PAGE 2, THE PILOT, Gardner-Webb College, February 10,1978
Calendar Events
Monday, Jan. 30
Tuesday, Jan. 31
Thursday, Feb. 2
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Thursday, Feb. 9
Saturday, Feb. 11
Sunday, Feb. 12
Monday, Feb. 13
Tuesday, Feb. 14
Friday, Feb. 17
Monday, Feb. 20
Wednesday, Feb. 2
Marian Gibson Senior Recital 8:00
Chapel Dr*. Charles Dryer
Bloodmobile
Phi Beta Lambda 113 CID
Ground Hog Day
Movie
Basketball Team goes to Hawaii
Lady Bulldogs Home Newberry 6; 00 p.n
Bulldogs Heritage College 7:30p.m.
Religion Emphasis Week
Bulldogs Bennett (away)
Movie
9:25 R.E. Club Chapel
9:25 Pem Club Gym
Lady Bulldogs Guilford Home 3:00
Bulldogs Mars Hill Home 7:30
Pianist Ruth Slencynska
Lincoln. Birthday
Valentine Banquet 6:00
Mr. Otta Spangler Club Meeting
Social Science Club Meeting 7:30
Nurse Association 7:00
No Classes
N. C. Solo & Ensemble Contest
Mission Conference at New Orleans
Basketball game agains Pfeiffer (here)
George Washington Birthday
Basketball game at High Point 7:30
Letters To The Editor
In response to Mr. Tommy Watt’s opinion about the
standardized test, I wish to make the following observa
tions. First, the tests which are called “standardized” are
no doubt tests which a publisher prepares to accompany a
particular text book. That is not properly referred to as a
standardized test. A published test does havt lierit in that
it is likely to be more objective than the tests prepared by an
individual professor.
In addition, a published test has the merit of being more
fair to the student than an “easy” test prepared one semes
ter and a more difficult one prepared the next semester. It
would be impossible for every test prepared by an individual
to be equally difficult. Personally, I prepare my own tests
and know that some who score 95% one semester might
make 75% on another test prepared over the same material.
Finally, and most urgently, I want to stress my opinion
which is that students with reading difficulties do not have
a constitutional, moral, or academic right to make top
grades. What they have a legitimate right to expect of
Gardner-Webb College is the help in learning how to read.
Not every student in every college has that ; -^ht! As long as
Gardner-Webb College admits students with deficiencies in
this area, those students should expect to be aided in learn
ing to read. That is a better solution than Mr. Watt’s
suggestion of “teaching to the test”
John R. Drayer
Assistant Professor of Religion
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food Committee
Food Committee asks
that each student respect
the rights of fellow students
and pick up your trays and
put them in the dumb
waiter. We would appreciate
your participation and so
will your fellow students.
Requirements For Those Planning To Teach
Sophomores: * Application to Teacher Education Curricu
lum STEP Tests (administered beginning of each semester)
Juniors: *Application to Student Teaching (dealine Feb. 1)
Transfer Students (Seniors): All the above.
♦Available in Room 113 Craig Building
Equipping Seminar
The Psychology Department is planning an “Equipping Seminar,” designed to supply
its students with knowledge and skills needed to make the transition from Gardner-
Webb to graduate schools and/or job placements. Interested persons from other areas of
the College are invited to attend.
January 26 - 9:30
February 2 - 7 - 9:00p.m.
February 16 - 9:30
February 23-9:30
Graduate Program and Application
Forms - Mr. Ray Brumbaugh
Job Opportunities
Mrs. Betty Carpenter
Letters of Application and Vita
Dr. James Henson
The Interview Process
Dr. Roger Gaddis
Valentine Banquet
The Baptist Young Women invites everyone to attend the Valentine Banquet on Mon
day, February 13, at 6:00 P.M. in the BuUdog Room of the CID. The cost is $2.75 with a
meal ticket and $3.50 without a meal ticket. You may get your tickets from Mrs. Vickie
Webb in CID 101.
Mr. Otto Spangler, the BSU Director from the University of Florida in GainesviUe,
will be the featured speaker. Good food, a good program, and good fellowship will be pro
vided.
The Pilot
Editor Harvey L. Ramsey
Sports Editor Max Pettyjohn
Staff Karen Calton, Cindy Payseur,
Major Price, Lynne Wallace,
Melinda Townsend, Malinda Dunlap
Contributor Charles Benj amine
Advisor Mr. William B. Stowe
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Teacher Exams
National Teacher Exam
inations will be adminis
tered at Gardner-Webb Sat
urday, Feb. 18,1978.
1978 Summer School
The 1978 Summer School
Program is currently being
planned. It will provide a
variety of courses. If you
have a specific need or in
terest please contact the
Directory of Continuing
Education, Gardner-Webb
CoUege, 434-2361, Ext. 254.
To The Editor of The Pilot
I am writing this letter after having returned from the
Bost Gymnasium and I feel that I have a question which
needs to be answered. Four of us went to the gym together
to see the game between Gardner-Webb and Lenoir Rhyne
College. We arrived forty-five minutes before the men’s
game was to start. Upon entering the door, we saw that the
entire left side of the gym was full. However, there were
quite a few places vacant on the stage and on the right side.
While we were standing at the door, trying to locate a place
to sit, a student approached us and said that we were not al
lowed to stand there; that we would have to be seated. We
mentioned that there was not any place to sit on the left side
and the student told us we could be seated on the stage.
When we had made our way to the back and were seated, we
were promptly informed that we could not sit there. Ap
parently, it was reserved for members of the Bulldog Club.
After some discussion, we left the stage and attempted to
move to the right side of the gymnasium. At this time, we
were headed off by students once again and told that the
entire right side was reserved for the Bulldog Club.
I do not like to complain, but I feel that I must say some
thing. I have attended many basketball games in the time I
have been at Gardner-Webb (I am a senior) and I have yet
to see either the right side of the gym or the stage anywhere
near full. Yet, we are not allowed to be seated there.
With no place to sit, we returned to the dorr^H.ory. I do
realize that the members of the Bulldog Cluo' pay $100
(P.H.D.) or some equivalent. The students pay approxi
mately $3000 to attend GWC, but apparently our tuition
pales to insignificance next to the Bulldog Club members
$100. It is a bad time, as far as I am concerned, when stu
dents are denied seats in over one-half of the gym because
they are reserved for members of the Bulldog Club.
My question is this: Is Gardner-Webb C'J’ege for the
students or for the Bulldog Club? If it is for cne students,
then there should be some place for us to go, even if it is
standing room only. If it is for the Bulldog Club, then it
should be announced as such so that the students would not
inconvenience themselves by walking to the gymnasium.
It is not my purpose to enrage the administration or the
Bulldog Club. Neither is it my purpose to have someone
write a scathing rebuttal to my letter, telling me how the
Gardner-Webb student body is one happy family. I was
under the impression that it was one of the purposes of
Gardner-Webb CoUege to produce weU-rounded Christian
individuals. It is my belief that the proper way to do this is
to have the students involved in all aspects of coUege life.
When we are denied this privilege for any reason, then the
college is negligent in its duty to us, the students.
Jim Scarborough
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