Page Four Advisor Survey Taken; Shows a Lock of Spirit UNIVERSITY PARK (APS)- Results of a survey on academic advising from 11 of 18 Com monwealth Campuses show a “vigorous spirit of advising” which is lacking at the campus level, according to John Casciotti, University Council member from the Altoona Campus. Rating their advisors, 19 percent of the students classifiec their advisers as Excellent; 35 percent as Fair; 15 percent as Poor; and 3 percent as Terrible. According to Casciotti, the mean is 3.46-midway between Fair and Good-when the results are put on a 5-4-3-2-1 scale for comparison. 61 percent of the students surveyed said their advisor was helpful in determining what courses to schedule; 30 percent said they were not helpful; the remainder was unsure. In discussing career possibilities, 32 percent said their advisors were helpful while 50 percent said they were not. The remainder were undecided. 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As an overall observation by the students surveyed, 18 percent said their campus put a good deal of emphasis on quality academic advising; 36 percent classified their campus emphasis as “some”; 46 percent said “not clearly enough” emphasis was being given at their campus. Casciotti also surveyed students, looking for opinion differences according to class, degree candidacy, college, campus and sex. He said that sophomores were “more critical of their advisor’s help in scheduling courses and giving career advice, but many fewer freshmen were helped with other academic or non-academic problems.” Their was very little difference between baccalaureate and associate degree students, ac cording to the survey. 66 percent of the males sur- DIRECTORATE OF ADVERTISING (RSAV) RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE TEXAS 78148 Name \ Address \ College Graduation date Planned Future Residence \ \ veyed said they felt their advisor was helpful in determining courses. Females reacted with 43 percent feeling that their ad visors were of help. Casciotti said that the students from the College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts generally were “noticably below (lie other colleges” surveyed (Engineering, Science, Liberal Arts, Education, Business Administration, and Human Development). From the results of the survey, Casciotti concluded that “the largest one or two and the smallest one or two campuses almost always ranked below the otliers...” Casciotti said he took the survey in conjunction with the University Council’s study of academic advising. “I see the results not as proff or disproff or anything, but simply as general indicators to con sider.” Upon being commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, you go directly to an .Air Force dying school for classroom and flying instruction. After one y year of training, you will return to vour own home town, follow the civilian ' career you’ve chosen, and 'y with your local Air Force Reserve unit, dur- (please print) County- State / / / / / Behrend Coilegian Date of Birth 7-ip j OTIS Seeks Membership On Commonwealth Campus UNIVERSITY PARK The Organization of Town Indepen dent Students (OTIS) is seeking representatives at the Com monwealth Campuses. OTIS, a service organization for students living in off-campus housing, is expanding it’s organization to include associate members at the Commonwealth Campuses. These members, who would be in constant touch with the University Park officers, would serve as “referal sources through which potential transfer students can keep informed of the Slate College housing situation,” according to OITS President Jim Rodden. The job of these associate members would be to let students know about OTIS’s services, office hours, and to distribute housing information from OTIS to transfer students at the cam- puses. Rodden said there is a possibility that “each campus might want to set up similar organizations at the campus level with OTIS serving as co-ordinator of their activities. OTIS presently handles day-to day problems with landlords, Ing your spare time and on weekends. For all h facts about the erve’s e Pilot Training O gram mail in the owing coupon. ' When you Hy with « j Air Force Reserve, u can really get ty from it all. provides legal advice and in formation about student rights, operates' a bail system for students in Centre County, and publishes and distributes con sumer - and housing - related literature. Rodden said that the “majority of tenant-landlord problems are based on simple misun derstandings.” OTTS’s job is to serve as mediator. “In the event we don’t get satisfaction from the landlord, we can go to the Borough Housing Authority in cases which have to do with housing standards,” said Rodden. - Many of the problems have to do with security deposits. Rodden said that a landlord has “30 days to either pay back the deposit or furnish a list of apartment damages.” If the landlord does not comply, he has no right to the security deposit. Two additional services which OTIS would like to provide are a state-wide bail system and a public interest research group. The bail system would be set up similarly to one in California. Any student would be able to use the service based on payment of a four or five dollar membership fee. “We certainly would like to .move into the area of setting up a public interest research group, Penn PIRG, to help in consumer and landlord problems,” said Rodden. PIRG could hire a full time lawyer to do research and offer legal aid. Rodden encouraged Com monwealth Campus students to stop by the OTIS office on the ground floor of the Hetzel Union Building when they come to State College in search of housing.'. “We’re open weekdays from 9:30 a.m.,to 5 p.rn. and from 11 - a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. We also can arrange to be open Sunday afternoons if a student calls us in advance” (814-865- 8851) to set up an appointment, he said. Ms. Atkin New "Mom" In Niagara Niagara Hall finally has a housemother again. Ms. Atkin, 21, was born in Erie. Behrend is not entirely new to her, as her sister attended school here several vears aeo. “Mom” Atkin was a Resident Assistant (RA) for almost two years, so she can now take such things as abortion, suicide, fire, rape, etc. in stride. She attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1968-1970. She then transferred to Gannon College where sne graduated with a B.A. in English. One might wonder why someone with a B.A. in English would want such a job. “Mom” Atkin plans to work for her M. A. in counseling at Edinboro Stale College. She wanted something besides secretarial work, as she enjoys working with people. When of fered this job, she thought it would fit perfectly with her school career, and her interests. Among her other interests “Mom” Atkin has worked with Upward Bound-a federal program concerned primarily with helping underprivileged high school students take college credit courses on weekends. She has also worked ex tensively:- with -an English Professor, on the subject of Images r of Women in Western Literature. After extensive research they'planned a guide so the'course can now be taught for College credit. This information is now on file in Washington D.C. at Organization of Women (NOW) office. “Mom”-Atkin : is T on duty from 12:00-7:30 a.m. and welcomes aiiyone to stop in and .talk anytime. She too is a student, who will pull all-niters, understands college life, and is looking for new friends.- - • April 27,1972
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