The Michigan Daily-Saturday, July 25, 1981-Page 3
TAIWANESE AFFAIR TO REACH HOUSE FLOOR
Hearing set for 'spy'ease
By JOHN ADAM Leach's (R-Iowa) Administrative Assistant Fulton remuneration," it would be against the law.
Daily staff writer Armstrong. "WE WILL INVESTIGATE how much information
As speculation grows concerning exactly which "THERE IS NO talk of any legislation yet" to is sent back to Taipei, (Taiwan)," Armstrong said.
federal agencies will brief University President prohibit foreign surveillance of foreign students, Ar- "We don't think it's (sent) through the mails." He
Harold Shapiro on foreign surveillance on U.S. cam- mstrong said, adding that the hearing will attempt to said he believes a request has been made to the F.B.I.
puses, congressional hearings investigating the issue discover to what extent foreign governments are in- for information regarding spying on campuses.
have been sgt o start thisThursday. volved in campus surveillance. Armstrong said he is familiar with 1979 reports ap-
The hearings will focus on campus surveillance in Shapiro has said he isn't certain that it is illegal for pearing in The Washington Post concerning foreign
general, and Taiwanese intelligence operations in a foreign government agent to report back the ac- spy activities in the United States. And, hj claimed,
particular, in the case of former University Ph.D. tivities of that country's own students, but Armstrong the Chen incident "is directly related to that."
student Chen Wen-Chen, said Congressman Jim said if the agents supply information "for some See FEDERAL, Page10
._PET computers in the classroom
Chemistry classes helped
by modern electronics
By JOHN ADAM
Daily staff writer
Outside of a room on the top floor of
the Chemistry Building hangs a sign
reading, "PET SHOP." The room
houses more than 40 PETs; but these -
pets don't bite, they byte. That is, they
have bytes-computer memory
units-and plenty of them.
The University's chemistry depar-
tment is at the forefront of the nation in
using these PETs-personal
microcomputers-for class instruction,
according to William Butler, an
assistant chemistry research scientist.
STUDENTS IN introductory lab
courses perform simulation ex-
periments on these small computers,
which have graphic displays as vivid
and exciting as most video space in-
vader games One difference: These
screens display colorful titration and
redox experiments rather than flasing
alien targets.
"It's going to have a tremendous im-
pact on education," Butler said. With
domputer simulation, he explained,
students have greater opportunities to
design their own experiments.
"IT'S NOT a cook book thing" like the
laboratory experiments, he said. But it
is not meant to replace the actual lab,
said Butler, who has written most of the
software for these simulated ex-
periments.
About 120 schools have purchased the
software-even Ohio State, joked
Butler-and he said he is nearly ready
to publish a step-by-step manual ex-
plaining how to program the small
computer.
A sumnter work shop designed to
teach programming of the PETs ended
yesterday. Approximately 50 people
from across the country came to the
program, sponsored by the chemistry
department.
"KIDS ARE going to grow up with
them (the computers) like TV," said
Billie Jean Edwards, a Detroit
Renaissance 'High School chemistry
teacher who attended 'the workshop to
learn how to write programs for her
own students.
Edwards said she already has a
microcomputer at the school.
"Any time I bring it (the computer)
into the classroom, the kids will say 'I
know the lesson for today. Can I use the
computer?'"
Although the PET is an important
tool, it is not g replacement for
teaching, she said. However, "In 'he
future if you don't know how to work a
computer, you'll be like an ostrich with
its head in the sand," she predicted.
ELMER JONES, a -chemistry
professor at Northeastern University in
Boston, attended the workshop to learn
to program drills, exercises and tests
for his students to-learn on computers:
The computer "can do things in a way
a teacher cgn't do," Jones said. "It has
a lot more patience than a teacher," he
said, for doing things like drilling
students.,
IN ADDITION to the chemistry
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Doily rot oy rAulL ENGRO1
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Prof. Elmer Jones learns to program a
microcomputer at a workshop sponsored by the University's Chemistry
department. The graphic illustration of a titration is shown in the insert.
Business
booms
during
Art Fair
By ANN MARIE FAZIO
Daily staff writer
While most art fairs offer the usual
types of art - painting, pottery,
photography, etc. - Ann Arbor's
features yet another form: the fine art
of economics.
Retail merchants from stores lining
the strgets of the fair get a chance to
show their creative talent as salesmen.
Some empty their stores onto the
sidewalks, while others tease prospec-
tive customers inside by placing only
some goods outside.
But all reduce their prices according
to their own personal tastes in this art
of marketing.
"ANY, TIME there's that many
people in town, you're bound to
benefit;" said Donna Moran, the
manager of Goodyear's department
store on Main St.
Norman Randal, the manager/owner
of The Budget Shop, noted that "people
don't associate the Bargain Days with
the Art Fair, but they find their way in
here." He added that the customers
aren't just browsing, either; they're
buying."
Many merchants said they think they
make more sales during the four days
of the fair than during the rest of the
summer. Some attributed that tq the
lower Orices, others to the increase in
the number of people in town.
THIS YEAR'S fair seemed to have
been more profitable than last year's,
according to many local store owners.
Tom DeFord, manager of DeFord's
noted a sales increase of about 15 per-
cent over last year at this time.
Randal said his store's profits are up
10 to 15 percent from last year's fair
days, a fact he attributed to the in-
crease in the number of people atten-
ding this year.
"Pleasant" weather is responsible
for increased sales from last year, ac-
cording to Checkmate salesman Tony
Todd.
DISCOUNT RECORDS Manager Jim
Leonard said sales were up by about 64
percent Thursday night. The reason, he
said, was because only one other record
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