Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU The Quill Student Publications 5-17-1968 The Quill -- May 17, 1968 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 -- May 17, 1968" (1968). The Quill. Paper 58. http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill/58 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]. • U1 Published By And For The Students YOL, vn ·NO. 5 FRIDAY, !'vIAY 1'7,1968 160 BROAD STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02903 Bristol- The Future Story and Pictul'es on Page :~,4,5 I PAGE 2 TIlE QUILL FRIDAY. !viA Y 17. 1968 Viewpoint LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS The headlines were bold and clear, of the college. However this means STUDENTS REVOLT AT COLUMBIA. the long and painstaking process of For five days a few weeks ago the amending the existing student consti­ adult world. stood bewildered as a tution. band of stud~nts literally took com­ This amending process has gradual­ mand of Columbia University in New ly progressed from simple talking to York. all-out student protest. The once For the first time those student popular University of Rhode Island strikes and riots commonly associa­ "bitch-ins" and Brown "Speak_Outs" ted With "radical westcoast students" are now a thing of the. past as student became a reality for eastern educa­ become more anxious to have their tors. ideals implemented into the college And Columbia only acted as the start­ community. .lng point for such student activities. This then is 'where Roger Williams In the follov.1ng weeks such revolts stands in an unique position and its !lnd strikes sprung up around the east students have an opportunity to gain coast including student boycotts at this new state of expression v,ithout nearby Northeastern and Boston UnI­ any demonstrations, revolts, or even ,~ ·o~( versities. peaceful IIbitch-ins". \ . But \\"ny here on the east coast, and When Roger Williams undertook the 'cALlINnE NEWS MEDI.A! AT uqr'WE CAN TAKE. 001':: \\<ny did it start at a place like Col­ task of converting itself from a two­ iZ\GHTFUl. f'l.!Gf AMONG 1l£ NAT'IOt6~rLW!VE"R5mEs'. umbia, one of the big eight of eastern year to a four-year Institution this year, education? the administration wisely desired rath­ The answer seems to lay within the er than go through the lengthyandoften very nature of Columbia's strict sense useless process of amending the stu­ Wesleyan Head of conformity and Its rigid rules of dent constitution, an entirely new con­ E-.;.:.ial conduct dictated by tradition. stitution would be set-up. For the past As a recent special report in NEWS­ six months the members of your stu­ Outlines, Social­ WEEK stated. "From Pomona to PaIis dent council have been going about the to Perking, students are turning the process of creating this new constitu­ world of the establishment upsidedown. tion which will serve as the guide for Goaded by spreading social and poli tical student involvement at the "NEW Academic Goals consciousness in f1 arne d by traveling ROGER \VILLIAMS". Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Pres­ revolutionaries and the instantaneous At last report the constitution Is ident Edwin D. Etherington has challenged stu­ \'vurd of the media, students today are expected to be completed and presented dents to recognize the relationship between aea­ rebelling on issues ranging from food to the students sometlme'next year and '. demic purpose and social Ilfe and to relate In the cafeteria to academic reform to to those of you who intend to move to University standards of conduct to those of _theJollPdB..tions qLeq.ci~,~~~31f"" Bristol wi th the college this presenta­ society-at-large in a speCial report released But \\-nal does all this mean to Roger tion could be of utmost importance. recently. Williams College Students? It will determine how the student Th e 12-prage comprehensive mula ted. They are rioting, not reVOlting, even government, your medium of com­ polley statement assesses the All of us _. students, faculty if they wanted to they don't even have munication With the administration, problems of University life and members. administrators u can a campus of their ovm \\bich they could shall operate. And this is the very sets forth specific organizIng now look forward to a shared boycott or seize. basi'3 for all the current student un­ principles and p~ams to "nar~ understanding of educational ob­ row the gap between things as jectives. It Is my vie....·• based This Is very true but even so these rest in the country. For it is when stu­ they are and things as the, ought on a current assessment of pro· recent college revolts do have mean­ dents become disgusted with the anti­ to be." gress to date, that '.ie can look ing to Roger Williams students. Ob­ quated methods their elected repre­ Follo\\"ing are parts of forward to general Support for viously not in their physical manifest­ the program likely to emerge. sentatives are forced to use in com­ that report on Aca­ ations 'with the seizure of buildings municating their ideals to the ad­ The most promising Policy demic Purpose & and the unlav,1'ul destruction of pro­ Study discussions have been ministration that students turn to un­ Community Life oriented to conceptS (b r 0 a d 1)' perty but rather in the basic philosophy lawful demonstrations and revolts. 1be study of Educational Pol· Stated for purposes of th1!l re­ behind this student unrest. It will seem imperative then to lcies a nd Programs. started port) that relate to freedom, These recent student revolts stand determine v.'hether or not the mem­ more than a year ago, is near­ balance, Initiative aDd aceount~ as an example to Roger Williams stu­ bers of the student council are acting ing its conl.usion. Facu1ty~fU· abilitY: dents of what they have the ability to with foresight and awareness rather dent panels are completing their (1) Increased range and de­ creased rigidity incurricul­ avoid in the future if they are fore­ work and preliminary cost then conformity and precedent in the analyses are being made. To· ar selections and require· sighten enough to act now. creation of this new document. Are the ward the end of the second ments starting In the fresh­ The majority of these student re­ student council members a'wareofwhat semester. the Board of Trustees man year; volts, (the one precipitated by actual is happening in the student communities "ill be asked for dedsions on (2) more normalsocial balance student) revolve around the basic rights around them and are they aware that recornmemations now being for· (continued to page 6) and privileges granted students. At Col­ they too are actually a part of this new umbia, as at most colleges and uni­ college idealism. versities, these rights and privileges Possibly not, for it is often proven are carefully outlined in what is com­ that government Itself is far behind monly knovm as the student constitu­ the thinking of the people it represents tion. Therefore the responsibility falls upon ThIs document deftnes just what the shoulders of the students them­ rights students enjoy in their relation­ selves to make these people aware of ship to the college' community, its such facts. administration and faculty. It setsup The members of the student council .the format through which the student must realize that they are responsible government, the student's elected re­ to the students and not to the ad­ presentatives act. mInistration or their administrative In most colleges and universities advisors. These student representa­ this age-old document is formed under tives must realize that their res­ .century old concepts of education"and ponsibility lies in furthering the ideals •the student•s position in the college of the students and not those of the community. administration. As students gradually become more These representattves should make involved in the college community they a concentrated effort to discover what desired more voice in the activities their fellow students feel about cer- TIiE QUlLL PAGE 3 i FRIDAY. h1A Y 17, 1968 - \ BRISTOL CAMPUS· EXPECTED \ TLO BE READY, BY FEBRUARY Dy JOHN GillOOLY "THEY COULD BUILD A CITY IN A DAY." This somewhat exaggerated statement is often implied to the Gilbane Construction Co. and gives an indication of the reputation Gilbane has established in the construction world. like that common here in New But the fact of the matter is· nus first construction phase E~nd plays havoc with con­ that no one, not evenGilbaoe, can Includes t....·o classroom build­ struction. Easterbrook sa i d. construCt a college campus in Ings, an administration building. "Construction wQ,1'kers and con­ less than a year. a dtruting hall, a science building. struction unions are a very In· Consequently the new Roger faculty offices and a large co­ dependent group," he sald. It Williams campus at Bristol will ed dorrutory. might start to rain an hour or oot be ready for occupancy in two after they start work. In­ sePtember 196a Recent Tour stead of waiting to see how it f Comrary (0 popular student A recent tour of the campus will develop the \i,orkers often belief the new campus was never site by this reporter gave an in­ decide to quit foP'the day. It scheduled to be completed or dication that the Gilbane boys are could completely stop raining even partially ready for oc· living up to their ....orld-wide re· and the sun might be out 30 cupancy for the 1968 Fall semest· putation and construcdon is pro· minutes later but If they don't .,.