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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
Many Led by Few, Says Psychologist
By Delos Smith
UPI Science Editor
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The scientist who has made himself an outstanding authority on what it takes to be intelligent imagined he had received a letter from an 8-year-old named Virginia.
She wrote him as follows: "Most of the children in my class say that if you are too smart you get into trouble. Yesterday my teacher told my mother I had a very high I.Q. Is that dangerous?"
To this Dr. David Wechsler, in his imagination, replied: "Yes, Virginia, a high I.Q. can be dangerous. But in the world we live in we
School Changes Seen for Africa
African universities need to break from the European educational system, John McNown, dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday.
Addressing the Faculty Forum about "Professors for the Middle-African Universities" Dean McNown referred to the universities run by the French and the British.
The British created the University of Ibadan, the University of Ghana and the University of East Africa. The French created four universities. Both European countries patterned the African schools after their native ones.
"They are doing a carefully select job. Perhaps too carefully. They do not streamline their systems to the environment," Dean McNown explained.
DISCUSSING the 20,000 students who attend approximately 30 institutions in Middle Africa, Dean McNown talked about their problems in higher education. "These institutions can not possibly develop the teachers they will need in the next few years," Dean McNown said. "The need for equipment also
The need for equipment also plagues the African universities.
But Dean McNown thinks the United States will be supplying the Middle-African universities more between now and 1970.
He said the United States is becoming more involved in the African schools. In Dean McNown's opinion the U.S. could help the universities
"There are serious problems in the African universities and they need to be solved," Dean McNown concluded.
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WECHSLER WAS commenting on the impact the increasing complexities of technology and science are having on an apparently unchangeable fact of human nature that some people have superior intelligence and some have inferior But most people are in between.
Dr. Weechler is clinical professor of psychology at New York University.
"What is becoming more and more apparent is the increasing dependency of the many on an able few." Wechsler said. "While the man in the street may not comprehend the scientific complexities of the revolutionary advances (in science and technology), he senses their implications.
"HE IS MORE immediately frightened by the thought that the men who can do these things will alter his day-to-day living and, in the United States, that his hope of a government by the common man will be replaced by a government of 'behind-the-scene' experts."
Wechsler suggested that the better solution would be to select heads of states who are themselves of the "table few" in intelligence upon whom "the many" are increasingly dependent.
These political leaders, he said. "need, of course, to possess the obvious qualifications of leadership, heart and a sense of social responsibility, but they also need to be individuals of high intellectual capacity.
"THESE TRAITS are not, as sometimes claimed, incompatible. Indeed, we have from time to time had men in high places who combined both. We need more of them now."
John R. Willingham, associate professor of English, has been named director of freshman-sophomore English, succeeding Dr. Kenneth S. Rothwell, associate professor of English and director since 1962.
English Course Director Named
Prof. Willingham became an assistant professor of English and editor in the Bureau of Correspondence Study in 1961. He was promoted to associate professor and named head of Correspondence Study in 1963.
Krot. John K. Winingham
The new freshman-sophomore director taught English at Centenary College, Shreveport, La., from 1954-61, where for three years he also was chairman of the humanities division. Other teaching positions were at the University of Oklahoma and at colleges in Texas and Oklahoma.
In September, 1963, Prof. Willingham was named director of a $32,000 grant from the U.S. Office of Education to investigate a "correspondence-tutorial" method for teaching college freshman composition. The three-year pilot program, aimed at overcoming teacher and classroom hortages without sacrificing quality of education, will have 160 students in a tutorial section by 1965.
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Hoover's Condition Is Slightly Improved
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NEW YORK — (UPI) — Former President Herbert Hoover, 89. "seriously ill" with kidney and respiratory ailments, continued to show slight improvement, his doctors reported last night.
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Hoover, bedridden for five days in his Waldorf Towers suite, had a "better day" yesterday, the three attending physicians said in the latest medical bulletin. They said he was alert and able to eat.
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The doctors indicated, however, he was having some trouble breathing.
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