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INSIDE Faculty and Staff Notes 2 Marty Ackermann, Catalyst 2 Conservatory Faculty Meeting 2 Pat Day on Curricular Change 4 %e Volume 18, Number 3ObserverSeptember 27,1996 THE O B E R L I N COLLEGE FACULTY AND STAFF NEWSPAPER Maggie Callahan demonstrates the new recycling bins in the lobby of Wilder Hall. Recycling at Oberlin Is Easier Than Ever By Carol Ganzel Can I recycle envelopes with office paper? Can I recycle glossy advertisements inserted in news¬ papers? The answers (yes and no, respectively) to these and other questions, unclear before, are apparent in Oberlin College's restructured recycling program. The program is also answering a basic question: Is that a recycling bin or a trash bin? Since the College began a recycling program six years ago (see the September 13, 1990, Observer), it has collected many tons of office paper, newsprint, bottles, and cans from residence halls and offices. Many students and employees have found the program confusing, however. For two years Julianne Donnelly '97 and other students in OPIRG (Ohio Public Interest Research Group) have been working to improve it. They call their sub¬ group of OPIRG "Lorax" after the Dr. Seuss book of that name. Two events last spring gave impetus to the students' cause. First, recycling got a new cam¬ pus administrator: Cheryl Wolfe, director of environmental health and safety, took over from the director of facilities-support services when that posi¬ tion was abolished. (Wolfe's pre¬ decessor had handled recycling before the facilities-support posi¬ tion was created.) Second, the College's recycling pick-up con- Continued on page 3 Stella's Stunners Stored on Disk As HHMI Grant Furthers Science Study If you've had a son or daughter in the Oberlin High School in the past few years, you're probably familiar with Rudd Crawford's Stella's Stunners. For those of you not so blessed, here's the scoop: Stella's Stunners are nonroutine problems in mathematics: visual and symbolic brain teasers and story problems. The problems can be so challenging (see "Here's a Sample from Stella") that Crawford, a mathematics tea¬ cher in the high school and associate professor in the College mathemat¬ ics department, insists that his stu¬ dents monitor not only their thought processes but also their feelings about the problems as they work them out. Thanks to a new four-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Crawford will be more able than ever to stun all his students with the spe¬ cial math problems. Over the summer three students, two from the high school and one (Christy Ackley '98) from the College, transferred all 1300 of the puzzlers from paper file cards to a comput¬ er database, where they can be called up by mathematics topic and solution strategy. Crawford uses the story prob¬ lems in the newly launched inten¬ sive precalculus course in the College, Mathematics 102. The purpose of the problems, Crawford says, is "to plunge students into per¬ plexing situations so that they can practice figuring out what to do when they don't know what to do." The course addresses directly a major intellectual barrier in access to science: essential mathematical problem-solving skills without which student enrollment in college-level science courses is not productive. "Most students have great diffi¬ culty opening up and sharing their often deeply negative feelings about their efforts," Crawford says, "but doing so is crucial in getting over the fear of mathematics, which in turn is essential to making pro¬ gress in understanding it and enjoying the rush that comes from cracking a difficult problem." Crawford's undertaking is one of many covered by the $600,000 institutional grant that Oberlin College received from HHMI's Here's a Sample from Stella Aggie sells fresh eggs at the Oberlin farm¬ ers' market. Last Saturday she sold Mishal half her eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold Neela half of her remaining eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold Sophy half of her remaining eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold the remaining 27 eggs to you. How many eggs had she started with? See the bottom of page 3 for the answer. Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program in August. The Office of Sponsored Programs' David Love, associate vice presi¬ dent for research and development, and Barbara Fuchsman, federal-grants officer, together with Professor of Chemistry William Fuchsman, wrote the proposal with help from Daniel Gardner, special assistant to the president for com- Continued on page 3 Think One Person Can Change the World? They Do Think One Person Can Change the World? So Do We. OBERLIN The slogan appears on Oberlin's famous poster. Representing alumni who attended Oberlin from before 1944 until today, five panelists discussed on the Saturday of Alumni Council Weekend, September 21, what has often been called Oberlin's slogan: Think one person can change the world? So do we. Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Clayton Koppes moderated the panel, whose mem¬ bers were William Warren '48, Mary Grace Heller Cope '56, Chuck Spitulnik '73, Jackie Bradley '76, and Peter Nicholson '90. Koppes asked the panelists to keep in mind four ideas that he said give "unity to our history": intellectual serious¬ ness, artistic excellence, civic engage¬ ment, and a commitment to diversity. Most panelists agreed that one person could change the world— even, as Cope noted, if the change were a ripple touching an unknown shore—and that Oberlin is where that notion was strengthened, if not planted, in their minds. Of the pan¬ elists, only Nicholson expressed any discomfort with the theme, say¬ ing he thought more likely that it "took a village" rather than an indi¬ vidual to achieve significant change. Audience participation account¬ ed for the second half of the two-hour event, and most of the speak¬ ers in the audience were Alumni Council members who agreed with the panelists and elaborated from personal experience. In his formal presentation Warren said that many of the stu¬ dents of his era felt a responsibility to make the world they knew—the world of their parents and grand¬ parents—better. In their idea of betterment, they did not entertain ideas of revolution, he said. And while people expended effort to "make things egalitarian," men had linen service and women had cur¬ fews. He also noted that Carl Rowan '47 has spoken about the lack of racial equality on the Continued on page 3
Object Description
Title | Oberlin Observer. 1996-09-27 |
Description | volume 18, number 03 |
Subject | Oberlin College--Periodicals |
Editor | Grashoff, Linda |
Contributors | Day, Patrick (au) |
Topics | Planning from scratch for the second time |
Date | 1996-09-27 |
Year | 1996 |
Month | September |
Day | 27 |
Type | text; image |
Format | |
Identifier | Oberlin_Observer_Vol_18_No_3.pdf |
Publisher | Oberlin College. Library |
Language | English |
Relation | http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/library/ref/index.php?db=observerindex |
Number of pages | 4 |
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Transcript | INSIDE Faculty and Staff Notes 2 Marty Ackermann, Catalyst 2 Conservatory Faculty Meeting 2 Pat Day on Curricular Change 4 %e Volume 18, Number 3ObserverSeptember 27,1996 THE O B E R L I N COLLEGE FACULTY AND STAFF NEWSPAPER Maggie Callahan demonstrates the new recycling bins in the lobby of Wilder Hall. Recycling at Oberlin Is Easier Than Ever By Carol Ganzel Can I recycle envelopes with office paper? Can I recycle glossy advertisements inserted in news¬ papers? The answers (yes and no, respectively) to these and other questions, unclear before, are apparent in Oberlin College's restructured recycling program. The program is also answering a basic question: Is that a recycling bin or a trash bin? Since the College began a recycling program six years ago (see the September 13, 1990, Observer), it has collected many tons of office paper, newsprint, bottles, and cans from residence halls and offices. Many students and employees have found the program confusing, however. For two years Julianne Donnelly '97 and other students in OPIRG (Ohio Public Interest Research Group) have been working to improve it. They call their sub¬ group of OPIRG "Lorax" after the Dr. Seuss book of that name. Two events last spring gave impetus to the students' cause. First, recycling got a new cam¬ pus administrator: Cheryl Wolfe, director of environmental health and safety, took over from the director of facilities-support services when that posi¬ tion was abolished. (Wolfe's pre¬ decessor had handled recycling before the facilities-support posi¬ tion was created.) Second, the College's recycling pick-up con- Continued on page 3 Stella's Stunners Stored on Disk As HHMI Grant Furthers Science Study If you've had a son or daughter in the Oberlin High School in the past few years, you're probably familiar with Rudd Crawford's Stella's Stunners. For those of you not so blessed, here's the scoop: Stella's Stunners are nonroutine problems in mathematics: visual and symbolic brain teasers and story problems. The problems can be so challenging (see "Here's a Sample from Stella") that Crawford, a mathematics tea¬ cher in the high school and associate professor in the College mathemat¬ ics department, insists that his stu¬ dents monitor not only their thought processes but also their feelings about the problems as they work them out. Thanks to a new four-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Crawford will be more able than ever to stun all his students with the spe¬ cial math problems. Over the summer three students, two from the high school and one (Christy Ackley '98) from the College, transferred all 1300 of the puzzlers from paper file cards to a comput¬ er database, where they can be called up by mathematics topic and solution strategy. Crawford uses the story prob¬ lems in the newly launched inten¬ sive precalculus course in the College, Mathematics 102. The purpose of the problems, Crawford says, is "to plunge students into per¬ plexing situations so that they can practice figuring out what to do when they don't know what to do." The course addresses directly a major intellectual barrier in access to science: essential mathematical problem-solving skills without which student enrollment in college-level science courses is not productive. "Most students have great diffi¬ culty opening up and sharing their often deeply negative feelings about their efforts," Crawford says, "but doing so is crucial in getting over the fear of mathematics, which in turn is essential to making pro¬ gress in understanding it and enjoying the rush that comes from cracking a difficult problem." Crawford's undertaking is one of many covered by the $600,000 institutional grant that Oberlin College received from HHMI's Here's a Sample from Stella Aggie sells fresh eggs at the Oberlin farm¬ ers' market. Last Saturday she sold Mishal half her eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold Neela half of her remaining eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold Sophy half of her remaining eggs plus half an egg. Then she sold the remaining 27 eggs to you. How many eggs had she started with? See the bottom of page 3 for the answer. Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program in August. The Office of Sponsored Programs' David Love, associate vice presi¬ dent for research and development, and Barbara Fuchsman, federal-grants officer, together with Professor of Chemistry William Fuchsman, wrote the proposal with help from Daniel Gardner, special assistant to the president for com- Continued on page 3 Think One Person Can Change the World? They Do Think One Person Can Change the World? So Do We. OBERLIN The slogan appears on Oberlin's famous poster. Representing alumni who attended Oberlin from before 1944 until today, five panelists discussed on the Saturday of Alumni Council Weekend, September 21, what has often been called Oberlin's slogan: Think one person can change the world? So do we. Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Clayton Koppes moderated the panel, whose mem¬ bers were William Warren '48, Mary Grace Heller Cope '56, Chuck Spitulnik '73, Jackie Bradley '76, and Peter Nicholson '90. Koppes asked the panelists to keep in mind four ideas that he said give "unity to our history": intellectual serious¬ ness, artistic excellence, civic engage¬ ment, and a commitment to diversity. Most panelists agreed that one person could change the world— even, as Cope noted, if the change were a ripple touching an unknown shore—and that Oberlin is where that notion was strengthened, if not planted, in their minds. Of the pan¬ elists, only Nicholson expressed any discomfort with the theme, say¬ ing he thought more likely that it "took a village" rather than an indi¬ vidual to achieve significant change. Audience participation account¬ ed for the second half of the two-hour event, and most of the speak¬ ers in the audience were Alumni Council members who agreed with the panelists and elaborated from personal experience. In his formal presentation Warren said that many of the stu¬ dents of his era felt a responsibility to make the world they knew—the world of their parents and grand¬ parents—better. In their idea of betterment, they did not entertain ideas of revolution, he said. And while people expended effort to "make things egalitarian," men had linen service and women had cur¬ fews. He also noted that Carl Rowan '47 has spoken about the lack of racial equality on the Continued on page 3 |
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