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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1978)
Learning center changes emphasis By ANN TRENEMAN Of the Emerald The Center for Self Development, a learning resource center located in Emerald Hall, is changing right along with the national trend, according to Jacqueline Bonner, director of the center. The center emphasizes teaching stu dents to “think independently” and to be come aware of their own learning process and ways to improve it, she says — a major attitude change among the college learning center around the country. Approximately 60 percent of all colleges have learning cen ters. The learning centers are slowly overcom Aids independent thinking ing tne prevalent attitude that learning aids are only for below average students, Bon ner says, stressing that any student can benefit and increase his or her learning capacity by taking advantage of the tools offered in learning centers. “Our thrust is to assist a student in getting a quality education, “Bonner says. “They’re paying the same amount of money for a mediocre one.” The center, established in 1973, provides academic tutoring, advising, career plan ning and peer counseling, and gives entire courses with credit for program particip ants. A student’s eligibility for the program is based on income criteria and previous academic record. Bonner stresses that although particip ants are tutored in individual class subjects, the emphasis is on teaching students to be aware of how they team and providing them with the communication skills to improve this process. “Our emphasis is on a student’s learning process instead of stuffing their heads full of content,” she says. She adds that different subjects require different kinds of communicating and leam of environmental concern By KATHLEEN MONJE Of the Emerald Herbicide spraying by helicopter will begin on 7,743 acres in the Siuslaw National Forest as soon as the weather permits, Forest Supervisor Larry Fellows an nounced late last week. The aerial spraying is intended to “re lease young conifer trees from competing vegetation” and to prepare sites for the planting of desired trees, a prepared Forest r Service statement said. The controversial spray 2, 4, 5-T, which contains dioxin or TCDD (used for defolia tion by the Army in Viet Nam), will be used on less than 20 percent of the acreage sprayed, Fellows aid. Fellows said the Siuslaw “has re evaluated its program” and will use 2,4,5-T only on those acres which cannot be effec tively treated with other chemicals or by other methods of control. The Lane County Audubon Society will present another program in its series on Alaskan and Hawaiian wilderness areas, as Congress considers legislation for wildlife and wilderness protection in the two states. “A Trip to Alaska” will be narrated by Otis Swisher, one of the founders of the Rogue Valley Audubon Society, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Centra! Presbyterian Church, 1475 Ferry St. University Pres. William Boyd has given his nod of approval to student partici pation in Sun Day, May 3. “In a state as environmentally aware as Oregon, it is appropriate that citizens gather to examine ways to utilize resources effec tively and creatively," Boyd said. Boyd said he hoped students interested in "solar power and other ecologically sound approaches to the nation’s energy problems" would find ways consistent with their academic responsibilities to take part in Sun Day programs. Volunteers who wish to help with Sun Day organization can receive college credit for their work. They should contact Lars Kahn in the Survival Center, Suite One of the EMU, phone 686-4356. The federal Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing in Port land Wednesday to determine which solid waste disposal facilities in the U.S. pose a threat to the environment and which do not. The day-long hearing a the Sheraton Portland Hotel will allow public input on criteria for such facilities — the proposal will have impact on existing and future land fills, open dumps, sludge-spreading sites and sewage treatment plants. ing and that is also a part of tutoring. Classes being taught through the center this term are Effective Learning Skills, Criti cal Thinking, Reading in College Subjects, Essay Wirting, Study reading, Advanced Vocabulary, Effective Listening Skills, De velopmental Reading III, Developmental Composition, Indiviaual Writing and Re search Writing. Bonner says teaching a student to think independently is particularly necessary today because of what she terms the “in formation explosion.’’ It s a different world academically today,” she says, adding that with the floods of information now available, it’s es sential for a student to understand how to find and process information. The center's peer counseling program is one way, students can find out where to go for what they are looking for. Peer advo cates meet with a student to discuss living environments and professors, to provide academic advising and to serve as informa tional outlets. Barbara Date, in charge of the peer ad vocates, says the advantages to this per sonalized attention can not be ignored in the center’s program. “We can’t ignore the affective — just as we can’t ignore the the cognitive,” Date says. Academic tutors are trained to examine their student's learning processes and to give feedback Although the aim of tutoring is short as well as long term, the long-term benefits or tutoring carry the most impor tance in the tutor’s training, she says. The center is funded by the federal Health, Education and Welfare department as part of its special services program. 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