Awbrey said they're represented now
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Freshmen want vote in Senate
The freshman class, led by Steve Hix, class president, hopes to win the right to have a class representative in the Student Senate with the power to vote.
Presently the freshman class officers are allowed in the Senate with all privileges of other senators except the right to vote.
Hix said that the freshmen were interested in student affairs as
was shown by the all-time-high turnout at the polls. He said, "It seems we should now have some say as to what should take place on this campus. After all, we are the largest class in the University."
Hix said that he hopes to present a petition with 2,000 signatures to the Student Senate at its meeting in February. The petition
will call for student senators to be elected at the same time as election for class officers in future years and that the officers of the present freshman class become members of the student senate immediately.
"Freshman problems are not really that unique. The need for a special freshman representative may not be that important." Abbey said.
would be over-represented and this would be unfair to other students represented by the colleges.
The major questions to consider, Awbrey said, were whether the freshman class really needs additional representation and whether they know enough about student government and senate operations to assume the responsibility of full membership.
National Selective Service officials are considering alterations of local draft board quotas in an attempt to give draft-age men a better idea of when they will be called.
Monthly quotas altered
officers become the full members
The system has been put into effect in Kansas on a trial basis, but it will not affect a man's chances of being drafted. In some cases, however, it will delay induction.
Dave Awbrey, president of the Student Senate, said that freshmen have representation in the Student Senate through the college-within-a-college representatives. Each represents 200 students.
Awbrey said that should there be evidence that the majority of the freshman class feels strongly about the representation, the Student Senate would try to heed its demands, at least to some degree.
In some boards, the lowest numbered men hold relatively high slots in the lottery sequence; they would be called first under
Plans include proportioning monthly board quotas so that only men with low lottery numbers will be called early in the year, while higher-numbered men will not receive their notices until later.
He said the process of changing present membership rules would be a long one. The measure would have to be approved by the Student Senate, and then would be sent to SENEX, the executive committee of the University Senate which sets the agenda for the University Senate. It would then go before the University Senate for final approval.
Another problem, he said, would be one of dual responsibility and loyalty should the class
The new proposal would establish certain number levels to be called each month on a nation-wide basis. In one year's time, however, all men due to be called would be inducted.
the present system, contrary to government information that higher numbers would come up later in the year.
For example, national guidelines might require that no more than the first 50 numbers be called in January. Thus, if a 'local board had no men under No. 050, it would deliver no men for induction that month. But when the national number levels reached the numbers of that board's men, they would be called. And by year's end, a board would have to have its one-year quota filled.
Revamped speech course provides new approaches
Fundamentals of speech: for years students considered it one of the bugbears of the College's freshman-sophomore requirements.
Since fall 1967, however, the department of speech has attempted to change the aura surrounding the course.
The boredom of listening to speech after speech in class, the anxiety of standing before an audience for ten minutes to talk and the seeming irrelevance of topics at issue combined to make enrollment in speech a distasteful experience.
Speech 1B—group discussion was introduced as an alternative to the existing speech 1A, which required prepared talks given before an audience. Soon, enrollment in 1B far outstripped 1A. This semester, 1,020 students are enrolled in 42 section of 1B, while only 266 are scheduled in the 11 section of 1A.
He said that the proposal would entail either delaying elections or saving one or two seats from each college. Either would mean essentially that the freshman class
The spring 1970 semester will see fewer 1A sections and more 1B sections available. So 1A, which three years ago was the only route to fulfill the College requirement, now threatens to become the weak sister of the program.
To revitalize speech 1A, the department of speech is taking steps to "move toward more constant involvement for students in the course," says Bohby R. Patton, director of the Speech 1 program and associate professor of speech and drama.
"For a long time, students taking speech thought it was beneficial to them, but it was never really viewed as an exciting class," Patton explains.
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"This semester, we've tried different texts, and different approaches. For example, in a few classes, the speakers deal in problems of public policy such as national spending priorities. The students try to allocate and exert influence on one another, thus providing insights not only into the methods of advocacy, but the workings of interest groups and the feeling of pressure in certain situations."
rounds of speeches with little class discussion afterward," he says. "The students weren't actively involved."
"The topics are in an argumentative framework and other members of the class may take issue," Patton says. "It's a better simulation of real life—like a town meeting or a legislature."
Modifications in both 1A and 1B have led to overlapping, Patton said. Group discussion becomes an increasingly important part of 1A, and 1B includes a symposium in which class members make advance preparation.
The new approach to 1A is on an experimental basis in certain sections and may be expanded next semester, Patton says.
Feedback, the reactions of others to one's words, is a major instructional factor in speech. The speech department has added an extra dimension to feedback by the use of videotape to record students' talks. The tape is played back so that the speaker may analyze his own words and actions.
"Preparation beforehand is the main difference between 1A and 1B," Patton explains. "In 1A, we're dealing with pre-planned strategies; in 1B, the method is spontaneous interaction. Both courses are intended to teach how we understand and modify our human behavior."
Radio station stolen
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI)—The sheriff's office Wednesday still had not tracked down the gang that stole a radio station.
The great burglary occurred just before midnight last Monday.
Frederick R. Cote, owner and disc jockey for FM station KOLA, was playing popular music and interjecting a few comments from his Riverside studio when suddenly he went off the air.
Cote got in his car and drove up Box Springs Mountain where his transmitting facility is located. He discovered that about 1,000 pounds of equipment worth $20,-000 was missing. The only item remaining was the shell of a five kilowatt amplifier.
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