Friday, March 3, 1967

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Seven

 

(Continued from preceding page)

might be better handled in another
way. For instance, the majors and
faculty of a department would work
together without this campus-wide
System to decide what kinds of
courses were needed in that de-
partment and in what fields new
professors should be hired, —
The Curriculum Committee has
fantastic potential for enabling the
. Students not only to actively ex-
press their concerns but also to
actively participate in alleviating
the problems they see. Hopefully,
some of these suggestions will
lead in that direction.

Susan Nosco

The purpose of Curriculum Com-
mittee is. two-fold: to serve’ as

the spokesman for student opinion,-

acting as a liaison between facul-
ty and students, to provide the
faculty with the campus consensus

on academic programsand policies .

under faculty consideration; to
serve as an initiator, as a source
of proposals, and as a channel
through which matters .of aca-
demic concern within the under-
graduate community may be com-
municated to the Faculty Curricu-
lum Committee. In performing its
functions, the Student Curriculum
Committee must be constantly re-
evaluating the academic situation
within the college in relation to
the changing néeds and interests
of the college community, always
seeking ways in which to adjust
the institution, ways to meet most
satisfactorily the demands of
change.

The Student Curriculum Com-
mittee could and SHOULD be one of
the most active bodies’ on cam«
pus. There is no lack of dis-
satisfaction on campus with -the
academic situation asitnowexists.
Nor is there any lack of programs
to. bring about constructive, val-
uable change. Pass-fail courses,

non-major fields, as fifth
courses; project courses, per-
mitting study in depth in areas of
interest; an arts and services pro-
gram, along the lines of the Hav-
erford program; extra-curricular
instruction in art and music, or-
iented toward appreciation and/or
application; a set procedure for
instituting new courses; interde-
partmental seminars at all levels;
these are only a few of the pro-
grams which may be explored.
Programs directed at calendar
change, at self-scheduled exams,
and description and evaluation of
various courses and course areas
to aid the-student in choosing both
courses and a major should con-
tinue to be explored.

To aid in communication, both ~

within the Bryn Mawr College com-
munity and without, various liai-
sons might be established. Stu-
dents might be non-yoting mem-
bers of both the faculty calendar
and curriculum committees, to act
as spokesmen for the student
committee’s policy, supplying in-

being discussed within the stu-
dent committee for the faculty in

instances where joint méetings be-

tween the faculty and student com-
mittees are either impossible or
unnecessary.

In addition, representatives
should be in communication with
the comparable student commit-
tees, at Haverford College, and at
other colleges and universities,
exchanging problems and solu-

 

Correction

_The grants of money for
summer studies in the field
of public affairs are avail-
able to students in any
relevant major, and not just
Political Science, as may
have been interpreted from
. tov week's NEWS. The
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tions, new programs or just new
ideas, ~

To act as the spokesman of stu-

dent opinion, as the initiator and
the channel of initiation for ideas
and for concrete proposals con-
cerning students’ academic needs
and interests, as an active parti-
cipant representing the student
community in academic policy-
making by faculty and administra-
tion, the Student Curriculum Com-
mittee must be ‘strengthened and
expanded, increasing its commun-
ication and its influence in the
student community. By becoming
awere of campus opinions and in-
terests, by formulating programs
to meet student needs, and by gain-
ing student support, the committee
will be in a position to act as an
informed, _ influential,
spokesman for students on aca-
demic issues, .

The committee is characterized
by organizational fuzziness, oper-
ating without a constitution, with-
out a widely-known, widely-under-
stood, carefully articulated pur-
pose, and without an adequate con-
ception, either within the commit-
tee or within the student com-
munity, of the.area or extent of
Curriculum Committee jurisdic-
tion. The representative system
has been either inadequate in num-
bers or inactive in representation
(perhaps it has been both), the re-
sult being that the programs of the
committee have been insufficiently
communicated to the student body.
The consequence has_ been that
feedback from. students to com-
mittee has been minimal,

Within the committee, there is

officially no second in command,
no vice-chairman, the entire bur-
den of the committee being borne
_by the chairman, thereby not only
limiting the scope of committee
activities, but also forcing at best
temporary--curtailment of commit-
tee activities, should the chair-
man suddenly be unable to con-
tinue her role,

Given the organizational dif-
ficulties,; it is’ no wonder that
Curriculum Committee has been
unable to undertake a more exten-
sive program. Organization, clar-
ification, and expansion of the com-
mittee’s operations are impera-
tive if Curriculum Committee is
to assume any degree of respon-
sibility or to attempt any kind of
positive action aimed at an ex-
pression of student attitudes to-
ward academic issues.

The representative
should be expanded, the number of
reps from each hall being increased
and allotted according to dorm
populations, Not only will expan-
sion increase the number of peo-
ple to act as communications net-
works between the dorms and the
committee, but increased num-
‘bers will provide increased work-
ing power within the committee,
the ‘‘manpower”’ necessary in or-
der to undertake a more extensive
program,

Organization can provide a flex-

formation “and clarifying issues !>!¢ framework structured to meet

the demands of the committee pro-
gram, requiring various subcom-
mittees to deal with specific prob-
lems. . Clarification of the purpose
and areas of committee concern
will aid the definition of types of
programs which Curriculum Com-
mittee may undertake, aiding both
students and faculty, as well as
the committee, in determining on
what matters and in what areas
the committee may be expected,
and in fact, demanded, to act.

 

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League
Cheri Morin

League exists for the purpose of
making the student aware of social
problems; of educating her to take
an active interest in the community;
of providing opportunities for per-
sonal service; and of contributing
in some concrete, effective way to
the community,

It is a social service organization
which promotes cooperation and
mutual understanding and provides
support and direction for student
action in response to the needs of
the community,

I am_running for League Presi-
dent because I would like to take
part in implementing these goals,

My experience in League has
been. chiefly in the area of the
Tutorial Project--a fact which
makes it difficult to gain an over-
all perspective on League’s pro-
grams, But these are the areas
in which I would like to make
changes or improvements,

First, I would like to see greater

co-operation with Alliance, In
this day when economic, political,
and social welfare concerns are
intricately bound together I think

system~ that there are many areas of mu-

tual interest to which League and
Alliance could direct their com-
bined resources--in ways such as
obtaining good speakers and spon-
soring seminars and other infor-
mational projects of high quality,

Second, I would like to see a

* closer connection with the School

of Social Work, One of the objec-
tives of League is to inform stu-
dents about careers in the field
of social welfare. I think it
would be effective to inform stu-
dents of lectures and seminars of
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uate students toparticipate in some
of our projects, in addition to our
work in connection with the Bureau
of Recommendations,

Third, the quality of the Speakers
Program _ should be improved,
Speakers who will address thestu-
dents on timely subjects of interest

to them are an important factor in
our program to awaken the stu-
dents’ interest in social problems,

Fourth, one of the mostpressing
problems of League is of a mechan-
ical nature, It is that of transpor-
tation, This perennial problem has
had annoying and discouraging ef-
fects on many of the projects oper-
ating within League,

- The success of League projects
is a function of the. individual’s
interest, Therefore, we must be
attuned to the voices of the students,
all of them members of League, and
develop or discard projects in
accordance with their interests,

It is not the spirit of League to
center on the ‘‘glow’’ that comes
from ‘‘doing good,” Rather,
through an adequate and integrated
program of information and pur-
poseful activity League can height-
en the student’s awareness of the
world of people around her andcan
help her to makeher contribution to
this community,

 

Letters

(Continued from page 2)

a fallacy to assume, as the signers
of the above letter do, that indi-
vidual freedom destroys a sense of
community. On the contrary, it”
enhances. community responsibil-
ity.

My experience as a student and
‘as a hall president has given me
reason to believe that we can cope
with the freedom that the revised
constitution will give us. Thelack
of evidence to the contrary is
striking. The ‘‘men inthe rooms’”’
rule which was, I think, a more
radical. change than..any that is.
being proposed now, has been used
well, with very little abuse.

Any revisions made in the con-
stitution this year will very likely
be provisional for the first year.
During that time if problems re-
sult, they may be dealt with as
they arise, If necessary the re-
visions may be amended or re-
pealed. But they should not be
voted down now on the basi§ of
unsubstantiated and. unwarranted
fears,

Kitty Taylor ’67

 

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