THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1963 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1963 )UNCIL MEETING: Sigrman Tells SGC Pilot Project Aims PTP Presents Two Comedies By MARY LOU BUTCHER The literary college Pilot Project vas devised "to try to improve he intellectual atmosphere in the esidence hall and to increase nterest in learning," Herbert Sig- nan, Grad, coordinator for the >roject, told Student Government -ouncil members at their meeting Wednesday. The project, involving freshmen iving in Greene and Hinsdale -ouse in East Quadrangle and Departments' Requirements Vary on Test By-ALAN Z. SIULMAN The Graduate Record Examina- ion, to be given Nov. 16 and at rarious other times throughout he academic year, is not a gen- ral University requirement for dmission to the graduate school. Following a format almost iden- ical with that of the Scholastic kptitude Tests given to entering undergraduates, the GRE consists f an aptitude test which measures eneral verbal and quantitative kills and an advanced test which mphasizes comprehension of the >asic materials in the student's )roposed graduate major. Requirements However, individual departments vithin the school can superimpose additional requirements on the Jniversity's minimum admission tandards, particularly when han- iling borderline cases. The Grad- uate Record Examination is one uch requirement. Commenting on the relative im- >ortance of the GRE in selecting tudents for graduate work, Prof. rohn E. Milholland of the Psy- hQlogy department, and chief of he Evaluation and Examination Division of the Institute of Hu- nan Adjustment said, "If it is available, it is used as an item of nformation along with the under- ;raduate record, teacher recom- nendations and any work or re- earch done with faculty mem- ters. It is only one aspect of the admissions system. "One advantage of the GRE is hat it gives the Graduate School a common denominator in evalu- ating students who come from different. undergraduate colleges" Little House in Mary Markley Hall, seeks to unite the social and academic process as closely as pos- sible, Sigman said. There are 150 participants in the project, who are encouraged to elect common sections in their freshmen courses. Relationship Although the project is only in its second year, a "definite rela- tion between learning and social contacts has been found," he noted. Another effect of the project has been to increase student-faculty contact on an informal basis. "The major concern of the proj- ect is to discover in what ways the classroom and the living unit can be related to make a more valuable living experience," Sig- man said. The success of the Pilot Project may well influence the University's plans to construct residence halls on North Campus. Presently the planning commit- tee for the project, consisting of John Taylor, director of East Quadrangle; John Pyper, director of Mary Markley Hall; three stu- dents representing each of the houses involved; and Sigman, as an ex-officio member, is engaged in assessing the value of the proj- ect. SGC Approval Student Government Council approved a motion submitted by Michael Knapp, '64, that Council request the opportunity to appoint an additional memberhnot involv- ed in the project to the planning committee. Knapp noted that it is impor- tant to obtain the views of a per- son not involved in the living atmosphere of the houses partici- pating in the project. Executive Vice-President Thom- as Smithson, '65, noted that "this project can have an influence on the ongoing education of the Uni- versity. It can encourage the ex- pansion and growth of the Univer- sity." Daily Editor Ronald Wilton, '64, pointed out that "the philosophy behind this project is so broad that it could have important ram- ifications for the University and higher education throughout the oountry." Submit Report Sigman noted that he would take Council's request to the plan- ning committee and report on its decision as soon as possible. In other action taken at the meeting, Council approved the ap- pointments of the following mem- bers to the standing committees: Student activities committee: Scott Crooks, '65; Patrician El- kins, '64; Curtis Huntington, '63; Fred Rhines, '64. Student concerns committee: Gary Cunningham, '66; Gretchen Groth, '64; Knapp; Elaine Resmer, '64. National Student Association committee: Edwin Sasaki, Grad; Raymond Rusnak, '64; Clifford Taylor, '64. University affairs: Charlene Hager, '64; Howard Schechter, '66; Wilton. DIAL 2-6264 ENDING TODAY "MONDO CANE" Shown cft 1:05, 3, 5, 7 and 9 Ballet Group To Initiate 'U' Program The University Musical Society's Chamber Dance Festival will take place this weekend in Rackham Aud. The three-part festival will be opened by the Marina Svetlova Dance Ensemble at 8:30 p.m. to- day. Miss Svetlova, a former bal- lerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, will present a program of classical bal- let. Among the pieces to be pre- sented will be Chopin's "Les Sylphides," Debussy's "Cake Walk" and De Falla's "Farruca." The second program will be Shanta Rao and her company of dancers and musicians from South India at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. Shanta Rao, the leading dancer of India, will present works rep- resentative of three classical styles of Indian dancingeas well as examples of folk dance of the Andhra State and Malabar Coast. The final presentation in the festival will be the Hungarian Ballet's "Bihari," with Nora Ko- vach and Istvan Rabovsky at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The program will be a mixture of the classical ballet with the native dances of Hun- gary, accompanied by a Gypsy instrumental ensemble. All of the members of the com- pany are Hungarian artists- who defected from Communist control. The "Bihari" will include in its program the national "Czardas" and "Verbunkos" as well as two full-length ballets. Kovack and Rabovsky were stars of the Budapest Opera Ballet and Leningrad Ballet until their highly publicized defection from Com- munist Hungary in 1953. A unique Hungarian instrument, the cymbalum, a wirestrung in- strument played with mallets, will be heard in solo at the presenta- tion. - dffffl "I HELD OV ER' "FUN...SPICE AND IMAGINATION!" LESLIE CARON r FABLES OF MOVE ROSSANO BRAZZIMONIGAVIT CHARLEsAZNVOR DIAL 8-6416 a' COMI NG: "THE FACE OF WAR" SOPH SHOW'63, "PAJAMA GAME" Tickets Still Available For Saturday Matinee-$1.50 BOX OFFICE OPEN DAILY 12:30-5:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theater t PERFORM "PHOENIX"-The Professional Theater Program presents Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and Moliere's "Scapin" at 8:30 today at Trueblood Aud. The double bill is the second program of the season for the PTP which is part of the Association of Producing Artists. "Phoe- nix" and "Scapin" run the gamut of methods of humor, featuring both sophisticated comedy and slapstick. HIGHER EDUCATION: Hatcb Defines College Standards aid. Work load By JEFFREY GOODMAN "With all the talk about rais- ing standards in American schools and colleges, not enough attention has been given to the problem of what these standards are," Wins- low R. Hatch points out in a pam- phlet "What Standards Do We Raise?" Hatch is director of the Clear- inghouse of Studies on Higher Ed- ucation for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The pamphlet was published this year as part of the Office of Edu- cation's "Dimensions in Higher Education" series. The firstsof the 21 standards cited is a college's disposition to involve students more extensively in the acquisition of knowledge and to involve faculty more ex- tensively in its critical examina- tion. Basic Principle The principle behind this stand- ard is that the personal inter- cession of a teacher is not essen- tial to the student's acquiring knowledge. Teachers, on the other hand, cannot afford merely to in- struct; their function should be an extension of, not a means to, the acquisition of information. Manifestations of this emphasis are included in further standards shown by Hatch. Quality is indi- cated in colleges which are most successful in involving their stu- dents in independent study, in which the teacher can devote his time to "reinforcing, extending and examining the information acquired by the student." Furthermore, colleges should provide adequate learning and re- source materials as an integral cross Camp us Prof. Daniel Katz of the psy- 'chology dept. will speak at 12 noon today in 5615 Haven Hall on "Who Shall Speak for the APA." New Look ... Prof. Marcus Bach of the Uni- versity of Iowa will speak on "A New Look at Church Street U.S.A." at 8 p.m. today at the YM-YWCA. X-Ray Analysis . . Prof. J. Monteath Robertson of the University of Glasgow will speak on "Application of X-Ray Analysis to Alkoloid Structures" at 8 p.m. today in Rm. 1300 Chem- istry Bldg. part of the curriculum. The col-! lege should offer common or core curricula, "b r i n g i n g together courses and teachers that have heretofore been kept apart in the student's mind" which establishes a more "solid curricular context" for an individual's efforts. In general, the quality school will have a significant impact on the formation of values and habits in its students. It will be deliber- ately permissive and flexible, em- phasizing "clearly formulated and jealously defended" policies on academic freedom, informal rela- tionships between teachers and students and flexible course and degree requirements. A further standard is based on the school "whose introductory courses reflect a discriminating scholarship and also exploit uniqueness, the point being to make the courses sufficiently above high school courses in meth- od and content to challenge stu- dents." Quality will also be indicated by a school's willingness to recognize and compensate effective teach- ing. "Where good teaching is in- sisted upon, it should be recog- nized and adequately compensat- ed," Hatch said. Summarizing the student char- acteristics correlated with these institutional standards, Hatch pointed to findings by the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley: "disposition to work in- dependently and to like it, an in- tellectual orientation, a liberal outlook, an experimental non- stereotyped cast of mind, sensitiv- ity, flexibility, tolerance, a crea- tive-artistic flair and a resistance to leveling influences and to con- formity for conformity's sake." Order Your Daily Now- 'NO 2-34 LMIINOU S! -Time Magazine, { _ _ _- B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION 1429 Hill "Students who score well on the examinations have sufficient in- telligence and ability to carry the work load in graduate school," Prof. Milholland added. He pointed out, however, that there was no definitive correla- tion between the student's per- formance on the GRE and his performance in graduate school. "The correlation is positive but it is not particularly large. It is far from being an infallible pre- dictor." THEATRE HILLEL ORGANIZATION MEETING Sunday, Oct. 27, 4:30 P.M. OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED SUPPER CLUB Serving Kosher Delicatessdn Sundays at 5:30 P.M. I . Tickets may be available at the door before each performance 7:00-8:0 4 STUDENTS & FACULTY IN NEED OF A LAUGH? CALL 662m8871 for Ciheina quild PROGRAM INFORMATION DIAL 5-6290 N 0 w I BRITAIN'S ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEST ACTRESS STARTING J[6"$3 1I M t Like most of us, you probably feel pressured at times with the demands made on you for original thinking, -for fresh ideas that will lift your work above the commonplace. Through the stud* of this book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, we are learn- ing how to turn to God for the intelligent ideas we need. You can do this, too. We invite you to come to our meetings and to hear how we are working out our problems through applying the truths of 01* + QCl n ..t- ...~v v ..vv.. .n t -..n..r. . .... .. r . ... ... . .. . v ... ....-,.... .... .:...: .......... .... ...-r-. ........: .v-:.;..r..w:..... ::.::. 4 t1 . - "SCAPIN" and THE ANN ARBOR NEWS APA Twin Bill (New D ramaCritic amusement that alternated from sly sophistic digs to slapstick and "'Phoenix" and "Scapin" are an back again like lightning. evening of sheer delight. An xust preesi h hout a mcssr e for l iterrh-uaig touch of director Stephen Porter teca funlie.AP crespecte complemented the vigor of the bothic by mpaki is two classics three players tostmake the whole Laughter chased thie 20th cen- slightly earth-colored fun that anryimpish adieu as we trpped Changing his mood completely lightly into Fry's Roman tomb in the second half of the pro- and Moliere's Gallicized Naples gram, Porter gave "Scapin" a simply and purely to enjoy our- reading broad enough to have sent even Moliere into howling 0 "LES-LIE CARON IS IMMENSELY AFFECTING. I RECOMMEND THE PICTURE TO EVERYONE." -New Yorker Magazine "Stunning performance! Leslie Caron imbues it with tremendous compassion and charm.". -New York Times "A bittersweet extravaganza of. emotionalism... eudlessly suggestive." -Newsweek "Highest Rating: Another film of award calibre. New York Daily News i I A I I U -- I - I