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page 2 the gold bug march 16, 1970 Conservation: Irl-neta organizes tree·planting program Dr. Kerschner said that a plan was In the works to A 'rrt-aeta sponsored "plant-In" on April 22 will be set aside an area for planting on campus. People who the concluding event In a series of lectures, panels and could not make a day of It, but wanted to help conser- movies that have made up the Conservation Semester vation could spend a couple hours or minutes planting at Western Maryland. tr~j!s In this area. Trl-Beta, a national honor organization for students "Elmira College used to have a similar program, In biology, plans to work in close cooperation with the called Mountain Day," said Dr. Kerschner. She saId State Foresters on the project. The state will supply that no one knew what day It would be, but It was usually trees and pay to have the trees Planted, said Dr. Jean one beautiful October day. "One day the president would Kerschner, professor of Biology and one oJ 'rrt-aeta-s call off classes and we'd bus the whole school up to the advisors. mountains. We planted a thousand trees In 3 hours," Dr. Kerschner said that she thinks the main problem she said. wlll be getting enough people to participate In the event. "We hope to make this a rrcucx, besides doing some- She. hoped that more than a hundr-ed people would come thIng good," said the professor of biology and mentioned out for the plant-In and noted that the more people there plans to get some guitarists to come along. were; the more trees could be planted. The organization While pine seednng s from 8 to 10 Inches tall will be plans to haul the participants In the plant-In to the site planted. of the planting by bus. Dr. Kerschner noted that the The Conservation Semester was planned last April money made by plantIng the trees would be used to off- before the problem of environment had caught the pubUc set the cost oJ the program and U anything were len It fancy said the T'rf-Beta advisor. She thought it was would possibly be used In a scholarship fund. fortunate timing. Other upcoming events Slated for the Conservation Draft counseling Semester are a rum titled, "The Redwoods," and a talk Forester by Harry entitled W. staley, Assistant District "Forestry: 1~70 Style" on March 18 at 4:45 p.m, In Decker Hall; a panel on pollution conststtng of an In_ approaches reality dustrialist, a pol1tlcan and a scfentfsf/conse rvattonj st on April I at 7:30; and on AprU 8 at 4:45 p.m. in Decker there will be a lecture on the environment given by an agronomist from Yale Unfverstty, Dr. Garth Voigt. After a rather slow start at the beginntngof the 1st sem- ester, the draft counseUng service is making positive As ol now there are eight people who are Involved, be- - progress towards becoming an actuality. Summer-february coed knocks split semester - sides the head olthe group, Woody Merkle"a WMC sopho- by Susan Baker more. These nine people will be trained todo draft coun- According to Lois Lawson, current summer-February is also a hassle because "the courses at Maryland don't seling, hopefully by the American Friends Service Com- student, the summer-February student program at coincide with the ones here atWMC at all." This involves mittee which Is a draft counseltngservicewithoperaUons Western Maryland College should be abolished. the danger of taking courses at Maryland but not having in Baltimore. Mr. Merkle has also written to various Speaking recentJy, Miss Lawsonnamedcreditaccumula_ the credits accepted by Western Maryland, she added. groups including the American Friends Service Commit- tion and lack of advice as the chief problems faced by the Another problem not offset by Miss Lawson's additional tee and the Selective Service asking for Information in an summer-February student. Miss Lawson is one of thirty class hours at Maryland Is course continuum. She talked attempt to gather dr~t data. participants in the Western Maryland summer-February emphatically about the prohlem of atwosemestercourse, There Is anoutside chance that the draft counseling ser- program. She differs from most in that she attended such as Biology or Western Civilization. She sees her- vice will belnoperatlonbythe latter part of this semester school during first semester, matriculating at the umv- self and other summer-February students at a oisaovan- and itwm be operational atthe beginning of the next school ersityof Maryland. tage because "the courses are geared for these who've year. "The summer-February program should be abolish- had first semester courses. The first semester courses Once the service Is established, anyone can obtain draft ed," Miss Lawson asserted, "because the situation it we should be taking aren't being offered now. The cour- advice merely by contacting a member for the service creates for a student beginning In February is not at all ses aren't geared for people like us," she complained. who will either give advice or refer the advlces to a source outweighted by his at least being accepted by the college "We're thrown In, we're misfits." which can answer his question. The names of those on the on 'reasonable terms.'" Qualified students who apply Miss Lawson, attacking the program's disadvantages service will be published when it begins to function. late are accepted on a summer-February basis rather again and again, was adamant about abolishment of the Once the servicelsoperationalltwill be self-perpetuat- than being placed on a waiting list, the young woman program. She ruled out danger of no education at all for ing because the members will be able to train others who explained. the thirty summer-February participants, believing that wf sh to join the group. Mr. Merkleenvlsions a draft coun- The student found inequities in both parts of the sum- most of the thirty applied to other schools as well. She seling service which wUi hopefully be able to expand In mer-February program. One of the chief problems of asserted that it would have been better to have gone a this manner so that draft counseling can be done for draft the summer was lack of advice. "The administration regular year to a school with a poor academic rating eligible men In Westminster High School, although the was very negUgent In that we had nO' advisors or ad- rather than spending summer and second semester at service would sUll be essentially and primarily for the Vice," she stated. "We walked in, to courses b!~ru:ilY, Western Maryland. students of Western Maryland College, Mr. Merkle hopes without even knowing requirements for our major." Not The dissatisfied woman refused to offer suggestions that some sort of systemwilleventuallybefeaslble where using the summer courses advantageously will result for improvement of the program, fearing that It would a .per.son desiring advice could call the service and set in still being classified as a freshman next year be- negate her abolishment position. She did say, however, up an appointment. cause of too few hours, Miss Lawson said. that an orientation or "warning" period for summer stu- dents should be held, warning them not to return to Wes- The woman student admitted to having a slight advant- educating the deaf age over straight at summer-February of Maryland during the tern Maryland in February for their own acacemrc wel- students in that she took courses she said, fare. "I'm going to come back and warn them," the University first semester. Even so, she claimed, transferrlngcredUs perhaps only half jokingly. (Continued from Page I) Graduate job placement shows increase at WMC additionally burdened with motor coordinatlondlftlculties, vision problems, and mental retardation. Is it any wonder, then, that deafness is often regarded as the most profound According to Wray Mowbray, there is an increase in the parttctpattng in the recruitment program. He suggested handicap a child can have? 1970 graduate job placement at western Maryland College, the number was small because a high percentage of the In an urgent attempt to get more teachers, the U. S. Westminster, Maryland. seniors are already committed to the field of education, Government's orrtce of Education Is providing large Mowbray, Dean of Men at the college and campus nason to graduate or professional schools, or to the military grants for graduate study in the field of education of for job recruitment said in an recent Interview that there services. the deaf. All that is required to be eligible for these have been few recruitment r-anceuauons this year on the Mowbray suggested the ultimate rasponstontty for find- fellowships Is an interest In the field and acceptance campus. The Westminster trend is contrary to current ing a job lies with the student. "1 don't know if the col1ege at a graduate program, such as that at Gallaudet Co1iege. trends at other colleges and universities where, accord- will ever get jobs for students. That's the student's re- More than 50 colleges and universities offer such pro- Ing to the February 16 Issue of The Chronicle of Higher sponsibility," he said. The college may aid students in grams. Tragically, many grants go untaken simply be- Education, job recruitment Is at the lowest point of the job placement, the dean continued, but usually through cause people who potentially would be Interested do not past decade. the departmental chairman who recommend students for know about the need or challenge for teachers. certain positions. Students at Western Maryland College are blessed Twenty-five companies are recruiting at the college The dean saId he had many job listings but that few stu- with one of the foremost experts in the problems of in 1~70. In 196~, there were only fourteen or fifteen com- dents were Interested. "Students do not take advantage deafness, Dr. McCayVernon. Dr. Vernon has done a great panies represented, Mowbray said. of what we do have here," he stated.over-y few students deal of urgently needed research In the field, and hIs Most of the companies recruiting at Western Maryland come In and look through the material. rt's there if the are large private concerns or government agencies. Mow- students want it. Again, its the responsibility of the stu- students are In the enviable position of being able to take bray named City Service on Company, Chesapeake and dents to come In. I just try to make It available to them." full advantage of his wide knowledge and experience. Potomac Telephone Company, Dupont Corporation, R. J. There Is every expectation that graduates of WMC's pro- Reynolds Company, Maryland National Bank, Food and gram will be among the bestquaUfiedteachersof the deaf Drug Administration, Social Security, and several insur- SHARKEY'S OPEN 24 HRS. today. ance companies as recruitersattheWestminstercampus. In light of new and stimulating teacher-training pro- One of the few local businesses to recruit, the dean satct, grams such as that at Western Maryland,enlightenIngand Is Hutzler's of Baltimore. He added that a number of mili- c~al1englng new research, and experimental new programs tary reserve unUs recruit also. u.s. 140 in schools for the deaf, the future looks bright Indeed. As Mowbray said that companies today want people with 3 MILES EAST OF Dr. Jerome Schein stated in a widely quoted article recent- education for managerial positions. He explained that most WESTMINsTER ly, "To expect the average deaf child to achieve as much businesses prefer people wIth a liberal arts background as the average hearing chUd Is as fantastic as to expect a rather than a specialized, technoluglcal background. man to walk on the moon." The dean estimated that only thirty-five seniors are