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OLD AND LACK Volume 72 No. 12 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina Friday, November 18, 1988, Babcock School of Management's SGA Reaffirms High Quality of Education By Michael McKinley has not changed because of the recent of the deanship. classroom, they said. riculum of the school has changed, "That;s Assistant News Editor incidents. Until five years ago, one association The group said that faculty dissension on- what we care abour,'::.#tey said. The controversy has not affected leader said, the faculty could do just about 1 y hurts their reputation, not students' The students cited mafny things the school At its meeting Wednesday, members of classroom performance, they said. One what they wanted. Now they must research education. is doing during this time of transition. They the Babcock School of Management's Stu• Babcock student said the Babcock school and publish, and some professors did not The association said the problems of the said that all first-year students went to the dent Government Association discussed a is not "crumbling at our feet." want to change. Babcock school are administrative issues, Charlotte Outdoor Adventure Center to series of Old Gold and Black articles about The group said that it does not think the "That doesn't mean we don't get a good not student issues. spend a weekend with faculty members, and the alleged assault of James Hlavacek by Ac• reported dissension is particular to the Bab• (faculty) replacement," he said. The personal problems of the faculty are the students are revising the honor code. ting Dean Paul Dierks and the dissension cock school. One student said that dissen• Teaching is only one-third of the job, left outside of the classroom. The faculty The students at the meeting were also among the school's faculty. sion is "the rule of academia." students said. doesn't openly air their frustrations, concerned about the image of the acting The group stressed that they believe the They said that any problems felt by the The administration is placing more em• members said. dean. educational quality of the Babcock school faculty are being erased by the transition phasis on other things that contribute to the Babcock students do not think the cur- See Babcock, Page 5 Protection Plan Student Group Shields Library From High Cost Continues Work: ( , Old Gold and Black Staff Report t I• t , .... The university has implemented a plan to shield the For Divestiture Z. Smith Reynolds library from increased costs that By Shelley Hale 'Pro be have affected university libraries nationwide. Humanitate,' shouldn't con- ~ Old Gold and Black Repor11er tent with the university's Measures will include a facsimile service for copies present · - policy," he said. ! of periodical articles, a mid-year allocation of $75,000 and an analysis of the library's holdings. Students Against Apartheid is "How can we economicall)' benefit Kenneth A. Zick, vice president for student life and trying to increase awareness of the from the legal repression «· instructional resources, said, "If a library is not able divestment issue among students, human rights and consciously claim to be 'for humanity?"' to keep pace in its purchase of books and periodicals faculty, administrators and alumni. because they are too expensive, it seriously damages Before Saturday's homecoming Further plans including a rally the library as a resource for academic research." festivities, the group hung signs that with speakers from the faculty, In a Nov. 7 memorandum to department chairmen read "Pro Humanitate? Not in community and student body m and the library planning committee, Zick outlined a South Africa" on all sides of the tentatively scheduled for the week two-pronged plan comprised of long-term and short• Quad, including one between the after Thanksgiving. term strategies. presidential debate signs on Wait Anthony Chavis, one of the Long-term answers will require an evaluation of Chapel. Students talked with alum• group's founders, said: "\le want future needs of academic departments, he said. ni and handed out fact sheets on to get everybcxly together who·,._ A formal analysis of the collection by a consultant apartheid and divestment. ports the issue. Our goal is co get from the Association of Research Libraries will begin Carl King, a member of the Wake Forest to di"YeSt as soon as Dec. 1. Known as the Collection Analysis Project, the group, said, "We wanted to raise possible. We know it will taJre a · study is service of the association's Office of Manage• the issue in the minds of alumni, long time, but the acaual scarting « ment Studies. students, parents and everyone on divestment is success fOr us." campus. The office has conducted similar studies at the Tuking a Moral Stand Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Notre Dame Sharon Letchworth "We are embarrassed by the fact University and the University of Illinois. Students Against Apartheid hung signs like this one on the Quad before the that our university has successful• Wake Forest has about $75 , Zick said he also plans to appoint a committee of homecoming game last Saturday. The group was protesting Wike Forest's holdinp ly sidestepped this issue. Students million out of a more than $250 faculty and staff to study increased costs and other in South Africa. who believe in our school's motto, ~ ApartJteicl, ..... S library concerns. The Long-Range Instructional Resources Committee will create a collection develop• ment agenda based on anticipated demands from in academic departments and will project library needs Heam Defines WFU Position South Africa By David Styers for the 1990s. Heam said there is no question con• to give whites and blacks equal them are divested, Heam said. The committee is designed to work with the Z. Smith Old Gold and Black Reporter cerning the abhorrence of the system economic opportunities. Reynolds staff and the Office of Management Studies by right-thinking people, and this is his When asked about SullMn's rejec-· to analyze the university's buying practices and recom• Students asked many questions about personal view also. The disagreements arise in the tion of his own principles, Heam said mend a collection development policy. Wake Forest divesting from South strategy to change South Africa, not that Sullivan must have changed his at• Africa at the President Answers ses• in Short-term measures include a mid-year allocation Using the Sullivan Principles the goals, Hearn said. titude on how best to help South ... of $75,000 that has been authorized by university Presi• sion at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Reynolda Africa. Hall. The university's endowment is dent Thomas K. Hearn Jr. for purchasing monographs He said the school officially en• directly in the hands of the board of Students questioned University If Wake Forest divests, the com• and periodicals after the consultant submits an interim dorses the Sullivan principles, an ag• trustees. The Sullivan principles are panies' stocks will be bought by Olber · report March 1. President Thomas K. Heam Jr. about gressive set of standards that com• his views on apartheid. monitored so that those companies organimtions, he said. "If)'OU waat ID· See Library, Page 5 panies in South Africa must abide by who do not meet the standards set by See President, Page 5 · Faculty Votes to Reinstate One Extra Day to Beginning of Spring Semester By John Nardo ed that validation and registration be com• said. "I felt that the faculty actions were without undue stress and strain, I would Registrar's Office is not changing the Old Gold and Black Reporter bined in one day and that classes start upheld by the existing bylaws." favor it." Jan.10. schedule of validation and registration as When asked about the possibility of in The faculty voted to reinstate an extra day Thomas E. Mullen, dean of the college, Mullen said that problems arise in com• printed the schedule booklet." eliminating the extra day and completing The extra day will be used to handle the before the beginning of spring semester said there was "a difference of opinion registration and validation in one day, pacting all registration and validation ac• classes at a faculty meeting Wednesday. about the power of the committee." The tivities into one day. overflow of validation and registration. , Mullen said: "Nobody really knows what Howard W. Shields, chairman of Validation for all students and registration faculty has the right to overrule the recom• Provost Edwin G. Wilson said: "I per• the we will do in the long run. I am still not Committee on Academic Affairs, said, 01 for transfer students will be Jan. 9-10. mendations of this body, he said. certain whether it will not be placing too sonally do not regard (the extra day) as a Classes will begin Jan. 11. "The faculty always has the last word ... problem. It is of no great consequence expect that the calendar for the 1989-90 great a burden on the people who handle school year will only have one day for The Committee on Academic Affairs, a this is not questionable," Mullen said. registration. either way." faculty committee, originally recommend- J. Edwin Hendricks, a history professor. registration in the spring semester because "If we can be assured that it can be done Registrar Margaret Perry said, "The of preregistration in the fall." Reynolda Village Area Becomes Focus of Administrative Environment Study By Dan Drayer Old Gold and Black Senior Reporter Reynolda Village, Reynolda Gardens and Lake Katharine are the focus of an administrative en• vironmental study to determine ways of improving and preserving the area. A committee has been formed to study the area.

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