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THE SALEMITE
Friday, May 16,
1965
Seminar, Comprehensives,
Possibility Of Alterations
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Much controversy has been raised over comprehensive exami
nations and the seminar structure at Salem. Students complain
endlessly that comprehensives take up a tremendous amount of
time. They come at a very busy time of the year for seniors and
because this time is concentrated into a one week or two week
period, this causes the student's course work to suffer. Some
seniors have stated that they have not benefited from these exams
because they have not drawn together the material which stu
dents have learned in their major field. Other seniors have found
them definitely beneficial.
The objection over the seminar structure is that it is not con
sistent among departments. In some departments, it is designed
to pull together the material from the course work in a major
field, while in others it is a completely new course on a more ad
vanced level than much of the course work. There are certainly
benefits in both systems, but it seems that there is not time in the
present seminar structure to do both.
There must be a solution to these problems, but the objective in
finding it should be that the student as a major does draw to
gether what she has learned in her major field.
Perhaps one solution could be the abolition of comprehensives.
With this abolition, the seminar course for majors could be struc
tured (increasing the number of hours) to draw together the course
material in a major field with students being tested in this course.
Consequently, the student will have met the objective of compre
hensive examinations, and she will have done this with the gui
dance of the departmental faculty. In those departments where
the seminar is structured as an advanced general course in the
major, the department could initiate a new, perhaps expanded,
course of this nature, not required of senior majors, but highly
recommended.
Another solution could be keeping comprehensive examinations,
structuring the traditional seminar as a one hour course second
semester of the senior year to give basic, but not in depth, guide
lines for pulling the material in the major together. Again, an
advanced level course for majors, highly recommended, bu/ not
required, could be offered in addition to the seminar course by
departments who have heretofore structured their seminar this
way. With this system, a senior could be exempt from taking
final examinations in those courses within her major field which
she is taking during second semester.
Both of these solutions satisfy the problems. They enable the
student to draw together the material of each department with
some supervision, they allow departments the option of establish
ing a general advanced course for majors, they somewhat alle
viate the problem of time for the busy seniors, and the entire pro
gram becomes more consistent among departments. ^
The 1969 freshman will have a
variety of names, but will probably
be called Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, or
Susan. The tallest is S ft. 10 inches,
the shortest 4 ft. 11 inches; the
average girl is 5 ft. 5 inches. Her
average weight is 118 pounds,
though possibly as heavy as 160
pounds and as light as 96 pounds.
Thirty-three of the freshmen wear
contact lenses.
Forty-four of the freshmen (in
cluding the five new day students)
come form North Carolina but
overall will represent 19 different
states and one foreign country.
They’re from as far north as
Groveton, New Hampshire, as far
south as Goulds,, Florida, and as
far west as Albuqerque, New
Mexico.
In high school she was most
likely on rte annual staff or
op
paper staff, a member "of
dent council, and a cheer)! ^
Approximately 74% of the f !
men atended public high schoT
She averages 18 academic
Social Psych. Students
Study Salem Stereotypes
preparation; 4 in English T
foreign language (usually Pren,!,
4 units in math, 3 in sconce
3 in history. At this poim ^
plans to major either in Ent,U
some field of science, or math
If s_ome_ names or faces sound (
--.ar)
Boschj Sara Carson, BreniJa Griffin
took _familiar,_such as:
Pamela
By The Way....
Two new courses are to be offer
ed next semester, Dean Hixon
announced recently. For the first
time., antropology. Sociology 130,
will be offered. Home Economics
227, Historical Aspects of Design
will also be offered. This latter
course will be taught jointly by
Miss Susan Stitt, administrator of
the Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts, and Nicholas
Bragg, Director of Education and
Interpretation of Old Salem, Inc.
Facilities of Old Salem, Bethabara
and Reynolda House will be used.
The class cannot be offered unless
fifteen people are enrolled, and this
quota is not yet filled. Students
desiring this course should see
Mrs. Snow.
Asian Studies 200 will be taught
next year, as usual, but it is not
known as yet who the professor
will be.
Dean Hixon also announced that
withdrawal blanks wull be available
for those students w'ho are trans
ferring. She emphasized that these
blanks must be filled out before
transcripts, etc. can be sent to a-
nother school. All obligations to
the college (bookstore bills, library
fines, etc.) must be fulfilled before
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By Becca Morris
Are you honest ? Do you often
go along with certain so-called ac
cepted stereotypes ? How and why
did you choose your roommate ?
All these questions and more are
being studied in the social psy
chology course being taught by
Dr. Lucia Karnes this semester.
Whether you are aware of it or
not, those silly, sometimes bother
some questionnaires that you have
been filling out for the past month
or two have developed into signif
icant psychological studies. Did you
realize that the certain schools in
Winston-Salem have stereotypes
associated with them, as do certain
types of cars and their owners ?
These studies have shown surpris
ingly that there are also significant
correlations to these sterotypes.
One of the most pertinent and
interesting studies involving the
girls here at Salem deals with
roommate selection, the hows and
whys. Did you realize that the
people you were placed near, or
were on your hall when you first
came here are probably the people
that you remained the closest to
for your college career here at
Salem? It is true that proximity
is most definitely an influence on
eventual friend relationships and
finallj' upon roommate selection in
particular.
Car sterotypes have also been
studied in the course in relation to
four fairly ordinary cars well-
known to people on this campus.
Such cars are Cadillacs, Ford Mus
tangs, Chevrolet Corvairs, and
\ olkswagons. These cars were
matched by students in a random
sampling with a list of thirty ad
jectives. The data was computed
and the results did prove signif
icantly that these cars do have
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Kirby, Sally McMurdo;
Libba McPherson, Mary Mnrrill
Becky Smethie, Elizabeth Ward'
Alice Watson, Christ! White, and
Ann Wood, it is because they al-
ready possess “Big Sisters" at
Salem.
Beyond The Square
Nixon Alters Modern Cities
Students Polish Fine
Art Of Exam Cramming
Coming Events
ON CAMPUS
May 16 Diane Ward, Sophomore
piano recital
7:30 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall
Mary Crawford Schaub,
Senior piano recital
Shirley Recital Hall
8:15 p.m.
May 19 Carol Watson, Sophomore
voice recital
7:30 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall
Virginia Vance, Senior
organ recital
8:15 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall
May 20 Singer’s Guild Concert
8 :15 p.m.
Hanes Auditorium
May 23-June 8 Senior Art Exhi
bits Nancy Coble, Sue Leake,
Carilee Martin, Marianne
Buie Gingher
Fine Arts Center
(ACP)-It was bound to happen.
After all, this is the age of instant
coffee, automatic dishwashers and
TV dinners. In keeping with this
trend, students have developed
instant education — sometimes
known as cramming, comments the
Collegian, University of the Amer
icas, Toluca, Mexico.
Cramming has been refined to
art form, and to cram well one
must first learn the language in
volved. The Collegian defined the
essential terms this way:
Cram — to jam your head so full
of facts the night before an exam
that all this knowledge will burst
back out all over your exam paper.
To pull an all-nighter—to stay
up from the time the party breaks
up until the hour of the exam the
next day. This time is usually
devoted to cramming.
Bennies—the magic little pills that
keep your mind bright and clear
through the fuzzy-wuzzy hours of
the morning.
To pop a pill—the act of drop
ping a Benny.
A Bear—an exam that defies
cramming.
Ace it—when the cram pays off.
Frog (flag) it—^when the cram
ming process fails you, usually used
in conjunction with a Bear.
Crack a book—(vulgar) to study.
Who resorts to cramming? First,
the All-American type who will
later succeed in business without
really trying. Second, the psuedo-
intellectual, who spends his even
ings solving the Vietnam war and
the racial problem, saying he’s too
busy educating himself to worry
about class assignments. Third,
believers in the philosophy, ‘eat,
drink, and be merry, for tomorrow
you may die.’ Many of them, in
deed, find they are dead on the
day of exams.
They approach
By Joy Bishop
A characteristic of the Johnson Administration was a continuing
belief that almost any social ill could be cured by government or
private actions if sufficient commitments and resources were
brought to bear on it.
A characteristic of the new Nixon Administration has been o
conviction that there is a limit to what government con do, and
that hopes should never be raised above what is certain to be
accomplished.
The basic difference between the two Administrations was borne
out a few days ago when a major reorganization of Model Cities
was announced.
The idea for Model Cities was conceived in 1966, after it hod
become obvious that the Viet Nam war would for some time pre
vent any massive allocation of funds to rebuild the cities.
The Johnson Administration decided that it would demonstrate
in half-a-dozen or so cities how deteriorated neighborhoods could
be thoroughly renewed through a concentration of federal, locol
and private services and facilities, locally administered and witk
residents of the neighborhood sharing in the decisions.
After a struggle in Congress, the number of cities was expanded
to 150, but the Model Neighborhoods were kept small (10 per
cent of the cities' populations) in order to work under a limited
budget. Still the plan bogged down, and only nine cities were
approved for the first of the block grants.
What the Nixon Administration found attractive about Model
Cities was its administrative features, which fit nicely with Presi
dent Nixons ideas for decentralization and local control. The Ad
ministration therefore removed the 10 per cent population limit,
giving mayors the option to extend the Model Neighborhoods to
all poverty areas in their jurisdiction.
With no Federal limit on size, the cities are likely to extend the
boundaries generously, spreading the already limited Model Cities
funds even thinner.
It seems that the new Administration has abandoned the pri-
rnory goal of Model Cities in order to apply a secondary goal-
that of reform of administrative techniques — in on attempt to
administer all new and existing social and housing programs in
almost all urban poverty areas.
Sources:
The New York Times, May 1 1, 1969.
U. S. News and World Report,
May 19, 1969.
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the
cramming
process m one of three ways. First,
by learning one-fifth of the mate-’
rial presented, then writing down
all they know, no matter what the
professor asks. Second, by feigning
profundity—learning obscure words
and using them repeatedly through
out the exam. Third, by the “kiss-
up approach’’—the old shiny-apple-
to-the-professor routine. Any of
the three, if used well, should
result in an A, the dean’s list, and
top honors at graduation.
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