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Friday, October 20
MARS HILL CoLlEGE HILLTOP
Page Five
Hough :
and Summer Session
Dear Editor:
I am concerned about the mis
understanding which has resulted
from the policy the faculty passed
on September 12. As Director of
both summer school and the Jan
uary Term, I would like to try to
interpret the present policy.
First. I am including some back
ground information. Students
and faculty were very critical of
the 3-7 summer calendar even be-'
before we had begun; and particu-
cularly after the June Term, the.
criticism grew. As a result, a cpm-
mittee of students and faculty met
twice and then held an open meet
ing. After the open meeting, it
Was decided that a questionnaire
should be circulated in order to
gain a better understanding of the
feeling of faculty and students..
Eighty percent of the respondents
to the questionnaire favored a re
turn to two sessions (5-5, S'/j-SYa,
6-6) and eighty-five percent of
that group favored two five week
terms. With that information, the
Admissions and Academic Stan
dards Committee presented the
proposal which was passed by the
faculty in September.
The follovving is my interpre
tation of the present policy;
1. The June Term was eliminat
ed because most students coming
to summer school did not want in
novative courses. However, some
Courses will be offered for short
term credit during the summer.
In addition, several students are
already designing Independent
proposals to satisfy a short term
during the summer.
2. There are now two five week
terms scheduled for next summer
{June 4-July 6 and July 9-August
^0). A student could complete 4
Courses during that ten weeks perl-
t*de thus allowing a student to gra
duate earlier. However, a student
fay find 16 hours In ten weeks
fay Involve more work than he
accomplish In that period of
time. Twelve hours will probably
be the normal load for a student.
3- The short term requirement
^as reduced to three for incoming
keshmen (fall. 1973) in order to
9ive them more flexibility. Tuition
*^0sts for the short term will become
Part of the two semesters rather
'ban a separate charge. This Is
an attempt to keep the overall
tuition from rising In 1973-74.
The change was made to give
more flexibility to the summer pro
gram and thus to give students
more options rather than less. If
it has created a problem for any
student, please come by my office
in Administration 21. I believe
together we can effect a reason
able solution.
John'M. Hough, Jr.
Associate Deah for Academic
Affairs (Directorof Summer
School & Short Term)
to the student affairs council by
not saying that we want you to
consider this?
Kuykendall: No, we made that
point rather clear. I got up and
said I do not care whether this
proposai is passed, I don’t care
whether it is defeated with stipu
lations, I just want you to consider
it in comrrHttee.
Hilltop: But did not the student
affairs council do their homework?
Kuykendall: The charter says there
shall be no tippling house within
four miles of campus and Gehring
said in essence this means no drink
ing on campus,, but in essence
that does not say what it is sup
pose to mean ... it just simply
says that there will be no estab
lishment that sells alcohol ... it
doesn’t say anywhere in that
charter that a student can not have
a drink.
Hilltop: Historically, Baptist
m-
On
By Sam Easterby
Hilltop: How valid do you think
the administration’s position is
towards what they consider non-
negotiable issues?
Kuykendall: | think it is rather
funny that when we went to Christ-
mount there were two things
that Dr. Bentley was unalterably
opposed to and those were, inter
dorm visitation and drugs and
then we came back on campus
this year and there were three
things that Dr. Bentley was op
posed to; drugs, inter-dorm visi
tation, and drinking on campus.
Now there are five things that Dr.
Bentley is unalterably opposed to;
drinking, drugs, inter-dorm visi
tation, a student on the board of
trustees and a student on the ad
ministrative team as a member.
Hilltop: But, Dr. Bentley, in actual
ity has no control over the member
ship of the board of trustees.
Kuykendall: But, he did say he
was opposed to it.
Hilltop: Do you think that a mis
take was made in presenting the
drinking proposal passed by senate
stitutions are against drinking ...
Kuykendall: Who is to decide what
is historical? Historically they are,
but why not question that. The
old line that truth without ques
tion is false. If you do not question
what is happening around you then
you are saying there is no use do
ing anything, because that is the
way everything is.
Hilltop: Did you not consider the
problem of constituency?
Kuykendall: Of course we did.
Hilltop: Don’t you think that al
lowing drinking on campus might
very well be a death blow to Mars
Hill?
Kuykendall: But our whole pro
posal was never to-allow drinking
on campus.
Hilltop: But by deleting this rule
from the handbook you are allow
ing drinking on campus.
Kuykendall: But everybody in that
council meeting knew that the
proposal would not be passed.
What we wanted to do was get
answers for students instead of
saying Dr. Bentley is opposed to
it. Dr. Bentley is an intelligent man
but he doesn’t have divine inspi
ration ... at least I haven’t found
this out yet. I’m sure after this in
terview he will inform me if he
does or not. The board of trustees
is made up of intelligent men, even
they make mistakes, they will be
the first ones to admit it. The North
Carolina Baptist Convention is
made up of people and people do
change their minds ...
Hilltop: But they haven’t changed
their mind.
Kuykendall: Right! Because no
body has ever questioned it.
Hilltop: What was the strategy
behind your move after the stu
dent affairs council rejected the
drinking proposai?
Kuykendall: In talking it over
Duane, Frank and I tryed to come
up with something else besides
resigning from S.G.A. We hashed
it over for a long, long time and we
decided to wait until we had talk
ed to George Peeery, who is the
faculty advisor to the S.G.A.
Hilltop: Who was the main pro
ponent of the idea to resign?
Kuykendall: We all had the idea
in our heads. We talked to Peery
and told him the way we felt; if it
is a toy we do not want to play the
game and if it is business we want
to be in it, but we didn’t perceive
it to be business. Peery listened
mostly and so we decided that
this would be the best thing to do
(resign) and it was the only thing
to wake students up. ,1 think it
worked, i think it really worked
. . . students were inspired. Our
next step was to get the senate
to reject our resignations.
Hilltop: Did you think at that
point you could still work within
the framework of S.G.A.?
Kuykendall: We have always
said that the framework of S.G.A.
was great and the philosophy was
great, but only that the people out
side wouldn’t let it work.
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Hilltop: Did you feel the same way
after Dr. Bentley’s talk?
Kuykendall: We thought we did
one thing wrong and that was to
let Dr. Bentley have the speech on
his grounds, that wasn’t a good
thing to do. We thought he did
make some concessions, however
small they may be.
Hilltop: Why do you think the
senate accepted your resignation
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and rejected Duane and Frank’s?
Kuykendall: My first thought was
that the senate has seen Frank
work in the judiciary and Duane
has been in the senate and they
have seen the hastles he has gone
through to get where he is. The
president of the student body is a
person you really can not see
everyday doing his job, so they don’t
know what the presidents job is.
In there conception I was not the
president of the student body they
wanted.
Hilltop: Why dp you think Duane
accepted the job of President?
Kuykendall: I think he rational
ized himself into the job . . . he
found an easy way in and took it.
I don’t believe he should have taken
it this year!
Hilltop: Why?
Kuykendall: Many reasons, the
way he got for one, he is a senate
president rather than a student
body president.
Hilltop: You are saying that he
doesn’t have the support of the
student body?
Kuykendall: I think that was evi
dent in the petition that Frank
passed around on Monday. Stu
dents were saying listen to us at
the Monday night meeting. Pro
cedures wouldn’t allow it. Your
main objective is students, and that
is who you should have been lis
tening to. To hell with the pro
cedures .. . students are more im
portant 11 It is a question of whe
ther you want to follow procedures
and get caught up in them or whe
ther you sincerely want to be a
government for students.
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