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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 3-24-1961 The B-G News March 24, 1961 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The B-G News March 24, 1961" (1961). BG News (Student Newspaper). 1590. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/1590 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. New Teacher' Grades Don't Affect Motivation <%L%-G VoL 45 Bowlinq Green State UnlTwrmity. Bowling Green. Ohio. Friday. March 24, 1961 No. 44 By Joe McCammon their motivations were affected A new grading system was as a result of this new system. initiated last September by Their answers were unanimous— not in the leastl One student's the department of education, answer, very similar to the other to be used in the evaluation opinions expressed, showed that Shriver Quizzed About Peace Corps; of student teachers. This sys- by the time a student has reached the student teaching stage of his tem replaced the previously college career his mind is set on used A, B, C, D, and F grades a teaching occupation. This desire with the symbols S and F, denot- to teach, coupled with an intense Plans A Learn-As-We-Go Approach ing satisfactory and unsatisfactory effort to "get their message a- cross" to the students to whom Washington (UPI) — The work, respectively. they are making their teaching Senate Foreign Relations In student teaching, a culmin- debut, is a force that overshadows Bog ating, eight-week experience re Committee Tuesday approved 1 the concern for grades. served for the senior yea *, the 1 the nomination of R. Sargent Each semester is divided into -"T —^ ~-SBVBKS- 1 prospective teacher is assigned two eight week sessions, during -■* Shriver to head President to one of a number of schools lo- which time two groups of eligible cated within a 30-mile radius of H > 1 Kennedy's Peace Corps after education students alternately par- he outlined plans for a small be- Bowling Green. At the cooperat- ticipate. One group fulfills the ing school, the student teacher is student teaching requirement and ginning and n lcarn-ns-we-go ap- under the guidance of a supervisor /.TTlfli the other remains on the Bowling proach for the agency. who with close, daily relations Green campus studying three The handsome Chicagoan, a with the student, is able to offer courses—Tests and Measurements, valuable advice and counsel. m 'iaiV $?*■■■ ■ KiHl brother in-law of President Ken- Foundations of Education, and the nedy, told the Foreign Rvlntlons This supervisor prepares a com- --1 n^-flflBrr^-i rH'r '■>■■n American Educational System. as* ■•J LnaVfeJB W-IIBH Committee the program's cost prehensive report on the student's TU1M B." 1 JB J T • JfW M Since the student teaching por- By (1 i. JAM 1' would depend largely on the de- ability and progress at the ter- tion of the semester contributes mand for Peace Corps members in mination of the student teaching nothing to a student's grade av- underdeveloped countries, and experience. This report is made erage, the eight-week period dur- thus was hard to figure. on the revised student teacher ev- ing which the group remains on However, he said, it may be pos- aluation report, which incorpor- campus is very important. Ap- ates the new S and F symbols. sible to send Peace Corps volun- proximately one-half the students teers abroad in some programs for Copies are prepared in tripli- revealed, when queried on this cate, one being retained by the a total cost of as little as $5,000 point, that a grade which would per person, much less than the cooperating school, another for- have contributed to their grade warded to Dr. Charles W. Young, cost of maintaining military or average during the student teach- diplomatic personnel. chairman of the department of ing phase would have been ap- education and director of student preciated. Shriver und.rw.nt an Intenilve teaching, and the original going STEAMER ROLLS—Th« "Showboat" U anchored In as tho familiar music of Jsromo Xom floats through tho but gtn.rally friendly quMtlonlng It was generally agreed that in- tho main auditorium, whin for tho latt two night. ih« darkonod auditorium. Thoro aro no ■•alt available for to the teacher placement office. centive would suffer if the system crow has boon protontlng Its colorful paaoast boforo tho remaining performances, at 8:15 p.m. tonight and about all aspects of th. program Thus, in addition to serving as a were adopted on a University-wide capacity crowds. "Mako Boltovo" has boon In full forco tomorrow nights. at a lam packed commit!., hearing permanent record of the student's basis for all subjects. "Although on his nomination. H. said the preparation for teaching, the form this method of grading works fine President would send detailed legis- also becomes available for use by us far as student teaching is con- lation to Congress later cov.ring prospective employers. cerned," one student remarked, Student Spouses To Get New Admission Cards th. agency', proposed operation.. Ten students recently were con- "grades are a necessary evil in An "admission card" which Traditions Board and the Student Previously, all seven student Of the 17,300 applications re- tacted and asked whether or not other courses." can be purchased for $10 by Orientation Board will be appoint- boards were appointed in May. ceived for the Corps so far, Shriv- ed in March, with the remaining This will enable the new members the wives or husbands of Uni- er said, about one third are from Hurry-Up Headlines UPI board members appointed in May. to work with the old so they will people with "considerable exper- versity students will be made bo able to take over the specific ience" in various fields. functions of the boards. available beginning next Sep- Another third, he estimated, The second amendment itatoi U.S. Prepared To Defend Laos tember. Gromyko Attacks that the chairman of each student were from recent college graduates with specific skills and the re- board will be appointed by the BANGKOK, THAILAND—Thai WASHINGTON — American of- This action was approved by maining third from undergradu- land charged officially that 14 ficials said yesterday that they President Ralph W. McDonald Dag Hammarskjold pr.sld.nt of Ihe Student Body. ates. battalions of Communist North were pleased to learn that the March 17 after Student Council Three committees, appointed by United Nations (UPI)—Soviet Shriver emphasized that all vo- Vietnamese troops are fighting Kremlin had removed censorship had presented its recommendation Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Keith W. Trowbridge, president of to him. the Student Body, will present lunteers should understand that Royal Army troops in embattled over the outgoing dispatches of charged last week thBt U.N. Sec- "this is not going to be easy work their recommendations at the next Laos. foreign correspondents working in The admission card will .ntitl. retary General Dag Hammarsk- ... it is going to be very difficult ih. own.r to attend University . Student Council meeting, Monday, TOKYO — American military the Soviet Union. jold had taken the role of "field work ... it might be more dan- April 20. forces in the western Pacific are LEOPOLUVILLE — The Unit- v.nts al regular student prices. marshal" in military operations in gerous than service in the army, Th.». includ. athletic events OB ready to move swiftly if the Unit- ed Nations said yesterday supplies the Congo, in collaboration with our committee is studying the navy, or air force." have been arriving at Matadi since campus, dramatic productions, cam- "colonial powers." possibility of installing park ed States is forced to intervene Present plans, he said, call for pus movies. Artist Sorlos programs, Gromyko, opening the Congo benches on campus, a second is militarily in Laos to check com- the Congolese forced U.N. forces paying P.ace Corps members only out of that main supply port ear- and oih.r spocial events to which debate before the General As- studying grade requirements for munist aggression, according to an allowance for food, clothing, lier this month. University itud.nt. at. admitted by sembly of the United Nations, class officers, and a third group informed American military sour- housing, and transportation plus a showing thou- Identification cards. launched immediately into a re- is studying the limitation of cam- ces. TUNIS — Refugee "Premier" "bonus" or "i.v.ranc. pay" of newed attack on Hammarskjold, pus activities one week prior to GENEVA — Nothing seemed to Ferhat Abbas appealed to Arab Two amendments to Article perhaps 150 a month wh.n they whose resignation the Soviet Un- final examinations. dissipate the aura of gloom that guerrillas in Algeria yesterday to VIII, Section 2 of the Student complet. their as.lgnm.nts and re- ion demands. settled over the three-power nu- go on fighting despite the prospect Body Constitution also were ap- turn to the United Stale.. Thus. clear test ban conference yester- of early peace talks with France. proved, for the third and last The entrance of United Nations Shriver said, they would be en- troops into the Congo has paralyz- day, in spite of Western efforts to "Our battle continues," Abbas time, at the last Student Council couraged to live al levels near ed the government, blocked ports overcome Soviet objections and said in a broadcast from his head- meeting.