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Pemomids H By BRENDA WARNER ROTZOLL United Press International Milwaukee. Wis. The liberal arts student who can not write correct and under standable English need not expect to receive a diploma irom Marquette university. To guarantee he won't, the college of liberal arts of Mar quette is requiring as a con dition for graduation that each of its students pass an English attainment examina tion. The exam, which faculty members said caused much "moaning and groaning" when inaugurated, became a re quirement for graduation in 1960. To date, 1,730 students , have taken the exam. About ISO have flunked it and have been required to take it over - and over - until they pass. "The ability to write ac ceptable English is one of the basic requirements which the college of liberal arts expects : of each of its students," said Robert R. La Du, assistant dean of the college. "We do expect some minimal level of English accomplishment from our students." Confidential English The current examination questions are strictly confi dential, but the testing service which prepared this year's test said it contains questions similar to these: 1. One fighter was so far outclassed that there was hardly a ( ' ). A conflict; B combat; (X)-C contest; D contention. 2. You should not give ( ). E the egg to the baby if hardboiled. F the egg if hardboiled to the baby. G the egg to the baby hardboiled. (X)-H the hardboiled egg to the baby. (X)-Correct answer. 20 Per Cent Test La Du said about 20 per cent of the major universities in the country have similar testing programs. The liberal arts faculty of this Jesuit university decided students needed a little goad ing to improve their usage of English and the organization of their papers. That's what the exam is intended to do. i La Du said at Marquette the only required English grammar and writing course is taken in the freshman year. Hopefully, this course would be all the student needed. : But a lack of preparation in high school and a lack of: strictness about writing done! in other courses in college I combine to undermine the stu- j dent's ability to express him self on paper. La Du said. While the school offers a non-credit remedial course for students having difficulty with composition, it does not intend to drill students on things they should have learn ed before college, he said. "We let the high schools know we are not going to make up things they have left out,'" La Du said. Pinpoints Pitfalls Prof. Jerome Archer, head of the Marquette English de partment, pinpointed another pitfall. "The chances are - and this is true nationally - that with the greatly Increased use of so-called objective tests in place of essay tests, the stu dent would come and go through much of his post freshman schooling with very doesn't continue the- good habits we assume he learned, he can easily lapse into bad habits. "What we're after tK.e is to establish a habit," La Du con curred. "Having the English requirement a couple of years off just keeps bringing it home to the student." Prof. Giles Daeger, director of the evening division of the college of liberal arts, put it this way: "They should know what basic writing is or they should not be juniors in the college. But they do get careless and this is one way of reminding them they shouldn't be." When the test was intro little direction of his written English," he said. "And writ ing is a habit. If the student duced in 13f9, 4 per cent of those taking it failed. That percentage has fallen to 8 these days. Mors Chances Should the student fail the test when it first is adminis tered in December of his Jun ior year, he may take it again in April-and again and again. ' He won't graduate if he doesn't pass. "We feel the requirement has to have some teeth in it, La Du said. He mentioned the case of a young man who failed the test repeatedly, finished school, imgloslh CCcDovledlge ff SiradyotieG SECTION D MEDFORDt PAGES I to 8 IfefTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963 Living Standards Soar in Year 2000 Spectrum, Scent Sell Selected Shrubs Storrs, Conn. (UPI Too often homeowners are apt to select a shrub for planting on their home grounds purely on the bBsis of flower color or flower fragrance, reports Ruby Favrctti, extension home grounds specialist at the University of Connecticut. In selecting shrubs, the ex pert suggests choosing those that do something throughout many seasons of the year. !??me shrubs, for example. are attractive only when they are in bloom but have little appeal the rest of the year. Manned Space Station Plans To Be Studied Washington - P - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected two companies to make studies of a manned space station that would stay in orbit with lour crew mem bers for as lone as a year. Boeinz Company, Seattle, and Douglas Aircraft Compa ny, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif ., were chosen from 11 bidders to carry out the studies. Each will receive a contract from NASA's Langley Research center, Hampton, Va., for about $400,000. fnvafid Checks Cost Americans Millions New York - HOT - Careless ly written checks cost Ameri cans millions of dollars a year, the Institute of Life Insur ance reports. A common fault is to omit one of the five items that must be w ittrn on a chec to make it Vk'.id. These are: date, name i.f ..vr. nmmint of check in words, the amount in fcgures , and the signature. By JOSEPH HUTNYAN United Press International Washington 01PD Current and past economic trends indi cate the average U.S. con sumer's standard of living should rise by about 100 per cent during the next 40 years. By the year 2000, the aver age breadwinner will be bringing home a pay check ranging from $10,000 tb $12,000 per year, nearly double the present figure, ac cording to a study. Mr. Average Consumer al so is expected to be spending more of it on the so-called luxuries or at least what we classify as luxuries today. These forecasts all are part of a voluminous report by Re sources for the Future Inc. (RFF) a foundation which spent five years studying past economic history to get a clue of what life would be like in the year 2000. Present Salary The report said the present $5,000-a-year average salary would shoot up to $7,500 in 20 years, and then hit at 1pbs $10,000 by the year 2000. Generally, forecasters base this on the belief that the U.S. economy will discover mote efficient ways of doing things at less cost in the years ahead. They expect the value of goods and services produced to rise faster than the popula tion, in effect giving each worker a larger share of this total national income. "This means," the report said, "that the typical house hold will be able to afford a standard of living by 1930 en joyed now by only the high est 20 per cent and, by the end of the century, will be at levels now considered quite well-to-do." RFF researchers pointed out that in recent years the consumer is spending less of his income for day-to-day nec essities such as food, shelter and clothing. This is a natural result of fast-rising incomes. Using Larger Portion The reason is that each per son can just eat so much and wear only a certain amount of clothing. As his income rises, he begins using a larger por tion for items normally not considered necessities. As one economist put it: When a man makes more money, he can t use it to eat five times as much food but he can buy himself five tele vision sets." Economists do not expect this rising tide of consumer expenditures in the next 40: years to rt .ult in an era : where there is a television in every room. More likely it will take some more conventional chan nel such as a big increase in two- and three-car families and more families with two homes. The report said personal consumption expenditures have been rising at a IVi per cent annual clip for each per son for the past 30 years. Should Be Stepped Up It said this figure should be stepped up to about 2 per cent by the end of the cen tury. "What this 2 per cent growth rate means for the average consumer is an In crease in standard of living of almost 50 per cent in the next 50 years, and more than doubling by the end of tne century," the report stated. The RFF study said food, clothing and shelter will -.till hold top priority in the fam ily budget but will be taking a progressively smaller bite during the years ahead. It said that of these three, clothing costs probably will shrink the fastest because rev olutionary changes in apparel fiber use and durability has been making it cheaper lor consumers to maintain an ade quate wardrobe. Five Patients Are Flown By Plane Five patients flown to and from various parts of northern California and Oregon recent ly by Mercy Flights Inc. brings to 1,565 the number of patients carried by the non- profit air ambulance service: since it was started. j Flown yesterday to the Vet-; erans Administration hospital in Vancouver, Wash., for medical treatment was Robert Horton, Grants Pass. Earlier U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Fred Burgess, Gold Beach, was flown from there to Medford's Rogue Val ley hospital for treatment of a broken nose. Burgess was reported to have received the broken nose and leg while working. , . C. E. Slingsby, Milwaukle, was flown from Lakeview, Ore., to the Willamette Falls hospital nearer to his home. He suffered a broken neck in late May in an automobile ac cident near Lakeview. Other patients Includes Mrs. Kenneth Taylor, Brook ings, who was flown from Springfield, Ore., to Medford for medical treatment at Rogue Valley hospital, and the baby of Mr. and Mrs. John Evanow, Crescent City, Calif., was flown to San Francisco for emergency treatment of an undiagnosed fever. $20,000 Suit Filed Against Drug firm Portland - flJPD - A suit for $20,000 has been filed in Cir cuit Court here against the Charles Pfizer Company, Inc., of New York City, for polio allegedly contacted after tak ing Type III Sabin oral vac cine. Arthur L. Chambers, Port land, filed the suit as guardi an for Gerald Lynn Cham bers, 6. It is the second suit filed against the firm. An earlier suit demanding $715,000 in damages is set for trial in September. Dan J. Ferguson, 39, Portland, filed the suit after he was stricken by polio following a mass immunization program here. Disney Releases Star For Musical Comedy Hollywood - (Ere - Annette Funicello and Frankie Ava- lon will co-star in American International picture's teen age musical comedy, "Beach Party." Annette was loaned out for the picture by Walt Dis ney, who has had the former Mouseketcer under exclu sive contract. It is her first picture away from Disney. served a hitch in the Army, The test essay "doesn't have ana then returned to take the to sparkle," he said. The test - and finally to get his j faculty just wants to be sure degree. the student can express an Faculty members agreed! idea, the attainment exam has im- The exam consists of two proved student writing, parts, one mechanical and one "They're writing better term I essay. papers," said Daeger. j The check for mechanics is the cooperative English test put out by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. It has three parts. Has 3 Parti Part one, 15 minutes, con centrates on usage. There are sentences containing indi vidual words or phrases un derlined. The student mark off the wrong word. Part two, 1J minutes, offers sentences for which the stu dent must choose correct punctuation and capitaliza tion from examples offered. Part three, 10 minutes, it spelling test. It offers aeries of Hsu at tour words. The stu dent mutt indicate which word, if any, g misspelled. 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