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PAGE 2 THE WOOSTEK VOICE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1S85 TTEie Dnner Voice Use Your Voice Column By Ida Williams If you've looked through the paper already, you may have noticed some profiles of students who are running for offices of SGA. Elections for SGA are next Thursday, and this is your chance to choose from a variety of talented students. SGA, the Student Government Assocation, is probably the most prominent student organization on campus because it oversees almost all student organizations in some way, whether it be through the allotment of funds from the Financial Affairs Committee, or through interaction between faculty and students where the Vice-Preside- nt is concerned. SGA also represents you, the student body, when making decisions about the future in aspects of campus life. The decisions made next Thursday will, affect everyone on this campus, whether directly of indirectly. As a member of the student body it is your duty to take part in the decision making process. Even as a freshman you can make it a point to decide who is the best candidate, through research, and vote for whomever you feel is best qualified. Most of the candidates have a profile of themselves in this issue of the Voice, and I encourage you to consult these. Also, if you speak with your friends about the candidates, chances are someone will know them. There is information about the candidates available, if not from secondary sources, then from the candidates themselves. I urge everyone to not only make a decision, but make an informed one: Voting in elections is one way to make your voice heard. There are other ways to do that on this campus, too. I am truly heartened by the many letters to the editor this issue. Even though they may not all be complimentary, I feel it is far better to receive a negative response than none at all. Perhaps it is not clear that I encourage and practically beg for submissions from anyone on the campus community. I will print all letters to the editor I receive ( unless there are legal or severe ethical questions) and am very open to guest editorials ' or articles. . I think the most important function of the Voice is to 1 and provide a student forum where ideas can be discussed argued. While news is important, it is the opinions of the campus that really shape it and it is the opinions I hope to promote. Become involved in your College. Do it through elections, through involvment and through the forums provided for yo- u- the student. Everyone has something to gain from it. TTTTW I r ts4Sot MJl TYU CUSStS Useful work' Editor: . May I offer my congratulations on Dear Editor, I am writing in response to Ida William's recent solution to forge a community at Wooster. Her concern about the inportanee of a community is both warranted and genuine. However, her. solution lacks practicality for the simple reason that a spirited sense of community does not Just appear through required meetings that only simulate a community. How does Williams think an actual community can arrive by way of gathering the whole school together (at a time when most are usually sleeping) and then saying. "O.K. now we have a sense of com munity!"? The responsibility towards a community does not lie solely in the hands of the administration; rather it lies in the hands of the majority, the students, who make up the community. The College of Wooster will only have a eommunal atmosphere when each and every person decides for themselves to do something about oar uninformed, uninvolved. and nnnnited eamous. Andy Horning - Community deserves attention your editorial of last week? It was a tnly bravura put-do-wn - of all Dear Editor, - . . simplistic solutions to the problem of For the past two weeks I have sat community. All one has to do is to idly by and read Ida William's col- spell oat in the detail yon did what a umns addressing campus "morals" solution like reinstatement of com- - and her perceived lack of a cohesive Sulsory chapel would entail to see community on the Wooster campus. ow impossible and futile It is. It Particularly disturbing to me was was useful work toward real solu- her suggestion that the sehool in tions. stitute mandatory chapel atten James Haden dance early in the morning at which a significant issue of campus concern would be discussed. It seems Black Arts that Williams has a quite narrow and impoverished understanding of both community and morals. The Festival use of the word morals does not even deserve attention because it is used 'a miracle' so poorly that one can hardly Dear Editor, r understand the reasoning behind its Tonight I fell as though use. I've witnessed a miracle. Not only was Williams' suggestion that the I students be required to attend a entertained and enlightened by a very talented group of students, discussion every week in the chapel I so was also given a brief glimpse that a common theme can be of the true discussed with other students il meaning of brotherly love. "Given" is the important word in the lustrates previous sentence. These students sacrificed their free time in order to give part of themselves to each and every audience member. This was an experience not to be missed and I express my regrets to those of you unable to attend. If I could have my way, the 1985 Black Arts Festival would have run until all students had experienced it. The cast, the crew, and Annetta Jefferson are to be commended for a wonderful production. Never before have I felt the unifying strength and comfort I felt tonight as the cast and the audience joined hands while together we sang, "Lift Every Heart and Sing." Sincerely, Jamie HaskJns more than just getting together - a ment that someone becomes a member of it Logically; the ideal rather simplistic understanding of the workings of the Wooster college community. What makes this place Interesting is that the people are always talking about different things. Education does not occur in the classroom. Much can be gained by listening to others talk about lectures they attended in their diverse areas of interest The concept of require chapel attendance implies a religious backdrop for these discussions. If this was not William's intent than! why not have them in a religiously neutral enviroment if at all? As for William's felling that Wooster lacks a common communiH ty: a college is not meant to be a be taught not by lectures, readings, homogeneous place. People here or papers, but by first-han-d exhave different interests. This is a perience. liberal arts institution. It is a place I believe that inspite of the strong were options should be maximixed efforts made by the college during and restrictions minimized. A stu freshman orientation, the spectrum dent must choose for his or herself ox we community at me imege ox the activities that are interesting Wooster is far too vast to be com and should be attended. A campus prehended in a mere week. community cannot be legislatied by1 requiring attendance --at a lecture. TEX WOOSTZX VOICX Perhaps the aim of this idea was to create more student faculty interaction however the faculty is extremely accessible and a student who chooses not to exploit this situation is missing out by his or her own choice. I propose alternatives for fostering a stronger sense of community at Wooster. First, the faculty and student dinind halls should be combined to facilitate more interaction. Second, a place that fills the gap between Mom's and Iehabod's irtadly needed, for example a cafe Open every night that would attract a diverse faculty and student population. Williams' ideas designed to create a more cohesive campus community are narrow. In closing I would like to reset briefly to what I perceive to be her understanding of morals. Perhaps, arguably, Williams should apply for a job in Ed Ifeese' justice department after graduation. He too understands the importance of morals but fails to recognise that they are individual and should not be legislated. Discussions of campus community and morality deserve attention but, clearly and intelligently. - Peter Westerman 'Chapel' not effective word Dear Editor, Regarding Ida William's editorial "A Modest Proposal" from the November 8 issue of the Voice: why did you term your idea as "chapel" will produce community all right It will unite the campus against the Idea! If you seek to establish campus community. I believe that another proposal is more appropriate. Asense ox community is sometnmg that should be present from the mo-- time to establish this sense of community would be during the first semester of the freshman year. I believe that an interdepartmental "Wooster Community 101" should be created as a required course for all first semester freshman. Many Ohio high schools offer something known as "Life Careers" as a requirement of all freshman. The course is 4 or Vt of a credit and serves u semester-lon- g orientation to the newif environment I beilieve that the same need for a similar course ex ists on a college level. "Wooster community ioi" would-consis- t of a series of seminars on hat The College of Wooster is all about Students would be required to attend things such as the Limits and Constraints series, theatre productions, athletic events, and other community-relate- d affairs. Present tations would be made by members of the library staff, the SGA president SAB chairperson CPES staff. Reading and Writing Center staff, and other campus authorities;' The basic skill that would be taught would be the appreciation of the unique community which exists at The College of Wooster, and this would - vtnmum .- PabUsbed weekly daring the aeadem- krear except earmc vacations ana exami-- .nation periods by the stadeats of The coiieje of wooster, wooster, Ohio. Tae wooster volet welcomes all typed and alaned letters to the editor from stadeats. faealty, administrators, sub- - scrwers ana memoers of tae greater Wooster eommaaity. All correspondence may be addressed to: The Wooster C-11- I7. Voice. Post Office Box The Col lege of Wooster, Wooster. Ohio 44StLThe deadline for all letters aad stories is Taesday at S p.m. The current snbse rip-b- oa price is S23.00 aer year for first class delivery. First class postage paid at' Wooster, Ohio. Postmaster: Send address changes To The Wooster Voice, Post Office Box C-S1- S7. The College of Wooster, Wooster. Ohio. 444J1 (sua: Ida Williams). Back issves are available from The Wooster Voice office. Ma wraasaa. rtor-ta-Ch- kf Lis Heffthlweer. Bitwise Maacfar Naaey Jahasaa, Maaag Bduar David Deaa, Sparta I. --.tor . BiH Tvwaeaad, Paota Editor fharea Kaaxmaa, Layaat Editor STAFF: Alaa DVHocb. Baa Sorters. Quinnie Ng-Qain- a, Lis Kershaw, Andrew Ifarahy. Warrea Bedees. Bryan Einta. Tim Aastia. Jeff Bacoa, Debbie Shep-icn
THEWOOSTEItyflreE..raiIUY.NOV ARTIFICIAL REGISTRATION: NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE! INTELLIGENCE?: At six twenty in the morning last Monday a new system of registration went into effect Students, mostly freshmanand sophomores began cueing up in front of the registrars office before four a.m. for a good place in what one sophomore termed "the academic room draw." The. rain that has plagued us for the past few weeks subsided temporarily so as toallow stndents to enjoy the refreshing November chill as they stood in a line that reached from the doors of Severance tothearchof Kauke. , Conceptually, the new system of registration was welcomed by students who felt that in the past registration war disorderly and unfair to students who did not have the "right" connections. The system works like this (so that you know for next time) : At a certm time and place, which is subject to change with little notices, the registrar begins accepting registration forms and continues to accept them for a period of over a week. Then all the forms are divided up by class with the first received from eich class being placed at the top of that class' pile. The four class piles are then place together with seniors on the top and freshmen at the bottom and classes are filled in that order. "It is fair" agreed, a freshman who was in line while I was stffl in bedj'but why does it have to be at six o'clock in the morning?" When!I asked a Junior what he was doing on line at such an ungodly hour he responded "Because I cant wake up for an eight o'clock class." ru admit, I had to think about that for a moment! The line was not nearly as bad as it might have been, for many students did not know when the registrar would begin accepting the forms. The registration schedule said "forms may be submitted to the office of the Registrar as soon as they are completed," but students dropping off their forms were told to return on Monday at eight thirty. On Wednesday eight thirty was changed to six thirty (presumably to allow students to take part in the vigil without missing classes) which explains why one student who got to Severance at seven-thirt- y waited outside thinking she she was the first in '; "JDon't get me wrong, the students who did not hear about the change in registration times have only themselves to n ft was nnctnri Ml 1im hi IIWTT. Nd. I did Dot MC the signs either, but my glasses were stolen last week. The il-- A Pica for community action Dear Editor. The need for a community has been "VOICED" recently, in the form of editorials and in the November 5th convocation. The proposals that have evolved have either ben extensively pessimistic or not vary pragmatic at an. It is not difficult to find avenues to foster such a community, at least in an academic . sense, if we begin to see the problem en-virome- ntr , r ta the context of a liberal arts .The roots of establishing a successful college community lie in the . recognition of unity in diversity. It is important to trace a source of "common knowledge" inour approach to courses and in our . method of instruction. Granted, we all face the same requirements, but do we share a common base . where these requirements can build themselves on ? It is true that certain events such . as Convocation or forums such as "limits and Constraints" can serve to unify the campus to some degree, tut weekly listening to speeches (especially at 7:15 a.m.) eould hardly contribute to the establishment of community. For the need and strength of a community must come from WITHIN and not WITHOUT; only then can a REAL community be established-instea- d of an AS-TIFICIAL- one. . , . The origins for community development lie in the clasroom. A . proper orientation to a liberal arts - enviroment is the first step towards establishing a community. A core course could be instituted for all first year students, as an introduction and induction into liberal learning at Wooster. The course should be structured so as to expose the community's strengths and weaknesses, and should be designed so as to make the students think and analyze these problems and strengths in an inter disciplinary manner, aiso, me structuring of upper level courses and the expectations of our teachers need to be reexamined. These courses should cease to encourage "restrictive" thinking and become more aecomodative". The sociology stu dent is frequently exposed to the writings of Plato, Marx or Adam Smith as much as the history student reading about the growth of the social movements in America has to contend with the writings of Martin Luther King. Jr., Abigail Foster or Elisabeth Stanton. It is important at this point to emphasise a multidisciplinary approach and encourage the reading of the primary texts rather than rely on secondhand versions of such orglnial works. Such an approach to course material will not only promote greater interaction among students, but also encourage faculty communication between departments. The independent study at Wooster could then become a SHARED experience; rather than make it restrictive by encouraging complete specialisation within a department, multidisciplinary endeavors should at least be tolerated if not encourag ed. - ; An academic communal harmony is the building block for a successful community at Wooster. It is time to stop accepting . diluted course material as being the real McCoy. It Andrew Goldman Commentary lustration accompanying this story is one of these signs and it duplicated ACTUAL SIZE t When the sign was pointed out to me, it took me some time fo figure them out (my mind functions slowly in the morning). These signs were actually part of an ingenious recycling project Each of the old registration cards, that we have no more use for, was cut in quaters to make four of these signs! It is only a shame that one of these cards could not have been used to inform food service of the 400-50- 0 additional students who would all convene for breakfast promptly at seven fifteen. . The "poster" was so small that had it been placed in my mailbox (mind you it was three times smaller than the REGISTRATION FORMS. RECEIVED MONDAY 6:30 A.M. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED (WITHIN CLASS) WHERE? REGISTRAR'S OFFICE (You HAVE until Nov. 22 TO HAND THEM IN) is time to end the dichotomy among disciplines. If we WANT to be a community, let us begin to INTERACT as a community. Let us stress coordination instead of encouraging competition. Will this need for a community be another excuse to generate a lot of talk, memos, and high-level meetings with no action, only to be by the wayside when nnthi hot tnnie mml trudring along? We hope not. Complaining about the problem is wasted energy if action does not follow SU1L. il is time to seriously think if all of us at Wooster seriously want a communi-t- w. anr if we see no action then the ia nhvions. and all we will need to do then is to sit and wait for another "whine-flu- " season to come along and entertain us with a little rhetoric, plenty of idealism, no soua format for solution, a lot of idle con-- frn anri more "modest" DrODOSalS. Let us begin to act like a communi ty instead ox assuming ue roie oi "etejmty-uunxer- s . ue us snroua off this image we have of ourselves a a a aneeessfnl liberal arts com munity and seek solutions to our pro blems througn cnange. ua us confess our ignorance instead of hiding H and nae each other's eXDertise to learn FROM each other ABOUT eaeh other. We have to start here) and now if we wish to see a day when! mnm faenltr committees, and when! sections and clubs see eye to eyej with Galpin on inuauon weez re--i onirements. This end is a deflnita nnuihiiitv and we have all the ingre dients; what, then, are we waitingj for? Arvind Balasundaram Liz Moran minimum size for campus mail) I probably would not have found it! However, if even such a tiny notice had been placed ' in the students' mailboxes, I would have considered the new registration a sign that the needs of students were besi2g to receive the thought they deserve on this campus. If the "posters" ahd not been made at all I would have just concluded that once again someone forgot there were students at the College of Woosterl But the fact that someone recognized a problem and then consdoulsy did something so absolutely stupid should beconsidered a serious regression. A freshman in line at six in the morning summed up his feelings about the pre-daw-n aspect of registration Ike this: "If students would only realize they were consumers, just as they would be if they went out to spend eleven thousand dollars on a stereo, then would they not put up with things like this and they would find the adminstratian would bend over backward to convenience them." He is correct and we should not settle for anything less. It is unfortunate that there is only room for one example because it makes it appear that only the registrar's office if gulity of such cSences and this is not the case. In discussing this with a friend, he said, "Blah (the registrar) win accept your comments and do something, others would just blow you cflVH that Is the east he win be setting a great precendent far others to follow. So as not to be classified as one who gripes without offering a better solution I win give one here (mind you there are ad-minista- tive many but this is Just food for thought, I am available for consultation at very reasonable hourly rate) : AH 1 freshmen would redeve randomly computer generated ran dom numbers before their first registration and reciter in that order amongst their class. The second time they register, the order would be reversed and the third time the - list would be read from the middle (with the central cumber followed by the next higher and lower numbers until the largest and smallest numbers concluded the Est). Each subsequent registration would follow the previous cycle. Students eould enjoy hassle free registration at their convenience. Everyone would be well rested, and the pec;! who work in the Registrar's office miiht even have time to ftt a lesson in poster mazmsi Not just surface controversy Dear Editor. In regards to your editorial last week. I felt the inclination to resH pond. I have read many of the editorials this year, and continue to ouestion the basis of your logic. II have long believed the editor of a college newspaper is to be an objec-- J Ore thinker, ana yet, n seems, you have taken the lntiattve to wing in irrelevent concerns as the priority on campus. I have yet to determine if the Voice is conservative, liberal, or Derhaos. illusive. After attending convocation. regarding the community of college campus, I was confused by the views taken by the three students. Some eves on this campus visualise a nonexistant community of academia morning? Why not 7:00? This wCl help those to get to their S.CO that much more. One problem we face. In effort to get students to attend this chapel, is how do you know if everyone is going? I heard someone suggest an electronic beeper that goes off if you miss more than three chapels. But that gets too frustrating if everyone is walking around; beep- ing all the time. I'm sure the ad-mmstra- and individualism. Some of those 20-2- who have 0 vision, on the other hand, see a community evolving. It took millions of years to create the world, and so complex a thing.it was! Wooster has been evolving for just over a hundredyears, going through it's own ice age. middle age. and revolutions. How many times does a student see a professor about an exam he did poorly on. yet fight for the higher grader Some may call It brownosing. others call it guts. call it an understanding with the Drofessor and myself. It's so simple to walk in and discuss life with a pro fessor and then realise you can talk to him or her like you would with any other individual. Depauw University in Indiana has a required chapel, the college community is to attend atleast three times in a semester. Should we have I can find some way of such an ultimatum at 7:30 every ' working out this problem. I'm also sure more suggestions will be made by students as wen. . Wooster wifl always be the Wooster as one sees it. whether it is a community coexisting with academia and Individualism or the place to meet your ongoing friends. I think we should stop trying to find out what is wrong with the college community and begin to recognize ourselves as part of the evolution process. There Is no surface controversy we are discussing, but an effort to bring the campus community together through opinion and response. I hope some eyes have better vision than they may have last ' week. : ' . Kathryn A. Baldwin V Editor'snote: "' The Wooster Voice welcomes any letter to the editor. The letter should he typed, double spsce. and mar ad' dress any topic. Deadline tor letters , in tae following Friday's Issue is noon on Tuesday. tion
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