The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 26, Ed. 1, Friday, April 20, 1979 Page: 2 of 8
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Sach apathy la dbfturbing for at least three reasons.
first a number of students gripe about student services and methods of function at
H-SU all year long. Yet when time cornea to actually volunteer to recitify the
problems the complainers seem to head back into the woodwork. Such absence of
backbone in any form of life la disgusting.
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'preeeare ta answer ta these wheaahe allegedly represents.
Finally the college years should be a time of preparation for life. If the all-school
elections are any indication cities across the nation are about to inherit some mighty
apathetic citisens.
' Perhaps theae assumptions are wrong. Perhaps H-SUers are actually concerned
k about the things they monotonously criticize day after day. Perhaps every candidate
that is running for office is the best possible person for the job and will keep other
students in doe consideration every time an issue is discussed. Perhaps everyone at
imb university is forming concrete ideas about now citizens should respond.
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BY JEFF GORDON
Campai Digest News Service
The 70s have brought a different public
attitude towards higher education. The Ms
will create a different make-up in the
student body of higher education.
John D. McGuire says that Universities
had better be able to change to meet the
new demands put on them.
McGUIRE PRESIDENT of the Old
Westbury campus of the State University
of New York gave that warning in Kansas
City Mo. at a meeting of Danforth
Foundation Associates.
Universities were once viewed as the
key to the American future the bastion of
progress and learning. Now McGuire
says people see them as a financial
burden.
Because of the decline in birth rate
there will be fewer and fewer college age
students in America. This combined with
the new eagerness of older people to go
back to school will result in a new type of
student body.
NON-TRADITIONAL students-
minorities idle older people career
people seeking part-time educational
Visits college class
Young 'student9 questions mother
Y SALLY BLAND
H only we could see and hear through the
eyes and ears of children as children do.
I had en a recent occasaion to take my
five-year old son to class with me.
;That was two weeks ago he is still
Jaidof about it! -' "
A golden role at our house is to take care
of your books. That means no marking in
thin no folding pages and no tearing.
THE FIRST-thing he saw and promptly
asked me about was the students marking
ia their books and with sheer surprise and
enumeration "Mommy you're writing
in your book!"
Now bow do I explain why it is okay for
me to write in my book but be can't write
in his? John (my son) doesn't take a "just
because I can and you can't" type of an-
L WeU I had to "shah" him so I could
baton to the professor. Also I was buying
tine ia trying'to figure out an answer to
the creation that I knew would come up
" Another rule we have ip our home is that
na one is to wear a net in the house. This
includes caps toboggans plus the standard
"cowboy" hat
John was quick to notice that one or two
students were wearing caps.
"WHY DH I have to take my cap off
whea they are wearing theirs?"
' Oh woe! H I were only able to pass off
eame.kind of an answer. Except John
Papeete a reasonable and truthful one and
that's what he usually gets.
usee again I was saved by the coo-
: lecture of the profs
I made the mistake of telling John to be
quiet and listen to the teacher who hap-
pened to be talking about McCarthyism.
The professor unaccustomed to having
a child in the room asked "Did you know
that even Santa Clans was on the list of
being a communist?"
CONCERN WAS was written all over my
son's face. A line of rapid fire questions
were to follow and there was no quieting
him this time. '
"What is a communist? Why did he say
that about Santa Claus? Does that mean
Santa Claus is bad?" a very worried little
boy asked.
School was over for the day.
He remembers the professor how could
he forget the man who nearly upset his
world of Santa Claus and goodness? But
after all the teacher did say he was the
best student he had seen in a while.
Back to the questions that were rampant
on the 45-mile trip home.
"THE REASON I and the others write in
our books and not on paper is because the
professor talks too fast and we can't take
notes that fast. We shouldn't do it but when
you are in 'college' you have to take notes
in order to pass the tests" I said with the
thought that that was an okay answer
eyen if I had to pass the blame off on the
professor.
"As for the caps. Well John that's just
plain ol' bad manners. I have no reason or
excuse for them except maybe someone
should try and tell them once again that
wearing anything on your head in a
building shows a lack of respect for
others" I went on to say.(Sorry men but
manners are manners).
"And no Santa Claus in not a com-
munist. The professor was just using that
as an example. Santa Claus Is still good
and lives at the North Pole and yes he'll
come to our house this year" I said with
bated breath in hopes that he'd skip over
the communist and not want to know the
meaning.
But I wasn't that lucky.
"A communist? That's a person who
doesn't believe as we do such as in our
way of life and our government ask your
grandfatber-that's right up his alley" I
patiently (but a little impatiently) said.
And so it was for a 5-year old on his first
visit to mommy's school but not the last.
He has already made it back once and is in
hopes of coming again.
advancement female divorcees seeking a
career and college age students who can't
afford full-time school-will make up a
larger and larger share of the college
population.
McGuire anticipates more co-op Job-
classes where the student learns on-the-job
will be offered. He expects more
credit will be given to students for life
experience.
He warns that the new employer em-
phasis on technical skills should not result
in a split between general education
curriculum and vocational curriculum. He
feels the two should be interrelated on
universities.
McGUIRE ALSO feels that minority
students need more access to universities
and that they should not be classified as
vocational students. This could cause
"further social stratification."
"I am worried about the way this new
vocationalism hooks up with institutional
racism" he told the Kansas City Star.
McGuire fears that people have forgot
about the concerns of minorities during
the 70s a time when minorities began
making up a larger part of the over-all
population.
He feels universities will have to make
public service as large a concern as in-
struction and research which are
currently the two biggest missions of
universities. '' - '
Federal budget
boosts aid for
women others
The 1979-80 federal budget will include
increases in funding for the National In-
stitute of Health and other research-
related programs.
While the budget includes many cuts in
student financial aid it does include a
boost in the amount of money available to
medical students planning on careers in
family medicine.
Also boosted is the amount of support for
women and minorities in graduate school.
The Graduate and Professional
Educational Opportunity program was
boosted from $8 million to $15 million.
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