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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Thursday Evening, June 29, 1967

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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WASHINGTON,
June
of the National Student
Association are resisting efforts
by the Central Intelligence Agency to evict the association from
its
headquarters here.
The association, the United
States' largest college student
organization, for two years has
building
occupied a
at 2115 S Street Northwest une
lease with
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The foundation has been identified as one of several that secretly channeled C.I.A. funds to the
year.
Officers of the association disclosed the aid last February and

announced that it had ended
all ties with the federal agency.
The president, W. Eugene
Groves, said lawyers for the association were negotiating with
the C.I.A. over the agency's request that the building be vacated.
He said the association ree
lease
garded the
as a grant made to it under
"an airtight legal contract."
"We are not about to give up
an asset given to us two years
ago," he remarked.
In the negotiations now under way, he reported, the association is exploring the possibility of ownership of the building being transferred either to
itself or to some other entity
"open and free from any conceivable ties with the agency."
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Checks may be cashed by students, faculty, and staff, at the
Bursar's Office, 1st floor, of the
old Agriculture Building adjacent to the Commerce Building.

Dilhir.l House

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housing experiment

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from the early 1950's until last

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Plans are now underway here
for an experiment in coeducational living beginning with the
upcoming fall semester.
While details are yet to be
worked out, the project may have
the participating students form
a private corporation which
would lease Dillard House, 270
S. Limestone, from the University. The students would then
be responsible for the facility's
upkeep and operation.
The proposal is not sponsored
by the University, but according
to Nancy Ray, administrative associate on the Associate Dean of
Students staff, it has UK sanc-

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Vol. LVIII, No. H9

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NEW YORK, June 27-- The
New York City and State universities will cosponsor a televised "University of the Air"
starting next fall that will offer
a full day of college courses
each week to persons who cannot or do not want to attend
regular classes.
Enrollment in the "University of the Air" will be open
to all who care to register, re-

gardless of their educational
backgrounds. Persons who have
not graduated from high school
or elementary school can register and, if they meet the course
requirements, will receive academic credit for the television
courses.
However,

if such

students

want to apply their television
credits toward an undergraduate
degree, they would have to obtain matriculated or degree-statu- s
at one of the city or state
colleges
participating in the
"University of the Air" project.
To obtain such status, they
would have to meet the entrance
standards of the college.
The television courses will be
presented over channel 13 here
and on channel 17 in Schnec-tadchannel 24 in Syracuse;
channel 21 in Rochester and
channel 17 in Buffalo. The live
independent stations will form
part of a statewide educational
television network that will begin
operations next fall. They have
a potential audience of 11 mily;

lion viewers.

The major idea behind the
proposal is establishment of an
autonomous student community
within the larger educational
community, coupled with opportunity for a communal and academic approach to issues of social concern. Herein residents
would attempt to enrichen
experiences through informal seminars within the residential structure.
Similar programs are either
in effect or in the process of
enactment at Wisconsin, Penn
State and Duke.
The proposal emanates from
a scries of informal discussions
early last semester among students.
Should the project materialize, initial residents are exacted
clas-roo-

'University of the Air'
New York Time

of the

the end of 1967 Spindletop Research Inc. will be operating in the
black and debtless according to Vice
President Theodore Broida.
The research institute on Iron Works
Road has sufferred sharp criticism from
w ithin and without thi spring and was
atone point "near destruction" according
to one executive there.
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However,

since investigations began

inMarch, the private corporation which

was once a part of the University's Kentucky Research Foundation has fired a
tquartcr of its staff, and whittled down
its scope of contracts even more.
Says Broida, "Before we tried to be
all things to all people, and now we are
going to be a few very good things to
a few people."
Reports indicated Spindletop was from
$750,000 to a million dollars in debt.
Spindletop is under $500,000 mortgage
to eight Lexington banks and $250,000
to the Kentucky Research Foundation.

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capacity."

Another advantage of the experiment, she added, would be
toward breaking down internal
social barriers with both UK
faculty members and adminis- -

to come from this group. PreS

ently eight students have committed themselves to the project?
Other potential residents will be
screened by the iounding students.
Dillard House, formerly used
as a women's cooperation residence, and last year as a sorority
house for Alpha Delta Pi, is
fully furnished, with an equipped

student

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rooms are also furnished and each
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trators. In this respect, both faculty and staff members would be
invited to participate infrequent
r es i de n ce- - s po n s o r ed seminars
and discussions.
A memorandum outlining the
project recently mailed to students expressing an interest in
the experiment, states Dillard
House has a capacity of IS per-

Should the residence be
to capacity, estimated
monthly expense, excluding food,
would be
In addition residents would spend from e ight to
ten hours weekly in planning
andor participating in community study of the residential curriculum, lectures, seminars and
sons.
filled

discussions.

Spindletop will be out of debt before 196

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UK

ligious Affairs staff, has been
working with the students, emphasized the project is "an attempt to see if idealism will
work." She added initial thinking is that a faculty member
and his wife may also live within the residence "in an advisory

tion.

on Rose St. will
building next to Wenner-Grehouse a computer and a centrifuge to be used in experiments
for the National Aeronautical Space Agency conducted by the
Aeronautical Research lab.
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who, along with

Mrs. Ray

other members

Another example Broida cites is a comon a major push to capture more governputer Spindletop gave up in its belt ment contracts than it has in the past.
One thing which should bring in more
tightening process.
the state.
"We Inith used to have our own new contracts on the intergovernmental
As Broida sees it, the University will
computer and it is my hope that we level is last winter's move of the Councan share a central computer facility. cil of State Covernmenls to Lexington.
play a large part in the fate and future
of Spindletop in what he hoi's will be We can pool our requirements with the
"We feel in a position to nuke this
a much greater sharing of facilities and
University to end up with a better and one of our major areas of eiioit," Rogers
stated. He pointed out that the move
bigger computing installation than eipersonnel than previously.
will biing headquaiters of IS state asHe bases his hope in part on what ther one alone can afford."
tie terms "an entirely ditlerent attitude
Yet Broida is not particularly consociations into the Spindletop vicinity.
historv has
alxmt research at UK as opposed to that cerned about rejoining the University
Onlv once in its
held five or 10 years ago."
legally, thereby returning Spindletop to Spindletop income equalled and exceeded
its initial status. "The real question expenses. That w as 'ate in PJtiO.
A point in fact is a $196,000 grant
is whether we can develop a strong
In the early months of this ear one
from the U. S. Dept. of Transportation
research staff that will win the respect of the wides
to study driver licensing and performance of the
gaps occurred, but it has
University."
been drawing closer since the first of
across the country. Dr. Jesse Gardner,
Specific plans include:
professor of psychology, at UK will asa great orientation to the needs of May.
sist in the project.
Kentucky and its region, in business,
According to Broida $550,000 worth
ot work has been done this year while
At the same time Spindletop Senior industry, and higher education.
growth with new research contracts sales have hit $530,000. So far this month
Psychologist Lewis Miller who is pro$310,000 in new research contracts have
teaches as an adjunct pro- at the federal level.
ject manager,
According to Informational Services been signed, the largest being the Transfessor in the College of Business and
Economics.
Manager Don Rogers Spindletop will put portation Dept. project.
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* roniorrow's News Today:
The New Journalism
Heading to the immediacy and

speed of radio and television news
presentation the newspaper industry is adopting new forms of news
coverage with increasing emphasis on anticipatory reporting. Let's
anticipate and comment upon some
possible upcoming news events.
In the very near future it may
he a federal crime to fail to sing
the National Anthem aloud at UK
basketball and football games. Absurd? Or just one possible interpretation of the newly enacted
law which makes it a federal crime
with penalties of up to $1,000 or
or both to burn a
a
U. S. flag or to desecrate any
picture or representation of a national symbol?
Hep. William F. Ryan
resisted House passage of the bill,
saying "it's impossible to legislate
patriotism or morality or ev en temperance." Hep. Don Edwards
former president of the
Americans for Democratic Action,
suggested that "we adults should
have a special understanding and
tolerance for the storms of youth."
Boston may lose two newspapers on July 10 when publication
of the evening Traveler is suspended. Management intends to
pick the best men of the Traveler
staff and the best men of the
morning Herald staff to begin publication on July 11 of the Boston
Traveler, a morning publication
Unless the unions and the.man-agemein Boston have taken heed
of the events which' killed the
World Journal Tribune in New
York, and wc doubt they have,
then theattempted merger of the
Trav eler with the Herald into the
new Boston Traveler is probably
doomed for a strikeridden, fatal
year-in-pris-

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dissolution.
The U.S. will have a version
of the recent Suez crisis on its
hands in the near future. The provisions of the new treaty submitted
to the Senate will give Panama
sovereignty over the Panama Canal
canal
and over any new
which may be built in the future.
Under the prov isions of the new
treaty, the U.S. will surrender its
(!- - ear-olsovereignty over the
Panama Canal Zone, renouncing
the 1903 treaty which gave the
U.S. legal sovereignty over the
Canal zone "in perpetuity."
Panama will attain greater control over the zone and the canal,
;,nd a greater share in the financial
benefits of the canal through a
higher share of the tolls.
It should be interesting to follow Senate debate on the proposed
treaty. Will the Senate advise and
consent or revise and dissent?
The Supreme Court will juggle
its docket in the fall to rule un
sea-lev-

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wo

constitutional a recently

passed
law which suspends the Supreme

Court's

one-ma-

Hep. John

Conyersjr.

(D-Mic-

and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
were the only members of
the joint Senate-Hous- e
committee
to vote against the proposal.
Anticipatory reporting has exciting possibilities from a journalist's point of view. But this new
form is predicated upon the fact
that readers are aware, informed,
as members of the University community are.
Some of America's outstanding
newspapers the Courier-Journand the New York Times, for instanceare presently developing
still another new form, the interpretive approach to the news. Since
the Kernel is the only Lexington
newspaper presenting an anticipatory' format to the University com
munity, your comments are solicited.
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Buy
Very Expensive
Chronometer. .

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Why is it that the University,
capable as it is in diverse endeavors, is steadfastly unable to
coordinate the clocks on campus?
A visitor's impression of the campus could well be tempered by the
notion that though the University
appears to know what it is doing
still "they can't even coordinate
their clocks," to say nothing of
the inconvenience to students, faculty and staff. Attention to small
details in personal dress are important. Important to the University's appearance are small details
like having coordinated clocks.
Shape up the clocks. They have
been soundly gigged by the Kernel's latest survey. More demerits,
and the Kernel will budget for
an expensive chronometer next
year.

Youth Overlooked
Lee Pennington informs the Kerthat his side of the events
which took place in Harlan County
have pretty much been told. He
says, however, that the story of
the youth in Harlan County has
been ov erlooked. Head it here, next
Thursday, in the Kentucky Kernel.

N'll

Kernel

To the Editor of the Kernel:
So Don Pratt does not consider himself a conscientious objector? Well
agree with him; there's nothing conscientious about refusing to serve one's
country in some capacity. As the Kernel
article states, he was denied his KOTO
commission last semester for public statements regarding the war effort. I wonder . . . would he feel differently if he
had gotten his commission? No, proI-abl- y
not. He seems to be one of the
intellectual elite of our society who thinks
the world owes him a living. Anvone
who "follows the views" of Mai tin Luther
King can t be all bad. Just incredibly

Organizations (W. A.H.O.O.). "We found
that many organizations had the same
problem that poor people have: they
don't have enough money," Foster explained. "You can imagine what a stink
a revolutionary discovery like this could
have created if it had been revealed at
tl.e wrong time."
Although present activities ofSEPTIC
are classified, Dr. Foster did reveal that
they are of equal importance with his
prev ious projects. The "Tank" is currently running on a budget of $92,000 per
year. Most of this budget is allocated for
Incidentals, according to Dr. Foster who
d
has recently purchased a
acre farm in Bourbon County where he is
housing his current crop of yearlings
three-hundre-

and brood marcs.
Foster feels that the Think Tank concept is vital to the problems of solving
the poverty cycle. "Many of my colleagues are thinking of setting up 'Tanks'
of their own," he said. "Among them are
the "Games And Study" (C.A.S.) Tank
the 'Free Institute of Self Help' (F.I.S.H.)
Tank, and the 'Some How Encompassing
Research Mediocrity with Asinine Nomenclature' (S.I I.E. 11. M.A.N.) Tank. If
we can get enough of these tanks we may
be well on the way to alleviating poverty,
at least in Sociologists' terms.

1967

Editor In Chief

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by the kind of thinking he's
helping to ixrpetrate. He spouts the enlightened liberal straight talk that is
snowing the unwashed masses these days.
It's too bad that Pratt can't have everything go his way. He doesn't want to fight
"ina war which", he believes, "is wrong
morally, socially and politically". How

does he think he got the right to say
that? He refuses to light for the very
liberties and freedoms he enjoys and the
right to make asinine statements like he
and the rest of the radicals make. These
freedoms should Ik denied him too, along
with his commission.

"discard its
phobia and cease to act onto!

So America should

see he also praises those great American patriots, William Fulbright and
Wayne Morse. They are fitting heroes
for such a finite mind. It's probably a
very good thing that Pratt and his heroes
are not supporting the war effort in the
front lines although I certainly wish they
do not advocate violence
were. "While
personally I am not totally against violence". What a profound statement!! W hat
is he tiding to say? Sounds like a ioor
man's licrtraud Husscll. guess he's not
against the v iolent overthrow of our gov
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Editorials represent the opiniotis of the Editors, not of the lliiiversity.
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By DAVID HOLWERK
The Administration of Hardly Normal College revealed recently that a
"Think Tank", similar to the Hand Corporation, has been active on the campus for some time. The "Tank", known
as Social and Economic Preparedness
Through Increased Cash or S.E.P.T.I.C.,
had its beginning in 19G3 when Dr.
Herbie Foster of the Sociology Department conceived of a "revolutionary plan
to increase the national welfare."
As Dr. Foster explains it," It seemed
obvious to us in Sociology that if, as
it were, the cycle of poverty is to be
effectually broken, then there will have
to be a real effort to actualize the concept of maximum feasible involvement
e
of the
target group to aloutlook brought
leviate the undcr-achievivation-Marfda- n
on by the cultural-dep- i
Syndrome. The easiest way to do this is
with money."
Dr. Foster further cxplaincs that it
is necessary to keep the "Tank's" existence secret because the nature of its
work. "It would have been disastrous
if S.E. P.T.I. C. had been uncovered while
we were doing classified work for the UN,"
Foster noted.
The UN project was undertaken for
the World Association for Helping Other

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on congressional districting until
after a federal census is taken in
the 13 states involved. Under the
bill no state will be required to
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fear". I'd like to hear how loudly he would
scream if this were to happen. It's a
mystery to me how a person can be a
college graduate and still be so intellectually enclosed. 11 we are buried by
the communists it will be through the
efforts of poor, misled imbeciles like
Pratt. Deliver me from sick idiots like
linn and the editorial policies of papers
like the Kernel.
Tom Scuff
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Spindletop Investigates,
Solves Practical Problems
My IHANK BKOYVNING
The "think tank" on Iron
Works Hoad called Spindletop
Hcsearcli, I nr. is rooted in tin

practical.

ize in worldwide or national
problem solving, Spindle top has
just completed cataloguing and
thoroughrating all
breds in North America for Lexington's Joe key Club.
The purpose was to make a
greater store of information to
help in breeding fine horses. N'o
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Tuesday it received aS 1,0(K)
contract from t lit new V. S. Department of Transportation to
study relationships between driver licensing and "performance ponderous considerations for the
evaluation practices."
destiny of mankind in that proThe
came this week ject.
for Spindletop to start lab deJust this spring Spindletop
velopment of ceramic fiber in- underwent a frugal whittling,
sulation material from Olive Hill leaving its concentration primarifireclay, formerly used to make ly in economies related areas
bricks for insulation in steam lo- or in social sciences with some
comotive- boilers.

In Maich it completed a study
of graduate education needs in
n ,'itlieastcin Illinois and Iowa to

work in the "hard", or plisi-ca- l
m .acmes.
Now Spindletop is divided
info three sometimcsoverlapping
categories of research: economic

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meet industrial growth requirements in that area.
It is right now in the process
of developing a comprehensive

Kentucky, funded
by $182,200 from the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and $30,500 from the
State Planning Committee.
In 1965 it studied the impact of production taxes' on liquor made in Kentucky, pointing out comparative disadvantages distilleries felt here due
to the tax.
All these projects point up
what Informational Services
Manager Don Rogers describes
as Spindletop's uniqueness: they
are primarily contractors reprobsearching
lems in the state or the region.
For this reason, Hogers says
Spindletop has been a ground
breaker in the research institute
business, concentrating on neither the remote nor the theoretical, but on everyday problem
state plan

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down-to-eart- h

solving.

"Spindletop isn't getting us
to the moon, but it's helping
us solve the problems here on
earth. We can't become a nuclear ph sics center for any part
of the country, but wc could be
first in studying transportation
or crime or urban problems,"
Vice President Ted Broida says.
The ivory towerist might not
feel at home in this modem

research castle plunked down
amidst rolling bluegreen fields,
white columns, and equine idols.
For while some research institutes or "think tanks" special

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"One of our hardest jobs is
to explain to people the value
of economics, behavioral sciences, systems sciences, and planning. These are just as vital
to progress as the physical sciences are. Hogers noted.

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Spindletop is temjM)rarily
headed by Dr. Jesse Hobsorr,
of Ileald. Hobsonand Associates,
a New York consulting service.
He is orre of 72 members on
Spindletop's board of directors.
Originally it was a creation
of the University's Kentucky Research Foundation in 19(51, when
that unit was headed by Mcrl
Baker. But soon after it got off
the ground, Spindletop left the
University to become a private
corporation headed by former
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with the University, and at least
a half dozen UK professors are
regular Spindletop consultants.
Some of them are: Dr. David
Blythe, head of the department
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of civil engineering; James
and Charles Graves, architecture; Bob Lauderdale, of the
Water Resources Institute; Charles Charlesworth and Charles
Haywood, both of the College
of Business and Economics.
Rogers characterizes many of
the larger research institutes like
Rand, Stanford Research Institute, or the Illinois Technology
Research Institute, as organizations which are "pushing back
the frontiers of science."
"We aren't pushing back the
frontiers of science except by
accident. We take somebody's
very practical every-daproblem
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Each of thcseareasisofcour.se
subdivided. The first includes
the stale planning job, developing highway systems for eastern Kentucky to enable it to
develop economically, and studying and making recommendations for an industrial site in
Louisville where Ford will soon
open a plant.
A new division growing out
of previous contracts here is calRelaled "Intergovernmental
tions." Rogers expects many contracts to arise here as a result
of the Council of State Governments move to Lexington.
Thusfar, nearly all of Spindletop's contracts in economic
development have been governmental ones, or at least of a
public nature like public school
studies and forecasts. Of that,
better than 75 percent has been
here in Kentucky.
Second major division is Communications and Systems which
naturally involves many more
private contracts. The thoroughbred study came under the systems segment of this division.
This week's transportation
contract falls under this division.
Spindletop's third division is
Industrial Services, which is further split among products, processes, andeconomics. Anew, tougher, more durable restaurant china was developed on combined,
funding from the U. S. Dept.
of Commerce and a private restaurant group.

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whether firms should expand,
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Behavioral Sciences Institute: Research Gamemaker

meeting. One sc heduled
Company agreed last month to market two day of the
of
Politics) and speaker was an eminent (and fictitious)
Viennese psychologist, Dr. Basil
CRISIS (International Affairs).
LA JOLLA, Calif. Two California prisFurthermore, at least two large comon officials who were concerned alxmt reThe casual style of the meeting is the
panies are negotiating for the right to
lations between the staff and inmates at
distribute the taped group therapy pro- style of the institute. When Dr. Rogers
San Diego County prison recently brought
gram, which is designed to teach people finished the report on his activities publitheir problem to Western lVhavioral Scimore alxmt themselves, not to treat the cation of a new lnx)k, translation of 18
ences Institute in this nearby IkmcIi comprevious volumes into Japanese a young
mentally ill.
munity.
Just recently the United States Office secretary pi. down her notebook and said:
"Can you make up a game the prisof Education announced that the insti"Carl, I'd like to add something to
oners and staff can play to let the pris"
tute had l)ccn awarded a $110,000 contract that
oners know what the staff thinks and vice
as one of five national centers for eduDuring the meeting, Retty Rerzon, a
versa?" one of the men asked Hall Sprague,
cational research.
a
petite, brunette psychologist, reported that
sociologist.
Meanwhile, Dr. Rogers' educational the- her eight years of work to develop
Mr. Sprague, who was wearing chino
ories will be tested in the Roman Cathogroup sessions would end this
pants and a striped shirt when he met
lic schools of Los Angeles beginning in summer.
And Dr. Carl R. Rogers, an internasaid he probable could.
the two officials,
September.
Group also know as the T (for trainCames are a specialty of the institute, tionally known psychologist, has formed
ing) group, basic encounter group, sensiThe 15 major projects at the Western
a small organization of scholars who do a theory of education that would allow,
Behavioral Sciences
are financed tivity training, or workshop is a key word
basic research in psychology and the other students to dominate a class room.
from an annual budget of $450,000, about in the institute jargon.
behavorial sciences.
The other 'cy words and phrases arc
"What we're trying to do is find ways 80
"We could call it the Prison Came," to
percent of which is supplied by reimprove human relationships," said Dr.
(basic issues), and
search grants and contracts from various interaction,
the second prison official said as he and
Richard E. F arson, a
psychohonesty.
Federal agencies.
his colleague left the institute's quadrangle
A
logist, who is the institute's director, and
The institute also receives about $55,000 has group at the institute, up to now,
of whitewashed buildings near La Jolla s was one of its founders in 1959.
been eight to 15 people who sit in a
a year from the Ford, Guggenheim and
main street. "Think alxmt it!"
circle with a leader, usually a psycholo"We're finding out how people can live
Kettering Foundations and $30,000 in in- gist. Hie, members,
About Human Problems
together in thetryingand complicated world
lightly guided by the
dividual gifts.
alxmt human problems is the
of the future," he said. "We're interested
Thinking
leader, simply begin to talk (interact).
Dr. Farson, a tall, dark man who looks
business-o- f
the 72 casually dressed men and in the impact of technological changes
The interaction almost invariably gets
remarkably like a young Cary Grant, talk- down to the
women at the institute, one of the many not just that there'll be computerized kitchand members are
think tanks that have been ens and waterless bathing, but what will ed about finances on a recent weekend soon talking about themselves and each
when the institute's nine trustees six schoestablished in this country in the last be the rights and needs of people and what lars and
honesty.
three businessmen were here for other with
decade.
human values will change."
Corporations Use It
their annual meeting.
These organizations are not required to
. What Does It Mean?
The emotional effects of the group exThe meeting which was held in a conWhat does all this mean outside these
pay income taxes if their work is conperience are recognized even by psychosidered "in the public interest" and if
white buildings? "We really don't verted garage, began when a staff member logists who doubt its value, and groups
they reinvest earnings in further research.
know," Dr. Farson admitted. "How do jingled a strap of sleigh bells. Later he are used by many large corporations to
What have they been thinking about in
shook them when anyone spoke for too train executives to communicate more freely
ideas get around?"
the institute's airy little offices?
There is, however, some visibile eviwith each other.
long.
Dr. Wayman Crow, a sociologist, who
The trustees and staff members sat in
dence that the ideas are getting around.
However, some psychologists question
has given up half his office space to a
The institute's games are now used in pastel chairs or on cushions thrown around whether members benefit from such a frank
bull fiddle that he is repairing, has been schools in 10 states, and Bell &Howell the floor. Each held a mimeographed agen- - di scussion of themselves.
By RICHARD REEVES
New York Timet Newt Service.

trying to develop a new science of human
behavior by integrating elements of psychology, sociology, anthropology, political
science and economics.
Dr. Pau