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Friday, July 23, 1971
University Summer Kansan
Self-Motivation Lost in Grades
Bv RERNEH..JJHNKE
"Today grades are the be-all and the end-of-
education."
The idea behind Dr. William Glasser, reknown psychiatrist's, rather inclusive statement is the basis for much reflection by educators, parents and particularly students.
You seem to be reaching
You seem to be reaching
for some goal unknown to me
You seem to think you can do it alone
May you be'ven proven yourself
by yourself before
But is there anything wrong
with having a friend
to share your joys and triumphs
and help you through the bad times?
Everyone is not the same, that
I'm learning more and more
But having a friend
never hurt anyone—
unless you want it to
By PEGGY BROWN
Schools Differ With Problems
In a recent survey a group of campers were asked about their high school. The question was: What is the major problem in your high school?
Student, Summer High School St. Louis, Mo.
"Our major problem is basically financial support. We don't have the proper amount of money it takes to educate each student. This also causes a problem of room and individual help."
Student, Evan E. Texas. *Worst Sr. High School, Houston, Texas.* "Our major problem is financial support, lack of support of parents, education and love and understanding between races."
Sharon Gray, Sam Rayburn High School, Pasadena, Texas, "Our major problem is apathy among the students and a restrictive and stupid dress code, which has made many students angry. Also, the teachers acting like teachers are not making learning a great experience."
amit zawack, Coleman High School,
Coleman, Michigan. "The first thing is the teachers think they aren't getting enough money, they really could care less about what they are getting paid for. And we can't take the car's off the parking lot when we want!"
The question is: "Do students view education as being a battle for grades or as an opportunity to learn?"
According to various recent reports the majority of high school students in the U.S. think of the standard education system as a "distance learning" model, not the monkey. Press all the right buttons and flip the right levers and the banana is yours—the high grade. Why the tasks are performed is unknown.
"How much will the test count on our six weeks grade?" "Do we have to know what's in chapter 15 for the test?"" Will you grade on the curve?" etc, etc, etc is evidence that the true objective of education is not in clear sight.
There must be a substitute for the grade that would allow the student to flee from his manipulation and become a self-motivated individual. After living under the influence of what a grade can or cannot do for him for 12 months it might happen when the student is on his own?
Will he be motivated to continue his learning experience? Has he obtained the ability to think and act intellectively—to research and draw conclusions? Or has his knowledge been stumbed by information, change and knowledge been stumped by an attituded attitude that学习 is a draug
Grades are an inadequate excuse for feedback. What is one letter of the alphabet supposed to represent to the students, much less the parents?
Several interesting methods of evaluation are being experimented with in high schools across the country, including, pass-fail, teacher's individual written evaluations, combined teachers and students' self-reports, student-substitute conferences for evaluation purposes.
One girl says of combined student and teacher evaluations used at the Murry Road Annex of Newton (Mass.) High School. "Before, if I did poorly, I belied my bad behavior by having a bad teacher. Now, if I don't accomplish what I set out to do, I blame myself."
Citizen Must Know Issue
By CONNIE MOWER
I am Joe American. I am a product of a democratic society. I support myself and pay my taxes. I try to vote every chance I get and try to keep informed of the issues and problems that influence the welfare of the nation. I read the newspapers and periodicals to be exposed to all sides of the issues. I try to be a responsible citizen.
Unfortunately, sometimes the government does not help me act wisely. Sometimes they withhold the facts or distract the facts so it gets a view of government policies and actions.
The Pentagon papers on the Viet Nam policies prove that the government does not think that I can competently judge the validity of the war; perhaps they think that I don't want to know what's going on, or maybe they think I don't care. They are wrong.
I would like to know exactly what the government is doing. I would like to know all sides of the issues I would like to help make the decisions. I want to be included in the action. I would like to be a citizen again; a part of a "government by the people."
Kamper Kansan
Kamper News Office----112 Flint Hall
REL LN-140
The Kampman Kaner, camp newspaper at the Midwestern University, told me that he and his team were during the five-week camp simulation. It is written by the student reporter, Jeffrey Leach.
the screen was the cover of the newspaper in the editorial column of the editorial state of the newspaper. Guest editorial views are presented in the Kamer Ranan are not signed by
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No Logic in Violence
By DEBBIE GUMP
There's a rather idiotic ditch going around these days, "Death Kills," people say. But for some reason nobody knows it.
intentionally causing physical harm is criminal.
What's a logical reason? Certainly not to maintain national pride, or to carry out personal vengeance. Certainly not to follow through on the "eye for an eye and a tooth for
Restrictions Insure Welfare of Campers
Bv SARA HADDOX
BARB SCHROEGER
One of the hardest decisions for one to make is that between right and wrong, escape. especially when they have to make it or break it. This is one of the problems that hangs over the supervisors and counselors here at the camp. When one of the counselors makes a mistake, the other patrons are always the same — dismissal.
"It's heart breaking," she miss Connie Schruder. dorm supervisor "All of it."
a tooth" reasoning. Certainly not to protect material objects.
It is not an easy job for a supervisor to have to call someone's parents late at night to tell them that their son or daughter has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons.
The big five reasons for immediate expulsion are 1. Smoking in the dorm, especially during the first week of resection. 2. Drinking alcoholic beverages or the use of any illegal drugs. 4. Dating non-campsers 5. Riding in any unauthorized vehicle. 6. Being the "big five" the last one used may.
Is it asking too much to seek logic in matters of killing and mansion? Logic has never been used in either love or war. Why should we try thinking differently now? It's much easier to pull a trigger than to condescend to compromise.
In this camp of 1,338 students, including the junior high division, one must have restrictions to insure the safety of all. If in any way this insurance is endangered then dismissal
Concert Job Well Done
Every Saturday and Sunday the various ensembles give concerts for the public, and while numerous local parents come to see them, there are practically no campers attending.
By David S. Barr
Kamper Kansen Music Editor
The ambition of practically every musician is to perfect himself to a point where he can perform before audiences and be recognized by his peers. Unfortunately, the Midwestern Music and Art Camp students are not doing well in the fellow musicians, and it's all rather pitiful.
The United States has an opportunity to push out of Vietnam—it could even save a little face if it handled it correctly—by accepting the recent North Vietnamese peace proposal. But early administration indications lead even the most optimistic dove to an early pessimism. Here is where logic should come in, but almost never does.
must be put into effect so the rest of the campers will not be jeopardized.
This of course raises a question: why? The most likely idea is that no one really cares about what anyone else is doing, unless it benefits them in some way.
Since the beginning of camp, 15 camperies and one counselor have been discharged from camp. There are two main rules. Some of the youths lived as far in Florida. As for refunds, none are given for dishonorable discharges, although for illness or things along that line, partial refunds are allowed.
The Defense Department has reported that, some 715,000 Communist casualties have resulted from the Vietnam war, a total equal to about 3.5 per cent of the population of North Vietnam. American casualties have reached 498,000, roughly 17 per cent of the U.S. population.
Commented Miss Schroder. "We love to have the kids come to camp, but when they are gone we don't."
Professor Wiley, head of the camp, even placed noticees in the mailboxes regarding the lack of camper attendance, yet this appeared to do absolutely nothing to help the situation. thereby felt it to be my duty to make a formal apology for the failure of the camp and conductors of the camp. I sincerely hope that they will not have to face this humiliation again in the years to come.
It's just a case of selfish apathy.
War has become blase in American conversation. There hasn't been a generation since the beginning of our struggling country that hasn't been plagued by the tragedy of war. Some generations have suffered two or three major blood-baths. It has become easy to hear that 10 more soldiers died when we engaged with the DMZ. People nod expectantly at the new number plane shot down. What's a few hundred battle deaths these days?
Full of smiles and wiggles are these two campers at the Sadie Hawkins Dance. Could her amuse be one of courage and relief at this moment? The Hawkins Day only comes once a year.
Dogpatchers
Live and Let Live?
By DEBBIE KILPATRICK
On July 20, 1971, approximately 875 students were enrolled for summer classes in the Midwinter Music and Art Camp. Four weeks later, the enrollment has decreased as several boys and girls and one counselor have been "kicked out" for various reasons. Two students arrived at camp and, less than 48 hours later, they were on their way home.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp, as explained by Russell Wiley, director and founder of the camp, is planned "to offer a very interesting and worldwhile program for talented people." Surely, teenagers who plan to spend five or six weeks of their summer improving their talents must have some interest in extending their knowledge.
The majority of the students at this camp are given partial scholarships, but even then the cost to attend camp ranges from below $100 to almost $600. Parents pay for the camp tuition in some cases, and in a few cases students pay for all expenses themselves.
Professors from the University, guest conductors, and private tutors are being paid to teach all campers in the division they signed up for. Thousands upon thousands $'o'
dollars are being paid to people and companies in all fields. This money that is being paid out is collected from parents, companies, and relatives to send their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and these they have never seen before to camp to learn.
The first night at camp, all students and counselors attended a general meeting and rules were explained, stressed and, in some cases, examples given. The rules explained the very same that were printed in a brochure which was sent to all students enrolled for classes at the camp. Two major issues were raised by the counselor, and yet, it is for disobeying either of these two rules that 11 students were sent home and one counselor fired.
When everything is dishesed out on a silver platter, why do campers judge rules after they have been specifically told that what they are doing is wrong? Don't they know that what they are giving up is an opportunity that you are giving up to having to打完 don't a chance to have?
The first major "don't t" is that all drugs are to be registered at the desk whether prescription or not. Drugs such as alcohol, painkillers, opioids, and narcotics are prohibited. Any person having any connection
Inner Peace Sought In Calm of Graveyard
By MARY KEENAN
I tried to run away from the pain today. It was hard. My feet were bare and the sun had baked the sidewalks with blistering heat, and were thorns in the grass along the highway.
Somehow, though, the physical pain relieved some of the mental anguish. Maybe it brought me back into the realm of reality a little more. It felt productive to watch my dirty, naked feet running on, so relentless and brave in the face of tragedy.
Something drew me to a graveyard. I had always known it was there, but I'd never had occasion to visit (I~ until now it seemed to be dead). I would have to die. And I wanted desperately for it to die.
There weren't many tombstones. They were all old and made of cracked, yellowed plaster. Few and far apart, the stones were almost lost in the shade of tall, garbled trees and certainly drowned out by the out-of place sitting too sweaty for me to feel sorrow.
The soldiers' graves were set apart from the others in every way. Their tombstones weren't broken and lying rotten in the darkness. They stood tall and straight and uniform, bleaching to a more identical shade of sameness in the burning sun.
I remember wishing that trees were growing in the military section of the graveyard, too, but they weren't. The trees there were like the scion's graves, all dead and uniformly rotting in the mercuries lane and uniformly dug up, plumped—things seemed to have never known life.
I stopped running when I got to the broadest stump, lying at the head of all the stones. It felt, vaguely, that somewhere amid those men would come a final peace for me as well.
The oceans of bitter, too-long-delayed tears that poured out in the scorching sun weren't like the rain. They didn't stop the sun from melting it. The ocean didn't wash the thirsty sufferer away or
with these or any other drugs will be sent home immediately.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp not only offers a chance to widen your educational background, but a chance to meet friends, and it offers a look at college life.
Instead, the straight, uniform rows of dead men's tombs distorted themselves into mocking, more-alike faces that foretold only emptiness and injustice. The sun maintained its ceaseless beating, adding the final torment of a restlessly parching wind.
Two rules that seem easy enough to obey and, yet, 11 students disbelieved one of them and were forced to suffer the consequences. Eleven students gave up thousands of dollars and loads of experience because of negligence and just plain stupidity.
The dead young soldiers didn't speak. They didn't tell me from the silence that war was never just. They failed to reassure me that war didn't allow the love of two, impatient, needing to grow as it should. They didn't comfort me when the tears finally came.
apinkle a fresh, bright insight of self-survival to a throbbing mind. My tears weren't like the tears of someone who is going through a hard time.
A broken girl, forsaking her resistance and the dead silence, screamed, "God, why does this have to happen now?" She had almost been unhappy with happiness. She had almost touched a heaven.
Sometimes, the agony was over. I opened my eyes to a less bright sun, a less cruel heat. There were no longer rows of faceless markers; the identical hateful jeers were
John, Thomas F., Charles E., Robert,
David, Mark. --- the rocks had different
names. 18, 19, 22. --- the soldiers had seen
different times. Sergeant. Lieutenant.
Recruit. --- some were ranked leaders, some
were just dead soldiers.
Someday, maybe I'll find a justification for the pain I tried to run from today. Perhaps I could walk back to my beach. Maybe, just maybe, my dreams can be as just inspiring tomorrow as they were yesterday. I might still find a plan engulfing my mind. Now, I can only pray to the God I just questioned.
Do not ride in an unauthorized car. This statement means campers will not ride with coiners unless specifically approved by the company and will not ride in any car unless approved.
For the 864 students remaining in the camp and for those students who find it easier and more convenient to follow the rules, it's not live and let live, but live and let's learn.
"Goodbye, darling. I'll see you tomorrow."
The grave-markers didn't mention who was missed the most, or who had contributed the most towards peace. They didn't reveal what died tired in fear or in relief, or hating the man who fought by his side. They didn't forget that soldiers were loved, only 27 soldiers died in war.
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Unfair Punishment
Bernard Michtrina, juvenile officer with the Madison Heights Police Department, reported that the ordinance has significantly reduced juvenile crime.
In Madison Heights, Michigan, a parental-responsibility ordinance has been on the statute books for a year and a half. It has met with much controversy.
Official police figures from Madison heights show a definite drop in delinquency during the 11 months of 1970 after the orphanage went into effect. The monthly number for feline cases in 1869 was 76.5 in 1970, 68. This is a decrease of about 10 per cent.
Are parents solely responsible and subject to punishment when their children break the law? In recent months a large number of local authorities have been enacted to force parents' responsibility for the actions of their children. The ordances simply tell parents that they must control the behavior of their children or risk paying a stiff fine and/or going to jail.
We've issued warnings in more than 65 cases," Michirina said, "and haven't had one of those kids back. We just aren't seeing the same familiar faces the way we used to."
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However, do statistics alone tell the whole story?
The Parental Responsibility Ordinances are morally wrong to both the parents and the child. It is unjust to try to punish screamforc e or act he himself did not perform. This is just what has been done to the parents whose children turn to crime.
In most courts of law in this nation, a man is innocent until proved guilty. When he is proved guilty of committing a crime he is expected to take his punishment. In this way man learns that when he does something wrong he will have to suffer for his act.
A child must be taught that he is responsible for his actions and should be prepared to suffer the consequences of his misdeeds. This helps prevent an early age, even with naughty tricks, from being away with those who are what encourages children other, more harmful things, later in life.
The young parent should teach values through example and practice. If this were done properly, no one would be to punished at all.