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Tuesday, July 18, 1972
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Get Those Papers Back!
In this day of political competition, a title such as that appearing above might well refer to the problem that developed when one political party was accused of pifering valuable papers from the files of another party. We can learn about political advantage. However, it is not politics that we as students are concerned with here. It is simply that we have a feeling that the papers that we turn in to our professors, or the tests we take, ought to be turned back to us sooner so we can profit from our mistakes and avoid being superiors, when in all too many cases is being denied us at this University.
A case in point is the contrast between Professor A and Professor B. Each assigns a paper or schedules a test for a certain date. Shortly afterwards, Professor A returns the test or the paper to his students with a clear explanation of what is good and what is not so good. This is that something the pathologist "knowledge of progress" or, in more familiar terms, feedback. The students of Professor A profit from such a learning opportunity and even feel kindly toward him because he cared enough to let them know where they stand. But Professor B waits and waits and waits. At worst, he never returns the students' papers. Or, he may return them so late in the term that much feedback is lost. If Professor B waits and waits, their papers the effect is like knowing the score of the World Series at Christmas or the Super Bowl at Easter.
Maybe we should not judge Professor B too harsh. Probably he has such large classes and has to endure such an unreasonable teaching load that even the best evaluator could not read all those papers in less than a semester of free time. Or, suppose the poor proff has felt duty bound to write some articles in the
meantime, for he knows the road to success in most universities is won by the publication route rather than the route of good teaching.
During the past school year I was blessed with the opportunity of studying with one of the foremost scholars at this university. When he announced that we were to receive three tests, each a third of the way through the course, we were surprised when the professor if I did poorly on the first we could learn what was wrong, mend our study habits and redeem ourselves in the second and third exams. When the results of our first test were still unknown, we took our second one, which gave little help to those of us who needed it. Do you know when we got our first test results back? One week before the final exam! This is close to the one I got last year! This professor's name high on the list of the best paid when the salaries for next year were announced.
As students, we would like to know what's going on. What are the priorities this university's teaching really imparts to students? the teaching really realizes any of this student problem?
Scholarship and publications may be important, but what doth it profit a university if it employs the greatest lecturers and the most renowned writers if they communicate not with the students they are hired to teach? The point may be that they are hired not for teaching but for another purpose, be it research, publication, public relations or whatever. We are here to learn, profs, so we can learn how to do that so we can properly prepare for your finals. If we fall, it may well be your fault, nor ours, if we are not given the chance to learn before it is too late.
—Rita E. Haugh Editor
New Paperbacks Provide Breezy Summer Reading
The new paperbacks are what used to be called summertime hammocks. They were hammock and drink lemonade and read a new one by Grace Livingston Hill. Times have changed, but probably never did spend much time in that hot old hammock, so here are some for sitting under the sun.
If you've wandered where old and new movies like Tom Tron and Carolyn Jones can be seen no longer on view anywhere the answer is to a typewriter, to write "The Other," which is enjoying its second season. TWICE UPON A TIME (Pocket, $1.25) on the stands these days, and this season's circumstances who becomes a glamorous movie star. She finds herself in the conclusion. But the road to love is miserable one naturally. And the book is as close to pornography as you might get.
Dan Potter's THE AGE OF STONING (Crest, 95 cents) is about the contemporary scene, too. The hero gets involved in drugs, the war in Vietnam, the death of a bomber assassination, love, Mafia, the counterculture, murder and that's about it.
Not at all contemporary is one that recalls the novels Louis Bromfield turned out in the 1920s, but that's not the son's THE RIE (CRAST, $1.25), a story about the British in India. The time is the thirteenth, in the 1930s, when her heroine is a school teacher who comes to India to look for a husband. Escapist, but also contemporary in the sense of realism.
Joan Silver and Linda Gotthardt of the LIMBIO special unit, 2252 Madison Ave., specified for American wives of prisoners of war. It treats three women whose husbands are in custody.
authors have prepared this one not only for publication but also for a movie they'll be involved with.
The success of "Summer of 42" and "The Last Picture Book" has been a huge hit; niggly may give an impetus to Elliott BAKER's THE FENNY BOOK about a boy growing to maturity in 1939, the year war broke out in Europe. There are various nuisances that children face better than some kids coming to maturity in 1939 remember about themselves. But they all do it with a certain kindness.
Two stylish spy thrillers have been reissued and will pick up a number of readers, one of them timed to coincide with a new season's PRY FOR A BRAVE HEART AND THE SALZBURG CONNECTION (Crest, 55 cents each). Machines remains about perfect for modern American girl pretty and much with it, becomes involved in international espionage. Oh yes, sometimes the modern boy too, the books are never clever on the comic strip, and these are two of the best.
One who does produce Gothics, but always of high quality, is Victoria Holt. Her THE SHADOW OF THE LYNK (Crest, $1.25) is a darkly atmospheric book from Australia in gold rush days and England in Victorian times, and
it's about a girl who falls for a man called Lynx in Australia.
A number of mystery thrillers are on hand, too. First is Emma Miles (Pocket 15), a murderer (Pocket, 95 cents). The hero is John Putnam Thatcher, a senior vice president of the murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good luck for him, a murderer in Connecticut. Good
Oliver Bleek's PROTOCOL FOR A KIDNAPPING (Pocket 85 cents) concerns the kidnapping of the American ambassador to Israel, and the professional Philip St. Ivres rescues him, even though the ambassador by official admonition, by Parley J. Cooper's THE DEVIL CHILD (Pocket 85 cents) is a woman of color who young women named Lilith. And David St. John's DIABOLOS (Crest, 75 cents) concerns Peter Ward, intelligence agent, who does the deeds on the island of Laporte
Daniel Banko's NOT DEAD
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--enormous economic waste of the war, and the current bombing levels, which are the highest in the history of warfare.
"Whadda a mean, 'WHO?' Why, that's the official U.S. McGovernment Eagleton."
Study Links Child Parent Drug Use
An extensive study of teenage drug use has produced evidence that drug taking is a form of learned behavior.
Parents who regularly use mood-changing drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, may maintentionally pass on to ofspring an attitude favoring drug experimentation, a team of Canadian psychologists has found.
Furthermore, the information indicated that youthful drug users who learned to turn to drugs by parental use most often had not used alcohol.
In a two year study of drug use among 8,865 high school students in Toronto, the psychologists collected student responses indicating a positive link between parental drug use and the frequency and amount of drugs used by their children.
The research project was undertaken by the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada, to help behavioral scientists gain a better understanding of the causes of drug abuse in order to combat it more effectively.
Data, gathered from questionnaires distributed to a cross-section of city and suburban students in school in 1970, revealed that for each five separate drugs used by parents, their children were also more likely to be users.
The research findings were presented in an article by Reginald G. Smart and Dianne Fejer in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology published by the American Psychological Association, as well as other recent research
The authors said the study, as well as other recent research tracing the relationship of parental and child drug use, was gradually eroding the long-held belief that turning on drugs arose from a "generation gap" or youthful defiance.
Smart and Fejer expressed worry that many parents might be blind to the possibility that their own drug-taking patterns might influence their children. Dependence on alcohol or tobacco may not be considered as a contributing factor in the development of drugs by many parents, but psychologists are turning up more evidence to affirm the hazards of their use.
The percentage of students who reported using tobacco marijuana, barbiturates, heroin, speed, LSD, and other mind-affecting drugs was lowest if the parents used neither tobacco or alcohol. Mothers who smoked and drank frequently were most likely to have their children turn to illicit and stronger drugs, the study indicated.
Students who reported their parents to be regular users of tranquilizers were twice as likely to smoke marijuana, three times as likely to use hallucinatory drugs, and eight times as likely to follow the example of drug use set in their household.
A summer-long emergency educational campaign manned by thousands of volunteers across the country, and the American Friends Service Committee, in an effort to raise awareness of an end to the war in Indochina.
Called "Indochina Summer," the campaign will emphasize the
Indochina Summer includes three major phases:
— An attempt to reach every delegate to both the Republican and Democratic conventions with politically non-partisan
$500 Reward Given For Saving Eagle
An immature bald eagle had regained its freedom and a $500 reward for information leading to the conviction of a person for shooting the eagle has been given to a Wisconsin man by the National Wildlife Federation.
Gary Buss of Colfax, Wis., was awarded the money by the NWF after witnessing the October, 1971, shooting of a young bald eagle his home. After observing the shotgun sight of the bird, he and the eagle were apprehended, excepted the defendant and informed him that he had shot an eagle.
The defendant reportedly denied it, saying that "it was just a wake." 'After he had shot, however, he did not even look at the camera.'
RUSS THEN notified U. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife authorities. The defendant was later fined $10 in a Madison, Wash. court.
Unlike several other eagles that have been shot in the area in recent months, the eagle survived. The bird was immediately taken to nearby Chippewa Falls and its injured right wing was treated by Dr. Charles Kemper, an amateur ornithologist. Two months later, the healthy bird was released near the Needah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.
The reward was the second to be given under a nationwide reward program started by the NWF in 1971. Although it has been against Federal law to shoot bad eagles since 1940, the National Rural Fire Service (NRFC) did not act as the result of the revealed mass slaughter of eagles in Wyoming.
The National Wildlife Federation continues to offer a $500 reward upon verification that the claimant's information was substantial. If this is not proved, no award will be given. The claimant must request the reward in writing to the National Wildlife Federation, 1412 Sixth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 2036, within six months after conviction. If more than one bale of fish are found, it may be awarded for the one bird representing the total number shot.
According to wildlife management experts, the future for the Nation's symbol is looking increasingly bleak. The total in the lower 48 states is estimated to be as few as three to four thousand birds, and the use of hard pesticides and diminishing habitat continue to tame the number of species of bald eagle found in the upper half of the U.S. is already declined as an endangered species by the U.S. Interior Department.
educational materials about the Indochina war. Non-partisan presentations will also be formed by committee to form committees of the parties.
—IN ALMOST every state, volunteers from many neighbor communities and their own communities, door-to-door and at shopping centers, as well as in larger meetings, serve as part of the organization's strengthen anti-war interest among industrial workers, farmers, refugees andDOT residents and rural people.
—in some areas, nonviolent demonstrations will focus on unarmed anthonyism. The AFSC said some individuals who took part might feel led to acts of civil disorder and may be nonviolent. AFSC will support those individuals who are trying to suppress such cargoes cause deaths, suffering and war crimes, just as it will support those who refrain from using firearms.
In stating this position, the FSC Board of Directors said the U.S. government violated "of its own laws, particularly the Geneva protocols"
"AFSC believes in a society of laws and not of men," the statement says, and "citizens are confronted with the need to bring
about the compliance with the law on the part of the government."
VOLUNTEERS WITH modes financial support are working fulltime in the black community of Chicago on issues connected to the war. Volunteers and volunteers in working with the Chicanos in raising awareness of the impact of the war on Chicago on the cowboy and cowboy is seeking the anti-war support of cowboys in the pathane area. Similarly In Chicago, a group active in Martha's Vineyard among celebrities and tourists
Frequently Indochina Summer will concentrate on making a community aware of defense facilities and manufacturing locally, as is the case in Midtown, Conn., where the Raymond Engineering Corp. is located, or in Saco, Me., where the Maremont Corp. manufactures
At Army, Navy, and Air Force bases around the country, Industry will distribute literature and talk with as many Gls, employees, and community people as possible. In December, Indochina Summer will be the slideshow. Automated AI research program of the Air Research program of the AFSIC.
exposes the recent technological developments in bombing methods which are used by the war, and the U.S. troops to withdraw while the U.S. maintains control—at heavy expense and loss of Asian lives—from the enemy.
POSSIBLE SITES for efforts to blockade nonviolently shipments of arms and ammunition will include railroad terminals such as at Portland Ore, and shipping warehouses on Long Beach, Calif., Long Beach, Boca, Bangor, Wash.; Leanardo, N.J., and Sunnivoyet, N.C.
In its statement of support for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, the Board of Directors of the AFSC defiled the recent escalation of bombing in Indochina as "in clear connection with the high moral law which we, as Friends, are called to obey."
The statement also said U.S. action was "in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 74 and President F. D. Roosevelt, in a statement to the German people, that Germany must take action which would show that they dissatisfaction with the crimes that Germany government was committing and, moreover, to keep a record of all such crimes that could be used to convict the guilty."
Chocolate Was Currency Before Spanish Conquest
From The Codex
When you say the word "chocolate" and drink the beverage, we are speaking the language of the drink, the favorite drink of their rulers.
Both the word and the composition of the beverage have become altered in the 450 years since the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. The Aztec term "xoc" means milk because originally the drink was prepared by simply roasting cacao beans, grinding them to a
paste and dissolving them in cold water.
The result was a bitterish potion similar to coffee, but it could be made to foam by beating it with water and from one receptacle to another.
CACAO IS produced by a tropical tree in six-inch-long pod that hold 20 to 40 beans each. Somewhat bigger than a large almond, the beans are covered by roasted peanuts on some of its off in the roasting process.
MONTEZUMA II was extremely fond of the beverage, and he had been their chef. His chefs produced a refined chocolate, almost pure foam, with the "consistency of honey provided slowly in the mouth."
certain herbs, spices, including vanilla, chile, honey or corn meal.
The largest, most perfectly formed beans were used as money by pre-Hispanic cultures and were much only by members of the nobility, who were quite familiar with consuming them before the European versions. When the European versions of chocolate appeared, the inexperienced traders and inventions of their own by adding
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As the most popular religious orders goes the credit for having made a difference in beverage we know today. Early in the colonial era they added sugar and cinnamon, sometimes using simple sugar crumbs. They, too, preferred water as the vehicle, rather than milk. Hot chocolate made its appearance about that same time.
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