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The Carolinian Non-profit U S Postage PAID Greensboro, N.C Permit No 30 'Serving the academic community since 1897.' Stpltmhtr 15. I9«l N.ilumelXI Sumh.r < The University of North CaroMim Hi <;rrenshfim lll.t ■ MOO iclc-a? (all m ■! J79-504I. Panelists Discuss Religion In Education B> DONNA PARkF BMff Writer ihrec panelists discussed what role religion should play in the education ol young people .ti Alumni House Sunday afternoon. This was Ihc tnsl MI a series Ol ICC lurei in ■ lymposium to be held this school yeai entitled "The Religious Dimensions of 1 ducation: Pluralism and the < oinrnon I and I he purpose of the symposium is to Dr. Alan B. Anderson examine the relationship between public schools and religious beliefs. h focuses ipecincall) on the Issue ol values In education. The symposium i^ being spon-sored by the School of Education, the < entei foi Educational Reform, and the Department of Religious Studies .ii i N< •(■ and in Oullford Collete. I)i lames B. Macdonald, distinguished professor of I ducation ai i NC-O, spoke on the morals and ethical fabric of the schools and summed up by stating that, "I rue education is development ol character." I)i William R. Rogers. President ol (onltoid College, received response from ihc audience when he noted the issues that concern young people today. Mis interpretation of 'Sports and Soaps, the new religion in America," sparked laughter and concern from the persons in altcn-dance. Dr. Rogers seemed very con CCmed about the anil intcllcctualism that is widespread in some schools. He wondered how worthy values were when the brightest students were termed "nerds" by other >oung people. Dr. Alan B. Anderson, head of the Department of Religious Studies at UNCO, listed the choices the public has today concerning the future of religion in schools. They are, according to Anderson: the schools can continue making the progress ihcy are presently making; the schools can uncritically letch moral and ethical values; or the schools can be made completely Christian and possibly even totally Protestant. Dr. Anderson presented the op-tion ot leaching religious freedom and ethics as fundamental values. He aKo said schools should em-phasize the role of the conscience as well as sell respect. The panelists seemed 10 agree that the point was not whether or not religion will be taught in the schools, but rather what role it will play in the development of moral and ethical values. Each panelist spoke for about fifteen minutes before the floor was opened for public opinion. Around 120 persons attended Sunday's session. The symposium will continue monthly through April. The next photot by John Taylor The Old Grecuiborough Preservation Society is in need of volunteer* to help paint an historical mural on the corner of South I lm and Washington streets. Wendy Wallace, a former I N( -(, art student, is heading the project which is being painted h> the Naegele Outdoor Advertising Company, for more information contact Wends Wallace at 294-03181 Senate Changes By-Laws Dr. James MacDonald session will be October II at Foun-der's Hall, Guilford College. The speaker will be Catherine L. Albanese, professor of Religious Studies at Wright Stale University, will speak on the topic "Dominant and Public Center: Reflections on the one religion of the United Stales." By CINDY lOKKtM I naffWriM Recent Senate meetings brought changes in the by-laws of student government and also confirmed new appointments to the executive and legislative branches Due to the chaos involved in last Iowa Students Protest Records Disclosure ToROTC College Press Service Along with an Increasing number ot student protests against military recruiters' access to school records. two University of Northern Iowa students say they have formall) complained to the federal gova nmenl BbOUl UNI'S release ot | list of about 500 undents 10 a ROTC recruiting officer. I he Itildcnta sophomores David Burrow and Kris Baughman - sa> the) tiled i formal complain) on August 2x However, Ihc federal agenc) 10 which they complained - the I s Depi ol I ducatIon's Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act Office (FERPA) - had not yet received the lomplaint a week later. Both Burrow and UNI Registrar Robert Leahy says the trouble star-ted last April when U. Col. Michael Bartelme. a ROTC officer at the Universit) ol Iowa, asked tor a list ot I Nl students with grade point ■veragesover 2.9. Leahy forwarded a listing of each Student, ihc student's g.p.a., and other directory information 10 Bar tclme. who in turn sent letters In-viting the students to join Army ROTC and apply for a ROTC scholarship. UNI rules about the privacy of student records say "directory in-formation can be given out only for a legitimate educational interest. and can't be given to a person who is not a part of the university," accor-ding to Burrow. "We just got a little suspicious" thai ROTC had gotten what Burrow considered private information because "the letter said something like since you have such a good grade point average."'Burrow recalls. "But It. Col. Bartelme is not employed by this university," Biinow asserts. "He works at the University of Iowa, not here." Registrar Leahy says the Iowa ROM officials are also UNI of-ficials because UNI has just established a ROTC branch on its campus. As Leahy recalls it, the UNI Board of Regents had not yet ap-proved establishing the ROTC branch when he released the student records to Barieleme, but that the Faculty Senate had already ap-proved bringing ROTC to UNI. Additional Hours For Financial Aid Disbursement In order to facilitate students who cannot pick up their financial aid checks according to the scheduled hours in the Cashier's Office the following additional hours have been announced: Wednesday, September 16 Thursday, September 17 Friday, September 18 Monday, September 21 Tuesday, September 22 Wednesday, September 23 Thursday. September 24 Friday, September 25 8:30a.m. -4:00p.m. 8:30a.m.-4:00p.m. 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00 noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 8:30a.m. - 1:00p.m. PLEASE NOTE! You must pick up your checks in the Cashier's Office and pay the amount owed on your student account. Only University scholarships are automatically applied to student's ac-counts. Any other financial aid checks must be picked up in the Cashier's Office. I he above schedule does not apply to work-study checks. They -.ill he available the l5thof each month or the first working day thereafter, "About five days before the regents were to vote (on the ROTC issue). I helped assist Bartelme with the student records," Leahy said. "Everyone knew the regents were going to approve it anyway." He decided to give Bartelme the records even though the regents hadn't voted yet "because the deadline for applying for the scholarships was two days before the Board of Regents was to vote," he says. Leahy contends that the sub-sequent controversy was unwarranted because he was helping arrange financial aid, not military recruit-ment. "The students saw it as a recruit-ment letter, and it was a scholarship letter." It had been approved by he school's vice president for academic affairs, he adds. But Leahy says he's willing to listen if the government wants to talk to him about it. "If they decide we should have waited five more days, that's fine. In the future, we wouldn't do that." A statement like that is all Burrow wants. "We want a statement that says yes, the registrar did act wrongly." In Washington. D.C., Pat Ballinger, director of the Education Dept.'s FERPA office, says such statements are the usual punishmen-ts in cases of improper disclosure, though the government could im-pose an "ultimate sanction" of "termination of federal education funds." Typically, if a school improperly discloses private student records, "we'll try to call the school first, and attempt informally to change their practices. We don't like to come in as the heavy-handed feds." Ballinger says that with the ad-vent of military registration, "we get a lot of questions from schools" about what information they should or should not give out to military recruiters. The answer is generally that "the school can release (directory infor-mation about the student) to the recruiters, but it's not required to. It's their choice," she explains. Under the federal Privacy Act. a school must post "public notice" of the items it considers to be "direc-tory information" about (he student. A student then has 15 davs in which to infoim the school that he or she docs not want that infor-mation released. "It's one ot the few instances In the law in which a person's silence is consent," Ballinger points out. She says that "a very, very small percentage of students respond" to the public notice by barring the school from releasing the infor-mation. Nevertheless, the number of inquiries about military and gover nmenl access to student records has increased since military registration began July. 1980, according to both Ballinger and Trudy Hayden. a privacy expert wiih ihc American Civil Liberties Union in Washington. The Selective Service System initially toyed with the idea ot using student records to track 18-year-olds who failed to register, recalls Joan Lamb, a Selective Service spokeswoman. "It was discussed as one of many ways of acquiring a list of 18 year-olds," she says. "But we haven't gone any further with that. We have no intentions of trying to secure school records." Instead, "we're waiting for a bill 10 get out of Congress" that would allow Selective Service access to Social Security numbers as a way fo finding non-registrants Lamb emphasises that Selective Service is an independent agency which has nothing to do with military recruitment or ROTC, which are administered by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Burrow, for one, understands the difference. He classes his opposition to giving student records to ROTC not as part of the resistance to military registration, but as an ami- ROTC effort. He says he's been part of the two-year effort to keep ROTC off the UNI campus. As vice president of the student government, he's helped pass "five or six" student gover-nment resolutions against allowing ROTC on the campus. Until last spring, the Faculty Senate had also voted against ROTC. In a change of heart, however, the Faculty Senate ap-proved ROTC. which was finally sanctioned by the regents in April. ROTC officially begins on the cam-pus this tall. Spring's elections, ihc Senate added loSection 4 d (( asting Ballots) that pOilwatcherS still have the respon slbillty ol insuring (hat voting procedures are In accordance wiih all policies of the Election] Board and student Government Con-stitution. Pollwatcheis will now an swci directly toihe Elections Board. It was added 10 Section 1, A. 5.g. (Contention) Recounts, and Inquiries) that precincts will be repollcd only, if the I lections Boaid determines that theie was discrimination in lavor ot a can* dulate I he foUowini appointments were made to the legislative branch: Diedra Smith to Ihc Falderal Plan-ning Committee; Jeff Johnson 10 Student dov eminent Courier; Leslie Humprey and Jonathan McNeil to s< V ; Was Keplcv and Ibrahim Burki to Judicial; Jack Quiglcy to Legislative; and I isa Dockers and Toni Hagan 10 Publicity Additional appointments in-cluded: Sarah Muller and Keitha Lawrence 10 Academic Concerns; Benton Bovle and land EvaitS 10 Classifications of Organizations; Chris Fuller to Publicity; Natalie Hcaggans to Elections Board; Ben li) Mathis to Judicial; Debbie DixOfl to Appropriations; Richard Roper (chairperson). Sarah Muller. and Dcnisc Peeler lo Legislation; and I lizabeth Montgomery, Judy Huf-fman, and Joni Mclncr lo Social Concerns. Rusty Weadon. Jill Hubbard, Jay Sinclair, and Diedra Smiih were ap-pointed to the Dionne I oan Com-mittee. Executive Branch. Joan McNair and Ruchadina Waddell were named as Senate Reprcscn latives to the University Media Board. The Senate rejected a St M request for $700 for a Falderal fireworks show. indicating the belief that the money could benefit students more if used elsewhere. The Senate did appropriate $300 to Elliott University Center to keep a portion of the centei open until 1:00 a.m. This will accommodate studen-ts who desire a place to study after library hours. Students More Conservative? < ulltKr PfTssSfukf The 1981 American college student bods is either more COftSCt vativc than students ol ihc past, no less liberal, or both -according to two recent studies Ol political and MKial -allies. A Rutgers Universit) survey of 203 campuses concluded students today are as politically active as ever. "The only major difference bet-ween now and the sixhcs ts that ihere was a central issue with Viet-nam that drew a great amount ol media coverage," contends Michcie I amo.il. one ol ihc Rutgers rcsc.ii chers who oversaw I he BUI v ey. The study lound that the number of demonstrations on campuses has decreased by only II percent over the last two years A Universit) Ol Honda study, on lhe other hand, "seems to show that students mostly care about them-selves." summarizes Phyllis Meek, UF's associate dean of student af-fairs, who helped poll the student body. Honda students preferred alcohol to marijuana at parties by a thrcc-lo- onc margin. Their most pressing concerns arc grades, inflation and unemployment, all of which Meek characterized as personal concerns When it comes to labelling student beliefs, contradictory Studies like Rutgers* and Florida's are typical. The annual I ( 1 A American Council on Education survey has shown a steadily-declining number of students who call themselves "liberal," while the percentage sub-scribing to "moderate" and "COO servative" labels increased A February, 1981 study discovered that 68 percent of the students at Stanford agreed that "preparing myselt tor a career will be at least as important to me as acquiring a general education Yet 84 percent of American students believe student demon-strations "have a place on college campuses today." according 10 a 153-campUS poll conducted by the Fmhart Corp., Inc. 1 he same survey found students not only optimistic (83 percent e\ pected to be happy during the eighties), but sharing many ot the anti-big business attitudes that marked the hey-day of campus liberalism. EUC Hours Extended Elliott University Center will ex-tend its hours beginning next Mon-day for students wishing 10 have a quiet place to study, lie's south wing will remain open until I a.m. each night of the week. The Senate allotcd $'(«> 10 ElK for the trial extension of hours through this lemestei The south wing area that will be open includes (he Robot Room and Benbow lobby downstairs and the an gallery, Joynci Lounge, and Alderman I OUngC upstairs. two sets of doors will be open during the 11 p.m. to I a.m. period — the main floor glass doors facing the library and the ground floor glass doors facing College Avenue. The rest of the building including the information desk will be closed after II p.m. Security escort will be provided for women students who wish to have that service. The extension of hours is spon-sored by student government in cooperation with I U<
Object Description
Title | The Carolinian [September 15, 1981] |
Date | 1981-09-15 |
Editor/creator | Smith, Kendra |
Subject headings |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The September 15, 1981, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | The Carolinian |
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Date digitized | 2011 |
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Sponsor | Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation |
OCLC number | 871559906 |
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Full text | The Carolinian Non-profit U S Postage PAID Greensboro, N.C Permit No 30 'Serving the academic community since 1897.' Stpltmhtr 15. I9«l N.ilumelXI Sumh.r < The University of North CaroMim Hi <;rrenshfim lll.t ■ MOO iclc-a? (all m ■! J79-504I. Panelists Discuss Religion In Education B> DONNA PARkF BMff Writer ihrec panelists discussed what role religion should play in the education ol young people .ti Alumni House Sunday afternoon. This was Ihc tnsl MI a series Ol ICC lurei in ■ lymposium to be held this school yeai entitled "The Religious Dimensions of 1 ducation: Pluralism and the < oinrnon I and I he purpose of the symposium is to Dr. Alan B. Anderson examine the relationship between public schools and religious beliefs. h focuses ipecincall) on the Issue ol values In education. The symposium i^ being spon-sored by the School of Education, the < entei foi Educational Reform, and the Department of Religious Studies .ii i N< •(■ and in Oullford Collete. I)i lames B. Macdonald, distinguished professor of I ducation ai i NC-O, spoke on the morals and ethical fabric of the schools and summed up by stating that, "I rue education is development ol character." I)i William R. Rogers. President ol (onltoid College, received response from ihc audience when he noted the issues that concern young people today. Mis interpretation of 'Sports and Soaps, the new religion in America," sparked laughter and concern from the persons in altcn-dance. Dr. Rogers seemed very con CCmed about the anil intcllcctualism that is widespread in some schools. He wondered how worthy values were when the brightest students were termed "nerds" by other >oung people. Dr. Alan B. Anderson, head of the Department of Religious Studies at UNCO, listed the choices the public has today concerning the future of religion in schools. They are, according to Anderson: the schools can continue making the progress ihcy are presently making; the schools can uncritically letch moral and ethical values; or the schools can be made completely Christian and possibly even totally Protestant. Dr. Anderson presented the op-tion ot leaching religious freedom and ethics as fundamental values. He aKo said schools should em-phasize the role of the conscience as well as sell respect. The panelists seemed 10 agree that the point was not whether or not religion will be taught in the schools, but rather what role it will play in the development of moral and ethical values. Each panelist spoke for about fifteen minutes before the floor was opened for public opinion. Around 120 persons attended Sunday's session. The symposium will continue monthly through April. The next photot by John Taylor The Old Grecuiborough Preservation Society is in need of volunteer* to help paint an historical mural on the corner of South I lm and Washington streets. Wendy Wallace, a former I N( -(, art student, is heading the project which is being painted h> the Naegele Outdoor Advertising Company, for more information contact Wends Wallace at 294-03181 Senate Changes By-Laws Dr. James MacDonald session will be October II at Foun-der's Hall, Guilford College. The speaker will be Catherine L. Albanese, professor of Religious Studies at Wright Stale University, will speak on the topic "Dominant and Public Center: Reflections on the one religion of the United Stales." By CINDY lOKKtM I naffWriM Recent Senate meetings brought changes in the by-laws of student government and also confirmed new appointments to the executive and legislative branches Due to the chaos involved in last Iowa Students Protest Records Disclosure ToROTC College Press Service Along with an Increasing number ot student protests against military recruiters' access to school records. two University of Northern Iowa students say they have formall) complained to the federal gova nmenl BbOUl UNI'S release ot | list of about 500 undents 10 a ROTC recruiting officer. I he Itildcnta sophomores David Burrow and Kris Baughman - sa> the) tiled i formal complain) on August 2x However, Ihc federal agenc) 10 which they complained - the I s Depi ol I ducatIon's Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act Office (FERPA) - had not yet received the lomplaint a week later. Both Burrow and UNI Registrar Robert Leahy says the trouble star-ted last April when U. Col. Michael Bartelme. a ROTC officer at the Universit) ol Iowa, asked tor a list ot I Nl students with grade point ■veragesover 2.9. Leahy forwarded a listing of each Student, ihc student's g.p.a., and other directory information 10 Bar tclme. who in turn sent letters In-viting the students to join Army ROTC and apply for a ROTC scholarship. UNI rules about the privacy of student records say "directory in-formation can be given out only for a legitimate educational interest. and can't be given to a person who is not a part of the university," accor-ding to Burrow. "We just got a little suspicious" thai ROTC had gotten what Burrow considered private information because "the letter said something like since you have such a good grade point average."'Burrow recalls. "But It. Col. Bartelme is not employed by this university," Biinow asserts. "He works at the University of Iowa, not here." Registrar Leahy says the Iowa ROM officials are also UNI of-ficials because UNI has just established a ROTC branch on its campus. As Leahy recalls it, the UNI Board of Regents had not yet ap-proved establishing the ROTC branch when he released the student records to Barieleme, but that the Faculty Senate had already ap-proved bringing ROTC to UNI. Additional Hours For Financial Aid Disbursement In order to facilitate students who cannot pick up their financial aid checks according to the scheduled hours in the Cashier's Office the following additional hours have been announced: Wednesday, September 16 Thursday, September 17 Friday, September 18 Monday, September 21 Tuesday, September 22 Wednesday, September 23 Thursday. September 24 Friday, September 25 8:30a.m. -4:00p.m. 8:30a.m.-4:00p.m. 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00 noon 11:00a.m. - 12:00noon 8:30a.m. - 1:00p.m. PLEASE NOTE! You must pick up your checks in the Cashier's Office and pay the amount owed on your student account. Only University scholarships are automatically applied to student's ac-counts. Any other financial aid checks must be picked up in the Cashier's Office. I he above schedule does not apply to work-study checks. They -.ill he available the l5thof each month or the first working day thereafter, "About five days before the regents were to vote (on the ROTC issue). I helped assist Bartelme with the student records," Leahy said. "Everyone knew the regents were going to approve it anyway." He decided to give Bartelme the records even though the regents hadn't voted yet "because the deadline for applying for the scholarships was two days before the Board of Regents was to vote," he says. Leahy contends that the sub-sequent controversy was unwarranted because he was helping arrange financial aid, not military recruit-ment. "The students saw it as a recruit-ment letter, and it was a scholarship letter." It had been approved by he school's vice president for academic affairs, he adds. But Leahy says he's willing to listen if the government wants to talk to him about it. "If they decide we should have waited five more days, that's fine. In the future, we wouldn't do that." A statement like that is all Burrow wants. "We want a statement that says yes, the registrar did act wrongly." In Washington. D.C., Pat Ballinger, director of the Education Dept.'s FERPA office, says such statements are the usual punishmen-ts in cases of improper disclosure, though the government could im-pose an "ultimate sanction" of "termination of federal education funds." Typically, if a school improperly discloses private student records, "we'll try to call the school first, and attempt informally to change their practices. We don't like to come in as the heavy-handed feds." Ballinger says that with the ad-vent of military registration, "we get a lot of questions from schools" about what information they should or should not give out to military recruiters. The answer is generally that "the school can release (directory infor-mation about the student) to the recruiters, but it's not required to. It's their choice," she explains. Under the federal Privacy Act. a school must post "public notice" of the items it considers to be "direc-tory information" about (he student. A student then has 15 davs in which to infoim the school that he or she docs not want that infor-mation released. "It's one ot the few instances In the law in which a person's silence is consent," Ballinger points out. She says that "a very, very small percentage of students respond" to the public notice by barring the school from releasing the infor-mation. Nevertheless, the number of inquiries about military and gover nmenl access to student records has increased since military registration began July. 1980, according to both Ballinger and Trudy Hayden. a privacy expert wiih ihc American Civil Liberties Union in Washington. The Selective Service System initially toyed with the idea ot using student records to track 18-year-olds who failed to register, recalls Joan Lamb, a Selective Service spokeswoman. "It was discussed as one of many ways of acquiring a list of 18 year-olds," she says. "But we haven't gone any further with that. We have no intentions of trying to secure school records." Instead, "we're waiting for a bill 10 get out of Congress" that would allow Selective Service access to Social Security numbers as a way fo finding non-registrants Lamb emphasises that Selective Service is an independent agency which has nothing to do with military recruitment or ROTC, which are administered by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Burrow, for one, understands the difference. He classes his opposition to giving student records to ROTC not as part of the resistance to military registration, but as an ami- ROTC effort. He says he's been part of the two-year effort to keep ROTC off the UNI campus. As vice president of the student government, he's helped pass "five or six" student gover-nment resolutions against allowing ROTC on the campus. Until last spring, the Faculty Senate had also voted against ROTC. In a change of heart, however, the Faculty Senate ap-proved ROTC. which was finally sanctioned by the regents in April. ROTC officially begins on the cam-pus this tall. Spring's elections, ihc Senate added loSection 4 d (( asting Ballots) that pOilwatcherS still have the respon slbillty ol insuring (hat voting procedures are In accordance wiih all policies of the Election] Board and student Government Con-stitution. Pollwatcheis will now an swci directly toihe Elections Board. It was added 10 Section 1, A. 5.g. (Contention) Recounts, and Inquiries) that precincts will be repollcd only, if the I lections Boaid determines that theie was discrimination in lavor ot a can* dulate I he foUowini appointments were made to the legislative branch: Diedra Smith to Ihc Falderal Plan-ning Committee; Jeff Johnson 10 Student dov eminent Courier; Leslie Humprey and Jonathan McNeil to s< V ; Was Keplcv and Ibrahim Burki to Judicial; Jack Quiglcy to Legislative; and I isa Dockers and Toni Hagan 10 Publicity Additional appointments in-cluded: Sarah Muller and Keitha Lawrence 10 Academic Concerns; Benton Bovle and land EvaitS 10 Classifications of Organizations; Chris Fuller to Publicity; Natalie Hcaggans to Elections Board; Ben li) Mathis to Judicial; Debbie DixOfl to Appropriations; Richard Roper (chairperson). Sarah Muller. and Dcnisc Peeler lo Legislation; and I lizabeth Montgomery, Judy Huf-fman, and Joni Mclncr lo Social Concerns. Rusty Weadon. Jill Hubbard, Jay Sinclair, and Diedra Smiih were ap-pointed to the Dionne I oan Com-mittee. Executive Branch. Joan McNair and Ruchadina Waddell were named as Senate Reprcscn latives to the University Media Board. The Senate rejected a St M request for $700 for a Falderal fireworks show. indicating the belief that the money could benefit students more if used elsewhere. The Senate did appropriate $300 to Elliott University Center to keep a portion of the centei open until 1:00 a.m. This will accommodate studen-ts who desire a place to study after library hours. Students More Conservative? < ulltKr PfTssSfukf The 1981 American college student bods is either more COftSCt vativc than students ol ihc past, no less liberal, or both -according to two recent studies Ol political and MKial -allies. A Rutgers Universit) survey of 203 campuses concluded students today are as politically active as ever. "The only major difference bet-ween now and the sixhcs ts that ihere was a central issue with Viet-nam that drew a great amount ol media coverage," contends Michcie I amo.il. one ol ihc Rutgers rcsc.ii chers who oversaw I he BUI v ey. The study lound that the number of demonstrations on campuses has decreased by only II percent over the last two years A Universit) Ol Honda study, on lhe other hand, "seems to show that students mostly care about them-selves." summarizes Phyllis Meek, UF's associate dean of student af-fairs, who helped poll the student body. Honda students preferred alcohol to marijuana at parties by a thrcc-lo- onc margin. Their most pressing concerns arc grades, inflation and unemployment, all of which Meek characterized as personal concerns When it comes to labelling student beliefs, contradictory Studies like Rutgers* and Florida's are typical. The annual I ( 1 A American Council on Education survey has shown a steadily-declining number of students who call themselves "liberal," while the percentage sub-scribing to "moderate" and "COO servative" labels increased A February, 1981 study discovered that 68 percent of the students at Stanford agreed that "preparing myselt tor a career will be at least as important to me as acquiring a general education Yet 84 percent of American students believe student demon-strations "have a place on college campuses today." according 10 a 153-campUS poll conducted by the Fmhart Corp., Inc. 1 he same survey found students not only optimistic (83 percent e\ pected to be happy during the eighties), but sharing many ot the anti-big business attitudes that marked the hey-day of campus liberalism. EUC Hours Extended Elliott University Center will ex-tend its hours beginning next Mon-day for students wishing 10 have a quiet place to study, lie's south wing will remain open until I a.m. each night of the week. The Senate allotcd $'(«> 10 ElK for the trial extension of hours through this lemestei The south wing area that will be open includes (he Robot Room and Benbow lobby downstairs and the an gallery, Joynci Lounge, and Alderman I OUngC upstairs. two sets of doors will be open during the 11 p.m. to I a.m. period — the main floor glass doors facing the library and the ground floor glass doors facing College Avenue. The rest of the building including the information desk will be closed after II p.m. Security escort will be provided for women students who wish to have that service. The extension of hours is spon-sored by student government in cooperation with I U< |