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· ~~~~~~~ Western Maryland.Coliege Thursday, October 2, 1980 Volume XII, Number 3 ~~--~----------------~~--------~. ~ Teachers evaluate Jan Term SGA debates Keith l. Arnold. schools when the January Term "We processed more people in a Registration is now over. Those Program failed, It failed because shortened period of time and there students who chose to partake in of extra tuition fees or because it was far less grumbling," stated January Term can look forward to Terms are figured into a student's numbers at six o'clock Tuesday student issues Dawkins, who started handing out was optional. Since two January their courses. From the enrollments the program is stili tuition over his four years, there is morning. gO;r: s~~o~;~Lightner, who has ;~ee~~:i~~~:tiS~t°,:~l~~~:;~pr~:I~:sdl~~Ssu~;es:~;,n~nagnua~Py Jeff Trice are being housed In the Infirmary, The Student Government and they seem satisfied with this ~:~~:~T=~~;~ra~~~:~~f~~ ~~;~:~~~~~~~~c:~~heprogram's ;~~:c~o;e~e: ~pi~So~ttl~~~~i~~ Association of 1980·1981held their temporaryarrangemenf. years, is sure that this January Students are taking more than experience. "Our philosophy is to ~~~tte~~:~IZa;!~na:n m:~I~~ni~~ W:r:e;iV~~~ D;~:;;_~~:a;:::~ ;~cb;r~~!~~ :~?c~~~~7~~~s~~~ :;O~i~r!~C~c~~r~I~:Vt:~~:' ~;: ~:f;;~~.if~i~~~~~;~dH~ ~;~:~~~; Lounge, where the groundwork on the good financial condition of the average, 85% of the student Registrar, Mr, Hugh Dawkins, January Term should offer courses ~;t~~~~~;I~~~::::I:s d;:I~ :0:t~~ !~~ve~~I~~~~ZI~;~OI~;y. ~~: D~:n~ ~~Jingh~sD~.~~gh~ne~~~~:S:~sea~; ~;~:d ~h:~or1:~a:t~:~~tsco~~:e~ ~~:~ ~w~~:~r n=;:r:i~~,;hL~I;h~~~ newer members of the Senate. said he had talked with almost all the way the program is set up. Or. Dawkins also commented that op:~:~~Wi~;~:~k:nt~a:u~~~~ld~~~ ~:~~~;a~~r~~~~~~n:v:;o;~:le~:; I,,-ightner stated that in many registratlonwentsmoothly. continued to page 3 Chris Hartwyk, committee reports hazing policy and had meetings ROTC brings outsiders inside were given. Teresa Baker, head ot scheduled with those that he had the Executive filled Committee, not talked with. He also spoke of on in some maintenance projects Homecoming everyone that preparations, which Included plans were completed this summer and Chris Soto student, Thomas Sewell, attended problem, yet Sewell was awarded for a dance, parade and pep rally. of some that were nearing corn- Three students. a junior from the WMC for two years prior to trens- a scholarship last year. The George Gressman, head of the pletion. He said that the college University of Maryland, a junior ferring to the University of scholarship Sewell received pays Action Committee, talked briefly added a natural gas burner in the from Catonsville Community Maryland to participate in their College, and a senior from Towson Mechanical Engineering ~~i~~~~~;' t:,o~~:;I:~:s I~t :~~ 0, ~~m~i~:e ~~oJe~~smr~~ f:rct!~~ ~~::rntP~~~tb:~n~~m~:";~~: !~: State University, particlpate in Department. Sewell had started dition, Sewell receives $100 a year, projects that Included an Winslow Center was nearing WMC's ROTC program, even with WMC's ROTC program, and ;a~~th which can be used to pay for :~~:e;u~~t~~~II~;~f~~~e~:r~ah~;I~~ ~~;~~rti~~~:~~~~ s::e :a~~s da:r~ though they regularly attend other when he transferred he decided colleges. that he wanted to stay with the Normally, Sewell would be at. policy, and some attention to the mltory residences need carpeting. Captain Gr~ory W. Hayden, of same unit. "It's really a good tending ROTC classes twice a always controversial alcohol Following Dean Mowbray's the ROTC department. explained program," commented Sewell. week, but Instead he goes to the policy. remarks, the floor was opened to that these students are "cress- Sewell stated that the University of regular lab on Thursday, then to a The Social Committee has so far New Business. Dance Bids were enrolled"; they attend one college Maryland's ROTC is an airforce make-up class for the day missed. planned many activities for the heard from five organizations and to complete their academic program. "If it had been an army Sewell explained that his schedule student body this year, Including a vote gave the Homecoming programs, but are enrolled in the ROTC Iwould have gone there." at U.M. worked out well, so there Is many movies and mixers. The DancetotheJuniorClass. ROTC program of another college Sewell commutes to WMC every no problem about corning to WMC. Housing CommIttee reported that to complete their ROTC Thursday in his own car. It is about The other two students made almost everyone was In regular Following the hearing of an- requirements. an hour long drive, and normally college housing. The only ex. nouncements the meeting was The Maryland University the gas used would be an expensive continued to page 7 ceptlons to that are the girls that adjourned. VISTA provides a lifetime of experiences Two years of practical social work: Many heartaches but many rewards as well Robert Holt If you ask Jeanne Higbee about VISTA, she will Jeanne said that her work in the Chicago child tell you it was one of the most valuable of her neglect and abuse center was the most rewarding college experiences. Now a counselor In WMC's for her. Shewould work with court referred famities Office of Counseling and Career Services, Jeanne to prevent any further abuse to the children. spent two years in Vista after receiving her "There were the success stories of children who bachelors degree in Sociology from Iowa State were able to function in a class situation upon en- University. "My Vista service was a good way to get ex- " ...it helped to sensitize me to the needs of perience in social work and it helped me to decide to the various groups of people" enter that profession," said Jeanne VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is one tering the first grade, and families learning to of several volunteer service organizations in· function as a normal family unit,"said Jeanne. corporated under the ACTION program. Vista "There were the heartbreaking stories as well, like volunteers work in poverty relief programs in when a case would end with the total separation of a "urban ghettos, small towns, rural poverty areas, family which was more beneficial to the child then in the migrant streams, on indian reservations, in being returned to the parents." institutions for the mentally handicapped, and in When Jeanne entered the Vista program, she was Job Corps centers" within the United States. very indealistic about the situation she would en- "I worked on two ditferent projects during my counter. Shealso did not expect to find the problems service in Vista," said Jeanne. "I worked for one of paperwork, red tape legalities. and ttrne lapses in year in Chicago on a staff in a juvenile protective effecting action on a problem. association office. My second year in Vista was a "I had expected to work with people in poverty, but I did not expect to see children with lacerations "(my VISTA experience) will have impact on and burns inflicted by their parents," said Jeanne. everything I encounter in life." "I realized also that Vista is part of a larger the opportunity to gain a realistic perspective of bureaucracy, yet the Vista gcals are Idealistic and I situations encountered in a career area. community organizer in verebcc. Wisconsin, where stili support them. There is usually a lot of work to "My volunteer service in Vista is one of the most I worked to get parents involved in disadvantaged be done in only a relatively short amount of time, I Important experiences in my life," said Jeanne. "It educational programs." believe that service in Vista is an excellent ex- will continue to have an impact on everything I Jeanne was reteee in a socially conscious family perience, but I recommend it only to very dedicated encounter In life." during the social turmoil ot the 1960's.Today her people." Currenfty, Vista seeks volunteers from all mother is chairperson of the Wisconsin State After serving two years In Vista, Jeanne returned backgrounds, professional and nen-crcteestcnet. to Personnel Commission. to college to earn her masters degree and doc- work on community organization projects in the "I grew up in a family that believed in social torates degree. areas of social services, education, housing, service and volunteerism, and was active in the Though it is hard work, with little financial economic development, health, and community Civil RIghts Movement and Antl·War Movement of compensation, being a VIsta volunteer doeshave its planning. Any persons interested in the Vista the 1960's.Actually, to get involved with an agency rewards. BesIdes the satisfaction of making a program may inquire at the WMC Office of coon- like Vista wasa natrual thing for me to do." constructive contribution to society, a volunteer has seling and Career Services.