1969_02 The Daily Collegian February 1969

              Guest Editorial
2    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Thuraday, February 13, 1969
Academia and the Army
The barometer of the military life's appeal rises and falls from
year to year. This is especially so on campuses, where the in¬
tellectual atmosphere and Idealism magnify young people' responses.
Thus, taken In the context of the Vietnam war's unpopularity and
the anxlousness of faculties and administrations to find a common
meeting ground with dissident students, It should come as no sur¬
prise that colleges are stripping Reserve Officer Training Corps
courses of credit and ROTC instructors of faculty status. The most
recent colleges to take such action are Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard.
It Is tempting to recall that the debating societies of University
CoUege in London, Bristol University and Oxford resolved In 1933
that, should Great Britain go to war, they would under no circum¬
stances 'fight for King and country.* And of course, many of these
same youths fought bravery and with distinction and zealously when
the war with Germany came.
The earlier Incident Is recalled only to Illustrate that basic
patriotism, regardless of the passion and rhetoric and faculty votes
of the present moment, Is not an Issue In the hrd times ROTC
programs have come upon.
The present setbacks show that the military will have to seek some
kind of accommodation with the academic community. And with
the Vietnam war still going on, this will be hard to do. Already,
during the past five years, the number of colleges that required
students to take ROTC courses has dropped from 132 to 95. Total
enroUment has fallen from 159,849 to 150,982.
Despite the falloff in enrollment, the military has actually been
garnering more officers from the universities. Nearly 17,000 will
be commissioned this year, compared with 10,700 In 1967. In part
this Is probably due to the decision of many young men, with the
likelihood of military services facing them anyway, to choose to go
In  as  an  officer rather than drop out of the program and risk In-
The Army now gets more than 88 percent of Its officers from
ROTC and officer training programs. If the trend to deny credit for
ROTC courses sweeps the country (and it's hard to see how such
courses fit into the academic curriculum, anyway), students may
have to be paid to take them. This may be one step toward the
building of a volunteer Army. But It would also widen the serious
rupture between academia and the Pentagon.
Christian Science Monitor
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Editor was published as an editorial in the Feb. 11 Issue of the Daily
Collegian.
The article was not, as it should have been, labeled a 'Guest
Editorial" In no way reflecting the policy of The Dally Collegian
or the Fresno State College Association.
We will continue to publish Letters to the Editor but they must be
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Editorial  Page.
Editor
Letter.
Bitter struggle
Editor:
What started out to replace
John Walke as president pro
tern In the Student Senate last
Wednesday turned out to be a bit¬
ter struggle betv een an almost
majority of student senators dis¬
gusted with bombardment by spe¬
cial interest groups, appeals of
passing legislation or having
campus troubles by the senior
elected hierarchy, and other hog-
wash, and the power structure
who think that certain officers
should be retained because of
•senority*, or some other lame
brained excuse. One stated that
Business exec
is impressed
with department
Dickson HartweU, a consultant
to the Valley National Bank of
Arizona, visited the campus Just
prior to semester break to evalu¬
ate the performance of the busi¬
ness department's last execu-
tive-ln-residence.
James E. Patrick, vice chair¬
man of the bank represented by
HartweU, was the executlveTln-
resldence for a week in No¬
vember.
HartweU said that he was Im¬
pressed by the program In ihe
business department and the
quality of the students.
the majority thought John Walke
was doing a good Job. I do not
consider a 12-12 vote showing an
overwhelming majority favoring
the policies of John Walke, the
SDS he represents, nor the other
vested Interests.
The struggle last Wednesday
was an attempt by conservative
elements on the Student Senate to
get legislation and leadership that
would represent the Interests ol
the majority of the students at
Fresno State College, an effort
that almost succeeded. The move
was planned, as many of the peo¬
ple who voted for Fred Sheriff
were dissatisfied with the way
that things were being done, or
not done, In the Student Senate.
Since this effort has failed, and
some senators expressed the
feeling that the struggle now is
hopeless, we have but one re¬
course left. Spring elections are
coming up soon. It would behoove
each department or group who has
a representation on the Student
Senate to band together and put
up a slaje. with voter backing,
who win replace this distasteful
power structure and attempt to
pass the legislation that has been
frustrated this year and is still
badly needed on this campus.
Perhaps then some of the con¬
structive legislation that.needed
to be passed, and was pocketed,
moved on the 'agenda, or other¬
wise passed over, will become a
part of the needed changes at
Letters to the Editor
No pre registration
Editor:
In answer to Lloyd C. Blake's
letter to the editor published 11
February.  Unfortunately he did
but from the general tenure of
the letter he must be either fresh¬
man or low unit sophomore, as
from this element comes the
greatest number of gripes about
registration, and rightly So.
The Registration Committee of
the Student Senate is investigat¬
ing the present system. Last
semester the administration
came to the Student Senate ask¬
ing for three days to register
Instead of two. We agreed to
this, with the understanding that
pre-registration would be cur¬
tailed In order to afford a great¬
er opportunity for students to ob¬
tain the classes that they needed.
Prior to registration, we again
reiterated the demand to do away
with prereglstratlon, except for
physically handicapped.
The reason you can not get
many of these classes Is that
they are prereglstered, which
you claim to be the solution to the
registration mess. At present
art, home economics, some
English, engineering and Experi¬
mental School classes are all
prereglstered. You try to get
certain classes and they are
closed as early as three days
before they are officially being
registered. One Vietnamese stu¬
dent told me last fall three days
before registration that he could
not get Engineering 26 as It was
prereglstered and closed. Two
days before registration the
English class on story writing
for children was closed, pre-
registration, which you claim
should be demanded, Is not the
solution but part of the problem.
The greatest part of the
registration problem Is lack of
faculty and class room spaces.
One teacher In History U turned
down 35 students in one class and
1 21 in another, which he waa will¬
ing to teach, merelvbecause there
was no place to put the overflow,
each class already having 48
students.     Yet  this  Is a G.E.
requirement. Another portion of
the problem Is registered stu¬
dents, unable to get the required
G.E. classes, are trying sit Ins
on a space available basis In
upper division classes. In several
tried this, Just to get Into classes
and carry a full schedule.
Some of the problem may be
solved by the lowering of the G.E.
requirements to 40 semester
hours starting . next fall, and a
greater latitude of choice within
certain groups of classes. Yet
we will. sUll have the problem
next fall, as more people reach
, college age and want to go for
various reasons. Frankly, Fresno
State needs less prereglstratlon
and more faculty and classrooms
for the required subjects.
Sherman Lee Pompey
Senior Class Senator
Registration unfair
Editor:
Our present registration sys¬
tem is unfair to both students and
faculty; it allows no chance for
future planning and it takes too
much time. But that's not all.
What's worse Is that registra¬
tion Is unresponsive to the needs
of students. On the Tuesday
after registration, Robert Board,
our school registrar, reported
that 1200 classes sUII remained
open. At this time, many lower-
division students were still try¬
ing to get their minimum full
load of GE -■classes. The upper-
division students were frantically
dropping the classes they didn't
really want and trying to add
classes they needed.
How can this be? The reason
Is that classes are offered, with
no regard to the class needs of
students. May of the remaining
classes were in the schools of
Agriculture and Education when
classes in GE,  the Humanities
and the sciences. A year ago,
students Interested in improving
registration, a study of the sys¬
tem was Initiated. Pre-registra-
tlon was the alledged goal of this
study. But all that has come out
of It is our new priority sys¬
tem. In other words, the study
was a token gesture to appease
student demands, and only helped %
to perpetuate an obsolete sys¬
tem. We still must stand In Une
and struggle for class cards. For
example, a senior history major
must compete with all seniors,
graduate students, and over 300
registration workers for a His¬
tory 167 class which he needs for
his major. Under the present
system, these non-majors can
and do close such classes. And
as for the needs of lower-dlvision '»
students — that's why psychology ' '
majors wind up with a farm
mechanics class.
Pro-registration would allow
total responsiveness to student
needs. During the previous se¬
mester, students could spend ten
minutes or so with their advisors,
planning the next semester. These
plans could then be processed and
the departments make class
asslgnements with regard to the
needs of the • students. . Once
more, much time and frustration
could be saved by the eUrolna-
tlon ofthepost-reglstratlonrush.
Pre-registration Is the only sys¬
tem for a school the size of F.S.C.
But only the action of the stu¬
dents and faculty can make It a
reaUty. The study has gone on
long enough. Let's get pre-_
registration initiated by the FaU^
semester of 1969.
Lloyd C. Blake
Thuradar. February 13, 1969    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    3
Dr. Ratana Newsome
Desire to help, improve-around the world
A desire to help and to Improve
existing programs has been the
impetus which has propelled Dr.
Ratana Newsome all the way
around the world and led her even¬
tually to Fresno State College.
Dr. Newsome, an. associate
professor of nutrition and chair¬
man of the home economics de¬
partment, has been a frequent
contributor to research studies
and improvement programs In the
fields of diabetes and nutrition
for more than 10 years.
Dr. Newsome came to the
United States from her native
Thailand In 1953 to work on her
M.S. degree In dietetics at Flori¬
da State University. For two
years she traveled the United
States, visiting and observing
hospital dietary departments, re¬
search centers and agricultural
experimental stations.
After receiving her M.S. In
1955, she returned to Thailand
for two years to serve as the
department chairman of the food
and nutrition section of the
Technical  CoUege In Bangkok.
During this time. Dr. Newsome
organized a dietetics and nutrition
program, the first to be organized
in Thailand. „/
As a member of the Cultural
Affairs Committee of theCultural
Institute of Thailand, she served
as a government representative at
various conclaves, Including in¬
ternational conferences on food,
in   Japan,   the   Philippines  and
Poet-philosopher
to speak on
religious beliefs
Dr. John King-Farlow, poet-
philosopher, will speak on 'Re¬
ligious BeUefs and Rationality"
In Science 161 Friday at 12 p.m.
He Is being sponsored by the
philosophy department.
•Faith and the Life of Reason*
Is the title of a book written by
Klng-Farlow. He has Just pub¬
lished a book of poems entitled
•The Dead Ship*.
Dr. Klng-Farlow Is a citizen
of Britain, a graduate of Ox¬
ford and received his PhD from
Stanford.
He has written over 40 articles
and papers on divergent subjects
In the field of philosophy such as
metaphysics, reUglon and eplste-
Presently Dr. Klng-Farlow Is
a visiting professor at the Uni¬
versity of Alberta.
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 13, 1969
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R.llfiou. Cent.r).
John Ein«-Ferlow. poet-phlloeopher.
will ipt.k on "R.ll»ioui Beliefs end
RetloneUty"! Science 161.
In 1955, Dr. Newsome traveled
to Puerto Rico to observe the
nutrition education and dietetics
program. In 1957 she went to
Cambodia to observe their edu¬
cation programs.
She decided to return to Florida
State in 1957 to work tor her
doctorate degree In food and
nutrition. During this period she
received a graduate assistant-
ship In teaching and research.
She projected her research to
carotene metabolism and sub¬
sequently had her research pa¬
pers   pubUshed   In a scientific
During her tour years of doc¬
torate study. Dr. Newsome work¬
ed in the dietary departments of
Mt. Sinai Hospital In Miami
Beach, Florida and the W. T.
Edwards Hospital In Tallahassee,
Florida.
Dr. Newsome joined the FSC
faculty In 1861 and became depart -
ment chairman in 1966. The diet¬
etics program was Improved
by Increasing the number of
majors  from  two  In 1961 to 37
Last year, she coordinated a
program led by Miss Joanne
Wolfe, assistant professor of
home economics, In planning a
meny for an orphanage in Mexi¬
can. The project, under the aus¬
pices of the Knights of Columbus,
was designed to utilize the food
that Is donated to the orphanage
while serving to overcome nu¬
tritional deficiencies of the child¬
ren, age 4-14.' A dleteUcs
class assisted Miss Wolfe in
this  project.
Dr. Newsome also participated
in the Peace Corps  program at
FSC   last year, serving as an
Instructor in Protect Ceylon.
Her most recent project
involves research Into the pos¬
sibilities of using wine flavor
as a food flavoring agent. The
reserach will be financed by
the Vle-Del Company of Fresno,
which makes an alcohol-free
byproduct of brandy. Dr. New-
some  will be assisted in this
project by Miss Wolfe, Mrs.
Janet Jaschke, a borne eco¬
nomics Instructor and a graduate
being formulated by Dr. New-
some Is the utilization of wine
itself In diet therapy. Research
would be centralized around using
wine as a flavor enhancement In
special  diets.     The     project
Photog lectures
on photography
John Waggaman, a highly re¬
garded San Diego photographer
whose 'Portraits of Artists'
exhibition Is now on display In
the Fresno State CoUege Art
Gallery, will visit and lecture on
campus today at 4 p.m. In room
101 of the Industrial Arts Build¬
ing.
He WIU discuss his own work
with artists as well as his per¬
sonal views on the role of photo¬
graphy today.
His exhibit on display In the
Art Gallery consists of photo¬
graphs of various California
painters and sculptors. In most
Instances, the artists are photo¬
graphed with some of their work.
Waggaman has delved Into many
aspects of the art world. He help¬
ed found the Sandak Color Slide
Corporation and, under a Car¬
negie grant, has traveled exten¬
sively throughout the world pho¬
tographing-original works of art
in studios,  museums, and gal¬
leries.
His works have been pubUshed
in many art books, museum pub¬
lications and photographic maga-
Waggaman stresses the Im¬
portance of portraiture, saying,
■The portrait Is the oldest use
of the camera and Is still its
most   personal expression.
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