The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 10, 1979-Page 3 UNDERGRAD TEACHING REDUCED, CREDITS SLASHED Outreach review changes final By JOHN SINKEVICS The LSA Executive Committee has forced the Psychology Department to make major changes in Project Outreach (Psychology 201), which in- clude reducing the amount of course supervision by undergraduates and slashing the number of credits a student can elect in the course. The program also faces certain elimination of some projects currently offered. The Executive Committee handed down its position on the program last Thursday, after reviewing a report by the Psychology Department's Commit- tee on Undergraduate Studies. The department committee was asked at the beginning of April by the LSA Executive Committee to make certain revisions in Outreach's teaching struc- ture. OUTREACH STAFF members and psychology department faculty curren- tly are discussing details concerning the new plans and will meet to discuss them with some members of the Executive Committee tomorrow. "I'm displeased with the revisions in that there doesn't seem to be any recognition by the Executive Commit- tee of the fact that students really need such a program," said Prof. Shula Reinharz, director of Outreach and currently the only faculty member in- volved in the project. "Outreach was getting undergraduates involved in a supervisory capacity and almost everyone thinks it has worked mar- velously well." Reinharz said the changes in the teaching structure - the placing of greater emphasis on instruction by teaching assistants - will notmean a simple revision of Outreach, but will entail making a complete overhaul of the program. IN SUMMARY, the changes made in the program are as follows: " Undergrads will no longer be com- pletely supervising other un- dergraduates in the course. Students who serve as "facilitators" in Outreach under Psychology 362 will be allowed to receive credit for this course only once, and Psychology 408 and 409 - previously taken by undergraduates who served in a higher instructional capacity in Outreach.- will be eliminated in regard to Psychology 201. Instead, a greater proportion of teaching assistants (TAs) will directly oversee each project, thus eliminating the "pyramid" of undergraduate supervision which currently charac- terizes the structure of the course. While the Psychology Depar- tment's undergraduate committee recommended that the "central staff" train undergraduate facilitators, the LSA Executive Committee has required that this function be the responsibility of faculty member(s) in charge of the program. " The credit allowable for Outreach has been reduced from 12 to six hours, and students will be allowed to repeat only projects which require a commit- ment of more than one semester. " Some projects will be entirely eliminated due to the small level of faculty and TA commitment to the program. Unless sufficient resources for the hiring of additional TAs can be obtained, projects will be cut back or dropped. It is uncertain at this time S '... there doesn't seem to be any recognition by the Execu- tive Committee of the fact that students really need such a program. -Shula Reinharz, director, Project Outreach 0 which projects or how many will have to be cut. "WHAT WAS clear was the (LSA( Executive Committee's objection to the extensive use of undergraduate super- vision," said LSA Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs John Knott, a mem- ber of the LSA Executive Committee. "There's a real danger of exploiting See MAJOR, Page9 Anti-nuke calls for Palisades shutdown ST. JOSEPH (UPI) - An anti- nuclear advocate yesterday called for the shutdown of Consumers Power Co.'s Palisades nuclear power plant as one of several alternatives if the utility has to replace the plant's steam generators. Mary Sinclair, vice president of the Great Lakes Energy Alliance, said that Consumers Power, in applying for an amendment to its operating license, failed to consider the plant's poor operating record since it came on line seven years ago. "SINCE THE plant operates so poorly anyway, why throw good money after bad?" Sinclair asked. "There are unresolved safety problems at the plant." Testifying at a pre-hearing conferen- ce before a Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission (NRC) atomic safety licensing board, Sinclair said the utility's ap- plication "will require a lot more in- formation than the public has gotten so far." "We have learned through bitter ex- perience that we cannot trust Con- sumers Power to put all the facts before the NRC and the licensing board," Sin- clair said. SINCLAIR also said that before the board grants Consumers Power per- mission to replace two defective steam generators, the board must consider the amount of radiation workers at the plantwill be exposed to and the amount of radiation that will be released into the environment before the generators can be encased in concrete. "The fact is that in coming generations, whatever dose they receive will be filtered through the human gene pool," she said. Sinclair said Consumers Power's plans for replacing the generators raise grave environmental and social questions. "WITHOUT citizens intervention the real facts will not come before the board," Sinclair said. "The long-term environmental and social impact are our concern. Workers will be exposed to radiation two to four times as high as usual. Consumers Power will have to burn out a certain number of workers so that they will not be able to work there any more. People are being used up." Consumers Power lawyer Michael Miller and Charles Barth, a staff attor- ney for the NRC, told the licensing .board that Sinclair's group should not be allowed to participate in the hearing because the objections they have raised, are not specifically cited in the plans submitted by the company. Consumers Power last January asked the NRC for standby permission to close Palisades should it become necessary to replace the generators, which were corroded by a chemical im- balance in the water that was piped through them. See ANTI-NUKE, Page 16 Milliken calls for appeal of Indian f ishingruling LANSING (UPI)-Gov. William Kelley's office, which will decide by Milliken said yesterday he believes the tomorrow whether to take the case to a state should appeal a federal court higher court. ruling giving two Chippewa Indian "Based upon briefings I have bands unlimited fishing rights on parts received so far I believe there are of Lakes Huron, Michigan and several very critical issues which need Superior. to be reviewed by the appellate courts Department of Natural Resources regarding Indian fishing rights under Director Howard Tanner also recom- the treaty," Milliken said. mended an appeal. Fox ruled that the Bay Mills and The governor said, however, he will Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Indians continue to meet with Indian represen- were guaranteed unrestricted fishing tatives in hopes of negotiating a fishing rights under two 19th century treaties. agreement. The treaties have never been THE 131-PAGE decision, handed abrogated, remain in force, and do not down by U.S. District Judge Noel Fox in allow the state to regulate fishing by Grand Rapids Tuesday, is being reviewed by Attorney-General Frank See MILLIKEN, Page9 today- Correction In yesterday's Daily story on the chancellor's from the University's Flint and Dearborn cam- puses, we incorrectly identified the photographs of William Moran and Leonard Goodall on Page 8. The names underneath the two photos were reversed. We apologize for the mix-up. Happenings ... the Medical Center Bible Study group will meet in No. F2230 at Mott's Children's Hospital at 12:30 ... Meet at the International Center at 6:30 p.m. to go to the "Famous Americans Lecture Series Henry Ford" at Greenfield Village at Dear- born. There's no charge, but the group is limited to 14 ... in the American Hritage Night Series, at the Michigan League Cafeteria, it's San Francisco night from 5 p.m. until 7:15 p.m.... the Ann Arbor Advocates for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth will sponsor "A Birthing Film Festival," which will in- clude five films on various birth alternatives, 7:30 p.m., at 602 E. Huron, at the Wesley Foundation Lounge. Call Kathy at 668-7032 for more information . at the Ark at 9 p.m. Craig Johnson will play his old-time banjo. Carter the ant White House press secretary Jody Powell made an interesting analogy during a recent press con- ference-he compared President Carter to an ant. Powell rambled through a fable based on a "very studious" ant which tried to stockpile foor for a bad winter and frivolous grasshoppers, which "spend all spring and summer fiddling, chirping ... and making irresponsible statements about what the ant was trying to do." When winter came, and the grasshoppers had no food, they pleaded with the diligent ant (which presumable hailed from Plains, Georgia) for food. "The ant said, 'Kiss off,' and the grasshopper dies," Powell concluded. He suggested that grasshoppers die in November, perhaps alluding to Carter's Democratic challengers. Powell apparently did not consider that ants are quite small creatures and liable to be stepped on. On the outside.. And everyone thought summer would never get here. We've had plenty of summer weather the past two days, and if we're lucky it will be great weather for catching some more "rays" today. The forecast calls for sunny skies with a high of 870, but playing frisbee might be a problem. It will be exceptionally windy and humid today and tomorrow.