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Show Campus News . Into The Streets: Into The City To Spruce Up YWCA sources for the community, from a shelter for battered women to day care, job training and more, I felt it would be a worthy project, she said. While Morans duties as Cooperative Education and Placement Coordinator ree commitment, she has quire her taken on the added task of organizing students who wish to be involved with service. .This is not part of my job, she said, but I would like to see some of the efforts going on here at Westminster become co- by Don Wagstaff Forum staff writer Volunteers from Westminster are planning a service project for Saturday, April 25, and the following Saturday, May 2, at YWCA of Salt Lake City. Students will . spend a few hours giving a hand with paint and brashes. The Westminster service group, Into The Streets, has planned the event as another of its continuing community involvement projects. Kathy Moran, coordinator for cooperative education and placement, has been the groups main organizer. Moran planned the YWCA activity. Inavisitto the YWCA, she decided this would be a good project for the group to undertake. Since they provide a variety of re full-tim- . ordinated. Judy Conner, freshman in English and communication, said a group of students has been meeting regularly on Friday afternoons to implement and plan more service projects throughout the semester. While so far the meetings have mostly been discussion, the group hopes that May Term will be an active time for them. The YWCA project will be the group js effort this spring. Earlier first in the year, students delivered food boxes to elderly people and participated in a nationwide day of service in November. In addition to the actual hands-o- n work of the day, the students will hear from a staff worker at the YWCA why the center is needed and what role it plays in the community. This is a part of all the service projects called reflection. Through a reflection process, students experience different aspects of community manner first, then service in a hands-o- n they get to place their experience within the context of the larger community through a off-camp- us Freshman Nicole Hunter was elected PBLs 92-9- 3 executive vice president as Junior Claudia Magee was vice president of finance. Junior Rocio Soto, who won first place for administraed At Phi Betai Lambdas (PBL) State Leadership Conference held April 2-- 4 at the downtown Hilton, PBLs Westminster chapter President Justin Yancey was elected to serve as the organizations state vice president for the 1992-9- 3 academic year. My primary responsibility will be to organize a state project for each student chapter to participate in Yancey said. Yancey stated a couple of goals he will " strive for as a state officer. I want to build a partnership between the PBL professional division and the collegiate chapters, he said. He hopes to draw the two groups together by organizing luncheon activities. Yancey also wants to form a job network system by creating a publication which will list job openings and available internships, he said. In addition to the new state position, as WestYancey has also been minster chapters president for the upcoming academic year. Officer elections for PBL were held at its annual business meeting on Wednesday, April 8. re-elect- ed at the State Leadership Conference, is next year s vice president of 2 PBL activities. Westminsters Executive Vice President Emilie Rawson 3 will serve as parliamentarian for the tive assistant-typi- st 91-9- 92-9- -- year. Yancey said there are still two offices that need to be filled. Officer positions which have not yet been filled are secretary and vice president of public relations. Yancey said individuals interested in either of these offices should contact him at 268-445- 4 or PBL Academic Advisor Jean Beaulieu, ext. 609 by Friday, May 1. Whats next for Phi Beta Lambda? Yancey said the new officers will meet within a couple of weeks to plan for the coming year. We would like to continue activities throughout the summer, he said. The new PBL officers will initiate a recruiting campaign in order to create awareness and get students interested, he said. Scenario: Joe College approaches the Registrars Office, Class Schedule Request form for Fall 92 in hand. He intends to carry 16 hours but knows how quickly some classes' close, and besides, hes not sure which of two differentciasses he wants to take. No sweat hell just sign up for both classes and will drop one later. He hands over the form totalling 18 hours and is politely informed that he must pay a $100 tuition deposit if he wants to register for more than 16 hours. What? Why? he exclaims, muttering to himself that the bureaucrats are at it again. What he doesnt realize is that this over registering has become a common practice classes and playing resulting in taking up spaces needed by other students, overcrowded havoc with classroom scheduling, to mention just a few problems. They have affected the colleges service to students, and so it felt that the $100 tuition deposit would help remedy a situation that had gotten out of hand. If you werentone of the 500 who registered for Fall semester on April 16, better hurry minutes of your time. on over. With registration it will take only a few P.S. did For August graduation candidates April 1 6 was the deadline for application yoy get your grad app turned in to the Registrars Office? on-li- ne B-1- 8. Increasing Number Of Overcrowded Classes Not Just At Westminster in a PBL Presidents Takes Up State Duties by Mary Lang Forum staff writer mental process. Most of the equipment and supplies are being provided by the center. All we need are live bodies, Moran said. It would be helpful if anyorie with extra paint brushes, scrapers or gloves would bring them, she said. The group will meet at Westminster at 8:45 a.m. on each of the Saturdays and car pool to the YWCA. After an introduction by a member of the YWCA staff, they will paint for two hours and then break for lunch and the reflection. For more information or to sign up, call Moran at extension 139 or attend a planning meeting any Friday around 1 p.m. in The group encourages Converse staff and faculty as well as students to participate in all the group activities. CHICAGO (CPS) Overcrowded classes are nothing new to the University of Illinois at Chicago, but budget cuts and a change to the semester system seem to have put overenrollment at a record high, administrative officials said. Its been a mess, said Barbara Wood, acting head of the communications and theater departments. Chancellor James Stukel said, Ive given directions to the people in charge of registration that the seniors should get priority. We invested some money, about $100,000, to open more sections. Stukel said this semesters overcrowded classes are worse in the sense that classes are tougher to get. He said, Students should do whatever they can to get courses . they need for graduation. Some said the problems were caused partly by last falls change from a quarter system to a semester system, while other courses were eliminated or the number of sections reduced because of budget cuts. In order to alleviate some of the overcrowding, administrators have turned to checking student records to confirm that then student belongs in the class. I would say that for a good half dozen of our courses, we had to go into our files to verify major and standing, Wood said. We try to giver precedence to seniors and those with prerequisites. Though only qualified students those who are of the appropriate major and have completed the prerequisites for the class are supposed to be able to enroll in a class, some faculty have admitted to bending the rules whenever possible. Its always been an ad hoc basis with the individual instructor, said Virginia Wexman, director of undergraduate studies in English. Wexman said that its always been the policy of the English department that prerequisites are necessary for success in any course. Some students have related horror stories about being dropped from a class without being notified. After the fifth week, a girl in my math class went to drop the course, said Patrick . Nickels, junior chemistry. When she looked up her file, she found that she had been dropped by the department during the first week. Not all departments are experiencing overcrowding. Sharon Mistele, assistant to the head of physics, said, Most classes are labs and we stop it at the number of seats available, then we add another lab section if we have to. We opened two labs this semester because there were too many students. . Ph.D's Candidates Declining CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (CPS) Graduate education in theUnited States is unmatched in scope and quality, but the declining number of U.S. residents earning Ph.D.s is cause for concern, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine arid William Bowen say in a recently published book. In the book In Pursuit of thePh.D. the authors note that of 9,000 doctoral degrees awarded in 1958, 90 percent went to U.S. residents. Thirty years later, about 33,000 Ph.D.s were awarded, but U.S. recipients only accounted for about 74 percent In 1988, 8,589 doctoral degrees went to foreign students. Major questions of policy are raised by the changing citizenship composition of the pool of new Ph.D.s, Rudenstine and Brown write. The implications of this shift for the faculty shortages anticipated in this country in the years ahead are one relevant concern. The book also noted a drop in the number of humanities degrees. Between 1973 and 1988, the number of Ph.D.s dropped 34 percent, from 5,400 to 3,600. Science and engineering Ph.D.s rose 13 percent during the same periods from 13,800 to Tuesday, April 21, 1992-Forum-- Page 13 |