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BAND CAMP—The Centred Michigan University- marching band got of! to an earlier start than usual this year with
band camp near Vestaburg.
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, MT. PLEASANT, M1CHIGAN,FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1959
Council Announces
Major Changes
In Car Regulations
CMU Continues Research
Projects Supported by Dow
For the past two and a half
years the Department of Chemistry and Physics has been carrying on a series of Saran plastic research projects aided by
a grant from Dow Chemical
Company.
The agreement was entered
into as a result of discussions
between representatives from
the Saran Polymerization Laboratory of Dow and the Department of Chemistry and Physics
al Central in October, 1956,
The project, as outlined,
was "a study of the decomposition rates of potassium
jersulfate and of reducing
agents such as sodium bisul-
faie in ihe presence of various (specifically iron) metallic ions."
Within two weeks, the initial
problem involving iron ions was
completed. The whole program
involving "various ions" was
completed by March 1957. At
that time the entire research
program was expanded to include a large number of ions
from the periodic chart, which is
the nature of the research at
present.
The work in Central labs has
been under the direction of Mr.
Frederick Kabbe. He and other
members of the department
have been instrumental in setting up and organizing the research experiments.
The actual work, however,
has been carried on by chemistry and physics majors.
These students must have
above average laboratory records and abilities.
The original Dow appropriation amounted to $1200, of which
approximately §800 remains. The
entire expenditure of this fund
goes to pay students who work
oh the project. They are paid at
regular college rates.
All necessary equipment and
Anspath's Address
(/sod in Mflgoifjig
For the seventh consecutive
year, the SwirtgoUt address to
the senior class by Central
Michigan University President
Emeritus Charles L. Anspach
has been printed in the magazine, "Vital Speeches,"
Dr, Anspach's 1959 Swingout
address, his last as president of
the University, was entitled,
"Tomorrow". It appeared in the
August 1 issue of "Vital
Speeches."
The retired CMU president
also gave this speech at the
Northern Michigan College conv
Riencement in June,
This was the 12th time in 20
years that President Anspach's
traditional farewell speech to
seniors was reprinted in "Vital
Speeches,"
All students planning to
take Directed Teaching (Education 453, 454, or 464) or Educational Affiliation, (Education 338} during the Spring
Semester of 1360 should pick
Up appropriate forms in room
106 of Rowe Hall immediately.
chemicals are supplied by Dow.
Saran Polymerization Laboratories officials say; "The basic
quantitative data which is being
made available through this program will be exceedingly helpful in augmenting research efforts in Saran Polymerization
Laboratories. Furthermore, the
data should also be useful to
other departments in the Dow
Chemical Company."
According to Dr. Malcolm Fil-
son, Head of the Department of
Chemistry and Physics, the research will continue next year
and probably indefinitely.
Central's Administrative
Council has announced two- ma-
jor changes in the rules and regulations for possession and operation of cars on campus this,
semester.
The first involves students on
academic probation in that they
will not be allowed to have or
operate a car in the University
area, There are, however, some
exceptions that will be made.
Freshmen and students on aca-
dedmic probation will be able to
have a car in the University
area if they are physically handicapped, married or live outside the . University area. The
University area was defined as
the city of Mt, Pleasant and the
immediate suburban area.
The second change was the reduction of the fine for failure
to display a parking sticker. The
fine was reduced from §20 to
§10.
Students who live outside the
University area are considered
commuting students and are eligible for a commuters sticker.
Commuting students may park
only in the following areas: 1.
Douglas parking lot; 2. storage
lots 3 and 4, south of Preston
Road; 3. parking lot west of
Central and Grawn Halls; 4.
physical education building
parking lot; 5. street parking on
Hopkins street, west of Washington street.
Students wishing to register a
car must have liability insurance
on the car.
Television Courses
To Be Taught In
Area High Schools
This week 3500 Michigan
school children began getting
top-flight science and history instruction by television.
Two commercial television
stations, WNEM, Bay City, and
WJRT, Flint, are cooperating
with a dozen school districts in
this experimental program.
Directing the program is Lyn-
dell Welbourne on leave from
Central's Field Service Division.
The participating schools
and Central Michigan University have banded together in
an organization officially
known as the Central Michi-
g a n Educational Television
Council.
This project is one of 20
throughout the nation being
supported by the Fund for the
Advancement of Education, a division of the* Ford Foundation.
This fall's course offerings are
11th grade American history,
fifth and sixth grade science and
seventh and eighth grade science.
Five days a week there are
half-hour telecast lectures which
classroom teachers follow up
with discussions in their own
classrooms.
Teaching the courses are,
Miss Carol Norfleet and Mrs.
Kathleen Schoonmaker, both
of whom have taught two
years in ihe Norfolk (Virginia)
educational television project,
and Paul Holman of Flint.
Miss Norfleet will teach 11th
grade American history over
WNEM at 8 a.m.
Mrs. Schoonmaker will teaqh
fifth and sixth grade science
over WJRT at 9 a.m.
Mr, Holman, one of the state's
top science teachers, will teach
seventh arid eighth grade science
over WJRT at 9:30 a.m.
Teachers of the participating
schools were invited to attend a
three-week workshop at Central
Michigan this summer,
At the Workshop they learned
how to work with television in
the classroom and planned the
course content for this fall's offerings.
A similar workshop will be
held this fall to work out the
courses that will be offered next
spring.
Central Plays Host
For Seventh Annual
Area Band Day
With a salute to leaders of a
new university as the theme,
Central will play host to its
seventh annual band day tomorrow in connection with Central-
Westgrn game-
High School band from Bay
City Handy, Saginaw High,
Owosso, Mt. Pleasant and Sebe-
waing will take part in this
year's event along With Central's marching band under the
direction of Norman C. Dietz.
The bands will combine at
halftime to salute President
Judson W. Foust and his Vice
Presidents Dr. Wilbur Moore,
Dr. W. C. Smith, and Mr. N. C.
Bovee.
Music to be played at half-
time includes "Over The Rainbow", "As Time Goes By",
"September Song", and "His
Honor".
The Bands will enter Alumni
Field at 12:50 p.m. and circle
the track. They will be preceded on the field by the University Band. High School bans
wildl arrive on the Central
Michigan campus for rehearsals
at 8:45 a.m.
All students interested in
working on the 1960 Chippewa
are invited to the staff meeting
to be held in the Chippewa
office S40 Monday, September
21, at 7:30 p.m.
Two
Five Deans
Appointed
By Prexy
The first stages of Central
Michigan University's reorganization program have been
completed. Five schools have
been created and sociology and
journalism have been added as
separate departments. Also
many new department heads
have been announced..
Dr. Wilbur E. Moore, formerly dean of Psycho-Educational Services, was named vice
president of general and academic administration, succeeding Dr. Foust.
The five schools, headed by
recently appointed deans, are as
follows:
School of Arts and Sciences
headed by Dr. C. C. Richtmeyer includes eleven departments; agriculture, biology, English, foreign languages, geogra-
p h y, mathematics, personnel,
physics and chemistry, social
sciences, sociology, and speech
and drama.
School of Fine and Applied
Arts headed by Dr. Olaf W. Steg
has eight departments; art, commerce, home »conomics, industrial arts, jo,.rnalism, library
science, military science and
music.
School of Education headed
by Dr. Kenneth T. Bordine includes the complete psychology
and education department.
School of Health and Physical
Education headed by Mr. Ronald
W. Finch includes (as the title
implies) health and physical education.
The last school headed by Dr
George H. Nelson is the school
of Graduate Studies.
Sociology and journalism have
become separate and new departments. Dr. Bernard Meltzei
was appointed head of the Sociology department, and Dr. Gil-
Maienkhecht was made head of
the new journalism department
Dr. Emil R. Pfister was
named head of the Department
of Speech, succeeding Di
Moore.
Dr. Eugene Grove Was named
head of the music department
to replace Dr. Olaf Steg, who
was named Dean of Fine and
Applied Arts.
To break the preceding down
further, the reorganization program on Central's campus is
simply a breakdown in struc^
ture. It is dividing the single
unit into five separate parts,
each headed by a dean.
President Judson W. Foust explained that "it is just like the
army or a factory. The total
structure is broken down to
make each unit more efficient
and more effective in fulfilling
its purpose."
This leads up to part of the
answer to the question of "how
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Dr. Kenneth T. Bordine
Dr. George H. Nelson
Ronald W. Finch
Dr. Olaf W. Steg
Dr. C. C. Richtmeyer
IK Posts Rush SeMnli,
Tuesday Openhws
Dr. Wilbur E. Moore
does this reorganization affect
the students on Central's campus?"
First of all, the student will
have more facilities available to
him through better supervision.
"When an institution gets so
big, the individual loses his
identity within it," President
Foust stated. "By creating several schools, the student may
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Interfraternity Council formal mass rush meeting is in
Keeler Ballroom, 7 p.m. Tuesday, IFC rush chairmen Bill
Clark and L. D. Sigurdson
announced. All eligible men
interested in fraternity life are
urged to attend.
Men must have at least a 2
point and be a second semester
freshman to be eligible. Transfer students must be of sophomore standing and have the
necessary 2 point.
In order to be included in this
fall's rush list, men must be at
the meeting to fill out an
application and to learn the
correct rushing procedures of
the Interfraternity Council,
This assembly, probably the
most important of the season,
opens the fall rush season.
After this meeting the rushing
season is as follows:
Sept. 25, 7-10 p.m. Open
house for rushees at all frat
houses.
Sept. 26, 7-10 p.m. Open
house for rushees at all frat
houses.
Sept. 27, 3-10 p.m. Open
house for rushees at all frat
houses.
Sept. 28, 7-10 p.m. Pi Kappa
Phi rush party, University Den.
Sept. 29, 7-10 p.m. Sigma Phi
Epsilon rush party, Keeler Ballroom.
Sept. 30, 7-10 p.m. Tau Kappa
Epsilon rush party, TKE house.
Oct. 1, 7-10 p.m. Phi Sigma
Epsilon rush party, Phi Sig
house.
Oct. 2, 7-10 p.m. Open house
for all rushees, all frat houses.
Oct. 3, 7-10 p.m. Open house
for all rushees, all frat houses.
Oct. 4, 3-10 p.m. Open house
for all rushees, all frat houses.
Oct. 5, 7-10 p.m. Tau Alpha
Upsilon rush party, TAU house.
Oct. 8, 7-10 p.m. Sigma Tau
Gamma rush party, Sig Tau
house.
Oct. 9, the bids come out and
rushing season is formally
closed. *
■ All eligible men are encouraged to attend any and all of
these events, but the first meeting this Tuesday is a must.
13 Begin Ford Grant
The Ford Foundation has
granted §750,000 to Central
Michigan University for a five-
year experimental program in
teacher/ education.
Dr. Edwin Spacie, assistant
director of Teacher Education
Project in charge of teacher
competencies and evaluations,
Mr. Harold Wilcox, assistant director of Teacher Education
Project in charge of school-university relations, and Dr, Kenneth White, assistant director of
Teacher Education Project in
charge of student programs and
placement, under the direction
of Dr. Curtis E, Nash, head of
the Department of Psychology
and Education, are guiding the
program.
This is an addition to ihe
regular psychology and education program and*is not required. Only people interested
in trying something different
are in the program. If this system is successful, it will eventually blend with the present
system.
To start the plan rolling, this
semester 13 juniors, seniors, and
five year students will be working iii the school systems of
Buena Vista in Saginaw County;
Bridgeport, south of Saginaw;
Avehdale, near Pontiac; Alba,
in  Charlevoix   County;   and
Shields, in Saginaw County.
There are two plans interested
students may choose from. The
five year plan, which is helpful
for students who wish to earn
money as they go through
school, and the four year plan,
for students who wish to finish
school in the regular amount of
time.
The proposed experiment
provides counselling and
guidance to discover the needs
of the indvidual students on
the plan. The program is fit
to the student instead of the
student being pushed into the
program.
Students enrolled in this plan
have early and continued
teacher-contacts with boys and
girls, improved and better-balanced curriculum, and more on-
the-job experience.
The four-year program, which
will lead to a bachelor's degree
and a teacher's certificate, will
spend most of their time in organized courses in general education and will take an introductory course in professional education. The second year will be
devoted'primarily to general and
specialized education, but students will be assigned to partici
pate, mostly as helpers, in the
laboratory school. General and
special education continue to be
a large ptsrtion of the students
program in the third year; however one semester of this year
the students will be assigned to
directed teaching in Mount
Plasant and other centers within
commuting distance.
In the fourth year students
will complete their general
and   special   education   programs in one semester. The remaining semester the students
will become extern teachers,
and the students Will complete
their theory courses in professional education.
First year teachers, who had
been enrolled under the four
year plan, will receive assistance
from  CMU professors  in their
change from students to teachers.
The five year plan provides
more teaching experience than
the present teacher education
program or the new four-year
plan. The first two years will be
spent on campus in a program
especially Suited to the needs of
each student. The remaining
three years will consist of alternating semesters of on-campus
and off-campus on-the-job ex
perience. Students will be taking a closely related professional course or one in a subject
field in which he is teaching,
and courses will be taught by
regular faculty members in' regional centers or on-campus in
late afternoon, evening or Saturday classes.
In each  of  ihe  three  off-
campus semesters ihe student
will boih learn and earn as a
full-lime paid employee of a
-selected  public  school.   The
first experience will be thai of
a ieacher assistant, ihe second
will be thai of a ieacher extern, and Ihe last will be thai
of a ieacher associate under
close supervision.
Miss   Gertrude  Pratt  of  the
mathematics   department,   M r.
Gilbert Rau of the speech department,  Mr.  Gerald Poor  of
the  psychology   and  education
department   and  Mr,   William
Butt of the English department,
Will be  counselors  for the  13
students   enrolled  in  the plan
this year. They will provide specialized counselling.
Any students who wish more
information about the program
Call or go to the Teacher Education Project Office, room 203 in
Rowe HalL
Students wishing to fill the
blank wall spaces of dorm and
off-campus rooms will have the
opportunity to rent reproductions of art masterpieces for
fifty cents a semester.
The Student Social Activities
Committee, sponsors of the program, announced that art works
will be available for student
rental in the Ballroom on Friday, September 25, from 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The following policies will be
followed:
1. A rental fee of 50?! per
semester will be charged
for each picture.
2. Only one picture will be
checked out to any one
room.
3. The student signing for
the painting shall be responsible for its return in
good condition and shall
be liable for damage.
4. There shall be no interchange of pictures during
the semester except
through written request
at the Dean of Women's
Office.
5. The pictures are to be returned on a designated
day near the end of the
semester..
Many of the paintings offered
have been hanging in the Union
and in various other buildings
on campus, and students -who
have admired them now have a
chance to have them in their
rooms.
hapel To Have
ecreafion Facilities
Ground breaking ceremonies
for Central's new Catholic student Chapel will be performed
today at 4 o'clock by the Most
Reverend Allen J. Babcock
according to Father John N.
McDuffee. The St. Mary's Student Chapel will be built on the
vacant lot at the corner of
Washington Street at Grawn.
The Chapel, which will seat
500, will have classroom and
recreational space as well as a
library. It will be finished by
February, 1960.
Plans for the Chapel were Set
into motion last year by Reverend Babcoclc who thought a
Chapel would help serve the
needs of Central's Catholic Students.
But until the Chapel is finished the Catholic students wilt
have the services of virtually a
full time Chaplin in Father
McDuffee. The son of Barnes
Hall's exhousemother, Mrs. Ella
McDuffee, Father McDuffee
will occupy the living quarters
of the Student Chapel when it
is finished. Presently he lives at
the Sacred Heart Rectory.
Father McDuffee, after earning his Master's Degree in History from the U. of M. entered
St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore
to study for the priesthood. He
was ordained in 1946. He has
served as Assistant at Sacred
Heart Parish, as teacher at St
Joseph's Seminary, Grand Rapids and as Administrator of St.
Aloysius Parish, Fife Lake.
Father McDuffee was also the
founder and pastor of St. Pius
X Parish, Grandville.
Other dignitaries expected to
be present at the ceremonies are
President Foust, Vice Presidents Smith, Moore, and Bovee,
Deans Sharpe and Sorrells,
Newman Club Advisor Bernard
Toney and Monsignor Edward
Ault, Pastor of the Sacred Heart
Parish.
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