; Tuesday, August 27, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY m ,4, Dearborn campus caters to I Law students at recruiting forum "Job pla cement: how important? By MARCIA ABRAMSON Recently expanded graduate programs will give a new empha- sis to the University's Dearborn Campus, a senior college which features a unique co-operative traning program that allows stu- dents to earn $7,000 a year while completing six months of full time studies. Retiring Director and Univer- sity Vice President William Stir- ton predictscontinuing growth for the graduate program, which leads to masters degrees in en- gineering, business administration and liberal arts. Stirton, who has been with Dearborn since the campus was started ten years ago, will be succeeded Sept. 1 by Dr. Norman R. Scott, now associate dean. Dearborn's new dean is a com- puter expert who has served as a member of the computer advisory group of the Atomic Energy Com- mission and on the executive com- mittee of the University Comput- ing Center. Scottais currently on sabbatical leave at the Techniche Hoch- schule in Munich where he has. been researching development of a computer language and com- puter algorithrms. Scott has lectured in Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad at the invita- tion- of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He is the author of a 1960 book, "Analog and Digital Computer Technology." Born in New York, Scott holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of 'Technology. He received his) doe., torate at the University of Illi- nois and has taught at Illinois and the University of Connecticut. Some 2,000 students now attend Dearborn. Sixty per cent partici- pate in the co-op program with the area's many local industries. Each student in business ad- ministration and engineering is required to alternate one term of full study with one term spent working for business or industry, The program is optional for lib- eral arts students. Only juniors, seniors and grad- uates attend Dearborn. Entrance requirements are identical to those of the Ann Arbor campus. Dearborn offers three 15-week trimesters to accomodate the co- op program and facilitate trans- fers from other schools. The terms begin in February, June and October. Stirton says many Dearborn students are older than those in Ann Arbor, and return to com- plete or continue their educa- tions. "The University in this way expands into the metropoli- tan area, providing education without the residential expenses." Demand is great for Dearborn interns and graduates. "Employ- ers keep clamoring for more stu- dents," Stirton- says. The highest-paid engineers in the country are Dearborn gradu- ates. B u s i n e s s administration graduates average $8,256 starting salaries, and engineers average slightly higher. Dearborn's economic advan- tages should make the campus es- pecially attractive to Negroes and other , economically underprivi- leged minority group members, Stirton says. However, only a small percentage of the students are mindrity group members. "We're trying in every way we. can to recruit them," Stirton ex- plains. "The co-operative pro- gram is a superb opportunity for minority group members to get solid jobs, not just ornamental positions. Dearborn 'also participates in an exchange with Tuskegee In- stitute. Juniors at Tuskegee who have proven academic ability can enter the co-operative program which provides them with a job, income and eventually a degree. The campus' enrollment contin- ues to increase along with need for expansion. Planning money has. been authorized for a new 300,000 volume library which will cost around $2172 million. Portable athletic facilities have been set up at the campus., "Only budgetary limitations prevent the campus from increas- ing the present rate of develop- ment and expanding, graduate as well as undergraduate programs,'" Stirton says. Last year Dearborn suffered a housing shortage and planned construction of three new hous- ing units, but additional housing became available in the city of Dearborn. Since many students spend half their time away from Dearborn working, short leases are neces- sary. Stirton attributes the solution of the housing problem to the in- creasing acceptance of -the cam- "When these students are posed on the job, they win ceptance," he continues. ex- ac- pus and short leases by residents of Dearborn. Only -one University - owned housing unit is in operation at Dearborn, which accomodates 106 students. First preference is mar- rid couples. Operating funds for the cam- pus come from the University's general budget, as do funds fort all branches. Stirton is titled director of the campus, but Scott 'will take over as dean. The Regents changed the Dearborn arrangement last year to a system like the one used for Flint college. Dearborn is , centered around Fair Lane, former estate of Henry Ford. The original four buildings were donated in 1957 by business and industry at a cost of $10 million, Principal donor was the Ford Motor Co. Because course work is at the professional-or graduate level, all instruction is conducted by spe- cially selected senior faculty with experience in teaching advanced courses. Teaching loads are lighter than at most colleges of compar- able size. Dearborn also offers some eight week courses in concurrence with the summer term for part-time graduate students, primarily in education and industry. By PHIL BLOCK If the stir the issue caused last year is any indicationd the ques- tion of who shall conduct job re- cruiting on campus and how they will do it will remain an area of controversy this year. If the University can be called the producer of future leaders, then the Bureau' of Appointments ' and Occupational Information is its marketplace. Last year nearly 3000 busi- nesses, governmental agencies and, schools came to the University looking for personnel to fill 20,- 000 positions. Over 2500 students and faculty applied to the place- cment office for job interviews. But traditionally business like operation of the Bureau has been convulsed by policy questions in recent months. nThe intensification of the Viet- nam 'war effort and the conse- quent rise in anti-war sentiment has resulted in numergus student demonstrations across the nation protesting recruiters from com- panies associated with the war. The University has been forced to re-examine Its relationship with the several corporations and government agencies that have been the subject of violent student protests. The situation presented a di- lemma to'the University; for while it wants to avoid the kind of dis- ruptions which have occurred elsewhere, the University is high- ly sensitive to the public reaction which might occur if these con- troversial recruiters were exclud- ed from campus. The University has attempted to diminish the recruiting prob- lem during the past year by the introduction of public forums where controversial recruiters can explain and defend their policies. The forum was first utilized No- vember 8, 1967 following a morn- ing-long non-disruptive protest against Dow Chemical Co. by law students. The forum featured a debate between three law school faculty members plus the Dow re- cruiter. Speaking before an overflow crowd of 500 students, Profs. Jo- seph Sax, Alfred Conrad, and Dean Frances Allen, all of the law school, debated whether stu- dents should use their protests against campus recruiters to voice opposition to administration for- eign policy. The University's public forums originated from a Voice-SDS pro- posal that controversial recruiters be "required" to participate in these open discussions of their organization's policies. Fleming agreed vigorously to the principle of holding open for- ums, but it was clear he was op- posed to the stipulation that such forums be made mandatory. Flem- ing told Voice members he had received similar suggestions from faculty members and members of Graduate Assembly. But not all segments of the Uni- versity agreed with the plan. On February 14, Engineering Council circulated .a petition protesting the placement of any restrictions on meetings with recruiters. Near- ly 1400 signatures were collected. Wally Rhines, '68E, president of the council, said the purpose of the petition was "to draw atten- Coeds: "Let us style a FLATTERING HAIR CUT to your individual needs." -no appointment needed The Dascola Barbers Near Michigan Theatre MISTE R () FAMILY RESTAURANT " HAMBURGERS n C= CHICKEN !"r f , tion to a prevailing student opin- ion that the rights of students should not be unnecessarily. abridged by placing undue limita- tions on a service provided for their benefit." The next day, a Dow recruiter began his regularly scheduled in- terviews on campus, and at the urging of Fleming akreed to par- ticipate the following week in a public discussion of the company's policies.i Finally, at their March meeting, the Regents made a decision on recruitment. In their statement, the Regents said they "express op- position to a policy which would' require employer participation In public forums as a condition of recruiting on campus," but ap- proved a resolution which asked University placement offices "to invite' employers in whose policies there appears to be student and/or faculty interest to participate vol- untarily" in the public forums. In explaining the Regents' op- position to any mandatory open forum, Regent Robert Briggs said, "freedom of speech also involves the right not to speak.' Dearborn Campus' main classroom building TV RENTALS $10 FREE service\ per month and delivery NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 Subsrib toThe Michigaan Daily _ _,r-- - _ _ If-,: UPERC&LASSME'LN:' Help us continue to have Ann Arbor's best stock of used text- books and paperbacks, STUDENT BOOK SGRVICC 76.1-0700 1215$S Univ. _ _ 1 i i , 4 s ; E 3 , },; . ,1 rd a './,/t .' r i _. . 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