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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1966)
Going to Graduate School? Plan Carefully, Be Selective Recommends Dean Tyler r.dUors Note: This is the second in a two part series on graduate education. This article deal* with some of the things students must consider in choosing a graduate school. By BOB CARL Managing Editor So you want to go to graduate* school? Then plan carefully and be selective. As Dean of the University's Graduate School Leona Tyler stresses, students must take great care in choosing their institutions of graduate study. First, the potential graduate student should try to find out about a number of different graduate schools. One way to carry out this cursory investi gation is to consult the book. "A Guide to Gradu ate Study.” which can be found in almost any library on campuses throughout the country. The book is also available in the University Graduate School Office in Johnson Hall. This guide to graduate study offers the follow ing information: • A short history of each institution that offers advanced degrees, • Admission requirements for graduate study, • Where to apply, • Tuition, fees, and first-year aid • Fields of study in which advanced degrees can be earned. This information should assist a prospective graduate student in choosing what schools to apply to, or to write to for further information Dean Tyler suggests that students ought "to apply to from three to five graduate schools" She told the Emerald that students ought to pirk schools that they want to attend and where they meet the qualifications “Don’t just apply to 13 or 20 schools indiscriminately,” Dean Tyler cautions. APPROVED TESTS Once a .student has narrowed his choice of schools, ‘ the most important consideration is probably the faculty,” Dean Tyler said. This is because the quality of graduate educa tion. as any other education, depends on the quality of the faculty i>ean Tyler also said that it is important to look closely at the department in the graduate school in which the student is interested. Kind out "what the department specializes in,” she said One means of checking on the national reputa tion of the department, which is always important, is "to look ai the approved lists put out by pro fessional societies,” said Dean Tyler. She also suggests that prospective students should try to find out about the students they will he studying with in the various graduate schools. "This will be hard to do,” Dean Tyler said; but said it should be possible to check with students who have attended the school in Question. Doan Tyler said that another means of finding out about graduate schools and their depart ments’ emphasis is to check the school catalogs. Naturally, students should write to schools they arc interested in attending to request a school catalog and any other pertinent information as early as possible. According to Dean Tyler, the “University of Oregon’s standards” for entrance to graduate school are fairly typical. Students need a 2.75 grade point average to be admitted to the Uni versity Graduate School. If their grade average is below that level, students must complete 12 hours of graduate level work with a straight B average before they can be accepted as degree candidates in the Graduate School. These 12 hours of B-levcl work must be earned within the first 36 hours of post-graduate work. University graduate students must take either j the Miller Analogies Test or the Graduate Record Examinations—depending upon what department they are studying in—before they can receive j their master's degree. These tests are also re quired at other iastitutions which offer graduate level education. SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS Both of these tests are primarily scholastic aptitude exams. Although talking about graduate education in general. Dean Tyler didn’t neglect the opportun ity to speak out for the fast-growing University Graduate School. The University graduate program has grown both in size and national reputation during the past few years. Dean Tyler attributes the growth in reputation to the increasing number of "excel lent faculty members” who are hired at the Uni versity each year. Graduate students now comprise more than one fifth of the student population at the Univer sity; this is probably due to the fact that stu dents need a more specialized education to pre pare them for their chosen careers. "The growth trend in size and prestige will keep up” at the University, Dean Tyler said, be cause of "our good faculty.” She also noted that the large grants the Uni versity has received during the past few years has enabled the Graduate School to expand. EWEB Regulator Triggers Blackout, Dormitory Raids Tests of a voltage regulator by the Eugene Water and Electric Board apparently triggered Mon day's Half hour campus blackout. Archie Mammon, power plant superintendent at the University's Physical Plant, said EWEB was working on the voltage regulator when human error caused a “surge of power” through lines to the University that caused the blackout. Physical Plant Superintendent I I Wright said EWEB switched the equipment over to manual control, which caused the sharp rise in voltage. “This caused a change in current, which tripped a switch that cut our power off why tweeze when there is a permanent way? We can free you of all un wanted hair from face, arms, legs . . . PERMANENTLY. Make an appointment for a personal consultation with our specialist. No obligation, of course. Lenore Liebreich Suite 30? Tiffany Bldg. 8th & Willamette Call 345-6844 _ from the wrater board," he ex plained. The University’s turbines weren’t enough to handle the load and the lights went out EWEB has been providing the campus with power since the Physical Plant had a major breakdown in October. Byron Taylor, deputy director of EWEB told the Eugene Regis ter-Guard that the “voltage fluc tuation" could not have caused a prolonged outage. No Complaints But Mammon pointed out that the power was only off for half an hour—from 10:30 p.m. to 11 p in.—and “it takes a little time to get a power plant going again when it’s shut off completely.” Wright said that “Some key people didn't get called as soon as they should have. 1 don't know why.” Meanwhile, there will apparent ly be no repercussions on the events that occurred during the blackout Tuesday night. Men stu dents gathered outside girls' dor mitories, illuminated the sides of the dorms with lights, and chant ed for the girls to throw down their underwear. Some of the girls complied. Dan Williams, director of dorm itory personnel, said the only physical damage that occurred from the riots was a small broken window pane on the first floor of Carson Hall, in the lounge area. No girls live on first floor Carson. “I’m sure it was accidental,” Williams said. “I don’t think any body was trying to cause damage. The infirmary reported no in juries and the office of Associate Dean of Students Francis B. Nick erson said no complaints have been filed under the Student Con duct Code. Williams said that, as far as he knows, no action has been planned against the stu dents. Williams branded as “rumor" stories that some boys reached the second floor of Carson Hall and that one girl was carried from a girls dorm to Earl Hall, a men’s complex, in her nightgown. “We've had no reports of any thing like that,” Williams said. "I’m sure one of us would have noticed it.” Williams Philosophical He said that as soon as the lights went out all girl’s dormi-1 tories were locked. Some dorms had boys inside with dates when the lights went out. Williams said that these boys were asked to leave if a crowd began to gather outside. Williams was philosophical about the whole thing. “This sort of thing is bound to happen when the lights go out. I thought they were a reasonably congenial crowd considering the circum stances. I thought our counselors did a good job.” One counselor climbed up on a landing on Haw thorne Hall to lead one youth down. "This is just speculation,” said Williams, “but if the lights had stayed off much longer, some peo ple might have gotten braver.” Reserves Not Exempt From Draft Induction Enlisting in reserve units is no longer an alternative to the Draft, it was learned Monday. Sprague Carter, Oregon Selec tive Service director made the announcement. Effective Monday, a potential inductee must join the regular Army, Navy, Air Force, or Ma rines for active duty in order to avoid the draft. No explanation was offered for the restriction, hut it is reported that nearly all reserve units in the nation have backlogs of men who have signed up to avoid in duction. Estimate of the total backlog is approximately 100,000. Oregon’s draft quota for Febru ary is 193. compared with 342 for January. But Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the Selective Service, has been quoted as saying that the na tional call will be increased from just under 30,000 in January to as much as 50,000 or 60,000 a month by June. Mass Cheating Scandal Erupts MIAMI (AP)—A mass cheating scandal erupted Tuesday at the University of Miami with dis closure of a break-in at a pro fessor’s office and the theft of semester final examinations. University officials said copies of the exams were sold for as much as S40 each. An investiga tion may involve hundreds of stu dents, they said. “Three forms of the final exam ination of large survey courses were taken,” said William Butler, vice president of student affairs. Semester finals which began last Wednesday were scheduled to end Tuesday for the school’s 10, 000 undergraduates. But Armin Gropp, vice-presi dent for academic affairs, said. “There is a possibility that the examinations involved (Natural Science 101) will be voided and the students required to take them over.” The university said it would withhold names of students in volved in the affair. Confab Slates Morse Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon, will be one of the prin ciple speakers at the Northwest Drama Conference to be held Feb. 10, 11, and 12. at the Uni versity Theatre, on the Univer sity campus. Having frequently expressed i concern over the "cultural ex- j plosion,” Sen. Morse is coming to I the conference to discuss the the problems of government and 1 the arts. Previously, men facing the draft could escape by joining a reserve unit in any of the four branches of the armed services. According to press reports, training camps have been inun dated with draftees, creating a problem with the regular re servists. Hershey will discuss the selec tive service’s existing problems and future policies in a third— and final—regional conference in San Diego on Feb. 7 and 8. Six teen regional directors will meet with Hershey at that time. Shea Directs PR Research James M. Shea, director of University relations, is on sabba tical leave during winter term. He will be engaged in a research project for the American Col lege Public Relations Association. Shea will be at the national headquarters of ACPRA in Wash ington, D.C., where he will ad minister a research study on the organization and management of public relations and development programs in higher education. 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