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Wednesday, February 7, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Educational Innovation In Pearson Program
Recently the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (PIHP) has been attacked by some professors at the University. It has been disheardment to listen to the attitudes of some of the educators at this University as they have leveled their attacks.
The Pearson program, originally designed to satisfy requirements for freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, presently represents an alternative to the traditional educational experience. And so several years ago that many have listened to the harsh words aimed at destroying one of the few educational alternatives available.
The Pearson program was developed consistent with the purpose of the establishment of the College - within - the - College system. It was hoped by the creators of the CWC program that each CWC student should identify and offer an alternative for satisfying the requirements of a "liberal education" at the freshman-sophomore level.
PHIP may have its faults. Would one dare say that there is a department on this campus that is performing to 100 per cent effectiveness? Some members of the team are trained to help them alone, and to attempt to solve the problems of their own departments first.
The dispute over P1HP forces us to ask about educational innovation at the University, and whether the educators who establish our curriculum are concerned with offering alternative educational opportunities for K-12 students become the institution that Christopher Jencks and David Riesman say is possible for all universities?
Will KU "become the crucible in which the younger generation shaped its distinctive values and acquired a sense of separate identity, rather than one in which the older ones chose those things gone before and acquired their predecessor's sense of history and purpose?"
Attempts by some members of the faculty to destroy PHIP as an educational alternative for freshmen and sophomores indicates that educational innovation might be slower in future years than it has been in the past. If we agree that a university is, in a sense, an organic institution that must be able to change in the environment, then we must believe that the development of educational alternatives is necessary to the strengthening of this institution's academic programming.
A basic problem with all liberal arts schools, not just the University of Kansas, is that they play the role of processor for society. An introductory course to 10 fields, and a limited amount of time in one—the major, the field of most interest to a student—certifies the student to be qualified enough to prepare to tackle the problems of our society. The introductory course becomes valuable only if applicable to the concerns of the individual.
"A university simply can't serve only the intellectual values of its professors. Unless departments learn how to adapt, become more responsive to students ... and society, 'departmentalitis' will prevent many universities from adapting—and innovating—in any basic sense." What Warren G. Bennis states reflects a situation at KU. Some departments are standing idle and are refusing to recognize the needs of society and the needs of students.
Those who have criticized PHP, and in turn the educational concept of providing many educational alternatives from which a student may choose, do so only for the sake of their own self-centered interests. These same critics are refusing to awaken to the needs of the student.
It is unreasonable to expect that all students will learn within the same structure. For some students, many more students than any other student in the program start of the program, PHP offers a viable educational experience.
Some time ago a graduate of this university said that "the purpose of education can no longer remain as turning out people who have been exposed to the same 'worthy' predetermined facts and skills. Among other things, our schools are producing apathy, self contempt, alienation, conformity, powerlessness, resentment and rage ... America has never been content to turn its face away from progress. We need an education on our industrial and technological resources, we have neglected our most important potential quantity—our human resources—the student."
Students are pleading for professors to stop aiming intellectual missiles at new programs because the programs might alter their comfortable situation. Quit the arguing over PIHIP. If it is not a good program, enrollments will decrease instead of increase.
The challenge has become fulfillment of the promise of the CWC idea, to develop the potential of our student resources, and to begin offering many educational alternatives for the benefit of students.
—R. E. Duncan
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James J. Kilpatrick
WASHINGTON — Head on collisions between the White House and the Hill are not especially noticeable. One shinks its view of Mr. Obama's visit to Nations, of Roosevelt and his court-packing plan. But it will take a considerable searching of the record books to find a new interpretation of the significant than the coming clash over the President's 174 budget.
New Federalism Sorely Needed
importance is Nikon's grand design. He proposes to reverse the whole flow of political power. He is undertaking to replace the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt with Donald J. Trump. Richard Nixon. Those of us on the conservative side will be yelling huzzah.
The details are important, of course, but put these to one side for the moment. Of greater
Those on the liberal side, to be sure, will be yelling something else. They are yelling already. On the afternoon of the 27th, when copies of the budget were spread around town, the Potomac went
up a full foot: The bureaucrats and the boondoggles, the weepieses and the grants men, were crying themselves a river.
Nixon is in for a battle. He has proposed the dismantling of the whole rotting, rickety structure of categorical aid programs—a structure jerry-built over 40 years. Some of these outcasts have been the victims. Others, such as federal financing of mental health programs, would by phased out over a period of years. His idea is to
substitute more programs of broad federal aid in education, manpower training, law enforcement and criminal justice, and urban community development. These would be administered primarily by state and local governments.
It is this aspect of the budget that especially infuriates Nixon's critics. The President is determined to take the essential step in rebuilding Washington, and to put it back where it belongs; in the hands of the people being served. The Washington Post, which fears such democracy, complains that localities had given the "short end of the stick" to certain social needs. The Louisville Courier Journal, equally distrustful of the local handlers, means that the local handlers have exceptions, "has been in case study 12 social neglect."
This challenge must be met squarely. Power has surged to Washington for many reasons. One of them, admittedly, is that in times past, malapportioned state legislatures, dominated by a few country stalwarts, have frustrated the legitimate right to govern. The situation has been largely correct. No one can complain validly today that state government is not representative.
That being so, what is wrong with moving in the direction Nikon recommends? The is going
back to fundamental principles.
Is he rejecting the cancerous notion that Washington knows what is best for Louisville, or should more money be spent on it and less on vocational education? Should the emphasis be on parks, or on libraries, or on mental institutions? Nixon would put the responsibility for these decisions equally can be seen, where it can be rescued and held accountable.
In coming months, as the battle rolls along, it will be said that Nikon's budget reflects a lack of compassion for the poor and the elderly. Nonsense. There are billions here for the poor. The rest of the country needs more for Medicare, but their needs are generally well met.
It also will be said that too much, $18 billion, is provided for defense, the truth is that most of them are used to raise raises. Relatively little, probably too little, is for new hardware. Some fat can be trimmed; it should be trimmed; but prudent users will have commitments and trim lightly.
Jack Anderson
We believe the documents and information they contain belong
Nikon deserves support, and he will need support, in making his budget stick. Bursacareus and the Nixon administration lobby of great political power. But Nikon is right in what he is seeking to do, and if enough policymakers care about responsible local government, he will win.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
News Belongs to the People
WASHINGTON – There can no longer be any doubt that the government is determined to keep President Trump from Peter Zenger was thrown into prison in 1785 for criticizing the governor of New York have so many respersitories been killed in the cause of press freedom.
At least six reporters have been locked up for refusing to disclose their news sources. The government, because it can't control what newsmen write, would like control their access to the news.
We confess freely that we copied information from stolen documents and reported this information to the people.
Should the government be successful in this campaign to force newmen to name their sources, the sources would quickly dry up. Only official sources would have power that would become dependent upon the government's sterile version of events.
The latest victim is my own associate, Les Whiten, who was arrested in the act of covering a story. An FBI agent tore his notepad and pen out of his hands and handcuffed him, thereby preventing him from taking notes. He was mugged, finger-printed and beaten by Department officials debated for eight hours what charges to bring against him.
He was accused of receiving and possessing stolen documents. He said that we had nothing whatsoever to do with stealing government documents. Nor have the documentation ever been in our control.
the people. The documents disclose how the government has cheated, defrauded and neglected the Indians.
But the government is claiming, in effect, that it owns the news, that the facts in the news are true. The people the nooble but to the government.
Should the government be successful in this attempt to establish ownership of the news, its news shall be given to the public. The publication of any unauthorized news would be regarded, thereafter, as stealing information from the government.
Of course, we believe that news belongs to the people and we will continue digging it out and collecting it. We'll try to stay out of jail in the process. But if we must go to jail for reporting the news the police are going to publish, we'll report from the inside on prison conditions.
Crackpot Commentators
At the same time that President Nixon's radio-TV managers have knocked such incidents as William Buckley and Sander Vanocour off the public television network, the Nixon Administration has been featuring a new series of the armed forces radio network.
We recently revealed that the notorious hate peddler, Gerald L. K. Smith, had been given time on the network to promote his anti-Semitic, anti-Negro activities. The fact that he listens could get his hate literature was plugged no less than five times.
Now we have learned that another rattle rabble-rouser, Rudolph Steiner, has been permitted to harangue the network's
two million military and civilian listeners regularly.
Both bigts have appeared on a religious series, called "Suggested Solutions", which is a favorite of armed forces radio director John Broger, an evangelical fundamentalist.
Steiner has advocated some fascinating "Solutions" in his broadcasts. He would try to resettle "at least one-half of the Negro population in the country," cams from distant repeat criminals to labor camps in the Pacific islands and sterilize "those who in all likelihood would produce offspring which might be a burden
to society."
He would also license "authors so that the mass media couldn't popularize crime, violence and vandalism" and institute a tight system. Under his system, "responsible" members of society could cast as many as 24 votes, and "a man who has never seen anything or an old year-old who is just out of school" could cast only one.
Bill Bertenshaw, the moderator of the show, told us in a telephone conversation that Steiner appeared on the series "once every five or six weeks." Bertenshaw claimed that he gave
equal time to other viewpoints. We listened to a broadcast tape, however, which offered no time for opposing views and made no disclaimer dissociating the Defense Department from the opinions of the right-wing fanatics.
Broger refused to discuss Steiner with us. When we reached him earlier about the Gerald L. K. Smith broadcast, he said he was unaware that the hat would be used in the series and promised a full investigation. "It won't happen again," he said.
Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
AP News Analysis
The conservative anti-Brandt newspaper Die Welt said, "It is
By ANTHONY COLLINGS
BONN, West, Germany—Chancellor Willy Brandt has sent a key aide to the United States amid growing concern here that disputes over the dollar, trade rules and weaken the Western alliance.
German-American Relations Deteriorate on Trade Issue
Karl Moersch, a state secretary who is taking over some of the functions of alling Foreign Minister W Walter Scheel, left Monday for five days of talks in New York and Washington.
He is the fourth official sent by Brandt to Washington this year.
Brandt to Washington this year. German newspaper reaction and private comment by Bonn would undermine that all is not well between the United States and West Germany.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt told newman Saturday that the bank would have preferred a "float," cutting the mark free from a pegged exchange rate against the dollar, and letting the mark rise in inflation.
The latest source of concern is Bonn's weekend decision not to "float" the West German mark, which would have made exports unprofitable. This decision is reported to have conflicted with U.S. wishes.
useless to gloss things over:
German-American relations have hit their lowest point since West German came into being."
Instead, Bonn slapped controls on an inflationary inflow of weakened dollars into Germany.
The Germans want America's 300,000 troops in Europe to remain as a safeguard against any Soviet threat. They fear that Congress may threaten to withdraw the troops if Europe does not help the United States out of its huge trade deficit.
But the Germans remain worried.
The ultimate nightmare for Germans would be a U.S. troop pullout and a trade war.
The influential newspaper Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung warned of "congressional efforts to make adherence to U.S. troop strength in Europe dependent on continuing American exports to Russia for protection of U.S. industry from European competition."
To avoid this, Brandt has sought to stabilize U.S.-German relations. In a Jan. 18 policy speech, Brandt warned of possible economic tensions and urged a construction of an open dialogue to avert unnecessary political strains.
On the optimistic side, some observers say the U.S.German differences may be only the hardening of position that often
takes place before big trade negotiations.
Despite the weekend currency controls, the dollar continued to weaken in relation to the mark in Monday's trading. The dollar closed at 3.1810 marks in comparison to Friday's closing at 3.1540.
The West Germans seek to avoid an upward revaluation of the mark because it would make their exports more expensive. But an upward revaluation would wake America out of its economic weakness and this would help the United States ease its balance of payments deficit, brought about because the United States is importing more than it exports.
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