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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University The aT ylor Magazine Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections Spring 1969 Taylor University Magazine (Spring 1969) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor University Magazine (Spring 1969)" (1969). The Taylor Magazine. 51. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/51 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aT ylor Magazine by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING, 1969 Spring 1969 Vol. 6 No. 2 EE TAYLOR UNIVERSITY THE MAGAZINE ABOUT TAYLOR U AT HOME AND ABROAD Will Cleveland, Editor Mrs. Alice Shippy, Class News Editor 3 FREEDOM by brian heath 5 THE WORLD OF DON ODLE by will Cleveland 10 MATH FOR THE MOON AGE by prof. William ewbank 14 BLACK DRAMA by brian brightly IS CLASS NEWS 21 ALUMNI BALLOT 23 "MISSING" ALUMNI OUR COVER: One may tend to think of mathematics as a rigid discipline, changeless as the laws which control the traffic of the stars. "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line," for instance, is immutable enough. However, where one used to traverse the distance between two such points by horse and buggy, he now does it by car or jet. The law is the same, but the methods used to illustrate it have been revolutionized. So it is with what used to be that stodgy old subject—mathematics. The problems may be the same, but the modern means of solving them baffle many of today's adult sophisticates (particularly if they are parents of teenagers). Read "Math for the Moon Age," by Prof. William Ewbank, beginning on page 10. TAYLOR UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Issued quarterly by Taylor University. Second Class postage paid at Upland, Indiana. P14 by BRIAN HEATH, Chairman of the Student Court. The author, a junior from u Oak Creek, Wisconsin, is majoring in Biology. While a dangerous and anti- intellectual movement is vocal on some campuses—a militancy which demands freedom to destroy free- dom—a Taylor student counters with a challenge to responsibility. V -A' " - . THE STUDENT COURT. (Left to right): Russ Taylor, sophomore, Mahomet. Illinois; Carol Emery, sophomore, Colombia, S.A.; Melinda Hauk, senior, Bluffton, Indiana; Joe Romine, junior, Bluffton, Indiana; Brian Heath; Bonnie McKane, senior, Fairborn, Ohio; Jim Hall, senior, Kettering, Ohio; Patricia Wikoff, junior, Cincinnati; and Diane Mandt, junior, Orlando, Florida. about 20 others. I found that Taylor Other colleges got their Student FREEDOM already includes almost every one Affairs staff to play an elaborate and has gone even further in the area game of cops and robbers. Taylor The National Student Association, of trial by peers and riglit of appeal. Students thought they were above in its thrust for student freedom on But due process is not the only this and asked to be able to share the college campuses, has set down man- area in which Taylor leads college responsibility for rule breakers. They dates for reform and revolution in its students. The 1967 policy declara- might talk to a person, try to help 1967 policy statement and in its tion of NSA stated the following: him or report him. Contrary to book: Student Power - the Philo- "(We) believe in the ability of stu- popular opinion this was never writ- sophy, Program, and Tactics. dents, individually and collectively, ten down as policy. Students merely Among these are free speech, free- to accept responsibility . There- urged each other to act responsibly. dom to research, a right to due fore (we) urge the continuance and If an Honor System was not a process, and justice. Not finding development of the Honor System signed commitment to rat on a these on all campuses, the NSA used in college communities." Honor Sys- buddy, then what was it? Last year's means from "urging the Board of tem—What is it? How does it work? Student - Trustee - Faculty Confer- Trustees to comply" at the Univer- How does it make Taylor different? ence, in which we broke into small sity of Redlands to, and I quote, Should Tavlor be different? How discussion groups after a chapel, was "guerrilla warfare" at Oberlin col- many times have I heard someone an attempt to answer that question. lege. This search for freedom has led ask, or askjed in my own mind: Out of that conference a student to disruption and destruction across "Why do we have to have an Honor committee, of which I was a mem- the nation at places like Berkeley, System at Taylor?" To answer this ber, drew up a proposal. Perhaps Oberlin, and Columbia—names. that question I went to the library's divi- wrongly, we based it on the NSA sound more like battlefields than sion of ancient documents and found definition of Honor System; namely colleges. Looking at these, I found a handbook from the mid 50*s. a legal bond to obey standards and myself forced to find the true mean- Among other things it said: "Men report those who don't. ing and definition of freedom and must wear ties to every evening meal Students not only told us they justice. and be in their own rooms and quiet didn't want our proposal in dorm Plato, I believe, came the closest at 12:00 o'clock"; girls were re- meetings last spring, but at least in his definition that justice is having minded to extend courtesies to the once I thought I might become a and doing what is one's own. Justice head resident such as standing when martyr for my efforts. We withdrew implies the right or freedom to (1) she entered the room, opening the the proposal, went back to the draw- property, and (2) action—without door for her and allowing her to ing board, and made our own defini- infringing on another's right. If precede them. The men were re- tion, based on what we felt students someone takes my car without my minded that they were responsible wanted and what was best for Taylor permission, he violates my right or for a girl's protection, and to get her University. freedom to own property. When back to the dorm on time. An Honor System is trusting some- Russia censors its press it violates its one to obey standards and the reci- right to action. GROWING PAINS procal responsibility of that person However, in a community many Digging a little deeper, I found to abide by standards and earn that of our actions do intersect with those the Honor System. Students first trust. It involves both trust and res- of our peers. My freedom to play a requested it eliminate that pain in ponsibility. In short, it's the same stereo or argue loudly in the hall the neck known as assigned chapel solution that has always existed to about student power may interfere seats. Students were allowed to sit obtain freedom: Trust each other, with your right to quiet study. For where they wanted and were asked and earn each other's trust. An similar reasons, governments, laws to report any absences over three. Honor System ONLY exists where and courts exist in the rest of society. The court was asked to handle pun- mutual trust exists. This concept To insure freedom and justice at ishments and mete out absence re- encompasses everyone of us—the Taylor, the Student Court was es- ports. Compliance with the system faculty and administration as much tablished during the mid 50's. was almost total, according to Dr. as students. To measure our effectiveness I Rediger. The freedom was enjoyed When a faculty member refuses compared our own judicial system and appreciated, and the Honor Sys- to trust a student to take a test a day with the NSA declaration of student tem was extended to other areas of or two after the rest of the class—in rights which include: a clear state- campus life. that case we no longer have an honor ment of regulations; to give the ac- This worked fine until Taylor, like system. cused an adequate notice of charge; other small colleges, started grow- When a professor refuses to trust to consider the accused innocent till ing. With its growth the number of not only a student's wisdom but a proven guilty; witnesses in his be- irresponsible people grew. Wheaton fellow faculty member's wisdom in half; clear reason for penalty; and and Anderson hired campus police. continued on page 17 , In those days almost everything could seat up to four persons in Lafayette's Marion Crawley seemed smaller — except the earth relative comfort, and were so anti- and Odle call on basketball greats such as the Harlem itself. Population, taxes, wages, air- quated as to have a gear-shift lever planes, even basketball players. on the floor. Globetrotters to spark their Four-door autos with fenders, run- Soap flakes supplied most of the Junior Basketball camp. ning boards and narrow bodies cleaning power for the U. S. and The wide wide world Don Odle By Will Cleveland Reprinted from IMAGE magazine Used by permission supported such fanciful Americans basketball court he turned into as Ma Perkins, Our Gal Sunday and something of a magician. With arms Helen Trent, whose hopes were con- flailing, his body feinting in all di- tinually dashed against the rocks of rections at once like a demented despair.