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Show Page 2 - DIXIE SIT mary ontiveros Football Heroes Still Exist So Among others, the name Rick Adams is listed on the football roster, but he has not played the last few games simply because he is no longer on the team. He quit. Every year men quit the team. They did last year, and are doing so this year. But this year, community members and college students are panicking as more and more players quit. Why should they be, when they are partly to blame for their quitting? Coach Staheli says, There's bound to be prob lems every year." Part of the problem is not enough playing time. It is usual in any sport, that when the team is winning, more players are given the chance to play, but when the team is losing, the coach will put in players he feels will be most helpful. Because of Dixies record so far, that is exactly what our coaches are doing. Playing time, however, is not the main problem. Football dedicating their time to practicing. Then too, personal problems exist, not only within the team, but outside the team, with peers. What observers and peers is the behind the scenes action. So far the team record is and although the defense is fantastic, the offense has much to be desired. The game against Snow College two weeks ago showed the offense coming together. An unpublicized fact is that nine dont know 0-- is Time, for players, means loss of money that could be earned at jobs instead of offensive members quit only two weeks before the first game. Since then coaches have been using what talent is available to make up for that loss. The team does reflect the loss, but with each game, improvement becomes more and more visible. Then too, no one seems to see the good that the football players are involved in off the field. Every Tuesday evening there is a special study hall reserved for football players who dedicate their regular study time to football practice. It is designed to help team members improve their performance in the classroom. The dumb football player stereotype hardly applies to Dixie College football players. Most maintain high GPAs, and are assets to their college, but what do we do to these clean cut young men? We ask them why they did such a lousy job on the field, we ask them why they fumbled the game away, and we even ask them what theyre doing on the team. So players quit. . . necessarily or even ideally the best student but a very eager, responsiadminible strative leader in charge of getting groups together and keeping records. At the end of each class period, the instructor sets aside five which minutes during leaders poll the members of their groups to see if any or all want to get together in the EOC before the next class period in order to go over material together. (It goes almost without saying that frequent review and study sessions are of infinitely more value than one crash session just before a quiz or final.) The other group study approach, the study directed sessions, works the say way, except that students who wish to study with others find each other and form groups of from four to nine. If they want their instructors to know of their efforts, they may meet in the EOC also, with the group leaders records the keeping required. In both approaches, the times for group study should be kept flexible. Groups should meet only if at least two of the group feel the need for a study session. The length of the study period should also be flexible; a ten minute session may be enough to solve a problem. In the formalized EOC project, a group may meet up to ten hours a week, but for no more than two hours at a time. Of course, it is not essential that groups meet in the EOC nor that records are kept. As I said before, smart students have always known that studying with others is extremely valuable at certain points in the learning process. (Groups soon discover that all learn more if all are as prepared to study person--no- This quarter a form of help is available through the EOC for those who want or need assistance in mastering course material. It goes under the label of group study. The rationale behind it is simple: those who are actively involved in their own learning concepts or systems to others, and with solving problems smiFi? Editor in Chief Maria Ontiveros Advertising Manager Sports Editor Don Lamkin Sally Roberts Writers and Staff: Barry Kawa, Sally Roberts, Don Lamkin, Teri Leatherwood, Glenn Neuman, Gina Jessen, Tanya Ballard. Advisor LaVarr B. Webb others learn more than those who always work alone. It is a fact that most good students study with others every chance they get, but for many students, there are not enough chances. The EOCs group study project for this quarter attempts to situation that remedy through two approaches, instructor directed study and student directed study. Here is how the first works: The instructor divides the class into sections, each containing five to ten students, depending on how many in the class are likely to take advantage of the opportunities to study with other students (no more than five should study together at one time). One EE8EE OF TIE UEEK CM H O XI O Eml3: 3k9 fe0! i I - S IMbi lM Dixie State Bank IMfo Q&c3 V 1 k t AO tiVx .!M3 JmE3 Chosen by the Executive Council as Rebels of the Week, the Homecoming Committee is commended for making this the "best Homecoming Thanks, all of you, for your time and talents. ever." t one-beco- Instead of badgering with negative questio. should recognize tha1'' do their best on the fie are also doing their b the field. Tomorrow f Homecoming game ?! our men will tackle!'! College. If they do not may not be because OjF playing on the field, be because of their ment off the field b; ' their peers. Whethe: win or lose, in my of they will be winne campus, because of hou played the game! . ' together as they B can .ud But we are a collsi individuals with morcign off campus than on atom working full or parst! than not; the great sm tunities of the morege tional campuses for stve finding study p?r simply do not exist ttei The EOC project mainly to bring stj who want to study tcU together. If your instruct! suggesting group stuc involved as a group let as a member of a grc not, set up your own Or group. lre, If you are interesre more details about 0ns leadership or wish tuct, started, come to myunj with your list of n members and I will set up. lixii gfj igtc Janice Kleen, list' EOC Director Ci II tl Have you seen? Thistr pet is down in the EOQie all the equipment, matran and people are back iirom proper places. Believ(un that is the way we Lrom and Im sure its belief f you, too. However, tainly do owe many (Tan sincere apologies foept inconveniences we chat by not getting the paler finished this summer, fiienl is well now, and I thircho will agree that we ecei never looked better, nd Those of you who arred yet using our se' should get acquainted them as soon as you ca are located downstairs I Library Building. Thi s'J we printed brochures describe what is avails' the EOC. Pick one up IV Library or in the EOC1 may find that one or nd j (continued on page |