The Newest Order- Original Concept for Organizing Day in More Economical Ways THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR SYSTEM: Enjoying Life Withou By Jean Spencer and Pat Golden A night person should not be forced into day living., NEW COL * NEW BOC NE W KIT ALL KNITTING EQU *1 0 Nickels Arcade *************** G K aF " ORS )KS JIPMENTr "K 'K I 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K inued from page Three he tension created by the or clock-directed people the break has degenerated in- rticular period of time dur-' ich the individual needs a for reasons entirely unre- o the activity he is pursu- e needs a coffee break sole- ause it's 10 a.m. ARLY, if 10 a.m. occurs in e middle of the sleeping per- r a person who organizes his according to his particular he is not going to wake up a sound sleep to satisfy his -break need. e becomes interested enough job, he may even learn to his coffee while he works, iminate the break entirely. y still be measuring out his i coffee-spoons, but at least umber per day will be a ble. formity in general loses its . If a person knows he is ing during his best hours and what he feels is most prof- , he becomes less iearful about whpt other people are do ing at the same time. The in- creased self-assurance of making personal decisions and carrying them out releases the individual from the need to do as others do. CONVERSELY, keeping what are now considered unusual hours will cease to be a status symbol. If more people find they work better at night, thn fewer people will be tempted to be night people just to be different. The core of the plan is indi- viduality. If everyone strives for sincere individuality, the status value of conformity and eccentri- city are nil. Another result is increased ac- ceptance of individual difference. Neither night nor day people can scorn the others if they know each person has decided upon his own kind of life. In time, this could lead to a generally broadened sense of equality and mutual re- spect for personal decisions. One objection which has been raised about the plan is that the University community would be so split that people would never see some of their friends. Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. TAINLY A PORTION of the divorce suits taken to court each year may be directly attri- butedto the unfortunate circum- stance of a day person unwittingly falling in love with a night person. Organizations on campus would also function more efficiently if they were composed either of all night people or all day people. Then meetings could be held at the time most convenient for all participants Fewer people would be awake and active at any particular time of the day or night. Each person, during his waking hours, would thus know a larger proportion of the sea of faces around him. With the resulting increase in the feeling of belonging, students would be less driven to form cliques and in-groups for identifi- cation. Social stratification, there- fore, would be based on the much more practicalbasis of compatible living hours. rFE MOST IMPORTANT impact of the 24 hour system would be upon the individual's strength of character and self-reliance. DIAMONDS - WATCHES -- WEDDING RINGS CIRCLE PINS MICHIGAN JEWELRY NECKLACES - CLASS RINGS BRACELETS CHARMS WATCH BANDS sca INDIAN JEWELRY NORT[I UNIVERsITY JEWELERS (near IItIl A:t /olimun) ANN ARBOR, MICEiGAN The current system tends to make students value certain periods of time far less than others, simply because they occur between particularly significant periods of clock-directed activity. For instance, a clock-directed individual may have a class com- mitment which ends at 4 p.m. and a dinner commitment which begins at 6 p.m. Because he habitually studies between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., he doesn't regard the hours be- tween 4 and 6 as potential study time. The person who has selected the time period during which he func- tions best, on the other hand, is acutely conscious of the value of every minute and every hour. He- will not minimize one bloc of time merely because the end of it signals the start of a particularly delegated period of activity. In- stead, he will want even more to use this time as efficiently as he can. W ITHOUT A CLOCK concept, the student will begin to seriously evaluate the ways in whih he is using his precious al- lotment of time. He will tend to cut out unprofitable activities, and those which he does not particu- larly enjoy. He will prefer to spend his leisure time doing those things which really give him satisfaction. Thinking about time instead of hours will not make the student anti-social, but it may change his social pattern somewhat. Much of social pressure-is tied to the feair of hours and special time periods. What will people think if I stay home on Saturday night? Granted, people who really en- joy purely social gathering where conversation is purely social will W HY does a clock with no hands mean death? What terrible significance draws one'sl eyes to the clock from five to fifty times in an hour? America, with every sweep of the second hand, becomes more clock-direct- ed. The formal allotment of certain hours for certain tasks activities is currently valued more highly than the achievements which may take place in these hours. A rad- ical realignment of values is called for! Scheduling should fit PAPER-BOUND BOOKS . 50 Publishers Represented PROMPT SERVICE On Special Orders OVERBECK'S BOOKSTORE This clock should be tke symbol of a productive life. the individual goals-not vice-ver- .sa. Hours should be determined by the needs of the individual- not in spite of them.- ODERN society is oriented to the eight hour work day. An overwhelming number o% people regard the hours between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. as non-functional. After spending some time study- ing in the early evening, most students close their books and turn to relaxation or sleep. Their activities during a normal class day are mainly passive, e.g. sit- ting in class, in a restaurant or in the library. MHnce, while academics tend to taper off around 10 p.m., the student still possesses consider- able physical energy and alert- ness, so he spends the next few hours talking. The tension pro- duced by spending a specific bloc of time in class and studying makes him turn to purely recre- ational pursuits which may ex- tend into the early hours of the morning. Naturally, the student wakes up tired, gropes through breakfast, drags himself to early classes, and only begins to function by 10 or 11 a.m. His*peak of efficiency occurs between 4 and 7 p.m. This time, however, is normal- ly spent in a formidable proces- sion of coffee dates, committee meetings, culminating in a leis- urely dinner. The vicious circle then begins again: A set number of hours spent pouring over books, a period of complete re- laxation, and a few hours of sleep. TfH IS monotonous pattern cre- ates the attitude that arbi- trarily defined blocs of time should be spent in arbitrarily se- lected activities. Thus the indi- vidual is encouraged to divide his approach to two pursuits which should be integrated-academic and personal development. The student approaches his work in terms of hours instead of specific goals. Consequently, he loses the incentive of goal accom- plishment and becomes complete- ly clock-directed. Clock-directed people are prob- ably the least creative citizens, al- though for certain tasks they may be the most efficient. Society needs a certain number of clock- directed people, but perhaps not as many as are being produced by institutes of higher education today. The problem, then, is to break down the hour concept for a greater number of people, so that clock-direction will not be encour- aged to such a degree. THIS could be accomplished by running the University on a 24 hour basis. Libraries and other reference and study facilities would remain open continuously. No students would be forced to re- main in residence halls during specific hours of the day or night. Residence halls would serve meals every four hours. More evening classes would be offered so that the number of classes held morn- ing, afternoon and evening was fairly equalized. The benefits to the individual may beevaluated in terms of the individual's increased productiv- ty, indivduality, and compatibil- ity. The first element of the plan is that each individual must ex- plore his own- personality suffi- ciently to decide when. he func- tions best. If a person does not know when his most productive hours occur, he will naturally have to do some experimentation, Th i s might mean that foraweek or two he would live a totally unscheduled life in an effort to. determine which hours were least function- al for him. Jean Spencer is editorial di- rector of The Daily. Pat Golden is a sophomore on The Daily majoring in far eastern studies. They stay up all night. They're both a little crazy. Join the Michigan Daily Business Staff Now! See MARGIE or MIKE or JUDY ..a ? ' . . clockdiretion Sine th num .:~ a: I + WHEN he had found his best time periods and developed an informal schedule to utilize them, the student could proceed to lead a less exhausting yet more pro- ductive life. Students who found they work- ed best during hours different from those currently considered normal would soon lose their clock-direction. 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