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THE A PLIFIERMontana College of Mineral Science and
Technology
Vol. XI, No.8Friday, April 1. 1966
Teaching methods in question"There's a story in Greek myth- and
opinions that he had stuffed
ology about the Goddess Circe into them, subject to
classifica-and how she turned strong, brave tion by a number or a
letter.men into swine. I saw that hap- Swine."pen in a classroom. I
watched Further on in the article, Mr.students-human beings-turned
Leonard writes another paragraphinto swine." which is a sharp and
critical
evaluation of teachers."The teacher who relies heav-
ily on tests and exams does nothave to concern himself with
thelearning process. He can simplyassign lessons, then later test
hisstudents to see what they havelearned on their own. This is
notteaching. He can continue to usethe lecture method, that
out-moded, one-way form of non-communication that may be de-fined
as the easiest way to getmaterial from the teacher's note-book to
the student's notebookwithout touching the student'smind. This is
not teaching. Hemay go on giving great weightto mid-term and final
exams,which is not helping studentsdiagnose their problems, but
giv-ing a test to give a mark. Thisis not teaching.In a box
specially marked off
to summarize into a nutshell, thefollowing appears:"Heavy
testing often hides poor
teaching.""To the extent that we rely on
tests we reveal our lack of faithin the human capacity to
learn.""The present system of testing
is less an invitation to learn thanan invitation to cheat.
Morally,the student is wrong to cheat.Educationally, he may be
quiteright.""Statewide or nationwide test-
ing can block basic changes ourschools so badly needed.""Testing
Vs. Your Child" is
truly an eye-opener. Anyone se-riously interested in teaching
andlearning should find it most stim-ulating.
The above is the opening para-graph of an article which
ap-peared in the March 22, 1966issue of Look magazine. LookSenior
Editor, George B. Leon-ard, wrote this very illuminatingarticle
entitled, "Testing Vs.YourChild." Mr. Leonard was quotinga graduate
student, who wasteaching in an experimental class,designed to
encourage studentsto learn for the sheer joy oflearning-without
testing, with-out grading. Mr. Leonard elabo-rated his opening
paragraph withthe following information."The professor was un e a s
y
about the whole thing," the grad-uate student, who taught in
theexperimental class, went on. "Hewasn't sure that every memberof
his class had been readingexactly what he assigned them.So one
morning, he walked tothe front of the class, lookedaround and said,
'Get out a blankPiece of paper and number itone through ten.' As
the studentsrea~ized what was happening,their faces changed. The
light intheir eyes dwindled to somethingshamefuL The professor
reeledO~ften questions-factual, petty,SImpleminded- and then
askedthat the papers be passed to thefront. He said, 'As you all
know,there are no tests or grades inthis class,' and tore them up.
Butthe .damage was .done, he hadremmded them Just what hethought of
them. He was the~eacher. They were pupils-lim-'ited, slightly less
than humanexpected only to regurgitate fact~
New student council holdsfirst meetingThe regular meeting of
the
Montana Tech Student CouncilWas called to order Wednesday,March
16 in Room 109of the Stu-dent Union Building. WilliamRobinson, the
new presidentcalled the meeting to order.
Under old business, the namesof the newly elected officers
wereannounced. They are WilliamRobinson, president; John
Sutey,delegate; and Mary McGrath,secretary- treasurer.
Dave Kneebone, president ofthe Circle K Club asked the Stu-dent
Council for a $216appropria-tion for his club. Kneebone stat-ed
that the club needed the moneyto sponsor "College Day" whichthe
organization plans to hold onA.pril 27 and 29. The purpose
ofCollege Day is to get high schoolseniors acquainted with
MontanaTech. Plans for College Day in-clude a convocation at
whichfaculty and student body mem-bers will speak. There will
alsobe a tour of the campus and someof the classes and labs.
TheSeniors will then conclude theirVisit with refreshments
beingserved in the gym. Students willcome from Butte Public,
ButteCentral, Anaconda Public, Ana-Conda Central, Deer Lodge
andseveral other small schools in thearea. Friday night, April
29,
there will be a dance for every-one 'in the Sub, which will
windup the program.Leona Harrison asked if the
General Students Club could usethe Sub for their Talent
Showwhich is to be held on March 26.The motion was made and
sec-onded and the club will 'be ableto use the building for the
show.
A suggestion was also madethat a phone log book be put inthe Sub
and when the studentscall out they will have to signthe book. The
book will be paidfor by the school, and will allowstudents to call
out, which theycan not do now.Dean Stolz also made a sug-
gestion, which was passed by theCouncil as a resolution later,
thatthe Sub and Library be closedduring all convocations. It
ishoped that there will be betterattendance at the convocations
ifthese two buildings are closedduring these sessions. So fromnow
on they will be closed duringthe convocations.It was also suggested
that the
notices that are printed for thebulletin board should be
printedon colored paper so as to attractattention of the
students.The Council also is dwelling
over the thoughts of holding aconvocation to discuss the
ma-jority and plurality provisions ofthe constitution.Dave
Koskimaki made a motion
to adjourn the meeting and it wasunanimously seconded and
themeeting was adjourned.
BUTTE, MONTANA
Coming eventsApril 2, Saturday - Easter
recess begins.April 4, Monday - Faculty
Wives, 8:00, 109 SUB.April 5, Tuesday-Newman
Club, 7:30, 109 SUB.April 6, Wednesday-Circle
K 12-1:00, 109 SUB.'April 7, Thursday-Student
Wives, 8:00, 109 SUB.April 12, Tuesday-c-Che s s
Club, 7:30, 107 SUB.April 1'5,Friday-Placement
interviews, Continental. Oil.Representative: Mr.
Chandler,refining department. Dr. Grif- .fiths in charge.
High school seniorattends TechWalter Olsen, a senior from
Butte High School, is also now at-tending Montana Tech. Walteris
taking a math course in themorning from 8:00 to 9:00.Walter is
interested in comput-
ers and physics. During the sum-mer he' works on computers
forthe Montana Power Co. He planson attending Montana Tech
nextyear, majoring in physics andmath. Walter hopes that Techwill
start offering degrees inphysics and math so he will beable to
finish school here. Hehopes to do graduate work an.dlater work as a
government PSYSl-cist, He says that geological en-gineering would
be his secondchoice of majors.He says, "The faculty at Mon-
tana Tech is the best I have everencountered." He also
thinksthat Tech is the only school thatwould offer him the
opportunityand privilege of attending collegebefore he has
graduated fromhigh schooL He believes that anyaverage student could
attend bothhigh school and college withoutmuch trouble.Walter 'is a
member of the Band
and Chess Club at Montana Techand rates chess as one of
hisfavorite hobbies.At Butte High School, Walter
is a member of the Chess Club,Science Club, Key Club,
GermanClub, and the Tri-M Club. He isan outstanding member of
theButte High Band and was elect-edinto the Thespians. He
par-ticipated in the All-School Play,the Senior Play and the
Juniorand Senior Talent Shows.During the summer months
Walter enjoys prospecting andrunning cross-country.
Chess tourneyin progressTryg Forsyth, president of the
Chess Club, has announced therewill be a chess tournament
start-ing March 15and running throughMay 10.Each tournament player
is re-
quired to submit one dollar tothe club to insure he will
bepresent at each of the scheduledgames. If he does not make allthe
games the dollar will be putinto a fund to buy new equip-ment for
the club.The winner of the tournament
will be awarded a book donatedby Dr. Smith. The members ex-pect
the book will pertain tochess.The club meets every other
Tue-day night at 7:30 a.m. in theSUB building. New members
arewelcomed to attend the meetingsbut will be unable to play in
thetournament as the roster is al-ready drawn up. Any new per-sons
planning to come to themeetings are asked .to bring theirown board
and men as there isa shortage of them.
The Los Diablos Band.
Talent show bigCalling themselves "The Los
Diablos Band," several MontanaTech students formed the
firstplace winner in the Talent Show,Saturday, March 26. Playing
twopopular songs, Spanish Flea andTijuana Taxi. the band won
the
_vote of the judges as they thrilledthe large audience with
theirprofessional delivery of the num-bers. Members of "Los
Diablos"were Ron Backer, Bob Wilson,Tony GaUigos, Bob Hutt,
TerryKivela, and Joanne Baird.Second place winner was Steve
Percival with a folk piece fromSpanish music. For his
compe-tence with the difficult techniqueinvolved in rendering
SpanishFlamingo music, Perceival re-ceived a check of fifteen
dollarsfor his efforts. Members of "LosLiablos" received a check
fortwenty-five dollars to split be-tween themselves.Third place
ended in a tie be-
tween Ann Robinson and FredBooth. Miss Robinson gave sev-eral
renditions of modern dancenumbers. Booth, doing th~ dif-ferent
successfully, won a tendollar' check for his delivery ofa soliloquy
from Shakespear'sHamlet. Ten dollars was also pre-sented to Miss
Robinson.Ten acts were competitive in
the evening of talented numbers.Other students who took part
inthe show were George Volsky,Bob Morine, and Gary Davidsonplaying
several popular songswith Volsky singing. Ann Robin-son and Carol
Rask teamed to-
successgether to entertain with severalsong leads blended into
one con-tinuous number. MissRask playeda ukulele for the number.
HilmaSmith sang a trilogy of songs toa unified theme. Hilma was
ac-companied by Joanne Comstockon the piano. Gene Galovic,
BillGoodman, and J 0 h n Sullivanplayed guitars and sang
severalsongs from "The Kingston Trio"albums.Delighting the males in
the
audience, Sheryl Harrington, Col-leen Coles and Helen
Robertsperformed a modern dance intight black costumes. Bob
Seideland his wife Lois did a hillbillyskit to piano music played
byMrs..Seidel's mother, Mrs. Miller.Following the Talent Show,
a
dance was held with the musicprovided by the
Dardenelles.Sponsored by the General Stu-
dent Club, the Talent Show wasthe first ever to be held at
Mon-tana Tech. From the unexpectedlarge turn-out and the
excellenttalent of the competitors, it isdecided that the General
Stu-dents will sponsor the show asan annual event.Responsible for
the fine organ-
ization of the show were JohnSullivan, president of the Gen-eral
Student Club; Tim Clark,vice president, and Leonne Har-rison.
Donald Gene Albright atleast tried to act as master ofceremonies by
telling several off-color jokes and generally deridingseveral
personalities.
Steve Percival.
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Page Two THE AMPLIFIER Friday, April I, 1966
Be a -good teacher'A growing number of teachers, particularly
the younger ones,
are making serious evaluations of their profession, and what
thetrue nature of it is. Their findings, and especially their
evaluationsare long overdue, but it is an encouraging sign, maybe.
They arewondering, in a spirit of skepticism, when not outright
cynicism, aboutthe testing programs utilized by teachers. Such
questions as, "Doestesting, by multiple-answer questions, true and
false, names and dates,result in a true indication of what a
student learns?" They say, "No,not really."
What results from this quick, easy solution to a very
importantproblem is that students cram to memorize all .they can
for a test,and then, when the nerve-racker is over with, forget
nearly all ofwhat ithey memorized. You and I, being students, know
how truethis is. If you are critical, then most probably you find
testingmethods dissatisfying. If you are serious about an
education, andwant to learn because you enjoy it, then probably you
feel insultedby the dictate to attend classes, or else. If you
think that class dis-cussions with other students, and with the
teacher, are excellentstimulants to thought, the epitome of
learning, then you must besick to your stomach, and your mind, with
classes at this institution.
All of will be teachers in our future lives. Some will make
ittheir profession, while others will be teachers less directly.
Therewill be a few very, very important facts to remember when
teachingsomeone else, particularly the young. Never pose as being
knowledge-able and intelligent by using whatever power you may
have. Re-member that you can never force anyone to learn. You must
stimu-late pupils by being enthusiastic yourself, and by being
just, at alltimes, to all persons. Never punish another for his
opinions. Always.remain true to yourself and your word. The purpose
of an educationis to learn the truth. A teacher who is a hypocrite
is the most pervert-ed mockery of truth in existence.
-Tom Downey
Mohamed and the mountainMatriculants to Montana's university
system, vis-a-vis an imagined
educational torpescence and its thankfully inimitable breed of
ad-ministration, generally feel justified in affecting the
histrionics ofprofessional mourners. Yet, though Montana's
educational mien couldbe better, its intellecutal mean could hardly
be worse and, ironically,the few pearls to be found generally end
smelling vaguely of the sty.
The reasons for this lie only in part in the defferential
treatmentgiven differential calculus, of spin resonance over
Spinoza, since thistrend has been characteristically pre-eminent in
America for the pastdecade. This tells no tales of Mohamed, the
mountain, or Montana.Its de facto stifling of avant-gardism seems
to proceed from anubiquitous passivity among the students
themselves, from the beliefthat, by surrounding himself with books,
professors, and other learnedstuff, one can slurp up the
necessities of a liberal education.
Ultimately the test for erudition has degenerated into a
meaning-less mental regurgitation with the exposition seldom
exceeding theoriginal exposure. Only when the capacity to write
supplants thiscapacity for rote, when the Montana students, like
Mohamed, realizesuccess is more contingent on self-initiated action
than on faith(whether in Allah's ability to move mountains or in a
preternaturaleducational osmosis), will Montana develop something
other thannso-backwash cultural opportunities.
Yet one must remain sceptical; Horatio Alger and Mohamed aredead
and, for the present at least, the avant-garde in Montana is
facedwith the tediousness of truculent hostility or sanctimonious
"under-standing" based on bad guessing.
- -Steven Percival (
Win - but loseIt has often been stated that a person, although
he wins, has
actually lost in the long run because he didn't play the game
right.This is all so true in most athletic endeavors in the world
today. Wetend to stress only winning-a contest by any and all means
possible-without regard to sportsmanship and fair play. The idea of
sports-manship and fair play are rapidly fading away on today's
athleticscene. We cannot .and must not let these ideas take a back
seat towinning. After all, the purpose of athletics is to produce
fine well-rounded individuals.
If we _take a good close look as to the causes of this lack
ofsportsmanship, we can see fault in the coaching philosophy of
today.Many coaches place much too much emphasis on winning
gamesrather than developing character and good athletic practices.
Thepressures on the participants are so great that they take the
fun outof sports. We see this evidenced more and more in the
Americanuniversities and colleges. They make the game more of a job
or anobligation to a scholarship rather than a relaxing pastime.
The hardfacts are you either produce or else, and in trying to
produce wet~nd to eliminate the idea of sportsmanship. The word now
on theathletic field is kill, where the phrase should be win and
win in asportsman-like manner.
My thought in presenting this article is the idea of giving
athleticsback to the participants rather than all-out victory for
the glory ofthe coach or master. In doing this we will
automatically instill thisforegone idea of relaxation and
sportsmanship back into athletics.Make it an enjoyable pastime
rather than. a job or obligation to ascholarship.
-Don Brunell
1984 commented onRecently some Eng lis h 102
classes were assigned to read Or-well's Nineteen Eighty Four
tobe used as reference in their termpapers which will be due in
May.The following are a few opinionsgiven on the text:Isaac Errett,
"I believe we are
heading for a socialistic state,and nothing short of an
unex-pected global disaster will pre-vent democratic forms of
gov-ernment from being a thing ofthe past. A strong possibility
ex-ists for a world state's cominginto existence, but I think it
willnot exist to such despairing de-grees as the world described
in1984. With the tremendous in-creases b population men mostlikely
will submit to graduallosses of liberty as a necessaryway of
life."Rick Baumgartner: "I refuse to
answer on the grounds it maytend to eliminate me."Tom Kurilich,
"It gives an idea
of how good our .govemment is,so don't abuse it or you maywind
up like Winston Smith."Tom Caddy, "A government,
such as the one decribed in Or-well's "1984," will never
happenbecause the people will alwaystry to congregatge to
overthrowsuch a government. The proles,as in the above mentioned
book,will never be that disinterestedin their government, they
willalways want to know the truthand they think they have foundthe
truth. Of course, there aresome people like the proles, butthere is
a greater majority ofpeople who want to know whattheir government
is doing andhow they are doing it."Loyal Johnson, "Although I
haven't finished reading 1984 Ido not believe it is possible
forthis type of society to develop asOrwell's novel portrays it.
Thefact that even today, a majorityof the people are being
influ-enced and controlled by a smallminority is a reality."Robert
Stratton, "I think for
such a government to come intobeing in the first place would
beimprobable because if it didcome about all free men wouldhave to
stop thinking."Kathryn Reed, "I think it is
pretty shocking in some aspectsbut yet it reveals the way
lifecould someday be, but I doubt ifthis way of life will ever
developto such high degrees in America.To me, this book is very
de-pressing, and I find I can't stopthinking about it and mulling
itspossibilities of existence in ourworld. The moral breakdown
israther shocking and the feelingof lack of care. Suspicion on
ev-ery hand, children pitted againstparents, friend against friend
andhusband against wife."Joe McManus, "I'll let you
know after I finish reading it."Ann Robinson, "I believe
that
the possibility of Orwell's 1984ever becoming a reality is
veryunlikely. First of all, we live ina time where Christianity is
tooprevalent, where a belief in Godis strong. Secondly, the
peoplenowadays would never let them-selves become slaves or
prisonersto such a ridiculous way of life,especially the citizens
of the
AMPLIFIER STAFFCo-editors _ Thomas Downey,
Ernest Bond
Fifth page , Barbara Angove
Sports editor Steve Hallock
Business manager .Marilyn Smith
Reporters: Don Brunell, Patrick Dawson,Dwight Eck, Dennis
Fraker, RobertLussy, Marjorie McGarry, Steven Per-cival, George
Volsky, Dan Wilmot.
Publications Committee: Mr. Taylor, Mr.Young, Mr. Simon, Dr.
King.
Published monthly during the Rca-demic year by the Associated
Studentsof Montana College of Mineral Scienceand Technology, Butte,
Mont. Postagepaid and entered as second class matterat the Post
Office, Butte, Montana59701.
Go find a geologistIf you have any respect for the great
outdoors you should take
a look at the field of geology. What other profession can afford
tolet one sit on the side of a mountain and take in all 'the
wonders ofthe earth? How else can one be overwhelmed by the
complexity ofcolors, materials, and all the vital processes of the
earth and the -uni-verse?
To those students of ancient history-go find a geologist.
Thegeologist will. unfold the story of the earth which is about 5
-billionyears old plus the story of the universe which is untold
eons old.
To those students of modern history-go find a 'geologist. Hewill
tell you the story of the changes that take place on the earthand
in the universe every day. Some things that most people neversee or
take time to notice.
To those students of the future-go find a geologist. You will
begiven a vision of what the earth will look like in the far future
provid-ing man does not see fit to annihalate all life on, the
earth.
The geologist is working on the processes of the earth that
arevigorously and constantly molding and remolding the
landscapes.
A week or so ago three friends of mine and I went out into
theJefferson Canyon hunting fossils. We wanted to get away from
thedrudgery of books for a while and read a part of the story of
theearth that was implanted many millions of years ago. Everyone
re-turned with renewed vigor and the cares and worries of the
morningwere replaced with a renewed dedication toward the goals we
setbefore coming to Montana Tech.
Back at the dorm, in a state of euphoria, I did this take-off on
the23rd Psalm:
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makethme to walk
in the high mountains; He leadeth me beside thetumbling waterfalls.
He restoreth my faith in humanity. Heleadeth me through the
mountains and the valleys for man-kind's sake. Yea, though I walk
on the edge of the raggedcliffs high in the mountains, I will fear
no element, for Thouart with me; Thy sunrise and Thy sunset they
overwhelm me.Thou preparest a table of the past, present and future
beforeme; Thou annointest my life with fond memories; my friendsare
without number, Surely, I shall follow nature's ways allthe days of
my life, and God willing, I shall dwell in thishouse of the Lord
forever.
-Ernest Bond
Tech coeds work on campusMany industrious lasses have found
employment on the Montana
Tech campus, These jobs are offered through the assistance of
theOffice of Economic Opportunity. The college pays a small
portionof the salaries and the rest is subsidized with federal
funds.- This act made it practical for the college's professors and
staff
to hire extra typists and clerks. Students benefit from this act
byreceiving the chance to earn money. Wages range from $1.25 anhour
to $1.50 an hour. Most of the girls work fifteen hours a week.
The majority of the jobs are for typists, but there are also
op-portunities for those with other skills and training.
Judy Stolingwa assists Mrs. Peck in the library. Pat
Thompsoncombines her course in subology with work. She's the girl
who picksup after everyone in the sub. Thanks to Pat we can all sit
at cleantables even if some people neglect to clean up after
themselves.
Kay Lear, Helen Roberts, Margarette Berryman and LorrettaDowney
all work for IMr. Young. Dr. Habashi's diligent assistantsare Gayle
Robbins and Helen Ann Loggins. Gayle also works forDr. Griffiths.
Judy St. Onge types and files.
United States, who live under asomewhat democratic and
freegovernment. People who have'tasted freedom would be
verydifficult to bring under a strictand unjust government."Dan
Kopp, "1984?"Kerry Hanifan, "I found 1984
a very interesting book and Ifeel that everyone should readit if
possible."
Brad Cockhill, "The possibilityof the world coming into suchan
extremely controlled state isnon-existent. As far as I'm
con-cerned, Orwell was a dreamer."John Suydam, "1984" is, to
me,
an unrealistic fantasy that com-pletely ignores human nature
aswell as man's ability to reason.Outside of that it is a
prettygood book."
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Friday, April 1, 1966 THE AMPLIFIERPage Three
Mineral club plans
Emblem and tripThe Mineral Club is planning
field trips and new activities forthe spring season. Pete
Knudson,vice-president of, the club, hassome ideas for projects and
trips.In their last meeting the mem-
bers discussed plans for a newproject. They have decided tobuild
a school emblem. For thepast two weeks they have 'beenplanning the
emblem. It will bemade with sami-precicus stones,and it will have
copper letters.The size of the emblem has notbeen decided yet. The
membershave not picked a place to putthe emblem. but it will be
seenon the campus. The stones them-selves will be mounted in
plastic.Last year the club took their
field trip during the fall to RubyMountain near Alder. In the
lastmeeting, they discussed theirspring field' trip which will
beplanned as soon as the weatherwill permit.The group discussed a
trip to
Dillon where they hope to findsapphires and petrified wood.Some
of the rocks they find willprobably be used in making theMontana
Tech emblem.New equipment is now avail-
able to club members. They havenew saws and a net set of
sand-ers. Pete Knudson says that mem-bers can use the equipment
dur-ing the week on school nights andon the weekends.
New ideas mayspark educationalutopiaExperiments in several
areas
may eventually change the char-acter of education at all
levels.The three most interesting areasSo far are these: (1)
programmed.instruction, (2) devices, and (3)chemical aids to memory
andlearning.Programmed instruction may
be in book form or may be in-corporated into simple and
elab-orate machines. The basic prin-Ciple :is the same. Material
isbr.oken down into small, consecu-tive, logically organized bits.
Thes,tudent can check his responsesimmediately. Preliminary
evi-dence indicates that for somesubjects, this is an effective
wayof mastering material at the stu-dent's own pace, with a
minimumof live instruction.Technological deivces are yet in
their infancy. Some machines forprogrammed instruction are
elab-orate, and language labs arefamiliar to most students.
Otherapplications include the electroniccampus, with computerized
infor-mation retrieval and taped lec-tures. Some visionaries even
seeapplications of electronics to in-crease learning
capacity.Chemical aids to study (other
than drugs to keep awake oralert) are still few, although asmore
is known about the brain,We may expect more research inthis area.
Recent experimentswith RNA to improve the learn-ing of rats may
suggest applica-tions for man.With the massing of knowledge
a pressing problem, perhaps sci-ence may be applied to help
speedup education and to give it moredepth so that men may deal
bet-ter with an open universe in ac-celeration.
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Future or bustAccording to a recent Time
essay, the future is not very faraway, since the acceleration
ofknowledge makes the next 34years more full of potential thanthe
last 66.What do some of the prophets
see by the year 2000?Three hundred and thirty mil-
lion Americans will be livingmostly in supercities or
suburbs.Automobiles, smelly and danger-ous, may have ceased to
exist,except in garages and museums.As a matter of fact, men
likeMarshall McLuhan think thatpeople may work at home bytelevision
and may not need tohit the freeways every morning.Climate will be
controlled by
man to produce optimum crops.The ocean will be mined andfarmed.
Medicine may be able toprolong life by preventing agingand
supplying spare organs. Thetest tube babies of Brave NewWorld may
spare women thepro b 1ems (and pleasures?) ofpregnancy.
Personality as well as learningmay be controlled by drugs
andgenetic manipulation.
Work will be more a minorpart of life, except for a
fewprofessionals, and men may spenda third of life being educated"a
third working a few hours aweek, and a third' enjoying thefruits of
their work and edu-cation.And will men be happy? Is this
a meaningful question?
Tech hostsscience fairButte High School will host the
District 3 State Regional ScienceFair at the Montana Tech
gym-nasium on April 1 and 2.
On Friday night exhibit hourswill be from 7 to 9 and on
Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Judging will take place on
Fri-day afternoon and the awardswill be given on Saturday
after-noon.Forrest Wilson, principal of
Butte High School is president ofDistrict 3. Mike O'Leary,
prin-cipal of Anaconda High School,is the vice-president and
Lou-anne Bolitho, Butte High School,is the District treasurer. Mr.
Wil-son will be the Fair director andMr. Stoltz will act as a
coordi-natorbetween the judges.The judges were selected from
Montana Tech and other schools.Professors selected to be
judgesfrom Tech are John McCarlinjudging astronomy and light,
Ed-ward Holverson judging atomicenergy, electricity, and
magne-tism, Keith Ensley judging chem-istry, William Cox judging
ge-ology, A. J. Smith judging mathe-matics, and Charles
Herndonjudging mechanics, heat; andsound.Schools entered in the
Science'
Fair are Anaconda High, Ana-conda Central, Butte High,
ButteCentral, Deer Lodge, Dillon,Lim a, Philipsburg, Sheridan,Twin
Bridges, and Whitehall.Ninth grade students may enterthe Fair if
they do not attend aJunior High School.Exhibits will include
astron-
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chemis-try, conservation, geology, ~athe-matics medicine and
physiology,mecha~ics, heat and sound, andzoology.
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Missis-sippi have non-caucasoid over-tones. Consequently,
geneologistsare welcomed like the terminalstages of parrot fever
and KKKfats from Shreveport to 'I'alla-,hassee have been caught
withthe i r genes down. Hopefully,white supremists, confused as
towhich tribe to collect coup for,will vent their ignorance
else-where.
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You can read ,the annualLog Accounts of each adventurewhich
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and river conditions.The annual cost for membershipis only
$5.00.Two wilderness t rip s are
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age16 through 25. Next year tripswill be planned in accordance
toyour: request as to age or sex. ?ogirls if you want to get up a
trip,you had better write.Trip number one will be June
6 to 16 through Kenai Peninsula.It will be ten days of
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Iranian visitsTech campusMohammed Reza Taherzadeh, a
resident of Rey City, Tehran,Iran, recently visited MontanaTech
as a part of a tour of U. S.mmmg and mineral
dressingoperations.Mister Taherzadeh is an em-
ployee of the Ministry of Econ-omy Mining Department,
Tehran,Iran, as an Inspector of Mines-Advisor, and as such
supervisesthe work of nine geologists andengineers. The
organization in-spects and makes reports onmines, provides oral and
writtenadvice to mine owners on safety,proper use of mineral
reserves,methods of increasing production,proper utilization of
manpower inmines, and instructs miners inmodern exploration and
exploita-tion methods.Here Mohammed Teherzadeh
participated in the mine rescueclasses conducted by Donald
E.Martin of the Bureau of Mines,February 28 to March 4, andvisited
Montana Tech's mining,mineral dressing and metallurgydepartments on
March 1 and 4.Thirty years old, Mohammed
Taherzadeh was born and raised'in Isfahan, Iran. He
attendedTehren University from 1953 to19·57 earning a M.S. degree
inmining engineering. From 1960 to1962 he attended the Plan
Or-ganization Institute, majoring ineconomics, and in 1964 he
wentback to Tehran University totake a literature and art
course.Before going to work for the
Ministry of Economy, Mr. Taher-zadeh worked for the
GeneralCompanuy of Mines and Smel-ters, Tehran, Iran, in the
sectionof electrolytical refining and oredressing of copper ore,
coppersmelting and cost accounting.Mr .. Taherzadeh is a member
of the Engineering Society ofIran, the Engineering Society
ofIndustres and Mines, and of theIran-France Institute Library.
"We must look at the past notonly because it shows us howfinite
we are, what creatures ofour determinations, but becausewe are also
responsible agents inhistory and we must study thepast to free
ourselves for the fu-ture. We must know the past, andthen we must
not be preoccupiedwith it."-Reinhold Niebuhr
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Working for MontanaDo you kI:lOW that The Anaconda Company
mnually pays about $5 million in taxes inMontana? In the past
year production fromthe Butte mines alone provided more than
$1million in taxes for our Montana schools, stateand local
governments. Property toxss in 20counties amounted to another $4
million. In1966 the Social Security taxes Anaconda paysfor its
employees are expected to exceed $2million.
Taxes qre a heavy load on our operations,just as they are for
every tax-paying citizen.We just like to point out that in paying
ourshare, The Anaconda Company providesmoney for a lot of salaries
and services. Wecan say our tax dollars are important-theywork for
all Montana. .
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No fool like April'sBesides keeping March 31 from
run n i n g indiscriminately intoApril 2, the 1irst of April
hastraditionally been reserved forthe unreserved as license for
theidiocy and practical joking thatgoes on to a lesser degree
everyday anyway.
Historians are as baffled aspsychologists as to its
origins.Genetically this custom is be-lieved to have started
centuriesago since it has reoccurred invarious c u l t u res at
differenttimes. There are conjectures link-ing its beginnings with
th€ pass-ing of the equinox which seemsto have a perverse effect on
hu-man nature as well as on theweather. All Fool's Day has
beenobserved in England since theMiddle Ages (apparently as
some-thing the Renaissance missed),but its real success has been
inFrance where the poisson d'avrilhas been plied since the
thir-teenth century.
Closest to the American tra-dition, in date at least, is thatof
the Hindus. They observe thisholiday (the word is used ad-visedly)
on March 31 as a kindof reserve sacre d'passage. Unfor-tunately the
"tricks" are gener-ally of a macabre nature resultingin fewer
Hindus. ConsequentlyPakistan incorporated it as a na-tional
holiday.
Americans were quick to adoptApril Fools' Day into their
owncanon with t y pic a 1 inventivemodifications. Exploding
cigarsreplaced 'exploding fakirs andpepper-in-the-crepe-sussat
gambitevolved into flies in one's soup(or soup on one's fly).
Thank-fully the observance of AprilFools' .Day hasn't been
concom-itant with the advance in theAmerican genius for
destruction.Definitively, the Americans
should have left these inanitiestd the French and perhaps
thegreatest fools to be found onApril Fools' Day are those whostill
observe it.
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Turnout poorfor trackCoach Gene Downey called for
all men interested in track topick a suit and begin workouts.But
only eleven men have shownup so far and the call has beenout about
a month now. Downeystated that he knew that therewere a number of
boys attendingTech that could help the teamconsiderably if they
would onlycome out. It is the lack of par-ticipation by talented
lads thatmakes a season a losing one.
Downey also said that there isonly one letterman returning tothe
squad this season. Many ofthe men who scored in the meetslast year
can not participate be-cause of grades. In fact, threeout of four
of the returning let-termen are ineligible because ofgrades. The
only returning let-terman Tech has competing thisyear is Frank
Koskimaki, a topflight middle distance runner andhonor student.
The boys who have turned outso far are Joe McManus,
FrankKoskimaki, Carl Pack, CharlieSpeak Dan Piazolla, Greg
Pear-son, H~ward Obenhoff, Bill Good-man Joe Balhieser, Robert
Mor-riso~, and Paul Melvin ..
Coach Downey in looking overhis squad sees a lot of
inexpe-rienced men comprising it. Infact, for some of the boys it
isthe first time they have evercompeted in the sport, but atleast
they -have enough interestand intestinal fortitude to comeout.
Although it is too early in theseason to predict how the menare
going to do, Downey expectsgreat things from Carl Rack, JoeMcManus
and Frank Koskimaki.Pack is showing a lot of talentin the pole
vault, sprints andhurdles, while McManus is com-ing along real well
in the dis-tances and Koskimaki is traininghard for the middle
distanceaces. Downey terms these boysas dedicated and
hard-workingathletes and feels that all of theirintense training
will payoff whenthe meets roll around.
The Tech thinclads will jour-ney to Billings for the openingmeet
of the season on April 16in the Letterman Meet.
"Commercial television' willhold little inducement for thewriter
until he is given the powerwhich is his right: the power
todetermine what he shall writeabout, how he shall write, andwhere
it may be interrupted. Amedium in which a commercialis sacred while
a script is infi-nitely violable cannot pretend todevelop an art
form of its own."
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Handball tourney.now In progress
The annual handball tourna-ment started March 16 at Mon-tana
Tech. The games are heldin the gym 'when it is convenientfor the
scheduled players. A tro-phy will be awarded to the win-ner of the
championship 'gameof both classifications. The en-tries for the
singles are as fol-lows:Dan McVeigh, David Cohen,
Ted Tracy, Don Carkeek, FredJ ense, Tony Buraillie, Rich
Mc-Laughlin, Jerry Flange, HarryPy, Less Ocks, Joe Mattiole,Terry
Sullivan, Jim Benny, TerryAngove, John Sutey, HowardObenhoff, Doug
O'Connell, JoeLee, Bob Corr, Phil Garcia, DanSebena, Joe Monahan,
John Dris-col, and Mike Chapman.Entries for the doubles contest
are as follows: Dan McVeigh-Doug O'Connell, David) Cohen-Dan
Piazzola, Ted Tracy-RichMcLaughlin, Don Carceek-MarkJohnson, Joe
Mattioli-Les Ocks,Jim Benny-Terry Sullivan, TerryAngove-John Sutey,
Joe Lee-BobCorr, Dan Sebena-Joe Monahan,Joe McManus-Howard
Obenhoff.
The games will be played onan elimination basis. As soon asa
contestant loses one game hewill be out of the tournament.
Those contestants in the sin-gles who have won their gamesup to
present are: Mike Chap-man, Doug O'Connell, Dan Mc-Veigh, Dave
Cohen, Ted Tracy,Fred Jense, Harry Py, FreddyFlange, Dan
Sebena.
The winners in the doubles upto press time are: Dan
Mc'Veigh-Doug O'Connell, Don Carceek-Mark Johnson, Joe
Mattioli-LesOcks, Jim Benny-Terry Sullivan,Terry Angove-John
Sutey.
"Man obviously needs far lessfor the best life than he thinkshe
needs; and civilization as weknow .it is grounded on the tech-nique
of complicating wants."-Northrup Frye"The object of educators
ought
to be to get the people a goodeducation. But one of the
un-fortunate results of the extremespecialization of education in
theUnited States today is that thereis nobody who is concerned
witheducation as a whole. Who isthere that is saying, let us
getourselves the kind of educationthat Americans ought to
have?"-Robert Hutchins
"America is the most over-medicated, most over - operated,and
most over-inoculated countryin the world. It is also the
mostanxiety-ridden country with re-gard to health. We are the
weal-thiest country in the world-yetone of the unhealthiest
countriesin the world."-Herbert Ratner,M.D.
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THEY MAKE THE AMPLIFIERPOSSIBLE
Friday, April 1, 1966
Eight attendprayer breakfastEight Montana Tech students
attended the sixth annual Gov-ernor's Prayer Breakfast
Monday,March 14, which was held at theC. R. Anderson School in
Helenafor our state's leadership in co-ope rat ion with
internationalChristian leadership.The eight are Mary McGrath,
Margie McGary, Rena Richards,Tom Downey, Pete McFarlane,Bill
Robinson, Mike Lewis, andBill Daily.The congregation of college
students and businessmen prayedfor divine guidance and help
inguiding Montana through thetrials of statehood.
The meeting opened 7 o'clockMonday morning with an organprelude
by Ernest A. Neath. Theinvocation was then given byRalph. Kenyon,
state comptrollerfrom Helena, followed by enter-tainment by the
Starlighters, aHelena high school choral group.A reading from the
Old and
New Testament was given; aprayer was offered-, followed by ,a
solo by Mrs. Betty Neiman and Nationally rankedthe guest speaker,
General C. W.Abrens, Jr., Vice Chief of Staff, lifters to performu.
S. Army, was introduced.
Governor Babcock gave a fewrem ark s on the speech andthanked
everyone for' coming.America was sung and the bene-diction was
given. The meetingwas then adjourned.
Carroll winsCarroll College of Helena, after
winning the Montana CollegiateConference and the District 5NAIA
playoff, upset fourteenthseeded Bethune - Cookman Col-lege of
Daytona Beach, Fla., inthe opening round of play in theNational
Intercollegiate basket-ball tournament in Kansas City.The following
day the scrappySaints were knocked out of theNAIA tournament by
third-seed-ed Grambling of Louisiana.The' Saints were playing
in
their first national basketballtournament.To gain entrance to
the NAIA
championships, Carroll, after dis-posing of Eastern Montana in
theMontana Collegiate Conferencetitle game, defeated the Collegeof
Idaho in' the three-game dis-trict 5, playoff.
In the opening game in KansasCity, the Helena school
downedBethune-Cockman 91-88 behindTony Sapit's 29-point scoring
at-tack. In the second round, Gram-bling downed Carroll 95-86
withAll-American center Johnny Co-meaux leading the way with
33points. Carroll's Jim Mallard kepthis team within range but
theSaints couldn't overtake the thefast Tigers.
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Tech baseball team?
Three nationally ranked liftersare expected to lift in
exhibitionat the M 0 n tan a AAU openweightlifting championships
atRocky Mountain College, Billings,on April 16.
Lifting as extra lifters areIightheavyweight Joe Grantham,Color
ado, middleheavyweightJerry Eng 1e mer t, Idaho, andheavyweight
Gary Deal, Nebras-ka. All three have lifted in na-tional contests,
including the 1964Olympic tryouts at the New YorkWorld's Fair where
Engelbertplaced second, Grantham fourth,and Deal seventh. Engelbert
alsoplaced second at 'the 1965 SeniorNationals.
Tech lifters who will partici-pate in the open are Tom Dow-ney,
Pat Dooley, Steve Hallock,and Gary Mannix. Hallock liftedin the
annual contest last year,and Downey and Dooley partici-pated in
1964. An three placed.
The Billings meet is the openMontana championships, that is,any
lifters in AAU District 5may enter. Conversely, the Mon-tana closed
championships, heldin the Butte Y on May 14, isopen only to Montana
athletes.The latter determines Montanastate champions. Olympic
liftswill be