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The Pendulum Thursday, February 27, 1986 Volume XII, No. 19 Photo by Paul Harris IsTORIC VISITOR: Former President Gerald Ford answers (iference at Elon Tuesday. Governor Jim Martin (right) later introduced Ford in Alumni Gym where jird spoke on campaign spending and the arms race. Ford: Soviets need end to arms race Former President Gerald Ford told a crowd of about 4.000 here Tuesday night that the Soviet Union needs an end to the military arms race in order to prevent its ailing economy from collapsing. Speaking in Alumni Gym, Ford said he is optimistic that the American-Soviet summit talks later this year will be “productive" because the Russians are putting far too much money into stockpiles of weapons. ^ u u “I think it’s important that President Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev have agreed to meet again,” Ford said. “I think the media in this country raised everyone’s expectations of last year s summit too high.” He said it is essential to keep the dialogue between the two countries going. Describing himself as a “hawk,” Ford said he favors the concept of Reagan’s proposed “Star Wars” satellite defense system, but he cautioned against putting too much money into one supposedly “fail safe” defense system. “The French did that with the Maginot Line, he reminded his listeners. Among the other subjects Ford discussed were U.S. federal spen ding and campaign regulations. Ford said that he agrees with the idea behind the Graham-Rudman-Hollings Act which requires a balanced federal budget by 1991, but he objects to the fact that by implemen ting the act, members of Congress would be forfeiting their ability to make individual judgments on spending matters. Ford said that the nomination and election process for political of fice takes too long and costs too much. “Some mechanism ought to be devised to condense and make less costly, spending in the election process,” he said. Ford added that limitations should be placed on how and when people can contribute to campaigns. Ford is the first former president or president ever to have visited Elon College. Qculty to vote on mdster’s in educa.tion Frank Isley »s Editor he college faculty will vote orrow on a proposal to biish the second graduate |ree program , at Elon—a Iter's degree in education. |iting support for the degree in ■vey of area teachers, discus- |ns with public school fcrintendents and other in- Isted persons, the department ■education and psychology eloped a proposal for the |ree and saw it approved by the irriculum Committee last mh, [The emphasis for establishing the program came from teachers in surrounding school systems and requests from the communi ty,” said Dr. Chris White, vice president of academic affairs, “m much the same way as the master of business administration pro gram began.” The MBA proposal generated considerable controversy among the faculty, some of whom ques tioned whether Elon could muster the resources to provide top quali ty graduate instruction. Never theless, the MBA program was approved by the faculty in the spring of 1985. About 60 students have been taking MBA courses this the first for the year, program. “From time to time there have been people, particularly teachers, who have asked if or when Elon was going to have a master’s of education program, said Dr. Wes Brogan, chairman of the department of education and psychology. See related story, page 7 He said the department last summer conducted a survey of teachers in 11 school systems, asking whether they would be in terested in enrolling in a master of education program at Elon. “There was a strong positive response,” Brogan said. “This in turn prompted us to look at the areas in which we might offer graduate study, and on the basis of that, the depart ment proposed that the college of fer work in the areas of elemen tary education, middle grades education and physical educa tion,” As proposed, the program would be directed specifically toward classroom teaching. It is flexible enough in class times and sequencing of course offerings to enable a full-time teacher to com plete the degree in evening classes and summer school, Brogan said. “Everything indicates there will be a good number of faculty from public schools enrolled in the program,” he said. “With the career development program in the state public schools systems, this would offer some teachers an opportunity to advance.” “It will iso strengthen ties bet- I ween school systems and the col- I lege, which will make more field experiences available to undergraduate students,” Brogan said. See Masters, page 7 Building delayed Greek court seeks new site p. 4 Tourney time Elon faces Catawba tonight p. 6
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