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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 2-27-1981 Sandspur, Vol. 87 No. 16, February 27, 1981 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol. 87 No. 16, February 27, 1981" (1981). The Rollins Sandspur. 1570. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1570 ROLLINS aSANDSPUR Florida's Oldest College Weekly February 27, 198 This Week EPC's Work Culminates in Major Changes Doting Poll By Tom Baird transfer credits will be nterview with Judy more than two years. Dr. new policy students will not and more insights Pequeno believes that student accepted from a lower level have to duplicate During the past few months, apathy and the resulting lack of two-year institution for reinforcement courses that are Dating Scene at the Rollins Educational Policy urn to Page 6. input by constituents to their entering students. inherent to the English Committee has been in the respective senate Department. process of evaluating and Creator or representatives has hindered The final resolution that was finalizing several major policy the decision-making process to Final resolution passed by both the EPC and the Destroyer? changes which are of great a great extent. Senate abolishes the concept of significance to the Rollins abolishes concept the combined major and Df Firman Brown is bringing Community. According to Dr. of combined major optional minor. This means that Tsial change to the Pedro Pequeno, Chairman of The proposals that have been Theatre Department For the passed by both the EPC and the and optional minor. all students must now complete the Educational Policy a major from the approved list soke of argument, turn to Committee, some of the Senate will now become policy Pap 2. at Rollins. of majors in order to graduate. proposals that have just now The next resolution allows This program will take effect been approved date back to students majoring in English to in the 1982-83 academic year Inspired Union recommendations that were The first resolution deals fulfill the awareness and and will be optional for made by the old College with transfer students. Under understanding of literature students entering in 1981. Did you now that the Student Planning Committee and have the new guidelines, no more affective requirement within Union was solely a student been under consideration for than 90 quarter hours of • Continued on 2 project? For the first in a his their department. Under this tory series, turn to Pace 3. Rollins Professors Working Nine to Five ? By Aidebaran Cox But are Rollins' teachers "9- Inside 5?" Have you ever gone to an The overwhelming response re Changes... Page 2 afternoon student-faculty from faculty and students was ariums in S.fl... page 3 that the teachers are involved in | Trustees Approve Budget function psyched to see your Page 3 prof, in Bermuda shorts instead campus life after hours, {Student Center History of a tie, but he was not there? If especially considering their Page 3 this has happened to you then other responsibilities, but that al Page 4 you have experienced one of the there was room for more s Happening.. Page 5 drawbacks of having a "9-5 interaction. >auty of ITIcKean faculty." The term "9-5" Many faculty members who I Page 6 expresses the view of faculty have taught at larger I Tennis, Baseball, Soccer & members who feel their day and institutions before Rollins feel Page 8 Professors: Time on Their Minds? duty ends at 5 p.m. ^continued on 3 A special program for this year's event, said Dr. Duvall, is a f or-parents-only classroom Asunta D'Urso Crowned Parents experience on Saturday morning. Parents will be invited to "register" for any of iRollins 8 courses being especially Miss Winter Park By Melanie Tammen presented by Rollins College faculty. Parents will attend Being No. 2 can mean you're class, hear a lecture and have really No. 1 if you are Rollins' own senior Voice/Theater »W/c Affairs Services an opportunity for dialogue major Asunta Marie D'Urso. with members of the Faculty. Duvall indicated no exams te Rollins College Parents Asunta was contestant No. 2 were anticipated for these dvisory Committee has at the 1981 Miss Winter Park bounced plans for "Parent's classes. Subjects will range Pageant, Feb. 21, at the Annie eek-end" on the Rollins from history to literature to ainPus, March 6-8, 1981, Russell Theater. Now, as the foreign cultures. reigning Miss Winter Park, she tording to Rollins Vice will soon start preparing for the ^ident for Development and Parents attending the three- Miss Florida contest, to be held % Relations Dr. Robert day event will also be at the Bob Carr Auditorium in wall. scheduling individual June. Fifty-one other girls appointments with student representing various Florida "Kent's Week-end" will Clls academic advisors and visiting cities will compete for the Miss on special events classes with their sons and Florida title and the opportunity ^ding participation in the daughters. to represent Florida at the 1981 ^g of a new exhibit at the lr Miss America pageant.. Of the ^ll Fine Arts Center 52 city-wide competitions in Jturing "American Other campus events schedules for that week-end Florida for 1981, the Miss fakers of the 1930's", a Winter Park contest comes last. produced will be available to students •jtainment and coffee and their parents, including the Annie Russell Theatre Eight years had passed since **! a reception at the home the last Miss Winter Park %s President and Mrs. production of Moonchildren, 1(Ie the student center sponsored Pageant was presented. This us Seymour, classroom year, the judges were not J^ons and a unique movie, "All That Jazz," and a en amateurs nor was the t/parent choir rehearsal two-day waterski tournament competition as easy as may Performance at Sunday scheduled for Lake Virginia on lc have been expected. The judges *s in Knowles Memorial the Rollins campus. were all quite experienced in apel. one of the levels of Miss annual event includes Detailed schedules of events Asunta D'Urso, Miss Winter Park. America pageantry and °xunately 200-300 parents are available by contacting the traveled from such places as Rollins College Parent's Week-end Committee • Continued on 2 r§raduate students. at 646-2220. Page 2 Rollins College February 27, 1981 Changes to Independent Studies •continued Also beginning in the fall of independent studies into their Firman Brown: 1981, students will have the three main components — option of completing any one Tutorial projects, Research minor consisting of 6 to 8 projects, and internships. courses in a specified area. Guidelines have been Despot or Savior? Although a minor will not be developed in order to better required for graduation, those evaluate a student's work, both students who elect to choose a qualitatively and minor will have it noted in their quantitatively. Students will transcripts. now have to qualify for Specific requirements for the independent studies and this By Evan R. Press completion of a minor will be should help to insure that the necessary skills and knowledge drawn up by each department "I truly believe what Thaddeus and published in the Rollins needed to attempt an Catalog. Provisions in the new independent study have Seymour says about Rollins College. guidelines also state that already been acquired. We can be the best liberal arts Business Administration, In summation, the new institution in the South.'' Computer Science, and policies and proposals, Are these the words of a crazed, Communications will now only represent years of tyrannical individual? Maybe, maybe be offered as minors. deliberation, negotiation, and not. The conveyor of this concept is Dr. One of the most important hard work. The policies, briefly Firman Brown, the incumbent head of resolutions passed by the EPC, stated here, can in no way the Theatre Arts and Speech the proposal regarding reflect the amount of time and Communications department at independent studies, is now effort that was put into Rollins. pending Senate approval. The producing them, and the Dr. Brown has been at Rollins for 18 outcome on this key issue significance and impact that months. He says he feels "180 years should be known soon. they will have on academia at older." Dr. Brown is a man devout in The EPC proposal has Rollins in future years cannot his beliefs. "Bo", (as he is referred to guidelines by which to classify be underestimated. by those who have come to know him) in his many administrative moves and actions has created a mild pandimonium in the theatre Dr. Firman H. Bm department at Rollins. Miss Winter Park Dr. Brown has been called a despot, a Brown, who also holds the title •continued mentally impractical person, the most Chairman of the Expressive Arts, stubborn, obstinate creature ever to obtaining additional instructors Dallas, New York, Kentucky At the end of her interview, roam this land and many other, more match the intensity of the ne» and California to pick Miss Asunta was permitted to direct filthy terms by faculty and especially designed, determined and point Winter Park. The 16 a question of her own to the students. efforts to integrate all the arts contestants, from as far away panel of judges.