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February 14, 1964
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Chicago’s Simpson Castigates
Trend Toward Specialization
Loren's Torso Tops BB's;
Library's Art 'Sterile'
Complete Dinners
Reasonably Priced Steaks
I LAC DANCE
WHEN . . . February 15, 1964
WHERE . . . University dining hall
TIME . . . 7:30 to 11:00 pm
ADMISSION . . . Gentlemen $0.75
ADMISSION . . . Ladies Free
BAND . .. Los Latinos: Will play a variety of music.
Serving 7 Days a Week
11 A.M. to 9:30 P.M.
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Spencer Tracy, portraying a priest who has lost his faith, co-
stars with Frank Sinatra in the Hilltop Film Festival’s last regu-
larly scheduled movie, The Devil at 4 O’clock. Sinatra plays a
convict who falls in love with a beautiful, but mute, girl. The
movie will be shown at 7:30 pm in the Dining hall on February
22.
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not attempting solutions to obvi-
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thinking become a habit.
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(ACP)—“Most freshmen fail-
ures in college are caused not by
stupidity but by shock.”
STUDENT LIFE, Washington
university, St. Louis, Mo., took
this quote (by Dr. Jules Coleman,
Yale university psychiatrist) to
Mr. Donald Zytowski of Washing-
ton university’s student counsel-
ing service.
“It’s true, unfortunately,” Zy-
towski said. “WU attracts some
very able students from a great
many excellent high schools. Each
of these freshmen is a ‘top
banana’ in some way: editor of
the yearbook, president of the
student council, winner of an
award for high achievement in
math, science or poetry writing.
“After the first glory of fresh-
man camp, new students’ day,
fraternity and sorority rush wears
off, and around the time of the
first class quizzes, the fresh-
man begins to realize in some
vague way that he is no longer
the exclusive star he used to be,
but is surrounded by stars. He
may be just an average Joe in
this crowd.
“This is when the shock begins.”
Zytowski indicated it is not the
shock which is dangerous but
how it is handled.
"Those who cannot admit to
themselves that they are not still
the star they were in high school
are the ones who stay in shock,”
he said. “They suddenly develop
a consuming interest in some-
thing like dorm politics, Greek
competition for trophies, the finer
points of bridge, writing a great
play or anything to divert them-
selves from their fear that they
cannot compete successfully with
the other freshmen.
“Their grades fall, and at the
end of the semester or year they
claim they know they could have
done better, but they felt they
had to do this job that nobody else
could do.”
CHICAGO, Ill. (I.P.)—The pur-
pose of general education is,
among other things, to give the
student certain intellectual tools,
according to Alan Simpson, dean
of the college at the University of
Chicago. This process, he con-
tinued, serves as a counterpoise
I ruary 13-28. The show is open to
the public without charge and
should prove to be exciting, as
Grossi is noted for his individual
and completely unique way of
looking at reality with a camera.
Free Jap Award Winner
Ikiru, a Japenese film with
English subtitles, will be on view
Thursday, February 20, at Batts
hall auditorium, UT. The admis-
sion is free with showings at 2,
5, 8 pm. Ikiru is the story of the
search for the meaning of life by
a man who knows he has only a
short time to live. It has received
numerous international awards
and is acclaimed by critics as not
only one of the greatest pictures
of Japan but also one of the
world’s greatest pictures.
Brubeck at Gregory
Dave Brubeck is coming to
town Thursday evening, Febru-
ary 20. The seventh event of the
Texas Cultural Entertainment
committee will commence at 8:00
pm. The doors of Gregory gym,
UT, will open to the wild hordes
hungry to be satiated by Brubeck
at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $2.50 and
can be purchased the night of the
performance. Season ticket hold-
ers will be admitted for $1.25.
to the illiberalism of specializa-
tion.
Dean Simpson said that the
methods of achieving these gener-
ally accepted goals pose problems.
One difficulty is that department-
al specialists are hesitant to con-
cern themselves with general edu-
cation. Some schools have at-
tempted to solve this problem by
creating a separate faculty to
supervise general education. He
added that in such instances the
general education faculty is often
regarded as “second class.”
This is due to the heavy orien-
tation towards specialization
found in most educational institu-
tions. The ultimate solution to the
problem is to persuade the spe-
cialists to offer general education
courses.
Dean Simpson feels that the Chi-
cago student is pressed by too
many exams. He expressed a
preference for exams which are
based on material covered over a
large time period. He described
the system used at his alma mater
in England which consisted of
exams which covered two, or
three, or four years of work. This
he' considered the ideal plan. He
characterized the present system
here as “between comp and
quarterly.”
The essay examination is gen-
erally quite preferable to a multi-
ple choice type test, he said,
adding that sometimes the design-
ing of a subjective exam requires
a great deal of work on the part
of the faculty. Dean Simpson said
that since the student is being
tested, he should be made to put
work into the exam by writing
an original essay.
Dean Simpson cited some prob-
lems in shaping a college curricu-
lum. First, the general tendency
for courses to proliferate should
be checked. He said that the most
efficient use of an institution’s
resources depends on minimizing
the number of underpopulated
courses. The second problem con-
sists of the “decaying courses.”
These are courses that should be
junked since they are no longer
viable.
In conclusion, Dean Simpson
cited three means of determining
faculty teaching ability: feedback
from students, lectures given by
instructors and teaching ability
as demonstrated in faculty semin-
ars and staff meetings. These
means are preferred over formal
student polls because these polls
tend to damage faculty morale.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (I.P.)-
Two new majors, classics and re-
ligion, have been inaugurated by
the Academic council at Michi-
gan State university this year.
Both new majors are in the Col-
lege of Arts and Letters. All the
courses involved have been of-
fered by the University previously,
but the new programs draw the
students together and allow a
student to get a BA degree in
either of the new majors.
Students taking the classics
major will fall into three classes:
the student seeking a broad liber-
al arts training without specific
professional objective; the student
wishing to teach Latin in high
school; and the student expecting
to do graduate work in any field
of classical studies.
The classics major has required
courses in five departments in-
cluding art, comparative litera-
ture, history, philosophy and
foreign language. Recommended
electives encompass three more
departments: English, political
science and religion.
Once Upon an Excuse
(ACP)—Once upon a time there
was a very nice college (Pepper-
dine college) in a big city (Los
Angeles, Calif.) It was a middle-
sized college—not too big, not too
small, says the campus news-
paper, GRAPHIC.
Like all colleges, this one had
some problems. But whenever the
students got together to decide to
do anything about the problems,
someone always stood up and
said: “After all, we’re only a small
college.’1
Every year a new freshman
class came into the college. And
every freshman class had a lot
of ideas. As soon as the freshmen
started trying to put their ideas
to work, some upperclassman
would tell them, kindly but firm-
ly: “Remember, we’re only a small
college.”
The pride that comes of belong-
ing to a unique, small college can-
not be enhanced by turning that
nstitution into a stereotype of
'ny of hundreds of bigger col-
leges. But at the same time,
Hooray for the Cinema
Anyone who has not been to
the new Cinema theatre should
not be too disappointed at its ap-
parent distance. It’s really not
that far—10 minutes at most by
expressway. The new approach to
theatres is exhilarating. The small
art gallery under the Cinema roof
houses some very good paintings
by UT artist Tom Bell. It looks
like the neighborhood theatre is
no longer simply a moviehouse;
it’s fast becoming a local shrine
for the graphic arts. Three cheers
for the Cinema.
Sterile Library Art Exhibit
Certainly the art exhibit now
in the Library was not worth
waiting two years for, but who
knew exactly what sort of paint-
ings the contemporary Artists’
group of Texas would circulate?
Credit must be given to Mrs.
Strom for reserving the show for
the University library; she did
this almost two years ago, as I
understand it. This show could be
compared to the movie Cleopatra
—after the long wait it wasn’t
worth it. With the exception of
the Frary watercolor and perhaps
one or two other works, the effect
that the show leaves with this
viewer is that the artists of Texas
are as sterile and contrived, as
trite and as unoriginal as the
Stetson - wearing, cigar - chewing,
loudmouthed, typically Texan
caricature.
Bardot’s Not As Good as Loren
Anyone planning to venture to
the Texas theatre to view the so-
called French flesh pot, Brigitte
Bardot, in her latest film Love
on a Pillow might as well save
their money and see Tom Jones
twice. There is nothing to this
picture either body-wise or cine-
matically except some absolutely
stunning scenes of Florence. This
reviewer, quite frankly, had to
yawn several times; the little girl
pout perpetually adorning the ill-
proportioned visage of La Bardot
gets monotonous after the first
hour. Enough is enough.
As for a figure, humbug. What
is all the ballyhoo about? I’d like
Roger Vadim to tell us. Personal-
ly, for physique, that of Sophia
Loren causes a more precise sen-
sation (as I’m sure a certain
sophomore clique will agree) and
the lady Loren doesn’t have to
cheapen it with inclusion in such
trite and poorly made films.
But poor Bardot, she insists
that she can act. She can cry and
she can throw a good tantrum,
she can even portray displeasure
and scorn with a double pout. If
she would only get rid of that
haystack she calls a coiffure and
get out of bed and into some de-
cent movies. Then perhaps we
could find it in our hearts to sup-
port her.
Photographer Grossi at UT
Cleveland photographer, Emilio
Grossi, will exhibit some of his
work in the University of Texas 1
Art museum mezzanine from Feb- ,
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Survey
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Andre 34 per cent, Doyle 37 per
cent.
Those interested in the forma-
tion of a Holy Name society: Holy
Cross 49 per cent, Andre 49 per
cent, Doyle 43 per cent.
Those interested in a St. Vin-
cent de Paul society: Holy Cross
29 per cent, Andre 28 per cent,
Doyle 28 per cent.
Those interested in working
among the poor in Mexico in a
mission project next summer:
Holy Cross 15 per cent, Andre 22
per cent, Doyle 23 per cent.
Those who would be interested
in giving a year or two of their
lives to teaching or social works
for a type of Catholic Peace
corps: Holy Cross 13 per cent,
Andre 29 per cent, Doyle 27 per
cent.
In conclusion, the survey shows
that Andre residents attend Mass
more often, that the sacraments
are easily attended, that more
clubs ought to hold monthly Com-
munion. It shows that many stu-
dents believe some re-thinking of
policies is necessary, e.g. days of
recollection, the Religious bulle-
tin, and the rectors and prefects
awakening students on Sunday
morning. It also is noteworthy
that Doyle is usually on one end
or the other in their answers to a
question; that is, they usually
have the highest or lowest per-
centage. The survey was an ex-
cellent idea, the response very
good, and the content interesting.
The Religious committee is to be
commended.
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