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UNC Mas Dear Abby9 In Correspondence Bureau
By WES LEFLEIt
In that mountain of mail that piles
up each morning at Mary Henry's of
nce are poems, hymns, recipes, house
nokl hints and touching stories about
1,001 personal problems.
Notations come in scribbled on scraps
of Paper, jotted on the backs of en
velopes or sometimes neatly typed on
letterhead stationery.
But Miss Henry is not an advice
columnist. She's more of an "interna
tional educator.
Miss Henry heads the University Bu
reau of Correspondence Instruction. And
written assignments: from all of the Uni
versity's 2,686 correspondence students
around the world come to her office
plus the personal chit chat.
Most of these personal notes explain
family problems that have come be
tween the student and his overdue as
signment or exam.
Some letters, mostly from adults, run
several pages in length and ramble on
and on about ill health in the family
threatened divorce and even death.
"It's really Hifficult to keep from
getting too personal when I answer their
letters," Miss Henry says. "Some of
our students tell us so much about
themselves, you feel like you get to
know them."
There was a letter from a college
dropout who "wanted marriage and chil
dren more than an A. B. degree." Now
she wants her college degree. She
knows that a correspondence program
is her only hope. Progress is slow, and
sometimes difficult, but with every
course she completes she is a little near
er her goal.
Then there was the mother of four
who is now the family's only support.
Her husband's health has failed and she
has gone to work as a substitute teach
er. She wants to complete her college
degree so she can qualify for an "A"
teaching certificate.
"No one can imagine the struggle
that I have undergone," worte a 43 -year
- old textile worker. "Due to fi
nancial problems, I dropped out of high
school seven weeks before graduation
in 1937." He completed courses in Eng
lish, math and history, and in 1961 pass
ed the High School Equivalency exam
ination. "It's now my desire to become
a good elementary school teacher," he
wrote.
Convicted criminals serving prison
terms often write. They have their prob
, lems too.
"Some of these prisoners are very
good students," Miss Henry says. "It's
not unusual to have a straight 'A' stu
dent behind bars."
Tearful parents write.
"Sometimes we hear from parents
of students who have mislead them
about their progress," she says. They
will tell their parents they have com
pleted the course and are ready for the
final exam. But after a time when the
parents don't receive a grade in the
mail for their child, they write to Mary
Henry.
And sometimes she has to write back
and say, "I'm sorry, but your son John
has completed only three of his 25 as
signments ..." Tearful parents.
Sob stories have been on the in
crease since Viet Nam.
Some of those enrolled in the corre
spondence program are students who
have been dismissed from the Univer
sity because of failing grades. And un
less they remove this grade condition
and get back in school they sometimes
become eligible for military service.
"When these boys can't meet the
deadline to get back in school," Miss
Henry says, "their parents write . . .
'If Jimmy doesn't get back in school
before the deadline you'll be sending
him to his death. He's sure to be draft
ed and sent to Viet Nam.' "
Miss Henry is just thankful that 90
per cent of her students don't write
personal and highly emotional letters.
Out of the 90 per cent Miss Henry
gets frequent letters of thanks from stu
dents who have enjoyed a course and
done well. Now and then students pass
along constructive observations.
One student wrote, "I must confess
that I thought correspondence courses
were just for credit, but I am pleased
to learn they are also for learning."
Each morning three secretaries spend
one and a half hours opening Miss Hen
ry's mail. From her office it is routed
to individual professors who teach the
2,686 students in 3,138 courses. Some
47,000 assignments were completed
during the past year.
UNC's correspondence students come
from 95 of the state's 100 counties, 47 of
the 50 states and a number of foreign
countries.
Many courses are offered for under
graduate credit, while others do not car
ry university credit. Correspondence of
ficials encourage students to complete
and return at least one assignment per
week. But hasty preparation is dis
couraged. Only four assignments can
be accepted in a seven-day period. And
these must be submitted one at a time.
Just as on-campus students, the cor
respondence student faces final ex
aminations after all course assignments
have been completed if they wish credit
for the course. Generally, the exam is
taken on the UNC campus or at some
other institution of higher learning ac
cessible to the student.
The University accepts 30 semester
hours of credit by correspondence to
ward an undergraduate degree. But the
last year of college must be taken in
residence. A minimum of 126 semester
hours is required for graduation with a
bachelor of arts degree.
Among the newest courses offered
are English and modern math via tele
vision. The two courses are broadcast
twice each week over WUNC-TV, Chan
nel 4, Chapel Hill and WUNB-TV, Chan
nel 2, Columbia. The English course
carries three hours of college credit.
Among other popular new courses
are Introduction to the Study of Excep
tional Children, Elementary Italian, and
courses in state government, Russian
History and dramatic art.
By special arrangement between the
Bureau and the United States Armed
F o r c es Institute, military personnel
around the world may enroll in credit
courses. The federal government pays
the instructional fee.
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By KENNETH ADKINS
Special To The DTH
Whether good or bad, course
outlines or 'ponies' are an in
tegral part of life at the Uni
versity. Students, faculty, and those
who operate the local book
stores all have different opin
ions regarding the relative
merit of such outlines.
Student opinion of course
outlines is generally favorable.
John Taylor, a freshman,
said that the course outlines
he uses are not as good as
textbooks but that they "come
in ; handy when assignments
i are too- large." He summed
up his opinion by saying, "I
don't totally approve of them,
but I'm not hesitant in using
them."
Bo Bishop, a sophomore,
said he has used them in the
fpasi but doesn't use thenr now.
'i s "Course outlines, if used,
should be used to organize
thoughts in preparing for
quizzes. They are no substi
tute for paying attention in
Class."
V Although critical of the use
of -course outlines as replace
ments' for textbooks is frown
ed on by the faculty, most in
structors 7 agree that they are
great aids to their students
when they are used to supple
ment textbook material.
Many instructors and profes
sors recommend that their stu
dents use course outlines.
There are at present about
16 different types of outlines
available to students here at
UNC. They range from the
general course outlines such
as the Monarch and College
Outline Series to highly spe
cific and technical outlines
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such as those in the Schaum's
series
Neither H. C. Watson of the
UNC Bookstore nor Wallace
Kuralt, manager of the In
timate Book Shop, knew ex
actly how many outlines they
sell each semester.
Watson said that most of
his outline sales comes from
the sale of outlines of Shakes
pearean plays. He added that
sales pick up right before
exams. ,
Kuralt said that the Inti
mate stocks about 16 different
outline series.
He said the most popular
outline series is the Monarch
but that College ; Outline Se
ries is running a close sec
ond. "Most of the faculty con
sider these two to be pretty
soild stuff."
Kuralt added that the Mon
! larch' 'serieY is one ' of the new
er series but that it has gained
rapidly in popularity with stu
dents. He feels that the rea
son for this is Monarch's sys
tem of keying its outlines to
specific textbooks. ,
Kuralt summed ,'ip-his opin
ion of outlines by saying, "A
good outline used properly can
raise one's grade. However, I
don't feel that you can pass
by just using outlines in place
of texts."
Thin Red Line
Comes Back
To England
LONDON (UPI) The
"Thin Red Line" has return
ed to Britain this time for
the sidewalk, not the battle
field. A narrow red stripe which
means "no crossing here" is
being painted on many Lon
don sidewalks in an effort to
curb jaywalking,' virtually ' a
national pastime.
Pedestrians apparently find
the mark on street crossings
too few and far between. They
have taken to crossing any
where and everywhere, at the
peril of the oncoming traffic
and their own lives.
Now would - be jaywalkers
will have to be careful as one
step over the "thin red line"
will mean an on-the-spot fine
from watchful London "bobbies."
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GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA and
Alec Guinness, holding a se
cret rendezvous at an infam
ous Paris hotel, are alarmed
by prying neighbors in one of
the hilarious moments of
MGM's "Hotel Paradiso," co
starring Robert Morley, which
will open at the Carolina thea
ter this week. Filmed in Pana
vision and color, the unroar
ious farce-comedy was produc
ed and directed by Peter Glen
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