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Tuesday, May 2.1972
University Daily Kansan
Study Says U.S. Graduate Schools Ill-Conceived, Loosely Administered
Editor's Note: This is the final story in a series on American education. This story deals with some critics' comments on higher education and some reforms of the present system.
By FRANK SLOVER
Kansan Staff Writer
A recent study of the New York State Education Department had as one of its conclusions that students were especially those at public colleges, were ill-conceived, needn’t be trained and served no clear need.
The report, prepared by the department's Bureau of College Evaluation, observed that 90 percent of collusive mediocrity has been adopted among students, faculty and administrators at the master's degree level.
In the February issue of New York magazine, the Green Screen adaptation of Nader Nadler's porate Accountability Research Group, described what has been done to increase student scene since the days of social concern at the turn of the century.
He said, "They talk like Danny the Red but go the way of Oliver Barrett IV."
HE DESCHIRES the impact on the Yale Law School, one of the nation's top professional graduate schools. He says a loosening of requirement has allowed Yale to increase its share of "Loyalty印s."
He describes them?
"Lazy, irreverent Frisbee freaks, usually stoned, they have rejected both the social activism and analytic skills of their school law lovers in law school they hitch through Africa, shoot movies, open a bicycle shop in Portland or teach skiing in Hawaii, increase the highest percentage of these dropouts, but since it offers courses for credit in film making and in decision making, they are surprisingly attained at the results. Although very few in number, the Legal Yippies are invariably campus heroes, often in sports which most of their colleagues envy but lack the cool to attain."
GREEN LABELS another student, categorized as a child, claims they 'often go to Yale because they know they can cruise through the city.'
He quotes Dan Guttman, a 1971 Yale graduate. "A good portion of the class gets by on almost every day," he said last year in Charlie Reich's class, the American Corporate State, attended regularly, the others only once. He signed their names with the registrar. Another course merely required that I discuss one case every week at a cocktail party he threw."
In a 1971 Mademoiselle article entitled "College Degrees Have to go to College" former Harvard resident James B. Conant,
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at any age would be divorced from degree requirements."
Later he made the suggestion hat after a two-year post-high school course "further education
audience in 1970, Conant said, "As long as the bachelor's degree continues to be the essential hallmark of the college man, frasier change is necessary and the faculty are likely to prove impossible."
First, graduates and nongraduates perform the same jobs with equal proficiency.
MATTHEWS CITED Ivar Bax, "book the education and jobs of Robbery," to establish the charge the number of Bax justified in economic terms for suitable jobs and went on to two more of Berg's observations. First, graduates, and teachers.
Second, employers pay no attention to this and "keep jobs from becoming disadvantage of jobs that formerly did not require a BA—thus both diminishing the absolute value of the degree and the disadvantage of not having one."
As a result of this attitude, the uneducated are regarded as economic parahis and suffer from over-utilization of opportunities and lower incomes,
while the 50 per cent of the eligible age group that start college are supported by the American taxpayers.
THIS 50 PER CENT compares to about four per cent in England and 11 per cent in Sweden.
This then is the dilemma of American education. In schools we are taught that students be "taught" by dogmatic teachers and made to hate school. He is then Hesitant. Our design for the academically inclined* and run "through the same objections train specialists and scholars."
... is the educational scene as to criticize her profit. In spite of these faults she has been able to suggest that the mass-educated American university student is inferior to the educated European counterpart.
In fact, if American personnel can intuitively take an officer's attributions and do a duplication, perhaps the American system is "better" for some.
THE EUROPEAN STUDENTS who have finished at the "gymnasium," an upper level secondary school, are probably superior to American high school graduates, but the gymnasium includes work not touched in until the first years of university.
Pushers Draw Stiff Penalties
By ROGER FULK
Kansas Staff Writer
All but three cases stemming from a drug raid conducted by Attorney General Vern Miller and his law enforcement team September 24, 1971, have been cleared. Others were arrested in the raid.
THE COURTS were not nearly so lenient with the dealers.
The courts seem to be far more interested in prosecuting the dealer than in prosecuting the buyer; these cases have been
Of the 17 arrested, six were charged with possession of marijuana. Eleven were charged with use of marijuana and other drus.
So far, these are the only prison sentences which have been carried out.
Of the six cases where persons were charged only with possession of gun, one gun was handed down two and charges were dismissed in the four others. In one case, a woman was judged not guilty because her room had been illegally searched. All of these cases involved KU students, and all were decided in Douglas County
A 24-year-old non-student was charged with two counts of sale of LSD. He pleaded guilty to one charge and received a one-to-five sentence.
A 23-year-old non-student pleaded guilty to two counts of sale of marijuana and received a one- to ten-year sentence.
One 19-year-old student was found guilty in Douglas County District Court on two counts of appealed the case and was again found guilty. He was sentenced to serve a one-to-ten-year prison sentence.
A 25-year-old man was found guilty on one count of sale of marijuana. He was given a one-to-five sentence but was
released on three years probation.
A KU student was sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of sale of marijuana. He was released on three years probation.
ANOTHER KU student was also placed on three years probation when he was found to have an amount of sale of dangerous drugs.
Two other cases, one involving a non-student charged with two contracts of sale of LSE (two involving a non-student charged with sale of marijuana), were
Of the 17 arrests made then there have been six convictions
One KU student who was released on three years probation explained how the probation worked in his case.
Conant's idea of a two-year course after high school might be sufficient to boost the American college business that is the desired goal. The rise of the community colleges could be construed as a trend in this area.
On the first and third Mondays of every month, he must report to a probation officer. At one of these meetings, he fills out a form requiring stating any information the probation authorities need.
He isn't allowed to travel more than 30 miles from Lawrence with the probation officer. He must obtain a special permit to leave the prison.
Architects Present Plans For Growth of Campus
A Report on Phase One of the Comprehensive Physical Planning Effort was presented to the Kansas Board of Regents to evaluate theives of Caudil, Rowlett, Scott, (CSC) architects from Houston.
The report, given by Phil Williams and David Thorman, concerned the initial progress of the study begin in September 1971 to develop a comprehensive plan for the Reegent's institutes.
CRS issued a report that explained the background of the study. Phase One and the future of the Planning Effort.
"The plans are to provide for the logical and orderly long-range physical growth and change of each campus, and provide resource allocation for all space resource allocation," the report said.
CRS consultants have been working with the Council of Chief Architect in Range Physical Planning Committee appointed by the
The report said two things were accomplished in Phase One. A planning process was developed and groundwork was laid for Phase Two.
At the meeting Friday, $13,150 was approved for Phase Two work. Of that amount, $8,000 will be funded by the University of Kangas
The future of the plan calls for planning, and for the necessity of developing ways to increase funding to institutions of higher education.
The most often-heard suggestion for the reform of American schooling is for free schools and universities where teacher training is provided.
An example of the courses offered by the Kansas Free University for spring 1972 is The Jesus Freaks description reads: "Tired of the Jesus Freaks of all religions? Learn the scientific basis for atheism. Jesus freaks need not be studying invented in having our souls saved."
THESE EXPERIMENTS have not been notably successful. Neil Postman, coauthor of "Teaching as a Subversive Activity," in an article in the Last Supplement to the book, describes how he described the best use of the alternative school movement as metaphorical and not real.
Dale P. Seannell, dean of the school of education, said that the free school most often used as an academic resource is the English Summer hill but that it "might not have succeeded with heeding Neill, the founder of the school."
Perhaps too much stress is being put on the school system. According to Scannell, "Brian's I’ve read indicates that the family has more influence on a child’s attitude than school does."
If it is the fault that Johnny can't read, then perhaps you should have them enrolled in American education should leave their task and join the already healthy ranks of the critics of the American family structure.
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News Briefs By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The White House said Monday that President Nixon has had recent exchange exchanges with Soviet Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev, which Nixon thought had substantially increased the possibility of a U.S. Soviets missile-curb attack. In addition to a top U.S. negotiator at the U.S. Soviets Strategic Arms Limitation talks, to return to the Helsinki negotiations with new instructions,
U.S., Soviets Approach Pact
Small Business Controls Lifted
WASHINGTON - The government lifted pay and price controls from millions of small businesses and small governmental units. It also tightened its grip on medium-size builders and hospitals, and concentrated more of its controls manpower on big businesses and big unions. Director Donald Rumfseld of the Cost of Living Council said the changes were designed to make control works better by reducing the controls would stay in effect for the rest of the economy until they worked, and declined to predict when they would be ended.
Soviets Consider U.S. Loans
NEW YORK—The Soviet Union is considering borrowing from U.S. banks to buy machinery in the United States, banking circles said. The loans, if made, would mark a major change in financial policy for both the banks and the Soviet government. In the past, the Russians have sold gold as necessary to pay for imports of grain from Canada. Since the money would remain in this country to be used to purchase goods, they would have no effect on the U.S. balance of payments at once. Later, as the course of the U.S. balance of payments at once, l
Pentagon Papers Get Pulitzer
NEW YORK—After unprecedented debate, trustees of Columbia University awarded the 1972 Pulitzer prizes, including a public service award to the New York Times for its publication of the book *A History of the Great War* by Jack Anderson for his reporting American secret papers in the American decision-making during the Indian-Pakistani war of 1971, which aroused almost as much controversy as the Pentagon papers' publication. The fiction prize went to "Angle of Repose," written by E. Steiger, a professor of English at Stanford University.
Writer Cites FBI Sex Memos
WASHINGTON - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "happily prepared secret memos" about the sex lives of public figures for Lydon B. Johnson's presidential bedtime lecture, columnist Jack Burke. He said he had "read information Information subcommittee hearing into executive branch secrecy practices. Anderson said he had seen FBI sex reports." A love affair, no matter how sordid, is no business of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yet FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover has demonstrably been in who is sleeping with whom in Washington," Anderson said.
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