Western Washington Collegian - 1952 August 8

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Register, College Voters Told
Information on voting registration procedures as they apply
to school teachers and college students was combined with an ap­peal
to civic responsibility by an experienced public official this
week.
Bellingham City Comptroller Al Loop, a WWC graduate and
former teacher, reports that many college students have inquired
at his office regarding their voting and residence status.
It is important, he said, for stu-*
dents and teachers to maintain, for
the record, a permanent legal resi­dence
somewhere. It may be at the
home of their parents, in Belling­ham,
or in the town where they
teach; the fact that a person may
actually "hang his hat" there but a
T few weeks in a year does not matter.
Residence is neither gained nor lost
by attendance at college.
Loop emphasized that every elig­ible
voter should register to vote in
the place he chooses to call a perm­anent
residence and then vote by
absentee ballot, if necessary.
PEOPLE RULE
"Democracy is the rule of the
people, and government is only as
good as the people who vote . . .
Public officials cannot function hon­estly
and wisely unless they know
the will of the people," Loop de­clared,
in urging registration and
voting on the part of everyone who
is eligible.
College students are not ordinar­ily
considered Bellingham residents,
Loop said, although married stu­dents
may -call Bellingham their
home town and register here. Those
who find it difficult to return to
their home towns in time to register
are also advised to register in Bell­ingham.
Today is the last day to register
for the primary election which will
be held September 9. Loop's office
in the city hall will remain open un­til
10:00 tonight to accommodate
late registrants.
Registration books will open again
after the primary and remain open
until October 3. City residents reg­ister
with the city clerk in their
home town. Rural or county resi-
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Next Artist-Lecture
Series Treat is
Soprano Concert
Nell Tangeman, mezzo-soprano,
will perform in the next program of
the summer artist and lecture series.
She will appear in a concert Tues­day
evening, August 12, at 8 p. m. in
the college auditorium.
"Miss Tangeman's 'Jocasta' was a
joy to hear," said Leonard Bernstein
after she had sung this extremely
difficult part in Stravinsky's "Oedi­pus
Rex" wtih the New York City
Symphony under Mr. Bernstein's
baton. "I could not have wished for
a richer, more convincing, dramatic
or stylistically correct interpreta­tion."
Every conductor with whom
Miss Tangeman has appeared has
shared Mr. Bernstein's enthusiasm.
Miss Tangeman will be accom­panied
by Chauncey Griffith, visit­ing
faculty member.
Master of Education Candidates
Qualify Under Two Options
By LOUISE SCROGGINS
Twenty-two graduate students will be eligible
to receive their Master of Education degrees at
the end of the summer term, announces Dr. Irwin
Hammer, chairman of the graduate council.
Nine students will receive their degrees under
the Option I plan which requires a field project report
or thesis. The students and the titles of their thesis
are: Merritt Frizzell, Comparisons of Attitudes and
Critical Thinking of Junior High School Students with
College Students; Marian Ingersoll, The Development
of a Method for Speech Improvement in the Belling­ham
Schools; Irene Reither, The Kinds of Help De­sired
and Received by the Beginning Teacher in His
First Teaching Situation; Thornton Ford, A Study in
the Development of Attitudes in Junior High School
Pupils Through Formulation and Use of a Local His­tory
Project.
Nadine Mattson, Case Studies of Withdrawn Chil­dren
with Suggestions for Classroom Adjustment;
Carroll Beane, The Problems and Effectiveness of the
Psychological Services of the Bureau of Research;
Marilynn Chow Tom, A Comparative Study of Music
and Voice Count on Endurance in Corrective Exer­cises
in Physical Education; Ernest Neuman, A Study
of the Industrial Arts Program in Lewis County, Wash­ington;
Irma Paine, A Study of the Motor Control and
Sense Perceptions of the Six-Year Old as a Basis for
the Selection of School Art Materials.
Under the Option II plan 13 students will receive
their Masters degrees. The students and their areas
of major concentration are: Leon A. Alpaugh, super­vision;
Clifford R. Cooper, administration; Ernest
Featherkile, music; E. Alfred Hagon, social studies;
Douglas T. MacGregor, music; James McCleery, in­dustrial
arts; James W. McGlinn, administration;
Roger D. Bullen, administration and supervision; Philip
R. Stoddard, administration; Kenneth W. Thiessen,
mathematics; Allan Thon, science; John S. Warden,
music; William W. Wilder, curriculum.
Beginning with this summer term, an approved
candidate, may qualify for a Master of Education de­gree
by either of the two plans. Option I requires 45
quarter hours of credit and a field project report or
thesis. Under Option II 54 quarter hours of credit are
needed and a final examination in any area of
concentration of specialization represented by graduate
study.
COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVI - No. 42 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Aug. 8, 1952
BOARD MEET CANCELLED;
ALUMNI ON AGENDA
No Board of Control meeting was
held this week because of the ab­sence
of Milt Clothier, acting ASB
president. Clothier underwent an
appendectomy this week.
On the agenda for the next meet­ing
are consideration of a plan to
be submitted by the alumni associa­tion
and final approval of depart­mental
budgets.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIANS—Among the members
of the high school band and orchestra which per­formed
yesterday noon was Don Hawkins of Belling­ham,
who managed to play the French horn with
one hand while the other is in a sling with a broken
bone. Other members of this section of the band in­clude:
Judy Leedy, left, Bellingham; Jack Patton,
Blaine; Bonnie McClure, Bellingham; Mel Moffatt,
Bellingham; and Buck Nelson, Sedro-Woolley. The
orchestra presented a public concert yesterday noon.
Building Changes Move College
Departments to New Quarters
Before Fall Term Beginning
By CAROLE GALLANT
Extensive remodeling is now going on in the Administration
building. According to Dr. W. W. Haggard the work will be com­pleted
when the college opens for fall quarter. Returning students
will find several classes and departments in new quarters.
* The ASB office will be moved to
Autocratic Profs
Stifle Students;
But Not at Western
In a large number of college
classes the teacher tends to be
an autocrat, according to a study
made by the University of Illi­nois
faculty.
Apparently, the study said,
very little is being done in col­lege
classrooms to encourage in­dependent
thought and research
or to offer practice in reaching
and trying out solutions of prob­lems.
Students are thus encouraged
to be dependent on teachers
rather than to acquire for them­selves
the habit of systematic
learning, the survey asserts.
The survey said that "the stu­dent
is evaluated chiefly on the
basis of how much of what has
been told him he can remember
long enough to be quizzed."
(Since these methods of teach­ing
and of evaluating are quite
contrary to teaching techniques
that WWC students are encour­aged
to use, it is quite unlikely
that WWC profs could be guilty
of such practices.)
Annex B* of the main building and
by the use of partitions will be made
into offices and meeting rooms. The
voting machines used for student
elections will be moved to the new
ASB headquarters.
The old research bureau, room
313, is being divided into two class­rooms,
which will be used by the
speech department. An entryway
will lead to the two rooms. At the
south end of the room there will be
four clinical booths for parent con­ferences
and individual use.
Commercial education classes will
be moved from room 311 to room
308 where there will also be several
speech classes. Room 311 will be used
exclusively for the radio studio.
The equipment for stagecraft is
being moved from the attic room
to the Auditorium-Music building.
The office of student publications
will be changed from room 208 to
126-128 across the hall from the of­fice
of public information. The
science class that was formerly in
room 126-128 will move to the old
publications office. -
The steps to the south of the main
entrance will be widened while the
retaining wall next to the steps will
be replaced.
In addition to these changes a
great deal of painting is being done
in the PE building and other build­ings
on campus.