"I Hear We're In A-Puff Puff -Breathing Spell" Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 ms Are Free IPrevail" ials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. R' FEBRUARY 13, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT Continuing Our Education Beyond Graduation Day 3 )NG THE PROBLEMS that face the Uni- rsity today is the task ,of providing its nts with a background that will give them nly the desire, but the ability to extend education beyond the four years normally at the University, s a problem that can easily escape notice se of many problems of a more immediate e, but it is here, and it may be easily one e most important problems that now con-. the University. For if the University can de students with a greater ability to learn' graduation, then it will have vastly in- ed its value to the student. eems that' this provision is lacking in a degree in University courses today. The rn of taking lecture notes, reading text- and then regurgitating the information eriodical ' exams seems to be the chief od of acquiring knowledge at the Uni- y. Thus, while the students learn the nation in the textbooks, they also learn o take exams more and more effectively ur years of college go by. h the realization that these two things, ook information and knowledge of how ke exams, are what we take with us after ation, a slight shock sets in. Someone . said, "Knowledge is what we have left we forget everything we learned in 1." Educators have explained this to mean knowledge is what we have left after all acts we learn in college have been for- n, and only principles, ways of looking at cts and of gaining and organizing know- remain. 3 SHOCK comes when we realize that a nsiderable part of what we have left is knowledge of test-taking, for this know- will do us little or no good once we are >f school. What the University student is a course that gets away from this alized routine of text books and tests and cates as nearly as possible the intellectual that lies outside of the universities. That s a world in which much of the im- nt information is in books, often very 'ent books from the texts he is used to. the students must often use*much more tive in getting information from these i than from texts in which weekly read- are assigned, and tests are given to make these assignments are read. nors courses do prepare the student to a er extent for intellectual life after gradua-, but they fail in several important respects iting students for further study. Too often onors course is just an intensification of :al classwork, with the instructor dictating signment, with independent reading mini- or non-existant. This, while ideal for some ises, is not the way to teach a student to with the after-graduation world of know- And always, the honors course is for the average student, the one that will need help in continuing his education after ,e. think a course that enabled a student to the books that he wanted to read or felt he d read and gave only the minimal amount sistance necessary to insure that the stu- understood the book would fill the bill ly. A student would not only learn the rnation contained in the books, but he I be preparing himself for beginning to on his own after graduation. viously, this course would present many ems not encountered in the normal Uni- versity course. Perhaps the biggest obstacle would be the seemingly insurmountable tech- nical problems associated with a course whose scope was so broad. But need these {technical problems be so insurmountable? Certainly such a course could be put under the administrative control of one man. Instructors could be selected from each department participating in, the course. While a student would be .allowed to choose his own books, a check on his selection could come from the instructors--each instructor approving the students' books that fell in the instructor's department. Because it would be emphasized that each instructor would be there to give the minimal aid necessary, we don't feel that this arrangement would take an inordinate amount of the instructor's time. The instructors need not have read every book that the student may choose, for the instructor should be there in'an advisory capacity only. EXAMINATIONS on these books could be either written or oral, if examinations were felt to be necessary, and might take the form of a consideration of the main problems posed by the book, or a summary of the important points covered in the book. In fact, it might be a better idea to leave the choice of the kind of examination or paper to be decided by the student and instructor. Admittance to this course should probably be limited to upperclassmen, for they would un- doubtedly gain the most from it. Other problems and questions would arise in trying to set up a course of this general type at the University, but we think. that none of them are unanswerable, and that none of them would cause more difficulty than the establish- ment of such a course at the University would be worth.'. -LANE VANDERSLICE Winning Some Points On the Bureaucracy HE OTHER DAY a friend of ours who neglected to supply his instructors with, postal cards for early semester grade convey- ance wandered into the Administration Bldg. for the purpose of glancing at his transcript. It's not that he was really curious or excited about his grade point average, rather his resi- dence halls housemother had told him to turn in his grade report so that the house average could be recorded. So our friend walked up to window "A" on the main floor of the orange colored structure and, after having made known the purpose of -his visit and correctly identifying himself by use of his student ID, he was instructed to speak to another member of the staff. He followed instructions and was told it was against the rules for him to see his own tran- script. This persistent student didn't wish to end the matter there so he carefully explained that his grades were of no real concern to himself but that his house needed the infor- mation for recording purposes. : In that case, he was told, another member of the house could come to the registrar's office to get his grades. So our friend called his house mother and told her tlat if she wanted his grades all she had to do was call the Registrar's office. She did and she got his grades. Our friend received a four point. And the moral of the story? We had best check with the bureaucracy 'for that. -T.$. n . 7 ,r~ . v,~ t 1 ' v. ) A>' -I J., ;. ' I : THE STATE OF BUSINESS: Washington Reassres; Pro fit Cuts Discourage By SAM DAWSON Associated Press Staff Writer NEW YORK-Wall Street and Main Street have two things to ponder today: 1)Reassuring words from Washington that the slump is being watched and won't be allowed to get out of hand if the government can help it. 2)A flood of disturbing earnings reports from many industries, and in its wake a number of cuts in dividend payments and many omissions. Profits are the life blood of American business. Without them 40 - WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Johnson Pressesyfor Action By DREW PEARSON business firms not only can't grow distressing number of small busi- nesses have been doing just that. Fortunately, with the great ma- jority profits haven't turned to losses. It is a matter of shrinking profits-a trend that businessmen and stock market traders can't watch without qualms. Adding to the confusion is the usually mixed character of the current earnings statements. Amidst the flood of bad reports, record earnings for 1957 pop up almost daily. And often they are reported by individual companies in industries which as a whole are reporting declines. * * * STEEL is an example. The two biggest companies made record profits last year, So high was their take that they outweighed the rest of the industry where more than half reported declines and most of the others only slight advances. In some other Industries the downtrend in profits is more nearly uniform. Textile firms go on with their own recession - one that started ahead of the general one. Mining and metalworking com- panies are almost unanimous in reporting declining earnings. As a whole, the machinery mak- ers and the machine tool industry. are off from 1956, reflecting the slowdownrin the businesshexpan- sion program. This also shows up in the earnings of building mater- ial suppliers, off about 15 per cent from the previous year. FOR MOST makers of farm equipment the trend is downward. All meat packers reporting so far have shown drops, in some cases steep ones. More than half of the chemical companies reporting have felt the profit margin squeeze. All but two companies in the paper and paper products industry have less welcome news for their stockholders this time. The railroad's sad earnings song has been heard extensively in and out of Washington. All airlines reporting to date show sharply shrinking profits. And so do some aircraft makers. But a number of industries buoy up Wall Street's spirits. Retail. companies reporting so far are in the main on the upgrade. For the group as a whole, a 12 per cent gain is noted. THE OLD STANDBYS, the utili- ties, are a comfort as usual. Only 13 out of the first 90 to report show any drop from a year ago. While many are beginning to feel a shrinking in power sales to in- dustrial center's, these regulated companies are as a whole showing a six per cent gain in profits over their 1956 returns. And two industries are thought by some observers to be even profiting a little by the worries of other businessmen. Tobacco companies show nice profit gains over the previous year. Makers of drugs, without excep- tion, so far report gains. For the group as a whole they're up 14 per cent. As some wag says, in worrisome times people smoke more and turn to tranquilizers. SEN. Lyndon Johnson, one of the few who can get Ike on the telephone when they wish, has been urging the President to take a more constructive lead for peace. The senator from Texas, who has watched the terrifying arms race from the inside and fully ap- preciates the civilization-wrecking impact of modern war, believes the Uni: .-d States should get out of the rut of Dulles diplomacy and make some new, more positive moves. The administration's constant refrain of "Let's have a prepara- tory conference" may be sound diplomacy, but Johnson recog- nizes the truth of what most of our diplomats advise - that this doesn't sit well with the rest of the world. They want action, not long drawn-out preparation. * * * JOHNSON, therefore, has urged Eisenhower to take the initiative with a spectacular speech before. the United Nations, asking for agreement on the peaceful control of outer space. Simultaneously, the State Department has come up with a similar idea, wants Ike to go to New York to make a dra- matic appeal that the arms race be stopped, and that the place to stop it is before we begin compet- ing for outer space. The President, tired and recent- ly ill with a cold, was not enthused over the idea. Missile-any - The Army's sat- ellite, a great achievement for the United States, was a tragic defeat for the Republican Nation- In time they must fold. And a OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 3) al Committee. They had gone to great expense to prepare television filrs featuring Republican con- gressmen boasting over the achievements of the Navy satellite Vanguard. Ibw the Army has launched its satellite, "Explorer," while the Navy has been out of luck. Republicans fear their films are dead as a dodo. * * * SECRETARY OF DEFENSE McElroy was so disgusted over the second Vanguard failure that for a time he suggested to Ike that the whole Vanguard program be scrapped. McElroy has ordered research into the feasibility of a fantastic invisible ray that would destroy enemy targets at great distances with the speed of light. It sounds like something out of Buck Rogers, but McElroy is taking it serious- ly. In this day of modern weapons he can't afford not to. The Navy has asked permission to convert our scientific bases, in the Antarctic into permanent military bases. It claims this is necessary in order to guard the sea route around Cape Horn in case the Panama Canal should ever be closed by an A-bomb. The State Department is against the idea because we would be tres- passing on British, French, Aus- tralian and Norwegian claims. Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers boss, put one over on his chief senatorial critic, GOP Sena- tor Goldwater of Arizona, the oth- er day. Goldwater, a big depart- ment store operator in Phoenix, has been trying to prod any and every Senate. committee into in- vestigating Reuther. The other day, Reuther was tes- tifying before the Kefauver Anti- Monopoly Committee when Sena- tor Wiley of Wisconsin asked him about his new plan to pay divi- dends to labor when profits were high. "Are you going to start some- thing new in America in relation to management?" Wiley asked. "It means that eventually you would be on the board of directors, would you pot?" "Not at all, Senator Wiley," re- plied Reuther. "We have not asked for representation on the board of directors. There are some 20,000 companies in America that have profit-sharing plans, including Senator Goldwater's store, and Mr. Folsom, who is on the President's Cabinet." * * * VICE-PRESIDENT Nixon is confidently predicting that the Navy's Polaris missile will be such a fabulous success everyone will forget about Russia's achieve- ments in this field. Nixon claims that secret reports on the Polaris are so amazing they are unbe- lievable. He expects the Navy to test-fire a Polaris fairly soon, and, once that happens, Nixon says the Eisenhower Administration will ire acclaimed by the world for regaining the lead in the missiles race. This will mean, chortles Nixon, that the Democrats have lost their big campaign issue. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) tration for Motor Truck Sales. Muwt have completed military service. Train- ing is designed to provide classroom In- struction and related on-the-job ex- perience with emphasis upon the in. dividual and his development.4 Fri., Feb. 21, 1958 Federal-Mogul-Bower Bearings, Inc. Detroit, Michigan. Location of work- Lancaster, Penn.; Greenville, and St. Johns, Mich.; Mooresville, Ind.; Detroit, Mich. Coldwater, Mich. Men with de- grees in Liberal Arts and Business Ad- ministration for Manufacturing, Man- agement and Sales. 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