95th Year, No. 5
'Florida's Old0-:Qoliegtitte Newspaper^
Stetson Univ^mm ^mmSeLami Florida
Friday, October 8,1982
Coker seeks to install value;
ByJOSEBBMiXiRWi
Reporter Idttor
Stetson fWerrsity Provost Denton K.
f toker. who became the university's chief
aeademiv erttrer a week ago today, said
o ao ,t;tet-eiew Tuesday that one of his
main concent rs tc- create an edaeattonal
ett-mioatetn on earaptu-. where students
-taa * detelep a system af values an
whan ta make tht-tr ta,sjor life's
dt-cisi.io-*. "
sXfer, a former college pros: dent who
fiiled (he vacarcy caused hy the
re.*aenattoa ef Thomas A- Tamer last
summer, did his doctoral thesis in the
fte.d of character eaucation.
tXikot oolhned three methods ihat caa
he used to establish a framework of
values ui the "whole course of the
student* s esperienee here at Sietson."
Art-ordmg tn Coker. one of the ways is
to "bring the best petiple here you ran to
teaca, people wha have a system of
values of their own. °
* The th question is what cnleria yon
use to pt riant kind of person, I'm not
sure jiit hot you can make this
Judgement." Coker said. '-We're talking
about a phdosoph}* of life, not what
religion he belongs to, whether ar not
he's divorced, what coantry he's from
ar what color his skat is. These are
superficial measures of character.
-You tell me you're a member of the
Baptist church and that doesn't tell me
much.*' Coker said.
Coker taught Ms first coliep class in
ISP. *'The more 1 study, trie more I
.cam. 1 probably knew more about
absolute values hi IM than J do in IfiliX
Colter said. *'If t knew all tlie absolutes,
all 1 would have to do is training and not
educatisaCi-*"
PtowMt Denton E, Coker
foker said that he believes the
"Christum tradition is not the closing of
the mind but the opening of the mind to
mere truth."
Rogers: JC not utilized
By CEORGEaHWAfKfltJ
Associate idllor
Frajtt Rogers, president of the Judl-
tiarj, Council, explained in an mterview
Taesday that the reason the Judiciary
Conned has been Inactive this year and
ia past years is beeaase the Residential
life Office has became "the intermediary- between ns and residential
variations,"
The Judiciary Conned, a groap of li
elected students who make ap the legal
ami of the tativersity commanwealth,
rewrote the Rodent Code of Conduct last
usa., ih t,ssf a-iia nia-iT st-^-sstfi-siri^i** Kntv oases
Jenkins
If stsm-etlung happens,'* Rogers said,
*tr noes first to the Head Resident then
trie Area Coordtoaii-ir, then to Tina
itahestf; Assistatsi Director of Rest-
s.eutiai life.-, then to Kemper Smith
* Oi rector *al Residential i,ife>,andfintthv
ta Is. frarth Jenkins 'Dean te Student.
--Jf-atts *
Even if a case does end up with
Jenkins, residents have the choice of
having an administrative hearing or a
heamg before the Judiciary* Couaeil.
John Ariaie. a member of the Jafi-ciary
Cuunctf for the last two years, said
studeats may prefer an admimatrattoe
hearing because its "quicker and less
paMie,"
ftogers suggested the inactivity' of tbe
Judiciary Council may be attributed to
the eviri-ttttoa of the treatment of
disciplinary issues on earrtipas,
"One reason." Rogers said, -'mught lie
that the school is becoming mare leawot.
¥ou don't hear mach about a woman
going in front of the Judiary Conned
beca use she broke visitation rules. *'
Jenkins still snpprts the idea of a
student Judiciary Council,**An ail-student
jadiciary is the right way of handling
discipline, even though other schools use
a mixed form with students and faculty
quite well,** Jenkins said, '*Wc have
mature stiidento on the Jndieiarv
Conned,"
Rogers said the ,tudieiarj Council is
not 'uhiised" enough. The ,tudte,iarv
Couneil, which is also the final appeals
beard far traffic -adulations, was not
called an to hear a traffic case last year.
Ropers said she "would talk with the
SGA to see if we can get involved and get
ftun-tstajido,"
(Todd ilichardsaii, president af the
Student Government Association, said
the SGA -would would have to do hirifaer
research on lh,-n.**
Coker said the "enterprise ia a
Christian university like this is where the
teacher and student become ineolved ui a
learning process, each sharing with each
ether ir. a quest for truth,
"I thutk ui a Chrfstiaa university we
(the faculty and adaaaistraliuiis ought
not to be afraid to share eur thinking
with the full uaderstandinp tliat you're
(the studeatsi doing the search...we must
protect ynnr freedoni to choose," Coker
said.
The second endeavor, aecoretag to
Cukcr, is to create a favorable
environment for this, search for values to
fake place.
"We don't apologias* for having rha-
pei." Coker said. "I see a lot of people on
campus netting together lo share their
thoughts with their peers. This is a caring
and sharing environment.
*'i would assume, as in other campuses, that there is need for some
hnprovement nt this area- But f think we
do have an atmosphere here .where you
can express yourself-.and stick your
neck out,"' Coker said,
Coker said students and faculty alike
needed to discover and then learn to
verbally express their system of values,
"Cltristiajiity doesn't exist without
expression. ¥ou don't have any system of
valaes unless ynu can express if." Coker
said.
ContinuBd on P. 6
Greenfeather
kicks off
next week
By LOW la. BASTINGS
Staff Writer
The Twenty-seventh Annual Greenfeather Week wdl kick off Saturday.
October IS, with a Fund Run scheduled to
begin at i;9J a.m, in front of the
Edmunds Center.
The roc-k group Straagei-, brought to
campus hy the Stetson I Won Boartt will
also help begat the week uf fuctlmising
activities hy performing that night at It
p,m
Greenfeather hopes to raise $i%Wi thui
faU tu nenefit the United Way. Med Cross,
tlie American Cancer Society, Muscular
Dystrophy, Florida Methodist ChUdrec's
Borne. Daeal Home, the r*iei|hl«irlKiod
Center and the Stetson Emergency Fund,
The Greenfoatier rommitiaes hegaa
planning early this year aad hate
already spoken ndll the Faculty* Steertag
Committee which helps prostate
prtieipafioa among the faculty.
The Fund Run will begin at the
Edmunds Center and follow a designated
race route from there. Early registoation
for the Fund Run is tt, but entrants may
register the day of the race from ?i»
a,m, until« a.m. for Si. Everyone who
registers wit receive a free Greenfeather
T-shirt. « .. , .. ^
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