn phrase, a little more co-operation from a certain campus publication could be much more effective in combating ignorance than getting up before 2,273 wild eyed spectators and pleading, "Please do not throw the cards!" I might also add that the bright suggestion of using light-but-rugged 'space - age plastic' material" for cards is about as practical as a lead balloon. The card con struction is of no consequence to an informed group. F. M. Redd President, UNC Cardboard Be A C O. Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The article appearing in the Sept. 25 DTH which rep resents the last in a series on "The Draft and You" is pre sented from the same mili tary point of view as all the , rest of the series. Conspicuously absent was any mention of the various conscientious objector posi tions also recognized by our government. Since the Tar Heel abdicat ed it s journalistic responsibi lity by presenting such a bla tantly one-sided series, I would encourage all concerned indi viduals interested in the con scientious objectorship pro grams to contact Chuck Sch unior or any member of the UNC-Student Peace Union, Norman Gustaveson at the UNC-YMCA, or any of the local campus pastors for more information. Pete Campbell Wrong Picture Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I don't particularly blame Bob Orr for not wanting his picture in the Tar Heel after his ludicrous article last week about the lack of school spirit on the part of Carolina's fraternities, but please don't put my picture in his plac Al Ellis Pi Kappa Phi LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel ac cepts all letters to the ed itor for publication provid ed they are typed and double-spaced. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. In Letter Doctor Warns Of Student Drug Use Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I have read with interest your fine editorial in ttus morning's Tar Heel, entitled "Words of Warning - Revisited." I take this opportunity to comply with the last sentence of your editorial, "Dex will probably never cease to be available - neither should the word . of warning." . . . First of all, in general terms, it should be plainly understood that drugs prescribed for a specific indi vidual for a specific purpose may not be used by another individual without the real risk of dangerous reactions or side-effects. To take any drug, other than the simplest of proprietary remedies, unless it be pre-' scribed for you by someone trained and licensed to do so is to court real trouble. Specifically, the use or, more properly, the abuse of two classes of drugs, the sedative and the stimulant, has become and ever-increasing problem in recent years. This has been recognized to the point that laws have been passed now making it unlawful for one to have either of these two classes of drugs in his possession unless it has been prescribed and dispensed by people legally licensed to do so. Having these drugs in one's possession places a burden of proof on the individual who possesses them. . . The sedative-type drug, and this includes the bar borates and the so-called tranquilizers, has its prop ' er place m the treatment of many patients It is not however, the "happy pill" which wlU fervfs the ShdTe"a11 fr, a" tenSe or emotional situa! ons. And it is a safe drug only when used under ffir in normai tees Improperly used the drug may well befuddle the mind, confuse judgment, paralyze the breathing cen ter m the brain, and produce psychic and physical lTn?dTe- .n Stimulant drugs (Benzedrine, Dexe dme, bennies") may also affect judgment in poten tially dangerous situations. In addition, convulsive seizures dangerous heart irregularities, and depend- ,?n .uPSyCh0l0giCal and motional sense may result from the use of this drug. Both these types of drugs have also produced se vere psychiatric disturbances. So common are fte difficulties with the stimulants that the Infirmary no St them for use even unjer medicai a l?!c!ass "fdnigs known as the hallucinogens are illegal and have few legitimate users. 1 only grlUire1S iCia! InCluded fyte' morning glory seeds, Nut- Zt aL?e ef6Ct ,n tte radividual from of bouJ! Com?.Ietely ""Predictable and uncon trollable, and therein lies their great danger. AdmIfnlef.iV thCmmissi0ner o Food and Drug AdmuustraUon has stated that unless the use of such togof "I CUege Campuses- "an num- Sysica"ntS SUffef ent mental or Ush thrwoaP-Pre.Ciate " tt you com see fit to pub tataiv I m "S mtirety in Tar Heel, for cer moUvaZ ,terwfa as ta aU other areas, is E. McG. Hedgpeth, M.D. Director, Student Health Service t ! i i i 1 - i ' fir "' - 3 , - -. "- -v -i.
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