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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOLUME XLIX ■MaaT' MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH. N.C.
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JANUARY 22, 1976
Curriculum reform proposal is submitted bxTaskForce
The Task Force on m ■ x-,
The Task Force on
Curriculum Reform has
submitted one of its reports to
the Curriculum Committee,
Election is
scheduled
according to Task Force
Chairman Sally Horner.
The Task Force recom
mends that the college’s
general educational
requirements be divided into
six areas and that each
student be required to take
from 49-51 hours in those
1976-77 student elections
are scheduled for February
and March. Elections and
Handbook chairman, Barbara
Heath Talley has announced
the elections dates. Filing for
first slate officers is scheduled
from Monday, February 2
through Thursday, February
5. Candidates will deliver
speeches in Student Govern
ment Association (SGA)
convocation on Friday
February 6. The deadline for
submission of 1st slate plat
forms for the publication in
the Thursday, February 12
TWIG is Sunday February 8.
The 1st slate election will be
held on Friday, February 13
with the runoff scheduled for
Monday, February 16.
Filing for second slate
offices is scheduled for
Monday, February 16 through
Thursday, February 19.
Candidates will deliver
speeches in SGA convocation
on Friday, February 20. Tte
deadline for submission of
second slate platforms for
publication in the Thursday,
February 26 TWIG is Sunday,
February 22. The second slate
election is scheduled for
Friday, February 27 with the
runoff on Monday, March 1.
The offices included on
each slate are listed on page
72 of the College Handbook.
areas.
The Task Force began its
studies two years ago to
determine whether or not
Meredith could incorporate a
career emphasis into the
curriculum without losing the
college’s liberal arts em
phasis. Dr. Homer observes
that the recommendations
submitted to the Curriculum
Committee deal with only one
aspect of the Task Force’s
three-part thmst. The Task
Force, she said, is concerned
with studying the structuring
of individual courses, with
critiquing the faculty advisory
system and with studying the
curriculum. In addition to
studying the general
education requirements, the
Task Force is studying the
individual majors and the
careerpreparatorycourses on
campus.
The Task Force’s general
education recommendations
are. Dr. Horner says, “a good
affirmation that we like pretty
well the kinds of things
Meredith is currently doing as
a small liberal arts coUege.”
The ten member Task
Force is composed of faculty,
students and administrators.
Members are Allen Burris,
Roger Crook, Charles Davis,
Lois Frazier, Pam Holt, Sarah
Lemmon, Betsy Porter,
Norma Rose and Helen
Turlington.
The Task Force’s
recommendations. Dr. Horner
says, outline a general college
curriculum which “forces
more breadth” of study and
which does not exclude from
general college retirements
the area of the student’s
major. Under the present
system a student does not
have to take courses in her
area outside her major. The
number of hcmrs remaining
for electives after the
student’s proposed general
and major requirements have
been met is little different
from that remaining after the
current requirements have
been completed.
The five areas of general
college requirements
delineated in the Task Force’s
report are communication
skills, human values and
value systems, appreciation
of one’s physical self, un
derstanding of society, un
derstanding the natural
universe and life directions.
In the area of com
munication skills, the Task
Force recommends toat each
student register for three to
four hours of principles of
writing credit and six hours of
language study.
The student with less than
two high school units of one
foreign language would take
the Track A courses in the
language study category. In
Track A, the student would
take one foreign language
through the 200 level, and-or
courses in advanced gram
mar, composition, con
versation and phonetics in the
same language. The student
could complete the 100 and 200
level with two three-hour
courses.
Students with more than
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College plans include
replacing demolished Hut
Many Meredith students
returned to campus after the
summer holidays surprised to
find that the Hut, previously
located on the construction
site of the new Fine Arts
Building, had been
demolish^.
Many students agree that
the decision to destroy the
structure in order to make
way for the much-needed
addition to the present music
building was warranted. Still,
many are upset that the
decision was not announced to
Meredith students nor were
any student body leaders
contacted about the plans.
Rebecca Askew, SGA
president, stated her feelings
about this lack of com
munication as, “I left for the
summer and it was there; I
came back and it was gone.”
Askew added that Jean
Jackson, 1974-75 SGA
president, was as surprised as
she was. Neither she, she said,
nor Jackson knew of the
demolition before hand.
When the Board of
Trustees met in the early fall.
Askew said, she told them that
the students were upset about
the demolition since the Hut
had been used for such ac
tivities as parties, meetings,
and one-act plays. She was
told that the board would
consider rebuilding the Hut
after the Fine Arts Building
was finished.
No “hard and fast” plans
exist concerning replacement
of the Hut, according to Joe
Baker, college Business
Tuition grant deadline
The final day for filing an
^plication for the North
Carolina Tuition Grant is
January 27, 1976 at 5 pm.
Applications for spring
semester grants must be
turned into the Registrar’s
office at that time. North
Carolina residents who are
enrolled for 12 or more hours
are eligible for the grant of
approximately $100.
Students who filed the
application last semester do
not need to file another one.
Grants were received by 956
Meredith students last
semester.
Applications are available
in the Office of the Registrar.
TWIG newsbriefs
Faculty seminar
A faculty seminar on
“Encouraging Creativity in
the Classroom” will be 1^ by
Dr. Sally Page beginning
Thursday, January 29. The
seminar will meet for six
weekly sessions on Thursday
from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
This seminar, sponsored
by the Meredith Raising the
Sights of Women program,
will focus the works James
Joyce, Carl Rogers, Abraham
Maslow, Erich Newmann,
C.G. Jung and Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin.
Faculty members in
terested in the workshop
should contact Dr. Page.
K-3 Course
A new course in “Rhythm,
Music and Movement” is
recommended by Dr. David
Lynch for K-3 students ac
cording to Anne Dahle, co
rrector of Meredith’s Con
tinuing Education program.
The course, to be taught by
Inge Witt, will offer one hour
credit and will meet from 3-5
pm Tuesday afternoons.
Registration fee is $40.(X).
Registration forins are
available in the Office of the
Registrar.
Ms. Witt who has a North
(Carolina K-3 teacher’s cer
tificate says the course is
developed to teach students to
instruct young children in
music. Ms. Witt has herself
taught regular and special
education courses in
elementary schools. The
course will, she says, have
three facets-eartraining;
physical expression, and
rhythmic and physical
creativity and improvisation.
the March 6 & 7 sessions in a
one credit hour module which
is being taught by Dr. Erika
Fairchild.
The Executive Committee
of the Raising the Sights of
Women program has voted to
help finance the delegation by
giving $500 toward the total
cost of approximately $1500-
$2000. According to Dr. Sarah
Lemmon, chairperson of the
Raising the Sights of Women
Executive Committee, the
Committee hopes that
Meredith will be involved in
future Model United Nations
both in Cambridge and in the
Raleigh area.
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Manager, though general
plans have been made for
taking action immediately
following completion of the
Fine Arts Building.
Baker stated that the
executive committee of the
Board of Trustees made its
decision last May to tear down
the structure because the
space was needed for the new
building. He added that the
student body was notified
“unofficially” by passing
mention to several students.
Options considered by the
committee were whether to
move the Hut or to tear it
down. Though moving the
building was favored, the
lowest bid received by the
committee for this operation
was $35,000, Baker said.
The great expense was
due to Qie nature of the
structure, making the moving
process almost a matter of
taking the building apart log
by log, as well as moving
water and sewer lines. Moving
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Unfolding is
1976 REW theme
R.E.W., “Unfolding”,
exemplifies according to
Larry Williams, campus
minister, the growth process
which a person undergoes in
Library plans study
developing spiritual maturity.
Various events have been
planned to deal with the
phases of this unfolding, he
said, process from the
“childhood” stage of ac-
United Nations
A ten member Meredith
delegation will participate in
the Harvard National Model
United Nations. The
delegation will represent
Sweden in mock sessions of
the General Assembly and the
Security Council.
Potential Meredith
delegates are preparing for
The Carlyle Campbell
Library is planning to conduct
an in-depth evaluation of its
facilities and services to the
Meredith College Community
during the week of February
9th, according to librarian
Michael Dodge.
The survey represents a
concerted effort of the library
staff to access the strengths
and weaknesses of the general
library program in actually
meeting the needs of its
patrons, the faculty, staff and
students of Meredith College,
he said.
The evaluation will
consist of two parts. Part I, a
general survey of the library’s
facilities and services, will be
automatically distributed to
all of the students and faculty.
Part II, will be distributed
only to those patrons using the
library during the week and
represents a survey of how the
library is meeting actual
problems of patrons while
using the library for specific
reasons.
Any meaningful in
formation obtained from the
survey will be reported back
to the college community
through the TWIG, and will,
most importantly, provide the
library staff with some insight
as to how to improve the
quality of library service.
cepting taught beliefs,
through the “adolescent”
stage of questioning and
doubting, to the “adult” stage
of discovering and accepting
real faith.
Dr. Gene Owens, pastor of
Myers Park Baptist Church in
Charlotte, will be the guest
speaker for the 10 a.m.
Wednesday worship service.
He also will be available on
Tuesday and Wednesday to
visit some classes. He is the
author of Confessions of a
Religionless Christian, copies
of which are available in the
library and the Campus
Ministry Office. Dr. Owens is
a ^aduate of Wake Forest
University, Southeastern
Theological Seminary, and
Union Theological Seminary.