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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.
A greater majority (55 percent)
said their advisors were not
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academic or non-academic
problems; 33 percent said their
advisors were helpful, the
remainder were unsure.
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.”
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cording to the survey.
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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
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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.”
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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,
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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