m Science in co mrtz otitic a if nsvani change 3 by Doug Hall Staff Writer Teaching techniques in UNCs political science department are constantly Changing to deal with "issues of current relevance," Dr. John Martz, department chairman, said Thursday. 'The subject matter of political science must deal with contemporary issues," Martz said, "so there is naturally more change in our department." In an interview Thursday, Martz said the need to deal with contemporary issues would be reflected in course offerings and change of emphasis in the next few years. , Political Science 95 A, a seminar course initiated this fall at UNC, has dealt solely with contemporary issues this semester. Attracting such speakers as anti-war activists Rennie Davis and Jane Fonda, the course has received criticism from state government officials. Martz said a joint faculty-graduate student committee will evaluate the course at the end of the semester and recommend changes. f i I I rnfjlWWjBnii mm " "i' iP'W i i i n urn ipmnwpuwwuiipniiinwiwi'i in i uiwii wiwnii i hiipuh i in nrmr hi h hi i f i ii i r - i -t fwwwiiww"l9r"WPP I i " . I ' i&AU - l - J ' : , ; ' J - , ; .'." .'A !:-.-.'... J Student T8o3yVice-Presiide1tirBiII Blue of Student Affairs CO. Cathey (I.) Thursday afternoon in the Carolina Feasibility being ' UNC by Bill Pope Staff Writer t. The University has taken a major step Jtoward eliminating hours restrictions for freshman women. f The Administrative Council of the -Consolidated University has asked each campus to "give attention to the jfeasability and desirability of eliminating hours restrictions for all students." The Council, consisting of the chancellors of the universities, met in the i middle of December, but did not release - an offical statement until Wednesday. , The statement says "appropriate advance notice shall be provided to J parents and students before a major policy change is initiated." , The Council also suggested the ; continuence of the locking of all women's ; dormitories during the appropriate hours ; of the night "with the understanding that bona fide residents be admitted during such hours upon presentation of satisfactory identification." In addition, the Council said "consideration should be given to the desirability of locking men's dormitories, if the incidence of outside intrusion appears to warrant such a policy. Bladk Paimltteir. lieire 'OMcagB 7 by Mike Parnell and Woody Doster I A Black Panther party spokesman who is one of the "New York 21" conspirators t will speak to Political Science 95A today I at 1 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The lecture is open to all students. , John Froines, one of the "Chicago 7," will speak to the class at 1 p.m. Monday, j Richard Moore, a member of the j Panther party and .20 others were ( indicated in April on charges of I conspiring to explode bombs in five' downtown New York City department stores, conspiring to dynamite the railroad tracks of the Perm Central Railroad and conspiring to bomb a police station in Bronx, N. Y. The trial is presently continuing for 1 1 'The committee might call for the formal creation of a new course or revision of the present course,1" he said. "We hope to come to some reasonable agreement." Martz said he is "very anxious to have as much input as possible from the undergraduate students in the class, because of their various different perspectives." The class met in early December to make recommendations concerning the future of the course. Skip McGaughey, graduate coordinator of the class, said then other meetings will be held to make recommendations. Changes in emphasis in other courses and structuring of new courses will depend to a large degree on student and faculty interest, Martz said. "Students, for example, are now more interested in political issues than they were several years ago," Martz said. "I think this is one of the healthiest signs in University life." He said student and faculty interests "must be kept in mind in regard to the recruitment of new educators." (r.) talks" to Dei visitation. Blue walked out of the meeting shortly after this picture was taken. (Staff Photo by Cliff Kolovson) at a meeting held Union to discuss studied may drop dlosneg A voluntary "sign-out" system was also suggested for the purpose of "facilitating the emergency location of any student who intends to be away from his or her dormitory for a period of 24 hours or more." The sign-out system would require "indications of destination and location to be examined by administrative or supervisory personnel of the University only in the event of an emergency which necessitates prompt location of the student." The statement says the Council will review the policy at its meeting in June, 1972. It will be left up to each campus to approve the policy or set its own restrictions on the policy. The Women's Forum, a committee of the Association of Women Students, will take up the matter at its meeting next Monday. The committee will either accept the full policy or decide if any restrictions should apply. In order to be implemented, the policy has to be approved by the full body of AWS, CO. Cathey, dean of student affairs, and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson. memlbeir of the 21. The other 10 are underage and thus are unable to undergo trial. Moore, 25, is one of three of the 21 who are out of jail on bail. Presiding New York State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtaugh set bail for the 21 at $100,000 each. The Black Panther party raised the funds to release the three presently free on bail. Pre-trial hearings were repeatedly disrupted by clashes between the defendants, the judge and marshals. A fistfight between spectators and marshals broke out at one point in the case. Gerald B. Lef court, the lawyer for the 21, said recently, "This indictment was an attack on the Black Panthers directed from Washington. The desire of the government to wipe out the Black Panther Party was obvious." Froines was one of those charged with In addition to the political science department, many other departments are changing teaching techniques . and emphasis in their course, Martz said. "There are a wide variety of ways to organize curriculum within the broad general guidelines sat down by the department," he said. "We are employing innovative new approaches to teaching." Martz said teaching techniques should not be based completely on tradition. He said, "Tradition may be good in some cases, but in others it may be bad." LAW- Vol. 78, No. 79 A new policy was enacted earlier this semester which allowed second semester freshman women self-limiting hours with parental permission. The closing hours for freshman women this semester are 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 2 a.m. for Friday and Saturday. It is uncertain whether the policy, if approved, would start next semester or next fall. "It all depends on what comes out of the meetings," says Assistant Dean of Women Marianne Hitchcock. Meanwhile, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has. already approved the full policy, which means self-limiting hours will apply for all UNC-G students beginning next semester. This semester closing hours for UNC-G freshman are 12 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. Sunday and 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. However, some form of check-out policy will be retained at UNC-G, according to Shirley Flynn, UNC-G dean of women. Fenna Boon, co-chairman of the Women's Forum at Chapel Hill, feels the policy, if approved, would not be enacted until next fall. "I don't see how the today O 9 slatted; conspiring to incite riots, crossing state lines wiith the intent to incite a riot and giving inflammatory speeches to further their purpose at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Froines and Lee Weiner, another of the "7," were also charged with conspiring to instruct protestors oru. making "an incendiary device" to be used to blow up a Chicago parking garage. ' Froines was acquitted on all charges but presiding Judge Julius J. Hoffman cited him for 10 counts of contempt during the famous trial. The contemporary affairs course has featured lectures by Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago "7," Jane Fonda, well known actress-activist and Robert Blair Kaiser, author of "RFK Must Die.' Responding to questions about graduate instructor Nyle Frank, who was suspended from teaching his Political Science 41 classes earlier this semester but later reinstated. Martz said: "With any course, there are many different ways of approaching it. In the case of a particular course, we feel there are certain kinds of materials the student should be exposed to. "There can be great variance in the placement of ernDhasis of the course, but (si 5 VLJ 78 Years Of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, January 8, 1971 6D n TT 0 V0 Tr3 I by Bob Chapman Staff Writer "This is the damnedest thing this campus has ever seen." Dean of Student Affairs, CO. Cathey was speaking to student leaders in a meeting held late Thursday afternoon to discuss the issue of visitation as a result of statements made by Student Body President Tommy Bello in Thursday's Daily Tar Heel. " Bill Blue, student body vice president, who had earlier called the visitation issue a closed matter, stalked out of the meeting to protest further discussions in which there would be "no solution." After passing out statements of " University policy concerning dormitory visitation, Cathey asked for questions. There was silence. . tonnir parents could be notified in time for the policy to begin next semester' Miss Boon said she was "happily surprised" by the Council's actions. "It is almost more than we expected. . . we had expected some restrictions on freshman. "We did not know until the meeting they (the "Administrative Council) was going to consider a closing-hour policy for all the campuses (the Consolidated University)," she said. 7 i i u s t i Drummer Dan Ottaviano goes through his solo routine forThe I weltth Mght. an entertainment festival to be held tonight at 8 p jn in Memorial Hall. Proceeds wrll go to the Carolina Opportunity Fund. (Staff Photo by John Gellman) changes hjsic to the course would necessitate a new course." Martz said another rean ; lie teaching of political science ha charged more than other subjects is thai the subject is very young. Political science, as j course, as. first taught at UNC in the H.'G's. U:u said, and added, "We are still in pretty fundamental disagreement about what political science is and how ij should he taught. Editorial Freedom camnipe 11 9 Suddenly, Blue arose. "I will never again discuss the matter of visitation. It is a matter of conscience which has been made into a legislative matter to be haggled over for months and months. "In the future," Blue continued, "I will use my own conscience and good discretion. You (Dean Cathey) said we (the Student Legislature) were irresponsible. We went to the trustees and a differential policy was agreed to. Now a smaller group of administrators has put that down the drain." Bill Blue crumpled up the sheet of paper listing the visitation rules and began to walk out of the room. As he was leaving, Cathey said he had been misquoted and had not called Legislature irresponsible. He said, however, students were misguided in tying the hands of the judicial branch. "Am I supposed to tell students the faculty was wrong, students are wrong, trustees are wrong?" Blue asked Cathey. The student body vice president walked out. "I hope you will follow your own conscience," Cathey instructed. Everyone laughed. For the next hour student leaders and administration officials in the Department of Student Affairs discussed arguments for and against a policy of self-determination. Student Body President Tom Bello said many changes in the past, as with the issue of visitation, were held back, not by Chapel Hill administrators, but by the Consolidated University. He stressed the point that students want a policy they themselves determine. ' - 1 "The whole discipline is in a state of flux and chance. Traditions are less rooted in political science than in ether disciplines which have been taujrhf for hundreds cf years." The political science department here has become stronger in the fast five car. Martz said. The American Council on Education ranked the graduate school in political science here tenth in the country in 16-increasing its standing from fifteenth in !6-. h i MR yi-i "V S,y Founded February 23, 1893 "The University is not saying you should give up what you treasure so highly, but it is saying we cannot grant you this," Dean james Cansler, associate dean of student affairs, said. Almost everyone in the room had . some comment to make. Students present included most of the Student Government executive staff, Attorney General John McDowell, Residence College Federation co-chairman Mark Evans and Susanne Wellborn, and representatives from the Student Legislature, Inter Fraternity Council Council, Panhellenic Council and the Association of Women Students. Between comments by students or administrators there was almost complete silence. Cansler attempted to explain the administration view by using the example of his daughter's request for an automobile. Because of the expense, he said, he could not afford the car. "It was not possible for her to have a car. It is not possible for you to have visitation." Joe Stailings, a member of Bello's staff, pointed out that the University is not the students' parents. They both agreed that the visitation question is a moot one. More than an hour after the meeting had begun, the dean of student affairs called it to a halt. "Gentlemen, 1 do not think we can reach an agreement on this issue," he said. "It is less than you expected," he said, "but it is as generous as it could be. We have no other choice in the matter." Sex book reprinting scheduled "Elephants and Butterflies," ECOS' widely praised sex education booklet, will go into its second printing by the end of January. ECOS Director Watson Morris announced -8,000 additional copies will be printed in response to letters requesting the booklet. "Physicians, health educators and family planners across the country have given the booklet high marks and encouraged us to distribute more of them," Morris said. Few of the booklets will be distributed on the UNC campus. "We feel that we have saturated this area," Morris said. "This printing will go to East Carolina, Duke, N.C State, UNC-G and Appalachian State." In addition, copies of "Elephants and Butterflies" will be sold on newsstands in North Carolina. The second printing will contain the state-wide telephone number of the N.C. Clergy Consultation Service, a newly formed organization designed to help people with any sort of problem. Working on the new booklet will be Pam Scott, a student at Westmar College in Lemars, Iowa, on her one month interim leave. T"3 n Tl

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