The Cavalier daily :: Wednesday, October 11, 1967 :: University of Virginia Library

The 242 resident students will
have no curfews or watchful den
mothers waiting to snatch leave
privileges away from the first
practical joker who rings the fire
alarm.

Aside from a few minor visiting
restrictions, women residents, who
occupy the top six floors, and men,
occupying a lower four can come
and go as they please.

There is no university ruling
against drinking in the rooms,
which is common to the Canadian
schools.

C. D. Fowle, master of Vanier
College, in discussing the new plan
noted that the university no longer
wants to be a substitute parent.
He believes regulations only encourage
students to break them.

Visiting hours, he explained, are
simply to guarantee a quiet study
period.

The wayward student who continues
to misbehave will simply be
thrown out, he added.

Perhaps most enticing though is
the school's ratio of 88 men to
164 women.

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Wake Forest College initiated a
pass-fail grading system this fall for
upperclassmen.

The plan, approved last spring
by the faculty, allows a student in
his third and fourth years to take
one semester of a course for which
he will receive only a pass or fail
mark.

The grade will have no effect
on the quality point ratio.

One stipulation of the new
system is that the course taken on
a pass-fail basis must be outside
the student's major department.

The initial spark for the plan
came in the spring of 1966 when a
history professor, Mr. David
Smiley, suggested such a plan in
an Honors Day speech.

"Students ought to learn something
in somebody else's green
pasture," Mr. Smiley noted. Dean
Edwin G. Wilson, in explaining the
purpose of the plan to the students
and faculty stated that "it was
generally hoped that this would be
the kind of opportunity that would
appeal to the serious student,
offering him a broader education."

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From Portland State College
in Portland, Oregon, comes news
of the suspension of the school
newspaper, the Vanguard, after it
published two front page pictures
of Allen Ginsberg in the nude.

College President Branford P.
Millar, in ordering the suspension
of the publication, described the
pictures as "vulgar" and as
clearly a case of journalistic abuse.

Mr. Ginsberg commented on the
action, saying "I resent President
Millar calling the picture vulgar,
because it's a picture of me and I
don't consider myself vulgar."