| Show Student Life Page 6 - Utah State University -o- Noon tudemt Life Parking Space Is Being Wasted t ? ' n It ° of jobs University offices are there to aid stude and other people in their association the university Why are some univ offices closed during the noon hour i it is convenient for many people to r these offices at this time? The Admission and Records office dent Housing Graduation Scheduling' eran's Affairs Cashier’s Counseling t testing and Student Health Service ate closed during the noon hour - the hen some people are in need of then sistance A -- Shut-Dow- The most important thing to a every business is the customer Students have classes all day anij times the only time they can done is during the noon hour Manf dents of Logan who have some dejt with the university can’t get up t0 any other time except for this hour JV USUSL Editorial $ ndqy' xj-- 1 rMB are some offices closed and opened? Can't these closed offices justh one secretary on duty during the noon The secretary can take a lunch break 11 am to noon or from 1 pmto2p This way someone can be in these office all times to improve services to studr Why be I B ?ri rii iii Mai rt S 'an :ot flit pt Am i'j ro fr Drool We still walk past teacher parking lots and drool How can we help it! Oh the luxuries of being able to arrive on campus at 10 am and still find plenty of parking We will propose a detailed solution to the parking problem next quarter (Actually it’s not a problem per se but a general need to use the facilities we have the best we can) We will make this preliminary proposal : Summer Shut-Dow- The traffic department should have an attitude of experimentation They should try out different programs and systems to see which works best For example parking meters could be installed in all visitor parking areas available for anyone who wants to put coins in the meter and time restrictions could be placed on faculty parking areas Say perhaps after 9 am the lot is fair for anyone with a sticker and other people dealing with the unnr sity ASSIGNEP YOU TO i STUPY :ie V I zap Campus Forum © ©©©©©©©©©®©©© by USUSL Readers n :is :ai Many stores and business offices inL or any other city stay open during the ir hour in order to assist customers T think the customer is important Maybe the University doesn't care i it’s customers ?" '01 sit wi ae ‘School Year’ Used To Make Sense Fifty years or more ago the public school year made sense Both teachers and pupils in many communities were tied to the land The necessity for formal education was far less acute Too the waste of letting a simple school building stand vacant for three months out of the nine-mont- year was small Today obviously To shut down the story is h different build- ings and equipment for three months a year is a lavish extravangance In communities where school enrollments are rising rapidly classroom shortages are generating serious problems Even in areas with reasonably stable populations the rigid calendar of another age tends to block development of educational opportunities operation of elementary and secondary schools with students attending three out of four quarters on a rotating basis offers a possible solution to these Year-roun- d problems In fact existing school capacity would increase bv one third - a school built to handle 600 students could handle 800 Such a plan would drastically cut construction needs But the saving in tax dollars is not the only motive Of primary importance the flexibility of a rotating openatioin would open the door to an improved learning environment It has been found that such flexibility helps increase the holding power on potential l dropouts Newark New Jerfor sey example running some of its schools ter on a system found that these schools graduated 22 percent more students four-quart- high-schoo- four-quar- A than their counterparts the of plan firmly professional analysis r concluded that Newark's program held in school many slower pupils who in regular schools would have been dropouts schools should also combat juvenile deliquency The end of the school year today assumes the proportions of a mass jailbreak Last year 46 million children were released onto the streets at once This explosive situation would be eliminated if always at any given time three fourths of the young people were in school Those looking for vacation-timjobs would be more likely to find them because the teen age labor market would not be flooded In spite of the advantages presented by nine-mont- h Year-roun- d e its Morality Not Relative? operation the idea meets resistance One arguement holds that teachers need the summer for recuperation another the summer isn’t conductive to learning Research has shown there is virtually year-roun- d no evidence to support these claims and a good deal to counter them During the years Newark schools have employment operated has been found to stimulate many teachers Two other experiments at Ambridge and Pennsylvania have resulted in full-tim- e year-roun- d Aliquippa the same findings When the Rochester Minnesota schools offered their teachers a choice between or employment 91 contract Why the chose percent Because the present system flavor gives teaching a part-time operation provides professional and play According to Rochester school administrators it attracts "a more competent teacher to the classroom” year-roun- nine-mont- d h year-roun- d nine-mont- h e Year-roun- d pres-tieg- room” What about summertime learning? Studies at Newark point to summer as "not for only an adequate but an excellent period of failthe found Ambridge percent study" ures in the summer quarter was lower than in any other quarter Public resentment against vacations dura ing seasons other than summer has been Yet idea roadblock the to major in today's more mobile more affluent society new vacation opportunities are opening up in every season of the year year-roun- d operations isn't a cure-al- l Some schools would be too small to divide classes into rotating vacation systems efficlassciently Major review of curriculm and room procedure would be necessary But for many it does promise improved education at a saving The Educational Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce has advised communities to investigate it We feel that economic pressure couplis ed with clear educational advantages We interest likely to produce increasing also maintain that we are rapidly approaching a point where the American taxpayer is going to say ''No more money until you better utilize the facilities you now have’ In our opinion the end of the summer hiatus is closer than most people think jc Faith Of Mankind Is T ested - Oh it’s a sorry mess laments the University of Minnesota Daily - scholars those reckless friends insist on smothering every tradition in their bloody studies From London comes word (by way of the Christian Science Monitor) that the beautiful glass slipper Cinderella wore may not have been glass after all Some scholars are now suggesting — and the Encyclopedia Britannica long viewed Progress Report Year-roun- d ACP Parade of Opinion (ACP) Dear Editor: This letter is directed to the person who is responsible for titling the letters to the editor A letter written by me was titled: "Morality is Relative” The letter was concerned with recent attacks on the "Pot" In it I stated: " it failed to define by whose morality the 'Pot’ was to be considered in” I would like to know what decent sort of intellectual evasion was indulged in in order to infer the above statement as being an example of moral relativism The choice of my words was intentional The "morality is relative” bromide is logically descriptive of the arbitrary labeling of the "Pot” as indecent by Mr Valentine No standards were presented by which the "Pot" could be evaluated It was merely Mr Valentine’s whims which acted as the standards The "Pot" is indecent! By what standards? Blank out The use of the word "whose” was dictated by the moral relI directed the ativism of Mr Valentine comment to his person because there were no standards to which it could have other w ise been directed The person responsible for such a title as "Morality is Relative" really ought to check his premises RED FREER Dear Editor: We should like to advise the faculty and students through your letters column of the progress of the Commission on Human Relations in the past five months We have formed the World Association - a social organization for all students on campus who are interested in other coun-- ' tries and other cultures We have the assurance of the state employment office downtown that they will not discriminate in (If any students feel discrimination has occurred they should call us for further assistance ) We are working with the LDS Student Leadership Council and the Foreign Student Advisor to set up a system for meeting students who arrive in Logan during the night and have no transportation or a place to stay We have also asked the administration and Board of Trustees to liberalize the rules regarding foreign student employment We have groups of faculty and students who are interested in discussing the effects of discrimination at LDS and other church- with suspicion tor its suDveisive activities is supporting - the notion that the English version of the story is a tradition of "Cindrillon” In that story the ragged girl drops a ''pantoufle en vair” a fur slipper which the translators are supposed to have mistaken for "en verre” But the scholars have been cruelly tricked this time Purrault's story was actually planted by the Father of all fairy tales to test the faith of mankind -- Per-rault- 's es The Commission is in contact with Attorney General Phil Hansen and at our request he has written to President Chase and Dean Burtenshaw expressing his interest in housing (This letter will be published later) A sociological study has been made by Mohammad Ghayyor a PhD candidate of foreign students’ expressions of discrimination Summaries were sent to administration members and the Board We have given this study as wide an airing as possible It will be published later The housing committee has gone over the spring quarter housing list individually to check for discrimination against Negroes and foreign students Our findings were presented to Dean Burtenshaw and the summary was sent to other members of the administration Townspeople who discriminate are to be removed from the housing list as it is illegal for a state university to permit discrimination within its own housing list We would appreciate hearing from students who have met with discrimination: we would like to have these cases for future reference We would like to hear from faculty who rent rooms and apartments We are interested in hearing from anyone who is concerned about discrimination and prejudice MRS WILLIAM F KING CHAIRMAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATION southern zone of the country If we declare that we will nut per 80r of the Vietnamese people to electii national through from occurring (which we prevented spite of the fact that the Geneva treat : arantees the people this right) then ti the true aggressors in Vietnam Are we committed to installing cc alism in Vietnam? Our bombing and killing of these pe r makes the communists who resist heroes of the day and the communists a grow stronger through our war elk Furthermore what gives us the right life on dir forcefully impose our way of to committed we fighting comm Are ism in Asia so that we won’t have to ftf it here in the US? Then we are truly cruel and imnw bv picking our battlefield in a country i bee never invites us Besides there are we tw If communism wavs of fighting have a better way of life let us convert pe and good wii pie to it through example the world community Are we committed to saving our er VS Cd is mi Lr "iu ( :r 310 iar ag H Da tid wii por UK 1 : Por S pat the ini il of ‘Literature Available’ Dear Editor: Even a casual survey of the available literature on Vietnam will reveal to anyone concerned the lack of genuine justification for American involvement in Vietnam It is clear from the literature that the US installed and supported a pupet government under the leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam inspite of the fact that Ho Chi Minh with the support ot 80rf of the Vietnamese people had recently won national independence for the entire country from the French colonists is the estimate of (The figure of 80 Dwight D Eisenhower) The Geneva treaty between the two parties strictly forbade the intervention of any foriegn power in Vietnam Our interference there was mainly a desire to build up a military stronghold in southeast Asia as a defense site against Chinese communist expansion Diem proved to be unresponsible to the needs of his people and correspondingly He employed terrorist tactics to subdue the people but this only their heightened resentment and civil war broke out When it was apparent that the Diem government could not hold out against the resistance the US used the fact that some north Vietnamese had been involved in the struggle (400 in 1965 to the best estimates of Senator Mike ) to claim that this civil war was really communist aggression from the north Military support was then greatly increased to aid the faltering Diem government Escalation was bound to follow since the US had now made a major commitment to a war effort But what are we commited to? Certainly there has been no communist aggression from China There is no foreign aggression at all since Vietnam has always been a single country until the US installed a pupet government in Saigon and declared it soverign over the unpopular Man-field- arti-ficall- Well so we really want an image If powerful and thoughtless bully? ht should we country invaded another to stop Nations United the through Jen sho aggression when that country in hut we should not involve ourselves internal affairs of another country w interefrence in Vietnam is not saving it world image it is destroying soldiers Are we committed to our Vietnam? we One hears the comment that the ig send more troops to support trem1 men already there But can our be rega ever waste of lives and dollars by continuing the war? It would seem that the only wayt“® the rect things would to be stop the promise about help to bring are t al elections in which all parties dec participate and let the people a future for themselves through ballot There is excellent literature ava'a whic this subject in our bookstore everyone to read EVAN BROSSARD ® f - Sout’V JOHANNESBURG AP e an ? scientists have developed s cause vice which they say will have involuntary muscle contract' from bat ing them to swim away es whether they want to or not ATFIFNS AP — The stat‘d V is broadcasting company $ a new coporation comprising corn power ment the n National Bank of Greece Bank dependent Commercial The government said wi 1 state-owne- the new service Greeks’ electric bills fees for Al So |
