October 14, 1965 (vol. 76, iss. 40) • Page Image 4
… Minority Office of Academic Affairs: Misplaced Computerization' [F THE UNIVERSITY can be said to have a single underlying problem, it's that all its automation is in the wrong place. On the one hand…
…, mechanistic tech- niques abound in the teaching of several undergraduate liberal arts courses. Poli- tical Science 100, Psychology 100 and History 321, to name but a few, employ multiple-choice, "computerized…
…" finals. Though this sort of mechanistic approach need not necessarily lead to similarly dehumanized teaching, in practice it oft- en has "computerized" the whole course. On the other hand, there are no com…
… begun work on using computers to help unify students' pre-classification requests and to interpret what facilities the tniversity will need to meet those requests. It is only a step from this stage to the…
… fountains. The House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee is actually in- vestigating that American as apple pie organization, the Ku Klux Klan. To top it off, Negroes are ac- tually registered to vote under…