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.