Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, August 27, 1969 Poae Eiaht THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, August 27. 1969 , -. -,.r - r ' Make WAHR'S your headquarters for all your textbook and college supplies SERVING U of M STUDENTS SINCE 1883 Nursing alters program UNDERGRAD PROGRAM Bus ad plans reforms By MARCIA ABRAMSON and ERIKA HOFF The nursing school's student government has a judiciary board - established four years ago - which has never met. The student Nursing Council makes all conduct rules, and no one ever breaks them. This is typical of the nursing school, known for the conserva- tism of most faculty and stu- dents. Only last year, for exam- ple, nursing students asked for the right to wear jeans in some of their classes. But that was really the only point of contention between the school's students a n d faculty, who also serve as the school's administrators. In general, nurs- ing students and faculty a r e very close andboth are equally dedicated to achieving the high- est degree of professionalism. Students are well-represented in school-wide decision-making through the council and the ac- SUBSCRIBE TO THE MICHIGAN DAILY C k. BOOKS and SUPPLIES ademically - oriented Nursing Steering Committee. Steering committee members participated in last year's total revision of the school's curric- ulum, which consolidated t h e program into 8%1 terms instead of the previously required 10?2. Freshmen and transfer stu- dents entering t h e nursing school this fall will be required to complete 133 instead of 150 credit hours. Two spring-sum- mer training terms have been eliminated. Nursing administrators ex- plain that students are now bet- ter prepared in high school, w h i c h enabled the school to eliminate certain elementary classes. Students had also criticized the old program because it was extremely taxing. Only o n e month of vacation was provided during each of the junior and senior years. The key curriculum changes which made the program revis- ion possible are the combina- tion of two major courses and the elimination of a second re- quired course in medical surgi- cal nursing. A special Chemistry 102 course designed f o r nursing students will be replaced by regular Chemistry 103, taught in t h e literary college. An education school class in growth and development, Edu- cation 540, will replace the Fun- damentals of Nursing course previously required in the re- maining summer half term. The school's academic com- mittee will continue to evaluate and, if necessary, revise the pro- gram during the next four years. By MARCIA ABRAMSON Working closely together, stu- dents and faculty in the busi- ness administration school have moved toward instituting im- portant reforms. The school's undergraduate program, which drew criticism from some faculty m e m b e r s, won the support of a special faculty committee which will make recommendations for strengthening - not eliminat- ing - the bachelor of business administration degree. The business school has al- most three times as many grad- uate students as undergraduat- es -- about 800 are grads - and was exclusively a graduate unit until 1943. But some faculty members continued to argue that stu- dents need a more solid liberal arts foundation. Business edu- cation, they claim, should be concentrated on the graduate level. Many large business schools, like Harvard, have no undergraduate program. After more than a year of study, the five-man faculty unit has decided to recommend improvements in the under- graduate program, which now consist of 42 hours of "pure" business courses and distribu- tion requirements in language, humanities, social science and natural science. L. Lynwood Aris, director of admissions and a committee member, says one of the main issues is the number of "pure" couses a student needs to take. Also being considered is the need for specific study of mathematics, computer scienc- es, economics, sociology, psy- chology and international rela- tions. Although students are n o t formally included on the com- mittee, they have been inter- viewed and members of the Business Student Council have participated actively. There is close cooperation be- tween the 10-member student council, which is elected by all the students in the school, and the faculty and administration. Last year several important cur- riculum changes were instituted on the recommendation of the student group. The student council's pro- posal for school-wide course evaluation was implemented by the faculty last spring, and the computerized study is now available for students. The business school a 1 s o responded to student -- and faculty --- pressure last year in establishing two new courses on black capitalism. With an expected enrollment of 10, some 85 students actually took t h e first class offered, and as many as 200 attended some of the lectures. Natural resources seeks dean, funds NEMEDICINE T DENTISTRY NNURSING C PUBLIC Our store is special ly equipped to fill your every need, and a well informed staff, including MEDICAL and DENTAL students By PAT MAHONEY Like other schools in the Uni- versity, the natural resources school would like more space and an increased budget. Enrollment in the school's naturalist program has bee n limited by a lack of funds for hiring professors. Only 20 stu- dents have been admitted an- nually. Because only one professor is advising naturalist students, the school is now unable to allow freshmen to enter the program. Ernest A. Woodman, assistant to the dean, says the s c h o o l Dent revises curriculum HEALTH Will serve you. would like to hire two or three additional professors, but this may not be possible, depending on support from the Legislature for the University this year. Besides requesting funds for additional professors, the school is also searching for a new dean to replace Keith Arnold, who took a government post. President Robben W. Fleming has appointed an eight-member advisory committee that is ex- pected to submit a panel of can- didates to him by Dec. 1. The Natural resources school is concerned with urban as well as rural problems. In the School's Environmental Simula- tion Laboratory, students par- ticipate in exercises by acting as politicians, educators, land developers and city planners who are required to make de- cisions that affect a commun- ity's natural resources. A computer reacts to the stu- dents' judgments and s h o w s their consequences. By playing games with a computer in this way, students gain a better un- derstanding of the interaction of complex forces that influence resource management in urban situations. Prof. Stewart D. Marquis says this group would like black leaders from inner-city a r e a s and people who are now busi- nessmen, politicians, educators and planners to participate. The group feels that this ex- perience would be helpful to the blacks and that the laboratory would benefit from seeing how present community leaders re- spond. OVERBECK BOOKSTORE The Medical Bookstore By LORNA CHEROT and PAT MAHONEY With a new curriculum and the first of four new buildings completed, the dental school is entering a whole new era. By September, the school hopes to occupy a new six-story resident and administration build- ing and a four-story clinical laboratory strue- ture. Then the existing dentistry building on North University Ave. will be replaced by a one-story dental library, and later a three-story addition will be placed on the back of the existing W. K. Kellogg Institute building. These four structures will form a rectangle, and the Dental Library will then be elevated so the open area in the rectangle can be entered' directly from North University. The $17.3 mil- lion complex is the largest single building pro- ject in the University's history. When the dental complex is completed, enroll- I ment will be increased substantially in b o t h dentistry and dental hygiene, which will double. Sixty new faculty members will be needed. And with the coming of the new facilities, the school will begin a radically new dental train- ing program this fall. Freshmen dental students will get to the base of their studies two years earlier than they would have previously. Clinical experience will begin in the first year, rather than the third. Associate Dean Robert Doerr calls the new program a "radical departure" from the old plan. It will include a new teaching techniques and require an additional semester befween the third and fourth year. The new program will also give dental stu- dents more time outside class. At present, they have classes 44 hours a week and are free only on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Under direction of their advisers, they will now be able to take courses in other schools and colleges which fit their program. Phone NO 3.9333 1216 S. University __ ..vi ......... ..._.... .. .,_ .. . . . ..y.. . . .. -: - . . . . .....:.vi'. . -I I The Michigan Fraternity System No. 1 in ACADEMICS Among A merican and Canadian Universities (voted so by the National Interfraternity Conference, December 5, 1968) FOR GOOD REASON: 1. Michigan fraternity men's grade point average is higher than that of non-fraternity men at Michigan. 2. Michigan fraternity system has the highest scholastic rating of all American and Canadian colleges. 3. The Michigan fraternity system has initiated an educational trust to strengthen their scholarship programs and study facili- ties. 4. Michigan fraternities offer courses within their houses to sup- plement University curriculum. 5. Michigan fraternities have aided the Ann Arbor Free School in offering non-credit courses not offered by the University. 6. Michigan fraternities offer speakers from the university com- munity within their houses for members and other interested students. 7. The Michigan fraternity system also offers national speakers on contemporary subjects for the entire University community -Fall 1968-Leroi Jones and the Black Arts Theatre, Muham- med Ali, Timothy Leary, and Bill Baird. 8. The Michigan fraternities are working to initiate a program to bring high school graduates from the inner city to this Uni- versity. fI k