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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,
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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.
Following the multiple
choice test, the student is
given one hour in which to
write an essay based on one
of several controversial statements.
For example, he might
write en James Fenimor
Coopers statement that "the
tendency of democracies is, in
all things, to mediocrity."
It'a the hope of the liberal
arts college flat students who,
pass the test won't be mediocre.
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