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TODA V INSIDE TODAY EDITORIALL 'f A s25 CAR * LEG ISLA TOR SALEM STUDENTS FOR AAS Wake Forest University, Winston.Salem, North Carolina, Friday, March 23, 1973 Bunz Daniels .Elected in Lan slide 'Reunion' Opens Challenge White, McDonald, Rafferty Hits Relativism Mann Also Win relativism: "that -there is no disagreed vehemently with the strike so often because of com· Bunz Daniels was elected as really surprised that it wasn't a By HELEN TYREE runoff," as she was competing Managing Editor truth ... everything is idea that children who speak a t'ti1 '"'-" t di ted Wake Forest's second woman low standard of English should be pe on, ncu•er y pre c · Student Government president . against four other candidates. relative ... what is good for me He said the primary problem She said her success was Educator Max Rafferty opened may be bad for you." allowed to speak their own form will be motivating students to Wednesday, defeating four other of English, calling the idea "a lot react strongly to stimuli provided candidates. A sophomore from "mainly the results of being Challenge '73 Thursday by telling Rafferty called relativistic really well organized." Ms. a Wait Chapel audience of ideology "a cowardly, nihilistic of intellectual hogwash." in school, when the students are St. Petersburg, Fla., Ms. Daniels Imperfect English "will be being "exposed to such a will succeed her roommate, Daniels had people in every dorm several hundred that education excuse for not thinking." working on her campaign. should "provide the tools" for "Relativists are intellectually rejected by the iron imperatives universal bath of stimuli" Marylou Cooper. of life later on," he said, adding throughout the entire day. .~' ~·. Receiving 899 of the 1558 votes "I did go door to door in all the objective exploration of truths. lazy," he said. "They're the } -- that h~ feels..School sh?~d teac.h Speaking about other questions cast, Ms. Daniels won in every men's dorms," Ms. Daniels said. "The function of a university is hippies of philosophy." He added dormitory, and among off. "They were so surprised that to pursue the truth, and this it that it bothers him that the child to be better . than his on education, Rafferty said parents and peers, not ~e them. students should have a voice in campus residents. The un someone would get special carmot do by serving up to its "somebody's spreading this bunk dergraduate enrollment is 2873. permission to do this." Under the captive audience half-truths and Raff~rty . also .satd an the running of their schools, but in the schools." educational mstitutwn should will not in the future "take over Her campaign platform was intervisitation regulations, Ms. distortions,'' said Rafferty, Dean He said education, by his . steer. away from having a fa~ulty the university lock stock and based on her two-year in Daniels had to receive special of Education at Troy State definition, assumes the existence permission from Dean of Men University in Alabama. ~at lS !otally devoted to a smgle ·barrel , ' ' volvement with SG as head of the of absolutes. Vlewpomt. H . 'd th Am . conunittee writing the proposed Mark Reece to campaign in the The "half truths and distor One such absolute, he said, is "High d t' . e sa1 e reason encan men's dorms. tions" he condemned included er e uca 10n ~~ an ~x- teachers aren't held up to the new student body constitution. the teaching of English in In a run-Qff election for vice Ms. Daniels said that she relied the "old, mouldy" philosophy of American school · systems. He plo~er, not a reforme~, he srud, amount of esteem given their urg~ng colle_ge~ to ' put every ranks in other countries is that president Thursday, Knox White, on her friends and supporters a controversi~ issue .un~er the parents and educators here have a freshman from Greenville S.C., great deal in her campaign, to nucroscope for obJechve ob- different sets of educational defeated sophomore Russ approach a great number of servation. · . values Stephens of Clinton, S.C., by a students personally rather than Rafferty also discussed -the "If 'education Is. to have a margin of 153 votes. Although communicating through pam ~plications of t~e curre~t future, it is goi.Dg to have to follow Stephens was ahead in three of phlets slipped under the door. ;eacher surplus, which he sa1d the ideals of the public," he said. the men's dorms by a large Increasing the voice of the was caused by both lower birth Before Rafferty's speech, majority. students in the organization of the rates (i.e. fewer c~dren in President James Ralph Scales For secretary, sophomore university is one of Ms. Daniels's objectives. She plans to work for ~ch~oltand by a push !D the ea:ly spoke briefly on the subject Photo by Rives Marie Mann of New Orleans, La. 70s toward _public servace "Wake Forest: An Identity was elected by 245 votes over student participation on faculty car~er preparahon." Crisis?" Balls Terrell, junior of Hickory. committees and the privilege of He said the .s~lus means less He posed several questions Norris (Sly) McDonald was students to se1ect fhe stuaent Drumming Up Votes elected treasurer by three votes trustee. ~ ~oney gomg mto ne~ scho?l dealing with liberal arts In addition to her activity in buildi!l~s, greater selechvity m education, job preparation, and in a run-Qff election Thursday. A sophomore from Wheaton, Md,, Student Government, Ms. !Jle hll'mg ~f teachers, ~d an other aspects of educ9;tion, and Chanting campaign slogans to musical ac Daniels was chairman of the mcrease the quahty of said he is not surpriSed that McDonald defeated freshman m freslunan orientation committee teachers. students challenge "the companiment in the middle of the quad helped Norris Doug Abrams of Greenville, S.C. this year. She is a Carswell Teachers will ~'know a lot lJ!Ore assumption that a liberal McDonald eke out a narrow victory in his race for Conunenting about her elec about systematic and orgaruzed education is the most practical Student Government treasurer. tion, Ms. Daniels said, "I was scholar. su~ject matter" and won't go on one." Challenge '73 Blacks Seek AAS Representative SUNDAY,MARC1f25 Legislature Endorses NC-PIRG ·' "A TIME FOR CANDOR," 2:30 p.m., Reynolda House, Informal PIRG is seeking ad- Discussion with Jon~than Ko~ol. · along with the elections statute of represented, in many cases, by By SUSAN GILLETTE the proposed new student body black legislators elected in ministrative help in collecting a Managing Editor constitution. regular voting. non-compulsory tax of $1.50 from "WHAT CAN A LmERAL EDUCATION MEAN?," 8 p.m., Wait Wake Forest students. The Chapel, Speaker - Jonathan Kozol. Before that action, legislators Miss Richardson and Mitch New legislation concerning the spent an hour considering a Qark, another black student, money would be placed in a fund MONDAY,MARCH26 men's laundries and the North proposal by black legislator repeatedly insisted that black for investigating issues of Carolina Public Interest Parthenia Richardson to students could only be concern in the areas of consumer Dr. Charles Hamilton described the inadequacies of Research Group ( PlRG), was reconsider the legislative ap represented· adequately by a protection, environmental DEBATE, a p.m., DeTamble Auditoriwn, "Who Pushed Humpty )reservation conservation and current black studies programs to a full house in Dumpty?" - Donald Barr, "Total Educational Immersion Process passed Tuesday night by the portionment under the new black legislator serving only the Student Government legislature, Afro-American Society, and not corpo.rate responsibility. DeTamble Auditorium last night. Photo sv Hiestv and its Promise" - Aaron Stern. constitution. Miss Richardson introduced an responsible to a constituency The action on laundries amendment providing a including whites. followed a dramatic reading of representative for the Afro The amendment was referred the bill, introduced "with high American Society, the 95- to the Finance Committee, which hopes;' by Brian Eckert, calling member organization of all drafted the representation for recognition of problems blacks on campus. clauses of the constitution. existing in the men's laundries. Eble Says F acuity Key to 4-1-4 Other legislators charged, in The bill called for repair and With no dissenting votes, the discussion which was often legislature endorsed t11e work of maintenance of washers and emotional, that the addition of an the North Carolina PIRG by dryers, cleaning the floors in the By DEBBIE GRIFFITH yesterday afternoon. 20,000 undergraduate students, Eble echoes a previous com For this reason, she felt in AAS representative would upset reconunending that the "ad laundry area, and installm!lnt of Assistant Editor The topic was "What Shall opened discussion by giving his ment by Challenge Director Walt dependent studies were perhaps the "one-man, one·vote" prin ministration and faculty of Wake a coin changer. Wilke Forest Be?" The talk impressions of Wake Forest. This Townshend regarding Wake's the most successful aspect of the ciple of representation sought in The elections statute passed mainly concerned the role of Forest... support and help" the Seated among about 150 is his second visit here. worries about being a "seco.nd winter term. She also said, "You the new constitution. public interest group in "im· with some technical changes. students and faculty members, community in a college campus rate" school. learn what you're going to learn At several points, it was One additional statute and the I \ "Wake Forest has many vir plementing its program and in Dr. Kenneth Eble fielded and the meanings and philosophy "Every school is second rate anyway.