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The function of popular music has not received much notice from sociologists, who perversely have spent more time assessing the impact of television despite the fact that many people from the ages of ten to twenty-five are more heavily exposed to radio and records. For many people in this age group, popular music provides a sense of change, as records and styles replace each other in the instant history of the hit parades. At any time in tl:is history, each listener has a few records that enrich his feelings, extend his sense of love or despair, and feed his fantasies or fire some real relationship ... Absorbir:g this music wimout necessarily thinking much about it, the generations of popular music audiences since 1956 have formed quite different sensibilities from the preceding generations which were raised on sentiment and melodrama. -Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City, 1970.

(1973). A Model for Developing New Residence Hall Environments. NASPA Journal: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 243-254.

Male and female residence-hall and commuter freshman students were compared on the basis of their expressed personal problems, study habits, and reading skills. The two groups of commuters had a significantly greater number of problems than the two groups of residence-hall students on the Mooney Problem Check Lists sub-areas: Finances, Living Conditions, and Employment; and Home and Family. The two groups of commuters had significantly lower scores than the residence-hall students on the Cooperative English Test—Reading Comprehension (Coop): Vocabulary. There were no significant differences between the commuter and the residence-hall students in regard to (a) their Cooperative sub-scores: Level of Comprehension and Speed of Comprehension, (b) their scores on the Brown-Holtzman Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, (c) the number of students who worked for pay or participated in extracurricular activities, and (d) the number of students who desired to talk with a counselor about a personal, educational, or vocational problem.

Inasmuch as undergraduate residence hall assistants are being called upon more frequently to counsel students in social-personal problems and little training specific to this function has been given in the past, there is a need to develop an effective but brief training program leading to increased counseling effectiveness. Six hours of specialized training which focused on counselor accurate empathy enabled eight randomly chosen undergraduate resident assistants to increase their levels of accurate empathy significantly higher than a matched control group which received no training. In addition, the experimental Ss also demonstrated somewhat higher levels of counselor warmth.

response conditions. This function is easily executed through the M.A.D. system. Although the M.A.D. system is not designed to replace the language laboratory, in many ways it can serve effectively as an extension of the laboratory, thus easing the task of scheduling students. This one function in itself is of great importance, since laboratory time and space are frequently at a premium. Also, it is no longer necessary for every student to travel the distance evenings from residence hall to language laboratory to complete assignments. In order to program Basic Foreign Language for the M.A.D. system it is necessary for the foreign language multiple-section classes to coordinate with the M.A.D. system in the same manner as they ordinarily do with the laboratory, making use of the same materials and assignments. The materials used are primarily commercial tapes. Instructors decide approximately one semester in advance how they want their tape material organized and distributed for one semester of instruction via M.A.D. The material is placed on 15" reels, each one of which represents three hours of play, and carries the material for one week of laboratory instruction.

The objective of this investigation was to observe differences in student opinions about residence hall counselors, the interrelations between opinions, and the relationship to opinions of background and personal characteristics of residents. Student opinions were measured on the following four sections of the Residence Counselor Survey: (1) topics for discussion with a competent counselor; (2) semantic differential evaluating the concept, “Residence Counselor”; (3) satisfaction with residence counseling; and (4) descriptions of present residence counselors. Data was obtained from 749 residents of halls on the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. The findings indicated that lower division students were more willing than upper division ones to have discussions with a competent counselor about a large number of topics, were more satisfied with residence counseling, and were more positive about the concept of a residence counselor. Female students were more positive about the c...

Two studies are reported which are concerned with the program of counseling in the women's residence halls of the University of Illinois. The first study demonstrated the inadequacy of the MMPI as a selection instrument for graduate assistants (G.A.'s) serving as residence hall counselors. The second study demonstrated: that students, G.A.'s, head residents, deans, and professional psychologists differ significantly in their definition of the G.A.'s function; that they differ less in defining the attributes of an ideal G.A.; that head residents and students do not differ significantly in their rating of a real G.A.; that the less experienced and the less able students ask more of a G.A. and value her more highly; that the program is functioning well as judged by student endorsement; and that neither the Strong, the Edwards, nor the CPI discriminate between the better and poorer G.A.'s. The data also suggest caution in generalizing results from one institution to another.

Eighty-six residence hall upperclassmen and one hundred fraternity upperclassmen were compared in the areas of college ability, achievement, and attitudes; values utilizing college records, and the College Student Questionnaire. Findings revealed significant differences for the residence hall group in the areas of social conscience, satisfaction with major, and peer independence (p < .05) and for the fraternity sample in the area of extracurricular involvement (p < .01). No significant differences were found in either college ability or achievement. Analysis of other demographic data revealed significant differences in the areas of dating behavior and financial support. Findings indicate no lasting effect on overall college achievement by fraternities and cast some doubt on their selection procedures. Attraction of fraternity members who possess a strong need to belong and pressures for conformity in choice of majors by the fraternities was also in evidence.

Because most institutions are experiencing student migration from residence halls, the educational function of the halls is being promoted, resulting in numerous variations in design and staff organization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the merits of one of these variations—the all-freshman women's residence hall. Freshman women in three types of halls (all-freshman women, all-undergraduate women, and coeducational) were compared on the basis of academic achievement, attitudes about the campus environment, and conduct. Results indicated that on those factors, no case can be built in support of housing women in an all-freshman women's hall.

Educators and psychologists concerned with the CUTrent needs of youth have viewed their unrest with concern. Since the outbreak of violence at Berkeley in 1964, many researchers have been concerned with understanding the changing values, needs and self-concepts of college students. Feuchs, Goodman , Kenniston, the senior staff of the center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and others, have interviewed students to find om what ideas they hold most valuable. Feuchs points out that, "The really startling thing about the young is that so many of them have turned against the whole idea of industrial society and have tried to revive a complex of older ideas associated with the word Community." The authors wondered to what extent the concept of community would be reflected in the current attitudes of youth on a university campus. A review of material dealing with the theoretical background defining the

This study is concerned with the development of a forced-choice rating scale for systematically evaluating the performance of residence hall counselors. Students with 2 or more years of experience living in residence halls supplied over 5,000 descriptive behavior statements concerning both favorable and unfavorable aspects of counselor behavior. Item validation reduced the number of statements to 96 for inclusion in the rating scale. 64 of the items are capable of discriminating between effective and ineffective counselors while 32 of the items are not capable of such discrimination. The scale is composed of 32 triads, each consisting of 2 discriminating and 1 non-discriminating statement. All items are about equal in terms of their preference by student raters, thus forcing a critical choice between triad statements on the part of the student rater. Administration of the developed rating scale yielded a satisfactory split-half reliability of .74.