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if The Doily Nebraskan ' Monday, November 20, 1967 Page 6 ."V . V n Si hi. r X 4 . lll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli:illlllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII!llliniHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIINIIIIIN Gather Students Residential College Planned Adopt Teachers ! Learning, Living Combined JL 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. CIVIL ENGINEERING SENIORS! PLAN YOUR FUTURE IN PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES BUREAU OF ENGINEERING The tremendous growth and development of lot Angeles presents challenging career opportunities to young engineers, helping to built the fastest growing major city in the nation. Our starting salary is $776 a month. In addition to excellent salary, we offer job rotation and tuition reimbursement. Arrange with the Placement Office to talk with our engineering representative who will be on campus Dec. 1, 1967. vv -What T n n y Haul csoovo mo Day t? n L! i. 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