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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1967)
Five Year Study Completed Old English Methods Junked An a result of a five year study by the Ore (ton Curriculum Study Center, “New English" has been born. "New English" is u new course f o r grades seven through 12, which junks existing methods and texts It attempts to bring the study of English up to date The center operated on a mil lion dollars in funds from the U.S. Office of Education, the Uni versity and the participating cities The five year contract for the study ended in August. It was discovered that three main problems plagued the pro gram. because of uncertainty on what English courses should contain, the program became a catch-all for such unrelated subjects as telephone manners and good study habits. Repetition Secondly there was no logical progression from year to year. This led to much material being related each year, while some areas were briefly touched. As Albert It Kitzhaber, direr tor of the project said, "English texts are out of date before they are printed." Kitzhaber felt that most secondary school teachers were out of touch with the ad vances in their field The “New English" is aimed at eliminating these faults. It builds on what the student has learned the previous year, and points to what he will learn the following year. Three Areas It is divided into three areas: literature, language and rhetoric. Each of these areas can be sub divided and studied on levels varying from simple to sophisti cated. The literature program focuses on literary works for their own sake. The study of history or other areas, which come into play in the works, is not stressed The kernel sentence is the ba sis for the language study. The kernal sentence is the simple declarative sentence, and accord ing to the study, all other sen Grads Apply Now For Fellowships Inquiries about the Danforth Graduate Fellowships are invited front any eligible student who did not apply and submit to an inter view, during the 1967 spring term. Inquiries should be made by October 4 of either Dean William Handy or Dean Glenn Starlin in the ollice of the College of Lib eral Arts, 114 Friendly Hall. The Fellowships, offered by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri, are open to seniors or recent graduates of accredited colleges in the United States, who have serious interest in college teaching as a career, and who plan to study for a Ph.D. in a field common to the undergradu ate college. Approximately 120 Fellowships will be awarded in March, 1968. Candidates must be nominated by liaison officers of their under graduate institutions by Novem ber 1, 1967. The Foundation does not accept direct applications for the Fellowships. Danforth Graduate Fellows are eligible for four years of finan cial assistance, with a maximum annual living stipend of $2400 for single Fellows and $2950 for married Fellows, plus tuition and fees. Dependency allowances arc available. Financial need is not a condition for consideration. "We record anything recordable" • special events • discs & tapes • albums # music programs STUDENT RATES! Lowe Recording Services Call anytime 345-4153 P.O. Box 535 896-3212 Eugene tencex can be derived from it. Spelling and punctuation have also been re-vamped. For example, it may help the student to know that beat and beet were once pronounced dif ferently, and hence their are dif ferent spellings for the same sound. The rules of punctuation are not stressed as much as their functional value. The comma, for instance, represents a slight pause in our speech. Rhetoric is the study of get ting ideas across to other human beings. The "New English” says Student Petitions Required Thursday Several student positions are still open on University student faculty committees, according to ASUO President Scott Karleigh. Petitions for the following com mittee jiositions are due no later than Thursday. They may be turned in at the ASUO office on the third floor of the SU. Inter views will begin Monday. The committees are: Academic Occasions; Building and Grounds: Student Court; Student Con duct; Student Publications Board; Student Traffic Court, and Ad visory Committee on Computer Registration. There is also one position open on Rally Board and five places each on the Elections Board and the Elections Court. Pending ASUO Senate confir mation three students have been named to the Assemblies and Lectures Committee. They are Bob Bartlett, Steve Carlson and Tony llazapis. 26 Students Study In Netherlands Twenty-six male students have arrived in The Netherlands to begin a year of study under a University exchange program now in its third year. The American students will study international business edu cation through next June at the Netherlands Institute for Foreign Kepresentation <NOIB) while 22 Dutch students take courses at the University School of Business Administration. Applications are now being ac cepted for the 1968-6® exchange program in The Netherlands. Business administration majors from the University and other universities, who will be within 15 term hours of junior standing by fall term, 19ti8, are eligible. Applications Available For Foreign Grants Applications for foreign study grants available under the Ful bright-Hays Act must be filed by October 31. University stu dents may obtain applications from Kenneth Ghent, campus Fulbright adviser. Candidate requirements in clude U.S. citizenship at the time of application, a bachelor’s de gree or its equivalent by the beginning date of the grant, and in most cases, proficiency in the language of the host country. Selections will be made on the basis of academic and/or profes sional record, feasibility of the applicant’s study plan, and per sonal qualifications. Tickets Available For Film Series Season tickets are now avail able for “The World Around Us” series beginning October 3. The programs are being pre sented again this year by the SU Hoard. This series presents notable personalities presenting color mo tion picture programs on world knowledge. Further information on the series and tickets may be obtained by calling University ex tension 1921. Use Emerald Classified Ads that communication is more im-' portant than correctness. When writing papers for school in the ‘‘New English" the stu dent is constantly reminded that! his work is read by someone, and should be written with that in mind. The writing of meaningless papers on "what I did last sum mer” has ended. College professors, and some 200 teachers and other personnel of Die school systems in eight Oregon and Washington com munities, worked on the study. Joint teams of University peo ple and secondary school teachers worked up the pilot programs which were tested in actual con ditions in the schools. The results were studied, the courses were rewritten, and sent back for re trial. After five years, materials in cluding a detailed outline of the curriculum, a 52-volume set of experimental textbooks, detailed Chorale Spots Open All interested students are in vited to audition for openings in University choral groups, accord ing to John Gibbens, administra tive assistant at the School of Music. Openings are available in Uni versity Chorale, University Sing ers, Mens Glee Club, Opera Workshop, and laboratory chorus. All voice ranges are needed. The auditions are held daily at 112 Music from 8:30 to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Professor Named CFA W. Scott Bauman, associate professor of finance at the Uni versity, has been named a char ter financial analyst (CFA) by the Institute of Charted Finan cial Analysts. He is the first educator on the West Coast to receive the designation and is one of four persons in Oregon to hold the honor. teachers manuals, supplementary instructional materials, and a body of tests were completed, and turned over to U.S.O.E. Kitzhabcr said, if the material I comes into general use, it will I make some college freshman and sophomore English courses obso-; lete. Two Exhibits Open In Museum of Art Works of art from the Museum j of Art's Rental-Sales Gallery and ! an exhibition of paintings and constructions by Northwest ar tists Robert Coghill and Bert Garner will be up through Oct. 15 in the University’s Museum of Art. Paintings, graphics, sculpture, and ceramics, all by Pacific Northwest artists, are included in the Rental-Sales Gallery exhibits, which is a special feature of the Museum of Art, operating in or der to provide rental or sale of art objects to members of the Friends of the Museum. Coghill and Garner, both grad uates of the Museum Art School in Portland, and both currently working in the Northwest, are exhibiting works in acrylic on can vas and constructions created from a variety of materials. 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