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the students and to assist him
in working out his college pro
gram for the year. And though
there are a number of profes
sors who take this job seriously,
realize the responsibility it en
tails, there are also too many
who just don’t care.
There are three types of un
helpful professors:
(1) those who haven’t got the
time, or don’t take it, and cheer
fully sign the student’s program
regardless of whether he has
scheduled his requirements or
camp cookery. This for the
lower division student results in
chaos. He either finds out his
senior year that he has hours of
requirements to fulfill or he
finds himself in a course for
which he is totally unadapted.
(2) Those who are so utterly
biased that unless the student
takes the course the adviser
thinks is right, the professor
will not sign the program. May
be for the professor’s capabili
ties, the course would be fine,
but for some student who has
no interest or capabilities in
that field, it is from nowhere.
So the student may find himself
in an upper division history
course when he is interested in
biology. .
(3) Then, last but not least,
there is the well-meaning pro
fcssor who isn’t too sure about
the requirements. For him, I'd
present a bulletin listing all re
quirements and require him to
write them 100 times on the
blackboard.
There will always be some
students who will not make a
2.00. They may be working,
goofing around, or get married
during mid-term week. But if
some professors would take
more time and thought in help
ing\ realize their responsibility,
and recognize that each student
is an individual, I believe there
would be less worry about peg
ged grades and more students
finding their niche in the aca
demic world.
TODAY’S STAFF
Assistant Managing Editor: Vio
Fryer.
Desk Editor: Marjory Bush.
Copy Desk: Helen Jackson, Liz
Trullinger, Marcille Wallace, Bill
Bender.
Who gets most of our
customer’s dollar?
1. The owners? No. Last year, Union Oil’s
stockholders got 10 million dollars in dividends
from the company’s operations. Divided among
36,120 preferred and common stockholders, this
amounted to an average of $278 per owner.
2. The employees? Guess again. Union Oil’s
employees got 34'A million dollars in salaries,
wages and benefits out of the money the company
took in. Divided among our employees, this
amounted to an average of $4,600 apiece.
3. The tax collector? Right. Federal, State
and other governmental agencies collected almost
47 million dollars from the money Union Oil Com
pany took in during 1948- 4 times as much as the
owners got. 1 /3 more than the employees got..
4* In the last analysis...that money was
yours, not oura. For gasoline taxes alone added
25% to 40% to the price of Union Oil’s 76 gasoline
—depending on the tax rate in the community
where you bought it. Wiping out all the profits
paid to Union Oil owners in dividends, on the
other hand, would have lowered the price of our
petroleum products only per gallon.
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