"AGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DA TLY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1965 JAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1§R~ s :wraa. aa s. t .W.s V t M3x.{..YiiiiV iM } i/V V I# Across Campus FRIDAY, NOV. 12 atre Program will present the APA 4:15 p.m.-Prof. Saul Sternberg in "You Can't Take It With You" of the Bell Telephone Laboratory at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. will speak on "On Scanning One's 8:30 p.m.-The University Mus- Memory" in Aud. B. ical Society will present New York 7 and 9 p.m. - The Cinema Pro Musica at Rackham Aud. Guild will present "Me and the 8:30 p.m. - The International Colonel" in the Architecture Aud. Ball will be held in the Michigan 7:30 and 9 p.m.-The University Union Ballroom. Dance Dept. will present "An Eve- SATURDAY, NOV. 13 ning of Modern Dance" on the 7 and 9 p.m. - The Cinema second-. floor of Barbour Gym- Guild will present "Experimental nasium. Film Program Number Two" in 8 p.m.-The Christian Science the Architecture Aud. organization is presenting a lec- 8 p.m.-The Professional The- ture entitled "The Mythology of atre Program will present the APA Matter" in Aud. A. in "You Can't Take It With You" 8 p.m.-The Professional The- at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Wondering what to do this 'weekend? -O I 'I College Presidents Analyze Role of Universities By MICHAEL HEFFER orderly administrative relation- ident Esther Raushenbush, of Sar- Tha A..c . ships; ah Lawrence College. She suggests .e merican university is be- coming the subject of an increas- ing number of searching reviews of its role in today's expanding, com- plex society. Recent speeches by presidents of leading eastern schools may pave the way for evaluation of the university sys- tem that could change the course, of higher education. The most comprehensive ap- praisal has come from President James Perkins of Cornell Univer- sity. Perkins, , after reviewing "paradoxes" within the university caused by a changing society, reaches these conclusions: " Students in the university cannot get the same education as those in small schools; * Students needing the guid- ance provided by small student- teacher ratios do not belong in th university, where teaching, re- search and public service occupy all the energies of faculties and administration; * Research, teaching and pub- lic service must be balanced in the university; " The pressure on these three functions from within and out- side the university leads to in- creasingly complex, if not dis- * The university president is the only person who can effec- tively direct these functions in the university; 0 All universities must cooper- ate or face the prospect of los- ing control to the federal govern- ment.E College Students I that undergraduates in universi- ties have a chance to do some of their work as short-term visitingj students in small colleges. "I suggest we have a network of small colleges" with courses for students from big universities, she said. "We would have a new educational system that could In discussing college students, make the best use of the assets Perkins said many do not belong of education on a large scale and at a big university because their still not deprive the vast num- greatest needs are "wisdom and bers of students of the kind of advice on how to become an adult." He was speaking of students who are "the product of an age of earlier freedom and laterre- sponsibility." They need the "sense of security that comes from be- ing a member of a smaller, tighter community," that the university cannot provide. For students who need the at- mosphere that only the small col- lege provides, Perkins advocates that university leaders create al- ternatives in the form of state- wide systems of junior colleges and four-year colleges, and more intensive television and corres- pondence courses. Small Colleges Another advocate of sending students to small colleges is Pres- individual learning the liberal arts colleges provide." Sarah Lawrence College is able to offer this because its student- teacher ratio is 8-1, while the Uni- versity of Michigan, as a repre- sentative big university, has a ra- tio of about 15-1. Decentralization Mrs. Raushenbush sees the uni- versities as looking to the liberal arts college for examples in de- centralizing. The residential col- lege experiment is one way the university is attempting "decen- tralization in the midst of cen- tralization," she said. She predicts that decentraliza- tion in the form of a move to the small college structure will "de- termine the character of educa- tion" in the future. Perkins, however, sees the small college as a place to send students who are not ready to be left on their own in the university. He looks toward centralization as a way out of "internal disorder." University Levels It is a paradox, Perkins said, that "when there is the greatest clamor among students for admis- sion to the university, there is the greatest dissatisfaction with con- ditions of student life and stud- ies." The university, he noted, has "not been very inventive about how to relate studies and experi-. OPEN: Mon., Wed. and Thurs. 4 P.M. to 2 A.M. OPEN: Fri.-Sat.-Sun. Noon to 3 A.M. (Closed Tuesday) DeLONG'S PIT BARBECUE 314 DETROIT ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. CARRY-OUT ORDERS ONLY-PHONE 665-2266 FREE DELIVERY FRI.-SUN. BARBECUE CHICKEN AND RIBS FRIED CHICKEN SHRIMP AND FISH NEWMAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION presents Sister Mary Aloysius S.S.J. "PHILOSOPHY OF SELF" Sister Aloysius is a philosophy professor at Nazareth College. She received her M.A. degree from Notre Dome, Ph.D. from Catholic University of America, and was a Fulbright scholar at Louvaine in Belgium. She has had numerous articles in the Philosophical Quarterly. ence or thought and advice, and the result can be frustration, apa- thy or even revulsion on the part of good students." The student is "at the university to learn-not to manage: to re- flect-not to decide; to observe- not to coerce." He said students lack the wisdom and experience necessary to manage. "Manage- ment of the university is general- ly only on the edge of student in- terest," he added. He declared that there are some students with talent as adminis- trators whose ideas could be valu- able to university administrators: He concluded that if the universi- ty learns to involve the student more actively in the learning proc- ess, they might reduce "his de- sire for management." President Grayson Kirk of Co- lumbia University said he would be happier if students "appeared to be grateful for the opportunity (to get an education) rather than to indulge themselves in petulant complaints because they are ob- liged to be more self-reliant than they like." He affirmed the right of students to involve themselves in off-campus activities, but said they had "no right to seek special treatment" if they get into trou- ble. President Kingman, Brewster, Jr., of Yale University, said one of the "new responsibilities" of educators "is to remind the most highly motivated among the on- coming generation that there is no short-cut to the intellectual ca- pacity" necessary "to be useful" in the world. He said "posturing in the name of a good cause is too often the substitute for thorough thought or the patient doggedness it takes to build something." Toward Indifference Brewster is very concerned with "disengagement bordering on in- difference." By this he means the result of pressures "which flatten a capacity for both moral outrage and a constructive conscience." Some of these pressures he iden- tified as privilege of education, specialization that makes people "responsible for only a part of life around them," and "doubt that paralyzes moral purpose." He concluded that educators have the responsibility of holding "the scales of conflicting opinion even," so that thought is not sup- pressed. He added educators must also keep "the sword of our con- viction" from falling, and join the search of today's youth for a sat- isfactory purpose. Perkins warned that the uni- versity is "dangerously close to becoming the victim of its own success." This he ascribes to the great growth of the university * 4 4 NEWMAN STUDENT CENTER 331 Thompson FRIDAY, NOV. 12 7:30 P.M. JAMES A. PERKINS, president of Cornell University, says uni- versities must start cooperating or face loss of autonomy. Old Heidelbe 21 1-213 N. 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"At a time whenI faculty members are in greatest demand for service around the1 world, there are intimations thatj their efforts will cost us our uni- versity soul," Perkins said.' Equalization Perkins concluded that teach-t ing, research and public service must have equal positions in the university.I Kirk agreed, saying, the time, is over "when a great universityt can be no more than an institutei for teaching. "If we are to lead the world in research, our facul- ty members are not likely evert again to have as much time for personal contact" as they oncei had. Perkins presented higher educa- tion as a "system that runs from Just a reminder If you want toE send personalized Christmas cards, it's time to order now!I So hurry and look+ through all the Hallmark Albums for religious cards, amusing cards,. traditional and Contemporary cards, "When you care enough to send the very best." CROWN HOUSE OF GIFTS 307 South State the department through the col- lege, the university, the state, the regional compact, the national as- sociation and the international body. "The university is thus only one level in the whole vast hier- archy of education that has been built around it." The university must realize that testing, innova- tion and planning "are increas- ingly organized and managed out- side the university," he said. Therefore the ideal of a self sufficient community of scholars is now "a nostalgic dream." "Where the university has ad- mitted only reluctantly that oth- er universities exist - and then mainly for the purpose of arrang- ing football schedules-close col- laboration is now a stark necessi- ty." With the federal government having a larger hand in research, universities must cooperate to avoid "more direct government in- tervention." The burden of cooperation falls upon the university president, who should be "campus-located, sys- tem oriented," Perkins said. The president is the only one in the university who can tie together teaching, research and public serv- ice. Perkins concluded that if the university president does not take on the more decisive role he ad- vocates, then "the university may be headed in the direction of sev- eral frightening predictions": 1) The prediction that the uni- versity will become like the pre- historic monster, the Brontosau- rus, emitting "great noise but few constructive comments"; 2) The prediction of the. "care- taker's daughter" dilemma, which asks, "Who takes care of the care- taker's daughter when the care- taker's busy taking care?" Who will be in charge of 'the univer- sity's decisions with "the fac- ulty in orbit, students out look- ing for their lost identity and ad- ministrators out setting off dyna- mite under foundation vaults?"; 3) A prediction that the uni- versity will be "for hire for the short-run rather than the long- run needs of society," swayed by every grant offer; 4) The projection by Presiden* Clark Kerr, of the University of California, that universities should be in a state of "constructive chaos." INSTANT SILENCE Sound Attenuators as utilized by military and commercial jet aircraft ground crew personnel. For information check your book store or write direct to: ACADEMIC AIDS P.O. BOX 969 BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 2333 E. 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