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Show UNIVERSITY NEWS "The real problem of educators educa-tors is how we can comprehensively comprehen-sively and effectively give each young American a sense of pride in fruitful work." This is the opinion of Dr. Owen F. Beal, University Uni-versity of Utah professor of so-, so-, cialogy, in regard to the much discussed question of whether or not college students are using their opportunities to the best ad-j vanage. , Dr. Beal feels that while there; are many students who are tak-j ing advantage of the opportune-j ties afforded by a college educa-l tion, there are also many whoj are more of an expense to the university and the state than they are worth. Even though students who do not take all of their college col-lege education seriously are con- sidered failures by the outside world, these persons cannot but absorb learning and refinement, he believes. "Somehow they have not attained at-tained the love of learning and therefore require a lot of executive execu-tive attention in addition to being a financial burden to their families, fam-ilies, he said. Dr.Max W. Lund, University psychology professor, voiced the-- the-- opinion that there are a lot of students at the University and other American colleges who iust haven't "enough on the ball" to get any place. This portion of the student body would be better off in a vocation or trade he believes. On the other hand, there is a large number of students who have the ability but lack the interest in-terest and application needed. This he feels, is perhaps the most serious problem. "If entrance to collet could be based on a more competitive basis, which would be founde'd on the students" scholaristic ability as well as his psychogical adjustment adjust-ment to his environment, a great improvement could be made," Dr. Lund declared. Professor E. E. Erickson, University Un-iversity professor of philosophy and author of several philosophic works, believ" that the reason more students are not profiting from their instruction in perhaps within the institution itself. "It is not dumbness, but just uninteresting un-interesting courses offered by colleges col-leges which cause most failures. If a larger range of subjects in each field could be provided in addition to more practical courses, cours-es, more interest could be maintained, main-tained, "he asserted." Dr. Erickson suggested each department de-partment in colleges have a beginning be-ginning or orientating class for students who cannot grasp the subject immediately. The general opinion among faculty fa-culty members is that the average aver-age student could gain much more from his education if he wished, but that college organization itself it-self needs reorganizing to afford an education to do this. SCHOOL OF THE AIR The bore of spring quarter studying at the University of Utah received a slap in the puss this week as the geology department depart-ment started its annual "cloud college" program wherein students stu-dents not only get to fly in a mainliner plane, but get college credit for it. Of course, there's a siight catch to it students have to look down and note the topo-j, topo-j, graphy of the territory being covered. But other than that. there are no strings attached. (Continued on Page 5) UNIVERSITY (Continued from Page 1) Anyone who is officially registered regis-tered in the University can take the flights, although they were originally scheduled for geology students as field trips. For $3.00 students get an hour in the air, traveling about 195 miles per hour. The plane system of study is about as efficient as anything yet tried, according to geology facul ty members, for all the eds and coeds have to do is to study ye olde formations in drop a glance and behold and there aren't any flowers, convertibles or spring scents to distract the student. Two trips are made each day and 40 students are able to make the trip at once. According to professors who take the trip, students stu-dents who aren't air broken are indeed regretable cases the one time they could study without effort ef-fort this has to happen Tt seems that the "unfeathered birds" think the plane flaps its wings. . Among the wonders seen from the plane are some of the most unusual formations in the richest geological region in the country. These include the Wasatch fault scarp, the glaciated cirques of of the Uinta mountains in the Grand-daddy lakes region, the Stockton bar between Tooele val-, ley and rush valley, the glaciated Big Cottonwood canyon, the me-anderings me-anderings and ox-bow lakes of Jordan river, the under-water delta del-ta of City Creek canyon where the State Capitol stands. |