PAGE SEVEN Coal Strike Consquenees University Park, Pa., We are close enough to the ragged edge that a long coal strike in the United States could push the entire world over into economic disaster, a Penn sylvania State University professor says. Dr. John D. Ridge, professor and head of the Department of Economic Geology and Mineral Economics, points out that a lengthy strike would cut the amount of energy produced in this country by about one third, a situation we could not tolerate for any considerable amount of time. The two industries which would be most immediately affected by the strike, which began last Tuesday, are steel and automobiles, according to Dr. Ridge, who estimates that a six-week strike would add roughly one million persons to the ranks of the unemployed. "The layoffs would occur primarily among suppliers to the auto manufacturers„' he continues. "Power companies Rather Reports In Harrisburg by Fred Prouser soon found himself without a scholarship. To remedy the situation, he took a job at radio station KSAM in Huntsville Texas at forty cents an hour. He kept the station on the air Saturdays and Sundays, while the owner, a Baptist minister was out circuit riding bringing God to the country folks. Speaking candidly about his profession, Rather em phasized that "a lot that happens to you in journal ism, whether you want to be a writer or reporter, is accidental." He warned the students to "be prepared to have an up and down career." He stated that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Although journalism is a glamorous profession, Mr. Rather stressed that the top layer of journalism is • very thin, mentioning Wal t,' ter Cronkite and James O Reston as mentors in the electronic and print me w • diums respectively. Speaking to the students .0 on journalism as a lifetime o profession, he believes that f. you must be addicted to journalism to do well. He stated , "you must allow it Assn. in to consume , - you, other wise your chances for success are small." i f .••••• ••• • •••••••••••• There was a brief ques • SORRY THAT THERE ' S • =lion and answer period • "READER ASKS" THIS ISH. • following Mr. Rather's •• speech in which a number WE DID THE INTERVIEWS, • f o di Dan Rather, intrepid CBS newsman, who was White House correspondent dur ing the Nixon Administra tion, spoke last Friday night to a crowd of 400 high school journalists of the Pennsylvania School Press Association in Camp Hill. Speaking about himself, a native Texan, Rather related his early career at Sam Houston State Teach ers College where he was enrolled in the journalism program under a football scholarship. Admitting that he wasn't exactly up to his coaches expectations, he Pa. School Press Harrisburg, on Nov. 15 6of topics were lscusse( • AND THEN DISCOVERED • When asked how sources :THAT THERE WAS NO FILM It were obtained in the lIN THE CAMERA. • • waning days of the Nixon WELL, THAT'S SHOW—BIZ/: administration, Rather said 011 _ 12* "0411••••••••••••••••••ip there were decent men within the Administration yeetext•9 54, ed ae who cared more about their coiintry,"so they decided we're still waiting! to talk. He felt it "was a matter of conscience for the most part,"that allowed some of the Palace Guard write soon! might not be affected as quickly. Although the exact amount of their coal stocks is not known, they have been able to build up their reserves because they are supplied by 'captive' mines. They probably could keep going for months rather than weeks, par ticularly if they reduced their power commitments gradually". American coal is currently exported to Japan and to Western Europe, where West Germany is the principal market. Japan would be seriously affected by a prolonged strike since she could not easily find new energy sources, Dr. Ridge notes. One factor adding to the uncertainty of the present situation is the United. Mine Workers president, Arnold Miller, who is an unknown quantity in the negotiations, the first he has conducted. "In the days of John L. Lewis, it was possible to C.C. READER predict how he would react to a particular situation", Dr. .Ridge points out, "but no one knows for sure what Miller will do". Dr. Ridge believes that ultimately the answer to the world's fuel problems lies in finding new energy sources, either through greater use of nuclear energy or the har nessing of the fusion reaction. "Cutting energy con sumption in hdlf to make what we have last twice as long", he says, "can only give us 20 or 30 years at best, and during that time, we would be living under most unpleasant conditions. "Conservation isn't not using something. It is making the absolute most efficient use of what you have and depending on technology to find other things to substitute when that's gone. If technology can't come up with the answers, well, the dinosaurs couldn't adapt, and they disappeared. If we can't adapt, we won't survive either". to speak candidly against the Administration. This reporter questioned Mr. Rather on his new role as anchorman for CBSSpe cial Reports. When asked if he would continue bringing investigative documentar ies to the public in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow, he stated that "there will never be another Edward R. Murrow, nor will there be another series like Edward R. Murrow's, " but that he would try to bring a new dimension to TV documentaries. .....Irity ( t. 11 including signing • trappings, autographs THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE READER WILL FEATURE A SECOND ODYSSEY TO UNIVERSITY PARK. i 4 THIS TINE, YOUR IN TREPID 4. REPORTERS, $: PROUSER & BOLLINGER, BRAVED THE CHILL, WINTRY WINDS OF THE NORTH TO BRING TO YOU, OUR LOYAL READERS, A SPECIAL PHOTO-ESSAY ON BAND DAY, 1974. IN THE DEC. 6 ISSUE OF THE C.C. READER!!! PROFS RETURN TO SCHOOL College Station, Texas [IP] Instructors at Texas A&M University have been going back to school to learn to be better teachers. They use a process called an Enhanced Teaching Work shop which was developed and is being conducted by Dr. Glenn Johnson of the Educational Curriculum and Insturction Depart ment. Several techniques, such as interaction analysis and micro-teaching, allow a teacher to examine his instructional methods in detail. Videotape record ings of five or 10-minute simulated classroom in struction periods are made by each professor in the department's micro-teach ing laboratories. Teachers viewing the videotapes are not only able to see themselves as others see them, but also observe the actual reactions students have to the presentations. Interaction analysis is the development of a 10-category observation system so that any verbal statement made in a classroom by a teacher or student could be identified every three seconds and recorded for further analy sis. "If one accepts the idea that teaching involves communication between people, one being referred to as the teacher, then we can study one part of the teacher's interaction with students and train people ta4vanalyze this phase of instruction,"Dr. Johnson explained. "The real payoff is that it gives teachers and object ive system with which to do some self analysis of their teaching styles," he con tinued. "Before an instruc tor just had to guess, often incorrectly, as to how effective he was in verbal interaction with students just off the top of his head." The 10 categories are divided into teacher talk and student talk. Teacher _.. SHREWD BUSINESSMEN Advertise in the C.C. READER For information, contact Ken Hession 787-1663 or 944-58 NOVEMBER 22, 1974 talk is further split into direct and indirect influ ence. The instructor, using indirect influence, either praises, accepts feelings of students, uses ideas of students or asks ques tions. Direct influence in cludes lecturing, giving directions and criticizing. Student talk has two categories: response and initiation. Response is an answer to a teacher's ques tion. The other is a student's spontaneous contribution. The final se lection is silence or confu sion:pauses, short periods of silence and periods of confusion in which com munication cannot be un derstood by the observer. In reviewing a lecture by means of a video playback, an instructor can classify his and the class' ques tions and answers. Using the 10 categories he can tell how close he came to achieving the goals he set for the teaching period. "No single technique is the complete solution to effec tive teaching," Johnson pointed out. Teacher response to the course has been complete ly positive. Such accolades as "extremely worthwhile" and "bubling with enthu siasm" have been attached to the course. "I'd like to see some sort of funding that would allow us to run a center for the improvement of college teaching," Johnson declared. "With this program it would be possible to really put them through the total process, so that it would become a part of their teaching behavior. It takes a full 15 hours, of training in inter action analysis to become more responsive to student ideas." "And, the immediate feedback from videotape recorders, supervisors, students and colleagues provides a critique of the lesson which will help the teacher constructively modify his behavior," Johnson concluded. Long after the holiday decora tions have been taken down, the good works made possible by "..INICEF cards go on. UNICEF provides urgently needed food, medicines, and school supplies for the children of over 100 countries. 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