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  • EDITORIALS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1977 What's really wrong here What's wrong with Cullowhee? The parking situation? The lack of decent culture and entertainment? Student apathy about campus, local, state, and international issues? The bad food down at the cafeteria? The ubiquitous construction? The lack of communication between administrators and the students and faculty? The eneffective SGA? The Jackson Co. Airport? The rain? No. These arc vicissitudes in a growing university's life, which have apparently veiled the real problem, and perhaps reflect the nature of the real hole in WCU'sdyke. What's wrong with Cullowhee? IT IS THAT WCU is administered, from Cullowhcc and Chapel Hill, with a lack of regard for basic academics; that the Cullowhee campus always falls sonic two years behind progressive schools in effecting educational and research programs and methods; that too many academic considerations are made secondary lo convenience: that WCU is definitely not "where it's al" in the academic world. One of the more recent displays of this flagrant disregard for education, an interaction between faculty and students which depends on an administration only out of necessity, is revealed by ihe WCU and UNC administrative decision to effect a calendar change lo the early semester system next year, and the resultant argumentation favoring the further lowering of general education requirements al WCU in the transition. leaders in the academic world like Stanford University, .Amherst University, Harvard University, the University of California at Berklcv. Columbia University, and the University of Toronto have moved, are planning to move, or are titng « i be to superior svstem in regard to the student-f interaction called education. WCU is moving semester svstem so that the administrative tions in Cullowhee. and - between Culkv Chapel Hill, and the 14 other constituent universities in the state system will be more convent carry out. No mention of academics here. THE SAME UNIVERSITIES are moving away from the 1940 to 1969 practice of striking or making the student "free to make choices—even foolish choices. . . ." back to the structured "core curricula" because a plethora of studies has proven that modern universities and colleges operating on the "free choice" svstem are producing what have been called "literal barbarians." ' Yet some students, faculty members, and administrators here favor the further reduction of general education courses, contrary to the progressive education trend. Furthermore, both of these issues have had cyclical occurences in recent history. Before World War II. the quarter system was the accepted norm. Then some "progressive thinkers" took advantage of lhe post-war situation and instituted the semester "stem. It was deemed a failure by most leading liberal arts schools, and the quarter's return was quick. Now that administration buildings arc filled with more "progressive thinkers" •xpen adni • the IN THE 1930s the trend was to let students do what they wanted in the matter of course selection. It was believed by faculty, students, and administrators that no course system could satisfy the needs of all students, just as one medicine cannot cure all diseases in everybody. But the schools found themselves giving out "trash diplomas" which were literally not worth the ink used to print them. During the war, things got tough again: general education requirements including a modern foreign language requirement for practically all degree programs and a rigorous physical education program were enforced. After the war. the trend began to move towards where it ended up in the 1960s: "freedom of education" and junk diplomas. Western, as a matter of course, should make its general ecuation requirements more strenuous. and therefore more enlightening. It should also tell Bill Friday, president of the UNC system, to concern himself more with the quality of education. not the amount of paperwork caused him by the quarter system. Why not have all the other schools (with the exception of ECU which is also in its last quarter-system vear) convert to the quarter in 1977-78?" CULLOWHEE MUST GAIN at least a semblance of academic leadership if it wants to keep what few- bright students and faculty it does have. To do that. the people who run WCU must gain an academic perspective which is not tainted by how large the school is. when it lets out for Christmas vacation, how convenient the semester svstem is. or how much students don't like what's good for them. What's wrong with Cullowhcc? The question, dears, is academic. —A. E.BROWN JR. Drown King Kong Dear Editor. Honestly, that bitchy Miller (Feb. 1 bellyaching again. I am sick, if not a disgusted, at his foggy headed radicalism. Dt he realize the ABC Store is a few minutes dow road, and that there's enough beer in the county to drow n King Kong? Don't go blaming others for your own shortcomings-the best parties are always in own back yard. So get off your ass Miller. It the county's fault, it's yours. Randall Reid •esn t n the next ' Dogs eat too Dear Editor, We just got back from supper at Dodson Cafeteria and much to our displeasure we found that evidently dogs have meal too. or could it be there are students dumb enough to feed the dogs in the cafeteria? We realize that dogs might be hungry, but that is no reason to break the cafeteria policy of not sharing your food. If you are that concerned about the dogs go buy them a can of dog food. What we are trying to say is it is unsanitary and against health regulations lo have dogs in the cafeteria. We think it's past time something be done about dogs in the cafeteria whether it be students letting them in or the cafeteria allowing it. Ellen Laughter Denise Yates I Due to the large number of letters received for today's paper and a lack of space in which to print them, we are saving most of the letters for Thursday.] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF James W. Barden The^stern Carolinian STAFF WRITERS Ray Coneys Steve Sherman MAKEUP TECHNICIANS Cheryl Higham BUSINESS MANAGER E. Frank Thomas NEWS EDITOR Cee Jay Carpenter Gary Richardson Vicki Carter ADVERTISING MAKEUP EDITORS Debbie Ellenburg Rob Daves Dale McCormiek Terry Putman PHOTO EDITOR Fred Barbour Rick Eichhorn Rodney Cranford Gerald Mullett R. C. Therrell PHOTOGRAPHERS Linda Reid Greg Perez Kim Daniels Emory Ware Bill Cooper SPORTS EDITOR STAFF ARTIST Drew Clark John Daughtry FACULTY ADVISER Hunk Komodowski J. Thomas Addison Stokes Gatewood David Lees Gerald Schwartz David Curtis
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