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PAGE 2, THE COUGAR CRY, JAN. 20, 1969 EDITORIAL Has Eugene McCarthy deserted the students of America and gone over to the camp of right wingers? Or better still is he go ing to play both sides of the issues — whichever is the most expedient to his own ambitions? The Senator from Minnesota deserted his liberalism when he failed to vote for Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts for Senate Democratic Whip. His only reason for voting for Senator Russell Long of Louisiana, the in cumbent and avowed Southern conservative, was that he saw no reason not to. How can a dovish Northern liberal be in such com plete agreement with a hawkish Southern conservative? To add insult to injury he has now resigned his position on the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee whose chair man, J. William Fullbright of Arkansas, is an ou)t-spoken dove on Vietnam. His only reason for this move was to reduce the num ber of members from nineteen to fifteen, which was favored by Fullbright, in order to facilitate reaching a forum. But the man who took his place is Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming — one of the Senate’s foremost hawks. How can McCarthy do this without reneging on his moral commitment to end the war in Vietnam and his verbal commitment to utilize the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to expound his views on the subject. Now that both liberal political leaders who received the sup port of many students and educators in the past Democratic primaries have been “shot down,” who can the youth of America who want peace and someone they can identify with, turn to? Will they again place their support on an idealist whose will and com mitment seemed so strong and unyielding? Or will they stray even further to the left because they can’t find anyone they can truly trust? For the sake of America, whose future lies in her youth, I hope there will emerge from the political scene a leader the youth can truly identify with and trust. Get Your Applications in Now Students who are planning to complete their program here at Wilkes Community College dur ing the spring or summer quart er, or are intending to trans fer to another college are ad vised to get started now by get ting your application filled out. Some of the larger colleges and universities like to have their applications early. If any students need information about a college, it would be wise to go by our Student Personnel Office and talk to Mr. Idol, Mrs. Bassett, Mr. Austell, or Mr. Whittington. They will be glad to help by showing the students the catalogs as they have one from all colleges in this state plus some other major colleges and universities. They also have Love joy’s College Guild which is an excel- let book for students who have not made up their mind about a college. Students are welcome to use these books and may also check out the catalogs. Comments Welcome Any comments from the stu dents or faculty on any letters, articles, or other forms are welcome and will be printed. The “Cougar Cry* does reserve the right to edit the contributions to conform to space and good taste. Letter To The Editor This letter is being written out of curiousity and to express the complaint of at student atWilkes Community College. Upon check ing at the Administration Build ing, I have not been able to find adequate information concerning Easter holidays. What I have found is that Easter holidays are non-existent on the school cal endar. That is iny complaint— now for my curiosity. Why does this school not have a printed, schoolwide cut policy concerning holidays. If there are to be no “legal* holidays, there will probably be a great many student-proclaimed holidays on the Friday before an the Monday after Easter. Some colleges give a zero on work for the day be fore and after a holiday, if the student chooses to cut. Others simply count it as a double cut. I feel that if we are not going to have any Easter holidays, and that seems painfully obvious, that we should have printed informa tion concerning this school's po licies and/or penalties for holi day cuts. An Interested Student Announcements The College Theatre will meet in the Methodist Fellowship Hall on Monday, January 27, at 8:30 p.m. All students who are in terested in working in any area of drama are asked to attend. Plans for the next production will be discussed. ★★★ A film based on the play, “The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorki, will be shown one night during the third week of January. A notice will be posted as to the time and place. The setting of the play is Russia in the late nineteenth century. It is the naturalistic story of poor Russian peasants and degraded nobles. The characters include a landlord and his family, an alcoholic, a card- sharp, a tramp, a locksmith, a thief, and a street-walker. The story tells of the plight of three people, their passion, and their violence. The merit of the play lies in its realism. These people exist as real people with real pro blems, loves, and hates. The piay wao first presented at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. It was applauded as one of the theatre’s most success ful productions. Happy Medium When a person is employed as a teacher, it means that he has completed a college education of his own and has been trained to teach. A teacher is a person with the responsibility to teach young people, to help mold their per sonalities, to help shape the way they will think and act for many years to come. This is an awe some responsibility and it is a full-time joy. However, no matter how well a person is trained, no matter where he is educated, and no matter what salary he rec eives, he is not a teacher unless he is dedicated. He has to want to teach others and also have the desire to help others. However, his hands are bound unless the “others’’ are willing to help them selves. This is what this essay will try to define: where the obligation of the teacher ends and the obligation of the student be gins to best facilitate the pro cess of learning. The first obligation of the teacher dates back to his own college days. He has the obliga tion to learn as much about his chosen field as he can so he will be better able to assist his future students. If he fails to do a good job of preparing for his teaching career, he will probably be either the type of teacher that cannot get anything across to his students and has to fail al most everyone in his class, or the type that just “scratches the surface” of the material and does no one any good at all, unless it would be the temporary good feeling the student has while his quality point average is artific- ally high. This feeling would have to be temporary, however, because the effects of this poor teacher, that is poor in quality, would invariably cost the stu dent at a later date. So, these things, such as the fact that the teacher should be well ed ucated in his field as an obliga tion to his students, will now be considered understood. From this point on, we shall concern ourselves with the heart of the problem: that is, in the actual process of the teacher interact ing with the student in a learn ing situation, what should be the obligations and expectations of each, and where should the line be drawn. To begin with, both the student and the teacher have the right and, indeed, the obligation to constructively criticize each ot her. The teacher, being the pro fessional constructive critic, should rightfully do the majority of the criticizing. This would in clude, of course, criticizing (Continued on Page Four) THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE Wilkesboro, North Carolina Editor Bob Lackey Assistant Editor Floyd Rogrers News Editor Ken Welborn Sports Editor Jim Billinas Feature Editor Scott Walsh Circulation and Business Managrer Jack Bryan Columnist Floyd Rog’ers Photogrrapher Jack Bryan Cartoonists Motie Hamby, Carol Key Typists Shelby Hampton, Barbara Tatum, Linda Coe Staff Margaret Poole, Jerry Pardue, Montie Hamby Advisor Mr. D. S. Mayes
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