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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 12, 1958
Study Methods Important
-Resolutions to "study harder and get those grades up" are heard from students all over campus with the coming of the second half of the semester. But is just studying "harder" going to get the job done? According to one psychologist it won't.
"Contrary to the opinion of many students, the way to achieve effective study is not by more study or more determined concentration, but by changing the quality of study methods," Francis P. Robinson, professor of psychology at Ohio State University, says in his book "Effective Study."
Good students study no more than poor students but just use their time more effectively. Some suggestions for using time more effectively are to study a subject every day at the same time rather than having long sessions; make use of vacant hours between classes: stop for a few minutes between chapters, or between changes of subjects in studying for long periods of time, and plan to use from 4 to 7 p.m. for recreation during the week.
Good study habits are parallel in importance
to making effective use of time. Probably the most profitable study habit in terms of a higher grade point average is studying in the library. Evidence shows that students who study in the library get grades of .4 grade points higher than those who don't study there.
Surroundings tend to suggest study and so help concentration. A good study habit then is to study in the same place every weekday. The place in which one studies should not be used for letter writing, card games, or day dreaming. If a place is used only for studying, one is reminded only of studying.
Relaxing in an easy chair or dressing in pajamas is not conducive to studying. Being conditioned to go to sleep when in this garb and position, the student has difficulty concentrating. It is advisable to sit in a straight chair while at the study table.
It's not too late to do something about study habits and, according to the experts, good grades will follow.
—Martha Frederick
Tornado Defenses Strengthened
Strengthened defense lines have been drawn for the 1958 tornado season, already inaugurated by a series of deadly twisters that hurtled out of Mississippi skies Feb.27, exactly on schedule.
They took 13 lives and if 1958 matches last year, the toll will pass 150 before the twister season completes its northward course through "tornado alley," stretching across the nation's mid-section from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.
Don House, supervising forecaster in the government's severe storm forecast center, believes there is "good reason" to hope this year's death toll can be substantially reduced.
Communications have improved both within the weather bureau system and in distribution of forecasts and specific warnings to the public. Radar facilities also have improved, and increased in number.
For the first time, the Conelrad attention signal will be used in connection with tornado warnings. Transmitted by radio and television stations, it turns up the volume on specially designed alarm receivers. Conelrad, House said, should be most useful in schools, hospitals and other public institutions.
Individual communities in the tornado belt planned new alarm procedures. At Kansas City, scene of a tornado that killed approximately 40 persons and leveled hundreds of homes last May 20, police and fire department vehicles will be rushed to threatened areas. Their sirens and public address equipment will spread the alert, warning residents to turn on radio and television sets.
But the backbone of the warning network will remain tornado "spotters." House's annual call
for volunteers went out in this area last week.
He credited the volunteers with an important part in warnings which he said saved many lives, "perhaps hundreds" in the twister that splintered the thickly-populated Ruskin Heights housing development in Kansas City. "The death toll was small," he said, "compared to what it might have been."
Five days earlier a much smaller twister struck the town of Silverton, Tex., with a population of less than 1,000. Silverton had had no warning, and 21 persons died.
By contrast there was Milford, Neb., about the same size as Silverton, where a twister last April 25 caused damage estimated at more than one million dollars. Though numerous buildings were flattened there were no deaths, because virtually no one remained in the buildings.
Warnings went out about 20 minutes before the storm hit and that 20 minutes gave residents time to find refuge. More than 600 of them found safety in tunnels leading from one school building to another. The others fled in cars or huddled in basements.
Kansas City, Silverton, Milford were the targets of only a tiny segment of the 1957 tornado crop. It was a record year, with 961 twisters officially reported to have touched the ground. The 154 deaths occurred in 11 different storms, or about 1 per cent of the total. Nine years earlier, 10 per cent of all the storms reported involved fatalities.
The difference, or a big part of the difference was the forecast and warning system, House said.
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