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M o n d a y See the happy moron... MICHIGAN Sunny... , . it éotn’t give • dame. I wisfc STATI . and warmer today with high of I were a noroe. My God! perhaps I 39. Low of 10-15 tonight. Sonny and mild am! Aasaymaas UNIVERSITY Tuesday. Vol. dO Number 129 East Lansing, Michigan Fabruary 19, 1968 I0 ç Deans favor STILL URGE APPLYING EPC revisions G rad schools hampered of grading Eight out of the University’s 13 col by new deferment policy lege deans have expressed generally favorable initial .reactions to a proposed By STAN MORGAN work after 1st September will be de- selection at the earliest possible mo revision of MSU’s grading system re derred until June. ment” in order to make the decision leased by the Educational Policies Com State News Staff Writer Opponents of the new regulation have equitable to all classifications of eli mittee -E P C - last week. A ruling Friday by President Johnson charged that it will empty graduate gible draftees. EPC’s report consists of 17 specific eliminating most graduate school defer schools, deny colleges and universities The present practice of drafting the recommendations to change MSU’s grad ments could greatly hamper graduate their source of instructors and reduce oldest eligible males first will place ing system, centering on the elimination school D r o e r a m s , Milton E. Muelder. the number of graduate students working the new college graduates and those of letter grades and a limited credit-no dean of MSU's advanced graduate studies, in laboratory research. in their first year of graduate school credit system. said Sunday. "The regulations as proposed could at the top of the list. All of the deans contacted in a tele Under the new ruling, occupational seriously hurt graduate schools, par Spokesman before House hearings phone survey have already planned meet deferments will no longer be given, but ticularly in the research and teaching earlier this month, said replacing the ings and discussions with faculty mem local draft boards may give such de areas," he said. practice of taking oldest men first with bers before the March 12 Academic Coun ferments if they deem the occupation Muelder explained that most research a random selection method would ease cil meeting. The report needs approval as necessary. in the various sciences is conducted by the impact of the ruling on the aca by both the council and Academic Senate. Deferm ents will now -be given only professors with graduate students as demic community. T.K. Cowden, dean of the College of in these areas: - assistants. The new regulations could Selective service headquarters said Agriculture, declined comment on the result in a cut back in research help the ruling will also eliminate defer report until after discussion with agri -The medical field, which includes for all the disciplines. ments for 339,474 fulltime workers and culture faculty members. Dean Richard medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optome Likewise, teaching on the university 41.161 apprentices who had previously ■U. Byerrum of the College of Natural Waiting for Charlie try and veterinary medicine. level might be affected, he said, as had occupational deferments. Science and Dean Alfred L. Seelye of -Men already in their second year graduate assistants make up a large Also, 433.000 students will become the College of Business were out-of- U.S. Marines huddle around a communications device behind a of graduate study. These men will part of the college level teaching staffs. draft eligible as a result of the ruling, town, while W.W. Armistead, dean of the wall In Hue, South Vietnam waiting for their next command. The be given five years from when they "University expenses may go up, be according to the scientific manpower College of Veterinary Medicine, de Marines moved back from Hue's Citadel to allow Allied dive- first entered graduate school to obtain cause it will be more costly to pay commission, a non-government agency clined any immediate comment. bombers to root out Com m unists who have been entrenched there their Ph.D. full time staff than it is to pay gradu created by private scientific organi “ It’s a constructive, thoughtful docu for almost three weeks. UP I Telephoto -Men who started their graduate ate assistants who work part time," zations. Included in the figure are ment,’’ Paul A. Varg, dean of the Col Muelder said. 187.000 students who will receive bache lege of Arts and Letters. “ I like many Despite the ruling he still urged lor’s degrees in June and 144,000 first of the recommendations, probably most students to apply for graduate school year graduate students. of them.’’ if they wanted it. as to wait and see E.A. Carlin, dean of University Col what happens would be a waste of lege, said that “ some items in the re U.S. to increase firepow er time. port, with some adjustment, would be "Even if a man is drafted out of desirable.” graduate school, he could resume his G-L enroll today “I was impressed with the quality of studies after the two years of military effort that went into this very thoughtful service," Muelder said. Early enrollment will continue today report,” reflected A. D. Hunt, Jr., dean to root Communist forces "Until the law is changed we must for students with last names starting abide by it," he said, "but the opinion with G through L, at 'the northwest en of the College of Human Medicine. "We could not permit them to be In some cases, the South Vietnamese HUE, Vietnam AP-The U.S. Com trance of the Men’s I.M. Bldg. between “I’ve had the feeling, as a teacher, armed forces have even urged more -of graduate school deans as to what mand has decided to use all the fire lieve that they could seize populated 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. that the system of grading has needed firepower than U.S. field commanders constitutes the national interest re power needed to root Communist forces areas and escape our firepower," one Student Identification cards are re study for a long time,” Jack Bain, deemed necessary. mains the same." from South Vietnam’s cities and ac American official said. quired for entrance. dean of the College of Communication Although the Saigon government granted Logan Wilson, president of the Ameri cept the bad publicity for property de That would encourage future attacks Students unable to complete the regis Arts, said. “This report is starting permission for use of air and artillery can Council in Education, said the struction "ts aji unavoidable by-product. on thickly populated areas and cities, tration section request form may do so to move the study in the direction of against the cities, shortly after the Com selective service action was alarming The pounding now being given to he said. ” on Tuesday. some value and reliability. ” munist Tet offensive opened in Hue and shortsighted. Communist-occupied parts of Hue is The U.S. decision has been approved “This report represents an important Jan. 31. the United States did not He urged the administration and Con evidence of that policy. by President Nguyen Van Thieu. policy m atter,” J.E . Ivey, dean of the reach its decision for several days. gress to evolve a system of "random College of Education, said. “ I’m look Restrictions on use of firepower ing forward to what faculty members were evident in the early fighting for of other colleges recommend and what Hue, and in Saigon. alternatives they might give. ” The decision? so far as can be de Deans commented specifically on the Vietnam troop strength termined at the battlefront level, was Florida teachers resign; elimination of the letter grade system made about a week ago. At that time, which would replace the grades of A.B.C. allied forces had largely cleared Sai D and F with ten numerical grades con may rise above 525,00(1 gon and American Marines had swept sisting of 4.5,4.0,3.5 down to 0.5 and 0. the Communists from southern Hue. “Ten grades would make it easier demand higher salaries ABOARD USS CONSTELLATION crew on the flight deck of the giant A battalion of American Marines was and more possible for faculty to grade AP - President Johnson told Ameri carrier Constellation, cruising slowly landed on the north bank of the Per more accurately, ” Jeannette Lee, dean contracts." However, State Circuit Judge can fighting men Sunday that the foe a few miles off the Southern Califor fume river to help the South Viet TALLAHASSEE, Fla. AP - Thou of the College of Home Economics, said. Ben C. Willis said there is no way to in Vietnam is testing our will and nia shore. Johnson also said that this namese clear the Citadel, once the seat sands of Florida school children start Carlin said he saw “ some virtue” in keep teachers from resigning. hopes to break it but "quite certainly, nation's power is greater than that of Vietnam's imperial governments. an unscheduled vacation Monday. More the ten-grade system, while it was termed F E A Executive Secretary Phil Con- he will fail." of all nations past, and promised to Until then, the South Vietnamese than half the state's teachers have re “worthwhile and a good amplification of stans denied Sunday that teachers have This fitted with word he gave earlier, use it "with precision on the fronts forces had intentionally left the Com signed in a bid for higher pay and more present procedures” by Clarence Winder, been coerced.

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