C.C. Baader \ l / 4 Student Activities director leaving to assume new post By Joan H. Klein Roberta McLeod Reeves, director of Student Activities , since Jan. 28, 1975, has re signed her position effective March 31. Roberta has been named associate director of the Armour J. Blackburn Univer sity Center at Howard Uni versity in Washington, D.C. The center is a large com plex encompassing restau rants, a rathskeller, auditor iums, ballrooms, a bowling alley, game and music rooms and a bookstore. It is the duty of the new associate director to administer the total funtion of the building, staff, pro grams, and activities. "I have to make it the nerve center of the campus and an integr al part of the community,' she said. While she is enthusiastic about her new assignment, it is not without regret that she is leaving her present post. "I love this campus and will miss the students, ' she said, "and I intend to keep an open net work with Capitol Campus." Mrs. Reeves is to report to Howard University on April Joe Kemp new maintenance manager .Joe A. Kemp. has been appointed as manager of physical plant maintenance and operations at Capitol Campus, according to Dr. Duane Smith, Associate Pro vost and Dean. With fifteen years', exper ience in managing, supervis ing, and budgeting for opera tions and repair, Kemp says that he "will strive for a progressive program for plant improvements and develop ments." Kemp has extensive ex perience in such diverse areas as community water and sew age systems, central heating plants, housing, storage facil ities, hospitals, and athletic and community buildings. Kemp has worked with plant engineers from major auto, construction, equipment, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA Whether it's a dorm room, office, living area, or den, many people tend to agree that plants add something extra to a room; that is unless the plant is sick or dying. If that is the case, the Pennsyl vania State university runt Disease Clinic is willing to offer its free services. New graduate service offered PRINCETON, N.J. A new service to help graduate schools examine the effec tiveness of their doctoral pro grams is being offered jointly by the Graduate Record Ex aminations Board and the Council of Graduate Schools. The Graduate Program Self-Assessment (GPSA) ser vice uses questionnaires to gather judgments about a doctoral program from faculty members, students and alum ni. Designed to serve as part of a school's overall evaluation effort, it provides information in 12 areas, including cur riculum, quality of teaching, student commitment and mo tivation, and faculty work en vironment. Questionnaires consist of about 60 statements concern ing characteristics of the pro gram, with agree-disagree or poor-to-excellent ratings as response options. SWAMPED? iP$ • C ox - ("*- SritiNG Ditt-AK Thiraday, March 6, 1980 aircraft, and missile manufac turers for improved mainte nance and repair of their plants. He has also developed programs for improved econ omic utilization of facilities located in St. Louis, Detroit, Columbus, and Chicago. Construction, housing, logistics, and personnel man agement are also part of Kemp's experience and quali fications. He coordinated the P.S.U. clinic helps sick plants The clinic was started in 1971 by Lester P. Nichols, a professor of plant pathology, in conjunction with the De partment of Plant Pathology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Ex tension Service. Since its start, the clinic has been quite busy receiving more than 75 specimens a In addition to making judgments about a standard set of statements concerning each graduate program, re spondents are asked to indi cate their own personal char acteristics, training and ex perience, and report recent academic or professional achievements. They are also asked to answer up to 10 questions prepared by the department itself to inquire about specific local concerns and program elements. No names are requested on the questionnaires, and all information is confidential. Questionnnaires used in the GPSA service have been "The at 3, 5:30, 8, and 10:30 p.m. Admission •1.00 donation construction efforts of the Joint U.S. Military Services and of U.S. and foreign con tractors in Korea. Kemp's background in cludes Staff and Command positions in military manage ment. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel in the Corps of Engineers. A student at numerous military educa tional institutions, Kemp week. John D. Peplinski, who directs the laboratory pro cedures , comments on the clinical process: "We try to process diseased specimens as quickly as we can. Some ex aminations may take a week or 10 days, but we ask users of the clinic to allow up to two weeks to receive a reply to be on the safe side." adapted from similar ques tionnaires developed in the mid 7 l97os by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in co operation with committees of graduate deans and faculty members. Those surveys were used by ETS to study quality of doctoral education for the Council of Graduate Schools under a grant from the National Science Founda tion. For additional informa tion, write to Graduate Pro gram Sell-Assessment Ser vice, Box 2878, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. 08541; or call (609) 921-9000, ext. 2072. SGA and President's Council Presents Exorci March 31 in the auditorium holds a bachelor's degree in Military Studies from the University of Maryland. Associate Provost Smith, commenting on Kemp's ap pointment, said, "The Campus is extremely fortunate to have Joe Kemp in this critical posi tion. We look forward to ben efiting from a long and fruitful relationship." 0 GOCUS No disease can be detected without an adequate sample of the plant. Peplinski said specimens coming into the clinic should be sent in as part of a plant disease clinic kit. The kit contains instruc tions for collecting and mail ing diseased plant specimens and soil samples. Plant own ers are asked to mail the clinic some diseased material and some healthy material for comparison. Plant specimens should be kept in plastic bags so they will not dry out during mailing. Persons wishing to send a plant specimen to the clinic are asked to obtain a plant disease clinic kit. The kit contains instructions for col lecting and mailing diseased plant specimens and soil samples. Packets are available from all county extension offices and from the clinic at 218 Buckout Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State Univer sity, University Park, PA 16802 , Additional informa tion can be obtained by phon ing (814) 865-1847. Page 3
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