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Finance Committee
The Finance Committee
of the Student Legislature
will meet today tt 4:30
p.m. in Roland Parker L
Volume 76, Number
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A SERENE SPOT-Even the rustic Chapel Hill Cemetery is sometimes caught up in the
atmosphere of this University town. Daily Tar Heel photographer Steve Adams snapped this
picture while just strolling along one day. It must tell some kind of story.
Self LimiUus
By EVIE STEVENSON
DTH Staff Writer
A questionnaire was mailed
this summer to UNC women
students concerning their
reactions to the proposed
policy of self-limiting hours at
the University.
The results
of these
questionnaires are
process of analysis
in the
by the
Two Fraternities Expanding
The Saint Anthony Hall
fraternity and Phi Mu sorority
are expanding their residential
resources for the coming year.
This summer the St. A's
extended a rear wall of their
house approximately
twenty-four feet, enlarging
their upstairs porch and
downstairs entertainment
room.
Phi Mu will be moving from
their present location on East
Franklin Street into a new
house on Henderson Street
when construction is
completed next spring.
The enlargement at St.
Anthony Hall has increased the
area of the bar room from
approximately eight by twelve
Experimental College Meet Set
By J.D. WILKINSON
DTH Staff Writer
Roger Thompson,
Experimental College
chairman, announced Tuesday
that an organizational meeting
of the college's coordinating
committee will be held tonight
at 8:00 p.m. in Roland Parker I
on the second floor of the
Graham Memorial Student
Union.
On the meeting's agenda will
be organization of the
Experimental College for the
fall semester and a discussion
of the coordinating
committee's relationship with
the newly-created Action
Government Commission. The
Commission is an organization
through which students will be
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Committee on Self-Limiting
Hours.
Dr. Lillian Lehman,
chairman of the committee,
said approximately 1500 of the
3000 questionnaires sent were
returned to the University and
have been given to the Institute
for Reasearch in Social Studies
for programming and analysis.
Last year, the Women s
Residence Council submitted a
St. A And Phi Mu
feet to thirty-six by thirty-six
feet, so the area can now
accommodate party crowds.
The construction was begun
in August by a professional
firm; the painting and other
final touches are being done
now by the brothers.
The cost of the enlargement
was approximately $20,000,
according to administrative
officer J. Franklin Rand. The
money was supplied in a loan
by the national fraternity fund.
The chapter has raised its rent
from $92 to $100 to cover the
expense.
Phi Mu sorority plans to
move into the house it has
owned since 1964 which was
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Organization For Fall
able to establish new student
government committees which
they feel are necessary to meet
problems which face the UNC
student body.
The meeting will be open to
any students "interested in
helping to chart the course of
experimental education on the
Carolina campus" according to
Thompson. .
He said that five members
from last year's coordinating
committee are returning and
that at least ten new members
are needed to make up the
Experimental College's ruling
body.
Thompson stressed the fact
that over fifty per cent of the
members on last year's
coordinating committee were
first or seconcVyear students
Questionnaire Mailed To Parents
Hours Now Under Study
self-limiting hours proposal to
the administration. This
proposal went through several
administrative-faculty
committees and was submitted
to Chancellor Sitterson. The
proposal subsequently was
turned down by the
Chancellor's Advisory Board.
After meeting with members
of the WTomen's Residence
Council, some faculty and
rented to the Phi Sigma Kappa
fraternity last year. Presently a
new bedroom wing is being
added.
According to the sorority
president, Carol McHaney, the
air-conditioned house will
accommodate forty-four girls.
The present Phi Mu house,
which is being rented for its
fourth year, houses
twenty-eight girls.
The construction on the new
house was started in August by
the Hutchins Construction
Company. At the scheduled
completion next April, Phi Mu
will move into what will be the
largest sorority house on
campus.
is
and added that approximately
fifty-five per cent of the fifty
courses offered last spring were
organized by undergraduate
students. The Experimental
College is run completely by
undergraduates.
Thompson said that the
college's coordinating
committee will serve three
functions:
First, it will coordinate the
college's activities and produce
the Experiment College
Catalogue.
Second, it will serve as a
course in experimental
education.
Finally, the committee will
hope full serve as a body for
creating credit courses in
experimental education to be
By TOM SNOOK
DTH Staff Writer
Student Body President Ken
Day has called a special session
of the Student Legislature for
Thursday night to deal with
proposed appropriations for
several projects.
At the top of Day's
appropriation list is a request
of $600 to support a proposed
"new branch" of Student
Government to be called
"Action Government"
The purpose of this new
venture is to broaden
membership in student
government by opening means
for more people to work on
matters of serious concern to
them and thereby generate a
more powerful position.
The process for forming
these groups is analogous to
that of the Experimental
College. Thus, anyone who
wants to work around a certain
area may write a description of
that area. All the ideas will
then be compiled and placed in
a catalogue for distribution.
Forms for Action
Government will be distributed
under the joint auspices of the
Experimental College
Coordinating Committee and
the newly established Action
Government Commission.
Day said of the venture,
"This cooperative effort holds
the promise of bringing into
active involvement, in a broad
view of student government, an
unprecedented number of
students. It also may lead to
greatly increased
administrators, the Chancellor
appointed the Faculty-Student
-Administration committee to
study the self-limiting hours
proposal.
The committee was asked to
make recommendations
concerning the practical
possibility of instituting a
system of self-limiting hours on
this campus; to get an appraisal
of the attitude of parents,
alumni, and friends of the
University toward the
institution of such a system.
Faculty members on the
committee are: Dr. Lillian
Lehman, chairman; Dr. Mary
Turner Lane, Dr. Peter Walker.
Mrs. Heather Ness of the
Dean of Women's office, Fred
Schroeder of the Dean of
Men's office, and Dr. Harry E.
Smith, Special Assistant to the
Chancellor on Residence
Colleges, represent the
administration on the
committee.
Student members are Libby
Idol, chairman of the Women's
Residence Council, Kathy
Hipp, and Beth Ferree.
The questionnaire deals with
parental opinion concerning
self-limiting hours for senior
women and women over 21
living in university residence
halls.
Parents were asked if the
current closing hours for
women were too restrictive,
acceptably restrictive,
offered next semester,
according to Thompson.
Thompson said that
tentative plans call for
distribution of course starter
sheets by October 4. The
sheets will placed under every
dormitory door on campus and
will provide space for students
to describe courses which they
wish to initiate. All courses
submitted by students will be
printed in the College
Catalogue.
Thompson outlined three
immediate goals for the
Experimental College: the
formation of a group interested
in reformation of the General
College; student participation
in deparmental decision-
making; and the initiation of
work-study programs.
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student-faculty cooperation on
issues of concern to both.
'Some may have noted the
absence of student government
interviews which have sparked
past criticism. This year's new
approach enables interested
students to become involved
not only with specific issues
but with major issues on
Of Ref hi
George Vlasits, 26-year old
former UNC graduate student
and full-time field worker for
the Southern Student
Organizing Committee, was
convicted Tuesday of refusing
induction into the armed
services.
A U.S. Eastern District
Court jury in Raleigh brought
in the guilty verdict after only
ten minutes of deliberation.
Judge John Larkins delayed
sentencing until Wednesday.
Bail had not year been set
Tuesday evening, and Vlasits
remained in police custody.
The trial stemmed from
Vlasits' refusal to answer
questions on January 17 about
his medical and personal
history and about
organizations with .which he
had been affiliated.
acceptable, acceptably lenient,
or too lenient. Theses same
questions were asked on the
self-limiting hours proposal.
The questionnaire also asked
for parental opinions on the
question of co-ed visiting
privileges on this campus.
Current visiting practices were
explained and parents'
reactions to these practices
were requested.
Parents were then asked
By LES GARNER
DTH Staff Writer
Like many college and
university teachers, UNC's
Peter G. Filene is disillusioned
with accepted methods of
grading his students. Unlike
other professors, though,
Filene, an assistant history
professor and faculty fellow,
tried a new system last
spring student self grading.
"Increasingly I resented the
grading system as a nuisance
which corrupted or at least
distracted the experience of
learning," Filene said,
"Between history and the
students. I stood, ideally, as a
guide; but, necessarily, as a
policeman-judge."
Bothered by the second
role, Filene questioned his
duties in grading. "I could not
abolish grades, since the
University requires them. But I
did not believe that I had to be
the one to give the grades."
Another member of the
history department then
suggested that Filene let his
students grade themselves, an
idea Filene termed
"ingenious."
Three weeks into the
semester, Filene informed his
students of the plan. By then,
be felt the class was "a random
sample, having signed up for
the course with no notion that
they would grade themselves."
Admitting that his students
were shocked at the idea of self
grading, Filene felt this
experiment "pretty exciting."
"Some students said that
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iney were going to give
themselves automatic A's, but
a lot of students decided to
work harder than they would
Self
campus as welL"
Roger Thompson, chairman
of the Experimental College,
also noted, "This is a first and
very important step toward
changing the image and
function of Student
Government by making it more
immediately relevant to the
needs and concerns of students
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Officials at the armed
services induction center in
Raleight said that because of
his refusal to answer questions
asked him,. Vlasits had failed to
complete the inductions
process. He was indicted on
February 20.
Vlasits is a native of
Hackensack, New Jersey and a
graduate of Lehigh University.
He spent a year at UNC as a
graduate student and was
active in anti-war and anti-draft
activities here.
Vlasits was asked to resign
his teaching post at the
Murdoch Center for Mentally
Retarded Children in Butner
because of publicity arising
from his political activities.
After leaving the Murdoch
Center, Vlasits became more
active in the Southern Student
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their reaction to the proposal
of visiting by members of the
opposite sex in residence halls,
sorority and fraternity
bedrooms.
Dr. Lehman stated that this
information will be given to a
new committee now being
formed to study the question
of visiting on this campus and
would not be used by the
Self-Limiting Hours Committee
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have normally."
Filene's class procedure
during the semester was
normal. It included lectures,
discussions, opti ona
attendance, and his usual essay
exams. His classes, History 72,
introduction to American
history since 1865, and History
115, American history for
upperclassmen, covered the
usual material.
Different from normal
procedure, however, was the
return of exam books. "The
bluebooks would be returned
with remarks but no grade. At
the end of the course, the
student would tell me what
grade he deserved.
"To help the student
determine his grade, I offered
several guidelines. I listed my
criteria of excellence for
examination essays, and I
suggested weight for various
parts of the course."
An example of such a
weight is that, in History 72,
the first examination grade
counts 20 per cent of the
course mark while another quiz
may count 30 per cent
To compare anti evaluate his
students' judgment versus his
own, Filene kept a private
record of the grades he would
have given. "In no case would I
give a student a grade or would
I change his grade. If he could
not figure out his grade at the
end of the semester, I would
only discuss the problem with
him."
The system required only
one modification. Final
examination for History 72
wTas scheduled for the end of
the examination period.
Therefore, the students had to
grade themselves on the basis
who in the past have found
Student Government an
unsatisfactory mode for
organization or action.
Of the $600 requested for
the project, $300 will be used
for the pringting fees and $300
will be used as a special
discretionary fund to be used
by the special interest groups
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my induction
Organizing Committee. He was
one of the principal leaders of
the recent SSOC-sponsored
"Disorientation" program
offered to incoming UNC
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of what they thought they had
done on the test instead of on
the basis of his comments.
As a practical system, Filene
found self-grading "probably
not a good idea," although the
majority of the grades
corresponded with his own
opinion.
Volunteer
Needed In
Volunteer tutors are
urgently needed this year to
work with children and
teenagers in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro community.
Tutoring may be done in
daytime or evening hours, and
can take place in schools,
homes, or community centers.
Virtually every skill is
needed for the tutoring
program. Besides the great
demand for tutors in reading
and new math, they are also
needed in such areas as art,
music, dramatic arts, and
physical education.
Every volunteer is asked to
give a minimum of two hours a
week, and to make a
commitment to the program
for the semester. No previous
tutoring experience is required.
Students interested in
making this kind of
contribution to the
community and especially to
the underprivileged of the
community are asked to fill
out an application at the
to get underway.
Second on the list of
appropriations is a request of
$1000 for the Student
Transportation Commission to
be used to finance the South
Campus Bus Transportaion
System.
Of this request Day
(Continued on page 5)
said,
Guilty
students.
The program was, in Vlasits
words, "an attept to counter
the affect of the
administration's orientation."
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"Sixty per cent of the
students gave grades about the
aoiiie iu x nuiuu uaic given.
Thirty-five percent graded.
themselves higher, and five per
cent, lower."
Although these results were
highly acceptable, Filene found
(Continued on page 5)
Tutors Are
This Area
YMCA Building and have a
short interview.
An orientation meeting,
required of all tutors, will be
held on Monday, September
30, at 7:30 p.m. in Murphey
Hall. Howard Lee, formerly of
the Educational Improvement
Program in Durham, will be the
speaker.
Appreciation
The family of the late
UNC Director Of
Admissions, Charles C
Bernard, wishes to
express their sincere
appreciation for the
many expressions of
sympathy and tributes to
Mr. Bernard.
Mr. Bernard, who
served in his position
with the University since
1959, died of an
apparent heart attack on
Saturday. Burial was
Sunday in the Chapel
Hill Cemetery.