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Faculty advisers believe
commuters hinder clubs
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tion,” Adamson said.
Seminar views
future
Courses teach ethnic awareness
Director sees need
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college bought the estate east of McAllister Fine Arts
Center recently and hired the local firm to clean up.
As consciousness of eth-
nic heritage has increased,
this college has started
courses in black and Mexi-
can-American history.
‘‘In 1969 pressure was on
all over the country to begin
ethnic classes. In coopera-
tion with this and other in-
stitutions ethnic classes
were started,” Leonard B.
Murphy, assistant professor
of history, said.
Murphy teaches the black
history course.
Of the 14studentsenrolled
in the black history course,
the majority is black.
A nude girl in a man’s
magazine centerfold is not
arousing at first glance, Mor-
ris said.
‘‘I find the girl’s expression
or the situation she’s in ar-
ousing,” he said.
Donaho said she is turned
off by the nude male center-
fold if his facial expression is
aloof.
“It turns me off when his
expression is that of some-
one who thinks he’s perfect
or it,’ ” she said.
It is not a male’s nude body
that is arousing at first
glance but the sensitive fa-
cial expression, Cunnigham
‘added.
She finds his body arous-
ing if she relates to a sensi-
tive face.
Next meeting will be at 3
p.m. Dec. 3 in room 531 of
Moody Learning Center.
his students on a class-
after-class, semester-after
semester basis.
This means at least one-
half the class should receive
grades of A, B or C, he ex-
plained.
“I tell a teacher that if he
generally cannot be suc-
cessful with at least one-half
of his class, then something
is wrong with his teaching.
“Teachers should keep in
mind the degree to which the
student, has achieved the
stated objectives of the
course,” he said.
A teacher can help assure
success of a course if he
helps the student under-
stand what is expected of
him.
“A statement of specific
objectives is needed. Then
testing should complement
the stated objectives.
“This will improve the
success ratio of a class.
“This has proved to betrue
not only on this campus but
at other colleges as well,”
Culwell said.
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legiate one,” Walton Crozier,
last year’s sponsor, said.
PE Majors is active, but it
lacks members. They have
he*ld two meetings' this
semester and are making
plans to attend a convention
in December. They also have
a delegate to the Student
Representative Assemblage.
“Our function is to pro-
mote the professional ac-
tivities in physical education,
health and other related jobs
in this field.
“It is hard to get members
because most of the people
work in their fields -- such as
recreation or pop warner,”
Merle Dulin, sponsor, said.
Phyettes is a service or-
students in an informal
group setting that is easily
accessible to students when
they can come in without an
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“Since 1935, we’ve grown
faste. in population with less
food. One-eighth of our
population is below the pov-
erty level.
Every child born in the Un-
ited States affects the world
50 times more than one born
in Asia.
“Most deaths are among
the children. They are dying
from brain damage due to
lack of food.
Bifra and Bangladesh are
still there, but you don’t hear
about it anymore,” she said.
The United States ac-
counts for only 6 percent of
the world population but
used 30 percent of the
world’s resource material,
the speaker said.
“For example, the Sahara
Desert is moving south 30
miles per year in some
places because of misuse,”
she said.
People used to say that
high population was good
for the economy. But now
they are beginning to see
that population control is not
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tion are only a dream, the
film pointed out.
The film showed the dif-
ferent measures taken in
countries such as India and
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Africa to tell, people about
contraceptives and the ad-
vantages of a lower popula-
tion.
The second film was enti-
tled “About Sex" and
showed a very open group
discussion about the myths
surrounding topics like sex,
venereal disease and homo-
sexuality.
class to present more in-
sight.
Jim Williams, a student en-
rolled in the black history
class, says, “I enjoy this class
because the information is
up-to-date. The material is
modern and not biased. It is
presented with two perspec-
tives and is factual. Thesmall
class also enables a closer
relation which makes it
easier to express opinions.”
“The Mexican-American
history class was started be-
cause of a local need in the
community,” Dr. Johnny M.
McCain, professor of history,
said. It was approved by the
San Antonio Union Junior
College District in 1970 after
being developed by McCain.
The majority of the 22 stu-
dents enrolled is Mexican-
Americans. They are taking
the course to learn more on
their cultural background.
Mexican-American history
is a combination class of
discussion and lecture.
Informal discussions,
panel research, where find-
ings are reported to the
class, and outside reading
make up this history class.
“Class issues are stimu-
lated by analysis by students
on various published
works,” McCain said.
“This course is designed-
to acquaint the student with
the cultural background and
awareness of the peculiari-
ties of the Mexican-Ameri-
can culture.
“It is intended to educate
all on the contributions of
the Mexican-American’s de-
velopment in the United
States economically, so-
cially, politically and in every
other way,” McCain said.
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“This has not always been
so,” Murphy said. Ip earlier
semesters there have been
more Anglos.
Black history deals with
the realities of the black cul-
ture and erases the myths
that many believe.
“This course exposes
much information that is left
out of a regular U.S. history
course,” Murphy said.
“The course is valuable to
all in that it corrects general
misunderstandings that the
country feels about blacks.”
Personal exchange is the
most important factor in this
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appointment,” Hahn said.
“All people get emotion-
ally upset at times, but this is
a part of normal everyday liv-
ing. For the college student,
it can come from a lot of
pressure,” he said.
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Most people can get over
their problems in a day or
two, but if the problem is se-
vere or if there are several
problems at one time, then
they become more difficult
to handle, he said.
“We want to help the stu-
dent focus on the main prob-
The Walk-in Medical
Health Center which started
Nov. 11 will move its location
to provide more privacy be-
ginning Monday.
The center will be open
from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. every
Monday in the conference '
room on the west end of the
first floor of the nursing
building, Gus Hahn,
psychologist and counselor,
said.
The group has been meet-
ing in Loftin Student Center.
“The purpose of the center
is to meet temporary im-
mediate emotional needs of lem. Then we can help him
handle it or develop a way of
coping with it," he said.
The sessions will be in-
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club, people liked to lend
them as a group. Today there
is just more emphasis on in-
dividual service," William
Way, the club’s founder and
sponsor, said.
Few campus activities are
provided to draw student re-
sponse.
“There are two sides to the
story. Some people feel
there is no sense of belong-
ing because the administra-
tion does not provide
enough activities.
“On the other hand, the
activities that are provided
do not get enough atten-
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Banquet honors club
International Students
Association members
hosted a banquet for
Baptist Student Union as a
thank-you gesture for the
help they have given ISA.
Last year BSU had a
banquet for the club and also
invited its members to attend
an expense-paid trip to the
International Students Con-
ference in Palestine for four
days.
About40 peoplefrom Bap-
tist Student Union and ap-
proximately 100 students
from International Students
Association attended the
banquet last Saturday.
Refreshments and enter-
tainment were Iranean. This
was handled by Nasrin
Hemati Beeler, Paticher
Hemati and Nahid Sabean,
Iranean members of the
club.
A mini-expo sponsored by
the International Students
Association is planned. The
affair, which will offer food,
entertainment and displays
from different countries, will
be Dec. 6.
It is difficult to organize
clubs here because it is more
like a drive-in campus. Most
of the students here either
work, have friends that do
not attend this school or do
not have a way of getting to
the night meetings.
These are the conclusions
of sponsors of inactive or-
ganizations.
Eight organizations lack-
ed membership this se-
mester. Two of these eight
ciubs, Campus Crusade and
Chess Club, also were inac-
tive last year.
The Student Education
Association is for students
majoring in education. It is
like a stepping stone and an
orientation program for
those who will become
members of the state
teacher's association.
“This type of club is out of
place here because this
school does not really have
an education department.
This club belongs in a
four-year college where de-
grees are offered,” Lucille
Rochs, last year’s sponsor,
said.
John Elam, assistant pro-
fessor of psychology, was
also one of the club’s spon-
sors.
“Students never have the
time or make the time to go
to the meetings. They really
do not care to come back
here once they leave and all
the meetings are at night,”
he said.
Many people would join,
but only a small number of
these would do all the work.
• Sometimes even the leaders
would not attend the meet-
ings,” he said.
The B'Nai Brith Hillel
Foundation provides faci-
lities, guidance, and or-
ganization for religious, cul- ’ hand, Stegall said,
tural and social activities for
Jewish students.
“The organization has to
come from the students. I
have heard that various or-
ganizations around the city
aresupposed toorganizethe
Hillel again, but other than
that I know nothing,” Tuvia
Adar, last year’s sponsor,
said.
The Chess Club is one that
does not have steady mem-
bership. It is for those who
enjoy the game and would
like to improve it.
“Some years it has a lot of
interest, and then there are
some years when there is no
interest in it at all,” Larry
Adamson, assistant director
of student activities, said.
The Rodeo Club is a de-
partmental and interest or-
ganization. Their goal is to
sponsor a youth rodeo in the
fall and a collegiate rodeo in
the spring.
“There was just a lack of
interest and there weren’t
enough students involved.
Last year we sponsored the
youth rodeo, but not the col- such a bad idea, she said.
“In Mexico, their food
production has made a 300
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In order to accommodate
the 100 billion people ex-
pected in 2000, a city the size
of Tulsa will need to be built
each year.
This point and others were
made during a seminar here
last week that focused on the
importance of population
control. The program was
sponsored by the San An-
tonio Area Planned Parent-
hood.
“Planned Parenthood
does not advocate Ze-
ro Population Growth,
though,” Rhonda Stegall,
representative of Planned
Parenthood, said.
“We don’t like to say you
can have only two children. A
family should have as many
as they want. Zero Popula-
tion Growth should bevolu-n-
tary.”
Zero population growth
has not been reached. In-
stead the fertility level has
become equal to the death
rate, she said.
Overpopulation and the
food shortage go hand in
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class. “Although this is a
discussion class there is
sometimes unwillingness to
express true feelings and
really speak out on topics,”
Murphy said.
“Although we have had
some militants, . on the
whole, we have students
who are interested and want
to take a critical look at the
different aspects presented
to them,” Murphy said.
The class deals mostly
with personal relations and
actions, but films and guest
speakers are brought to the
Grades contrast nation's trend
to B. Three-fourths of the
total grades at American
University in the spring were
A’s and B’s, while Yale gave
42 percent A’s.
Culwell said students
should try to develop them-
selves and gain indepen-
dence, rather than merely
strive for high grades.
“The important thing is
that the students do the best
they can.
“Getting an education
means more than getting
grades.
“Grade-getting too often
is a contest to please the
teacher,” Culwell said.
He defined a grade as an
evaluation of the degree to
which a student has been
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ment of the goals prescribed
in the course.
Culwell believes each
teacher should be success-
ful with at least one-half of
Of 51,300 grades given at
this college last spring, 43
percent were C’s or higher,
14 percent were lower than C
and the rest were with-
drawals.
Overall percentages from
spring 1974 show a break-
down of 18 percent A’s, 25
percent B’s, 22 percent C’s, 7
percent D’s and 7 percent
F’s.
“Overall, our grades here
are not bad. There has not
been a big change in grades
as far as I know,” Dean Paul
R. Culwell said.
This is in contrast to a
trend at other colleges as re-
ported by Time magazine
Nov. 11.
According to the
magazine article, grades are
going up in the nation's uni-
versities.
Time reported at the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh, the av-
erage grade has risen from C
percent increase, but their
population has increased
300 percent also. They've
gotten nowhere,” Stegall
said.
“Specialists think there’s
no hope for us. We’ll either
starve to death or have a
mass famine,” she said.
Two films were shown at
the talk. The first,
“Tomorrow’s Children’’
showed the increasing
population in contrast to the
low food production. Tech-
nological answers to starva-
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As women continue to work in growing numbers and as
one-parent families remain a reality, the need for child
care facilities increases.
“There are more than 200 licensed child care centers in
San Antonio,'i Lucille Rochs, chairman of child develop-
ment and education, said.” This is a growing vocation.”
The child development program here trains and
licenses students specifically to work in child care cen-
ters.
“A student completing this two-year technical program
is ready for job placement,” Rochs said.
Approximately 75 students are enrolled in the program
at this time.” This is as many students as can be handled,”
Rochs said.
Students in the program are required to take certain
academic courses each semester.
“We recommend that students take no more than 12
semester hours because of their lab responsibilities,”
Rochs said.
The first semester, the student visits community child
care facilities.
“The student is introduced to different types of equip-
ment used in teaching,” Rochs said.
Centers ranging from converted apartments to those
built especially for child care are studied and observed.
In the second semester, students spend six hours per
week working in the Child Care Center here.
“They practice working with the children,” Rochs said.
- Third-semester students take courses in children’s
literature and creativity.
“They plan activities which they present first to their
classmates and then to the children in the center,” Rochs
said.
A comprehensive video-taping of peer teaching is
made. “The child development class views this tape and
discusses it,” Rochs said.
“The student also is taped while teaching the children.
This tape is shown only to the individual for self-evalua-
tion and criticism,” Rochs said.
During the final semester of the program, students work
in community day care centers.
“This gives the student a chance to look at the real
world and to get an idea of the job opportunities that are
available,” Rochs said.
“Our department places and supervises the students
working in the community,” Rochs said.
Child guidance techniques are studied as part of the
final semester of the course.
Upon completion of the child development program,
students are certified for work in child care facilities.
A portion of the students enrolled in the program have
no intention of working in any type of child care center,
Rochs said.
Some students take the course to prepare themselves to
become parents.” They learn how children grow and what
they can be expected to do at various ages,” Rochs said. ’
Special problems that children often have are dealt
with. “Students learn how to handle kicking, biting and
stuttering problems,” Rochs said.
“An important aspect of thisprogram isthattheyouth of
today raise a new generation with some knowledge,”
Rochs said.
Bus stop
Hitchhiking and classcutting increased this week be- drivers went on strike. San Antonio Transit System
cause of lack of transportation to school as city bus buses remained in the bus garage Thursday.
American society is sexu-
ally oriented because it sells
sex, a member of People’s
Awareness Group said
Tuesday.
This comment by David
Morris, secretary, was part of
a discussion on “How does
our sexually-oriented soci-
ety affect our roles in life?”
Women are being treated
as sex objects especially in
advertising, Susan Donaho,
president, said.
“A man has to buy a pro-
duct to get the beautiful girl
in the advertisement,” she
said. “A woman has to buy a
product to be like the beauti-
ful girl.”
Milita Cunningham, vice
president, said she does not
like being treated like a hide.
She was referring to the dis-
cussion of Hugh Hefner’s
Playboy empire.
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ganization and the women’s
auxiliary to Alpha Phi
Omega.
“There was just a lack of
interest. Nobody would
come to the meetings. There
were only two people in-
volved in the club. I asked
them if they wanted to con-
tinue, and they said no. No-
body wants to join it,” Bar-
bara Neyland, last year’s
sponsor, said.
Alpha Phi Omega is a ser-
vice organization for men.
“My own personal opinion
is that people want to lend
their services as individuals.
When we first began the
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