Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 3-1-1967 The Parthenon, March 1, 1967 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, March 1, 1967" (1967). The Parthenon. 1177. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/1177 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Parthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Unlimited Class-Cut System Discussed By BARBARA BERRY mediate family, or similar reasons" are to be excused by and should definitely be changed. He feels that " . .. be­ Staff Reporter instructors. , cause Marshall is growing physically, it should be allowed Editor's Note: 'lbe followin&' article Is a study of the con­ Although this official policy allows no absences, a to grow academically as well." troversial clas.1-cut policy, written by a student in Journal- separate and universal policy has arisen through the stu­ Farrell and many other students have suggested that Ism 305, Editorial Writlnr. dent body grapevine. Almost any student on campus, when the confusion could be solved by adopting a policy of un­ "An unlimited cut policy is cafeteria style - drop asked what the class-cut policy is, will reply that semes­ limited class cuts. in and take what you want." ter cuts must not exceed twice the number of :hours that Those students who favor unlimited absences argue "It's a waste of time to spend hours in classes when a class meets in a week. that a student who is mature enough to attend college is I can get an A or B just by reading the book... However, according to Dr. J. Stewart Allen, vice also mature enough to regulate -the amount of hours a And so continues the controversy between a system president of academic affairs, the class-cut policy stands week that he spends in lectures and labs. They feel that of unlimited absences and the present Marshall University as it is stated in the catalog. the system operates on a high school level which forces "absence policy." "The student idea concerning the pblicy," said Dr. students to attend classes, and therefore restricts the.:.r in­ Allen, ''is a mythology that has grown up on this campus. · Because of this discussion, a committee headed by dependence. Each student, according to the advocators of There is no such thing as an automatic number of cuts." Mike Farrell, Huntington junior and commissioner of ac­ unlimited cuts, must at some point in h is life learn to rely Students are not the only ones who are confused - ademic affairs, has been set up to study the present ab- on his own judgment, and learn to regulate his own time, several teachers also follow the "mythology" system while sence policy at Marshall, ' All students, they say, are restricted because of the few some allow unlimited cuts, still others insist upon a "no­ immature students whose hours must be regulated for Most students and much of the faculty follow their absence" system. them. own class-cut systems which do not correspond with the Larry Bruce, Huntington senior· and student body policy stated in the Marshall University Catalog. Bruce expressed another popular student idea. He president, feels that the administration should have a feels that because he has paid for his education, he has According to the catalog, "every student is expected clear-cut policy. ''There should be no need for an un­ the right to decide whether he can afford to miss a class to be present at all class sessions." Only "unavoidable" written law o nthis campus," he said, session. absence~. such as those due t~ "health, death in -the im- According to Farrell, the pre,;;ent system is outdated <Continued on Page 3) 300 To Be Honored MARSHALL UNIVERSITY STUDENT NEWSFAPl!R he Farnsworth To Speak At Honors ,Convocation By JANE McCOY Staff Reporter arthenon -Dana L. Farnsworth, M. D., director of university health services Vol. 66 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967 HUNTINGTON, w. VA. No. 44 at Harvard University, will be the featured speaker at the annual ============================================;Marshall University Honors Convocation tomorrow. His topic is "What Should Society Expect of the College Graduate?" The convocation will begin at 11 a.m. in Old Main Auditorium. Slash Says Following the convocation, Dr. Farnsworth will address a luncheon in the' University Dining Hall, speaking on "Some Factors in Student Unrest," Letter Was Nearly 300 students will be hon­ ored at the convention, Attending assistant director and director of will be honor groups, participants health at Williams College, Wil­ 'Forged' in the Interdisciplinary Honors Se­ liams'.own, Mass,, and medical di­ minar, departmen'. al groups and rector of Mas,achusetts Institute of By LLOYD D. LEWIS Technology, Cambridge, Mass. He Editor-in-Chief honor students from area high schools. was acting dean of students at MIT Another case of forgery and served ·with the Medical Corps Dr. J. Stewart Allen, vice-presi­ President Stewart H. Smith an­ of the U. S. Navy, dent of academic afafirs, will re­ nounced Monday momirtg that a Dr, Farnsorth is past president cognie the honor students. letter which was partially reprint­ of the American College Health As­ ed ,in The Parthenon on page 6 of Dr. Farnsworth, a native of sociation and has received h onor­ last Wednesday's issue and was Glenville, received his A. B. degree ary degrees from Salem College, signed by Joe Slash, president of from West Virginia University and Williams College, West Virginia the Huntington Business and Pro­ graduated from Harvard Medical University and the University of fessional Men's Club was, in fact, School in 1933. He has served as Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. a forgery, The first forged letter, signed by "Richard Lee Rockwell," was printed in another editoin of the '47 Basketball Champs paper two weeks ago. Dr. Smith explained that Mr. Slash came to see him at his office To Attend Herd Gc;im.e ~n Old Main last Thurroay and ', told him that he had known noth­ Saturday will be a big day for State U. ing of the letter which had been MU basketball fans. The Thunder- The 1947 1'ational Association of signed "Joe Slash" until someone ing Herd's only national champions Intercollegiate basketball cham­ will return to see Marshall close- pions, now spread across the coun­ showed him a copy of The Par­ thenon. out its regular season_ against Kent try, will be honored at fes'.ivities The letter charged, among other 'A• fr11in1's frtst' T1• 1rr1w sponsored by the Alumni Associa­ things, that Negro students at Mar­ tion. WILL GEER portrays Robert Frost in "An Eveninr's Frost" to be shall were b e i n g discriminated Postponement The champs and parents of the presented at I p.m. tomorrow in Old Main Auditorium. Portrayinr against by professors when grades basketball team will a t t e n d a were handed out. youq Frost in the perfonnance will be Donald Davis. Students Of Conference luncheon prior to the game. Presi­ A Huntington dentist, Dr. Thom- will be admitted by presentinc their. activity cards at the door. dent Stewart H, Smith and Coach Ellis Johnson will greet them at as Bl Wright, who is a member of 'A E • · I F I Is Announced the luncheon. the local business and professional men's club, said :in a telephone in- n ven1ng s rost The leader.ship seminaT sched- Members of the retuming cham­ pionship team who will attend are: terview Monday afternoon that one s h d I d T uled for March 31-April 2 at Jack- Biµ T o o th ma n, Gene "Goose" of the other club members actually C e u e omorrow son's Mill will be postponed inde- James, Bill Hall, Marvin Gutshall, wrote the letter and that ''we plan finitely, according to Penny Tully, Dick Erricson, Bob Wright ,Andy t 0 tak disc. r ti · t Summersville junior and program him,, e ip mary ac on agains "A warm port rayal of R obert Geer, w h o has had Shakespeare coordinator. Tonkovish and managers John Nellman and Dick Smarr. H, C. D~. Wright said that Mr. Slash Fr_ost, an his~vening twhenththe poet trli:in~g an~ wrtho , alrethady looks Miss Tully ,said, "Because of the 'Twenty" Lantz, 1947 athletic di­ h d ta ted h , bo t ·a1 spins out own s ory, e sweet, e rost. o raymg e young d f' 't nfl' t f t h'ch a b con t~ . imth a u fa tspeci and the following bitter, the tra- Frost be Donald Davis; the e uu e co ic O even 5 w 1 l wm rector, will also attend, c u mee mg m e near u ure ed d , h , d t' h , d h d h rt . exist due to the scheduling of both The parents of the current team Co , f th, f ed. 1 tt hi h g y an tnump m wor s creat- poe g c 1 1 o o sweet ea 1s . d pidesd odis toorpg _de etr, Sw 'the ing laughter, but even more often played by Jacqueline Brookes, leadership semmar ·an Greek will be introduced as the players was a resse res1 en m1 . W , , Week, and since the -leadership were also sent to Gov Hulett c' tears . .. a ·touch of greatness," said hole scenes of life are proJect- seminar is a more flexible event, are ,introduced in the pre-game ceremonies of the televised game, S •th d th S te.