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Itudents Must Begin To Fight
lor Better Teaching Salaries
' "Four thousand and two
Ihundred dollars per year is a
■poverty wage," said Gene
■Brenneis, president of the Stu-
Ident Michigan Education Association. "Students, who plan
Ito teach, must begin to realize
■that they are worth more than
■that. We must fight for better
[teaching salaries."
In Michigan, where the 1,766
[members of SMEA lead the
[nation in their demand for
[better salaries for teachers,
[the fight is on. The members
[have concluded, after many
[salary seminars and 'studies
[which have taken place* in colleges and universitis throughout the state, that §5,000
[told be the starting" salary
[for teachers with a bachelor
[of arts degree and that, within
110 years, the maximum salary
[should be $8,000.
fcortunities   for' prospective
fOTC cadets.
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hnsfer students an opportunity to enlist in the ROTC prorata. The act raised the ad-
pced cadet pay to $40 a
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sional people and deserve to
be paid as such. Our educational system requires good
teachers and therefore, people
must be willing to pay for
them just as they do for any
other professional service."
"To overcome the shortage
of teachers, the profession
must begin to offer something
more desirable in salaries.
Many students, who would ordinarily have been on a teaching curriculum, are studying
in other fields because of this
factor," he added.
The SMEA is holding its annual convention this week-end
in Battle Creek where.it is expected that this wage-war will
be one of the main topics of
discussion. The 400 CMU students, who are members of the
SMEA, urge students who are
„%& **«fflP DT^rlly.
Men interested in t h e new
program will be given a six
weeks summer camp training
during the summer of their
sophomore year. The summer
camp will provide the new cadet with the necessary knowledge to begin the advanced
program the following September. The summer camp
will be held at Fort Knox, Ky.
from June 14-July 23. Each
cadet will be paid §78 a month
plus room, board, and clothing.
The new act also increased
the regular senior sum me r
camp pay to $180. Any sophomores interested in this year's
camp should make arrangements with the CMU department of military science before
March 25.
Central Growing
Admissions, Parking Difficulties
Increase With Rising Enrollment
Enrollment for the spring
semester at Central has increased 13.6 per cent over a
year ago says Dr. George N.
Lauer, registrar.
There are 6,983 students currently enrolled as compared to
6,147 a year ago. Enrollment
by classes include 2,012 freshmen, 1,462 sophomores, 1,332
juniors, 1,508 seniors, 617
graduates, 41 special and 11
guest enrollees.
Largest increase is in t h e
freshman class with 24.2 per
cent more students than were
enrolled for the spring semester last year. Increases were
registered in all classes, including a 7.9 increase in the
School of
able, and the economic conditions during this period.
"Not only are there more
and more people having more
children, but because we are a
technological society a bigger
percentage of people are going
to college and staying longer,"
Foust said.
If the needed funds to meet
the growing enrollments does
not come from the -state, it
may be necessary to devise
another method of selecting
applicants, Foust said. An example he gave was that if the
number of women were out of
proportion to the number of
men, some sort of restrictions
might be necess
Apply Now for
Work -Study Plan
Applications are still being taken for the Work-
Study Program just initiated this- Semester al Central.
There have been 20 applicants thus far and the
amount received from the
federal government for the
program allows 36 students
to be employed this semester.
Anyone interested should
contact James Bealer, personnel, in Warriner.
BENJAMIN FINE, education editor of the New York
Times for 17 years, delivers his address, "The Crisis In
American Education," Monday night in Warriner Auditorium. (LIFE photo bY RaY Peterson)
Johnson's Education Bill
More Needs To Be Done
semester this year three per
cent of our students were can- .
celled for not meeting our academic requirements- and conceivably this percentage will
increase since competition gets
tougher as the enrollments increase."
Central's growth also demands an increase in the
teaching faculty. Last semester the teacher - student ratio
was 22-1. Using this same ratio, 160 members would have _
to be added to the teaching
faculty by 1970 according to,-
Foust. .praying
Another dl'ter the Chips'
^exn?Ts'picked as the team to
beat. The Salukis have a seasonal record of 18. wins and
three losses. The Associated
Press has ranked them number
three in the nation. One of
their losses came at the hands
of Evansville (24-0), the number one team in the country.
SIU lost 81-80 in overtime.
Southern's most impressive
victory of the season was a 78-
55 win over major college Oklahoma State. The Sooners are
the league leaders in the Big
Eight Conference whose members include Kansas State, Oklahoma University,' and Miss- •
ouri, among others.
By Neil Hopp
Life News Editor
•"We must have   a massive
breakthrough in education in
this country.   President Johnson's education program is just
a fraction of what we need,'
Benjamin  Fine   said  Monday
night. „.    A  ,    ,
Fine, the only syndicated education editor in the U.S., delivered a speech in Warriner
Auditorium entitled, "The Crisis in American Education.
Fine has been awarded more
than 30'special awards and citations, including the Pulitzer
Prize for his work in the field
of education. He was education editor of the New York
Times for 17 years.
"We spend about 3 per cent
of our national income for ed-
ucation-this must be doubled
and redoubled,' he said.
Fine recently took a survey
in 100 major cities across the
U. S. and said a bitter crisis
[exists in all of them. The problems range from integration to
lack of funds and high tax
rates,'he said. '
.Speaking on the recent disturbances over schools and
college campuses, Fine said,
"There is no sight more terrifying than to see little children and mothers with babies
in their arms walking in picket
lines, saying ugly slogans, closing schools."
"Education is the most important line of defense within
our country today," Fine said.
"It seems though, that we have
money for everything but
schools."
Fine then compared America's road construction program with her education program!, saying 50 billion dollars
worth of roads span the nation
Lacking
-fine
today and yet only 1 or 2 billion is-spent on education.
"No one well paved road is
worth one school house," he
said. "And in the past year,
one-third of the school bond
issues of the nation had been
defeated."
In the summer of 1960 Fine
made an extensie tour of the
Soviet Union educational system.
"The Soviet Union gives education top priority--ranking
above baseball players and the
movie stars," he said.
The author of many educational books then turned to a
view of the modern educational philosophy.
"Unfortunately, education is
an intangible product," Fine
said. "You can't see it unless
you have vision, foresight and
unless you realize ' America
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