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     The other day I was sifting 
     
     through some junk in my desk 
     
     and I found. among other 
     
     things, a little yellow pam— 
     
     phlet. I couldn't remember 
     
     for sure. but I thought I 
     
     picked it up at registration 
     
     last fall. well, anyway it 
     
     doesn't matter where I got 
     
     it, I didn't read it. At 
     
     least not until I found it 
     
     in my desk. 
     
    

    
     I was sort of glad I found 
     
     it though, because I thought 
     
     it might make a good, useful 
     
     sort of story (no scoop or 
     
     anything mind you) for the 
     
     Cadre. 
     
    

    
     Anyway, the skinny little 
     
     yellow pamphlet was about the 
     
     reading lab. Not knowing 
     
     where or what it was all 
     
     about, I went over to Student 
     
     Services to find out. They 
     
     sent me to Mrs. Manovill 
     
     who works in the library and 
     
     is the instructor at the 
     
     reading lab. She took me over 
     
     to the lab which is in the 
     
     chapel building, just down 
     
     the hall from the health 
     
     center. 
     
    

    
     The lab itself is afismall 
     
     room containing about fiour 
     
     machines which looked rather 
     
     like slide projectors. Mrs. 
     
     Manovill has an even smaller 
     
     room off that one for inter— 
     
     views and such. 
     
    

    
     When I had finished looking 
     
     the place over I asked Mrs. 
     
     Manovill a few questions a- 
     
    
   
   
    
     CAII PROPOSAL'A’BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED AFTER 50 YEARS OF FAILURE? 
     
    
   
   
    
     -latest draft, like its pre 
     
    
   
   
    
     Inlmy mail today I received 
     
     a handout from the Dean of 
     
     Arts containing a "draft 
     
    
   
   
    
     bout the course. She exe 
     
     plained how the machines 
     
     worked and the general set- 
     
     up of the course. Then she 
     
    
   
   
    
     ght explore * fi» 
     
    
   
   
    
     The reading lab course also 
     
     offers practical hints for 
     
     studying such as selectivity - 
     
     to know what to look for and‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     went on to talk about the lab. how to skim and scan mater- 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is financed by Student 
     
     Services as a service to 
     
     students. It is the only 
     
     reading lab in the maritimes 
     
     which offers its course free 
     
     of charge; Mrs. Manovill emr 
     
     phasized however, that stu- 
     
     dents registering for the 
     
     course must be prepared to 
     
     meet their committment be- 
     
     cause student services doesn‘t 
     
     want to pay for something 
     
     that isn't being used. 
     
    

    
     The lab can handle approx- 
     
     imately 403 people per sem- 
     
     ester. Mrs. Manovill has 
     
     two student assisstants to 
     
     help her with instructions 
     
     and evaluation duties° Each 
     
     reading student must attend 
     
     class at least once a week 
     
     for one hour and spend two 
     
     hours working at his or 
     
     her own convenience. 
     
    

    
     Mrs. Manovill outlined the 
     
     aim of the ,ab as following: 
     
     "to raise reading efficiency 
     
     by increasing vocabulary and 
     
     speed in order to increase 
     
     comprehension and concentra- 
     
     tion." "Many people", she 
     
     said, "think this is contra~ 
     
     dictory but really, reading 
     
     faster means reading ideas 
     
     and not chopped up fragments 
     
     of sentences." 
     
    
   
   
    
     ial more readily. "This". Mrs. 
     
     Manovill said,"avoids letting 
     
     students get bogged down in 
     
     details." 
     
    
   
   
    
     One thing that Mrs. Manovillr 
     
    
   
   
    
     mentioned in our talk was 
     
     that many students who have 
     
     heard or read about the read- 
     
     ing lab course, think it is 
     
    

    
     a remedial-type program. In 
     
     other words they think it is 
     
     only-for students with seri— 
     
     ous reading problems. However. 
     
     Mrs. Manovill says this is 
     
     ,not true. One third of the 
     
     students attending‘the,read— 
     
     ing lab are above aberage~ 
     
     students and readers who want 
     
     to push their reading effi- 
     
     ciency even higher to help 
     
     them in grad school or a job. 
     
     One third are average readers 
     
     who know there is room for 
     
     them to improve. Only one 
     
    
   
   
    
     third are below average read-s 
     
    
   
   
    
     ers. So, nomatter how good 
     
     or poor a reader you are, ya 
     
     can benefit from the course. 
     
     well after she told me.all 
     
     this: Plus how much some of 
     
     her students had improved, I 
     
     was still a bit disbelieveing. 
     
     I asked her for a list of 
     
     students this semester so I 
     
     could talk to a few of them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I interviewed three and found 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     curriculum for the Faculty 
     
     of Arts" to be discussed 
     
     at a faculty meeting on 
     
     March 28. / ' 
     
    

    
     Apparently-this draft is in— 
     
     tended as a serious proposal 
     
     for drastically revising the 
     
     present arts curriculum. 
     
    

    
     This draft closely resembles 
     
     Curriculum Proposal A, which 
     
     was published in the Cadre, 
     
     together with two other pro- 
     
     posals, last semester. The 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
          
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     decessor, is rigidly struo 
     
     ured and imposes stringent 
     
     requirements upon students 
     
     seeking the BA degree. 
     
    

    
     some of the highlights of 
     
     this scheme are: 
     
    

    
     A "distribution" require— 
     
     ment, cempelling every stu 
     
     ent to take a certain nu- 
     
     mber of courses in.the hum 
     
     ities, social sciences and 
     
     natural sciences. Foe ex-