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Meets Student Resistance By CONNIE COLE Christmas break would prevent The Calendar Committee, which have not yet been Associate Editor professors from having to "rush chaired by Dr. Harold Barrow, thoroughly tabulated, show 100 to finish the fall semester's will meet Monday to discuss and per cent of student responses tp Although a proposal which classes before Christmas." vote on the various proposals, against placing exams after would place fall final exams after ent toward Currently, Baird said, the fall and Baird said his would be Christmas; Christmas holidays has been semester. consists of only 14 full among those discussed. According to John Gallahan, increasing discussed among the members of education weeks of classes as opposed to the Dean of the College Thomas student representative on the the Calendar Committee, 15-week spring semester. Two of Mullen said that alternatives to Calendar Committee, the basic :o what we committee members Dr. Herbert to have to the missed class periods, he ~d, the present calendar are being idea in student response was Baird, associate chemistry are attributable to registration "toyed with" because so many "that Christmas is a vacation." :ales said. professor and sponsor of the :onomics." day and the Friday after people are unhappy about Most students questioned the proposal, thinks that "it probably Thanksgiving. beginning school in August. He need to change the calendar at in college \ •.•r will not go anywhere and is ae nation, The fact that graduation is said that . tile cost of air all. nothing to worry about." scheduled for the third Monday in conditioning the buildings during Only one student said he would ble by1985 Baird said that each committee .awing for May, Baird added, forces either a that time is enormous. not be willing to begin school member had developed his own longer spring . semester or a However, Mullen said that during the last week of August. Of calendar proposal and "each one three-week Christmas break. postponing exams until after the other alternatives to having ~nts came . up with something Suggestions have been made to Christmas was not being planned exams after Christmas·, 56 different." His proposal, which revert to a two-week long in any formal sense at all. He students said they would favor was presented .to the Christmas break, as some faculty mentioned that . another having night exams in addition to nent departments of chemistry, members felt that this was "time alternative to the fall semester those now regularly scheduled at • • physics, psychology and biology, wasted." problem wQuld be to cut it down 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Only five tonty was regarded rather favorably, "Personally, I don't consider to 13 weeks or so as Duke students were in favor of not he said, by the chemistry the three weeks wasted," he said. University has done. But he said having a Thanksgiving vacation. :ablished department, "but many faculty "I just like the idea of avoiding that a shQrtening of the semester One student was particularly The long, warm days of Indian summer have kept students In the monsoons have nol'Jil8}1y IIJ:iven them inside. Those days will end .ssociation members in the other the rush before Christmas." here would face "strong faculty strident in his objection to the great outdoors long into the time when Piedmont North Carolina's soon, though; rainy, cool weather is forecasted for the weekend. y meeti}lg departments were opposed to Baird said that his proposal opposition." proposal. He said, "Every year it Photo by Yandle ~its goals having anything to do .with the calls for the beginning of the Mullen said that a slightly seems as if the students are being increased fall semester after Christmas." spring semester on January 19. shortened semester would not asked to adjust to something new :estudents Baird said that his reasons for It He said he sees "no way" that affect the university's in the academic calendar (from e areas of I ., sponsoring the proposal center insertion of exams after accreditation. 4-1-4 to semesters of 15 weeks), ics, and basically around being able to Lounge Space Disputed Chrisbnas would hinder four · In response to rumors that and the students, for the most start the fall semester later, week courses and overseas part have adjusted well. But it exams might be placed after Some of the MRC ideas for llSsaidthe escaping the stifling heat of courses. Rather than .being held Christmas, Student Government seems that the faculty is never By KEVIN QUINLEY Inversely, non-fraternity men promised lounge space when the uld begin August and allowing a Labor Day stricUy during the month of conducted a random sample of satisfied. Just what is the Staff Writer form 78 per cent of the on-campus campus moved to Winston-Balem acquiring more lounge space are -- the mergers of smaller d student holiday. Another factor January, he said they would 400 surveys to which 271 students problem?" mens' population and use '1:1 per in 1956. 1niversity influential in his proposal, Baird encompass late January and One student expressed concern Competition for lounge space cent of the social space. Because of this prior fraternities. MRC advocates responded. point to the fact that some frats sage, and said, is that placing exams after early February. Statistics from the SG surveys, that, with exams after may lead to a confrontation MRC lounges, unlike frat commibnent to the fraternities, Christmas, grades might suffer, between the Men's Residence lounges, are open to anyone, the MRC-fraternity lounge have only 30 to 35 members, while :t the GSA while one proposed that all Council and fraternities this Smith said. In addition, he competition is a very complex house memberships may nwnber dzed last classes be extended ten minutes year, according to Scott Smith, claimed that compared with issue, according to Dean of Men in the hundreds. However, Reece came into F acuity Modifies COurses in length to make up for the three MRC president. fraternities, the MRC appeals to Mark Reece. said such a merger is unlikely. the spring missed class periods. Although Smith said he wants a broader spectrum of students, "It's a real dilemma in a sense - an off-campus move of some· course combination History and a three-fourths majority, -and to avoid such a confrontation, he does not blackball anyone and between the needs of the MRC frats. By DEBORAH RICHARDSON Gallahan said that the purpose - constrution of new lounges. tended to Editor Civilization of Southeast Asja then prints the changes on the of the survey was to give students thinks it is needed to show charges lower fees. and the commitment made to the graduate dropped. students how MRC residents are But one MRC representative fraternities," he said. Reece said this alternative is "a ·facu).ty agenda. If no faculty a voice in SG affairs as well as to much better solution." 1t attend Eleven course or cotirse - The faculty does not actually members object to the committee provide him with statistics to given "seeond-rate" lounges. said, "The MRC can't really sell Smith said, "What it comes This in combination additions were - vote on curriculum changes of . changes, faculty approval is present to the committee when it A spring 1975 study conducted itself to students as long as it has down to is that if you want to pay "I've heard of national .calschool approved by the.,.Yfaculty at this nature, according to Dean of assumed. meets on Monday. "This time b.y MRC showed that fraternity such second-class lounge the money to join a frat, you can fraternity charters merging, but Bowman. Monday's moPtltly faculty the College Thomas Mullen. New course additions are ·when they ask me 'Hey, what men comprise 22 pel' .cent of the facilities." have a lounge. Everything relies never of local chapters 85 grad meeting. A .'Classical studies Instead, the Curriculum Intermediate Italian and would a student think of this?' I on-campus male population and While the MRC was ·founded in . on money, but every resident, merging," he said. >lda cam- major was okayed, and the Committee approves changes by Intermediate Russian in can say 'This time I know what occupy 73 per cent of the social 1965, fraternities have been at the- fraternity or non-fraternity, One MRC representative Romance languages; two students think.' " space in the mens' houses. university much longer and were should have some lounge space." claimed that the MRC would tehind the different courses of Special grow in membersbip with 'ickens, is Problems in Biology, in addition improved lounge facilities. type of Program Probes to Internships in biology; "Poteat house has the best lounge students Southeast Asia from 1511 to facilities and it has the most :tge of a Present and The Middle East Football Buses Supplied members," he said. from Suleiman, the Magnificent, Reece disagreed. "Poteat had JFK Shooting to Present in history; and The amendment est.ablishes resource for needy organizations with Dean of the College Thomas a large membership long before European Peasant Communities By MARK conditions for organizations which may not meet the Mullen on the subject of the 4-1-4 they had such spacious facilities.