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THE TWIG
NOVEMBER 8, 1974
Plai^ment office notes
MANAGEMENT
A new program at Simmons
College in Boston offers
graduate training in
management for women. Over
half of the first class of sixty-six
women did their undergraduate
work at a woman’s college.
More information on this
program is available in the
Career Planning Center.
SQUARE D COMPANY
Square D will recruit on
campus on November 14 from
9:00 until 4:30. Business and
math majors are invited to talk
with the company represen
tatives. Square D is located in
Raleigh and Knightdale. The
company manufactures elec
trical equipment. Positions
available include:
(1) production coordina tor;
(2) sales correspondent;
(3) merchandise sales
representative.
Company literature is
available in the Career Plan
ning Center.
American Library
Association’s publication on
financial aid for library
education is now available, as
well as the 1974 “Journalism
Scholarship Guide”.
LIBRARY EDUCATION -
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
The ’74-’75 edition of the
RECRUITING REQUESTS
The Career Planning
Center is still in the process of
establishing recruiting dates.
Any student who would like to
request that a company or
organization be invited should
stop by the Placement Office.
College Album: photos
of early college life
Entertaining, nostalgic,
humorous, irresistible glimpses
of days gone by are provided by
Oliver Jensen and the Editors of
American Heritage in “College
Album” (McGraw-Hill, $8.95 to
12-31-74; $10 thereafter).
Rare photographs collected
all over the country bring back
the whole range of campus life
from the early days, when only
a handful of young men at
tended a small number of in
stitutions, to the bustling
present, when education is
America’s biggest business.
Here are the Ivy League of
long ago and the new, raw
colleges of the windswept
prairies; the classrooms, the
August preceptors, the sports,
the clowning; the coming of
higher education for women;
and the fads and revolutions
that students, aping the outside
world, have inflicted on
bedeviled administrations.
“Our aim has been to recall
the changing look and the
lasting flavor of the American
college experience across the
past century and more,” writes
Jensen in his Foreword.
Eight sections make up the
book’s curriculum, abundantly
illustrated and highlighted by
vivid anecdotes. “In the
Beginning” reveals, among
other things, that a Harvard
student’s quarterly bill in 1804
amounted to $33.57. “A
Primitive Brotherhood” recalls
the college man’s world of the
19th century. “And a
Sisterhood” shows how women
slowly infiltrated the masculine
retreats, then established a full-
fledged college of their own.
“Light and Learning”
delves into the charisma of
great teachers. “Cheering
Section” celebrates such
glories as the season the Yale
football team scored 698 points
to 0. “High Spirits” runs the
gamut from goldfish to nudity
to riots. “Signs of the Times”
revives hay rides and
Marijuana Smoke-Ins. “Last
Words” echoes pompous
blessings on the eve of the
conquest of the world.
GRADUATE SCHOOL
The Career Planning
Center now has the “Graduate
Programs and Admissions
Manual”. These four volumes
are published by the GRE
board. Students are welcome to
use them at any time:
Volume A: Biological
Sciences, Health Sciences and
Related Fields
Volume B: Arts,
Humanities
Volume C: Physical
Sciences, Mathematics,
Engineering
Volume D: Social
Sciences, Education.
Crack our book
and stretch
your bucks.
Spend a little tinne studying a Piedmont schedule.
Then plan a weekend. Out on the ski slopes,
enjoying an out-of-town ball game, partying with-
someone special or soaking up the bright city
lights. Or home with the folks. We've got a place
for you. And a Weekend-Plus Plan to help stretch
your funds. Just leave on Saturday and return
before noon Monday. You'll save up to 50% on the
return portion of your round trip ticket, and fly with
confirmed reservations to any of over 75 Piedmont
cities. For information, see your travel agent or call
Piedmont. Take us up
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Psych dept, expands to rodents;
Dr. Aubrecht leads the
way
by Maggie Odell
Rats? A Skinner Box? At
Meredith College? Yes,
Meredith now has a psychology
animal lab, complete with ei^t
rats and assorted experimental
equipment.
Lyn Aubrecht, teacher of
the Experimental Psychology
course, explained that the
establishment of an animal
laboratory serves two main
Minority law students recruited
Minority students in North
Carolina who are interested in
studying law are invited to
attend the annual Minority
Recruitment Weekend Con
ference on Saturday, November
9, 1974, sponsored by The
Minority Recruitment Com
mittee of the SB A.
Discussions will include
practical aspects of gaining
admittance to law school such
the Law School Admission
as
Test (LSAT), helpful un
dergraduate curricula, and
financial aid sources.
The conference is in
formational and not directed
specifically toward recruitment
for the UNC Law School.
Participation by freshmen
and sophomores, as well as
juniors and seniors, is en
couraged since the conference
includes long-range aspects of
admission to law school, such as
Orders are still being taken for
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
A book for and by women
at a special price - $1.10
Contact Elizabeth Wilson
Counseling and Career
Planning Offices
Cate Center
planning one’s undergraduate
curriculum and preparation for
the LSAT.
The conference will be
highlighted by a panel
discussion on the topic of
“Social and Political Dimen
sions of the Lawyer’s Role”.
Speakers who have been invited
are Atty. Henry E. Frye; Atty.
Walter T. Johnson, Jr.; The
Honorable Judge Eletra
Alexander; The Honorable
Justice Susie Sharpe; Atty.
Julius L. Chambers; and Atty.
Arnold Locklear.
Registration for the con
ference will be held between —
8:(K)-8:50 a.m.
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functions. The first function is
to give students practical ex
perience with standard
psychology concepts. Aubrecht
feels that it is not enough for
students to have merely a
“textbook awareness” of
concepts. Therefore, ex
perimental psych students have
been getting firsthand
knowledge of the concepts of
operant conditioning,
ethography, and motivation in
learning by performing ex
periments themselves.
Operant conditioning is
perhaps the most interesting of
the concepts, since it is
illustrated with rats and a
Skinner box. A Skinner box is a
small cage that is geared to
give the rat food when he
presses down on a bar. When
the rat learns he will get food by
pressing the bar, he will repeat
the action when he is hungry.
This concept, says
Aubrecht, is an important one
in behavior modification and
central to the idea of “teaching
machines.” If teaching is
considered “the arrangement
of information in order for the
student to assimilate it,” then a
teaching machine can do this as
well as human teachers, by
making learning a game in
which learning is winning and
where the winner is rewarded
with something he wants.
The second function of the
animal lab is to train psych
students in research
techniques. The class runs
classic experiments that have
expected results, since the
primary purpose of the class is
to gain experience in working
with experiment subjects
(animals or people), collecting
data, and drawing conclusions.
In order to get his students
acquainted with working with
rats, Aubrecht brought in two
experts: his 3-year old son and
his 5-year old daughter, who are
old hands at playing with rats.
Aubrecht noted that students
are often more afraid of the rats
than the rats are of people.
Besides learning to work
with rats, students also learn
several techniques of gathering
data. For the first experiment,
students went to the Raleigh
Preschool to observe behavior
of children in a natural setting.
A second experiment was done
under laboratory conditions.
Students from other psychology
classes were taught a simple
motor skill. The “variable” in
the experiment was the length
of time through which the ac
tual learning time was spread.
The data from this experiment
are used to compare the effects
of learning a skill in one con-
cetrated period of time as
against learning the same skill
in the same total length of time
spread out over a longer period.
Aubrecht stresses a third
important technique: that is
drawing proper conclusions
from data at hand. In order to
make accurate inferences, a
student must take into con
sideration all factors involved
in the experiment.
Aubrecht expressed hopes
that a more suitable space will
be found for the animal lab.
Presently, they must perform
experiments in the same room
where animals are kept; this is
distracting for the ex
perimenters and disturbing to
the animals. A possible solution
will be a joint zoology-
psychology lab to be used by
both the Biology and
Psychology Departments.
SGA passes
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Dorm checkers would be
responsible for checking dorm
cards against the late list. A
security guard would pick up
the late list when the dorm
doors are locked at the closing
hour.
A student who wants the
SDH privilege of her guest
would sign the guest’s name on
the late list and add her own
name as “hostess”. If the guest
returns before closing hour, she
would need to cancel her per
mission.
Permission must be given
by the resident advisor for a
late return of more than one
hour.