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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCATwildcat.arizona.edu The University of Arizona, TucsonTuesday, March 29, 2005

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JOSH FIELDS/Arizona Daily WildcatProfessor of surgery Dr. Marlys Witte reads some of hermother’s poetry in her office in the University Medical Center.

Continuing the tradition of honoringa family’s passion for poetry, 15 studentswere named Hearst Poets for originallyrical and populist poetry pieces.

Chosen from more than 50 applicants,10 UA undergraduate students and fivestudents from Pima Community Collegewere recognized during a reception heldThursday at the Arizona Health SciencesCenter.

In its 13th year, the Frederica and JohnHearst Prizes for the UndergraduatePoetry Contest are sponsored by Dr.

Marlys Hearst Witte, professor of sur-gery at the University Medical Centerand daughter of the late poets Fredericaand John Hearst.

Twelve prizewinners each received$50, while the three grand prizewinners,two from the UA and one from PCC,were awarded $300. All applicants weregiven a certificate of recognition and anawards information packet.

In addition to teaching future physi-cians, Witte functions as an active physi-cian specializing in lymphology, or theswelling of the human body.

Affectionately known as the“Ignorama Mama,” Witte does not focusher teaching methods on commonly

known areas but on important, unknownfactors in medicine.

“It is important to learn about thethings we don’t know,” Witte said. “Inorder to be a good physician, they needto ask questions.”

From a young age, Witte said she hadan emphasis placed on the importance ofeducation by her mother FredericaHearst, who struggled for 14 years tograduate magna cum laude as a memberof Phi Beta Kappa honors society whileraising two children.

After Frederica Hearst’s passing in1977, the family discovered her love of

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Next month, students will fill out course evaluationsjust like every semester, but this time they will get take-home red bookmarks to remind them why they are tak-ing the surveys.

The Associated Students of the University of Arizonaprinted 125,000 bookmarks to be distributed with theTeacher-Course Evaluations so more students will knowthe results are posted online, said Emily Upstill, ASUAdirector of academic affairs.

When the TCE bubble sheets are administered at theend of each semester, students are encouraged to givecomments and rate aspects of the class based on a rubric,according to the Office of Institutional Research andEvaluation Web site.

Students fill out evaluations to reflect their finalgrade, teaching style, effectiveness of readings andhomework, and how much time is spent on the class out-side of the set hours. Otherstudents interested in takingthe class can read the resultsonline and base their classdecisions on the experienceof other students.

The results are sent andevaluated at the Office of Institutional Research andEvaluation and then processed by a programmer andstatistician before being placed on the Web site, saidGloria McKinney, OIRE manager of analysis.

“(The Web site) is like having a conversation with stu-dents from all over the university who have taken theclasses before,” said Upstill, a public administration pol-icy sophomore.

Because not many people seem to know about the Website, Upstill said she and ASUA President AlistairChapman decided to print the bookmarks.

“Students shouldn’t have to dig and search for infor-mation about their classes,” Upstill said. “It should bereadily accessible.”

Erin Osborn, an elementary education senior who saidshe uses the TCE Web site, said she knew about the siteher freshman year but did not pay much attention to theevaluation results.

Available online at:aer.arizona.edu/asua

TCE RESULTS

Bookmarkto remindof survey

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EVAN CARAVELLI/Arizona Daily WildcatThe Assad brothers, Sergio and Odair, perform in Crowder Hall last night to a crowd of nearly 500. The Grammy-winning performersare widely recognized as the world’s pre-eminent classical guitar duo.

A two-month preliminary studyin part of a four-year analysis ofmodern-day students will offer theUA community a glimpse into stu-dent attitudes and feelings towarddiversity.

The Department of MulticulturalPrograms and Services, in conjunc-tion with the Dean of Students Office,

is sponsoring the “MillennialProject,” a study and assessment ofundergraduate students’ thoughtsand feelings about diversity.

Data gathering for the study beganin February and will be completedmid-April.

Gary Cruz, assistant director ofresearch and assessment for theDepartment of MulticulturalPrograms and Services, said theintent of the study was to understandthe behaviors, attitudes and percep-

tions of the “Millennial Student” inregards to diversity.

Cruz said much of modern dayliterature suggests today’s studentsare open-minded and accepting ofdiversity.

In order to assess students,researchers invited more than 5,000undergraduates to answer surveyquestions about diversity.Afterwards, the students attended

Project to determine studentattitudes toward diversity

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