Editorial opinion: Additional Beaver Staciurn seating designed to alleviate student crowdin• The Nittany Lion football team represents the pride of many a Penn State student. Despite the academic excellence of any educational facility, a university's reputation seems to be somehow enhanced by the performance of its athletes on those yards of turf. In the past, however, some University students have been deprived of the pleasure of watching "Joe's boys" carry out their maneuvers because the 20,000 Beaver Stadium seats allotted to students did not meet the student ticket demand. Many students sending in ticket Ap plications during the summer received only a "sorry, Charlie, but we're sold out" in reply, and the number of seats reserved for date tickets also has not met the number of requests. With this year's expansion of the stadium and the resulting increase of a projected 6,378 seats, students are ex Wafter as candidate: combining of qualities Well, the primary results are in and of the contemporary American Dream. _ • they are not much aof surpise and not of He's honest, hard working and is without much consequence. The real dilemma political control. Perhaps his most en . has yet to be solved. couraging characteristic is that he is As the day of real consequence fast free from the sticky red tape that is .approaches that being Election Day rolled on Capitol Hill. 1980 the decision of for whom to vote He certainly exhibits a sense of • becomes increasingly more difficult. leadership and has immeasurable If you are like me, an undeclared popularity. In my book, he fulfills every registered voter, the platforms of each one of the characteristics the current candidate, be he Republican, Democrat candidates lack or Independent, seem to becoine more cloudy and confusing with every cam- paign speech. You want to make the right choice, do the right thing for the country and exercise your constitutional right to vote. But what if not one candidate is suitable? Reagan is too old and too con servative, Carter is not a strong enough leader, Kennedy's character is And after every presidential address, questionable, Anderson is too liberal and he could utter those immortal so on. Maybe if you could merge all the words,"And that's the way it is." What redeeming qualities (if there are any) of political bliss! :all the candidates, it would make the Sound ridiculous? Far fetched? Well, :choice much easier. maybe it is, but sometimes taking an • But you can't. So you're stuck picking idea to an' extreme is the only way to 'one from an endless list of undesirables. bring dissatifaction to light. A better alternative is to write-in the A better alternative is needed to help ‘.candidate of your choice. A marvelous dig undecisive voters, like me, out of :idea. But who is not too old or too con- their ruts. Perhaps we could follow Iservative a strong leader with Stalin's advice and purge all political -unquestionable character? leaders and start from scratch. No, not Woody Allen there are Who knows, maybe Walter would run -enough psychopathic, insecure men in if nominated. It would sure solve my :government already. My choice: Walter problem. :Cronkite. Lisa Morano is a ninth-term journalism Cronkite is the embodiment of the major and a staff writer for The Daily . American Spirit and is a great example Collegian. Phys. ed, grades need credibility According to the Baccalaureate 'Degree Bulletin, Physical Education 5 •involves "activities to develop physical •and recreational skills." • According to TIPS (Telephone In :formation for Penn State), the theory behind Phys. Ed. 5 classes is that "physical activity is necessary to maintain mental activity." According to some University students, however, a few Phys. Ed. 5 classes can be sources of anxiety and frustration instead of beneficial op portunities to get some exercise and :learn a new skill. For the most part, the physical education program at Penn State is a :very satisfactory one. Many schools do :not have the variety or quality of :program and instruction available at the University. Despite some complaints about having -to take phys. ed. courses at all, the :benefits outweigh the inconvenience or :time the courses may cost some :students. Perhaps students, who were :bored to tears with conventional high :school gym classes, will discover a gym -class activity they really enjoy and -make a habit of participating in it. Illustration by Della Holm ~~ - . ,, .:,'.TA.t:0..,,,::. In spite of some difficulties in taking more popular gym courses, at least some students will get to try something they have never done before. Others welcome the opportunity to get in shape. It is important for instructors to realize the students enrolled in Phys. Ed. 5 classes have different reasons for being there. While some are skilled and simply want to "play for credit," others were forced to take a certain course because they couldn't get anything else at registration. One common method of choosing a phys. ed. course is exemplified by the student who ponders, "That looks in teresting. I think I'll try it." Consequently, those enrolled in any one class are likely to have a wide range of skill and interest, and the instructor must adapt the grading process to en sure fairness to all in the class. Grading according to attendance, effort and improvement are valid and often used procedures at Penn State. Some courses, however, are not graded according to a somewhat in dividualized scale. Instead, students are presented with set, difficult-to-achieve standards that for some are impossible to achieve in five weeks' time. ..fJ I For example, one girl on my floor took Golf 1 although she had never picked up a golf club before in her life. The final skills test, which did not include putting although putting was taught in the class, required the golfer to drive a ball 100 yards and as high as a telephone pole five times. , m First down pected to receive 1,000 additional tickets, athletic ticket manager Bud Meredith said. This increase in seating "should more than accommodate the student demand," Meredith said. This increase in student football seating is a commendable effort by ticket officials to meet student demand and should give more interested students the opportunity to watch the team vie for a thus-far elusive national championship. Unfortunately, the solution to one problem may complicate another. In past seasons, the problem of many student football fans has not been in acquiring a ticket but in finding a seat. Although student ticket sales have never exceeded available stadium seating, Meredith said, locating enough seats for ticketholders has sometimes been a problem. And as pointed out by Association of Residence Halls Students (3,-td-'L /).7(,0LtA..). 6'. y'r Come out, come out I strongly support the view that WDFM is and should remain an independent, student-run station, all the more since anyone with access to Cable TV can get an excellent PBS affiliate (WTFM), along with plenty of classical music from two other FM stations. And WDFM's own airing of such music strikes me as quite adequate at least in the form of records and taped concerts. What WDFM could do a lot more of is to take its mikes to where the action is on campus and I don't just mean sports events. There are so many good concerts, intet'esting lectures, forums, debates and 'special programs of all kinds that I am sure many would tune in on, though they may be too lazy or too lacking in curiosity to go to. Some programs may lead some to learn something new, or to discover a new interest. And surely on location programming of this kind would be of benefit to all students involved, extending their experience beyond the eternal route of disc-jockeying. So, come out of your hiding place in Sparks, WDFM, discover the campus and help us to do likewise! J.F. Wohlwill, College of Human Development May 2 Big break It's been an exciting (and lucky) time for me since graduation from Penn State last March. I've worked on national TV spots, learned animation and currently produce medical films here in Philly. Where did I get my start? WDFM. I worked for a year as a newsman, then became a D.J. I had some highly forgettable newscasts. WDFM's strength is also its weakness: sometimes Each golfer had four tries and 10 balls development of recreational skills. in each try and anyone, who five balls Perhaps these courses should make the required distance and height within more use of "before and after" tests to any one of these tries was automatically measure improvement and thereby given an A. If you succeeded only two to assign grades on a more individual four times you would be marked down to basis. a B or if you made only one or, as in the I would agree that a student who is case of my friend, none, you exceptionally skilled as well as faultless automatically received a C regardless of in attendance and effort should receive your attendance, effort and im- an A. To grade students who are inex provement in the course. perienced in a sport according to ar bitrary standards and as compared to Additionally, the instructor spent little students who have played the sport for time helping those who were having years, however, is very unfair. difficulty, and according to my friend, Students should remember that most actually retested those who had already students can take phys. ed. courses pass received an A on their first tries. fail. This does not solve the problem for Another girl on my floor had Gym- business majors, who are not allowed to nastics 1, which is graded according to take any courses pass-fail, nor does it levels of achievement on each of the four help a student who ends up in such a pieces of apparatus. To attain an A, a course during.the second five weeks. student was required to achieve the top lamby no means trying to cut down or fifth level on each piece of equipment the entire Phys. Ed. 5 program; lam and, although the student was not only make suggestions for ensuring required to complete all 20 routines, the fairness to students. Most of us don't instructor emphasized doing as many expect As to be handed to us on a platter, routines as possible to compensate for but we do expect a fair shake. low scores on other routines. Ellen Harley is a fourth-term health, physical education and recreation major Another problem arose because the and a columnist for The Daily Collegian gym, which was supposed to be open from 7 to 9 Thursdays, wa instructor was and spot studei to put in the e: students neede Although shy course with a recommend without substa, experience any Gymnastics 1 gives the impr( basic course. Si course format be extended to It would sel these are more and frustrati President Francis Kenawell, who worked on an ARHS football seating committee last season, giving students an additional 1,000 tickets does not mean just 1,000 additional seats it also means 1,000 , additional bodies. Possible solutions to the seating shortage include reserving student seats or monitoring seating to ensure that the prescribed number of students are seated in each row. The first suggestion is .not popular with students; the second would be costly and nearly impossible to en force. In any case, the seating shortage problem has no easy answer. But if the ticket office is as successful in meeting this challenge as it was in responding to the student ticket demand, Mother Nature may be the only factor to hinder students' enjoyment of another season of Beaver Stadium Saturdays.. Letters to the Editor we were undoubtedly a student station, but other times we sounded like the hottest damn station in New York City. You see, one thing is for sure DFM plays a spectrum of music. Sometimes it's wierd spacey stuff. Sometimes it's classical. Usually it's neither. Either way, it's probably a serious D.J.'s last opportunity to play the best musical pick to exemplify his show. Similar to the way the student creamery offers a variety of ice cream flavors or the way the student art gallery displays an assortment of colors. But there's a limited selection of music on the commercial stations in this town. As with most American commercial stations, they play the same predictable cuts from the same old super-hype albums. Happy Valley is the home of "no risk radio" complete with feigned announcer energy and Top of the Pops syrup. Let's face it there is life after Bruce Springs teen. Jim Burt, class of 1979 May 5 Applause The Association of Residence Hall Students spon sored Movin' On this past weekend on the HUB Lawn. Those who went and enjoyed knomi the event - vras a huge success. Part of the credit goes to the beautiful weather - we were blessed with. However, the majority of it belongs to the fine marshal and stage crew staff. On Friday afternoon these people were strangers to each other, but by Sunday night they had gelled into a team whose skill rivals professionals. The large number of compliments they received from per formers and sound crew alike are testimony of this. At this time I would like to thank them for their time and effort on behalf of the Movin' On coordinating committee; especially those people who stayed till late Course opens door for learning needs "History intersecting academia." This is the way Rustum Roy, University professor of solid state, describes the origin of the Science, Technology and Society Program (STS) which he heads. Introducing one of the speakers at "STS Week" last Tuesday, Roy described how a combination of late '6os student concerns disen chantment with traditional educational, economic and technological values and growing awareness of the ecological crisis exposed a need for a new kind of program. The STS program was developed to examine those issues. Begun in 1970, it is one of the oldest of the nearly 1,000 such programs now offered by American universities. • li STS aims to examine the complex interrelationships between science, our search for knowledge; technology, the material manifestations of that knowledge; and society, the way in which we live. In the brochures put out by the STS office, several themes are ap parent.lntegration is one of the un derlying principles, probably the one most consciously stressed. The STS program tries to help students integrate the vast amounts of knowledge availablefrom separate disciplines. The apparent aim is to develop a coherent set of concepts, drawn from many viewpoints, with which the complex technical and social issues of today may be examined. Crucial to this attempt is the in tegration of faculty talent. In structors from 12 different depart- DAY NO. 114.5 Sunday night helping take down the stage and clean the lawn. If more students had this dedication and com mitment this school would be a better place for all. Once again, thank you for a job well done. Jeff Glazier, graduate-public administration May 5 cc „„„„.„, s ,,:s s. „ l „ m f„„„ 2i i i:ll i ti ;; l I#l one time or ur ng:A timcollegiate: E careers, almost all college students consider, joining' a campus organization Many groups at Penn State have been successful for years, out some don't even last a single term iaveyou ever considered joining an organization at Penn State? What do you look: £or from an' organization? How influential are organizations on>` this:campus? . that a T u esday , May 13, The Daily Cullel4 l au tinill focus its final oiled page of the tei•in on student organizations' the fi ndsucressec • • the tires, If yip A,..9 l : l ltnent , on .student submit them to the Fditorial kditor, -1"" v‘ -4rnegie. IVI , - letters must he typed,"..tiotxhle.Spaced,ant‘no longer than 301ines.11eadline is 5p n F • 11 .2 3'i • =Collegian Wednesday, May 7, 1980—Page 2 Betsy Long Editor • ments teach STS 200, the introductory survey course, for example. Dialogue is another theme running through the STS program. One, of the concerns of the program is, to In crease communication between people on different sides of the science/humanities gap. In undergraduate classes, dialogue tt is facilitated by having instructors from both sides of the gap present during most of the course presen tation. Variety is also very important to STS. The program's. Fall Term 1980 course offerings show this com mitment. Courses on wilderness, the literature of science and technology, energy production, world food production and nuclear power will be offered, as well as the aforemen tioned STS 200. Beside commitments to in * tegration, dialogue and variety, the most unique aspect I perceive in the STS program is the search for wisdom. Wisdom is very different from knowledge. Unfortunately, this distinction is very often ignored. Wisdom is not quantifiable; cannot be transmitted directly by lectures, formulae, etc. Memorization and regurgitation of information (i.e., cramming as much knowledge as possible into your head) passes for education in too many instances. The STS program seeks to combat this trend. Wisdom is gained only through open-mindedness, effort and insight. STS promises no miracles, but its. main themes of integration, dialogue and variety provide students with a fertile environment for them to start on the long road toward wisdom. Integration, dialogue, variety, the search for wisdom. If you feel your education has been lacking in these values, perhaps the STS prograin is just what you've been looking for. John Protevi is an 11th-term philosophy major and a columnist for The Daily Collegian. © 1980 Collegiar4nc. __Kathy Matheny Business Manager Medical students can By DAVID MEDZERIAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer Eight years of undergraduate and graduate work is time-consuming and expensive especially for students considering medical school. However, many University premedical students are now taking part in a five-year ; cooperative premedical-medical program offered by the College of Science in conjunction with Philadelphia's Jef ferson Medical Center. Ralph G. Ascah, associate professor of chemistry and premedical adviser; said the program, which allows students to pursue their baccalaureate and medical degrees simultaneously, both reduces cost to the student and increases his or her productive time on the job market. "You complete the bachelor's degree and the medical degree in five years three years off of the normal reducing the cost," Ascah said. "You also have more productive years in the delivery of health." Ascah said proportionally far more students in the cooperative program eventually obtain their medical degree over those students in conventional premedical programs. "Approximately 80 percent of those in the five year program have their M.D. in five years," Ascah said. "In general, not more than 20 percent to 25 percent of those who start in (conventional) premedicine end up with a medical degree." However, Lois Leach (4th-science) said that since the program involves a great deal of work in a short period of time, it often intrudes into her personal and social life. "Sometimes it's really hard to get through," she said. Leach said she would not recommend the program .to anyone unless he or she was totally dedicated to going to medical school. "To get good grades is a requirement," Leach said. "Each term there is minimum 3.5 if you go under, you go on probation. "Life is much harder when you have something like that hanging over your head," she said. Because of the program's demands, Leach said, students in the program are constantly in touch with one another. "At times it gets very depressing you have to sacrifice so much," she said. "Not too many people understand what we go through." Students who started the program in Summer Term 1979 took the Medical School Admissions Test (MCAT) on April 26. Leach said she and some of her fellow students felt they were not as well prepared for the tests as many of the conventional pre-med students taking the test. "They try to prepare us as much as they can for the MCATs," Leach said, "but we don't have the time to study for them. "We have a full load of courses, and most of them are labs," she said. "But for regular pre-med students, the spring term of their junior year is one of their easiest, so they can prepare for the tests." "You complete the bachelor's degree and the medical degree in five years three years off of the normal reducing the cost. You also have more productive years in the delivery of health." —Ralph G. Ascah However, Steve Katz (4th-science) said he felt as prepared for the tests as most of the conventional premedical students. "A lot of the regular pre-med students haven't had some of the classes (covered in the tests) in a year or so," he said. "I'm still taking some of them." Ascah said both the conventional and the cooperative student have advantages. "One advantage the cooperative student has is that he takes the MCATs when the elementary stuff is fresh in his mind," Ascah said. He also said that a student's MCAT scores are only one thing that admissions officers consider. "I've never known the MCAT score to be the sole difficulty'— where the performance on the MCAT alone was the sole factor in a student withdrawing from the program," Ascah said. ***************************************** IT'S NOT TOO LATE! * * * * * . Peace Corps * 4, * -i< 4( * still needs concerned people * * -4( * for positions starting this summer. : * For more info ask Mary Keith * -3 ( 239 Ag. Admin. TThF 2 - 5 p.m. 863-0249 : ***************************************** Things Aren't This Bad Yet! - But They Could Be • • • Subscribe Now! 00 ,114.114.1 " ,„ Artists Series Season Subscriptions on sale, Pine Cottage, weekdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm and. 440056 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm. save time Katz said despite the added pressures of the five year program, he selected it over a conventional pre-medicine major because of the advantages it offers. "It was shorter, and it guarantees you admission to medical school if you keep your grades up," he said. He also said he liked the atmosphere at Jef ferson's medical school. "But in a regular major, you have to keep a 2.0 average to pass," he said. "I need to have a 3.5 average in order to pass." However, not all students who have participated in the program are willing to praise it. Bill Veroneti (14th-physics), who left the program after being rejected admittance by Jefferson in 1977, said the program goes at too rapid a pace. "It's really a rushed affair," Veronesi said. "If you're going to be in it, you've got to be sure what you're doing." One major problem Veronesi said he had with the program was that he was not notified of his rejection by the Jefferson Medical School until the ninth week of Summer Term, several weeks after his classmates received their acceptance letters. "It seemed as if they wanted people to withdraw from the program instead of dropping them from it," he said. "It was pretty upsetting." Mary B. White( 6th-science), who began the program in Summer Term 1978, said that 24 of her 33 original classmates are now attending classes at Jefferson. White said most of the students no longer in the program dropped out for academic reasons. "Mostly, they partied too much at Penn State and didn't take their studies seriously enough," White said. "They lacked enough self-discipline to keep their grades up." White added that of eight women who began in her class, only four remain. "I guess they fall victim to Penn State easier than the men," she said. Another Jefferson student, Marcalee Sipski (6th science), said anyone in the five-year program should be sure that he or she wants a career in medicine. "Before you do it," Sipski said, "you have to think about it. But I knew I wanted to be a doctor." University groups brought together by USG program By LISA DOHNER Daily Collegian Staff Writer An orientation program sponsored by The orientation program started with the Undergraduate Student Government a film entitled "It's Always Right to Be in an effort to bring together students Right," a short parody on a time when interested in student government and the words "I was wrong" and "You may other student organizations drew be right" were words of cowardice and representatives of about 30 campus weakness. It dealt with the traditional groups Monday night, USG officials values of elders, the rebellions of youth, said. the generation gap and the racial g4p. The goal of the program was to These problems were resolved in the end achieve a cooperative spirit which has of the film when man began corn sometimes been absent in the past, USG municating openly with his fellow man. Vice President Andy Weintraub said. Healey reiterated the importance ;of "We want to bring the different the film's message the need for organizations together, make each communication throughout the aware of what the other organizations program. He said the film "came into are doing so they won't overlap," he play with what I've seen in the last said. weeks. The potential to do something USG President Joe Healey introduced good was there but has failed sometimes the program and student speakers from because of a lack of communication." several student organizations. Members The main function of the orientaign, of the Race Relations Board, Association Healey said, was to provide a relaxpd of Residence Hall Students, atmosphere so the members of student Organization for Town Independent government and other organizations can Students, Interfraternity Council, USG become familiar with new faces and Senate, Legal Affairs and Women's personalities. 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