The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1969 Page: 3 of 4
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THE MEGAPHONE
Friday, May 2, 1969
PAGE THREE
Congress January
Session Evaluation
The Student Congress Student
Welfare Commission conducted an
evaluation of the January session
earlier this semester. The results
appear below.
1. Evaluation of the course con-
tent. Did it cover what you expected
it to cover? Do vou feel you profit-
ed from the content? Yes - 172;
No - 30.
2. Evaluation of professor and
technique. Was he able to get the
information across to you? Did he
do this through lectures, discus-
sion, research, individual instruc-
tions, etc?
Overall impressions were fav-
orable. Students seemed to favor
use of discussion and research,
and audio-visual aids.
3. Would you prefer that cours-
es be taken with optional pass-fail
grading?
Yes - 180; No -37.
4. How many hours do you feei
you should be allowed to take
(max.)?
3 hoars - 109; 4-6 hours - 81:
2 hours - 10.
5. Should courses offered be two-
hour credit or three-hour?
3-hour - 174; 2 - hour - 25.
6. Were you satisfied with the
courses offered? Do you have any
suggestions as to what courses
should be offered?
Satisfied - 136; Dissatisfied-81:
Suggestions: more courses
should be offered, transf err able
credits, history courses organized
around periods, group studies, ed-
ucation courses with observation,
courses fulfilling degree require-
ments, computer courses, courses
concerning stock market, labora-
tory courses, courses dealing with
contemporary problems, speed
reading, University administra-
tion, Library administration, his-
tory of science, off - campus stu-
dies, sex education, “Dylan Tho-
mas's Poetry”, expanded creative
writing, seminar courses.
7. Should courses fulfilling basic
degree requirements be offered?
Yes - 196; No - 26.
8. How would you suggest cours-
programs, Fine Arts activities,
oceanography, marine biology,
small town politics, racial sup-
pression, aviation training, church
work. *
10. If you have to pay extra tui-
tion, room, and board will you plan
to attend the January session?
Yes - 70; No - 137;
Comments:
Most students noted that they felt
the school was already too expen-
sive. Many students that answered
that they would attend said that they
had to have the hours.
11. Do you prefer the present
system or the former two-sem-
ester system?
Present - 191; Two-semester-
25;
Suggestions:
Move beginning of second semes-
ter to Jan. and get out earlier.
Have second semester from Jan.
to May and take 19-21 hours. Have
Quarter system in which students
can take courses during any quar-
ter.
12. Would you be interested n a
speed reading course offered dur-
ing the J anuary session? During the
regular session?
January session- 129 in favor.
Regular semester - 95 in favor.
SMU Students
OccupyOffice
Of President
Bu lletin
About thirty Black students are
holding the office of Dr. Willis
Tate, President of Southern Meth-
odist University in Dallas, after
taking over the office earlier today.
The students had gone to Dr.
Tate’s office to discuss a list of
demands which had been presented
to the officials of the school earli-
er this week.
When Tate told the students that
not all of the demands could be met,
they refused to leave the office.
Tate subsequently left his office,
along with his staff.
The SMU campus is reported to
be otherwise quiet.
One of the key demands which the
officials have refused to accept is
the enrollment of some 500 Black
students by next fall.
NOTICE
Mrs. Vogler in the post office
requests all students to return
their Mail Box Keys before leav-
ing campus.
Profs Anti-War Speech
Increased His Mail
(Professor George Wald’s speech speech on March 4 to an audience
appeared in the April 18 edition of
the MEGAPHONE.)
BY ISRAEL SHENKER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In a Har-
vard newly perplexed about its fate,
Prof. George Wald, a 1967 Nobel
prize winner in medicine, is
strongly exercised.
He is concerned not only about
his university, which is going
through trying times, but aboift
at the Massachusetts Institute of
T echnoiogy. F rom hastily prepar-
ed notes, Wald, a soft - spoken,
white-haired 62-year-old pro-
fessor of biology who specializes
in the chemistry of vision, spoke
about the great issues of the day.
He decried the Vietnam conflict
(“I think we’ve lost that war”),
nuclear weapons (“There is noth-
ing worth havingthat can be obtain-
ed by nuclear war....”), the ABM
i
News Briefs
French President de Gaulle Resigns
Paris - Repudiated in a national referendum, Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle announced his resignation Monday,
ending an epoch in French history.
The 78-year-old iron-willed ruller of France for more
than a decade had vowed he would resign if voters rejected
a reform bill on administrative responsibility.
In balloting Sunday, the French said “no" to him by a
small margin.
Bolivian President Dies In Crash
La Paz, Bolivia - President Rene Barrientos, dashing
head of Bolivia’s military-backed regime, was killed this
week in a helicopter crash.
The president’s helicopter tangled with high-tension
wires and plummeted to the ground while on a flight be-
tween farming communities.
Tornado Strikes Plano
Plano, Texas - A swirling, twisting tornado dipped
down out of a severe thunderstorm onto the Villa Casita
Trailer Courts early Sunday injuring at least 42 persons
and demolishing about half the mobile homes.
Court Will Rule on Draft Protest Case
Washington - The Supreme Court agreed this week to
hear arguments concerning whether draft boards can order
college students into the armed forces for turning in their
draft cards as a Vietnam war protest.
The court had been urged by the Justice Dept, to reject
the request for a hearing in the case.
Korean Task Force Cut
Washington- The Nixon Administration is scaling down
the US show of strength off Korea and will rely mainly on
South Korea-based aircraft to defend intelligence flights
in the area.
This became apparent this week when the Pentagon an-
nounced breakup of the 29-ship armada that was rushed to
the Sea of Japan after North Korea shot down an unarmed
EC121 aircraft April 15.
Pope Names New Cardinals
Vatican City-Pope Paul VI confirmed 33 prelates, in-
cluding four Americans, as cardinals in a secret consistory
Monday giving the highest council of Roman Catholicism
younger men and a broader international base.
Middle East Tinderbox’
Continued from Page One-
es be presented, such as Seminar, mankind as a whole, since he be- (* It is both easier and cheaper to Dome of the Rock, where theMos- Negev desert, which Linde said
lecture, discussion, research, lieves the danger to survival is circumvent any known nuclear sys- lem Prophet Mohammed is said to
panel, independent study? great. tern than to provide it ), the peace- have ascended on his “great white
Seminar - 77; lecture - 101; With a sense of duty about teach- time draft (“The most unAmerican horse.” The Pool of Siloam part of
discussion - 117; research -87; ing, he has been meeting all his thing I know”), the militarization Hezekiah’s aqueduct was shown
panel - 33; independent study-87. — ------ ”l*----’*• ~ - .....’ -
Many students noted that the
method qf presenting a course
would largely depend on the cour-
se itself.
9. Would you like to see oppor-
tunities during the January session
expanded, such as seminars or off-
campus study?
Yes - 193; No - 24;
Suggestions:
Ghetto work, student exchange
classes - even when only a few of the nation (“Corrupting the life as weu as vvall of Herod
students turned up, the rest join- of the whole country”), and the known also as the “WailingWall.”
ing a strike, an occupation,
merely a mill-in.
Wald has been winning even
greater acclaim for emerging
from the confines of his science
and his academic duties and speak-
ing with almost desperate intensity
about the need to save — not only
Harvard — but also humanity.
This departure began with a
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military-industrial-labor union Linde also showed an Arab re-
complex.” Wald rejected argu- fugee - camp in Jordan, where re-
gents that “those are the facts of fugees are given the care that $35
per person, supplied by the UN,
“No,” he said, “those are the provides.
facts of death. I don t accept them, a Crusader - built church marks
and 1^ advise you not to accept the place where Jesus was said to
them.” pe born. Samson’s birthplace, by
His speech was printed in many i contrast, is represented by a ham-
newspapers, and was featured in burger joint and gas station called
the New Yorker for March 22. Let- “Samson’s Inn” in Tel Aviv
A bridge that was known as the
Hussein” Bridge to the Jordan-
ters of enthusiastic approval have
been inundating the professor’s of-
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the country. fliCt in the area. The bridge is a
“The aftermath of that speech “one-way” bridge in that no one
has taken up my whole life,” he said can go back. It is a small, wood-
in an interview at his office. “It en affair, where people cross on
makes me very happy to think that foot, carrying what they can, for
somehow the thoughts I was ex- they can take only what they can
pressing are felt very widely.” carry on foot> reported Mr.Linde.
A part-time• secretary and the The Sea 0f Galilee, which Mr.
professor’s wife are trying to deal Linde indicated to be really a
with the correspondence.” “The lake (Lake Chinnereth), is used as
only letters I’ve had time to an- a winter resort by the Jews. Water
swer have been the critical ones,” is pumped out of it to irrigate the
said Wald. “There have been few _
enough of them, so I’ve kept up.
“The letters that agree with me
tend to have a fervent quality.
They’re warm, they sound notes
of frustration, very great concern,
and sometimes despair.”
“I feel a little desperate my-
self, since I was already leading
a pretty full life - with research
and teaching. Since the March 4
speech it’s as though I’m running
See “Bulging,” Page Four.
makes the Arabs mad, presumably
because it might change the local
climate, although no change has oc-
curred.
“A camel is nothing but a horse
put together by a committee,” Lin-
de quoted a friend as telling him.
A camel, Linde continued, will
“sneeze at you,” is “evil-tem-
pered. ^.and has bad breath.” He
mentioned that people get seasick
from riding camels. Tourists, he
noted, would try to dress up Arab-
like to go to see, say, the Cheops
pyramid, which can be reached by
city bus.
that those of the Middle East do
not have,” Linde said. He noted
that a person in the Middle East
might describe distance by say-
ing, “It is as long as it will take
you to eait an apple” (or smoke a
cigarette or any activity) instead
of “ten minutes by foot” as might
be given in America. By contrast,
he noted, America has timepieces
to regulate one’s daily activities;
Linde said he has to re-adjust ev-
ery time he travels from the Mid-
dle East to the United States.
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1969, newspaper, May 2, 1969; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634046/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Williamson+County+-+Georgetown%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.