1967_01 The Daily Collegian January 1967

              2— THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Editorial
Whatever it takes
It is disheartening to publish the final fall semes¬
ter edition of The Dally CoUegian with Ronald Rea¬
gan's "help" looming over the sUte coUege system.
It's not that we think the school or the system
wUl have disappeared by the time publishing re¬
sumes In February, but it is truly frightening to
imagine what might happen to higher education In
CallfornU during the course of the next year. Rea¬
gan's plans to carry out his pledge to "help" the
system seem as feasible as would solving the
world's population problem by killing all our male
Infants.
By cutting California's education budget at a time
when it should be Increased, Reagan Is In effect
doing this. He Is choking the youth of the state by
making It harder to attain a college education and
choking the colleges themselves by hindering their
abUlty to act.
avlng the state
I Reagan's "help"
I  this
an's proposals In an "irresponsible"
We feel that Reagan Is acting lrresponsl-
s practicing   false economy by thinking a
cut to the education budget will aid California's
financial situation.
WhUe we, as students, cannot force Reagan out
of office as be can force us out of school, we can
apply all possible pressure on him and on the sUte
legislature to give us sane government. And we
must apply this pressure.
The letter-writing campaign proposed by the stu¬
dent president's ad hoc committee U one way. And
it Is a good way. While legislators cannot Ignore
demonstrations, they are not touched personally by
them. Letters represent physical evidence that we
We Join the ad hoc committee In urging students
to write to: The Honorable JesseM.Dnruh,Speaker
of the Assembly; The Honorable Ernest N. Mobley,
33rd Assembly District; The Honorable George N.
Zenoclch, 32nd Assembly District (all-CallfornU
SUte Assembly, Sacramento); and The Honorable
Hugh M. Burns, President Pro Tempore,California
State Senate, Sacramento.
If demonstrations are considered Irresponsible
by our coUege president, we must disagree. If or¬
derly demonstrations are necessary to aid In our
fight against Reagan's Umperings with higher edu¬
cation, then we are tor them.
One way or another, we must do all we can to see
that our state colleges and universities, now among
the greatest In the world, remain that way.
-Gary M, Cooke. Editor
Once upon a time there was a Uttle actor. He w
GuUeless, yet with designs few expected.
He went to a   typical aU-Ameriean   small collego in a typical
mid-western  town. NaturaUy, he was president of hU class and
Seminars and other programs are
offered at Experimental College
He forsook the simple life tor the rigors of Hollywood. While
still In his Infancy In the art of Uluslon, he became a Democrat,
since that was what you did when a war was going on and you were
patriotic and all tor the President.
He became a union man and rose to prominence in short order—
but not as a big star.
He sttll came across as a simple, every-day Joe; the kind of
person you would like for a neighbor.
As be matured, he switched his poUUcal allegiance. His poUttcal
outlook hadnt changed much since he first signed up as a Democrat.
The Republican party had gone him a few better — It was some¬
where back In the 19th century.  .
He began running for elective office early — about two years
before the office was schedule to be filled.
With lots of makeup, shaded contact lenses and a conservative
public relations Arm (which apparently did not believe public
relaUons   Included   good   press  relations) the  quest was Joined.
The PR men manuUctured innocuous platitudes. They were
mouthed. They worked on their candidate (one almost says puppet)
to mold him after their own Image and likeness.
He became adept at the double standard. Where he promised
decent wages tor farm workers, he vowed to farmers they would
never have to fear a harvest strike, If he was elected.
He  looked  athletic,  compared   to  his less glamorous opponent.
His vigor won over crowds — Democrats as well as Republicans.
Sure he got roughed up In the press.Certainly he was not accepted
as the saviour of the great university to the north.
flexibility and experlmentatlon-
Durlng Its two-week existence
the   Experimental College Com-
for    next    semester's   courses
Along   with credits, grades wll
The course In "h
was proposed by Char
hanlan, an English m
ducting the class In a
workshop situation,'
wUl    hear    lectures
' actual class structure will
be flexible, said Lyon,
es can range "from three to
depending on what's pro-
," explained Lyon. He added
■Ht.llC.
hope of eventual
Into the college catalog. If the
courses have not been adopted
after three years In the Exper¬
imental   College,   they   will  be
Courses   wUl  be offered with
lower   division,   upper   division
se proposed and con-
culty r
seminar-
students
limited to 30, students wanting
to sign up for It may do so Wed¬
nesday, in Art-Home Economics
207, said Amlrkhanlan.
Information about the Expert-
mental CoUege courses will be
published In a schedule and wUl
be avaUable In time for regis¬
tration, said Lyon.
Arranging the course and de¬
signating credits for them is
presently the Job of the newly
established Experimental Col¬
lege Committee. Working with
Lyon on the committee are: Dr.
Morris L. Blgge, professor of
educational foundations; Dr. Ken-
noth H. Russell, assistant pro¬
fessor of chemistry; and phUllj
Levlne, asslsUnt professor o.
English.
Student members of the com¬
mittee are Bruce Bronzan, Ed
Diener,  Jay Goodwin and Craig
Dr. M. Bruce Fisher, assistant
to the academic vice-president.
Is the administrative representa¬
tive for this semester. Once the
committee has established fur¬
ther policies for the Experimen¬
tal College, the administrative
representative wUl direct the
program.
Then he began wrecking the si
Gratuitously he Indicated av
damned, be seemed to say. He
verslty  and college budgets, oi
market games and s
it least trying his hardest
venues of cutbacks. The people be
le wanted to take away the great unl-
xr a goodly portion of them, anyway.
Hindi that almost eliminated super-
>stlonable marketing practices should
■dth more people than had run j
When his term In office wj
tnd so was he, so Barry Gold J
■ people were pennUess
Which Just al
weeks of Mr. I
Perhaps, mis-management would be the 1
Our reacUon was simple — we croake
Goal of 72: serve in India
LETTERS
There Is a simple solution to
of California. It Is for Fresno
State College to secede from the
an Independent, private school
called Drofnats University. Tho
advantages
ly later plan,
e to do that?
nnollzo local
to prestigious
s of th
parently given up the principle of
free education on the college or
university level. Governor Rea¬
gan wouldn't recognize It If It ap¬
peared on his TV screen. And
that's precisely why he was
elected by such a large vote of the
people. So If the philosophy of
free education no longer has any
meaning, why should we Insist on
If there Is to be tuition, then
let us go all the way and raise it
to  the point where a first rate
Institution can be established on      r**J
the basis of sufficient funds drawn      *
from the pockets of our affluenj     ™
society. It's true that some of the
poorer students will be wiped out,
■..111 ;e
worthy of a great school. If
we show a Uttle hustle, we might
even get someone to donate
enough money for a fancy library.
The possibilities are staggering.
Bluesteln Plan for Higher Educa¬
tion (BPHE) can go to the Big
Ten. I recall that the students on
this campus elected Reagan in a
straw poll, and the voters have
certainly made their choice ob¬
vious. One of the groat, virtues of
a democracy Is that the people
get what they deserve.
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education. Nearly all have at¬
tended college and many are
working toward a masters degree
or doctorate. Several wUl con¬
tinue their education In the sem¬
inary or at law school after their
Peace Corps service.
Although the trainees shared
few like experiences before
coming to Fresno, their lives
have taken on a pattern which
does provide an idea of what
the Peace Corps trainee en-
Quartered in chicken coops and
trailers at the far end of cam¬
pus,  the  trainees  have created
Substituting throw rugs for wall-
to-wall carpeting and cardboard
for mattresses was Just part of
the Job. Paint, pictures and an
assortment of "homey* touches
have completed the interior deco-
than worry about interior deco¬
rating. The intensive training
program fUls his day from 7 a.m.
untU late Into the evening. Along
with studies of the United States
and India, language training In
Telegu, an Indian dialect, Is also
the college and the other from
Washington, D.C. Rather than
receive grades for their studies,
>   panels  and   Judged on an
equivalent to finals - final
le ration for acceptance as a
Corps   volunteer.  Those
re accepted will fly to India
of Andhra Pradesh, chiefly
capital    city,   Hy¬
derabad.
•  lesso
s agri¬
cultural fields. These Include
commercial vegetable gardening,
hybrid seed production and crop
protection. Seven men, trans¬
ferred from a training program
at the University of California at
Davis, are working In poultry,
as are the 14 women.
As with any study program,
the Inevitable tests take place
in Peace Corps programs, too.
Before the Christmas holidays,
each trainee was reviewed by
two assessment teams, one from
THE DAILY COLLF.GIAN—3
FSC coed trains
as Navy nurse
One of the most valuable asseU of the Peace
Corps trainees is their mall. George Keenan. from
New Jersey, distributes the day's mall to feUow
Village Post Office
corpmnen at the Peace Corps General Post OHIce.
Destination of the volunteers is Hyderabad. India.
(Dally CoUegian Photo by VivUn HunnlcuU)
Psychologists evaluate
Peace Corps trainees
By KAT1IY KIRSCH
•They can get technicalasslst-
nce In India, so It is more a mat-
ir of how the corpsmen relate
) the people, the conditions and
d Dr.
Joseph  Sachs, In explaining his
Job as a Peace Corps assessment
Dr. Sachs Is heading a group of
four Fresno SUte College psy¬
chology professors who will eval¬
uate the 68 Peace Corps trainees
on campus. Dr. Sachs divides his
time between being chlefpsychol-
oglst at the Fresno Veterans
Administration Hospital and the
Peace Corps program.
The college professors parti¬
cipating In the program Include
Dr. Arnold Cooper, assocUte
professor of psychology, Dr. Joel
Grossman, assistant professor of
psychology, Dr. Harrison Mad¬
den, FSC librarian, and Dr. Frank
Powell, assocUte professor of
psychology.
•Our Job Is to make'recom¬
mendations to the Peace Corps
selection board regarding quali¬
fications of trainees,* said Dr.
Sachs. "On the psychologists rec¬
ommendations, the selection
board decides whether to assign
trainees to the Indian project, re¬
assign them to another project or
reject them for service.*
The trainees are participating
In a broad training program,
learning the Telugu language, the
culture and history of the Indian
area in which they wUl be living,
and fruit and vegeUble production
and protection.
"Although they have gone
through the general Peace Corps
selecUon test, which Includes
biographical Information, the
major part of the selecUon pro¬
gram Is this Intensive training,*
Through individual interviews,
group sessions and reports, the
instructors evaluate the trainees.
Dr. Sachs emphasized 'assess¬
ment officers are counselors as
well as raters.* He said the staff
Is not trying to disqualify trainees
but to help as many as possible
to pass  the selecUon process.
A battery of aptitude and per¬
sonality teste given to trainees
Includes   a   vocational Interest
wum, the Minnesota Multiphraslc
Personality Test and a special
personnel evaluation.
•No test score, single Inter¬
view or single rating wUl dis¬
qualify trainees, but a consensus
of different sources is used,"
explained Dr. Sachs.
The psychology professors
spend eight hours a week with
the trainees. Each assessor has
10 or 12 trainees In his group
and for individual Interviews.
Each also sits In on at least
one other group besides hU own.
•We look for conditions of
boredom, frustration, signs of
discouragement and anxiety In an
unstructured situation," said Dr.
(ConUnued on Page 8, CoL 1)
At one time or another every
one has heard the slogan, 'Join
the Navy and see the world.*
Few people take action, although
most would like to see the world.
Janet Vivian Graham, a senior
nursing student at Fresno SUte
CoUege, did Join the Navy August
1965 and will graduate to June.
Her graduation will mark the
beginning of a career that could
possibly take her to hospitals
around the world, not only to the
glamorous ports but also to the
-hot spots like Viet Nam.
Miss Graham U one of 300
girls chosen by the Navy each
year to participate In tho Navy
Nurse Corps Candidate Program.
Under this program the commis¬
sioned ensign receives full tuition
at the college of her choice, plus
books, fuU pay and allowances.
The base pay for an ensign, with
allotments, is $440 per month.
After she graduates MUs
Graham will spend three years on
active duty. Her first assignment
will come after she goes to New¬
port, Rhode Island tor four weeks
at Officers Indoctrination School.
•I Joined the Navy to travel,*
says Miss Graham. 'I've never
been out of the Western SUtes so
I've asked to be stationed at
Bethesda, Maryland or Pen-
sacola, Florida. From there I
would like to go to the U.S.S.
Repose,  now  stationed off Viet
'Besides that, If there are any
two-seater Jets with one seat
empty I can hitch a ride anyplace
I want to go during my holidays."
■This is common, In fact the
Navy makes sure that people
planning to ride In Jets know how
to handle themselves at high al¬
titudes without oxygen and under¬
stand what to do if they have to
eject.'
into a chamber where they simu¬
lated altitudes of 40,000 feet. It
breathing Is that high. We used
oxygen masks and took them oft
to do experiments. They would
alter the elevation suddenly to
simulate sudden changes In the
altitude. It was really wild.
The second part was ejection
seat training. I was buckled Into
a seat and shot Into the air about
17 feet on a vertical track. It had
a gravity thrust of about eight
•g's.
■What 1 like about the Navy,'
said Miss Graham, *ls that where
ever you go, even if you've never
been there before, and don't know
all right.*
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