Miami Hurricane, August 07, 1959

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83% Pass TV English Final Exam
Eighty-three per cent of the students who took the final exam for the TV English 111 course on Monday passed. This compares well with “on campus” class results.
This wu the first time the Uni-' *
verslty has ever offered any course via television, and the first attempt at open circuit educational television in Miami. It was on Channel Two five nights a week from 7:30 to 8 p.m. from June 8 thru July 31.
Dr. Sydney W. Head, chairman of the Radio-TV department, was the chief investigator who dreamed up and proposed the idea of trying to give high school graduates a chance to get a head start
on their college work in this way.
Pilot Test
The course was a pilot test made possible thru a grant from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The findings, analysis and results will determine whether the TV educational program will continue. If favorable, four other UM courses will be on television next summer.
Program Aims
According to the program’s director, Dr. Robert Hively, assistant professor of English, the essential directives behind the program are (1) to teach freshman English, (2) see what kind of job could be done with off campus students, and (3) see if a student could be taught with a very minimum amount of personal contact with the instructor.
“If an analysis of grades in a course is the full indication of what a student accomplishes, we can assume that the TV method is not only favorable, but in some
instances, slightly superior,” said Dr. Hively.
A questionnaire was issued to each student after the final to appraise and evaluate the course and instructor. To get an unbiased collective view, they were to be returned unsigned.
“He’s A Doll”
The evaluation was set up on a five point scale. Ninety-three per cent ranked the instructor above a C, 6% D, 1% E. One added still another point by saying "super,” and another gave forth with the comment “He’s a doll!”, while still another “Hoped to have more in-
structors like Dr. Hively in college.”
Ninety-four per cent stated they would recommend others to take the course.
Lack Understanding
Twenty per cent said that they did not always understand the assignments. Reception difficulties was the complaint of 15%.
This should be overcome next year, said Dr. Hively. The TV station will have much higher power and a better antenna setup, giving the station as good transmitting capabilities as any other in the Miami area.
On comparing the classroom with TV instructing, “Student initiative is fundamental for success in both medias” said Dr. Hively. Only 11% missed the personal teacher contact. Many stated that with the lack of contact with the instructor, they had to ‘dig1 for it and felt they were better off because of it.
Over 200 registered for the class while only an even 100 showed up for the exam. A make-up test for those who missed the one given Monday will be given on Sept. 12. Continuence of the program cannot be made final until these results are computed.
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Vol. XXXIV, No. 32
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"All the New* That's Fit To Print"
Fiedler To Conduct Last Pops Concert
Arthur Fiedler, founder and conductor of the Boston Pops since 1930, will mount the podium to lead the UM Summer Symphony in the tenth and final Pops Concert Sunday evening at the Miami Beach Auditorium.
Soloists will be Ozan Marsh, who has established himself as one of the most outstanding of the younger American piano virtuosos. He accepted Arthur Fiedler’s invitation to appear as soloist at all concerts of the 1959 Pops Tour Orchestra.
Fiedler has planned a gay program for the season’s finale. He will lead the Symphony In the Tannhäuser Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Finale to Symphony No. 4, and the Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor.
In addition, the Orchestra will be heard ‘in Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” Hayman’s arrangement of “Kid Stuff,” reminiscences of Richard Rodgers and Tin Pan Alley, and selections from two popular motion pictures, “Olgi” and "Bridge On The River Kwal.”
Marsh, who has developed a special affinity for the piano music of Chopin and Liszt, will play the latter’s "Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra.”
Marsh began his musical career at the age of 15 when he received a full scholarship for study In Europe where he graduated mag-na cum laude from the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris.
He has toured extensively In Belgium, France, Poland, Austria and Germany as guest soloist. In addition, he has appeared with the Vienna and Warsaw Philharmonics in Europe and the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony In this country.
Making his fifth apearance here with the University Symphony, Fiedler is a native of Boston. At 19 he was accepted as a violinist with the Boston Symphony under Karl Muck and later played under Rabaud, Monteux and Kous-sevitzky.
In 1930 Fiedler succeeded Alfred Casella as conductor of the Boston Pops and presented popular hits in full symphonic arrangement.
Each season since 1953 he has conducted a special Pops Tour Orchestra covering many cities throughout the country. His arrangements of popular classics and hits has earned him the title of "King of the Pops.”
With the presentation of this tenth and final “Pop” concert, more than 30,000 people will have witnessed the most successful summer series ever presented in Greater Miami.
ARTHUR FIEDLER
Coeds In Town To Gel Rules On Dress, Etc.
For the first time at UM, women students who live off campus will be given a handbook on regulations this fall.
The book will state clearly the rules on clothing to be worn by women students. There will be no shorts or torredor pants worn on campus. Also In the book will be rules on absences, alcoholic beverages, etc.
The University regulations state that women students must live on the campus unless they have close relatives in Miami or the surrounding area. This does not apply to women students who are 23 or older.
It will be possible for the first time this fall for women residents to visit weekends off campus with girl friends, provided they have a letter of permission from their parents as well as a letter from their hostess.
An estimated 1400 women students will register for Womens Residence Halls in the fall semester according to Mrs. Louise Mills, assistant to the dean of women.
I Newsmen To Gather
All undergraduates interest-, ed in working on the last two I editions of The Hurricane this ;! summer or thinking about | joining the staff in the fall are I invited to a meeting with the j I editors 2:30 p.m. this afternoon i | In Room 6 of the Student , | Union.
Newspaper writing, policies f I and problems will be discuss-I ed. Stories for next week’s | ! paper will be suggested and 1 assigned.
Lock, Piece Of Cut Chain Found Behind Eaton Hall
Students come and go — but our fiery red canoes?
Coeds are in slumberland while a red canoe drifts off to never-never land.
Yes, missing from the Student Union Lake is one 17 foot Gru-mann aluminum canoe, recently painted fire-engine red. The chain which held the canoe to a tree was apparently cut with a heavy-duty wire clipper.
The lock and a piece of the chain were found at the back of Eaton Hall, coed residence. This is the last known evidence, seen or heard, on the canoe.
Students Missing?
“The primary concern” said Norman A. “Chink” Whitten, assistant director student activities, “is where are the students? “I get worried when a canoe is not checked in at the end of the day.”
“Many students have asked if it is all right to go swimming in the lake. I have advised against this because of the dirty water, some barracuda that have been seen and the unknown depth of the lake.”
“However,” he said, “students have checked out canoes, taken them out in the lake, turned them over and then gone swimming.” “This” said Whitten, “is an excuse thev will use for swiming in the Lake.”
“So far, we have been fortunate that a drowning has not occurred in the Lake.”
In the past canoes have been missing for reasons due to either the students getting tired of paddling and walking back, or from canoes being paddled some distance away from the campus, removed from the water and almost sold.
The last time a canoe turned up missing was two years ago when a 15-foot one was stolen. It was finally located after an advertisement was noticed in the newspaper. This particular canoe was returned without resistance.
Because of this incident, Whitten has been watching all newspaper classified sections this week in hopes of blazing a trail to the red canoe.
Into The Ocean
On other occasions, canoes have floated out of the Lake, thru sew-
Watch Out For Ditches!
HAVE YOU FALLEN IN ANY DITCHES LATELY? Did you think the campus had been invaded by gophers? Actually, all the ditches you see between the Engineering and Merrick buildings are to be used to bring in the primary electrical source for the new Engineering building. By bringing in the electricity underground the University has no need for wiring on poles.
QUIETLY AWAITING the return of the rest of their “family” are these four aluminum canoes. The missing member of their family, having recently received a ilrey red paint job, suffered an acute attack of wanderlust and disappeared from the Lake.
er pipes under Ponce de Leon and U. S. 1, into the deep water canal which goes out into Bis-cayne Bay and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean.
Then too, students like to pull practical jokes on “Chink.”
A few years back, another canoe was found under a big stack of straw near the intra-mural field.
Last spring Whitten got an amusingly written letter about a television set which was missing from the Upper Lounge. He was told that he would find the said set on top of the Law School Building. He did so and returned the TV to its place.
Being an amicable fellow, he took this incident in stride. He is, however, responsible for all the
equipment, furniture, etc. In the Student Union and must know its whereabouts at all times.
On Top Of Dorm His final comment on the present missing canoe—“It could be on top of one of the women's dorms.” And that is exactly where he said he was going to look.
Anyone knowing anything of the missing red canoe or the likely hood of one bearing and resemblance to It in Dade or Broward counties, should notify the Student Activities office so it may be returned to its rightful resting place—the Student Union Lake.
Canoes may be checked out during the day at the information office beside door of the Student Union. They are docked beneath the cafeteria patio.
Solem Up In Burnesville Casting6The Cretan Woman9
Dr. Delmar E. Solem, chairman of the drama department, arrived Monday to start casting for the fourth production of “The Cretan Woman” at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, N. C.
The production will be staged August 7 and 8 in the outdoor amphitheatre adjoining the Playhouse. Dr. Solem was invited to be guest director for this show.
Dr. and Mrs. C. Doren Tharp visited UM’s drama and art workshops last week in Burnsville. They arrived Saturday in time
to attend the final performance of “Inherit the Wind,” second stage production of the season.
After the show, they were guests of the Workshop at a weekly hamburger party, held each Saturday night after the students have “struck” the stage set in the outdoor patio of the Playhouse.
Living in the nearby mountain cottage of Malcolm Ross, University editor, they plan to remain for the week’s production, “Goodbye, My Fancy."