' - " .-•':. _fiGC Vol. 77 THE TRINITY Issue 21 TRIPOD March 13,1973 SGA Performance Marred by Absenteeism, Charter Problems President of the SGA and chair- by Staff Writers members, are not new to the SGA. Consistently, certain delegates at man of the Budget Committee. "Routinely, all conflicts go to Absenteeism, lagging morale, weekly meetings under present and past administrations have been the Steering Committee," said and constitutional discrepancies, Voudouris. "Some of the excused have marred operation of the seen doing homework or otherwise ignoring the business at hand. delegates are among the SGA's Student Government Association, most active members," she added. despite what College ad- The new constitution has raised problems of its own, both through In addition, the SGA is using a ministrators have perceived to be system to penalize absent delegates promising improvements in per- inconsistencies in the_ document and through the Voudouris ad- which is different from the system formance over past SGA ad- specified in the new constitution. ministrations. ministration's interpretation of • certain sections. The constitution mandates that In a letter to SGA President "We're naturally encountering a delegate receive two demerits for Tami Voudouris last week, College some rough edges in the new missing a meeting, or one demerit Vice President Thomas Smith constitution; it's a new system with if a proxy vote is submitted for a •commended Voudouris' ad- bugs in it," said Voudouris. missed meeting. Delegate"- are to ministration on its improved Specifically, present SGA receive a warning after they cohesiveness and efficiency, noting policy in recording and responding acquire three demerits, and ate that the SGA "is on the upswing". to absenteeism varies sharply from expelled after receiving more than However, in regrouping its procedure outlined in the con- three demerits. forces under the new SGA con- stitution. A number of delegates In present practice, delegates stitution, which was adopted last are currently being extended receive one demerit for missing a spring, the organization has faced a liberal absentee allowances which meeting, and one-half demerit The Student Government Association has been credited with number of problems. Some of the are not provided in the con- when missing a meeting if a proxy improved performance under Its new constitution, though problems difficulties, such as absenteeism stitution. is submitted. Delegates with, one and indifference on the part of with absenteeism and morale remain. phoio by Bailey Johnston Under the constitution, there is demerit are warned, and more than two demerits bring expulsion. no provision for an excused ab- sence, in present practice, the SGA One delegate, Tom Hunter, '80, Education Dept. Review Halted Steering Committee regularly was dismissed in January for his grants excuses to delegates for failure to attend weekly meetings, reasons ranging from conflicts with and SGA Secretary Liz Carrigan EPC Ponders Future Action class schedule to athletic events. reported that six delegates have either received letters of warning creative writing. We're really Three students have been excused by Alex Price reasonable opportunity" to defend for the entire semester due to or should receive letters this week. talking about skills in com- Sharon Saul, "82, u dovm against the commencement of the conflict with classes. One of the In recent meetings with the inquiry, munication. Educational Policy Committee The department was given its The reflective element of the ^ (EPC) the Education Department opportunity during the meetings on courses requires students to "raise presented its arguments against the Feb. 27 and March 6. The important questions having to do resumption of a formal inquiry into Education Department's with their discipline, their authority Trinity Hosts NEMLA the department. arguments at those times were role in a complex organization, and In a letter of Feb^ 14, the EPC directed against the EPC's three their personal worth." Students had notified the Education who student-teach have to "make Language Parley stated reasons for beginning its wide range of subjects, including Department that it was suspending inquiry: judgements in a volatile situation by AlanLevine its investigation of the Department. and live with the consequences". Italian and Latin, Slavic, T-That the department was While students will be Linguistics, Criticism, Speaking for the Committee, Schultz emphasized the worth of an anomaly. That it was a vacationing elsewhere, Trinity will Bibliography, and Film. Chairman Miller Brown said, "We department without a major. giving students the opportunity "to host the annual Northeast Modern wanted to give them a chance to see how they measure up_in a Kathy Frederick, Associate —That many of the Education Languages Association (NEMLA) Director of Public Relations, talk to us some more. We didn't Department's courses were more situation." "These issues will strike convention on March 29-31. The want them to think they'd been to the core of what we hold to be pointed out that having the con- vocational than is usually thought convention, which will take place vention in Hartford is somewhat of railroaded." • important in a liberal arts appropriate in a liberal arts college. primarily at the Sheraton Hartford a coup for Trinity. The association, The Education Department had —That the undergraduate and education," he said. Hotel, is expected to attract ap- the nation, is an important one in argued that it was not allowed "a graduate enrollments do not justify "Preparing people to teach isn't proximately 800 members of the thenation, is an important one in the department's FTE allotment a narrow technical endeavor, association, scholars in modern the academic world and it gives a Russian Poet to (the number of faculty it may hire). unless you view teaching as a languages and literature, measure of prestige to the hosting Ecftnyitlon Chairman Bud narrow endeavor—and we don't. About 300 papers will be institution. Scholars from all over Visit Trinity Schultz pointed out that the: At its best, it's a profound, presented, covering an extremely Cont. on P. 4 unusual nature of a program is not liberating, disciplined activity." by EUot Klein reason-enough to investigate it. Schultz continued, "Programs can "The department," he said, "has be vocational and liberal at once. Yevgenyi Yevtushenko, famous been in existence since 1951, with What is important is the quality of Russian poet, will give a reading of no serious problems until now. If it those programs." .MS works in the Washington were dysfunctional, problems Koom, sponsored by the Greater would have come up before." In response to the question of Hartford Consortium for Higher enrollments, Schultz observed that Education, this Thursday, March Schultz claimed that most of there has been no substantial the Education Department's change in enrollment in the last Yevtushenko is now on a one- courses were not vocational. He four years. "At the time when the month tour of the United States, mentioned courses such as "Moral EPC granted us permission to fill a Ws fourth. Education", "Sociology of vacancy in 1976, enrollments were According to Consortium Education" and "Educational not substantially different than Russian Professor Alexander Guss, Psychology" as examples. "If one they are now when they are who is a friend of the poet's and classifies these courses as considering eliminating one or was able to arrange for the visit, vocational courses," he said, "one more positions in the department." would have to classify almost every Yevtushenko is one of Russia's Dr. Schultz asserted the course in the college as leading poets, though "he has had willingness of the Education vocational—most of our courses ™s ups and downs in the Soviet Department to work with other are in this category." Merary hierarchy". departments and to respond to the Yevtushenko first achieved Schultz also defendedthe needs of the college and com- world prominence in the early student teaching and methods munity at large. ^60's. He has been critical of other courses often considered As undergraduate enrollment is The last minute of Friday's last class will mark the beginning of Soviet dissidents, though he has not vocational. He said the courses roughly twice as large as graduate dl the annual mass exodus for Spring Break. Whether the destination ways closely followed the have two parts to them: skill enrollment, the department has in is suburbia or the Sun Belt matters not, the campus will be government line. acquisition and reflection. "Skill the last three years tripled its populated by a few dazed dazed paperwriters and erstwhile One of Yevtushenko's most acquisition in these courses is undergraduate course offering and famous poems, "Babiyar," similar to the skill teaching athletes. Most people will take a break from the College routine, so components of science labs, Cont. on P. 3 will we. The next Tripod will appear April 10. __ Cont. on P. 4 courses in the performing arts and Page 2, Maw* 13,1979, THE TRINITY TRIPOD Coney Island Viewed as Mass Trinity College Library Hours Friday, March 16 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Culture Exhibition Saturday, March 17 * 10:00 a:tn.- 2:00 p.m. by Eliot Klein of unrestrained fun seen at Coney that Vice did not pay as well as Sunday, March 18 Closed Island. virtue." Monday, March 19- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. About 100 students, faculty and To help illustrate this transition, Under the management of Friday, March 23 Hartford residents went to Boyer Kasson began his talk with a brief creative owners, Steeplechase, Saturday, March 2' 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Auditorium last Tuesday evening discussion of the 1893 Columbian Luna, and Dreamland amusement Sunday, March 25 Closed to hear Dr. John Kasson of the Exhibition, held in Chicago.