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Degree Change
Controversy
by Mike Welliver
Now that the Autonomy
measure has been passed for
Capitol Campus there are
inklings of several changes for
the not-to-distant future.
One of the changes which has
been receiving a good deal of
attention lately concerns the
change in degree nomenclature.
While there has been no final
decision made as yet, there has
been extensive investigation on
the part of concerned students
and faculty members.
What the degree change
involves is this: Let's take for
example a Humanities student.
After completing the curriculum
requirements he receives a
degree which reads 'Bachelor of
Humanities'. The degree change
would make the diploma read
`Bachelor of Arts in Humanities'.
Although this might seem to
some to be a trivial change, it is
in fact an important one.
Many students have found
Decry Poor Medical Facilities
by Thomas C. Fox
Thomas C. Fox has been
reporting from Viet Nam for the
past two years. He is fluent in
Vietnamese.
SAIGON, VIETNAM --
Vietnamese war victims who
miaht have been saved in
hospitals are now
l'Uyrinin in over-crowded and
understaffed Vietnamese
hospitals, according to a group
of twenty-five foreign doctors
and medical personnel working
in Vietnam.
"Although we urge a rapid
and complete withdrawal of the
American military, we beseech
the American government and
people to remember the
Indochinese victims still
suffering from the U.S.
government's tragic mistakes,"
an open letter addressed to
President Nixon and the
American Medical Association
and released here last week
stated.
"U.S. military hospital
facilities are being closed too
rapidly to Vietnamese civilians"
and the "South Vietnamese
government health care system is
not effectively filling these
significant new gaps," the letter
reads.
that their opportunities as far as
job placement or continuing
education goes, has been
jeopardized by the vagueness of
the wording on their degrees.
The degree change would
hopefully give the employer a
better idea of the graduate's
educational background.
Before this degree change
becomes permanent, however, it
must go through several channels
including the administration, the
faculty, the Dean and Provost,
the Board of Trustees, and
finally through the University
Park system.
A faculty meeting, held
yesterday, was to decide the
faculty's position on the issue.
Details of that meeting were not
available for this issue of the
paper so more information will
be in'the next.
Anyone having questions or
comments on the degree change
issue should address them to the
Ca pitolist.
Doctors In Viet Nam
"Compared to 1970 war
casualties admitted to U.S.
military hospitals have decreased
by about ninety-five percent
while the casualty rate itself has
only decreased by about twenty
percent" the letter said.
The physicians and social
workers who work in
Vietnamese hospitals and social
welfare institutions throughout
Vietnam said they have taken
statistics from the most recent
available American and
Vietnamese government reports,
showing this decline in
assistance.
The number of civilian war
casualties admitted to U.S.
military hospitals in the latter
half of 1971 was less than
fifteen percent of those
admitted during the first half of
1971, according to the
physicians' letter.
U.S. military hospitals have
been closing down throughout
South Vietnam rather than
turning them over to Vietnamese
for the care of war victims,
several of those who signed the
letter stated in an interview this
week.
"The American government is
arming Vietnamese, forcing
them to fight to kill each other,
but then turning its back on the
maimed, soldiers and civilians
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alike, who desperately need
medical care," said Doctor John
G. Champlin, an American
physician who has worked for
three years in Vietnam with
Vietnamese war victims with
C hildrens: Medical Relief
International. He was one of the
25 who signed the letter.
U.S. financial aid, on the
other hand, for police efforts is
increasing while the percentage
of aid to medical teams is
decreasing, the letter stated.
"A severe shortage of
specialists and specialist facilities
in all medical fields," now exists
in South Vietnam and
"inadequate numbers of
Vietnamese doctors, nurses and
medical technicians are being
trained," to meet the needs.
"Crowded, filthy conditions
in poorly staffed (Vietnamese)
The letter was addressed to
both President Nixon and the
American Medical Association,
according to one signer of the
letter, "because the AMA has
consistently supported American
policy dealing with medical aid
to Vietnam."
"There will be people injured
or dying from unexploded
bombs, and mines, and artillery
shells for a long time to come.
Rehabilitation of all war victims
will require geneiations of
time," the letter concluded.
province hospitals have often
been a source of comment, but
these conditions have not
changed appreciably in the past
five years," the letter said.
"Nearly three hundred
Vietnamese ARVN soldiers are
being killed every week," a
doctor who signed the letter
said. "For the past year from
3,000 to 4,000 civilian war
casualties have been reported
every month, and these not
including Vietnamese civilians
who died or never made it to the
hospitals for care."
More Parking
Construction of student
parking areas at five of the
Campuses of the University at a
cost estimated at $620,000 has
been authorized by the Board of
Trustees of the University.
The program will provide an
additional 1,110 spaces with 700
by Gregg Crescenzo
Well, let's get back to YOU
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those who play the game!
(Loud applause, cheering,
cries of rape and incest bellow
through the studio . . . Out
walks our king of the quiz
shows, the man who no's it all
Addy Visor.)
HiYa folks! Did yah ever hear
the one about the kid who took
Social Science 499abcdei:
Inferential Judgement of the
Pilgrim Mind? Had a conflict,
since the course wasn't offered
that term? Then he added
Human 499V1: The Prostrate
Ethnic in Medieval Altoona?
Sure you have, so why bore you
with the same old punch line.
Come on, let's say we bring
out our first contestants. (This is
followed by roars of laughter,
screams of apathy, and the same
shrieks of rape and incest.) (
To keep the reader's attention in
today's world, one-eighth of the
dialogue must infer sex —)
To my right, folks, is Sam
Ordinary. Sam is here to fulfill
his requirements for a degree.
Now, for those who don't know
how the game is played, Sam
must complete 18 cruddies: of
these, 3 cruddies must come
from the Colonel Crud
selections, 4 from the optic of
no one's choice, and the rest
may be selected by any means
other than clandestine
conferences.
O.K. So once again, we spin
the deal, where it stops, who
cares. But, before we start, let's
find out what losing is all about.
I was a drop-in until I
discovered what it was all about.
Sure, I went through it for a
while. But, one day, I was asked,
while casually describing what it
was all about, "What's it to yah,
Mac?"
Well, you can imagine my
condition, when turning my
head slowly to the left, I
discovered, I didn't know. So I
went, I talked, I looked, I
searched, I crawled . . . To my
sorrow, it would not appear.
One day, while on my knee, I
saw a pair of shoes; looking up
at it, the most astonishing thing
it. From there I went on to
this point, and I say to you It
ain't worth it.
Yessir, another amazing
success story which you can step
Neubauer Publishes Book
Dr. F. Frederick Neubauer,
associate professor of business,'
has published a book in
Germany entitled "Wie
Amerikas Manger fuer Morgen
Planen" -- "How American
Managers Plan For Tomorrow."
The book deals mainly with
American management
accounting techniques and
examines the extent to which
differences in management
accounting in the United States
and Germany are caused by
differences in the management
philosophy of the two countries.
Published by the German
publishing house, R. Piper &
Co., of Munich, the more than
300 page volume is designed to
inform German business leaders
as well as graduate students
scheduled for Berks Campus at
Wyomissing; 180 at Capitol
Campus at Middletown; 90 at
Wilkes-Barre Campus at
Wilkes-Barre; 80 at Schuylkill
Campus at Schuylkill Haven; and
60 at Worthington Scranton
Campus at Dunmore.
Thursday, April 27,1972
into. All you need is a degree,
and you too can go look for the
elusive, awe inspiring, it.
O.K. Back once again. Sam's
field is all dried up (sick laughter
follows, a solitary boo floats
leisurely downward), ha. No,
Sam is majoring in the field of
Introspective Applications ink
Diversification of Sibling
Paranoia. WOW! Sam, could you
tell us a little bit about it?
Sure, Addy. It's a wide-open
field. Like the field is so
wide-open, man, that left field is
the size of all centerfield. What
I'm doing is working on the
predictable aspects of
Pre-Interior Thought, in hopes
of gaining a better understanding
of how the left wrist functions.
Opportunities and advancement
are in such dynamic state of
atrophy to the untrained eye.
Hey now, That's really
something. What kind of a
backround do you need to
pursue this?
Well, Addy, using myself as an
example, forty hours of
Sequence Therapy, with literary
applications, seventeen hours of
Intuitive Awakeness, which
includes such course work as:
Restor Retrospective
Degradation in Consumer
Affiliations; Parsimonous
Nomenclature in Developing
Nations; the other
undergraduate pre-requisites are
much too involved to get into
right now.
Say, now that's something.
Let's hear it for Sam, huh?
Come on (shrieks, gunshots and
expiring gas are entwined as the
picture dissolves and a flashing
sign catches the nation's
attention.)
Due to technical' indifference,
and complete misconceptions,
this program, YOU BET YOUR
DEGREE!, has been cancelled.
The network's only reply to
the reason behind the
cancellation seemed logical but
not quite explainable. The
Popular American Game Show
YOU BET YOUR DEGREE! has
been cancelled due to the fact
that no one understands how to
get it.
We of the network sincerely
hope that you who have
watched and participated so
loyally over the past years, truly
do know how to get it.
Your Welcome
about American management
accounting techniques and is
well suited for use in a
seminar-type course on
management accounting.
Dr. Neubauer has been a
member of the Capitol Campus
faculty since 1967, teaching
accounting and international
business. An English translation
of his book is under
consideration.
Deferred
Grades Due
Deferred grades for the Winter
Term 1972 are due May 18th, as
specified in the University
Policies and Rules for Students,
Section Two, M-6. All deferred
grades should be submitted to
E-106 no later than Noon on
May 17th so that they may be
processed and sent to University
Park. In the event that it is not
possible to submit the deferred
grade, a form for an extension
must be filled out. Extension
forms are available in Room
E-106.