SEPTEMBER 1972
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Education
NEW PROGRAMS;
Davis and Elkins College, W.
Va., will begin an “alternative
futures” program in September.
Students will be able to enroll in
the four-year college with the
option of seeking an associate
degree or higher. The length of
study can range from three to
five years. The students can
choose three tracks of learning
that vary from the traditional to
the self-directed models of study.
(Regional Spotlight, Vol. 5, No.
9, May, 1972.)
GI BENEFITS
By a unanimous vote the
Senate on Aug. 3 approved a bill
providing a 43 percent increase
in GI educational benefits (see
Vol. XXI, No. 29). Under it,
monthly payments to single
veterans would be raised from
$175 to $250, for childless
married veterans from $205 to
$297, and for married veterans
with a child from $230 to $297.
The bill (HR 12828) was returned
to the House, which earlier voted
for a 14 percent increase in
benefits.
Higher Education and
National Affairs, Yol., 21, No. 30,
August 4, 1972.
GUARD, RESERVE OPTIONS
TO BE GIVEN INDUCTEES
The Selective Service System
has announced that men
scheduled for induction after
July 1 may enlist or be appointed
in the National Guard or
Reserves after receipt of their
induction orders. Men also will
be permitted to join regular
branches of the armed forces for
a minimum of two years active
duty if such programs are of
fered.
Higher Education and
National Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 26,
June 30, 1972.
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Students at the University of
Florida have joined together to
establish the first federally
chartered credit union on a
college campus. Participation
on all committees is limited to
students, who are allowed to
make unsecured loans (10,000
has been loaned since
February), build savings, and
buy shares (20,000 have been
sold).
(Regional Spotlight, Vol. 5, No.
9, May, 1972.)
LABOR DEPARTMENT SAYS
NEW EQUAL PAY SECTION
COVERS 15 MILLION
The Department of Labor
estimates that 15 million
executive, administrative and
professional employees and
outside salesmen will be covered
by the equal pay sectioh of the
new omnibus education act
signed into law June 23.
“Women will benefit more than
men in the newly covered oc
cupations because, where sex
discrimination is found, it is
nearly always women who are
discriminated against,” As
sistant Secretary Richard J.
Grunewald said. Grunewald
directs the Employment Stan
dards Administration (ESA),
which administers the Equal
Pay Act requiring the same pay
for men and women doing
substantially equal work.
Executive, Administrative and
professional employees and
outside salesmen previously
were exempted from coverage of
the Equal Pay Act. That
exemption was removed by a
section 906 (b) (1) - of the sex
discrimination prohibitions in
the education act (Public Law
92-318.
Grunewald said the Labor
Department will issue promptly
legal interpretations of the
Equal Pay Act as applied to the
newly covered occupations, will
inform employers of their new
responsibilities and will en
courage equal rights groups to
provide Wage and Hour Division
field offices with specific in
formation about violations of the
act. Equal Pay Act in
vestigations are conducted by
nearly 1,000 Wage and Hour
Division compliance officers
located in 350 cities.
Higher Education and
National Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 26,
June 30, 1972.
U OF MINNESOTA TO
DROP USE OF FAILING
GRADES
The University of Minnesota
reported this week it will initiate
a new grading system next fall
eliminating F grades. Under the
system, a student’s official
transcript will record only the
work he has completed
satisfactorily and for which he
has received credit. An N grade
- meaning no credit and which in
turn will replace F, I and W
grades - will be kept by the
university on an internal record
which will be sent to the student
and his college but will be erased
when he graduates.
Students will have a choice of
the A-B-C-D-N system or the SrN
system which is regulated by the
university’s colleges and is
designed to encourage students
to enter new fields without the
pressure of grades. The keeping
of an official transcript and an
internal record will be phased in
over the next three years as the
transcripts are computerized.
(Higher Education and
National Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 18,
May 5, 1972.)
Aliunm From Page 5
Harris-Teeter Supermarkets in
Charlotte. Keith Teague is with
IRC Boone (N.C.) .Division of
TRW, Inc. Joe Mertes is a sales
agent with H. Allen Autry &
Associates in Winston-Salem.
John Mayoka is with Alloy
Unlimited in West Babylon, N.C.
Richard Wright is a
management trainee with
Turnstyle in Westmont, 111.
Robert Orr is junior accountant
and office manager for E.W.
Muller Contracting C6. in
Hampton, Va. Thomas Cbila is
assistant customer service
manager . with Wheaton Glass
Co. in Vineland, N.J. Michael
Lawter is a supervisor with
Burlington Industries in St.
Pa.uls, N.C. Congratulations and
best wishes to Dianne Marie
Klinker and Richard Hoefling
who were married August 12,
1972 in Holy Comforter Catholic
Church in Charlottesville, Va.,
also to Wanda Reinhardt and
Joe Mertes, who were married in
Belmont Abbey Cathedral
August 19, 1972.
’72- Stephen Sullivan is
studying veterinary medicine at
Oklahoma State University.
Robert Ehrman is loan ad
ministrator with Keyes-Penn
Mortgage Co. in Miami. He and
Patricia (S.H.) are expecting
their first child in November.
Profile From Page 3
Walt has volunteered his
services to head up a program in
which law students will
represent indigent tenants in
Philadelphia. This summer he
has published a revision of a part
of Moore’s Federal Practice,
which is the standard treatise on
federal civil procedure.
Professor Taggart somehow
found enough time and energy
this summer to attend a month’s
institute in Economics for Law
Professors. Selected by the
institute, he was one of twenty to
attend.
When asked why he chose
teaching rather than practice,
Walt answered that “It provided
an opportunity to do scholarly
legal research to focus on the
impact of legal institutions on
society. Additionally the offer
from Villanova seemed more
interesting than the one I had to
practice in San Francisco.” He
remarked that he was happy
teaching. Totally committed to
the study of law, he said “one
essential element in training
lawyers is to develop in them the
ability to evaluate critically
what people say - that is, that
ability to cut through rhetoric
and get at the heart of a matter
and accomplish something.
There is a need to view society’s
problems in that manner.”
Walt’s hobbies are tennis,
golf, and skiing. He’s married,
having met his wife Joell at
Rosement College in Rosemont,
Pennsylvania. They have a one
year old son, Andrew Reed, and
live in Redleaf Manor, Wyn-
mewood, Penn..
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