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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 17, 1955
-Kansan photo by Pete Ford
MARCH OF THE TOYS—Members of the Home Economics club are making stuffed animals for three childrens hospitals. The animals will be sent to the Life Lite Hospital in Kansas City, the Lincoln Orthopedic hospital in Lincoln, Neb., and the Mennonite Home for Children. Picture above are: Amy Kipp, college junior; Mrs. Luella Foster, assistant professor of home economics; Norma Jean Nelson, education junior; and Marcia Hinger, college senior.
Georgia Tech President Says Students Shy Away From Rigors of Engineering
Editor's note: According to reliable figures Soviet Russia is turning out 54,000 new engineers a year while colleges and universities in the United States are graduating 24,000. Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, retired former head of the Army's World War II atomic weapons project, recently charged the U.S. educational system with failing to meet the challenge of our technical era. The United Press asked the head of one of America's best-known engineering schools to explain the lag in training of engineers.
Atlanta, Ga. — (U.P.)— Soft jobs that pay well and require little or no technical knowledge are wooming American students away from the engineering profession at a time when America sorely needs well-trained engineers.
This explanation of the serious shortage of engineers in the United States was offered today by Blake R. Van Leer, president of Georgia Tech, one of the country's best-known engineering schools.
In an interview, he also blamed penny-pinching and lack of imagination on the part of state boards of regents for holding the quality of education at a "level of mediocrity" in state-supported school
President Van Leer said he would have to agree with a recent statement by Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retired former head of the Army's atomic weapons project, that Russia appears to be outdistancing the United States in the training of new engineers.
The U.S. shortage of engineers, President Van Leer believes, is due to three main factors:
1. People of superior intelligence did not produce enough children during the 1930's.
2. Technical advancement in the last 10 years has created an unprecedented demand for engineers
3. The "modern idea of taking things easy" has led students to avoid taking courses that require hard work. Salaries in non-technical professions are so attractive many students feel there is no point in pursuing technical studies
The third point, President Van Leer said, is most important. "Nowadays a student won't buckle down to the task of mastering math and
St. Pat's Day Show Slated
Favorite Irish tunes and an Irish play, adapted for radio by John Bence, will be included in KDGU's Patrick's day show at 7 p.m. today.
the sciences in high school when he knows he can get a good job without them," he said.
The Georgia Tech administrator believes the engineer shortage could be overcome by 1960 or 1962 if the present demand for engineers remains unchanged and more students are encouraged to study engineering.
He suggested the federal government could help by allowing taxpayers to deduct the cost of sending their children to college, or by permitting all branches of the armed forces to finance a student's education in return for two years of service in the militia.
Private institutions up to now have led the way in research and sponsorship of new ideas in the
engineering world, President Van Leer said. They can do so because "they are not controlled by boards of regents" who shudder at any innovation—"especially one that costs money."
As for the fact that Russia produces 54,000 engineers a year while the United States turns out 24,000 President Van Leer asked:
"But how well are the Russian engineers trained? They do a good job of teaching the basic fundamentals, but you cannot train professional engineers to competency in a dictatorship. There is need for freedom.
"The Russians train men without ingenuity. If you put a boy in a straitjacket, no creative mind will develop."
2016 Learnard
Nations of Asia, Africa Await Indonesia Parley
More than half the people of the world will be represented at that big Asian-African conference to be held in Indonesia next month.
Bv UNITED PRESS
Potentially, the conference is important. It could prove to be a major development in world politics.
The prime ministers of the five so-called "Colombo powers"—India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ceylon, and Burma—have asked the leaders of 25 other Asian and African countries to meet with them at Bandung in Indonesia April 18 for a seventy day conference.
Plans for promoting "good will and cooperation among the nations of Asia and Africa" will be the chief tonics for discussion.
This bloe would be "neutralist" in the cold war but would oppose what some Asian and African leaders call "Western imperialism"—that is, the policy of the United States and its chief allies.
Actually, despite denials, there seems to be no doubt that some of the sponsors hope the conference will lead to the formation of an Asian-African bloc of nations.
But the conference is so big that it may merely turn into a diplomatic talk-fest.
Communist countries, neutralist countries, countries allied with the West, and countries which have no ties are to attend the meeting. There will be Christian delegations, Moslem delegations, Hindu delegations, Buddhist delegations.
In all, about 1,300,000,000 of the world's 2,400,000,000 population will be represented.
Red China and the Indochinese state of Northern Viet Nam will represent the Communist world.
The eight nations of the Arab bloc will be there. Egypt is trying to encourage neutralism among the Arab countries. But Iraq has just signed an alliance with Turkey, which is allied with the West.
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