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Tough Luck, Kid!
Rushing To Dinner
It seems that ACC will never completely eliminate
the pefenniel problem of line-breaking in the cafeteria.
We realize that the students, in their eagerness to par
take of the excellent cuisine Hardy Dining Hall has to
offer, may occasionally forget their manners and their
democratic principles that all men are equal — there
fore, all must equally wait in line.
It is quite an Jnheartening thing, however, to finally
reach one-half the way to the front, only to find that 20
people have broken in front of you. The added time it
takes to reach the front, however, gives one an opportuni
ty to philosophize about life, sex, religion, love — you
name it, there will probably be plenty of time to think
about it. Perhaps we should thank the breakers for al
lowing us the privilege to meditate, but, frankly, most
of us would rather meditate after eating—Not Before!
Grin And Bear It?
The Administration's announcing this week of the
new Chapel policy will undoubtably meet varied reactions,
for required chapel attendance is inevitably a sore-tooth
at any college.
Students have often complained, and in our judg
ment not unjustifiably, of compulsory chapel attendance.
And the new system deserves a greater cry of disparage
ment, though it has many merits.
On the good side, the new policy will set mandatory
"convocations" only on Tuesdays; students will be noti
fied of chapel dates at the beginning of each semester;
and better programs "may" be possible. However, we
feel that the new penalties are much too strict and are
completely unjustifiable.
Students should not be suspended from school be
cause they have missed four programs. The chief func
tion of Atlantic Christian College is to educate its stu
dents, give them o well-rounded outlook (that's why
we're a "Liberal" arts college), and better prepare them
for life in our fast-moving world. However, we question
the right of a college to compel its students to attend a
concert, a lecture, c speech, religious services or student
government meetings.
We are not stating that these ore not important or
beneficial for they well may be. We are pleading for the
individual right to choose to whom we must listen, to
what we are forced to attend and to what maladies we
must encounter before we can get a degree. It seems
rather ridiculous to realize that though a student may
have straight A's, he may still not graduate from our
fine Christian College, unless he has attended enough
boring lectures, or whatever the various committee heads
decided to throw at the student. The "convocations" may
add much to our lives, but it seems that we should have
the freedom to choose what we want to hear. Does an
academic degree depend on what music, which sermons,
how many speeches we could get into four years? For that
is the way it seems to be!
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Dear Editor:
The zoo animals of AC campus
are hereby congratulated. Their
barbarous table manners and
conduct presented on Tuesday
night, Halloween, could not pos
sibly be unsurpassed as exam
ples of their Soutihern gracious
ness and good breeding. The
cafeteria staff wishes also to
express their thanks to their
300 Huns and Mongols who ex
emplified the normal conduct of
the average AC student.
However, a special note of
thanks goes to the students who
either from habit or thoughtful
ness, did return their dishes to
the window. More than that, a
special thanks goes to the hand
ful of students who were gracious
enough to lend some of their
time to help the cafeteria staff
clean up the wreckage. It’s
somewhat reassuring to know
that there are some human be
ings left on this campus.
Finally, I’m sure that the pa
tience and graciousness that
greeted this meal is deeply ap
preciated by “The Cater’s Slater-
ing Service”, and Mr. Grumpier
will surely go out of his Way
many more times this semester
to try to break the monotony of
the “usual” meal program.
Chris Murphy
Byron Wyndam
G. C. Miller
Slated To
Address Group
The Science Club will hold its
next meeting Wednesday, Nov.
8, at 8 p. m.
The guest speaker for the
meeting will be G. C. Miller,
of the N. C. State Zoology De
partment. His topic will be
“Science and Theology”.
Telephorve Stock
Is On Upswing
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CPS) —
American telephone stock may be
on the rise again if Universities
followed Drury College’s lead in
telephone classes.
An English course in contem
porary literature at the Spring
field, Mo., college will be given
via telephone this year. Several
novelists and poets will speak
and answer questions over an
amplified telephone system.
Among the speakers will be John
Knowles, author of A Separate
Peace, Wright Morris, author of
the Field of Vision, and possibly
Saul Bellow and John Updike.
«p]V Perspective^^
Teachers Want Greater
Voice In School Policy
BY DR. REXFORD E. PINER
Associate Professor of Education
Atlantic Christian College
(Editor’s Note: This article is grades themselves. These s.i.
The Week I
That Will I
FRroAY, NOVEMBER 3
Midsemester Bull Dog Booster
Club Dinner
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Supervising Teacher’s Meeting
Choral Room 9:45 a. m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER
Senior Solo Howard Chapel
8:00
Executive Board Rieeting 7:00
room 212
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Sigma Pi Meeting
the first part of a study, made
by Dr. Rexford E. Finer, as
sociate professor of Education,
concerning the teacher’s grow
ing interest and concern in
public school management. Be
cause of the quality and in
formation contained in the ar
ticle, coupled with the ACC
indent’s interest in education
and the pofition of the teacher,
Dr. Piner’s “PN Perspective”
will be reprinted in its entirety
in the Collegiate. Due to the
length of the article, however,
only the first half of it can be
reprinted in this issue. The con
clusion will be published next
week.”)
Careful observers of the teach
ing profession are witnessing an
upsurge of teacher-interest in
the management of public
schools. Increasingly this in
interest has grown into collective
teacher-demands for a voice in
policy making, and administra
tors and school board members
are finding it necessary to sit
at the conference table with
teachers and listen. Accustomed
to unilateral authority, many of
these members are having to
review their traditional position
of exclusive res'ponsibility for
determining over-all school polic
ies.
More Militancy
Moreover, there is a growing
militancy among teachers as
they assert their right to be
the new partner on the school
management team. Braulio Alon
so, president of the National
Education Association, said while
campaigning for this office: “I
want to see the NEA a more
aggressive, more responsive,
more militant teacher associa
tion . . .” Alonso exemplifies
the “new” leadership in the na
tion and in Florida, where both
the FEA and NEA have invoked
statewide sanctions.
NEA president-e 1 e c t, Mrs.
Elizabeth Koontz, said in a New
York speech last December:
“Teachers have become suffic
iently frustrated and actively
dedicated enough to do some
thing about the many problems
that stand in the way . . .1 am
not sure that teachers are yet
as militant as they must be
come . . .”
To understand what is hap
pening, we need some historical
perspective and an understand
ing of factors contributing to
the current teacher unrest.
In the earliest days schools
were usually administered by
town selectmen, there being no
professionally-trained administra
tors to do the job. In fact, until
after the Civil War few teachers
had gone beyond the elementary
men hired the local teacher'
teachers, provided a scl#
house, set the rules, and oti>
wise operated the local scb
with complete authority.
As towns and schools gj;
however, and as the duties
town selectmen multiplied
school board was appointed
elected to be responsible ^
this phase of the commur
life. In either case, whether
schools were operated by
school board or by the l(
selectmen directly, the goif
ing body autocratically, patt*
listically, and with com);
authority over the teacher i
the activities of the schoolj
the examination of the pc
was often administered by
selectmen or board members,
Help Needed
With continued growth
schools the tasks of admiiE
tion became even too great
school boards, who, after
had their private businesses
a result, they began to:
superintendents to do their’
work” for them. Genec
though school boards conti
to set all school policies,
it was the job of the s
intendent to carry out ii
tions of the board. As y
passed and the complexit
schools increased, and ass:
intendents were better prep
and united professionally,:
began to advise the Ic
which employed them, and
played an increasingly lit
tant role in the heretofort
elusive policy-making functis:
the school board.
Teachers had little or not
to say about how schools i
run. It may even be said:
until the last few years teai
had no great desire to pat
pate in the operation of sd
beyond the immediate com
of their individual classrt
Now, however, the pictiin
entirely different. Teachers,!
the superintendents before!
are assuming some of the pi: ■
making and administrative
sponsibilities.
PN Is Bom
This change has now deve!:
into the most significant u
ment within the professioi ,
day, a movement varit
known as “professional wf
tions,” “collective negotialE
“teacher bargaining,” anJ I
other terms that indicate f '
action in dealing with boaii
education. Whatever it is rf
it is simply a formal anJ
ment whereby the professioi ^
now be guaranteed some)
ticipation with school boari
arriving at decisions that»
the operations of public scl*
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