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V. .7. C OLLEGIAN
HAZLETON UNDERGRADUATE CENTER
PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Highacres, R. D. 1, Hazleton, Pa.
STAFF
EDITOR JOHN MOONEY
ASSISTANT EDITOR, this issue JEANNE McGRORY
HENRY PAULICK, LARRY LIDZ, DAVE EVANS,
MARION JANOSKY
SPORTS LARRY LIDZ
PHOTOGRAPHER HAROLD FILBERT
If you bought a new spring suit recently, it probably was
priced at less than one hundred dollars. It. is safe to bet that for
this hundred-dollar purchase you went to great length to select
just the right color and type of material; you had the suit fitted
and tailored; in short—you made sure that you got your "money's
worth."
How about your college education? Are you getting your
money's worth out of it? Do you realize how much it costs, in
tennis of money, for your four-year college degree.
The tuition charges are relatively low here at our state-subsi-
I,4ed institution, but living costs are always constant. At a nomi
nal rate of one thousand dollars per year, subsistence, plus ap
proximately five hundred dollars per year in actual costs, the
price: of your degree is tagged at six thousand dollars ; There is
another factor to be considered, though,—loss of wages, if you
actually had gone to work instead of continuing your educatiOn.
At an average two thousand-dollar per year job, four years of non
rewarded activity adds another eight thousand dollars. Thus, the
price tag of your degree reads something like fourteen thousand
dollars.
- - You may argue, "don't pay for it—but someone does, whether
it be your parents, benefactors, or government, someone doespay.
I'm sure that if you were handed that amount of money and four
years of your life you would -certainly shop around for exactly
what you want, and you would make certain that your choice
would fit you perfectly.
Is your college work in style and well-fitted?
What do we look for in a good teacher? That is the problem
which this article will air. Our staff put this question directly to
the students, and these are the resultant answers : Understanding :
consideration, courtesy, patience, open-mindedness, broad-minded
ness, sympathy, and understanding of the individual problems of
the student. Instructors evidently are to be father-confessors at
large. A teacher .has approximately one hundred students, and he
is supposed to understand every one of them. A psychriatrist
takes his patients one at a time and collects twenty-five dollars per
visit. Teachers' salaries don't come anywhere close to that.
Only a few of the stuidents queried even mentioned the in
structor's knowledge of the subject. This must be the most im,
portant consideration. The greatest teachers in early times, like
Aristotle, or of more recent years, John Dewey, were people who
did research in their chosen fields, rather than on their students.
The term "scholarship" used Ito mean true scholarship ;"not a fran
tic race for a diploma which has more financial than .academic
werth.. The time when men would endure great physical hardship
in order to hear a famous lecturer speak is past.
It is not fair to say that our present teachers do not take an
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On Good and Bad
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
In accord with our policy of fea
turing •one of the deportments or
divisions of our school, we present a
story .of the department which is un
known to the veteran and girl stu
dents, but near and dear to •the hearts
of the non-veteran men—The Physical
Education Department.
RingniaSter, ;boSs-man, and guiding
light of this subject is Mr. SYd Rud
man=everyone knows Syd—he needs
no_,• introduction, but we will tell 'lyou
a little more about him later in this
article. The main tent for Syd's per
formances is the; "Athletic Field;"—
right now it is a glorified parking lot
with one end enclosed by mud banks.
These mud banks were to surround an
ice skating pond for winter recreation
Water Safely Cmrse
` Water Safety and. Life Saving have
been added as a regular course this
semester under the official college
catalogue title of Phys. Ed. 9. The
"classroom" is the local "Y" pool—
WILKES BUILDS NEW GYM
Wilkes-College of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
has begun the erection of a quarter
million dollar gymnasium. Plans call
for its entire completion in seven
months. When finished, this edifice
will be used for athletics, and as a
interest in the student. For instance, here at iHighacres few if
any instructors will refuse to spend after—class time for some
special individual problem.
Frequently we are "stuck" with a teacher who brings more
than a text-book:knowledge of his subject to class; one who goes
beyond the questions in the back of the book, 66 to speak. That
teacher is usually the least-liked and most-misunderstood member
of the staff. Because he assumes that his students have mature
backgrounds, he is labelled a poor teacher. HoW often has the
phrase "Why 'doesn't he come down to the student's level ?" been
heard. A more college-like cry would be "Why don't we get up to
that teacher's level ?" or at least, "Why don't we meet him half
way?" The famous quotation from the Bible might be interpreted
to say "When you were a child, you were spoken to as a child", etc.
The choice is ours. Do we value a teacher's technique above
his knowledge? This article does not pretend to answer the
question, but it should give every scholar something to think
about.
The next time you are about to voice a complaint about the
shortcomings of a teacher--pause and remember that you may
find yourself in the same position some day.
"For none can tell to what red hell
_His sightless soul may stray." Wilde
":PHY
and exercise, but the story 'of the
"Skating" is already famous. First
we'll look into past accomplishments:
For many months now, the students
of Phys Ed have been supplied with
natty Nittany lion outfits, properly
labeled sweat suits. It was very ap
parent when these suits arrived last
fall, "Penn State" sweat shirts blos
somed by the dozens on manly student
torsos---here we must digress for a
minute and deplore the absence 'of
women's classes. It is feared that if
the weather does not soon remain
good and those' aforementioned mud
banks are not soon cleared away, these
students will not get their money's
worth out of their calisthenics cos-
"M", of course. The students who
successfully complete this course will
be awarded Red Cross Life Saving
certificates and emblems in addition
to regular academic credit.
center for other student activities.
This project will certainly , add much
to the worth of the school, both phy
sical and educational.
(This article is printed as a hint and
as a matter of general. information.)
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