University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, Number 6	Los	Angeles, California	Friday,	July	6,	1973
Study techniques course helps raise students’ GPA
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By Nancy Shinabarger Contributing Editor
USC experimental admission students who completed the colllege study techniques course have a higher grade point average than other experimental admission students, said Ernest Cioffi, coordinator of the Experimental Admissions Program.
“We had always assumed the study techniques class would aid students. Our research showed that it significantly did/’ Cioffi said.
On the average, students who participated in the class had a 2.8 gpa. compared with a 2.4 gpa for students who hadn’t taken the class.
The data was based on freshmen experimental admission students, high potential students who hadn’t performed well in high school. USC admits about 150 of these students each year.
Last summer study techniques was offered for the first time. It was open to any college-bound high school students. Cioffi said the program was well received, but lacked unity and substance. It was modified later in the summer and given to the incoming USC experimental admission students.
From that success Cioffi. along with Ross Winterowd and David Dil-ligan designed a study techniques
class available to the general student body.
“This revised program has more practical information for students,” Winterowd said. “It’s for students who have doubts about their own ability, are apprehensive about college, or who had a bad high school experience.”
Study techniques will be offered as English 100 next semester. Students will evaluate their academic strengths and weaknesses using a detailed academic profile test.
English 100 will last for two weeks; it will be offered throughout the year. Class size will be limited to 20-25 students.
A learning center with graduate students for tutors will be set up on campus. Most tutoring will be on the freshman and sophomore level in the areas of math, science, and English.
Initially the learning center will only be open to students enrolled in English 100. Cioffi hopes to eventually make the center available to any probationary students.
“Large universities have become indifferent in aiding the student at a personal level,” Cioffi said. “But experimental admissions is not just a humane endeavor. We want to help the general student population by providing new, innovative courses.”
50 international students attend Rose Bowl festivities on 4th
Fifty international students from USC were the honored guests at the Rose Bowl Fourth of July celebration.
The students watched a roller derby game and fireworks display from front row seats. Bill Haup, a roller derby announcer, provided ^ the students with the tickets.____
“We’re always on the lookout for activities of cultural interest, things that are distinctively American,” said Tab Stevens, assistant director of the International Education Center. Stevens arranged the show for the School of Education. It was open only to international students majoring in education.
mounted specifically for this fund-raising engagement.
Donations of $4 are requested for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and $3 donations are requested for The Homecoming.
The donations are tax deductible as a gift to the university.
For each performance there are student and faculty rates available at discounts of 50% off the regular price.
Seating is limited in Stop Gap Theatre and reservations may be made in advance by calling 746-SHOW.
The tour of Disneyland, sponsored by the University Recreation Association and open to students, faculty and their families, leaves today at 2 p.m. The tour lasts until 9 p.m. and the $7 charge covers transportation costs,
a gate pass, and 10 activity tickets.
The Marineland and harbor cruise tour will be tomorrow from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. The tour costs $8 and includes transportation and admission fees.
Speech symposium to run through July
The Department of Speech Communication is sponsoring a “Symposium in Communication and Conflict” this summer.
The symposium is under the direction of Edward Bodaken, assistant professor of speech communication.
The class is exposed to conflict phenomena which occur in a number of circumstances. Guest lecturers highlight the program.
The class, which meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, is offered for four units of graduate credit.
The next speaker is Kenneth Sereno, a professor in the Department of Speech and Communication, who will tell about “Intraper-sonal Conflict Phenomena” today at 1:00 p.m. in VKC 100.
Other speakers are Aubrey Fisher from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Utah whose
talk about “Conflict in Small Group Settings" will be on July 11.
“Conflict Behavior in the Former Organization” is the topic James Burns of the Department of Management has chosen to talk about on July 18.
A professor from the Department of Anthology at the University of Oregon, Alfred Smith, will present his views on “Conflict in Cross-Cultural Settings” on July 25.
The last of the series will be on July 30 when Gerald Miller of the Department of Communication at Michigan State speaks on “Conflict Behavior as an Area of Communication Research.”
For inforamtion on the symposium call the Department of Speech and Communication, 2492.
The Festival Tehatre USC-USA will present two dramatic works this month to benefit the university’s Edinburgh fund.
The first play, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams will be presented tonight and tomorrow night and July 12. 13, and 14 in the Stop Gap Theatre.
John Blankenchip, creator and producer of the Festival Theatre will direct this play.
Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming will be produced July 19. 20, 21 and July 26, 27, and 28 in Stop Gap.
This is a new production which is being
FIRST SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER — Morton Deutsch, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia Teachers College, began the symposium last week.
He discussed the conditions necessary for conflict to be resolved, either constructively or destructively. There are positive functions of conflict, but Deutsch said that many people make it a villain, as if conflict were always the cause of violence.
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Conflict aids honest open communication and helps relate to issues when it is constructive. The size of the conflict is also essential in understanding the whole problem. Deutsch said that when a conflict is reduced to individual parts and examined separately, something can be done to resolve the conflict easier than if it is only viewed as a large looming problem. Photo by Michael Sedano.