University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons UMP Campus, 1959-1967 Student Newspapers 11-17-1966 UMP Campus, 11/17/1966 University of Maine Portland Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the Social History Commons Recommended Citation University of Maine Portland, "UMP Campus, 11/17/1966" (1966). UMP Campus, 1959-1967. 24. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus/24 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UMP Campus, 1959-1967 by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 10. No. 5 November 17, 1966 Controversy Created By Education Report By JOHN PLUN.KiE'IT . The tentative report of the Advisory Commission for the Higher Educa­ tion Study has stirred up controversy in the Greater Portland area. The re­ port, based on the study by the A.E.D., has been the target of mixed feelings by the institutions and students affected by the proposals. Most opinions are ad­ verse to the recommendations. The fact is that many of the people who find fault with the report are unfamiliar with its actual content and future aims. The Maine 102nd Legislature appointed the Commission to employ "a di­ rector and such other consultative, statistical and clerical services" to carry out a comprehensive study of higher edu-cation in the State of Maine. A Consult­ ative, statistical and clerical services" to carry out a comprehensive study of l¾ higher education in the State of Maine. A Consultant Panel, appointed by the This hous.< on Bedford Street is being .renovated to accommodate Academy for Educational Development, inc., of New York (A.E.D.) was chosen a new Student Center for UMP. to make the study and to submit a report. The findings of the Academy heav­ Student, Union ily influence the reports and recommendations given by the Commission. Biography Files Toe Commission believes that 1.1he Comm1SS'ion further proposed land, South Portland, and Gor- "the higher education needs of the that the Univer:iity of Maine Law ham. Expanded adult courses, the Supplemented By state of Maine can be met most School be moved to Gorham and university's school of nursing, and Wanted ·ev effectively . if a single unified there develop special legal courses SMVTI would then become an in- Off-Campus House system of public higher education in U.S.-Canadian relations and ma- tegral part of the center. This The present student union is established." It noted that such rine science. Gorham would then center, explains the Comniission, facilities at UMP will soon be Placement Office a system would help the enroll- be administered by a "Chancellor, should provide a variety of trans-- supplemented by a. building on The personal biography files ment in the future. Total enroll- Provost or Dean" appointed by fer opportunities offering certifi- Bedford Street which will serve ment, they predicted, would grow the president of the university sys- cates and degrees to commuting that are desired of all graduating from 24,500 full and part-time stu- tern with the consent of a ~ students. The projected growth in as a temporary student union. students must be completed as soon dents in 1965 to 55,000 in 1975 to member board of trustees. this program area will be eight The building, which was previously as possible. Frederick Freise, 75,000 in 1985. The Consultants The University of Maine in Port- times its present sixe by 1974 and used as a two-family dwelling, was Director of Student Aid and stated that as it stands now, land would then become a Uni- 13 times by 1984. recently purchased by the Univer­ Placement, urges all seniors to ''both the quality and quantity of versity Community Center offering The Commission also proposed sity. Dr. Dorothy Dis sell, Director higher education in Maine falls all one and two-year transfer, gen- that the University of the State of' hand in their personal resume short of standards," an.ct :Maine era!, vocational, and technical pro- <Continued on Page Two) of Student Affairs, calls it "an sheets and their placement should "take steps now to achieve grams currently offered in Port- interim facility" until apermanent registration material. a more cohesive and flexible sys­ union is built. If students have not yet reg­ tem of public higher education . " The house has two floors, base­ istered with the Placement Office, With these opinions in mind, the ment and attic, and ten or twelve it is imperative that they do so so Commission recommended that the rooms. It is light gray with red various institutions of higher learn­ that this office can serve the ing i.n Maine be oonsolidated into shutters, and it stands on the students as well as it desires to. a greater university system called corner almost directly across Job · interviews are starting at The University of the State of from Bonney Hall. Members of this time, and a person must be Maine, enveloping the University of the Student Union Board and the registered to take advantage of the Maine and its branohes, the five Committee on Student Affairs will state colleges, four vocational­ interview service offered by the technical institutes and the Maine help to plan for its use. Dr. Placement Office. Additional Maritime Academy. Dissell says the University hopes Placement material is available Oommtsston Prefers Ooriuun to have the building ready for use in the library. The Commission also endorsed "before the end of this school year, Freise noted that even those the concept that major graduate and undergraduate campuses . University of Maine-Portland and certainly before next fall." students who may know what they serving Southern Maine would be Salmon also pointed out tha.t in The University hopes that the are going to do after graduation centered at Gorham. The AED felt the past he had just school watch­ temporary Union will have a should see him so that he can that Gorham is a site where "con­ broader range of appeal than does siderable resources - land, libra­ UMP Plagued men working on shifts from 4p.m. ~ compile a file on them for their to 8 a..m., but their hands were the present building; it will fUture benefit. ries, instructional facilities, dorm­ probably have lounges and meeting itories - already exist and are of tied by the law which states that good quality and, are expand;l,ble." rooms· for organizations. There By Vandals they could not touch vandals. Now will be some improvement in these VaI\dals are on the rampage they work in conjunction with the areas in the present Union; for around the UMP .campus. Edward Police Department which has two while the Bedford Street house is Salmon, the plant superintendeant, plain - clothesmen periodically Graduate Fellowships checking the school. being remodeled a.nd prepared, estimates that $800 worth of work will be going on in Ea.st damage has been done on the Property damage to a public Hall as well. campus in the last six months. building incurrs a stiff penalty of Are Readily Available Windows have been the biggest up to three years imprisonment and ANNOUNCEMENTS targets of these culprits; nearly $1000 fine. Would you believe graduate All students are reminded nei_ghborhoods. The secondary all the windows of the steam plant that they MUST pre-register fellowships are going to waste for school teacher program has on Durham St. and three lenses for their spring courses by Nov. lask of applicants? Would you positions for majors in English, of the patio lights outside Luther Expo '67 Trip 22, inclusive. Pre-registration believe four fellowships worth over history, political science, or Bonney Hall have been broken. material may be picked up at $3,000 each for prospective economics. - The evil-doers have even taken the Registrar's Office, Room 106, teachers remain unfilled this year According to Dr. Freeman, it the "0" from the sign on Bonney Payson Smith Hall 1110w. All Is Clubs Goal ~ at the University of Maine? A cards are to be filled out, taken is not generally realized that Hall. Another problem, which Anyone for Montreal? How about combination of University, federal to the adviser for his signature, excellent opportunities for em­ seems to be decreasing, is the Expo '67? If you would be able and LEFr with the adviser. government, and local community ployment and advancement exist matter of neighborhood youths or would like to go to the Exposition financial support lies behind a for men in elementary education. running through the buildings in the in a group after finals in May, Regretfully, due to minor al­ Master of Arts in Teaching the MAT, with its year of intern­ evenings. Salmon mentioned that terations, the library will be sign up on the papers that will be program for a potential twenty­ ship teaching, offers a man who had the boys who have been caught closed from 5.00 p.m., Wednes­ appearing around campus. Several eight recent college graduates each day, Nov. 23, to 8.00 a.m., Mon­ not considered a career in teaching range in age from 11 to 14. When clubs on campus would like to go day, Nov. 28. year. Dr. Stanley L. Freeman an opportunity quickly to gain a a boy is caught damaging a building to Montreal, but feel that everyone Assistant DeanofEducation, stated master's degree, to qualify for a REMINDER TO VETS a letter is sent to his home in the on campus should get the chance that the main reason for the failure teaching certificate, to explore a Wait not, w,ant not.