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Show "Engineers usually have in their family or circle of friends an admired person who is an engineer/' says Noel de Ne-vers, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. The stereotype of an uninterested, conservative technologist who would like the rest of the University done away with is an illusion perpetuated by ignorance. Engineering students are required to take roughly one quarter of Humanities and Social Science Classes, and the department sponsors a General Education class concerned with the impact of technological devices and ideas-the class is considered crucial at this time when so many people tend to blame our problems on engineering run amok. Introducing flexibility into the Core courses required of all students has made major changes in departmental curricula, but basic courses are still the worst subject to mention to an undergraduate. A new form of class has been introduced in Electrical Engineering. The student is given a list of problems which he is to do on his own--meeting with a TA only once or twice a week, in less than five tries. Each of his attempts is grades A, B, or Incomplete and, if he cannot solve the problems in the given number of attempts, he fails. A professor supervises the entire class and is used as a resource person. Many persons on campus were surprised this year when the Engineers campaigned so vigorously for the Student Assembly. They hadn't been aware that the Sliderule boys thought of themselves as a part of the University community. "Money would alleviate some of the problems in the College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation." says Dean Ovid Hunter. "We need to buy more equipment and pay a better faculty, but most people associate us with athletics. We just share the same facilities-most athletes are in Business, not P.E. Our department has few scholarships." The College disburses over 30,000 credit hours a year, making it one of the larger educational departments. Its graduate program, too, is very large-first or second in the number of graduate students enrolled. Class enrollment has increased by 25% since the old General Education PhysEd and Health requirements were eliminated. In addition to training a large number of future High School Physical Education teachers, HPER produces collegiate coaches, recreation directors and this year is graduating its first class of Physical Therapists, a group of twenty students. Physical therapy is admini- stered by HPER in conjunction with Physical Medicine, and is one of the toughest two-year programs of its type in the nation. The Dean is satisfied with general usage of the new HPER complex, but expects an increase in activity in coming years, as the University Recreation Program (which he also administers) continues to grow. "Our department is continually thought of as a part of athletics. In the future I hope to change the name of the College because Physical Education is attached to sports in most student's minds." The traditional studies of man and his works fall under the jurisdiction of Dean Alfred Cave. His academic department, the College of Humanities, carries on the oldest continual search for knowledge in the Western world. This is not to say that the college is fossilized-although still sticking to the old Letters and Sciences requirements and curriculum, a new program that will allow greater flexibility in determining the major course of study, permit interdisciplinary movement and leave the way open for greater student participation in education is being studied and will probably be put into effect within the next three years. With an enrollment of better than 1500 undergraduates and some 400 graduate students, the college is one of the largest on campus. Its rapid growth in recent years has forced it to increase its share of classroom space borrowed from other academic divisions, and its students often have to trek across campus between classes. These factors and a need for more general-usage space have prompted some speculation about construction of a new Humanities building, but it will probably be some time in the future before speculation becomes a reality. Whether he is a Philosophy, History, Language, English, Journalism or Speech major, a student in the College of Humanities has a long line of intellectual greats to accompany him as he slogs through a blizzard from Milton Bennion to Orson Spencer Hall on the way to his 8:50 class. |