Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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REPORTING and analyzing are an important part of any scientist's life. Students in the sciences view small organisms and other material under high-intensity microscopes and mr ke reports for their grades. MICROSCOPE! other equipment are used in the quest for understanding smaller forms . MSU's laboratories are equipped with some of the finest in- struments. Jz npson, a student at Morehead, explores the complexity of a cell. NOSdWIS MDVF EXAMIHING and dissecting animals helps students to understand the systems of wer organisms. Sharks are frequently used in dissections but they may contain a urprise inside - more baby sharks!!

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D edicated to Exhibiting Talents The Department of Communications prepares students for areers in speech, theatre, radio-television, and journalism. This epartment is dedicated to exhibiting manis expressive talents. Dr. Richard Dandeneau, head of the department, said that they ere making the students more aware of them through coopera- on by admissions. iiWe don't do any recruiting on our own; we cooperate with the dmissions program, he said. uAdmissions provides names and ddresses of students interested in communications. We send em a letter and often get on the phone and invite these people to ome on campus. Dandeneau said that the department has not changed any of its ajor policies of marketing. Our marketing concept is to have small classes providing lose contact with the professors, he said. This gives the oppor- nity for hands-on experience and good advising. We think that is is our best approach. According to Dr. Dandeneau, when students enter the program, ey acquire a lot of advantages. iiComing here, you are open to get your hands on equipment, e said. HThat's what makes us different from other schools. There are different coordinators for each of the programs in the INTERVIEWING former congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for WMKY is Annice Groves, an English Rfl'V major from Louisville. Chisholm spoke at Button ' uditorium during Black History Month. program started in 1966 under Dr. Brown. This program has four areas of study: news editorial, advertisingipubiic relations, photo journalism, and teaching. The radioitelevision coordinator is Tom Yancy. This program often goes on field trips and has fund raisers. The radio and televi- sion stations both are student-run. The speech team, under supervision of Philip Martin, is ninth in the nation out of three-hundred. in schools comparable to M.S.U.'s size, the speech team rates number one. Ten people make up the travelling team with eight extras. The permanent members are: Jeff Ray, Bob Stafford, Margaret Holt, Vonda Ramie, Lisa Stemwell, Kevin Cocherell, Terra Layell, John Birchett, Mike Breve, and Rondell Meeks. These students participate in twelve tournaments from which thhy travel from September to May. Consequently, one does not have to be a speech or journalism major to be on the team. You just have to have an interest. Martin said that the speech program is concerned with giving man a voice. 'iWhen people decide that they want to get involved and fight apathy everywhere, they have to be able to speak, he said. HWe are preparing students for the world when they leave the universi- ty. By ADA MIRACLE and COLLEEN PRlTCHARD u; JOHN FLAVELL