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Gather Students Residential College Planned
Adopt Teachers ! Learning, Living Combined
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Professors Participate
hi Fellows Program
A Faculty Fellows Pro
gram sponsored bv Cather
Hall allows a dormitory
floor to adopt a faculty
mfnber to visit the floor
once or twice a month, ac
cording to Jerry McCrery.
IDA activities chairman.
McCrery explained that
the program was started
two vears ago. probably by
the Office of Student Ac
tivities. The activities chairman
said Cather Hall is the only
living unit thus far to spon
sor a Faculty Fellows Pro
gram. McCrery said that
he had passed out litera
ture to dorm represtna
tives at an IDA meeting and
hopes other dorms would
establish such a program.
S3 GUESTS
He said the 46 professors
had agreed to participate
in the program and that 93
professors had signed up
to be faculty guests on dorm
floors.
A faculty guest is a pro
fessor who will speak to
the floor on a specified top
ic, McCrery explained, but
does not wish to devote the
amount of time needed to
ve a faculty fellow.
McCrery called the Facul
ty Fellows Program an in
formal arrangement that
could not be achieved in
the classroom.
The professors talk to the
dorm residents about
everything from study prob
lems to life after gradua
tion, McCrery explained.
"Usually the faculty fel
low attends a floor meet
ing twice a month," he said.
Following the meetings
many of the floor members
adjourn to one room to dis
cuss campus issues with
the faculty fellow.
McCrery said that prob
ably half of Cather Hall's
floors had a faculty fellow
this year. "Many faculty
members think a dorm is
just a bunch of rooms,"
he said.
Dr. Wendell Ganger, as
sociate professor and chair
man of the botany depart
ment, is a faculty fellow
for 7th floor Cather Hall.
He said he feels the pro
gram is beneficial.
"I'm getting to know
some of the problems of a
dormitory and most impor
tant, I'm getting to know
the boys." Gauger contin
ued. Gauger said that the pro
gram should be extended to
other dorms. "However, it's
pretty much up to the stu
dent to make the first con
tact with the professors,"
he said.
"The people in the dormi
tories are trying to develop
a situation that is appeal
ing to them." he expalined,
"although there are few
ways to correct some of
the dorm's problems."
"There are lots of com
mittees and channels that
don't lead anywhere,"
Gauger commented.
A residential college will
probably be offered to next
year's freshmen, according
to Robert Knol', professor
of English and member of
the Residential College
Committee.
Knoll expressed hope that
15-20 per cent of the stu
dents will be interested in
enrolling in the education
al experiment.
Although the committee
has yet to establish rmny
guidelines for such a col
lege. Knoll said it has al
ready arrived at some de
cisions. "The residential college
will be open to any kind of
major," he said. "The in
structors will come from
the general faculty of the
University. Studies will be
interdepartmental."
FALL OPERATION
Knoll said the committee
hoped to reveal specific
plans before the end of the
current semester and to
have the college in opera
tion by next fall.
"There is a very healthy
interest in this," he said,
"and I think that is signifi
cant. There are some stu
dents who will not care
about it at all. but there
is 15 to 20 per cent who
are interested."
The residential college is
one proposal for the Cen
tennial College Committee's
experiments in education.
Knoll. Gene P o k o r n y,
ASUN first vice-president,
and Merk Hobson, vice
chancellor and dean of fa
culty, attended a national
conference on experimental
colleges earlier this semes
Knoll has suggested a
number proposals for the
college and the committee
is currently considering
these and other suggestions.
OPPORTUNITY
The residential college,
Knoll had said following
the conference, is an op
portunity to r e c o n s i ti
er courses, student rela
tions and teaching at the
same time.
In such a college, one
place would be provided for
students and faculty to
study, learn and work to
gether, Knoll said.
The Residential College
Committee has already
agreed that the college will
not be for select, "cream-of-the-crop"
students, but
for a cross-section of the
campus, Knoll said.
Headers Perform
'Spoon River'
Edgar Lee Masters' drama
"A Spoon River Anthology"
will be presented by the Read
ers Theater Nov. 19 and 20 at
8 p.m. in room 201 of the
Temple Building. There will
be no admission for the performance.
CIA Considering Alterations
In Campus Recruiting Plans
Washington (CPS) In
the interest of "maintaining
a peaceful academic atmos
phere," the Central Intelli
gence Agency has decided
not to recruit on campuses
near the agency's regional
recruiting offices.
A CIA spokesman last
week confirmed that c o I
lege and university place
ment bureaus affected are
being notified- of the deci
sion, but did not say where
the agency's recruiting of
fices are located.
He estimated that there
are "10 or 12" of them how
ever, presumably in the ma
jor cities.
The spokesman also noted
that in some cases inter
views would be conducted
in a downtown area of cities
that do not have CIA offices.
He mentiond Boston as an
example, explaining that
interviews would be con
ducted in the federal build
ing there rather than on
campuses in the area.
PROTEST
The CIA has met with
protest, some of it obstruc
tive and others not, on sev
eral campuses this fall.
Among them are the Univer
sities of Colorado, Mary
land. Iowa and the Univer
sity of California at Berke
ley. According to the CIA
spokesman, the agency nor
mally recruits at 100 cam
puses around the country.
He added that "at many of
them we've had no trouble."
He indicated the disrup
tion of CIA recruiting has
been concentrated in certain
areas of the country, main
ly the East and West
coasts. He said the agency
has had almost no trouble
on campuses in the Middle
West and the South.
Placement officials o n
campuses in the Washington
area have already been no
tified that the CIA will do
its recruiting in its d o w n
town office. Only one Wash
ington area university the
University of Maryland has
had a protest against CIA
recruiting.
The CIA spokesman de
nied the agency was suc
cumbing to pressure f r o m
students who have protested
CIA recruiting.
NO VICTORY
"We don't view it in that
light," he said. He added
"one of the young men (re
ferring to a student reporter)
who called here said SDS
was calling it a victory,"
but denied the change was
likely to affect the agency's
recruitment efforts.
The SDS national office,
in Chicago, has not com
mented officially on the
CIA's decisions, but one of
the SDS officers there said
that it should probably not
be regarded as a victory.
"We want to stop HA re
cruiting." he explained.
The CIA may well attempt
where it is being halted, ac
cording to the a g e n c y's
spokesman. He said that if
the protests die down, "I'm
sure we would look at it
again, to see if we could
return to the campus."
Washington Prof
Alters Multiple
Choice Testing
Seattle. Wash. (Ip.) -College
professors could
throw away their conven
tional true-false and mul
tiple choice tests and the
"normal grade distribution
curve." even in large
classes, if their examina
tions were designed to mea
sure a student's depth of
knowledge instead of his
guessing ability.
How this can be done
was described recently by
Dr. Paul E. Fields, Pro
fessor of Psychology at the
University of Washington.
Dr. Fields' system, de
veloped over the past three
years in Introductory Psy
chology classes of more
than 350 students, has re
sulted in significantly im
proved student achieve
ment. The results are based
on 100 different exams giv
en to a total of 2000 dif
ferent students since 1964.
Although he uses true
false and multiple-choice
questions, they are inter
related in a manner that
removes the "guessing fac
tor" inherent in most ob
jective examinations. He
also has developed a stu
dent study guide of sample
tests, "Teaching Tests in
keyed directly to the text
book, "Psychology and
Life."
In the Fields system,
each question consists of
five parts: a true-false
statement and four related
multiple choice matching
associations. A student
must answer all five parts
correctly to receive credit.
With this method, guess
ing just won't work. The
odds against getting cor
rect answers by chance
alone are 3125 to 1.
But, once students learn
to use the Teaching Test
manual, they develop such
good methods of studying
the text that they really
know the important concepts.
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representative who will be on campus Dec. 1, 1967.
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