FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY P A r-ir 'ITTr FRDYSPTME 1,l 1~A~~ PAL N1a£~ COLLEGE ROTC UNITS: Armed Forces Complete Study LIKE A CAFETERIA: College Head Delineates Universities' Offerings I LOWEST PRICES OFFICER'S SHOES U.S. Army-Navy Type By MICHAEL JULIAR The Air Force and the Army have recently completed a study of their collegiate Reserve Officer Training Corps and are awaiting Congressional action on it. The study proposes that the Air Force and Army ROTC programs be' reduced from four years to two years. The Air Force and Army ROTC units on the campus have been aware of the study for two years. There have been talks with Uni- versity officials, but there has been little publicity on the study. Lt. Col. Dwight Durner, chairman of the air science department feels that "it is too early to talk about it too much. We should wait till it is made into law. But we have found the University favorably in- terested in the reduction. The new program is at least one or two years in the future." Juniors, Seniors Only The study proposes that the AFROTC and Army ROTC pro- grams be reduced from four years to Just the junior and senior year. Two summer training camps will be part of the program before the junior year and after the senior year. At the present, the four-year training includes one summer training camp between the junior and senior years. The program may also offer scholarships for ROTC students in their last two years at college. As the present ROTC program stands, the first two years are ex- ploratory ones. Students making a commitment to the final two years are screened before accept- ance. New Screening The new proposal offers a screening process after the sum- mer training camp, before the be- ginning of the junior year. Durner also pointed out that many students from two-year jun- To Conduct Open House The University's Peach Moun- tain Radio Astronomy Observatory will hold its fifth and final open house of the 1962 season Sunday, 2-4:30 p.m. The observatory is located at 10280 North Territorial Rd., and may be reached by turning west onto North Territorial Rd. from U.S. 23, several miles north of Ann Arbor. The site houses the University's 85-foot radio astronomy antenna, a 10-story high instrument which has been used to obtain measure- ments of natural radio emissions from the planets Saturn and Mer- cury. for colleges are not able to join the ROTC program at four-year Universities when they transfer to such schools, because they have missed the first two years of the program. Also, the proposal would reduce the number of students that drop out of the program. "Many stu- dents in ROTC now lose interest or academically drop out before the first two years are up," Lt. Col. Durner says. 1916 Law The present ROTC program is based on a law passed by Con- gress in 1916, tequiring four years of study. The new program would provide the same number of con- tact hours in two years as the present program does in four. Most of the contact time lost in the two year reduction of the pro- gram would be made up through the summer camps. At the end of last year, the AFROTC program had about 280 in it. About 250 are expected this year. The Navy is not interested in the proposal for their ROTC program, saying that they are satisfied with their four year program. Durner says that mandatory ROTC is rapidly on the decline in the nation's colleges and probab- ly will be eliminated by the new program. "The only place where this won't change is in the military schools, such as Texas A&M and Citadel. ISR Suggests Training To Help Executives Relax Two staff members of the Insti- tute for Social Research recently reported that it may be possible to reduce tensions in large organiza- tions through executive training programs, designed to help fit in- dividuals to complex jobs. Study director Jonathan A. Slesinger and Ernest Harburg who conducted the research project, suggest that executives' "failure to play the role as written, a ba- sic generator of stress, may unwit- tingly arise because members have not received appropriate develop- ing, training and coaching to meet the changing requirements of their roles. "With rapid change and in- creasing complexity of modern or- ganizations, it can no longer be assumed that executives, particu- larly higher level executives, can learn required role b e h a v i o r through trial and error experi- ence," they report. Executive' Planning Development of the skills which are necessary for accommodation to the changing demands of the organization and its environment are best secured through deliber- ately planned and carried out pro- grams of executive training from the top on down, they added. Excess tension in executives oft- en arises from two major sources: 1) Failure of certain executives to follow prescribed organization policy - either intentionally, or unwittingly due to failure to un- derstand the policy or its intent; and 2) Pressure for performance, again either intentional or unin- tentional, for example, pressure for increased sales or more pro- duction. Individuals tend to reach inef- fectively to stress-filled situationsj within an organization, and may' retreat from the situation, stand pat, or make innovations which may not be beneficial to the or- ganization, the researchers report. Failure to control the courses of stress within an organization, they add, allows excess tension within executives to create "impaired role performance which, especially in key roles, poses the threat of po- tential disruptions in the system." Name Haber To Position On Committee Prof. William Haber, chairman of the economics department was recently named to a newly formed Michigan Economical Advisory Committee.. Appointed by Gov. John B. Swainson, Prof. Haber has been assigned the task of "projecting the needs of our state in the com- ing decade" and recommending government action necessary to the meeting of these approaching demands. Prof. Haber, who is nationally recognized as a specialist in the fields of manpower, Social Secur- ity, and labor relations, will be assisted on the committee by Prof. Ronald W. Haughton, co-director of the University-Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Also nominated were Prof. Einar Hardin of Michigan State Univer- sity; Prof. Palmer C. Pilcher of the Wayne State political science department; and Prof. Sherill Cle- land, chairman of the Kalamazoo College economics department. HIRAM, Ohio - A Midwest col- lege president says higher educa- tion used to be like a cafeteria: students were given a tray and a choice of hot dishes, usually rep- resenting the favorite recipes of the faculty. "Today, students are going to the other side of the steamtable to make up their own recipes," said Paul F. Sharp, president of Hiram College. "It's improved their academic appetites." Sharp said there has been a changing of attitudes on both sides of the "sheepskin curtain," United Press International reports. Stu- dents are showing a, deeper con- cern and greater personal involve- ment in their educations and fac- ulty members are accepting in in- creasing numbers the theory that the only educated man is a self- educated man, he said. More Responsible "There is, I believe, throughout education a drive to make students more responsible for their own education," Sharp said. Sharp's opinion was born out by a survey at the twelve member schools of the Midwest College Council. All the schools reported a growth of independent study. The changing attitude manifest- ed itself in many ways, including higher library circulations, more interest in seminar-type courses and higher graduate school en- rollments, the survey indicated. Marks Higher At the same time, it was found that academic averages increased and there was a decline in exces- sive interest in extracurricular ac- tivities and social organizations. "On many campuses, where ten years ago Greek letter societies dominated student life, they are now on the defensive," Sharp said. The Hiram president said there was "a real upsurge" of independ- ent thinking and individualism among today's college students. Political Temper "It reflects itself in the political temper on campuses. There is a revolt against regimentation and conformity," Sharp said. "There is a fringe group of 'beatniks' in whom the revolt becomes bizarre and irresponsible, but even that is better than apathy." Sharp said he believed that the trend toward greater independence would produce more responsible and decisive members of the busi- ness community. "One thing interested me in talk- ing with top personnel people in business and'industry," Sharp said. "They say the ranks of middle ex- ecutives are filled with people who can take orders, but a man who can make decisions and accept the responsibility for them is a rare bird. "I believe the student who is more serious about his thinking will make a greater contribution to business and public life." Too often, Sharp said, educators think of college as merely an ex- tension of high school. "We sometimes forget that the average college boy or girl is fair- ly mature and, whether a brilliant student or not, should be ready to take a good deal of initiative in getting an education." Readying Ground "College must be regarded as a readying ground for a self-directed career that starts immediately thereafter. We may even be doing some students a disserviceby con- tinuing to spoon feed them through the use of traditional teaching methods alone." The survey of faculty members at the Midwest liberal arts col- leges showed wide acceptance of the independent study concept. More than half predicted a sharp increase in the near future. Eighty per cent suggested that independent study should be more widely introduced into the Amer- ican high school. Copyright, 1962, The New York Times Especially suitable for-Army R.O.T.C, Navy R.O.T.C., Air Force R.O.T.C. and Marching Band members. Sizes 6 to 12, A to F widths. These shoes are made over comfortable army-navy lasts. 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