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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1966)
Rating Form to Be Tested This Term By I'llII, SKMAH Associate Kdltor A student sponsored course rat ing form will be tested again this winter and will probably be administered spring term as the basis for a rating booklet to be sold next fall. The ASUO's course rating com mittee has evaluated results of a limited fall term test of their form and has devised what will probably be the final form Committee chairman Roger Leo says that the form will be tested again in the last weeks of this term. The committee will then edit for any final changes and administer it in all classes spring term. Tabulated During Summer Results will be tabulated dur ing the summer and a booklet will be printed for sale fall term. At present the ASUO commit tee is operating separately from one appointed by University 1’residcnt Arthur S. Flemming. Leo said Monday that the only Morrison to Talk At Drama Confab Jack Morrison, consultant in theatre for the Division of Arts arid Humanities of the Depart ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, will speak at the North west Drama Conference at the University Theatre. He will speak on 'The Arts and Humanities Program in the U S. Office of Education" at 8 30 a m. today. Morrison is an associate profes sor of theatre arts at the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles and has been active in the pro fessional as well as the educa tional theatre. Morrison is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the Ameri can Educational Research Associ at ion, and the board of gover nors of the American Playwright’s Theatre, lie has written articles for "The Quarterly Journal of Speech" and the "Educational Theatre Journal." JIM ANTHONY (I.E.) of the ’60 Bethlehem "Loop” Course is engaged in operations research in the Industrial Engineering Department of the nation’s largest steel plant. He's typical of young men on the move at Bethlehem Steel. Seniors and graduate students in engineering and non-technicdl curricula will soon be interviewed for the 1966 Bethlehem Loop Course. We offer splendid career opportunities in steel plant operations, research, sales, mining, accounting, and other activities. For detailed information, nick up a copy of our booklet, "Careers with Bethlehem Steel and the Ix>op Course,” at your Placement Office. An Equal Opportunity Employer in the Plans for Progress Program BETHLEHEM STEEL bethiehem STEt JHIUIUUIIIIIUU i connection between the two com mittees is that there are mem bers of the ASUO committee serving on Flemming’s group. Flemming’s committee will pre sumably devise its own form, also for use spring term. Hut that form won't be used for a booklet. Instead, the ratings will go to the University presi dent for use in determining fac ulty promotion and tenure deci sions for the 19d7-f(8 school year. Flemming says the ratings would probably not affect decisions for next year except in "borderline” cases. Flemming makes final recom mendations to the State Board of Higher Education on promotion, tenure and salaries. These are generally approved as recom mended. The ASUO form is aimed at helping students and faculty, ac cording to I^eo. Objective Means "We hope it will provide stu dents with an objective means of determining whether courses offer what they want,” he says. He emphasizes that the form is a course evaluation form, not a faculty evaluation form, as it is usually called "We're trying to be fair to the faculty,” he says. He also hopes the form will "let faculty members know what students think about their course and what suggestions they have for improvement.” He says the form is designed to evaluate the students’ reaction to the course. That was essentially the same goal that Steve Smith, Leo’s pre decessor as chairman of the com mittee, had in mind when he took over the program last spring. Smith ran the new form through its first two tests before he left the committee. Made One Change The committee under Leo has made one change from Smith’s plans. "Steve got involved in rat ing the students." says Leo. What Smith proposed was a composite student rating based on gpa, class, grade in the course, etc. These ratings would place stu dents in three groups: above average, average, and below aver age. There would be three rat ings for each faculty member in the final published booklet, Arena Theatre Slates 'School for Scandal' "School for Scandal,” the clas sic comedy by Richard Sheridan, will be dramatized at the Univer sity’s Arena Theatre at 8 p.m. Feb. 17, 18, and 19. The comedy satirizes 18th cen tury society—a society in which the only sin was the sin of dull ness. Tickets, priced at $1.50, will go on sale to the public at the UT box office Monday noon. Seating in the Arena Theatre is on a first come-first served basis, although tickets may be reserved in advance. The Arena Theatre is located on the main floor of Villard Hall. one for each student group. The present form still rates students but Leo says these rat ings will be used only to “cull out” those who throw the sample oir. The form itself, devised by stu dents with faculty assistance, is a five page mimeographed ques tionnaire predominantly made up of multiple choice questions, "We may try to cut down the size” before the spring term rating, says Leo. Besides the student rating or “control” section the form also includes a section that delineates what kind of course it is. Goals Differ “Course goals differ,” Leo ex plains. “Some try to increase your general level of knowledge; others, your ability to critically judge facts; and other, your grasp of techniques.” Other areas of the form ask questions about the lectures, lab oratory and discussion sections, assigned reading, tests, and re action to the professor. There is also a section for “personal com ments." Dance Company To Give Concert Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, presented by the Uni versity’s 1966 Festival of Arts, will appear at 8 p.m. Saturday in the University Theatre. The concert is open to the public at no charge. Cunningham has been acclaim ed by critics as one of America’s most brilliant dancers and most challenging choreographers of the avant-garde movement. His in tensity of performance, the seri ousness and discipline of his company, and the consistent in vention of his choreography com bine for dance that is notable for lucridity and brilliance. The program tentatively will include two dances that have re ceived wide notice: '’How To Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run,” with music by avant-garde composer John Cage, and “Winterbranch,” with music by LaMonte Young. Cage is musical director for Cunningham’s company. David Tudor is pianist and sound sys tems director. Cage and Tudor will make two other appearances at the Univer sity this week, as part of the Festival of Arts. Both events are open to the public. Cage and Tudor will give a seminar on contemporary music at 4 p.m. today in 202 Music. PL-3 Program 6:30 HCNTLEY BRINKLEY REPORT 7 .00- SEVEN DAYS: A roundup of the week** campus news 7 .30 THE ART OF SEEING: < Repeat) 8:00 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS 8:30 JAZZ CASVAL: The blues as per formed by Jimmy Witherspoon, Ben Webster ami the Vince Guaraldi Trio. 9:00 PSYCHOLOGY FILM: “Social Animal" 9:30 NORTHWEST DRAMA CON FERENCE (Special): discussion of today's theater by participants in the University's drama conference. 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