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Show February 14, 1995 The Dixie Sun Page 3 Help Continued from Page or higher without a good grounding in fractions, percentages, and decimals. Peterson likes to quote Pete Nyberg, a sciences, conducted an institutional former dean at Dixie, who said, "A stustudy titled Placement at Dixie College: dent has the right to fail only if he or she Fiiais on Remedial and Developmental has the skills necessary to succeed. We said he found that Jination. Peterson can compel students to enroll in develmore than 50 percent of the new stu1992 opmental courses until their skill level been should enrolled have in dents rises." in a remedial English class based on "Unfortunately, this philosophy is no ,ur ACT scores. in force," Peterson said. longer that showed between same The study The current thinking, he said, is that 92 and 1994, approximately 26 percent since students pay for the services, as ol those students took remedial English consumers, they have the right to try to like 24 the other uith Johnny, percent, succeed, regardless opted for English of their skill levels. 101 the first college should stuDixie While Peterson require level English class. dents to take remedial classes does not agree with Dr. Janice Klein, the prevailing phiprofessor of English, if they cannot demonstrate losophy, he has yet uid she supports the that they know the necessary to initiate a return to college's remedial the old one. He says material. instruction program: he could unilaterally 'We should have a make the change, lot of remedial classbut he does not foresee doing so in the es with lots more students in them." near future. Klein said she feels Dixie should His immediate plan is to initiate a classes to remedial take students require debate amoung the faculty and support if they cannot demonstrate that they know the necessary material. personnel to see if he can rally support for a change back to the old philosophy. a former Peterson, English professor, Klein said she is already behind him added, "It is easier to pass an English because she disagrees with the current class without knowing the required school philosophy. information than it is to pass a math Professors said most students in class without knowing the material." remedial programs fall into one of two He said a student can write a perfect sentence or paragraph, annote an article, categories: Either they did not take high stuschool seriously or they are or write a bibliography without knowibasic on are dents who a what or noun, verb, pronoun, brushing up ng skills. prepositionis, but he cannot do Algebra Joe 1 Peterson, dean of Arts, Letters and y ,rlr0W(p I m k Qij. , o v$i&i i h3-(Mlltili- lT ihiplpjc. a ODsfti ' & fLOX? iTtllftSl iTtWUHpac' ii j USjHCj f ii .. 4 Video 2 Rentals new releases for 2 nights $2.97 Offer expires .s. b aasasi - Sms&bm - Film Processing 2 for 1 Offer expires 20 N. Bluff St., St. George 673-888- 0 Smiths proudly supports Dixie CoHege athletics |