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By CHRISTINE LINDER
University students on their
four-year journey through college
are providing information for a
project of the Institute for Social
Research.
The Michigan Student Study, as
well as other studies on human
development, are just one facet
of the ISR's numerous interests,
which involve the quantitative and
sampling procedures of survey re-
search as well as research into the
dynamics of group living.
Friends and groups of friends
influence the way a student is
affected by his college experience.
John R. O'Connor and Kenneth A.
Feldman, assistant study directors
of the Michigan Student Study,
point out that the college en-
vironment is filtered through the
groups in which the individual
participates and is modified by
their influence.
Random Choice
Students were chosen at ran-
dom from those attending summer
freshman orientations in 1962 and
1963, and they are being inten-
sively interviewedeseveral times
during their four years at the
University to determine how they
change and why.
A part of the broader study of
group living started by Prof.
Theodore M. Newcomb and Dr.
Gerald Gurin, the Michigan Stu-
dent Study is related to the resi-
dential college program.
The classroom, scout-troops and
neighborhoods. in Flint and Chi-
cago have provided material for

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another phase of the huuman de-
velopment studies at the ISR -
children.
The Inter-Center Program on
Children, Youth and Family Life is
receiving support from youth or-
ganizations, the United States Of-
fice of Education and the Nation-
al Institute of Mental Health.
Better Programs
Prof. Stephen Withey of the
education school has been study-
Shubert Gives
Theatre Gran~t
To University
The Shubert Theatre Founda-
tion of New York, established by
the famous Broadway production
firm, has endowed a professional
theatre fellowship at the Univer-
sity.
The Shubert Fellowship will be
in the field of administration and
promotion. It will offer a stipend
of $2,750 for advanced work to-
ward the master's degree with the
speech department, plus practical
experience in professional theatre
with the PTP Office under Prof.
Robert C. Schnitzer of the speech
department.
Selected from applicants from
colleges all over the nation this
spring was Linda Ulrickson, who
will graduate from Antioch College
in June. Miss Ulrickson has al-
ready gained experience in the
managerial aspects of theatre in
summer stock, college drama and
Casa Manana in Fort Worth, Tex-
as. She plans a career in theatre
administration and production.
Howard Teichman, administra-
tor of the Shubert Foundation,
said the candidate chosen for the
Shubert Fellowship, after serving
an internship with the PTP and
receiving an advanced degree, will
be taken on staff at the Shubert
Theatre office-thus bridging the'
gap between academic and profes-
sional work.
The Shubert Theatre Fellowship
was awarded to the University's
PTP as recognition of its leading"
role i nthe development of region-
al professional theatre under Uni-
versity sponsorship.
Beginning with this award, the+
fellowship is planned on being
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ing boys and girls aged seven to
17 for scout groups and other
organizations in order to aid in the
development of better programs
for meeting the needs of children.
Information he has collected is
also revealing how people develop
their self-identity and how one re-
lates to one's peers in childhood
and adolescence.
Recent work by Prof. Ronald
Lippitt of the sociology depart-
ment has been a study of how
the classroom environment influ-
e'nces achievement motivation and
mental health.
In collaboration with Prof. Rob-
ert S. Fox of the education school,
he has been studying the spread
of teaching innovations and teach-
ing psychology to elementary
school children.
Science Methodology
The latter project is an attempt
to develop an early appreciation
of social science methodology, to
create educated consumers of so-
cial science research and to recruit
social scientists.
Juvenile delinquency studies in
Flint and Chicago by Prof. Mar-
tin Gold of the psychology depart-
ment and others have concentrated
on how youths become alienated
from regular community activity
and how to draw them back into
community interaction.
Another Inter-Center program,
on mental healthein industry, is
studying the long-range effects of
the industrial Job on the worker.
Environment Effects
This program is concerned with
the effects of the contemporary
environment on the individual,
complements other studies of chil-
dren and youth which stress de-
velopmental factors.
Professors John R. P. French,
Robert L. Kahn, Floyd C. Mann,
and Donald M. Wolfe, all of the
psychology department and the
program directors, are interest-
ed in the relationship between the
workers' status, how they get along
with the supervisors, their home
life and their mental and physi-
cal well-being.
The individual interacts not
only with his family, peer group
and co-workers, but also with his
culture.
As part of the Mental Health
Program, Prof. Joseph Veroff of
the psychology department is
studying the relationship between
the individual's need for achieve-
ment, affiliation and power and
his adjustment to his life roles.
Among his findings are that men
with a high need for achievement
tend: to be dissatisfied with their
jobs whether they are in low or
high status occupations.
Prof. Veroff's recent national
study of achievement motivations
in Protestants and Catholics show-
ed little difference between the
two groups in the-strength of their
achievement motivation. This is
contrary to the stereotype held by
some social scientists that achieve-
ment motivation should be higher
among Protestants because they
have supposedly been raised un-
der an ethic that emphasizes per-
sonal achievement.
His studies of the development of
motives in children seem to indi-
cate that there is a critical time
at which achievement and affilia-
tion motivation must be aroused in
the child if they are to become
strong lifetime factors.

The teaching of the creative
arts has gravitated from the art
schools to the universities, ac-
cording to Prof. Robert Iglehart
of the architecture and design
college, chairman of the art de-
partment.
"There can be no doubt that
part of the reason is purely eco-
nomic," Prof. Iglehart said in a
lecture delivered at the University
of Tel-Aviv.
"Few independent academies or
conservatories are well-endowed.
Their tuition charges are higher
and their faculty salaries are low-
er," he said. "The better univer-
Concert.Set
For Summer,
The first summer concert series
presented by the Universial Mu-
sical Society will present its ini-
tial program on July 2.
The entire series will feature
four pianists performing varied
programs.
Leading off the series will be
Gyorgy Sandor, who has been pre-
sented three times previously un-
der the auspices of the society and
has been in residence at the Uni-
versity since 1962. He is presently
head of the doctor of musical arts
program in piano performance in
the music school.
Appearing on July '7 will be
Daniel Barenboim, a young Israeli
pianist who has been performing
in Europe:
Eugene Istomin will appear in
the series on July 20. He appear-
ed in Ann Arbor in the 1961 May
Festival and in the Chamber Mu-
sic Festival with the Budapest
String Quartet.
Ralph Votapek, who won the
first Van Cliburn International
Competition in 1962, will close
the series on July 29.
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sities on the other hand are fi-
nancially secure, either because of
public support or private gifts."
Prof. Iglehart noted that a sec-
ond factor is the desire of the
student and his parents that he
get an academic degree.
"But I do not think there is
any real doubt that creative arts
study has gravitated to the cam-
pus for very sound reasons," Igle-
hart said. "The gifted student
finds at the university the libra-
ries, museums, theaters, concerts
and personal associations which
cannot be available in the inde-
pendent academy.
"He also finds at the university
a community audience which is
interested, open-minded and high-
ly critical."
For these same reasons the gift-
ed artist-teacher finds the campus
congenial; better institutions help.
him to continue his creative work,
Iglehart said.
"Creative arts faculty members
at the University may also apply
for financial assistance from the
University to permit them to work
abroad or to pursue some special

AN INFORMATION CENTER for use on the Diag has been pre-
sented to the University by the class of 1964. The unit will be
constructed some time this summer; it will be used to hold adver-
tising signs from student and University organizations.
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EducationalI
By RONA MARKS
"The University should be a
place to encourage creative think-
ing," Prof. Stanford C. Ericksen
of the psychology department, di-
rector of the Center for Research
on Learning and Teaching, said
recently.

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Processes
the independent study arrange-
ment.
Center for Research
The Center for Research and
Learning and Teaching, which
studies this learning process, is
now completing its second year at
the University.,
The center functions in three
basic ways: it distributes its own
report, "Memo," to the faculty; it
sponsors seminars and workshops
for teachers and aids teachers, de-
partments, colleges and schools
within the University.
Each semester the center con-
ducts a workshop on "programmed
instruction." The technique of
writing a programmed learning
unit is a valuable skill in its own
right, but it also helps the teach-
er in an even more basic way,
Greater Understanding
This technique helps to give the
teacher a greater understanding
of his role and of the principles
of human learning and problem
solving.
Prof. Ericksen believes that
teachers must resist the tempta-
tion to look at the teaching proc-
ess as something separate from the
learning process.
In a quotation of Sir Eric Ash-
by, Prof. Ericksen summed up the
basic guidelines for the work done
at the center:
"(But) orthodoxy is celibate; it
breeds no fresh ideas; unless tra-
dition is continually re-examined,
it becomes oppressive. So in the
course of their evolution universi-
ties have learnt not only to pass
on a corpus of knowledge and
ideas. To train people in this dia-
lectic between orthodoxy and dis-
sent is the unique contribution
which universities make to socie-
ty."

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creative p'oblem. Their research
reports usually take the form of
an exhibition of an art work."
'U' Announces
ISR Assistant
Prof. Stanley E. Seashore of the
psychology department has assum-
ed the position of assistant direc-
tor of the Institute for Social Re-
search.
He has been a member of the
Survey Research Center since 1950
and he will assist Prof. Rensis
Likert of the sociology department,
director of IRS.
Seashore's job was necessitated
by the increased responsibilities
and activities of the director's of-
fice which have resulted from the
substantial growth of the institute
over the past several years.
Seashore holds a B.A. from Iowa
State University, an MA. from
the University of Minnesota and

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line which depicts the learning
peaks and the leveling off periods
of the student. "No one should
interfere with this zig-zag indi-
vidual learning curve."
Although automation is taking
over in the teaching process with
slides, movies, television and teach-
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