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Show Signpost-Tuesday, July 23, 1985 5 Time drags on for building (cont'd from front page) He said that the Marriott Building will be occupied by the School of Allied Health Administration; the Nursing programs including the associate, Outreach, and practical nursing programs; Clinical Laboratory Sciences, both 2 and 4 year programs; Program and Emergency Care and Rescue, which includes the Paramedic training and the Emergency Medical Training programs; Health Sciences; Respiratory Therapy, boih 2 and 3 year programs;the Outreach program; and the Health Services Administration-Education program. Stringham said that Dental Hygene and Radiological Scienced will remain in Building 3. The only problem facing the new building is completion time vs. move-in scheduling. Cox said that the problems which caused the construction delays last year have been solved. He said that there would not be anymore problems with earth slippage because of, "the corrective measures we took last year to slope the hill, and the amount of building we have in there now." He said that work crews are concentrating on the foundations of the 2nd floor and are also beginning foundation work on the 3rd floor. He said that the building is unique because of its size compared to the size of the hill. "There is a 42 to 43 foot difference between the 1st floor and the 4th of that building. It will act as a bridge from the stadium to the library because of the elevator inside. It will make it good particularly for the handicapped students because until now, that is one of the few places on campus that presents "a challenge to the handicapped," he said. The Marriot Building is built into the hillside and "is a plus for the campus whenever you can have a building of that size built up a hill that sized in a terrace fashion." Cox said. Computers singing new song Computers beep, click and make a number of other noises and music students in a new program at Weber State College have to be able to tell whether the beep is " 'So,' a needle pulling thread" or " 'La,' a note to follow 'So...' " According to Dr. Paul R. Joines, an associate professor of music at Weber State and one of the developers of a computer ear-training program currently in use at the college. Everyone from freshman to senior is required to spend time listening to the computer beep and then figuring out which note is which. "There's not enough data yet to make a definite statistical statement, but there is a positive correlation between those who work on this program and those who pass ear-training exams," Joines said. Students spend a required 30 minutes a week listening to the computer simulate notes and melodies in up to 30 different levels of difficulty. The students then have to tell the computer what musical notes it played, what solfage (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So and so on), the duration of the notes, the pitch and the intervals. "Music students have to be able to look at a score and hear in their mind what the instruments should produce and what it should sound like," Joines said. The computer training gets the students ready to sight read music and improvise, or sight sing a selection or hear a symphony and pick out who is playing what note wrong. Students study alone, but a record of their attempts is kept on a computer disc. Dr. Joines reviews it later to see where the students need help. "We've had a control group of 17 students to compare with those who use the computer," Joines said. "First year students improve considerably and fundamental students improve drastically." The WSC professor recently presented a paper on computer ear-training at an International Conference in Humanities. 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