PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1953 ________________________________________________________________________________ I I I 'ENCOURAGING': Bone of Primitive Man May Aid Anthropology By LEE O'LAUGHLIN t The recent discovery of a 10,0O< year old human rib, the first known remains of a primitive American man, may give anthro- pologists a better picture of an- cient man on this continent, a University anthropologist said yes- terday.a Prof. Volney H. Jones of the1 anthropology department found South Africa To Be Topic Of Seminar Thirteen student, church and, civic groups will sponsor a semi-1 nar on South Africa lasting from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today. The program will be held in the Wesley Foundation Lounge of the First Methodist Church. REV. HOMER JACK, minister of the First Unitarian Church of Evanston, Ill., will lead the semi- nar. There will be a talk by Prof. Gerald S. Brown of the history department on "The Historical Background of the Present Crises." Eduardo Mondlane, an African student at Oberlin College will comment on the problem follow- ing an African style luncheon. A panel discussion on the is- sues at stake in South Africa will be held in the afternoon. Members of the panel include Prof. Chester B. Slawson of the mineralogy department, Lutch- mana Naidoo, an African stu- dent, Mondlane and Rev. Jack. Rev. Jack spent four months touring 13 countries in Africa dur- ing the spring of 1952. He was the guest for two weeks of famed med- ical missionary Albert Schweitzer in his jungle hospital in French Equatorial Africa, and then spent five weeks studying race relations in the Union of South Africa. He was one of the first Ameri- cans to interview leaders of the non-violent defiance campaign in South Africa and first to accom- pany a group of African volun- teers defying the apartheid (seg- regation) laws. Foreign Students To View Dances Demonstrations of the Lindy and the Charleston, American as they are, will figure prominently in tonight's reception for new foreign students to be held from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. on the third floor of the Rackham Bldg. The reception is sponsored by the International Student's As- sociation. "Paula and Carla" are slated to show how these dances are done, as the main feature of the exten- sive floorshow. Dances by the Jap- anese and Spanish-French groups; accordian music by Yoram Goren, '55; a skit, "Pilgrim's Retrogress" and programs by representatives of Hawaii, the Philippines, Thai- land and Vaughn House will com- plete the floor show. the discovery "encouraging" and said he hopes other diggings will be done in the discovery area. THE RIB, remains of early American Folsom man, is the only remnant of its period yet found. Uncovered by a New Mexico post- man in the clay of a water hole, the bone is only silghtly different from those of modern man. The professor commended the alert observation of the post- man and praised amateur an- thropologists in general, describ- ing them as the "minutemen" of his profession. He said that they have made many import- ant discoveries in the fields of archeology and anthropology. Prof. Jones said Folsom man has heretofore been known only by his camping places and uten-. sils. He explained that no graves, usually the principle source of in- formation about primitive peo- ples, have been found because the dead of this period were probably buried in mud. It is logical that Folsom man's structure does not differe great- ly from our own, he said, because our earliest ancestors came from Europe via the then dry Bering Strait when already past the prim- itive stages of their development. He called them America's "first immigrants," adding that Ameri- can Indians, present-day descend- ants of Folsom men, resembled them in their roving manner of life. GoingU An elevator shaft on the north side of the Natural Sci- ence Bldg. is finally going to get an elevator in it after some 30 years of being empty. Workmen bustling about on the roof of the building are now erecting a penthouse to house the elevator's machinery. The reason given by Botany department officials for the long empty shaft was,"We just never got around to it." Symboli1sm Discussed Prof. Douglas Morgan, chairman of Northwestern University's de- partment of philosophy, described the use of picture images as sym- bols to the Acolyte Society yes- terday in the Rackham Bldg. Using Picasso's dove as an il- lustration of "Pictorial Metaphor," Prof. Morgan told the philosophy discussion group that French Com- munists used Picasso's dove as a sign of Peace, a pictorial metaphor. He contrasted this with the language metaphor which he said is a symbol in the literary sense. In the discussion following the lecture, Prof. Morgan noted that a cross is a symbol of Christian- ity to many people. He demonstrated with drawings how many Americans think of a simple cross as a symbol of Christ and a double barred cross, for TB or TV. Causes Cited For Revision Of Charter By DOROTHY MYERS Ambiguities and overlapping au- thority have been cited by Prof. Arthur W. Bromage of the politi- cal science department as reasons for revision of Ann Arbor's 64- year-old city charter. Local townspeople will have a chance to submit their city char- ter to revision by a 9-man study committee April 6, when the is- sue will be put on a ballot. Prof. Bromage, who is also a city alderman, said some revision is necessary to define more spe- cifically the city's home rule pow- ers and to clarify responsibility between executive boards, com- missions, and the city council. * * * AT PRESENT, he explained, there are four levels of authority in every city department. "Approval of charter revision does not mean a new form of government," the professor stressed. "In the past, efforts to modernize the charter have failed because townspeople felt revision would mean commit- ment to the city manager type of government." Three deeply-rooted traditions in Ann Arbor would work against adoption of the city manager system which now operates in more than 80 Michigan cities, Prof. Bromage said. These are partisan nomination elections for city councilmen and mayor, di- vision of Ann Arbor into wards and the use of pluralrexecutives to run departments. "Although I do not advocate any particular form of govern- ment for Ann Arbor, the city might well choose to adopt the Chief Administrative Officer plan now used in many California cities," Prof. Bromage said. "This plan provides for a single executive who would co-ordinate administrative functions and re- lieve the city council of time-con- suming details. The officer would be responsibleto a mayor and sub- ject to approval by the city coun- cil," he explained. No Room for CROWDED LIBRARY: THE GENERAL LIBRARY-A HUGE STRUCTURE .. . Books The harried Rare Book Curator looked helplessly at General Li- brary Director Warner G. Rice. "We've just received a collection of Anthony Trollope," she said. "Where do we put him?" * * * WHAT TO DO with Trollope is one of a multitude of problems facing a library staff which for several years has been plagued with severe space limitations. In attempts to house the Li- brary's 1,512,382 volumes, book storage facilities have been taxed to the limit, according to :. Rice. Rows of volumes are stacked like dominoes on the floor next to permanent. shelves. Formerly empty closets are lined from floor to ceiling with reference mater- ial. Stacks still crowd attics where charred books stand in testimony to minor fires several years ago, BUT WHERE to put books is ,r' _ M. only half the problem. In spite of the new Social Science Library in Mason Hall, study hall space is ,still inadequate, Rice said. Paint-up,, fix-up projects and improvement of lighting facili- ties have been instituted to make severcieable what space the Li- brary has, but it has become ob- vious to both library personnel and the administration that new space must be provided. With this in mind, the Univer- sity has listed expansion of library facilities as the No. 1 item on its capital outlays budget request currently before the State Legisla- .. .. }. ture. More than four million dol- lars out of the total $7,640,000 request is being asked for a giant library construction program. )F THEM The book storage problem, ac- VIAGED cording to President Harlan H. Hatcher's outline, would be solved by construction of a central serv- ice and stack building on the North Campus. Planned to house 500,000 volumes, the stack building would take care of library over- flow and books now' temporarily stored in the Health Service at- tic and the basement of the Edu- . R cation School Bldg. Undergraduate study facilities, one of President Hatcher's primary concerns, would be concentrated ,S by in a new undergraduate study unit on the main campus. SM I TH The overcrowded library has be- come a campus-wide worry, and administrators feel that in asking by the huge construction sum, they A VOSS are "making minimum requests consistent with sound educational policy." ;_ .4 Effective Teaching Methods Discussed by Education Group! SI. By BRENDA WEHBRING Teaching students instead of teaching a subject should be the main objective of education, a group of University professors de- cided yesterday at the semester's first College and University Teach- ing Forum. The panel included University vice-president Marvin L. Niehuss, Dean George G. Brown of the en- gineering college, Prof. Claude Eg- gertson of the education school, Prof. Kenneth L. Jones, chairman of the botany department and Prof. Albert H. Marckwardt of the English department. * * * THEY POINTED out that the teacher today is trying to arouse the student's mind as well as in- ject him with the purposes and objectives of the courses. A two way system of commu- nication between student and teacher and between teacher and subject matter is necessary if Cercle Francais Elects Officers Le Cercle Francais officers for the spring semester are Frank Hal- pern, '54 BAd., president; William Baird, '53, vice-president; Lillian Bickert, '55, secretary; Gordon A. Neufang, '53, treasurer and Ron- ald Witt, '54, social chairman. the material being taught is to be thoroughly absorbed by the pupil, the panel members ex- plained. They added that by discussing the objectives with the class the teacher is often able, through stu- dent suggestion, to achieve this system and present a clearer pic- ture of the function of the partic- ular class. The teacher must first make sure that the course is original in presentation and does not bear the earmarks of his own previous courses, the educators said. By thinking through what the course intends to do and having a clear idea of what must be accomplished the teacher will be better able to let the students visualize his ob- jectives. The panel said that institutional and social objectives have overly permeated the field of college teaching today. This has caused the development of inner resoures, mental capacities, self reliance and intellectual curiousity to be often over-balanced by the more popular belief that the college's main task is thedevelopment of skills and techniques aimed at eventually making the student a useful member of society. 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