Analyzes the deficiencies in the provision of medical services in the United States, and proposes an ideal system of health care stressing regional health centers and hospitals, supported from general tax revenues and administered on a decentralized basis with central monitoring. (JM)

Homogeneous grouping in general education has systematically alienated the less affluent, the less motivated, the less academically able student, and developed distinct anti-intellectualism. This was poor preparation for the complex political, social, and moral questions which plague society today. (Author/SE)

Specific areas in higher education where congressional and administrative emphases are changing and where improved academic communications could clarify the Federal role. (Editor/IR)

Paper given at 1970 annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges discusses need for national recognition of the special problems and special achievements of approximately 111 predominantly black colleges which are significance national resources and key factors in race relations. (IR)

Discusses the development of several self-report measures of communication apprehension; included are lists of the test items employed. (SW)

Describes elephant experience as situation which person is unable to integrate. Discusses ways in which school personnel can help student to cope more effectively by understanding the symptoms, sources, and process of using experience constructively. (CJ)

Excerpt from a two year study concluded by a National Academy of Sciences panel.

An address by the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the U.S., delivered at the Second National Conference of the National Council for Community Services to International Visitors in Washington, D. C. on March 27, 1969.

Subjects with higher verbal than performance IQ's achieved significantly poorer Pascal-Suttell Bender-Gestalt scores than subjects with higher performance over verbal IQ's. The latter subjects were more likely to have dropped out of high school and to have spent some time in prison. (Author/RD)

Outlines Action Counseling, a normological, problem-solving method, which capitalizes on the strengths of poor families for solving family problems and improving their situation. Steps include setting a theme, identifying and clarifying positively stated goals, designing mutually agreed upon action plans, overcoming obstacles, obtaining…

Uses the Spector and Kitsuse model of social problem development to analyze the controversy over the refusal of the Bunker Hill Company (Kellogg, Idaho) to give fertile female employees jobs involving exposure to lead unless they were sterilized. Suggests modifications in the model to account for the government role in claims making. (Author/MJL)

Surveyed 619 college freshmen to determine how many considered themselves to have drinking problems. Results showed males and youngest children in the family had the most problems. Both males and females who had drinking problems reported stressful childhoods, and were twice as likely to have divorced parents. (JAC)

The perceived problems of medical students were compared with those of students in the other health sciences colleges at the same institution. The medical students were found to have the same spectrum of perceived problems but complained of these problems significantly more intensely on 35 items. (Author/MLW)

Three conditions of behavioral disturbances and impaired school performance (learning disability, attentional disorder, and childhood major depression) are suggested as being associated with dysfunction of the right cerebral hemisphere. (Author/PN)

Schools should dignify the study of television in the same way that they dignify the study of language or mathematics. Television can help students gain an understanding of human problems and the human experience, broaden their reference points, and increase their sense of efficacy and participation. (RM)