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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Monday, January 4, 1982 Page Four Store blames profs for empty shelves r tag I TKSteco I'M SURU from page one AT THE Anoihei pioblein occ ins when professors order late, do not ice rive their books on time-- and then tell their students to buy t he books elsewheie having a sloe kpile in (lie Book store when ive. books an iheoiiginal peieeni 27. 91.1 books) of requested titles were hall wax thiough last fallquai ter, Arneti said. 9")2 books Comeiselx. the Book stole only had to s fall quarter. out ol 90. 1.19 be cause of lie s with the late requests. Laker said. The pioblem leai the Book store asks professors to submit a Aniett said piobable eniollme nt for eac h lass, but the Book store then decided the exact number of books to order based on past lee olds to axoid stoe kpiling. ( ll er sell-out- l e c Lakei added that the Book store sends checklists to all depai iine nts inloiining them how their book orders will be handled. T.xe n thing the Book Store does is out in the open,'" Arnell said. 'W'c don't do anything behind the family's back." However. Laker said "the book store has to be critical lo break e en." Aniett said one proposed solution to the late requisition pioblem will be to ask each department to financially guarantee 80 percent of requested books. The Book store and individual departments "should share the burden x here it should be shared," Laker said. Anothe r solution would be to give top priority toon-timlequcsts and to "do the best wecan" on late ones, this would solve the problem ol having to back up every time a late request nines in. Arnell said. I le said the pioblem is not unique to the University, and several solutions haxe been tried in different parts of the ountiy, One of whie h was a recent program at UCLA which really amounted loquict intimidation. e Luis Alberto Machado, the Venezuelan minister for the Development of Human Intelligence, xvill delixer a Challenge Lecture Tuesday at noon in the OSH auditorium. official in the world Machado is the only cabinet-leve- l whose responsibility is to teach people how to think. Machado describes his "a peaceful resolution, a deep revolution that will change social, political and economic structures in Venezuela and eventually around the world." The centerpiece of Machado' s ambitious program is the "Learn to Think Project." xvhich seeks to introduce a systematic teaching of thinking skills to school age c hildren. The course, which xvill eventually be studied by all Venezuelan students, was reported te have 12,000 teachers teaching 1.2 million students by last September. Mac hado said the course teaches children to think creatively, dialec tically, to analyze and resolx e problems. The project began in 1979 when Dr. Edward DeBono, director of the Gentre for Study of Thinking Skills, in Cambridge, England, visited Venezuela to train a pilot group of 30 teachers to xvorkxv it h 900 students from grades four to six. The thinking skill of the students who underxvent the course was vastly improxed, Machado said. A teacher involved with the project said the c h ildren are "very recept ive and they really improve their thinking skills and their capacity to analyze situations and problems and propose solutions." -- c on e hose with a high percentage of A. an received so and on. After of the publication ifqucsis ' late raid." report requests dropped significantly. I he final book store solution has not yet been dec ided on, but the probable date lor the installment of a program is April I , Arnell said. a letter system. 1 on-tim- As an overall future preventative, the Book store is providing family with a Book store "Guidelines" booklet to make the problem dear. Aniett said the booklet is part ol a "'whole educ a ional ye Ic" aimed at all users of the book store. The real solution lo the late request problem seems to be to educate piolcsorsaml to in form hem of their responsibilities, I c I lie said. 44 FROM A v r TApPOLElltlMil 1 i However, when the office was created in 1979. Machado found himself the target of intense critic ism and the butt of jokes. There were "an average of seven press articles and cartoons a day for several months," Machado said. As the ministry's programs took shape, the c ritic ism laded. Mae hado said he has projects underxvay xvhich have "totally erased xvaxe criticism of the and jokes." Machado added that the change in attitude is international. "Now there is respect everywhere, even abroad. I'niversities in Israel. Spain and I'ruguay have established intelligence leac hing courses after we visited there. And the Chinese government has organized a group for the development of intelligence." A related program is the Harvard gence" program, a contract agreement prepare a study on "leac hing methods from page one Council, klingaman said. Hexvill makean appeal toil in l mid-Januar- c c For example. Clirtmit le advertising rcprcscnialixes or one distributors could bring a lass ae lion suit through Purser said clislribu tors may lie rcluc taut lot angle legally xvith the commission. Regardless of who is plaintiff, Klinganian said he feels confident of eventual success. "You xvouldn't sec the Liquor Control Commission trying to impose such stringent regit kit ions on he other papers in the slate. And col lege papers essentially have the same rights as any other newspaper. The commission max find thai out the hard wax." he said. ol the beer c I University Day" at Solitude Plan your winter schedule around it ! w ith the ministry to and materials xvhic h California. During his in visit lo Salt Lake City. Mac hado xvill meet with state education officials and public school teachers. The Challenge Lecture is free and open lo the public . txvo-da- y clinical socialworker l Sinc e one agenc y of the annot sueanother, it be may not possible for the Publications Council lo be the proper party plaintiff, be said. Ncx crlhclcss, there are several individuals or groups adxerscly affected by the regulation who an bring the issue before the courts. Purser said. state-genera- I'nivcrsitx's "Intelli- encourage the development of thinking skills." Machado is a colleague of Calvin Taylor. I'niversity psychology professor xvho has pioneered an innovative teac hing for talents approach for elementary sc hools. Taylor also organized an international creativity research conference Beer advertising c Aniett said t he UCLA Bookstore graded each department DIRECTIONS Official heads 'thinking' revolution , LM I (in The qu.uter system compounds the problem by "cutting time down to the bate bones." added Lakei. Additionally, the Christmas bieak is the shoiiesi between quaiteis all year, and the mail is slowed clown w ith holiday pac kages making book shipments more diffic ult. Asaiesuli TAK fen! 1 ill on the she LAST TIME I Ma RUSTV SWORD..." Sincr the average shipping time for new Ixioks is lour weeks, it is impossible to gel the books in time ior the stall or e veil the liist two weeks of the quarter. Laker said. Fin thet complicating the matter is (helaet that publishers 'lo not always ship ptomptly. Ac cording to Laker, one order waited days bcloic being put on the freight line. si I he; said "TURN LEFT THAT IS THE acts as 0E0 director Dr. KayeM. Coleman, counsel ingdirec tor at the University Women's Resource Center, has been named ac tingdiree 'tor of the Office of Equal Opportunity. The apM)intment was effective in late NoxciiiImi and was announced by President David P. .Gardner. She succeeds actingdirector Judy K. Duncan, who is leaving the state. Coleman xvill serve as acting director until the return next July of John Flotez. who began a leaveof absence last Mare h to work on the professional staff of the Senate Labor and II uman Resources Committee in Washington, D.C. Coleman is alsoclinicalassistant professor in School of Social Work and adjunct assistant professor of health science. She earned a B.S. degree in sociology. Mastei ol Social Work degiecandPh.D in educational psychology in l of counseling phyc hology, all from the l member of the University's Eepial Oppoitunitx Coniniission since 197', Coleman has served as hail woman sinc e 1980. She- was head of a special committeeappointed in A e - - to study the status of women on the c ampus. Coleman is a licensed linic al soc ial worker, and de signe d and conducted a women's studies class for potential high school dropouts under the- l"s former I'pwaid Hound program. She served on the Stale Board of Education's "State-widTask Force on Sex Stcieotvping." 1971 c - Get In On The Good 1 N luesdav8 o o if.txJOaVMatSTrdQTeats t -- UnWetsW deSuC o -- Ski the 0 ... 0 Leadership Philanthropy Brotherhood Sisterhood Scholarship GREEKS Winter Informal Rush Women: Monday Jan. 11 5 p.m. - Rm. 323 Men: Wednesday Jan. 13 5 p.m. of Solitude TCJl - Rm. 323 At the Union |
