The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1969 Page: 3 of 12
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FILLED,
Colgate Takes Steps
To Widen Participation
Hamilton, N.Y. (IP) Colgate
University President Vincent M.
Barnett, Jr., reported recently to
the campus community of actions
at what he termed “an historic*
meeting of Colgate’s Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Barnett summarized the
board’s meeting under the gene-
ral areas of communication; go-
vernance; coeducation; open
housing; fraternity affairs; and
admissions, scholarships and
student aid.
He said “Two significant and
farsighted steps were taken to
effect wider participation of fa-
culty and students in the work of
the Board.
(1) There will be one open
meeting of the Board each year.
All faculty and students will be
invited to attend.
(2) The Board will seat fa-
culty and students on all of its
Standing Committees, except the
Executive Committee, with full
powers and obligations. Although
official action must await change
of the By-Laws which cannot be'
authorized until January, it is
hoped that faculty and students
will proceed at once to work out
the details of participation and to
nominate committee representa-
tives.
As a general guide, the Board
accepted the recommendation of
the Faculty Conference Commit-
tee which calls for one-third of
each Standing Committee to be
comprised of faculty and stu-
dents.
Regarding coeducation, Dr.
Barnett noted that recommenda-
tions for prompt and orderly im-
plemenation of coeducation will
be presented to the Executive
Committee of the Trustees at
a special meeting in early De-
cember. The Executive Commit-
tee is empowered to act for the
Board in this matter, he said.
As for open housing, Dr. Bar-
nett reported, “The Board did not
change any of the existing poli-
cies on fraternities. It wishes to
emphasize that there is nothing
in the position of the Boardwhich
precludes further exploration of
open housing. The Board encou-
putting this principle into effect.*
Dr. Barnett concluded: “Re-
cognizing the pressing need for
improved communication the
Board authorized two kinds of
reports to the campus commun-
ity: 0) Minutes of the Board
'meetings will be available to any-
one who is interested as soon as
possible after each meeting; (2)
Following each meeting of the
Board, the president will be ex-
pected to make a public report
of Board action on issues of
most immediate concern to fa-
culty, students and administra-
tion.
Iowa College
Is Sponsoring
Study Grant
Carlisle, Pa. (IP) A Dickinson
College “faculty presence* pro-
gram, an experimental faculty-
residence plan undertaken by the
college in cooperation with a
campus fraternity to test the
plan’s effectiveness against the
usual house-mother residence
system, has been more success-
ful than was expected.
Implementing the plan three
years ago in the Omicron chapter
of Sigma Chi, college officials
hoped it would create “greater
communication between students
and faculty." It did. Members
of Sigma Chi like the idea so
much that, at a special ceremony
recently, they pledged the faculfy
member chosen to live among
them, political scientist Larry J.
Warner.
A graduate of Whittier College,
California, where he served as a
class president during both his
junior and senior years, Warner
had never joined a fraternity.
He said that Whittier had a sys-
tem of * social societies* and
that fraternities were not al-
lowed.
The English Toy Spaniel prob-
ably first appeared in Spain. The
Pekingese-like nose of the King
Charles variety suggests that
rages those houses which wish to dogs from China and Japan were
do so to try various methods of later bred in.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
FORMAL RUSH OPENS—Alpha Tau Omega active John Bigham, second from left, shows a scrapbook .
to spring rushees at the Interfraternity Council open house. The event was held Jan. 29 in Snack
Bar L Each fraternity prepared table displays, showing their trophies, scrapbooks, and other items.
IFC open rush is now in progress and will continue until Monday, March 3. (Staff photo by Bobby
Dickinson)
Film Classics Dr. Kirksey Receives
To Present $7>393 Research Grant
fcKon-Tikf
“Kon-Tiki*, fourth presenta-
tion in the 1968-69 Film Classic
Series, will be presented Wed-
nesday at 7:30 p.m. in Room
108 of the Physics Building.
The film, a documentary based
on the novel by Thor Heyerdahl,
narrates the story of a 101-day
voyage from Peru to Polynesia
by six Scandinavian scientists on
a balsa raft bound by ropes and
propelled by the Trade Winds and
the Humboldt current.
Heyerdahl was expedition lead-
er on the Kon-Tiki, as the raft
was named. The voyage was un-
dertaken to prove Heyerdahl’s
theory that Polynesia was popu-
lated by men who fled the Inca
conquest in Peru.
Dr. C. D. Kirksey, professor
of business administration has
received a $7,393 grant to do a
study of the economic resources
of Southeast Texas.
Contracts were signed with
five Texas Colleges to study
the economic resources of
various areas of the state.
Kirksey is assisted by Rich-
ard Drapeau and Thomas Ryan
ard Drapeau and Thomas Ryan,
graduate students, Bertin How-
ard, and sophomore Beverly
Todd. The study will cover
Orange and Jefferson counties
plus 13 counties to as far north
as Shelby County.
The input-output analysis of
the regions of Texas to form
a model for the state. This
analysis is a detailed study of
the flow of goods and services
from one segment of the reg-
ional economy to another sector
of the economy. A mathematical
process can be used to calculate
the cumulative effect an economic
change could have on a certain
area.
Engineering Club Afr°-American Group
Tours in Houston Sponsor Dance
TENNIS SECTIONS FILLED, 3CMLINS FILLED—M/T M/r—
t PELIEl/E WE HAVE AN OPENING IN FENCING."
Thirty members of the Amer-
ican Institute of Industrial Eng-
ineers completed a field trip to
Houston Tuesday where they
toured the Armco Steel Co. and
the AnheuserBusch Brewery.
■ As an extra attraction they
saw the National Basketball As-
sociation’s doubleheader in the
Astrodome.
Industrial engineering majors
wishing to Join AHE, should con-
tact Jerry Broussard, president,
in Room 106, Engineering n
Building.
ENGINEERS MEET
Alpha Pi Mu, industrial en-
gineering honor society, will
meet Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. in
Room 111, Engineering I Build-
ing, reports John Kell, presi-
dent.
The Afro-American Student
Association is sponsoring a dance
tonight at the Club Tahiti in down-
town Beaumont, A. M. Thompson,
Jr., reports.
The dance will be held from 8
p.m. until midnight and music
will be provided by Armstrong
and the Escots. Admission is
$1.50 at the door. The money
raised will be used to help fi-
nance a Black Community cen-
ter.
WOMEN MEET
Cap and Gown, senior women’s
honor society, will meet Thurs-
day at 7 p.m. in Room 120,
Administration Annex, Ann Shaw
assistant dean of womervreports.
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Williams, Kathy. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1969, newspaper, February 7, 1969; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499488/m1/3/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.