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* Most, graduate school ad-
missions officers say, the BGS
is a highly acceptable degree,
provided the student's under-
graduate program has given
him sufficient background in
the areas in which he desires to
do graduate work.
Some graduate schools cau-
tion that the lack of undergrad-
uate language courses may hurt
BGS students applying to cer-
tain departments. This is par-
ticularly true if their graduate
interests lie in the humanities,
where the knowledge of a lang-
uage is often a prerequisite for
consideration.
Many of these schools ack-
nowledge, however, that there
is a trend toward the elimination
of the language requirements at
the graduate level.
6 Almost every law school
contacted is highly receptive to
the BGS degree. Several admis-
sions officers point out that the
degree has many potential ad-
vantages for pre-law students:
Since BGS students have min-
imal requirements, they can se-
lect more courses that have a
closer bearing' to the study of
law, according to the schools.
In addition, most admissions
officers say the lack of under-
graduate language courses will
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not hurt BGS students at all
when their applications are con-
sidered. They also say the lack
of a major is not detrimental
since most law schools strive for
varied backgrounds among the
members of their entering class-
es anyway.
! Most of the graduate busi-
ness schools contacted in t h e
survey are optimistic about the
BGS degree, citing many of the
same reasons given by the law
schools.
* Medical schools generally
say the degree itself will not
hamper a student's chances for
admission. However, admissions
officers point out that the
BGS student must complete the
usual number of undergraduate
natural science requirements for
medical school.
Some medical schools also say
a background of language cours-
es is necessary for favorable
consideration.
While the general view to-
ward the BGS is favorable, sev-
eral graduate and professional
schools take a less enthusiastic
attitude, including the graduate
school of the University of Cal-
ifornia at Berkeley - recently
rated as the top graduate school
in the nation by the American
Council on Education.
"A student with a BGS would
be more likely to be turned down
here," says Shirley Dong, ad-
ministrative assistant in charge
of admissions. "No one would be
totally disqualified, but he would
be at- a definite disadvantage."
Dong explains that if an ap-
plicant applied to one of many
areas which require "specific
undergraduate preparation," and
he had not majored in that field
while at the University, he
would be at a serious disad-
vantage.
"The faculty at Berkeley
wouldn't be too prone to favor
this sort of thing (the BGS),"
she explains.
But by and large, graduate
and professional schools are not
concerned about an applicant's
particular degree, or whether he
has a concentration program,
but instead will closely examine
the courses in the student's un-
dergraduate program.
For example, BGS students ap-,
plying to the medical school at
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore would be in trouble if
they had not taken a language
at the University, since the
accepi
school has a language entrance
examination, according to Lor-
inda McColgan, secretary of the
admissions committee.
She adds that BGS students
must also take the several re-
quired science courses. If these
.course requirements were ful-
filled by a BGS student, t h e
lackdof a concentration program
"would not be a problem," she
adds.
The emphasis on course pro-
grams rather than degree is al-
so voiced by officials of the Uni-
versity's graduate school.
"From our point of view, we
require a bachelors degree -
but not any specific one," ex-
plains Byron Groesbeck, assist-
ant dean of the graduate school.
"People in the specific depart-
ment to which the student ap-
plies look over his record to see
if he has demostrated cap-
ability in that area."
The same vIews are held by
officials in the University's bus-
iness administration school.
"As a degree, we would find
the BGS no less desirable than
the regular BA," says J a m e s
Ardis, the school's admissions
director. "Our chief concern
would be what the student did
with his time while on the pro-
gram.
"It is possible to come out
worse with the BGS program,
and it is possible to pursue a
course of studies that is far
better for our purposes t h a n
anything which the BA program
affords," Ardis adds.
"All we require is a bache-
lor's degree from an accredited
University," explains Prof. Paul
Diggs, chairman of the admis-
sions committee of the Howard
University law school. "We don't
believe there is any one de-
gree or field better than ano-
ther in preparing for the study
of law."
Diggs says his committee puts
much more weight on a sample
of the applicant's writing and
letters of recommendation, than
on the kind of degree.
Even some graduate schools
place little stress on an appli-
cant's having a specialized
course background in a specific
area.
"Virtually all the departments
here admit students with a wide
variety of backgrounds, so the
specific program is not import-
ant," says Associate Dean Vau-
mer of OSU's graduate school.
The school dropped its lang-
uage requirement a few years
ago, Vaumer says, describing it
as a trend he sees spreading
throughout the country.
While graduate and profes-
sional schools express favorable
attitudes to the BGS, there has
been a corresponding trend at
undergraduate schools a r o u n d
the country toward instituting
BGS programs, and other pro-
grams which offer alternatives
to traditional degree require-
ments.
At the University, for exam-
ple the engineering college re-
cently adopted "in principle" a
degree program in engineer-
ing which would not involve
concentration in any specific
area within the college, such as
mechanical or electrical engi-
neering.
Although the details of the
program have not yet been
worked out, the degree would
have the basic engineering foun-
dation of the college's present
degrees, "but would entail a
student taking 32 hours in areas
not normally associated with
engineering, according to As-
sociate Dean Joe Eisley.
"While. the degree is clear-
ly much more restrictive than
the BGS, it would allow students
to branch out, and so it is in the
BGS spirit," Eisley explains,
adding that the degree would
be called "bachelor of science
in engineering."
The regular engineering de-
grees are granted in a specific
field of concentration.
In many cases, the accept-
ability of the BGS degree by
g r a d u a t e and professional
schools was specifically linked
to the degree's association with
the University..
"We regard the University of
Michigan very highly," says
William Keough, admissions di-
rector of Stanford's law school,
"and if the faculty there insti-
tutes a degree, it will be high-
ly respected here."
"We have no reason to be-
lieve that Michigan w o u d
manufacture a baccalaureate
degree that would not stand up
against any in the country," he
adds.
Summing up his view of the
BGS, Associate Dean J a m e s
Mau of Yale University's grad-
uate school says, "The strong-
er the institution, the more it
can get away with, and Mich-
igan is probably strong enough."
William Stevens, associate
dean of Northwestern's graduate
school, agrees with Mau and
others, stressing that "especially
from Michigan we don't wor-
ry about this type of degree.
The only problem would be if
a student could not meet the
level of graduate work, due to
faculty planning of his curri-
culum."
Law schools place great em-
phasis on an applicant's writing
skill. While most see develop-
ment of sufficient skill as being
entirely capable of a BGS stu-
dent, a few feel the BA degree
might provide more experience
in writing.
"While there is nothing I can
say negatively about the BGS,
says James Thomas, director of
admissions at Yale law school,
"admissions are competitive.
So in viewing two people, one
with a BA might be more at-
tractive than a BGS because he
has possibly written more while
in his concentration program."
Nicholas Bosen, dean of stu-
dents at the University of Chi-
cago s law school, says the ad- .
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see a BGS transcript where a
student has exhibited high writ-
ing skills and analytical talent."
Bosen adds, "A BGS student ist
every bit as strong a candidate
as someone majoring in a par-
ticular field."
He also says the skills picked
up in language courses are not
necessary for becoming a suc-
cessful lawyer and explains "we
would be much more disturbed
if the student lacked English
composition.
Meanwhile, the admissions of-
fice at the University's 1 a w
school expressed mixed feelings
about the BGS.
"We are not enthusiastic about
the BGS, but not against it
either," says Matthew McCau-
ley, law school assistant dean
and admissions officer. "But we
won't discriminate between de-
grees."
"As far as I'm concerned, I
see one problem with the pro-
gram, which is that BGS stu-
dents will not be getting ade-
quate counseling and good re-
commendations, because these
are usually found within a con-
centration program."
"I don't see any problem with
people in BGS applying to law
school, but it is an odd child,"
he adds.
Assistant Dean Henry Moses of
Princeton's graduate school says,
"We are looking for candidates
who shine from the page." "How
a guy prepared for foreign lang-
uage is not really important."
"If a guy is going to be a
good physicist or literary critic
we will find ways of deciding if
he will in fact be a good one,
regardless of what degree he
has," he explains.
Admissions spokesmen for the
Harvard law and business
schools are highly optimistic
about the BGS degree. They say
students are always admitted
who show great promise, and
that the lack of language or a
major does not make a bit of
difference in the admissions pro-
cess.
Both spokesmen praise t h e
BGS for, as one put it, "fitting
Harvard's ideals of promoting a
wide scope of educational back-
grounds in the schools."
Harvard's graduate school, like
other graduate schools, says a
background in the areas needed
to pursue an applicant's field
is an essential prerequisite to
favorable consideration for ad-
mission.
"In areas like history, the ab-
sence of a language would hurt
one's chances severely," says J.
N. Hilgarth, director of admis-
sions. "In broad terms the BGS
and the BA are equivalent. But
it is really a very individual case
and depends on what the stu-
dent himself wants to do with
his education."
Although almost every school
contacted by The Daily expres-
sed familiarity with the B G S
degree program, no actual fig-
ures are available concerning the
status of current BGS seniors
who have applied to graduate or
professional schools.
Admissions officers say this is
because notifications of admis-
sion are not made until mid-
April.
Nevertheless, even without the
actual figures, it seems likely
that BGS candidates seeking
admissiontohgraduate schools
will not be hampered by their
degree.
TOMORROW:
THE BGS STUDENT
COURSE MART
DEADLINE MARCH 15
Course Proposals for
Fall '71 must be turned
in at 1018 Angell Hall,
Student Counseling
office.
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The students were arrested dur-
ing a skirmish with city policemen
when a group trying to present thej
demands to the Regents attempted
to force their way into the lockedI
and guarded Administration Bldg.
where the Regents' meeting was
being held.
The decision for yesterday's Ad-
ministration Bldg. takeover camne
during a 3 p.m. mass meeting of
almost 150 persons in the LSA
Bldg. lobby, where a skeleton
group of about 20 had continued
the two day sit-in yesterday morn-
ing.
The vote came when the group
discussed the point that the "tac-
tic" of taking over the Adminis-
tration Bldg. might gain the group
more outside support than merely
remaining in the LSA Bldg. Ques-
tions had arisen during most of
the last week as to whether the
group really could muster strong
support for its demands.
Once the group had voted, they
marched to the Administration
Bldg., and massed in ne area of
the second floor.
As the demonstrators were decid-
ing which of the six demands to
focus attention on, and whether or
not to remain in the building and
face arrest, Fleming entered the
area and offered to talk to the pro-
testers from 5 to 5:30 p.m., at
which time, he said, they would be
notified that their presence in the
building was illegal.
The person who was chairing the
discussion advised Fleming that
he could stay and join the dkcus-
sion if he agreed to raise his hand
for recognition, "like everybody
else."
Fleming declined, auti, warning
the demonstrators once mo. e that
they would soon be in violation of
the law, he left.
While the group was discussing,
whether to heed Fleming'3 warn-
ing and leave, Theodore St. An-
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ported an American military con-
voy was ambushed near An Khe
in the central highlands of South
Vietnam, the second ambush of a
U.S. convoy in less than a week.
The loss of three more helicop-
ters brought to 29 the number of
choppers officially announced as
lost since the South Vietnamese
push into Laos began Feb. 8.
Of the latest losses, one Army
helicopter was shot down yester-
day by North Vietnamese ground
fire and three aboard were killed,
the command said. It reported the
other losses also came yesterday
when two Army helicopters collid-
ed in the air while on a mission in
the Laos panhandle. Eight m e n
aboard the two choppers were kil-
led, the command said.
The U.S. Command described
the latest strikes as "protective re-
action." This means that radar on
the American planes detected that
North Vietnamese surface-to-air-
missiles - SAMS - were prepar-
ing to fire and the U.S. planes fir-
ed their missiles first.
The command said two strikes
were conducted last night at SAM
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toine, recently selected law school applause. The statement cited the
dean, entered the area and told
participants that Fleming could
meet with them at 9 p.m. that night
in the Union.
The demonstrators rejected this
suggestion and continued discuss-
ing possible strategies for the sit-
in's future,
When Gainsley began to read
the notice advising students that
they were in violation of the law,I
he was interrupted by sarcasticE
regental interim disciplinary rules,
the state's public act No. 26, and
the state statutes against trespass
and contention.
The group was given one ha*
hour to vacate the premises, and
within 20 minutes voted not to
stay in the Administration Bldg.
Rather than o r ga n ize another
meeting or action, the group also
voted to drop the issues until after
spring break.
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he had not "moved far enough,"
Harris said, "I would like to see
democratic programs succeed and'
this means receiving the support
of a bare majority."
Cornell criticized the "success-
es" in housing and transportation
which Harris had cited.
"Under Harris, 200 new hous-
ing units were built," he said. "The
RIP calls for 5,000 units," he
IWilliams
aids 'U' dept.
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The state charged Williams and
four others with kidnapping and
when the North Carolina kidnap
statute was struck down by the
Supreme Court as too vague, the
state enacted a new law under
which they indicted Williams and
others.
Williams says that, ten years
later, "I am the only one of the
five they are still trying to arrest.
The governor claims I must be
taken out of circulation."
Getting back to the U.S. in 1969
was not easy for Williams. Under
government pressure, TWA refused
to fly him back to Detroit even
though he had already paidfor
that leg of the trip. It took a hun-
ger strike by Williams, pressure by
various civil libertarian groups,
and a $1 million dollar suit against
the company, before TWA arrang-
ed a special plane to fly Williams
to Detroit.
Williams says he "feels freer in
Ann Arbor than anywhere because
of the liberal atmosphere of the
University."
USince his return, Williams says
he has not engaged in any political
activity which might give officials
"an excuse to life my bond." For
this reason, he describes the limits
imposed on him by his bond as a
"cruel form of punishment."
I could have done better finai-
cially had I been able to peacefully
coexist with the system," says
Williams. "But I have no regrets
that I have resisted social evils."
added. "We stand for the rights of
s m a 11 landowners against the
banks, and tenants against land-
lords."
High bus fares, auto congestion,
and the limited "reach" of the bus
system were also cited by Cornell
as failures of Harris' administra-
tion to solve Ann Arbor transpor-
tation problems.
A basic issue that the candidates
disagreed on was the amount of
the city budget. Cornell told the
audience the RIP is calling for a
"freeze" on increases in the police
department's b u d g e t allocation,
emphasizing the need for a "re-
ordering of priorities" that would
include child care, environmental,
and abortion reform issues.
Harris throughout his rebut-
tals argued that the RIP program
represented "the program of the
Democratic Party if it had more
money."
Cornell, however, claimed the
RIP provided an alternative to
the Democrats and Republicans.
"The political, parties are t h e
same. I don't really think that
Mr. Garris in power would do
anything different from Mr. Har-
ris," he said.
"The Democrats are as bad as
the Republicans because they are
protecting business interests,"
Cornell continued. "We must begin
by creating institutions that can
challenge the ones already exist-
ing and re-enter the political
arena to gain the support of the
people."
sites three miles north of the de-
militarized zone and two miles east
of the Laossborder. The area is
28 miles southeast of the Ban
Karai Pass, one of three main
gateways in the Amman Moun-
tains through which Hanoi sen,
its men and supplies.
The strike this morning hit
at another SAM position
25 miles southeast of the B e n
Karai pass, 10 miles northeast of
the Laos border. Results of the
strike also were unknown. A n
objective of the B52 raids is t
create landslides and thus rend-
er the mountain routes impassable.
Coalition
seeks new
Strategies
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ed. Where the 107 people arrested
during the 1969 bookstore sit-in
faced only "contention" charges
and the vague possibility they
might lose state scholarships, Leg-
islative acts since then have im-
plied expulsion of individuals co
victed of University disruptions by
forbidding the expenditure of state
funds on such individuals. Though
untested, such threats have appar-
ently caused many "to have sec-
ond thoughts" about confrontation
tactics;
-The lack of a particular issig
with the potential for "mass or-
ganizing," such as the bookstore
issue during the 1969 LSA sit-in or
the 10 per cent black admissions
goal during the BAM strike; and
-A lack of preparation and or-
ganizing that would offset othi
difficulties. Since their inception,
the sit-ins have been planned from
day to day and from action to ac-
tion. Even at the Administration
Bldg., the protesters lacked a final
set of demands to present to Presi-
dent Robben Fleming. Thus, what
participants called a "failure t
raise consciousness" was really a
failure to organize enough of those
already "educated" to modify the
risk involved.
Perhaps the most discouraging
aspect of the groups organizing has
been their inability to recruit size-
able numbers beyond the "old radi$
cals" who participated in past con-
frontations. Without additional sup-
port, the progress they say they
are making will be jeopardized, if
not offset altogether. Moreovr, if
increased evidence of support
not forthcoming, organizers feel
next week's class break may
threaten to cut whatever momen-
tum this week's activities might
have generated.
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Women Open House at St. Andrew's
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Program. Knowledgeable professors and
students will participate. Feb. 24, 7:
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attend
Rap Sessions for Organizations -
combating apathy - enhancing involve-
ment. Tues. night and the 1st and 3rd
Tuesday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
in Conference Room 3-A, Michigan Un-
ion (South Wing). Topics include lea-
ership change-over, membership, ma
ing workable decisions and program-
ming. The meetings are open to every-
one. Tom Clark leads discussions. Feel
free to call if you would like further
information. 662-4431 ext. 334 or ext.
338.
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