1971-03-05; Central Michigan Life

              i ournament hid given
to our fighting Chips1
By LOU GLUBZSNSKI
L8FE Sports Editor
Indiana wants us.
Central Michigan's basketball
team, that is.
That lucky phone call came at
4 o'clock on Wednesday confirming that the Chippewas had been
selected as the third team in the
Great Lakes Regional of the
NCAA College Tournament. So
Coach Ted Kjolhede and company
will be flying to Evansville, Indiana Wednesday.
The Chips will be facing Augustana (20-4) Thursday night
at 7 p.m. (Central Standard
Time). Ashland College (24-2),
selected only last night, will be
facing host Evansville (17-8) at
8:30.
Coach Kjolhede and Rose both
expressed delight at being able
to represent Michigan in the
tournament.
Ashland College was selected
from the powerful Mideast
Regional, after Illinois Tech and
Wheaton College were ruled out.
Up until last night, it was unknown whether Ashland of
Wooster College would be pooled
into the Great Lakes District
Wooster was later selected to
compete in the Mideast Regional
Tournament along with Akron
University, Cheney State and defending national- champions
Philadelphia Textile.
ITourney bus trip offers a safe ridel
IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, when the snow begins to melt and the mud season makes its
debut. Many students and faculty members alike have been held up by the semi-quagmires but
all take heart when they realize that spring and summer are just around the corner. '
The Men's  Union,   Program
Board, and Student Senate have
all   run out of funds.     Some
. cutbacks in student activities will
result,
All mixers sponsored by these
groups have been cancelled, for
the rest of the semester, and
there will be no more concerts
sponsored by the Men's Union
and Program Board this year.
The main reason for the finan-r
cial plight of the Men's Union
and Program Board, according to
Student Activities Director Karl
Metzger, is the concerts which
the two organizations jointly
sponsor. The last two, featu-
ringthe Byrds and Dionne Warwick resulted in large financial losses which wiped out the
operating funds of the organizations, Metzger said.
Although the mixers and concerts have been cancelled, other
activities sponsored by the bankrupt organizations, such as mo-
Hassel
vies   and the Miss CMU Pageant, will continue, said Metzger.
Funds for the organizations
come from the general university
budget, appropriated by the State
Legislature.
The Program Board began the
year with a deficit. The board
took over the debts of the old
class governments, and bought'
a $1,700 spotlight at the beginning of the year, Metzger said.
The board shares a budget with
the Student Activities Office, and
publications such as"ChipTalk"
alscr come out of that budget,
Metzger added.
The prospects for next year
are uncertain, according to Metzger. The Program Board will
probably have a separate account
next year/but the amount of money to be appropriated to the
organizations cannot be predicted at this time. If the appropriations go down, the number
of activities sponsored by these
over $30
where will money
William B. Wreford, attorney
|  for the Insurance Bureau of the
State of Michigan, has. recom- •
mended  in a letter to Student
|   Activities Chairman Karl Metzger  that the $3000 Globe Life
Insurance endorsement money be
given back to student government.
_ However, the University stands
I   »y its earlier ruling that Student
■   Government   cannot .keep   the
money.   Now it is to be tufnM
°ack to Globe.
Jl 'ifkfcroent yesterday after-
£^etzeer said, "If we don't
thlnS6 m?ney back to Globe;
^""ivefsity will be liable oa
,: f.^^^retainingillegalfunds.
;. ^ funds officaiiy and legally
r {g"* part of the Tjniversi4 :
i J™" they were accepted by,of-
TheL°f ?Ut,eftt Government..
thevS that is "legal is that
fc: CouS-   "    the    Pr^clent's
4. r°rted earlic* th* Pros-
CS,mckKe^^iIast
en^**mJnt C°UldtV,t **ept the
went AZl; onGy* He sti»
morifey   <     aud accepted the    ■
In his letter dated March 2,
Wreford said, "There is also
no reason why the funds which
the student governement received
from said company and its agent
should not be immediately
released to the student goven-
ment for use in its activities." •
Wreford went on to say in his
letter that the Insurance Bureau
Understood that both parties were
doing what each thought best, but
that "... the world of insurance
is a peculiar one, where even
we here in the Bureau have problems, at times, in under standing
just what is going on.n
Wreford's letter was prompted
by a letter from former Student
Body Vice President Mike Lueder
explaining his envolvement in the
endorsement.
Kedzierski was unavailable for
offical comment yesterday. He
had indicated earlier that student
government would probably retain an attorney to handle the
legal ramifications of the deal.
H£*aiso indicated that he was
considering writing a letter to
State Senator John Toepp,
organizations   will
Metzger said.
be   limited,
Men's Union is offering bus
transportation to Evansville Indiana for the upcoming National
College Athletic Association
(NCAA) tournaments.
The bus is scheduled' to leave
the University Center at 7 a.m.
March 11 and will arrive in
Evansville about 6 p.m. The
return trip will begin at midnight
on March 12 and will arrive in
Mt. Pleasant about 9 a.m. March
13.
Bus tickets will be sold on a
first come, first served basis.
Meals and lodgings are not pro
vided, however, CMU students
are encouraged to stay in the
dorms at Evansville College.
Price of bus and game tickets
will range from $21.50 to $25,
depending on how many tickets
are sold. If less than 30 students indicate «an interest the bus
will be cancelled.
Tickets may be purchased at
the University ticket office which
is open from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m.
today, Monday and Tuesday and
from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on
Wednesday. All tickets must be
purchased by noon on Wednesday.
CENTRAL
MICHIGAN
LIFE
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Volume 51, Number 62
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Friday, March 5, 1971
PhD's possible answer
to rising grade scale
By MONETTA L. RICHEY
LIFE Feature Editor
(ED. NOTE: This is the- second of three installments of a
grade analysis at CMU.)
Grades are on the rise at
Central and no one can pinpoint the exact reason why. There
seems to be a whole list of
feasible and some not so feasible explanations.
The first answer usually given,
depending upon who is talking,
is that students are getting smarter or faculty are teaching better. (This answer is usually
somewhat tongue in cheek).
However, with the recent push
for more PhD's on campus, better teaching might be a possible
explanation.
And with the job market as
tight as it is now, the latest
issue of Time magazine claims
that students are studying more,
since the highest GPA will get
the job, provided there is a job
to be found.
One might possibly credit mer-,
it pay awarded to faculty for the
high rise in grades. It seems
that some faculty are so conscious of obtaining extra money
that he gives easy grades in order
to obtain this additional finance.
Even though student evaluations are not given until the
end oi the semester, the student
has had enough tests to assume
how he will be graded. And
Since many students would rather
take an easy prof to get an "A"
than a hard prof and get a "C"
but learn much more, the stu
dent will tend give the easy
prof a high rating.
Charles J. Ping, provost, stated, "The analysis of student
evaluation forms indicates that
there is no correlation between
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Analysis
grades and the level rating
of an instructor, A lot of
mythology surrounds student
evaluation. One of them is that
in order to be rated highly you
have to give cheap grades. This
just isn't so."
CHARLES J, PING
However, talking to faculty in
different departments, they seem
to believe merit pay has more
to do with high grades than the
administration would care to believe.
There is also the possibility
that high school students are receiving a better high school education than in previous years.
"Studies of entering freshmen,
in terms of test scores and high
school performance-,, suggest that
over the last four to five years
there has been a constant level
of preparation for college. At
the same time, some have argued that students are coming to
college a year ahead of where
they were 20 years ago," said
Ping.
Ping added that high school
grades can be uncertain though,
and mean many different things.
For instance, even though a stu--
dent earned a 3.98, you have to
take into account the class size,
the   individual   and the school.
Dennis Thavenet, assistant
professor of history, questioned
whether or not grades students
receive have the same quality
they did five years ago. Even
though a student has a 3.5. GPA,
he might be rejected by graduate
school because a student with a
3.0 from another university
learned more from his classes.
Ping answered that law
schools, medical schools and
graduate schools usually give a
pre-enterance examination, such
as the graduate record examination, so the GPA doesn't necessarily insure entrance, al-.
though it is a contributing fac-,
tor.
"I don't have any good explanation for changing'patterns of
grades in terms of concrete factors that ran be identified, Iso-
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