Show Monday June 3 1974 Page 2 EDITORIAL PAGE by phil frank FRANKLY SPEAKING A Let's work together ! Another school year comes to a close and most of the students here will go home and forget about the happenings of USU The present opportunity that student government and the residents of the dormitories on campus have to change the regulations of those dorms will lie waiting for the studentbody's return in September as will other similar challenges For most students summer will mean a chance to reexamine their school experiences arid hopefully come to conclusions that will send them back here in the fall ready to meet their challenges head on Next fall new opportunities for constructive change will present themselves to students every day We hope that Utah State's people will consider tackling these challenges and trying to improve not only the educational environment of USU but the social awareness at this school also Students more than any other group of people have the resources the time and the idealism to start change s The and demonstrations of the 1960s are examples of this They helped bring discrimination injustices and an insane war into the spotlight By putting our idealism and energies to work we as students have the potential to change the direction of the world But if we bury our heads in Cache Valley and bury ourselves even deeper into small opposing groups competing for campus status we will not pool our resources and nothing will be accomplished Our last appeal of the school year is for students to take time this summer and analyze their college experience We ask that you question the rewards that you receive from it and ask yourselves if we couldn't cooperate a little more in making USU a finer in stitution Next fall can be the beginning to a new and exciting experience at USU that this school has not yet seen It can be a year of communication between different factions of the community be they of a minority or the majority We as a united studentbody have the power to elevate our learning experience into a fantastically rewarding trip But this will not happen unless everyone is permitted to voice their opinion We ask therefore that all of us come back to school next fall with open minds and new ideas Maybe this way all of our individual "walls" can be torn down sit-in- cfctlQ Tis a cruel world! Editor Student Life: The editorial of Wednesday concerning the Faculty May Senate vote on the issue intimated rather stated that the senate action was not done with the interests of the students at heart We believe the motivation for this vote was an honest and sincere concern on the part of the Faculty Senate for the students Our experience from 17 combined years of teaching indicate that only about one undergraduate student in 25 has the 22 drop-add-transcri- pt to adequately learn a given block of material used to gage this important human characteristic? It seems to us that the “clean” transcript not will promote mediocrity academic excellence! Finally consider the employer who has to make a choice betr ween a 34 GPA student 34 GPA student and a five-yewhose first year GPA was only 16 Does it tell you something? We think it is a necessary piece of recruiting information four-yeaar R D Harris I Fletcher W Engineering Dept) (Electrical Support editor self-discipli- without appreciable external pressures such as quizzes tests homework problems grades term reports etc (Sad but true) Every student at this university should achieve a desirable competence but few seem to succeed without these daily aids to motivation We feel that being “locked” into a class for the major part of the quarter is another stimulus to succeed in that class Sure you might say “What does it hurt to withdraw the Iasi day it’s only our money" But what about the Utah tax payer who is funding 80 percent of your schooling? Is it fair to him? There may be other students with the idea of who or classes that the class dropping don’t turn them on Would this be fair to the rest of the studentbody not to mention the teacher manhours wasted by this ploy? Most of the employers coming over-regist- er to USU to hire prospective engineers view the GPA as a dual measure the ability to learn new material and the quality of performance in that material If one student takes five repetitions in a class to get an A while another gets his A the first time and the transcript only indicates a repeated class doesn’t the GPA lose its ability to predict performance in grasping new material? What figure of merit can be Editor Student Life We would like to commend the Publications Board for their perceptiveness in selecting Richard Brady as Student Life Editor We believe that he is making an effort to transform the student paper into what it should be: A forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas An unspoken but nevertheless important function of a university is to stimulate controversy and A thought university newspaper can be used as a tool to generate these ideas Input from many directions is important in considering an opinion Recent editorials have raised issues that are of utmost importance to students and the editor should be congratulated for taking the responsibility for voicing them We appreciate his concern for voicing them We appreciate his concern for students in his scrutiny of student government spending and the conduct of paid elected representatives We hope that he will continue to express his belief in freedom of the press and vigorously pursue the aforementioned and other important student issues James Draper - 569-80-54- 14 Karen Haven Draper Mary Roberts Larry Hastings 564-90-71- 62 212-64-11- 14 548-72-03- 80 |