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Show TiWWtfTy t DESERET NEWS Open College Admissions Spell Trouble A15Friday, Januory - 16, 1970 Bv JACQUiN SAND'T.S administrators College n.uy rlm.k i! r the haver t lon all about tioubK butadmF-iorx are Open anything jet. vpen on the way. Bncfly. the policy o! epe;, admis-io- i s with a lngiwhooi diploma jujanc that any and sometimes without one can enter any collie he choose-- . The pnnciple has already been aiceptcd not only by the militant blacks who it. but by re. rv of the nation's most prominent and nomadical educators. ne Chancellor Timothy S. Healy of the City University of New Yoik is typical of this school of thought, lie aigue that the university is morally and to undertake an obligated a policy if only a means of binding up the wounds of the city itself. For the university an really change the streets," he says, " . . . v.heie biatk niee's white, where poor meets itch, wheie the citizen and the outsider nui't giub together for a living. For a few hours of a few days of a few yeais. the university can bring all of them together sui-de- origi-nall- v Hove a problem? classroom and study facilities. about Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit. Ive written to some nearby libraries but they don't seem to remember those delightful stories. My son needs some lo give some readings soon. So if you can pull this one out of jour hat we will be very grateful. If there's a place I can buy a book with some in, I'd be happy. Mrs. S.F., With- s. Malad The answer we pulled from our hat is $4.75 to Zion Bookstore here in S L. to cover book and postage. They are holding a copy for you. Incidentally our public library here had this same book. Too bad younger people cant remember s these stories. They were among my and I lead them over and over again in the Book of Knowledge which I 'Mill have. Remember the choice one about the Tar Baby? to send - -- s Vj--v V.N'ff liPfti 0 Deseret News a favo-rile- Here's The Way siJ ' In 1965 I had some pictures taken by the Austin Studios. I paid them approximately $30. When I went in to get them they were not colored and they said theyd have to send them to their office in San Francisco. When I checked in November (1965) they had gone out of business. All orders were to be sent Lf Royal Studios in S.L. Ive written them several times but no response. E.W.K., Salt Lake City. Photo by O, Walloco Kastelor V? We have helped you and perhaps ediwho may have had picture problems with the original studio and-o- r Royal. The latter had an office, until just recently, in S.L. But now theyve left the area. So we wrote to them in California. We have this reply: "We did not have an his order shipped address on E.K. today. Thanks to you. If you have any more fire them this way. The way, if interested, is Royal Studios, Inc., 416 W. San Carlos Ave., San Jose, Calif. cts them?'' h A s one. Yet blacks and hold that the system still and from a popuworks against them lation percentage standpoint, they have a point. Recently, Illinois authorities, taking a leaf from the Selective Service book sought to equalize the .situation by a lottery. University of Illinois officials, anticipating 847 more qualified applicants than places in next fall's freshman class, YOUR SCHOOLS By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor the very young. Among those who have spoker. out on this matter is J. Rep. Laurence Burton, Here recent Mexican-American- higher decided to make their elimination by lot tery. The result was a minor academic catastrophe. Understandably, a lottery that eliminated such unusually deserving students outraged parents across the state. Under pressure, the Illinois admissions office rescinded all 847 rejections and prepared and to abandon to crowd everybody in some of the required freshman courses. In the end, the future of open admis is a statement Rep. Eurton made on the subject: In the past few years our country had made a tre- mendous investment in the education of our young disadvantaged children in the Headstart Program. This Operation investment has been a wise one. for it lias helped thousands of youngsters to adjust to school. But, the time has come for us to make early childhood education available to all American children, not just lo the dis'advanUged. The psychologist, J. MtVieker Hunt, demonstrated all too dearly in his research in Teheran, Iran, that a child can be literally stunted in even the most basic of growing experiences. In an tit plumage in Iran lie found children, who at the age of two, could not sit up and mu at the age of four, could not Physical or mental disabilities were not what made them so slow, but rather the fact that no one had taken the time or trouble to teach tl em these basic others who walk. skills. We have learned from Air. Hunt's, and other studies that intelligence is not fixed once and for all at birth, but can be shaped by experience. Therefore, we should do our utmost to see that the experiences of the young are properly stimulating. Educators are trying to discover exactly what kind of educational programs would best develcp our young children. I am working hard in the Congress to see that the proper funds are appropriated to allow for the research necessary to determine the best educational methods for teaching the young. Once a good program is developed, a complete overhaul of our educational system must then be nrule. For, if preschool programs are to work, we will have to revise the educational system upwards from the bottom, building the work of the primary grades upon that of rally childhood education. As matters stand now. we are working backwards; ralhrr then trving to diserin what three sions will be decided by Congress and the various state and city legislatures. With no funding, of course nothing can lie done. But the political pressures for and against are building. If piivate institutions are to exist, says Dean James R. Dnmpson of Ford-haUniversity, they must address themselves to social justice and social change. They can only survive through a commitment to public service. Othet-ise, they may be destroyed. Now the authorities in New YTork City are going ahead with an program that will allow the top half of any high school graduating class in the city to be admitted to a City University college, and any graduate to be admitted to a junior college. The same cries of despair were raised 100 yeais ago, says a board spokesman, "when the revolutionary conhigh-scho- cept of universal proposed. public schooling Not Warranted was Ilts crosswalk at South Temple at Fourth East is dangerous. Two more per' sons were hurt here recently when a mo torist failed to stop. Fcssibly the reason is that motorists going west are unaware there is a crosswalk. Our city engineers have been contacted before but the answer is always negative. If no red light, how about a flashing yellow light to warn motorists they are approaching a heavily traveled crosswalk? Is this too much to ask in the interest of preserving life and limb? Signed by 48 persons, many oral! of whom are students at LDS Busi- MUSICAL WHIRL Headstart' For All Youngsters There is a growing conviction among educators and others that much more attention must be paid to education of and four year olds are capable of learning, we look ahead to what they will learn in kindergarten and fiist grade and water down preschool curricular content to make sure that it remains "ea- ier than the lessons to come. Clearly, this approach is wrong. Througlio..!: our en'ire educational program, we must see that children are taught as early as possible what they can absorb, and their education must increase in stimulation as they grow older. We must see that both boredom and frustration are minimized, for both impair the educational process. B YU Homecoming Faced Many Challenges - Early education is desirable for a reason other than the one that I have been discussing, for it not only helps stimulate the child into developing to his greatest potential, but it also is a means of diagnosing and correcting physical, emotional, and mental disorder that impair learning and may never be overcome at later ages. As a former educator, I believe education should be one of our countrys first priorities. For, if our young people are stimulated by their environment, not bored or frustrated by it, they will lie able to lead full, interesting, and satisfying lives. And, if our citizens are properly educated, many of America's most pressing social ills will be greatly alleviated. Concert still a university student orchestra without the traditions of iong-tim- e professional experience. This inexperience was exhibited by even Dr. Laycock when Dr. Reid Nibley, guest soloist in the Beethoven "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5, ("Emperor) had a frustrating memory slip. Rather than driving on. Dr. Laycock, for tiie instant, let up so that his orchestra almost came to a stop, intensifying the By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Alusic Critic A month ago Dr. Ralph PROVO Laycock. conductor of the newly named BYU " Philharmonic Orchestra, sent ail invitation that stated: We sincerely feel that for perhaps the first time, we would even be happy for you to bring a fairly sharp pencil. Perhaps the only concerts that are as challenging to performers as debut concerts are homecoming concerts. And the challenge is almost squared when the concert is both, as it was Thursday in tiie beautiful Harris Fine Arts Center. The BYU Philharmonic had just retour so that lumed from an it wa1- a homecoming as well as a debut. There were many moments Thursday that a critic's pencil could lie needlepoint sharp and still write only lavish piaise. But there were other moments w lieu this would be botli unkind and unfair and only a dull pencil would be justified. After all, despite the exciting excellence of many of the music ians, it is problem. This is the fust time (after dozens of recitals and concerts) that I can recall Dr. Nibley having a memory slip (.though every artist can have one). lie played the same concerto elegantly with the Utah Symphony 13 years ago, and 13 times better after last night's mishap. With the orchestra's faltering. Dr. Niblov was understandably disquieted. It ttok the heart out of Dr. Nibley so that the moving second movement and exciting third movement just didn't come off. The concert opened with a carefully balanced, smooth, assertive, and polished to performance of Weber "Overture "Oberon. eight-conce- - iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiii'iiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiniiiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiiniHiiiiiHiii Buying Security? Watch Out MERRY - GO - ROUND By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON A jxnvrifnl. titipub-Jcizolobby lias been woiking in the backrooms of Congress to let mutual f u n d s oprratoi x fed greedily oil millions of small invostois. There ate five million mutual fund shareholders many of them salting away a few hundred dollars a year for a childs college or lor Mr. Anderson irenicnt. Alil- lions more belong to pension funds and investor groups which own mutual secu-- l ities. ret For yeais, the mutual fund opeiatois have been gei.ni-av with ou r.veous overcliatges. By the industry's own dubi: ous Uguies, invcMois paid out a shocking 8190 million in advisoiy fees alone during : i the 19li9 fiscal year. Conti act lnvcstois, who comptise tout 10 per cent of (lie mutual ii l f 13 to T0 per cent lo tiie voracious fund lumls wit! reasonable shareholders, often pay of their investment hustlers. Mutual have either tailed or bad a haul lime operating, became salesmen openly seoin the lower commissions. L.c-- t year, the Securities and ExCommission made a timid change attempt to give the poor shareholders a break. It endorsed legislation that would investors the from paying protect unreasonable fees and petmit them to collect refunds for overpayments. But the mutual fund lobbyists got busy in the backrooms to outmaneuver the SEC, An outranged SEC chairman llamer Budge came close to accusing them of an outright "double crews in their dealings with tiie commission. He specifically named the investment Company Institute and the Association of Mutual Fund Plan Sponsors, which represent 9U per cent of the $33 billion in mutual fund assets in the United States. Here's the backstage story of how lec-- s ) - 841 10. l'w been searching for a book of Uncle Remus stories. Especially tho ones priorities, thete will never be enough money, teach-e;equipment or classroom spate. But educators being educatois sie often less worried about the financial problems than about another possible the lowering effect of open admissions of the quality of a college education. Many believe that a large piopoition students would be of unable to cope with the studies. It's a hoax to talk of such students in teims of a college education, if that means college in the traditional sense, says Henry T of Alit'woud llillson, principal High School in Brooklyn. llillson was the originator of the Denionstiation Guidance Project which more than doubled the number of academic-diplomgraduates in a New York school district. He is not opposed to the principle of open admissions, but he characterizes the citys plans for limited open enrollment (to take effect next fall) of as "devastating and destructive morale and a disservice to many of the students involved. "The great majority will be seriously retarded in reading, he says. "They will be three years retarded in math. What in heavens name are they going to do with one-thir- d 1257, Salt Delightful Tales Of Uncle Remus overcrowd out a huge change in national high-scho- Bax policy could of course, theie's been moie talk than action on open admissions. Indeed, the problems to be d Man, admission Up till now. So far, most plans have been partway measures, and they havent fully satisfied anyone. The state of California perhaps comes closest with a three-tieresystem that accepts any graduate into community colinto state colleges leges, the top and the top into the university complex. The California system is designed to give nearly everyone a crack at higher education. It also allows thore who do well at a lower level to move up to a Do-l- t Lake City, Utah College open peace." are immense and ohvious. 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, or write to y in Dial (364-8626- they put the screws to the SEC and tiie small invostois: In the fiast, die SEC had failed to curtail the mutual fund opcratois' runaway lees, because of tiie magic they were able to work on Capitol Hill. But public pressure built up last year for lclorms. The (towels in Congress advised tiie SEC. in eflect, to work up legislation that would mollify the public but still be lo the mutual fund operators. Last Apii, the SEC sat down with the brilliant president of the ICA, Robot t Augenblick, to try to reach some agree- ment. in long days of talks, lire SEC gave up one point after another. But dually, the SEC thought it hud an agreement with Augenblick and oilier inclustiy representatives that they would not block a bill. Word of the "agreement reached the Senate, which assumed that the securities industiy would nor oppose the weak measure and, therefore, passed it r BIG TALK A Months passed before House hearings were set foi Nov. 12. Two (lays before the bearings. Augenblick informed a dumblouiidcd Budge that the mutual fund opcratois now aho wanted a dau e in tire bill. The etlect of tins would oe to nullify tiie meager ret oi ms. 'i ' ' It ' - S N for both the big mutual fund groups denied vehemently and at same length th.it the SF.C. David they were doubiecro-sin- g Giavsoii, speaking for the mutual fund plan sponsors, told my assoc '.ite. I.r e Whitten, that it was al! a "misunder- standing." Explained Augenblick: "With the or time, it seemed that the provision was woitb having. pas-sag- e Not too much to ask certainly. But no can do cause the volume of traffic and other factors do not warrant either red or yellow lights. This based on both number of accidents six last year; one so and the volume of traffic. far this However, a study will be made reasonably soon by the city to see if any changes. Could be, too, the state vviil have a different viewpoint since on July 1 South Temple becomes a state highway not city. We also want to repeat what we've said several times decisions such as this must be based on statistics and surveys done scientifically because if they are ignored an increase in accidents usualty results. Will you leave it to the experts? We'll Prod Them Could you fell me how we retired people on Social Security could get the theater tickets reduced as they are in many states? He just cant afford $2.30 per and , we get awfully tired of TV. In Honolulu we have friends who get a card like a student card which admits them for $1 on vveckdavs. Mrs. G.B., Salt Lake City. There is a matinee price at most tliea-tei- s under $2 and about twice a week. But Do-l- t Alan agrees that's not enough of a reduction. The Utah Theater Owners Assn, told us they would see about instituting a bigger discount for senior citizens. They said they'd let us know if and vv hen. Meantime we're having our movie editor jog '.heir memoiy. Fool 'Em First Budge had been so sure Ins agreement with the industiy was solid that lie had mimeographed ins testimony and had sent advance copies to the House committee, telling of the SEC agreement with the mutual fund men. Later Budge bitterly denounced the mutual fund representatives for welshing on their agreement. Readied by this column, spokesmen ness College. You seem to lie magic. Can jrou tell me how to get rid of sparrows in rain guttering anti metal awnings? I have tried poison wheat but no luck. B.S., Centerville. f """"' V "Have you noticed that money saved tor a rainy day doesn't seerr to go as far as it use to in Salt Lake County flood control." From photos taken ter tho Deseret daiiy Birthday feature. Nfwt popular itiiiiiiiiiitittiiiiiitiiitiiiinttittiiitititititttitittniiiiitiiiittitiitiiiiitiittiti r We once told someone else they had to be smarter than the birds. So bait em which means fool em by using good wheat first for several days. Then try tiie poison variety. Sneaky trick, isnt it? Our inlormation is the S.L. County Extension Serv ice. (Editor's Nott: Wt'rp sorry tho nw Tiber of coin ard tho velum cf trail make it impossible to answer oery out.ticn. p.oasc. no med cal or looal ouosttons. Don't send stamp or cnvolopo at answers can only be t von in ths column. Only outs 1 ors of and HI bo answorod will iterost ptneral Do-- Man phono calls can bo accepted only on tho phono at tho hours proscribed. 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