dailF°£merald %my An Independent Student Newspaper Vol. 77, No. 4 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Thursday, July 10,1975 EMU employe Cora Fisher serves up beer as fast as she can pour. I*T>| ha i .. » ■ rTKjios oy warren Morgan Beer is here Wednesday afternoon, you’re strolling by the EMU courtyard next to the dining room and what is that you see? No, it's not a scene from your favorite tavern but the EMU courtyard turned beer garden. From 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday beer was served for 30 cents a glass. The beer garden is scheduled to repeat the next two Wednesdays at the same times, according to Adell McMil lan, EMU director. Following that, she said, a decision win be made on whether it will continue. Faculty ponders low FTE hours dilemma By MONTE ENBYSK Of the Emerald “Go out and tell every student to register for extra class hours next fall,” Bemd Crasemann, Univer sity professor of physics, said to an Emerald reporter before the executive committee meeting of the Faculty Senate Tuesday. One may have thought Crasemann was joking faceti ously, but he was serious. The committee fears a crises coming this fall. The projected student enrollment for fall term is “substantially” down, according to committee members, and so is the average number of hours each student is taking. “The University is budgeted on the basis of students taking 15 full-time equivalent (FTE) hours,” said John Lallas, executive dean to the president s office. “Not only is our projected enrollment for this fall substantially less than the en rollment budgeted for, but stu dents in the past four years have been taking a lesser number of hours and we expect this trend to continue." Lallas said that the average freshman load has “significantly diminished” to 14.74 hours a term, compared to the normal 15.3 hours a term needed for one to graduate in four years. “This figure may sound minute for just one student,” he con tinued, “but when multiplied by a large number of freshmen, the amount of money lost can be dis astrous.” Lallas said that the fall projec tion is now in the range of several hundreds of student credited FTE hours less than what was budgeted for. “It's very dose to a thousand,” added Harry Alpert, vice president for academic affairs. Alpert put such a possible loss of FTE hours into figures. “If the decrease of FTE hours students urged to carry more hours wny are students now generally taking less hours a term than in the past? ASUO Pres. Jim Bemau has been con cerned with this question for some time. A study on why students drop classes was conducted this past year by the MBA (Master of Business Administration) Consul tant Bureau of Business Research for the Of fice of Academic Affairs," he said. By MONTE ENBYSK Of The Emerald “This study dearly indicates two things. First, a student often drops a class because no information about it has been provided at re gistration time. He doesn’t know what he’s get ting into. "Second, larger classes usually provide more work for the student." , The study, he said, was based on a ques tionnaire mailed to 2,000 undergraduate stu dents and responded to by 572. The question naire was mailed in February of this year and the returns were assessed in April. "I’m against encouraging students to enroll in more hours by making the popular classes larger," Bernau said. "The larger class size, as this survey shews, forces more work on the student for the teacher to evaluate. There is much less interaction than in a smaller or normal-sized dass.” Bernau said he has five ideas to help en courage the students enrolled to take more hours. Applying these efforts, he said, would require a joint effort on the part of the Univer srty administration and the ASUO executive. They indude: •Furnishing a course syllabus booklet to students at registration time. This would give the contents, requirements and a detailed de scription of each class. •Making finandal aid more available to stu dents from middle-income families. •Reinstalling five credit hour classes in the University curriculum. •Giving a student two extra credit hours for taking on work outside a regular course’s re quirements. •Pushing for a more active career planning and placement program for a larger number of prospective occupational ties with students. “I stress the importance of considering these proposals before fall term begins," Ber nau said. continues in the manner we foresee,” he explained, “the Uni versity budget may be cut back $420,000 in the first biennium (two years). “For the second biennium, we may lose not only this amount (from student contributions in the form of tuition expenses), but state support, too, which could total around $1.7 million.” Lai las warned that the students themselves would be affected, with large increases in tuition and fees. The main purpose of the Tues day meeting was to discuss ways of helping remedy the situation. Recruiting more students for the fall would not help at this late date in the summer, Lallas told the committee. “We must concentrate now on encouraging the students already planning to enroll to take more hours.” A number of suggestions for doing this were discussed. The first was having a faculty desk at registration, where gui dance cotiid be offered on the spot to students who aren’t getting into the classes they seek. The desk personnel would also serve as ombudsmen. Another was giving the students extra class hours credit for taking on additional work such as re search papers, extra reading and things of this nature. A third idea, agreed upon by most of the committee members, was inserting additional sections for popular classes into the term schedule. These sections could be held in the afternoon or even ing. Crasemann noted that many students are unable to get classes they want because space prob lems force instructors to close them early in registration. “If only the areas of biggest de mand could be accommodated so we wouldn’t have to turn students away like this,’’ he said. It was generally agreed by the committee that more collaboration would be needed between de partments in scheduling the right-sized room for each class. “Most departments have been aware of the space need in the past,” said Don Rhoades, dean of student administrative services. “When they request a specified space, all is done to help them get it. But at times, things just don't balance out. “We are hopeful that additional sections for some classes will be offered in the afternoons and evenings,” he added. “Through the anticipation process, this would help appreciably bring up FTE hours and help the students get their first choice of classes.” ASUO Pres. Jim Bemau said he felt the five-hour class should be reinstalled in the University cur riculum, along with making a (Continued on Page2)