The Quilforiicm
The Curriculum: Port II
Our present core curriculum is a 1965
modification of an older core. Courses
and their contents have changed, but as
an organizational concept the older core
is President Binford's revision of curri
culum in 1927.
Before Dr. Binford made his proposals
to the faculty, the only required courses
were determined by what major a student
chose. In their first two years they had
few options; later they might get as many
as 11 hours of electives in their senior
year.
After experimenting with man-and
society orientation courses, it was decided
to adopt a curriculum which would give
students the broad outlook orientation
courses had moved toward.
Students took the core courses in
strict order. They were told which year
and semester to take each one. Six hours
of electives were allowed the senior year.
The rest of the work was in major or re
lated fields.
The 65 revision has 29 hours of
strictly required courses, about 9 hours
of electives and a limited choice from
groups of required and major courses
amounting to about 84 hours, depending
one choice of major. No rigid sequence
is decreed.
Dr. Crownfield is the chairman; Aiken,
Burris, Goddard, Gutsell, Hobbs, B. Ste
wart, Zopf are the faculty plus some
administration; Sarah Biltzand Haul Red
dick are the student representatives and
the rest of the Educational Policies Com
mittee. This faculty committee was formed
early last September to submit reccomen
dations for changes in educational policy
to the rest of the faculty, hopefully by
the end of the year. They have meet
three times and done individual work in
between.
I asked Haul Reddick what happens at
these meetings. He said that to begin with
Dr. Burris drew up a list of "proposals"
which were merely to furnish a format
for the discussion. He is in charge of re
vising and presenting new sets as the
meetings continue.
Asked whether the discussion was
usually about general educational ideas or
small problems he replied, "The dis
cussions usually start around specific
problems, such as whether to have for
eign languages - what grading system to
use and then from there we go to talking
about the general ideas - why have for
eign languages? What do you want the
courses to do?"
I asked if he thought that the com
mittee would make any bigger revision
than was done in 65. "Yes" he said,
"that was sort of a stopgap affair."
I wanted to know whether he thought
their proposals were intended for the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Perform
The music they play sounds much like
what we now pigeon-hole as Dixieland, or
Dixieland jazz. But listen closely; It is
rawer, more primitive, less elaborate, less
precise. It is practiced, yet free, and
though the dark faces behind the in
struments still look solemn, their music
is warm and happy. The attraction is jazz
plain, unadorned, foot-stamping early jazz
played by elderly Negro musicians who
learned their trade in funeral marches.
COMPANY OF FIVE-Featuring DeDe
and Billie Pierce DeDe Pierce, blind
trumpeter, and his wife, Billie, pianist and
blues singer, have been playing together
30 years in New Orleans with tours of '
campuses and concerts across the country.
When Louis Armstrong was King of the
Zulus in Mardi Gras in 1948, DeDe was
chosen as New Orleans finest trumpet, to
lead the band in front of the float. Billie
Pierce was accompanist in the 20s with
the great Bessie Smith of Clarksdale and
Memphis.
Members of the band, all of whom are
over 60, have been playing in New
Orleans and the surrounding parishes for
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immediate or distant future. Haul said,
"I don't think we could begin to im
plement a significant part of a new pro
gram for at least two years. I would say
we're looking about eight years into the
future."
He told me that this doesn't preclude
smaller changes right away.
I inquired about any discussion of at
tendance. "Jack Bevin, who was one of
the leading light, if not the leading light,
of Florida Presbyterian College - he's
done work at Davidson and I think he has
moved to College of the Pacific - is one of
the leading people in curriculum studies.
He came to our second meeting for a
thirty minute talk and afterward, he
reacted to our proposals and gave us
some of his ideas."
"One of the ones which impressed us
was the system of attendance at Florida
Presbyterian. To start with there is no
compulsory attendance, then, if a teacher
feels a student is not doing his work well
enough, the teacher must call a con
ference with him to find out what's
wrong. After that he can decide whether
to make the student come to class or not.
If he decides to make him come he has to,
if he doesn't the teacher just calls the
dean and he's out."
"This forces a teacher to confront a
student who isn't doing well - he can't
just look at his name in the book, give
him a "D" and figure no harm done."
he said.
In discussing the organization and
content of the curriculum two unfamiliar
terms came up which Haul explained. The
committee was tossing around some ideas
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As the hippies fade
The Hippies are leaving San Francisco,
we hear, discouraged by cold and bore
dom, and the realization that things are
never what we expect them to be. There
is something a bit sad in their going, just
as there is always a wistful note in the
collision of youth and foolsihness with
the sharp edges of time and reality.
Shall not gloat
We shall not gloat as they pack their
sandals and beads and start the long re
treat home. The hippies have given, we
suspect, more than they have gotten.
They have allowed us the luxury of
moral indignation, the feeling that our
neat lives and homes and natural-shoulder
suits somehow protect society against
the radical hordes forever at the gates.
And now, like gray-flannel ants, we watch
smugly as the frosts of autumn catch
yesterday's gamboling grass-hopper in mid-
over 40 years and are among the few
living talented jazzmen who originated
the New Orleans style. Now they are
regularly featured at New Orleans' Preser
vation Hall, one of the outstanding jazz
centers in the world.
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Grimm Brothers Sing at Hut
The Grimm Brother's Comedy Trio is
currently performing at the Hut. The
three members, Jim Hanson, John Kar
raker, and Jim Fisher started the group
while attending Grinnell College. The
group disbanded temporarily in 1963 when
all three attended different universities to
obtain master's degrees in city admini
stration.
With all of this as a background, they
come well equipped for their sharply
satirical commentaries on such 20th cen
tury idiosyncrasies as discount houses,
zoning problems, and singing docters who,
when finally given equal time with the
anti-smokers, advocate a new cigarette
"which contains addiction."
"We want to say something, but we
like to say it softly," explains Karraker.
Hanser said, "We have found that by
criticizing something indirectly and put
ing it in a somewhat silly light, wc are
song. If we cannot again be young, we
can at least feel superior to youth.
How long?
But will it be long before we look
back and wonder why we were so shocked
and outraged by these feckless young
people whose sins were mainly against
themselves, and whose outrage lay in
strewing flowers down unfeeling streets
or calling for a love they too often abused
in a world that has too little time for it?
Of course they have flouted convention,
sometimes in disgusting ways, and paid
in disease and trauma for what they saw
as sexual freedom or mental adventurng.
Calls for love
But time stalks Haight-Ashbury, too.
Yesterday's blast is today's drag, and the
hippies became enmeshed in paradox.
Then calls for love aroused snarls of hate.
Scornful of the world of tourist attract
ion, gawked at by little old ladies from
Dubuque. And so they split the scene,
closed their dusty pads and turned their
guitars and sunglasses toward home. To
morrow, they, too, will be part of our
all-engulfing conformity, leaving us to
wonder who is the richer, and why.
—reprinted from
the Louisville Courier-Journal
Beat
Belmont
able to get our message across."
They have performed in the Bitter
End in New York City, and regularly
appear in the Chicago area in places like
"It's Here" and "Mother Blues" and now
at the Hut at Guilford. The musical
group, which at first listening does not
live up to its name, conceals its often
rather grim messages of social satire with
rhymes, funny lines, well-timed grimaces,
and timely topics.
Self-taught musicians, the singers start
ed out doing skits on zoning, but later
coupled comments with music, some
original and some parodies on well-known
songs. "But our aim is not to be just
another musical rock group," Karraker
said. "How many times in rock and roll
have they said i love you?" he asked.
He said the Grimm Brothers "want to be
something totally different."
THE SEASON TICKETS ARE STILL
ON SALE UNTIL THE START OF
THE JAZZ CONCERT SUNDAY NIGHT.
THESE TICKETS ARE A BARGAIN
AT FIVE DOLLARS. ALL GUILFORD
COLLEGE UNION MEMBERS WILL
SELL THE TICKETS IN ALL THE
DORMS UNTIL SUNDAY. DON'T MISS
YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE!
Who Are Fox's Proteges?
by Henry P. Hackett
In reading the article in a recent Guil
fordian entitled "The Relevancy of the
Quaker Religion; Can Fox's Proteges Pro
vide The Answers?" I wondered if this was
refering to the Quakers of this area as
Fox's Proteges. In my opinion, the Quak
ers of this area and other Pastoral Meet
ing Friends, are not Fox's proteges and
therefore are not really Friends. These
are Friends who rely on pastors, hymn
singing and collection plates in their
Meeting for Worship. This is entirely alien
to the basis qf the Society of Friends as
stated by George Fox, whose belief was
that every individual is his own "minister,"
in that every man has what is refered to
by Friends as "The Inner Light" or, that
of God in every man. From this comes
the concept of the Silent Meeting for
Worship, where the members of the Meet
ing are brought together, in their silence
and meditation, into a communion with
the Spirit. In this situation, if an in
dividual is genuinely moved by this Spirit
to speak, he does so, sharing of himself
with the community of the Meeting. This
isthe "individual ministry" of the Friends
Meeting.
I feel that only this can be called a
Meeting for Worship of the Society of
Friends. This is not to say that I dis
approve of the various other Christian
denominations, Judaism, Hindusim or any
other mode of worship, but I merely
wonder how members of the programmed
Meetings of the South, Midwest and West
can consider themselves truly members of
The Society of Friends?