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War-like rhetoric pushes math and science
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hlrikS Last week's two
blockbuster reports on reforming
American education have more
than suggested changes in
common
For suitably "strategic-
reasons, both use a lot of
militaristic, war like rhetoric to
make their points
Failing to bolster math and
science curricula is nothing less
than "the equivalent of unilateral
disarmament." said a Carnegie
Corporation of New York report
The country is entering an era
of international economic
competition "more profound than
Sputnik." the report said
Similarly, the newly released
National Commission on Ex
cellence in Education said. "Our
country is at risk .”
The United States is com
mitting “unthinkable, unilateral
educational disarmament." the
report said
Employing war like rhetoric to
persuade people to help fund
intellectual curiosity — arguably
the condition that is opposite of
war s mentality — is no accident,
the reports' authors said.
"Those have got to be the
hottest topics in the country —
defense and the economy — and I
think we’ll see educators and
education commissions all across
the country begin saying the
same thing," said Alden
Dunham, program director for
higher education at the Carnegie
Corporation.
“There are practical, economic
and national security reasons for
having a strong, competitive
education system in this coun
try," he said "And with the
current climate in this country, it
would be foolish for educators not
to take advantage of this."
"Education is a strategic
asset," said David Gardner,
president of the University of
Utah and chairman of the
Commission on Excellence.
“We put (the defense and
economic arguments) in the
report deliberately," Gardner
said, "because they're used often
and generally understood "
The emergence of such
rhetoric, other officials point out,
signals what may be a new
threshold for U S education, and
possibly the beginning of another
"Sputnik era" of school spending
“People are looking for new
sets of arguments to justify
support and reform for
education," said Ted Marchese,
vice president of the American
Association for Higher
Education.
"One way to force education on
the agenda is to tie it with the
biggest issues around — defense
and economic competitiveness,"
Marchese said.
The last time that was done
was when the Soviets launched
their first Sputnik satellite and
shocked the United States into a
sense of scientific inferiority,
Marchese said, and to a lesser
degree during the so-called
"social justice" era of the late 60s
and early 70s.
“It's sad. but all the issues that
we tie to education tend to be
cyclical,” he said. “We may well
be headed back into a Sputnik
like era, and a nationalistic line
of argumentation may work for
education the way it's worked to
build the auto and steel in
dustries .”
“I think the education com
munity sees that appeals to
nationalism right now might win
over some of the more con
servative sectors of the country,"
said John Malian, director of
research for the American
Association of State Colleges and
Universities.
“But," he said, "I hope it
doesn't mean that people have
given up on the argument that
education is a good thing in and of
itself.”
Some officials worry that
putting too much emphasis on the
economic and military benefits of
an education may do just that.
The reports urged most
prominently that schools offer
higher salaries to teachers in
order to draw more talented
people into the profession, and to
raise school graduation stan
dards.
Though both reports primarily
concern secondary education,
they did recommend tougher
college admissions standards.
A wide variety of colleges have
been raising admissions stan
dards on their own since the turn
of the decade, generally in
response to declining funding,
which has made expensive
remedial programs more dif
ficult to maintain.
To achieve the higher aims, the
educators haven’t hesitated
asking Americans to see better-
filled minds as better guns in
international conflict.
Peace advocate wants unity
American labor
organizations, minorities
and peace activists should
unite their efforts to stop
the nuclear arms race and
promote peace at home and
abroad, according to an
internationally renowned
nuclear physicist
Michio Kaku, who
received a doctorate in
physics from Princeton
Kaku called for grassroots support
University and is now a
active peace advocate, told
an audience at the Athens
Regional Library Monday
night that American
grassroots support was
needed to stop the growing
nuclear arms race between
the United States and the
Soviet Union.
"The one issue that
unites all people and is the
biggest issue in the world
today is the nuclear arms
race." Kaku said
Kaku said the only way to
generate enough mass
support to influence
American nuclear policy
was to unite a wide range of
constituencies such as
minorities, labor and peace
activists He said he was an
active supporter of The
Federation For Progress —
an American peace
organization which is
striving to forge such a
coalition
Kaku said the European
anti-nuclear movement
was growing and becoming
a powerful political force
If the United States decided
to deploy intermediate
range nuclear missiles in
Europe, it would meet
massive resistance, he
said
"When they (the United
States) try to deploy these
missiles, there will be the
most massive demon
stration in the history of the
planet." he said.
Kaku said that if
Americans could unite
their common goals of
peace, like Europeans, the
Reagan administration
would be less inclined to
deploy the missiles
Kaku's speech was
sponsored by the Athens
Progressive Resource
Center in conjunction with
this week's annual Human
Rights Festival.
— Greg Hardin
ATLANTA (AP) - State health officials are drafting
proposed regulations for a “new wave" in medical care —
free-standing clinics which treat minor ailments on a walk-in
basis
Between 30 and 3S such clinics are operating in Georgia,
most of them in the Atlanta area But because the idea is so
new. no state standards exist to regulate them, said Kevin
Malone, a regulatory official with the State Department of
Human Resources
The proposed regulations will be the subject of a public
hearing in Atlanta June M and probably will become ef
fective in the fall. Malone said Tuesday They must be ap
proved by the Georgia Board of Human Resources
The freestanding emergency care centers treat
lacerations, simple fractures, sore throats, colds and other
minor ailments, and usually are open 12 to 16 hours a day,
seven days a week
Malone said the DHR was authorized to license such clinics
by the 1962 General Assembly A preliminary draft of the
regulations was presented to the board April 20, but the board
will not take final action until after the public hearing, he
said
No major problems have been found with the clinics
already operating in Georgia. Malone said "What we're
really doing is applying preventive medicine We re trying to
keep out the fly-by-nights "
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Today, the regents will hear three
New wave in medicine to be regulated
reports on desegregating the Universi
ty System — one from its own staff and
two from outside task forces.
University associate law Professor
Larry Blount will deliver one of the
reports on behalf of the Georgia Black
Coalition on Higher Education
The other reports will come from the
Rev Joseph Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian leadership Con
ference The formation of an SCLC task
force to study desegregation was an
nounced at last month's regents'
meeting
Both outside reports will supplement
the regents' own report, which, if ap
proved today, will go to the Atlanta
branch of the federal Office of Civil
Rights and then on to U.S. District
Judge John Pratt.
Pratt ruled in March that Georgia
and eight other states must put forth
specific desegregation plans by fall 1965
or lose federal funding
Senior reporter Jim Massara con
tributed to this story.
Report: Nukes could affect billions
GENEVA, Switzerland I AP) — A report released Tuesday
by the World Health Organization estimates that about half
of the world's population of 4.5 billion would be "immediate
victims" of an all-out nuclear war.
The report, prepared by an international committee of 10
scientists, listed a potential toll of 1.15 billion dead and 1.1
billion injured in outlining the worst of three war scenarios
which it said "do not include the extreme views."
It warned that the chances of injured survivors receiving
any medical attention arc "next to nil" and voiced doubt that
"even a comprehensive civil defense policy would reduce
significantly the number of casualties "
Compiled from various studies, the all-out nuclear war
described in the 151 -page report assumes that 10,000
megatons of nuclear bombs are exploded all over the world
— 90percent of them in Europe, Asia, and North America
The report says that a war with smaller, tactical weapons
totaling 20 megatons and limited to military targets in
Central Europe would claim about 9 million dead or
severely injured with the same number of people suffering
less serious injuries "Even if the attack is aimed only at
military targets, the civilian casualties would out number
military casualties by 16-1," the report said.
In the third scenario, which supposed that the Houses of
Parliament in London were the target of a single one-
inegaton bomb — 80 times the explosive power of the
Hiroshima bomb — the report lists 18 million dead and 1.7
million injured as potential casualties
Authors of the report, submitted to the 159-nation WHO's
annual assembly, include scientists from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France, Britain. Japan, Sweden. Austria,
Venezuela, Nigeria and the Netherlands.
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