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Rush Week page 8 Recruiters On Campus Co-Op Schedule Regional Activity Center page 5 page 4 tsttm Carolmtatt Voice of the Students and University Community Volume 47 Issue 21 February 24, 1983 Free ] a Other Lives To Lead"...Dr. Jody by Donna Hudgins It is official. Dr. Marilyn Jody has resigned as head of the English Department, effective at the end of the semester The reasons for her leaving are many, as are the contributions she has made to the department, the faculty, and. especially the students. Dr. Jody will be sorely missed. During her sixteen years with Western Carolina University, Dr. Jody has served in positions ranging from Director of Special Academic Programs (1978-80) to Director of Freshman English (1968-70). She began teaching here in 1967, became an associate professor in 1970. a professor in 1977, and department head in 1980. In addition to the departmental duties and teaching, Jody served as vice chairman of the first University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly, the editor of the university Self-Study, and was selected as a national Forum participant by the American Council on Education in conjunction with the National Identification Program for the advancement ol Women in Higher Education Administration. She also chaired the Constitution Committee which wrote the Affirmative Action policy for the university. One of the major contributions Dr. Jody has made is the co- authoring of the Title III request. The Strengthening Developing Institutions Program program along with another grant, the ADIP, funds the Cherokee Center, t h e Counseling, Advising, and Placement (CAP) Center, and the basic skills program which includes the writing center in Hunter Library. I hese funds also pay tor faculty development and departmental improvement projects. Other grants that Jody has co-authored concern foreign students, specifically focusing on the Carribean and Japan. In addition to all the above. Dr. Jody has served on more committees and advisory boards than can be fully listed here. The list includes: freshman English Committee; Tenure and Promotion Committee; Upward Bound Advisory Board; Cooperative Education Advisory Board; Chairman, First Founders Day Committee (later to be called Mountain Heritage Day); Executive Committee; Faculty Women's Caucus; Committee on the Status of the Women Student, and her accomplishments continue. Dr. Jody has spent a great deal of her time thinking about the university and what types of programs would have the most benefits to all students, not only ones following traditional majors. She hasn't slowed down any because of a small matter of her resignation. Currently, Dr. Jody is working with members of the English faculty to expand the Writing and Editing concentration within the existing English degree. The journalism program is also facing changes. Discussion is underway to have it included as a special studies function inside a new degree program. Communications. The new program will, if approved. COm bine broadcasting and print productions. This is still only an idea, but discussions are taking place. Another project is proceeding with the help of Mr. Ben Ward. Ihe Mountain Area Writing Program, created to improve the ability of teachers to teach composition, hopefully will increase the verbal abilities of new students. Another ongoing project is the expansion of the English degrees which relate to those who don't speak English. For example, this summer there will be a workshop for teachers in the area of English as a second language. Teachers from the Carribean ami latin America, as well as from various districts in North Carolina, will be in attendance. The teacher's certification program in English as a second language, and for teachers of English to speakers of other languages program is being upgraded and redeveloped. "We must accept that the world is closely linked by communication, transportation, politics... The only way to survive is to speak each others' language, both literally and through understanding." By BbW ,aWaa»7 WW'AaWW Wk i '*lH h flr^fl ^V^T *?1^B' a^^l ^1 WAaaaW SThe- *^BH y^fljy ijl <fl r^ram i^Scfe Bar* *•""*■' «3H \aaaa%a\**SDB*a%K^a^?±aaaaaaaam*m*-— The Assassins, competitors in the 1983 Air Band Contest, rock n' rolled last Thursday night in a spectacular show that delighted all who attended. (Photo by Mark Haskett) The Blitz Is Here Co-Op Week To Start J he WCU Cooperative Education Week (February 28 - March 4) provides programs of interest for everyone in the university community. The detailed program schedule is published in this issue of the Western Carolinian. These are the highlights: Employer Presentations - Thirty employers are scheduled to speak in a variety of classes, representing nearly all majors. Students are invited to attend the classes in which employers of interest are scheduled, with the professor's permission. Employers have been asked to discuss the topic; What Employers Seek in College Graduates. They will also discuss the types of jobs in their companies, typical career paths, and give their prognosis of the job market. Atfditionally, each employer has been scheduled time for an informal discussion with students. This time has been especially set aside for juniors and seniors, but any interested student may come to the Dogwood Room in the University Center at the scheduled time. Seminar for University Personnel. All faculty and staff are invited to a seminar to explain the Cooperative Education program and the Comprehensive Project. The seminar will be held Tuesday afternoon in the Music- English auditorium and will inclu.de an address by the Chancellor, a panel of visiting employers and a discussion by student participants of the Cooperative Education experience. Student Information Sessions. These sessions will be held for any student interested in finding out more about Cooperative Education. The presentations (Monday and Thursday at 4 p.m. in 127 Forsyth) will feature a slide- tape show and presentations by student participants. Television Presentation. Members of the Co-op staff and students will appear on Carolina Newsmakers, WI.OS-TV (Channel 13) on Sunday. February 28 at 12:30 p.m. This program will be the kick-off for WCU Cooperative Education Week. developing these programs. Dr. Jody and her assistants have performed a great service to the university. They have helped to bring people of differing cultures together and added a new and important facet to each student's development. After serving as head of the department, Marilyn Jody feels that she has met the challenge she set for herself three years ago. Now is the time to set new goals and begin new paths. For these reasons, she is resigning. As she quoted from Thoreau, "I left tor as good a reason as 1 came. I have other lives to lead....I have no regrets about leaving. I am satisified with the job I did. I'm ready to move along." For Jody, the other lives are forcasted to include the finishing of a book that has been under contract for a while, reactivism in the fight for women's rights, and increased participation in the Sierra Club. She plans to return to teaching as a full- time faculty member, but hopes to find a way to teach abroad, possibly in American Studies and English as a second language. The fact that she has been pretty well tied down during the years in administration has led to a huge yearning to leave, although, not permanently. "There is a world out there and that is where I want to be " I he possibility of receiving a Fulbright award and teaching in another country is one of the hopes she holds for the future. Also. Jody seeks to pursue her personal Or. Jody, resigning head of the English Department, will be missed by many students and faculty at WCU. (Photo by Ken Lauber) interests writing, flying, and photography. Dr. Marilyn M. Jody has spent a large part of her professional life at Western Carolina University. She h as work c d a 1 6 n e a n d in collaboration with others on projects which have increased the quality of education at WCU. Cullowhee and Western will be poorer with her sne holds for the future. Also, Jody seeks to pursue her personal interests- writing. Hying, and photography. 300 High School Musicians To Visit Western's Campus A select 110-piece band comprised of high school musicians from North Carolina and surrounding states will begin intensive rehearsals at Western Carolina University Friday, Feb. 25, at the WCU Honor Band weekend. Over 300 students were recommended by their respective high school band directors for the WCU Honors Band. Final selection for the band was made by Western's wind and percussion faculty in the department of music. The 1983 Honors Band will be conducted by Dr. James Croft, director of bands at Florida State University. Past conductors of the band include the director of the U.S. Navy Band, Commander William J. Phillips, and Robert Washburn, dean of the Crane School of Music at Potsdam, New York. Croft, a native of Iowa, holds a bachelor's in music education degree from Cornell College of Mount Vernon, Iowa, and a master's degree from Northern Iowa University. He holds a doctoral degree in music from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to his appointment at Florida State, Croft was professor of music and director of bands at the University of South Florida and had taught in public school for 21 years in Iowa and Wisconsin. Honor Band members will culminate their two days of intensive rehearsal with a gala concert on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. in the recital hall of WCU's Music-English Building. Special soloist for the band will be WCU faculty member James Buckner. Buckner will perform the first movement of the Tartini "Concerto in D Major" for piccolo trumpet and Alexander Goedicke's "Concert Etude." During their visit to WCU, the Honor Band students will stay in university residence halls with WCU band members and participate in planned social and musical activities. On Friday evening at 8:15, the WCU Concert Band will perform, featuring Mario Gaetano of the WCU faculty as marimba soloist. The WCU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Gaetano; will perform at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday. Both performances will be in the recital hall of the WCU Music-English Building. Dr. Joseph Scagnoli, WCU director of bands, is chairman of the Honor Band program. All performances, including the gala concert on Sunday, are open to the public without admission charge. Fasting For World Hunger World Hunger Week, which includes a presentation by the executive director of the U.S. Board for International Food and Agricultural Development and a fast to provide food for the area's needy, will be observed Feb. 28 through March 3 at Western Carolina University. Sponsored by WCU's campus ministries and the university, the week's activities and events are intended to educate interested persons on the issue of world hunger and what individuals can do about the problem. "So often, we feel our hands arc tied because we are but one person. But, there are things each person can do. We want World Hunger Week to help people see that they can become part of the solution to the problem," said the Rev. Joe David Fore of the WCU Baptist Student Center and a member of the World Hunger Week committee. Activities begin Monday when volunteer students start gathering names of WCU students who are willing to give up the Thursday dinner meal in campus cafeterias. Through an agreement with the university, the cost of the meal for each student who fasts will be given, in commodities, to the World Hunger Week committee. Ihe committee will then distribute the food locally to needy families Monday evening at 7 o'clock the Western Carolina University Forum for Contemporary Issues will sponsor presentations by WCU Chancellor H.F. Robinson, a world food expert and a member of B1FAD who personally has been involved in world food problems for more than two decades, and Dr. Fred Hutchinson, executive director of B1FAD. The forum program, in the auditorium of WCU's Natural Sciences Building, is open to the public with no admission charge. There will be a question and answer session about world hunger following the formal presentations. On Tuesday and Wednesday, members of the committee and organizations will make classroom presentations in several WCU courses. Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. in the lobbies of Scott, Walker and Buchanan residence halls, the committee will offer an "experiential Third World meal." Wednesday there will be a film entitled "I Want to Live," narrated by John Denver, at 7:30 p.m. in Helder Residence Hall and at 9 p.m. in the lobby of Albright-Benton Hall. Committee members are asking students and community members to fast following the dinner meal on Wednesday and through the dinner meal on Thursday. However, only the Thursday dinner meal for students will be counted for the collection of food commodities. The fast is to be broken at 9 p. m. I h ursday at a joint worship program at the Baptist Student Center. That program is open to everyone. Additional information on World Food Week may be obtained by contacting Rev. Joe David Fore at 293-9030 or Brother Al Behm at the Catholic Student Center, telephone 293-9487.

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 Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1983-02-24
  • Date digitized: 2019-01-31
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