Women A:Tld Minority Hiring Urged

. ' ' =V=o=l.=L=XI==V====~~~~==~===========W==ak~e=F=o=re=s=t=U=m=·v=en==k=y=,17==m=s=to=n=·S=ru=e=m=,=N=o=rth==~="=o=l=in=a=,=F=n=·da=·=Y=~D=e=c=e=mm==er=5=,=1=900===============================N=o=.=l~2 1 .Spring registration Trustees to ·consider pr9cedure altered Craig Friend Foundation pr~posal SIIH \ll'fftor . Changes in p'ass-fail procedure, registration jacket John McNair consider and vote on this new distribution and drop-add slip validity will be im· Slaflw>l1tr contract," he said. plemented during January registration,· registrar The WF Board of Trustees will The Dec. 12 agenda includes a Margaret Perry ·said. · consider a new contract between bylaw change necessitated by the the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation newly-structured Babcock School "Many students become frustrated at registration," and the university as proposed by Perry said. "We want to make it less complicated. The of Business and . Management, the Foundation in their Dec. 12 Stokes ·said. They must consider changes are ones which the students should be made meeting. ' the change to effect the new aware of." The new contract is necessitated organization of the school and the , The first change students will become aware of is by the WF-N.C. Baptist State newly·created position of dean. the change in areas for the distribution of registration I Convention relationship due to take The trustees will consider the jackets. Distribution will take place .inside Reynolda effect Jan. 1, 1981. appointment of new trustee Hall on Jan. 12. All advising' must occur on that committees as well" as reports from day. · Kidnap~ · "Up until now, the Foundation has agreed to give so much if ~he President James· Ralph Scales, Students wishing to take a pass•fail course must go S.O.P.H. Mary Tribble was kidnapped and held for a ransom of canned goods as a Thanksgiving Provost Edwin G. Wilson and Dean service project by Lambda Chi brothers on Nov. 20. · Baptists give so much,'' Colin through a different process during spring registration. Stokes, chairman of the Board of Janeway of the Bowman Gray Pass-fail slips must be obtained from advisors Trustees, said. School of Medicine. during advising sessions. As a student registers, the Financial reports will be slip will be exchanged for a pass-fail computer card "Since the Baptist contribution is presented by the investment Stu~y finds alcohol use average no longer a· set amount but is in ·committee, finance committee and for the selected course. stead now left up to the individual After registration, changes in grade mode will not the committee on planning and Lynne MacGregor Seven other survers cited by Little indicate churches under the covenant development. The latter com·· be made except by the Dean's office. · Sllffw>l111 over 80 percent of students nationwide report relationship, a new contract had to mittee will present th~ progress of Drop-add slips will be handled differently. When a The percentage of WF students who report themselves as drinkers. , be drawn up and approved," The number of drinkers does not differ the university's Sesquicentennial student picks up a drop-add slip, an expiration date themselves as drinkers corresponds with Stokes said. Campaign. will be stamped on it. The student will have 'three figures reported at other colleges, according significantly between the sexes or between to a graduate student's study on alcohol use at social. organization members and in "The Foundation could have David Smiley, professor of weekdays to get the signatures of his advisor an~ discontinued its active support of history, and Jack Ferner, lecturer course instructor. · Wake Forest. ', dependents, Little's study discovered. The study also revealed that the percentage Males, however, reported experiencing Wake Forest, but has fortunately in the Babcock School o'f of WF students who experience negative ef· more. drinking-related .behavior problems chosen to propose a new contract Management, will address the fects associated with excessive drinking than females, and social organization which is independent of Baptist trustees as campus represen Exam schedule contributions.. The trustees will tatives. A.M. P.M. corresponds w'ith figures reported at other members experienced more of those colleges. problems than independents. December 12 Friday 9:30 TT 1:30 TT These per~entages were reported on a· The survey was conducted through Student thesis prepated for the department of Government in order to avoid response bias Biologist discusses December 13 Saturday 11 :00 MWF 8:001) education by Amelia Little, assistant director since Little is a member of an ad~pinistrative of residence life. staff, the thesis teports. · December 15 Monday 9:00 MWF 3:DDTT The study and its results were mentioned in However, the administration had nothing to the Nov. 17 midweek party forum. do with the survey, Dean of Women Lu Leake · December 16 Tuesday 10:00 MWF S:OO MWF Eighty-one percent of the stratified sample said. · earliest life on earth MathiBus. of undergraduates who participated in Little's "It's very hard to get an unbiased study," Amy Meharg trapped sediment and formed 201 &202 study during the fall of 1979 reported them Leake said, adding that the administration stanwrttor stromatolites. selves as consumers of alcohol. was not planning to initiate one. The role of bacteria in the This fact, then, provided proof December 17 Wednesday 1:DO MWF 4:30TT A national study by the Department of The concern at Wake Forest is part of a world's development formed the for an identical method of rock December 18 Thursday 12:00.MWF 12:00 TT Health and Human Services, .known at that national concern about the increase in alcohol basis of a thought-provoking formation early on earth. Given time as the Department of Health, Education use and abuse, Dean of Men Mark Reece said, biology lecture entitled "Earliest this evidence, Margulis concluded December 19 Friday 2:00 MWF 8:00 MWF and Welfare, shows 71·96 percent of college and thiS·study shows there is as much problem Life on . Earth" presented last that bacterial growth caused students drink. alcoholic ·beverages. - at Wake Forest .as anywhere-else, ···' '····Tuesday-- bt···Lynn Margulis, geological growth. professor of biology at · Boston Bacteria also originated today's University and widely-known cell oxidation processes, Margulis said. :A"ffirinativ.e Action targets .faculty biologist and biological theorist. Showing slides comparing ancient "The world is dominated by chert rocks with modern ones, she bacteria," Margulis said. She pointed out that bacteria within the explained that bacteria had been in iron formations of each appear existence for billions of years. identical. Furthermore, they developed Since the modern bacteria Women a:tld minority hiring urged today's world by creating the at· oxidizes iron, the ancient bacteria mosphere and originating such life· processes as symbiosis, probably did too. Iron deposits, Susan Bray "There is a grapevine among female faculty members at other "We need to do more in the area photosynthesis, fermentation and therefore, provided more evidence Asa/stanl tdltor young black professors, Wake N.C. colleges .and universities. of minority faculty recruiting," respiration. for ancient biological activity. Due to the small number of Forest was strange to this Statistics for Duke University Palmer said. "We haven't reached Investigation of sedimentary Given all the evidence, Margulis women and minority .faculty grapevine, but now, in the past and Davidson College were not parity until the composition is rock deposits throughout the world, concluded that bacteria, the members, Wake Forest has made a three years, the minority ap· given, but most other private in· more representative." Margulis said, first revealed that earliest life on earth, originated commitment to an affirmative plicants. pool is getting on the stitutions had higher percentages "Faculty hiring is largely left up blue-green algae, actually a type of today 's biological, metabolic and action plan in its faculty hiring grapevine," Palmer said. of women on.the faculty than Wake to the department. It's up to that bacteria, dominated early life on developmental processes, as well as today's atmosphere. process, President James Ralph The U.S. Department of Labor Forest. department how progressive or earth. , Scales said. requires Wake Forest to have an Mars Hill College (Baptist af· non-progressive they are going to She proposed that the rocks Bacteria formed simultaneously Scales· issued a directive affirmative action plan, Ross filiated) has 36.7 percent women be, in the area of minority making up t}\ese deposits, called with ancient sedimentary rocks. It declaring that for every open Griffith, director of equal op faculty members; Elon College recruiting or minority hiring," stromatolites, formed when a mass quickly diversified, creating more position, ·every effort must be portunity, said. (Christian) has 32.9 percent; Palmer explained. "Some of blue-green bacteria grew and mats and deposits. Through made to bring 'in a minority and · Guilford College (Quaker) has 31.3 department have more inertia than trapped sediment. photosynthesis, bacteria even a worn an for the interviewing "We draw up our own goals, percent and High Point College others." Numerous slides showing .an tually used hydrogen gases, process. · ' based on percentage of faculty, (Methodist) has 22.2 percent Also, minority and women cient bacteria in variQUS stages of prevalent in the early atmosphere, Dean of the College Thomas E. nationally with regard to sex and women faculty members. faculty candidates are more development supported this idea of to make food compounds; oxygen race," Griffith said. The plan was abundant in some disciplines than · Mullen cited the need of black and UNC·Chapel Hill and N.C.

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