Learning starts at early age for nursery school residents
SCOPE plans reprise of Bovard rock concerts
By Marc Corman
Staff Writer
No rock concerts have been held in Bovard Auditorium this year, but the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment (SCOPE) is working to get the concerts going again.
Bill Wilson, committee cochairman admits that his group is off to a slow start, but he expects things to improve.
“It’s not as bad as people like to think,” Wilson said. “I'm still confident we'll be able to pull off some nice shows this year.”
The committee is responsible for the noontime concerts on the Student Activities Center patio and the evening concerts in Bovard Auditorium, as well as other campus entertainment.
The noontime concerts have been going well, Wilson said, but the Bovard concerts have yet to materialize.
The committee had scheduled a Bovard concert featuring Maria Muldaur for Sept. 24. but the event was cancelled.
“The Maria Muldaur cancellation was a combination of a few things,” Wilson said.
He said the big reason why the concert was cancelled was a
sick member in Muldaur’s band. There were, however, very few tickets sold for the concert.
Wilson said it was the first week of classes, everyone was paying $2,000 for tuition, and the cash-only policy for activity books made the $6 ticket price for the concert seem like a lot.
Also, Muldaur hadn’t come out with any new material for a couple of years, Wilson said.
As for the rest of the year, Wilson said, “We’ve got dates (in Bovard) for every month from January on. There’s also a slight chance we’ll have something in November.”
Performers for those concerts have not been scheduled yet.
There has been talk of a possible return concert by AI Stewart (last year’s most successful event) and maybe a Gary Wright concert.
Wilson said it’s hard to get big names for Bovard because the more famous the performer, the higher the cost for tickets.
“We’re pretty limited as to what we can put in Bovard,” he said. There are only about 1.200 seats to sell.”
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Faculty Senate proposes motion for budget analyst
The Faculty Senate called for a new basis to determine salary increases and a budget analyst at Wednesday’s meeting.
A motion was submitted by Howard Taylor of the University Administration Committee for the administration to supply resources for a budget and to supply a legislative analyst to “enhance the senate’s ability to convey information to the administration in a meaningful and realistic manner.”
Whether or not the motion will be enacted by the administration will be decided by John Hubbard, university president, or Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
“I don’t see how we can advise without knowing the budgeting implications,” said
Taylor, who presented the motion. which if passed, probably wouldn’t be enacted for at least a year.
"I don’t feel the administration lies to us about budgeting questions, they just don’t tell us what questions to ask.” Taylor said.
Two motions were presented by Kenneth Servis of the Employment and Remuneration Committee.
His first motion called for an a.ternate equation for the administration to use in determining faculty salary increases.
The current means used is to increase salaries by the same percentage as the Consumer Price Index. The committee’s new formula accounted for the
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By Shari Cookson
“Don't do that.”
“Don't touch that."
“Don't make a mess.”
"Don't get your new clothes dirty.”
If you’re going to be a parent, you'd better learn to say “no” — right?
Wrong!
“If you keep telling children they can't touch and can’t do, pretty soon they're going to be afraid to do anything,” said Jonna Hynes, director of the university co-op nursery school, a facility for the children of students and faculty.
Hynes has found that children who are deprived of a certain degree of freedom at an early age learn more slowly and are slower in accepting new surroundings.
“Toddlers shouldn’t be confined in playpens all day,” she said. “Extensive studies have proven that the freedom to explore is important to intellectual development.
Instead of telling a child “don’t touch this” and “don’t do that.” Hynes advises parents to simply move things out of the way and give the child room to discover things on his own.
The co-op nursery school is a good example of what a child’s environment should be. The chairs and tables are small; the counters and shelves low. This makes the children feel com-DT photos by Renee Cottrell	(continued on page 5)
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 24	Los	Angeles, California	Friday, October 21, 1977
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COMMON MIDTERM ANXIETY
Counseling may relieve procrastination pressures
By Lynn Sprenger
Staff Writer
When a student faces the prospect of reading six chapters of a book with microscopic print, reviewing 75 pages of illegible literature notes borrowed from a friend and preparing for midterms for 3 other classes — and they’ve all got to be done tomorrow — it might be fair to say he’s experiencing a little stress.
“Lots of anxiety, even panic, is very common around midterm time,” said Steven Koenigsberg. senior clinician ofthe university’s Student Health and Counseling Services.
He explained how a cycle is started by this anxiety about tests: "The more I worry', the more susceptible I become to certain illnesses. The more ill or fatigued or rundown I get, the more I’m not able to study, the less motivation I have to study, and the more I worry about not getting the work done.”
Students react to academic pressure in a number of ways, Koenigsberg said. One is that they criticize themselves for falling behind.
“People think, ‘I can’t catch up. I can’t take it,’ ” he said.
They also begin to wonder if they ought to be at the university or in a particular major. Some begin to doubt their abilities. Others experience conflicts in their personal relationships.
“The more panic and doubt they feel, the more immobilized they become,” Koenigsberg said. “They feel blank and they proscrastinate.”
Some students try to shrug off the work in various ways. “They’ll rationalize,” Koenigsberg said. “They’ll say, ‘Oh, I’ll do OK. I don’t have to get an A in this course. I’ve done it before. I’ll do it again.’
“For others there’s a sense of resignation. ‘Why bust my hump? I’ll never make it anyway.’ ”
Others simply avoid their studies by going to the movies or drinking or taking drugs, Koenigsberg said. “They try to lo«e themselves, but when they come out of it. they feel even worse and the cycle starts again.”
The typical result of procrastination in studying is cramming for exams. Koenigsberg said many students
tell him they work best under pressure.
Although pressure motivates some people, others fall apart, he said.
“Before exams is an important time when people learn what their own strengths and capabilities are.
“I’m speaking mostly about freshmen but it applies to others on a lesser level. Other students are veterans but these same feelings come up," he said.
Not knowing how to study seems to be at the root of much student axiety. “Sometimes it’s not that students aren’t bright enough to handle it or motivated enough, but no one ever sat down and told them how to study,” said Anita Siegman. director of Counseling Services.
She pointed out that the Learning Skills Development Center, which is part of Counseling Services, is available to such students.
Steve Cheney, assistant director of the center, estimated that 80 to 90% of the people visiting the center at this time of year come for test preparation.
Throughout the year, the center holds study skills
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