Empath, 1979 March 30

              EMPATH, MARCH 30. 1979 PAGE 7
CLUB NEWS
S tu d e n t G o v e r n m e n t
by Michael H. Schwartz
The March 12 meeting o f the S.G.A.
was one o f the longer and perhaps more
beneficial meetings o f the semester.
Head o f Records, Dr. Boyer, and Provost,
Dr. Haymes were there on the request
o f the S.G.A. to discuss and clarify
problems and policy concerning advising
and drop-add. All students know the
horrors of drop-add; there are the over­bearing
advisors, the non-existent ad­visors,
the misinformed advisors, the
chase for that all-powerful signature and
all just to drop a class.
There were various complaints aired
about the current drop-add system,
especially the trouble students often have
finding advisors. It also came up that
many advisors are uninformed or misin­formed
about academic policy and drop-add.
Dr. Haymes admitted that advisors
do a poor job, but also stated that there
is currently no sanctions against poor
advisors. Dr. Haymes also said that the
current system is designed to help stu­dents
and th a t if it isn’t being helpful
maybe it should change. He even brought
out the possibility that it “may be that
it is not needed.”
There was much discussion of the
way that the add period was ended
during and after the snowstorm. Students
complained about the add period end­ing
without some classes on Tuesdays
and Thursdays not having met at all.
Dr. Boyer termed it simply as something
unforeseen in all the snow confusion.
As for solutions to the dilemma, Dr.
Haymes first said there are no fast solu­tions
to the problems. Cappy Ryan
asked about having a period when teach­ers
have to be there. Dr. Haymes said
since there are no short-term sanctions
against the faculty that this can’t be
done. He did say, however, that there is
a program starting where there will be
a period teachers will be requested to
be around to advise students. He also
intends to circulate advisor evaluation
forms and said he was willing to publish
results. When asked about the fact th a t
you need your advisor’s signature and
therefore his approval for a course, he
stated first that it is the students’ re­sponsibility
to get his own classes. He
went on to say that if there is a course
you want to take and your advisor says,
“Come see me and we will make some
arrangement.” He also invited any stu­dent
with an advising or drop-add prob­lem,
to see him about it. His tone about
the quality o f advising was very pes­simistic
stating that the advising was
bad at every school he has worked at.
When asked, “Do you think they should
scrap it? ” , he said, “Possibly.”
O u t d o o r C lu b
by Bo Kibler
After braving hostile E skimo seal spears
on a bum lead, and three days of merciless
dysentary caused by a bush-rat pie shared
with a Tunesian sheepherder, our humble,
overseas news correspondent finally
tracked down Hal Christhilf, Nomadic
President of the Outdoors Club, in a
frontier outpost hidden deep in the
mysterious Inner Congo.
Low hung ceiling fans powered by two
silver chained spider monkeys wafted the
smell of Bombay Gin through the heat
scortched air. Hal, as our report goes, was
sitting under the attention of three native
beauties who fanned and fed him with a
devotion long lost by the ir American
waitress counterparts. One can almost
imagine the tense Stanley and Livingston
d ram a being re c re a ted in th a t not-so-lone-ly
African outpost; the eruption of
cinamesque climax broiling to its modern
day hilt as se a rch e r discovers the
searched. Unfortunately, our correspon­dent
was still having bowel problems and
had to excuse himself from what could
have been the big scene. Still! We received
this Club News update by c a rrie r pigeon
just yesterday:
By request of Bob Shaw, the man in
charge of the St. Mary’s Commission a t
Chancellor’s Point, the Outdoor Club has
moved the site of the ir organic garden
from the North Field to the Point. Small
groups from the club will be working in the
gardens all week, and the club has
volunteered to lend a hand picking up litter
on the paths, along with other mainte­nance
work in the are a.
This, you may say, is a heckuva good
reason for Bob Shaw to invite the club
down, but it is not just a one sided deal.
Chancellor’s Point offers an ideal water
source where the North Field lacked one.
In addition, the gardens will become p a rt
of the tourist scene down a t the Point.
A trip is tentatively being scheduled by
the club to Cedarville, Md. for a weekend,
and will probably get off when Hal’s big
Ford gets fixed. Hal, who is back on
campus, is doing his best to revive the car.
We asked him whatever happened to our
brave correspondent and we a re gleeful to
h e a r he recovered from his dysentary,
although somewhat hesitant to h ea r of a
la st sighting in a native village with a
pipeful of mohimbe bark bit in his teeth. It
is a rough life for a news reporter.
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Q u o t a b le C o rn e r
‘Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner Margaret Lee Rumbeck of traveling.”
Literary Nook
Spring
Slow, breezy ease o f warm windlets
pilging through the trees. Water rings
waving and rolling into ripply expression
o f sunlights’ golden image. Cool water
reflections in the winter dampened
mind. Piny woodland smells, and brack­ish
laps o f fertile, sunkist optimism
playing with life’s wispy shores, filling
the dreamers cove. New words for old
songs; a babe in arms, poking shiny’d
marble eyes in fat faced awe; cotton
momma and a warm, breasty cradel;
unblinking, new born wonderment to the
sky. New buds and old, waking dreams
floating through blue, baby blue heaven.
New plumed robins in song and fresh
croaking echoes round the pond. White,
softly clean bedsheets sailing o ff the
line and big straw baskets heaped with
little, blooming wildflowers. Children’s
knee-scraped playtimes resounding in
running skips and jumps; giddly laughter,
splashing through the morning air. Big
joys and little cares. Free floating fris-bees
and cool, wet, afternoon wines in
clinking, grassy tabled contentment. Soft,
wind blown hair and lovers’ silent smiles
beaming ear to ear, laughing aloud,
wings to the air.
Spring!
Bo K ib le r
Americans
I have died in Viet Nam
But I have walked the face of the moon.
I have befouled the waters and tainted the
a ir of a magnificent land
But I have made it safe from disease.
I have idled in stre e ts made ugly with
traffic,
But I have flown through the sky faste r
than the sun.
I have littered the land with garbabe
But I have built upon it a hundred million
homes.
I have divided schools with my prejudice
But I have sent arm ies to unite them.
I have bea t down my enemies with clubs
But I have built courtrooms to keep them
free.
I have built a bomb to destroy the world
But I have used it to light a light.
I have outraged my brothers in the alleys
of the ghetto
But I have tran sp lan ted a human hea rt.
I have watched children sta rv e from my
golden towers
But I have fed half of the earth.
I was raised in a grotesque slum
But I am surfeited by the silver spoon of
opulence.
I scorn the ground I stand upon
But I live in the g re a te s t country in the
g re a te s t time in history.
I am ashamed
But I am proud
I am an American.
Midnight Flight
Walk with me
And I ’ll walk with you
To a place known by many
Yet touched by few.
Is this place fa r away
Can we find it by night,
Shall we wait till the morning
And be guided by the light?
I would ra th e r leave now
And escape while we can,
F o r who knows what we’ll find
Buried deep within the sands.
I often wonder how
Night turns into day.
Yet I c a n ’t imagine why
Life ends in such a way.
Rusty Lucas
Coming Up
SG A Elections
A p r il 2 5 - 2 7
Petitions will be available after Spring
Break and due April 20 for the offices of:
PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT
SECRETARY .TREASURER
upper class
&
lower class
Caroline
Dorchester
Queen Anne
Prince George
2 Commuters