University of Nevada Las Vegas - Epilogue Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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62 Boyce Phillips, Hofe xx 7 g3 1,7,7: :3 . G O y 3W, s .11! k FA. Truthfully, I can't see where hotel administration will solve any of the problems facing the world today. It just isn't a part of our role. Our purpose is to offer hospitality, food and shelter to large groups of peo- ple. Our job here is to educate others to continue and expand this role. As far as my personal role. I feel I have helped to create both a national and international flavor on the campus because of our large number of out-of-state and foreign students This exchange of ideas and thoughts is vital to university life.

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Dr. John lrsfeld, English It the question means English so far as it exists as a department of academic endeavor. I don't know. If it means the study oi literature, I think that is humanizing rather than dehumanizing. I think that literature is humanizing in the good sense of the word. The study of literature is valuable on a much more simple-minded level. We are creatures who desire pattern and form. Our very biological make-up as bilateral beings casts us in a formal mode. And we don't find the kind of form. to the extent that we wish it, apparently, in the natural world. This may be one of the explanations for the desire to create a pattern in the sort of model world that literature provides; a world in which the chaos of life as we live it is absent. It is replaced instead by some kind of order that makes meaning where no meaning exists naturally. I think people who don't want to communicate won't, no matter how many English classes they take. And don't be misled; just because someone talks a lot, that doesn't mean he is communicating or even that he has communication on his mind. There are different qualities of communication effect ...-, and intent, too. Some I think desirable. Some I don't. Some things are better not said, it seems to me. Too much honesty, for example, can be brutal, and not good at all. In the best of all possible worlds, I suppose all classes would be pass-fail; perhaps pass-fail and pass with honors. I think that it would work. I think that grades are as big a pain for most teachers as they are for most students. I think the best competition is with oneself, and not with other people. , Vi There is nothing wrong with competing with others, except some people just don't like to do it. I don't think competition in the classroom is bad when students are spurred on by one another; that kind of competition is good. But I'm against the idea of ribbon-awarding and ribbon-counting; you know, 'I got an A. what did you get?' On the first day of class when I'm telling the students how the class is going to be, there are always some who ask, 'How do you grade?' And I never know what to say. Dr. Fred Kirschner, Education ivy I think that it we do an examinatioh of those in the Field of i l Education you would find many who are quite capable of dis- covering and testing out novel expressions in principles and theoretical issues. Even today there are those individuals who look upon others applying facts and data to solve problems tsimple to complexy as being technicians. In essence it is the physician, the busi- ness practioner, the politician and the teacher who have to syn- thesize from what has been given to them by the discipliner. The problem beset professional educators is that they must relate the knowledge or subject matter in its logical form to the learner who operates on an infralogical or psychological basis. It is my opinion that while knowledge generation is necessary and teachers must acquire knowledge the generation and ac- quisition operations are hardly sufficient to promote learning at the levels where knowledge is related to the learner tdejure ed- ucationt.

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r. Lon Spighf, Physics I feel that my purpose at the university is to pass on as much of the basic culture as I possibly can to the new generation. What is the good of mankind is the basic problem from Socrates up to modern man. Whatever you believe in really, provides the limits to what you uld call good. There is hierarchal structure to what is good. Evolution dictates that it's good for giraftes to have long necks. i think physics is good. but t is a prejudiced viewpoint. Pollution is not a problem with science, this is a problem with people. convince them to do things, for their own rights and seIf-interests. Convince them t to use electric toothbrushes, use a little hand-power. If you use less electricity, you need less electricity, and you don't have to add as many plants, lching smoke into the atmosphere . . . nuclear power plants can be made as pollution free as anything conceivable at this time. I think the pollution-ecological crisis is really a crisis that has its basis in science. Technology has produced this, but it's the people who wanted the hnology; wetve never developed the type of demand. One thing that has changed is family structure, that sort of social structure, has changed radically just within my short memory. Things have changed ite rapidly - dating habits. marriage habits and customs, these sort of things have changed radically. 63