The Exponent, 1967-12-15

              Dr. J. Howard Kramer, president of Northern, and Dr. Lester Clarke,
Dean of the College, review the report from the National Council of Accredi-tation
of Teacher Evaluation. The report was based on a visit that the
NCATE team made to Northern in the fall.
Students question legislators
Vol. 66, No. 13 Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
December 15, 1967
Report received
NCATE evaluation results announced
Mary Ellwein captures NSC Sno Queen crown;
dramatic reading wins Winterland talent first
Mary Ellwein, Rapid City junior, captured the title of Northern Sno
Queen in competition with 33 girls Jan. 13. First runner-up was Connie
Ottenbacher and second runner-up was Penny Jones. Mary will represent
Northern in the South Dakota Snow Queen Pageant.
Mid-year commencement set
A WINTERLAND BY NIGHT
staged the crowning of Northern's
1967 Sno Queen, Mary Ellwein. Com-peting
with 33 girls, Mary won Nor-thern's
representation to the South
Dakota Snow Queen Festival held in
Aberdeen, Jan. 13.
Connie Ottenbacher, Aberdeen
freshman, captured first runner-up
honors; while a Langford sophomore,
Penny Jones, placed second runner-up.
The blond sophomore who hails
from Rapid City was sponsored by
Howling Echo. Her parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Ellwein.
A luncheon, personal interview, and
the pageant comprised the schedule of
competition. When asked about the
interview Mary replied, "At first I
was nervous, but the judges were so
nice that you relaxed and the time
by Mike Bina
Exponent Feature Writer
NORTHERN students often ask,
"How good is the school we attend?"
Recently a group called the Na-tional
Council of Accreditation of
Teacher Education visited Northern's
campus and attempted to answer this
question.
Dr. J. Howard Kramer, President
of Northern State College, and Dr.
Lester Clarke, Dean of the college,
announced the results of the team's
findings last week documented in a
93-page report.
"We felt that it was nice to have
the NCATE team here evaluating our
teacher education program. Things
such as this open the eyes of the
administration," commented Dr. Kra-mer.
"Over-all the evaluation pointed
THREE MEMBERS of the South
Dakota Legislature answered ques-tions
at the Young Republicans meet-ing
Dec. 12. Rep. Swisher, Rep.
Woods and Senator Pieplow spoke to
Northern students and answered their
questions concerning various state
problems.
All three legislators expressed their
support of the proposed classroom-auditorium
and the acquisition of the
ball park which will come before the
legislature this year. Pieplow welcom-ed
the assistance of all Northern stu-dents
and personnel in passing the
two proposals, but warned that anta-gonizing
the legislature would only
add to any of the opposition that the
building projects may meet.
flew past. But you left with a sinking
feeling."
"There aren't words to express how
I feel," Mary replied the night of her
coronation. Later after her title had
been realized she said, "I really didn't
realize I won till I heard Sally and
Lois scream. I'm just so happy. I hope
I can reprsent Northern well at the
State contest."
Besides a beauty queen Mary still
is a student. Majoring in elementary
education, she minors in English.
Campus organizations to which she
belongs are Howling Echo and LSA.
Opinioning on the FM debate she
said, "I'd like to see it go through.
Northern is an up and coming school.
Inevitably it will be started, it might
as well begin as soon as possible."
And on another campus issue, com-out
where corrections ought to be
made," he explained.
Continuing he said, "As a result of
this report, we accept that some rapid
upgrading of our program is needed
in areas NCATE feels are somewhat
deficient. Such evaluations may be
considered constructive criticism for
More specifically Dr. Kramer cited
aspects of NSC's teacher education
program that were mentioned in the
NCATE report. He stated that the
biggest criticism concerned NSC's
graduate program. The team felt that
Northern didn't have a sufficient num-ber
of faculty members with doctor-ate
degrees to provide the ideal situa-tion
for graduate study.
Dr. Kramer pointed out, "The
weakness just mentioned by the team
Swisher, Woods, and Pieplow dis-cussed
some of the major issues whirls
will be facing this session of the legis-lature.
These range from the ban on
out-of-state hunters of migratory fowl
to a repeal of the Automobile Inspec-tion
Law.
When questioned about a teacher
demonstration on the legislature, Piep-low
replied that teachers would make
a grave mistake in doing so. He ex-plained
that Senate Bill 130 which
deals with the re-organization of
schools and land offers educators
more money. Pieplow added that the
teachers would be better off by pres-suring
South Dakota citizens into vot-ing
for this bill which has been fore-see
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pulsory class attendance, Mary re-marked,
"I don't agree with the pre-sent
policy. A student pays for his
classes; he should have the privilege
to decide whether to attend or not. A
conscientious student will use this pri-vilige
the right way."
The Sno Sho also featured a talent
contest. "An Old-fashioned Christ-mas,"
dramatic reading, won Karen
Meyers, Fort Pierre junior, the talent
competition. A song and story brought
Kathy Gross, Pierre freshman, in sec-ond.
Mary Blindert, Winner freshman,
won the third place in talent compe-tition.
Judges for the annual event spon-sored
by Sinfonia and SAI were Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Froelich and Mr. and
Mrs. James Ganje.
by Carla Cooper
Exponent Reporter
GRAHAM THATCHER, Assistant
Professor of Speech and Drama, and
director of the theatre at Northern
State College, commented on the stu-dent
work-shop projects for the "Fun-damentals
of Play Production" class.
The first three of these eleven one-act
plays will he presented this even-ing
at 8 p.m. in the Administration
Auditorium, with no admission charg-ed.
The three student directors will be:
Karen Meyers, Fort Pierre junior, di-recting
"The Playwright's Dilemma,
by Richard Sturm; Pat Peterson, Gay-ville
junior; directing "The Maids,"
by Jean Genet; and Linda Leffler,
Aberdeen junior, directing "The Les-son,"
by Eugene Ionesco.
"Ideal theatres do not exist. One
does not always have great actors with
whom to work with, nor a budget
necessary for lavish productions. By
learning early that such is the case,
FM election carries;
Regents Board next
NORTHERN'S FM Radio assess-ment
proposal received the student
body approval Wednesday by a 156
vote margin. The final vote indicated
612 students favored the assessment
proposal, while 456 were against it.
Collegians visited the polls to vote
on a 75 cent increase in the student
activity ticket for the express purpose
of operating a proposed FM Radio
station on Northern's campus. The
number of students voting reached the
1,068 mark, with 35.2 percent of the
3,028 enrolled students voting.
Figures indicate that 64.8 percent
of the student body failed to cast a
ballot. Favorable votes represented
57.3 percent of the total number vot-ing,
for a 14.8 percent margin over
the negative balloting.
The next step will be presenting
the desired proposal to the Board of
Regents for their final approval of
the FM Radio station.
the students are better able to adapt
themselves to directing as a problem
solving function of theatre," Thatcher
continued.
The class itself involves the discus-
See plays page 4
STUDENT Senate faced last min-ute
debates on the FM radio elections
during their Dec. 12 meeting. Four
bills introduced by John Biegler were
considered during the course of the
meeting.
The first bill brought up proposed
that all Student Senator voting rec-ords
and a synopsis of each bill intro
duced be printed in the Exponent.
Senate passed this bill by a unani-mous
vote.
The second bill considered a propo-sal
by Biegler that two days should be
given to voting for special assessment
elections. Because this would be a by-law
to the Constitution, it would not
affect the FM radio elections. Bieg-ler
then amended the bill to concern
the up-coming elections. This amend-ment
was defeated by a vote of eight
to four.
In a third bill Biegler suggested
that 40 per cent of the student body
must vote in a special assessment
election and of these two-thirds of the
students must approve in order for the
issue to pass. This bill was amended
because it also pertained to the Con-stitution.
The amended bill read that
no FM assessment could be passed
without meeting the above require-ments.
Senators voted this down with
an 11-1 vote.
Senate also defeated a fourth bill
which read that no FM assessment
may be applied to the activity ticket
fee unless three-fourths of voting stu-dents
approve the issue. The vote
tallied 11-1.
Cal Cooper, vice-president, called
for.a review by the. Senate in the pro-graduation
program in an attempt to
keep pace with the increasing num-ber
of students who are completing
their required work by the end of first
semester.
The graduation excercise will fa-cilitate
the conferring of degrees on
students who have been forced to wait
until the spring commencement to re-ceive
them in the past. This will in-crease
the students chances of enrol-ling
in a graduate study program and
make full employment easier to se-cure.
Many students graduating at the
mid-year mark in the past received
their degrees in absentia because they
were no longer in the geographic
area of the college. The program is
striving to correct this situation.
The college expects to confer nearly
100 degrees this January.
cedure of calling special emergency
sessions for the body. At present any
three members or the president may
call for a special meeting.
Senate also appropriated money to
John Skogmo of the Big Name Com-mittee
to attend a meeting at the
University of Wisconsin. The money
wil 'cover only transportation costs.
The meeting will offer different types
of entertainment that may be brought
to colleges.
IA Fraternity hosts
Union open house
EPSILON PI TAU, Northern's hon-orary
industrial arts fraternity, is
sponsoring an All Campus Recreation
Night, tonight in the Union.
An admission charge of 35 cents
for singles and 50 cents for couples
will cover all game room activities,
a dance in the Ballroom, refreshments
and a Laurel and Hardy movie.
Students will be able to use all the
recreational facilities in the game-room,
such as bowling, foosball, pool
and bumper pool, cards, chess, and
table tennis.
Refreshments will be served, and
students will be able to dance to their
own record requests in the Ballroom
from 7 to 10:30 pan. The free Laurel
and Hardy movie will be shown con-tinuously
throughout the evening. The
NSC dress code is in force for the
all-campus activity.
would not exist if we had adequate
funds to further strengthen our
teacher education curriculum. It is
inherent that this is largely an eco-nomical
matter."
Kramer stated that NSC freshmen
compared favorably with other out-standing
schools and conform mom- NORTHERN State College will
mendably with national norms. hold its first mid-year commencement
The evaluating team recommended excercises on Jan. 24, 1968. The event
that Northern could seek a better will set a precedent in the history of
balance as to the number of students NSC graduation ceremonies.
practice teaching between the fall The graduation is set for the Ad-and
spring semester. Dr. Kramer ex- ministration Auditorium at 10 a.m.
plained that this is the reason the Dr. Daniel Kerr, president of Huron
Education Department has been urg- College, will be the commencement
ing students to practice teach in the speaker.
See NCATE page 5 Northern has initiated the mid-year
Thatcher comments on one-acts
Amendments defeated
Biegler proposes election bills