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Report Card Parker Hall Residents Form
Own Parking Lot Police Unit
Delivered
A Trifle Late
(CPS) — Students complaining about
professors who procrastinate before
posting grades have met their match: it
took Brown University freshman Ed
mund Baldwin 135 years to get his
grades delivered in the mail.
Brown’s public information office
reports that Baldwin’s report card —
originally mailed from Providence to
Baldwin in Stratford, N.H. in
December, 1845 - only recently turned
up at the Manchester, N.H. post office.
Baldwin’s great niece received the let
ter, and forwarded news of it to Brown
officials.
With the report card was a receipt for
fall semester tuition, which amounted
to$46.25.
Baldwin’s grades, the university
adds, were excellent. However, he did
not return to the school, opting instead
to become a lawyer in his home state,
and then to become a prospector in
California. He died on his way west in
1848.
Laney Heado
Sophomores
By NANCY KEEN
Elected sophomore class officers
are: Steve Laney, president; Ray Har
rell, vice-president; and Linda
Rigsbee, secretary-treasurer.
Their projects thus far this semester
have been two car washes on the 11th
and 25th of October to sponsor a ski trip,
tentatively scheduled for December 6,
and to raise money for a ‘’Sophomore
Gift.”
They are hoping to plan a Busch
Gardens, Williamsburg, trip sometime
in the near future.
In an interview with Laney, he com
mented that he and his fellow officers
are optimistic about meeting goals this
year. They are also pleased to have
Dean Clayton Lewis as an advisor and
expect that his enthusiasm will be a
great assest.
By GREG BASSETT
Some residents of Parker Hall are
spending long, cold nights doing their
part to prevent thefts and acts of van
dalism by keeping an eye on the dorm’s
isolated parking lot.
Approximately 65 dorm residents are
taking part in the program which uses
students to guard lot number four, an
area that has been plagued by thefts
and serious vandalism. Five nights a
week, residents maintain a four hour
vigil from 12 midnight until 4 a.m.
The suggestion that students be used
to patrol the lot first came from campus
security director Jack Britt. Britt re
quested some sort of student program
because of the increasing incidents of
crime on the lot and the manpower
shortage on his security staff.
Parker head resident Scott Colclough
appointed dorm council social co
chairperson Colen Heinritz to head the
“Car Watch” program. It is Heinritz’s
job to sign up resident car owners as
often as possible.
So far, Heinritz said he hasn’t had too
much trouble getting people to arrange
their sleeping schedules and do their
four hours of parking lot duty.
“We try to work at least one night a
month into everyone’s schedule,” said
Heinritz. “The guys here in Parker
have been very enthusiastic about the
program. It hasn’t been like pulling
teeth. Everyone has been good about
it,” he added.
Heinritz said it has been even easier
to find people to watch the back lot
since college Chaplain R. Hargus
Taylor is granting assembly cuts to
those on patrol.
According to Heinritz, there have
been no incidents of theft or vandalism
since the watch program went into ef
fect. He reported, however, that some
people were caught breaking bottles on
the lot.
The program is in effect Sunday thru
Thursday because, according to
Heinritz, campus security is stepped up
on the weekends and it is difficult to
find people to maintain a weekend
patrol.
Students on duty are not supposed to
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take any action against those seen
tampering with automobiles, but are to
report their observations to security
immediately. Those on duty are mind
ful of suspicious characters and cars
they see prowling the lot at night.
“People have a substantial invest
ment in their automobiles,” said
Heinritz, “and they’ve been afraid to
park their cars in the back lot. This pro
gram has done a lot to curb any fears.”
He said he hopes the watch time could
be extended to an eight-hour vigil in
stead of the current four hour guard.
“We’d like to go 12 to eight, but too
many people have classes and we’ve
got to give them some sleep.”
Dean of Students Clayton Lewis said
he is pleased with the results of the car
watch program and is proud of the
students who have participated.
“I am really glad the program has
been such a success,” said Lewis. “It
has done a great amount to reduce van
dalism to personal and institutional
property since it was initiated.”
Lewis added that he is impressed by
the students’ abilities to assume
responsabilities.
Heinritz said he believes the lighting
in lot number tour could be improved
by the college in an effort to cut down on
crime and vandalism.
He said that he, too, is proud of the
results of the program.
“People can now go to bed happy,
knowing that their car stereos won’t be
stolen and they’ll have tunes to play in
the morining,” he said.
Diane LeBreux, treasurer of the Student Government Association, shows
Murfreesboro Chamber of Commerce President William Stradley a copy
of the Chow/an Student Handbook while they toured Whitaker Library.
Stradley presented a check for $100 from the chamber to help the SGA
provide entertainment for the student body.
Variety of Choices in English 102
Offered Freshmen in Spring Semester
Dr. G. Kenneth Wolfskill, chairman
of the department of literature and
language, asked that the following
information about English 102 classes
for next semester be published to in
form students of their possible choices.
Freshman will have a variety of
literary experiences to choose from
next semester when they register for
English 102. They can choose to
study Southern literature, world
literature, Black literature, literature
of self-discovery, or literature that
examines American life.
English 102 is still called composi
tion because, as in 101, writing con
tinues to be the major task; research
skills will be learnt in the prepara
tion of a formal paper. But in 102 the
student writes about literature rather
than, say, what he did during his
Christmas vacation. The course is a
study of poetry, drama, and fiction
as it always has been, but rather
than studying just the art forms, the
literature wiU be related to a subject
or period that will give the art form
a context.
Below are the course offerings. The
student will need to know the pro
fessor and SECTION NUMBERS of
his offerings in order to register.
truths and recurrent themes express
ed by outstanding writers from
around the world. Emphasis will also
be placed on the relationship of these
writers to world history so that
students will be aware of what was
going on in history at that time of
the writing.
pleted based on the works of a
southern author.
Discovering Oneself and the World
Through Literature: Professor
Emery, sections 1, 5, 8, and 17. The
major topic will be sub-divided into
topics such as “Early Years,”
“Achievement and Realization,”
“The Individual and Society,” and
“The World Around Us.” In pursuing
these topics, the students will be
simultaneously introduced to the
genres, the essay, the short story,
poetry, and drama. Periodic themes
will be required along with a short
literary research project.
World Literature: Professor Bat
chelor, sections 12 and 16. This
course studies selected readings from
authors of fiction, drama, and poetry
with an emphasis on the universal
The Literature of the South: Pro
fessor Mulder, sections 3, 6, 10, and
13. This course is designed to present
the three literary genres, short story,
poetry, and drama through the
writings of modem southern writers.
The dramatic works of Tennessee
Williams and Paul Green will be
studied. Also considered will be the
works of Allen Tate, Robert Penn
Warren, John Crowe Ransom,
William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and
others. A term paper will be com-
Iranians Trouble-Free
At Reluctant Colleges
Trocy Cox, top, ond Pom Riccio, bottom, were the winners from Jenkins
Hall in the campus wide room decoration contest. They and the other
winners of the contest received o tree dinner at the Windmill Restaurant
in Ahoskle. Arrangements could not be made to feature their pictures
with the others in a recent edition of Smoke Signals. (Photo by Yohan)
(CPS) — Despite the vigorous efforts
of legislators in four states to either ban
the enrollment of Iranian students or
make tuition so expensive that they
would have to study elsewhere, foreign
student advisors report the Iranians
have had no trouble since returning to
school this fall.
Though efforts to squeeze Iranians
out of state schools in Louisiana,
Mississippi, New Mexico and Arizona
faltered or were overturned by the
courts, violent confrontations among
Iranian students in Washington, D.C.
over the summer — and memories of
violent campus confrontations over the
last two academic years — raised fears
that Iranians would get overtly hostile
receptions when they returned to
classes this fall.
But so far, there have been no reports
of personal harrassment or even public
indignation at schools in the states that
tried to ban Iranians.
“I don’t know of any students who
have suffered personal problems, or
who have been mistreat^ since they
came back to school,” said Erin
Schmidt, the director of the Office of
Foreign Student Affairs at Louisiana
State University at Baton Rouge.
“They seem to be by and large content
with ttieir situation here.”
For a while this summer, it appeared
that they would be far from content.
The governing board at LSU voted in
May to prohibit Iranians from enrolling
there, loginning with the summer ses
sions. In effect, the resolution said
students from countries that have held
American hostage for more than three
months or with whom diplomatic rela
tions have been severed would not be
allowed to enroll there.
The Louisiana state House of
Representatives then urged all state-
funded colleges and universities to
refuse to admit Iranian students. The
vote was 82-12 on the resolution spon
sored by legislator James Cain.
“Our real goal is to stop them from
going to school,” Cain explained. “If we
stop them from going to school they’ll
start contacting their home folks and
Contemporary American
Literature: Professor Pridgen, sec
tions 9, 15, and 19. William Stafford,
James Dickey, Flannery O’Connor,
Richard Wilbur, Kurt Vonnegut,
David Madden, John Cheever, Joyce
Carol Oates, William Inge — any of
these names sound familiar? Learn
about these contemporary American
writers (and many more!) in this
section of English 102. Impress your
cultured friends with your knowledge
of the contemporary literary scene.
Poems, short stories, and movies
(yes, movies!) that will make you
laugh, cry, think. All this and more
in one quick semester. This is a one
time offer available nowhere else.
These sections will fill up quickly, so
waste no time at registration. Do not
miss this once-in-a-lifetime ex
perience.
Black American writers. Primary
emphasis will be on improvement of
writing ability, so lecture and
background material will be kept to
a minimum. The texts have been
chosen not for purposes of historical
survey or social significance, but for
the artisitic excellence of their selec
tions. The other main emphasis of
the course will be on term paper in
struction and intensive library
research methods.
Dark Symphony: Afro-American
Literature: Professor Ramsey, sec
tions 2, 4, 7, and 18. This is a tradi
tional composition and introductory
literature course in which the poems,
plays, and stories studied are by
The “Lost Generation”: American
Writers of the 1920s: Professor
Wolfskill, sections 11 and 14. F. Scott
Fitzgerald called the roaring 20s the
“Jazz Age,” and the decade evokes
images of racoon coats and ukeleles,
hip flasks and mobsters, the
Charleston, and America’s most col
orful and successful wirters. The
decade was also a time when young
people — Ernest Hemingway, Eugene
O’Neill, e. e. cummings, and Fit
zgerald — were disillusioned by
World War I and disappointed in
America’s innocent and naive
understanding of the world. These,
writers, whom Hemingway called the
“lost generation,” produced a most
exciting and provocative literature
that serves as the subject matter of
this compostion course.
say, ‘Hey, y’all, you’re hurting us now,
let those people (the hostages) go.’ ”
“1 don’t want to sound harsh, but they
don’t have any constitutional rights,”
Cain added.
Eventually, though, a court in Lou-
siana ruled the ban unconstitutional, a
clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
The threat of judicial rejection didn’t
deter the Mississippi legislature from
attempting a different tactic to push
Iranians out of its higher education
system. Governor William Winter sign
ed a bill setting a $4,000 tuition fee per
student “who is a nonimmigrant alien
from a nation not having diplomatic
relations with the United States and
against whom the United States has
economic sanctions in effect at the time
of registration.”
A court eventually agreed with the
American Civil Liberties Union argu
ment that the special tuition hikes
violated the 14th Amendment’s equal
protection clause and the 1964 Civil
Rights Act’s ban against ethnic bias.
Yet tensions at schools in Mississippi
also appear to be low this fall.
“I’ve seen no signs of 'any overt
hatred of Iranians or even subtle graf
fiti against them. Without knowing bet
ter, it would be impossible to guess
what was tried against these students
this summer,” said John Windhauser, a
journalism professor at the University
of Mississippi at Oxford.
At New Mexico State University at
Las Cruces, a spokesman for the Inter
national Student Services office said he
has received no complaints or witness
ed any signs of mistreatment of Ira
nians. A resolution similar to the one in
Louisiana had been passed by the
school’s governing board.
Yet Iranian students themselves
generally refuse to reveal how they feel
abvout the attempted discrimination.
In Many cases, university foreign stu
dent advisors aggressively shield the
Iranians from the press. Even when
Iranians studying at the schools in
question could be contacted directly, all
declined comment to College Press &r-
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