The Stetson Reporter

HllliUhljMli1M)yuauiujja^JiuJuiuiuw tuiujuiiuwi Special Winter Term preview edition The Stetson 93rd Year, No. 13 'Florida's Oldest Collegiate Newspaper Stetson University DeLand, Florida around V)S SA elections The Student Assembly will be holding several special elections next Wednesday in front of the Commons from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. All registered students are eligible to vote. No paper There will be no "Reporter" printed next week due to the planned move of the offices from their present location at 119% East Minnesota to 249 West Michigan, across from the Gillespie Museum. All items intended for publication should be dropped off at the English Department offices or mailed to the "Reporter" at Box 1409. The next edition will be out on Jan. 23. Graduating? Seniors who have not applied for graduation must do so by the end of the Winter Term. Applications may be filled out in the Registrar's Office. 'Rollerbair Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Stetson Room the Winter Term Committee in cooperation with the Stetson Union Board will present the movie "Rollerball" starring James Caan. Admission will be 50ft. B.ball tickets Faculty members are reminded that reserved tickets for Stetson men's basketball games must be picked up before noon, with ID for each ticket requested, on the day of the game. On the Inside Editorials P. 2 Letters P. 3 Burke P. 4 WT celluloid P. 5 Row sitar P. 6 Nexus P. 7 Greeks P. 8 Sports P. 9 iBuilefinBd. P.12 WT a mind-stretcher By RK SCARCE Editor in Chief "Stretching the Mind" seems an appropriate theme for this year's Winter Term, especially considering the widespread restructuring of the January semester which promises to be unlike any other in the program's history, according to Dr. Gary L. Maris, Winter Term Committee chairman. Perhaps the biggest change this year is in the area of guest speakers. In the past big-name lecturers were brought to campus for one evening, or at best one day. This year, however, the committee has attempted to attract speakers of lesser reknown but who may contribute more to the Winter Term program by staying two or three days and participating in classes, Maris said. "Traditionally what has been done is we've searched for people so that we could bring big names to the university," he commented. "Thus we brought in senators, ambassadors and performers who were relatively well-known. This year we decided to devote the money designated for guests to bring in people to the classrooms. "Some of them may not be as well-known by most students and the general public, but in their fields of study they have been highly acclaimed." He added that an important facet of the speaker program would be the "increased number of contact hours with students," allowing more students to take advantage of the speakers' offerings. "All of this is not to say that the other way wasn't important, but we have tried to revise this area of the Winter Term to make it a sort of minor-scale visiting scholars program and to get lectures out of most of these people, too," added the two-time "mini-'mester" chairman. Also cited by Maris as a major revision in the program is the attempt by the committee to have the Winter Term theme Continued on Page 3 Futurist Dator looks ahead Perhaps man faces no greater challenge, no more strenuous "stretching of the mind" than he does when he attempts to look into the future to see where he is going and how he is preparing himself for the journey into the ultimate unknown. Dr. Jim Dator makes a life out of doing just that. He is a futurist, and will be the first of six scholars to visit the campus when he begins meeting with classes next week. Dator will be present for Mrs. Kathleen Johnson's and Dr. Dan Hale's classes each morning next Monday through Wednesday and in Dr. Gary Maris' 1:30 classes each afternoon. Students interested in attending these classes may contact any of the professors. He will also lecture on "America as a Transforming Society" at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the Elizabeth Hall auditorium. Dator, a 1954 Stetson graduate, is currently professor and coordinator of the Alternative Futures Concentration, Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii and is a researcher at the Hawaii State Research Center for Futures Study at the university. By the nature of his work, Dator is intensely concerned with societies and the people that make them up. This is shown in his chief areas of specialization: in futures studies, Dator is concerned with "the forecasting and design of alternative social systems for the next 30 to 100 years.'' In the realm of media production and the politics, Dator has produced television, radio and multi-media shows which have been seen in the US, Canada and Great Continued on Page 6 Friday, January 9,1981 FUTURIST JIM DATOR is looking forward toward tomorrow so we can plan for it today. Re'll be the first of six visiting scholars to be on campus for the Winter Term. West University Hall to open next Saturday After a two-week delay, the 28 women scheduled to move into the new West University Hall will occupy the former Honors House next Saturday, Jan. 17, according to Director of Residential Life Kemper Smith. The delays occured because refurbishments to the building, located just off Woodland Boulevard on West University Ave., were incomplete at the beginning of the Winter Term, when the rooms were promised to the women who had been living in the University Inn. The women continued to stay at the UI upon their return from the winter break, Smith said. He added that in late December when it became apparent West University would not be complete, he wrote the women informing them of the delay. "The giris have been very cooperative," Smith said. The women left their possessions in storage in Emily Hall, where they had been deposited prior to the break and in anticipation of moving into the new building. The dorm has been touted as "probably the best housing facility on campus." Smith commented, "The university made a committment to have a first class housing facility when it decided to go ahead with the development of West University Hall." A new dormitory for women has been of increasing priority in the past two years, when triple-occupancy rooms in existing dorms and even the housing of women in the UI has developed on a large scale for the first time in the university's history. West University is a 32-bed facility with suite-type arrangements on the lower floor and two shared bathrooms between the four rooms on the second floor, wall-to-wall carpeting throughout and central air- conditioning. Smith said there will be no desk or paging system as found in the other women's dorms, though there will be visitation hours similar to those in the other women's dorms and the staff member, Colle,en Mahoney,*wiU act much as an RA-Head Resident in carrying out her duties.