SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22.1962 Students` - H-titirs Assessod -By SARALEE ORTON . Personnel Director • • Finally; •after all these years': of oppression, someone has discov ered thatlthe college student puts In: enough hours working weekly td turn a union leader gray.. • IStudents have known for a long time that , 25-hour, 30-hour or even 40 -hour •weeks are just something trey' Asad about, but finally an anthority, • Frank Oppenheirnei, • physicist; at the University of Col (*ado, has assessed the number of 1 lours students actually clock dur ing an average'week. . According to an Associated • press article, Oppenheimer esti /mates a staggering work week of 1- 60 or 70 'hours as "a general basis for doing merely acceptable work in college." No labor union wants THE I lotated on of AND ACCEPT BOOKS • BOOKS will be ACCEPTED until Tues., Sept. 25 . • BOOKS will be SOLD until Sat., Sept. 29 `.l *Money 'retie:vied for incorrect books • Fri. & Sat., Sept. 28 & 29 to touch a case liice that! OPPENHEIMER proposes this packaged work Week for the av erage student- carrying a. class room work load of r& hours per week: Sixty houri of attending classes and studying, 10 hours spent in reading not reqtpred by classes. 25 hour, devoted to, eating and talking and 56 hours' sleeping. This would reaye a grand total of 17 hours a week for athletics, recreation o r ,Other diversion (extra sleep, no, doubt). And consider that his estimate, for a 15-hour weekly class load, was probably suggested for a reg ular 16-week semester, not a 10- week term such as 1.%.,e have. Should a student want to regu late his college life on a daily basis (this - is depressing, too). USED BOOK AGENCY the Ground Floor the HUB' WILL SELL Today , Mon.-Fri. A Buyer. Will Purchase Books Not Used On This Campus 6., AT NAVY! ! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.' UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA 9:30-12:00 9:30-5:00 Oppenheimer suggesti: MONDAY through Friday—four hours in class including laboratory work and - ,quiz sessions, seven hours devoted "to study, ninety minutes to reading, three and a half hours to eating and talking and eight hours to sleep. Saturday one hour reading, four hours eating arid talking. eight hours sleeping and eleven hourS uncommitted. (Students have time to - attend an occasional football, game.) Sunday one hour reading. four hours eating and, talking, five hours studying, eight' hours sleep ing and six hours uncommitted. Students here will probably consider the estimated hours of sleep radically overestimated. Who ever heard of a college stu dent sleeping eight hours a night? Froth Women's Inieliect Tapped In 'Lord of the Discussion Freshmen women appeared somewhat apprehensive as, they entered classrooms in Willard and Sparks Thursday evening to dis cuss, with the help of faculty members, William Colding's book, "Lord of the Flies." WHEN THE WOMEN came to the University this summer for counseling, it was suggested to them that they read the btiok so as to• be prepared to participate in discussions on it, Most members who participated felt that the intellectual stimulus which the new Orientation Week event provided was valuable to a first week of college. 'Many students had not read the book in preparation for the dis sussiOns. Students and professors agreed that this detracted- from the success of the program: PAGE THIRTEEN Pauli Poyser,:chairman of the event. explained that freshmen were informed of the program and book title when they came to the University for counseling. The comtnittee had originally planned • to send a letter to each freshman suggesting that he read the book. MISS POYSER. AS did most of the faculty -members involved, felt that a better system of communi cations would make the program much more effective. In an evaluation program after the , discussicins, faculty members discussed ways in which to_stim ulate an _intellectual atmosphere • during Orientation Week. Sugges tions ranged from showing movies or ,presenting plays followed by - discussion to sending a free copy of the book to be discussed to each freshman.
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