**^c*^c**** ***************** *********^ -Jf * Snow Ski Apparel Ski Rentals Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, December 5, 1984 Bib or Ski Jacket * * Tir*€»*!artv 7 7 50 for a week fStpnrte CeKfet 2 50 cleaning | 2023 Texas, Towns^ire Center reserve yours ear / y / * *sb* vl^ nL* nX* ^X<» »>X^ •X^ "Jr* »X> vL' sL^ '■A* *4 / 404 University Dr. East College Station*846-8905 Next to Cenare’s English teachers protei writing as punishment United Press International “I must not play my personal ra dio in the classroom; it is inconsider ate and disruptive,” the student wrote for the 99th time. It’s a good bet the student’s mom or dad also had a bout or two of “pu nitive writing” as it is called, while going to school. The same for grandparents. “Crimes” drawing such punishment differed through the generations, ranging from let ting a mouse loose to, in grandpa’s time, bringing a snake to school. But the practice of giving writing as punishment lives on. English teachers don’t like it one bit, however. They condemn “vyrit- ing as punishment” and want it stopped, according to a resolution adopted at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English in Detroit. The teachers said their experi ence and other studies confirm that students given punitive writing as signments form negative attitudes toward writing. The resolution called on the Na tional Council to: • Condemn punitive writing as signments. • Discourage teachers, adminis trators and others from making a punishment of such writing as copy- work, sentence repetition, original paragraphs and themes, and other assignments that inhibit desired atti tudes and essential communication skills. • Disseminate this opinion to the appropriate audiences, including the general public. In addition to making the pun ished individual hate writing, puni tive writing, the NCTE says, does not fit the goals of writing put down by the NCTE Commission on Writ ing. The commission said, “The writing act should include the proc ess of imagining an audience, setting goals, generating ideas and notes, producing drafts and revised text, and editing the product to meet the audience’s expectations." On another battleground, the na tion’s English teachers swung at “text abridgment” — a publishing practice of shortening or adapting works of literature. Branding such practice “censorship,” the NC TE adopted a resolution urging publishers to re port changes m text and explain the nature and extent of alteraii, promotional information aj^ ei s’ guides. Another resolution urgei lance of journalism coursesirj glish curriculum. Supporting the positi NC I K said, is this: • fhe proliferation andi print and broadcast mediae that everyone develop critkalj in the interpretation of newsj formation. • journalism courses not give students an understand# how communications media: tion but also involve themi the communication processes are central to English can making them effective usend and written language. “Students in journalism t« use and develop their comt. tion skills in the collecting, and editing of news; they rd| terpret and evaluate news andi maiion in the press; they about the rights, respond power of the press and media,’’ the NC I E said. ‘Bellologists’ jewelry designs cm catching the ears of the famous United Press International NEW YORK — ’Tis the season for the tintinnabulation of bells, says a jewelry designer whose jewelry catches people by the ear as well as the eye. Terry Mayer’s very small sterling silver bell designs, each hand crafted, number around one hun dred now and include shapes of ani mals, fruits and flowers. Helen Hayes and Carol Channing are among actresses sporting her comedy-tragedy mask bell — com edy one side, tragedy, the other. Princess Caroline of Monaco has one of the kitten bells; Princess Diane, the bunny bell. “I say this is the season for the tin tinnabulation of the bells," says Mayer, founder and head of Terry- mayer Ltd. sleigl ut th< to the ones that ‘ring out the old and ring in the new’ we are serenaded by a recurring rhapsody of bells." If you listen, she says, your ears will pick it up from the street-corner Santas, missionary folks, store-piped music, church steeples chimes, toys, and maybe even from someone wearing a Terrymayer bell. Mayer calls herself a “bellologist” - a scholar of bells. The word is not in the dictionary. She coined it to de- scrilie her pursuit of bells. The re search has made her a living encyclo pedia of bells over the six years since she first got serious about them. She is so into bells, in fact, that she has become head of the Metropol itan Chapter of the American Bell Association, a 40-year old interna tional organization based in Ni: I ieighis, Penn. After the American I lion unit she heads heldar Riverside Church in Manhaad Rockefeller family church,! ample, she made “a touchingi erv when reaching the lops stairs to the bell tower. Standing by a bell that vq some 20,000 pounds, she d message that was primed fou see. “O ye angels of the Lordfej the Lord, praise Him andi 1 f im forever," the messager “In loving memory of myii Laura Spelman Rockefeller,Ij 1915, whose gently kindlyspimi steadfast devotion toChristai Cause will ever lie an abiding i ation, this Carillon is given. 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