___TIE MICHIGAN DAILY VOICE Political Party P 'NO LONGER SACRED': Carruth Warns of 2.0 Change Welcomes You to (or back, to) Watch for the. * VOICE RETREATX- September 13-15 * VOICE FORUM ON AMERICAN SOCIETY By JEAN TENANDER Many students may not yet be aware of it but the "once sacred 2.0 is no longer sacred," Hayden Carruth, assistant dean for aca- demic counselling in the literary college, said yesterday. In the year and one-half since the change in the qualifications for re-registration have been in effect, student reaction in general has been favorable, Carruth said. The ruling on re-registration was changed by the Administrative Board of the literary.college as "a service to the student," he added. Until last September the state- ment in the literary school calen- dar regarding permission to re- register had said that the records of all students whose over-all grade point fell below 2.0 at the end of a semester or summer ses- sion would be reviewed by, the Ad- ministrative Board. Stude'nts were then either placed on probation or asked to withdraw from the University.. Change Section Now the section has been alter- ed considerably and put under the heading of academic discipline. According to the new rules, the Administrative Board now reviews the academic record of all stu- dents whose over-all and semester grade point falls below 2.0. It means, Carruth said, "that stu- dents can no longer do well in their first few semesters at the University and then expect to the student. If no change occurs after the second letter more severe action will be taken. The new regulations state that "students who are asked to with- draw from the college, whether from failure to improve upon, or remove, a previously existing pro- bationary status, for incurring a particularly severe loss of honor points in one semester, for con- tinued below standard work, al- thoL h th- graduation average is maintained or for any other rea- son deemed sufficrent under the academic dseolin v",licies of the Administrative Board, have the privilege of petitioning the Board to re-register, or be reinstated." Carruth said that students are asked to petition the Board for a hearing of their case. He stressed that there was no particular pattern in dealing with students on academic discipline. The students' transcripts are re- ferred to Dean James H. Robert- son's office and reviewed for in- dividual problems. The literary school catalogue says the ultimate disposition of a student academic disciplinary case, "the success or failure of his petition, rests solely upon the examination and the factors contributing to his indi- vidual record." Students who have been placed on academic discipline and sub- sequently petition the board have the opportunity to raise any issue which they feel may have rele- vance to their case. Freshmen and transfer students are given special consideration. MACHINES-Mechanical devices are playing an important part in speech and reading therapy. One projects images on a screen which the "aphasic victim descrilies. A reading machine watches eyeball movement to determine reader concentration. Service Uses Tracking' To Solve Reading Ills Y. 0RomnneyToSelect Program Fro m Eight Taxation Plans (Continued from Page 3) By ROBERT B. ELLERY Researchers at the Reading Im- provement Service have taken a step forward in the treatment of reading ability disorders through a method of "visual tracking" which' reduces or eliminates the need for medical treatment for certain severe reading problems. Work begun in 1956 sought the cause of reading disability prob- lems in which apparently normal children and adults could not be taught to read effectively despite all efforts to teach them. The pa- tients "seemed to have adequate intelligence, vision and personali- ties and they all wanted to learn," said D. E. P. Smith, Reading Serv- ice's chief. Smith and his colleagues traced the perceptual problems to en- decrine controls of the neuro- chemical processes, formulating an early theory (of biochemical fac- tors) and their effect on nerve impulse transmission across the synapse or nerve-ending gap. Lev- els of concentration and propor- tions of circuit-makers and cir- cuit-breakers in the body were thought to correlate with certain visual perception and learning ability problems. Chemical Control Later, chemical control of these factors with drugs produced, posi- tive response in patients. Smith, however, was not satisfied with chemical control and looked deep- er for other solutions. The most significant clue came, from barely perceptible muscle spasms of the eye, suspected by Smith and others, because of er- rors made by clients as he read aloud a line of print. The slight twitch occurred when the patient's eye skipped or jump- ed, so that they lost track of the sentence. Errors in reading were those of substitution, omission and reversals possibly due to the eye's skipping to letters of a near- by word or line. 'Optiscan' To find precisely how this -oc- curs, Smith used a device called the "optiscan," consisting of a hel- met with a periscope and movie camera which sits on the reader's head, pinpointing photographical- ly each movement of eyeball focus of attention. Data from other research link- ed this elusive twitch with bio- chemical factors such as the abil- ity to absorb calcium. Again Smith wished to circumvent the area of drugs and with his colleague, Dr. Robert Qe)ke, devised the method of "visual tracking." "Visual tracking" exercises train the reader to remain attentive, by picking out letters from similar or distracting groups of letters. The size of the print is graduated from very large at the beginning to small at the end of the exercises. No Jumps Thus the trained eye "learns" not to jump erratically, and the side effects of and the dependen- cy on drugs is avoided. Such re- training of the eye could conceiv- ably have favorable side effects in other areas of learning ability, Smith said. local governments and'schools will be forced to enact th'e option plan; 3) Repeal of the business ac- tivities'tax, intangibles tax in ad- dition to reducing the corporate franchise tax and substitute for them a two per cent flat rate in- come tax on individuals and cor- porations thereby increasing the net income of the state by $53.1 million; Repeal Taxes 4) Repeal the businessactivities tax and intangibles tax, reduction of the beer, liquor and cigaret taxes, removal of the franchise and sales taxes on prescription drugs and replace them with a two per cent flat rate income tax on individuals plus a four per cent tax on corporations bringing in a gain of $61.1 million. Combin- ed with this plan would be the option of counties to levy ap in- come tax of not more than two per cent on individuals only; 5) Repeal the business activities tax and intangibles tax, reduce the corporate franchise tax, beer, liquor and cigaret taxes and re- moval of the sales tax on prescrip- tion drugs, food consumed off the premises and trade-ins and re- place them with a three per cent individual and a five per cent cor- porate income tax for a net gain of $26.3 million; Distribute Revenue 6) The same as plan five with the exception that the sales tax on food consumed off the premises and sales tax on trading would remain. Net expected gain to the, state treasury: $149.3 million. Un- der this alternative provisions would be made to distribute a por- tion of the taxes to local units on a formula set up by the Legisla-' ture; 7) Elimination of one per cent sales and use tax' repeal of the business activities and intangibles taxes and a reduction of the fran- chise and beer tax along with an imposition of a three per cent cor- porate and individual income tax. Local state units would receive one-third of this income tax which would bring in an dddi- tional $1.46 million; and 8) Repeal of the business ac- tivities and intangibles tax, re- duction of the franchise and beer taxes, exemption of drugs from sales taxes and property tax relief for elderly citizens along with a two per cent individual and three per cent corporate income tax which would bring in an addi- tional $43.6 million. A one per 4 4 HAYDEN CARRUTH ... ends sacred 2.0 waste away until, graduation on the honor points they achieved early." Letters of official concern are. sent to those whose over-all aver- age is still above 2.0 but whose semester average has fallen below minimal standards. If a second consecutive semester of below av- erage work occurs a second offi- cial letter of concern is sent to CLYDE GEERLINGS . . . opposes income tax cent local option personal income tax would also be made available to counties. Meanwhile, Democrats are con- ducting their own studies'of state taxes, meeting with interested gov- ernmental, business and labor and civic groups. The Democrats, however, have not come up with any alternate tax program. S 4 What heats rrost Michigan homes, cooks most Michigan meals, provides hot water for Michiganders, powers much Michigan industry and has never been seen by man? U. of M. Friends of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Cornmittee) Welcomes You to (or back to) The Michigan Campus Join us in the struggle for the civil rights of all Americans THE TEAM-Gov. George Romney (left) and Sen. 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