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New Vice Presidents Join University

A reorganization of the Uni­versity's administrative structure this fall brought two new vice presidents to Morrill Hall.

Hal~ Champion left a post as director of the Boston Redevelop­ment Administration to join the University as vice president for planning and operations.

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Roger G. Kennedy, who was senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Northwestern National Bank of St. Paul, became vice president for investments and executive director of the University Foundation.

Each assumes some of the work carried out by Laurence R. Lunden, former vice president for

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September, 1969

1969-71 Funds $227 Million

State support of $226.7 million was granted to the Univer­sity of Minnesota by the 1969 Legislature for the two-year period that began July 1, 1969.

The total includes $171.2 million for current operations and $55.5 million for buildings and land on all University campuses.

University Regents had re­quested $209.8 million for current operations and $134.2 million for buildings. The 1967 Legislature appropriated $131 million for operations and $22.8 million for buildings (corresponding 1967 re­quests had been for $144.2 and $70.2 million).

How 1967 and 1969 Compare

University Request

Appropriation

(in millions) 1967

$214.2

$153.8

1969 $344.0

$226.7

The Legislature allocated funds for 334 new academic positions and 312 new civil service positions for the biennium.

For faculty salary adjust­ments, $5.7 million was appro­priated. This will allow an average increase of about 6Y:! percent each year.

Salaries of most civil service employees, increased 8 percent on July 1, 1969, will be adjusted another 4 percent on July 1, 1970.

Major building appropriations on the Twin Cities campus include:

* $6.7 million for a per­forming arts building on the West Bank;

* $5.8 million for remodeling the East Bank State Board of Health-Psychology Building, demolition of the old Psychology Building, and an addition for Psychol­ogy;

* $6.3 million for the state's share of a $9.9 million biological sciences facility in St. Paul;

* State funds of $14 million for Phase I of the Health Sciences complex. (Con­struction is not to start u n ti I federal funds are approved.)

Building appropnat1ons for the other campuses were:

* $3.9 million for Duluth, including $1.9 million to construct and equip an administration building;

* $3.6 million for Morris, including $2.45 million in pI an n i n g f u n ds for a humanities building and construction funds for Phase I;

* $1.9 million for Crookston, including $1.5 million to construct and equip a class­room building.

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business administration and now vice president and consultant to the president. Lunden asked to be removed from active duties in the business office on the basis of medical advice.

The planning duties of Elmer W. Learn, who resigned to become vice chancellor at the University of California, Davis, are transferred to Champion.

Kennedy's post with the Foundation is separate from the vice presidency--the foundation is a separate legal entity--but the dual nature of his position is expected to promote even greater interaction between the foundation and the central administration of the Uni­versity.

Fred J. Lauerman, director of the foundation for several years, has resigned to become vice chan­cellor for institutional resources of the Minnesota State College system.

University "Branch" Opened at St. Cloud

A "branch" of the University was opened this summer at the Minnesota State Reformatory in St. Cloud, Minn.

"Project Newgate," under the direction of Professor Richard Clendenen of the Law School, will make it possible for inmates to attend University classes on a full­time basis while they are in prison. Two faculty members will be in residence.

The first "Project Newgate" was established in Oregon. Min­nesota's is the fourth in the nation to be funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

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Parents Days Set For All Campuses

Parents of entering students at all University campuses are invited to Parents Day orientation sessions this fall: Sept. 21 at the Twin Cities campus, Sept. 28 at Duluth, Nov. 1 at Morris, and Oct. 11 at Crook­ston. At the sessions University officials brief parents about student life, problems, and goals, and parti­cipate in question-and-answer sessions. There will be oportunity for parents to meet in small groups with teachers in the fields of their children's particular interests.

Health Sciences Begin Expansion

The first phase of a long-range expansion program for the Health Sciences Center received the 1969 Legislature's approval, pending the receipt of matching federal funds. Ground breaking for a 13-story tower is scheduled for 1971. The building will include basic science teaching laboratories, public health laboratories, classroom space, and the School of Dentistry.

The expansion program will mean annual increases in the num­ber of entering medical and dental students as well as of nurses and auxiliary health professionals.

Moon on Earth Apollo 11 astronauts brought

back for the University's Space Science Center samples of the moon's surface for analysis and study -- a part of Minnesota's contribution to knowledge of the universe. Another study has shown the nature of stardust -- that this romanticized material is ordinary silicate, a good deal like sand.

Regents Bolster Loan Fund by $500,000

Assurance that no eligible student will be kept out of the University of Minnesota is the goal of the Board of Regents' move to borrow half a million dollars to supplement the student loan fund. The plan follows the board's com­mitment to the students, when tuition fees were raised in April, that it would take steps to provide financial aid to any student for whom the increase ($105 a year) would create a hardship. A study s hawed that there are 1 ,600 students on all four campuses of the University who can expect no financial aid from their families. The money will be available for use on the Twin Cities, Duluth, Morris, and Crookston campuses.

University Tuition Below Big 10 Median

Tuition increases for next fall at the University, an Associated Press survey shows, put the Univer­sity just below the median of Big Ten universities. Undergraduate resident tuition at Minnesota will be $405 a year, up from $300, and resident tuition for the Graduate School will go from $312 to $450 a year. Nonresidents at the University will pay $1,140 a year, up from $840.

The highest tuition among Big

Ten schools is at Purdue, which has raised undergraduate resident tuition from $400 to $700 per year. At Indiana the yearly fee is $650, at Ohio State $510, and at Michigan $480. Michigan State's sliding resident tuition based on student ability to pay ranges from $369 to $552 per year.

Iowa's resident fee is $370, Wisconsin's $350, and Illinois' $170 at Urbana and $285 at Chicago. Northwestern University, a private institution, has considerably higher fees.

Humphrey, Naftalin Join University Staff

Two prominent former gov­ernment officials have been named to the University of Minnesota faculty.

Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey is an adjunct pro­fessor in the College of Liberal Arts. During the spring quarter he lectured in a variety of classes. In the fall he will teach a seminar in the Social Science Program, Twin Cities campus.

Former Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin will begin teaching in the School of Public Affairs in September, 1970, after a year of travel and study under a Ford Foundation grant. Dr. Naftalin was a member of the University's politi­cal science faculty before he became a public official.

New Regents Elected Three new faces appeared at

the May Board of Regents meeting in Morrill Hall. They were those of regents just elected by the State Legislature. Fred Cina of Aurora replaced William Montague, who retired from the board; John Yngve

~, of Plymouth replaced Otto Silha; and Neil Sherburne of Lakeland replaced Dr. Harry Hall. Of the

12-member board, eight regents represent state congressional dis­tricts and four are at-large mem­bers. Regents serve for six-year terms .... UMD presented Regent Montague its Alumni Distinguished Service Award on May 20.

47,534 Students At the University

Enrollment at the University reached new highs all three quarters of the regular academic year on all campuses. The fall-quarter enroll­ment, which is used as the general figure year-round, was 47,534 students attending campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Morris, and Crookston. This placed the Univer­sity sixth in the nation in total numbers. The 41,000 on the Twin Cities campus alone was the largest single-campus enrollment in the United States, as has been the case for many years. Enrollments for winter and spring quarters, 45,466 and 42,596, showed the decline normal over the school year.

Admissions Policies Change for CE, CLA

New admissions policies will go into effect this fall for students who wish to enter the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) or Education (CE) on the Twin Cities campus. Restrictions have become necessary because of limitations on physical facilities and teaching resources.

All degree candidates applying to CLA--as freshmen or as transfer students--will be judged on "like­lihood of academic success"; adult special students with bachelor's degrees will be asked to apply to the Graduate School.

Elementary education on the Twin Cities campus--CE's largest program--will have reached the limit of its facilities. The number of new

students (juniors) will be cut this fall and no new seniors accepted. Students not admitted will be urged to enroll in education at UMD, or in a comparable program at another institution.

Enrollments at UMD and UMM are not restricted.

Band Drew Cheers From Russian People

The 53-member University of Minnesota Concert Band, on its seven-week concert tour of the Soviet Union last spring, was received with overwhelming enthu­siasm by the Russian people. Upon its return in May, the band was invited by President Nixon to play at the White House. The tour was sponsored by the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Provost Briggs Leaves Morris

Rodney A. Briggs, after 10 years as chief administrative officer of UMM (the last year as provost), resigned in the spring to become associate director of the new Insti­tute for Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria. Assistant Dean John 0. I mholte was named acting provost.

"Breck's Island" A half-mile-long island in the

Mississippi was deeded to the Uni­versity in June by Northern States Power Co. as part of the ceremony honoring Dr. Walter J. Brecken­ridge, who retired after nearly a quarter-century as director of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History. The primitive island's wild life and ecology had been a "lab" for Dr. Breckenridge for more than 20 years.

University Rates High in Survey The University of Minnesota

ranks at or near the top among state higher education institutions in a survey conducted by the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

The survey uses three criteria educators consider important in measuring the quality of colleges and universities: student-faculty ratios, percentages of Ph.D. degrees

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in the faculties, and entrance test results.

In percentage of Ph.D. holders, Minnesota (68 percent) is second only to Carleton (71 ). Among the 18 other Minnesota colleges in the study, the range is from 57 to 23 percent.

The University's Twin Cities campus is slightly better than the median in student-faculty ratio, with a ratio of 14 to 1. The Morris campus has a 12 to 1 ratio and Duluth 21 to 1. A number of institutions, led by Hamline, St. Scholastica, and St. Teresa with 10 to 1, have lower ratios. The remain­der range up to 22 to 1.

Low student-faculty ratios are considered evidence of quality because they suggest a high inci­dence of personal relationships between students and teachers.

In achievement on the Ameri­can College Test (ACT), University beginners head all Minnesota colleges that use ACT. Freshmen entering the Institute of Tech­nology rate 27 (on a 34-to-0 scale), and those entering the College of Liberal Arts rate 24. Others range from 23.5 to 17.

Carleton heads the colleges that use the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

About half of the 100,000 students enrolled in Minnesota four-year colleges attend the Uni­versity.

About 50 students will be members of the All- University Senate for the first time this fall. Previously the senate was composed of faculty members only. The elected students, representing colleges and schools within the University, will sit with faculty members on committees dealing with student government, organizations and publications, and on other major committees. The 150 elected faculty members retain final control of curriculum, faculty appointments, and tenure.

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Snoke Reviews Student Services

Student personnel services at the University of Minnesota are in a state of transition, says Associate Dean of Students Martin L. Snoke.

He is now reviewing the University's registration procedures and its relation­ships with prospective students, with the expectation of changes in both areas.

Snoke retains his title of associate dean of students even though the Univer­

sity no longer has a dean of stu­dents. Since the retirement of Dean Edmund G. W iII iamson last spring, all func­tions and services

Snoke of the former Dean of Students Office have been trans­ferred to the office of Paul Cashman, vice president for student affairs.

Mabelle G. McCullough continues as assistant dean of students.

Since July 1 Snoke has had a special assignment to "do something about regis­tration procedures." He has been hearing statements of dissatisfaction from stu­dents and others jnvolved in registration.

A major complaint is that registration takes too long. Snoke estimated in an interview that 80 percent of a student's time in registering is spent standing in lines. Students have also expressed con­cern about their inability to get into classes they need.

Studies have been under way for years to find ways to speed up registra-

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Regents Ensure Student Loans University Regents, meeting in

Crookston Sept. 12, committed $4 million from the University's endowment funds to insure that banks would make that amount available to students in loans at 7 percent interest.

The step was seen as a one-year emergency measure to ease the financial problems of University students at a time

when the lending market is tight.

Banks that make loans to students will "sell" the loan paper to the Univer­sity in substantial "bundles .. " Thus the University will take the loans after the banks have processed them; the banks

will contribute the time and personnel needed to do the work.

To make the money available, the University must tie up its endowment funds to this extent and accept a slight potential loss of income, because the student loans will earn less than would the same dollars invested in other paper. Regent Elmer L. Andersen said that the Regents "feel our primary responsibility is to the student attending the University, and we have been anxious to take any steps necessary to assure that no qualified student will be denied admittance for lack of funds."

Small Grants Support Teaching Innovations Faculty members who have ideas for

improving the quality of undergraduate education at the University and need financial support to carry them out can turn to the Small Grants Program for help.

Initiated by the University of Min­nesota Council on Liberal Education in the spring of 1967 with a matching grant from the Hill Family Foundation, the program last year made $40,000 available for projects conducted on all University campuses. The fund totals $50,000 this year and will increase by $10,000 each year until a steady-state value of $80,000 is reached.

The Small Grants Program, says James Werntz, director of the Center for Curriculum Studies, functions as "a quick response internal foundation to providP

support with a minimum of red tape for ideas of faculty, faculty groups, and facu lty·student groups."

Kenneth Zimmerman, assistant to Werntz, explains that the program tries to foster continual improvement of teaching by encouraging the faculty member to discover better ways to teach, to develop reforms in methods and curriculum, to become involved in educational research. It does not support the expansion of existing or well-tested ideas. Most pro­jects focus on a "narrow circumscribed area of development such as a component of a course. But projects directed to any facet of undergraduate education are appropriate under the program," says Werntz.

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The Small Grants Program has sponsored over 100 projects to date with an average grant of about $1,200. Support is given to a wide variety of ideas. Examples include:

• The hiring of undergraduate assist­ants to lead discussion groups in Associ­ate Professor Toni McNaron's sophomore English survey class. Students who may be shy about talking in class speak freely before a peer.

• A pilot program, organized by Arthur Harkins of the Office of Com­munity Programs, in which individuals from the community will join with a University faculty member in teaching a University course, making up the curric­ulum, grading papers and examinations.

• The creation of an experimental course in microbiology at Duluth based on individualized instruction with appropriate" use of transparencies and I istening tapes.

Veterinary Medicine Team in Vietnam

Increasing food production by con­trolling animal diseases is the goal of a University project in South Vietnam.

The University recently received c contract for the project from the United States Agency for International Develop­ment (USA: D). The College of Veterinary Medicine will provide the basic services

called for under the project.

Dean Willard Cochrane, International Programs, has over all University responsi­bility for the project. Project director is Dr. Hank Stoddard, director of inter­national programs of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Before joining the

University faculty, Dr. Stoddard was project director of a similar animal health

project in Cambodia.

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IT Support Programs Help Freshmen Freshmen entering the University of

Minnesota Institute of Technology (IT) come with higher entrance scores and stronger high school records than stu­dents entering any other public college in the state--but six years ago less than 40 percent of them were surviving their first year with "C" averages.

By the end of the 1968-1969 academic year the percentage of freshmen who were still in IT with grade point averages of 2.0 ("C") or higher had risen to 63.

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a waste of re­sources to retain only 40 percent of such a fine group," says Pau I A. Cartwright, IT assistant dean for student affairs.

Programs of academic support initiated in recent years for IT freshmen and sopho­mores have contributed to the improved record.

Studies conducted by IT four years ago showed that freshmen living in resi­dence halls performed better academ­ically than commuters of the same basic ability level. As a result, IT has encouraged its freshmen to live in dorms and has developed programs to make the education environment of the dorms even stronger.

With the assistance of Dr. Ronald Taylor of the Student Counseling

Bureau, IT "houses" were established last year in Frontier and Territorial Halls. IT

Crookston Dorm Named Skyberg Hall

The new dormitory at the University of Minnesota Technical College, Crooks­ton, has been named Skyberg Hall in honor of the late Regent Herman F. Skyberg, an alumnus of the Northwest School of Agriculture at Crookston.

freshmen were placed on designated floors and senior honors students were hired to live on the floors and tutor those students who needed help.

This year the number of IT houses has been increased from two to five, and sophomores have been included in the program. Tutors are chosen for their interest in helping underclassmen and their broad academic backgrounds; a tutor may have to help a freshman in mechanical engineering one day and a sophomore in electrical engineering the next.

"We watch the tutors' grades, too," Cartwright says, to be sure that the 15 or 20 hours per week of tutoring does not cut into their own academic performance. Financial support for the tutors comes from local industry.

"Our liberal arts friends tell us there are disadvantages in having only IT stu­dents on a floor," he says, but IT studies have not supported the theory that the students' interests are narrowed. "Even if it were true, we would say_ the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages."

Commuters have not been left to fend for themselves. Mathematics tutoring sessions for freshman commuters are held from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday on campus, and a mathematics teaching assistant is available for tutoring Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Edina High School. Other suburban schools may be added to the program winter or spring quarter or next year.

"The first night, no one came," Cartwright says of the tutoring program at Edina. But on nights before quizzes eight or nine students have been coming for help, and the program is considered a

valuable one.

Now under consideration for next year is a plan to make meal tickets available to commuters at cost so that they will be able to eat at the IT houses once a week and take advantage of the tutoring after supper.

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$60,000 Added toMLK Fund The University of Minnesota

announced Nov. 26 that it is contributing an additional $60,000 to the fund of financial aids available to students in the Martin Luther King program.

The funds were needed because of a decrease in the amount of state and federal financial aid available, which resulted in a $60,000 short-fall in the anticipated funds for disadvantaged students.

This fall quarter 230 students are enrolled in the Martin Luther King (MLK) counseling and tutorial program. Last year the program served a total of 190 students all three quarters.

The University had counted on increased federal grant expenditures and additional state grant-in-aid funds for this year's MLK program. But during the summer the federal funds available were substantially cut from the previous year's level. The state grant-in-aid program was delayed and was not a substantial source of aid for fall quarter. Private contribu­

tions also fell short of expectations.

This combination of events placed an excessive burden on loans and work-study funds, which are considered the least desirable financial aids for disadvantaged students--who generally need extra time for studying.

Some $265,000 is budgeted for aiding MLK students this academic year.

In the distribution of financial aids, all students in the program are counseled individually by staff members of the Office of Student Financial Aid, which seeks to put together the most effective aid program for each student given his particular needs and the resources avail­

able.

Because further federal cuts are expected for next year, University officials anticipate the need for increased private contributions and direct Univer­sity funding in 1970-71 and thereafter--or a return to heavy reliance on loan and work-study programs.

The disadvantaged students being aided by the funds this year include 63 percent black or Afro-American; 10 percent American Indian; 1 percent American Oriental; 6 percent Spanish­American; and 20 percent classified as "other," which includes Caucasians and some minority students difficult to

classify.

Of the 230 now in the program, 104 are returnees from last year. More than half (54 percent) this year are from Minneapolis, 32 percent from St. Paul, 8 percent from other parts of Minnesota, and 6 percent from out-of-state.

Enrollment Over 50,000 Enrollment at the University of

Minnesota has passed the 50,000 mark. Fall quarter enrollment for 1969 is 50,145, compared with 49.454 a year ago.

These figures are based on registra­tion counts at the end of the second week of classes. A count of second-week paid fee statements has been used in previous years. The new method reflects more accurately the overall attendance for the quarter, according to Theodore Kellogg, associate dean for admissions and records.

All campuses showed increases. Twin Cities enrollment totalled 42,996, up 477; Duluth showed 5.468, up 168; Morris totalled 1,510, up 246; and Crook­ston was up 70 to 441.

The freshman class this year numbers 8,787, down from 8,810 last year. Trans­fer students increased to 4,335 from 4,159.

In addition to the regular, daytime enrollment of 50.415 are 19,819 students attending evening classes.

Nixon Names Moos to Task Force

University of Minnesota President

Malcolm Moos has been named by Presi­dent Nixon to a Special Task Force on Higher Education.

The task force will work with Dr. Arthur Burns, counselor to the President for developing domestic programs, to

advise Mr. Nixon on priorities for the 1970's. Chairman of the force is President James M. Hester of New York University.

Ziebarth, Thompson Elected Chairmen

Two University of Minnesota deans were elected as chairmen of national

groups in November.

E. W. Ziebarth, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, was reelected by unani­mous vote as chairman of the National Commission on Arts and Sciences.

Willard L. Thompson, dean of ·the General Extension Division and Summer Session, was elected chairman of the Council on Extension of the National Association of State Universities and

Land Grant Colleges.

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tion processes by using improved data processing systems. But Snoke predicts that the University will not move further in this direction for a year or two.

On the subject of prospective stu­dents, Snoke says that he views everyone as a prospective student--not just those who inquire about the University. It is the University's responsibility to provide up-to-date and comprehensive informa­tion to help prospective students make decisions. Although much has been done in this area, Snoke says the efforts can be better coordinated.

Snoke also says that students who apply for admission should not have to wait as long as they are waiting now to

learn whether they have been accPpted.

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Dental Course Gives Students New View of Health Care

Most dental students expect to become professional health care special­ists providing dental service to patients who come to their offices. But freshman dental students at Minnesota are learning more than how to fix teeth; they are learning that there are many social and economic factors determining who gets dental care.

Health Behavior 68, first offered in the spring of 1969, is a new, one-credit course required of freshman dentistry students. "The objective of the course," says Dr. Joanna Samuels, assistant pro­fessor of health ecology and one of the creators of the class, "is to acquaint students with circumstances and values of individuals in various socio-economic levels of society_"

The ideal way to sensitize students to dental health behavior, attitudes, charac­teristics, and to life styles of people in various socio-economic and racial groups is to take them directly to the commun­ity. But this is impossible for 115 stu­dents who are in classes and labs all day, says Dr. Samuels. The course attempts to bring the community to the students by means of panels, video-taped interviews with children, and audio-taped discus­sions with mothers.

The panel presentations bring com­munity people into the classroom. Representing different economic, social, and racial groups, they indicate their ideas about dentists and dental care. Another type of panel introduces pro­fessional specialists from the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas.

Taped home interviews with mothers from various socio-economic backgrounds reveal some of the problems parents face in providing adequate health care for their families.

Last spring Dr. Samuels interviewed 355 black, white, and Indian children in Minneapolis. The candid third graders came from middle class, working class, and welfare families. While discussing dental care and diets, the children revealed a great deal about their home environments, attitudes, family health practices, and experiences. The video-tape vignettes may help the dental students in dealing with children's fears of the dentist and the dental experience.

"At first the sociological approach was new for the students. Their percep­tion of the national dental health problem had been limited to the dental problems of the private patient. Now they are thinking about dental care for everyone

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and are coming up with new ideas to solve the problems," says Mrs. Woodbury, assistant professor of health ecology. Mrs. Woodbury helped develop the format of

the course with Dr. Samuels.

An elective course that would send interested students into the community may develop from Health Behavior 68.

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Dean W. T. S. Thorp and the veteri­nary medicine faculty will provide back­stopping services to resolve technical problems of the Vietnam project.

An animal disease control team of four veterinarians will serve in Vietnam during initial phases of the project. Dr. Russell Burgess, the most experienced member of the team, is in Vietnam now. Other faculty members of the team are recent graduates in veterinary medicine-­Or. Stephen Dille, Dr. Charles Rhodes, and Dr. Michael Seely.

Control of animal diseases in Vietnam is important, Dr. Stoddard says, both to increase protein foods of animal origin and to protect the draft animals needed for rice production.

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Active Students Work to Save Surroundings

Its first meeting, though not pub­

licized, drew 35 people. It now has a base

of 50 dues-paying members, although

over 150 others are interested and help

with projects. The group is Students for

Environmental Defense (SED), founded

in the spring, 1969, by Wes Fisher, a grad­

uate student in ecology at the University

of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus.

"The goals of SED," says Fisher, "are

to inform the public, through action,

about local and national environmental

issues, and to make people aware of the

threat to man's survival created by the

population explosion."

Group actions have included a "Clean

Up the Mississippi" march, the burial of

an automobile to protest exhaust poilu

tion, and a demonstration in St. Paul

against the Highway Department. The

students were protesting a road that

would destroy part of Minnehaha Pa1k,

and were also calling for highway funds

to be used for mass transportation.

The most recent of SED's protests

was a nationwide bottle mail-in initiated

by the Minneapolis SED and a Wisconsin

ecology group and held on March 11. The

Canada Dry Bottling Company was

singled out since it, unlike Coca Cola,

7-Up, and Pepsi Cola, is strictly a no­

return bottle organization. The cost of

no-return bottles is extremely high,

according to Fisher, because of the cost

of garbage crews to collect them, the

valuable land used to dispose of them,

and the waste of the limited fuel-oil and

coal needed to make them. The action

will be repeated the eleventh of each month.

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Departing hom its usual newsletter

format, this issue of Report to Parents looks at student involvement in one of

their most important concerns--pollution

and environmental control.

The articles are intended to acquaint

parents with the concerns of many young

men and women on the campuses of the

Unive1·sity of Minnesota and to desuibe

their involvement in these 1ssues. The

point of view reflects their concerns.

Theil· search for solutions to the ever­

growing environmental c1isis will be high­

lighted on April 22 when teach-ins will be

held on campuses across the nation. The

goal: to encourage the university and the

local community to discuss shared

environmental problems.

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Ehrlich to Speak in Twin Cities

Paul Ehrlich, professor and director

of graduate study in the Department of

Biological Sciences at Stanford Univer­

sity, will deliver the keynote address

clming Festival of Life Week at the Uni­

versity of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus.

Dr. Ehrlich will speak at 7:30p.m. in

Northrop Audito1·ium on Thursday, April

23.

Widely known for his studies and

publications in the field of biology, he is

a leading advocate of population control.

He is the author of the bestselling book

The Population Bomb and has appeared

on "The Tonight Show."

Environmental Teach-In Planned In September, 1969, Wisconsin

Senator Gaylord Nelson p1oposed a

national day of envi1onmental action, and

the following month he and Congressman

Paul McCloskey suggested Ap1il 22.

From then on, April 22 clevelopecl a momentum of its own, and groups

around the country began formulating

plans.

Teach-1ns on campuses, in high

schools, and in local communities will

allow people to examine the environ­

mental crisis and decide what to do about

it.

In the Twin Cities, April 2026 has

been designated Festival of Life Week.

Activities are planned by a group of stu·

dents, faculty members, community

people, and interested citizens who are

working around the common theme that

human life can continue on earth only if

men cooperate with nature.

The group sees the objectives of the

movement taking two stages: a broad and

well defined information campaign

directed at individuals, and action by the

inrlic·idual to solve the problem.

The most important efforts of the

group are directed at developing on-going

community involvement in improving the

environment. The Festival of Life is seen

not as the solution to the problem, but as

a definition of the issues.

For those wishing to help, or who

want more information about the various

programs, the telephone number for the

Festival of Life office on the Twin Cities

campus is 373-4773.

Says Dr. Brook--

Personal Freedoms Affected by Ecology "We have to teach everybody some

ecology. Until now, schools have been

concerned about bodily health and

personal hygiene. Now we must eel ucate

people about keeping the environment

clean. Our very freedoms depend upon

it."

Making everyone

aware of the need

for "hygiene" of the

natural world is one

of the goals of Prof.

Alan Brook, head of

the Depar-tment ot

Ecology and Behav

ioral Biology, Twin i, C it i e s cam pus. Brnok "Ecology is not just a science, but a phil

osophy of life, a way of looking at the

wor-ld with moral and ethical values,"

says Or. Brook.

As a science, ecology looks at how

animals and plants, as populations and

communities, relate to their envimnment.

As a philosophy, ecology perceives that

everything is related: the wmld is a vvhole

and ther-e is a unity to life.

"Ecological pr-inciples should be

taught at all levels, beginning with kinder­

ganen," says Or. Brook, "to develop an

ecological outlook." In addition to

stressing the unity of life, ecology teaches

that the wor-ld has limits--that ther-e are

very finite resOLnces of space, air, water,

and miner-als and limits to the number of

people that can be fed ami housed.

Students have become increasingly

aware of environmental pmblems in

recent years, and larger- number-s of stu­

dents enroll in an introductory cour-se in

ecology; this year the class had almost

300 students. Engineering departments

have also approached Dr. Brook's depart­

ment for a basic ecology course for engi­

neers. "We hope eventually to have an

ecology course required of all college stu­

dents," says Or. Brook.

Technology has been a mixed

blessing, according to Dr. Brook. While

providing a comfortable wmld, it has also

cr-eated ecological imbalance. "Man has

'progressed' too rapidly and we are now

reaping the consequences of too much

technology and affluence," says Dr.

Brook. "There has been a profligate use

of the world's resources and the creation

of too many wastes."

Our standard of living is probably

now at its zenith, says Dr. Brook, ancl can

only decline. For example, he says, the

automobile is rapidly becoming a hin­

drance rather than a convenience: con­

sider tr-affic jams and the increasing

frustrations of parking and the loss of

land to highway development. Disposable

bottles and cans and plastic and paper­

cartons, other products of our affluence

and technology, are also encumbrances

and pollutants because there is no place

to dump them and they do not break

clown.

Technology must find means of

recycling resources and products, of

making energy with a minimum of

<Jdverse effects, and must find other

means of tr-ansportation, according to Dr.

Brook. But even this is not enough if the

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Pollution Complaints Handled by U Center

The Pollution Report Center, located

rn Coffman Union on the Twin Cities

campus, serves several functions: it

receives pollution reports from citizens,

collects the reports to build files to

inform lawmakers and others, and serves

as an infor-mation center for people with

questions about pollution, laws, controls,

and effects.

Since the Center's opening on Jan­

uary 26, over 375 repons have been

received, according to Tom Griffin, an

Environmental Teach-In worker.

The Center is staffed by volunteers

from the Teach-In group. The office is

open from 10 a.m_ to 4 p.m. Monday

through Friday.

Anyone with a complaint, question,

or comment on pollution or the environ­

ment is urged to call the Center at

3730342.

Science Complex to be Dedicated at Morris

Several authorities in the field of air

and water pollution will participate in the

dedication ceremonies for the new

Science Complex at the Morris campus of

the University on April 3, 4, and 5.

Dr. Barry Commoner, director of the

Center for the Biology of Natural

Systems, Washington University, St.

Louis, Mo., will be the keynote speaker at

the official dedication ceremony Friday,

April 3. His address is entitled "Techno­

logy and the Requirements of the Eco­

system."

An "Environmental Sciences Sym­

posium," featuring pollution authorities

from academic, industrial, and political

areas, will be held Saturday morning.

Participants in the symposium

include science teachers and students

from area schools and colleges, area

people concerned with environmental

problems, and students and faculty mem­

bers hom the Morris campus.

The Sunday afternoon Open House at

the Science Complex includes tours,

exhibits, and demonstrations.

The selection of pollution as the

topic for many of the activities during the

dedication of the Science Complex is not

an accident. Students and faculty mem­

bers at the Morris campus are actively

concerned with environmental problems.

Earlier this year the Morris Campus

Union Board sponsored a three-day con­

vocation program on pollution. Through­

out the year an active debate on the topic

has been going on in the Vanguard, the

student newspaper.

Student environmental activists

organized the Morris chapter of Students

for Environmental Defense (SED) in Jan­

uary_ The chapter has been active in

research, in publishing and distributing

I iterature, and in local anti-pollution

campaigns_

On April 22 SED will hold an

"environmental teach-in" as part of the

national program scheduled for that day.

"Environmental News," a series of

magazine-format programs with inter­

views, news commentary, and a

what-you-can-do feature, is broadcast on

the University of Minnesota Television

Hour in the Twin Cities. The weekly pro­

grams are presented from 9 to 10 p.m.

Tuesdays through June 2 on KTCA-TV,

channel 2.

Duluth SED Protests Against Can Company

A plan of action for reducing environ­

mental pollution was presented to a

representative of the American Can

Company after an orderly march Feb. 10

by members of the Students for Environ­

mental Defense (SED) at the University

of Minnesota, Dui:Jth.

Dave Siebold, representing American

Can (AmCan), expressed sympathy with

the anti-pollution movement and

presented SED with speeches by AmCan's

chairman of the board of directors out­

lining the company's progress in the field

of pollution control.

The SED plan of action, entitled

"Recycle the Wastes," said that "the

roots of the problem of excess waste lie

in an overly affluent society" but that

"industry can assume part of the blame

for promoting the disposal philosophy."

The proposal said that American Can

and similar companies must first "recog­

nize the need to recycle our waste

products."

Two alternatives are proposed to

accomplish the recycling: ( 1) separation

processes at metropolitan disposal sites,

with the materials then shipped to

reprocessing centers, or (2) the placement

of a return tax on every can or bottle, to

be repaid to the consumer· when the con­

tainer is returned for reprocessing.

The SED plan also suggests that

companies such as American Can should

"consider alter·native means of packaging

consumer and industrial products such as

protein envelopes."

American Can was also the target of

an earlier anti-pollution demonstration in

St. Paul. Members of SED f-rom the Twin

Cities campus of the University collected

25,000 cans on the banks of the Missi­

ssippi and presented AmCan with a gold

spray-painted can.

Mondale Will Open Duluth "Earth Days"

Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale

will open the three-day "Earth Days"

observance on the campus of the Univer·­

sity of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD).

Mondale's talk, on man's abuse of the

environment, will be at 7:00 p.m. April

22 in the Kirby Student Center· Ballroom.

The UMD "Earth Days" will focus on

local environmental problems as par·t of

the national environmental "teach-in"

April 22-24. The UMD program is being

coordinated by the campus chapter of the

Students for· Environmental Defense

(SED) with cooperation from the Duluth

League of Women Voters.

At UMD the observance dur·ing the

three days will include panel discussions

on the Boundary Water·s Canoe Area, the

population explosion, and planning for

utilization of local natural resources.

Other planned events include num­

erous short speeches, films, and slide pro­

grams. Northeastern Minnesota industt"ies

have been invited to set up educational

exhibits on campus during "Earth Days."

Brent Haglund, president of the

Duluth SED, said the purpose of Earth

Days is "to educate people to the prob­

lems of environment, to propose solu­

tions to these problems, and to awaken

people and make them active environ­

mentalists."

The League of Women Voters will

concentrate its efforts toward what the

community and the individual can do to

control pollution.

Says Dr. Gorham--

Population Problems Are Hitting Home

Housing shortages. Traffic jams and

parking difficulties. Agricultural prob­

lems. Civil rights disturbances. Every day

new problems develop and old ones grow

larger.

"People are involved in the environ­

men tal crisis because the population

problems are hitting home. We are

burdened with urban problems, and our

food surpluses are vanishing," says Prof.

Eville Gor·ham, head of the Botany

Department, Twin Cities campus. "Stu­

dents are more aware about population

and pollution, but then they are more

aware in all problem areas."

Environmental concern was sparked

several years ago by Rachel Carson's

Silent Spring, in which she describes an

environment ruined by pesticides. Like

students, says Dr·. Gorham, faculty mem­

bers have awakened only within the past

five years. And like students, faculty

members are demanding relevancy in the

classmom.

Introductory courses are all wrong

for most students, says Dr. Gorham. What

we need, he says, "is a far wider dissemin­

ation of the ecological point of view: that

the web of life cannot be understood suc­

cessfully by taking it to bits or by dealing

with parts of it in isolation from one

another."

Examining nature in parts is a legiti­

mate procedure in science, says Dr.

Gorham, but it must be put together

again to see inter-relations. Thus, intro­

ductory biology should be structured

around ecology "so that students, most

of whom are not aiming at a professional

career in biology, will have a tnre appreci­

ation of their· place in--and not apart from

or above--their· natural environment."

Despite our newly-awakened concern

for the environment, pollution, a by­

product of man, cannot be totally

stopped. Recycling our resources, there­

fore, must be emphasized, says Dr.

Gorham. "If it is not, we will experience

shortages in such vital resources as lead,

nickel, sulfur, fuels." For example, sulfur

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Dr. Gorham (conlillliCdjiwn {Jagc 3)

is used in certain kinds of technology.

The sulfur oxide that escapes into the air·

is nonrecover·able. If it wer·e trapred

within the chimneys, it could be recycled

and used again. "For the sake of saving

doliars now, we are using ur r·esources in

irTetr·ievable ways," says Dr·. Gorham.

"We are not thinking beyond our chilcl­

r·en's lives."

Caring enough about rollution to do

something about it can achieve r·esults.

Students, concerned about the number of

lead-poisoned children in Minneapolis'

inner city, exel'ted enough influence to

change city or·dinances covering lead

~O'ltcnt in paint.

On a mor.;: individual basis, each

per·son can combat pollution. "When the

Botany Department is moved to the St.

Paul campus, as it will be in two or three

years, it will mean buying a second car,"

says Dr·. Gorham. "Rather than do that

and add to the pollution problems caused

by car·s, I would prefer· to move my

family to St. Paul."

Pollution pmblems are inevitably tied

to their· cause--overpopulation. Coupled

with whatever solutions we devise f01

population control must he emancipatio11

fm women, accor·ding to Dr. Gorham.

"We must pmvicle women with altema­

tives to having chilcJr·en."

Solving some of our pollution prob

lems seems to demand a change in lite

styles: a demand for less conspicuous

goods (car·s, appliances), less planned

obsolescence, ancl less dumping of mater­

rals. "Saving the erwimmnent," says Or·.

Gorham, "may demand a retum to a

simpler life."

FESTIVAL OF LIFE WEEK ACTIVITIES

TWIN CITIES CAMPUS

MONDAY (April 20)

---Official opening of the Festival of Life w1th

the planting of the "Tree of Life" and the

open1ng of the geodesic dome presentrng

alternative life styles

TUESDAY (April 21)

-Multi-media show at Coffman Un1on--local

environmental problems to be stressed;

theatre pieces to be part of the show

WEDNESDAY (April 22)

-10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. -Mass rally outs1de

Northrop Aud1torium With speakers, mus1c,

the ra1sing of the "Flag of Life," reading of

the DeclaratiOn of Interdependence and the

Environmental Bill of Rights

1:00 p.m.-6 p.m.--the "Teach­

ln"-Coffman Union Main Ballroom-invited

speakers, question period with the audience

Active Students (cunlillllcd jro111 fhlf;C I)

A speaker's bureau, now separ·ate,

was established by SED to make available

speakers on population and environment.

They are anxious to talk to PTA, busi­

ness, and church gmups, as well as to high

school students.

SED plans to lobby for· changes in

laws throuSJh the political parties. It is

also helpin(J to prepare legislative packets,

presentincJ the ecological point of view,

for the next governor.

"We will, of course, be taking part in

the teach-in," says Fisher. "We will be

selling oxygen from a tank, and we will

possibly put spotlights on polluters in the

cities." SED is also organizing the High

School Congress, to be held on April 25.

Students from 41 Twin Cities hiqh

schools will draft and adopt resolutions

that will be released to the press and the

legislatur·e.

REPORT TO PARENTS Volume 52 Number 2

Published three times a year by the Department of

University Relations, 20 Johnston Hall, University of

Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.

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University Relations; Joan Friedman, Editor; Advisory

Committee: Members of the University Public Information

Council.

Copies are sent free of charge to parents of University

students and members of ot:1er ~Jrou ps closely connected

with the University. Subscription rate for other is 75 cents

a year.

-7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.--Workshops

THURSDAY (April 23)

-Workshops, morning and afternoon

-12:00 p.m.-St. Paul Convocation, followed

by workshops

-7:30 p.m.- Keynote address by Dr. Paul

Ehrlich, Northrop Auditorium, Workshops

follow

FRIDAY !April 24)

-7:30 p.m.-Legislators Forum on the Environ­

ment with George Rice of WCCO as

moderator, Coffman Union

Dr. Brook (cliiZiinued_ti-rmz paxc :l)

population continues to grow.

An expanding population is the major·

world crisis ,today, says Dr. Brook. We

must change our attitudes about iarge

families or lose our freedoms, he says.

Large numbers of people are already

limiting student options at the Univer­

sity: a student cannot enroll in any class

he chooses and cannot find a place to

study, eat, or park.

On a larger scale, what family has not

already discovered jammed highways,

crowded shopping centers, filled clown­

town parking lots, and long lines at con­

certs and theatres? The future may he

bleaker yet with bans on cars ami home

air-conditioning and lrmited rights to

parks and beaches_ Such restrictions \'Jill

grow as our population.'ine,reases,

according to Dr. Brook.

"We are faced with serious decisions

about life styles," says Dr. Brook. "We

must ask ourselves what sort of. world we

want to live in and if quality is not prefer­

able to quantity. True happiness re~ts not

in material things; true values ar·e in

freedom, and freedom is being eroded by

the continual press of people."

CAM Non-profit O_i\ u~tam

Minneapolis, MN

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Many 'U' Students Join National War Protest President Nixon's decision to send U.S. forces into

Cambodia had brought intense responses on many of the nation's college and university campuses during the week of

t May 4-9. Some of the responses had been violent. 1 f Nationwide, the week began with reaction to the deaths of

four students at Kent State University in Ohio, and ended with mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and many state

capitals (including St. Paul).

At the University's Twin Cities campus, the effort took the form of a student strike. Some students did not attend classes, and many took part in such activities as rail ies, teach­ins, meetings with congressmen and senators, and discussions

with community people.

No campus of the University of Minnesota experienced violence or property damage.

The Twin Cities Assembly approved weekly "Days of Reflection," and seminars were held to discuss aspects of the war and the nation's foreign policy_

Student strikers held a ceremony May 14 marking gradua­tion into the "University of Life," and a "Peace College" was established to provide seminars, classes, and discussions related to the anti-war movement.

A total of 17 persons, five of them University students, were charged with unlawful assembly May 27 after a group of about 30 persons demonstrated against ROTC at Morrill Hall on the Twin Cities campus.

On June 4 the All-University Senate issued a report recom­mending to the Board of Regents that the University join other universities in negotiations with the Department of Defense which would seek to regularize approval of courses and instructors for Reserve Officer Training programs in appropriate units of the University and move military training aspects of the program off University campuses. The Senate defeated a motion to abolish ROTC programs at the Univer­sity. The Board of Regents is expected to consider the recom­mendations during the summer_

At its height, the student strike on the Twin Cities campus found a 10 percent decline in class attendance, according to a survey of college and department heads.

Scenes like these were common on the Twin Cities campus during the first two weeks of the strike_

Peak days occurred early the week of May 4. By the end of the first week of the strike, approximately 5 percent of the 37,000 students registered for spring quarter were not in class. By May 22, attendance was normal in most colleges and classes.

The highest percentage of absences occurred in the College of Liberal Arts. This college has the largest number of students and the largest number of courses.

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Study Examines Student Needs, Attitudes What would be the ideal relationship

between today's university and its students?

"In loco parentis" is the name for the old relationship, in which the institution played the fatherly role "in place of the parent." But that has been out of favor with students for some time and has inspired much of the campus revolt against "the system." So administrators all over the country have been working on new sets of guidelines.

At the University of Minnesota, Vice President Paul Cashman appointed a stu· dent affairs study committee in 1968, asking it to come up with a description of the most effective relationship between the school and its students in order both to carry out the University's educational mission and to serve the students better.

The committee, composed of 12 stu· dents and 12 faculty members, gave Cashman its report in April.

One of the committee's first tasks was to "identify student expectations of their University experience." The results are interesting.

"One major expectation which stu­dents have of their educational experience at the University is that it help them to become more effective human beings. They desire that their education focus upon personal development as well as on the acquisition of information.... Stu­dents view this goal as the factor which distinguishes 'education' from 'training."'

The report says "Students expect that their education will help them to assume roles of ever-increasing responsi­bility. They resent and object to an air of benevolent paternalism on campus, whether in the classroom or in extra­curricular activities."

Students want to decide what their educational objectives are and how to achieve them, says the committee. They also want to be seen as "mature and responsible adults who contribute to, as well as receive from, the educational enterprise."

Students also expect changes in their relationships with faculty members. "A primary value becomes that of being respected as a human being by other human beings, and they expect that education become a shared experience between rational, feeling humans."

The report deals with broad issues

and specific ones--making some 70 recom­mendations. It emphasizes personalizing the student's University experience--from simplifying procedures like registration, to providing contexts for more student­faculty interaction outside the classroom, to using extra curricular activities as a base for independent study.

It suggests that student "consulta­tion" be expanded to student "participa­tion" in problems involving instruction and the curriculum. To this end, "support should be given to a competent system of student appraisal of instruction and courses, to provide good information to instructors on how their efforts are

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Students Share in Decision-Making on Morris Campus

Unlike some campuses elsewhere, the Morris campus of the University has not been bombed, burned, or beseiged by protesting students.

One of the primary reasons that such campus tensions have been avoided is that all members of the Morris academic com­munity--students, faculty, and staff--are involved in decision-making and are held accountable for their actions.

Under a recently-enacted constitution students are full participants in an all­campus or community system of govern­ment.

For example, the Morris Campus Assembly, the highest legally constituted campus body, and its committees now consist of students, faculty, and staff members. The previous Assembly was a faculty body exclusively.

Students say they now can work through the system, a system that will be responsive to their concerns. Rather than pressuring Behmler Hall (the administra­tion building), they feel they must work to pass legislation in committees and in the Assembly.

"Education at UMM is a JOint venture-- we students work closely with faculty and administrators," Tom

Gastuch, a sophomore from Minneapolis, said after the constitution was passed. "We recognize this partnership, and we realize that we are active participants rather than passive objects in the educa­tional process."

"We have eliminated the stereotyped, traditional 'master-slave' relationship between faculty and students," Gastuch said. "Students are actively involved in the academic bodies that determine pol icy and practice for the campus; and students are becoming competent in the exercise of responsibility, so this trend has not, as some professors feared, led to sloppy academic governance. This has come about primarily because people here know each other and communicate with each other."

The Assembly now consists of 114 members: 92 faculty members, 15 stu­dents, and 7 civil service personnel. There is one student participant for each 100 students. In addition, there are student members on all of the 15 standing com­mittees of the Assembly.

Some student leaders maintain that there should be more student members in the Assembly, but they say they will work through the campus government to increase student membership.

"We have balanced the rights and responsibilities of the three major campus constituencies--students, faculty members, and administrators," Gastuch said. "And we have created mechanisms to promote constructive change."

Regents to Evaluate Interim Housing Policy

In February, 1970, the 4,000 stu­dents living in University residence halls on the Twin Cities campus received per­mission from the Board of Regents to implement 24-hour visitation on an interim basis.

The trial policy, according to Don Zander, Assistant Vice President for Stu­dent Affairs, allows students to choose one of four options:

Residence lounges and individual rooms would be open to guests 24 hours per day.

The hall would be open 10 a.m.-12 midnight every night and on the weekends.

The hall would be open 10 a.m.-12

I

midnight on nights when there are classes the next day, and 10 a.m.-2 a.rn. on other nights (old policy).

No visiting hours by members of the opposite sex at all.

Before any changes in hours were considered, two thirds of all residents within a housing unit (a "house" is usually composed of all the students living on a floor) had to agree on the

option to be instituted. A student who did not vote was counted as being against

the change.

The next, and most time consuming, step was notifying the parents of all mH1or students. No change in hours was permitted for residents under 21 without written parental approval.

"Deciding visiting hours was and is a matter between the student and his parents," said Zander. "The resulting changes seem to have worked out very well."

Most of the men's halls chose the 24-hour option. The women's halls split 50-50; half the houses chose the 24-hour policy, half some other option.

If a student or his parents did not approve of the option chosen by his floor, he could be moved to another one. Residence hall contracts being mailed out for next year ask the student and his parents to select the option they wish.

Among the benefits of the new tentative visitors policy are new security measures for residents.

Under the old rules, most doors into the men's residence halls were open during heavy daytime traffic hours. Now, all doors are locked except the main door so that every guest must pass a check­point.

Guests must be accompanied by a resident whether they are in a lounge or an individual room. All other persons are not permitted in the hall.

Student and staff reactions are now being gathered, and a report of their opinions will be submitted to the Board of Regents in the fall. The Regents will decide at that time whether or not stu­dent determination of options will become policy. "Most Big Ten schools," said Zander, "do have these options avail­able to the students."

Malkerson Describes University As a Place for Questioning and Exploring

The following excerpts are taken from a speech given by Chairman of the

Board of Regents Lester A. Malkerson to

the Lufbury Post of the American Legion

on Apri/8, 1970.

I have been your representative from

the 5th Congressional District on the Board of Regents of the University for 20 years. The first 15 years were relatively

quiet, physically and mentally. The last 5 years have become an accelerating experi­ence in trying to understand the society we live in and, from that, use reasonable judgment in making decisions that will affect the immediate problems of our society and the aspirations of your

children and their children.

* * * * * * To me, a University is: 1. A Place to Challenge Old Ideas. 2. A Place for Exploring New Ideas. 3. A Place to Exchange Ideas. 4. A Place to Stretch One's

Imagination. 5. A Place to Dream. 6. A Place to Revolt Mentally. 7. A Place to be Concerned. 8. A Place to Be of Service to Your

Fellow Man.

It is not a quiet place! Questioning is never a quiet experience.

* * * * * * I receive many calls and letters calling

me about every name you can think of and accusing me of being a Communist, a Commie-lover, or a conspirator in league with the Communists.

These are difficult days to be inde­pendent. These are trying times, if you are going to be part of the action and call yourshouasyou see them.

* * * * * * The direction of student activism is

one of our serious concerns ... You probably are asking, "What of the future? Will this period run its course?"

I look for more questioning of the values placed by our society on the meaning of life. These questions will be raised by students and people in all walks of life. The so-called "Rat Race" is losing its appeal. The "Ladder of Success," related to position in the community or

money earned, will not be the measuring device or the goals of many of the young

people of tomorrow.

The young people of today hope that they will have an opportunity for their children to grow up in a world free from war, prejudice, and want. They feel this is not the kind of world they live in now.

Many young people feel we are on a

collision course with futility. Many of today's young people are prepared to give up what they have today to search and try for new ideas that will give them

peace of mind ....

Says Prof. Wood-­Activist Students Are Concerned Citizens

Today's actiVISt college students reflect the restlessness and frustrations of all people in our society, according to Chester W. Wood, director of Student Personnel Services at Duluth.

Wood, who is retiring this month after 22 years service at UMD, said students now are more cause-oriented, more concerned about socio-political issues.

"Their reaction to the problems of pollution and military expansion of the vietnam War are good examples of their concern," Wood explained. "Unfor­tunately, many have over-reacted on some campuses behind hot-rod innovators who want to violently oppose what they believe to be hard-core traditionalists." Wood believes there will be a leveling off of student activity in the years ahead.

As a member of a local draft board, Wood said he has found that students are loyal Americans who respect their flag and who are willing to do their part to serve their nation. "They are responsible and ready to accept their obligation to their country once they finish their edu­cation," he declared.

Wood noted that college admin­istrators have lived rather precarious lives the past few years. "They have had to mediate between campus activities and the public, which looks to colleges and universities to operate in traditional ways."

Protest (continued from page 7)

The report, compiled by Vice Presi­

dent for Administration Donald K. Smith

indicates that:

· A substantial amount of educa­tional innovation has been generated by

the strike, including a new course on the

national crisis for which 700 student"

have registered.

• About 6,000 students, mostly in

the College of Liberal Arts, have arranged

for grading options, as suggested by the

Twin Cities Assembly, since May 4; with 95 percent of these changing from a letter grade w a pass/no credit system.

· A few formal complaints have been registered by students concerning grading

practices or instruction, and most of these are now being handled at a depart­

mental level.

The report notes that not all of the effects are attributable to the strike, not­

ably the large number of students who have selected grading options.

The Duluth campus experienced no

student strike although students partici­

pated in teach-ins, rallies, and a day of

reflection. The Faculty Assembly

adopted grading options similar to those

adopted on the Twin Cities campus. A

small percentage of the student body

sought the options.

Classes at the Morris campus were

cancelled Tuesday afternoon, May 5, and again on Friday for a day of reflection

and contemplation. There was no student

strike, but students took part in a rally, a

teach-in, a memorial service for the stu­dents killed at Kent State University, and

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poetry readings.

The Morris Campus Assembly

adopted grading options and grievance

procedures similar to those on the Twin Cities campus.

The Crookston campus remained in

operation without incident. There were

no student strikes or rallies, and class

attendance remained normal. No grading

options had been sought or established.

At an Open Forum meeting May 22, a

group of students and faculty, ranging in

size from 30 to 80 during the session,

discussed the Cambodian situation.

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perceived .... "

Another recommendation is for "a clarification and narrowing of University interest in student behavior through a declaration of University standards or a code." All members of the University community, and especially students,

should help draw up such ·a code, the report states.

With regard to the Minnesota Daily,

the student newspaper whose financial

support by the incidental fee is now

under study at the request of the Board

of Regents, the report recommends the present mode of operation be retained. It

also suggests "occasional and responsible

use of classroom time for discussion of matters not directly related to course

content" --such as a discussion of ecology on Earth Day in a math class.

Keith McFarland, assistant dean of

the Institute of Agriculture who served as

committee chairman, stated that the com­mittee had come to two major conclu­

sions: that non-classroom aspects of the

University wield major influence upon the student's attitudes toward his more formal instruction; and that there is a major need for an increase in staffing, space, and equipment for student

services. Instructional faculty and student affairs personnel must coordinate efforts in support of student educational experi­

ences. McFarland said the report applies only to the Twin Cities campus and pri­

marily to undergraduate students.

The report is now being circulated to

groups and individuals for reactions, recommendations, and ways of imple­

menting its suggestions.

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