Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Mostly teachers and businessmen . many work days, study nights Frank Page spends his days teaching mathematics at Frontenac High School. However, one night a week be becomes a student on Pitt State's campus. Page enjoys this time, especially when the class he is taking is math oriented. He likes spending some of his time as a learner, as opposed to always being the teacher. Page is typical of many Pitt State night students - teachers who need hours in order to get their teaching certificates renewed. Page must take eight hours every five years, and at least five of these hours must be math courses, since this is his field. After several years, these requirements become harder to fulfill regardless of what area a teacher studies in. Math classes that Page has not already taken are becoming scarce. The class he is currently enrolled in, Expository Math 773, is new this year. While teachers make up a large part of the 1,756 students who attend Pitt State's night school, there are also many business students. In addition, a typical night class might contain sever- al townspeople who are interested in improving their knowledge in a certain area, full-time workers who want to fur- ther their education, and even several regular students who just want to take a certain class at night. Night classes are different from typical day classes - largely out of necessity. Many run three hours, one night a week. Consequently, teachers must have a format that will hold interest for this longer length of time. Students, on the other hand, need to be relatively careful about what class they take at night. Generally, if it is a subject that they are interested in, the time will go quickly in the seminar-like situation. But if the student is taking it for an- other reason, that time span is likely to drag. Night school at the univerity is run as an extension of day classes with the classes being under the same dean as day classes. Lee Christensen, university registrar, explained that department chairpersons decide which classes are to be held at night. Some, though, are tra- ditionally taught in the evening. Then too, the instructors can volunteer to have one or more of their classes at night. Christensen also said that some depart- ments, such as business, try to arrange their graduate level night courses so that a person could acquire his masters degree in about three years by taking all the night classes offered each semester. Another benefit of night classes is their size. Most are relatively small. General- ly, they range from ten to fifty persons, with the average about twenty. Most of the time I enjoy my night classes. They are fairly interesting, Page said. He, like others who attend night school on campus, finds courses that meet his needs and interests. Par- ticipating in a night class is a thing that many students have done or will do sometime in the future. Such classes can be stimulating and offer the average student aspects of university studies ab- sent in the daytime.

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with commuters sharing gas, driving and use of vehicles. The university has tried to accomodate long distance commuters by providing them with special parking privileges. When the commuter arrives after bat- tling ice storms, blizzards or torrential downpours, he is entitled to pull up alongside the union, park and hustle to class.

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