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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0ff campus livin . . . Only 740 of PSU's nearly 5000 students live on campus. A relatively small mi- nority commute from distances over 30 miles. The majority of the rest of the student body have sought shelter and the com- forts of home in many types of dwell- ings near campus and within the sur- rounding community. For many stu- dents, home can mean anything from a basement bedroom or an apartment to the fraternity or sorority house. Some buy or rent houses or trailers and share them with a variety of room- mates. A few even manage to board four more years with their parents. Most students live in rented apart- ments, houses or trailers. Many places are rented months in advance of the semester for which they'll be occupied. For the majority of these people, living in a dwelling of this type is cheaper than the dormitory. The atmosphere is more relaxing, and if a person has a lenient landlord, he can even become more creative in such a setting. Becoming your own chef is one conve- nience for inconveniencel of off-campus living. You decide what you want to eat and when you want to eat it. Then all you have to do is cook it - or go out to eat. That's when apartment living can pinch the pocketbook. Since many off-campusers live with a roommate, schedules can be arranged to lighten the load of household chores. One might do the cooking one week and the other the housekeeping-including the dishes and then trade the next week. Most often cooking for oneself is more common. Everybody fixes what he likes and cleans up his own mess. A few apartment and house dwellers are lucky enough to have washers and dry- ers where they live. For most, however, the local laundromat becomes a famil- iar place. Decorating one's own place is an adven- ture for some, a chore for others. Most guys prefer the lived-in look with a few posters covering the holes on the wall and a TV and stereo close at hand. Oth- ers like to include items picked up over the years like Coors pitchers or pyra- mids of beer cans. Some more artistic students like to adorn their homes with plants, macrame, or original sketches. ppw- . Most students find that it's more con- venient to study at home than traipse off to the library every other night. As one student puts it, It's very relaxing and comforting to study in familiar sur- roundings, and a relief to be away from school. A few find that noisy neigh- bors make it necessary to seek other places of study. In an apartment or house a person can regulate the social contact he makes. Unlike dormitory living, he doesn't have traffic rumbling past his door all day. If he wants to have a private party, he can invite as many people as he likes with his only restrictions being com- plaints from the landlord, neighbors or roommates if things get out of hand. N o curfew is imposed or restrictions made on his visitors. Most students involve themselves in a few campus clubs, at- tend at least a few of SUB's films or local movies, and many check the activ- ity at Hollywood's or the School House several times a month. The monthly rent of an apartment or trailer ranges from S80 per month for a single room to S300 for some apart- ments which can house as many as four students at once. Many times utilities are included in the rent although most as ,,7 , 7 A V-J.,-1 f ig- p. .V .5 .5 -- 'Q ,... .5 ,L .L I' . 1, .L fy, . ,,,.f , A . A f - an - . --'Vg r- - af L--.4 ,uf ., , , fy J. I -hiv, fy- ,rgxkg . 'l I .-'W' HQ .f' 74 T-J 'Q Q1 aff' 'lgif' in ,gli ij? 1 ,, ,. ,. 1 .,. . ,-N-sl U. Y... v iss'-, ,,-, , 'K 75.7, ' 5 is-.