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Week provides local fun, distant help
Editor’s note: Doug Crichton
and Rich Jernstedt are co
chairmen for World University
Service Week which begins to
day.
“To us so little, to them so
much.”
It sounds trite, but this week’s
activities for World University
Service (WUS) are set up so that
we at the University can have fun
while providing help for univer
sities of underdeveloped nations
around the world.
But what is WUS?
In nations where disease, pov
erty, and war prevent the develop
ment of an educational system.
WUS provides a helping hand.
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.
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A8UO or the University. However, the Emerald does present on
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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.
The structure would either
have to be pumped continuous
ly or built with super-strength
to withstand the pressure of the
water, a committee member
said.
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