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  • tRje Western Carolinian VOICE OF THE STUDENTS VOL. XXXVII, No. 56 Thursday, May 18, 1972 Western Carolina University Cullowhee, N.C. Students explain why Ihvu quit What's wrong with WCU? ■ally pended and ihey had not yet completed requirements for graduation, They just did not come tack to school here. Anybody could make a guess as to why; overcrowded residence halls; required courses in foreign languages,art, English or physical education they either couldn't or didn't want to complete; rising tuition costs; general dissatisfaction with Western Carolina University. Suprisingly enough, only one of those factors was a major reason for a number of students failing to return. That one reason was the rising tuition, especially for out-of-state students. The Office of Admissions and Records, under Dean Cecil C. Brooks, wrote the 475 students that did not return and asked why. Each letter expressed concern that the student did not return and asked him to use the back of the letter to explain his reasons. One hundred and sixty letter ■red, eight •otiirn unopened because the student left forwarding addresses. "'["here were almostas many reasons as there were students," Dean Brooks said after reading all the answers and tabulating about 12,3 of them. "If 1 had to pick one letter that was representative of them all, which is impossible to do," he said, '"it would be this one." The letter said, "My reasons for leaving WCU, I'm afraid, were personal and in no way reflected my feeling for the school, I appreciate your interest." Most of the students answering, Brooks said, slated that they did not leave the school because they were dissatisfied with it. Instead, they left because of health, financial, marriage or other personal reasons. A few students, though, did say they were dissatisfied with Western, but there was no regular pattern in the answers. In fact, Brooks pointed out, the answer from one student could easily be opposite of my own,'' Brooks said that discussion with a student who knew this girl indicated that the campus was very much too conservative for her. On the other hand, another girl listed five reasons for not returning to Western that indicated just the opposite: 1) Drugs. "I was coaxed or tried to be coaxed by a user of drugs to smoke mary jane" 10 or 20 times. 2) "The rules and regulations set up for the students are too loose. You'd be just as happy without them at all," 3) The school newspaper, "Not only do you patronize contraceptive advertising, you also worry about unwed pregnant girls. This just isn't your job," 4) "Several times I was followed by black boys, white boys, foreign boys. They also had nasty tongues." • bev- The i i\l'l\si Though not all the responses contrasted that heavily, very few students fell into easily classified categories. Of 160 responses, there were about 50 different reasons for not returning to the school. There were a number of students that gave only one reason for not coming buck and a number of very unique One'student wrote "I came to WCU on a free football scholarship and was promised great things by the coaches and thev let me down, , . I am now at Jacksonville (Ala,) State University and very happy with everything, I'll have a shot at WCU this fall and maybe they can see what they missed," A girl wrote, "My husband (since .June 1971) and I were both attendingyour school when he dicided he didn't want me or love Die. He brought me home and returned to WCU back in Novem ber and I haven't seen him since." The largest bloc of students not returning listed one of five reasons, which were: —Health or maternity reasons. —Financial reasons: out of state fees or lack of money or need to work. —Not ready for college, dissatisfied university life or dissatisfaction with students here, —Academic reasons: dissatisfied with curriculum, field of study not offered here, courses too hard, dissatisfied with advisor, — Transferred to another college. Brooks said that most of the answering students made one of two points. T'irst, they showed appreciation that the university cared enough to write. Secondly, they stated they planned to return to WCU, Over half the students answering, he said, stated that they planned to return to school here. "We wrote the students just to see why they didn't return," Brooks said. "We heard rumors that it was because on overcrowding in the residence halls and so on, and we wanted to find out." "Now we Know most of the students didn't return purely for personal rea- As one student said, "I have been going to school as long as I can remember and I am just sick of it." Decision on president may have been made Alice Cooper heads festival Saturday it all happens. Or rather at 2:00 pm Saturday afternoon it all happens as the power goes on for the second Cullowhee Rock Festival. The gates at Memorial Stadium, the site of the concert, open at 12:00 noon, with musio beginning at two o'clock. Appearing on stage will be Alica Cooper, Cactus, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Impact of Brass. Heading the day's events will undoubtedly be Alice Cooper. Arriving behind such hits as "Eighteen," "Under My • Wheels," and "Be My Lover." A.C, has been called many things, among them "insane," "deranged," "perverted," and "Demonic." A former track star and light weight boxer with a degree in Speech and Theater Arts, Alica has featured pastperformances that have included full scale on-stage hangings complete with dense clouds of manufactured demon-fumes, a snake dance «\ a i bvi-constrictor, teasing the audience fflth a fen cing foil tipped with do) iar bills, and creating mom death-cull, vibes than the Mason Family. Alice Cooper was j.v i -.-ven years ago at Cortez High School in Arizona and has managed to stay together without any personnel changes in the entire seven years. At first A.C. was known as the Spiders, then the Nazz (not the Philadelphia Nazz) and finally four years ago was christened Alice Cooper. CONTINUED ON Page 8 ... . A very reliable source told the WESTERN CAROLINIAN recently that the Board of Trus- tees has decided upon who it would like to name President of the University. The source would not say where he got his information of who the candidate is, but said, when asked if it was Dr. Harold Robinson, "Let's just say they chose the most qualified man." Dr. Robinson is presently Provost of Purdue University, II e had a good deal to do with the restructuring of higher education in North Car- olina and is a native of the state. Dr. Robinson has beena leading candidate for consideration since the nominations were opened. When he was contacted at his office at Purdue and asked if he had been approached about accepting the position of President o f Western Carolina he would not answer. ' 'I would rather you get your information from the committee," he said. Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Wallace Hyde told the CAROLINIAN that the trustees were still considering three candidates. He said that the Presidential Screening Committee had turned in three names to the board and, "We're still looking at all three." The WESTERN CAROLINIAN made a formal request last week, in writing, to Frank Brown, Acting President, asking to be allowed to see the minutes of the executive session of the last Board of Trustees meeting. As of yet, the request has not been acted upon. Hyde told the paper that Brown has not forewarded the request to him. Concert choir will present choral concert The Western Carolina University Concert Choir will present a concert of choral music at 8:15 p.m. Thursday.May 18, in Hoey Auditorium here. The choir has just returned from spring tour which included performances in North Carolina and Georgia. The choir was featured in a program at the Georgia Governor's Mansion on May 12. A group of 28 select voices, the choir performs a wide variety of music, ranging from folk songs to large-scale choral works. The choir is composed of students from several department and schools at WCU. The program planned for the choir's campus appearance in- CONTINUED ON Page 8 . .. .
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