ridgerunner • thursday, January 27,1972
the joy of being:
Transcendental Meditation Lecture Feb. 2
RECYCLE!
Please
In our age of ever accelerating
change, there is a need for in
dividuals to find some form of
anchorage within themselves so
that they are not inundated by
these waves of change. The
traditional mode of anchorage
through a belief in some form of
religious dogma is generally
seen as unsatisfactory to todays
experience oriented young people.
What is needed is some form of
experience orianted young people.
What is needed is some form of
experience which will increase an
individuals flexibility rather than
inhibit his ability to cope with
life. At the same time this ex
perience should somehow ground
him in the depth of his being,
giving him an inner strength and
poise to develop himself to his
fullest potential. Such an ex
perience is provided through
Transcendental Meditation.
Transcendental meditation is
a simple, natural, spontaneous
technique which allows the in
dividual to experience increasingly
more subtle states of thought
until the source of thought, the
unlimited reservoir of energy
and creative intelligence is
reached. This simple practice
expands the capacity of the con
scious mind and a man is able to
use his full potential in all fields
of thought and action.
For those who would like to
hear more of how this technique
works, there will be a special
lecture sponsored by the Psy
chology club Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. in
the Humanities 104. The em
phasis will be upon the revealing
physiological studies which
establish the validity of the
claims of meditators that they
receive deep rest, clearer mind,
more energy, and an increased
ability to cope with the small
and large stresses of todays life.
Second Term Will End
Before Christmas Under
New Calendar
UNC-A’s new ' calendar has
been approved by Arnold King,
Vice President for Institutional
Studies for the Consolidated
University.
The new calendar which was
designed to allow for the end of
second term of the Fall Semester
before Christmas vacation was
presented to both faculty and
student bodies before the final
decision to send it to Chapel Hill
for approval was made.
The calendar (see below)
determines that second term next
year will end on December 21
so that students will be able to
come back to a whole new term
and not have the feeling that
they are coming back to the
middle of a term. Many uni
versities, including Chapel Hill
are redesigning their calendars so
that final exams are taken before
Christmas break.
Christmas break for the new
calendar is about two and a half
weeks long and the calendar
also provides for a week-long
Spring vacation between Term I
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
1972-73
SEMESTER I
1972
Term 1
Term 2
SEMESTER II
1973
Term 1
Term 2
August
20
Sunday
Dorms open for students needing tests
August
21
Monday
Testing
August,
22 Tuesday
Testing and freshmen advising
August
23
Wednesday
Orientation, Faculty Meeting
August
24
Thursday
Registration
August
25
Friday
Registration
August
28
Monday
Classes begin
September
4
Monday
Labor Day
October
20
Friday
Classes end for Term 1
October
23
Monday
Schedule Adjustment Day I
October
24
Tuesday
Classes resume I
November
23,24Thurs., Fri.
Thanksgiving Holidays
December)
21
Thursday
Classes end for Term 2
January
8
Monday
Registration
January
9
Tuesday
Classes begin
March
6
Tuesday
Classes end for Term 1
March
13
Tuesday
Schedule Adjustment Day I
March
14
Wednesday
Classes resume I
April
23
Monday
Easter Holiday
May
9
Wednesday
Classes end for Term 2
May
12
Saturday
Commencement
and Term II of the Spring Se
mester. Chancellor Highsmith has
stated that “we feel that by this
new calendar, we are synchroniz
ing ourselves with the rest of the
UNC system and yet maintain
ing the four term system which is
unique to this campus.
The new calendar operates as
this year’s in that there are two
major registrations for the year,
one for the two Fall terms, and
one for the two Spring terms.
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the writers’ symposium:
Some Male
Thoughts
had voiced what ran through the
crowd: insecurity, an unsureness.
Personally, I found it amazing.
I had come expecting to hear the
politics expounded again and they
weren’t; I came expecting to
hear more of “up against the
wall” and more “I want to be
paid for the work I do in the home,
male - oppressor - husband” and
there was little of it. Writers
Millett, Kizer, Harris and
Whisnant went after the heart of
their target: “The Woman As
Artist” and they didn’t attack
men alone; they recognized the
complexity and the confusion
which sexism operates within.
The simple-minded liberation-
speak and political sloganeering
didn’t enter into it. One man
confided to me after the program
that he didn’t “like radicals”
and all I could do was chuckle.
“Let WITCH or the radical
lesbians get a hold of him,” a
friend replied, “then he could say
radical.”
This isn’t to say that the
program was soft, or that it backed
off from the basic issue at hand;
rather instead of going after the
throats of all the men in the
audience, it was a program for
women by four, sensitive, in
telligent women intent on examin
ing themselves and what had been
done to them. They spoke of
Still-born emotions and lack of
color within their lives with more
of a feeling of regret and sadness
than anger.
There was something missing
in their writing and they felt it.
“You mean, Kate Millett is
a LESBIAN!”
Jesus.
All four writers left me
changed; Charleen by her laughter
and almost-whimsical-sad account
of the housewife and her chains;
Bertha Harris by her warmth and
insight, her Joycian fixation and
her tears; Carolyn Kizer by her
academic parodies, her “this is
no bedroom war, remember. You
bet it isn’t”, and her “hurray,
purple and gold”; and Kate Millett
left me speechless, dumbfounded
with her stream-of-consciousness
prose about inhibitions and the
inability to write. It was like
someone had fastened a vise on
my head and she was tightening
it, maniacal.
Rehashes are always a little
pale and 1 apologize for this one;
it is just a few male thoughts
about a symposium which spoke
to all of us. To those who missed
it, my condolences; to Ms. Millett,'
Kizer, Harris and Whisnant,
thank you.
—Fred Myers
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