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Western Carolinian Volume 31 Number 06

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  • „ WESTERN Carol i n i an "TheVoicc of the Students VOL. XXXI, NO. 6 Friday, October 22, 1965 CULLOWHEE, N. C. Plans Given For Center's Reactivation The College Center Organisation at Western Carolina College is presently being renewed and brought back to life after a long period of absence. The new organization will be composed of students, faculty, and alumni who will work for as broad a program of social, cultural, and recreational events as can be adapted to the interests and needs of the college community. A new million dollar center building, presently in the planning stages, will serve the entire student body through the organization. The College Center Board will consist of a director, assistant director, president, vice president and eighteen members. This Board will be the governing body of the organization. The director and assistant director are, under the revised constitution, the President of the College while the president and vice-persident shall be elected by the student body. Prospective candidates whose names will be submitted by the College Center Board will be required to have a "C" average or better, to be a rising junior or senior, and to have had prior membership on the College Center Board. The other eighteen members will be appointed by the Director of the College and a specified committee, which will chose seven men and seven women from on campus, and four day students will serve. From these members the Board will elect a secretary and treasurer. The College Center Board's co-operative policy will be such that organizations other than the College Center may sponsor events; however, these events will not conflict with the scheduled activities of the center. Mr. Baxter Wood, Director of the College Center, summarized this new approach of the College Center Board by stating" I am very happy that the pre-Session Conference saw fit to recommend this. It has the backing of the Student Senate and the Student leaders on campus and it will also help students to have a better part In the Student Center. Other colleges have this and carry on through the Student Faculty Judiciary Committee. I would request anyone who is Intersted to come by my office and talk to me." The Committee for the reactivation of the College Center Board is composed of Nick Taylor, Chairman, Fred Cothern, Bill Upchurch, Janet Smith, and Mr. Baxter Wood, supervisor. This committee was responsible for drawing up the new basis on which the College Center organization will be revitalized. The organization's revamped constitution pends approval by the Student Activities Committee and the Student Senate. Rorabacher Completes New Text Appropriations Released For This Year's Student Expenses Appropriations for 1965-66 student activities fees were released recently. The total student fees on an estimated enrollment of 2,000 students paying student activities fees was $120,000.00. Deducted from this amount is a total of $64,268.00 that the Board of Trustees of the College has allocated for athletics, salary of the College Center Director, gym fees, lyceums, lectures and speakers, cost of the Student Handbook, station wagon expenses, campsite use and maintenance, and salary to secretary of the Senate. The remaining amount, $55,732.00, plus the 1964-65 balance of $2,083.36, equaling a total of $57,815.36, is that amount allocated to the various clubs and organizations. 1965-66 Appropriations Available funds $57,815.36 Funds requested $60,528.02 The Catamount Western Carolinian Men's House Women's House Day Student Government Chorus Band S.N.E.A. Little Theatre Assoc. Childhood Ed. I.R.C. Alpha Phi Sigma Marshalls Club M.E.N.C. May Day Central Cheerleaders S.A.M. Radio Club P.E. Club Fine & Industrial Arts Club W.R.A. College Center Home Economics Clubs Nomad Senate Carolettes French Club Debate Club R. S. Woodworth Psy. Club Interfaith Council English Seminars Chemical Society German Club Biology Club Fellowship of Christian Athletes Phi Beta Lambda Carolina Photographic Soc. Alpha Phi Omega WCC Mascots Requested $21,172.20 9,156.82 600.00 500.00 25.00 2,640.00 3,000.00 150.00 10,425.00 165.00 200.00 No Request No Request No Request No Request 280.00 No Request 4,064.00 No Request No Request 75.00 5,060.00 180.00 800.00 Receives Balance 550.00 350.00 300.00 75.00 700.00 150.00 130.00 300.00 75.00 No Request No Request No Request No Request No Request Received $21,172.20 9,156.82 600.00 500.00 200.00 2,000.00 3,000.00 100.00 3,700.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 850.00 280.00 250.00 4,064.00 100.00 25.00 75.00 4,000.00 50.00 350.00 4,812.34 500.00 200.00 200.00 75.00 500.00 100.00 130.00 200.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 200.00 TOTAL AMOUNT RECEIVED $57,815.36 Composition Expert Schedules Research Trip To Australia Dr. Louise Rorabacher, a member of Western Carolina's English department, will soon publish her latest composition textbook. Dr. Rorabacher's new book, which will be entitled STYLE AND SUBJECT, Is an anthology of readings cross referenced to an extensive glossary of rhetorical terms. The readings will consist of forty-two two women: Margory Barnard, a prominent Australian historian, and Flora Eldershaw. The book will be published as a part of the Twayne's Author Series. This trip to Australia will be Dr. Rorabacher's third. On two previous visits, which started In 1959 on return from Formosa, she edited and provided a critical introduction to an anthology of short stories deal- Dr. Louise Rorabacher of WCC's Department of English. essays, as low proposed, by modern English and American writers selected for variety of style and subject matter. The writers range from Malcolm Muggeridge, past editor of PUNCH, to Hart Shapley of the Harvard Observatory. Each essay, arranged alphabetically by author for ease of location, will be followed by a study guide divided into three parts. The first part will deal with subject and content, the second part with style. The third part contains suggestions for further reading, study, and writing with reference to the glossary. The book is designed for freshmen English students; but, according to Dr. Rorabacher, it will be useful to all students of writing. It will be published by Harper and Row, New York. Among Dr. Rorabacher's other books, also published by Harper and Row, are Assignments in Exposition, a textbook on rhetoric first published in 1947 ind now in its third edition; ind A Concise Guide to Compoc.ri.ion, a handbook on grammar, now in its second edition, published in 1956. Asked about her plans for future publications, Dr. Rorabacher said that she will go to Australia in March to carry out research on the famous Australian historical novelist, M. Barnard Eldershaw, Author of A House Is Built concerning Australia's Gold Rush. The author is, in reality, a pseudonym for ing with the assimilation of emigrants into the Australian population. The book is entitled TWO WAYS MEET and has been adopted as a text for schools in South Australia, one of the five states In the country. Commenting on her reasons for having to travel outside of the United States for her research, Dr. Rorabacher said that American libraries do not, as yet, have adequate facilities as Australia; though, she said, There is an increasing awareness of Australia in this country. This is due to its strategic location in the Eastern hemisphere; its affinity to America in size, character, and background; and the extreme popularity of Americans, and everything American with Australians. As a result, more and more American Colleges and Universities are including courses on Australian history and literature in their curriculums. She believes that there should be more studies made between Australians and Americans. "Americans feel more at home in Australia than in any other country," she said. Dr. Rorabacher received hei A. B. from the University of Michigan, her M. A. from Northwestern University and her doctorate, as a teaching assistant, at the University of Illinois. She was a member of the faculty at Purdue University for twenty two years before coming to Western.
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