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Page 4 THE TRANSCRIPT February 22, 1973<br />
The -<br />
TTranscrbpt<br />
an independent student newspaper<br />
Founded 1867<br />
Published weekly September through May except during <strong>University</strong><br />
holidays and examination periods. Second class postage paid at<br />
Delaware, <strong>Ohio</strong> 43015. Subscription rates: $5.75 per year mail $6.25.<br />
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Services, Inc., 360 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. Editorial and<br />
business Address: <strong>Ohio</strong> <strong>Wesleyan</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Delaware, <strong>Ohio</strong> 43015.<br />
Editor Managing Editor<br />
Gary K. Shorts John B. Keith<br />
Associate Editor<br />
Marty Lewis<br />
Academic Affairs Editor<br />
Linda Revay<br />
Facility Affairs Editor<br />
Judi Hetrick<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Tom Stinson<br />
Features Editor<br />
Rick Jones<br />
Business Manager<br />
H. David Pace<br />
Advertising Manager<br />
Michael E. Portnoy<br />
Asst. Man. Editor<br />
YV. Joseph Campbell<br />
Copy Editor<br />
Judy Collinson<br />
Student Affairs Editors<br />
Jeff Fruit, John Thullen<br />
Student Government Editor<br />
Scott Benson<br />
Arts Editor<br />
Cindy Davidson<br />
Circulation Manager<br />
Dana K. Simeone<br />
Editorial opinions and decisions are made by the Editorial Board and are JJ B A Bio mod<br />
noi necessarily inose oj unw wesleyan university or ine stuaeni ooay.<br />
Signed articles reflect the opinions of the authors.<br />
Student Voice<br />
WCSA is a political body that is easy to criticize and<br />
often is. The Transcript believes that our student<br />
government now deserves commendation, however.<br />
We often hear the old complaint that "WCSA is a<br />
do-nothi- ng body. All the real issues are dead."<br />
No statement could be farther from the truth. Recent<br />
WCSA legislation has been vital to the future of all<br />
students. If the Union is ever to become a center for<br />
student activity and interaction with the faculty and<br />
administration on an informal basis, students must be<br />
lured there. WCSA's proposal to permit alcohol in a new<br />
rathskeller would do that (although we believe that the<br />
review committee should consider allowing legal<br />
beverages, not just 3.2 beer).<br />
It was WCSA initiative that put new parking facilities<br />
in the Austin and Smith parking lots.<br />
More important is the fact that WCSA no longer<br />
confines itself to the "outside-the-classroom- " realm. This<br />
fact is evidenced in proposals to reconsider the gym<br />
plans, to place students on the Faculty Personnel<br />
Committee and to establish a formal trial and appeal<br />
procedure for cases of academic dishonesty. The faculty<br />
and trustees are now examining the questions which<br />
these policies raise questions which, but for WCSA,<br />
might never have been asked.<br />
These proposals truly champion a cause and represent<br />
a voice too long unheeded in academic<br />
decision-makin- g that of the student. As the only<br />
student representative body, WCSA is providing a vital<br />
avenue for student input into all areas of <strong>University</strong> life.<br />
By injecting the student viewpoint into these areas,<br />
WCSA fosters a true campus community spirit.<br />
We urge all of the <strong>University</strong>'s groups, to recognize<br />
WCSA as a focal point and information resource for<br />
students' campus concerns.<br />
The ideal system is, of course, the concept of a<br />
<strong>University</strong> Senate, in which all constituencies would be<br />
represented in formulating <strong>University</strong> policies.<br />
The ideal system is, of course, the concept of a<br />
<strong>University</strong> Senate, in which all constituencies would be<br />
represented in formulating <strong>University</strong> policies. But the<br />
Transcript realizes that establishment of such a body is<br />
still an act of the future because of current political<br />
realities on the <strong>OWU</strong> campus.<br />
Until such a senate can be instituted, WCSA must<br />
function as a student voice, as a medium for student<br />
input into all areas of <strong>University</strong> life. We must not<br />
permit it to degenerate into an administrative or faculty<br />
rubber stamp, as many of its critics predict.<br />
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For Segregation<br />
Editor, The Transcript:<br />
For a fun evening some night,<br />
you might try entering the Cave. I<br />
say "try" because if you are lucky<br />
to get past the first door, you<br />
won't make it past the second<br />
door. That is, if you're white.<br />
The Student Union for Black<br />
Awareness (SUBA) has created<br />
Black Awareness but has gone<br />
about it the wrong way.<br />
If Black Awareness is segregation,<br />
this campus doesn't need it.<br />
Segregation already exists between<br />
the classes, the sexes, the<br />
Greeks and the independents.<br />
The purpose of segregating the<br />
Cave was to offset segregation by<br />
the Greeks. Blacks weren't<br />
allowed in the fraternities or<br />
sororities, so whites would not be<br />
allowed in the Cave or SUBA<br />
meetings.<br />
Now there are blacks in the<br />
fraternities and sororities. The<br />
number is small because SUBA<br />
doesn't want its members to join.<br />
A black has been elected<br />
inter-fraternit- y<br />
president. A token<br />
gesture? Perhaps. But he was<br />
"How Long Will It Last?"<br />
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elected on his merit, not because of<br />
his color.<br />
To use cliches, "some of my best<br />
friends are black." Try sitting with<br />
them in a dormitory dining room.<br />
Members of both races cast discriminating<br />
glances.<br />
There's too much Black Awareness<br />
on this campus. SUBA is<br />
defeating its own purpose by using<br />
segregation to make its point.<br />
Human beings have a lot to<br />
offer. When SUBA is around,<br />
blacks can't show their worth to<br />
whites or vice versa.<br />
SUBA asked that the Committee<br />
on Institutional Discrimination<br />
be formed to look into discrimination<br />
on this campus. Perhaps the<br />
CID should investigate SUBA's<br />
activities.<br />
Name witheld on request<br />
Freshmen Not<br />
'Lunch meat'<br />
Unanswered By Request<br />
Editor, The Transcript:<br />
I have heard the word "lunch-meat- "<br />
used by some graphic enup-perclassm-<br />
in describing<br />
rent freshman class.<br />
the cur-<br />
Two weeks ago, The Transcript<br />
accurately reported the current<br />
freshman<br />
first-terclass<br />
had the highest<br />
m grade point average of<br />
any freshman class in the past<br />
eight years. And the lowest SATs.<br />
Of course, there are some who will<br />
contend that one class couldn't<br />
out-perfor- m another class with<br />
higher SAT scores. It must be the<br />
faculty, the detractors would<br />
argue.<br />
The Admissions Office is toying<br />
with (he idea of spending $5,000 to<br />
have all freshmen take the SATs<br />
again. The SAT means would<br />
likely rise 20 to 30 points (as a<br />
result of prior practice, less<br />
nervousness, etc.). And then the<br />
good first term performance would<br />
be believed by more of the<br />
skeptics.<br />
Those who have attended<br />
dramatic productions and athletic<br />
events know that the freshman<br />
class has "performed" in non-academ- ic<br />
areas as well. I have<br />
heard the phrase "best class ever"<br />
used by a few professors.<br />
Lunchmeat? Please pass the<br />
mustard. I'll take lunchmeat like<br />
that anytime.<br />
David R. Treadwell, Jr.<br />
Director of Admissions<br />
P.S. (A note to freshman: Please<br />
keep up the good work, or I'll be<br />
eating crow not lunchmeat.)<br />
Crayons, Pigtails Revisited<br />
By John Schroll<br />
Contemplating my final term at<br />
<strong>OWU</strong> leads me to recall earlier<br />
school days (especially if it's this<br />
week's column topic). With that<br />
clever<br />
proceed<br />
introduction,<br />
in single<br />
we shall<br />
file without<br />
talking of course.<br />
Three teachers from elementary<br />
school come to mind. One was Mrs.<br />
Topping, a<br />
well-fe- d woman<br />
who<br />
always said, "Come over here<br />
Johnny and sit on my lap." I never<br />
complied; I guess I was afraid I<br />
woul get lost<br />
in there and<br />
never get to<br />
fifth grade. In<br />
third grade,<br />
Templar on<br />
chameleons. If Schroll<br />
the connection is not apparent, let<br />
me explain that Miss Templar<br />
changed her hair color nearly<br />
every week. In fifth grade, Mrs.<br />
Hector soon became "Mrs. Hector<br />
A<br />
the Garbage Collector" to us boys,<br />
who were convinced she hated us<br />
all.<br />
Though the regulars were<br />
unique, school would have been<br />
rather dull without "substitutes."<br />
These unfortunates were called in<br />
on the case when one of us suc-<br />
ceeded in giving our Yellow<br />
Pap-paro- o<br />
to the teacher. The word<br />
"substitute" triggered rampant<br />
seat and name exchanges, except<br />
for the sissies who never did<br />
anything wrong. Remember them?<br />
Those girls ruined every scheme in<br />
one snotty phrase: "Gonna tell<br />
teacher!" The only substitute I can<br />
visualize was Mrs. Wright. She<br />
was 4'3" tall and looked a cross<br />
between J. Edgar Hoover and a<br />
bulldog. Enough about her.<br />
Two aspects of high school I<br />
remember are science labs and<br />
story problems. Of course none of<br />
us ever read the lab beforehand;<br />
that would take the adventure out<br />
of it. We took our methyl cellulose<br />
(slows down those Paramecia),<br />
filthy slides, graduated cylinders,<br />
and ad libbed it. The classic line<br />
was spoken by a friend who asked<br />
what he was doing near the eye<br />
wash without permission: "I was<br />
reading the filter paper."<br />
Story Problems 'Absurd'<br />
Finally, we come to those<br />
absurd story problems we were<br />
expected to master. Though train<br />
schedules arc plentiful, we were<br />
always asked, "If Train A leaves at<br />
3:10 and goes 40 m.p.h. and Train<br />
B goes 65 m.p.h., etc, etc. Or: "If<br />
Mr. Jones (never Thuckelburn)<br />
works eight hours and his son is 12<br />
years old, how wide will it be if<br />
three pounds of apples sell for 79<br />
cents and the rain falls mainly on<br />
the plain?"<br />
Someone has written about a<br />
similar question. "Given only a<br />
barometer, how would you deter-<br />
mine air pressure, using a<br />
lormu-la?- "<br />
But one student offered an alternative.<br />
He would look through<br />
the building until he found the<br />
owner and asked: "If you tell me<br />
the height of your building, I'll<br />
give you this nice barometer."<br />
Somehow I don't think my<br />
teachers would have accepted that<br />
answer.