Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Ironically enough, the Broene Center suffers from an identity problem. Even though the Center is down the hall from the Business Office, many stu- dents. when asked, cannot say where it is located or what it does. In order for the Center to serve the student body better, students must know how to make use of its facilities. The Broene Center offers the student personal and career counseling by a qualified staff: Joan Laarman, George Zuiderveen. and Larry Teitsma, the director. Facilitating the growth of the total person is their purpose and in achieving that purpose they work with the personal, emotional. and develop- mental problems of students. Furthermore, seminars and work- shops are held periodically to deal with a variety of topics which include among other things, marriage prepara- tion. the Christian self-image, procrast- ination, and test anxiety. Another serv- ice of the center is an up-to-date resource center with files containing information on over four hundred career possibilities. In sum, the Broene Center aims to serve not only those who face problems and decisions but anyone who wishes to enrich his life. The Academic Success Program Office is also located in the Broene Center. This program, directed by Kathryn Blok, focuses on the person as a student. with a central purpose of providing basic college-level reading and study skills. Many of the students who use the services of the Academic Success Program are on academic pro- bation: however, the services are not limited to them alone. Anyone who seeks to improve academically is wel- come to use the resources available, which include help with reading skills, special classes in English and mathe- matics and tutoring by peers in most basic courses. The Broene Center wants to serve you' .Q Q, yu George Zuiderveen assists a student with a problem

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1 , r A Professor Thedford Dirkse listens for falling glass in his Chemistry 20l lab. The pursuit of knowledge: pedantic or prcicticcil? Clearly, one should not attempt to answer a question without establishing first that the question is important. Similarly, one can hardly embark blithely on the task of a lifetime with- out making certain that the task is worth doing. Injunctions such as these do not have the binding force of an absolute, of course, but they are cer- tainly worth considering whenever questions and tasks whose relevance is not very evident are proposed. In par- ticular, the task of the college professor and the questions which he answers should be established as important prior to actually doing or answering them. Yet, students wonder if professors have seriously thought about the value of their teaching. That some professors might not question their own assump- tions is easy to understand since pro- spective professors must all go through the educational process themselves. If ,,,,,.t...f A chemist fills his buret in preparation for titration