WAR MORALITY DEGRADES EDUCATION See Editorial Page 1ZA Sir ian ~~Iaiil MOSTLY SUNNY High-32 Low-16 Fair and warmer tomorrow Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 128 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1966 SEVLN CEtTS CRLT: To DevelopNew Guidelines inEduc By J. RUSSELL GAINES tion of the educational status quo propriated to the center. bers reorganize the curriculum thousand similar facilities to cover the in but also to the development of Standford Erickson, director of within a given course. thestate within five years. ter's g The Center for Research on new guide-lines to direct the fu- CRLT, said last month that the Spotlight on Research institu Learning and Teaching is a unique ture of education. appropriation w o u 1 d not be -Instructional procedures. CR- The program will include 1) a cilitat change from an organization LT has developed simulation computor network among the state the n CRLT comes officially under the enough to let the center start on'tei which has in the past been given control of the Vice-President of its major program-the imple- educational system-CRLT goes courses for the University which colleges and universities, 2) a fectua a limited role in the University to Academic Affairs, Allan Smith. mentation of a computerized beyond mere fact finding. set up model societies such as in clearing house for college teaching and le one whose presence is becoming Its small size of only six staff statewide network between the The center researches and de- Political Science 160. In that materials and innovations, 3) re- The increasingly important. members gives the center greater state's colleges. Half of the budget velops new instructional techni- course model societies based on search and experimenattion on cation cohesion and flexibility would have gone toward the pur- ques which will utilze the greatest international systems allow stu- ways of increasing and improving creat The name itself implies a changchasing of computers to get the potential of the faculty and de- dents to simulate world politics individual instruction in univer- compl The comparable organization in The financial base of the center velop the greatest potential of the and situations. The center also sities, 4) improved methods of yet hr other universities is frequently is in the University budget and, Although the majority of funds student. deals with the problem of train- training teaching fellows and part- abstra labelled Bureau for Educational indirectly, state appropriations. o the at un There are four areas of research ing and evaluating teaching time instructors and 5) curricular te, Research." But the true nature of inrety saeaporain, come from the state via the Uni- a thencne:~elw. eiins9da Money for the center is given non- versity, from one-third to one-half at the center: fellows. revisions. ideal the change is crystallized in the specifically to the University. of all CRLT funds also comes -The preparation of curriculum -Educational technology, This Ir addition to the computer pro- tet comparative roles of the two or- Only then is it allotted to the cen- from grants either from the fed- materials. The center adapts col- program studies the adaptation of gram, the center has developed an and i ganizations. ter. eral goverment Or from institu- lege level studies to the use of automation to education. The use yautomater study carrel" consist- The "Bureau for Educational The center which was started in tions like the Ford Foundation, specific audio-visual equipment. of computers in education is its ing of a slide projector synchron- The Research" is generally a fact- 1962 had asked for an operating The center, upon the request of major concern. The center now ized with a tape recorder, a cart- job. B finding center for the administra- budget of $1,050,000 for the up- Although all educational re- a professor or teaciing fellow, has a computer terminal set up ridge motion. picture projector, it has tion. CRLT is quite different. Its coming year. However under Gov- search centers share a common helps to chose the medium best between Grand Valley State Col- and easy accessibility to a micro- would functions are varied and highly ernor George Romney's budget goal-that is, to promote a more suited to the subject matter and, lege and the University which is film reader-printer combination. tial as relevant not only to the evalua- only $100,000 or $200,000 was ap- effective and a more "potent" in some cases, helps faculty mem- hoped to be the predecessor of one -Educational development of future SIX PAGES ation dividual student. The cen- goal is not- simply to lower tional costs, but is to fa- e and eventually institute ost practical and most ef- l methods for both teaching arning. center's approach to edu- is. one of constructive vity, existing within the exities of the multiversity, nited only by the conceptual ct of education. Their task, is to derive from this vague practical, efficient and po- methods for both learning nstructing. center has an enormous ut the creativity with which approached this challenge seem to indicate its poten- the major influence on the development of education. The Paper' Faces Legal Difficulties Charge Newspaper Violated MSU Rules On Selling Paid Ads By STEVE WILDSTROM "The Paper," a weekly student publication at Michigan State University founded last December by discontented State News staff members failed to publish last week because of legal difficulties. The Paper is currently facing charges from the Student Board (MSU' s equivalent of Student Goverment Council) that it vio- lated university rules by selling a publication containing paid adver- tising without the permission of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Under MSU regula- tions, The Paper is liable to a $100 fineand revocation of its student charter. The Paper argues that the ac- tion of the Student Board violates the publication's constitutional rights. In addition, The Paper questions the authority of the Stu- dent Board under the Associated Students Constitution to make the charges. Student Support The editors of The Paper sub- mitted a petition, signed by 1339 students, to the university stating, "we the undersigned students of MSU, believe that The Paper de- serves to continue publication and to continue wide circulation on campus. "We further believe that .all! parties concerned (university ad- ministrators, members of student government, editors of The Paper), should determine together the most practical means to encourage its continued publication and cam- pus circulation, and that these: means should be implemented as soon. as possible." The week before last, The Paper published a two-page mimeo- graphed edition rather than the regular eight-page tabloid. Editor Mike Kindman, '67, explained that the change was due not to lack of funds or lack of dedication on the iw part of the staff but rather to the legal difficulties. Plans Fail An editorial in the mimeograph-! ed edition, labelled "Vol. I, No. 6%," promised that The Paper would be back on its regular schedule the following week. How-. ever, their plans failed to mate-r rialize. Neither members of The Paper uia 'id at allg NEWS WIRE Ho tline VOICE political party, UMSEU, and SNCC are currently picketing the Whitham Drug Store on Forest and S. University because they carry Schenly liquors. The protest is in sympathy with the current California grape-pickers' strike. Schenly is one of ' the laborers' major employers. The laborers are demanding higher wages and recognition of their right to. collective bargaining. So far, the strike seems to have hit the producers rather hard. VOICE will continue to picket until the strike is settled or appropriate measures are taken by the drug store. * * * * Col. Edward Bruce, Detroit district engineer for the U.S. Army, will be the guest speaker March 1, when the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers will host a meeting of the southeastern branch of the Michigan section of ASCE. Col. Bruce, who is responsible for military construction of, Army and Air Force installations in the state of Michigan will speak on "Construction of the New Second Locks at Sault Ste. Marie." Long Distance University of North Carolina students held their final mass meeting Thursday before the university's Board of Trustees meets Monday to consider banning a planned appearance by American Communist Herbert Aptheker. Earlier this month, the executive committee of the trustees voted to ban Aptheker's appearance on campus but the vote must be upheld by the entire board before it becomes binding. Some 1200 students attended the rally and heard speakers including the dean of the University of Pennsylvania law school. They also unanimously passed a resolution stating that a policy of restraint questions student judgment and is a great danger to the university. The students then marched to the home of the university president and presented him with the resolution. Several states, including Michigan are suffering from a "brain- drain," according to a Fortune Magazine report. A brain drain state is defined as one that educated more Pi.D.s than it employs. The report dealt with scientists engaged in basic research, development and design. The states reporting a brain gain include California and New York. Michigan and Illinois are the prime sufferers of a brain drain. Nearly two-thirds of the high-powered scientific brains 'in this country are concentrated in 10 states and this concentration is growing, Dr. Ralph Lapp, a nuclear physicist and author of the report noted. O AA GOAL: Smith: Need Infoi Center on -U'-Wid -Daily-Thomas R. Copi FIRED UP FOR SKIT NIGHT i t t i M-Trigue plotters at UAC's skit night at Hill Aud. last night received their just rewards. Master conspirators were Sigma Delta Tau and Tau Delta Phi, winners of color TV sets. Surreptitiously stealing second prize were Alpha Epsilon Phi and Zeta Beta Tau. Placing third were Delta Gamma and Sigma Chi. Honorable mention was awarded to Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Tau Delta, and Chi Omega and Alpha Tau Omega. EDUCATION CONFERENCE: Hatcher Flies to Tokyo: Voices May, June Dates Set on Draft Exams Expect One Million Students To Take SRA Aptitude Test WASHINGTON (A) - Selective Service college qualification tests will be given throughout the nation' on May 14, May 21 and June 3, it was announced yester- day. High school seniors graduating this year and college students de- siring to take the test must mail applications postmarked not later than April 23 to the Science Re- search Associates of Chicago. A. 'Selective Service spokesman said about a million draft regis- trants are expected to take the test, which is entirely optional for those who wish to have this type of criteria available for considera- tion by their local draft boards in determining student deferments. Urge Test "Selective Service strongly urges that the students do take it, as it provides one more bit of criteria the local board may consider in determining which students are apparently more promising than others," the spokesman said. Science Research Associates was awarded the contract yesterday to handle the test program as the successful bidder among three. The test will consist of 150 dif- ferent items and a registrant will be permitted a maximum of three hours in wlich to complete the test. Reasoning and Knowledge, The test is designed to explore four areas: reading comprehen- sion; verbal relations; arithmetic reasoning; and data interpreta- tion. The spokesman said it was sim- ilar to a general aptitude test, wit4 about 50 per cent relating to verbal and linguistic skills and the other 50 per cent to quantita- tive reasoning. He also said the test has been so constructed as not to give any special advantage to any type of major over another courses the 'students are pursuing. By April 1 The formal announcement by Selective Service will be made available before April 1 to be dis- tributed and posted in colleges and universities, post offices and other public buildings and local Sd r a f t boards throughout the country. IA registrant considering taking t the test will be able to get from local draft bdard an explanation bulletin and a form to mail to Science Research Associates. Science Research, in turn, will . tell the registrant when and where a to report to take the test. 1,200 Centers S The test will be given in about t 1,200 locations throughout the continental United States and Ha- waii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. A student will take the test only once. It will be available to both undergraduate and graduate stu- dents already in institutions of higher education as well as to high school graduates of this year who are registrants and desire to take the test. Earlier News Michigan Selective Service offi- cials announced earlier this week that most graduating seniors and Doubts on U.S.* By ROGER RAPOPORT On the eve of his departure1 Hatcher spoke optimistically about 1 University President Harlan the State Department sponsored, Hatcher leaves today for a 10 day conference. But at the same time trip to the Far East with an edu- he sounded far from cheerful cation conference on the agenda about the Viet Nam situation, an and questions a b o u t current issue expected to come u} in cor- American policy in Southeast Asia ridor and cloakroom discussions at on his mind. the Tokyo conference.j The conference will deal with{ the role of universities in promot-4 ing mutual understanding betweenj the United States and Japan. Hatcher, along with several otherj m at1o n American educators, Assistant Sec- retary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Charles A aFrankel, and U.S. Ambassador to Ak 11'l Japan Edwin Reischauer will meet a group of prominent Japanese. educators and diplomats. ' cerning budgetary requests from Other Colleges i the various departments. Among the other American edu- The single most important prob- cators attending are Thomas lem confronting the University, Hamilton, president of the Univer- Smith said, is that of inadequate sity of Hawaii; Hugh Borton, space for classrooms, research fa- president of Haverford College, cilities and offices. He emphasized, and Pendleton Herring, president however, that one of the major of the Social Science Research s factors in this problem is the lack Council. of a single compilation of the At the conference Hatcher ex- space needs for the entire Univer- pects serious discussion of the sity. One of the major objectives "concern that 20 years of post- of the OIR, thus is the compila- war U.S.-Japanese cooperation has tion of such a list. aIcreated the danger of. American The idea of system-wide re- intellectual and cultural coloniza- search is not a new one, but it has tion of the Japanese." gained a real impetus in recent One of the reasons why Hatcher 1 years from the increased use and was selected to attend the con- capacity of computers. Whereas it ference was because of the Uni- was once a virtually impossible versity's r e k n o w n e d Japanese job to gather departmental and studies center, according to State Viet Nam Pliy has prepared a number of studies that our leaders who have all the that will be used at the conference. information are leading us on the "We will also discuss such areas right course." as. the exchange of knowledge on Hatcher says he finds it "diffi- scientific research projects and cult to draw a parallel between programs of comparative law." our motives in this war and World President Hatcher who was in War II or the Korean War. Japan last September for the Con- No Parallel ference of the International Asso- "In World War II there was-the ciation of Universities has traveled clearcut aggression of Hitler, and extensively in the Far East. "Last in Korea, the direct Communist fall I found great concern among invasion from the north. But here many Japanese who were raising the justifications for fighting the the same question on Viet Nam war seem far more elusive. discussedlast week by the Senate "Our response somehow doesn't Foreign Relations Committee," quite seem to fit the scene," said said Hatcher. "I will be curious to Hatcher. see what their feeling is now." He indicated that he finds it . Persuasive Case "pretty hard to see how the South Hatcher indicated that he felt Vie.tnamese people. gain" through Gen. James Gavin, George Ken- the destruction of villages, and nan, and Sen. William Fulbright the poisoning their, rice. (D-Ark), "all presented a very Referring to the growing U.S persuasive case," last week in the involvement in Viet Nam as a Senate hearings. 1 "gamble" Hatcher said,- "I think "It is very hard to find convinc- it is widely held by our citizens ing evidence for our current policy that something is not quite right in Viet Nam. We have to hope here." By NEIL SHISTER staff or representatives of the Stu- One of the University's greatest dent Board could be reac orstrengths, according to Vice-Presi- comment on the issues. dent for Academic Affairs Allan Michigan State has had a his- Smith is its administrative de- tory of dispute over student pub- centralization. The heart of the lications in recent months. decision making process lies with the department heads and deans Journal Prohibited of the various colleges and schools, The sale of Zeitgeist, an un- not in the administrative super- authorized student literary maga- structure of the OAA. ulty - from home town to age. Having system-wide information instantaneously available will al- low the central administration to better judge present conditions and anticipate future needs, Smith noted the University's problem of duplication of these informational research facilities among the various colleges. While Smith said that he does not con- sider the total amount of dupli- cation to be overly serious, it does represent a waste of resources. Such duplication exists because the OAA has no comprehensive record of the faculty and other resources which are involved in similar work but who are in dif- ferent departments or colleges. Smith cited the field of biologi- zine was prohibited on campus last fall. + Paul Schiff, a graduate student, ran afoul of MSU regulations by distributing Logos, the newsletter of the Committee for Student Rights. The university denied re- admission to Schiff, who then Yet in order for decentraliza- tion to work as effectively in fact as it does in theory, there must exist a central reservoir of infor- mation available to those who, make University policy dealing with problems like tuition, budget- ing or enrollment. Yet there is presently no such, . ... .. ..