PAGE FOUR Riv Defe (Continued from page one) contracts from the Department of Defense. Are we now talk ing about a military-industrial-university complex? “It is simply not true that the Department of Defense dominates Federal support of the academic domain. Defense's contribution to academic science and engineering work is only 17 per cent of the total Federal support. Furthermore, universities are far down the list in participation in Defense research and development. Universities receive only 3.7 per cent of the Department ot Defense’s research, development, test, and evaluation funds. The government in-house laboratories receive 27 per cent and industry received 64 per cent. “Therefore, there is no extreme dependence of universities on Defense funds, nor is the university involve ment in the overall Defense program unreasonable.” To what extent is a cmmmmity of interest created bet ween the Defense Department, which provides research and support funds, and the scholars working unner such grants? “The typical Defense sponsored re.-earch project at a university originates "it the university through the motivation and initiative of the individual scholar. With the approval of his own university’s central administration, an unsolicited pro posal of -the work planned js volunteered to a research office or laboratory of the Defense Department. The proposed work is reviewed for its merit, promise, and relevance to Defense requirements within Defense by qualified scientists and engineers. “Only when the proposed work is found to be completely acceptable as to its merit, promise, and its firm relation lo Defense needs, and w*hcn resource availability permits, is a contract or grant entered into Presently, more than six pro posals are volunteered by universities to Defense for each research project award made.” “The research work underway within universities sponsored by Defense therefore represents that conceived and planned by scholars, approved by their university ad ministrators, and found acceptable by the Department of Defense. Thus, I view the work as mutually compatible and in the good interests of both the universities and Defense.” Would there he a danger to national security if universities discontinued deiense—and especially classified defense—research ? “Definitely, national security would be prejudiced if universities discontinued defense research. However, I view the question as being somewhat hypothetical since I am doubtful that an institution would take such an extreme Don't Be Caught Without Your VISA CARD Next Week who is TONY WILLIAMS? guykresgejackharperguykresgejackharperguykresgejackharperguykresgejackharperguykresge iu o Alert. Aware. Ahead. Still . . . Weejuns. With all the quality leathers and fussy workmanship that Weejuns made famous. Bold perfing on burled maple leather. Big brass trim on Burnt Beech. Scrub oak strap and buckle with punch. 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For any one that may choose to drop out, there are many anxious tc participate more significantly.” Could defense research l>e just as efficiently carried out in special institutes devoted to just that purpose? “Special institutes possess unique and highly professional qualifications for performing the more applied studies and engineering development. Because of their competitive status, they hold proprietary information relatively close. Further more, they do not fulfill a graduate education function. They are presently responsible performers of Defense work of a somewhat different nature than that done by universities. “Therefore, I believe both universities and the special institutes are needed in the Defense activities. The special institutes would not be as effective in doing the more basic research that typically is done within universities.” Council To To Increase By JIM WIGGINS Collegian Staff Writer As part of its program to increase faculty-student interaction, the Liberal Arts Student Council has scheduled a “discussion day” on which students will meet and talk with Liberal Arts faculty representatives of the University Senate. The discussions, which will take place from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Thursday in the Hetzel Union Building Reading Room, are aimed at "enabling Liberal Arts faculty and students to meet and talk to each other on a personal level,” Pete O’Don nell, president of the Liberal Arts Student Council, said. O’Donnell said he hopes that through this discussion day, enough interest will be generated among students to allow tor a general restructuring of the Liberal Arts Student Council. “The Liberal Arts faculty is amaz- LENS REPLACEMENT NEW FRAMES REPAIRS WIRE FRAMES *2BB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVER! Sponsor Discussion Day Faculty-Student Relations ingly receptive to change,” O’Donnell said, “and they want and are looking for help from students in deciding cur riculum and general policy within the college.” “We are working for improvement from inside the establishment and are in the position to change things if wc can generate enough student interest,” he said. In restructuring the council, O’Don nell said he would like to see student committees formed at the departmental level. "These committees would meet weekly with faculty members to hclo determine policy within their depart ments,” he said. Under O’DonneU's plan, one student from each committee would represent the department in the council, which would have a core membership of 15. Here's what your first year or two at IBM could be like. Soon after liis intensive training course, IBM marketing representative Preston Love, B.S. '66, started helping key lowa commissioners solve problems. Like how to introduce school kids to computers, without installing one. His answer: share one in Chicago by phone cable. ON CAMPUS NOV. 19,20 iITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA The University Study Abroad Programs are being !.< broadened to provide additional opportunities for in * dependent study. r In keeping with the change, the Office of Study Abroad ' Programs will be rrdcs'gnntod as the Office of Foreign Studies. Dagobcrt DeLevie will continue as director of the -c office. When the study abroad program began in 1962, it pro vided only for groups of students to study at the Universities of Strasbourg and Cologne, with the University of Salamanca, the University of Florence and the Slade School of Fine Art in London later added later to the pro gram. Although several programs of independent study have been approved in the past, they have arranged on an informal, individual basis. The study has taken the form of enrollment in foreign universities, in field work for graduate students, or in combination of the two. As in the past, prior approval of the academic depart ment is required for study abroad. Students or faculty desiring information about foreign studies for academic credit at the University siiuuiu i.u.i tact the Office of Foreign Studies, 211-212 Engineering C. O’Donnell said letters are being sent to all Liberal Arts student* the plan. “The informal discussions on Thursday are just a beginning.” he so d. “The faculty is ready for meaningful give and lake with student'? n-ts’rle the classroom barrier. Now all we need are enough concerned students.“ Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the Col lege of the Liberal Art*, commented favorably on the planned discussion day. “We had a similar meeting last year,” he said, “and it was the first real im portunity Liberal Arts senators had to discuss issues and policies with stu dents.” “We hope to make Thursday’s meet ing more personal than last year's, with individual senators talking to small groups of students on any number of matters,” Paulson said. You'll become involved fast. You'll find we delegate responsi bility—to the limit of your ability. At IBM, you'll work individual ly or on a small team. And be en couraged to contribute your own ideas. 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Abrams, com- taV%,w W mander of U.S. forces in Viet- n |_ g i _ _ I nam Penalty Urged American involvement in the * w air war over Vietnam’s neighboring state has been less easy to disguise. The official reply to queries about it goes like this “At the request of the royal Laotian government, the United Slates does fly recon naissance flights over Laos, escorted by armed aircraft. These missions are frequently fired upon by Communist ground forces. By agreement with the royal Laotian govern ment, these escort aircraft may return the fire.” The fact is that several hun dred American planes make daily bombing raids in Laos, and no one believes that all of them are fired upon lirst. especially when many of the planes are 852 bombers that fly at an altitude of 10 miles or so and can be neither seen nor heard. The nominal ruler of Laos. Prince Souvanna Phouma, said in Washington recently that there was not a single American soldier in Laos. “There must be an awful lot of Green Berets retired over there,” commented a diplomat who had recently returned from Vientiane. Doug Taylor, B.S. Electronics Engineering '67, is already a senior associate engineer working In large scale circuit technology. Aided by computer design, Doug is one of a five man team designing integrated circuits that will go into IBM computers in the 1970'5. Soon after his IBM programmer training, John Klaymani B.S. Math '6B, began writing programs used by a computer system to schedule every event in the Apollo tracking stations. And when the finished programs were turned over to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he was responsible for making them work. Visit your placement offici and sign up for TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959 WASHINGTON (AP) -In the hope that it will lead to better law enforcement “and better respect for the law." the Nixon administration proposed yesterday that the penalty for possessing narcotics and dangerous drugs be reduced to misdemeanor size. This would mean that first offenders convicted of possession of marijuana or other narcotics would n o longer be branded felons sub ject to maximum penalties of S to 10 years imprisonment and $20,000 fine. John E. Ingcrsoll, director of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Narcotics an c Dangerous Drugs, said a more flexible penalty structure if needed to “make the punish ment fit the person" and the crime. Testifying before the Senate subcommittee o n juvenile delinquency, Ingersol) said: “All too often, because oi the present penalty structure, there is a teal hesitancy on the part of prosecutors in courts tt handle possession cases because of the potential high penalties involved."
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