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Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 81920 I Vol. 89, No. 87 I Two Sections,ews 20 Pages ·stern Improved registration offers full schedules· by Amy Zurawski Director of Registration Mike A recent update of Eastern's current Taylor said "the registration office will registration process will allow pre­ process the cards during winter break . registered students to obtain a full class and attempt to give students their load before the add/ drop session in original choices or alternates. ' January. "The change will allow students to Dave Sardella, assistant director of have an extra chance to get full registration, said the changes in the schedules before the - add/ drop ses­ registration process for spring semester sion," he added. were implemented Nov. 14 "with the Sardella said, "The new system will Faculty Senate's awareness." give students another shot." Any stu­ The, registration process has been dent who does not obtain a full changed to offer a "Special Alternate schedule "will get a second chance." Course Request Card" to pre­ In addition, Sardella noted that the registered students who do not have at new registration option will affect only least 12 hours on the_ir temporary a minority of students because most schedules. pre-registered students obtain full Student Body President John Cole schedules. , recently initiated the proposal to "We would like to urge the Faculty change the registration system for the Senate to encourage students to choose spring semester to give students who alternates," he said. "I hope that the paid their spring semester tuition by new process will force more people to the December deadline another oppor­ pre-register." tunity to obtain a full class load. The Taylor said the new alternative card registration office worked from the will increase the possibility that some suggestion to create the changes. classes will be filled before central Under the new system, a station will registration. be added to the fee payment line Dec. He also noted that the change in the S-8. Students will leave their schedules registration process will be better for at this station and receive alternate re­ academic departments because it quest cards. allows them to plan how many sections The request cards must be approved of a class are needed. by the students' advisers and returned "I don't think the change will make to the registration office by Dec. 9. any monstrous amount of extra book­ Freshmen and sophomores' cards will· keeping work," Taylor added. require a departmental stamp and ad­ "The new process will be evaluated viser's signature. However, juniors and after the spring semester and if it pro­ assistant Dale Lyon pointsout a squirrel nest for students Becky Ew- seniors are only required to have a ves to be effective, we will try to keep it hael Maceka to use in their project to measure the height of different departmental stamp. for following semesters," he said. campus for their zoology class. (News photo by Sam Paisley) cational refo.rmer attacks national school reports He said, "Pretty soon we'll have sixteen year olds reformers on their panels. oversial educational reformer Tuesday in third grade.'' "Someone said to me: 'Well, John, are you sur­ nt reports evaluating the state of the na­ Holt said the recent concern over the "educational prised by that?' I said 'No, but I thought one or two ls, saying the reports' recommendations crisis" in the nation's school system is nothing new. would sneak in."' Holt said. ly increase the failure and dropout rate. "Education in this country has been in a state of Holt emphasized that there is no "quick-fix" solu­ olt, author of numerous books including permanent crisis ever since I first paid attention to tion, and added that recent reports on education do • ren Learn," and "How Children Fail," it-which was in 1949, when I first got out of the not deal with the "real questions." p of Eastern students and teachers that navy," he said. "The reat question that we need to be thinking higher educational standards are often He added that many advocates of the back to the about is why someone can spend six or eight years in flunking more kids." basics movement criticize what they call "soft" a math course and not learn anything." de school as hard as the people are talk­ courses, but forget why these courses were establish­ Although Holt said he would like to see teachers be the numbers dropping out or. flunking out paid more, he does not believe merit pay will solve · ed. , " he said. · "It was the hope of the curriculum designers that if the country's educational problems. that many recent educational recommen- we made courses more interesting and more relevant, "How do we decide who's a good teacher?" he h as failing students who do not learn re­ that would encourage students to stay in school said. "That's a question we need to ask." ·a1, will actually be counter-productive longer.'' He added that one way to improve the educational run. "Maybe what was said in the 60s wasn't much system is to give teachers more control in their ppens is that students often do worse in more than talk, but at least it was interesting and in­ classrooms. year of third grade than they do in the telligent talk," he added. "Telling teachers how to teach does not make bad hat do we do? Keep them in the. third Holt also criticized recent educational commis­ teachers good," he said. "It only makes good they're nine, ten, thirteen years old?" sions for not including any well known educational teachers furious." munityopposition kills DOC plan·s , the Charleston City Council, which re­ Pfeiffer added that he was "proud . ois Department of Correc- jected a resolution supporting the pro­ of the way Charleston citizens respond­ fficially ended plans to im- _ gram. Legally, the DOC does not need ed to the proposed program. prisoner work-release facili- council approval to implement the pro­ "It's a tribute to the people of leston, a DOC spokesman gram. Charleston that they. united together y. Mayor Clancy .Pfeiffer said Tuesday (against the program),'' Pfeiffer said. lie information official Nie he has received no official statement "It has shown that they care about the no further efforts will be from the DOC since that vote was community. I was pretty proud." e DOC to set up the pro- taken. Howell said the DOC will look for a because of community op- However, he said he would be "sur- new site for the facility in another com­ it. prised" if the DOC continued efforts munity. He declined to say which com­ or factor in that decision, to set up a facility here because of the munities are being considered. , was the recent vote by public opposition to it. ·< J Wednesday, November 30, 1983 Reagan agrees to joint defe WASHINGTON(AP)-President Reagan Reagan said his discussions with agreed Tuesday on joint defense measures with ed on "the agony of Lebanon Israel to counter a growing Soviet threat in the there to our common interests." Middle East, and stood firmly behind a plan for on several issues, including the sp withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon that settlements on the occupied West Syria is thwarting. Jordan River, but forged ties betw Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, ending tries. two days of talks with Reagan, stressed that the Their most significan step was Grenada troops to return soon May 17 troop withdrawal agreement will be im­ military commission to plan join WASHINGTON (AP)-A Pentagon spokesman said Tues­ plemented "in all its parts" despite Syria's bitter the Mediterranean. Reagan said the day the administration intends to remove all U.S. forces from resistance. U.S. officials ruled out any move to to respond to a "mutual threat po Grenada "as soon as possible," but he added "I don't think make the accord more palatable to Syria. ed Soviet involvement in the Middle there"is anything magic about Christmas" as a deadline. Thus, the outlook for breaking the deadlock A senior administration official, However, Reagan said on Nov. 22 that military engineers, that has kept Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian only on condition that he not be i technicians and health specialists probably will remain after forces in Lebanon remained dim, as Reagan bade the maneuver plans amounted to " that date Grenadian authorities and a contingent from small farewell to Shamir and began preparing for a Syria," which the Soviets have visit Thursday by Lebanese President Amin missiles and hundreds of advisers. Caribbean countries which joined in the U.S. operation that · overthrew a radical Marxist group controlling the island. Gemayel. ATTENTION ALL ·11*11 * S *II LIVES ON! BUSINESSMEN: WATCH THIS PAPER FOR ; LU:lT MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE the professional business frater invites you to a II* 11 * S *II SPECIAL PRE-RECRUITMENT MANEUVERS.