ST Readies Move to North Campus Site~ ~ P -,AnII v -rmcr-ilI i i :1e 3enter who will beo n the dates Indic angements are bei 'lifford R. Miller,; Cnal ci fn 4.. -Daily-James Keson NEW HOME--The offices and several of the laboratories of the Institute of Science and Technology will move into IST's new building by September. The administrative offices, library and industrial liaison office will ftake up most of the lower floors while several research laboratories will be located in the wings surrounding that segment. Clapp Cites Public Schools Policy department since 1937 and has served under four superintendents of public instruction, including the present superintendent, Lynn Bartlett. No Politics Adressing school administration students here yesterday Clapp said: "We are fortunate in Michi-, gan to have a department staff not subject to politics." r He was referring to the fact that the majority of Michigan's public instruction staff is under civil service, whereas in other states appointments are made on a political basis. When a state superintendent of another party is elected, the department staff usually resigns. Clapp noted that it is a national trend to have state school super- intendents appointed instead of elected. Services Division As an assistant superintendent, Clapp has charge of the adminis- trative services division, one of seven in the state department. This division is concerned with the administrative work of all schools in the state, public and private, and of all colleges exclud- ug Receives Large Grant For Research The American Cancer Society (Michigan Division) has awarded a $39,500 postdoctoral research scholarship: to Carl C. Hug; of the University Medical Center. Hug is the first person at the Medical Center to receive this honor. Hug, who just got his doctorate from the University, has been a predoctoral research assistant in the department of pharmacology for four years, studying the dis- tribution of narcotic analgesic drugs, such as opium and mor- phine, in the body. The scholar- ship will permit him to attend the University Medical School and continue his research while work- ing toward a medical degree. The only change he will make under the scholarship is one of emphasis. "I will now be more concerned with the transport of the drugs in the body," he said. The scholarship, which will pro- vide stipends and tuition fees, is designed to give recipients, who must have already earned a Ph.D. or an M.D. degree, the opportunity to pursue projects in basic re- research. ing the big, state supported uni- versities. Our principal job is to help school districts plan the type of buildings they should have," Clapp said. "W7e do not try to control the- educational design of these build- ings, but we try to stimulate bet- ter design." Clapp opined that Michigan "has been one of the leaders in advanced public school design." School district organization is another of his concerns. In the past six years, the number of school districts in Michigan has been reduced from 3200 to 1579. They are decreasing at the rate of 200 a year through the annexa- tion of small rural districts by larger districts. Most Without High Schools Out of the 1579 districts, 550 operate 12 grades or more, Clapp said. The rest are strictly elemen- tary school districts. "Studies arenbeing conducted in many placesd on the possibilities of merging small high schools," Clapp said. "There are some 60 high schools in the state with less than 100 students," he said. "We are moving, but we have a lot to do to bring school organiza- tion in line with the twentieth century." U I I ;-t- I I - iw -lUUI J