British noblemen to laylaw school cornerstoneby Steve AppelThe Right Honorable Viscount Kilmuir of Creich, LordHigh Chancellor of Great Britain, Will lay the cornerstoneof UC’s new $3.5 million law school, on Wednesday, May28, at 3:30.Also present will be ChiefJustice Earl A. Warren, of theUS Supreme Court, as well asChancellor Lawrence A. Kimptonand members of the faculty andboard of trustees.Following the ceremony, LordKilmuir and Chief Justice Warrenwill address the faculty, adminis¬tration, and trustees at a dinnerto be held in the grand ballroomof the Palmer house.On Tuesday, May 27, Lord Kil¬muir will meet informally withundergraduate students and fac¬ulty in the Ida Noyes library, at2:15.Viscount Kilmuir assumed histitle and position in October 1954.As Lord High Chancellor, he isjudicially equivalent to Chief Jus¬tice of the US Supreme Court.A brother-in-law of actor RexHarrison, Lord Kilmuir served asdeputy chief prosecutor duringthe Nurenberg war crimes trialsin 1945-46. He was chairman ofthe Conservative party’s commit¬ tee on post-war reconstruction in1943 and was his party's repre¬sentative to the Council of Europeheld in Strasbourg in 1949.The new law school building, lo¬cated on the Midway between B-Jand the American Bar Center, willconsist of four wings:• An auditorium-courtroom wingwhich includes a 475-seat court¬room and an auditorium accom¬modating 600;• A classroom-seminar wing con¬sisting of four classrooms, fiveseminar rooms, and student lock¬ers.• A library-office wing featuringthe law reading room, stacks ac¬commodating 600,000 volumes, li¬brary offices, and headquartersfor the Law Review;• An administrative • legal aidwing which will include generaladministrative offices and spaceavailable for legal counsellingwork.Eventually, pending completionof the new mens dorms, Burton-Judson courts will be transformedinto the law school dormitory.J. Newman to direct ma j ChicagoM arcronVol. 66, No. 35 University of Chicago, Friday, May 23, 1958housing & activitiesJames E. Newman, director of Burton-Judson courts hasbeen appointed director of student activities and director ofhousing effective the summer quarter, dean of students JohnP. Netherton announced.Newman replaces his wife, Mary Alice Newman, who willassume another administrative post.In addition to his post as director of B-J, the new student University theatre will hold tryouts for its summer series of classical plays, Sunday after¬activities director is an instructor in the College history de- noon from l to 5 in Hutchinson court. Anyone who’ll be in town this summer may attend,partment and College examiner and adviser. This year’s schedule contains three plays. Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” directed by Mar-, ,,, , 4 vin Phillips, will be presented July 1-6 and 10-13. Richard D’Anjou will produce a musicalversion of Moliere’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid,” July 17-20 and 24-27. Finally, Nor-bert Hruby will direct Shelley’s obscure poetic tragedy “The Cenci,” which will be seenfrom July 31 till August 3,To hold tryouts Sundayfor Court Theatre playsNext Maroon June 6This Is the last issue of the Maroon until after the College and again August 7-10.examination period.The next issue, the annual review of the year •— alumni re¬union edition, is tentatively scheduled for June 6. Deadline forcopy, advertising and calendar notices is Tuesday, June 3at 3 pm.wfm f ; Ws ""a MSi$ I Because few student actorsare around during the summer,Court theater is open to anyonewith interest and some modicum oftalent, UT’s director said. Actors,singers and technical workers areall needed in great numbers, andJ. Jeuck rejoins facultyof UC business schoolJohn E. Jeuck, former dean of the school of business and currently professor of businessadministration at Harvard university, will rejoin the business school faculty next fall asthe Robert Law professor of business administration and director of business research, DeanW. Allen Wallis of the school announced this week.As director, Jeuck’s job will be to increase the usefulness of the business school s researchto the business community, according to Wallis. His purpose will be to make the businessschool faculty more fully :aware of the problems of busi- for executives with extensive bus-the *ness exPerience-ness and to increase In 1950, he co-authored “Cata-awareness of businessmen of the j0gues and Counters, a History offaculty’s research activities and Sears, Roebuck and Company” forcapacities.Jeuck, who received his AB,MBA, and PhD degrees from Chi¬cago, taught marketing in theschool from 1946 to 1955 when he which he received a nationalaward from the American Mar¬keting association. He also helpedto edit “Readings in Market Or¬ganization and Price Policy.”Jeuck holds memberships in thewent to Harvard. He served as American Economic association,^dean of the business school from1952 to 1955. While at Chicago, healso served as a director of theexecutive program of businesseducation conducted by the school the American Marketing associa¬tion, the Business Historical so¬ciety, Executive Program club,Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kap¬pa Psi. should make their presence feltthis Sunday, he added. If youcan’t make these tryouts, specialappointments may be made bycalling University theater, ext.1062.The Shakespeare work whichwill open the season needs animmense cast. Marv Phillips, di¬rector of University theater, stat¬ed that he will have places forsome fifty actors. Due to the na¬ture of classical drama, however,most of the parts can only befilled by males."The Imaginary Invalid” is be¬ing set to music by UC composerWilliam Mathieu with lyrics byJeanne Phillips, announced DickD’Anjou, associate director of UT.Mathieu wrote the music for‘Pheasant Under Glass’ in lastyear’s ‘Tonight at 8:30' series,and some of the music for therecent Blackfriars’ productionJeanne Phillips has assisted inmany UT productions and is aformer editor of the Chicagomagazine.This play, according to D’An¬jou, will need singers, actors, anda multitude of those rare peoplewho can do both — well.Norbert Hruby, who is directorof University broadcasting andwho directed last year’s “DoctorFaustus,” has selected a rarely-performed play to complete theseries. He regards Shelly’s "TheCenci” as one of the greatest Eng¬lish dramas, but still it is rarelyproduced and has never been suc¬cessful. In short, he finds it awork of the "challenging” type.All three directors will be onhand Sunday to give individual readings to all who come. In caseof rain, the readings will be heldin Mandel.Court theater was conceivedfour years ago, opening with ahighly successful all-Moliere sea¬son. Since then there have beenmany notable productions, includ¬ing “The Man Who Married aDumb Wife,” "Doctor Faustus”and "Salome.”Court productions are presentedin the round, using the smallfountain in the middle of the courtas the center of the stage, butthey by no means confine them¬selves to this area. Every con¬ceivable portion of that corner ofthe campus has been used somehow in some production, fromthe roof of the coffee shop up tothe bells in Mitchell tower. Actors,as of yet, have not been askedto scale the walls of Mandel in are-creation of a medieval battle-seige, but never be sure.All performances are in the eve¬ning, and no rehearsals are calledon week-days, so the theater needno interfere with any summerjobs.Lock your bikeStudents, faculty and em¬ployees are urged to lock theirbicycles securely when theyleave them on the quadrangle,A. J. Eidson, chief of campuspolice, announced.Eidson stated that therehave been an increased num¬ber of thefts in the past fewweeks.Jolin E. Jeuck Complete ECUE Reportbegins page 3—-. ,r ... ,4 — —GAD FLYECUE creates strange bedfellowsA brilliant surgeon oncesaid that it was foolish to curehigh bipod pressure by ampu¬tating the heart. Unfortunately,the executive committee on un¬dergraduate education seems tohave overlooked this maxim whenit suggests cutting out the Col¬lege faculty to cure inter-facultydissension.Of all the parts of our recentexperiment in undergraduateeducation, the one most worthsaving was the concept of anautonomous faculty primarilyconcerned with building andteaching an integrated curricu¬lum in general education.As long as we retain such afaculty, we have the means tocontinue offering a good generaleducation—whether in eight cour¬ses or 14. Without it, we can onlyfollow in the steps of the Collegeof Arts and Sciences of PodunkState univerity.Rather than curing Inter-facultyrivalry for the students’ time,ECUE has suggested merelyshifting it into intra-faculty dis¬sension. ECUE has the power toend the fighting by designing newprograms and defining areas ofjurisdiction. Instead it recom¬mends dismembering one of thearmies and placing that army’ssoldiers in new barracks with thetroops of the opposition in thehope that these strange bed fel¬lows will breed fair-haired chil¬dren.IN PART IV of the report, un¬der the heading “Examinations,”ECUE makes its only referenceto the high-important problem ofmixed College and divisional cour¬ses. By suggesting such a changein grading procedure (after dis¬avowing any attempt to meddlein the basic ideas of the college courses) ECUE demonstrates adisregard for—br misunderstand¬ing of— the objectives of theCollege.A year long course primarilydesigned to develop intensiveskills and understanding of con¬cepts rather than extensive fac¬tual knowledge must test the stu¬dent after the conclusion of thecourse.Certainly there may be somevaluable changes to be made inthe present College grading sys¬tem, especially for some individ¬ual courses. However, any generalchange in the College grading sys¬tem which gives enough statureto quarterly grades to allow themto compete with divisional gradesmust, ipso facto, destroy a primeprinciple of the present methodof general education.DIRECTLY RELATED to theproblem of mixed programs is thequestion decreasing level of per¬formance in undergraduate cour¬ses. European schools long agofound the value of placing “theo¬retical college” courses prior toextensive work in a special field.And at least one of the divisions(though it may not publicly admitit) has already begun to miss theserious and capable students thatthe College once produced.The obvious solution to boththese problems is to separatetemporarily divisional and Col¬lege courses. This has many addi¬tional advantages including pos¬sible improvement of the extra¬curricular life of the student, op¬portunity for both College anddivision to better relate and re¬align their respective course se¬quences, and redevelopment of acommon student interest in theintellectual challenge of the Col¬lege. Yet, after a number of high-sounding phrases about the val¬ues of a "common core” curricu¬lum, ECUE proposes for a largenumber of students merely toscatter eight courses through thestudent’s four years of appren¬ticeship to a division.THUS, IN attempting to meetthe five problems listed in thefirst part of the report, ECUEhas failed to cope with three atleast equally important consider¬ations:1. The need for an autonomousgeneral education faculty.2. The need for setting juris¬dictional limits regarding the stu¬dent’s program, in order to re¬duce inter (or intra) faculty dis-sention.3. Satisfactory resolution of theconflicting aims and methods be¬tween College and divisionalcourses.Amendments to the ECUE re¬ port which consider the aboveobjections might follow theselines:L The (old) College shall havesole jurisdiction over the student’sprogram for his first two years.2. In the case of BA student theCollege shall have final decisionon the choice of electives by thestudent in his third year exceptfor divisional prerequisites as inpart II of the report. The divisionshall set the requirements for thestudent’s fourth year (exceptingthe tutoral BA).3. BS students shall enter thedivision after their second year;the division shall design the pro¬gram for the third and fourthyears; no BS program need takemore than two yearn in the divi¬sion (excluding calculus).4. No student shall take division¬al courses in his first two yearsexcept where placement resultsleave an incomplete course-loadcago iIntermittently during the summer quarter, by the publisher, the Chicago Maroon,Ida Noyes hall, 1212 East 59th street, Chicago 37, Illinois. Telephones: MI 3-0800,extensions 3265 and 3266. Distributed without charge on campus, subscriptionsby mail, 93 per year. Office hours: 1 to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Deadlinefor all material 3 pm, WednesdayEditor-in-chiefGary MokotoffManaging editorRobert J. Halasz Associate editorRochelle M. Dubnow In the second year. This para¬graph and the preceding may ne-cessitate the replacement of Math150 with the equivalent of the oldMath 2.5. A permanent committee sim-ilar to ECUE shall consider andrecommend programs for such“generic educational problems”listed in the fifth point of “de¬fects” listed in part I.Under this arrangement itwould be possible to have — interms of a four-course normalload — an eight-course generalstudies program plus Math 2 andforeign language. Since foreignlanguage is considered a pre-divisional requirement, and thechoice of language, if any, de¬pends on the choice of majorfield, the BA student could takea language in his third year. TheBS student can be expected toplace out of two courses (eg. thepresent Math 1 and Nat Sci 1).Thus a typical BS programyvould be: two years in the Col¬lege including Math 2 and a for¬eign language followed by:Biological sciencesHI Bio 201-2-3Physics ABC or 101-2-3Chem 105-6-7IV nine divisional coursesPhysics •III Math 203-4, Physics 201Physics 1012-3Chem 105-6-7IV Physics 215-16-57225-6-7235-6-7One can see that these pro¬grams will also give the divisionsa much-needed opportunity to re¬late and realign their undergrad¬uate courses.UllrNews editorMary FinkleSports editorDon CosgroveTO SUBLETfromJune 15 to Oct. 1 •Four room furnished apartment,two blocks from campus, rent rea¬sonable.MU 4-2867 COLLEGE GIRLSStimulating, permanent public re¬lations — personnel position inlovely loop offices. Professionaltraining for mature, responsiblegirl. Class starting June 17th.$300 - $325. 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Movers and Light Hauling <►| LU 4-TOW 4BOR DON EDr. KURT ROSENBAUMOptometristEyes ExaminedGlasses FittedContact LensesVisual Training1132 E. 55th St.HY 3-8372Special Offer 4 'f25c discount an any pi***Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., OnlyFree delivery toIfC StudentsTerry’s Pizza1519 E. 63rd Ml 3-40452 • CHICAGO MAROON • May 23, 1958imol-Dr-ro-nsre-id-415 Reprint ECUE report verbatimPART ONEIntroduction and' Summary of recommendations U ' |List members of ECUEIn April 1957 the council of the University Senate authorized creation of the executivecommittee on undergraduate education. This body was to exercise "general supervision ofall undergraduate programs, with respect to the detailed elaboration of policy." The councildelegated, to it authority ", . . to initiate program adjustments, establish schedules for pro¬gram revisions, approve new programs, resolve conflicts, in general act upon problems ofpolicy as they arise so as to bring about continuing improvement in the pattern of under¬graduate education."Meeting throughout the past year, the committee first reviewed the current undergraduateprograms. This review convinced us that the many points of difficulty are not mere unre¬lated particulars. Rather, most of them stem from a few general curricular problems the res¬olution of which is hindered by present faculty organization.The University’s present pro¬gram of undergraduate educationwas arrived at by some forty dif¬ferent treaties between sovereignfaculties concerned with differentparts of the whole.It suffers from the followingdefects: numerous ways. For this reasonthe committee urges that the re¬port be assessed as a whole.The recommendation may besummarized as follows:• THE AMOUNT and contentof prescribed work in general edu¬cation differ fortuitously fromone program to next.• ACCELERATION in generaleducation is almost impossible inmost degree programs, and place¬ment procedures are not yet be¬ing applied to all of the intro¬ductory specialized requirementsto which they are appropriate.• THE PRESENT degree pro¬grams differ widely, even in theirintroductory components, and con¬tain too little room for electives.Many students must commit them¬selves to a major field when theyenter the University, and thosewho change their major fieldsmay face problems usually en¬countered only in transferring toanother institution.• WHEN THE joint programswere first constructed, they con¬sisted, almost inevitably, of partsselected from the old three andone-half year program of generaleducation and the first parts ofthe three-year master’s degreeprogram. While some of the pro¬grams have moved toward great¬er flexibility and better articula¬tion of parts, progress has beendiscouragingly slow in most cases.• PRESENT FACULTY organ¬ization hinders rather than helpsthe further development of liberalundergraduate education. No per¬son or group is now responsiblefor such generic educational prob¬lems as the relation of generaland specialized students, specialprograms for superior students,unifying baccalaureate examina¬tions, the development of writingability beyond that achieved inthe required course in composi¬tion, rules for awarding degreeswith honors. Still less does thereexist a body capable of modifyingin the light of experience policiesaffecting undergraduate educa¬tion as a whole. • A NEW FACULTY should beestablished, to be called the Col¬lege faculty, and so constituted asto assure a genuinely representa¬tive consideration of all aspectsof undergraduate education for'which it has responsibility. (SeePart II, Section 1.)• THIS UNDERGRADUATEfaculty should be empowered todetermine the requirements forthe degree of bachelor of arts andto determine the requirements ingeneral education for the degreeof bachelor of science. can complete within this span.Students wishing to enroll in four-year programs which requiremore than two years of special¬ized work (previous paragraph)should be admitted to such pro¬grams (a) upon entrance if theycan demonstrate the preparationnecessary to complete them infour years, or (b) as soon as theyhave achieved such preparation.(See Part II, section 4.)• THE UNIVERSITY shouldreaffirm its policy of acceleration.Placement standards should besuch as to impose educationallysimilar requirements upon all stu¬dents. (See Part II, section 5.) Executive committee on undergraduates education (ECUE)consists of nine members of the faculty with Chancellor Lawr¬ence A. Kimpton as chairman.Of the nine members, four hold appointments in the di¬visions, three in the College and two hold joint College-divisional appointments.Members of the first group are Joseph J. Ceithaml, associateprofessor of biochemistry and dean of students of the biologicalsciences division; Corwin D. Edwards, professor of business;Norman H. Nachtrieb, professor, department of chemistry;and C. Herman Pritchett, professor, department of politicalscience.The three College faculty members are Eugene P. Nor¬throp, William Rainey Harper professor of mathematics andexaminer; Gerson M. Rosenthal, Jr., assistant professor ofnatural sciences and adviser; and Charles W. Wegener,associate professor of humanities and chairman of theOMP staff.Those holding joint appointments are William C. Bradbury,associate professor of sociology (College and department ofsociology), secretary of the council on tutorial studies andadviser; and George J. Metcalf, professor and chairman, de¬partment of Gerfnanic languages and literature and professor,department of linguistics and College.• PRIOR TO the assumptionby the new College faculty of theresponsibilities described above,all undergraduate programs of¬fered by the University should bebrought into conformity with oneor the other of two patterns:a. The pattern of study leadingto the degree of bachelor of artsshould consist of two years ofwork in general education, oneyear of work in a single area ofconcentration, and one year offree and guided electives. (SeePart II, section 3a.)b. The pattern of study leadingto the degree of bachelor of sci¬ence should consist of two yearsof work in general education andwork in a single area of concen¬tration. The concentration require¬ments (including prerequisites)should normally not exceed twoyears, but, in fields in which rec¬ognized standards require addi¬tional work, they may include upto a maximum of two and one-half years. (See Part II, section3b.)• EVERY PROGRAM leadingto the bachelor’s degree shouldbe designed to be completed with¬in the limits of four academicyears at normal work loads. Allentering students should be en¬rolled in programs which they • A DEAN of undergraduatestudents should be appointed,with authority to ensure that allundergraduate students receiveadequate counselling at everystage of their education. (SeePart II, section 6.)Part II of this report containsthe committee’s legislative recom¬mendation in detail. Part III, ex¬planatory notes concerning therecommendations, and Part IV,lines of action commended to thenew College faculty and to allfaculties responsible for bache¬lor’s programs, are not proposedfor legislative action and are sta¬pled in a separate gathering. have all the powers common tofaculties and, specifically, shouldbe empowered• to determine the requirementfor the degree of bachelor of artsand to recommend all candidatesfor the degree;• to determine the require¬ments in general education forthe degree of bachelor of scienceand, jointly with the division ofthe biological sciences or the di¬vision of the physical sciences, torecommend all candidates forthat degree. tees which deem unavoidable thedesignation of frojn one to threequarter-courses as prerequisitesshould so indicate in describingthe requirements of the area ofconcentration.(Editor’s Note.) All commentsin italics were made by membersof ECUE at a special Maroon con¬ference last Wednesday. They areclarifying comments on the actu¬al report.The ECUE report was voted onas a whole and received the unan¬imous approval of the commit¬tee’s members. This does not nec¬essarily mean that the entire com¬mittee approved the report downto the last letter, but just that thecommittee felt that everyone hadan opportunity to voice their opin¬ion and the report should there¬fore go to the council for discus¬sion Patterns of degreerequirements andagencies of adjustmentPrior to the assumption by thenew College faculty of the re¬sponsibilities described in SectionII (the previous section) above,all undergraduate programs nowoffered by the University shouldbe modified by existing facultiesso far as may be necessary tobring them into conformity withone or the other of two patterns,as follows:PART TWOLegislative recommendation in detailInstead of using its executivemandate, the committee recom¬mends that the University meetthese difficulties by adopting cer¬tain broad curricular forms for allits undergraduate programs andthat a new faculty be organizedto assume responsibility for fur¬ther development.The committee does not ask theUniversity to subscribe to any ed¬ucational dogma. Instead, wehave sought, first, to settle majorissues inherited from the past onterms which are educationallysensible and, so far as possible,acceptable to the several existinginterests; and second, to providefor an institutional environmentin which fresh educational think¬ing and creative development canoccur subject to appropriate safe¬guards. With respect to bothobjectives, the committee hasreached agreement only after pro¬longed consideration of alterna¬tives.The principal recommendationsof the committee depend uponand complement one another in New facultyA NEW FACULTY should beestablished to supersede the pres¬ent College. The new facultyshould be headed by a dean andshould be a ruling body as definedby the statutes of the University,except as the statutes may re¬quire modification to provide forthe special membership condi¬tions recommended below.THE NEW FACULTY shouldbe called the College.INITIALLY, the new Collegeshould include as members:• all persons whose appoint¬ments on the date of the establish¬ment of the new faculty describethem as members of the presentCollege faculty, and• additional persons whose ap¬pointments on the date of the es¬tablishment of the new facultydescribe them as members of thedivisional faculties, as follows:a) Such persons should numbermore than eighty and fewer thanone hundred.b) The number from any onedivision should be at least fifteenand not more than thirty-five. c) These members should be ap¬pointed by consultation amongthe deans concerned: the deans ofthe several divisions, the dean ofthe present College, and the deanof faculties.d) The appointment of a mem¬ber of a division to the new fac¬ulty in this way should not affecthis divisional identification in allmatters relating to promotion andremuneration.Divisional appointments will bemade by the dean of the division,the dean of the faculties and thedean of the present College. Alldivisional deans and the lattertwo will determine how many per¬sons from each division will bemembers of the new College. THE PATTERN of study lead¬ing to the degree of bachelor ofarts should consist of two yearsof work in general education, oneyear of work in a single area ofconcentration, and one year ofwork in guided and free electives,• Initially, requirements inarea of concentration should bedetermined:a) for each current joint BAprogram, by the appropriate de¬partment or committee.b) for the BA program in tu¬torial studies, by the present Col¬lege.• Initially, the year of workin guided and free electives shouldbe defined, subject to the follow¬ing rules, by the agencies indi¬cated:a) In every case, at least threeone-quarter courses should be sub¬ject to unqualified free electionby the students.b) In no case should more thanthree one-quarter courses be des¬ignated by prerequisite to a par¬ticular area of concentration.Those departments and commit¬ c)With respect to courses notcovered by (a) and (b) above, thestudents should be free (1) tochoose from among courseswhich have been approved as in¬tellectually relevant to his totaldegree program, and (2) to pro¬pose for election, subject to hisadviser’s approval, other courseswhich he believes to be relevantor which will enable him to pur¬sue systematically a secondary in¬tellectual interest. Such adjust¬ments of existing requirements asmay be needed in order to provideinitial lists of approved fields orcourses shall be made (1) by thedivision corresponding to the sev¬eral areas of concentration, forthe joint BA programs now ad¬ministered by the College.THE PATTERN of study lead¬ing to the degree of bachelor ofscience should consist of twoyears of work in general educa¬tion, and work in a single fieldof concentration, the latter to bedetermined by the appropriate de¬partments in the division of thebiological sciences and the divi¬sion of the physical sciences.Concentration requirements, in¬cluding prerequisites and elec¬tives, should normally include upto two years of work, and in nocase should exceed two and one-half years of work, at normalloads. Concentration require-ments in excess of two yearsshould be prescribed only for thosefields in which generally recog¬nized standards of pre-profession¬al competence at the bachelor ofscience level demand such pre¬scription.INITIALLY, the two-year gen¬eral education component of allbaccalauareate programs shouldbe defined by the present College.This component should includeprovision for work in Englishcomposition, foreign language andmathematics.It was the opinion of the com¬mittee that these three cout'sesAFTER ITS establishment, thenew College should determine itsown membership rules, relying asfar as possible upon the normalprocesses of appointment in theUniversity, but supplementingthese processes by such changesin the numbers and identities ofpersons specially appointed (thosein the divisions, as explainedSG sponsors hearingStudent Government will sponsor an open hearing concern¬ing the report of the executive committee on undergraduateeducation, Tuesday, at 7:30 pm in Mandel hall.Members of ECITE and students on the executive councilof SG will act as panel members. Questions from the assem¬bly will be accepted. above—Ed.) as may, in the judg¬ment of the faculty and the deansconcerned, be required to ensurerepresentative consideration ofthe problems for which the fac¬ulty is responsible.Powers of thenew facultyTHE NEW COLLEGE should nONTyAdministration releases ECUE reportMay 23/ 1958 • CHICAGO MAROON # 3ECUE cont'd(from previous page)are basic areas to which the stu¬dents should be exposed. It is upto the netv College faculty to de¬cide what they wish the remain¬ing time in the core curriculumto be.Four-year programsEVERY PROGRAM leading tofhe bachelor’s degree should bedesigned to be completed withinthe limits of four academic years(twelve quarters) at normal workloads.ALL ENTERING studentsshould be enrolled only in degreeprograms which, in view of theirqualifications, they can completewithin four academic years atnormal work loads.SINCE SOME programs willcontinue to be offered which, be¬cause of the volume of specializedrequirements, can be completed infour years only by unusually wellprepared students, the followingrules should govern enrollment insuch programs:• An entering student shouldbe admitted to such a programonly if, by virtue of advancedstanding or accreditation by place¬ment tests, the course require¬ments which he must fulfill forthe bachelor’s degree will not ex¬ceed four academic years at nor-,mal work loads.• A student not admittable atentran-ce to such a programshould be permitted to transfer toit as soon as he has done suffi¬cient work to enable him to com¬plete the program within fouracademic years at normal workloads.The report does not contain anyspecific time for curriculumchanges to go into effect. This is left up to the discretion of thenew College. ECUE however stat¬ed that if the report is adopted atthe June 3 meeting of the council,the new curriculum might be ineffect this fall.This does not necessarily meanthat all new students will be re¬quired to take the new curricu¬lum. Instead they might have achoice between the present de¬grees and the new plan.(Editor’s note: After the Col¬lege changes were made in 1953,students entering in September,1953, were given the choice be¬tween the “Hutchins” BA and thejoint-degree programs. The entire1954 entering class was requiredto take the new program.)Placement, accelerationThe University should affirmthe following policies, for theguidance and direction of all fac¬ulties concerned with undergrad¬uate education.ALL PROGRAMS leading tothe bachelor’s degree should beso designed and implemented thatunusually well prepared enteringstudents will be able to acceleratetheir progress toward the bach¬elor’s degree. Such studentsshould be enabled to meet degreerequirements, particularly in in¬troductory collegiate work, bydemonstrating competences theyacquired prior to college admis¬sion. To this end, specifically:• Existing placement proce¬dures should be refined to permitthe requirement of less thanthree-quarter course sequenceswhere appropriate.• Additional course require¬ments should not be prescribedeither in general education or inthe field of concentration for stu¬dents who gain advanced stand¬ing by placement examinations. __STANDARDS AND proceduresof placement and of admission with advanced standing should besuch as to impose educationallysimilar requirements upon all stu¬dents. Placement standardsshould be defined without ref¬erence to the student’s anticipatedfield of concentration.Dean of undergraduatestudentsIN THE OFFICE of the dean ofstudents, a dean of undergraduatestudents, superseding the presentdean of students in the College,should be appointed, with author¬ity to organize, maintain and su¬pervise an adequate, coordinatedadvisory service for all under¬graduate students.REORGANIZATION of adviso¬ry services should be such that atevery point in his undergraduateprogram each student will have aclearly defined, authoritativesource of information on ques¬tions arising from his programand his academic plans.Advisers thoroughly acquaintedwith courses, requirements -a n dschedules in each of the severalfields should be accessiblethrough the office of the dean ofundergraduate students. Studentsshould be assigned to speciallyqualified advisers as soon as prac¬ticable after their areas of concen¬tration have been determined.Discharge of theexecutive committeeTHE EXECUTIVE committeeon undergraduate education rec¬ommends that it be dischargedupon the adoption of this report.SHOULD THE council of theUniversity Senate so desire, thecommittee is willing to remain inbeing temporarily and in an ad¬visory capacity to provide suchconsultation as the faculties mayrequest in adjusting the existingdegree programs. HOC?*/V’. . . and then I got a copy of the ECUE report• ovo n nt r\i'Ar\Aonrl 4 a Kn fliot Kaaohoa r\ f 4Via -r\>PART THREEExplonitory notes concerning the recommendationsNew facultyInitial compositionIF THE NEW faculty is to as¬sume the responsibilities whichthe committee believes it shouldassume, the interests of all partsof the University concerned withundergraduate education must beadequately represented. The pro¬posal for determining the initialmembership of the new Collegewas arrived at only after pro¬longed discussion of alternatives.ECUE hopes the attitude of theCollege vs. divisions will be dis¬pelled by this program. Insteadof having two separate facultiesdisputing for control of the stu¬dent’s time, there will be one un¬dergraduate faculty initially con¬sisting of one-half present Collegemembers and one half present di¬visional members. It was the opin¬ion of the committee that if thereis going to be fighting betweenthe two groups, it would be betterto have intra-faculty dissensionrather than no direct communica¬tion at all.The 127 members of the presentCollege constitute the necessarystarting point.Footnote: The figure 127 does notinclude the departmental and commit¬tee representatives appointed on theinvitation of the College in 1957; it isassumed that these special appoint¬ments will lapse with the end of thepresent College.)The present College faculty is thenecessary starting point for constitut¬ing the new faculty because its mem-Reconsider/ bers will Initially constitute the groupconcerned with the common two-yearcomponent of general education in allbachelor’s programs, and because in¬cluded among them are 32 persons who,by virtue of Joint College-divisional ap¬pointments, already bridge the gap be¬tween the general and the specializedsegments of undergraduate work.Moreover, if some members of theCollege were excluded from membershipin the new faculty, the University wouldexperience the anomaly of employingpersons with faculty rank but with nofaculty affiliation.In the opinion of members ofthe committee, more persons hold¬ing joint appointments were origi¬nally in the College and then re¬ceived appointments in the divi¬sions. In addition, a large num¬ber joined the University facultywith joint appointments.IN SEEKING a way to add per¬sons now affiliated only with divi¬sions, the committee sought toproduce a faculty which would be• balanced among the majorsubject-matter areas for which itwill be responsible (biological' sci¬ences, physical sciences, humani-'ties, social sciences), and• sufficiently small and stablein membership to be able to workeffectively.AS TO THE first of these ob¬jectives:Of the 95 persons with appoint¬ments exclusively in the College,13 regularly perform teaching orcounselling services for depart¬ments. The number of persons tobe added may therefore be re¬garded as lying between 82 and95, or, approximately, between 80and 100. The result (with the 32joint appointees) would be a fac¬ulty of between 207 and 227 mem¬bers. The committee’s third objec¬tive suggests a number closer tothe smaller than to the larger ofthese two figures.As to the method of selectingthe divisional faculty members:Membership in each of the fac¬ulties is currently defined bystatute on the basis of the assign¬ment of one-third or more of one’stime to the work of that faculty,quarter by quarter. This principleproved inadequate, even whenmodified.(Footnote: If applied directly, thisprinciple(1) would yield too few persons, sinceteaching is only a fraction of divisionalwork and undergraduate teaching onlya fraction of that;(2) would yield a faculty of suchfluctuating membership that effectiveorganization would be difficult, sincefew divisional appointees consistentlyteacb undergraduate (roughly definedas 100 and 200 level) courses; and (3) would provide little or no initial mem¬bership from the division of the bio¬logical sciences and the division of thephysical sciences, since few, if any, ofthe programs proposed to be place atonce under the control of the newfaculty include any courses offered bythose divisions.Even if the one-third-time principlewere reinterpreted to mean one-third ofa professor’s teaching time over aperiod of two years, and estimates weremade concernin. the courses likely tobe included in the proposed BA pro¬grams in the sciences, serious objectionswould remain.The total number of divisional per¬sons designated would be too large(about 175), and the representation ofthe several divisional areas would be ill-balanced; there would be about 50 fromthe humanities and only about 24 fromthe biological sciences, and the list ofpersons thus selected would differ wide¬ly from a list based on interest inundergraduate education. Finally, ahalf-time criterion would produce toofew persons and would not remedy theimbalances.THE COMMITTEE was there¬fore driven to adopt a quotascheme, leaving it to the deansconcerned to name persons withappropriate interest and compe¬tencies. In seeking to determinethe quotas, the committee quicklydiscovered that its objectives (1)and (2) are not easy to reconcile.(Footnote: Of the 95 persons whollyin the present College, 45 are in thehumanistic area (humanities, Englishcomposition, foreign languages), 29 inthe natural sciences (including mathe¬matics), and 21 in the social sciences(including history). If these were bal¬anced by persons on corresponding di¬visional appointment, the resulting fac¬ulty of 222 (including the 32 joint ap¬pointees) would include 108 humanistsand only 22 biological scientists.On the other hand, if the numbersfrom the several divisions were equal¬ized at, say, 24, then the (present) Col¬lege humanists would outnumber theirdivisional counterparts almost two toone, while the divisional physical andbiological scientists would outnumbertheir College counterparts almost twoto one.THE COMMITTEE has there¬fore proposed a compromise be¬tween subject-matter balance andCollege-divisional balance. We an¬ticipated that the numbers of per¬sons appointed from the divisionof the biological sciences and thedivision of the physical scienceswill be considerably closer to theproposed lower limit of 15 thanto the proposed upper limit of 35,and that the reverse will be trueof those appointed from the divi¬sion of the humanities.The new faculty's initial compo¬sition will not guarantee balanceamong the major groups of disci¬plines, but it will correspond ina rough way to the distribution ofresponsibilities for the earlytasks of the new faculty, since thespecialized-components of the BS programs are not proposed to beunder the control of the new Col¬lege.Probable future compositionTHE EXISTENCE of the newfaculty will make possible consid¬eration of the problems of under¬graduate education in the termsappropriate to them; its internalorganization must be adapted tothis end. At the same time, com¬munication between individualmembers of the new faculty andthe divisional faculties should be¬come easier and more Informal.The undergraduate studentbody is expected to grow substan¬tially during the next few years.Consequently, additions will bemade to the faculties. Arrange¬ments like the following seempromising as means of promotingthe sound growth of the newfaculty:• Joint College - divisional ap¬pointments should be encouragedwherever they are appropriate;the number of such appointmentshould increase substantially.• The procedures of inter-fac¬uity consultation now employedwith respect to appointment andpromotion in the College shouldbe continuned and further devel¬oped under the new faculty organ¬ization. Consultations of this kindmay become less formal in time,since the views of persons whoare members of departments aswell as of the College will enterroutinely with others into therecommendations which under¬graduate staffs send to the deanof the College. Existing proce¬dures for informal communica¬tion of College appointees withtheir departmental counterpartsshould be expanded.• Persons whose appointmentsare exclusively in the new Collegeshould have access to facultiesfor research on the basis of merit.SINCE SOME teaching in pro¬grams for which the new Collegeis responsible will continue to bedone by persons whose appoint¬ments in the University are ex¬clusively departmental, adequaterepresentation of the interests ofsome fields of concentration with¬in the new College will requireretention of the procedure em¬ployed to constitute that faculty,i.e., many such persons will bemade members of the new Collegeby special appointment. While thecommittee cannot control the fu¬ture development of the under¬graduate faculty, it is our belief that, because of the pattern ofgrowth referred to above, propor¬tion of the College faculty whichmust be specially appointed fromthe divisions may diminish s ’b-stantially with time.Powers of thenew facultyResponsibility for BA programsTHE POSITIVE reasons whichdictate the committee’s belief thata new undergraduate faculty isneeded have been outlined in PartOne above. Further, the commit¬tee recommends that the new un¬dergraduate faculty be given fullauthority over the programs lead¬ing to the degree of bachelor ofarts.This is not done because revolu¬tionary innovations are antici¬pated. On the contrary the com¬position of the new faculty en¬sures continuity with the past. Itscurricular discussion should leadto creative developments. Limita¬tions imposed upon the respon¬sibilities of the new faculty wouldinhibit these develoments.IT IS CERTAIN that, underthe plan proposed, the graduatefaculties and the faculties of theprofessional schools will exertthat influence which, as repre¬sentative of scholarly excellenceand of superior graduate training,they should exert upon under¬graduate education. The follow¬ing reasons support this view.These changes could be said torepresent a distinct change in pol¬icy toward the College. ECUEhopes to supplement the genemleducation scholars with the divi¬sional scholars to the students’benefit.• Teachers who are membersof departments will comprisemore than half of the new Col¬lege when it begins to work.Through joint appointment andthrough special appointment, suchpersons will continue to comprisea large part of the new faculty.It can also be said that the Col¬lege faculty will be in the ma¬jority. There will be an equalnumber of divisional and Collegefaculty members. If the joint ap¬pointees are considered as “divi¬sional men” then the divisionshave the majority; if they are“College men” then the presentCollege has the majority.• The new College will consultmmWill quarterlies count?Proposals concerning the examination system are includedin the report of the executive committee on undergraduateeducation to the council of the Faculty Senate. •-These items represent "lines of action commended to thefaculties" and are not legislative. The adoption of these pro¬posals is up to the new College faculty.The report suggests that "the performance of undergraduatestudents could be improved by:• establishing quarterly grades as grades of record in allcourses;• reducing the number and expanding the scope of com¬prehensive examinations, and• instituting baccalaureate examinations generally/*The committee's opinion was that in the "simultaneousapplication to individual students of the present system ofCollege comprehensives and divisional quarterly examina¬tions, particularly in the sciences, difficulties are createdwith which both students and faculty are well acquainted.'4 • CHICAGO MAROON • May 23, 1958ECUE cont'd(from previous page)the departments and professionalschools on all matters which in¬volve their educational interestsIn undergraduate education.• Formal or informal inter-fac¬ulty consultation will ensure anappropriate voice to the depart¬ments on College.appointments.• In determining the require¬ments for admission (and particu¬larly admission without deficien¬cy) to graduate and professionalstudy, the departments and pro¬fessional schools communicatestandards which the undergradu¬ate faculty cannot ignore.• If the new College facultynonetheless makes a decisionwhich a department, division orprofessional school regards asinimical to the University’s inter¬ests, the decision may, of course,be appealed to be Council of theUniversity Senate.THE COMMITTEE is convincedthat normal budgetary and admin¬istrative controls of the Univer¬sity provide sufficient guaranteeagainst the unwise proliferationof courses and against inappropri¬ate duplication of staff and serv¬ices.In BA programs that includeone year of work in a professionalschool, the new faculty will deter¬mine the requirements for theundergraduate degree; the pro¬fessional school will determine itsown admission and degree re¬quirements.Part four of this report containsrecommendations addressed tothe proposed new faculty and de¬signed to assist the new facultyin beginning its work.Proposed new programsleading to bachelor of artsBA degrees in the sciencesPROGRAMS CONFORMING tothe-pattern of study proposed forthe BA degree will initially comeinto existence by the adjustmentof existing joint programs in thehumanities and social sciences.However, this pattern is equallyapplicable to the physical andbiological sciences, and such pro¬grams in these areas would serveimportant purposes which the de¬partmental BS programs are notdesigned to serve.Baccalaureate programs whichallow foi^ variation and includelimited concentration in a particu¬lar scientific field may provideexcellent undergraduate trainingfor several kinds of students whodo not intend to become profes¬sional scientists; those who intendno further formal education butregard science as an importantand interesting liberal subject;those who intend to become sec¬ondary school teachers of scienceor mathematics; and those whowish scientific training as an ad¬junct to prospective vocations inbusiness, the law, journalism andthe like.THE NEW COLLEGE facultyshould, therefore, make the con¬struction of such programs oneof its first tasks. In doing so, itshould make full use of its mem¬bership from the divisions. It isevident that the cooperation ofthe departments and divisions in the fields involved will be re¬quired, and the committee ear¬nestly commends this enterpriseto them.In the case of the biologicalsciences, the present divisional BSprogram may provide a startingpoint for the new faculty’s con¬struction of a BA program; thenin the physical sciences, full useshould be made of the prelimi¬nary work that has been done bythe division’s committee on a di¬visional BS degree.BA degrees with interdepartmen¬tal or departmental concentrationsTHE PATTERN proposed forthe BA degree provides for con¬centration in a single area in eachcase. The majority of BA pro¬grams will continue to be depart¬mental in a sense that the concen¬tration will correspond to estab¬lished areas of graduate study inthe University. However, existingdivisional degrees in the humani¬ties and in the biological sciencesdemonstrate that undergraduateconcentrations of broader rangemay be attractive to students andmay meet high intellectual andeducational standards.Further, intellectually sound"departmental” and "committee”concentrations of several sortsmay be appropriate for differentsorts of students, particularlythose not preparing themselvesfor graduate work. Additional BAprograms of both kinds wouldmake a significant contribution tothe strength of the University’sundergraduate offerings. Itshould, therefore, be an impor¬tant responsibility of the new fac¬ulty to develop, in consultationwith the relevant faculties of theUniversity, such programs.Patterns of degreerequirements andagencies of adjustmentProcedures in the period oftransitionTHE COMMITTEE believesthat the new College facultyshould not be asked to begin itswork by dealing with issues whichmight stir up old problems ofjurisdiction and educational the¬ory. Consequently, the agenciesnow responsible for the severalparts of the undergraduate cur¬ricula are asked to undertake suchmodification of present require¬ments as may be needed to bringexisting programs into conform¬ity with the proposed rules. Onlyin the case of the general educa¬tion requirements will full-scalerevision be necessary.The "two-one-one" patternof study for the degree ofbachelor of artsTHE YEARS of work whichmake up the two-one-one patternneed not be chronological. Moststudents will doubtless spend thegreater part of their first twoyears of residence in general edu¬cation, and the greater part oftheir fourth year in the concen¬tration. However, elements of anyof the three components may betaken in any year of residence.THE COMMITTEE attachesgreat importance to flexibility inthe year of guided and free elec¬tives. The BA programs should,even initially, include provisionsfor cognate studies (“minors”), or for the exploration of secondaryinterests.The committee therefore rec¬ommends that the prerogative ofnaming specific courses as pre¬requisites to concentration beused sparingly. In some instancesa few courses may be listed asappropriate electives for all pro¬grams in a given division; suchlistings would appreciably in¬crease the flexibility of program¬ming in- the second and thirdyears of residence.Four-year programsNormal work loadTHE COMMITTEE has decidednot to recommend a single, Uni¬versity-wide definition of a nor¬mal work load for students. Thequestion is one best determined inits particular application by thefaculties responsible for the sev¬eral undergraduate programs.Students and their advisers shouldbe allowed a degree of freedom inthe appraisal of individual abili¬ties and circumstances. "Normalwork load,” therefore, remains anundefined phrase except as it isdefined by University custom andby common sense.BS programs withconcentration requirementsin excess of two years of workIN ESTABLISHING the execu¬tive committee on undergraduateeducation, the council of the Uni¬versity Senate reaffirmed the ob¬jective that all undergraduate pro¬grams should be designed to becompleted in four years at normalwork loads.The letter of this injunction isfulfilled by the committee’s rec¬ommendation that all programs Hutchins man vs. "now student'Guess whs's got a copy of you-know-what! should be so designed and thatentering students should be ad¬mitted only to programs which,in view of their qualification, theycan complete in four years.' However, the fact remains thatsome programs will include morethan two years of requirementsin the fields of concentration andthus will be capable of completionwithin four years only by un¬usually well prepared studentswho can fulfill some degree re¬quirements by placement or otherspecial accreditation..Other students will be free totransfer to these programs onlya term making up their defici¬encies, hence with the understand¬ing that their total period of un¬dergraduate study will exceedfour years at normal loads.Some students enter from highschool with little preparation forthe field in which they wish tospecialize. Consequently they mustmake up these "deficiencies.”Chicago’s philosophy of entrancerequirements differs from East¬ern schools in that the Universityrequires very little specificationof courses needed for admissionto the College. Instead it prefersto give treatment on an individualbasis; to let the student pick upthe deficiencies after he entersthe College.The committee’s decision not toforce all baccalaureate programsfor all students into a foqr-yearmould requires explanation:Requirements in fields ofconcentrationIn certain a teas of the physicalsciences, undergraduate study isso strongly pre-professional thatcriteria of admission to graduateschools become effective relative¬ly early in the student’s career.Standards of pre-professionalcompetence associated with theBS degrees in these fields cur¬rently call for the designation offrom 19 to 24 quarter courses,including prerequisites, as re¬ quirements for the pertinent de¬grees.THIS SITUATION is not pecu¬liar to the University of Chicago.It is common to good colleges andgraduate schools throughout thecountry. And although the com¬mittee is aware that the stand¬ing of the University’s BS degreeis based on the quality of theirstaff, students, and programsrather than on the number oftheir courses, dislocation of thesecurricula from generally acceptednorms does not appear to,be justi¬fied.Nevertheless, the committeeurges that the departments con¬cerned review carefully their con¬centration requirements e s t a b -lished from the joint programsfive years ago, With a view to re¬ducing them in every possibleway. It is assumed that no depart¬ment will increase its require¬ments, and it is hoped that somedepartments will succeed in re¬ducing them.The two divisions CAN" gettheir requirements into two and ahalf years.Requirements In generaleducationIN ESTABLISHING the re¬quirement of two years of generaleducation in the BS programs, thecommittee accepts what it be¬lieves to be the minimum reqflire-ment commensurate with the highvalue which the University, stu¬dents, and the country at large,place on the University’s bach¬elor’s degree. NProcedures of placement“THE COMMITTEE proposesthat the system of placement ex¬aminations should be modified tomake more efficient than at pres¬ent the procedures for indentify-ing students whose achievementsat thetime of their matriculationwarrant immediate admission tothe longer programs. The commit¬tee’s proposals include:• the refinement of placementtests in general education, and• adoption of placement testsin some of the specialized courseswhich are normally taken duringthe student’s first two years ofwork. (Relevant explanatory notesare immediately below.—Ed.).Placement andaccelerationTHE COMMITTEE reaffirmsthe value of giving tests to enter¬ing undergraduate students andof using the results to "place”them in courses from which theywill profit. In recent years thesystem of placement examina¬tions had been compromised in several ways. The intention of thecommittee’s recommendations isto permit the placement system toperform its proper function.Placement as a meansof accelerationTHE USES which placementtests can serve depend upon thefields to which they are applied.At one extreme, there are certainhighly articulated, sequentiallyacquired bodies of knowledgesuch that the level which the stu¬dent has achieved can be ascer*tained, without undue expense andwith a relatively high degree ofaccuracy, by means of a test givenat the time he enters the Univer¬sity.In such cases, competence dem¬onstrated by such tests should betreated as the equivalent of collegecredit and the student’s course re¬quirements for the bachelor’s de¬gree should be correspondinglyreduced.SO FAR AS placement tests aredesigned to measure abilities ofthis kind, placement standardsand recommendations can be re¬fined to permit the requirementof less than three-quarter coursesequences, and thus to permit ac¬celeration to the extent of one oftwo (as well as three) quarter-courses in a particular field. Thecommittee recommends that suchrefinement be applied immediate¬ly to placement in English com¬position, all foreign languages,and the general course in mathe¬matics, and to others as soon aspracticable.PLACEMENT TESTS are al¬ready being employed in the basicdivisional’ sequence in biologicalscience. Placement testing of thiskind is also clearly appropriate tointroductory specialized coursesin the physical sciences includingmathematics.The rapid expansion of the na¬tional Advanced Placement pr<vgram sponsored by the CollegeEntrance Examination boardmeans that increasing number ofstudents will be entering the Uni-versity, who, while in high school,will have taken advanced coursesin chemistry and physics and inthe calculus.Moreover, entering studentswill continue to need exemptionfrom some introductory require¬ments (whther in general or spe¬cialized work) in order to be a<^mitted to the BS programs withconcentration requirements in ex¬cess of two years. The committeetherefore recommends that place¬ment tests be developed and ap¬plied to these courses.Math 150 ABC and Chem 105-6-1On WUCBLAK discusses reportChancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton will discuss the reportof the executive committee on undergraduate education, Sumday, on WUCB’s "Enquiry" program.The program, which begins at 7 pm, may be heard at 640kc in Burton-Judson, C-group, *International house and the KimP*°n will discuss why it is nee-new women's dormitory. Special 5SEL 1S£e..ch,n*? ln ,h«, ..... .... . . .. College at this time; when suchfacilities will be set up in the changes will take effect, what eftnorth lounge of the Reynolds feet they would have on presentclub to permit additional interest- College students, and what effected persons to hear the broadcast, the changes would have on theAccording to John Schuerman, students completing the new pro-producer and director of the show, gram.May 23, 1958 • CHICACO MAROON • XT7ECUE oont'd(from previous page)are possible courses where therewill be placement examinations.ECUE stated that the physicalscience division is currently look¬ing into the question of a place¬ment examination for the chem¬istry course.Placement as a diagnosticdeviceAT THE OPPOSITE extremefrom the sequentially acquiredabilities stand kinds of knowledgeand competence which are exceed¬ingly difficult to measure withconfidence or exactness untilafter a group of students hasbeen exposed to a large, commonbody of data and ideas, i.e., untilafter the completion of one ormore collegiate courses.An example seems to be thegroup of abilities sought in thehumanities (as distinguished fromthe accumulation of informationabout particular works of litera¬ture or painting or music, andform particular analytic skillswith respect to any one of these).In such a field, placement testingseems useful principally as a di¬agnostic device: a means of de¬termining what kinds of disci-pined experience the student mostneeds in order to acquire the req¬uisite abilities.Only secondarily, and for un¬usually broadly prepared stu¬dents, can the tests be used todetermine whether the amount ofcollege course work the studentneeds may properly be reduced.In such a case, the accreditingfunction should be present and ac¬celeration should be possible, butthe diagnostic function may bemore important and “horizontalplacement” may be a more fre¬quent outcome of good placementtesting.General vs. specializedcriteria of placementTHESE DISTINCTIONS shouldbe applied also where placement testing relates to both general andspecialized education. Readinessto undertake advanced specializedwork need not depend upon anddoes not necessarily imply com¬pletion of general education re¬quirements in the same field.For example, general educationin mathematics may properly in¬clude the teaching, on the onehand, of technical competenceswhich form part of the ladder ofpre-professional mathematicaltraining and, on the other, of cer¬tain more general or reflectiveabilities. Placement tests andplacement recommendationshould distinguish between theseaccomplishments."Educationally similarrequirements"THE COURSES employed to de¬velop required competences neednot be identical for all studentswith similar placement scores.Course requirements must haveeducationally similar objectivesbut may differ in form and pro¬cedure.Discrimination in the placementprocedure varied in the past. Bio¬logical science students usuallyfound it “harder” to place out ofnatural sciences 2; physical sci¬ence students found ii "easier” toplace out of math 1 and naturalsciences 1. It depended on the feel¬ing of the faculties concerned;some felt a specialized back¬ground was necessary for moreadvanced work, others felt it wasunnecessary.Responsibility for placementexaminationPLACEMENT testing, place*ment standards and placementrecommendation with respect torequirements in general educationshould be under the control of thepresent College for the transi¬tional period, and subsequentlyunder the control of the proposednew College. Placement testing,standards and recommendationwith respect to specified trainingshould be under the control of thefaculties responsible for suchtraining. idly into review and revision ofthe key parts of the curriculum.It should not• alter the basic 2-1-1 frame¬work of the four-year bachelor ofarts program until that frame¬work has had a thorough trial; or• seek to modify the concen¬tration requirements initially de¬fined by the old College faculty,until these requirements have hada thorough trial.WHEN THE NEW faculty con¬templates changes in the “fourth-year” (concentration) componentsof any BA program, or the estab¬lishment of a new concentration(e.g., one not corresponding to adepartment or committee, itshould seek the views not only ofthose of its members who are alsomembers of the most directly in¬terested departments, but also ofthose departments themselves.The remaining pages of the re¬port outline several definite taskswhich the committee regards asurgent.Development of guided andfree electives in thePART FOURLines of action commended to the facultiesThe executive committee on undergraduate education hasconsidered at length the prospective tasks of the new Collegefaculty, and the problems which may be expected to arise asa result of the proposed reorganization of undergraduate workin the University. In this final part of the committee's reportsome of these tasks and problems are singled out for specialcomment. The suggestions which_are made here are addressedto the faculties which will have the power to put them -intoeffect.Recommendations to thenew College facultyInternal organizationTHE COMMITTEE’S proposalof a new faculty is based on theneed for a single body of facultymembers with a clear commonresponsibility for entire curriculain undergraduate education. Ini the direct discharge of its com¬mon responsibility, however, thefaculty will obviously have theusual difficulties of large delib¬erate bodies.It would seem desirable, there¬fore, to organize the faculty intogroups each of which has a work¬ing responsibility for a recogniz¬able educational task within thecurriculiAn and which could there¬fore advfse the faculty as a wholewith respect to its problems. Inorganizing these groups distinc¬tions of subject matter and ofgeneral and specialized educationareobviously relevant. However,the application of such distinc¬tions should not be allowed toproduce a rigid compartmentaliza-tion of the faculty either into de¬partmental units or into a generaleducation faculty separated froman extension of divisional facul¬ties.SOME COMBINATION of thesemodes of organization seems de¬sirable; however, it might pro¬duce relatively large sub-groups,convenient for administrative pur¬poses, yet too cumbersome to dealeffectively with particular educa¬tional problems. A system ofsmall, representative executivebodies operating at a level be¬low that of the faculty’s policy orcurriculum committee may helpto solve the problems presentedby these conditions. Early deliberationsWHEN THE NEW College fac¬ulty comes into being, it will in*herit the administration of a re¬vised, common requirement ingeneral education for all under¬graduate degrees. In addition, itwill have responsibility for therevised BA programs. Thus thenew faculty will not be compelledto deal with urgent curricular is¬sues during the period in whichit must be organizing itself.The committee is confident thatthe new faculty will not move rap- BA programsThe committee’s recommenda¬tion that only three of the coursescomprising the year of guidedelectives be subject to the untram¬meled choice of the student is notintended to suggest that the restof the year should be made up ofconcealed requirements. It israther intended that this “year”should provide opportunities forthe individual construction of pro¬grams which make educationalsense for a given student, takinginto account his interests (includ¬ing his interest in a given con¬centration and criteria of rele¬vance and interrelation.A LARGE NUMBER of courseregistrations in each academicquarter will be made by studentswho are seeking courses in agiven subject-matter or area butwho are not concentrating in thatsubject-matter or area. The “elec¬tive year,” therefore, should bethe occasion for imaginative de¬velopment of courses by the agen¬cies responsible for constructingprograms. In many cases coursesappropriate for such students al¬ready exist or can easily be con¬structed by adaptation of existingcourses.However, it would be undesir¬able if the development of suchcourses were confined to minimaladaptation either of existing Col¬lege courses or of the first coursesin departmental majors. Coursessatisfying the needs of such stu¬dents will have to be developed inmany areas. The challenge is realand important, and should receivethe close attention of the new Col¬lege faculty.It is clear that the developmentof new courses should not proceedin a random fashion unchecked bycriteria or discipline, intellectualcontent, and effective teaching.One of the most important tasksof the new College faculty shouldbe the development and effectivesupervision of such coursesthroughout the University.The “elective year” should alsoPrix de Paris contestoffers magazine jobsVogue magazine is offering prizes and consideration ofemployment on Conde Nast publications as part of its Prix deParis college contest.Students who will complete work on a bachelor’s degree bysummer of 1959 are eligible toenter the contest offering atrip to Paris, all expenses i>aid—or $1,000 as first prize. Secondprize is $500, and the next high¬est ten contestants will receive$25 each.Deadline for “Prix” entries isOctober 20, 1958. Entrants useVogue as a textbook—completingtwo quizzes of four questionseach, based on actual problemsfaced by the magazine’s own staff.The first quiz appears in the Aug¬ust 15 “College” issue The secondwill be in the December issue.Entrants who answer both quiz¬zes satisfactorily will be eligibleto write a 1,500 word thesis onone of several topics which will 4>e listed in the magazine’s Feb¬ruary 1, 1959, “Americana” issue.Enrollment blanks may be ob¬tained by writing the Prix deParis director, Vogue, 420 Lexing¬ton Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.Entries will be judged by themagazine’s editors on “grasp ofthe subject matter, general intel¬ligence, originality, and demon¬stration of special talents.”All twelve top winners will re¬ceive first chance at jobs onVogue, Glamour, House and Gar¬den, Vogue Pattern book, andVogue Knitting book. Other prom¬ising contestants will get themagazine’s strong recommenda¬tion for other jobs in publishing,merchandising, and advertising. create flexibility in the definitionof programs for transfer studentsand for students whose interestschange in the course of their un¬dergraduate studies. Althoughsuch students must on occasionsuffer loss of time, the variety ofcourses available as electives willallow greater freedom of adjust¬ment than has hitherto been pos¬sible.Special courses for the electiveyear will be in existence. Some ofthese electives might be presentcourses which will be droppedfrom the core curriculum. For ex¬ample, if OMP is not part of thecore, the course, or one like itmight be an elective which thestudent can choose during histhird year.Recommendations to oilfaculties responsible forbachelors programsExaminationsTHE EXISTING structure ofundergraduate examinations i nthe University embodies severaldifferent kinds of procedures.There are examinations whichtend to emphasize the cumulativecharacter of courses and to post¬pone for considerable periods thefinal judgment on the student’swork. There are also examina¬tions which tend to emphasizemastery of smaller units of ma¬terial providing frequent checkson the student’s progress.The first sort of examination isexemplified by the present Col¬lege comprehensives and by thebachelor’s examinations now ad¬ministered, largely in the human¬ities, at the termination of an un¬dergraduate curriculum. The sys¬tem of quarterly examinations asutilized in the College and, morerigorously, in the divisions is ofthe second sort.MORE PARTICULARLY, it ap¬pears that the performance ofundergraduate students could beimproved by• establishing quarterly gradesas grades of record in all courses,• reducing the number and ex¬panding the scope of comprehen¬sive examinations, and• instituting baccalaureate ex¬aminations generally.HonorsThe University maintains highstandards in its requirements forthe bachelors degree. However,these degrees currently representdifferent levels of achievement onthe part of students taking thesame degree and even the sameprogram. —At the present time the Univer¬sity has no considered policy appli¬cable to all undergraduate stu¬dents for.recognition of superiorperformance other than that pro¬vided for by election to Phi BetaKappa. If the faculties of theUniversity are to make it clear tostudents that they attach impor¬tance to superior work at the un¬dergraduate level, serious consid¬eration must be given to honorsthroughout the undergraduatecurricula.The committee therefore sug-Redevelopment policycriticized by aldermanDisappointment in both UC’s participation in the HydePark redevelopment program and the proposed Mandel re¬strictions was expressed Tuesday by Fifth ward AldermanLeon Despres. “Despres, speaking on “Ur- spres, a graduate of UC’s Lawban Renewal” and “The Man- school, claimed that the Univerdel hall Crisis,” stated that he was sity’s legal grounds for restrictingsorry the program was not. larger use °* this building were ‘flimsy,in scope and was disappointed The present unrestricted policywith the architecture of some of towards its use, he stated, hasthe proposed buildings, including been an asset to the communitythose to be constructed by the an<* to the city as a whole.University. The alderman concluded his~ . , speech with remarks on the stateThe program, Despres added, f the Univorsity. Despres „uwas fostered by the Kimpton ad, ,h he , that many proposedministration and its policy of cha ln Unh44y wmachieving an integrated Univer- « ^ reallzcd.sity community. Previously, thealderman charged, the Universityhad attempted to keep Negroesout of the area by use of protec¬tive covenants. “The present re¬development program is the cul¬mination of the new policy,” hesaid.Concerning Mandel hall, De¬ feats that the faculties concernedwith undergraduate education• take action to establish a uni-form policy with respect to therecognition of superior under¬graduate work upon the com¬pletion of any undergraduate pro-gram,• consider the utility of bac¬calaureate examinations asa basis for awarding bachelorsdegrees with honors.Special programs forsuperior studentsIT IS APPARENT that withinthe undergraduate body there arestudents capable of independentand sophisticated work whichthey are not always permitted toundertake in existing programs.At present the University has noformal provision, outside of theCollege honors program, for per¬mitting superior students to un¬dertake special projects. Thoseresponsible for undergraduatecurricula should consider the in¬stitution of special programswhich may be elected by superiorstudents during the last years oftheir undergraduate work.Provision for consultationon the BS programsIf the committee’s proposals areadopted, programs leading to theBS degree will continue to be theresult of treaties between sover¬eign faculties.IN THESE programs there willbe need for frequent consultationin order to develop dual purposecourses making it easier to com¬press such programs into fouryears, to make better use of place¬ment and acceleration, and to dealwith examinations, honors, spe¬cial programs for superior stu¬dents and with other problems asthey arise.For such purposes a small ad¬visory body will be needed as ameans by which the interestedfaculties can identify problemsand devise solutions; and we rec¬ommend that the faculties con¬cerned take prompt action to es¬tablish such a body. We think itimportant that its compositionprovide a balance between theinterests of the general educationand special disciplines, similar tothat recommended- as appropri¬ate to the composition of th*» newCollege.• CHICAGO MAROON • May 23, 1958Cap & Gown representsnew concept in annualsAbandoning the stereotyped format of college yearbooks, this year’s Cap and Gown rep¬resents one of the best books published in the recent history of the annual.No mug shots! Despite some loud protests from a few of the more highly vocal studentorganizations, 4 Arrow Collar” formal photographs of individuals and groups are gone, andthe reader is spared the boredom of leafing through them.Instead, editor Jean Kwon has attempted to represent each activity candidly and inform¬ally. For the most part, the at- -tempt has been quite success- ball class, UC’s snaggle-toothed Gown, and this year’s edition isful. heroes. no exception. In fact, layout seemsFraternities, for example, are Possibly the greatest single im- to have improved, if anything,represented and thirteen pages provement in Cap and Gown is the with the implementation of manyare devoted to Greek life. Former- photography. Robert Malone, pho- new tricks by Miss Kwon.ly, Cap and Gown devoted almost to editor, is perhaps the best stu- Among the more striking areits entire fraternity section to dent photographer to appear since two screened pages — completelycommonplace group photographs. Bob Sparge in 1954. It’s a cinch black with a marvelous shot ofThis year, an element of continu- that Malone’s work will be com- the chancellor on one page, and aity has been introduced and the mon in future University litera- sprightly shot of young love in thefraternity system is mirrored hon- ture. Cloisters on another — and theestly and with humor. The change Supplementing Malone’s work clever use of sequence photog-represents a welcome improve- were three other able lensmen: raphy. The ping pong and dormiment to the annual and will cer- Ed Dephoure, Dave Coffey, and tory coffee hour sequences aretkinly command greater reader Bud Bernick. * cases in point."interest. Malone’s extensive use of avail- Captions, always a sore pointAmong other activities whose able-light photography, however, in UC annuals, have been handledscope and student Interest has does occasionally fall short. Re- cleverly and occasionally withbeen captured by Miss Kwon, are: production by offset printing grande finesse. In a faculty sec-Student Union, its frolics and fail- process tends to darken prints tion somewhat heavy withures; Folklore society, whose rol- and reduce detail. This difficulty straight pictures, captions havelicking wing-dings have rocked occurs only in a few isolated in- captured the spirit of the subjects,the campus; the new dorms, pic- stances and does not detract from I can’t think of a more adequateturing the adventures of the dis- the over all quality of the book, or tersely written caption thantaff class of *61 in the world’s Page layout has historically the following, and it is typical oflargest cheese-box; and the foot- been the strong point of Cap and the style and descriptive power ofthe writer:Honors assembly May 29Special recognition for outstanding College teachers andUniversity students who have won prize competitions during1957 - 58, will be given at the second annual Honors assemblyon May 29. The assembly, sponsored by the dean of students’ notThe typrcal^Sociai Sdencesoffice, will be held in the IdaNoyes library at 3:30. Coming events |Friday, 23 MayScience 58, review of abnormal cells,drugs and cell changes, channel 7,7 am, _Le Cercle Francais, talk by MonsieurJean Bel lard, 35 cents for refresh¬ments, Ida Noyes library, 4 pm.Jazz workshop jam session, Ida Noyes ,hall, 3:30.International house association, “TheDream,” at Goodman theater, leavefrom International house lobby at7:30.Saturday, 24 MayInternational house association springball, seml-formal, Zlggy Gonzales andorchestra, $1.25, 9 pm-1 am.Square dance, sponsored by Circle Pines,8:30-12, Ida Noyes hall, soft-soledshoes or stocking feet, 50 cents formembers, 75 cents for non-members.Sunday, 25 MayStudent medical association fAKK)sponsors sonata recital, Edward Fll-manowicz, violin, Mandel hall, 8:30.Roman Catholic masses, DeSales house,8:30, 10 and 11 am.Lutheran communion service, Hiltonchapel, 10 am.International house Philippine dinner,reception at 5:30, dinner at 6 pm,Philippine program following.Carillon recital, James R. Lawson, Rock¬efeller chapel carilloneur, 4:30.Musical society concert, works by Mon¬teverdi, Bousthude, Loeillet, and Bach,Bond chapel, 8:15.Social dancing, Internatlbnal house, 7-8intsruction. 8-11 pm dancing, 50 centsnon-residents. tion of interplanetary space with cos¬mic rays,” John A. Simpson, profes¬sor of physics, Eckhart 133, 8 pm.Antinomies meeting, Swift hall com¬mons, “Kant’s philosophy of history,"Leo Strauss, professor of political phil¬osophy, 8 pm.Colloquium: Institute for the study ofmetals, “Neutron diffraction by im¬perfect gases,” Robert M. Mazo, re¬search associate, Fermi institute fornuclear stuaies, Research instituted211, 4:15.Meteorology and geography seminar,“Estimates of water resources," C. W.Thornwalte, laboratory of climatology,et al., Rosenwald 41, 3:30.Wednesday, 28 MayScience 58, “Nuclear fuels and inter¬stellar navigation,” Bernard I Spin-rad, director, reactor engineering di¬vision, Argonne National laboratory,channel 7. 7 am.Science fiction club, the late GeorgeOrwell and his works, Ida Noyes hall,8 pm.W9YWQ amateur radio club technicalmeeting, Reynolds club 301, 9:15.“Anthropology in the modern world"series. Sol Tax, professor and chair¬man, department of anthropology,“The planet earth,” Breasted hall, 8pm.Episcopal evensong, Bond chapel, 5:05.Carillon concert, James A. Lawson, 4:30.Statistics seminar, “Some problems insampling,’’ P. C. Mahalanobis, direc¬tor of the Indian statistical Institute,Calcutta, Eckhart 202, 4:30.Organ recital, Rockefeller chapel, 5 pm,Heinrich Fleischer, University organ¬ist. works by Brahms, Frescobaldi, andLudwig Lenel.Monday, 26 May Thursday, 29 May_ . . - _ _ t Science 58. “Man is space.” Dr. Jo“In Humanities 2, Meyer Isen-berg uses gentle humor andan endless array of diagramsto underscore the fine pointsof his course in literary inter¬pretation.”Page heads are also unusual;SG will sponsoractivities nightAll student organizationswishing to reserve space forstudent activities night, tobe held during autumn ori¬entation week, should con¬tact Student Government,Ida Noyes hall, before theend of this quarter, accord¬ing to Bob Gerwin.Activities may reservespace, tables and chairs forthe event. SG is the sponsor. Awards of $1000 each will begiven to four members of theCollege faculty for excellence inundergraduate teaching. Theaward is made from a grant es- or “Student - Government,” butwell written lines such as “NewLabs for Old: Physical ScientistsJoin the Neighborhood Fad forReconstruction.”In actuality, the bases for the Science 58, “The Sun,” Eugene N. Parker,assistant professor of physics, channel7, 7 am.Psychology lecture, “Characteristics ofa help relationship,” Dr. Carl Rogers,University of Wisconsin, Pathology117, 10 am.International house movie, “Walls ofMalapaga” (French), assembly hall,admission 50 cents, 7:30.Tuesday, 27 MayScience 58, “Electric and magnetic con¬dition saround the earth,’’ channel 7,7 am.Art exhibition, Renaissance society,works by artist-members. Goodspeed108.Spring meeting of Sigma Xi, “Explora- Science 58, “Man is space,” Dr. John 9,Perkins, Jr., associate professor ofphysiology, channel 7, 7 am.Calvert club, general business meeting,“Club origins,” professor Jerome G.K e r w i n ; "Prospectus 1958,” Rev.Thomas B. McDonough; “Newmanism,national movement,” Leslie Van Mar-ter; DeSales house, 7:30.“All things considered,” discussion onthe significance of "The angry youngmen,” Richard G. Stern, assistantprofessor of English, moderator; Mrs.Irene Shils, an English writer; andNapier WUt, dean of the humanitiesdivision, chdhnel 11, 9:30.Episcopal holy communion, Bondchapel. 11:30.Economics seminar, “Public finance inpoor countries,” Alan R. Prest, Univer¬sity of Cambridge, Law south, 7:45.tablished in 1938 by Ernest Quan- reviewer’s enthusiasm are mani-trell, alumnus and trustee of theUniversity.Announcement of the Alumni-dean’s award winners will also bemade. Granted to students whohave distinguished themselves inextracurricular activities, specialcommemorative medals areawarded to them at the Inter¬fraternity sing, June 14. fold. The 1958 Cap and Gown hasbeen a labor of love by a talentedtechnician, and the results indicate this. Impertinent as this mayappear, I suggest that the develop¬ment office pay close attention tothis colume; it may give themsome idea as to proper methodsof publicizing the University.Herbert A. Fine PETERSON MOVING The CollegeLAUNDERETTE1449 East 57th St.MU 4-9236free deliveryOMAR’S PIZZA1145 E. 55thHY 3-5150 PAINT £ HARDWARE CO.Hyde Park's Most CompletePaint and Hardware Store1154-58 E. 55th St. UC Discount HY 3-3840 La protection que vous procureza votre famille anjourcThui, l’assu-rance-vie peut etre obligee de laleur procurer demain. SoyezCertains quC vous avez assezd’assurance-vie.Telephonez a:Ralph J. Wood Jr. '481 N. 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IVY FOR SPRING & SUMMERWash Cr Wear Suits—(Coats $15—Pants $7.95) .$22.95Polished Cotton Suits—(Coats $10-— Pants $4.95) $14.95Cord Suits—(Coats $10—Pants $4.95) $14.95Short Sleeve Ivy Shirts $2.95 6r $ 3.95Our Prices Can't Be Beat... it’s Smart To Buy For LessD & C Clothes Shop744 E. 63rd St. MI 3-2728“In the Neighborhood for 40 Tears'*Hours: 9 o.m. - 8 p.m., Mon. - Fri. — 9 o.m. - 9 p.m., SaturdayMay 23, 1958 • CHICACO MAROON • 7UC's new electronic 'braindedicated by ChancellorThe University announcedWednesday plans for its newUNIVAC computer that in¬clude detailed analyses of the na¬tion’s population, weather, andeconomy.The electronic “brain,” a $1,-391,600 gift of the RemingtonRand division of Sperry Rrand, isbeing considered for the process¬ing of the 1960 census statistics toStudy population trends, Interna¬tional Geophysical year data todetermine the functions of the jetstream, and both census and cur¬rent business figures to developtheories of the United States econ¬omy.The digital computer system isthe heart of a new operationsanalysis laboratory dedicatedWednesday by Chancellor Law¬rence A. Kimpton and Lt. General(rut.) Leslie R. Groves, Reming¬ton Rand vice president. Directorof the new laboratory is EdwardL. Wallace, professor in the schoolof business.The dedication was attended bymembers of the University’s boardof jBBUstees, faculty, and adminis¬tration, and by representatives ofthe computer’s manufacturer.Wallace said that plans for the1960 population work are beingprepared by Philip M. Hauser,professor ^and chairman of sociol¬ogy and director of the populationresearch and training center andthe Chicago community inventory.Hauser, who presently uses cen¬sus bureau computers for someof his studies, hopes to use theUNIVAC to compare to compare1960 figures with those of prev¬ious censuses to investigate suchaspects of US population as laborforce fluctuations, birth trends,migration patterns, and changesin family composition.Plan use of IGY dataUse of the IGY data is beingcontemplated by Herbert Riehl,professor of meteorology and anauthority on jet streams and hur¬ricanes. Riehl is trying to relatethe variations in the energy out¬put of the tropics to changes intemperate zone weather patterns.The tropics are the chief sourceof energy, in the form of heat andmoisture, for middle latitudeweather such as that over theUnited States. The main mechan¬ism for transferring this energyseems to be the jet stream, a thinriver of high speed air that gir¬dles the earth at high altitudes.Atmospheric circulation pat¬terns that include a jet-stream¬like wave are also being studied inthe department of meteorol¬ogy’s hydrodynamics laboratorythrough the use of “dishpan” ex¬periments in which water is rota¬ted and heated. Thus far, thesemodels have been studied only- bymotion pictures. Robert E. Kay-lor, research assistant, and FrankBamberger, graduate student,have begun to construct mathe¬matical models of these wave pat¬terns. Their’s was the first scien¬tific problem to be run throughthe University’s new digital com¬puter. Its solution on May 1 tookfour minutes.Another meteorological studybeing planned is the analysis ofdata gathered during 10 aircraft flights through banks of puffytropical cumulus clouds floatingbetween the coast of Florida andthe Bahamas. Roscoe R. BrahamJr., associate professor of meteor¬ology and associate director of thecloud physics laboratory, and Ed¬ward Harrington, associate me¬teorologist, through use of thecomputer, seek to define, withthese data flrow clouds affect thetemperature, pressure, and hu¬midity of the atmosphere sur¬rounding them.Has large tape storageThe system’s large tape storage,said Robert L. Ashenhurst, assist¬ant professor of applied mathe¬matics in the school of business, isparticularly conducive to researchin which large amounts of datamust be compared, analyzed, andreduced. Such uses include var¬ious analyses of economic datain the development of theories toaccurately explain aspects of theUS economy. The machine canthen be used to test these theoriesby using new data to make pre¬dictions.On a smaller scale, UNIVACcan be used to solve businessproblems, he said. By having thecomputer simulate, for instance,the marketing effects of competi¬tive products, and by taking intoaccount a firm’s resources andproduction capabilities, a decisionas to which products to producefor maximum profits can bemade. Likewise, by theoreticallyvarying certain phases of a busi¬ness’ operations, certain manage¬ment problems can be solved.Also being considered are solu¬tions of nuclear engineering prob¬lems by Argonne National labora¬tory.Immediate projects scheduledfor the computer include prepara¬tion and maintenance of the Uni¬versity’s payroll and general ac¬counting. Another University usebeing considered is maintenanceof academic records, includingthose of current enrollees and the300,000 students who attended theUniversity since it was opened in1892.During the coming academicyear, the school of business willoffer a quantitive methods curric¬ulum which will include appliedmathematics courses relating tothe application of business andindustrial problems to digital com¬puter solution. Two such courseswere offered in the current aca¬demic year.The new computer, which re¬quires a staff of five (three main¬ tenance engineers and two opera¬tors) is located in the basement ofthe Administration building. In¬stallation of the system, whichcost the University some $200,000,required extensive reconstructionof the basement and instalmentof a large cooling system for re¬moving from the computer thelarge amounts of heat its vacuumtubes produce. The cooler is anadvanced commercial model thatuses a new lithium chloride ab¬sorption system, rather than amechanical compressor.Wallace emphasized that theoperations analysis laboratory isseparate from the institute forcomputer research created at theUniversity six months ago. Thestaff of this institute, he said, isnow constructing a MANIAC-typecomputer which will be able tocompute some 100 times fasterthan the UNIVAC, but whilch willnot be able to handle the extreme¬ly large amounts of data that thecommercial machine can. Thus,he said, the two complement eachother to provide a well-roundedfacility at Chicago. (above) Edward L. Wallace, right, professor of businessadministration and director of operations research, discussesthe electronic brain with Allan Addleman, chief maintenanceengineer for the UNIVAC project, during the "debugging"process which took place during the past two months.Rochelle Dubnow elected19.58-59 Maroon editorSecond year student RochelleDudnow was elected editor-in-chief of the Maroon Tuesday forthe 1958-59 academic year.Miss Dubnow was elected bythe required two-thirds majorityof the Maroon staff on the 15thballot, an election that took 4^hours. The election was begun onFriday and was recessed after 3%hours of balloting and debate. Shewon the election on the followingTuesday.In her acceptance speech, MissDubnow, a pre-law student fromChicago, emphasized the import¬ance of “much more intensive program for the general and spe¬cialized training of prospectiveMaroon staff members,” widerfeature and news coverage andgreater communication betweenstaff members.”Staff for next year includesLawrence D. Kessler, businessmanager; Donna Davis, managingeditor, and Gordon Briggs, adver¬tising manager.Miss Dubnow has been reporter, news editor, executive news edi¬tor and associate editor of theMaroon.During the past school year shehas been co-chairman of Festivalof the Arts and a member of theplanning council of the new wom¬en’s dormitory. /6139 KENWOOD2'/j room apartment(7 in modern elevatorbuilding, for individual or couple. . . Private kitchen and bath, ofcourse . . . wall-to-wall carpeting.. . furnished or semi-furnished ...refined persons only... referencesrequired. FA. 4-2415. 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This 'is theoriginal French version in that language with English Subtitles. Adults.Friday & Saturday: DITF, 5:30, 9:15; SOC, 7:25, 11:15Sunday: SOC, 2:30, 6:20, 1015; DITF, 4:20, 8:10We suggest the early performances for best seating. The ventilatingand air-conditioning system has been overhauled — we thank thosewho bore with us during a few hot evenings last week.Coming: A special Memorial Day matinee, with rour Bags Full aridDoctor at Large, May 30.rMmmmmmmmmm r- tmdp* , *. * * # i < /'R O O N • May 23, 1958 SPECIAL PURCHASEIVY LEAGUELEATHER TRIM TROUSERS(Reg. to $9.95 $ 5.95Our Prices Can't Be Beat... it's Smart To Buy For LessD & C Clothes Shop744 E. 6»3rd St. MI 3-2728“In the Neighborhood for 40 Years'*Hours: 9” a.m. - 8 p.m., Mon. - Fri. — 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday