Telethon Raises $25,206 Behavior Therapy Can Aid Exam Panic
by Lynda Stedman
A group of students,
faculty, trustees and alumni of
Guilford College got together
last week and raised $25,206
during the second annual
telethon drive for the 1972-
73 Loyalty Fund campaign,
Guilford's alumni giving
program.
The amount raised was
almost $lO,OOO more than
the total for last year's
telethon drive, according to
Joseph M. Bryan. Jr., presi
dent of the Guilford College
Alumni Association. The total
amount raised last year was
$15,517.
There was also a jump
of over 300 in the number of
persons pledging this year
over last year, Bryan said,
indicating that 1005 people
said they would send a dona
tion.
The money will be
matched dollar for dollar up to
$15,000 by the Bryan Family
Foundation of Greensboro,
making for a total of $40,206
for the Loyalty Fund program.
Under the direction of
Karen Rheeling. assistant
director of alumni affairs, the
telethon was held each
evening for six nights at the
North Carolina Bank
Americard Center on North
Eugene Street. Ninety-five
members of the college
"family" students, alumni,
trustees, faculty par
ticipated by placing 3,595
phone calls to Guilford alumni
living all over the continental
United States."lt made for a
real community spirit," said
Ms. Rheeling. "Volunteers
from every conceivable part of
the college community
donated their services."
The "community spirit"
was also shared with alumni
at the other end of the line,
Ms. Rheeling said, adding that
the telethon also allows alum
ni the chance to catch up with
what's happening at Guilford.
"People always have
messages they want con
veyed to favorite professors
and friends, or news they
would like to catch up on,"
she said. "A lot of alumni,
who live a distance away,
hadn't heard about the
basketball team (winning the
NAIA championship)."
Tom Cheek, a member
of the Alumni Board of Direc
tors, raised the single highest
total of $1,480 President
Grimsley Hobbs followed with
$1,140. while English
Professor Mildred Marlette
ran a close third with $1,035.
The average donation was
$25.00.
The usual number of
amusing stories cropped up,
like the tale about one student
who had the misfortune of
calling three recently
deceased persons, one
recently divorced woman, and
the father of a girl who had
been rejected by Guilford.
On a happier note. Miss
Marlette contacted one alum
nus who had never before
given and said he still did not
care to contribute. She
chatted with him, reminded
him of the times she had
chased him out of the girls
dorm, when he was a student
and she the dean of women.
He relented and pledged
$250.
"During the telethon a
rapport was built, some kind
of chemistry took place," said
Ms. Rheeling. "I was excited
by the effort I saw and the
enthusiasm of all the people
participating, both the callers
and donors. It makes for a
significant contribution, not
only to the fund but to
Guilford College."
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(I P.) Pass-fail grading does
not appear to be this decade's
cure-all for the problems of
higher education. University
of Michigan psychologist
Frank M. Koen conducted a
broad study comparing the
effects of pass-fail and
traditional grading on 950
undergraduates. It produced.
Prof. Koen reported, "little
conclusive evidence that
either system is intrinsically
superior in all respects."
It may profit the student
in some ways: toward a
greater sense of autonomy,
self-motivated learning, or a
more collegial relationship
with his professor. On the
other hand, if the student's
pass-fail transcript does not
come from an academically
prestigious institution and he
lacks other credentials, he
may reduce his chances of
being accepted by a graduate
school.
"The choice of grading
system is a far more complex
matter than supporters of
either approach have per
ceived," he concluded. "An
individual institution or de
partment must decide which
goals are most important for
the students and choose the
grading policy that is more
likely to bring them about,"
Every college student has
experienced panic before an
examination or stage fright
before an important social
event. That panic often af
fects the individual's ability
to do his best, and then
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Evaluation
Prof. Koen tested 16
commonly made claims regar
ding the differences in student
performance, attitudes and
experience that may result
from the traditional system or
P-F grading. The students
were tested on academic
achievement early and late in
the term. They also completed
opinion questionnaires at the
beginning and end of their
course.
"Students in the
traditional sections did report
spending significantly more
time and effort on the course
than P-F students, although
"Righteous" (Quoth lan Booth)
by ben shelton
. In accordance with the
other sundry activities taking
place this weekend at
Guilford, we have succeeded
in pulling together an outdoor
concert to take place Satur
day, April 14th; it's pretty
much the same kind of deal
that took place in front of Cox
a year ago during the first
Serendipity Weekend. We're
going to set up in front of Cox
again this Saturday and get
off the ground at about 12:00
noon. The six hour period
grades and self-esteem may
suffer.
Through new counseling
methods, students today can
overcome much of the anx
iety that often accompanies
the academic life. One of
those innovations. Behavior
Therapy, is being used by the
Counseling-Psychological Ser
vices Center at the University
of Texas.
The facility was establish
ed in the fall of 1971. It is
staffed by doctoral-level sen
ior staff members, a parapro
fessional trained in the use of
behavior therapy techniques,
and a ten-member task force
of other Counseling-Psycho
logical Services Center Staff,
including doctoral interns
who are developing expertise
in the area of behavioral the
rapy.
Behavior therapy helps
individuals gain some control
over their actions or reactions
so they may deal more effec
tively with everyday life, ex
plained Dr. Roger Hall, fa
cility coordinator.
The counseling facility of
fers treatment for a variety of
problems that interfere with
a person's ability to deal with
situations met throughout
life. On a general level, this
treatment can be divided into
two classifications. Dr. Hall
said.
The first category in
cludes treatment programs
aimed at removing emotional
blocks that affect an indivi
dual's ability to function in
treated in this category are:
social anxiety, fear, some
types of sexual dysfunction,
and anxiety that interferes
their estimated retention of
subject matter was no
greater," Prof. Koen reported.
"The P-F students
tended to place somewhat
more value on 'internal'
rewards for learning, such as
an increased sense of per
sonal competence, as op
posed to the 'external'
rewards of grades and com
petition with their classmates.
They also tended to profess a
greater sense of autonomy
and personal responsibility for
success in the course,
although these effects did not
reach a statistically significant
level."
In terms of personal
growth (such as increased
self-acceptance or social
responsibility), development
of intellectual skills (such as
ability to interpret data and
analyze relations), content
acquisition and student
estimated learning and reten
from noon until 6:00 p.m. has
been divided into eight sets of
forty-five minutes each, and
should come together in
somewhat the following
manner:
12:00 Richard Broadbent
12:45 Bill Shiers,
Rick Noonan,
Tony Clarke
1:30 Ron Gitter
2:15 Billy Hobbs
3:00 Tom Kenyon
3:45 Bruce Piephoff,
Scott Manring
4:30 Sam Dorsey
with learning or performing
in the academic environment.
One of the treatment pro
grams currently in operation
deals with removing the in
tense anxiety, or stage fright,
some students feel during
exams.
The second category in
cludes treatment programs
aimed at changing existing
ineffective behavior patterns
or at establishing behavioral
patterns that may improve
social interaction.
Problems treated in this
category include: feelings of
inadequacy in heterosexual
relationships, the inability to
respond to situations in ac
cordance to one's age, and the
lack of assertiveness in inter
action with the external en
vironment.
To deal with those pro
blems, the Behavioral Thera
py Facility is now conducting
Self-Assertion Skills Labs.
The labs help people learn or
re-learn to be more effective
in making demands and set
ting limits on themselves and
others.
In addition, there are pro
grams that deal with be
havioral problems common to
a university community. Vi
deo-tape feedback techniques
are being used by both coun
selors and students to learn
more effective behavior pat
terns.
Television counseling al
lows the individual to see his
own behavior from a unique
perspective. This personal
feedback is very helpful to
both the individual and to
the counselor.
tion. Prof. Koen found no clear
difference between the two
grading systems.
The pass-fail option can
be viewed somewhat as an
"unfamiliar intellectual
territory" for the student to
explore, Koen noted.
Although there have been
assertions that those with
higher grade point averages
would prefer traditional
grading, he said, their past
academic records proved to
be of no relevance. Nor was
grading policy found to in
fluence a student's choice of
major.
Students under the
traditional system were more
likely to regard their teachers
as organizers, task setters and
content .experts, while P-F
students tended to see
teachers as helpers and
colleagues. These differences,
however, were not striking,
Koen reported.
5:15 Joe Cummings
These are just the peo
ple I know pretty much for
sure are showing up. Others,
among them Woody Cole and
God knows who else are
liable to come around. The
proceedings will cease at
around 6.00 p.m. unless all
the people out there feel like
keeping it up. These folks
have some of the best music
around and we're all looking
for a really fine time. The
sound of course will be as free
as the air.