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The Red and Black
A major role
What element has the greatest
effect on a course in determining
its academic relevance’’ In most
cases, provided the course materi
al is flexible enough to allow any
leeway in the first plate, the course
instructor is the determining fac
tor If academi^ relevance is some
thing to be desired and demanded
in course work rather than just
something to talk about, the next
question is how\can the instructor
be best evaluated to determine his
willingness, ability and effective
ness in bringing this quality into his
classroom
One part of the answer is that the
teacher must be judged by those he
is supposed to teach Another part
of the answer is that the people who
sign his paycheck arc responsible
for determining if ho has earned it
Very simple huh’’ Now the tricky
part is to put these two elements
together and have them function as
one force, with each adding vitality
to the other
A very good \Viy to bring about
this necessary cooperation is
through a faculty course evalua-
New
The new election code pending
approval by the Student Senate will
tighten and better spell out the
procedures and standards affecting
student government association
elections Many of the inconsisten
cies and loose ends which were
undefined in the old code are recti
fied and described in the new docu
ment
Among the new stipulations are
the placing of election rule infrac
tions under the jurisdiction of the
Student Judiciary, the placing of a
tion propram in which the sWont's
opinion can be considered as re
sponsible and in which the student
can be assured that his opinion will
carry some weight.
Such programs are being con
ducted at the University on a limit
ed scale The scale is limited, we
hope, because the concept seems to
be somewhat of an innovation, and
needs to be developed so that the
two forces involved will pull to
gether and will be able to count on
each other to provide the necessary
impetus when one begins to reach
its limit The further development
of the concept of cooperation in
this vital area depends upon the
sincerity of both sides. The Red
and Black hopes students will think
seriously about this task and we
hope the administration will accept
student participation in good faith
With such cooperation and good
faith on both sides we feel confi
dent that faculty course evaluation
procedures will continue to devel
op. will be a matter of policy in
every schixil at the University and
will eventually play a major role in
faculty promotion policies
code
$2,000 limit for party campaign
expenditures, and the requiring of
expenditure statements being pre
sented by all parties in the election
We urge the Senate to ratify the
proposal and see that it is enforced
during the spring's elections.
Charges of fraudulent procedures
and stuffed ballot boxes come with
every election and are never car
ried beyond the stage of charges
against the winner We feel that
proper implementation of the code
will, if not remove the situation,
offer a channel for its solution
Tuesday's forum
On page five of next Tuesday's
Red and Black there will be pre
sented a forum of opinion on the
issue of curriculum revision
We have invited various students,
faculty members and administra
tors to express their opinions on
particular questions involved in the
issue in order to be able to present
as thorough an editorial coverage
as possible in 170 column inches of
print
We are interested in what you
think and invite vem to write a let
ter to the editor if you feel you have
something significant to say about
the issue We will select letters
according to the variety ol opinion
offered and not according to any
perosnai bias
The arts and Sciences Faculty
will meet next Wednesday at :l :t(l
in die Fine Arts Auditorium and is
Pipe
One of the suggestions coming
out of Dialogue ' 69 concerning fa
cilitation of campus communica
tion was the call for the develop
ment of a number of student facul
ty lounge in which students and
their instructors could meet in an
atmosphere of relaxation not found
in the formal context of the class
room
Work has proceeded on this idea,
which came to prominence last
year, and it appears that now the
first of such lounges is probable for
near future Several sites have
been selected and with the comple
tion of some details concerning
moving of offices and the develop
ment of more space the lounges
will finally come about
expected to formalize their propos
als for curriculum changes at this
meeting The major proposal ex
pected to be passed is the lowering
of the number of hours required for
an A B degree from 195 to 180
which would involve several
changes in required courses and
the discontinuation of academic
credit for basic physical education
i See story on page one> The pro
posals of the Arts and Sciences
faculty will have to be approved by
the University Council and ulti
mately by the University System
Board of Regents
We hope those who must act on
these issues will consider student
opinion and we hope students will
be concerned enough to be in
formed on these issues and will
offer intelligent opinions
dream
The road to this final stage of
planning for the lounges has been
paved with the fruitless efforts and
the eventual successes of a number
of people in the student govern
ment. (iwen Pittman, SGA minis
ter to academic affairs, has
worked with Vice-President
Ceorge Parthemos to get the nec
essary funding and space for the
lounges. These people deserve
commendation for their persever
ance which has brought the idea
this far.
We call on the University to con
tinue interest and its assistance to
the student government in order
that the lounges will finally be a
reality instead of the campaign
promise and Dialogue pipe dream
they have been
Outstanding service
The list of honoraries at the Uni
versity is long „nd diverse with
organizations that honor campus
wide leaders and those which honor
people in the various fields of inter
est on the campus A number of
these honoraries are likewise
termed service organizations The
discrepancy is that few of them
pertorm service of any type Their
major service is the selection of
new members at various intervals
Kxpansion of the brotherhood is
service, but to who’’
Our argument is not with the idea of
hcnoraries Their place as a motiva
tor and reward for outstanding
achievement is not the question !t is
however, an inconsistency that so
many of thegroups pertorm no serv
ice to the University community
The honoraries have served part of
their purpose extremely well, in that
they have generally chosen those de
serving of the hono’ of membership
We would like to see a complemen
tary role in which the outstanding
bend themselves in service in the
name of their organiztion
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Business Manager
Michael Howell
Editor
Tom Giffen
Managing Editor
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Associate Eairor
Michael Howell
The race and the running
J*eb. i 1970_
‘forgotten Bu^Uanu,’
An open letter
We have served for the past quarter
and a half as members of the Student
Government Consittution Revision
Commission. This committee of stu
dent Senate and cabinet members was
charged with tlie complete review and
revision of the Constitution of the Stu
dent Government Association A con
stitution. as anyone knows, is neces
sary not only for the operation of a
government, but also for its existence
as well This commission worked long
and hard on the new constitution and
had it ready for presentation to the
Senate last night Due to lack of a quo
rum. the constitution was not present-
CONSTITUTION
ed When the Senate adjourned and re
solved into a Committee of the Whole
to discuss the proposed constitution,
many Senators just walked out
Letter after letter has been written
to the Red and Black in the past con
cerning the ineptitude of the Senate —
perhaps the word is apathy of the Sen
ate After tills last example of apthetic
action — we can t say the Senate has
improved much for all the complain
ing
There could be no more basic, more
important, issue than stuent govern
ment consitution revi son Thirty out of 88
Senators cared to stay and discuss this
issue That spoor
^VISION COMMISSION
In the days ol the ante-bellum South,
there was a custom among the planta
tion aristocracy that the sons of the
family were sent to hurope on a Grand
Tour upon their completion of college
This was to give the pillars of Southern
manhood the polish they were often
larking alter the hell-raising existent*
in the southern universities of that day
Things have not changed all that
much since the days of cotton and hoou
skirts Onlv the locale of the Grand Tour
has been changed A student going
through the University can. if he elects
to expend the effort. follow a
Grand Tour of his own The completion
of this tour may leave him satisfied or
it may leave him wondering where he
has been and if he really accomplished
anything
The freshman enters the University
to the cries that he must contribute and
become involved in the mainstream of
the campus life and affairs. To the
bewildered little man from Echols
County the mammoth size of the school
and the sheer numbers of the people
are fairly frightening without repeated
charges that unless he gets involved
there will not be a place for him in
heaven
Sbll. believing that he owes some-
thinc he gets involved and before long
is caught up in the whirl of commit
ment that he is seeking. He loses the
hay from behind his ears and gains
the polish of the eminent worthy of the
campus When his tenure on the Uni-
versitv s confines is over, he enters the
world with a list of honors and jobs
done a mile long and contentment is
his
The glory of it all begins to fade and
the little man from Echols County
finds that he missed some things which
would have been nice to experience He
never had the time to get involved
enough in courses to go beyond the in
formation offered in the class room
and go out beyond the confines of Psy.
258 His days were so programmed the
chance to really talk to people about
the things which matter never mater
ialized
The pop poster which says. "Stop
and look until you really see has
more meaning than many of us would
care to admit We run from trivial
thing to inconsequential meeting and
miss the whole point of today in our
headlong race for tomorrow. That race
causes the runner to travel so fast that
he finds his ideas of service have been
tied up in pipe dreams of Camelot in
the reality of UGA. Athens. Georgia
Another poster says. "Tomorrow is
the first dav of the rest of your life...”
Too bad that hadn't dawned on many
people a long time ago. They might
have saved themselves a lot of worry
For many including this writer, the
involvment in campus affairs had been
a time of beneficial participation
However, for so many more it is a real
istic prelude to the ra trace
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest
of your life. So what are you going to do
about if’
Eddie Peabody
Ideas — powerful and destructive
Arkansas, among other things, is
about one day's drive from Georgia if
you are headed west. Several years ago
I was precisely that, headed west.
The first night out I stayed with the
parents of a friend of mine. and. rather
untactfully. I responded truthfully to
their eventual and enevitable queries
harsh climate were forced to creau? an
ingenious technology to provied them
with the means to survive. As a by
product of this thev also paired thp
know lege, and the temperment. to
subugate the more foutunate people
living in the temperate regions of the
earth Driven by need and ambition,
and sustained by a religion that talked
"Nothing may be so powerful as an idea whose time has
come but nothing is so destructive as an idea on which time
has run out."
concerning my feelings about the "ra
cial situation" in Georgia At that
time it was standard fare for travelers
from this state; Lester Maddox had
just been elected
The conversations grew quite ani
mated. although polite I was treated
to all the cliches of the traditional
Southern defense That is. they all
seemed cliches to me except for one
which in its orginality and revealing
naure went far beyond a cliche and
seemed to approach a capsulatio of
the Southern thinking about the
racial myth
I asked the lady of the house how she
could decide who to segregate, (or
many of the so-called "Negroes" ac
tually had more than 50 per cent
"white" blood in them Were they not
more “white' than "black" and
shouldn't they be treated more as
"whites" than blacks '
of the select of God." the whites
ruthlessly tore blacks from their
homes, traditions and sources of
pride and identity
Jay wrote in The 'Federalist
Papers', that "Providence has been
pleased to give this one connected
country to one united people a
people descended from the same
ancestors. speaking the same
language, professing the same religion,
attached to the same principles of
government, very similar in their
manners and customs ' There was
no place for the black man. the Jew.
or the non-Anglo-Saxon in the early
American dream
Finally the idea that all men should
be treated equally came into its own
But we have made one mistake We
have clung to the concept of "race" as
a viable means of telling the difference
between human beings
This woman was only the latest
embodiment of our heritage from the
Euopean peoples White Americans
are the deseendents of people who.
because of the necessity imposed bv a
Join the i
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But even the ulea of race is an out
moded one The Columbia Ency
clopedia" states in the opening sen
tence of its disscussion of the term
that race is an ' obsolete division of hu
manity Obsolete, unless and futile
And yet we continue to think in terms
of race, and because of this we are
faced with absurd situations on every
Mile
Instead of finally uuing away with
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Letters policy
TK« Editors wekome contribution!
to Reoder Reoction os an example of
the student interest in the University.
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However, the Editors reserve the
j* right to edit contributions to conform
to style, good taste Recency and libel
lows, tetters should be typed doubled
jv space and should not ex:ept m rare
mstonce exceed 300 words in length.
Reoder Reoction is meant to serve
the student body os well os the Red
ond Block, since the paper cannot
serve a readership whose opinions it
does not know.
gerrymandered school districts, we
are now busily gerrymandering them
to meet the requirements of integra
tion. But integration itself is based on
the validity of the term ' race.' We
might with equal logic attempt to
maintain a balance of blue eyes and
brown eyes in the schools.
The concept of race used to deprive
the American society of productive cit
izens through racial prohibitions. Now.
instead of finally using ability and
achievment as reasons for advance
ment. some blacks, because of their
"race, find positions available to them
as token blacks.' used to prove the
liberality of their employers and asso
ciates.
History departments, instead of fi
nally offering the student the whole
range of human events, now use the
concept of race as a basis for setting up
segregated "Black Students" programs.
Nothing could be farther from an at
tempt to discover and portray the
truth.
For years, one had to choose one’s
friends on the basis of race. Now. in
stead of picking one's frineds because
of mutual interests and computability,
one must at all costs court black
friends, no matter how much one
thinks them to be bores or idiots, in
order to be accepted as liberal and en-
lighted.
Officially, scientifically, socialogi-
caly. psyehologicaly. polticaly and
personaly the concept of "race'' is out
moded and must be allowed to die.
Nothing may be so powerful as an
idea whose time has come, but nothing
is so destructive as an idea on which
lime has run out
— Reader Reaction —
"Something good'
TO THE EDITOR:
Writing in regard to the editorial on
the removal of credit for ROTC, I
would quite frankly like to disagree I
fully agreed with the university's move
making ROTC optional, but I cannot
Real issue
TO THE EDITOR:
A few nights ago I attended a con
cert by Armageddon, a group of young
people touring the country with a con
temporary sound and a unique and con
troversial message 1 must admit that
the concert wasn t exactly what I had
in mind as a typical concert here at the
University of Georgia Instead, they
communicated through their words
and music how they had lou.id a new
dimension to life — dimension that
drugs, sex. materialism couldnT add
They went on to say that the real issue
is the person of Jesus Christ and what
He can do in an individual's life. 1 was
impressed by the boldness, confidence
and sincerity with which they chal
lenged the audience too face the issue
The question they asked each individu
al in the audience was. "What are you
going to do with the person of Jesus
Christ?'’
A question such as this is not only
challenging, but one that seems to lin
ger within my mind It is seldom that
Christ is presented as a revolutionary
— one of the greatest — instead of a
weak straw image built on men s ideas
I have been given something real to
think about If anyone else saw the
concert. I would be interested in know
uig their impressions
STEVE KING
agree with this attempt to remove the
academic status of the program
Your editorial stated that ROTC
covered only a small amount of materi
al and occupied only a little of the stu
dent's time As a member of the Air
Force program, knowing only little
about the Army. I would like to main
tain that this statement is false ROTC
occupies as much of the individual's
time as do any of the other two-hour
courses at the university
The Air Force program at Georgia
is far from the regimented military life
mentioned in vour editorial It is my
opinion that the instructors exercise a
great deal of academic freedom in
their lessons and do indeed carry on the
ideal teacher-student relationship
which you cannot find It is far from
being the officer-enlisted man relation
ship you picture it to be
As for the "objectives of the univer
sity " what are they if not to give the
s, udent a better insight into all phases
of our civilization' 1 A student can re
ceive credit for all but the basic P E
courses Indeed he can major in it
Why penalize those students in the
ROTC program' 1 After all. it is option
al
So, the university removes ROTC
credit, all the other schools do the
same Then they ban ROTC just like
they did prayer Both are optional
Then we have a completely profession
al military, and they decide to rule us
and the world Big deal, you say Don't
be dramatic This is the start though
of the removal of the military power
from the civilian element of the nation
ROTC is a good, stable elective at
this university It does us as citizens
and Americans a great service Whv
kill something good’’
I
TOM NASH