University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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A j IVlAyER DcbuT: a man for alls asons Center finally vaccinated, uh, dedicated by Trustees Oct. 29... Roger Nyquist plays Church ' s new organ... A Man For All

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NOV. SPEAKERS iUDJi 1 ff en zorn n an informal talk entitled Sense and Nonsese, Santa Clara English professor Jeff Zorn presented some liberal ideas about a conservative subject: teaching English. He spoke of the irrelevance of traditional classics like Spenser ' s Faerie Queene and To a Skylark for students of modern society. Moving from literature to writing, Zorn suggested a grading method by which the teacher evaluates the progress of the individual student without comparing him to others. In discussing teacher-training, he frowns on the traditional emphasis on literature and recommends educational psychology, linguistics, speech and sociology of education. Regarding vocabulary, Zorn believes that students learn words in context, not from lists or the Latin root method. When asked to mention some worthwhile books for college students, Zom included Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Woolfe and works by J.D. Salinger and Hunter Thompson. Afterwards, wine and cheese were served by members of the English Club which sponsored the talk. russ burgess Specialist at sleight-of-hand and extra-sensory perception, Russ Burgess performed many provocative examples of his mysterious craft one wintry November eve in Benson Center. The student body that attended the entertaining event were amazed numerous times as Russ would guess their ages and other secret facts while blindfolded. Even the skeptical among the audience were convinced that, at least in Russ Burgess, ESP exists. MARqO Prostitution and Feminism was the title o( Margo St. James ' s November 5 lecture to an overflow crowd in Benson Center. Ms. James is one of the leaders of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an organization which is working for the de-criminalization of prostitution. St. James believes that the problem of prostitution would be solved by the repeal of all laws against prostitution. This would end the harassment of prostitutes by law enforcement agencies and would lessen to a great extent the dependency of prostitutes on pimps. St. James never clearly explained how this theme of the de-criminalization of prostitution applies to feminism. ' . ' m ■ ' 30 .TTiove to Benson basement, thus becoming the school s first underground newspaper.