THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1959
Study Finds Grades,
Activities Related
A significant relationship between academic achievement
and participation in activities was found by Robert Reeder,
graduate student in rehabilitation counseling, in a study
he conducted.
Reeder studied the correlations between grade point
Flashcard Poll
To Be Taken
Students will be asked their
opinions next week on a flash
card section for football games.
Questionnaires will probably
be distributed Monday to resi
dence halls and fraternities. The
students will be asked if they
want a flashcard sectiofor the
football games and if th y would
participate in the sec ion. The
student's answers on e ques
tionnaires will not oblig to him to
participate in the secti n.
Lanny Dey, chairma of the
Cabinet Flashcard Committee,
said he hoped the forms would
be turned in by the end of next
week, but he has not set a defi
nite time or place yet.
Town Independent Men Coun
cil will be asked to distribute the
forms to men living downtown.
The committee hopes to estab
lish a flashcard section for next
fall's football games, but their
main efforts are directed toward
the new stadium. They have al
ready written to other colleges
with flashcard sections to deter
mine how their sections are oper
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averages and the number of ac
tivities of students as a sociologi
cal project for the College of Ed
ucation.
Reeder found a curvilinear re
lationship; that is, student parti
cipation in activities may be an
indication of higher academic
acheyment, but as the number
of activities increases, a student's
grade point average declines.
Students with five or more
activities had a lower grade
point average (2.35) than those
with three to , five activities
(2.68) but those with no ac
tivities at all had the lowest
average (2.29).
In this study an "activity" was
defined as any voluntary organ
ization that requires extra-curric
ular time. The study was not con
learned with the actual time spent
in activities but with the number
of activities. It was assumed that
time and number are generally
correlated.
The sample of students used
for this study were 100 male
unmarried University students
selected at random. The stu
dents were all from fifth to
eighth semester standing and
the results were tabulated from
registration cards for the fall
semester 1958.
This study was limited to the
fact that some activities are
closed to students without a cer
tain all-University average. This
would tend to bias the sample by
raising the grade point averages
of those who do participate in
activities.
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University
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Research
The University was elected a
charter member of the University
Corporation of Atmospheric Re
search Tuesday.
President Eric A. Walker im
mediately named Dr. M. A. Far
rell, vice president of research,
and Dr. Hans H. Neuberger, pro
fessor and head of the meteorol
ogy department, to represent the
University at the first meeting of
the corporation's board of trus
tees at Tucson, Ariz., today and
tomorrow.
The main objective of the corp
oration is the establishment of a
national center that will special
ize in research into the earth's
weather. The corporation has al
ready placed its proposal for a
'National Institute before the Na
tional Science Foundation, a fed
' eral agency,
The proposal for the Institute
'is an outgrowth of a study made
a year ago by a special panel of
the National Academy of Scien
ces, headed by Lloyd V. Berkner,
president of Associated Univer
sities, Inc., of New York.
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important, - most challenging, and
yet relatively one of the most ne
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times."
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