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PAGE 2 Editorial THE TWIG Rules and Honor We are talking about strengthening the honor code. But is it strengthened when students are no longer expected to regard social regulations seriously? Or is it strengthened when the government itself neglects enforcing these regulations? It seems that the student government would be acting more honorably if it were to say, “Our values concerning alcohol have changed. We no longer think it is immoral to drink in the dor mitories; therefore we can no longer enforce a policy which we have inherited from our mothers and grandmothers.” It must be acknowle^ed that we are bucking against an impossible situation. Makii^ a change in our alcohol policy would be more impossible than ridding North Carolina of its Baptists. But we are talking about honor and integrity~of our govern ment as well as of our students. It seems that avoiding such hot issues as unpopular social regulations will only weaken our honor code, not strengthen it. It may be possible for a student to feel honorable drinking beer in the dorm when she knows she has never lied, cheated, or stolen. But can a government feel honorable when it has not dealt with the issues at hand? MSO College food gets zip Binghamton, N.Y.-(I.P.) Since coming to SUNY- Binghamton from Yale University two years ago, William J. Hickey, director of Auxiliary Campus En terprises and head of campus dining services, has put new zip into institutional eating, which he says “has come a long way since the early 1%0’s.” Mr. Hickey is in charge of buying for more than 3,000 students who have contracted with ACE for 15 or 19 meals a week. Two recent national awards for menus proved that Mr. Hickey’s meals aren’t humdrum or restricted to hamburgers or hot dogs. His secret ingredient is planning. During last summer the menu committee, composed of the dietitian, students, and dining hall managers, set up meals for the current 30-week school year. Six cycles of five weeks each were planned, keeping in mind last year’s most popular entrees, and considering, too, new foods on the market and fruits and vegetables ... season. Throughout the year at weekly meetings, the committee evaluates each previous week’s menus, changing meals as needed. in Several years ago he discovered that the traditional hot lunch was unpopular with most students. They preferred sandwiches, he found, because that is what they have been served all their lives. The “quick way” lunch- soups, salads, sandwiches- resulted and is now in all college dining halls. Health foods and vegetarian meals are served in Dickinson dining hall. Here, in addition to cottage cheese and tossed salad at lunch and dinner, wheat germ, honey, and peanut butter are offered at all meals. Students in the four college dining halls can have unlimited second helpings of all foods, except steak. Mr. Hickey is proud that 95 per cent of all baked goods served is made on campus in the University’s bake shop. This includes such mouth watering fare as tortes, fruit cobblers, pies, doughnuts, and French, Italian, rye, and pumpernickel breads. Also created on campus are the huge birthday cakes, elaborately decorated and big enough to feed 1,000, which are served each month in the college dining halls to honor all the students having birth days that month. APRIL 8, 1976 f 1 The Student Government Association has for many years enforced an honor code which covered all areas of social and academic life. It was a mark of distinction that the code relied upon the individual student’s sense of honor rather than on any obligation to tattle. The change in the honor code which comes up before the student body April 9 will not alter this basic distinction. We seem not to want to change our concept of community honor but to dodge social regulations which are impossible for us to change. The proposed honor code would govern no social or dormitory regulations. Violations would include theft, bodily or psychological harm to another person, possession of illegal substances or drugs, falsification of college records, and academic dishonesty such as cheating. The proposed change is important because it recognizes how differently students live from the rules which are imposed upon them at Meredith. But the basic problem with the clmnge is its nature of enforcing regulations: If the honor code rests on a student’s personal responsibility and sense of honor in following the regulations, how can she honorably break certain of the college regulations? It is a fact of society that as values change, the codes of morality change. Even in the last five years, Meredith has moved a great deal away from regarding dating or leaving the campus as a privil^e to seeing it as a right. Our signout procedure now reflects this: we are free to come and go as we please without reporting our whereabouts. There will be very few people who will come before interdormitory board for abusing the signout procedure as it now exists. The only other policy not covered by the honor code would be the alcohol policy which, for reasons of politics, cannot be changed as we changed the signout procedure. If toe alcohol policy is removed from toe honor code, one of two things may happen. Since student officials will no longer expect students to “turn themselves in”, room searches and informing may give an ardent interdormitory board information with which to prosecute offenders. Again, this first possibility is highly unlikely, mainly because no one wants to enforce the drinking policy. The second possibility is almost sure to take place: the policy which forbids the use of alcohol on campus would be forgotten. We would be more com fortable with nonenforcement, since the numbers of students who do drink would no longer be violating something so sacred as toe Meredith honor code. 10 Election Results SGA Executive Committee Phyllis Smith Katherine Frazier Elizabeth (Betsy) Rowlett Cathy Pickett Elizabeth (Beth) Leavel Cynthia (Cindy) Truelove Janet (Jan) Hart Deborah (Debbie) Doss President Executive Vice President Chairman of Legislative Board Chairman of Judicial Board Nanette Reid Elizabeth (Betsy) Rowlett Deborah (Debbie) Doss Chairman of Interdormitory Board Treasurer Chief Student Advisor Chairman of Elections Board and Handbook Editor Secretary to Executive Committee Chairman Chairman of Elections Board and Handbook Editor Legislative Board Diane Thomas Freshman Dorm Vice Presidents: Mary Creech Patricia (Tricia) Crouch Carol Fitch Jan Greer Bridget McMinn Sue Michael Suzanne Price Mary Margaret Steele Alix Willcox Secretary of Board Sophomore Dorm Vice Presidents: Cynthia (Cindy) Bizzell Diane Cashwell Kathryn Cole Anna Comer Carrie Josephine Compton Kimberly (Kim) Everhart Nora Griffin Geneva (Gen) Stanley I Junior Dorm Vice Presidents: Julie Amos Janice Stewart Mary Ann Watts Celia Jane Witt Senior Dorm Vice Presidents: Carol Clapp Jane Gates Virgina Patrick Darlene Smith Diana Swann Judicial Board Cathy Pickett Chairman Denise Byrd Secretary Elizabeth (Beth) Leavel Chairman of Interdormitory Board Interdormitory Board Elizabeth (Beth) Leavel Anne Parker Carolyn Pennington Sharon Stephenson Sandra (Sandy) Godwin Sarah Elizabeth (Beth) Taylor Margaret (Meg) Hess Susan (Sue) Vehorn Chairman Secretary Senior Dorm President Senior Dorm President Junior Dorm President Sophomore Dorm President Sophomore Dorm President Freshman Dorm President Freshman Dorm President >1 Election Board Deborah (Debbie) Doss Chairman Meredith Christian Association President Vice President Menda Sue Godfrey Penn Ervin Linda Allgood Deborah Jean Phillips REW Chairman Worship Chairman College Center Association Flizabeth (Beth) Veasey President ^*eanor Chappel vice Chairman Kathryn (Kathy) Christian Chairman Concerts and Lectures Meredith Recreation Association Diana Rhodes Emily Widman President Vice President Non-Resident Students Jacqueline E. Bunn Marguerite (Jamie) Kenyon Barbara Mangum Patricia Yelvington Debra L. Coates Jo Ann Mclver Bettie Denise Blackley Dorothy Hankins Susan Wheeler Susan Emmrich Susan Emmrich Susan Wheeler Peggy Frisbie Vice President Secretary-Treasurer Elections Board Representative, Chairman Elections Board Representative, Co-Chairman Meredith Christian Association Meredith Recreation Association, Chairman Meredith Recreation Association, Co-Chairman Meredith Recreation Association, Co-Chairman Non-Resident Activities, Chairman Non-Resident Activities, Co-Chairman College Center Association, Chairman College Center Association, Co-Chairman Legislative Board Representative lA Oak Leaves Oak Leaves, Sarah Ruth Cralle, Editor; The 'Twig, Margaret (Maggie) Odell, Editor; College Marshall, Virginia Patrick, Chief; Student Life Committee, Mary Kathryn Morgan, Chairman Chief Student Advisor Janet (Jan) Hart GIVEAHOOTl moL'uuMi THE ^ TWie MEftEVJTH COLLEGE f * Maggie Odell columnist Sha”o„ Ell Reporters Kim Farlow, Debbie Doss, Nancy Newton, Maggie Odell, . Karen Britt, Darlene Smith Photographer Marti Hollinshed Advertising Carol Fitch Business Manager p^gg Land Circulation Manager Susan Moore Member Associated Collegiate Press. Published weekly except during holidays and exams. THE TWIG is served by National Educational Advertising service, 18 East Street, New York. Subscription rates: $3.70 f l;
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