European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To protect our society. Mili nals fought in a Bank s Manhattan High school in Queens Oklyn technical High irom Newtown made a Iblis hysteria violate the Mocerl until proven h Khakoo Frum Brooklyn mend enl Issue she ution is involved. We As Well As protect the Christine Fernandes High school defending body is entitled to sate work  she oiled 3 at airports saying the lid ered a violation of prohibition against Sants take the debates one of them irom the d which schools the i debaters have no Ivsich Side of the e to take. Defend the opposite Whan this first became to say that it is immoral h sides of an  but d the Couit room insist Erbai Points is not a on their skill poise the the listener. The or into every subject an thinking says Jane Lorol the Board of Ilion arts unit. Steven Tribus the unit s director agreed in addition he said it focuses on great issues and How hey affect  during one year s debate of immigration policies each member of one panel he recalled started out saying that he or she was an immigrant. The recent panels represented a mix of races gender and nationalities. Debating the contest makes Clear is More than a test of individual s prowess. Much of the locus is on cooperation that is often neglected in the classroom. Bet Wen rounds three member teams were clustered at tables in the hallway sharpening arguments and Points Lor effective crass examination. All new York cily High schools academic vocational and alternative Are eligible. When one of the vocational schools garnered a Victory the reputation of All vocational schools was enhanced says one of the organizers. What is most exciting says Patrick j. Scollard chemical s chief administrative officer is that As a result of the debates Public speaking classes Are now offered throughout the City s High schools and Junior High schools. When the program started in 1983, says Martha Graham assistant vice president for corporate social policy and the Chiel organizer of the debates Only seven of the Public High schools had debating teams. This year 72 schools three quarters of All City High schools fielded teams. The six members of the two winning teams one composed of experienced debaters and the other of novices gets $10,000 each payable in Lour instalments during their Lour College years. Or full payment at age 21 in they do not attend College. Each winning school gets $10,000. The six members of the two teams in second place gel $4,000 each and their schools get $5,000. Lies enjoy Many More milies. While the poor by athletic of academic  the with More average v schools willing to also b Lake attendance sri meet Many families y believe we re Loo Rich Lour Wilh an income of i College said Alicia be Aid at the University of Irge an estimated $19,000 and Board next fall. No our school the ill be $7,000," Sha said. Work your Way through is who come to me and say. I worked my Way through and that is what my kid should do " said Barbara Lulu. Director of student employment at the University of Texas at Arlington. At the Low wages most students can expect Between classes or during Summers off it s absurd for parents to imagine their children can contribute More than a fiction of College costs. Federally subsidized work programs make up just 3.7 percent of total College Aid Down from a Little Over 5 percent in 1970-71. A student in the program who works the average 12 hours a week at minimum wage might earn 6 percent of an annual College Bill. That does t mean a Job is a bad idea. A1967 study released by the higher education coordinating Board in Olympia wash., examined 3.600 student records and found that those who worked outperformed those who did t undergraduates who worked 10-20 hours a week got better grades than those who worked fewer than 10 hours or More than 20 hours. I Neveth Butini Soncea big Home. Mon friends a Penni one school alter another is taking a hard look at the Ynek Way and finding it into arable. Colleges question fraternity lifestyle a june 1,1988 by Michael Norman new York times there is no defending the greek Way As College fraternity an sorority Fife in the United states might be called. It is self selecting and therefore discriminatory in is exclusionary and there lore anti democratic. Those qualities of faculty and administrative life aside american colleges Are supposed to be islands of virtue. They cannot officially Sanction less in behaviour than they demand in thought. One school after another this year has taken a hard look at the greek Way and found it intolerable. On Many . Campuses the Rutes under which fraternities have operated have Boon lightened and in several cases the organizations have been stripped of official recognition or banned. The catalyst for this has been the particularly unruly dangerous illegal and sometimes assaultive behaviour of Posl pubescent drunks. Last october at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg pa., a place of quiet greens and solid victorian Brick the embodiment of manners and civility the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity held a party for prospective pledges. The Brothers of the set up 15 bars in their House and turned the freshmen Loose to drink their i. Seven of the freshmen became extremely drunk three of them so much so that they passed out. University officials found them unconscious sprawled in the grass nearby. They were rushed to a Hospital and found to have perilously High Levels of alcohol lox icily. I have seen this thing building or 20 years said Kennelh Molt a political science professor. Finally i decided i was not going to sit around and wait to attend the funeral of one of my  Mott presented a motion to the faculty that recommended eliminating the greek Way because it led to the systematic undermining and devaluation of individuality and Independence of spirit because it was sexist and because it was based on rules and activities that demean and or interfere with intellectual and academic  the motion was carried 63 to 23. And came to rest on the desk of tha College president. Charles e. Glassick. The president has the reputation of being a direct Man and a skillful politician. He could have gone behind the scenes and nipped the motion As he put it. But fraternity behaviour was such in recent months that i was prepared to address  he has presented Moll s proposal to the Board of trustees with the recommendation that the Campus engage in a year Long debate workshops Colloquiums retreats and encounters before the Board makes its decision. The aim is to answer a question that. Despite the apparent Rise nationwide Al problems associated with fraternities seems to have gone unasked. The question what place does a one sex social system based on such caprices As class income skin color wardrobe facial hair. And who knows what else have in a place that the ancient greeks believed was supposed to be devoted to the search for truth and Justice at Gettysburg College. The social system of fraternities and sororities serves nearly of percent of the Slud enl body and there is concern that in it is Pul asunder chaos will follow and As one professor said the Cost not just in terms til dollars but of human relations would be  ii the debate takes the High Road As Many at Gettysburg Hope it will Likely go Well beyond the immediate Issue to larger concerns that trouble the modern Academy but again have not been widely debated. One cannot or example talk about the behaviour of students without discussing their character. And Lor institutions in a highly competitive Industry there is great risk in such talk. Glassick asks himself if recent cohorts Are indeed As they seem less involved less engaged not As intellectually motivated As those of say two decades ago. Moll reflecting on the Drunken sybarite of Tau Kappa Epsilon and on another fraternity that he said did $70,000 Worth of damage to its own House wonders if we Are building a history of student behaviour that real Els an increasing Lack of  Susan Brady the Dean of student life worries about a very prolonged adolescence she sees in Many students. Compared to students 20 years ago they Are not taking on the same level of responsibility she said. If those observations Are accurate then the role of the faculty must to examined for to use the measure of the ancients the greeks the faculty has failed. To be engaged to be disciplined to be responsible is to possess sell knowledge or to be educated. The faculty has been travelling or Reading or writing. We have disassociated ourselves irom students in ways that Are unhealthy Mott said. He proposes that this change. But to have the Contact that leads to True education the College must overhaul the standards by which professors Are rewarded. Individual scholarship and publication Are solitary pursuits. No one receives tenure for an animated seminar or a semester of Rich dialogue in other words what the Small Campus in Pennsylvania has in mind is to turn what happened Ono october night in the grass outside Tau Kappa Epsilon into a College wide tutorial a search Lor the institutional sell. This. Too is the greek Way. The stars and stripes Page 15