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Have A Great Spring Break! ! ! THE PHOENIX Western Maryland College 1\voMore Cuniculmn Changes Passed By Faculty By CARLEEN ALVES most prominent being to aid the students Sto,/fWriI<' in focusing, in the hopes that they will be Two more curriculum revision pro- more successful. posals were passed by the faculty with Dr. Melvin D. Palmer, professor of a large majority at the March I meet- English, sees the old system as too spread ing. out for students to juggle. He used the The first proposal passed redefines term "myth of coverage" to describe this a typical course and credit require- difficulty of Liberal Arts colleges at- ments for graduation. According to the tempting to expose students to every dis- new provision, a typical course will be cipline. a-credits, and 128 credits will be "Students need better focus and con- needed for graduation. The current re- centration, which is what 1 believe the quirerm nt for graduation is 120 cred- course system can accomplish:' said its. Palmer. Dr. Skip Fennel. professor of educa- Besides Johns Hopkins, WMC is the tion, stated that the the retention of the only school in the consortium (our ath- credit idea is a transition Into a course-. letic competitors) that has not yet system, which has been in tbe works changed over to a course-based system. for some time. "We need to match other liberal arts The second proposal that wac; schools," says Dr. Claycomb, professor passed accordingly alters the require- of economics and business administra- ments for a major to fit tbe credit tion. retention Memorial Gets Face-Lift changes. The parameters for the basic This is connected to the fact that this major will now be 8 to 12 hours, or 32 school bas the lowest Freshman to 50 credits. These changes have been imple- See Changes, Page 5 DAN SCHAEFFER changed are the floors, exterior walls, mented for a variety of reasons, the Srq6Wri ... and a few partitions inside, he said Two WMC Seniors start to undergo building on campus will layouts, with 4 classrooms and 13offices The busiest The top two floors will have identical transformation a major Will Present Seminar thisswnmer. over the next two on each level. A Seminar room and Fac- ulty lounge The interior of Memorial Hall will be are centrally located on the gutted and remodeled Papers At Conference summers in the costliest and most exten- second and third floors. respectively. will be reno- The bottom two floors of work the second vated during project, phase s renovation sive work orWMC' say school officials. next summer. On the first floor, there By KAREN DOWNS The idea for her paper came from an The third and second floors in Memo- will be two semi-circular lecture halls, this sum- SJ,offWri'" extension of paper she did for the Gen- rial Hall are being renovated and the redesigned student writing cen- Two senior communication majors der and Communication class she took. mer, in the first phase of $3.5 million ter. The ground floor will have 8 small project., said Ed Sell, director of facility classrooms. Also, an elevator will be in- had the abstracts to their senior seminars Originally she researched the issue do selected for a regional conference. men and women read differently. planning and capital projects. stalled during the second phase. "Everything is going to be so differ- The current classrooms in Memorial Seniors Tracie Boggess and Kelly Through research the topic evolved to its ent," said Sell. All that will remain un- Berg had the abstracts to their senior current form. See Memorial, Page 5 seminars submitted to Marist College in Berg's paper is titled Ethicality of Poughkeepsie, New York by their prores- Dating and Infidelity Among WMC Stu- sor,Dr.JaneDeGroot. OnMonday,Feb- dents. Essentially, her paper is about Boggess. Berg added that they[Marisl College] ruary 7 the two students found out by let- men and women in committed relation- Berg hopes that Boggess is going with must have been impressed but are going ter that the abstracts were accepted and ships and how they view cheating. "This her to the conference. "She's somebody on a limited understanding of the papers. they have been asked 10 present their pa- is something 1 feel strongly about.," I have something in common with and "Abstracts aren't the essence of the pa- pers at the conference. stated Berg. "I always hear people talk- we can morally support each other." pers. They're gambling the rest of the "It's an interdisciplinary conference ing about who had cheated on who. It Both students said that tbey are ner- paper is good," said Berg. "People are pretty pleased and excited which focuses on gender issues," said Dr. seems that cheating is an accepted thing vous about presenting their papers. "Our in thedepartment[communications]," said Jane DeGroot on campus and I wanted to find out if 1 papers were chosen over those from stu- DeGroot "Both Tracie and Kelly have This is a regional conference that will was alone thinking infidelity was dents in grad school or those who do this be held at Marist College June 10-12. wrong." for a living," stated Boggess. "It's nerve done well while being in the department. DeGroot sent in the abstracts after Boggess and Berg are both excited racking, I'm not sure what to expect. I'm Ican't say anyone is really surprised that Boggess showed her a flyer on the con- with the news of their papers being se- not sure if I'm worried about thetr expec- their papers were accepted," added ference. "Both Tracie and Kelly's papers lected. "I wanted it to be selected but 1 lations or mine," added Boggess. DeGroot. dealt with gender issues and were the ap- didn't want to jinx myself," said propriate quality to be submitted to a con- Boggess. ference," said DeGroot. "I was shocked at being selected," Boggess' paper is called the "Ethics of said Berg "I submitted it to see what Publishers Over Woman NovelistDuring would happen." the Beginning oftbeNoveL" Essentially, Both students want to go to the con- it's about what ethics publishers used ference and feel it will be an interesting when publishing women's novels and experience. Boggess hopes she'll get why women authors are not as recog- some more information on her topic and nized as men in the founding of the mod- see what others have to say about it. ern novel. "Through research I found "This topic means something to me and I that women were writing the modern want people to recognize this if they novel before men," said Botgess. didn't know about it before," said