Covert Housing Decision Troubles Campus 8~~"!:!!Gs "If We Knew What Our (Long-Term) Options Were

Vol. LXIV Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, F~iday, February 27, 1981 No.l8 Covert housing decision troubles campus 8~~"!:!!gs "If we knew what our (long-term) options were, . Wilson said. "Changing these things takes time." we would bring iii other groups (to help make "One (administration) assumption is that women In the aftermath of.the decision to return New ·deserve,better housing," Pearman said. Dorm lA to women, administrators emphasized the decisions)," Wilson said. "This (administrative) group is not making long "Our ·romantic conception of women is more change is one of expediency, not housing important than providing equitable housing and philosophy. range decisions," Wilson said. "We are open to various possibilities, including housing women on formulating a housing policy which would con Students and faculty members expressed con the north (men's) side of campus in the long tribute to the educational goals of the university," cern at the covert nature of the decision. range." he said. "This decision reflects our short-term needs. "In the short term, we are making a distinction "There's no reason why .women need or deserve while we are still uncertain about Graylyn (as a between the p~ilosophical and the practical," he finer shelter," Evans said. "As an individual I want conference center)," Provost Edwin G. Wilson said. the best available, but the opportunity should not be said. "Frankly, we're floundering. This is entirely a The 1979 Efird decision and the latest N:ew porm based on gender." stopgap measure." decision were made without consulting the Student "As a former administrator in a co-ed dorm, I see A statement from the administrative group which Government student life committee or the faculty that situation as beneficial to students," area made the decision concurred: "While there is no student life, area director of residence life Roger director of residence life, Steve Hutson said. philosophical appetite for displacing men from New Pearmon said. "I've seen responsible rather than questionable DornL .. the ~ractical considerations cannot be Administrators originally gave New Dorm 1A to student interaction occur in such dorms. Statistics ignored for the coming fall." . male residents as compensation for the loss of mcst indicate co-ed living has a civilizing effect," he "1 would have liked to have seen it done in the men's single rooms, Wilson said Wednesday. said. "I honestly don't think Wake Forest practices Hutson came to Wake Forest in 1979. The Old open," junior John Chapman· said. "At 1east Gold and Black incorrectly reported that Hutson someone could have said, 'Look, we've made a housing discrimination," Wilson said. "We are, however, victims of campus design. arrived In 1978. decision,' instead of doing it clandestinely in A student petition concerning. the New Dorm J anu!lrY." "It used to be the prevailing attitude that women were entitled to more attractive housing than decision has been drafted, senior John Hunter said. "The worst thing was tijat our opinion wasn't men," he said .. "The other side of that idea was the "(Junior) Scott Sapp currently has the petition considered," junior Lysle Evans said. "If it had discrimination against women in other areas. and is considering options on distributing it," be~n done in the open, it wouldn't have the negative "It cut both ways," Wilson said. "Now we are Hunter said. connotation it has." trying to end the imbalance, and 'the building of Evans, Chapman and senior Ross Goodman said "As an ideal, they (students) should be included New Dorm was part of that attempt. --they would sign a petition calling for rescission of in dealing with as many housing decisions as "The current New Dorm decision is a step back the New Dorm decision. possible," Donald Schoonmaker, associate ward, but not a permanent step," he said. ".Upperclassmen· have a responsibility to un· professor of politics, said. "This is different from "One of the problems (of moving women to the derclassmen (in supporting such a petition)," giving them veto power or majority control." Quad) is the conservative social policy we have," Goodman said. Exu Hollywood Black activist criticizes manipulative elite Frank Johnson celebrates after winning his last Annette Kavanaugh rhymes and in children's Saturday TV Gregory said. "(Colleges and universities) basketball game, a i3·66 overpowering of stollwrllor programs as examples. teach you how to make a living. They never llhil"d·nmk•ed Virginia. (See story, p. 7) Blacks and whites in America have less . He alleged a similar bias exists in the pretended to teach you how to live," he to fear from each other than from a motion picture industry; such films as said. · manipulative political and economic elite, "The French Connection" and "Midnight In particular, academic pressure cau~es Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights Express" glamorized .the drug trade. a degradation of human dignity. Students activist, assured his audience in Wait "They manipulate your hate, your fear, feel forced to cheat. Gregory quoted his Forum to examine· Chapel .Tuesday evening. all your isms and osms," Gregory said of advice to his own children: "If you ever see Gregory opened his rambling three-hour the elite behind. these conspiracies. one of those institutions reducing you to the talk with one-liners about elitism and the He clai~ed similar conspiracies with the level where you'd be tempted to cheat, ·Graylyn's· _future · recent presidential election::.. FBit· CIA and Mafia in.volvement had come home."· . · . He then launched. into. the. main bOdy· of. played a· tole in. the assassinations of John · · Instead· of frantically seeking good The future of Graylyn will be discussed in a his talk with remarks directed at.the Ku F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and grades, students should remember that Student Government forum in Reynolda Main Klux Klan and Southern Whites Against ·Robert Kennedy. Gregory, alleged real learning is more important. "The true ·Lounge on March 4 from 5-6 p.m. Tyranny (SWAT) members who had- been Watergate had been a setup against Nixon learning process is in the top of your head, The forum will be a discussion of the proposal to expected to stage a motorcade before or by these same shadowy conspirators. controlled by the same force that controls restore Graylyn as a confer!!nce center rather than during th~ lecture. Gregory did not forget the Moral the universe," Gregory said. "As long as as undergraduate housing. H~ advised· KKK _members and SY!fi· Majority. "How can they call themselves my mind is intact, I am whole." The proposal will be presented .to the WF Board of pathizers to .turn _agamst the real enem1es moral?" he asked. In particular, he The proper care of the mind entails the of ~e Amertcan Idea~ of democracy: the questioned the sincereity of the Moral proper care of the body, Gregory added. It Trustees at its March 13 meeting. is absurd and madt to continue to destroy Members of the administration and the Graylyn Maf1a, l~rge c~rpor~t10ns and other tools of Majority's stand on the "right to life." the. ~an~pulati~e elite. "How can you be for the right to life and our bodies with substances such as tobacco committee have been invited to offer short opening Thts ehte, wh1ch encourages racul strife not against capital punishment? How can and to care less for our health than for statements, and then questions from the floor will and other deadly hatreds, also encourages you be for the right to life and not against material things, he said. be accepted. the violence which characterizes American war?" he said. "If they told you Cigarette smoking- Staff photo by Joe Pttrcne• The forum will be videotaped for presentation to so~iet~ ~nd ~ulture. ~s a ~h.ole, Gregory The American educational system has GREGORY the trustees at their March meeting. said, Citing VIolence In tradtbonal nursery also fallen victim to inner contradictions, (See Activist, page twol Protestantism· Britis~ hypnotist sets boundaries Dennis Hearne Staff writer Main-line Protestantism, the historically delights crowd dominant faith in America, has a responsibility to keep America's civil religion in proper bounds, Samuel Hill, professor of religion at the University of Florida, told an audience in Wait Chapel Monday night. "Main-line Protestantism, by the very nature of with antic feats ' its role ·... has helped create the context in which a civil religion can grow," Hill said. · Hill defined civil religion as "the transcendent universal religion of the nation," and said of mesmerism American society may have been the quintessential setting for such a development. Stall pholo by louloo Sltpheno Main-line Protestantism's contributions to Peter Casson de!Jlonstrated his power of instantaneous hypnotism Sunday evening in the University ThE:ater. American civil religion include investing American M11rfa Hrnson manded - much to the delight of the Tired' is played, wherever you are in the a tissue and one was a tightrope walker society with a sense of moral destiny, tolerating Aoaloto•t editor audience. theater, you go deeper to sleep." who, with the help of a pink parasol, diversity and fostering respect for individual ex Hypnotist Peter Casson delighted an Casson helped the volunteers up from · He then woke the volunteers up and walked back and forth on a jumprope perience and personal morality, Hill said. overflow crowd with his feats of their chairs and walked them to the front announced an intermission. without falling off. mesmerization during a performance in of the stage. He placed the volunteers' During the intermission this reporter One subject was asked who her Because of its role in the fruition of civil religion the Scales Fine Arts Center Sunday hands in a position that made them look met one of the volunteers, freshman favorite movie star was.

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