att and Volume 56 Number 26
ardinal May 24, 1974
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
VISITATION :
AN OVERVIEW
look into the visitation situation. The trustees made it clear that traditional visittation . was not likely to carry their approval. The task force was selected by the trustees to include administrators, faculty, alumni, and students. These people were then to look into various other ways to implement socializatjon, visitation and provide for privacy. An allotment of 3,000 dollars was given to them to spend. During the course of the '73-'74 school year, the task force investigated student needs at Otterbein, various forms of .: visitation being carried on at other colleges, and various other sources of inspiration for an acceptable plan - acceptable to the trustees, administrators and students. A special advisor was Students and administrators discuss the new visitation proposal. The hired to investigate visitation meeting, which took place Monday night, lasted several hours. Only proposals, and to advise the task 50 students attended. force on questionaires and other The visitation release from methods of determining the needs of the Otterbein Van Sant's office was met with OTTERBEIN immediate negative reaction Community. After al 110s t an en tire yrar, from a great number of students. FROSH · the task force had still not come Confusion and misunderstand up with a proposal that would ings diminated dorm discussion WINS TITLE be acceptable to the students of the proposal. By the time of and the trustees. At this point, the first visitation meeting, Dean Van Sant and President students were irrate and Kerr presen_ted a brainstorm confused about the whole affair. proposal to the task force. The The meeting was dominated by ideas that Kerr and Van Sant negative remarks from students. had are now embodied in the During the succeeding meetings, present visitation proposal. The student opposition declined concept was greeted with great along with their attendance. At enthusiasm from the committee the final meeting last Monday, and adopted unanimously in the only 50 of Otterbein's 1,300 to hear face of no other acceptable students attended proposals passing through the further explanation and vice their opinion. task force's hands. The plan; which is mostly the It was agreed by the task force committee that the new work of Dean Van Sant, plan not be discussed with provides for visitation outside of sleeping areas. A anyone until the June 1 meeting. the The reason for this being that socialization room is to be Joan Holland the task force was instructed to provided for those students report directly to the trustees opting to the proposed plans. Freshman Joan Holland was themselves. In spite of this, Dean Combinations of 4 students to 3 named Miss Columbus A large number of the Otterbein community attended the Village rooms, 4 students to 2 rooms, International, first step toward a Green Concert featuring the concert band under the direction of. Van Sant believed it necessary to present the idea to the students and 3 students to 2 rooms and possible Miss International Gary Tirey. so that they would have time to traditional housing available to crown, in ceremonies at the Neil The concert band began its see the plans and understand the the men. Only a 4 - 2 option or House in Columbus, Monday The Otterbein concert band program with the "Prelude" reasoning behind the proposal. traditional housing is offered for evening. and wind ensemble presented from "An Age of Kings." Other In an effort to present the the women presently. Students Miss Holland won the title on the third Village Green Concert selections included "Pentland proposal, Dean Van Sant asked agreet that the possibilities for the basis of poise, personality Promises," in front of the Campus Center Hills," "Promises, for and received permission from the men in the 4 - 3 combination and appearance. featuring a group of local singers Dr. on May 22 at 6: 15 p.m. Robert Bromley, the are great. One room will be a A member of Sigma Alpha This third concert consisted and directed by Senior music chairman of the task force, to bedroom, one can be a study Tau, she is a home economics Ruth Wise, "Two communicate with the students room, and the other can be the of a variety of music for listeners major major and a resident of Hanby Cameos," directed by of all ages. about the visitation plans before visitation room . If the students Hall. After attending classes at The wind ensemble opened Sophomore music major Terry the June 1 trustee's meeting. wish, the two rooms besides the Noni Modeling Agency in "Flirty Flutes," The result of Van Sant's efforts bedroom can both be used for the concert with a touch of Eldridge, Columbus, she decided to enter nostalgia. They went back in featuring the entire flute section, was a three page description of visitation. The 3 - 2 combination some beauty contests for the time and chose such selections as and "Bond Street." the plans, which were is more limited in its options as experience in modeling and also This concert was third in an distributed the "Circusdow March," "Old to all students is the 4 - 2. The majority of the to meet other people. Home Guards," "The annual series of Village Green planning to live in residence halls rooms, Dean Oldag reassures, Miss Holland's parents are Mr. Richmond Bee March," and Concerts. Upcoming concerts are next year, and a series of five will be 4 - 3. The women have and Mrs. Keith Holland of La "The Pumpkin Center Cornet scheduled for May 29 and June Continued;,_, -~ discussion meetings. Rue, Ohio. 8. Band."
-In recent weeks, the major topic on campus has been the new visitation proposal. Much has been said, pro and con. Students have violently attacked the proposal. Administrators have done all they can to sell the proposal to students and parents. There have been formal discussion meetings staged by the proponents of the plan: Yet, despite all the conversation, no one is very clear about what the proposal will entail. The T&C has carried on interviews with Paul Garfinke I, Bill Smucker, Dean Oldag, Dean Van Sant and President Kerr. Through these conversations, the staff has compiled several comments, observations and notes that the Otterbein Community will be interested in reading. Visitation has been an issue with Otterbein students for
years. Various proposals were discussed among students but went no further than discussion. During the '72-' 73 school year, visitation proponents became extremely vocal and began to take action to present an actual visitation bill to the college senate. When the bill was presented at the end of last year, the senate had been convinced that visitation was needed at Otterbein. For this reason, along with tremendous pressure exerted by the student body on the senators, the bill was passed by the senate. President Kerr opposed the bill and stated his position to the board of trustees during their June '73 meeting. A large number of the trustees held the same view as President Kerr and voted to 'table' the bill. In addition, the trustees provided a proposal to set up a task force to
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