tl19651203-000 "Vol. XVIII, No. 10 December 3, 1965 Christmas Festivities To Last All Weekend In keeping with the special activities of Towson State's Centennial year, the traditional Christmas Dance has been ex- Panded to a full week-end of ac-tivities. A Jam Session and a concert will be added to enliven the festivities. On Friday, December 10, the '1-eshman class will get its first �PPortunity to demonstrate its social ingenuity, as the Frosh are sponsoring the Jam Session. The 8:30 to 11:30 event will feature the music of ""Dave and the Triumphs."" On Saturday night, the Junior Class, under the di-rection of class president Stan Brady, will initiate a new trend in Towson dances. ""Sonny and the Nomads"" and the ""Con' Cords"" will Provide music for non-stop dancing for those bored with frequent intermissions. , As usual, all persons attend. 'rig the dance are requested to Diace a small gift under the Christmas tree for children who Would otherwise spend an un-happy Christmas. Registration Begins For All Students Advanced registration for the SPring Semester begins next 'peek, as the Registrar's Office ""rePares for the largest mid-ea1/' r registration in Towson's ""Istory, Advance registration course ifi;stirlgs and complete instruc-t1"" s are now available from Te Registrar's Office. Since 'nere is a limited number of the 11:""e5s1onally printed booklets, dents are urged to pick theirs ,,s`D and keep it accessable until 'ekistration is complete. liecause of a delay in the 'iU DPIY of forms, freshman (Continucd On Page .1) Added to this year's agenda is a Folk-Rock concert on Sun-day, December 12. Students and guests will be entertained by the up and coming ""Bitter End Singers"" who have performed on many college campuses and have appeared on several tele-vision shows. SGA Social Chairman, Hanna Winkler, commented that the entire week-end has been plan-ned with the purpose of putting the students into an apropriate spirit for the coming Christmas Holiday. NSA, Students, Discuss Problems The National Student Asso-ciation Convention was held on the Towson campus on Sunday, November 21. There were four workshops, n ""The Role of Per-tinent Student Publications."" ""Course Evaluation,"" ""Student Rights in College Policy-making,"" and ""The Program-ming of Community Involve-ment."" The workshop on student publications was led by Hilary Lerner, co-editor of the Goucher Weekly. Students involved in various types of publications from Howard University, Morgan State, Towson State, Trinity College, Dumbarton College and Bowie State at-tended the workshop. The role of a college news-paper, as discussed in the work-shop, is to mold and enhance student opinions. The philosophy of each individual paper deter-mines whether or not it is effec-tive in this role. Miss Lerner stressed the in-clusion of national and inter-national issues to prevent the newspaper from becoming merely a bulletin of coming events. Problems of layout, proof-reading, deadlines, and suitable material were discussed, giving the participants fresh Seniors Must Take Test On February 1 Participation in the Senior Testing Program is a College graduation requirement. All students who expect to complete their undergraduate requirements by June, 1966, August, 1966, or January, 1967 should plan to fulfill the Senior Test requirement on Tuesday, February 1, 1966. This date, which is the day before the Spring semester begins, was selected to avoid cancelation of classes and to avoid interfer-ence with Saturday jobs. To insure eligibility for the February 1 test date, completion of a registration form is necessary. Seniors who register for the Spring semester will be issued test registration forms and ad-ditional information at that time. Seniors who do not plan to register for the Spring semes-ter should obtain test registra-tion forms from Miss Younger in Stephens Hall, Room 1. This year, for the first time, the Senior Tests will consist of the Area Tests of the Graduate Record Exami-nation for all students. The Area Tests consist of tests in the areas of Social Sci-ence, humanities and natu-ral science and are designed to assess the broad out-comes of education in the liberal arts. The results of these tests will allow seniors to compare their performance with that of other Towson seniors and with seniors across the Nation. The testing session will be from 8:00 a.m. to approximately 12:15 p.m. Specific location and other details will be supplied prior to the test date. The Freshman (STEP) Test-ing Program, which in recent years was administered between semesters, will not be offered this year. Film Scheduled The Christian Science Organ-ization is sponsoring a film, ""The Story of Christian Sci-ence"", to be shown in the Newell Hall Chapel on Tuesday, Dec-ember 7, at 6:15 p.m. Mr. Lloyd E. Contant, Committee on Pub-lication for Maryland, will be presented for a question period after the showing of the film. All are welcome to attend. ideas for dealing with their own problems. In the workshop on course evaluation, the students dis-cussed reasons for courses' not meeting the aims of higher ed-ucation. The main problems seem to be student irresponsi-bility, lack of culture interest, large classes, and lack of com-munication with professors. A highlight of the workshop on course evaluation was a plan for setting up course evalua-tion programs. Such programs may be either published or non-published and may be aimed either at a course or at the pro-fessors. A major prerequisite lor set-ting up course evaluations is that the student body must know the aims of higher educa-tion and be aware of the prob-lems involved. It was empha-sized that the objection is to im-prove the process of learning, not to criticize the administra-tion or faculty. Before distribution of the pro-gram, students and faculty should informally discuss ideas, innovations, and possible solu-tions to the problems. Once per-mission is granted, the question-naire is distributed to the pro-fessors who give it to their classes. Models of questionnaires are available through NSA, al..' though each school should adapt them to fit individual situations. Through use of course evalu-ation techniques, a dialogue be-tween students and professors can be created to further educa-on Tuesdays and Wednesdays attended this workshop had had experience with course evalua-tion at their schools and dis-cusses their effectiveness. Towson Hosts Wrestling Event As Part Of Caw Centennial In accordance with the Cen-tennial celebration at the Col-lege, the Towson State wrestl-ing team is sponsoring an in-tercollegiate wrestling tourna-ment on Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4. The tournament is the first of its kind to be held in this area. Seven other colleges will compete with Towson State: Baltimore University, the Uni-versity of Delaware, Loyola College, Old Dominion College, West Chester State College, Washington and Lee University, and Western Maryland College. Preliminary round matches begin at 2:30 p.m., Friday, the semi-final round is at 8 p.m., consolation matches will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, and the final round will follow the consolation bouts at 8 p.m. All Towson students will be admitted free to the tourna-ment, but they must have their activity cards with them. All non-students will be charged $1 for admission, while non-Tow-son students will be charged $.50. Towson will be out to avenge a dual-meet loss last year to Baltimore Univer-sity, and will be seeking to upset last year's Conference tournament champions, Old Dominion. (Continued on Page 4) Students forced to eat lunch on Book Shop steps because of lack of space in the Student Centre. Perhaps the space problem solution is more steps. "
