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Light-Eater Residence Halls Newsletter, October 4, 1971

1971-10-04 Light-Eater Vol. II, Number 2, Page 4

For over-21 only
Those of you you who are over 21, living in open residence
halls and diggin' it are taking a free ride.
You get this dandy title paper, KICR, open visitation,
freedom to drink in your rooms and some other important
intangibles through the efforts of the Associated Residence
Halls. But you don't belong to the association. Now this is no
big deal around these parts. R.M. Nixon kept my rent from
going up and I'm not a Republican. And I don't need to 
mention the things the Iowa legislature has done for me. 
This is not a pitch for involvement. With so many dif-
ferent things to be grateful for, we just can't push
everybody's wagon.
The over-21 residence hall dwellers, however, could make a very special contribution to the Association. The maturity
and insight that they supposedly possess (possess, ac-
cording to the Association lobbying for the liberalized rules
with the administration and regents) could be a pillar of Association credibility. 
Membership in the Association would also insure that
lobbying efforts of the sort that created the environment
over-21 residents now enjoy would be continued, Keeping
the rights you have and expanding them is the key. And an
Association composed of those who are under-21 and not in 
possession of the right could, in all logic, concentrate on
quite different issues. 
ARH president Sue Ross indicated in the last issue of L-E that the group was going to direct its attention to matters of food service and regulations. any advantage you over-21 types get from food service improvements can be equated with those salary benefits enjoyed by scab labor. Action for liberalization of rules is likely to be aimed primarily to benefit member. Advantages for you here will be a gift, 
Nobody can stop you from taking a free ride. ARH has said that it will not campaign for over-21 organization or membership. So you're not going to be co-erced into membership. But you are welcome. You are needed. you might give it a little though. 

(illustration of two men watching another man carry a bunch of bags)

To your health
This issue of LIGHT-EATER begins a series dealing with student Health facilities available for University of Iowa students.
Many University students are hesitant about going to Student Health. Because some people in authority feel that the University must play the role of the parent, these students are afraid that their parents will be advised of every trip to Student Health along with reports to faculty, employers, or in the case of drugs Campus Security or other law enforcement agencies. 
Dr. Robert Wilcox, Director of Student Health, comes down hard on this view. He sincerely, and we believe honestly, states that Student Health exists for the student and, in some cases non-students who need help and not for parents for University officials. Each student's record is confidential and it takes his or her signature for an authorized person to receive information. Likewise, Wilcox's regulations will not allow information of a case to be dispensed over the telephone. 
The first part of this series is two-fold. One part explains Wilcox's opinions and regulations protecting the rights of the student, and the second half is a study of venereal disease and protection against it.

Voice of Opinion

Drexel digs dames' names

Dear Light-eater, 
The adoption of the policy as set forth by Bella Abzug (issue No. 1) by LIGHT-EATER clearly demonstrates the inconsistency of the managing staff. In the past, LIGHT_EATER'S editorial and feature article viewpoint has reflected a personalized approach to dorm living.  But what is more personal than a name with its correct title?
Judging from the number of diamond ring flaunted most women are rather proud when they can exchange their Miss for a Mrs. and the new Ms. label certainly does not aid the Miss in spreading the word to those still eligible (assuming that she so desires.)
In fact, if women so dislike the distinction of either Miss or Mrs., then why is it necessary to label them at all? No male received a title in your lead story concerning Currier, but all the females were distinguished as such. Or why not go all the way and use ID numbers exclusively?
Sincerely yours,
Drexel MacDougal Nixon
334 Rienow I

Dear Drexel, 
Two of the issues at stake here are not open to logical discussion. You aver that the use of Mrs. and Miss is a personalizing touch, while we expressed the view that is is a depersonalizing touch. We know why we think classifying a person by marital status is depersonalizing, but we are not sure why you think it is personalizing (unless you mean to suggest that, since it gives some one element of information about the female in question, it personalizes her more in the sense of defining her social role more fully.) Our position is that one's person and one's marital role are only as integral as on chooses to make them. We will not make that judgement for either men or women. You suggest we aid the "Miss" in spreading the word to those still eligible (assuming that she so desires!)" It is just this assumption that we are reluctant to make. 
Your allegation that we use the Ms. more and in a different fashion than we use the Mr. label is legitimate. We will henceforth attempt to limit the use of the Ms. label to discussions involving couples (which might breed confusion in the absence of any labels) and to use it only as tellingly as we use the Mr. label. 

LIGHT-EATER
..The LIGHT-EATER is published on Mondays, except during weeks of University holidays, throughout the academic year with offices at 205 Communication Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. The opinions expressed herein represent those of the writes and not necessarily those of the LIGHT-EATER or the Associated Residence Halls. Mail subscriptions are $2 per semester, payable in advance. Single copies are 10 cents. 

EDITORIAL STAFF MEMBERS
H. James Potter.................Editor
Roger Linehan.............News Editor
Terry Fruehling........Editorial Editor
Alex Nesterenko....Chief Photographer
Judy Ament................Advertising
Bob Denney...................Sports

Scrap ed college

Have you ever had a teacher that change your whole life? Maybe you are a chemistry major because of a high school chemistry teacher? Or, perhaps, a clads with Gustave Bergman led you to a philosophy major?
The influence  hypothesis implied here is, of course, very weak in light of the fact that you may have been the only chemistry major your high school ever produced although the teacher in question has bee teaching chemistry there for 20 years. But educational commitment of the sort we as students supposedly all made is, nevertheless, often closely related to a single intellectual relationship. A natural disposition even to a field like math, may often require the stimulation of a math instructor in order to become a commitment. Socrates' pupil Plato may be the most striking example of this phenomenon. 
It is one thing to be inspired to become a chemist by your chemistry teacher and another to be motivated by your PE teacher to become a PE teacher. Teaching is not an intellectual pursuit (although the psychology of teaching may be.) It is, rather, a service skill-like nursing. One may seek nurses training in order to help sick people, just as he may take teachers' training out of concern for children. 
The fact that there are probably not enough people in this nation of universal mandatory education to supply the faculties of all the schools has had a subtle effect of the teaching profession. This who chose to teach in Socrates' day, or even Ben Franklin's, were few. When the U.S. sought to create a work force of persons educated to fit its technology, it bought additional teachers. 
The federal government and the individual states made teaching an easy and secure branch of the civil service (and, more recently, a comparatively lucrative one.) The stature of the teacher as a scholar has led Americans to further government-industrial aims by holding teachers in high esteem than members of similar civil service professions. 
The problem is that the demand for teachers stopped accellerating in past years and by all reliable account will have stopped growing at all by the end of this academic year or the next. Vast university and college machinery was created (tacked on, in many cases) to accommodate the education drive aimed to upgrade the educational level (mostly in terms of years attending classes)  and then to maintain this level during the growing years of the baby boom babies. The machinery has lost the reason of its creation. It has become obsolete. 
New teacher will, of course, be needed; but not in anywhere near the droves that ave been graduated in the past. So what shall we do with this machinery--the school of education. For instance, what shall we do with the University of Iowa College of Education. 
LIGHT-EATER suggest we scrap it. 
The state of Iowa should maintain a training program for teachers at UNI. The teachers' training function of both the U of I and Iowa State should be radically diminished. Enough education course numbers to justify secondary teaching certification should be maintained by the College of Liberal Arts. The study of learning is not now an exclusive function of the College of Education and in its absense, psychology and communications departments, among others, could carry on this work at Iowa. 
The alternative to this drastic solution is to see the University burdened with yet another fat cat. A drain on the funds that benefits neither the state, who will not need the products of the College of Education, nor the students who are unable to find positions in which to use their training.

Saving...

For over-21 only Those of you you who are over 21, living in open residence halls and diggin' it are taking a free ride. You get this dandy title paper, KICR, open visitation, freedom to drink in your rooms and some other important intangibles through the efforts of the Associated Residence Halls. But you don't belong to the association. Now this is no big deal around these parts. R.M. Nixon kept my rent from going up and I'm not a Republican. And I don't need to mention the things the Iowa legislature has done for me. This is not a pitch for involvement. With so many dif- ferent things to be grateful for, we just can't push everybody's wagon. The over-21 residence hall dwellers, however, could make a very special contribution to the Association. The maturity and insight that they supposedly possess (possess, ac- cording to the Association lobbying for the liberalized rules with the administration and regents) could be a pillar of Association credibility. Membership in the Association would also insure that lobbying efforts of the sort that created the environment over-21 residents now enjoy would be continued, Keeping the rights you have and expanding them is the key. And an Association composed of those who are under-21 and not in possession of the right could, in all logic, concentrate on quite different issues. ARH president Sue Ross indicated in the last issue of L-E that the group was going to direct its attention to matters of food service and regulations. any advantage you over-21 types get from food service improvements can be equated with those salary benefits enjoyed by scab labor. Action for liberalization of rules is likely to be aimed primarily to benefit member. Advantages for you here will be a gift, Nobody can stop you from taking a free ride. ARH has said that it will not campaign for over-21 organization or membership. So you're not going to be co-erced into membership. But you are welcome. You are needed. you might give it a little though. (illustration of two men watching another man carry a bunch of bags) To your health This issue of LIGHT-EATER begins a series dealing with student Health facilities available for University of Iowa students. Many University students are hesitant about going to Student Health. Because some people in authority feel that the University must play the role of the parent, these students are afraid that their parents will be advised of every trip to Student Health along with reports to faculty, employers, or in the case of drugs Campus Security or other law enforcement agencies. Dr. Robert Wilcox, Director of Student Health, comes down hard on this view. He sincerely, and we believe honestly, states that Student Health exists for the student and, in some cases non-students who need help and not for parents for University officials. Each student's record is confidential and it takes his or her signature for an authorized person to receive information. Likewise, Wilcox's regulations will not allow information of a case to be dispensed over the telephone. The first part of this series is two-fold. One part explains Wilcox's opinions and regulations protecting the rights of the student, and the second half is a study of venereal disease and protection against it. Voice of Opinion Drexel digs dames' names Dear Light-eater, The adoption of the policy as set forth by Bella Abzug (issue No. 1) by LIGHT-EATER clearly demonstrates the inconsistency of the managing staff. In the past, LIGHT_EATER'S editorial and feature article viewpoint has reflected a personalized approach to dorm living. But what is more personal than a name with its correct title? Judging from the number of diamond ring flaunted most women are rather proud when they can exchange their Miss for a Mrs. and the new Ms. label certainly does not aid the Miss in spreading the word to those still eligible (assuming that she so desires.) In fact, if women so dislike the distinction of either Miss or Mrs., then why is it necessary to label them at all? No male received a title in your lead story concerning Currier, but all the females were distinguished as such. Or why not go all the way and use ID numbers exclusively? Sincerely yours, Drexel MacDougal Nixon 334 Rienow I Dear Drexel, Two of the issues at stake here are not open to logical discussion. You aver that the use of Mrs. and Miss is a personalizing touch, while we expressed the view that is is a depersonalizing touch. We know why we think classifying a person by marital status is depersonalizing, but we are not sure why you think it is personalizing (unless you mean to suggest that, since it gives some one element of information about the female in question, it personalizes her more in the sense of defining her social role more fully.) Our position is that one's person and one's marital role are only as integral as on chooses to make them. We will not make that judgement for either men or women. You suggest we aid the "Miss" in spreading the word to those still eligible (assuming that she so desires!)" It is just this assumption that we are reluctant to make. Your allegation that we use the Ms. more and in a different fashion than we use the Mr. label is legitimate. We will henceforth attempt to limit the use of the Ms. label to discussions involving couples (which might breed confusion in the absence of any labels) and to use it only as tellingly as we use the Mr. label. LIGHT-EATER ..The LIGHT-EATER is published on Mondays, except during weeks of University holidays, throughout the academic year with offices at 205 Communication Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. The opinions expressed herein represent those of the writes and not necessarily those of the LIGHT-EATER or the Associated Residence Halls. Mail subscriptions are $2 per semester, payable in advance. Single copies are 10 cents. EDITORIAL STAFF MEMBERS H. James Potter.................Editor Roger Linehan.............News Editor Terry Fruehling........Editorial Editor Alex Nesterenko....Chief Photographer Judy Ament................Advertising Bob Denney...................Sports Scrap ed college Have you ever had a teacher that change your whole life? Maybe you are a chemistry major because of a high school chemistry teacher? Or, perhaps, a clads with Gustave Bergman led you to a philosophy major? The influence hypothesis implied here is, of course, very weak in light of the fact that you may have been the only chemistry major your high school ever produced although the teacher in question has bee teaching chemistry there for 20 years. But educational commitment of the sort we as students supposedly all made is, nevertheless, often closely related to a single intellectual relationship. A natural disposition even to a field like math, may often require the stimulation of a math instructor in order to become a commitment. Socrates' pupil Plato may be the most striking example of this phenomenon. It is one thing to be inspired to become a chemist by your chemistry teacher and another to be motivated by your PE teacher to become a PE teacher. Teaching is not an intellectual pursuit (although the psychology of teaching may be.) It is, rather, a service skill-like nursing. One may seek nurses training in order to help sick people, just as he may take teachers' training out of concern for children. The fact that there are probably not enough people in this nation of universal mandatory education to supply the faculties of all the schools has had a subtle effect of the teaching profession. This who chose to teach in Socrates' day, or even Ben Franklin's, were few. When the U.S. sought to create a work force of persons educated to fit its technology, it bought additional teachers. The federal government and the individual states made teaching an easy and secure branch of the civil service (and, more recently, a comparatively lucrative one.) The stature of the teacher as a scholar has led Americans to further government-industrial aims by holding teachers in high esteem than members of similar civil service professions. The problem is that the demand for teachers stopped accellerating in past years and by all reliable account will have stopped growing at all by the end of this academic year or the next. Vast university and college machinery was created (tacked on, in many cases) to accommodate the education drive aimed to upgrade the educational level (mostly in terms of years attending classes) and then to maintain this level during the growing years of the baby boom babies. The machinery has lost the reason of its creation. It has become obsolete. New teacher will, of course, be needed; but not in anywhere near the droves that ave been graduated in the past. So what shall we do with this machinery--the school of education. For instance, what shall we do with the University of Iowa College of Education. LIGHT-EATER suggest we scrap it. The state of Iowa should maintain a training program for teachers at UNI. The teachers' training function of both the U of I and Iowa State should be radically diminished. Enough education course numbers to justify secondary teaching certification should be maintained by the College of Liberal Arts. The study of learning is not now an exclusive function of the College of Education and in its absense, psychology and communications departments, among others, could carry on this work at Iowa. The alternative to this drastic solution is to see the University burdened with yet another fat cat. A drain on the funds that benefits neither the state, who will not need the products of the College of Education, nor the students who are unable to find positions in which to use their training.