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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & Portland State Perspective Productions 1-1-1970 Portland State Perspective; January 1970 Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/perspective Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University, "Portland State Perspective; January 1970" (1970). Portland State Perspective. 22. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/perspective/22 This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland State Perspective by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. L~\.\.34\ ..P.P.l ~6't) Portland State Non-Profit Orgonizotion U. S. Postoge PAID PORTLAND, OREGON perspective Perlllit No. no I Published by the Public Serv1ces Off1ce of Portland State Umvers1ty I January 1970 Volume 2 . No 1 The grant provides in excess of $86,000 for labo ratory equipment for the undergraduate courseE as well as technical help to develoP.. equip Around the Park Blocks ment, and for travel and consultation. Most o all it provides funds so that 11 faculty member. could devote from one-half to two-thirds of thei time for two years to the improvement of under A student-inspired series of classes, Chiron Studies, is now in its second year, with students and graduate courses and teaching. The NSF gran faculty working together in an innovative program which alters the roles of students and professors includes funds for about one-half of this concen in the classroom. Most of the classes are offered for credit. "Community Service in Mathematics," trated effort of the faculty. The faculty member. taught by Mildred Bennett, offers students the opportunity to tutor fellow students on campus or are dedicating the time which they usually devot1 at the PSU Educational Center. "Music Since WW II," with David Bloch instructing the listening, to research to this improvement program. Thi: viewing, reading and doing course, is an will mean that for two years nearly their entir1 exciting approach to the course for non effort will go to teaching and undergraduat1 musicians as well as musicians. "History, course improvement. Not only the 11 facult~ Western Civilization: Self-Taught," under members mentioned above will work on this pro Charles White, has lessons planned and ex gram, but the entire departmental facult~ ecuted by students functioning as teachers, members will be involved in discussions, selection responsible for evaluation, examination implementation, and evaluation of proposed anc questions and testing criteria. adopted improvements in undergraduate instruc tion in science. For the statistically* ~ inclined* who like to keep score of things other than the rising cost of living; it may be interesting to note that field-oriented Earth Sciences faculty THREE PROGRAM has covered 9,319 miles in its 23 trips made during 1968-69. This is 4,166 more miles tal DIRECTORS NAMED lied than in 1966-67. And student miles cov ered was over 250,000 during the past two Now in operation at Portland State Universit) years. A lot of miles to get away from the are: An experimental Black Studies program, ar lecture hall. Educational Center located within the AlbinE area, and Operation Plus, for students who shoVI Les Plances du Pacifique, PSU's French college potential but who do not meet entrancE theater and the only one on the West Coast, requirements. has been accepted as the first American Three exceptionally well-qualified, young blacl, member of the International Student The men direct the programs. ater Union with headquarters under the W. Philip McLaurin, director of the experi· Dutch ministry of culture in The Hague. mental Black Studies program, earned his B.A in political science at Portland State, and' lili For early morning* * risers, * a new educa- masters degree in Social Change from Martin tional show, Eye Opener, featuring Portland Luther King, Jr. School of Social Change in Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. State Universit)~ pmlesso~, is ,offer~ Wednesday mornings over KGW-TV at 6:15 In addition to regularly scheduled Black Stud· to 6:45 a.m. With 600 faculty members to ies courses, McLaurin is working with division select from, there is no end to the variety heads and deans of the schools within the Univer of subject matter which has ranged from sity to set up the proposed Black Studies Certifi nutrition and geography to Shakespeare and cate program, scheduled to begin in the fall of ecology. January programs are "Stink Bugs 1970. Following recommendations of the Black and Evolution," with Dennis Boddy, asso Studies Council, courses will be inter-disciplinary, ciate professor of general science, January with specialists in the areas of history, arts and 7; "Rewards of Oregon Stock Investments," literature, sociology, psychology, economics, po Shannon Pratt, director of investment litical science, language, and other appropriate analysis center and professor of finance/law, disciplines. January 14; "Parasites and Man," Clarence Harold Williams, coordinator of Portland State Porter, assistant professor of general University's Educational Center at 2611 N.E. science, January 21; and "Rocks from the Union, attended Multnomah College, the Univer sity of California at Berkeley, and graduated from Sky," Erwin Lange, professor of general science and assistant dean of science, Jan Portland State in June, 1968. Former assistant uary 28. corpsmen supervisor at Timberlake Job Corps Center, Williams is drawing together people of all races to participate in the program at the Center. Mathematics, English, Sociology, Black History, drafting classes are being offered, with individual tutoring by student and faculty volunteers. SCIENCE DIVISION Operation Plus, called Project Teach in its first year of operation, has 78 students enrolled this EARNS NSF GRANTS academic year. Julius William "Bill" Wilkerson, director, studied at the University of Illinois, A problem at some universities is the tendency Clark College, Utah State University, and re to allow research to become more important than ceived his B.S. in psychology and sociology from teaching. PSU in January, 1968. He is now working toward Proof of the concern for teaching by the science his master's degree in psychology. He has served division of Portland State Un\versity is evidenced as relocation specialist for the Portland Develop by the number of grants awarded to the division ment Commission, was assistant varsity basket by the National Science Foundation. ball coach and also freshman basketball coach for A recent grant of $201,800 was awarded to PSU a year at Portland State. "to improve the full range of undergraduate edu Of the 78 students enrolled, 54 are new students cation in the sciences and expand opportunities this year, and 24 are in their second year at Port for undergraduates to become interested in scien land State. Of these, 30 are young women, and tific careers." The College Science Improvement 48 are young men. The King George Apartments, Programs of the National Science Foundation 1023 S.W. Harrison, has been leased through the aims to have beneficial effects on professors and Portland Development Commission, housing 42 students, subject matter and methods of instruc Operation Plus students. tion, curricular and individual courses, facilities, The program is inter- racial, with 44 black,8 equipment and teaching materials. Mexican, 4 Indian, 20 white and one Hawaiian. PSU INAUGURATES DOCTORAL PROGRAMS With the inauguration of the doctoral degree of statistics, computer utilization, or systems environmental sciences, in research seminars, and program in Urban Studies, Portland State Uni science. Finally he must prepare a dissertation of in dissertation research. versity enters into a new phase of its development urban significance and satisfactory quality on The program leading to the PhD degrees can as an urban institution. which he must pass a final oral examination. be identified in this way: In addition, the urban studies program demon The greater Portland area provides an ideal 1) Environmental Science-Biology: An inter strates the University's commitment to innova laboratory for Urban Studies, with most of the disciplinary program with chemistry and physics, tive educational teaching methods, whereby es discern able problems of major urban areas in evi which provides for a concentration in botany, tablished disciplines enrich the program offerings dence but still capable of solution. zoology, and microbiology. with emphasis on the individual student's needs, Experience indicates that students tend to ac 2) Environmental Science - Chemistry: An strengths and interests. cept employment in the area where they complete interdisciplinary program with biology and phys According to Dr. Lyndon R. Musolf, director their education. It is expected that many gradu ics, which provides for a concentration in any of of the Urban Studies Center and professor of ates of the program will work as research directors the following areas of chemistry: analytical, bio political science, the program provides a core and administrators for businesses and other agen chemistry, inorganic, organic, or physical. seminar series in urban studies with a solid base cies, or as teachers in the communities in Oregon. 3) Environmental Science - Physics: An inter of specialization in one of three established disci There is already some evidence of demand in these disciplinary program with biology and chemistry, plines, economics, political science or sociology. areas. By 1971 or 1972, when the first Urban which provides for a concentration in either theo A sound grounding in the urban related fields of Studies PhD's are on the market, the opportuni retical physics or in experimental physics. traditional departments can be complemented in ties for placement should greatly exceed the Graduates of this program will be prepared to such a way as to prepare the doctoral candidate number of persons available.