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  • The^stern Carolinian The Voice of the Students 12 PAGES THURSDAY JULY 21. 1979 Vol. XLIV, No. 34 CULLOWHEE, N C The Cullowhee Experience' An enrichment program for the gifted By LANE GARDNER Staff Writer The Cullowhee Experience," a summer enrichment program for gifted students is now in progress. Three hundred and sixty students from twelve states (grades 5-10) arrived on Western's campus last weekend and will be taking part in various academic, recreational and field trip activities through July "The Cullowhee Experience" is designed to enrich and broaden the experiences of gifted students. According to J. Milford Clark, director, "The program is not designed to accelerate students, although they may accelerate themselves.'' Criteria for admission to the gifted program is very discriminating. Among other things, participants generally rank at the 98th percentile and have an approximate 1Q of 130 or better on accepted intelligence scales. For many of the gifted students, the most important aspect of the program is the opportunity it provides for competition with other gifted students. Mrs. Martha Niles, secretary to Dr. Clark, says, "Most of these children are at the top of their classes in their own schools. They really don't know what it's like to just be one of the crowd in a class.'' Clark is "proud of the fact" that Western's gifted program places an emphasis on academics. He stresses that it is not a camp, although there are recreational activities. The curriculum is planned around a theme area for each grade level. (Fifth Graders: "People of the World", Sixth Graders: "America and Ecological Factors", Seventh Graders: "The Appalachian Region", Eighth Graders: "Science", Ninth Graders: "Decision-Making", Tenth Graders: "Research and Writing.") Clark explains that the broad theme areas allow teachers and students to explore a wide range of subject possibilities. Students are encouraged to analyze a problem using several disciplines. Also, teachers utilize the interests of students to plan1 individual, group, and class activities. Students spend mornings in an academic environment at Camp Lab School in Cullowhee. Mrs. Olive Holland, from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, is serving as principal. Students can accelerate their learning process There are 14 academic teachers working with the §■ students. Clark says, "These are strong public school ** Turn to page three, please. American women—Three generations of progress » or e S or s- 8? S Keeping fit By JOHN BARBOUR AP Nc wsfeatures Writer She was always the flying buttress of the American family, the keeper of the domestic flame, the purveyor of apple pie, the one for whom suburbs and white picket fences were built. But see her now. She is changing, wearing so many guises she dazzles her own kind. So recently in the kitchen, she is now in the office, the lab or city hall. In her new lifestyles, she shows no signs of changing her mind again. She won the vote less than 60 years ago, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Delaware and Louisiana dissenting. Today she is the nation's majority, 116 million out of 220 million. She is the nation's premier consumer, and now a potent member of the labor force. Sixty years. Three generations. They have wrought great changes in the psyche of the American women, in her self-image. It has paid her well. If has cost her dearly. Today, somehow, she seems to be rebelling against all earlier rolls to the admiration and consternation of her mother and grandmother. She searches for an image of herself in a new world without role models. The price is frequent frustration. That's the picture emerging from the sweep of demographic statistics, the broad national trend. They leave, of course, large differences among women still, differences conditioned by geographic, economic, ethnic and minority factors. In one sense, today's women are following the aspirations of their mothers and grandmothers. In a- nother, they inherit an enormous generation gap created by the unprecedented explosion in choices--a chance to design their own lives, from when and if they marry to when and if they bear children, from the way they view themselves to the way they view the rest of the world. There is a hovering ambivalence for many grandmothers and mother-pride on the one hand, frustration on the other. There is arnbivaience, too, for today's young women—ia sense of being on the crest of a wave, a foreboding notion of undertow. "It is not out-and-out conflict," explains Dr. Margaret Huyek, a psychologist who has studied women and aging. "The conflict is not so much between the generations as it is in the Self, in each generation, particularly in the mothers and daughters." "The ambivalent mothers are envious of their daughters' freedom and their'daughters' self assurance. There's envy. But there's admiration too, a sense of pride in sponsorship." Grandmothers who broke the ice in the labor market in the Depression and sacrificed to educate their daughters press their granddaughters to set aside careers or jobs long enough to have babies. Mothers who made a religion out of togetherness, admire the intellectual toughness, the ambition of their daughters. But Turn to Page 8, Please.
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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