Show Thursday December 6 1990 Big Buck of college survival question Pittman A have the same advisor it was certain Powell along with Russell the information provided would be Wilson Brad King and Michelle Fleck are the instructors conducting A select group of freshman consistent The problem is many CEU the pilot program They are comstudents at the College of Eastern mitted to finding a workable proUtah were randomly selected to par-- instructors like to keep a close in a pilot college survival sonal contact with students that are gram that win benefit the students majoring in their field of study The and not be a burden to the instrucprogram that began this fall tors who conduct the classes Students in their first year of centralized system made maintain-colleg-e are required to take a college ing that contact difficult Powell Colleges nationwide are insaid survival course their first quarter of stituting the program Formally tiIt was decided to return to the tled SLS 1 101 the program began school The course is intended to in 1985 as a study on how an orienestablish a good foundation of study original format so this contact tation program would effect a stuskills so that the student has every would be restored Each instructor dent's chances of staying in school would teach a survival course and chance for success The initial study was conOne hundred and twenty stu- - cnch was free to decide upon the ducted at’Miami-Dad- c dents found themselves participot- - curriculum Community There were disadvantages to College's North Campus in Floriing in a college survival course dif-da The study focused on assessing fcrcnt from the courses their friends this system as well The busy the initial effectiveness in reducing were enrolled in The new course schedule of faculty members made met two days a week instead of one it difficult for the students to track attrition and increasing grade point had a different textbook and paid a down the advisor and left little time averages Students were selected from il higher dividend in the form of two- - for students to meet with their infirst time enrollments and were limthe sors Another problem was hours instead of one consistent information provided to ited to those pursuing an associate According to Mary Helen of arts or an associate of science dePowell coordinator of the program the students the course is (me of throe formats gree Of the 2008 students origiThese problems inspired a nally included only 57 percent that have been tested at CEU The group of instructors to begin 1145 chose to enroll in the first program tested a centralized searching for a solution to this academic advising system had two question of college survival After course The group was tracked through the end of the 1986 fall strong advantages Having all stu-- attending a conference in Wash-quarter dents come to one location insured ington DC Powell formed a that advisment would be readily committee to find the best possible (continued on page 8) available Since all students would system for CEU contest winner by Sam staff writer per-Ucip- atc advi-crcd- OSmokestack fact that smokers obey the Clean Air Act and only smoke in the smoking areas however it is virtually impossible for smokers to control the smoke and keep it from filtering out of the lounge This forces to inhale the smoke Ventilation keeps the smoke from filtering out into the surrounding classrooms and hallways Not only will benefit from the change but smokers will as well Many smokers would stand out in the cold rather than smoke in the lounge because of all the smoke that accumulates in the room Many feel that there will be increased litter on campus grounds non-smoke- side-strea- rs m non-smoke- plications rs for gradtuttoSt' "duifat the) Admissions $ deadline wlll Je January i loS before it rtnhe 1 5 th JAfter January 15 clothe Be serif (photo by Andrew Waters) Smoking lounge should be left in the Main Building (continued from page 2) and the need to hire a person to “pick up after these adults who ex- ercise their right to smoke” That is the biggest bunch of melarky thal I have heard in a long time If these "adults" are really adults then they can pick up after them- selves Where is your self pride not to mention school pride or has that become a phrase of the past? I hate to tell you this but if you vote against a law that has been proposed and still passes just because you didn't want it doesn't give you the right to go out and break it Stop acting like five-- y ear olds Cigarette butts belong in the trash and I really hope that you will act like adults and when you are through with your student body president Bryce Bryner (right) presents a 7 mag rifle to the winner of CEU's Big Buck Contest Hal Wilcox deer with a spread of 29 Inches deft) He shot a CEU smoke put it where it belongs CEU still gives you the option to smoke indoors if you want Actually you are lucky to be get-ting three locations on campus Other colleges and universities don’t allow smoking in their buildings at alL I don't think that you should be shut out in the cold but 1 also don’t feel that your rights are being violated Dear Editor I think this whole smoking thing is getting blown way out of proportion I am a smoker I know all of the facts and I know what I am doing to myself The point is: It is my body and my choice! I don't smoke in classrooms or when walking down the halls Why docs there need to be ample ventilation in a smoking Smokers have the right to room for a non smoker? Why smoke if they want to but not at does a want to sit in a the expense of other smokers as room? There are other smoking Indoor well as the visit if that is their purplaces to locations are still available where pose smokers can go and if they don't Smoking is not illegal so I like the locations then they will am not breaking any laws by havjust have to stay outside ing a cigarette JustaslongasI stay in my "place” in my teeny We want to have an area that tiny area right? Sounds like segmeets with the standards set in the regation to me but I don't comClean Air Act said CEU President plain to you So why do you Michael Peterson Any area descomplain to me? ignated as a smoking area must Stay away from the smoking have an independent ventilation areas and you won't have to system separate from the rest of breathe it I do not smoke in a the building The lounge is in an car house or when area where it cannot be modified to silting with them at a restaurant meet the standards so that must mean that I respect their rights as a The CEU Senate is looking at How about my rights being different options for an area to rerespected this time? I am tired of place the present lounge in the Main Building The amount of feeling like the scum of the earth I have a right to keep my space that is made available when the new computer building is designated area which is much smaller than the area provided for opened will determine which option the senate will take Either a My point is please leave the facultystaff lounge will be added and made available for student use smoke room in the main building alone or there will be many or two separate locations will be established people that will feel that their non-smok- non-smok- er ers non-smoke- rs non-smok- ers non-smok- er t non-smoke- rs rights have been violated Renee Brown Dear Editor I am a smoker in the smoking room in the main building I don't care if you move the smoking room to another place but to take it our completely for the students I think would only cause more problems Such as discrimination segregation beautification of the campus There is many more So why not save the school a lot of unwanted controversy and keep it as a smoking room for all If the other buildings were closer to my classes 1 don't think I would mind going out of my way But I only have 10 minutes between classes in the main building I don't want to trudge out in the snow in the winter to smoke If I had to leave the main building to smoke I’d be late more often or I'd have less attendance And more sickness I think cutting off smoking in the main building for students would lead to smoking in the halls bathrooms or where ever else people can smoke to avoid going outside so spare us all the controversy and keep iL Move it to a better ventilated area Smokers arc not your enemies they just enjoy smoking Sincerely Oco Salazar Editor's note: letters to the editor ware published this issue due to lack of the availability of space They wW be printed in the next issue Not ail |