:sr sr f tr rs r"" "zs t Marching UNC President William Friday said last week he will launch a study to determine whether students on the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina system are taking enough courses to graduate in four years. Friday's action comes in the wake of a recent controversy at N.C. State between faculty and students over whether students should be required ,tb take a minimum course load. The faculty contends that the University has made it too easy to drop courses, and that as a result, many students do not graduate in four years. To combat the increasing numbers of drops, the Faculty Senate at State recently proposed shortening the period in which a student may drop a course, without penalty, from nine weeks to two weeks. The faculty body also urged that students be required to take a minimum workload of 12 hours a semester. Students protested the faculty's recommendation and rightly so. The faculty's solution to the problem of widespread course dropping is myopic and self-defeating. Today's students are driven to taking fewer courses than their academic predecessors by the need to excel scholastically in an ever-more-competitive environment. With the domestic job market so tight in the last few years, more and more college students are choosing post-graduate study as an appealing alternative to selling penny candy at the local five- 84th Year of Editorial Freedom Alan Murray Editor 1) 2) 3) 4) mm : $ 2.75 v 1404 E. FRANKLIN ST. 929-7498 BURNING MIDNIGHT OIL? Brew good tasting coffees from the international selec tion at St. James. Mocha Java, Columbian, Ethiopian, and others - ground fresh at St. JAMES ToBKCCQS 117 r.waOJuSt THE Daily Crossword ACROSS 26 1 Moist ( 27 5 Songwrit ers' group 30 10 Iranian 32 leader 35 14 Operatic prince 36 15. 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The trouble is, there are many applicants seeking few positions in today's graduate schools. The competition is worse than fierce, it's cut throat. Forced to maintain super-human academic records to gain entry into medical and law schools, undergraduates are increasingly resorting to such tactics as sabotaging the work of their classmates, paying secretaries SI 00 for answers to tests and rummaging through trashcans outside department offices to find exam stencils. If students resort to such drastic measures to secure high academic averages, and thereby increase their chances of post-graduate study, it should come as no shock to President Friday, or anyone else, that students drop courses more frequently now than they did ten years ago. For a student striving for admission to the UNC Medical School, a B in bio-chemistry just won't do anymore, so rather than limit his chances, he drops the course two weeks before the exam. We don't pretend to know the cures for these complex academic ills, but one thing is clear, trying to solve, the problems caused by brutal scholastic competition with minimum course load requirements and aborted drop periods is like treating measles with spot remover. RC SPECIAL LOWER PRICED CANTONESE DINNERS EVERY NIGHT YOUR CHOICE: CHICKEN CHOW MEIN (CRISPY) EGG FOO YUNG MOO GOO GAI PAN BEEF BOK CHOY SERVED WITH RICE SPRING ROLL TEA (HOT OR COLD) by N.M. 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After the Athletic Department rammed through a 40 per cent escalation in athletic fees and the Housing Department cunningly raised room rents by as much as 11.1 per cent, and with the University standing by to unload another one of its annual tuition increases, students are tired of continually paying more money just to receive the same goods and services, especially if they can block a fee increase by doing nothing more complicated than putting an "x" in the "no box on the ballot. Impassioned pleas for money to provide anti misogynous magazines, newspaper for entering black freshmen, and more paper clips for Suite C just don't seem to, cut the monetary mustard anymore. Charles Sullivan 34 Old West If a tree falls... To the editor Congratulations to the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity and expecially to Harvey D. Aaron, as you obviously expected, on your collection of $1600 Saturday for charity. I must say, it was a grand deed indeed! Furthermore. I commend all the brothers for committing themselves so wholeheartedly in the service of humanity. As another humanitarian once remarked, if asked to go one mile, go two instead. Regarding the long hours you all put in, I am sure they were very fulfilling as well as rewarding considering the unselfish attitude toward mankind that must have been exemplified by all brothers participating. But then an unselfish attitude isn't rewarding unless reported in the DTH. Or is it? Walt Caison 1431 Granville West POSITIONS AVAILABLE Married couple with bachelors degrees to be teaching parents in group home for adolescent girls. Couple will be trained for this position and supported by professional mental health workers. Relief time provided by substitute parents. Attractive salary and fringe benefits. Contact Warren A. Young, Ph.D., Tri-County Mental Health Center, 165 Mahaley Avenue. Salisbury. N.C. 28144 (704)633-3616. 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Inc student body Searching for order To the editor. A column ("Lessons of sixties...") in a recent issue of the Tar Heel offers a view of students engaged in personal consciousness raising as apathetic, selfish and passive in the face of continuing world problems. In looking at history to learn from, past mistakes we seldom acknowledge that there are as many "lessons to learn from an event as there are people viewing the event. Perhaps some of those "turning inward have discovered peace in our world comes only as a reflection of peace within us; that only when an individual becomes aware of, and takes full responsibility for his subjective universe can he expect to find order and meaning in his outer life. Mark Weber Wilson Library Staff ""X. INSTA o COPY Quality Copying Franklin & Columbia (over The Zoom) 929-0170 Mon-Fri., 9-6 -:'xd vmaqes, tJ flower in apartment living. Lush Bermuda grass. 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