The Banner - February 14, 1975

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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