Stetson Reporter

■»:■.-: .■;:::"i:. iW iS«^«iiSi SsJ!::::!.': ■:::>!■:; -.::»: ..;::: ^t»f-^-l ;, .J-;. :':'4?~ j LtfT^.hT^ t'S "W"? rri/^vW^SSSS-SS S^S^fWS^^W^gf^t**3^8* «NWS*«*S^>ai*apWSeSsfag8#re«3«»^gi«&I«Wi The Stetson Volume 90 Number 13 Stetson University DeLand, Fla. January 6, 1978 Wilson Fellows To Highlight 78 Winter Term Padraic M. Kennedy, president of the Columbia Association which administers Columbia, Maryland, one of the first planned "new towns" to be built in the United States, and Ellen Conroy Kennedy, an author and translator will be on campus Jan. 16-20 as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows. They are here under an innovative program which draws representatives from business, industry, public affairs, and the professions and places them on college campuses for a week or more. The Visiting Fellows Auburn Assistant Dean Jenkins Named New Student Dean Br. E. Garth Jenkins, assistant dean of Student Affairs at Auburn University, has been named dean of Student Affairs at Stetson University, it was announced by Dr. Pope A. Duncan, president of Stetson. Dr. Jenkins will assume his new responsibilities on February 1,1978. "I am very pleased to be able to announce the appointment of Dr. Jenkins to this post," Dr. Duncan stated. "He has over a decade of experience in student work at a major university and this background will serve him well at Stetson. I am confident that he will do an outstanding job for our students and the entire university." Dr. Jenkins will replace Dr. George R. Borders who is leaving Stetson to become president of Palm Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach. The new member of the Stetson administration received his B.A. degree from Wake Forrest University and his M. Ed, and Ed. D. from Auburn University. He joined the staff of the student department at Auburn in 1964 and has served until the present. Dr. Jenkins was named assistant dean of Student Affairs in 1969. His term at Auburn was interrupted between 1967 and 1969 when he served as executive director of the Pi Kappa Alpha faternity, an international faternity with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Jenkins is married and he and his wife, Elmarie, have two children. Welcome Back! In The News Teachers Headed Abroad....p. 2 Borders Bids Farewell....p. 3 New Queen Album Reviewed....p. 4 Hats End Skid in B-Ball....p. 7 Women Bock In Action....p. 7 ~.~- -- ■ • ■'' _.._ , " '. y meet formally and informally with students and faculty in an exchange of experiences and ideas. The program is administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey, with grants from the Lilly Endowment, the Fleischmann Foundation, and several corporations. Kennedy has built his career on community development, first as one of the original organizers of the Peace Corps, and then as Director of VISTA (Volunteers, in Service to America). Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Kennedy was director of the Boise Cascade Urban Development Corporation's Center for Community Development. Although Columbia can be described as an affluent community and VISTA and the Peace Corps were primarily concerned with poverty areas, Kennedy discerns in each problems common to any community effort. "Despite differences between Columbia and an urban' ghetto," Kennedy said, "there's a basic similarity in trying to make institutions and people work together in planning what kind of olace they want to live in."* "The key thing we're trying to do in any community development job," Kennedy emphasizes, "is to make the institution responsive to the people. That's always a difficult job. because it's difficult to find out what the people really want." In his Columbia position, Kennedy concentrates on ways to involve more residents in the decision making process. As Director of VISTA, he made one of the program's goals the involvement of community people with VISTA volunteers in working together to implement needed programs. "This involved redefining the whole concept of volunteerism, which had been a white middle-class preserve," Kennedy recalls. "By the time I left VISTA in 1969, 20 per cent of its volunteers were recruited directly from poverty ■i The Kennedys communities. There were working as VISTA volun- Eskimos working in Alaska, poor whites working in the hills of Appaiachia and blacks working in the city ghettos in teams with lawyers, planners, or architects. Linked to this accomplishment was an effort to make institutions of higher education more aware and, thus, more responsive to poverty problems. To do this, VISTA worked out joint programs with schools of • law,' architecture, and business administration where students wouid get credit teers and the schools would provide professional backup and support for the field programs. Both in the Peace Corps and VISTA, Kennedy came up against the frustrations of insufficient funding and' political backlash. "There was also the problem of finding the proper balance between building a broad political base and pushing hard to get something done," he says. "Sometimes you miscalculated. This happened at the federal level, in fighting for funds, and in the cont'd, p. 2 Used Book Registry In Operation The Student Assembly's Used Book Registry is now in full operation. The alphabetical listings of used books are posted at, four locations: 1) Next to Dean Furlong's office in the Business School: 2) Outside the Comptroller's office in Elizabeth Hall; 3) Next to the post office of the C.U.B.; 4) Inside the Student Assembly office — room 206 C.U.B. If you wish to enter your books in the Used Book Registry, you may get as many entry cards as you need from any Assembly member and then drop the completed cards in the Campus Mail box. The names of all assembly members are listed below. Debby Miley, Michelle Blank; Emily Hall; Cathie Clemmer, Margaret Healy; Stetson Hall; Yvette Webster, Debbie West; Chaudoin Hall; Dana Dunmire, Cindy Lampert, Deb Farmer (Pres.); Conrad Hall; Dan Perry, Jack Scalera; New Men's; Dean Bethea, John Draper, Smith Hall; Russ Bauseh, David Fox, Gordis Hall; Ed Towson, Gary Wolfe, Carson Hall; Rhett Baker, Harry Messersmith, Frat. Row; Pam Cole, Bob Rains, Jim Rolfes, Tim Scrantom, Off Campus. Geneticist Beckwith To Speak Jon. 9 Dr. Jon Beckwith, a noted scientist and professor at the Harvard Medical School, will speak in Elizabeth Hall next Monday, January 9, at 8 p.m. The topic of Dr. Beckwith's discussion will be "Genetics As A Social Weapon." A professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard, Beckwith is currently at the center of the current debate on recombinant DNA research. Dr. Beckwith has taken a stand against such research, citing the possibilities for oppression that could be opened. "Science is often developed and used as a weapon for social control," wrote Dr. Beckwith. "I and others have written on the potential of the new techniques of genetic engineering for oppressive purposes. I have focuseJ particularly on those historical and contemporary examples in the field of genetics where this has been the case." Dr. Beckwith's visit is being co-sponsored by the Winter TermiCommittee and the Artists and Lecturers Committee at Stetson.: ■ -.; ';,':■; ■■■■'--■ ......•: •■-'''itiiXll-s; * . . '■