Students set own pace in
psychology course
By ART BUSHNELL
Of the Emerald
“The teaching methods that will
be used in Psychology 212 will
be different from those to which
you have been accustomed.”
With this line from the introduc
tory sheet to his course, Prof. Wil
liam Sheppard sums up the tech
niques utilized in his introductory
course in the Psychology of
Learning.
Sheppard’s course is quite a de
parture from the normal large -
lecture introductory course.
The course is not tightly struc
tured around reading assignments
and midterms.
Instead, the student is allow
ed to progress at his own rate.
The amount of progress each stu
dent makes in the course’s text
book determines his grade. If the
book is completely finished, the
student receives an A, half-way
completed a C.
Biafra statement set
by Nigerian students
Nigerian University students
plan to have a riine-point state
ment in circulation today, outlin
ing their position on the recent
end of the 32-month,old civil war
between Nigeria and Biafra.
The Eugene chapter of the Ni
gerian Students’ Union in the
Americas (NSUA) has issued a
statement supporting construc
tive reconciliation and peace be
tween the two countries.
The statement will be used to
clarify the Eugene group’s views
on the war and hopefully to start
formal reconciliation meetings
with University Biafran students.
NSUA of Eugene has about 36
members who have maintained so
cial contact with the five or six
Biafran University students dur
ing the war.
The statement maintains that
Federal Nigeria was only left the
option of a military victory after
other strategies to end the war
failed and that victory was neces
Trial begins today
for Panther leader
Black Panther Tommy Ander
son will go on trial at 10 a.m.
today in circuit court on a charge
of assault with intent to kill. An
derson was arrested through a
grand jury indictment Nov. 14
and accused of shooting Law
rence Wilfred Wells Jr. of 1705
E. 15th in the arm on Oct. 26.
He was arrested during the No
vember Moratorium activities.
Defense lawyer is Keith Morrow
and prosecution lawyer is J. Pat
Horton.
Concert to feature
Richards Quintet
The Richards Quintet, a wind
chamber ensemble, will give a
concert at 8 p.m. today in the
School of Music Recital Hall spon
sored by the ASUO Cultural Di
vision.
The quintet, which makes fre
quent international appearances,
will feature Peter Mueller, Jean
Michel Damase, Hans Werner
Henze and Walter Piston.
Price of admission is $2 for Uni
versity students and faculty and
$2.50 for others.
sary to save the lives ot the re
maining Biafrans.
Nigerian students in the U.S.
plan to launch a drive to re-ad
mit Biafran students to the
NSUA, according to the state
ment.
Chinese begin
new publication
A new publication has appear
ed on campus.
This publication, printed in
Chinese, will be the official pub
lication of the Chinese Student
Association at the University.
The name of the periodical,
The Sound of Rain or Rainy
Sound is taken from a pair of
parallel sentences in the Ming
Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644).
Another reason for choosing
the name, according to the pub
lication, is because rain is a char
acteristic of Oregon weather and
so represents the University.
The main purpose of the pub
lication is to use it as a commu
nication tool which bridges the
gap between students and Chi
nese. It is also a place where
Chinese students can sound off
their ideas, suggestions, com
plaints and grievances.
The first issue of the periodi
cal includes news items of the
association, items of interest from
Taiwan and Hong Kong, editorial
policy of the publication and
some feature stories.
The publisher, editor and staff
are all students from either Tai
wan and Hong Kong. There are
more than 230 Chinese students
at the University from these two
places.
The next issue of the publica
tion will come out on Feb. 4.
The Lane Memorial Blood Bank needs
the following types of blood for its
special account which serves the facul
ty, students, and staff of the University.
Donor hours: 1:30 to 4 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday and Thursday; by appoint
ment on Friday, 3 to 7 p.m. Please
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sneppara outlines tne turtner
reasons for the unique class struc
ture, “Traditional teaching meth
ods involving lectures and in
frequent examinations often vio
late much of what we know about
how to arrange the most efficient
conditions for learning to take
place. In the design of a course
that utilizes some of the basic
principles of learning it is nec
essary to employ a different meth
od of instruction.”
Students do not simply read
the book.
They must discuss what they
have read with another student
or with a graduate student teach
ing assistant. After a student ade
quately discusses a part of the
text, he must also listen to anoth
er student discuss the same por
tion.
In this way each student spends
most of his class time working on
a one-to-one basis.
“This course will attempt to
provide individualized instruction
within the framework of edu
cation,” says the introduction to
the class.
As each student progresses at
his own rate through the course,
there will be no penalty for a
section of the reading he doesn’t
understand. He simply goes over
the material until he knows what
the book says. As the introduc
tion says, “. . . each version must
be passed at a high level of com
petence.”
Besides providing a new meth
od of instruction, Sheppard feels
the setup of the course has an
other advantage.
He feels that the utilized meth
od is one which results in much
more retention than massed learn
ing.
“It takes time to incorporate
new concepts anu mucn icaumig
goes on between study times
when you think over course ma
terials casually. Also spaced learn
ing allows for a leisurely ap
proach to learning in which there
is time to mull over a matter,
consider a problem and apply the
knowledge to one’s own life or
course,” explains the course in
troduction.
Program to center on
Black history, unrest
Black history and racial prob
lems on college campuses will be
topics of two video-tapes to be
shown on PL-3 this month.
The tapes, entitled “Black his
tory” and “Color Us Black,” are
part of University Sociology Pro
fessor Steven Deutsch’s class on
“American Society” and will be
shown this Friday and next
Wednesday in lieu of regular
class meetings.
“Black History” is a CBS pro
duction narrated by Bill Cosby
and will be shown on the Uni
versity operated station at 10:30
a.m. Friday.
“Color Us Black” concentrates
on the 1968 student strike at
Howard University, a predomi
nantly Black institution in Wash
ington, D.C., and will be shown
next Wednesday, also at 10:30
a.m.
PL-3 is the University owned
and operated television station
which can be seen on cable chan
nel 10.
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