The Banner, Vol. 28 No. 4 - September 24, 1982

              The
BANNER
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 4
California Baptist College
Sept. 24,1982
Sadie Dances From Disaster
The annual Sadie Hawkins dinner over,
fun-loving CBCers headed out for a hay
ride. However, a new flair was added to
the TWIRP by a bus fire.
According to Keith McElfresh of the
maintenance department, the power steering hose melted, and the fluid ran onto
the manifold and ignited. As Keith reached the Tyler off-ramp, he saw smoke and
glimpsed the reflection of the fire on the
highway. He pulled over in front of
Howard Johnson's and stopped. Keith,
and a filling station worker near the site,
extinguished the  fire.  Keith  called the
school, drove back and returned to the
scene of the disaster with four vans. In the
mean time, the spunky CBC TWIRPs
organized a square dance with some fantastic calling! Brings a twinkle to the eye,
doesn't it? (Note: This is editorializing).
The incident cannot be attributed to
faulty maintenance, but could have taken
place on a new vehicle. The damage was
covered by the magnonimous sum of
$5.00. Thanks again to Keith McElfresh
and his quick judgment. The hay ride continued, and the TWIRPS displayed a rare
show of spirit!
Hi
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Campus Digest News Service
September 15 marks the
tegitning of an expensive ex-
-eriment as LSA TODAY hits
he stands.
USA TODAY, the new national daily newspaper, is being published by the Gannett
chain The first issues will be
published in the Washington,
D.C. area, with distribution
spreading to other areas week
by week. Gannett will use
satellite printing plants to
print    the    various    editions
National Daily Debuts
around the country.
Mort of the writers for the
new newspaper have come
from other Gannett papers
across the country. These
employees wi!l have little to
lose if the paper fails, as they
will be able to return to their
previous jobs in most cases.
The paper's main emphasis
will be on general interest
stories, with lots of business,
sports and lifesty'e stories.
There will be an extensive
weather section, plus a special
Fair Grading?
Campus Digest News Service
A professor of educational
psychology in Indiana says
many factors affect the
grading of essay questions
beyond whether the answer is
correct.
Clinton Chase has done a
number of studies on essay
testing the past decade and he
has found that the student's
reputation with the teacher
directly affects how high or
low that teacher grades an
essay written by that student.
One study showed that
neatness counts—but only in
favor of poorer students. In
this study, 40 teachers were
given a copy of the same essay
written by the a freshman.
Ten teachers were given a
neat copy along with a made-
up record showing the
freshman to be a straight-A
student. Ten teachers were
given the same record, but
with a sloppily written copy of
the essay.
Ten more were given a neat
copy with a poor scholastic
record, and the final ten were
given a sloppy copy with a
poor record.
The big surprise was that
the ten who graded the sloppy
essay by a supposedly good
student gave the highest
grades. Second place went to
the neat copies by the good
student. Third went to the
neat copies of the poor student, and fourth to the sloppy
copies by ihe poor student.
Chase believes teachers gave
the sloppy copy by the good
student higher grades because
if they couldn't make out exactly what was written, they
gave the student the benefit of
the doubt based on his record.
The next ten teachers graded
the good student lower or the
neat copy because it was easier
to see the flaws.
Another study, this one
from the West Coast, also
revealed some startling things
about how teachers grade. The
name of the student plays a
role in how the teacher
responds.
The study at California
State University discovered
that essays written by students
with names like Michael,
David, Lisa or Karen were
given higher grades tha.
essays by children with less
euphonious names, like Bertha, Elmer or Hubert. Researchers believe those names are
associated with humorous
characters, or characters subject to ridicule.
Dr. Chase has said this reaction to names indicates a
stereotyping process in society
which prevents those students
from getting the same grading
treatment from teachers as
their peers.
What it all boils down to is,
if you're a boy named Sue,
don't bother writing neatly on
essay tests—especially if you
have good grades. And try to
get your name changed before
finals.  ..
Judge
Against
NCAA
feature which will present
news f::om each of the 50 states
every issui. USA TODAY will
strive to be the reader's home-
away-frori-home, filling him
in on places he's lived, or
places he will be travelling to.
The numerous failures of
big-city daily papers over the
past few years has led many in
the publishing industry to consider the Gannett venture
doomed from the start. With
large dailies such as the
Washington Star and Chicago
Daily News biting the dust, it
seems like a oad time to try
such an expensive new daily,
especially on a national level.
The paper will not be appealing to a specific audience, such
as the Wall Street Journal appeals to businessmen, but will
be trying for a much mere
general audience.
Gannett employees are extremely optimistic about their
new paper. They believe that
if only a small percentage of
the people who now buy daily
nevspapers switch to buying
USA TODAY, the paper will
have no problems making
ends meet.
The prototypes that Gannett has been doing and redoing show a neatly organized
paper, with clearly defined
sections. However, it is those
sections that have gotten USA
TODAY in a bit of trouble
before it's really gotten off tne
ground. TIME, Inc. has filed
suit to try and prevent USA
TODAY from using the section names "Life" and
"Money." TIME claims that
people will confuse the names
with TIME's magazines of the
same names, and lead people
to believe that TIME is affiliated with USA TODAY.
Despite all the critics that
say the newspaper does not
have a chance to make it on
the national level, a paper of
this scope has not been tried
before, so it's all a gamble. But
the skeptics won't have to wait
much longer to see how well
USA TODAY will work, as
the presses are geared up for
the first runs.	
JONI SPEAKS to CBCers shortly before her special
chapel.
Find The Clues
Campus Digest News Service
The N.C.A.A. football contracts with the American
Broadcast System and Turner
Broadcast System have been
voided by a U.S. District
Judge Juan Burciaga of Albuquerque, NM.
The judge has ruled that the
N.C.A.A. violated antitrust
laws in negotiating the college
football    contracts.    The
University of Oklahoma and
the University of Georgia had
filed suit against the N.C.A.A.
for the right to negotiate their
own contracts.
The   N.C.A.A.   will   probably appeal the ruling.
DETROIT — A unique program challenging college
students to unravel clues hidden in illustrated stories was
announced by Chrysler
Corporation.
Awards of more than
$10,000 in scholarships,
grants, and other prizes are offered to the winner.
The clues are embodied in a
new twelve month calendar
titled "The Pentastar
Challenge." The Pentastar is
the Chrysler Corporation
symbol.
The program offers
academic challenge and
economic support for students
as well as colleges and universities across the country.
Five different disciplines of
knowledge are included in the
"Challenge": Math, Music,
Literature, Chemistry, and
Computer Sciences. The
Scholarships and Grants will
be awarded to each of the five
deciphered riddles in these
areas.
In addition to these five
prizes, each winner will also
win a gold Pentastar medal
designed especially for the
"Challenge" and one year's
use of a new Chrysler Turismo
or Dodge Charger. One hundred second place winners
(twenty in each discipline) will
be awarded a silver Pentastar
medal.
The "Pentastar Challenge"
story follows two young people who find a star that has
fallen to earth and they attempt to help return the star to
its rightful place in the
Universe. Through dialogue
with the star and advice from
'grown-ups" on ways to accomplish the return of the star
to the heavens, many intellectual and philosophical questions are raised and explored.
The thirteen full color illustrations in the decorative
calendar are executed in
various media including oils,
acrylics, and gouache. A surrealistic approach has been
taken by a team of ten nationally prominent artists to
create fantasy images of story
illustrations reminiscent of the
"golden   age"    of   book
illustrations.
Chrysler Corporation has
commissioned John Magel to
write the story of the "Pentastar Challenge." Magel has
authored several other works
with hidden meanings and riddles including "The Golden
Oak." For the "Challenge,"
Magel has employed the use of
several sophisticated techniques for arranging the clues including a computer software
program designed specifically
for the task. The clues to the
five different riddles appear
both in the story and illustrations which are carefully
woven into the fabric of the
"Challenge."
The Pentastar Challenge
calendars will be sold for $4.98
at retail college bookstores
across the country starting in
September. Chrysler plans to
liquidate some of the costs of
the program through proceeds
of the sale.
Through an exclusive arrangement with the National
Association of College Stores
(NACS) and its distribution
subsidiary, NACS CORP, college bookstores will be
displaying and selling the
calendars.
Special wholesale discounts
to the stores are coupled with
an incentive program
developed by Chrysler which
awards the use of Chrysler
products to sales leaders, and
represents a healthy sales promotion program for the
"Challenge."
The calendars will be
printed in full color on a
premium paper stock. They
will measure H"xl4". An illustration and accompanying
story text is on the top half of
the twelve monthly spreads
with a traditional calendar
"grid" on the lower half.
Consumer promotion and
publicity for the calendar will
focus on the college
newspapers and radio stations
culminating in a special address to the Annual Convention of the Associated Collegiate Press by Chrysler's
Director of Merchandising,
John B. Damoose in the Fall.