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THE TWIG
November 18, 1971 \
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November 18, 1971
Get Involved with SUSGA
What is SUSGA? It is the Southern University Student Government
Assoeiation. Is Meredith involved? Yes! Are you involved? 1 do not
know.
the Meredith SGA is doing a wonderful job with the programs of
Referendum Month ’71. The issues currently discussed include pollution,
student's rights, women’s rights, and apathy week. Are you involved?
Let’s do all we can to show the SGA our appreciation by attending these
lectures and getting involved.
S V W
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Self-Limiling Hours-
Lel’s Keep Trying
1 should like to complain briefly
about the noise in our library.
1 envy those who don’t need to
study and therefore are able to
choose the library as their student
center. However, surely there arc
more comfortable and appealing
places on and off the campus to
which the non-studying “students”
can go to impress their date and to
gossip with friends.
who now are going to the library to
study. This is the one spot on the
campus built with the implied free
dom of retreat to peace and quiet.
May it soon regain its original
purpose!
Sincerely,
Lura McCain
Unfortunate are those students
Dean llurris’ diHiculty in deciding the issue of self-limiting hours seems
to be evident in the way his rationale vacillates between clarity and ob
scurity. That no case has been made by students against the present
system is a good point (although students may not have thought sup
portive arguments necessary alter the proposal passed Student Life com-
mittec); that the system as it exists now provides a maximum amount __ H • •
of freedom is questionable. Is the idea that students can not be trusted YotOr KGQIStrdtlOfl
to make a responsible decision outside the “relative calm” ol the dormi
tory self evident to the student body? I would conjecture it is not. If
1 8-21 year olds have been entrusted with the right to vote, can they not,
in a communial living setting, be given the credit lor the ability to make
responsible decisions about their welfare at any time? Would self-limiting
hours deprive the community of the freedom to determine the end of the
working day? As called for by the Legislative Board in the original
proposal, dormitory doors would be locked at the regular closing hours.
I he campus would, lor all intents and purposes, be closed. Students re
maining out would come in when they want and be escorted to theii
dorm without disturbing anyone else.
Cultural Committee
Releases Schedule
Stressed by YDC
If freedom is the key to the issue, there is no question that students
should have the freedom to decide what a responsible curfew hour is,
if parental permission is granted. If the guiding principle of the social
regulation system is in loco parentis, as it seems to be, then parental
permission for self-limiting hours should be the only other influence on
decision making on the issue, not the “harmonious opinions called for
by Dean Burris in his statement.
Finally, a student letter-writing campaign in support of the issue should
provide die needed case against the present system. With this and a
few clarifications on judicial policy related to the measure, self limiting
hours should be approved.
C J E
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The importance of the youth vote
is being stressed by the YDC in
their sponsorship of a Voter Regis
tration Drive during the next few
weeks. Members of the YDC will
be phoning day students to remind
them to register here in Raleigh as
well as reminding out-of-town stu
dents to register over the Thanks
giving holidays. In connection with
the drive at Meredith, the YDC is
supporting Mr. Songer in his work
with the Wake County Registration
Drive at North Hills November 26-
27. The YDC urges all non-regis-
tered Wake County residents to
come out for the Drive at North
Hills or to register in their precincts
and also reminds all other non-
registered students to make an effort
to register over Thanksgiving.
riie YDC will also be distributing
voter registration information pam
phlets next week. Using a pamphlet
distributed in Chapel Hill as a guide,
several YDC members, headed by
Becky Olive, compiled the general
registration information.
Voice
of the
SGA
A reminder: Friday, November
19 is SGA meeting. It is very im
portant that we have a quorum be
cause four bills have been sitting in
the middle of legislative procedure
waiting to be voted on. Come to the
meeting and give these bill a
chance. They are bills concerning
visitation by males in the dormi
tories and infirmary, Judicial Board
procedure, and creation of the office
of Treasurer of Student Activities
Board.
On Thursday, November 11, the
Student Life Committee invited
members of the Legislative and
Interdorm Boards to meet with them
to discuss solutions to the problems
of student apathy and social regula
tions. The discusison was primarily
to make the members of Student
Life, particularly the faculty, aware
of problems facing student govern
ment at Meredith. The suggestions
and comments of the members of
the two boards will be taken into
consideration by the committee
members in making future decisions
concerning regulations.
As a part of Referendum Month,
Week #3, Caron Balkany, Youth
Co-ordinator of the Women’s Bu
reau of the Labor Department,
spoke Monday November 15. The
focus of Week #3 was Women’s
Rights. Miss Balkany flew from
Washington, D. C. especially to ad
dress the Meredith community.
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The Meredith Cultural Affairs
Committee has released the schedule
of remaining programs for the year.
The following schedule is complete
except for the Kappa Nu Sigma
spring lecture or program which is
yet to be arranged.
December 7—Dr. David Craig
head, organist. 8:00 p.m.
January 24—Mr. George Riabi-
koff, pianist. 8:00 p.m.
February 7 and 8—Professor Al
fred Fontenicles, Danforth visiting
lecturer from France. Will discuss
such areas as socio-literature and
mass media. Professor Fontenilles
available for class visitations Mon
day afternoon and Tuesday morn
ing.
March 14 — Pacific Repertory
Theatre presents Shakespeare’s “The
Merchant of Venice.”
Dr. L. A. Peacock is chairman of
the Cultural Affairs Committee. Dr.
Peacock stated: “Announcements
with details about the persons and
programs will be available before
these events. We expect good at
tendance for these very fine pro
grams.”
Mayor Lee And
Populist Politics
Mayor Howard Lee of Chapel
Hill, candidate for the 2nd District
Congressional seat, addressed the
convocation audience November 8
on the topic “The Need for a New
Populist Politics and a Populist
Coalition.”
Mayor Lee said that the new
populist politics will satisfy the
needs of those groups who are rest
less for a greater voice in politics
and determining their destiny—■
blacks, women, and youth. Populist
politics is “politics of the people and
no longer the politics of a powerful
few.”
Mayor Lee emphasized the need
for the newly enfranchised voter ,,
particularly the students, to become
involved in the new populist coali
tion. He believes that students
should be allowed to register where
they attend school if they so desire;
they should also be allowed to par
ticipate in every level of politics.
The populist movement, accord
ing to Mayor Lee, must begin to
create “the kind of openness that
allows all of us to participate.”
After his talk Mayor Lee enter
tained questions from the audience
and participated in a 2 hour dis
cussion with students and faculty
in the Hut.
Trollingwood Rhode performs for small but attentive audience in Weatherspoon
Gym for benefit of NC-PIRG.
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