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The Maroon Tiger
December 7,1978
Page 6
Bring vour own lunch
Dairy Queen, Burger King, Church’s Chicken and Campus
Snack Bars Provide No Real Alternative To Eating
by Gerald A. Baker
During the past few years,
fastfood operations have helped
keep the ever popular college coed
happy. These fastfooderies have
supplied the students of Atlanta
University Center with french fries,
hamburgers, chicken, diarrhea,
etc. The list is endless. While
attending school'at Da’ House, as
it is so called, I have frequented
several of these franchises. After
visiting some of the restaurants in
and around school, I feel it would
be safer to eat at Chestnut Street.
Dairy Queen, being the most
popular, is located just a stones
throw from Wheeler Hall. The
hamburgers smell delicious but, as
you near the door you realize that
the smell is coming from the gas
station across the street. I was
greeted by one of the Jolly
Jumping Grandmothers that made
Dairy Queen a household word. I
could have sworn the lady was only
16 years old. Placing my order of a
Super Brazier, french fries, and a
coke, I headed to the back dining
room. All I can say for the meal is,
if you like eating those unidentified
frying objects you find in soybean
burgers, enjoy yourself.
Grading
Palo Alto, Calif.-(I.P.)-Grading
has its agonies and its equities, but
there may be a few ways to even it
up, a faculty panel suggested at
Stanford University recently.
Since most of the grading duties
fall on the shoulders of teaching
assistants, it behooves faculty
members to make clear to them
what’s expected of students, said
Prof. John Goheen, ombudsman
and director of freshman seminars.
Goheen, professor of
philosophy, chaired a panel on
grading problems which included
Prof. Lawrence Ryan, English,
chairman of humanities special
programs, and Prof. Dow O.
Woodward, biological sciences.
One method, Ryan suggested,
might be reuglar staff meetings to
set standards and a reasonable
coordination of examination
questions and grading policies,
especially for the larger classes.
In the Structured Liberal
Education program, in which
Goheen teaches, everything about
a student’s performance is taken
into account-section participation,
examinations, required papers—
so that as objective a picture as
possible of the individual student
can be obtained.
Ryan pointed out the difficulties
of grading in a three-quarter
course like Western Thought and
Literature,which often has had
three different instructors from
three different departments, from
150 to 300 students, and six to nine
teaching assistants.
TAs from different departments,
as well as instructors, often have
different approaches to the same
subject, and it’s often difficult fora
student to know the bias of
either,the panel agreed. “The
better you mimic the professor’s
Church’s Chicken is the ultimate
in frying hens. Church’s has an
interesting bill of fare ranging from
the small snack box to the giant 24
piece box. I ordered the two piece
dinner complete with fries, cole
slaw, and even hot peppers. This
meal was good by all means but
remember the old adage, “when
you’re hungry you’ll eat anything.”
Biting into the chicken was like
wrestling an alligator. It is best to
eat this meal in the car so you can
drive straight to the hospital.
Burger King, the expressway of
A.U. Center. As I piloted the car
into the parking lot, I noticed
familiar faces leaving the area.
Being an old Burger King fan from
those days of cruising the Florida
beach, I ordered the favorite
Whopper. 1 asked for a large
orange drink but the girl kept
saying “erange." I sat by the front
window just in case a grease fire
broke out I could jump through it
to safety. The hamburger was big
but tasted like bonfire smoke after
a big game. I was thinking of
saving the hamburger and patch an
old tire I have at home. The cheese
was bland and the hamburger was
attitude and thought processes, the
better your grade, Woodward
commented.”
Some of the 50 TAs and
graduate students in the room
questioned the lack of creativity in
this approach. “Some of us have
been doing that for 12 years,” one
observed. Some TAs only do
grading and they often imposed
their own biases, especially if they
don’t serve as-instructors as well,
,v oodward observed.
ETS’s Richard T. Murphy, who
directed the PLATA evaluation,
and Lola Rhea Appel found no
consistent positive or negative
effects on student achievement or
attrition—the drop-out rate— that
could be linked to PLATO’s use.
The study determined, however,
that PLATO provided a medium
of instruction with broad appeal to
both students and teachers. In fact,
PLATO students showed more
favorable attitudes toward compu
ters and computer-assisted instruc
tion than non-PLATO students.
Abcut half the students thought
that course material presented by
, PLATO helped them learn better
than course material presented in
class lectures. Large majorities (70
percent to 90 percent) said they
continued their instruction on
PLATO beyond the end of class,
felt PLATO made good use of
examples and illustrations,
believed they could make mistakes
without embarrassment and could
take part in their instruction at
each step in the lessons, and
expressed a desire to take other
PL.ATO courses.
Observers found that students
were attentive to their work,
relaxed and enthusiastic, neither
,‘onfused nor frustrated, and able
to use PLATO terminals easily.
juicy enough to take a bath after
eating. The football team of an
opposing college would love this
place.
Moving a little closer to campus,
let us look at the Clark College
Recreation Room Restarurant.
After placing my order of a fish
sandwich, I declined when the
cook was scratching her head and
turning the fish with the same
hand. I finally got a hamburger
and fries. The hamburger was on
the bread and that’s all I can say. I
used the grease from it to change
the oil in my car. A friendly
warning, it’s best to eat this meal
and run because you will be
running at home or in the
dormitory.
Morris Brown College, suppos
edly known for southern hospital
ity, has a snack bar tucked far at
the end of the campus and believe
me it should be at the end of town. I
accompanied a homeboy there one
day to munch and was delighted by
the cleanliness of the place. Even
the so called hamburger I received
was fried in Lysol. The french fries
came in a small serving boat of
some kind with red stripes. (Drown
More than 80 percent of the
teachers surveyed said PLATO
had a positive effect on student
i attitudes and achievement, and
better than three in five believed
PLATO was beneficial to student-
student and student-instructor
interactions.
A critical factor that accounted
for PLATO’s high acceptance and
usage was the control the teachers
had over the system. Each instruc
tor determined how much his stu
dents would use it and for what
lessons it would be available.
PLATO is a large educational
computing network developed at
the Computer based Educational
Research Laboratory in Urbana,
Ill. The display screen for a
PLATO terminal is a panel that
can provide simple repetitive skills
to give students practice in basic
concepts, or relay graphics to illus
trate principle in the physical scien
ces and simulate laboratory
experiments. Input is channeled
through a typewriter-like
keyboard.
Developed by the MITRE Cor
poration, TICCIT combines min
icomputers and television receivers
in its instructional system. The ter
minal is a color television set modi
fied to accept digitial computer
signals and translate them into dis
play frames. Students use an elec
tronic keyboard that accompanies
the television receivers to com
municate with the computer
system.
In the PLATO evaluation, les
sons were computerized and inte
grated into some accounting,
biology, chemistry, English and
mathematics courses at Five Illi
nois community colleges. More
than 8,000 students participated in
this study.
those suckers in ketchup—, that
way you won’t taste them). After
eating here I would recommend
this place to Klu Klux Klan
members everywhere.
The Spelman Snack Bar, has
earned the title “Halloween
Capital” of the A.U. Center mainly
because they trick you that you are
getting a treat. This place has the
reputation for fast music, fast cars,
and fast women. The food smelled
a little funny, plus I was a little
anxious to leave so 1 grabbed a hot
dog. After my 1:00 p.m. class I
collapsed, a victim of a mild case of
scurvy.
The Morehouse Commons,
what can you say about this? My
cousin ate here one day and
I sometimes find myself feeling
dark as the night, as if I were on the
outside of the world looking in
captive in a restrospective phase in
time. So bitter is the taste in my
mouth which matches the anger in
my heart. Raging is the tension in
my mind that stretches out of nor-
The TICCIT evaluation
involved over 5,000 students in
nearly 200 sections of certain alge
bra and English composition
courses at two community col
leges, one each in Arizona and Vir
ginia.
Princeton, N.J.— College
teachers maintain essential roles in
educating students even when
computers are used in classroom
instruction, studies by Educational
Testing Service (ETS) have found.
Two evaluations conducted by
ETS at the community college level
also demonstrated that while com
puter .sys.ems designed to teach
students have not reached the sta
ture often claimed for them, the
potential remains for their con
tinued development and
application
Both evaluations were spon
sored by the National Science
Foundation.
One of the computer-assisted
instruction systems examined,
TICCIT (Time-Shared, Interac
tive, Computer-Controlled Infor
mation Television), was devised to
provide a complete and independ
ent alternative to entire college
courses in selected subjects, allow
ing students to exercise control
over the pace and sequence of their
lessons.
The PLATO (Programmed
Logic for Automatic Teaching
Operations) system was created to
fit into a regular teacher-managed
study program and supplement
college course work. In the demon-
transferred to Georgia Tech. His
case prompted me to investigate
the snack bar they have here.
Amazing service, mainly because I
was the only person in this place. I
knew something was wrong when
the lady handed me my hamburger
with one hand while the other one
was covering her nose. I opened the
bag and threw the thing at a
passing police car hoping he would
stop and arrest the person who
cooked it.
The venture of dining out for'
lunch around campus changed me
into a vegetarian. I decided that
bringing my lunch was good, but I
am not safe eating that either. I was
always told that college was rough
and I knew they were talking about
the food.
mal proportion like a rubber band
about to succumb to enormous
pressure. Forcing myself to think
about those who may have greater
hang-ups than my own, enables me
to touch base with reality and wel
come bad times as well as good
times in my depression.
stration of PLATO evaluated, the
system accounted for less than one-
third of total class instruction.
In an evaluation directed by
Donald L. Alderman of ETS, TIC
CIT was found to have had a posi
tive impact on student
achievement. Students able to
complete a course using TICCIT
generally attained higher post-test
scores, particularly in mathemat
ics, than those reached by similar
students using common teaching
practices. Higher achievement in
courses given on the TICCIT sys
tem was especially evident among
students with a strong initial grasp
of the subject.
The study also found that TIC
CIT had a negative effect on the
likelihood that a student would
complete all requirements for
course credit during a single aca
demic term. For example, in
mathematics courses at one of the
colleges only 16 of every 100 pupils
enrolled received a grade with
credit during an academic term,
compared to an average of 50 per
cent for lecture classes.
When the subject matter lent
itself to active teacher-
participation, such as in reviewing
essays or discussing themes, the
gap in completing rates between
TICCIT and lecture classes closed.
Student attitudes toward TIC
CIT were more often less favorable
than toward conventional teaching
methods, but when English classes
taught on the TICCIT system were
supplemented by small group dis
cussion with an instructor, atti
tudes improved over those
expressed for lecture-discussion
classes.
Attitudes Improve
Depression