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Show UN SESSIONS HEARD IN HIS CLASSROOMS U "a- ? t tr v?x$k t w A YEAR AGO a Boston university government professor made headlines -when he took his classes by plane to United Nations sessions at Lake Success. Today this professor profes-sor is again making the news by reversing re-versing the process and bringing the United Nations to the classroom. He does it by recording the UN sessions on tape, using his own tape recorder. Believing that international relations rela-tions and world government can and should be an "alive" and vivid program pro-gram of study, Dr. Minos D. Gener-ales, Gener-ales, instructor in government at the university's college of liberal arts and graduate school, has recorded either directly or by use of short wave radio, every important session of the United Nations, recently meeting in Paris. FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE During class meetings international interna-tional relations students gain a new insight into the problems under discussion dis-cussion when they hear the word-for-word discussions on such questions ques-tions as the Palestine dispute, the Hindu-Pakistan problems and the Indonesian dispute. In addition to recorded United sessions, or "primary sources," Professor Generales has secured on the tape wire what he calls "secondary sources" or unofficial recordings from various foreign countries. Among the most interesting in-teresting of these are a memorable memor-able discussion between Lord Vansittart and Harold Laski on socialism, and an emotional "man-on-the-street" interview between two Frenchmen discussing dis-cussing the re-valuation of the franc. Presented in the native language, the broadcasts bring to students a new concept of the emotion and excitement ex-citement of the original talks. Whether or not the students understand under-stand the language, they get a vivid impression of the situation and usually usu-ally Dr. Generales, who speaks five languages and understands several more, makes an interpretation. Panel Discussions. Another important use for the tape recording, the professor has found, is in panel discussions. He records classroom talk, and then plays this back before the group is Believing international relations and world government can and should be an alive and vivid program of study, Dr. Minos D. Generales, instructor in government at Boston university's college of liberal arts and graduate school, makes tape recordings, either directly or by use of short-wave radio, of United Nations sessions. When Dr. Generales plays the recordings in his lecture classes, the international relations students gain new insight into problems posed in UN d'"ussions on such questions as Palestine, Hindu-Pakistan and Indonesia. dismissed. In this manner, each student stu-dent may recognize the mistakes he has made. Professor Generales has found the recording of classroom discussions to be especially effective in seminar. "The real value of these recordings re-cordings is that they are not dead," said Professor Generales. "When a student can actually hear the famous voices of Winston Wins-ton Churchill, the tangy Vermont Ver-mont accent of Senator Austin, the Yishinski blasts against the United States or the bombastic oratory of a Dhdecrat, he is bound to get a fresh insight into government. Especially is this effective when the recordings are replayed several weeks or months later, and, In retrospect, the mistakes In reasoning, or the correct prognostications, that world leaders have made, are recognized." One of the very few college Instructors In-structors in the country to employ tape recordings in the teaching of history and government, Dr. Generales Gen-erales has firsthand knowledge of many of the governments about which he lectures. He has studied at Harvard, and the universities of Heidelberg, Athens, Paris, the Institute Insti-tute of International Relations in Geneva, and the Carnegie Institute in Paris, and the Hague Academy of International Law. He can speak, read and write in French, Greek, English, German and Spanish and understands a number of Slavic languages. |