PAGE EIGHT Research Review, tudent Attitude svey Planned A survey of student attitudes on college life may aid the University in better adapting its programs to students' needs, two staff members said recently. • Dr. Martin L. Zeigler, director search, said a questionnaire is being to loam more about the students, their aspirations and their feel iflrS toward the faculty and ad ministration '"l'he University wants to know if there may be more it can do for students as future leaders and citizens." Richard Stafford. research associate said. "After learning more about the attitudes, the University can determine which are based on facts and which are 'myths."' Stafford said. "Attitudes are not always justi fii d by the facts," he adds d, citing an example, the feeling that students get no individual atten tion. "Penn State ranks high in the sci vices available to students," Stafford said. Ile liy.ted pre-regis tration counseling for students and parents, orientation counsel ing residence hall staff. faculty ad visei s. chaplain's office, of f campus religious activities, the Ychillngy clinic, the Division of Counseling and the health cen ter. The services are here, but no one chases a student so he will take advantage of them, Staf ford said. - - - - I I a questionnaire calii determine how prevalent these "myths" are, the University will be in a posi tion to explode them by educating people shout the facts of the situation, Stafford said. On the other hand, he added. the University may also discover that certain conditions really do need correcting and can take the proper actions to change them. The questionnaire is now in the planning stage. "We must determine whether it measures what it should measure," Zeig ler said. When the pilot work is finished, he added, a random selection of students will he asked to complete the ques tionnaire. The data will be Megaphone-- (Continued from page four) !-ccols In he Milting the student demand for flexibility with haphazardness. The two are not synonomous, no matter how serious a case of bureau cratic lethargy a committee may be afflicted with. H . :lipereectling all these points is the administrative iron hand. Student demands e now, and always have I, r(ffi, just too much trouble fur a busy grey ilanneled cor pe;ation to bother about. It knows it doesn't have to give one inch. If this causes student discontent it tosses ti-at off as a not very serious occupational hazard. it is almost funny, but in the next breath members of this corporation turn around and ask why the students don't Feeome doting and donating Gym Club to Practice WRA Gymnastic Club practices will begin at 7:30 p.m. today in White Hall. Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 25, pl'iict ice will he held each Wednes day and Friday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Cruise Over Syracuse! SICK RADIO or PHONOGRAPH ALTROFIICS SALES & SERVICE Rear of 454 E. College (Calder Alley at Marshall's Laundry) Phone AD 8-9602 Hours M. & F. 9 to 9 T.. W., Th., S. 9 to 5:30 By KAY MILLS of Student Affairs Re developed in an attempt studied and passed on to the ap propriate offices, he said. Stafford said the pilot study ,may be run by the end of the !fall term, The idea for an attitude survey developed at the same time that 'Dr. Henry Sams, head of the Eng !fish department, was asking fresh men to write themes on "Who is the Penn State Student?" Many freshman English stu dents were asked to express their opinions in themes which would not be graded, Sams said, They were asked what kind of students they had found here and what these students wished to become. Sams extracted some of the student opiniims for an analysis in the Faculty Bulletin last spring and has also given Student Af fairs Research access to the papers to help prepare the attitude ques tionnaire. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Penalty Structure Described By DAVE MINKEL This probation must be approved (This is the fourth in a series by the. dean of mcn and by the of articles discussing the men's student's college. disciplinary system. Today the This penalty is also noted on main penalties which a student I the student's transcript. The sill may receive are discussed.) dent may petition to have the Penalties ranging from tri-' notation removed from his of ficial record during his last bunal warning to dismissal`. - term. The petition must be may be imposed on a s t u d en t, turned in to the office of the dean of men for removal of the who has broken a University notation upon graduation, Lea regulation A tribunal warning is merely i The first penalty which may a verbal warning by a student!require a student to leave the tribunal, Daniel R. Leasure, as -'University is suspended suspen sistant dean of men said. Therelsion, Leasure noted. This penalty is no formal action connectedl gives authority to the dean of with this penalty, and it is notedi men to suspend a student for any on the tribunal files only, he said.; further incident of misconduct (without further action by any dis- The next highest penalty, in iciplinary body. This penalty is terms of severity, is tribunal also noted on the student's tran probation. This penalty is a pro- J scr ipt, bation with the tribunal for a ! specific amount of time, Lea sure said. • This probation is noted only on the student's per sonnel file held by his counselor. Office probation is next, Lea-: sure said. This is a probation with! the office of the dean of men. It! is noted on the student's file in! the dean of men's office. Disciplinary probation is the, most severe of the probationary! sentences, Leasure said. This pro-! bation limits the student's par-; ticipation in student activities.l, The student cannot work on any committees or hold an office in}, any University-chartered activity '' Penn Jazz Concert No .2 The JAZZTET Saturday TICKETS ONLY $ 50 On Sale Next Tuesday, Oct. 24 Advanced Sunday Afternoon October 22 at Jazz Workshop in HUB Ballroom Monday October 23 9 A.M. to 5 PM HOTTER THAN FIRE State Jazz WHO PROUDLY ANNOUNCE Farmer & Benny Goison Art JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY Night 8:00 p.m. Sale for Members TICKETS ONLY $1 at the HUB Desk sure said. SING ALONG PIANO PLAYING WEDNESDAY NIGHT PIZZA SPAGETTI LUNCHEONS DINNERS Your Favorite Beverages MEYERS' Restaurant No Minors 238 W. College Ave. is the featuring with Schwab Auditorium ‘.. Club October WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1961 A temporary suspension is sus pension for a short, definite period of time, usually one or two weeks. This also is noted on the student's transcript, Leasure said. Suspension is removal from the University for a specific amount of time, usually for at least a term, Leasure said. A student must be approved by the Senate Sub-Committee on Discipline before he is permitted to re-enter the University. At times this suspension may take effect at the end of the student's current term, Leasure said. The stiffest penalty which may be leveled against a student is dismissal from the University. A student who has been dismissed may re-enter the University only after the dean of his college and the President have approved his readmittance.
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