4The Daily Tar Heel Friday, January 16, 1987
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By TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer
Although some improvements
need to be made, UNC students are
generally satisfied with the campus
food service, libraries, transporta
tion and security services, ticket
distribution and student govern
ment, according to the results of a
student needs assessment survey
received by Student Congress
members Wednesday night.
The survey was developed, admin
istered and analyzed by the Student
Affairs Committee of the Student
Congress. The survey results are
based on 118 telephone interviews
conducted by student government
volunteers during a four-week period
in October and November.
The committee's report on the
survey was completed last week, but
the current Student Congress repre
sentatives will not have time to
address many of the results before
the Febuary elections. But Brian
Sipe (Dist. 14), a committee member
who helped write the report, said the
results may be useful to the new
representatives.
Take note organizing is key
to taking in professors' lectures
By KATHY PETEftS
Staff Writer
When the battle with principles of
political science has you just about
licked, discussion of Romantic
poetry sets you dozing and stacks
of hieroglyphics masquerading as
notes lie by your pillow to haunt your
dreams, war instincts come to mind.
Take shelter. Take refuge.
Embrace strategy . . . note-taking
strategy.
x If your traditional outline, para
graph or just plain throw-it-on-the
page note-taking style utterly fails to
record the wise utterances of your
professor, a change in strategy might
help prop up your average, accord-1
ing to note-taking experts around the
country.
Joyce Juntune, an educator who
has been teaching creative thinking
workshops nationwide for 12 years,
says college students can use a
variety of strategies to record and
organize lecture notes.
"Different stategies . work for
different people," Juntune says.
"People have to try more than one
strategy and find out what works for
them."
Get armed. Take notes. Here are
some strategies.
B The Cornell system. Perhaps the
Senior class
feasting and
By TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer
Students don't have to travel
to Raleigh to see some of the
hottest comedy acts in the area
they can just make the trip to
Great Hall in the Carolina Union
tonight to enjoy the Dinner
Comedy Theater sponsored by
the Senior Class and Charlie
Goodnight's Comedy Club of
Raleigh.
"The comedy club has been
popular, and a lot of people have
been going (to Raleigh), so we
decided to bring it over here," said
Sandy Hill, senior class project
chairman.
Senior Class Marshal Donna
Gooden said this show would be
different than any other comedy
show held at UNC.
"It's a new twist," she said.
"WeVe had comedy nights on
campus, but we've never done this
before with professionals."
UNC's own Billy Warden will
emcee the show that features
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"The survey is a working mech
anism so that the next people who
come in can make progress and not
spin their wheels so much," he said.
- The report said that 75 percent of
students surveyed have used the
Marriott food service during the fall
semester, with students living on
campus using the service much more
often than those who live off campus.
Of the students using the service in
the fall, 75 percent reported being
satisfied with it.
The report said students praised
the pizza and cutting block areas of
the service, but wanted improve
ments in food variety and quality and
in customer service. Students also
said longer weekend operating hours
were needed. The most frequent
complaint of those interviewed was
the high cost of food. Students said
they wanted lower prices that would
be more competitive with those
charged by local restaurants.
Students were also asked about
their library use and study hours.
About 95 percent of those inter
viewed said they had used the library
during the fall semester. When asked
best-known method among note
taking specialists is called the Cornell
system. Developed at Cornell Uni
versity, the system divides the
notebook page into three sections,
with a vertical line drawn two and
a half inches from the left edge of
the sheet and a horizontal line drawn
2 inches from the bottom.
Using only the front side of the
paper, the student takes class notes
in . the right-hand section and uses
the space on the left side to "key"
the notes during breaks in the lecture
or after class. "Keys" are one-word
statements which summarize the
content of the class notes, like
headings in an outline would. The
bottom two inches are for summary
of the lectures when a student
reviews his notes.
B Mind mapping: Mind mapping,
created by learning strategist Tony
Buzan, looks somewhat like a spider
sprawling on paper. In the center of
the page, the note-taker writes the
lecture topic and circles it. As each
main subject heading comes up, the
student draws another line out from
that circle and writes the subject's
name on it.
Each time the professor mentions
a subpoint, a branch is drawn out
sponsors
laughing
ventriloquist Ken Lucas and
comic Mike Larson, regular
headliners at Charlie
Goodnight's.
"Billy is a senior, and he's been
involved with campus comedy
before," Hill said. "This show is
done by professionals, but we
wanted to have someone from the
school in it, too."
The evening begins at 7:30 with
a spaghetti dinner catered by
Marriott Corp.
Tickets for the dinner comedy
theater are $7 a person and $12
a couple and can be purchased
in the Pit or in the Senior Class
office in the Union.
"It's an economical date,"
Gooden said. "Twelve dollars for
food and entertainment on Fri
day night is a good price."
Students with proper identifi
cation will be permitted to bring
alcohol to the event.
"You can bring alcohol, but
you don't have to to have a good
time," Gooden said.
which library they use most often,
49 percent reported using Davis
Library the most, 33 percent said
they used the Undergraduate
Library, 9 percent the Health Scien
ces Library and 9 percent mentioned
one of the departmental libraries on
campus.
About 60 percent of students
interviewed reported using the librar
ies primarily for study, while about
40 percent use them for research. The
survey also found that the more
advanced the students are in their
studies, the more often they use the
library. For example, about 45
percent of graduate or professional
students interviewed said they used
a University library every day, while
none of the freshmen reported using
one every day.
Almost all of the students sur
veyed reported being satisfied with
the services provided by the UNC
libraries, but students said they
wanted extended library hours, a
study area or library on South
Campus and more areas for smoking
or eating in the libraries. Several
students also were dissatisfied with
from the subject line. As the pro
fessor adds points, he fits them in
his hierarchy of the tree, on small
or large lines, depending on whether
they are subjects, points or
subpoints.
A plus to mind-mapping strategy
is that it's a space-saver; most
practiced mind mappers can fit an
entire lecture on one page.
B Sketching: Maybe doodling
the horror teachers always warned
against has a purpose after all.
Juntune teaches a method called
"sketching" to her workshop partic
ipants. They learn to make simple,
bare-minimum style drawings in
order to force their minds to get to
the heart of the material.
But there's more to becoming a
note-taking god or goddess than
organization strategies. Listening
skills are as necessary as having a
format and identifying a lecture's
main ideas, according to Henry
Powell, director of UNC's reading
program in 205 Phillips Annex.
"The first component (of good
notetaking) is listening skills
knowing how to listen for main ideas
because the second component is
format getting the main ideas out
in front . . ." Powell says.
Since people think at 400 words
Locate may be priced
By LAURIE MARTIN
Staff Writer
Five years from now you will
probably have a harder time finding
a place to live in Chapel hill and pay
more for it, forecasters say.
Earlier this week, a report from
the Conference Board, a New York
based business forecast group, listed
Raleigh Durham as one of the
hottest three areas in the United
States for employment growth in
1987.
And growth in the Raleigh
Durham area is expected to travel
right down U.S. 1-40 and U.S. 15
501 to Chapel Hill.
UNC City and Regional Planning
professor Ed Bergman said the 7
percent expected growth rate will
have a great impact on the cost of
living in Chapel HilL
"The growth of industry in the
Triangle will make Chapel Hill a
different place five years from now,"
Bergman said. "The land prices and
rent for students and faculty will rise
tremendously."
Chapel Hill's many state
employees will have to compete with
higher-paid private executives, said
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the lack of convenient parking and
the new vending card system for
making photocopies.
About 90 percent of those sur
veyed said they would support a 24
hour library and study area on
campus funded by a $1 increase in
student fees.
Students also were asked about
their contact with the University
shuttle bus service. Of the 70 percent
who said they had used the shuttle
during the fall semester, about 90
percent said they were generally
satisfied with it. Students did suggest
that more service be provided during
peak morning hours, late at night
and on weekends, that bus schedules
be posted at every but stop, and that
buses run in more than one direction.
When asked about campus secur
ity, 75 percent of the respondents
said they were satisfied with it.
Student comments on security issues
included requests for more foot
patrols by campus police, improved
lighting, and increased publicity of
assaults and burglaries. Students
also said they wanted more rape
escort volunteers, better security in
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Jotting topic heads alongside class notes can make more
per minute and most professors talk
at only 100 words per minute,
keeping the mind on track isn't an
easy task during note-taking, experts
attest.
David Wark and Alton Raygor,
authors of "Systems of Study," have
come up with a list of listener's parts
of speech, a hint at how to under
stand the organization of a speaker.
"An assistant professor won't be
able to buy a house in Chapel Hill,
or even in Carrboro," he said.
Bergman predicts that restaurants,
movie theaters and parking lots in
Chapel Hill will become even more
crowded in the near future.
"At some point this may make us
miss out on some faculty appoint
ments," Bergman said. "But every
one has to make concessions, and
I think that any other university of
such reputation has similar
problems."
Forecast magazine predicted a
fifth consecutive year of economic
growth for North Carolina since the
1982 recession.
Richard Belous, a Conference
Board labor economist, compared
the Raleigh Durham area to Boston
and the Silicon Valley in California.
"Our forecast takes into account
more than just statistics," Belous
said. "There is a spirit not found in
directories and the Raleigh Durham
area has that."
The Conference Board considered
the universities, corporate commun
ity, area sports attractions, water
the arboretum and better responses
to their calls- by campus police.
Students also were questioned
about ticket distribution for athletic
events. About 60 percent said they
were satisfied with the ticket distri
bution policy, but the survey was
conducted before basketball distri
bution began this year.
Some students suggested using a
lottery to distribute tickets? alloting
the best seats on a first come, first
serve basis, reserving better seats for
students in the Smith Center and
Kenan Stadium and having ticket
distribution sites on both North and
South . campus. Students also
requested that ticket distribution be
moved back to the weekends to
prevent conflicts with class schedules
and some suggested eliminating the
student athletic fee and allowing
those who wanted tickets to purchase
them.
When asked about student
government, 93 percent of the
respondents said they were satisfied
with student representation, and 78
percent said they felt that student
government was open to all students.
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six parts: introduction, thesis, body,
summary, irrelevancy and clues'.
According to the two specialists a
student should start taking notes
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supply, transportation systems and
partnership between private and
public industry, Belous said.
"These factors have gelled and
cooked in other areas like Boston
and Silicon Valley," Belous said.
Grad student federation
calls for UNC to divest
By JOY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The Graduate and Professional
Student Federation adopted a reso
lution Wednesday calling for UNC's
divestment from companies with
holdings in South Africa.
Approximately 35 students who
attended the monthly GPSF meeting
vocally agreed to pass the resolution,
with one dissention. Little discussion
surrounded the proposed resolution.
Folklore graduate student Nancy
Kalow motioned that the group
accept the resolution. Political
Science graduate student Sara Grove
seconded the motion.
Kalow had suggested to GPSF
president Jeffrey Smiley this past
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Students suggested that student
leaders seek more input from their
constituents and that representatives
be more accessible.
Although the survey reflects stu
dent concerns, Sipe said it would not
be enough to ensure changes in
University policies. But he said the
results Would be a starting point for
discussions between students and
administration officials.
"We can go to the administration,
and we can write letters," he said.
"We can talk to the chancellor's
advisory committees. As long as we
put forth some effort, , that's better
than doing nothing at all."
Sipe admits the survey results are
biased because a greater percentage
of those interviewed were freshmen,
juniors and students living on cam
pus. Despite this discrepancy, Sipe
said the report was still valid.
"The survey is biased, but it does
show some general trends," he said.
Sipe said the Student Affairs
Committee will meet soon to decide
which University officials will receive
copies of the report.
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than a marginal difference
tips such as using mnemonic devices
or dots and dashes to make notes
clear, memorable and organized.
And organizing notes to fit ones
thought patterns is the best way to
transform hieroglyphics into notes
m you can win with, at least according
to ; Juntune. "Knowing how it all
relates and fits together is the key
to learning."
"And we think they will cook and
gel in the Raleigh Durham area."
The New England and Washing
ton, D.C. areas were also cited as
areas of high growth by the Con
ference Board.
December that the GPSF propose
a resolution for divestment. Since
then, Smiley has been gathering
information for the proposal, he
said.
Smiley said he had thought about
the GPSF proposing a divestment
resolution for a long time. He did
not introduce the resolution himself,
because "I don't want to make the
GPSF an agenda for ideas," he said.
"Normally we (the GPSF) deal
almost exclusively with campus
issues," Smiley said in an intervew
Tuesday. "This past year weVe been
concerned with the alcohol policy
and the status of graduate education
on campus. We don normally deal
with non-campus issues."
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