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Show The Tfumderbird Monday, January 3, 1984 Page 3 Students have number of choices for aid in studying by number of people that sav, "But how can I look it up if don't know how to spell it.' She plans to show students just how they can. Since spelling is sui h an important part of am writing vou do, Brown feels that this workshop should be attended by anyone that has even minor spelling problems. The fourth workshop for this quarter, on Feb. 8, will be on sentence structure and how to handle problems that occur within the makeup of a Tracy Hopkins If you are a freshman sweating it out in fear of an academic probation notice, or even a senior in the same predicament, improving your study habits may be your key to the grades you need. Your academic adviser is one source to turn to as well as the Counseling Service, located in the Administration Building. Counseling Service Director Gary Dunford often assists students who are have academic as well as personal difficulties in school. Another alternative students should investigate is the Learning Centers four workshops planned for this quarter. These may not only improve your study habits but can also help improve your test taking skills, spelling and sentence structure. The fall workshops attracted a good turnout but Learning Center Director Vic Brown feels that the workshops offered this quarter will be even more popular due to increased publicity and a greater awareness about the workshops from former participants. The free workshops will take place in the Learning Center, located on the first floor of the SUSC Library, from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. A workshop for improving basic study skills will be offered Jan. 18. Its surprising how many students havent thought Gary Dunford, director of the SUSC counseling service, discusses students concerns. Academic advisers, the counseling service and the Learning Center are among the choices students can turn to for help. Another avenue is Project Alta, which will be covered in next week's issue. of ways to improve their skills In this workshop we talk on study schedules, how to read your text book, how to take notes and how to review for a test. Its very important to get these study skills down. We have a lot of really good students come to the workshop. With better study habits, youll know your subject better, understand it better, and itll show on your test scores, he added. Test Taking: How To Look Smarter When Taking a Test will be offered Jan. 25. According to Brown the in studying, said Brown. slim Family housing from (continued page 2) The listings are placed voluntarily by the apartment owners and we need to have the students help urge them to place their openings with us. Not only will this help the students to find apartments with the least trouble possible, but owners can rent their apartments with a minimum amount of trouble and cost as we dont charge them for the listing, Montana added. According to Montana help is needed to remind rentors of this college service. Last month resident living placed a request in the local paper and only one person responded. Montana explained SUSC is not planning to build any additional housing for marrieds or singles. They are, however, trying to find someone in the private sector willing to build and create low rent space. The space south of the football stadium has been designated by the college to be leased to such a developer. Montana said that last summer one developer was denied permission to build because their projected rent was too high. Montana feels that a reasonable monthly rental fee would be around $175-20Depending on what your own criteiia is of economical, this can vary. ..it all depends on what youre willing to settle for. Thats why Oak Hall is now probably the most economical, I mean anything that would be $115 plus all utilities just sort of distorts your impression of what normally would be economical, low rent housing. It also distorts what would normally be considered satisfactory housing and people see that low rent and let some of these other factors go by the way. a test much simpler, workshop will do a lot more than make you look smarter. This subject used to be a part of the study skills workshop, but there is so much about test taking that we had to make it a separate one by itself. This workshop will cover said Brown. The workshop will also cover how to take tests, objective tests with multiple choice and fill in the blank questions, and essay tests. Many people can do well on objective tests but dont do well on essay tests. Well show them how to do well on all three. true-fals- reviewing, predicting questions and how to take different types of tests. Reviewing is probably the most important part of test taking. How to review your notes and text correctly is what well cover here. Another important topic well cover is predicting the questions that will be on the test. This is surprisingly easy, and can make e First aid for spelling problems the subject for the third workshop on Feb. 1. This session will also cover dictionary use. According to Brown, Blanche Clegg, the instructor of the workshop, is surprised at the is composition. The workshop will discuss basic things like subjects and predicates and the real killer, commas, said Brown. Writing is one of the worst problems that students have, especially freshmen. You do a little writing in high school but most of it you can get away with. So when a freshman enters college and has to start writing a bunch of essays and reports, a lot of them .really have some trouble. This workshop can really be helpful to those having a little trouble with their writing. Brown also urges students to make use of the Learning Center whenever they have any problems. Many students come down and have their trouble worked out in 15 minutes. If they wouldnt have, they may have been lost for weeks. We have films that go with the text for Math 101, and tutors that can help students in any upper division course, he said. of Cotts year Vegemite, iguanas part Cedar City family finds fun myriad adventures in Australian exchange , (continued from page the strange, 1) As much as he liked QIT, Cotts did miss some of the personal interaction of SUSC and meeting and enjoying professors in fields other than math and engineering. Cotts describes the Australian people in general as friendly and warm, but says that on a large, highly specialized campus, he rarely had the time or mobility to explore other faculty areas. Moving to a hot, humid country thats part modern urban living and part desert-lik- e primitive outback provided the Cotts family with some interesting, if not like sharing their picnic area odd, new experiences with a four-folong iguana with a taste for bologna tame kangaroos in the zoos, sandwiches, bushwalking in the rainforests and adjusting to local foods. Vegemite, Cotts explains, is a thick, spread with a taste resemb'ing soy sauce and You either love it or you hate it. The consensus in his family is half for, half against. He says the Ogles are the same way. Cotts speaks enthusiastically about snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, the coral formation that surrounds half the continent, which he calls just phenomenal. He says the marine life is just as vivid and varied as any pictured in National Geographic. He was also extremely impressed with the lush bird life found everywhere, the liquid melodies of the songbirds and hand-feedin- human-soundin- g calls of some of the more exotic breeds. g yeast-base- To Cotts, the people were just as interesting as the environment. Australians, he found, are avid gamblers. Every suburb has its casket, or betting office, and every Saturday night at 9:30 all the television channels would interrupt their programs to broadcast the Coming from a small southwestern Utah town to a great metropolitan city down under, the James Cotts family found friendship and warmth. d winning numbers for the many different lotteries. The Aussie dialect also proved interesting. Within two months the family had learned to decipher the Brisbane accent and say zed for the last letter of the alphabet (Z means bathroom tissue.) Cotts wont be planning any exotic voyages for a while My next big trip is to Rexburg, Idaho for the but he does say that both spring math meetings families were so pleased with the international trade that they would be more than willing to repeat the experiment in about five years. |