Show STUDENT LIFE JUNE 20 1906 Retardation-Maj- or gifted parents she points out Approximately three per have given birth to mentally cent of the total population defective children of the United States is menExperts point out that when conservaparents and their associates tally retarded This Dr tive estimate by Margaret realize that mental retardation is but an accident of Giannini associate direcJ and not something to be birth RetradClinic of the tor for of they have taken in ashamed York New Children ed City means that there are at least the first step in guilding their 56 mlilion mentally defec- child to a useful productive life tives among the in our nation While to some extent help people The mentally retarded can and training can be provided be divided into three groups by the family in many ineducaon of level the based stances the demands are betion they can attain Fortunyond the limited financial ately only 35 percent of the and personal resources of the fall into the first family In an article from The Welcategory the totally dependent The second category fare Journal Dr Maurice G the trainables (those who Kott director of New Jercan be taught to carry out sey’s division of mental recustodial functions) accounts tardation points out that for 115 percent of the de- parents and their normal fectives The largest catechildren lack the training gory with 85 percent of the and skills necessary to edugroup is the educable Those cate the abnormal child- - The in the educable category can lack of hope he says for be taught to perform most eventual financial indepenbasic functions necessary to dence of the retarde from his exist in society parents causes other difficulMental retardation itself ties Social emotional and fican occur in any family Acnancial demands of special cording to Dr Frances associate professor of care needed may prove to be special education Utah State well beyond what the average family can meet In the preUniversity there is no evidence that it is inherited from sence of the family’s inabilthe child’s parents Many ity to provide these needed By J B Tailor 180-millio- n Hal-stro- An intensive training course ten-- w m e ek awaits approximately ninety Peace Corps volunteers before they lake up residence in Bolivia for two years The trainees are scheduled to arrive on USU campus June 26 according to John Dwan assistant director of the Corps on campus Two programs will be carried out with regards to the orientation of the trainees for Bolivia The agricultural studies will be concerned with five areas including small animals crops large stock A separate program of rural education will be conducted for trainees with an aptitude for teaching Intensive study of the Spanish language will include all partiei-Xant- s According to Dwan Ihe training will differ from the six proceeding programs Rather than instruct the trainees in a classroom atmosphere a new technique of “student - professor involvement” will lead both to discoveries It is hoped that through discussion groups trainees will form their own ideas and discover for themselves what role they will play in Bolivia’s future A ratio of one to four is expected in student-professrelationships in several areas of learning Seven hours each day will be spent learning Spanish All instructors arc native or Spanish-speakin- g people ac- Dwan Eighty cording to percent of the Bolivians speak Quechua and Aymara both Indian dialects yet a large percentage use Spanish as a second language he added In other discussion groups the American and Bolivian cultures will be investigated and compared giving the trainees a better understand- ing of their job Social mores civil rights issues and economic systems of the countries are a few of the topics to be discussed Actives during the ten weeks include full length Spanish movies sleep outs and dancing — Cueca is the national dance of Bolivia and will be taught along with oth- er Latin dances Included in the faculty are eight men now working in Bolivia as Peace Corps volunteers They will conduct classes and act as counselors After attending class e s from 7 am to 9:30 pm for the ten week period trainees will follow one of two schedules For those in rural education plans include one month in Puerto Rico for practice teaching in that school system They will return to their homes for 10 days before going to Bolivia Agriculture trainees will spend 10 days at home after completing training in Utah then head for Bolivia Once in the country they begin a six week country training period This seventh Peace Corp group is under the direction of Dr Grant L Reese associate professor of Languages THE Problem services public or governmental help is required The manner in which society or government discharimges this responsibility is choice portant however The is between conditions which promote the development of an individual and those which and un- destroy dermine character In past years the retarde was locked away by court order with the aim of protecting society He was an “inmate” treated almost like a pet with little consideration given to preparing him to live with society In recent years the emphasis has been placed on education of the mentally handicapped to prepare him life as for an as near-normpossible Utah has taken steps toward the realization of this aim There are seven training centers in the state Dr Ilalstrom indicated that take an active part in shaping the retarde’s future life While these centers are adequate to a certain extent they have only begun to fulfill the needs of the mentally retarded and to fulfill the moral and ethical responsibilities of society self-estee- m TARGET Ralph Maughan U-S- U zuela and Morocco Letters To Editor Congratulations Editor Student Life Occasionally a person wants to express his appreciation for a splendid experience That is the way I feel about attending the perfoi'mance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” which Utah State presented the night of May 21 at the All College Theater Festival in the Pioneer Memorial Theater University of Utah It was indeed a splendid theater experience for even though the play itself depicts a great deal of brutality and depravity the characterizations the directing and the setting brought out with great skill the pathos in the failure of the human soul to realize the nobility of which it is capable We see so many glimpses of this potential in the cnar-actof Blanche that it becomes a most moving experience to the spectator when all the events in the play (and in events prior to the play) conspire to thwart this realization The play is n and I have seldom seen a cast of college actors so well balanced and so able er BOARD On Reforming Draft By Raljh Maughan Jr Reform of the draft is fast taking shape but its final form is not yet clear The coming change could be good or bad on which of the many circulating plans is adopted There are four general views on ‘reform presently visible through the welter of talk There is the group favoring moderate changes those proposing a r national service obligation for all those asking for a return to the lottery system and two-yea- those wanting the draft a complete abolishment I favor the latter plan — lei’s with the whole mess al Other groups training at have gone to Iran Vene- Jr do away Many oppose ihe present system because it is supposed io discriminate against the poor in favor af college student (the poor are Maughan said to be undeferred because they haven’t the money to go to — 28 — deferment should be college) Therefore the student eliminated in the name of equality Nonsense! This myth has been widely circulated by the new left but the fact is that the poor very frequently are not educatedA examination enough to even pass the military entrance Selective Service spokesman said “More people are deferred for lack of education than are deferred because of education” If a social group is being discriminated against at present of middle by the Selective Service it is probably the boys class origin and average intelligence who are not in college to People generally rave at the college students who go A few years graduate school to avoid the draft This is odd students in ago w'e worried about how to get more graduate is this Now school in order to catch up with the Russians are happening (due to the heavy draft) and the same people upset because it offends their sense of the abstract principle of equality In the past people have cut their throats defendover ing a shaky principle Americans might do it again equality The only method that could le just and yet not hurt the nation’s manpower pool of the future is to do away with the draft It has been estimated that this could be done for an initialto annual sum of $5 billion used to make pay high enough attract the needed volunteers Even now with the present armed forces’ wage scale million could be armed forces of over two and maintained without a draft Right now we are in the process for expanding our armed forces from 25 to 31 million Suiey more pay could make up the 225-3- 1 gap i A professional army would he more expert (because i could be career orienfed — not manjr green recruits presen at a time) and it would fight more willingly than draftees one-fourt- h Before long this $3 billion extra a year would decline be men in the airoy cause there wouldn’t be as many two-yeIt costs a great deal to train a man and just as his is complete his two years run out Only 8 percent of ar draftees re-enli- st This plan would be cheaper than Secretary McNamaras and "oU proposed national-ser- v plan more equal differen distort our future labor pool less Besides that what is there 1 between coerced national service for two years s McXaniar all (much of it in jobs according to proposal) and lied China’s slave labor gangs? iee-for-- all non-milita- ry The draft in any form is unequal (but is that espotiall terrible) cosily and alien to a people who love freedom dal McNamara’s computers can give good analysis of the w he feeds them but they can’t make a draft system fair is unfair by definition STUDENT LIFE well-writte- Utah State is to be congratulated for theater of this quality Halbert S Greaves of LAIRD WALKER LINDA KACAR Bditor-tn-Chi- e Managing EdlU’r Editor Associate SUE CIIECKETTS Entered as second class matter September W06 at L0JU’ under the act ol March 2 1870 flP(ordanc Acceptance lor mailing at special rate ol postage in with postal laus and regulations ouarter Subscription rates for oil campus: per year or 51 per nut of Utah' fj Codeyear country ip Second class postage paid In Loga |