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University Daily Kansan, October 22, 1962
Tight budget hampers changes, officials say
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
Pre-enrollment will help departments plan for enrollment changes, but a tight budget may prevent them from offering all class sections that might be needed, administrators said yesterday.
Robert Adams, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said a tight budget would keep the College from adding class sections after pre-enrolment unless actual enrollment drastically exceeded predictions. Departments must accommodate students who wanted to take a course but couldn't because sections were full.
Adams said the usual add-drop procedure would still be the main way for students to change their schedules.
"Most students have been accommodated in the past through drop-add," he said. "We have never said every course will remain open. We have always done courses, as they have always done, that will fit their programs."
Budget reductions this year could make it even harder for students to
get the classes they want, said Adams, who received shortfall reports from department heads before enrollment began.
THE REPORTS tell where enrolment problems will arise. Some departments have to offer fewer classes and some classes will not be offered
Norris Lacy, chairman of the French and Italian department, said one advantage of pre-enrollment was that it would give departments more time to adjust to unexpected change changes, such as adding sections.
The added time will give the department a chance to hire qualified teachers if more sections of a class are needed, be said. Changes would be made easier for the fall term because there would be more time to inform teachers who might be needed.
"RIGHT NOW we ask them to be ready if we need them in August, but with pre-enrollment we will have a better idea of the need and be able to give them more assurance of a job." he said.
Adams said changing schedules caused problems because many expenditures were fixed, such as faculty salaries and resources.
Brain drain strains developing countries
By SEEMA SIROHI Staff Reporter
One of every 11 people who immigrated to the United States in 1960 was a scientist or a professional, according to statistics from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service — a sign that brain drain is growing.
Brain drain occurs when highly skilled people leave their homelands for more advanced countries. Studies about brain drain show that 90 percent of students go once to the United States to study never return home.
The government figures show that 601,443 foreigners were granted immigration in 1980, and 46,908 of them were scientists and professionals.
"The developing countries subsidize manpower in developing countries and consequently there is an indirect influence of Bhalla, a teaching assistant in business.
The problem of brain drain has reached serious proportions in Iran, India, Egypt, the Philippines and Argentina, said David Scanlon, professor of international education at Columbia University. Scanlon said it cost an immigrant's home country $20,000 to educate and train him.
BECAUSE EDUCATION is a valuable commodity and not a flushed resource, the Third World loses its resources when people migrate, Bhalla said.
"Maybe the Indian government is guilty of not promoting enterprise at home, and Indian scholars, being in abroad, emigrate," Bhalla said.
A Ph.D. from the United States will increase credibility in professional circles and the "tag" is important in many jobs and consultancy work, he said.
Chuan-Tau Tau, professor of aerospace engineering, came from Taiwan 21 years ago. Taiwan did not have an aerospace program then, he said.
Lan is a U.S. citizen. He decided to stay here because this country has been safer.
"Developing nations can't afford this kind of program. If they want to buy airplanes, they can buy them from soo, or indirectly, helping them." Lan said.
THERE ARE more than enough aerospace engineers in Taiwan, he said. "If individuals from a certain discipline are needed and they don't go back, then its brain drain. Otherwise they leave the company and they going to handle so many people."
The United States has a shortage of technical personnel, said Victor Wallace, professor and chairman of computer science. A balance is needed because the United States' economic needs in the needs of the sending country, he said.
John Garland, assistant professor of business, said immigration policies are needed to keep the US competitive.
because quotas were for countries rather than for professions.
The recent tightening of laws is a result of the self-interest of certain pressure groups such as the American Medical Association, he said.
The AMA wants restrictions on the number of doctors immigrating to the United States because it believes will go up if that happens, he said.
Garland specializes in East-West relations in international business. He said there were three factors which attracted foreign scientists and professionals to the United States — the technology the country already has, the community of scientists here and the high status of the scientific community.
"ONE REASON the United States is the leader in technology is because we are not alone."
In underdeveloped countries there is a lack of managerial talent, he said.
Tradition also is a great deterent to the application of new ideas, he said. There is a lack of incentive in those who wish to make things better or to make it worth their while to return."
The contributions made to the United States by foreign researchers and scientists are very important and achievement department of Americans, Garland said.
"They wouldn't be here if they were not better than the people whose jobs they are doing." "Through expanded economic activity and better management, more jobs are
created, not destroyed, and there are spill-over effects in the economy in general."
BUT THE effects of brain drain on developing countries are 95 percent negative because the people who can afford to their countries emigrate, be safe.
These leaders in science could break down tradition and make rapid eco-
"There is a lot of internal politics in departments and academicians are involved."
Academic isolation and non-cooperation from peers are important aspects of brain drain, said Gaumat Gyaya, assistant professor of economics.
There are groups in the United States, too, but there are so many that one cannot be isolated, he said. A person can go far in this country with academic gains while professional development is rare in India.
"There is ignorance in India about the work that has already been done in the United States and Europe and there is not much competence in technical and mathematical economics." Bhattacharyya said.
Astronomer, grad student see Halley's comet from Palomar
Religious minorities prefer to leave a country like Iran because they cannot be present regime, said Shapur Vossough, associate professor of engineering.
RELIGION ALSO can be a reason for brain drain.
By United Press International
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An astronomer and a graduate student spotted Halley's comet through the Western world's largest telescope for its first mission. Once it finished past Earth in 1910, Palomar Observatory announced yesterday.
Edward Danielson and graduate student David Jewitt Tuesday verified their observation made last week through the 200-inch Hale telescope and that they are the International Astronomical Union in Cambridge, Mass. Wednesday.
"We were pretty excited. We really tried very hard last December," said Danielson, a staff astronomer at California Institute of Technology.
"I was a little skeptical that we'd be able to find it that close to where we
expected it to be. It's been 70-some years out there. Why should it come back exact right?"
THE COMET is in the constellation Canis Minor, about a billion miles from Earth. Because it is approximately the size of an elephant, 50 million times too faint to be seen by the naked eye. The Palomar astronomers were able to detect the comet by using a light detector developed for the National Aeronautic and Space Admin-
Edmund Halley identified the comet in 1682. It makes a return visit through the solar system every 76 years. Its next pass is expected in February 1886. Those who have seen it describe the comet as a shooting ball of fire with a long trail.
Amateur astronomers using telescopes may be able to see Halley's comet.
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What constitutes "meaningful" employment? Are "temporary jobs that come and go as a result of decisions made in the private sector more palatable than those which require more formal training?"
Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan recently asked: "Does anyone believe that a return to the policies of high taxes and big spending programs will create meaningful jobs?" The Journal World editorialist then added: "The nation does not need term employment, but hardcore, long-lasting employment which results from sustained growth."
The dictionary defines meaningful as "with a meaning or purpose." My guess is that even Secretary Regen would eventually agree that the public-punished and universally applauded Head Start educational program for disadvantaged preschool children has benefited society far more than all the privately-funded chewing gum, sugar-laden candy, chocolate-dipped drinking cups, and what he calls a 'gram parm') eighteen-year-existence. It is not the mode of financing an undertaking, but its purpose which renders it "meaningful."
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Last week the Energy Department released proposals which would reduce the regulatory hurdles now facing the nuclear power industry. Shelby T., Brewer, the assistant secretary for nuclear energy, said the recommended licensing and regulatory changes could cut the time for building a new nuclear plant from an average of thirteen to seven or eight years. The Energy Department's proposals would require fewer safety improvements at existing plants and limit the role of nuclear opponents during the possibility of new reactors. The supply-side zealots are so blinded by their goal that they are willing to override democratic procedure itself in order to achieve victory.
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