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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOLUME XLVIII NO. 22
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C.
APRIL 11, 1974
Committee presents recommendation that Meredith become
testing ground for new approach to women^s education
by Rebecca Askew
The president’s Com
mittee on Raising the Sights of
Women presented its proposal
to student leaders, depart
ment chairpersons, and ad
ministrators in a Monday
night meeting, April 8. After
considering amendments and
changes suggested at the
meeting, the proposal will be
sent to several foundations for
possible funding.
TRAITS FOR EQUALITY
The committee, which has
been meeting since early fall,
has designed a program
aimed at building in Meredith
students the awareness and
the qualities necessary to
develop their fullest poten
tials. The program will work
in cooperation with the
present women’s studies
courses in raising the sights of
Meredith women. Basing the
proposal on the belief that
women “have not been
psychologically primed to
compete on an equal basis
with men, the committee
devised a program which
would stress the development
of eight essential charac
teristics in Meredith women.
Those characteristics are self
understanding, independence,
creativity, communication
skill, intellectual curiosity,
leadership, decision-making
ability, and goal-orientation.
The plan is that one of
these qualities will be the
focus of intense campus ac
tivity during each of the eight
semesters in which a student
is enrolled. That quality would
be explored by students
through small groups, special
courses, workshops, and
symposia. The director of the
program would be responsible
for working with faculty and
students to organize each
semester’s activities.
The committee stressed
that the most strategic way to
develop the eight personal
qualities is through the
classroom learning situation.
Ideally, there would be an
atmosphere of openness and
learning in the classroom.
Professors would make every
effort to integrate that
semester’s quality into the
Records show majority attendance
Norm for hall proctors at Leg Board
EDITOR’S NOTE; The Twig
commends the 1973-74 leg
board for a most impressive
attendance record on the part
of an overwhelming majority
of members.
How good was your hall
proctor this year? Below is the
attendance record at the
Legislative Board of all the
hall proctors. The total
number of meetings for the
year was twenty-five, so that
number in the first column
would mean a perfect record.
The secona column is the
number of times your proctor
was absent but sent a sub
stitution, and the third column
is the number of times your
hall had no representation at
Leg board.
Name
No. of times
No. of times a
No. of times no
present
substitution was
sent
one from hall
was present
Gwen Fincher
24
1
0
Mary Brown
20
4
1
Tricia Young
25
0
0
Kathy Fuller
24
1
0
Susan Hamlin
21
4
0
Patty Whisnant
23
2
0
Sybil Burgess
22
3
0
0
Jean Jackson
23
2
Binky Roland
19
2
Sheryl Harrell
19
4
1
0
Kay Cottle
20
4
Gail Klutz
19
6
Jo Ann West
20
2
0
0
1
1
Melinda English
24
1
Fran Stroud
24
1
Dana Edwards
23
1
Laura Ann Bailey
19
5
Linda McKinnish
14
9
8
0-
Lynne Champion
12
5
Jane Hartley
22
3
Mary Alice Johnson
“
1
Deborah Jordan
21
3
Mary Lu Wooten
17
5
Pat Nathan
18
2
Candy Purvis
17
2
4
Rosemary New
19
2
1
Sandy Anderson
20
4
TWIG newsbriefs
BOOK AUCTION
Clean out your bookcase!
The Colton English Club is
collecting books for its auction
on April 17. Place your old
books in the box beside the
sign-out desk in your dorms.
Get ready for some great
bargains!
BLANTON TOSPEAK
Dr. Gloria H. Blanton, a
counseling psychologist who is
associate professor of
psychology at Meredith
College, has been invited to fill
three engagements during
Women’s Week to be observed
the first week of May at
Western Carolina University.
On May 6, the opening day of
the special observance, she
will meet with students in an
informal discussion of career
planning for women’s varied
lifestyles. That afternoon she
will meet with graduate and
undergraduate women to
discuss careers in psychology,
according to Dr. Eugene
McDowell, chairman of the
Department of Psychology at
Western Carolina University.
She will present a lecture that
evening to the Women’s
Studies class.
Dr. Blanton, president
elect of the North Carolina
course materials
FRESHMAN PROGRAM
During a freshman’s first
semester she would be
enrolled in a two-hour
colloqium designed to relate
the concerns of the women’s
movement to her experiences
and to encourage her to take
advantage of the entire eight-
semester program. A seminar
which would foster in
dependent study is planned as
part of every freshman’s
second semester. The seminar
would allow the student to
pursue individual study and to
share her ideas and
discoveries within the
seminar group.
At least twice a month
small groups of students
would meet with the project
director and selected faculty
members and administrators
to evaluate and synthesize
classroom experiences.
SYMPOSIUM
A symposium would be
the climax of the semester’s
concentration. The format
could vary from term to term.
The committee reported one
possibility would be a visitor-
in-residence who illustrates
that semester’s trait. Another
possibility is a two or three
day release from regular
classes, replaced by a series
of concentrated activitiejs
such as discussion groups,
panel discussions, film and
slides, and planned seminars.
FACULTY COOPERA’nON
The committee noted that
“the crucial ingredient for the
success of the entire program
is the commitment of the
faculty” to the kind of open
and free learning that the
proposal seeks to develop.
Importance was placed on the
planning of faculty workshops
to encourage faculty mem
bers to become engaged in the
process of learning and
personal growth that will help
them develop the personal
qualities in their students.
Any questions or
suggestions about the
proposal should be directed to
the co-chairpersons. Dr. Sally
Page or Suzanne Greenwood.
Grass opinions change
at grass roots
Division of the American
Association of University
Women, will be welcomed to
Cullowhee the evening prior to
the opening of Women’s Week
at the university, at a dinner
sponsored by the officers of
the Cullowhee Branch of
AAUW.
TAMING OF THE SHREW
CAROLINA UNION and
the Laboratory Theatre at
Carolina will present The
Taming of the Shrew April 18
thru 20, at 8:30 in the Pit
beside the Carolina Union.
(CPS) ~ There are mounting
indications that liberalization
of marijuana attitudes and
penalties is taking place at the
local level in a number of US
cities.
In three recent ballot
referendums, the citizens of
two cities voted to sub
stantially reduce the penalties
for possession and sale of
marijuana, by enacting the
most liberal laws concerning
marijuana in the US.
The two changes occurred
April 1 in Ann Arbor And
Ypsilanti Mich., when those
two student-dominated cities
voted to amend their city
charters to provide a
maximum penalty of a $5
ticket for possession or sale of
marijuana in the city limits.
Ann Arbor previously had
a $5 law when the city council
was dominated by liberal
Democrats and the Human
Rights Party, a radical and
student-dominated party in
the city. However, last year,
the Human Rights party ran
candidates in Democratic
wards, splitting the vote and
electing a number of minority
Republicans who struck down
the law.
The new charter amend
ments require marijuana
offenses to be process^ like
traffic tickets, with no
resulting criminal record, and
prohibits city police and at
torneys from prosecuting
offenders under other laws.
Since the changes are charter
amendments, they can only be
repealed by another ballot
vote.
In a third vote, Seattle,
Wash, voters defeated a local
ordinance calling for no
penalties. However, even if
the measure had passed, there
would be conflict, because
unlike Michigan,
Washington’s . state law
supercedes local ordinances.
Most opposition came from
civic leaders on this point
because the initiative would
have interfered with a local
ordinance scheduled to go into
effect next Dec. 1 calling for a
$100 fine for possession of less
than an ounce. The latter law
is considered viable because
it follows the principle of state
laws calling for some
penalties for possession.
Paul Elliot, an orgamzer
of the Seattle initiative, said
he was happy with the 31.1
percent favorable vote,
pointing out that there was
only a 25 percent voter tur
nout, and that his group spent
only $5000 in an 18-month
campaign. Referring to the
defeat of Proposition 19 in
California in 1972, Elliot said,
“They put half a million
dollars into that campaign
and only came out a few
percentage points (34 per
cent) better than we did.”
Elliot indicated that the main
goal of his group had been
education of the voters.
Several other cities have
enacted lesser penalties
against marijuana recently
through city council votes,
and perhaps most significant
of all, a recent Harris poll
showed that 61 percent feel
that alcohol is equally or more-
dangerous than marijuana.