Page :.T-rero.. THE MICHIUAN DAILY Friday, October 20, 1972 Pae w TEMIH~..DAL Laird announces now inspectors i (f . INADEQUATE TAXING, TEACHING Study hits New York schools K fo rUorces. Fram Wire Service Reports WASHINGTON--Defense Secretary Melvin Laird yester- day announced he is creating.new military inspector gener- als to detect promptly and report to him any command vio- lations within the armed services, such as last winter's un- authorized h6mbing of North Vietnam. While the move is not a fundamental change in the sys- tem. of exercising civilian control over the military, it does seem to contradict somewhat Laird's earlier statements on the issue. On Sept. 30, the secretary contended that civilian con- NEW YORK {A') - A three- year study of the New York State school system, the na- tion's second largest, has found that it suffers from an inequit- able property tax system and inadequate teaching that has left tens of thousands of youngsters ill-equipped at reading, writing and arithmetic. The study, by an 18-member commission appointed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, proposed full state takeover of financing pub- lic education, leading in five years to a uniform statewide property tax for education. The 1,600- - page report was described by the commission as "the most comprehensive study of an education system in the postwar era." T h e commission'sfindings .were, in effect, another of the nationwideassaults on the pro- perty tax as the main source of funds for education. The com- mission called the tax discrimi- natory because the quality of a child's education depends on the wealth - or lack of it - of the community in which he lives. The commission's recommen- dations are not binding on New York's legislature. The first volume on tax reform has been on the desks of politicians since last January, but none of the proposals has been adopted. Among the study's more con- troversial proposals are the use of busing to foster racial inte- gration; no state aid to nonpub- lic schools; adoption of a plan to teach sex education at the earliest grades; and a plan whereby junior and senior high school students would be requir- ed to have proof of a physical examination before registering for school in order to curb ve- nereal disease. A major revamping of sec- ondary education was proposed to providestudents with inten- sified courses in the "Three R's," and to give juniors and seniors the option of early col- lege admission, continuing high school study or going to voca- tional school. In one of its secondary recom- mendations, t h e commission charged that elementarynschool textbooks reflect "rampant and insidious sexism" and asked that they be rewritten as soon as pos- sible, so that Jane is as import- ant as her brother, Dick. In the larger cities, particular- ly New York, the study noted that certain students, usually blacks, Puerto Ricans and the poor, were "tracked" - that is, diverted into nonacademic .courses. Similarly, their teachers were usually the less experienced, the poorest trained and the least well-paid, the commission said in urging elimination of tracking. The commission also found that widely divergent groups of children - the intellectually gifted, the handicapped, the bi- lingual and the minority - were being stifled if, indeed, they were being taught at all. In a large measure, the blame fell to the state's teachers, who were described as the highest paid in the nation but 'were "in- adequately trained" to combat this prob em. 217SASH J $ 2PMt- 2AM * ;* ;* :* * :* I* I* 1* J* CINEMA I1 Presents FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER ONLY BLACKIORPIEEUS Marcel Comus-1959. A tragic love story loosely following the Orpheus myth set in the slums of Rio de Janiero during Carnival time. "Full of intoxicating samba music, frenzied dancing and violent costumes."-Bosley Crowther rK 'K 'K 'K 'K 'K -K 'K 'K 'K 'K '.. 'K 'K 'K 'K $1.00 7 and 9 P.M. AUDITORIUM A ************************ * *ff** 4 496,44.i440-, 6 46-A,,i.d..LJ..L : wwwwwwwwwwwxwww7fw7C7C7C7C7C7C7Cwww7C7CR7t"*'Ar7R'fl *********yk **.k I Cour thears debate over smut ases WASHINGTON (W) - Lawyers for a convicted California book- .eller.and a Georgia rcinema yes- terday called for the Supreme Court to rule that books and mo- vies may' be sold or shown to con- sulting adults without police inter= ference. They based their argument on the First Amendment, "the right to read to -and to think" rand a 1969 ruling by the :'court that peo- ple cannot b.e. prosecuted for watching sexy movies or reading sexy books 'at home. The prosecution fought for con- tinued restraints, citing public complaints about pornography and the fact that .erotic books bought, by adults "don't self destruct" and ;can fall into :the hands 'of ju- veniles. One of the reasons the court granted review in the cases was possibly to define the "commun- ity' standards" 'test ,established in 1957. At that time,- one of the grounds approved for suppressing obscene books .was that they of- fended current attitudes about sex. But the -court did not say then, or afterward, whether it meant the city or town, the region or nation at 'Iargea Little was said on the subject during the argument, though Jus- tice Potter Stewart indicated he, at least, - thought the First Amend- ment'- prohibited using different standards in one part of the coun- try from' another. $trol 'was being exercised effective- ly, saying "I am completely sat- isfied with the system we have. I, think it would be a very grave er-I ror to make basic changes."' At that time Laird rejected pro- posals made by some critics that Ia civilian official. re rtin direct- TONIGHT 8 p.m. SHARP Dept. of Speech Communication and Theater University Players Present "EN DGAME" by SAMUEL BECKETT OCT. 19-20, 24-28 ARENA THEATER Frieze Building Individual Tickets $1.50 Trueblood Box Office open 12:30-8:00 p.m. Latecomers will be seated at the intermission! DeLong's Pit Barbecue FEATURES THESE DINNERS: 4 Bar-B-Q Ribs Shrimp Bar-B-Q Chicken Scallops Bar-B-Q Beef Fried Chicken Bar-B-Q Pork Fried Fish Fried Oysters All Dinners Include Fries, Slaw, and Bread 0 CARRY OUT I FREE DELIVERY OPEN: Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sun.- I1 a.m. to 2 a.m. Fri., Sat.-11 a.m. to 3 a.m. E ((j t t CI iv 4ULV .u_;cc, p g J 116 ulc; ly to him, be posted in each ma- jor military command. Laird said the new inspector gen- erals, who, are military officers, will be responsible to investigate subordinate Air Force, Army, and Navy operations "particularly as they involve command control." He. added thatthe officers will report to him "through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The secretary was optimistic about the success of his action. "With the institution of this change," Laird said, "I am con- fident that any deviation from op- erating, authorities or false report- ing will be promptly detected ..." Laird announced the creation of the new posts in a letter to Sen. John Stennis (D.-Miss.), chairman- of the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee, which investigated Gen. John Lavelle, the man alleged to be responsible for the unau- thorized bombings. In the letter, Laird rejected de- mands of some members of the committee for a further Pentagon inquiry into the bombings. x I I 4 ,f .t I r i a . ; 1 , j I , i a r w Inn DIAL 668-6416 A man went looking for America. And couldn't find it anywhere... 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