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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1966)
Jobs Offered Through ISIS I.ast summer OOO teacher* anil students participated in the Jobs Abroad program originated by tbe International Student Infor mation Service (ISIS), a non profit organization headquartered ,n Brussel*, Belgium ISIS and it* American aililiate, the International Student Travel Center (ISTC), are organization* which provide Job* for students and teacher* who are interested in living and working abroad The ISIS ISTC Job* Abroad program wa* established in 1961. Most of the jobs are for tin skilled workers in construction, on farms, in factories, hospitals, hotels and restaurants, as moth ,.r , helpers and camp counsel lors Salaries range from $50 a month (including room and board) to $200 a month Average pay is $100 a month and although low by American wage standards, it is usually more than enough to pay living expenses while in Eu rope The salaries are the same as those paid to local employees doing the same job Although participants are re cjuired to pay their own transpor tation costs when they join the Jobs Abroad program, it i* pos sible for a student to earn his round trip transatlantic fare by being a campus representative for ISTC ISIS These two organiza lions are the only ones which guarantee a job abroad to anyone who is accepted as a participant Members are also entitled to many extra free service*. A copy of the new 32-page Jobs Abroad magazine is on hand at your Placement Office, or your language department, or your school library. For further de tails on the Jobs Abroad program, write to ISIS, 133 Hue Hotel Dcs Monnaies, Bruxelles 6, Belgium Warren Appointed Library Archivist The appointment of George E. Warren to a new position of ar chivist on the University Library staff is announced by Librarian Carl W. liintz. Warren, who assumed the new position Jan. 1, is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he also received the Master of Arts degree. He is presently a doctoral candidate in history (American Studies) at the Uni versity of Denver. Warren has also attended institutes in the preser vation and administration of ar chives and in records manage ment at American University, Washington, I) C. He has had a wide experience in the archival field, having been employed by the State of Colo ratio as Assistant State Archivist from 1953 to 1904, and as Rec ords Consultant in 1965. At the University, Warren will work with Martin F. Schmitt, cu rator of special collections in the Library, in the development of the University's archival program McCall to Hold Press Confab Oregon Secretary of State Tom McCall will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. today at Harris Hall near the Lane County Courthouse. McCall is expected to announce his candi dacy for tho 19<i2 gubernatorial race. Dorm Tax ... (Continued from page 1) year by the students who then resided in Dyment Halls. They wrote a letter to the Emerald protesting that they had been “taxed arbitrarily without our given consent.” Last year the charge was $.55. Kingslien told the Emerald Tuesday that his unit had every intention of refusing to pay; Could said that all units would have to pay. Both sides appar ently consider the matter closed. The Frosh Snoball—paid for or not—is scheduled for Jan. 29. Only Small Schools Experiment Few Challenge Grade System r.miur K NOM* . * m1* H*cond in a ******* of three article* on K liiiK *y*t« ms and grading experiment* in the nation’s colleges. By KATHYKN SKDKKBKKG , Collegiate Press Service tir,ri!n.'L W't‘'Mu'Tl/l,ssatisfaf'ti',n wilh current grading prac . y a handful of small colleges has implemented evaluation systems which minimize or eliminate grades. A survey of 54 uni versities and hheral arts colleges in 1SHH revealed that 43 use the c iriventional letter grades, five use numerical grades, three use special letter grades (such as H, S and U), two issue no grades except for colli ge uki* and one issue* grades only after graduation. Among the schools reporting a modified type of grading system were Honda Presbyterian, Heed, Bennington and Sarah Lawrence. In ltMW, Florida Presbyterian was reporting five grades for freshmen, ranging from II (for honors) to U (unsatisfactory). This would he reduced to four grades for sophomores, and by 1»67, the school hoped to issue three grades which would be reported only to the registrar and advisers after the student’s sophomore year. Keed ( ollege makes use of conventional grades, but the student New Procedure Aids Counseling Students who indicated during fall term registration that they want assistance in planning their careers will he contacted under a new procedure set up by the University Counseling Center, in cooperation with other campus agencies. J. Spencer Carlson, Counseling Center director, says the proce dures do not involve the estab lishment of new services, but are designed to identify for the stu Student Destroys Registration Cards A torn up draft card and en rollment packet are posted on the SU bulletin board A note is attached, reading "This could be you." ltichard B Miller, draft No 48 844 48, is a sophomore at the Uni versity from Los Angeles. Mon day, Miller completed registering for 16 hours of classes and paid his fee of $110, but the day was a complete waste. All the time spent in lines waiting to regis ter for his physics classes, all the money paid for tuition, even the student body card, are no good any more. Now the whole packet of cards is torn in half The student body card is void. Why is the draft card there? Bichard B. Miller found out that he had completely registered for a Bichard Lee Miller. The note— "this could be you”—is posted for Richard Lee Miller if he sees it. Why is the draft card there? No reason—it was Richard B's 1964 card. Dougherty Publishes David M. Dougherty, professor of Romance languages, has pub lished a comparison of two works written a century apart, which deal with the same basic story. "The Girart de Vienne of Ber trand de Bar-Sur-Aube and that of the Cheltenham Manuscript: A Comparison” was published in Romance Notes, Vol. VI, No. 2, Spring. 1965. Campus Briefs Announcements for Campus Briefs must be turned in by 3:30 p.m. the day before publication. Because of space limitations, no announcements will be run more than twice. The Student* tor a Democratic Society will meet at 7:.U> |.,m. Thursday in the SI A menu the items on the anemia will he nominations for the ufficcts fot the quarter, discussion of activities for the group. and distribution of new material recently re ccivcd from thr regional and national offices Tin- Naval Reserve has extended the date f,„ accepting preliminary Reserve (HScei Candidate applications until Jan. .11. for in humation, call .U..' 1887, or stop in at the C S Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training ( enter, 15->l) West Uth Avenue. This program i- open for qualified sopho more and junior men enrolled in a full time Phi Theta Cpsilon will meet at -I p.m. to day ill the SC. Room will he posted. There will lie an important meeting for all Amphibians at 7 p.m. tonight at Leighton Campus Chapel Service of Worship for the I'niversitv community will be held from •I:.10 to 111:15 p.m. tonight at Wesley Kotin dation. I-Mti Kincaid. dents the kinds of services which j are now available to assist them ; in their occupational and educa- i tional planning, and to encour age the students to use the serv ices. The decision to establish the program was made in response to a survey of all University stu dents given during fall term reg istration. The survey indicated that about one-quarter of the student body, or about 3,000 stu dents, had not decided either on the type of work they wanted to be doing after graduation, or what their major should be. About two-thirds of this group indicated that they would be able to use some kind of help to as sist them in making these deci sions. Under the new program, stu dents will be invited to partici pate in advising and counseling procedures carried on by several different divisions of the Uni versity. For the first invitations the students will be divided into four different groups. These include: (1) all graduate students; (2) undergraduate students with no major but who have reported a tentative choice of major; (3) un , dergraduate students who have not reported the choice of a ten tative major, and those not fully satisfied with their present ma jor; (4) all students, exclusive of the above, who have not made an occupational choice, and have indicated that some form of as sistance would be helpful. Among undergraduates, priori ties will be given to juniors and seniors. Rosters of students in each of the major categories are being prepared by the Counsel ing Center, and Carlson said he hopes the program will be well under way this term. does not see them until after graduation. The grades are reported to advisers when the student needs counseling. Bennington and Sarah Lawrence have eliminated grades to em phasize growth in terms of individual ability and student interest. Carefully written evaluations which give a thorough analysis of the student’s progress are issued to the student at regular intervals. However, the advantages of this system are offset by the necessity of reporting grades to other institutions. For a student who is transferring or applying to graduate school, both of these colleges supply the conventional ratings. Another experimenting school is Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., which uses a modified grading system to encourage students to sample courses outside their major fields of interest. Under this system, a student may choose to be graded in the regular way or to receive simply a “pass” or “fail.” Thus a student majoring in the social sciences, for instance, may take a “foreign” course, such as art or music, without fearing the effect on his overall record. At the University of Minnesota, the General College has been trying several types of grading systems throughout the years. The most recent was an experiment last spring in which each student in the general art courses received an “A” at the end of the quarter. According to Prof. Louis T. Safer, who directed the experiment, its purpbse was to encourage individual creativity by eliminating a grade factor which might tend to make students overly cautious. The experiment was conducted in both lecture and laboratory classes, to encourage discussion, creativity, and individual re sponses, Safer said. In these respects, he judged the experiment to have been successful and hopes that it may be tried in other classes. Safer admitted, however, that certain classes lend themselves better to this type of unorthodox grading. In classes where it is necessary to memorize a certain body of facts, this type of grading would not be as effective. All of these systems emphasize the process of learning rather than striving for a letter reward. However, while overcoming the drawbacks of conventional grading, they create new problems of their own. (Part three will treat the problems of unusual grading systems and offer some suggestions.) 16 AA Students Receive Grants Sixteen scholarships for this term have been awarded in the School of Architecture and Al lied Arts. The awards are from four sources—the Ina McClung Art Scholarship fund, the Women’s Architectural League, the Ellen M. Pennell fund, and a John Phil lip Lee-Rich Bullis scholarship. Ina McClung Art Scholarships of $100, named in honor of the late Ina McClung, have been awarded: Charlene Wormington Green, Gwyneth Jones, Ronald Murphy, Gail Sigford, Fredric Wiebc, Peter Quaempts, Jonathan Ziady, Jerry Dodd, Vincent Bald assano, and Barbara Rollwagen. Three architecture scholarships from the Women’s Architectural League have been awarded: Ste ven A. Lee, Robert Klas, and Richard L. Mogel. These awards are $110 each. Ellen M. Pennell Scholarships in the amount of $110 each, went to John E. Larson and Gary Moye. The fund from which the scholar ships are awarded was a bequest of the late Ellen M. Pennell, for mer University Library staff member. Joseph Niesen has been award ed a $50 John Phillip Lee-Rich Bullis award. cDONALD ENDS SOON Todays Times — 5:00 — 7:35 — 10:10 The Biggest Bond of All! SEAN CONNERY IN IAN FLEMMINGS THUNDERBALL" TECHNICOLOR PAMAVtStON' _ ADULT PARKING EVENINGS Released thru UNITED ARTISTS 11th & Willamette > YAF YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM A CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS MEETING: 7:30 WED. JAN. 5 STUDENT UNION
