THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXXIX MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MARCH 12, 1965 No. 9
Committee Developments Heard
At Recent Trustees Meeting
Professor Asks for Repeal of Gag Law
The Meredith College Board of
Trustees met here on February 23,
1965. The meetings went smoothly
with interesting reports from Presi
dent Carlyle Campbell, Dr. Sankey
Blanton, Dean L. A. Peacock, and
various committees.
Report From Dean
Dean Peacock reported on the
procedure for the selection of new
students from applicants. The cri
teria given were greatest promise
for good work, good behavior, and
probability of eventual graduation.
It was also stated that Meredith’s
academic standing compares favor
ably with similar colleges.
There were several new develop
ments brought before the board.
Three new faculty members were
Criminology Class
Takes Field Trips
To Local Courts
According to the Meredith Col
lege catalogue, a course in crimi
nology involves an analysis of the
nature and extent of criminal be
havior, factors which are related to
such behavior, and changing atti
tudes toward criminals and the con
trol of crime. Dr. Leslie Syron, head
of the Meredith sociology depart
ment, also emphasizes the back
ground factors which produce crimes
and modern rchabDitation tech
niques as important topics for con
sideration by her criminology class.
In guiding her class, Dr. Syron is
attempting to motivate understand
ing in her students by activities out>
side the realm of textbooks and class
lectures. As a result of a program
given by Mr. Blaine Madison, Com
missioner of Correction in North
Carolina, the members of the crimi
nology class plan to travel to one
of the seven correctional schools for
youth in the state. Mr. Madison
showed slides of the various train
ing schools and explained the scho
lastic and rehabilitation techniques
which each school employs.
Class Takes Field Trip
On Thursday, March 4, the mem
bers of the criminology class took a
field to the N. C. Correctional Cen
ter for Women here in Raleigh. At
this center the students learned some
of the problems and techniques of
the administrators in making useful
citizens of the women admitted to
the center. Rehabilitation proce
dures include emphasis on literacy,
personal grooming, domestic abili
ties, and training as efficient wait
resses.
Individual Projects
The members of the criminology
class are required to complete a
number of projects on their own.
Bach student attends one or more
sessions of civil, criminal, or juvenile
court here in Raleigh in an effort
to learn how North Carolina han
dles the problem of crime. Also,
each member of the class has her
own individual project on rehabili
tation techniques and problems.
Legislation concerning crime draws
the attention of several students in
the class as some are following vari
ous bills, such as the bill to end
capital punishment and the court
reform bill, through the houses of
the N. C. State Legislature.
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appointed for next year after Presi
dent Campbell’s recommendations
were approved. Tuition cost has
been raised, and faculty salaries
have been increased. Mrs. Alonzo
Burras accepted the position of Di
rector of Solicitations.
Meeting of Development Committee
The Development Committee met
and discussed some basic changes
in its structure. The office previ
ously designated as Public Relations
has been changed to Development.
Dr. Blanton’s title has been changed
to Director of Development. The
personnel of the office has been in
creased to include an additional sec
retary and a field representative to
be an associate for Dr. Blanton.
The additional staff will be em
ployed by Dr. Campbell with the
advice and consent of the executive
committee.
The committee on the new library
reported that they are looking to
ward the selection of an architect
to design the building.
The North Carolina Fund this
week starts a 56-campus recruiting
drive for an expanded North Caro
lina Volunteers summer program
involving college students in com
munity action against poverty prob
lems.
The 1965 Volunteers program will
involve 250 students. After a three-
day orientation period, the students
will form into teams of fifteen to
twenty students each, and move
into about fifteen North Carolina
communities.
In announcing the new Volunteers
program, Terry Sanford, board
chairman of the North Carolina
Fund, said “The decision to run a
new and expanded North Carolina
Volunteers program this summer, re
flects the outstanding achievements
of the 100 students who worked so
successfully in last year’s program.
After talking with leaders from
communities where Volunteers
worked last year, we are convinced
that college students can make sig
nificant, permanent contributions to
community action programs in
North Carolina communities.
This is the people-to-peoplc part
of the new move against poverty.
On Saturday afternoon, March 6,
the North Carolina Conference of
the American Association of Univer
sity Professors met at Pfeiffer Col
lege and discussed the action that
they would take in open protest
agaist the speaker-ban law. The
speaker-ban law was passed in 1963,
and it states that a Communist
speaker may not address the stu
dents on any state supported college
or university campus on any sub
ject. The conference has adopted a
statement by the Faculty Council of
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill as the basis for its pro
test. This article includes the follow
ing statement: “By this statute the
General Assembly, while attempt
ing to protect our liberties, has un
wisely interfered with educational
policies, curtailed legitimate freedom
on our campuses, and created seri
ous barriers to the maintenance of
higher educational institutions of a
quality which the State has a right
to expect.” The conference has
urged the college faculties of North
Carolina to write or visit the repre-
It is an inspiring thing to see a
college student willingly take his
full vacation time to give a new
feeling of hope to a child, to teach
a class of adults to read and write,
or to tramp through a neighborhood
helping to improve their homes and
make better places in which to live
and rear their children.”
Each North Carolina Volunteer
team will work in a community that
has made a specific request for
Volunteers for this summer. The
North Carolina Fund currently is
inviting communities to submit pro
posals outlining their plans for using
Volunteers, and facilities available
for housing and feeding the students.
Last year, the initial North Caro
lina Volunteers program involved
100 students, working in six com
munity action projects. The students
started aduh-literacy programs, gave
pre-school training to disadvantaged
children, drove bookmobiles into
isolated mountain areas, worked
with mentally retarded children, and
built and repaired houses, to name
Just a few of the jobs they tackled.
sentatives of their districts and urge
the repeal of the speaker-ban law.
The conference hopes that the law
will be amended in the near future so
that it allows the state supported col
lege or university more freedom in
deciding who will speak on the
campus.
Function of AAUP
The AAUP is an organization of
professors who strive to maintain
academic freedom and to protect the
individual members from harsh
treatment by college administrations.
This is an organization composed of
members of the teaching and re
search fields.
Attending the March 6 meeting
from Meredith were Dr. John A.
Yarbrough, immediate past presi
dent of the AAUP and head of the
Meredith department of biology; Mr.
Leonard White of the art depart
ment; and Mr. Edwin Blanchard of
the music department. The newly
elected president. Dr. Elwood Boul-
warc, is a member of the faculty of
North Carolina College in Durham.
tions at campus student union cen
ters, or from North Carolina Volun
teers school representatives whose
names will be posted on campus
bulletin boards.
The 1965 Volunteers effort will
be administered by the North Caro
lina Fund, with Jack P. Mansfield
acting as North Carolina Volunteers
director and Frank Rush and Bill
Harriss acting as field supervisors.
Campus contact work will involve
many of last summer’s Volunteers.
Team to Recruit Workers
Every college campus in the state
will be visited by a special Volun
teers recruiting team from the North
Carolina Fund headquarters in Dur
ham. Recruhers will show a special
documentary film on the 1964 Vol
unteers’ work, pass out information
on the 1965 program, and answer
questions from interested students.
The 1965 program will last 11
weeks. Volunteers will receive room
and board, plus a $250 honorarium
at the end of the service period.
Throughout the 11-week period,
each team of Volunteers will work
under the direction of adult ad
visors, and local public service agen
cies.
The recruiting - selection - train
ing timetable, some of it still in the
planning states, looks like this:
Recruiting runs through March,
all applications must be in by March
31. During the first two weeks of
April, applications will be screened
by three boards — a campus review
board, a regional board, and a state
wide committee. The 250 success
ful applicants will be notified by
April 15.
The 250 Volunteers will report in
mid-June for a four-day training
period, probably on a college cam
pus centrally located within the
stale. Then the Volunteers will move
into the fifteen communities for their
summer of work.
Dr. Rose to Be
Danforfh Reader
Dr. Norma Rose, professor of
English at Meredith College, will
serve on a committee of seven to
choose the candidates for the 1965-
66 Danforth Graduate Fellowship
for Women. Dr. Rose will leave
March 13 for St. Louis, Missouri,
to meet with the Reading Committee
which is composed of professors and
deans at colleges and universities
from California to Massachusetts.
The committee will read applications
of women nominated by thirty-eight
institutions, all belonging to the As
sociation of American Universities.
The women chosen by the commit
tee will be interviewed by the com
mittee member of the candidate's re
gion. For example, candidates from
North Carolina and the surrounding
states will be interviewed by Dr.
Rose. Recipients of the award will
be chosen based on the recommenda
tions of the Reading Committee.
Dance Classes
Making Plans
For May Day
The modern dance classes of
Meredith, taught by Mrs. Frances
Stevens, are beginning to material
ize plans for the program which
will be given May Day weekend.
Each of the girls in the dance
classes has contributed her sugges
tion for the over-all theme of May
Day, and from these ideas Mrs.
Stevens and Mrs. Massey have
chosen several which they consider
to be best. These in turn have been
presented to the dance classes and
a definite theme will soon be chosen,
after which concrete plans for the
dances and costumes will be dis
cussed.
The most significant change in
this year’s May Day program is that
girls throughout the college, not just
those in the dance classes, may
participate in the May Day pro
gram. Any girl who wishes to do
so may go see Mrs. Stevens and
consult with her on this matter.
Nev^s Briefs
A group of students and the for
eign language teachers from Mere
dith College went to Duke Uni
versity on March 6, 1965. They
attended the annual French play
which was presented by the Duke
Department of Romance Lan
guages. This year’s production was
Moliere’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhom^
me.
The Meredith College Playhouse
will present its spring production on
the weekend of March 12-13.
Two one-act plays, Chekhov’s
The Boor and Gerstenberg’s Over
tone, will open in Jones Auditorium
at 8:00 p.m.
The senior art exhibit of Jeannie
Hutcherson is now on display in
Joyner art gallery, icannie is the
cartoonist for the Twic.
The recruiting program for 1965
starts immediately, atid ends March
31. Students may pick up applica-
Meredith was represented last
summer by Sandra Butler, class of
’64, and Nancy Ehle, a sophomore.
Both girls were chosen to work in
the N. C. Fund Project.
Second Summer Work Project Launched
By North Carolina Volunteers Program
Janet Cooper, a Junior at UNCG aad a member of last summer’s North Carolina
Volunteers, is sbown sharing a field experience trip wi(h a deprived child.