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We 'BANNER, ^^^^ February 14, 1975 Page 1 ^^^R^M^^^ Censored Book Cause Controversy LAWRENCE JOHANSEN will present a trumpet recital in the Book of Life building, Tues., Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. ASB Plans Fun Week Homecoming Week activities have been announced by the Associated Student Body. The era ofthe 50's: Each class is asked to dress up between Feb. 18 and 22 in correlation with the era. A special award will be given to the 5 best dressed students and faculty in the area of 1) Keeping with the theme, 2) Originality, 3) Creativity, 4) Boldness, and 5) Inspirational. The days will be as follows: Monday-Freshman,Tuesday - Sophomore, Wednesday - Juniors, Thursday - Seniors, and Friday - Faculty and Staff. The judging will take place at the lunch hour euch day. The voting for the Homecoming Queen will take place Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Other scheduled activities are: MONDAY: Intramurals - Gym TUESDAY: Azusa Pacific Game - take buses WEDNESDAY: Vespers Chapel - Book of Life Building 8:30 p.m. THURSDAY: ASB Meeting open to the public - Simmon's Hall 7:30 p.m. First floor lounge - open discussion FRIDAY: Golf Tournament 1:00 p.m. - Contact Dean Brown for information. Spirit Rally sponsored by the cheerleaders - Gym 7:00 p.m. Movie 1776 - Gym - Admission $1.00 at 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY: Music Festival featuring choirs of Past and Present 11:10. Lunch on the front lawn - Noon. Homecoming Court rehearsal - Gym 2:30 Ladies - make sure your escorts will be there also. J.V. vs. Alumni Game 6:00 p.m. Recognition of all former participants in athletics. Crowning of the J975 Homecoming Queen Honor Court of all former Homecoming Queens CHAPEL MUSIC Chuck Girard of "Love Song" will be the featured speaker entertainer in Chapel, Feb. 19th. Girard is considered to be one of the top gospel singers in the United States. His group Love Song has played in concerts all over the world, including a command performance for the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. Love Song has recorded several albums and tapes for both Marantha and Good News labels. Their first album, titled "Love Song", was voted the top gospel record of 1973. Most of the songs on the albums were written by Girard. Presently, Girard is doing solo performances since Love Song's break-up last summer. His style of music is gospel/rock. Editor's Note: Due to the controversy concerning the class, Woman's Role in Society, being co-taught by Dr. Dana and Mrs. Thompson, and the Administration's withdrawal of it's textbook, the parties involved have offered the following statements.^ Dr. Dana's Position During registration week, our administration*asked Mrs. Thompson to withdraw a book from the new course, Women's Role in Society, which she and I are teaching together. The book (Women: A Feminist Perspective, ed. Jo Freeman) had been criticized by a pastor for it's occasional use of four-letter words, and has now been removed from the bookstore shelves. The withdrawal of the book is significant in ways which go beyond the question of whether this particular book is or is not appropriate for this course and for this college. A precedent has now been set; a book has been withdrawn because somebody complained about it. If one book can be withdrawn, so can another. Thus the incident raises the whole issue of academic freedom on this campus--an issue which should be of concern to students as well as faculty, since it involves the students' right to read. Our problem can be seen in the contest of widespread recent controversy over what books should be used in the public schools. The newspapers have been full of the crisis in W. Virginia, and the Riverside School District is currently struggling with another form of the same dilemma. Since, in such an atmosphere, other complaints are likely to come our way, it is clear that we need to work out procedures for dealing with them intelligently. Students can help by discussing the issue in a thoughtful way and trying to get beneath the surface to some ofthe deeper problems involved. One ofthe most important of thSse problems is that ofthe emotional and intellectual climate ofthe college. Basic to the concept of a liberal arts institution is the principle of a free exchange of ideas. Can such a free exchange take place when books and instructors are subject to attack? Can effective teaching or learning take place in such an atmosphere? Members of the community do not always understand the nature of a liberal arts college. They do not realize that, in promoting the free exchange of ideas, the instructor is not necessarily advocating any particular point of view. They may assume that when an instructor asks students to buy a particular book for a course, he is "preaching" those ideas and endorsing that language. Students can help by being aware of this distinction between presentation and advocacy of ideas, and by explaining the difference to others. I would like to see the whole issue widely discussed by students, in the Banner and elsewhere, not emotionally, but rationally, in a spirit of free inquiry. If the withdrawal ofthe book from our course can stimulate an intelligent exploration of this important issue on our campus, then I will feel that something really positive has come out ofthe situation. --DR. DANA Carleton Explains An administrative action with regard to the use of a particular book as one of the required texts for the new course, Women's Role in Society, is commented on by Dr. Margaret Dana in this issue of the Banner. As the administrator di- rectly involved, I have been given an opportunity to respond to her Forensics Team Attends Fresno Invit. Tournament Terry Chisum and Darlene Traitor won second place trophies in Forensics competition last Friday. The team, led by Mrs. Norlene Hokett, went up to Fresno for the. annual Invitational Forensics Tournament held at Cal State Fresno. Those competing were Ruth Sidener, Alma Rhoades, Sylvonia Soger and Terry Chi sum for Oral Interpretation. Steve Flynn and Darlene Trailor competed in exposition and Jerry Hobbs and Rick Ogston competed in the persuasion category. According to Jerry Hobbs and Terry Chisum, two of the contestants, there were serious obstacles to overcome. Ordinarily^ therp are four divisions of forensics; oral interpretation (2 or more selections from one or more authors on one theme), exposition (explanation of a subject with visual aids for clarity), persuasion (a serious attempt to convince an audience); and three classes, novice, junior and varsity. The CBC team discovered that there was no novice category, so they had to compete against a combined junior-varsity class. Also, four ofthe schools competing had sent their people to the Nationals, those being UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. But, despite all this, according to Hobbs and Chisum, none ofthe CBC people missed the finals by more than two points. Terry Chisum won her second place trophy with an oral interpretation of 'How a Mother's Love Effects a Handicapped Chi Id'. Darlene Trailor won hers with a ex planation of Ballet. Rick Ogston came up a finalist with The Right to Privacy and the Violation of it by the CIA.' Jerry Hobbs missed a third place trophy in the persuasion category by one point. According to Hobbs and Chisum, Hobbs and another contestant came out exactly even in the final round. The judges then. in an effort to break the tie, went back to their scores in the preliminary rounds, to see who had the better score. The other contestant beat Hobbs out by exactly one point. Hobbs spoke on The Dilemma of Foster Parents'. According to Mrs. Hokett, all of CBC's contestants did exceptionally well, narrowly missing finals in such tough competition. SBC College Day Designated On Sunday, February 16, desig-- nated on the SBC calendar as Bap- tist Seminary, College, and School Day, many of those 34,665church^ es will hold special observances in recognition of how Christian educators really do "put it all to- gether"--by emphasizing total growth of young men and women who will carry Southern Baptists into our nation's third 100 years and beyond that into the twenty- first century. As Southern Baptists pause on Sunday, February 16, to observe the Convention-wide emphasis on Baptist Seminary, College, and School Day, they need to take a close look behind the headlines. They will find here a unique educational process which combines Christian purpose with high academic standards and moral precepts rooted in the message of Christ. These are the factors which have helped to generate the growth of a great denomination. They will look at the hundreds of Baptist lay people who leave Baptist schools to mature into active church leaders—leaders who "put it all together" as they permeate society's troubled structures. Southern Baptists are helping students "to put it all together" in 71 colleges, schools, and seminaries around the nation, with a total enrollment of more than 126,700 students. Members pf the 12.3-million- member,' 34,665-church Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) can look back on 130 years of growth. Those years have seen the SBC stretch from coast to coast and into all 50 states--emphasizing Christ's life- changing power through evangelism and church growth but also growing in appreciation of the impact of Christian educational institutions. article. First let me explain some ofthe procedure followed. After complaints were received from a student and a pastor about the language used in the book, the book was re- viewed by some facultj, members in the field. The decision I made as Dean, after some consultation, was that this particular book contained some objectionable language and that the use of the language was not necessary to achieve the objectives of either the bookorthe course. I was convinced that other text books could be used just as effectively, if not more so, in accomplishing the course objectives. In a conference with Mrs. Thompson I explained my position and the criticism which had been leveled at the book. 1 also suggested that it would be better not to use it as a required text book. Mrs. Thompson agreed to seek another textbook. Since the action, there has been a considerable amount of conversation among some faculty members about the questions of academic freedom involved. In a Faculty Senate meeting February 10, a committee was appointed to study the question of academic freedom and academic responsibility. The dialogue will no doubt continue through the Spring. My position as Academic Dean is as follows: Under the terms of our present faculty handbook I have the responsibility for the books which are required as textbooks. In this instance a book was brought to my attention which 1 judged to be objectionable and not necessary for the course in question. 1 do not believe that my own duty can be abrogated because of excesses in other parts of our country today. Being a liberal arts college does not mean that the students should be required to read anything that is in print just because it has been published. The printed page is sacred in the realm of freedom to publish. But, a book which uses language that is offensive to the constituency which supports our college, must have some strong academic justifications which merit its use as a required text. I found no such justifications in this case. —Dr. Stephen P. Carleton Academic Dean
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Title | The Banner - February 14, 1975 |
Subject | California Baptist University -- Students -- Periodicals. College student newspapers and periodicals -- California. |
Description | The Banner is the student newspaper of California Baptist University. It has been in continuous publication since 1952.' |
Creator | California Baptist University |
Date | February 14 1975 |
Type | Text |
Language | en |
Rights | Copyright California Baptist University. All Rights Reserved. |
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Title | 1975-02-14-001 |
Transcript | We 'BANNER, ^^^^ February 14, 1975 Page 1 ^^^R^M^^^ Censored Book Cause Controversy LAWRENCE JOHANSEN will present a trumpet recital in the Book of Life building, Tues., Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. ASB Plans Fun Week Homecoming Week activities have been announced by the Associated Student Body. The era ofthe 50's: Each class is asked to dress up between Feb. 18 and 22 in correlation with the era. A special award will be given to the 5 best dressed students and faculty in the area of 1) Keeping with the theme, 2) Originality, 3) Creativity, 4) Boldness, and 5) Inspirational. The days will be as follows: Monday-Freshman,Tuesday - Sophomore, Wednesday - Juniors, Thursday - Seniors, and Friday - Faculty and Staff. The judging will take place at the lunch hour euch day. The voting for the Homecoming Queen will take place Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Other scheduled activities are: MONDAY: Intramurals - Gym TUESDAY: Azusa Pacific Game - take buses WEDNESDAY: Vespers Chapel - Book of Life Building 8:30 p.m. THURSDAY: ASB Meeting open to the public - Simmon's Hall 7:30 p.m. First floor lounge - open discussion FRIDAY: Golf Tournament 1:00 p.m. - Contact Dean Brown for information. Spirit Rally sponsored by the cheerleaders - Gym 7:00 p.m. Movie 1776 - Gym - Admission $1.00 at 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY: Music Festival featuring choirs of Past and Present 11:10. Lunch on the front lawn - Noon. Homecoming Court rehearsal - Gym 2:30 Ladies - make sure your escorts will be there also. J.V. vs. Alumni Game 6:00 p.m. Recognition of all former participants in athletics. Crowning of the J975 Homecoming Queen Honor Court of all former Homecoming Queens CHAPEL MUSIC Chuck Girard of "Love Song" will be the featured speaker entertainer in Chapel, Feb. 19th. Girard is considered to be one of the top gospel singers in the United States. His group Love Song has played in concerts all over the world, including a command performance for the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. Love Song has recorded several albums and tapes for both Marantha and Good News labels. Their first album, titled "Love Song", was voted the top gospel record of 1973. Most of the songs on the albums were written by Girard. Presently, Girard is doing solo performances since Love Song's break-up last summer. His style of music is gospel/rock. Editor's Note: Due to the controversy concerning the class, Woman's Role in Society, being co-taught by Dr. Dana and Mrs. Thompson, and the Administration's withdrawal of it's textbook, the parties involved have offered the following statements.^ Dr. Dana's Position During registration week, our administration*asked Mrs. Thompson to withdraw a book from the new course, Women's Role in Society, which she and I are teaching together. The book (Women: A Feminist Perspective, ed. Jo Freeman) had been criticized by a pastor for it's occasional use of four-letter words, and has now been removed from the bookstore shelves. The withdrawal of the book is significant in ways which go beyond the question of whether this particular book is or is not appropriate for this course and for this college. A precedent has now been set; a book has been withdrawn because somebody complained about it. If one book can be withdrawn, so can another. Thus the incident raises the whole issue of academic freedom on this campus--an issue which should be of concern to students as well as faculty, since it involves the students' right to read. Our problem can be seen in the contest of widespread recent controversy over what books should be used in the public schools. The newspapers have been full of the crisis in W. Virginia, and the Riverside School District is currently struggling with another form of the same dilemma. Since, in such an atmosphere, other complaints are likely to come our way, it is clear that we need to work out procedures for dealing with them intelligently. Students can help by discussing the issue in a thoughtful way and trying to get beneath the surface to some ofthe deeper problems involved. One ofthe most important of thSse problems is that ofthe emotional and intellectual climate ofthe college. Basic to the concept of a liberal arts institution is the principle of a free exchange of ideas. Can such a free exchange take place when books and instructors are subject to attack? Can effective teaching or learning take place in such an atmosphere? Members of the community do not always understand the nature of a liberal arts college. They do not realize that, in promoting the free exchange of ideas, the instructor is not necessarily advocating any particular point of view. They may assume that when an instructor asks students to buy a particular book for a course, he is "preaching" those ideas and endorsing that language. Students can help by being aware of this distinction between presentation and advocacy of ideas, and by explaining the difference to others. I would like to see the whole issue widely discussed by students, in the Banner and elsewhere, not emotionally, but rationally, in a spirit of free inquiry. If the withdrawal ofthe book from our course can stimulate an intelligent exploration of this important issue on our campus, then I will feel that something really positive has come out ofthe situation. --DR. DANA Carleton Explains An administrative action with regard to the use of a particular book as one of the required texts for the new course, Women's Role in Society, is commented on by Dr. Margaret Dana in this issue of the Banner. As the administrator di- rectly involved, I have been given an opportunity to respond to her Forensics Team Attends Fresno Invit. Tournament Terry Chisum and Darlene Traitor won second place trophies in Forensics competition last Friday. The team, led by Mrs. Norlene Hokett, went up to Fresno for the. annual Invitational Forensics Tournament held at Cal State Fresno. Those competing were Ruth Sidener, Alma Rhoades, Sylvonia Soger and Terry Chi sum for Oral Interpretation. Steve Flynn and Darlene Trailor competed in exposition and Jerry Hobbs and Rick Ogston competed in the persuasion category. According to Jerry Hobbs and Terry Chisum, two of the contestants, there were serious obstacles to overcome. Ordinarily^ therp are four divisions of forensics; oral interpretation (2 or more selections from one or more authors on one theme), exposition (explanation of a subject with visual aids for clarity), persuasion (a serious attempt to convince an audience); and three classes, novice, junior and varsity. The CBC team discovered that there was no novice category, so they had to compete against a combined junior-varsity class. Also, four ofthe schools competing had sent their people to the Nationals, those being UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. But, despite all this, according to Hobbs and Chisum, none ofthe CBC people missed the finals by more than two points. Terry Chisum won her second place trophy with an oral interpretation of 'How a Mother's Love Effects a Handicapped Chi Id'. Darlene Trailor won hers with a ex planation of Ballet. Rick Ogston came up a finalist with The Right to Privacy and the Violation of it by the CIA.' Jerry Hobbs missed a third place trophy in the persuasion category by one point. According to Hobbs and Chisum, Hobbs and another contestant came out exactly even in the final round. The judges then. in an effort to break the tie, went back to their scores in the preliminary rounds, to see who had the better score. The other contestant beat Hobbs out by exactly one point. Hobbs spoke on The Dilemma of Foster Parents'. According to Mrs. Hokett, all of CBC's contestants did exceptionally well, narrowly missing finals in such tough competition. SBC College Day Designated On Sunday, February 16, desig-- nated on the SBC calendar as Bap- tist Seminary, College, and School Day, many of those 34,665church^ es will hold special observances in recognition of how Christian educators really do "put it all to- gether"--by emphasizing total growth of young men and women who will carry Southern Baptists into our nation's third 100 years and beyond that into the twenty- first century. As Southern Baptists pause on Sunday, February 16, to observe the Convention-wide emphasis on Baptist Seminary, College, and School Day, they need to take a close look behind the headlines. They will find here a unique educational process which combines Christian purpose with high academic standards and moral precepts rooted in the message of Christ. These are the factors which have helped to generate the growth of a great denomination. They will look at the hundreds of Baptist lay people who leave Baptist schools to mature into active church leaders—leaders who "put it all together" as they permeate society's troubled structures. Southern Baptists are helping students "to put it all together" in 71 colleges, schools, and seminaries around the nation, with a total enrollment of more than 126,700 students. Members pf the 12.3-million- member,' 34,665-church Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) can look back on 130 years of growth. Those years have seen the SBC stretch from coast to coast and into all 50 states--emphasizing Christ's life- changing power through evangelism and church growth but also growing in appreciation of the impact of Christian educational institutions. article. First let me explain some ofthe procedure followed. After complaints were received from a student and a pastor about the language used in the book, the book was re- viewed by some facultj, members in the field. The decision I made as Dean, after some consultation, was that this particular book contained some objectionable language and that the use of the language was not necessary to achieve the objectives of either the bookorthe course. I was convinced that other text books could be used just as effectively, if not more so, in accomplishing the course objectives. In a conference with Mrs. Thompson I explained my position and the criticism which had been leveled at the book. 1 also suggested that it would be better not to use it as a required text book. Mrs. Thompson agreed to seek another textbook. Since the action, there has been a considerable amount of conversation among some faculty members about the questions of academic freedom involved. In a Faculty Senate meeting February 10, a committee was appointed to study the question of academic freedom and academic responsibility. The dialogue will no doubt continue through the Spring. My position as Academic Dean is as follows: Under the terms of our present faculty handbook I have the responsibility for the books which are required as textbooks. In this instance a book was brought to my attention which 1 judged to be objectionable and not necessary for the course in question. 1 do not believe that my own duty can be abrogated because of excesses in other parts of our country today. Being a liberal arts college does not mean that the students should be required to read anything that is in print just because it has been published. The printed page is sacred in the realm of freedom to publish. But, a book which uses language that is offensive to the constituency which supports our college, must have some strong academic justifications which merit its use as a required text. I found no such justifications in this case. —Dr. Stephen P. Carleton Academic Dean |