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Elderhostel brings over-60s to UNC
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By LYNNE THOMSON
Staff Writer
The parlor of Spencer dorm buzzed with
talk and laughter Monday night as UNC's
newest class got to know one another. But
this was no freshman mixer, and when the
men sitting by the window discussed the
economy they refered to the depression of
the 30s from-memory, because the only ad
missions requirement to this class is that the
student be over 60.
"They're the most interesting, stimulating
people I've ever taught," Walter Spearman,
professor emeritus of the Journalism School,
said. "They bring a whole lifetime of ex
perience to class."
Though Spearman is a contemporary, of
the Elderhostelers, Political Science Pro
fessor Lewis Lipsitz also calls them a favorite
class.
"They're different from undergrads," he
said. "They have a lot of experience, open
ness and they're not shy." He characterized
their attitude toward him as parental, dif
ferent from the usual situation where his stu
dent's are the age of his own children.
"They're educated people, who vacation
to learn," Lipsitz said, adding that many of
the participants have gone to different
Elderhostel programs at schools all over the
country.
"They're financially better off and educa
tionally better prepared than average," he
said.
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Raymond Wedlake was a professor of
American History at the State University of
New York in Oswego, before his retirement
He and his wife, Doris, who is the coor
dinator of the graduate program there, are
on their first Elderhostel.
He said they were considering retiring in
Asheville and so have come to Chapel Hill
on their way to the mountains.
For many of the participants Elderhostel is
part of a summer vacation.
"1 get tired of resorts,"1 Emily Green said.
"It's really lonely (for a woman alone).
This is a vibrant group."
UNC's Elderhostel offers three different
courses for each of the seven weekly ses
sions. This weeks' participants are studying
"The Art of MathematicsThe Mathematics
of Art" with Thomas Brylawski, a professor
in the mathematics department; "Astrono
my: Cosmic Update" with James Manning,
acting director for the Morehead Planetari
um; and "Books and Ideas" with Spearman.
Lipsitz taught his class in "Literature as a
Political Activity" last week.
Though there are no tests or homework,
Spearman sent the participants a reading list
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Spearman leads discussion
of current bestsellers several weeks ago. In
Monday's class he said that he talked about
why bestsellers are bought and if they are
good.
"I got a discussion. going. . ." he said, as
some of the participants began again debat
ing the merits of Rabbit is Rich.
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This year's championship team members
are Katz, a sophomore English and Russian
major from Raleigh, Haworth, a sophomore
history major from Jamestown, Dough, a
senior English major from Chapel Hill and
Jonathan Wike, an English graduate student
from Lexington. '
"The Rude Boys" got their nickname from
their approach to the challenging academic
contest Instead of practicing for hours a
day, the UNC team has a "relaxed" attitude
toward competition, members said.
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"Last year we were all serious about the
tournament and practiced hard daily,"
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"We choked and lost to Michigan State in
the finals. You don't really need to be a brain
to play the game. All you really need is reck
less abandon and a retentive memory."
According to an article in News World
about the tournament, the UNC squad pos
sessed a certain craziness. They weren't
tense and were almost jovial about the
whole tournament the magazine noted. An
example in the article was the use of mas
cots by the UNC team members as they
competed.
Black, a law student from Raleigh, had as
a mascot "green weenie," a tube-like thing
about six inches long. Dough sported a
Rubik's Cube and a moose puppet. "These
are our totems," explained Black, who car
ried around a book about the spontaneous
combustion of humans.
By winning the National College Bowl
championship, the UNC team won a share
of a $20,000 check from Time, magazine and
CBS broadcasting. The money will be distrib
uted to participating schools in the name of
the College Bowl Foundation.
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for services
From Staff Reports "
A recent study conducted by the city of
Oak Ridge Tennessee, listed Chapel Hill as
one of only 14 U.S. cities meeting at least six
of seven standards of service provision.
The survey examined U.S. cities with pop
ulations of 10,000 or more for service in
police, fire and refuse collection. Street
maintenance, library circulation, parks and
recreation facilities, and financial adminis
tration were also studied.
Oak Ridge will use the survey to try to
"determine relevant cost-of-service differ
ences and relate those differences to organi
zational characteristics (of the cities)."
Greensboro was the only other North
Carolina city meeting at least six of the
seven standards for service. Eleven of the
fourteen cities are located in the south.
8 The Tar Heel Thursday, une 17, 1982