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'AVERAGE' WONT DO
aid facetiously
that doctors hury
their mistakes.
It's too bad that teachers
Their ghastly errors live on
Not that the young teachers ground out of our
teacher - training institutions make their errors
knowingly—it's just that they are pumped too
full of psychological techniques, and how to
"decorate the classroom for Thanksgiving." instead of being grounded in cultural and scholas-
Nearly 20 per cent of America's high school
seniors have a better vocabulary than half of
those leaving college ready to "impart learning"
to impressionable children in
Or to come closer home: Of the 62 teacher-
training candidates that have applied for credentials in June, only 8 per cent have had the scholastic ability to be admitted to membership in the
Key, a campus honorary organization requiring
average. We say "only 2.}."
Should less than B plus marks from
classes be too difficult to achieve for persons wb
shall presently impart their pittance of knowl
edge
Or take the aptitude test scores applied to the
e group of prospective teachers: Their average was 58.73 gross percentile.' while their
classmates were averaging 57.6. Although the
aptitude test is not an I.Q.tcsi, the fact is that
the teacher-training students were only one percentile above the
forestry, petroleum drilling, and office work, in
a test showing ability
knowledge which for a teacher will be a life
function.
Theodore Roosevelt has said: "If teachers do
not do their work well this Republic will not
las: the span of a single generation."
With the lact that scholasticilly mediocre people art becoming "educator "
hers, is our Republic doomed, not bccausc"of the
fascists  or  Wall   Street,   but   because  of   our
teachers? —EA.P.
Student rates for "Spring Swing arc 65 cents!
Upon the basis of four plays during a season
local residents have subscribed to Playhouse activities by the purchase of season tickets. "Spring
Swing" has been substituted for one of the plays,
which will mean that a Playhouse season ticket
subscriber will receive for his money three plays
and "Spring Swing."
The student picture is much different. Student
body financial support is based upon a dollar
a year or 50 cents a semester frum each student
body member. In return the Playhouse was to
offer a student four plays annually, to which he
would be admitted free of charge.
However, this year the Playhouse administration will present to the student body member
only three plays. And if he should want to sec
"Spring Swing" he must pay 40, cents, even
- though 25 cents have been already paid to the
Playhouse for the presentation of a play that
has been replaced by "Spring Swing."
It isn't a question of the relative merits of a
play and "Spring Swing." But is it right to tax
the student cardholders 40 cents in addition to
the already paid 25 cents, making a total of 65
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GIRLS AND MUSIC MAKE 'SPRING SWING' COLOSSAL
NUMBER 12
^'Swinging Dictators/ Show
Has 140 Students in Premiere
„ 80 Entertainers and 60 Band Members
I": To Present Whirlwind of Music, Gags
" To Capacity Crowd Thursday and Friday
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Spring Vacation Moved Forward a Week
To April 1 Through 9 by Officials
students' plana for their spring vacation program were e:
Pitted to be thrown into an uproar today following the announc
tncot by college administrators that the vacation date had bei
l» -iponed one week later than originally scheduled.  '
The new arrangement calk for vacation to begin April 1 at
ig the stage property, said that no-ex-
■naking the scenery, which takes full
•s at the auditorium, complement the
•• JUNIORS TO MEET
15 Thursday night  t
Swing authorities to fill th.. 3,000-seat capacity.
The show, written, directed, produced and acted l.y stu
has a cast of 80 entertainers and 60 band members. A grc
110 students made the costumes and built scenery.
CO-OPERATION  FROM  IIF.I'ARTMENTS
Student Director and t\>-ordinntor Al Radka. who wa
in last year's show, says that the current production will
the formers,show in every way. Giving special mention I
Imusic. speech, homemaking and art departments for their
1 co-operation, the student director expressed gratitude to all
(department* aa both students and faculty members shoved
matters to the background to give the musical extravagan:
right of way.
Charles Taylor, dir.
pense ha» been spared
advantage of stage fae
outstanding musical work and mob scenes that have been incor- ] t
porated into the play. ■ «
TRICKY PROPS AND SCENES EMPLOYED '
For more realism, such things as a 14-foot swastika and a jc
5-foot pot in which to boil Mussolini have been built.
A variety in entertainment has been achieved by the produc- jc
tion staff, aa they have included in the show one of the beat awing *
hands in the community compoaed of collegiate muaicians, chorus *
girls, singing stars, a mixed chorus, comedians and jitterbugs,   i r,
Tickets for both nights were at a minimum early thia morn-!*
1 and Arthur Safstrom. ticket manager, predicted a sell out by \ "
night. "   *
Herb Futrcll. student director of ticket sales, said that stil-!a
dents waiting until the last minute to buy tickets, are going to be',
disappointed because tickets will be called in as aeon as thejf,
capacity of 3,000 seats per night has been reached. He said that 50-1«
cent tickets are going much faster than 40-ccnt tickets and j"
students intending to buy either type of ducat should do so im- j *
k' Brailowsky Likes Fast Cars, Our Sleuth
r Yarns; But Piano and Chopin Come First
By Arnold Chapman /
Tonight at 8:20 o'clock when Alexander Brailowsky appears
D | under the proscenium arch of the White Theatre to begin a pro-
' gram spoaiored by the Fresno Music Club, there will be no doubt
8 \ in the minds of his audience that he is a pianist.
Flexible hands, dark hnir, slender figure, and poetic presence
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