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THE TWIG
February 10, 1972
Weems Comments on Various Subjects
(Continued from page 1)
the pass-fail program was installed
accomplished. Was it a success or a
failure? 1 found they had no way of
evaluating this. However, there is a
lot to be gained by looking at other
alternative methods of grading. Any-
dme you force a student into a sub
ject, I’m not so sure that this should
not be on a pass-fail basis instead of
an honors approach. It is more logi
cal to be down there. If you are re
quired to take English Literature
should you be graded on some very
discriminating scale. If it is going
to be part of your general education
course should this be on a pass-fail
basis? 1 don’t like the term pass-
fail, I like credit-no credit.
thing — we could have had ‘mini
semester’ between the end of sum
mer school and the fall semester.
'Ehis has always been available . . .
oddly enough no one has ever been
interested in it until they started
fooling around with the calendar.
It became the ‘in’ thing to do. Col
leges often do the ‘in’ things. . .
If you’re not going to give anyone
credit, I don’t know that that is
failure. You do it, if you get credit
for it—great; if you don’t, do it again
if you want to. But we must rnake
sure we don’t make an emotional
commitment to change, rather than
a rational commitment. Too often
when we make a change, we put
ourselves in a commitment that we
cannot back off from if it proves to
be a wrong decision.”
4-1-4 SYSTEM: ‘‘1 think it’s
great. Every school in the country
has had the opportunity to do it but
too often what happens? . . . you
make a change and then you do
something like the ‘mini-semester’
that is characteristic of the change.
Frankly, we didn’t have to do any-
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apparently this has been his plan for
some time. The thing we don’t want
to do apparently is go ahead and
pull out without some kind of com
mitment on our boys being held as
POWs and I think this is the main
holdup now. The idea is to have
some leverage to get the boys back.”
February 16: 8;00 p.m. Lecture
on ‘‘American Foreign Policy in the
’70’s” by Roger Hillsman of Co
lumbia University.
February 17; Civilization Film
Series in Student Center at 12;00
noon and 7;00 p.m.
WOMENS’ RIGHTS: ‘Women
have been discriminated against and
things are going to gel better because
they are right. Your problem with
movements too often is that they
tend to get the radical element to
make the breakthrough. ... 1 think
women have more civil rights prob
lems than blacks or at least as many
— as far as job opportunities and
salary. And this thing is going to
change and is changing.
“The biggest problem with a
woman in the business world really
doesn’t have anything to do with her
ability . . . it’s almost peer group
pressure. Very seldom do you find a
woman who admits she has a career.
Peer group pressure says you really
need to be at home . . . it’s just hard
for a woman to accept the idea that
she’s going in the job market to stay.
This is psychological . . . it’s going
to be very difficult to bring a woman
into the business, train her, and
spend the kind of money and such
when she’s telling you all the time
that she’s not going to stay.”
VHiTNAM: “Frankly speaking,
knowing a little about military tac
tics, we made a mistake ever com
mitting troops for land war. We
have complete superiority in the air
and on the sea. If you’re going to
fight a war you fight where you
have the advantage if you can. Em
not sure we’ll ever give up aerial
and naval support. I think we’ll give
up land support and be reluctant
about going back in. I don’t think
Eisenhower, or Kennedy, or John
son wanted to fight a war. I don’t
question their motives; I don’t think
it was imperialism.”
NIXON’S ECONOMIC POLI
CY: “I was very supportive of do
ing something. Wage and price con
trol — this is the only way you can
get inflation stopped. I frankly wish
we had gone into this earlier. There’s
no way for us to judge its effective
ness. . . . The problems are the
inequities; 5.5 per cent pay increases
on all levels can increase the salary
of one much greater than the other.”
Listed below is a calendar of
North Carolina State Activities for
the weeks Eebruary 11-25.
NIXON’S RECENT SPEECH:
“Nixon ran into a problem. The
North Vietnamese were sounding
like that if we would just do this, the
war would be over on an offer Nixon
had made three months ago. They
had ignored it completely and used it
as propaganda against us. This is
what brought it out into the public.
It doesn’t make me fantastically op
timistic that he made the speech;
February 11; Friends of the Col
lege, London Symphony, Andre
Previn.
February 12; Movie; “The
Grasshopper.” New Arts, Inc. pre
sents Roberta Flack at 8;(X) p.m.
February 14; 8;00 p.m. in the
student center, Adam Yarmolinsky,
Harvard Law School will speak on
“Foreign Policy in the 70 s. ’
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to point our fingers at other people.
We’re pretty guilty about those sort
of things.
“A lot of these things don’t al
ways add up sometimes . . . like
peaee marchers yelling profanities
at you. . . . Either you’re peaceful
or you’re not . . . and to promote
peace through violence doesn’t make
sense to me. To promote ecology
and point fingers at someone else
when you don’t practice it doesn’t
make sense to me. There are very
positive programs . . . everything
needs to be recycled. This is the
answer to ecology and pollution.”
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ECOLOGY: “Our environment is
almost beyond us; I don’t know how
we’re going to turn it around. It’s
easy to go point our finger at a
factory over here with smoke com
ing out of its chimney, and then go
out here and buy aluminum cans of
coke and drink them . . . you’re just
as guilty. We like to point our fingers
at the big industry. . . . With almost
everything you need to chec’it and
see if it is recycled, or are we going
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