DECEMBER 1984
THE BELLES
PAGE 3
FROM
THE DEAN
Summer School
Through the services
of Tricky Dickie Recording
Studios, the following conver
sation was recently taped
between the Dean of the Col
lege and three students: Pinky
Green, a Junior from Sticks,
N.C.; Belle Ringer, a Freshman
from East Bypass, Ga.; and Ima
Payne, a sophomore from
Bigtown, N.J. Pinkie, who had
made the appointment speaks
first:
Miss Green: After receiving my
mid-semester progress report,
my parents want me to think
about summer school. My
friends, here, wanted to come
tO'this meeting with me.
Dr. Miller: Good. Two ques
tions: where would you like to
attend summer school and what
would you like to take?
Miss Green: I don’t know.
Miss Ringer: I’m having trouble
in French but my next door
neighbor back home is Profes
sor of French at Weybeloe
Normal Teachers’ College. She
has offered to tutor me. Can I
get approved for this?
Miss Payne: I want to take
“Travel by Smoke” a course
offered by the Summa Cum
Matra Institute of Phar
macology. Will it meet the
social studies requirement if I
come back to St. Mary’s next
year?
Dr. Miller: Miss Green, you
really need to talk to your
advisor. Who is your advisor?
Miss Green: Dr. Drydust. He’s
never in. You know, I went by
his office three times last night.
Dean Miller [Dean of College]
Dr. Miller: Try normal business
hours or leaving a note asking
him to call you at a time you will
be in your room. Or you could
check his teaching schedule
and see him after one of his
classes.
Miss Green: He’s no help,
really. You know, he doesn’t
know what I want to do.
Dr. Miller: Well, he can’t make
that decision for you, but there
is information in the Guidance
Office that can help you to
decide what you would like to
do. Dr. Drydust can then help
you pisn how to reach that goal.
Miss Payne: Why do I need
your permission to take a
course anyway? Are you some
kind of god?
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Dr. Miller: No, not at all. You
don’t need my permission to
take a course. However, you do
need my permission to include
work taken at other institutions
toward the fulfillment of re
quirements for a St. Mary’s
degree - in other words - for the
credit to be accepted by St.
Mary’s.
Miss Payne: What about my
course?
Dr. Miller: It would fail on two
points: First, because all
required courses must be at
tempted at St. Mary’s, it could
not be used to fulfill the social
studies requirement. Second, I
can’t find the Summa Cum
Matra Institute in my list of
accredited schools and we only
accept credit from colleges that
have been accredited by their
regional accrediting associa
tion.
Miss Payne: Your list of ac
red! ted schools must be out of
date. If I bring you the catalog
which shows that the college is
accredited, could I at least
count the course as an elective?
Dr. Miller: If the college is, in
fact, a legitimate institution,
accredited by the proper
authority, work is normally
accepted if such work may be
applied toward a degree at the
college in question.
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Miss Payne: What does that
mean?
Dr. Miller: Many colleges offer
courses, seminars, etc. which
are for remedial purposes or for
enrichment, but they do not
apply credit for such work
toward their own degree. In
such a case, St. Mary’s does
not either.
Miss Payne: Then I’m going to
Harvard and take freshman
English. Would that be good
enough for you?
Or. Miller: Yes, indeed.
Harvard has an excellent
English department, but, as I
said, all required courses must
be attempted at St. Mary’s;
therefore, the course could not
be counted toward the fulfill
ment of the required nine hours
of English at St. Mary’s. I would
suggest, that because Harvard
has a very wide variety of offer
ings during the summer, that
you take some course that
interests you which is not
taught at St. Mary’s. You would
receive elective credit which
would count toward the fulfill
ment of St. Mary’s sixty-hour
graduation requirement.
Miss Green: May I take two
physical education courses at
U.N.C. so I won’t have to take
P.E. at St. Mary’s next year?
Miss Ringer: The only reason
you want to go to U.N.C. is so
you can snake on my boyfriend.
Miss Green: I wouldn’t have
that wimp if he were the last
tran on earth.
Dr. Miller: St. Mary’s would
record credit for the P.E.
courses, but the requirement is
that you take a physical educa
tion class each semester.
Therefore, the work at U.N.C.
would not lighten your load.
Miss Ringer- (Dan I make up my
French this summer?
Dr. Miller: Not by being tutored
as you suggested. Credit is only
accepted from accredited insti
tutions and your neighbor, no
matter how well qualified, is not
an accredited institution. If you
can arrange for Weybeloe Nor
mal to offer a course in high
school French^ St. Mary’s will
accept the credit.
Miss Ringer: Why doesn’t St.
Mary’s offer the (x>urses the
students need?
Dr. Miller: What you probably
mean is, “the courses students
want”, but in any case the
answer is the same. The
Summer School- Committee
decides which courses will be
most helpful to the largest
number of students. This is
necessary in order to keep the
cost of the summer school- tui
tion within reasonable limits.
Generally, very basic courses
are offered. Latin has proved to
be very helpful to students
having difficulty with English as
well as with other foreign
languages.
Miss Green: Really! My room
mate told me all summer school
work transfers back with the
grade of “C”. You know, if I earn
an “A” why can’t I get the grade
I earn?
Dr. Miller: Your roommate was
wrong. Your record does, in
deed, show the grade you earn
ed. No work transfers back as
“C”. In fact, grades are not
transferred at all; only credit is
transferred. Therefore, work
done at other institutions has
no effect on your quality point
average at St. Mary’s.
Miss Green: Really. But I need
quality points so I can get off
Academic Probation. You
Know.
Dr. Miller: Then you should
plan to attend summer sch(X)l
at St. Mary’s where quality
points may be earned. St.
Mary’s summer school sessions
usually permit you to attend
another college also. This does
require careful planning.
Miss Ringer: If I (ian’t get the
college to do that, what can I
do?
Dr. Miller: Your best bet would
be to take Latin at St. Mary’s.
Miss Green: Isn’t this really
just a gimmick to force stu
dents to attend summer school
at St. Mary’s and make work for
the faculty?
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