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.
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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
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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.
The study will attempt to de
termine the trends in change of
public affairs offices in institu
tions of higher education. Sur
veys will be made of changes
during the past ten years in an
effort to forecast trends during
the coming ten years, Shea said.
He will also be engaged in ac
tive field work for the project.
During Shea’s absence, Herb
Penny, information director, is
acting director of University re
lations.
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