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Show April " ' rage Five Individual tailoring relieves tight study problems pose whether that purpose is to help cram for an exam one week away or develop a long-range reading and study program and when that purpose is attained, he voluntarily withdraws. The student is the one who must be satisfied, not us." see if it works. If it doesn't we make the necessary changes until we get it right," Mr. Vanderlinden says. The student is only allowed to spend one hour at a time at the center and is not allowed to take any of the material home. "Merely by coming here, a student has indicated' a psychological determination to do the work," Mr. Vanderlinden says. "We cannot allow him to become fatigued from the heavy concentration. That would be defeating the purpose of the program." This service may suffer under the budget cuts hitting student services, but Mr. Vanderlinden thinks that, as more students become aware of what can be done for them under this program, more of them will want to take part in it, thus allowing it to survive. Mr. Vanderlinden emphasized that the Learning Skills program is not a catch-all for the student who doesn't have the basic skills. This program works on the developmental devel-opmental model, he said, not on the remedial model. "You could say that we have no failures from this program," he says. "A student comes here for a nur- By T.J. MADDEN Chronicle Staff Are you overcome with studies? Areyou frantically trying to pick a French minor in two Quarters? Are you 40 hours short for August graduation? Has your Anthro teacher assigned you ,fifteen books to read in the next w0 weeks? Do you get choked-upwhen choked-upwhen it's your turn to speak in a classroom discussion? Are you ;uSt generally burned out? Is that ghat's bothering you? Then consider helping yourself to the Learning Skills program at the tinseling Center. Under the direction of Ralph I'anderlinden, the Learning Skills orogram was started to help .tudents with their study habits, rhe program was ' started in anuary of this year with 60 .tudents taking part. Mr. Van-'lerlinden Van-'lerlinden has determined that the ,nly successful approach to ,elping a burned-out student with tudy problems is to develop a lighly individual program ;ailored specifically to the Particular needs of the individual tudent. hree full-time counselors are jmployed by the Counseling enter for this purpose. One of lem meets with the student to etermine the exact nature of the roblem, perhaps bringing in Dme diagnostic tests. But, since le program is free-entry free-exit, 5 well as being free of charge, it up to the student to continue n his own. The last thing these students eed is another class-type ommitment," says Mr. Van-erlinclen. Van-erlinclen. "There's just no way e can hope to help a student nprove his learning skills by ircinghim to come in here three jurs a week, anymore than a .'acher can make him learn by ..quiring his attendance at class iree hours a week. He's got to ant to do it on his own. nything else and the program is waste of time for everyone incerned. We have to em-lasize em-lasize that from the beginning." ie center has facilities to deal jth practically every study oblem a student faces from )w reading to hyper-tension in e classroom or before a test. Ve go into every aspect of the jdent's study habits, from his ne scheduling to the ap-Dpriateness ap-Dpriateness of the classes he's :ing to his note-taking ability to test-wiseness his ability to ; "die tests. We develop a '.agram that he can handle ;.thout it affecting his other .mmitments, then try it out ,'der controlled conditions' to |