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I walked anxiously among the stream of freshmen edging through the huge green doors that open into Independence Auditorium. Botany III was my first undergraduate science course and I approached it with the caution of a timid kindergartner. My first glimpse of Elmer A. Palmatier did, however, help to offset my nausea. He looked like L. L. Bean himself. The tails of his red plaid CPO jacket draped like a tent on his protruding belly and flopped over his faded wrangler jeans. Elmer held a bottle of something that looked like lime kool-aid and for a moment, I thought he was doing a Gaterade commercial for The American Sportsman.” “This is my flask of phytoplankton,” he announced. “It’s an ecosystem in a bottle ... see ... and if I cover it with a ' black box ' I’ll expect you to tell me what the inputs and outputs of the system are. T hat was easy. If he put the poor little plants in a black box, they would die from lack of sunlight and there’d be nothing in the box but dead phytoplankton. Botany was going to be a breeze. Elmer began the class with a little poem: There should be no monotony When studying your botany . . . On hearing that, I was reassured that I had not mistakenly walked into an English 110 class. Only a science professor could have written something so absurd! Then I began to get this paranoid feeling that somehow the class had switched to Philosophy 101 while I was napping. “Difficult simplicity is the highest form of art.” I was certain it was philosophy because it made no sense to me, but my trusty Timex said Monday, 9:35 am ... it was still Elmer ' s domain. Elmer wanted us to be good students. His idea was to challenge the information we read in our books with current periodicals. I never challenged my twelve-year old sister before . . . why would anyone who wrote a university text lie to me? It was then that I realized I was no longer in high school. Botany III was a college course and Elmer Palmatier was a college professor. The class was far from a breeze, but with Elmer ' s help I made it through and matured into a college student. by Ted Kutcher J. Mackintosh J McLellan 18
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Who ' s the man inside Ballentine, behind the smile, under the curly top with all the brains and personality in the world? You’ve got it - Richard Sisco, the man we students voted to the top twelve favorite teachers of all six hundred in the University. This is a man who’s dream is to create for URI a law school of its very own. That takes enthusiasm. And enthusiasm is the name of the game for Mr. Sisco. Some people consider accounting and law to be very dry subjects. Yet Sisco never allows a dull moment to sneak into any of his classes. Perhaps this is because he avoids preparing structured lectures. Instead, he just speaks on the subjects in front of the class as his thoughts flow spontaneously. Sisco divulged his magic formula: I present the material in two ways,” he said. First I give my students the material in theory. Then I give them the practical application.” This, he is confident, is what makes the classes interesting, and what makes the material stick. Reading about a case in a text book is usually quite a different thing from seeing how it works in real life, he explained. In a similar setup to the alcohol counseling and health advising centers available to students on campus now, Sisco has plans to add to these services a legal counseling center to aid students having trouble with the law. Sisco believes every student’s education should be well rounded. His students are required to present case studies orally before the rest of the class. This helps them gain the expertise of analyzing and presenting the material on their feet. Afterall, Sisco reasoned, what good is it to have knowledge of the case in your head if you can’t let anyone know what it is? At the end of the semester, my students will have learned to present themselves before their peers, and they may have even learned a little law at the same time. Sisco jested. When asked how he felt about his teaching profession, he openly admitted, I love every minute of it. You just can’t put a price tag on the rewards.” by Nancy Kutcher 19
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