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Slfc JPentiulum *Jump Rope for Heart’ will be held in Jordon Gym on Nov. 15 from 7 to 10 p.m. Volume IX Number 11 Elon CoUege, Elon CoUege, N.C. 27244 Thursday, November 11, 1982 General studies requirements change Anne Ponder Elon College has changed the general studies require ments that future students must meet to graduate. The requirements, which were passed last Friday by the college faculty, will not affect students currently en rolled here, but will affect students who enter Elon under next year’s catalog. Academic Dean Chris White said. The revised criteria each student must satisfy include completion of at least 12 hours of junior or senior level work outside the stu dent’s major. These credits must come from three of five general fields including Expression, Science, Reflec tion, Civilization and Soci ety. Expression consists of art, English, fine arts and music. Science includes math and science courses. Reflec tion includes rehgion and philosophy; Civilization em bodies a “historical and cultural context beyond the present day in American culture.” Society includes economics, geography, polit ical science, psychology and sociology. “We did it to teach values and how to think,” White said, “I think we strength ened the program and plug ged a lot of holes. “We want every one of our graduates to be thought of as a generally educated person,” he said. The newly passed revision also “strongly recommended that one of these courses be a General Studies Seminar which integrates one or more of the areas.” The new graduation re quirements also will demand Math 112, College Algebra, or higher be completed. Also, at least three hours of English credit beyond 112 must be taken. Currently the college re quires six hours of religion for graduation. Under the new requirements, six hours of reflection are required. Only three of those hours must be religion; the other three can be from either religion or philosophy. Dr. Anne Ponder, assis tant professor of communi cations and English, chaired the General Studies Commit tee that developed the revis ion and submitted it to the faculty since 1980. She said, “We had no coherent philosophy behind General Studies. There were more professional majors and the curriculum became unbalanced toward profes sionalism rather than toward liberal education.” She said that the original plan called for the inter disciplinary seminar to be a requirement for graduation but the “strong” recom mendation was substituted before the final proposal was submitted. “The last general revision was in 1971,” she said. “In the late 60’s and 70’s many schools did away with gen eral education requirements. We can thank the basic conservatism of the college. We have to build back much less than other schools.” She said that a federal grand aUowed the college to examine every aspect of the college and determine what was necessary to strengthen Chris White that part of the school. Ponder and White said that additional faculty mem bers were not needed to teach the new courses. She said that the seminars would offer teachers an opportun ity to view their disciplines from different angles. She said general education was the last area examined and that a “general upgrade” seemed in order. cont. on p. 8 Parents visit campus PARENTS’ WEEKEND featured many events parents could attend. Above, two parents talk to math Professor Richard Haworth in the library on Saturday. For more news on | Parents’ Weekend, see the story by Michael Roth on page 4. Senate OK activities van; debate delays approval by Vicky Jiggetts SUff Writer A special report given by Tracey Walser began the Nov. 4 senate meeting. She explained the survey on rais ing the drinking age. During the next session of the North Carolina State Legislature, the Senate and House will consider raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 19 or 21. Elon students will give their opinions on the survey. Vice president Rodney Beebe’s special report told about the upcoming North Mark Van Kirk Carolina State Legislature meeting in Greensboro. On Nov. 21 and 22 at UNC-G, 20 public and private colleges will meet to discuss different issues involving the state. A controversial discussion was held concerning the only bill introduced. The discus sion involved the purchase of a new student activities van which the Student Gov ernment Association wishes to donate to the students. President Ted Reinheimer wrote a letter last August to John F. Mitchell, vice presi- Ted Reinheimer dent, business affairs, to initiate this project, suggest ing that it is the responsibil ity of the SGA to provide dependable transportation. Later, in a conference with Dean Long, Reinheimer went through some guide lines suggested for the initial purchase of the new van. The first was that the college would contribute $2,500 to the base cost and they would cover the maintenance and insurance costs. The college would buy the van for the SGA, then the SGA would pay the school back in semi-annual payments until spring 1984. First priority use for the van included cheerleaders, then the stu dents and then faculty. A debate began when Sen ator Mark Van Kirk stressed the vagueness of Article III which stated: “The funds for the van will come out of the budget in a number of diversed accounts at the end of each semester.” Van Kirk said that Article III of the proposed bill was vague because it did not stipulate where exactly the funds for the van would come from. cont. on p. 8
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