Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast-growing, already seam-split junior college on the outskirts of Los Angeles is likely to be the battleground for California's hottest educational fight during the next few months. The issue at Compton College: President Paul Martin's use-or misuse, depending on which violently opposed viewpoint is taken-of educational television. Within the college, teachers mutter moodily of "1984"-or support Martin enthusiastically. Outside, bitter opposition is building; a few days ago the 90,000-member California Teachers Association condemned Compton's plan, asked the University of California to consider refusing to recognize credits earned...
...Martin concept: replace live professors wherever possible with filmed lectures, projectors and closed-circuit television rigs. The project is going strong: 919 students at Compton (enrollment: 4,800) taking a first-year psychology course need never face a flesh-and-blood lecturer, and 1,099 students in freshman algebra and English courses are film-fed most of the time. Their education is largely seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work...
Reason for the switchover: without TV, the college would have to hire more new teachers, instead hopes to save $60,000 in salaries by June. And with TV, Compton expects to handle a 100% enrollment increase in the next decade with a boost of only about 30% in its 90-member staff. Said one official: "We figure that saving the costs of 60 bodies is well worth it." Compton plans to build a TV wing, with six windowless, air-conditioned classrooms...
M.I.T.'s surge toward scientific eminence was begun by President (1930-48) Karl Compton. Under Killian and Right-Hand Man Stratton a new reform was pushed through: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to the status of the institute's other professional schools. At 57, Physicist "J" Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T...
Just before his fleet-footed protege, Herb Elliott, 20, stepped to the starting line for the mile run at California's Compton track meet last week, Aussie Coach Percy Cerutty bobbled his grey goatee with an expansive boast: "We will set too fast a pace for him and steam...