i "'"ten mi "liifciiiriir"""H"' tMIt ttikAanwL - 3 Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, Ncvember 5, 1966 .Our Opinion At San Francisco State D T H 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. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. John Greenbacker Assoc. Ed. 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C .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." 'Oh No! It Took Me Three Months To Learn The Last Ones V I m x ft r .-' -v '4 '' vesica.; 1 . 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.

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