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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Saturday, Ncvember 5, 1966
.Our Opinion
At San Francisco State
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Awards Of The Week
Lizard of the Week: Jesse
Helms, who defended himself
against attacks from state and na
tional newspapers and magazines
which label WRAL as a "right
wing" staion, by saying on the air
yesterday, "In this situation, I'd
rather be the right wing than the
wrong wing." Now who ever said
there was a difference between
these two wings?
Cooperative Cabbie of the
Week: The San Jose, Calif., hack
driver who waited outside while
his customer robbed the Mayfair '
branch of the First National Bank
of $1,400. Unaware that an armed
robbery had been committed, the
cab driver dropped his fare three
blocks from the bank and received
a 70-cent tip in addition to the $2
on the meter.
Thoughtful Bandits of the Week:
Two Detroit thugs who bound a
porter, ransacked a West Side
cocktail lounge, and fled with four
cases of whisky and an undeter
mined amount of cash. Just be
fore leaving, they asked the porter
for his employer's telephone num
ber. Minutes after the robbery,
the bar's owner received a tele
phone call informing him his por
ter was tied.
Poverty Case of the Week: Ot
to Orkin who started as a Latvian
immigrant farm boy and carried
his oneman rat - killing business to
a $65 million pest exterminating
enterprise. He has been certified
as needy and given a county wel
fare card allowing him and his
wife to draw governmental sur
plus food. The 77 - year - old mil
lionaire, whose fortune is tied up
in trusts and litigation, can buy
between $20 and $30 worth of food
a month with the welfare card. ,
Issue of the Week: Toilet pap
er, which brought doom to bureau
cracy, in. thebathrooms pf:4he; Uni-:-
versity of Illinois after angry co
eds successfully harrassed the ad
ministration, demanding the aboli
tion of toilet paper roller rod notch
es which prevent tearing off more
than two sheets at a time. Wom
en's dormitories echoed with the
cries of "longer white tape, not
red tape," as the battle progressed.
Ad hoc committee chairman Phyl
lis Levun explained that students
were resorting to propaganda tac
tics because the regular channels
were clogged with red tape. The
university responded immediately.
Not only have the offensive notch
es been put out of commission in
the women's dorm's, but they have
been rendered ineffectual in build
ings all over the campus.
Interpretation of the Week:
University of Georgia administra
tors who, after deciding to al
low women students to visit men's
apartments, went on to make it
clear what this new privilege in
cludes. The Collegiate Press Ser
vice reports that "The University
does not consider one room an
apartment, however. Bathrooms
don't count as a room either, but a
kitchen might.
Religious Editor of the Week:
Editor of the University of Texas
at El Paso humor magainze who
has been fired, not for saying God
is dead, but for bringing the se
cond person of the Trinity back to
life. The administration removed
the editor and suspended publi
cation of the magazine for the re
mainder of the fall semester af
ter publication of a fictitious inter
view between Jesus Christ and
Beatle John Lennon.
Justice - Minded Legislator of
the Week:UP floor leader Ed Wil
son who Thursday night proposed
an amendment to the resolution
concerning the creation of a Su
preme Court which would call all
court justices' names before SL
each spring for re - approval. He
favored this, in addition to the al
ready - stated power of legislature
to impeach justices because' irn
- rpeachment; requires thestating i&
definite charges against a justice,
whereas with the annual review
process, a justice could be remov
ed from the bench "without giv
ing a reason."
On Maintaining Greatness
THE NATION
NEW YORK, N.Y.
Should a college English in
structor assign Marvell's "To His
Coy Mistress" as the topic for a
theme? We don't know. It would
depend on the maturity of the stu
dents, the Way in which the poem
was presented and the instructor's
reasons for thinking the exercise
useful. In other words, it is a mat
ter of professional academic judg
ment. But an instructor at the Uni
versity of North Carolina did assign
the poem to his class, and all hell
broke loose in Chapel Hill when a
commentator on a right - wing
television station in nearby Ra
leigh bleated over the air that the
pure minds of the students were be
ing smirched by the lecherous im
petuosity of the 17th - century Eng
lish poet.
The instructor has been reliev
ed of his teaching duties and the
students are beginning to wonder
in their campus paper whether
their education is being shaped by
Station WRAL-TV, an institution in
which they did not enroll.
The University of North Ca
rolina became a great center of
learning during the many years
when Frank Graham was its presi
dent. More recently, Dr. Graham
has become one of the country's
most revered and effective public
servants: National War Labor
Board, the President's Commiss
ion on Civil Rights, the Unitel
States Senatethe United Nations.
But last week Dr. Graham was
back on the Chapel Hill campus to
assist at the installation of the Uni
versity's new chancellor, J. Car
lyle Sitterson.
It was Chancellor Sitterson who
met the attack of the yahoo broad
caster by saying of the instructor
that "it did not appear that he had
effective communication with his
class."
Back in 1932, when the students
invited Norman Thomas, the So
cialist candidate for the Presi
dency, to speak, Dr. Graham had
the visitor stay at his house.
Had he been in his old office
when Marvell's plaintive lines
burst on Chapel Hill, he would at
least have invited the instructor
home for tea.
What he might have said to him,
only he can know; but everyone
knows what he would have said to
WRAL-TV.
That was one reason why Chap
el Hill became great; the question
now is how long it will remain so.
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.How
(Editor's note The follow
ing is the second in a series
of articles describing the Ex
perimental College of San
Francisco State College which
were originally printed by
The Daily Calif ornian.)
By SUE WERBE
Perhaps one of the v most
significant effects of the Ex
perimental College (EC) at
San Francisco State College
is the response and interest in
educational reform it has gen
erated. "The key word in education
today is innovation," said Dan
Fletcher, dean of the graduate
division.
"There is a great deal that
the college can do to bring
about constructive and realis
tic change. The EC is only
one way in which we can re
main sensitive to the needs of
the students," he said.
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED
Richard Axen, chairman of
Higher Education at San
Francisco State and past
chairman of the Academic
Senate, said, "there is much
room for improvement in
higher education."
He is impressed with the
Experimental College as a
new source of leverage in
change.
Axen believes that "much of
the regular curriculum isn't
too relevant. The EC has a
more complex definition of
relevance which includes so
cial problems."
The EC has spurred the
campus community, especial
ly the faculty, to experiment
in education reform.
One such experiment is the
"77, 177, 277" series of classes.
In the spring semester of
1966, the Academic Senate in
stituted this program under
which a professor may form
his own course, and, with the
approval of the department,
offer the course within the
regular college.
There are other possibilities
in this series.
A professor may wish to co
sponsor a course with the EC,
or a group of students may
ask a professor to sponsor a
course of the group's choos
ing. One to six units of regular
college credit is available for
these courses with the i option
of using the pass-fail grading
system ' w-.-.-". .;
COURSE OPTIONS
For some time, State has
also had available "199, 299"
course options in each depart
ment. This is the individual study
option to allow a student to
construct his own courses of
study under the guidance of a
professor.
SF State's campus has a
very strong relationship
among students, faculty and
administration, which has de
veloped over the last four
years.
For example, John Summer
skill, president of San Fran
cisco State College, is a strong
supporter of the EC.
ENERGY AND MOTIVATION
'The Associated Students,
led by Jim Nixon (State stu
dent body president), have
marshalled energy and moti
vation together in learning,
which of course is the basis of
the university," Summerskill
said. -
"A good deal of concern
about teaching and students
talents Reformed A College
is evident on this campus.
This could be because SF
State is a college instead of a
university," and attention is
focused on the undergraduate,
he added.
Summerskill said State "has
a tradition of innovation and
experimentation. There is also
a great deal of creativity
among this faculty."
He mentioned that a faculty
committee (at State) has been
created to look at education
today.
As far as any real opposi
tion to the EC, Summerskill
said the "students have done
a terrific job of informing.
They have been skillful in dis
cussing their plans with the
administration and the fac
ulty." According to Mike Powell,
senior in psychology and co
ordinator between students on
faculty committees and the
faculty, the first steps toward
EC involved two ad hoc semi
nars, for freshmen and sopho
mores to explore the possibili
ties of "free discussion com
bined with group-therapy con
cepts to see how younger stu
dents would react to this type
of freedom."
VOLUNTARY
These seminars met once a
week for three hours through
out the Fall semester, 1965, on
a voluntary basis for all con
cerned, with no college cre
dit involved.
They dealt with the problems
of General Education (GE)
and were led by Albert Duro,
a sophomore, Russell Bass, a
junior, and Greg de Giere, a
sophomore.
Their belief was that GE
should "be primarily an inte
gration of the various disci
plines rather than an introduc
tory course in teach." Most
students and professors would
agree that many introductory
courses have proven to be un
ncessarily dull.
INTEGRATING FIELDS
They decided to begin by
having seminars integrating
the fields of psychology, hu
manities, and social sciences,
plus some variation of the
usual physical education re
quirement. The next step was the means
by which these people could
substitute this for the regular
program. These people sought
out prof essors, convinced them
of the value of the program,
and received their commit
ment of responsibility.
De Giere stated their prem
ise as, "We can do anything
we want to do it's possible."
- FRAMEWORK
At this point, the framework
existed for the coming of the
EC. Administration approval
of the program was sought
and obtained.
The founders of the EC fist
brought their proposals to Joe
Axelrod, then assistant dean
of academic planning. He told
them to "just do it" rather
than follow regular procedur
es, which might hold up the
planning for a year or more.
One problem was that pro
fessors might not have enough
time. State was asked to re
lease the professors from some
normal duties to teach in EC
classes. .
AND IT BEGAN
This permission had to be
obtained through each respec
tive professor's department.
After many interviews and
with administration backing,
the release time was grant
ed, and the program was es
tablished. De Giere said the faculty
and administration co-operated
because "we just made
ourselves sound harmless."
Once the core group of peo
ple had devised courses of .
interest in areas in which they
were knowledgable, they re
ceived administative sanction.
They asked some professors
to come into the program;
others heard about the oppor
tunity and joined.
350 STUDENTS
It all culminated in a final
involvement of 22 student or
ganizers, 30 professors, 3 50
registered students, 22 cours
es and two off - campus course
organizers.
A further development was
the inclusion of Paul Good
man, the visiting professor hir
ed by the Associated Students
under another program.
This well - known author and
social critic, was accessible on
campus, lecturing, holding - a
regular wide - open group dis
cussion at the central major
lounge on campus, and work
ing with the EC.
Student representation on the
Academic Senate and some of
its committees was also de
veloped last spring.
A student also sits on the
President's Executive Commit
tee and his Advisory Council
POLICY DECISIONS
' These seats, expecially those
of the Academic Senate and
its committees, are very im
portant since at State, all col
lege policy is set by the fa
culty through its highest body,
the Academic Senate.
But many at State are not
mesmerized with the success
es to date. "I do think there
will be a time when some re
straints are necessary," said
Fletcher.
"There is a certain innate
behaviorial pattern of living
things its attempt to organ
ize. I've noticed with interest
that the bureaucracy within
the EC may kill it. Any fresh
idea is fresh only when it
doesn't have the restraints of
bureaucracy."
MORE RESP0NSD3ILITY
"As students request more
responsibility for their own ed
t .ucation and that'siright
I tend to wonder if the same T
zeal and enthusiasm will be
evident in the next genera
tion." Fletcher also commented on
credit for EC classes: "When
programs start with the high
est altruistic motives it is al
most trite to consider the ques
tion of credit. But now it is
part of the bureaucracy."
He said, "I don't think we
have run into any serious pro
blems as long as the faculty
has some control I think
that's a reasonable request. At
the present time, the college
is providing faculty time. Most
of the time is voluntary.
Morris R. Lewenstein, chair
man of the social science de
partment, has doubts as he
"doesn't know whether any
body is checking on discipline.
I approve of the courses on
paper but I question as to the
development of intellectual
skill for instance are writ
ten papers logical. I rather
suspect there might be a pro
blem there, but I don't know."
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But he also said "there are
a lot of creative faculty mem
bers with different ideas of
reform. I would like to-see
each respective group of them
get together and offer differ
ent program, cross depart
ment lines and give uneven
credit allotments."
ONE RUN - IN
Lewenstein had one run
in with the EC when they "ask
ed for an instructor from the
social science department for
15 to 20 students for the EC
when the regular classes con
tain 40 students. I couldn't
overload my regular classes
in order to give them a faculty
member. We are overcrowd
ed now and can't waste time
on experiments." -
But when asked about facul
ty reaction to the EC, Axen
said "there is a kind of new.
rtmosphere where the faculty
must appreaciate the students.
In the back of their minds
there is always the FSM blow
up." He believes that the faculty
"must have wondered why
the students didn't revolt long
ago." Finally, when the EC
started forming, they decided
to pay attention to it.
Student president Nixon ex
plained the effect the Free
Speech Movement had over
the EC:
"It made our job easier and
gave us p clear sense of what
energy is on campus. We try
to tap this energy differently
than FSM did."
He said that "the FSM en
ergy was formed to fight some
body. Our focus is to work
with people."
Axen explains the general
MikeMcGee
faculty support of student ini
tiative: The faculty is Dretty much
their own boys. We have the
most progressive faculty gov
ernment of any college in the
United States. Our const'tution
delegates us power in educa
tional reform.
INITIATIVE
"If we press for this faculty
initirtive ourselves, in a de
mocracy how can we con
sciously ftoo tin students?"
Nixon presented a good case
to th Academic Senate on th
behalf of the students of the
EC.
Tn Axen's estimation, "Nixon
has a lot of political sophis
tication. A lot of the faculty
leaned over backward to help
th EC."
When asked if there was
nv faculty oDDOsition to the
EC, Axen s?id "not right now,
but it could rach a Doint of
real confrontation. A fair por
tion of th faculty couldn't as
cribe to this new system of
education barriers in class
rooms broken down modified
curriculum teaching meth
ods reassessed for the whole
college."
"If the courses become ful
ly credited, this confrontation
might occur. The faculty will
ask themselves: "Can students
determine what they want to
do and get credit for it? They
would bring up that some of
courses never have faculty in
volved." "The EC also has the mag
nitude and operation this se
mester to scare some of the
faculty members. They real-"
ize that the EC is a political
instrument for social change."
UNC's Education
Must Help State
Jesse Helms has given me
a good excuse to speak about
the role of the university in
changing the ideas of her
students to conform with the
necessities of the twentieth
century.';;, ';
1 v- Conservative ! social ideas
are natural for the human,
just as they are natural for
other animals. But one of the
distinctive characteristics of
our species is the ability to
change in response to chang
ing circumstances.
The changed circumstance
we are all having to face is
a tremendous technological ad
vance coupled with the emer
gence of mass society and new
ideas of social equality.
Particularly in the South,
let's narrow it to North Caro
lina, people have been very
slow to accept these changes.
This slowness is also natural
for the human species. The
phenomenon of cultural lag
will operate every time.
Cultural lag is inevitable, to
be sure, but it is also debili
tating. Thus any steps which
are taken to modify the course
of the lag must be considered
a positive asset to the society.
One major factor in change
is higher education, let's nar
row it to our university. A
responsibility we must accept
is that of providing students,
and in effect North Carolina,
with a progressive education
rather than a rote reiteration
of the old ways of thinking in
this state.
What means progressive?
The necessity for the future
and present citizens of North
Carolina to explore and under
stand the enviroment in which
they must live and work, for
the rest of their lives. We
must try to overcome the co
ercive conservatism of fear
that so many of our citizens
are afflicted with.
Victorianism, Puritanism,
and white supremacy-ism are
ideologies of fear: fear of sex
devils, and the Negro. These
ghosts from the past keep the
state of North Carolina from
fully emerging from her back
wardness. Let's examine first Jesse
Helms', and then the Ku
Klux Klan's, contributions to
stagnancy of thought, then
see how this relates to the
purposes of our university.
Helms and a lot of the good
people of this state would have
us keep the Victorian-Puritan
ethic intact
I don't think they want to
eradicate sex, because it is
necessary for the reproduction
of the species.
What Helms and his sup
porters would have us do is
throw a blanket over it, hide
it from view because it is
dirty, lewd and eviL We must
pretend that sex doesn't exist
But sex influences the life of
every human being. As such
it is a subject worthy of study
and comment.
To use the English depart
ment as a relevant example-
in literature we find that the
most educated and perceptive
masters are unable to ignore
the influence of sex on t h e
lives of adults. Literature says
that human beings cannot be
understood outside the context
of the sexual drives that af
fect all of us.
Hence we have a man like
Marvell writing a poem to bis
coy mistress. The poem
doesn't contain anything
pornographic. If the student
reads it and discovers that
people do, in fact, seduce each
other, then he has learned
something furthered his edu
cation. (This is mighty elem
entary stuff here at Carolina.)
So if the mothers of North
Carolina don't want their
daughters to learn about sex,
then they shouldn't send them
to a university. Keep her at
home and ignorant. Let her
learn a trade, and teach her
children to fear the evil dem
ons. The same denial of reality
in this state is evidenced by
the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan provides us with
the ideology of white supre
macy. The struggle is to keep
the Negro outside of every
thing that is white. In other
words, to put him somewhere
where he can't be seen, heard,
or worried about.
Now anyone with eyes and
ears will know that this can't
be done. The black masses of
humanity rear their heads in
every county and city in this
state. One cannot walk more
than a few blocks in any town
without seeing Negroes, even
in the good neighborhoods
where they walk home from
cleaning a white man's house.
And the black man is going
to take his place in society
some day. The raw courage
shown by civil rights leaders
and workers demonstrates
that the white man has no
monopoly in virtue.
Nor in intelligence. It's trag
ic to see grown men parading
around in flowing robes and
white silk dunce caps.
The Klan is fighting a losing
battle trying in a great
burst of energy to preserve
the myth that the Negro is not
a man.
What is going to change this
state's prevailing attitudes?
Education, with UNC leading
the way. Our university can
not afford to support Vic
torianism, Puritanism, and
white supremacy-ism.
Such views are the anti
thesis of the modern educa
tional process. Education
must, as one of its primary
goals, identify the objects in
the human environment and
put them in a realistic per
spective. The university will stand
tallest when she is doing much
to eradicate these shackling
fears from the minds of her
students. Then and only then
can North Carolina effectively
merge with the twentieth century.