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Around town
New SCOM course offered in the Spring
S.Com.315: Interpersonal Communication will be taught for the
first time during the Spring semester. T he course, which is not listed
in the Spring class directory, will be offered on MWF at 1 p.m. in 116
Blocker. The course examines how people communicate one-to-one.
Non-majors are welcome to take this course as an elective. For addi
tional information, contact Dr. William F. Owen (21 OF Blocker) or
Dr. Kurt Ritter (212A Blocker), phone: 845-3452.
Speakers seminar applications due soon
Speakers seminar applications for the Spring Seminar will be ac
cepted through Nov. 21. This program is open to sophomores and
juniors with moderate to heavy leadership experience. Class will
meet on Wednesdays from 3-4:30 p.m. Apply in the Student Activ
ities Office, 208 Pavilion. Selections will be posted on the Monday af
ter Thanksgiving.
Driver safefy course begins today
The TAMU After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety
Course today and tomorrow. This course may he used to have cer
tain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount
on automobile insurance. Registration is held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday in room 216 MSC. For more information,
call 845-9352.
Speech communication degree offered
Students interested in the new B.A. degree or secondary teach
ing certificate in speech communication should see Dr. Kurt Ritter,
coordinator of the speech communication program, 212 A Blocker.
Indian sitar concert is tonight
The Association for South Asian Culture will sponsor a sitar con
cert in 201 MSC at 8 p.m. tonight. The sitar is a multi-string instru
ment used in India. Debi Prasad Ghatterjuee will present the con
cert. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $5.
Professor battles
students' passivity
United Press International
NEW YORK — Students on many
campuses suffer from passivity and
that’s bad, says a University of Michi
gan professor who is part of a
movement to improve higher educa
tion.
Dr. Zelda F. Gamson says passive
students soak up lecture information
and then spit back required bits of it
on a test.
Students behave as human infor
mation storage and retrieval systems
because that’s the way a lot of col
leges run education, she says.
To require discussions or even ar
guments with professors would be
another way to run education, she
says. It would encourage students to
engage more intensely in their own
education and to feel confident
about learning independently.
Gamson, a professor of higher ed
ucation who knows the college scene
like the inside of her purse, says
there’s trouble at the front end of
college classrooms, too.
There are major imperfections in
the quality of teaching, she said at
the 1984 College Board Forum, not
ing that a lot of scholarly experts
who pass on what they know in dull
lectures never have been taught to
teach.
They are duds as educators, as she
sees it.
They may know inertial engi
neering or parasitology forwards,
backwards and inside out, but they
are not skilled teachers, she says.
Exposing college teachers to tea
ching methodology courses would
benefit students greatly, she says.
“But there is great resistance to
that idea among faculty,” she notes,
saying college faculty tends to look
down its collective nose at methodo
logy courses.
The professor is a member of the
panel that produced “Involvement
in Learning,” a National Institute of
Education report that lays out an
agenda for improvements in higher
education.
“We begin with a theory about the
conditions that are critical to excel
lence in undergraduate education ...
and a central issue is how to increase
student involvement in learning,”
she says.
“There is enough research
arourid now that tells us that the
more time and effort students invest
in the learning process and the more
intensely they engage in their own
education, the greater will be their
growth and achievement, satisfac
tion with education and persistence
in college.”
Gamson described learning com
munities that are sprouting on some
college campuses, saying they add a
needed dimension.
Residential colleges at the Univer
sity of Michigan have formed such a
community for student-faculty re
search projects required of each stu
dent during one term while earning
a bachelor’s degree.
“They study something in the real
world and are forced to bring the
many disciplines from their aca
demic world to bear on a problem,”
Gamson says.
Gamson also says there is an over
emphasis on vocational education
and not enough liberal arts courses.
Gamson didn’t want to leave the
impression that passive students and
technically poor teachers are the
rule on the nation’s campuses.
“I have been on many campuses
where teachers are working very
hard to improve things and to get
more student involvement,” she
said.
Students hold officials
in Juarez controversy
United Press International
JUAREZ, Mexico — Students and
teachers at a troubled agricultural
college in Juarez briefly held 13 fed
eral employees captive Thursday in
a dispute over pay raise delays.
The federal officials were re
leased unharmed after the acting
chief of police arranged for a meet
ing between student leaders and ag
riculture department officials in
Mexico City.
Miguel Bess Oberto, general sec
retary of the teachers union that
represents the agricultural college
teachers and workers, said the
streets were blocked and workers
held hostage to pressure federal of
ficials to meet with school represen
tatives in Mexico City about wage de
mands.
The 120 agricultural teachers and
workers at the school were autho
rized a 30 percent cost of living ad
justment June 1.
Until now, they have not received
the increase, Bess Oberto said.
He said other agricultural schools
in Mexico have already received the
raise. The only exception has been
the Hermanns Escobar College in
Juarez.
The reason for the delay in salary
increases, he said, is to punish the
students and faculty for their fre
quent activism during the past three
years.
Juarez interim Police Chief Ruben
Raymundo Gomez negotiated the
release of the hostages and arranged
for a meeting in Mexico City be
tween student leaders and agricultu
ral leaders. No date for the meeting
was announced.
Student leader Cuauhtemoc
Reyes Castro said the students, who
support the teacher demands, were
resolved not to remove the blockade
or release the officials until the fed
eral government agreed to meet to
discuss their demands.
The Mexican agricultural secre
tary, Carlos Sierra, agreed in a tele
phone conversation with demonstra
tors to give the teachers and
agricultural workers their raise be
ginning Monday and retroactive to
June 1.
Several hundred students and tea
chers blocked the streets surround
ing the federal agricultural office
with buses, trucks and piles of rock.
Police reported some of the stu
dents occupied the building while
others prepared Molotov cocktails.
There were no arrests. The demon
strators dispersed peacefully.
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