October 3.1983
THE TWIG
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Stanley speaks at Meredith
Or. Julian Stanley came to
Meredith on Wednesday, Sep-
tember 21 to give a brief lecture
on “The Mathematically Preco
cious Youth.” He talked about
the Turner Studies done on the
West Coast where longitudinal
studies kept up with children
geniuses to see what they
would devdop into. This study,
Stanley‘believes, did away with
stereotypes for these children,
and instead created a stereo
type for a superhuman.
Dr. Stanley says that his
program at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity 1$ essentially focused on
mathematically inclined youth.
He started a worid-wide search
for kids with a greater score
than 500 on the SAT. Those
children with these scores of
SOO attend camps provided by
the University. The children
wtK> score in the TOO's and
above get into Stanley’s pro
gram.
Stanley believes that there
are no ill effects involved with
these "accelerated students.”
They can go back to their same
sch^, but accelerate in the
area they concentrated on
during the study in the summer.
Ca/rwus A^emA^Hes
Profs let anger loose
in a *silly* ad
STEVENS PONT, WS
(CPS) - “We had nothing left to
lose,” remar1(s University of
VWsconsirv-Stevens Pcwnt
faculty member Pete Kelley, re
garding a controversial ad
which he and 31 fedow instruc
tors recently rsn in the Wall
Street JourrKd. '
After “trying all summer to
get people’s attention” for a
new system-wide salary freuze,
Kelley and his colleagues
decided to make their anger
public. They chipped in $150 for
the Aug. 31st ad in the
nationally circulated business
daily.
Tt>e two-sentence ad,
which ran in the “Situattons
Wanted" section of the Jour-
nat’s classifieds, was t>eadltned
“Professors," and read: “Many
professors in all academk: dis
ciplines are available for an
hor>est wage at universities with
commitment to quality higher
education. Contact detriment
chairs at University of
Wisconsin campuses.”
University administrators,
needless to say, “were not
pleased vtrith the ad,” says
Steve Schumacher, spokesman
for the 13campus Wisconsin
system.
And the Executive Faculty
Committeeat the main Madison
campus chastised the Stevens
Point instnjctore for claiming to
speak for the faculty members
on air campuses.
“Our own view is that the
advertisement is inappropriate
and self-defeating," the com
mittee sak} in a letter to the
Board of Regents. "We do not
believe most faculty n>embers
are prepared to write off the
future of their university as
readily as the ad implies.”
But Kelley, who is also
presid^t of the Stevens Point
chapter of The Association of
University of Wisconsin.
Faculty, says he and many
otheF instructors were serious
about looking. elsewhere for
employment.
"We have hundreds and
hundreds of angry faculty mem
bers in this state,” he says.
With minimal five- and
three- penitent raises over the
last several years, Kelley says,
“this year's freeze represents
Youth Unemployment Will
Probably Get Worse. Not
Better. The Ford Four}datlon
Says.
In a new report, it defies
predictions of youth jobless
ness easing as the baby boom
generation ages and leaves
more unskilled jobs open
during summers & other times.
Instead, it says employers
are demanding higher technical
skills for even temporary jobs,
thus shutting out non-degreed
people from them.
Stanford Students Deny
Robbing Fonner Congressman
Pete McCtoskey of His
Academic Freedom During His
Guest Professorship Lasf
Spring.
insult on top,of injury.”
Kelley says he placed the
ad “because we wanted to
speak to a rtattonal audience
and voice our concern that if
there’s not a constant commit
ment to quality education,
facufty will begin to leave.”
“But has it gotten them any
mor>ey7' quizzes Matthew
Finkin, chairman of the
American Association of
Universily Professors’ Commit
tee on Tenure and Collective
Bargaining.
Rnkin thinks the ad “was a
little silly.”
But that doesn't faze
Kelley, who says the ad at least
ttrou^ the anger out into the
open.
“Tfwre are times to do
outrageous, even silly things to
get attention,"he contends.
“Pressure is the currency in
which you coruJuct politics, and
I think, in fact I know, that we
have at least brought some
pressure on tt>e issue.”
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A faculty report this
summer condemr>ed the stu-
dent-run Guest Professorahip
Board for criticizing Mc-
Closkey’s lectures for “veering
away from the topic of Con
gressional decision-making and
Isecoming a course on American
foreign policy.”
The faculty recommended
withholding any academic
credit from guest professor
ships until students let lec
turers have more “latitude.”
Now the students. In a 15-
page reply, say the faculty was
wrong, and that they couldn't
see how paying McCloskey
more than he’d asked for - as
payment for a course they
hadn't wanted • could rob him
of classroom freedom to lec
ture.
They also found it
“mystifying” that McCloskey
had yet to pick up his $2000
dteck.
The Administration Fulfills hs
Promise To Limit Women's
Rights Lam At Governors Slate
& Chicago State Univs.
The Education Dept, has
stopped pursuing sex bias suits
against the schools because of
its new policy saying Title IX -
the law forbidding schools that
get federal funds to discrimi
nate on the t>asis of gender •'
applies only to the specific
prognm gettirtg the funds, not
to the school as a wtK>le.
Some Law Schools. After Years
Of Getting Too Many Ap
plications, Suffer A Drt^.
Minnesota, Georgetown &
Haward, among many others,
report receiving fewer applica-
ttons and acceptir>g fewer stu
dents this year.
Some admissions chiefs
attribute the decline to the well-
advertised new job ur>certainty
for young lawyers.
Librarians' Job Pro^jects
Improve, But Won’t Ftetum To
60's Heydays. The Education
Dept. Predicts.
It says there'll be nx>re jobs
opening in public libraries than
in campus libraries, but that the
number of jobs and new
librarians graduating should
stay equal through 1990.
Kansas State Says No • Sort Of
• To U.S. Forest Service
Request To Keep Army Ar
cheological Dig R^xxt From
StuderUs.
The Forest Service feared
students woukJ use the report
to plunder ttie neart>y Tuttle
Creek sHe of valuable artifacts,
and wanted the can.pu$ library
to take it off the shdves.
Librarians first refused, but
have now moved It to a section
from which it can’t be checked
out by scholarly vandals.
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