Merit Scholars vary on Honors program E D I T O R ’S NOTEs The last two tacked and supported a whole range of "T h is is due partly to poor instructors the least, very disappointed. The basic p arts of this s erie s contain a programs at MSU. They heartily con­ and partly to a built-in wrongheadedness idea, that of providing a background in demned the University’s academic regula­ " MSU d id t e a c h m e s o m e th in g im p o rta n t— th at t h e r e which sees education as a wholly predict­ MSU put more emphasis on carrying along number of the m a jo r, specific tions and limitations on their freedom. a r e o t h e r thin gs m o r e im p o rta n t than stu d y in g an d able experience. Hence course syllabuses the works of their members rather than complaints made by M e r i t Schol­ Some students suggested that those not and the uniform multiple-choice exams presenting interesting and meaningful a r s , H o w l e r , the s eries does not in theHonorsCollege could gain most of the g r a d e s .” for all sections." material to the students." attempt to present a completely same advantages by taking the University Other Scholars added, “UniversityCol- The most positive comment on the re p res en tativ e sample of what College waiver examinations. A number of lege B asics are often inadequate and/or University College came from the stu­ M e r i t Scholars think of MSU, the students even questioned the worth of manding political responsibility or genuine rather than a blanket-type invitation to all ridiculous." dent who said, "M y experience with the having an Honors College at alL intellectual interest, grade points above a certain cut-off point. “ 1 think the University College should University College has left me, to say By L IN D A G O R T M A K E R One student, who was graduated early —tend to avoid courses outside their An interview should be part of the selec­ be abandoned in favor of a variety of humanities and the sciences, isverygood; and with a 3.89 gradepoint, suggested, ‘T h e major and sm aller and more-demanding - tion procedure, at the very le a st." courses in these fields. however, the subject matter and the gen­ S T E V E GA TES Honors College, far from being the band than-average courses in the interest of Although the ifterlt Scholars could not ‘T h e average student could easily be­ eral handling of the courses are poor." State News Staff W r it e r s of h a p p y adventurers on th e way to maintaining a smug grade point average, agree on virtually anything, the MSU pro­ come academically alienated if forced to The math department was criticized insight and mutual growth, appears to be and gram which drew the most negative r e ­ take three terms of ATL. One term was by one student who complained that "the a band of academic goodies who: —a re often banal, uninteresting, self- sponses was the University College. more than enough for m e." department policy of assigning profes­ MSU’s Honors College was defended by —are none too bright, infatuated bores. For example, one student suggested Natural science and social science in sors, the day before classes, then not participating National Merit Scholars, but --love mutually congratulatory or "safe The same student suggests that "a pos­ ‘T h e Basic College courses were de­ particular drew severe criticism s. permitting section changes, is no sub­ resented by those not in the college, a r e ­ organizations, ’' like dorm government, or sible solution would be to make admission scribed as a polymath’s paradise; in a c­ “ Nat. Sci. is a perversion to anyone cent survey of the scholars showed. stitute for a good department. It just turns non-involvement better than those de- into the Honors College the result of tuality, most of them seem to range from who knows anything about science or In a response to a State News question­ the whole business into Russian roulette." naire, 115 Merit Scholars praised, at- applications from interested students mediocre to bad.’’ math. T his holds for most of the year’s However, not all of the complaints were TAT MEWS work, and the books and the untruths negative, particularly concerning what some things just grossly misleading over­ MSU had taught students outside of the Thursday simplifications in them in p articular." Social Science texts "a re undoubtedly the greatest m iscarriages of academic classroom. Many of the Merit Scholars expressed sentiments sim ilar to the coed who suggested, "so MSU is a success aft­ achievement I have ever encountered, I er all, as far as I ’m concerned. It didn't MICHIGAN can only conclude that some departments at (please turn to back page) U N IV E R S IT Y STATE — > 1 ta TS days tram $ 0 4 0 .3 0 a ll- in c lis .lv .. changes these procedures and the selection will follow whatever by­ •M eet the international safety standards tor new ships developed in law s are finally adopted. fishermen knit sweater i9 6 0 . 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'v E .is t L .iM M tiy , B io o k f it M t i P L i / i i. O k e m o s a n d H a s le t t E A S T L A N S I N G - 209 E . Grand R iv e r chance that some Idiot will get F t o t n al o c n o tir in s u r a n c e c o r p o r a t io n hold of these weapons. The ^ OPEN 9 :3 0 A .M . TO 9 P.M . (T u m .-Sb ».) FRANDOR CENTER DOW N TOW N - 107 S. Washington chances go up geometrically wjth M m . Noon-9 p.m .; Sun. Noon-6 p.m. PHONE: IV 7-50S1 the snread of the weaoona." Michigan State News, E ast Lansing, Michigan T h u r s d a y , J a n u a r y 11, 1 9 6 8 3 NEWS Bowles, Sihanouk 'cordial' PHNOM PENH, Cambodia OP)— Cong and North Vietnamese ister, and Australian Ambassa­ tional Control Commission setup s u m m a ry Cambodian officials reported Wednesday that the first meeting of UJS. Ambassador Chester forces Into Cambodia. Bowles. U.S.ambassador to In­ dia, was sent to Cambodia after dor Sin clair Deschamps, who has represented American deplomat- ic Interests In Phnom Penh since by the 1954 Geneva conference to supervise the operation of agreements ending French rule Bowles and Prince Norodom Si­ Sihanouk said he would welcome Sihanouk broke relations with the In Indochina. A capsule s u m m a ry of the day's events fro m hanouk was "frank and cordial” an American envoy to discuss United States In 1965. But a Cambodian note to the but they disclosed no details of Communist use of Cambodian Bowles and the prem ier met Australian Embassy said the fi­ o u r w ir e s e rv ic e s . the hour-long conversation. border areas. for an hour prior to the confer­ nal decision on the UJS.offer must Bowles arrived in Phnom Penh Others attending the Bowles- ence with Sihanouk. be made by the commission as Monday on a mission for P resi­ Slhanouk conference were Penn The Cambodian Foreign Of­ well as by the foreign m inisters dent Johnson to discuss the use Nouth, Sihanouk’s private coun­ fice announced It Is favorable of Britain and the Soviet Union— “ The problem o f (nu­ of neutral Cambodia as a sanc­ selor; Premier. Son Sann; Gen. to an American offer of two heli­ cochairmen of the Geneva con­ copters for use by the Interna­ ference. , c l e a r ) proliferation is tuary by Communist troops fight­ Duong Sam 0 1, the defense min­ ing in Vietnam. There was a t h e chance that som e possibility the talks would range Frandor Store Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Monday thru Friday . . . Saturday Till 6 p.m. IM S idiot will get hold o f Opening talks over the broader Issues of Viet­ nam peace talks. these w eapons.” S ec­ HOLDEN ip REID U.S. Presidential envoy C hester Bowles greets An Informed source said r e t a r y o f State Dean Cambodian P r e m i e r Som Sann before opening talks Bowles probably would confer on b o rd er problem s. UPI Telephoto with Sihanouk again today and Rusk. leave Phnom Penh Friday. Informants said Sihanouk spoke to Bowles In English and ex­ International News Heart patient dies pressed the Cambodian position with his "habitual affability." The meeting was at the prince's Men’s modernistic Chai n c a r Mon after transplant Storewide 0 A FIVE-HOUR FIGHT 31 m iles northwest of Saigon saw Palace, set amid luxuriant the defensive fire of an American Infantry outfit virtually de­ tropical gardens. stroy a 350-man Viet Cong battalion. A U.S. spokesman claimed Cambodian officials sald” u se- 103 Communists were killed. See page 7 NEW YORK If) — Louis Block, the world’s fifth heart transplant ful points of view were ex­ recipient, died Wednesday, 10 hours after he was given a wongao's changed." 0 Clearance CHESTER BOWLES;- U.S. a m b a s s a d o r to fridla, and"’ heart a little more than half his 'size. Sihanouk ' s a w b’e fore the Pcltyv*. Nonodom Sihanouk were, reported by Cambodian offi­ A .spokesman. at. Brooklyn’s Malmonides Medical Center, where meeting that he cannot permit cials as having a “ frank and cordial" meeting. No details D r. Adrian Kantrowltz’ team performed the elght-hour-and-20- American troops to pursue Viet were disclosed concerning the hour-long conversation. minute operation, said Kantrowltz would not discuss the transplant See page 3 failure "until they get results of the post-mortem and report them ^ DR. CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD said he can_give no reason why the three human heart transplants in the United States have to the proper medical so u rces." F irst reported In "reasonably satisfactory condition” immediate­ jon/wfe? . .Sale all encountered early postoperative difficulty while both of his ly after the surgery—in which two major surgical steps were r Florist / transplants made good initial progress. See page 1 performed— Block’s condition became critical shortly after mid­ night, when his blood pressure began to fall. He died a few hours 10% off for students & faculty Save Up To .30% And later. 809 E . MiCH. AVE„ LANS. National News Officials of Malmonides attributed Block’s death to "th e pumping capacity of the transplanted heart and the poor condition of the lungs due to the patient’s long-standing heart d isea se." Block’s was the fifth such operation In 37 days—and the second GUESTS COMING? More 0 DEAN RUSK SAID IN AN interview that one of his most constant problems and proudest achievements during his years to end in death for Kantrowltz. On Dec. 6 Kantrowltz transplanted M E N 'S as director of foreign policy has been to help prevent the world the heart from one Infant boy to another. The boy lived only six from blundering into nuclear war. and one half hours. S U IT S , S P O R T S W E A R , F U R N IS H IN G S Block, 57, a retired fireman who weighed 170 pounds and had a 0 LOUIS BLOCK, the world’s fifth heart transplant patient, long history of heart trouble, was given the much sm aller heart of a B O S T O N IA N S H O E S died at Brooklyn’s Malmonides Medical Center, 10 hours after 100-pound woman, Helen Krouch, 29, who died of a brain tumor Family he was given a woman's heart. See page 3 about noon Tuesday. Rates SPO RT C O A T S AND SL A C K S 0 SURVEYOR 7, the three-legged spacecraft loaded with in­ struments to satisfy scientific curiosity, was set to scratch Immediately after surgery Tuesday night, Kantrowltz said “we have had some problem s" because of the sm aller size and pumping capacity of Miss Krouch’s heart. C o m p a n y o n the w a y ?...B u sin e ss asso ciate s d u e 7 ... t h e y 'll love it at. * HOLDEN REID the moon’s surface near the south-central highlands. He said an auxiliary balloon pump was also inserted into Block's UNIVERSITY INN See page 7 main artery to assist the small heart in maintaining blood circula­ //«foTMV 0 AUTHORITIES IN ST. LOUIS said that three male patients tion. The doctors thus performed two bold procedures in the opera­ were found apparently strangled in the St. Louis State School tion. n 202 Dtlm t Rooms j and Hospital. See page 2 ,1 Ij the largest motel in the Lansing Area ( 0 GOV. NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER of New York plans to wait and see how Gov. Romney does in the New Hampshire Prim ary March 12 before he takes any final action on a GOP The State News, the student newspaper at Michigan State University, is published every class, with special Welcome Week and Orientation issues in June ■-*n ^ ^ Jr . I u jf ' • f r e e w a k e u p c o ffe e a n d c o n tin e n ta l telephones. ,v*e»me» andbridal • •— *4>m* Dm ct dial R e m o te c o n t ro l T V H e a te d s w im m in g p o o l ..and b est o f. 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