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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Summer 7-26-1972 Maine Campus July 26 1972 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus July 26 1972" (1972). Maine Campus Archives. 593. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/593 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Six men, equipped with pressurized tanks of chemicals, electric drills and handsaws, have been climbing all over the stately elms at UMO and Orono in an all out assault against Dutch Elm disease. According to the coordinator of the Dutch Elm control project, Dr. Richard Campana of the Botany Department, this summer's program has centered around the use of experimental chemical in an attempt to retard the growth of Dutch Elm disease in already infected trees. The infected trees are singled out after verification of the presence of several visible symptoms. According to Campana, climbers are sent up into the small branches to gather samples of young foliage. The visible symptoms include a gray-green or yellow discoloration of the younger leaves. Internal samples of the wood are also taken with careful attention paid to any brownish discoloration in order to determine the extent to which to tree has been infected. UMO elm tree being AP readied for high UMO tree pressure injection part of experimentation continued on p. 2 corpsman loads tank with Benlate solution and research into the Dutch Elm disease. which when injected into a sickly elm will hopefully cure it. fRaisydonTampa9 Serving the University Community Vol. 75, No. 37 Orono, Maine Wednesday, July 26,1972 The role of the communty college is being "We have paid plenty discussed in a four day symposium of attention to the at the Bangor 'haves' and Campus of precious little to the 'have nots' said the University of Maine that was McNeil. highlighted by a Monday luncheon address by He further warned against Chancellor Donald R. McNeil. becoming -overly impressed by affluence" and beginning The program, which continues through expensive [baccalaureate degree programs tomorrow, is being attended by representatives that result in increased tuition. This trend, he warned, from 78 community colleges in both the U.S. and would once again leave the people whom Canada. The organizers of the conference hope community colleges were designed to help without that the discussions will lead to a greater advance educational opportunity. Hence, understanding of mutual problems and result in he advised new solutions. against higher admissions requirements and increased costs that would In his address. McNeil touched on some further discriminate of the against the "have-nots." problems facing community colleges. continued on p 2 He said that the taxpayer is becoming very wary of programs that don't have a direct impact on the welfare of the community. Duplication of programs between various units of a state college system are another irritant. Of mice and men McNeil strongly urged that community colleges not lose sight of their original goals and begin catering to people other than their original clientele. In a recent motion picture, the hero befriends and trains a family of rats that eventually grows to 12,000 gnawing, gnashing, toothy critters Fogler Library wins $7,272 in HEW grants you can imagine things get a bit out of hand. The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor must Of place a close second Fogler Library at the University of Maine's the $7,272 in funds, $5,000 has been in rodent raising. The awarded on a matching-grant world's largest center for Orono campus has been awarded $7,272 in basis with the the study of remaining $2,272 rh,rnmalian genetics, grants from the Federal Department of Health, being in the form of an the laboratory produces outright grant. about 4.000,000 mice Education and Welfare.UMO is the only a year. The mice are According to Library inbred, hybrid. mutant institution in the state to receive money from the Director James -bearing and grant's program. McCampbell, Fogler library will match the tumor-bearing mice for pathological research, government money with money already in the half of which are sent to scientists across the library's book-buying budget. globe. The Galloping Gluttons continue their Scientists at Jackson Lab are engaged The grant is a yearly offering of HEW to in gastric wanderings with two more en- today's Biological Revolution. Mankind. universities witlarge concentrations of minority say We counters with local feeding spots on revolutionaries, is entering a new era and economincally disadvantaged students. The that page eight. promises the elimination of disease University of Maine at Fort Kent received the and undesirable hereditary traits and even death. grant last year and UMO received nothing, said McCampbell. The Jackson Laboratory may be well on the road In past years, however, UMO has received as to tailoring a supra-human Ideal Man, free much as $40,000, he added. This year, Maine's of disease and human flaw. UMO grant ranked 51st out of the 55 states and While scientists continue to perfect Ideal Man, territories in dollar amounts of grants awarded the Mary Jane Restaurant on Main Street in Bar by HEW. Harbor still welcomes the imperfect. Jim V ardamis. your host and an McCampbell said the money will be used for internationally known chef, knows that no one new acquisitions of library materials such as can' resist his flaming shish kebob on a sword or books and microfilm, etc. and would not be used exotic seafood dinners. but... to replace materials already on hand. You're only human, right'? continued On p FIT}, The Maine Campo, July 26, 1972 I McNeil: Benlate bares bark beetles in elms serve students 110 1 0111'sel VeS coot Rom p. I continued Own p. 1 Tot The experimental chemical milli Benlate is being injected under McNeil also warned we know the taxpayer ant.' award pressure into these infected community colleges "not to act The Chancellor, citing UM studies Highe trees in order to force the independently of other dealing with for th chemical into the upper post-secondary school unnecessary redundancies in the branches of the trees. institutions." Super — University's librari the Di Dutch Elm research has been "The post-secondary curriculum s, said that the Rico, conducted at[MO for the past education needs of this country university's various campuses Neal( 10 years but this is the first year are varied and great. No one must be prepared to give up Island Benlate has been tried. This year group--community colleges, some of the programs that are also,L'MO was the only four-year public or private repeated elsewhere so that new, Mor university chosen by the United universities or vocational more vital programs may be total States Forest Service to conduct schools--can do the job alone. If funded. He implied that other supple a federally-funded research we are to meet the needs of the systems should follow this to in: project in the area of controlling people with the resources example. clench available, all of education must He concluded his talk by colle Dutch Elm disease. join together in the effort." saying "Above all, we must not supple However, the first indications The Chancellor stressed that lose sight of our basic the I of whether the project has been community colleges must strive objectives: To fight for low-cost institu successful will not be known to help the people that are education, to offer educational The until September at the earliest, bereft by larger institutions and opportunity to all who need or were with the most important provide a means for "providing desire it and to serve students, purpc indications not becoming a second chance for adults and not ourselves." award( available until the spring. dropouts." Dr. Edmund J. Gleazer Jr. special The key to the success of the The need for flexibility was Executive Director of the needs. operation is the curtailment of also discussed. McNeil said that American Association of in this, the spreading of the disease community colleges must be Junior Colleges echoed McNeil's The within the infected tree, added able to change quickly with the remarks. He said that "The commi Campana. needs of their enviornment. He community college cannot devel The tree corps is working not Marked for cure. said that communities that are survive in isolation. It must posts( only with elms on the UNIO the home of larger institutions involve itself in all aspects of schoo campus. but Elms are a ubiquitous is also working fixture families of European Bark should follow this lead and have community life while at the univer with the in parks and college permission of campuses. Beetles, the carriers responsible a hand in planning programs etc. same time maintaining its enrolln homeowners in the The elms that line the local Orono mall at for spreading the disease from ''It is this concern for independence." disadva area. [MO are all 36 years-old with one tree to another. community involvement in Gran According to Campana, the the other trees on campus Title In the ensuing years the planning which needs to be The conference/workshop corps is also involved with a spanning a variety of age groups. Educat disease which attacks the expanded to include other session grew out of an earlier preventive pruning and In 1930, a shipment of institut vascular apparatus of the tree educational institutions, he conference at UMB that was wounding program that has European elms were imported has spread throughout the said.