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Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU The Quill Student Publications 11-20-1975 The Quill -- November 20, 1975 Roger Williams University Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Roger Williams University, "The Quill -- November 20, 1975" (1975). The Quill. Paper 101. http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill/101 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Quill by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NIKE SITE: THE DEBATE INTENSIFIES Roger Williams College and session; Bristol High was de Lege." such potential for development town, sensing defeat, has asked the Town of Bristol have ap signed to accommodate 1,000 RWC's needs are related to of the college." for a special meeting with the plied to the Government Ser students there are now 1,4 77 expansion; laboratories, dorms, Realizing that their first pro GSA 's representative in Boston vices Agency for use of the enrolled. ln addition, some of and astronomy observatory, posal would probably be to defend their claim. As we go Nike site adjacent to the col the children in grades 1-5 at physical education facilities denied, the town of Bristol to press, the outcome is uncer lege, presently government sur tend the multi-unit school, a (just maybe a gym?), etc. When issued a new proposal to share tain. plus land. The conflict is humorous euphemism for the asked if the college would con the land with the school and Clearly, Bristol is not a rich further heightened by HEW's Kaiser Aluminum Factory, tinue its fight for the land if the Newport County Chapter town and cannot afford to recommendation that RWC which is evicting the children the town takes the matter to for Retarded Citizens, a late build the classrooms they need. receive the lease, while the in June. court, Vice-President Bill Riz entry into the fray. (The col For the town, the Nike site town has promised to take the Augustine Nunes, the town zini replied "Yes, RWC admini lege also includes this group in would help alleviate their pro matter to federal court. administrator, said in an inter stration and the Board of their proposal.) The town sent blems. The college is growing, The town's case is a simple view with a Quill staffer, that Trustees feel that this is ex this proposal to the Board of and there's very little r()4)m ,left one: they simply do not have "Bristol children are desperate tremely valuable property Trustees, which rejected it in unless incoming freshmen are adequate space at present to ly in need of classroom space, necessary for the expansion of total. required to swim. The Quill educate their children. Most of and should come before the the college. We would hate to The GSA's decision was due will take an in-depth look at the school system is on double questionable needs of the col- give up and walk away from last Thursday, however, the this dilemma in our next issue. WHAT'S INSIDE Open Division ...... Page 3 What's To Do ...... Page 4 Grade Your Teacher .. Page 5 NOV EMBER 20, 1975 Open Letter To RWC Students NEWPORT IN NEED OF RWC Concerned Fellow Students, The Martin Luther King Dennis of the Social Sciences of Education to work together We, the Student Senate of Roger Williams College, are Center has approached Roge.r Division requesting volunteers. with the Martin Luther King now in full swing and are ready for any ideas which you Williams College in desperate The Quill tried to reach these Center in establishing yearly feel may help our college community as a whole. We are need of tutors for about 50 instructors at 3:45 the day of internships so that the needs of open to your suggestions and would greatly appreciate children from grades 1-5 who our deadline, and as usual, they the community of Newport any feedback. Our regular senate meetings are held on are having difficulty with read "bad gone home for the day", can be met. Let RWC refute Wednesdays at 5 p.m. and are open to all students. Please ing and math, the Quill has in the words of their secretary. those who would deride our feel free to stop in the Senate office anytime. Our office is learned. There are children in New college for its insular mentality located next to the TV lounge in the Student Center. We Jarvis Holmes, an adolescent port who want to learn and by doing all we can to share would appreciate your cooperation. counselor at the Center and a thus far, cannot find the tutors the benefits we derive from Sincerely, student at RWC, told this re they need to help them. Educa higher education. The Stude.nt Senate porter that Mike Lopes of the tion is moronic unless it is We at RWC, individually and King Center staff has been in shared. The Quill wges Vice collectively, can only gain from the experience. 1 --~ contact with Ms. Barry and Ms. Presldent Rtzzlnl and teachers A 'Cosmecologist' who taught him so much about the physical world. I have well. This new major, which Moves On answered many such inquiries Historic Preservation has already been approved, has about Charlie Hetzler. It is created a marriage of the The College Community was fitting, I think, that he is off, Ever since the late 1940's, tution in the nation, Middle Engineering and American saddened by the death, on now, on the greatest field trip there has been a growing inter Tennessee State University, has Studies departments. Historic October 29th, of Charles W. of all, to extend to the utter est in the need for preserving an undergraduate major in Preservation will offer a pro Hetzler, who was fatally strick most limits his exploration of the historic physical past. This Historic Preservation. When gram that would include liberal en at his home in Rumford. Dr. the vast universe. increased interest in America Roger Williams institutes such art skills and then some. The Hetzler began teaching at We extend our sympathy to has generated the need for a program, the college will be major will also be able to offer Roger Williams in the spring of Dr. Hetzler's son, Carl, and to people trained in law and busi the second and the only one in the Liberal Arts student a 1957, less than a year after it bis three sisters. Carl will con ness, able to initiate, manage New England to have a com greater chance of employment was officially designated by the tinue to live in the house in and publicize preservation pro plete undergraduate major in after graduation because so few State as Roger Williams Junior Rumford while he completes jects. Also needed are people Historic Preservation. schools offer the major. College. He brought with him the construction of a 4 7 -foot trained in craftsmanship to re Both Dr. Mike Swanson and The first course in this new an imposing set of credentials replica of an old brick carrying store and reconstruct historic Mr. Horace Knight have played major will be offered next and experience in the field of sloop and carries on his work landmarks. an enormous part in initiating spring. It will be titled Historic astrophysics. He had received in t he antique business. At such schools as Columbia, the program here at RWC. In Preseruation Theory. A his doctorate from Cornell Uni A group of Charlie's friends University of Florida, Boston terest from the students has 100-level course, it will be an versity and had taught at here at the college are sending University, Cooperstown and helped spark this venture. Not introduction to the philosophy Brown for five years before a memorial gift to the R.I. Winterthur, only some courses only will such a program be of of the historic preservation joining our faculty. He was the Audubon Society, of which he are offered in historic preserva interest to American Studies movement. Past, present, and author of numerous articles was a Caithful member for tion or such courses are on the and Engineering students but future needs will be discussed. and books on astrophysics and many years. drawing board. Only one insti- to Liberal Arts students as If enough interest is shown was able to see his last book from this course then more "Canvasses of a Cosmecolo courses will begin next fall. gist," essays, stories and For f\lrther information on poems, read with delight by its the new major, contact Dr. readers. He retired in June Swanson in Student Services or 1973. any American Studies teacher. Dr. Hetzler was a quiet man They will be more than willing with a mind brimfull of know to answer all your questions on ledge and unusual bits of infor the new major. There will be mation. He knew how to free copies of Preservation dispense these in just the right News on the table near the size doses and at just the right main desk of the Library each levels for the recipients. He had month for anyone interested. a bag of tricks which he used G;e Aertsen with great success in getting ac.ross difficult points in the classroom and laboratory. Presidential Since the college had always of necessity, to be frugal in its Search expenditures for equipment, he became adept at improvisation The presidential search com and fascinated his students Photo by Doug Yock mittee is better than two-thirds with the unexpected gadgets along its way in finding a new The Theatre Department exceeded its normal Quixote, a man in search of the hero within.