Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Frank Scott explains that a ruler is necessary apparatus to the construction of a straight line. Frank M. Scott Students of engineering construct their future Ever wonder what’s in those tackle boxes that so many boys carry around school? If you’re an engineering major vou already know, hut tor the layman the mystcr) ' is herein solved. The main equipment consists of several ’aluable drawing t(X)ls, a tajx ' measure, protractor, drawing com¬ pass. a piece of sandpajx’r on a stick w’hich serves as a jx ' ncil sharjx ' ner, and a triangular 12-inch ruler. In GE 101, the future engineers started on lettering and worked up to difficult projects such as shades and shadows in orthographic projection and graphic vector analysis. VVMien not busy with their regular work, they plotted various sabotages of the sch{K)l for ’aluable practice in future work as secret agents. Also offered w ' ere more special¬ ized courses in architectural projection, applied drafting in civil engineering, surs’cying, and electronics. 25

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Long-awaited labs add visual concepts to lecture However, the lab delay was w’orth the wait since the improved surroundings and furnishings increased the interest and efficiency of the stu¬ dents. Mr. Sforza can testify, though, that there are always two sides to every story. During biolo¬ gy class he suffered the embarrassment of being unable to separate sepals and petals from their notches in a new plastic model of the flower. The students also suffered because they could not take part in the extra-class activities such as flooding labs or setting “cardboard boxes” on fire. She loves me; she loves me not; she loves me • . . Dove Persson and Ron Schmisseur ploy with adult type toys—electrodes. 24

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• Ik Mathematics presents us with impossible puzzles A systematic means of approaching a solution is employed in tlie mathematics courses. This method of ta.xing the hrain may appciir cruel and hard-hearted to the student because ol the stress on the complc. and hall ling prtx ' csses involved in reasoning. Often the math prcxligics discowr that the hardest things to understand and reason with are the grades. The lorgotten course in tech¬ nical mathematics had a brighter outl(X)k this year —twice as many students were attracted to it as last year. People often think that girls arc the only ones who worry alxjut their ligures hut in our mathematics department hoys also find that figures are not the easiest things to work with. C ourses offered ranged from basic math to differential equations. Td like to see her lug her slide rule around all doyl