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University working to better many students' writing skills Helping hands Paul Oligschlaeger (left) and Dave Allen, new owners of the local Falstaff-Miller Distributing assist local cub scouts and brownies in processing cans the scouts have picked up as part of the can reclamation project initiated by the new owners. The 'project begins today and continues through Dec. 15. A double price will be paid for all aluminum cans brought to the reclamation center at 606 Hilda St. and prizes will be awarded to each scout troop or den that brings in the most cans.

(News-Tribune photo). More supermarkets starting 24-hour service By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer A growing number of supermarkets are staying open around the clock these days, hoping to boost sales by offering 24-hour service to customers who cannot shop during normal business hours. There are no industry-wide statistics on the number of stores now operating 24 hours a day, but Dick Bragaw of the Super Market Institute in Chicago said, "There's been quite an increase in the past decade." The initial boom in 24-hour supermarkets came in the early 1970s, partly as a re'sult of the relaxation of local regulations that limited business hours. In most areas, the stores that operate around the clock are Etcetera GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) Former First Ladv MAMIE EISENHOWER has celbrated a quiet 80th birthday, listening to her favorite hymns at a church service and spending the day with her grandchildren.

A children's choir sang "That Old Time Religion" and "Brighten The Corner" at a special service at the 400-seat First Presbyterian Church, which was filled to capacity Sunday. The children's choir also treated Mrs. Eisenhower to a chorus of "Happy Birthday," as did about 50 well- wishers awaited the Eisenhower family as they left the church. LONDON (AP) The marital plans of PRICE CHARLES-if, indeed, there are any--are once again causing speculation here. According to the London Sunday Mirror, European royalty has begun gossiping about whether the prince, who was.

28 on Sunday, will.marry the 22year-old of the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Princess Marie-Astrid. LONDON (AP)-ZANELLA TSHABALALA, 19- year-old Miss Swaziland, and ANNE-LISE LESUR, 18-year old Miss Mauritius, came to london to compete in the Miss World beauty contest. But they are going to wind up on the sidelines. Their countries on Sunday withdrew their entries from the contest to protest- the presence of two en- trants from South Africa, one black arid one white. According to a spokeswoman for Mecca, the British entertainments company, the two African govern-, ments insisted that South Africa be represented by only one young woman picked on a multiracial basis.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep. MORRIS K. UDALL was going onto the roof of his suburban Virginia home f. from a ladder to look at a leak over the weekend. The ladder shifted and as he tumbled about six feet onto concrete, he thrust out both his arms to break the He broke the arms instead.

Following hospital Udall said his left arm is'in a cast and his Bright arm in a sling, and that he will probably have to stay home for 10 days. Said the unsucessful Democratic presidential can- didate 1976 has not been my year." MIAMI (AP)-Sen. ROBERT DOLE, the Kansas Republican who was President Ford's running mate, says the economy was the issue that cost them the election. Dole, returning from a postelection vacation in South America, said unemployment and other economic-issues caused many blacks and labor union members to vote for Democrat Jimmy Carter. "The economy, when you boil it all down, that was the issue that turned it the unemployment.

The Democrats exploited those issues, as they should have," Dole said. open seven days a week if so-called "blue laws" do not interfere. Supermarket General, a New Jersey-based com- pany which operates the Pathmark chain of supermarkets in the Middle Atlantic states, was one of the first to try 24-hour operations, opening an around- the-clock store in May 1972. Crime has not been a problem for the 24-hour opera- tions because the stores do not keep large amounts of cash on hand and because grocery products are not high-value items from a thief's point of view, the spokesman said. Safeway, the nation's largest chain, has only a hand- ful of 24-hour stores.

But the second-largest chain, opened its first 24-hour store early in 1975 ana now has 535 round-the-clock operations across the country, representing about one-four'th of all Ar outlets. "They are doing very well," an AP spokesman What makes a 24-hour operation a success? The Pathmark spokesman said that geography per se has little to do with it. The industry and lifestyles in a community are more important than its location, he said adding that 24-hour stores do well in areas where there are concentrations of people who work on a three-shift basis, such as airline or hospital personnel. The growth in 24-nour operations has been ac- companied by an increase in Sunday openings, ac- cording to Progressive Grocer, a trade magazine. Another study, meanwhile, shows that Americans spent just under $129.3 billion in grocery stores in 1975, an increase of about 10 per cent from 1974.

The study, by. Supermarketing magazine, showed that about $101.3 billion went for foods and food products; another $15:6 billion was spent on other grocery products including paper goods, soaps and detergents, pet foods and tobacco items; and $12.3 billion went for nonfood items such as health and beauty aids, magazines and newspapers. County court gets recommendations There would be room for six persons in a fallout shelter during a nuclear raid. college freshmen were assigned the responsibility of choos- ing from a list of 10 who would make it and who would not. Almost without hesita- tion, a "boring" book- keeper was sentenced to death.

A "too old" rabbi and a biochemist aiso would have to die. And this a composition class, in an exercise designed to teach idea classification, wrote off a successful author. All the students agreed with the young man wearing a "Support water sports. Date a swimmer" T-shirt when he said, "Anyone can write." Anyone? Not very likely, and ironically that is why these students are in English 1 on the UMC campus. Along with half the freshman class, they flunked the Missouri College English Test (MCET), bringing 2 2 0 0 students in 97 freshman composition classes this year.

That's up 15 per cent in the last five years, 20 per cent in the last 10. Solving this problem won't be as easy a A Attention centers on what is said to be an in- ability of American stu- dents to read or write the English language. One survey of writing skills taken by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, first in 1970 then repeated in 1974, found that students aged 17 used simpler vocabulary in more awkward, run-on sentences and more in- coherent paragraphs than in 1974. In deciding who should wear the dunce cap for this apparent failure, the high schools blame the junior highs who, in turn, blame the elementary schools. i i University professor and director of lower division English courses, finds such buckpassing ridiculous.

"We are all in this together. Any problem at the college level is shared by the entire English says. The way Horner sees it, an English department has two purposes. The first is to give students some understanding of their literary heritage. The se- cond reason English is studied, she said, is to show students how they use language and how they are used by it.

"These can- not be separated and they shouldn't be." Spelling out one reason these goals are not reached and why test scores are lower, Horner'says English is being taught to a wider variety of cultures than ever before. Blacks, though certainly not blacks only, she ex- plains, have "special" pro- blems when they reach the i i All along teachers who overlooked the existence of a black culture told young blacks i a a a "wrong." She said the difficulty of making the transfer from their dialect to a standard written English, a com- plicated exercise anyway, is made more severe with this emotional handicap. Another reason some undergraduates can't read the label on a can of pet food is simply and sadly that no one bothered to teach them how. Horner says that in the past, The University could have safely assumed a student would have learned the a i a skills of language in earlier grades. Today such assumptions are out of the question.

Teaching all English 1 sections at the University are 45 graduate teaching assistants. Horner they are involved in a i i developed program to train them to teach com- position." Under the direc- tion of Horner and assis- tant professor of English Russell Meyer, grading, a i i lesson a i a classroom performance are checked. The program, Horner says, is "highly reputed" and puts this campus "way ahead of the rest." When other large universities dropped freshman com- position requirements in the student strike days of the 1960s, this one did not. Now, with dollars tight, those schools are having trouble reinstating the courses. Although it is wonderful that graduate students are learning how to teach, critics wonder if at the same time undergraduates are learning how to, read and write.

Programs such as this one, in which the brunt of teaching falls on assistants rather than full-time pro- fessors, have been punc- tually criticized. the function of the American college is to provide the best possible education with the best possible resources, then the best possible teachers should be in the classrooms. This is not to suggest that graduate assistants necessarily are incompe- tent. But some students at the University say it only makes sense that they would prefer to be taught by more experienced faculty. a undergraduates find more professors at the head of their classes, Gene Lyons, a former Enlgish teacher at state universities in Arkansas, Massachusetts and Texas, suggested states enact laws requiring senior faculty members to teach a certain number of basic courses.

Cringing at the thought in a tiny, book-filled office is Walter Johnson of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. "I think the adoption of such a pro- posal would be inhumane, unethical and would serve to make the life of the a a unbearable. I can't think of any better way to prove the hypothesis that educatio is a painful experience." Johnson says he would hate to see young college students become victims of the wrath of "professional professors," professors who cannot reach them anyway. A bit more relaxed about the college student who doesn't know where to put his commas is Carl Willis, assistant director of counseling services at the University. Willis now is studying "the amounts and types of Enlighs experiences that freshmen bring with them and their relationship to performance on this cam- pus." Until the results are in, Willis will ask what all the commotion is about.

Over a long period of time, Willis guesses, the lower MCET scores might reflect only normal fluc- tuations in educational achievement. In the late fifties, with the blast-off of Sputnik and an advanced technology on the rise, a coldly scared i States placed great em- phasis on the ducational advancement of its youth. This i through the 1960s. Later, the horror of.being drafted to Vietnam kept college men on their toes. Now what is there, Willis wonders, to keep students motivated? He says that maybe education has come full circle, arriving at the same level of achievement it was at before these ma- a a sociological impact.

He suggests we wait and see. Depending on what he finds, Willis will propose one of three alternatives to the University. English department policy could remain as is, a policy in which English 1 sections and teaching assistants are added like salt and In Today Out Tomorrow T.V. Repair Service You Carry In The only delay will be if a problem in obtaining parts HOITS SUMMIT. MO.

Nearly 100 names have been submitted to the Cole County Court as suggested nominees to the county's planning commission. Six members, one from an unincorporated area in each i townships, will be selected- by the court to serve with a county, court judge and the county engineer. County voters approved a county planning proposal in the Nov. 2 election. Commission members likely will be chosen by the end of the week, Paul D.

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So Jong as the department remains a political heavyweight at i i there shouldn't be too much trou- ble. University admissions policy, however, may have to be changed. Presently there is no specification for the amount of high school English required for ac- ceptance. Entrance hinges on a formula computed by suing the student's rank'in the high school senior class and the aptitude test scores. Willis surmises a change in admissions stan- dards is doubtful because too many potential college students would be turned away from the doors of a public institution.

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