Sometimes a politician
The fellow who manages
thinks his career is picking to keep out of debt, out of
up speed when it's really jail and out of politics is a
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two ment for security - related
going downhill.
little above the average.
Arab prisoners serving life crimes—apparently spying.
terms escaped from the top
They used a saw to cut
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security prison at Ramleh through their cell bars and
March 11 and still have not managed to scale several
been apprehended, it was dis- barbed wire fences and a con-
closed to the Knesset interior crete wall to reach a car
then
committee by Police Minister waiting for them on a road
Shlomo Hillel.
near the prison, Hillel report.
He reported that a third ed.
prisoner involved in the break
He said their photographs
was captured in the prison have been distributed to po-
yard.
lice all over the country but
Hillel • also disclosed that so far they have eluded the
five Arab terrorists• were manhunt.
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murdered inside the Ramleh
Meanwhile, 10 Nablus Ar-
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jail by fellow inmates who abs went before a military
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tribunal on charges of espion-
The police minister ' said age. They were arrested after
28021 Southfield Rd.
the escaped convicts were they delivered photographs of
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from an Arab village in nor- an Israeli army camp to Jor-
Southfield, Mich. 48076
thern Israel and had been dan by way of one of the
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sentenced to life imprison- bridges.
According to Israeli author-
ities, it was the first and only
act accomplished by the spy
ring that was organized in
Nablus to serve Palestinian
terrorist organizations.
2 Arab Lifers Escape from Prison
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THE ACADEMIC SCENE: There are today about 50,000
Jewish professors, assistant professors and instructors in
American colleges and universities. They constitute more
than nine per cent of the university faculty in this country.
Their number is, however, now beginning to dwindle.
Some Jewish faculty members — and also non-Jewish—
are losing their 'positions because of financial difficulties
faced by the institutions in which they are engaged.
The outlook for Jewish professors — especially for
aspirants to professorships — is now gloomy primarily
because of the "ethnic" system which is being forced upon
instiutions of higher learning by the U. S. government. The
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare insists
on the hiring by universities of more faculty members of
"disadvantaged minorities"; also more women. Colleges
and universities not complying with this request stand to
lose government subsidies.
Jews, Christians
Practically all institutions of higher learning are now
following the policy imposed upon them from Washington.
Begin Joint Tours When hiring faculty members, they give preference to non-
NEW YORK — The in- white candidates in order to reach a certain unspecified
auguration of an ecumenical "goal" in the composition of their teaching staff. Some
and interreligious VIP tours colleges and universities go even to the extent of stating
program to Israel took place in their advertisements for new staff members that the
here as 24 Connecticut applicants must be "Afro-Americans."
Christian and Jewish leaders
There are universities which offer Blacks a higher
began a 10-day study mission• salary than whites in order to secure a sufficient number
in Israel, led by Hartford of Black members on the teaching staff and thus not be
Mayor George A. Athanson exposed to losing government subsidy. Iii some universities
and Milton Heller, director applicants are given to understand that the institution is
of the Connecticut Jewish under pressure to hire Blacks and women, and the quali-
Community Relations . Coun- fications play a lesser role than "ethnicity" in filling new
cil.
positions.
The program, organized by
This trend reduces the opportunities for white aspirants
the American Jewish Cpm-
mittee in cooperation with for professorship in general. It affects Jewish aspirants to
the Hartford Jewish Federa- a greater extent. The opportunities opened for Jews some
tion, enlarges the scope of 25 years ago by the elimination of bars to hiring Jewish
the AJC's Christian Visitors faculty members are now dwindling to a point where not
to Israel program, in which only hopes are slim for young scholarly Jews to become
prominent Christian leaders professors, but even some who have already achieved pro-
have gone on specially- fessorship are not certain of their future.
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arranged tours to Israel.
CAUSE AND EFFECT: The decline in opportunities
The interreligious tours in-
volve both Christian and for young Jewish academicians to secure faculty positions
Jewish community figures, may turn out to be a blessing for organized Jewish com-
who explore both the mean- munities and the institutions they support.
ing of Israel to each, and its
There has always been a shortage in highly-educated
lessons for healthy inter- professional workers in Jewish communal institutions. With
group relations in the United aspirants for professorial positions no longer certain that
States.
they will achieve their ambitions in the academic world,
During their 10 days in Is- some of them are now beginning to turn to the field of
rael the Connecticut com- Jewish communal work, where they are needed.
munal leaders will visit Jew-
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
ish, Christian and Moslem established three years ago a Federation Executive Re-
figures involved in interfaith cruitment and Education Program designed to meet the
dialogue programs there.
mounting need for qualified personnel and professional
A highlight of the tour will leadership in the Jewish communities. Involved in this
be an inspection of Syrian program are also a number of colleges and universities
prisoners of war who are across the country working in conjunction with local Jewish
held by the Israelis. The federations to provide federation-oriented curricula. These
group has asked that the include Brandeis University, the Wurzweiler School of Social
Syrian government likewise Work at the Yeshiva University, the Baltimore Hebrew
provide an opportunity for College working in cooperation with the University of Mary-
them to see Israeli prisoners land, the Temple University, the Case-Western Reserve
held in Syria.
University, and the California School of Jewish Communal
A special feature of the Service at Hebrew Union College.
trip will be a visit to Ramie,
a new immigrant community
GLARING CASE: The government program of forcing
located between Tel Aviv and upon colleges and universities to give preference to mem-
Jerusalem, which has been bers of "disadvantaged groups" in hiring professors applies
adopted by Hartford as its also to admission of students. It is called delicately "af-
"sister city." The inhabitants firmative action program" and provides for open admission
of the new town are immi- of students of •those groups without regard to whether
grants from Russia and from they are prepared for college-level work. In some colleges
Asian and African lands.
special remedial courses are set up to help the student
meet his deficiencies.
All this adds up to the fact that Jews now have less
Forest Honors Fallen
Migdal Ha'emek—A forest opportunities to enter city colleges. Under the financial cir-
in memory of the soldiers of cumstances now prevailing in institutions of higher educa-
Migdal Ha'emek who fell in tion, no college can expand to admit more students than its
the Yom Kippur War will be budget permits. Hence when more Black students are
planted near the new factory admitted under an "open door" admission policy without
Nilith. The forest will be any examination, less places remain for well-qualified
planted with money donated white applicants; and still less if they are Jews.
by the friends and family of
Jewish organizations do not object to the affirmative
Maurice Levy, who fell while action principle in higher education. They request, how-
driving a tank. Mr. Levy was ever, scrutiny of admission tests and standards for ad-
to have been the new direc- mission to make sure that they contain no cultural bias.
tor-general of the Nilith fac- They reject the concept of quotas which have become the
tory.
actual practice on numerous occasions.
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