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Show U prof, finds similarities in Utah college students A University law professor who helped compile the White House Fellows Association report on the role of youth in government found that Utah students have much the same attitude toward government and society as students throughout the country. Strong Correlation Edwin Firmage, associate professor of law, said, "There was strong coorrelation between the attitudes of students he interviewed at the University, Brigham Young University and Utah State University and the attitudes reflected in the Fellows' final report." Moreover, he found "no significant difference" between the three schools. "In all cases it appeared the University and the federal government were bothuffering from a lack of information about the other." Prof. Firmage was one of 15 selected from 10,000 original applicants to the White House Fellows Program during its initial year, 1965. As an assistant to then Vice President Hubert : Humphrey, Prof. Firmage was concerned with civil rights, urban problems, youth affairs and foreign matters. During his term as a fellow, he made fact-finding tours of Southern ghettos and participation in high-level off-record briefings. Students In Government "This report is attempting to do what the White House fellows have done on a larger scale. It won't be as high-level, of course, but the idea is to take several hundred, perhaps a thousand students into government policy processes." Prof. Firmage added that indications are that the Nixon administration is interested in the Fellows' report and may act to implement some of its recommendations. |
