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TODAY, EDITORIALLY • CROSS • ANNUAL REPORT n Ilk anb 1.S lark eTHE OLD GRIND * * * A Prize- Winning Newspaper * * * Wake ForestUniversity Winston-Salem, North Carolina Friday, September 26, 1969 NUMBER 2 Block Seating: cales' Annual Report Rotating Basis • BY SUE ENGLISH The University ticket office announced this week seating and ticket arrangements for this 1ews WF Progress season• s home football games. Students will sit in the West side, rows one through nine, as they did last year. budget, debts, ca.mpus demonstrations education would be a required activity. Elective biology is $339 per student per credit hour. The fraternities and houses will be divided and athletics-all were reviewed activities would include military science, band, Presently, the report continues, there are into four groups: A, B, C, and D. This year, James Ralph Scales, president of the choir. "'.lDlie(f music and studio art. he said, 12 master's degrees offered on the Reynolda a letter will be picked randomly for the first Jni.versiitv,. in his annual report for the The Sr,les' reoort also to•Iched on campus. Campus--biology, chemistry, English, history, game, and members of the block will be in ,,...,""""1~.: year 1968-1969. demonstration. roost of it, ne said, was mathematics, physics, psychology, sociology the best section. full text of the annual report, a 12-page and anthropology, physical education, religion, Sections B, C, and D will likewise be of the progress and disappointments "praiseworthy." "Student resentment to com pulsory chapel was expressed in a friendly. education and speech. picked, and the groups will rotate seats for University, appeared Wednesday in the The University's medical school offers the four home games of the season, so that magazine. responsible manner." The chapel experiment, which began last. Ph. D's in anatomy, biochemistrv. micro each group sits in each of the four sections, University, Scales said, is proud of its December when requirerl semi-weekJ_y chapel biology, pharmacology, physiology ana com Half the students section-rows nine, eight, •u.•cun;uu•u as the smallest of the 61 schools parative pathology. seven, six and part of five-is for blocK as "major private universities." attendance was abolished, ''has been neither :failure nor complete success,'' the report Continued On .!:'age :1 Cafeteria Undergoing Massive Renovation photo by Banasik seats, and the other half is for students who l!:.,,rnllm•eont on the Reynolda campus, the come to the games individually. In this way, Gray School of Medicine and the continued. Attendance at Founder's Day was higher than it had been under the compulsory individual students have an equal chance of of law totaled 3,177. · obtaining good seats, the fall of 1968, the admissions office system. Honors Day, however, was poorly Work On Reynolda .Progresses attended. Individuals must present their identifications r .., ... ;,~ ..rl 3,124 applications and admitted 753. and athletic passes at the gate, and then medical school admitted 76 out of 1,609. While he praised such student drives as the Biafram fast, when students skipped meals be seated. They cannot get assigned seats in We take no comfort from these trad advance at the gate. indicators of strength," Scales com- in order to send $3,000 worth of provisions to the victims of the war in Nigeria, Scales Campus For block seating, punched stubs only have ''lt is not easy· to live with the Renovations Dot to be presented, which are given to organi orE!ssuN!s for admission from many splendidly said he "was less enthusiastic about the and beauty shops into ...uunge, In addition, zations when they present their athletic passes ,qu... uut:u young people for whom we have no purpose of those who burned the Confed<lrate Most of the Reynolda Hall renovations should divided between the Interfraternity Council, flags and a record of"Dixie." Last November, part of the space formerly occupied by Thal and identifications at the ticket office, room. Qbviously, we often wish we could be completed~-and campus organizations the Intersociety Council, and the Women's Block groups should )!resent their athletic ·ten Negros and 13 whites had burned the moved into their new offices--by the end Government Association. himer's will be used as an additional lounge expan•i. It is a paradox that one of the for Kitchin House men. passes to the ticket office at the gymnasium crucial elements of strength and one of alleged racist symbols on the plaza In front of the first semester. The listening rooms and lounges, Luca.s Five new offices were built in the basement from Monday to Wednesday noon, and can the attractive features of W~ke Forest to of Wait Chapel. ''The ultimate test of an According to Gene T. Lucas, University said, will be programmed through the first pick up their stubs any time after lD:OOFriday many who apply, is our present size." organization's utility on the Wake Forest vice president for business and finance, work semester. Bids have been let for music and of Tribble Hall, which the U, s. Navy had previously occupied. morning before the game. Curriculum also came under Scales' scu campus is its commitment to rational method,'. on rearranging office space and furniture will .listening, but not for lighting. Continued On Page 4 tiny. "Th~re is no a1·ea of the University he said. begin as soom as renovations in the dining The former Challenge and CU on the second where curnculum changes are not being con The student activism was a manifestation of hall are finished. Current plans call for a floor offices will be renovated for use by the templated or already approved,'' he said, "concern, change and resentment," Scales comoletlon dat'l of Oct. 15. Men's Residence Council and the Afro • Although he empha.sizecl that none of the said. "I am glad the University has an at More than $275,000 will have been spent American Society, Reece said. curriculum proposals has been approved by mosphere of freedom which allows these in Reynolda Hall by the time renovations Room 220, a former classroom on the east WF Legislature Begins the faculty, he noted that the curriculum study expressions to flourish." - are completed, Lucas said. wing's second floor, will be given to WFDD, committee might recommend a change from Scales also mentioned the sweeping curricu Several math and business offices began campus radio station. semester hour units to course units, with lum changes in the medical school. A greater moving out of Reynolda Hall into the new Two other classrooms in the east wing, a total of 35 courses required for graduation. emphasis on behavioral sciences and early Charles B. Babcock School of Business Ad rooms 219 and 223 will be converted into Its Five-Point Program Under such a system, class meetings would student-patient contact are only two of the ministration building two weeks ago. The others offices for Challenge and the Honor Council be at the discretion of the professor. Some new concepts which mark a new form of will move out as scorn as telephone hook-ups and Men's Judicial Board. A former math classes would meet more frequently, others medical education. are completed in the new business building. office, room 227, will be added to the office BY GRAY LAWRENCE less. The University's graduate departments have No furniture will be l'eplacecl at this time, space of Old Guld and Black. College Union, Aimed at giving students a larger voice on The committee .. is "likely" to differentiate. had _their "growing pains," Scales said, ~·T~e Lucas added. Present plans call only for which initiated the Reynolda renovation project the campus are the summit conferences in 't!etween a "course" and an "activity " the University is committed to growth- and ex a· reallOcation of furniture. The earliest new last spring, will move into a new office on the A greater student voice in campus affairs mid-October and efforts to place more students report said. Activities, either requir~d or cel~ence in this area, but even adequate furniture could be added, he said, will prob second floor of the eas~ wing. and visitation in lounges during the hours on faculty committees. elected, would not be included in the number M.A. offerings strain our resources." He ably be next year. When the business offices have all moved which the women's dormitories are open are of courses required for graduation. Physical noted that the cost of a Ph. D. program in Room 125, formerly a first floor class from the third floor of Reynolda Hall, prep two of the five points of a program around The conference of students, faculty inem room, and 102, formerly the location of the arations will be completed for moving in the· which student government's efforts will revolve ·bers, trustees, and administrators is scheduled University's office for research, will be con alumni office, which will occupy the entire this ye.u. for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18, verted into listening rooms, said Mark H. floor except for the ballroom and reception at Camp Hanes, Cross said. The purpose of Col. Hoffman Appointed Reece, dean of men. Room 103 will be a area. Other parts of the program, according to the meeting is to offer each group an op television room, and room 121, in the de Other buildings on campus also underwent Jim Cross, senior of Burlington and student portunity to discuss current campus problems partment of mathematics office space in the ex~ensive renovations during the summer. body president, call for the abolition of the and present proposals for change.