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Don't Let Studies Ruin Party Time; Clinic Teaches How to Budget Time
Is a guilty conscience about not studying ruining party time as mid-semesters approach? This is only one of the recognized study problems which is handled by the reading and study skills clinic in Bailey Hall.
The clinic, headed by Dr. Henry P. Smith, professor of education, and staffed by four teachers, attempts to help the student in preparing for exams, budgeting time for both work and play and developing a flexibility in reading.
The class is usually made up of those who scored poorly on placement exams and are sent to the clinic by their faculty adviser.
"In the first half of the 18 meetings, we concentrate on weaknesses shown in the study habit inventories which each of the students in the class takes." Dr. Smith said.
"We try to show that in time budgeting, a student can often let so much of his work go that he cannot enjoy his leisure time because of a guilty conscience. In teaching to prepare for exams, we attempt to show how to pick out the big questions that may come out of a given amount of material.
"The teacher emphasizes the necessity to digest the material for class notes and put the most important down on paper rather than
acting as a secretary in class," Dr Smith said.
Most colleges and universities in the nation have similar programs. About half have only speeded reading programs because they are easier to set up and do not require skilled teachers.
A great deal of the success of a program such as this depends upon the teacher, Dr. Smith said. At present, all of the teachers in the KU clinic have had experience in the teaching field and are working on graduate degrees.
The teacher must be able to make the student face the problem and want to solve it, he said. There is no credit for the course and attendance is voluntary so the teacher must be able to command the respect and interest of the students.
In the last half of the course, emphasis is placed on reading skills.
"The goal of our reading program is flexibility." Dr. Smith said. "A poor reader will read everything at the same speed and will comprehend the lighter material but not the heavy. A good, flexible reader will go quickly over the light material and slow down for the heavier reading so that he will be able to comprehend more."
"An average reading rate is 300 words a minute." Dr. Smith said. "After taking the reading skills course, some students have claimed that they can read up to 1,000
AECRenews RadiationStudy
The $10,700 contract for the project is the fifth renewal of the grant by the Commission.
words a minute. However, there have been no tests devised that can prove a reading rate."
Ipoh, British Malaya, both graduate students; Billy James Boaz, Joplin, Mo., junior, and Emma Cochran, Ellis sophomore.
Dr. Edward I. Shaw, assistant professor of radiation biophysics, will be in charge of the project. Assistants are LeMoine Cunningham, Carthage, Mo., and Kim Lai Ong,
"Study and reading skills training can be of great help in college adjustment." Dr. Smith said. "In high school, the student has parents, teachers, study halls and other aids to regular studying. In college he is entirely on his own. We can help to bridge that gap if the student wants to help himself."
The radiation biophysics department will continue its study of iodinated components in the blood and urine of humans under a renewed contract with the Atomic Energy Commission.
Texas rock formations more than 200 million years old are being studied this week by four geology graduate students and Dr. Ralph H. King, associate professor of geology.
Geologists Study Texas Formations
Students accompanying Dr. King are Gary Webster, Hutchinson; James Sorauf, Wanwatosa, Wis.; Edward Slewitzke, Mosinee, Wis., and James Michelson, Hazlehurst, Wis.
TOM HEITZ for FROSH VEEP
The KU men will also attend a regional meeting of the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists at Mineral Wells, Texas.
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1958
Firms Set Job Interviews With Engineering Students
Twenty - five companies have scheduled interviews with KU seniors and graduate students in the School of Engineering and Architecture from tomorrow to Friday, Oct. 31.
Interviews scheduled are:
Tomorrow—General Services Administration; Mare Island Naval Shipyard; Radio Corporation of America; Mallinckrodt Chemical Works.
Thursday—Radio Corporation of America; Mallinckrodt Chemical Works; Continental Can Co.; Cities Service Oil Co.
Friday—Cities Service Oil Co.; Caterpillar Tractor Co.; Jefferson Chemical Co., Inc.
Monday—Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.—divisions; aircraft, tire and rubber; General Electric Co., Socony Mobil Oil Co.
Tuesday, Oct. 28—General Electric Co.; Standard Oil Company of Ohio—manufacturing dept.; Sohio Pine Line Co.
Wednesday, Oct. 29- Atlas Powder Co.; Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Co.; Sangamo Electric Co.; The Vendo Co.
Thursday, Oct. 30—Ethyl Corp.; Esso Standard Oil Co.; Standard Oil Company of California.
Friday, Oct. 31—Colgate Palmolive Co; Esso Standard Oil Co; National Aeronautics and Space Administration — divisions: high speed flight station, Ames aeronautic labs.
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