Marine program
features sea air,
salty experience
Steve Ostrosky
Collegian Staff Writer
Imagine yourself laced
%kith beaches. salt marshes
and ocean instead of Willard.
College A% enue and your
nearby pizzeria. and still
taking t *mversity courses.
That is hat about 60
.tudent-, and faculty
mcnthers ‘k ill do Spring Term
%%hen they participate in the
Marine Science Program held
l% a ilow4. k'a
The three-course. 12-credit
in (wrain. in its third year. is
11 qiiwational commune set
out in limbo. - according to
IIIn I. Goober. associate
pi essor of geology and
director of the marine science
ograrn
"Its as much an
educational experiment as a
marine science training
ground." Goober said.
The 50 students and to
tacult members in the
program v ork. pit*: and live
Ingether facilities operated
lip the Nlarine Science
cunsortium Inc • of v‘ Mch the
I 0 \ erso is a member
1-',tctlttles at the Wallops
,tation include a 95-foot
~ everal small craft for work
In hays and channels.
A&enteeism under fire
\‘ASIIINGToti 'Al' - C'ongress's bid to
eassert its responsibilities has provided the
opening for sonic lawmakers to deal with an
old problem congressional absenteeism.
Calling absenteeism "a thorn in the side of
congress. Rep Clarence Miller, R-Ohio,
has introduced a constitutional amendment
pro\ iding fur expulsion of members who
Huss 40 per (cot of the notes during a term.
There is nothing new about the proposal.
Foriner Sen. Margaret Chase-Smith. R-
Thime. tried in 1969 to make it possible for
delinquent members to shape up or be
, hipped nut Her hill ‘ias referred to the
tienatc .Judiciary Committee. where it died.
Four similar bills noy% are languishing
hetorc the I lc use Judiciary Committee. Their
thinces of sum ival - like other bills seeking
n)(ll.(itialif members at age 60 are said to
Is iumunal
\Eller belie% es that \%hatever reasons
iiniressinen had tor not 14 anting to pull the
Imorn under less iealous colleagues are no
lonp.er aid in today s post-Watergate
political climate
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laboratories, classrooms,
dormitories and a cafeteria.
The courses are taught one
at a time with oceanography
and coastal geology as three
eek courses and marine
biology as a four-week
course
Goober said the courses are
Ilexible and there is little
lecturing, with most
experiences occurring
outside and in labs.
Each course has its own set
of instructors three or four
faculty members from
arious departments
teaching only that course.
The students are of both
~e xes and ' from various
majors. Goober said selection
is based on -grade-point
average. willingness to work
and some science
background. He said the
science background is not
always necessary and
students without it have
participated in the program.
Last year. 38 men and 12
vi omen from 20 different
majors participated in the
program.
Bill Murphy (11th
anthropology). who took part
in last spring's program, said
it ‘uis a "really worthwhile
program "
"There could be no better way of
promoting public confidence in our abilities
and commitment to move N.Tierica forward
than a high level of congressional attendance
and voting participation, - Miller said in
introducing his bill.
The Qhio congressman, who has not missed
a vote since coming to Washington in 1967,
noted that a five per cent absentee rate in
private industry is considered high, yet the 11
per cent rate in Congress this year is its best
record since 1959.
According to his count, the House was
unable to form a quorum on 330 occasions
last year because members were absent.
Miller is hopeful of getting positive action
on his measure in time for the 1974
congressional elections. when•absenteeism is
expeeted to skyrocket.
Some members argue that their elective
responsibilities sometimes require their
presence elsewhere during congressional
votes. They explain that whenever relatively
unimportant issues are being debated, they
may fulfill more important engagements
that have direct bearing on their jobs.
"The atmosphere was
really good," Murphy said.
He said the students and the
faculty became close very
fast. "We would have get
togethers and bull sessions.
"The teachers were super.
They were there 24 hours a
day and you could see them
anytime. The teachers knew
you personally and most of
them approached it not as a
student-teacher relationship
but as guidance," Murphy
added.
Murphy said the courses
were well-planned and most
of the learning took place
through the labs.
Murphy's enthusiasm was
typical of students in the
program. according to
Goober. "The students are
overwhelmingly interested
from what I've seen," he said.
"The students develop an
extremely close-knit
relationship that lasts. The
faculty-student relationship
ould he almost impossible to
develop at University Park in
most majors You have to
depend on one another and
work with each other down
there." Goober noted.
The cost for each student in
the program which will run
from March 18 to May 25. is
about $BOO. Goober said $3OO
takeS care of tuition and the
other 5500 iS paid to the
Consortium for use of the
facilities.
Applications for the
program are available from
Goober in 309 Deike. and will
be accepted until Dec. 21.
Students will be informed of
their selection by the time
classes resume in January.
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Talk to a computer in English? Ridiculous
right^
Well. you still may not be able to talk to it.
but two University statisticians have
developed a computer pseudo-English
"which almost anybody can learn.-
Bryan L Joiner. associate professor of
statistics. and Thomas A. Ryan, assistant
professor of statistics have developed
Minitab. a general purpose computing
system for statistics
"If you knmk Fortran another computer
'languages. I can teach )ou Nlinitab in a half
hour." Joiner said It )0u are used to
anal) tical thinking. I can teach it to you in an
hour."
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‘%lien he Vtorked at the National Bureau of
Standards. , A here Umnitab. a system similar
to Minitab. was developed
•fle said he tried to use Omnitab at the
University. but it was too slow for the
number of students
Ky an alfeady had developed some was to
use the computer for introductory statistics
courses. cF
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of problems it is better to use anott ,
system But for statistical courses I knot
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Minitab no is taught in all statist
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courses and is the primary computatio:
tool of the Penn State Statistical Consult:
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