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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1969)
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Since its organization, resulting from the World Student Christian Federation of 1895, WUS has help ed the international student and faculty community in more than 60 countries. Funds from WUS are directed in the areas of lodging, health, educa tional facilities and activities, and individual and emergency aid. This has included building and furnishing dormitories, health cen ters and libraries. WUS finds or provides scholarships and jobs for students in their particular coun tries or in other countries. For example, here is how $100 contributed to WUS might be spent. • $17.54 Three meals a day for 70 days for a girl in a hostel in Fiorina, Greece. • $8.68 Two weeks hospitaliza tion for a Japanese student in a TB sanitarium. • $10.00 Two weeks mainten ance of an Algerian student in a refugee camp. • $14.00 Room for two months in a Korean WUS hostel. • $16.00 Two weeks room and board for a girl in Utkal University in Cutlack, India. • $16.38 Two week’s full tui tion, room and board, and a work scholarship for a refugee student in Hong Kong. • $17.40 A scholarship for a Korean refugee student. No wonder so many American universities use “To us so little, to them so much” as their WUS theme. WUS has consistently been con sidered by politicians, educators, and businessmen as one of the most worthwhile activities undertaken by American college students. Senator Mark Hatfield, for one, said: “World University Service is to be heartily commended for its fine efforts in the field of education throughout the world. Their as sistance has meant much, not only to individual universities, but also to the people and the countries fortunate enough to benefit from these contributions.” WUS is an opportunity for stu dents to provide a helping hand to students who must study by candle light from mimeographed text books and sleep in unheated and unfurnished rooms. Biology departme nt: Suffering from intellectual growing pains' Editors note: Tiiis is the sec ond in a series on what various departments are studying and planning for the upcoming Uni versity-wide convocation. To day's story is on the biology department. By GIL JOHNSON Of the Emerald “The biology department suf fers from intellectual adoles cense. But those departments which don’t have similar grow ing pains are keeping both feet firmly in the past.” That statement was made hv Frank Stahl, professor of bi ology, and he recognizes its im plications. Along with associate professor John Fentress and a number of students he lias or ganized a class to study the problems of the biology depart ment. One of these is the dilemma of teaching versus research. “Biology is a fast moving sci ence,” Stahl told the Emerald Tuesday, “There has been a profound revolution in biology in the past 10 years. That rate is faster than most people can adapt to.” Thus, he says, it is necessary for a good teacher to do ex tensive research, even if it cuts into his teaching time. He sees the situation made worse by the current emphasis on graduate education. “Grad uate schools now occupy the same position that undergrad Speakers sought for public relations The ASHO Public Relations Bureau (PRB) is looking for students interested in opening lines of communication between the University community and the state. Student speakers will be sent to service clubs, high schools and chambers of commerce to accomplish this goal. Oregon daily EMERALD Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the Emerald and no not necessarily represent the opinions of the A8UO or the University. However, the Emerald does present on this pane columnists and letter writers whose opinions reileet those of our diverse readership and not those of the Emerald itself. RON EACIIUS, Editor RICH JERNSTEDT Business Manager Associate Editors Cindy Boydstun Rick Fitch Stnn notion Chris HougHim Gil Johnson Doug Onyon Steven Smith Jaqi Thompson DOUG CRICHTON ELLEN EMRY Advertising Manager National Advertising Manager University of Oregon, Eugene, Monday, April 21. 1969 ANNUAL EUROPE JET CHARTER FLIGHTS June 7 — Aug. 6 — $269 June 15 — Sept. 21 — $275 June 21 - Aug. 27 - $320 July 28-Sept. 15-$310 Aug. 23-Sept. 23-$310 Sept. 20 One Way-$175 One-Way Flights Available For Further Information Call or Write BEA COUCHMAN 24431* Willamette, Eugene Oregon S740J 344-219* NAMEADDRESS yXY_STATE_RHONE_ uate schols used to 50 years ago,” he said. ‘•The legislature has never made a financial recognition of this fact,” he adds. Because no money comes from the state for graduate edu cation, Stahl says, the Univer sity has been getting funds for it by diluting undergraduate education, and by relying on federal research grants. The result. Stahl explained, is that biology has been getting better labs and better trained teachers from the federal aid, but that teaching has suffered. “The most important thing,” Stahl said, “is that students be able to talk with their teach ers.” Asked about the prospects for independent study to light en the load of the faculty, Stahl replied, “some people are work ing for this to the point that its damaging their health.” Individual lab work, he said, takes a tremendous amount of time from the teacher. “You don’t want to steer the student, but you have to keep an eye on him. It’s like helping a child grow,” he said. The departmental study class, according to Stahl, will examine these problems in light of the goals of the department. To determine just what students and faculty think the aims of department should be, students in the class are formulating a questionnaire. In addition, each student in the class has been asked to write a paper on what problems he sees in the biology depart ment. From those papers, the following points were made: • Emphasis upon analytical training. What are the steps the biology department is tak ing to help people think, as opposed to routine training? • Tying together the cur riculum. How does the depart ment handle various aspects of analysis so that students can relate what is learned in one course to what is learned in another? • Different methods of teaching. What is the best way to transmit information to stu dents? Are the department’s techniques successful? • Requirements. Given a core curriculum, how does one determine what it should be? Why not give students more freedom, instead of molding them? • Official department policy. How does a student find out what it is? The class meets each Tues day at 5 p.m. Students wishing to get involved in it may call Frank Stahl, ext. 1484, or John Fentress, 1445. Committee moves to close 13th Ave. More discussion last week on University - related traffic pat terns led the University Campus Development Committee to call for a motion to be consid ered at the committee’s next meeting. The proposed motion will re affirm the University policy that 13th Ave. must be closed no matter what alternative plans are considered for traffic pat tern development. Possible plans include wid ening Franklin Boulevard, building a new overpass and freeway along the north side of the Willamette which would eliminate Franklin Blvd., and upgrading the 18th and 19th Ave. couplet to carry a heav ier traffic load. Graduate student in architec ture Halim Halim presented al ternate plans for northward ex pansion involving either over - passing Franklin Blvd. or de pressing Franklin Blvd. One drawback to depressing Franklin is the cost of deal ing with the water table be neath the boulevard, another member remarked. 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