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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. LVIII, NO. 11
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
DECEMBER 6, 1979
The Max and Ester Krehs visit; A wrap up
During their week long stay Max and Ester Krebs were not only able to led discussion with faculty,
but they were also able to chat informally with them. Pictured here are Dr. Parramore, Dr. Anne
Kurtz, Max and Ester Krebs. (Photo by Lory Whittemore)
As one of his first addresses while visiting Meredith, Mr. Krebs spoke at a convocation in the Cate
Center Auditorium on the SALT II Treaty. Dean Burris asks for questions from the attentive
audience.
Speaking from his diplomatic viewpoint, Mr. Krebs was able to
give new insights into the Iranian situation in his informal
discussion with Dr. Anne Kurtz and students. (Photo by Lory
Whittemore)
Dance Ensemble to present concert
by Beth Giles
The Meredith College
Dance Repertory Ensemble
will present its Fall Dance
Concert on Thursday,
December 6th and Friday,
December 7th at 8:00 P.M. in
Jones Auditorium.
This modem dance group
is instructed by Ms. Deborah
Whelan of the Health and
Physical Education Depart
ment, who says the dancers
have become “quite
professional” since beginning
work on the concert in Sep
tember. Choreography will be
by Ms. Whelan ai^ quest
choreographer, Rose Mary
Harms. S^dents, too, for the
first time, will experiment in
choreography.
Attendance in the past has
been less than favorable, but
Ms. Whelan expressed the
hope that more students would
be present for the per
formances. Admission is free.
Meredith students are en
couraged to take^ break from
studying and attend this
event.
S.G.A. discusses Play Day and adopts Angel as mascot
by Darla Stephenson
S.G.A. met on Friday,
November 30th, in Jones
Auditorium and was called to
order by President Cathy
Clapp. There was no old
business to be discussed. The
new business was next on the
agenda.
With the new business was
a series of proposals
presented by the Executive
Committee. The first proposal
was that Freshmen
representatives to legislative
board perform the secretarial
duties at S.G.A. meetings. The
motion was passed and
seconded.
The second proposal
concerned accepting the angel
as the official mascot. The
motion carried without any
discussion.
Dr. Tucker of the
Sociology Department,
Chairman of the Instruction
Committee, presented the
pros and cons of pass or fail.
Dr. Tucker explained that the
Academic Council instructed
the Instruction Committee to
study the pass or fail options
and report back to the
Academic Council.
Dr. Tucker said, “I want
to assure the student body, as
far as I know, no one wants to
do away with pass or fail.”
The problems which the In
struction Committee found
included that there is an op
tion that pass or fail options
are not being used as in
tended. The original use of
pass or fail according to Dr.
Tucker was to enable a
student to take a course, even
if she wasn’t sure she could do
well academically without
hurting her quality points.
There is an opinion now that
pass or fail is being used to
make a student’s course load
easier. -
Secondly, Dr. Tucker said
there was an increasing
number of designated pass or
fail courses and this would
subsequently increase the
number of pass or fail courses
on the record of some
students. Dr. Tucker con
cluded that he did not an
ticipate any drastic changes,
maybe none at all. He also
encouraged the student body
to take their suggestions to the
student representatives on the
Instruction Committee.
The next item of new
business was introduced by
Dean Burris. It was on the
Subject of Play Day, promp
ting much discussion. The
issue according to Dean
Burris is whether Play Day is
still vital enough to Meredith
students to do away with
classes. Dean Burris also
mentioned that there was a
motion at the last faculty
meeting which said no to
cancelling classes for Play
Day.
However, Dean Burris
was very clear that having
Play Day or not is the
student’s prerogative. “The
faculty does not presume to
say whether you will have
Play Day or not,” he said.
A number of options were
presented, one of which was to
have Play Day, but not call off
classy. Another was to call
off classes later in the af
ternoon and simply have Play
Day activities delayed for an
hour or so. There was yet the
suggestion that Play Day be
held on a Saturday.
Students responded
primarily in defense of
keeping Play Day as it has
traditionally been. Reasons
were based on the traditional
significance of Play Day. Also
one student comment^ that
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