1966_11 The Daily Collegian November 1966

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DAILY COLLEGIAN
GUEST EDITORIAL ^
Tho quarter system — shake down
Any way yon look at It, the students lost on the quarter system.
Much-horalded as being able to reschedule vacations In lino with
the rest of the world, to make year-round use of the faculties of
the University of California, the Quarter system has proved Itself
to be a (rave disappointment to most students.
In a poll conducted by EL GAUCHO last week, 50% of responding
students Indicated that they were In favor of the quarter system,
while 39% disapproved, and the remainder were neutral.
But while a close majority approves of the spirit of the quarter
system, 75% of the respondents felt that their studies were unduly
hurried due to the quarter system. The quarter system makes stu¬
dents feel as If they were under a perennial deadline pressure,
a perennial Dead Week. Pressure of this sort severely limits any
sort of extra/currlcular activities, the ravine and also the more
academically-oriented sort. The pressure also curtails any sort
of self-motivated outside reading a student wishes to do.
Eighty-nine percent of students polled believed that their profes¬
sors were trying to squeeze 18 weeks of reading, papers, lab
reports, ets., Into 10 weeks.
The responding students, mostly sophomores and Juniors, also
felt that they were behind In reading because of the quarter system,
while 81% stated that they would not be In the same predicament
1/ they were on the semester system.
As to specific things that are wrong with the quarter system,
In a multiple-answer question, 24% stated that there was too much
reading, 31% said there was too little time. Only 6% complained
of being assigned too many papers.
On the credit side, the response was split-approximately half
said that the vacations make more sense, whUe the other half
stated that It was possible to take more courses.
Seventy-five percent of the respondents stated that they would
not attend school during the summer quarter If all four quarters
were available, and 60% reported that they would only attend three
quarters If all four were available, quarter system or no.
This Indicates that student opinion Is In principle on the side of
the quarter system, and certainly there are many advantages, the
largest of which Is tho posslbUlty of year-round operation of the
University.
However, there are serious flaws In the system which must be
corrected, In this, the shake-down cruise for the system. The most
glaring of these Is instructors who try to teach In 10 weeks what,
last   year, would have been taught In .18 weeks. Some lesson plans
JAN SHELTON
Editor,   El  Gaucho
. C. at Santa Barbara
CLUB NEWS
By LILY MORISHIMA
College I
J. Montgomery Carter, a Fres¬
no attorney, wUl speak at the third
meeting In tho Cross Currents
series, "Liberty and Legis¬
lation,' today at 1 p.m. In Speech
Arts 189.
at   1   p.m.   In Speech Arts 15
Accounting Society
The Accounting Society wi
hold a business meeting Wedne;
day at 7 p.m. In Business in
Students Interested In Joining ai
Recreation Club
Recreation Night v
Wednesday from 7 tt
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MANAGING   EDITOR	
SPORTS EDITOR	
 Gary M. Cooke
 Carole Sarklsian
ASST. ADVERTISING MANAGER   .
 Dave Gunter    1
DAY EDITORS
LETTERS
Against CLEAN
Editor:
The Collegian has for the past
several days run articles by Gary
Brown about the so-called
CLEAN Amondment. The general
tone  of these articles has been
In favor of the
Is regarded by the author as
essary to curb California's 1
ershlp In smut literature.
I!, i
which h;
•Toward a Definition I Revc
itlon' wUl be the topic at
leetlng today al 7:45 p.m. L
afeterla   Committee   Room   2
A general meeting will be held
tomorrow at 5 p.m. In the Air
Science lounge. Introduction of
fall semester pledges wUl be
part of the business activities
at the meeting.
Kngkiecrs Club
A business meeting will be held
today at 1 p.m. In either En¬
gineering 10 or Engineering 11.
President     Barry    Morehead
e backing of
groups, would make It unlawful
to sell g'r distribute copies of
the Bible.
Some of the other provisions of
Proposition 16 would:
1. Remove tho 'redeeming so¬
cial Importance' test from the
definition of obscenity, thus
threatening extinction in Cali¬
fornia    of    literary    and   art
2. AUow police search and
seizure of all copies of contested
materials before a trial date has
even been set.
3. Replace national standards
with local community standards.
Every nationally-distributed
magazine or book would havo to
cater to the most provincial
tastes. A publication accepted In
one community could be banned
4. Remove the power of the
Court to dismiss an obscenity
proceeding either before or dur¬
ing tho trial on the ground that
standards with a confusing
arloty of standards according to
he -special susceptlbUlty of
aidlences.' This wUl require
he Jury to place Itself In the
osltlon of any number of varl-
chant "reasonably be
material to be obscer
9. The existing pur
obscenity would be
provide that the fine fixed by
the Jury cannot be reduced by
the   Judge,  unless he states his
Help on jobs given
by Placement Office
ills a
the r
Jury w
Judge" of obscenity. In some con¬
servative communities, this
would be a particularly oppres¬
sive weapon. They could censor
everything they disliked.
5. Any Individual, however
misguided or misinformed, could
bring civil action against aprose-
cullng attorney for failing to
prosecute . against any material
that particular Individual deemed
obscene..
6. Scientific studies would be
strlngenUy limited. The vague¬
ness of the Initiative's wording
would not exclude science text¬
books  from  the obscenity pro-
7. The proposition would re-
curlng employment from Fresno
State College's Office of Place¬
ment In Education-Psychology
122, 123.
The Placement Office renders
this service at no cost to the
registrant. The service Is In¬
tended prlmarUy to aid students
In locating positions other than
thoso In teaching, according to
Harold D. Jones, director of
placement.
To register for this service,
the student must complete a per¬
sonal data sheet which wUl
provide the prospective employer
with Information about the can¬
didate and his qualifications.
The school's placement activ¬
ity Is geared to help private busi¬
ness, Industrial organizations,
and government agencies recruit
the right men for Important po¬
sitions, Jones explained. It also
assists graduating students and
alumni who are seeking positions,
The main function of the Place¬
ment Office, according to Jones,
Is to establish an orderly means
of communication between em¬
ployers with jobs to be filled and
responsible minority of self-
appointed censors" that have
banned such books as "The Origin
of the Species," "The Grapes of
Wrath," "Huckleberry Finn,"
■Moby Dick," "Tarzan," and "Ben
llur" among others.
Some of the above mentioned
books have been banned from tho
Fresno city schools asaresultof
the action of some self-appointed
It's a tragic shame that the
series of articles on Proposition
16 gives the impression that the
CLEAN Amendment should bo
passed.
1 only hope that authors like
Boris Pasternak won't be forced
to smuggle their books out of
the state because Pasternak men¬
tioned an Illicit love affair In
■Dr. Zhlvago.'     WAYNE SILVA
The placement procedure be¬
gins when employers visit the
campus to Interview prospective
graduates or send Job descrip¬
tions to the school and ask for
referrals of qualified candidates.
The dates of employment Inter¬
views appear periodically in "The
Dally Collegian,* and are posted
in various departments of the
coUege and on the Office of Place¬
ment bulletin board.
The services of tho Placement
Office are available to any regis¬
tered student or former student
of FSC who has completed, or Is
completing at least 12 units of
work at FSC. Jones said.
Sign up now for    *f
yearbook photos
Seniors wishing to have their
pictures appear In the yearbook
must    make   reservations   this
Signup days are Wednesday
through Friday from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. at the student activities
booth.
Only seniors, graduates and
February graduates are eligible.
There   will   be  no Individual 4
sorority or fraternity pictures
Dr. Mack to be co-chairman at
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN—3
For better understanding
national session on hydrogeology   «GrjDe arouo' DrODOSed
Dr. Seymour Mack, associate        Dr. Mack estimated that over %■»▼■■ f^W     5*Ji^*-"*W"s»s» "s»xr ■  w-sssw w
profossor of geology, will be
co-chairman for one of the ses¬
sions of the national meeting of
the Geological Society of America
to  be held Nov. 14-16 in San
Dr. Mack will lead the session
on hydrogeology with Professor
Fred Berry of the University of
California, Berkeley.
relationship of water
supplies to geological factors,*
said Dr. Mack. •Problems to be
discussed Include the land sub¬
sidence In the San Joaquin Valley
In    relat
Co/ Poly split
forms 18th
state college
California's 18th stale college
was created recently with the
splitting of California Polytech¬
nic College at San Luis Obispo
and   Pomona  Into  two  separate
The colleges were officially
established by the California
State College Board of Trustees
at their meeting In Los Angeles.
The group acted on a recom¬
mendation of the State College
Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke and
with the authorization of the state
legislature.
Official names of the two col¬
leges are California State Poly¬
technic College, San Luis Obispo
and California State Polytechnic
College, Kellogg-Voorhls. The
Pomona campus was deeded to the
college In 1B38 as a gift from
Charles and Jerry Voorhls and
was expanded In 1949 by a gift
from the W. K. Kellogg Founda-
The San Luis Obispo campus
has an enroUment of over 7,700
and Pomona has nearly 5,500
students.
Dr. Robert C. Krammer has
been appointed president of the
Pomona college. President of the
San Luis Obispo college will be
announced at a future date.
Business group
chooses pledges
Alpha Kappa Psl, national
men's business fraternity, has
announced  Its   fall   1966  pledge
The group's first activity will
be a car wash Nov. 12 at the
corner of First St. and Ashland
$1 I
iy of th
Food to |
Open 4  p.m.-3  a.m.
530 N. Blackstone
■   (off Belmont) Ad 7-7054
cwmsEr&BarmE
For full Information and rates
call Dally CoUegian Advertls-
lng-222-7">4.or El. 258.
1000 members of the society fl
the United States and the rest of
the world would attend the meet¬
ing. All FSC geology Instructors
will attend.
Dr. Mack Is currenUy Cather¬
ine data and writing about the
ground water condition on the
West side of the San Joaquin Val¬
ley. He U also doing afield study
of metamorphlc and Igneous
rocks from the Sierra-Nevada
foothills.-
Dr. Mack received a National
Science Foundation Post-
Doctoral Fellowship to do study
and research at Stanford Univer¬
sity last year.
A faculty member since 1957,
Dr. Mack was awarded the second
annual Distinguished Lecture at
FSC in 1965. He gave his talk
on the ■Geochemistry of Natural
Waters In the San Joaquin Valley
near Fresno' In November 1965.
Dr. Mack has written three
books and several articles and
has lectured on and off campus
about geologic and hydrologtc
problems of California.
Student X can't understand why Where do these people go for
most art classes are closed to answers to their problems? As
non majors. of now, students and faculty mem-
Professor Y feels he has no bers with legitimate gripes are
"opportunity to communicate with often shuttled from a dean to a
groups of students In an Informal committee to an officer without
situation. solving anything.'
Student Z claims the head of a Dr. Jose A. E Igorrlaga, chair-
certain department won't even man of the Student Affairs Com-
conslder his suggested curricu- mlttoe, proposed an answer to
lum changes. student-faculty    communication
Two members needed for
Senate Publications Board
Students who would like to take
part In directing and controlling
publications at Fresno Stats Col¬
lege may take out applications for
the Senate Board on Publications
in the Student Activities Office.
Two members are needed on
the Board, one who will serve
for the rest of the 1956-57 school
year,  and one who will serve
nbershlp on the Board except
Out the student must have and
maintain a 2.25 (Tads point av¬
erage and must have a definite
Interest in the activities of the
Board on Publications.
problems during a meeting of the
committee.
He suggested thai a sub-com¬
mittee be established under the
direction of the Student Affairs
Committee to act as a sounding
board tor students and faculty.
Sehyler Rehart, Jr., Instruc¬
tor In Journalism, said specific
purposes might be  set up, ln-
1. Acting m
students who need backing to face
the faculty or administration with
a problem.
2. Directing students to the
specific person or group which
could help solve his problems
1958. Deadline tor applications
U Friday.
There are no restrictions for
Include The Dally CoUegian,'
•Campus,' 'Backwash,' The
Student Directory and The Hand-
1 Kollmeyer, chapter presi¬
dent, said.
Pledge class officers are Jeff
Kuns, president; Mickey Martin,
vice president; Gary Campbell,
secretary; Ed, Fox, treasurer;
and   Jeff  Slatter,  song leader.
Even When She Answers, He Still Gets the Busy Signal.
DEAR REB:
Lately, every time I call my girl, she's either "not in" or "not inter¬
ested." Last week I called her 23 times and couldn't even make a
coffee date. The trouble started when she started dating a guy
who owns a Dodge Coronet. Now she goes to parties with him,
dances, football games, etc Do you think I should call her again,
or should I forget her and break her heart?
BAD CONNECTIONS
DEAR BAD CONNECTIONS:
I think your next call should be to your Dodge Dealer. Then make
a date to see the '67 Coronet, the car that's breaking hearts all
America. You'll find that its good looks are pretty hard to
resist. Now, before you break your girl's heart, give her another
break. Ask her to go for a ride in your new Coronet. I think she'll
get the signal.
£"**•&
Here's the heartbreaker.. .'67 Dodge Coronet 500. A campus favorite with its great new looks, ride,
and list of extras that are standard. Like bucket seats.with either a companion seat in the middle or a
center console. Plush carpeting. Padded instrument panel. Padded sun visors. Seat belts, front and
rear. A choice of Six or V8 models. And lots more. So get with '67 Dodge Coronet and get busy.
ooooe wvtaoN tf'fe CHRYSLER
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