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Show Page 12 been repeatedly stressed as evidence that (Continued) | am sure many of us often feel that we are through, after all, getting around may be a bit more difficult than it used to be and we might even need help with some of the little things. But when we really look inside us, we know that our life is a long way from being over. We can still do many things and we are a joy to all, we have something that the young so often overlook, we have TIME. Time to do the things we thought we didn't have time for when we were young. We blacks are MICHELION'S RESTAURANT intellectually SUPPORT OUR > inferior for genetic reasons. can whittle or embroider, or we Watson cites a study he made of black West Indian students at an interracial secondary school in East Ham, a London working-class neighborhood. When the examination was correctly identified as an lO test, the students scored an average of ten points lower than when the exercise was falsely described as an experiment to help plan curriculum. Watson, who is white, also found that scores typically climbed when the IO test identified as such — was given by his assistant, “a very black West Michelino’s Restaurnat is located at 754 East South Temple in Salt Lake City friendly quick service. and idea is one dining has of places the most in this gained an popular part Italian of the state. outstanding It reputation throughout the area as the place where you can go, both the local and traveling public, and be food, which way you features meals well like it. many such lasagna and satisfied is always as The tempting steak, with prepared the just the menu always for its chefs, restaurant excellent as well as The restaurant both of opp abit this ADVERTISERS and by the public. from all over the area pleasant atmosphere, are evidence of the Wordpower Newspapcr, staff and growing success of this firm. this gourmet their business on the come here often, to enjoy an evening meal with friends in the relaxed and We, and be people Neighbor, accomodations modern patronized delicious as this, unsurpassed built a would spaghetti, cousine, its type and veal parmesan. have that shrimp, It is indeed refreshing to find such an up-to-date They to in short our this Spotlight take pleasure sketch readers. information about of this Phone subecribers extend a sincere thank On A presenting fine restaurant 363-1785 take-out you to the fine companies who have advertised in our pages. We urge our readers to support these businesses- as they have demonstrated their concern for the community and a desire for equality for all Good in service for and reservations. people. and State Brass Foundry & Machine, Inc. can just sit and visit with each other Indian Negro.” | and we can visit with OURSELVES The East Ham study get its too. Robert L. Austin-Pres. inspiration from earlier work by an The author of this article is still Don K. Archer-Vic Pres. American Psychologist, Irwin Katz, very young, one might say in Harold E. Weed-Engineer now at the Graduate Center of New Eldon T. Smith-Gen. Mar. between spring and summer of life, York's: City University... Katz Located at 1400 South State in Salt supplying this immediate area as well as but | often wonder what it would devised a series of experiments to Lake City, phone 467-9461. This is one surrounding territory for many years. be like if | had the time to sit down determine, among other things, the of our leading industries and is duely | Those who have enjoyed the capable and look back over my life and effect an 10 performance of being worthy of extended mention in this services of the State Brass Foundry & hold the moments that were so dear black in a white-dominated society. business review. They have provided one Machine Inc. recognize it for its friendly, of the best equipped foundries and above-board methods of doing business. to me close again. As in East Ham, Katz's black machine shops in this section of the Whether the contract is established ona We travel through life andy many subjects did better when they were country. cost-plus or a fixed fee basis, the client things happen to us, some are This firm has established a may deceived into believing that their always be assured that the happy and some are tragic, but later intelligence was not being tested — well-deserved reputation for estimated cost is reasonable and is based when everything can be looked at dependability and-effeciency in all types in the lowest possible cost comparable that is, when the test was described of production work. They have been with sound production requirements. in a softer light, we find that it was as a simple drill in eye-hand a wonderful life. coordination. In fact, when. they We grope in our chest of were freed of anxiety about memories and look at each one intellectural performance, the black and we can smile and laugh and students registered higher !O scores maybe even shed a few tears. We under a white test given than under Salt Lake City’s Westminster College foreign study plans, and a black studies see the world traveling by and can a black one. is one of five Westminsters in the nation, course. feel sorry for the young not taking Westminster considers its small size — Katz concluded that his subjects but it is the only private college in Utah. time to sit still and look into were thoroughly aware of the It has all the advantages of a large coilege 830 students presently enrolled — a large and yet has a small college atmosphere. asset, which provides a greater rage of yeaterday's bank of happiness. judgement of intellectual inferiority it has fine residential facilities available, opportunity for student involvement, Therefore if we ever get a spell held by many white Americans. with shopping, laundry, etc., close by. from representation on the board of of feeling lonely and put into a With little expectation of overruling Although the school.is 95 years old, trustees to curriculum modification corner of life, smileand be happy, this judgement, their motivation its. liberal arts curriculum has been studies, and for a more personalized because you are in the center of was low, and so were their scores. adapted to modern educational needs. educational approach. Perhaps one of Among its offerings are an aviation the greatest advantages of this college is life, you are still here and very Hence when the 10 test was program, four-year nursing program, two the fine spirit of cooperation between much a part of it all. disguised as something else, the When you look at it in the right human ambition to do well light, the autumn and winter of our which has nothing to do with color life is the richest time of all. — could take wing. And as long as It has always been the policy of this popular firm to provide the customer with friendly advice and guidance on the complicated business. a job, matters When you you can pertaining to this contact this firm for rest assured that you are dealing with a firm that is interested in the welfare of this area and will therefore that make you every get top effort to see to quality work it and merchandise. Westminster College their RACE and 1.9. The following article appeared in the September 7th, 1970 issue of Time Magazine. It should be of particular note to those who have used scientific. and religious statements previously to rationalize their prejudice and discriminatory behavior. ““One intelligence of the flaws of any test is that it does not, and cannot, take into account the mood of the person whose intellect is being evaluated. Educational psychologists have long known that attitude can have a pronounced effect on the score. The same person, retested, may raise or lower his 10 by as many as 20 points depending on how he feels — challenged, anxious, bored. Even his feelings toward the person giving the test can be a factor. In the case of the black student, writes British Psychologist Peter Watsen in New Society magazine, this variation is of great significance. In Watson's view, intelligence evaluated, it can account for part or all of the 15 points by which Negroes generally fall behind whites in lO tests — a gap that has was not Psychologist to a. lower position student body The college staff and student body is engaged in a fund-raising project to help complete a Student Union Plaza in the center of the campus. Although with three Westminster Protestant independently supported -is affiliated churches, governed and it is by tax dollars. - Wholesale or) UTAH’S: CUT-RATE no sure way to measure hereditys contribution to human intelligence. hypotheses about race on _ intellect WOOD SUPER MARKET Since 1956 | Do-It-Yourself & SAVE - on LUMBER and ALL BUILDING MATERIALS OVER 500 KINDS OF WALL PANELING| than the science of genetics develops more precise instruments, there is Se Retail S & DICK’S. Be that intelligence is in part hereditary. They say only that until remain unproved. and being the white. 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