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(Continued from page 1) monologue and more emphasis on the teacher-student dialogue.
"TO PROVIDE such an atmosphere, a breakdown of large universities into constituent colleges with resident faculties may be needed," he said.
Criticizing present methods of instruction and suggesting changes, Miller said students have little opportunity to express their views through discussion.
"I am eager to see our universities and colleges provide opportunities for expression and utilization of student ideas, for, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.'
"One innovation for communicating basic information is educational television," he said. "With this we should be able to reorganize our liberal arts programs and broaden them."
TELEVISION PROVIDES a new teaching technique and a
Trapping—
(Continued from page 1) walking toward the small lab on the reserve, he suddenly stopped.
"Look, see where the deer was here last night?" he said, pointing to some tracks in the dust.
"And there. A possum was through here the other day when the ground was a little muddy. Just shows I don't have to go far to study my subjects."
Fitch said there are "definitely more" animals on the reservation than on the surrounding land because "there is no cultivation and no hunting."
There are plenty of subjects to study, too.
The reservation has been allowed to "go to seed" since 1949.
IT USED TO be a part of a farm—part of an overworked, non-scientifically used farm.
When it was acquired, it was allowed to run wild, except for a few plots. These areas were hand sown in prairie grasses in a study of how these grasses grow best. A strict "hands off" policy has been followed on the rest of the 590-acre reservation.
At first, the area turned into a
gigantic weed patch, Fitch said, but eventually the grasses took over, and the plot turned into a prairie area.
NOW, SHRUBS and trees are struggling into prominence.
"In the future, the area will turn into a woods. Of course, it may be hundreds of years before it reaches that climatic stage," Fitch said.
"While zoologists have been using live trapping for a long time and will probably use it for awhile longer, telemetry will make natural-works' jobs easier."
Looking toward the future, Fitch is awaiting further technical advances in telemetry.
FITCH AND his colleague, Dr. Hampton W. "Tony" Shirer, are currently working on smaller and more refined radio transmitters and ways to use them.
method to test methods and eliminate the less successful ideas which have been used, Miller indicated.
"If and when Shirer can make a much smaller transmitter, then we can begin studying smaller animals with telemetry," Fitch said. "It won't be too long, I suppose, before we're putting transmitters on the larger insects."
Touching upon another problem of higher education, Miller said many smaller colleges are struggling to survive.
"Approximately 10 per cent lack proper accreditation and many are isolated from the mainstream of college life and intellectual development in this country," he said.
MILLER CITED junior college education as the most significant institutional development of recent years. But about one-fourth of the teachers in junior colleges today have been drawn from high school training, creating still another problem.
"The junior college is fertile ground on which talents of university graduate students can be utilized, and in turn, should provide them with valuable teaching experience." Miller said.
The Higher Education Act provides for strengthening of the college system. It links small and large schools through programs of faculty exchange and technical assistance.
UNDER THE ACT. funds establish regional laboratories to develop institutions.
"I suggest that these laboratories should serve as institutions of higher education and as neutral meeting ground for faculty from weaker and stronger colleges to assemble and work together." Miller continued.
Miller, who until seven weeks ago was president of the University of West Virginia, believes the federal government should serve as an educational catalyst, a financial supporter, and a clearing house for ideas on new educational techniques.
Editor charges 'paper suppressed'
Tom Wellman, editor of the Columbia Free Press, has charged MU and the city of Columbia with suppression of his paper because it carried articles unfavorable to the university.
Wellman said backers of the paper were considering legal action.
sale or display of merchandise on any public street or sidewalk. Wellman said this is selectively enforced.
An old city ordinance forbids
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