A simulation game using methods of conflict resolution is designed to enable students to study the role and function of administrative agencies. This game provides a natural opening for discussion of law modification through legislative action, and judicial control through litigation. (SM)

This study, which views cooperation in the larger context of cultural adaptation, explores the cooperative'' networks in an urban Afro-American community to discover to what extent cooperation and solidarity'' represent survival necessities'' for a community. (JM)

The hierarchical and impersonal university makes it difficult, if not impossible, for trust to be established in the microcosm of the classroom." Author describes how a literature class he taught at State University of New York at Buffalo evolved into an experimental one in which the group itself was the subject, and trust was established.…

Student disdain for Canadian society is being carried over into an attitude toward the university. Faculty members should change their concept of the university from a liberal to a critical one. Report delivered at annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, May 22, 1969. Reprinted from C.A.U.T. Bulletin, October 1969. (WM)

The utility of a crisis intervention approach for helping preadolescents build competency in behavior control is demonstrated. The following dimensions are highlighted: immediacy of intervention, trust relationship, structural interventions, facilitating versus controlling, problem solving orientation, and mobilization of group membership…

Because in academic controversy both judicial expertise and legal precedent are virtually nonexistent, an Academic Dispute-Settlement Commission is proposed. (IR)

In response to heightening racial tensions in their school, the counselors proposed a Black White Discussion Group which met weekly to rap" together. This group was equally divided racially and sexually, with trained black and white leaders and a counselor from the high school. Response of the participants appears to have been very positive. (CJ)

Suggestions for library media specialists to use in establishing relationships with administrators, teachers, students, and parents focus on four areas of interpersonal skills: knowing and trusting each other; accurately understanding each other; influencing and helping each other; and constructively resolving problems and conflicts. Fifteen…

Conflicts between superintendents and architects about planning school facilities can be avoided by written educational specifications and an understanding that preliminary cost estimates are not binding. However, the owner may impose a fixed budget limitation that is legally binding if all parties agree in writing. (MLF)

It is proposed that a National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution be established as a network linking the many individuals in the United States trained and experienced in peacemaking. Outreach and publication to educate and train others in nonviolent conflict resolution would be a primary objective. (MSE)

Suggestions include: reducing tensions, establishing staff requirements early, enhancing the academic establishment, resuscitating lagging departments, beginning a public relations campaign, examining the curriculum, reallocating the budget, strengthening management, supporting imaginative leadership, and providing financing, imagination, and…