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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