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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Day Calendar
3:00, and 8:30 p.m.-Professional Thea-
e Program Shakspeare Festival-Asso-
iation of Producing Artists Resident
mpany of the U-M in "A Midsummer
Vght's Dream": Trueblood Aud.
4:15 p.m.-School of Music Student
gcital of Wind Instrument Majors -
me Hall Aud.
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.-Cinema Guild-
iva Pinal, Fernando Ray, and Fran-
sca Rabal in Bunuel's "Viridiana";
ort, Carole Lombard and Daphne
11ard in Sennett's "Match-Making
ama": Architecture Aud.
8:30 p.m.-School of Music Degree Re-
tal-Raymond Marchionni, pianist:
Wne Hall Aud.
General Notices
Predoctoral Fellowships for the Sum-
er Session, 1963, have been announced
the Horace H. Rackham School of
aduate Studies to make it possible
r the recipients to continue their
esis research without interruption.
e appicant shall be registered in the
race H. Rackham School of Grad
udies in the second semester of the
rrent year, and shall have bee ad-
ltted to candidacy by his doctoral
mmnittee by March 1. Applications are
ailable at the Fellowship Office, Rm.
0. Rackham Bldg. Deadline for re-
ipt of all materials is March 1.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has
pnounced a program of fellowships for
e academic year 1963-64 for improve-
nt of the teaching of high school
ience. These fellowships will be award-
to applicants without teaching ex-
rience who, as undregraduates, com-
ete a major in science or mathemat-
, or in the Teaching of Science, and
40 apply for :and are accepted for a.
ater'sdegree at the Univ. of Mich.
cipients must agree to enter and re-
in in the teaching profession for a
nvincing length of time. Applications
e available in the Fellowship Office,
m. 110, Rackham Bldg. Closing date
receipt of all application materials
March 1.
Events Monday
12 noon-Faculty Seminar on Conflict
solutions-Dr. John Paul and Dr.
rome Laulicht, bth members of the
nadian Peace Research Institute, "A
rvey of Canadian Public Opinion to-
trdForeign and Defense Policy":Kala-
azoo Rm., Mich. League.
:00 p.m.-Faculty Seminar on Arms
mtrol and Disa nament-Dr. John
ul, member of the Canadian Peace
search Institute, "Conflict, Violence,
d the Preventionof War: Theory and
search": Mental Health Research In-
Mute.
:30 p.m.--Composers Forum: The
mposers Forum is scheduled in Aud.
Angell Hall, with student performers
rol Jewell, violin; Stanley Hale, viola;
rolyn Halik, cello; Janice Hupp, viola;
,ren Hill, flute; Uel Wade, piano; Ron-
a Pepper, violin; Mary Jane Huse,
'lin, and Jane VanSteenkist, cello,
rforming the works of David Andrew,
shard Toensing, Olivier Messiaen, and
vid Maves. Open to the public.
:30 p.m.-School of Education-So-
1 Foundations Club presents Prof.
I Lewis, College of Education, Univ.'
Florida; who will speak on "Prob-
as Facing Public Education in the
uth." Rackham E. Conference Rm.
blic invited.
Placement
MMER PLACEMENT:
SAB-
Camp Hilltop-A Mich. Coed camp will
erview Mon. at Summer Placement.
n & women counselors.
amp Gulliver-A N.Y. Coed camp
1 interview Mon. .& Tues. at Sum-
r Placement. Need Group Leaders,
it Heads, Waterfront, Tennis, Nature
ther';skills.
North Star Camp for Boys, Wis-Will
terview on Tues., Feb. 19 at Summer
ement Positions open are for cab-
counselors & instructors in archery,
btography, riding, sailing, nature,
nis & water skiing. Also a canoe trip
Eder is'wanted.
Summer Placement will be open from
to 12 6ach morning & from 1:30 to 5
ry afternoon.
LACEMENT INTERVIEWS, Bureau
Appointments-Seniors & grad stu-
its, please call Ext. 3544 for interview
>ointments with the following:
ES., FEB. 19---
eo Burnett, Inc.-June & Aug. grads.
on only. Chicago. Seeking General
eral Arts - esp. Econ., Poli. Sci.,
gl., Soc., Psych., Hist,. Journ., Philo.,
ech. Openings in Adv., Market Res.,
+rhandising, General Writing &
>ywriting.
BM-Men and women. June & Aug.
da, Locations throughout U.S. Seek-
Chem. majors, Physics grads and
.th grads on all levels. Also Liberal
s majors & Bus. Ad. majors with
cial mention of Econ. & Astronomy
;ors. Openings in Res. & Dev., De-
n, Sales, Prod., Systems Exgnrs.
ng. by IBM).
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grads. Men and women. Seeking all
BA and MA candidates for Mgmt. Dev
Prog. No citizenship requirements.
Jacobson's Stores, Inc.-June & Aug.
grads. Men and women. Recruiting for
9 lower Mich. cities. Seeking degree in
any field with special mention of
Econ., Engl., Soc., Psych, and Journ.
Openings: Adv., Mgmt. Trng, Mer-
chandising, Office Mgmt., Personnel &
Retailing.
THURS., FEB. 21-
Bureau of the Census-June & Aug.
grads. Men and women. Location:
Wash., D.C. Seeking: Majors in Econ.,
So., Psych and all levels of Math.
Openings: Statistics (all levels) & Eco-
nomists. U.S. Cit. required.
Sodny Mobil Co-June & Aug. grads.
Men. Location: U.S. & world-wide. U.S.
Cit. required. Seeking: general Liberal
Arts majors, esp. in Econ., Chem. (gen-
eral) on both BS & MS levels Also
Geology majors on MS & PhD levels.
Openings: Economists, Territorial &
Promotion Sales.
FRI., FEB. 22-
Procter & Gamble-Feb., June & Aug.
grads. Men. All locations U.S. Seeking
Liberal Arts majors, with special men-
tion of Econ., Poll. S., Eng., Soc.,
Psych., Hist , Journ., Speech & Educ.
Also Bus. Ad. majors. Openings: Mgmt.
Trng, Sales-Territory & Promotion.
No citizenship limitations.
The Manufacturers Life Insurance
Co.-Feb., June & Aug.. grads. Men
Locations: Detroit & others thru the
USB. Seeking Liberal Arts grads. Open-
ings: Life Insurance Agency Trainee.
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Appointments must be made & can-
celled by 4 p.m. of the day preceding
the Interview.
ENGNEERNG PLACEMENT INTER-
VIEWS-Seniors & grad students, please
sign interview schedule at 128-H West
Engrg for interview appointment with
the following:
FEB. 20-
Cooper-Bessemer Corp., Mt. Vernon,
Ohio & Grove City, Pa.-BS-MS: IE &
ME. Men & Women. R. & D., Des., Prod.
& Sales.
FEB. 20-22-
Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., Aircraft
Div. (Long Beach, Calif.), Charlotte
(N.C.) Div.; Missile & Space Sys. Div.
(Santa Monica, Calif.)-All Degrees: AE
& Astro., CE, EE, EM & ME. Prof.:
Applied Mech's. MS-PhD: ChE, Com-
mun. St., Instrumentation, Met. &
Nuclear. BS: E Math, E Physics & Sci.
Engrg. Men & Women. $. & D., Des. &
Test.
General Dynamics Corp., Astronautics,
San Diego; Convair, San Diego; Elec-
tronics, N.Y.; Fort Worth, Texas; Po-
mona, Calif.; Stromberg-Carlson, N.Y.
-All ,Degrees: AB & Astro., BE, EM,
Mat'ls, ME. Prof.: Applied Mech's. MS-
PhD: CE, Commun. Sci., Instru., Met.
& Nuclear. BS: E Math, E Physics &
St, Engrg. Men & Women. R. & D.,
Engrg. Test & Field Engrg.
FEB. 20-21-
Standard Oil Co. of Calif., San Fran-
cisco Bay Area & Los Angeles Basin &
San Joaquin Valley-All Degrees: ChE
& Math. BS-MS: BE, ME & Met. PhD:
FM. Men & Women. R. & D., Process
& Plant Des., Prod., Constru. Supv.,
Prog., Oil Field Engnrs.
ORGANIZATION
NOTICES
USE OF THIS COLUMN for an-
nouncements is available to officially
recognized and registered organizations
only. Organizations who are planning
to be active for the Spring semester
should register by Feb. 25. Forms
available, 1011 Student ActivitiesBldg.
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Congregational Disciples E & R Stu-
dent Guild, Evening Relax & Rebel with
Refreshments, Feb. 17, 8:30 p.m, 802
Monroe.
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Friends of SNCC,3 Organizational
Meeting, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m., Union,
Bm. 3C. All those interested in activi-
ties for this semester are urged to at-
tend.
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Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student
Group, Supper, 6 p.m., Program about
"Every Member Visitation," 6:45 p.m.,
Feb. 17, 1511 Wasthenaw.
Graduate Outing Club, Hiking or To-
bogganing, Feb. 17, 2 p.m., Rackham
Bldg., Huron St. Entrance.'
* * *
Wesleyan Guild, Seminar, Feb. 17,
10:15 a.m., Pine Room; Meeting of Stu-
dent Cabinet, Feb. 17, 5:30 p.m., Pine
Room; Student World Day of Prayer,
Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., Lutheran Student
Center, Corner Forest & Hall; Open
House, Feb. 18, 8-11 p.m., Jean Robe's
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more on their own to build intel-
lectual initiative and capacity for
independent Work This means a
steep cut in a 35-40 hour class
schedule, good books for all and
regularly assigned, collected and
corrected homework.
2) In the laboratory, the usual
emphasis on classic demonstration
experiments must be shifted to
solution of problems. The whole
faculty will suggest the problems,
which will necessarily change from
year to year. Equipment must be
adaptable to many uses.
Reflecting an emphasis on a
broad experimental-scientific ap-
proach to engineering, Kelkar says
IIT must "generate the realization
students must observe nature
closely if they are to solve im-
portant . .. problems."
3) A broad humanities-social
sciences program will explore the
society whose technology and very
structure the engineer is going to
change.
4) To keep students working all
the time, the program of regular
exams and quizzes is necessary.
Accustomed to intense, last-minute
cramming for the cataclysmic
yearly exam, the students will have
to change their ways since every
mark will count in the final reck-
oning.
In India, instructors are gen-
erally not tru~ted to make up
exams, administer them, correct
them or grade their students, a
British-introduced policy to main-
tain standards and prevent aca-
demic corruption. But the external
exam has largely failed to do eith-
er, and IIT staffers will handle
their own testing.
5) With fewer lecture hours, the
faculty will have more time for
research and keeping their lectures
up to date. They'll have to revise
problems, change exams and pay
attention to the student's individ-
ual problems.
The methods will at first be thus
American-oriented; the course
content will have to hew closer
to Indian problems. There are
enough of these to keep things in-
teresting for a long time.
National Exam
Budding student engineer-revo-
lutionists have found that it isn't
any easier to get into IIT than
it will be to get out. Last year,
25;000 high school students took a
nation-wide exam in English,
physics, math, chemistry and
drawing to pick 1,400 freshmen
for Kanpur and three sister insti-
tutions.
Most of the best Indian students
these days are going into engi-
neering or medicine, the best pay-
ing careers. IIT Deputy Director
M. S. Murthana says there's a
"feeling" that Kanpur, too, is get-
ting better students than most
places.
Starting between 16 and 18
years of age, all IIT students face
a common three year program of
prescribed engineering and science
courses that will bring them to the
level of American college sopho-
mores. The Indian student takes
longer because he does most shop-
work and drawing than his Amer-
ican counterpart, partly because,
say, he never tinkered with a car
of his own.
Seller's Market
After the pure science-oriented
core program, there are two years
of specialty before graduation into
a seller's market in jobs. Concen-
tration areas at present: chemical,
civil, electrical, mechanical and
metallurgical engineering. More
engineering specialties and some
pure science degrees are in the
offing.
On the non-academic side, In-
dian colleges don't generally go in
for American-style mass student
activities, and IIT/Kanpur will al-
so eschew this American idea. Its
discipline will be much stricter,
too. Men will be expected to be in
their hostels by 10 p.m. "We want
to get the boys to be regular,"
Murthana explains.
He does not expect the endemic
strikes and mass indiscipline char-
acteristic of many Indian universi-
ties, notably Calcutta where stu-.
dents overturn tram cars rather
regularly. Engineering students,
Murthana says, have a specific ca-
reer at stake; and constant eval-
uation means they'll be better be-.
haved because of constant study-
ing.
India Chips
Student costs are about Rs. 150
per month (just over $30!), aver-
age, Murthana says, for a big city
college. The government of India
chips in a healthy Rs. 4-5,000 for
each student every year, too.
About 25 per cent of IIT stu-
dents will hold central government
scholarships, 10 per cent based on
placement on the entrance exams
and the rest on "merit cum
means." State governments also
help their own residents at Kan-
pur.
The students will take a pro-i
gram laid out by their Indian
teachers with advice from the
Americans, who are involved in
everything from course and meth-
ods development to planning lab-
oratories and ordering the equip-
ment.
Gears Thoughts
Prof. Chavarria-Aguilar's hu-
manities-social sciences proposals
NORMAL DRESS-Workmen wear loose shirts and pajamas, the
flowing trousers of the Uttar Pradesh peasant. Rough wood
scaffolding and all, brick mechanical engineering building goes
up in the background.
indicate just what the advisers are.
doing. In his 20-page document,
Prof. Chavarria gears his thinking
closely to India needs and student
requirements, though he still man-
ages to table the humanist's tra-
ditional and often plaintive appeal
that liberal studies be considered
valuable in themselves.
Bowing to IIT's limited size and
necessary limits on student's time
for relevant non-technical studies
-at best 20 per cent--Prof. Cha-
varria says the program should
offer work in fair depth in a few
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PHILIP D. SHERMAN
means modern science is conduct-
ed within English thought pat-
terns while the language of every
day life remains, say, Hindi or Ta-
mil. This inhibits "cross-cultural"
contacts, setting up a societal
schism mirrored in individuals.
And it bars non-English speakers
from modern knowledge.
Linguistic skills will enable IIT's
engineers to do their mite to bring
native languages up to the point
where they can bear both old and
new.
In the social sciences, Prof. Cha-
varria wants a two - year (120
class hours) economics program.
Though grounded on India's prob-
lems and the natural shared inter-
ests of economist and technologist,
the program mustn't be tailored to
the technical side of the curricu-
lum only. It must be akroad study
of modern economic knowledge.
Pointing to the exigencies of a
society rapidly changing, partially
under the impetus of modern sci-
ence, Prof. Chavarria similarly ar-
gues for two years of sociology and
anthropology.
Historical Work
The program is rounded out by
two years of history and govern-
ment. The former should stress
"interpretation," an educational-
ly-synthetic endeavor which draws
its tools from all the humanities
and social sciences. To justify this,
Prof. Chavarria also broadly fol-
lows the analytical "past explains
the present" school of historians.
A third value: historical work can
help fill the one "virtual terra in-
It was early decided no United
States institution could provide all
of these men. So the "consortium"
was formed with non-profit Edu-
cational Services, Inc., taking a
United States government aid con-
tract and, arranging for each of
the participating. institutions to
provide some of the faculty men.
In addition to the University, ,the
consortium includes Calif/ornia,
Carnegie, Case and Massachusetts
Institutes of Technology and
Princeton, Purdue, Ohio State and
California Universities.
('i'he consortium plan is an in-
novation in itself; previously sin-
gle United' States universities
agreed to aid Indian organiza-
tions.)
Off Campus Duty
ESI handles the paper work,
and the institutions contract to
provide the professors -- Profs.
Chavarria and Kaldjian remain on
the University payroll, assigned to
"off campus duty" and working
off time for their sabbaticals. The
institutions also agree to train
particular IT men and provide in-
stitutional advice.
Subject to a central government
board of governors quite similar
t6 the Regents, operations at Kan-
pur are directed by Kelkar, with
MIT Prof. Norman C. Dahl as pro-
gram director of the "Kanpur In-
do-American Program." Pr o f.
Dahl's leadership reflects his
school's prime position in the proj-
ect.
The men on the scene are in full
control, and this is as Kelkar
thinks it should be. The govern-
ments, he says, are playing their
"proper role" by not imposing
"static ideas" and old procedures.
IIT/Kanpur is trus free to con-
coct its own educational explosives.
HULKING U.S. AMBASSADOR-John Kenneth Galbraith views
HIT bodel. Galbraith calls project "a unique experiment of edu-
cational co-operation between India and America," adds that
U.S. assistance "is in keeping with my conviction that any pro-
ject having to do with the spread of education in India should
receive the highest consideration."
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ing is also needed to attract top
non-technical faculty men.
English will necessarily loom
largest in the program, and Prof.
Chavarria's proposals plunge him
right into one of India's major
educational and political mael-
stroms, the medium of instruction.
IIT will teach in English-helpful
in maintaining its all-India char-
acter, but also absolutely neces-
sary because no indigenous lan-
guage can handle the vocabulary
or precision of modern science.
Beginning Course
Though widespread, English is
still a learned language in India,
and many students aren't very
good. Prof. Chavarria therefore
suggests a first year English course
limited to basic skills of reading,
writing and speaking to develop a
confident command of the lan-
guage. This departs from the nor-
mal practice of plunging barely-
capable students into a whirl of
Shakespeare, Shelley and Shaw.
A progressively-specialized Eng-
lish and Indian literature program
should begin second year and go
on through the end. Though strong
on language skills, it must con-
centrate on the values taught by
the great works.
Foreign language instruction in
German, Russian or French is rec-
omrnended "as soon as possible."
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