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COMMITTEE Seippel Talks

POSTS FILLED About Teaching

The Student Senate, beginning By Robert Seippel
its campus government program
''The whole art of teaching is
for the 1972-73 school year, has only the art of awakening the na.a
made appointments to eight com-
mittees, announced Neil McAulif- tural curiosity of young minds for
fe, president. the purpose of satisfying it after-
wards."
New committee chairmen are
Tom Zwart, Bookstore; Dale This quotation by Anatole
Hight, Election; Wayne Nichols, France provides what I think to
Speakers; Rick Hoefel, Film, and be a good starting point in the
Rick Signoretti, Concert. relationship between the instruc-
tor and the student.
In addition, Hight was named
to Instruction, Signoretti to In- The instructor who is keenly
struction and Soci.al, and Zwart interested in his students may
greatly influence attitude develop-
to Student Personnel.
Two campus problems are un- ment. It may be said that we in-
der study by the senate. One in- structors are not counselors or
psychologists but, whether we
volves parking congestion in the
Faculty and Staff lot caused by like it or not, our attitude toward
the student has a profound effect
students, friends, and relatives
who illegally park on the entrance on his attitude toward education
road and in the lot. and his future.
Traditionally, although not
The second pertains to the
bookstore which has been the intentionally, much of classroom
target for student complaints. teaching has been directed toward
memorization of rules, theories,
Student suggestions, complaints,
and solutions currently are being Dr. Elfi Hummel, . foreign language instructor, spent a month formulas, and principles rather ·
touring Red China last summer. Her two-part story begins today. That's than attitude development.
tabulated by the Bookstore
committee. Meanwhile, the book- an authentic (and attractive) Chinese peasant hat she's wearing. Unfortunately, the demands of
store contract for the coming education overshadow attitude
¼ear has been approved by the Dr. Elf i Hummel Reports development and we find our-
committee. selves with too little time to
really find out what key opens
"Mat,h-Maker" On Her Visit to Red China Joe's mind, so that we can fill it
full of goodies.
Who in the world is Joe? He
Ride Plan Set is the guy who comes late to
"Higher education as we know Her impressions are not the class. He may also be the one
A new "match-maker" program who sleeps. I have seen more
in which students with cars pro- it has almost vanished from com- customary superficial tourist type.
munist China,1' said Dr. Elfi "China is the best 'under- critical cases who actually fall
vide rides for students lacking asleep standing up. The talker
transportation to school is under Hummel.foreign language instruc- developed' country I have ever is easily identified. What teacher
way at COC under guidance of tor., who spent a month in the visited" she said. "There is no has not been plagued with a
Peoples Republic of China last
the Student Activities office. hunger. The condition of people verbalist? The quiet students may
Students who need rides and summer. attests to this. range from bright to poor. In
students with cars willing to pro- Dr. Hummel visited only one "I was told there is little or
university''fit to be shown" no crime. I believe it. We fre- either case, they are difficult to
vide transportation are asked to reach. The butter boy is hard
fill out a questionnaire at the "The library was as bare as quently opened our money purses
Mother Hubbard's cupboard ex- to rickshaw drivers who scrupu- to cope with. Even the most
SA office, said Dr. Al Adelini, seasoned instructor finds him-
dean of student activities. cept for numerous brochures of lously extracted only what was self being swayed byhumbleness
Drivers pick up students at and by Mao tse-Tung," she re- due them."
specifically designated points ported. "University education Despite stories to the con- or attentiveness. These are just
lasts only three years and the trary, rickshaw drivers still some of the overt types.
along the route at set times.
''Transportation is a chronic student must spend one year and exist in Red China, and man- Others include the bully, the
four months of that time working power remains the basic energy. doodler, the joker, the one with
problem for many cocstudents,"
said Dr. Adelini. "One student for the state in a factory, on a "People still are useu to pull dirty hands or dirty mind, the
who lives in Northridge, for in- or on some o·ther assigned task. wagons and boats on the canals . immature, the drinker, the sports-
stance, is picking up COC stu- "In other words, since higher Horses, mules, and oxen are man, and the religious fanatic.
dents at the corner of Balboa and education was virtually abolished seldom seen. From this same heterogeneous
Rinaldi boulevards. Another in during the cultural revolution in (Second article in thfo series group come doctors and nurses,
1967, university education is a
Saugus is picking up students at 20-month deal." will be published in the next politicians, ministers~ engineers,
desig~ated times and places issue of The Canyon Call. lawyers, pilots.and the·remainder
Dr. Hummel was told that the of the diversified field that pro-
along the San Francisquito Can- '' Purpose of the university is not Propositions -.
yon and Bouquet Canyon roads. to educate thoroughly but merely vides the leadership and deter-
"The idea is to match willing to instill into the student a de- (Cont'd. from Page 2) mines the future of our land.
drivers with students who need sire to educate himself later used for building construction Of course, the student body
rides." and for equipment and site also has a listing. We all fall
when he is on the job, that is, a acquisition needs of our state under one or several of the same
productive member of society.'' community colleges, including or similar categories. Some tea-
COC LOSES PEGGY Dr. Hummel, who visited College of the Canyons. cher idiosyncracies are not the
Mrs. Peggy Watkins, popular China with a group of Austrian Proposition 2 on the November most desireable attributes. We
student activities secretary, has government officials at the invi- ballot concerns the issuance of are all pinned with some term of
left her post to accompany her tation of the host country, point- bonds to provide state health endearment that would cause con-
husband, William, to a new lo- ed out, however, that everyone science facilities. A "YES" cern to some and ego inflation to
cation in Santa Maria, CA. except the old can read and vote would authorize the sale of others.
Mrs. Watkins, who has served write. $155.9 million in state bonds to However, in most cases stu-
COC for two years, is leaving "As many as 40 elementary provide funds for construction dents let us down gently, and our
with "many regrets." schools may serve a single com- and equipment for health science deficiencies are only reflected
"I'll miss the students and mune of 47,000 people" she said. facilities at the University of in our reputations. Whether we
the staff very much and most of Dr. Humme 1, an experienced California. like it or not, thete is no ques-
all my boss, Dr. Al Adelini traveler who has been around the Proponents believe this bill tion about the uncanny ability of
(dean of student activities). Col- world four times, visiting every will help provide the public with students to detect and measure
lege of the Canyons is a great continent, is author of two travel more doctors and thereby lower quality instruction.
place." books, "Logbook of a World spiraling medical costs. We may deny that attitude de-
Mrs. Nancy Henderson of Saug- Hike" and "Among Pirates and Opponents contend that the velopment is our problem. We
us will replace Mrs. Watkins. Headhunters.'' measure is too vague. (Cont'd. on Page 4)