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The Expanding University 3 Ccllcga of Arts And Science fcpte lUlOii Li "a 1M ROCHESTER 14, N. SUNDAY, MAY 5. 1953 This is the third in a series of special Sunday Democrat and Chronicle reports on the new and developing colleges of the University of Rochester. Earlier reports have told of the new College of Engineering and Applied Science and the expanding College of Education. Others in this series will deal with other University divisions well as the University as whole.

Policeman's Best Friend --More Cities Use Dogs It is less than five yean since dogs were introduced onto the American police scene. Rochester was the first city in New York State and one of the earliest in the nation to use them on patrol. 3 The dog-policeman teams were started here in 1959, a few months after St. Louis organized the country's first K-9 Corps. The original two "teams" have grown to eight now, with five more due to start training June I "The dogs are extremely important to us 'as a preventive measure in helping curb our rising crime problem," says Police Chief William M.

Lombard. "They're especially helpful in getting suspects out of closed or vacant buildings and apprehending criminals who have just fled the scene. Dogs here are used almost exclusively at night and ride in cars with their patrolman trainers. The following story tells how the idea has spread and worked out in other cities. A i i vv, vK 4J- i Vv I '-A I ZUmum Provost Hazlett (who, before assuming his present post, was Dean of the College of Arts and Science), there not only Is no legitimate conflict between the roles of scholar and teacher, but, in fact, each contributes to the strength of the other.

And Dean France points out, "To be a good college teacher today, a man MUST be a good scholar. What we used to think of as basic theory in many fields is changing so rapidly that the textbooks can't keep up. If a man isn't actively engaged in scholarly work, if he doesn't know and take part in what's going on at the frontiers of his field, he can't be a first-rate teacher." An important thing, Dean France observes, is that at Rochester there are no separate faculties for undergraduate and graduate In fact, some of the College's most respected scholars Associate Prof. Haydcn White in history, Prof. Ernst Caspar! "in biology, Prof.

Edwin Wilg in chemistry teach elementary undergraduate courses. "This is good for the students and good for the faculty," France says. "The man who's really excited about new developments in his field communicates his enthusiasm to his students. And the scholar who has to explain his subject to undergraduates necessarily DR. ROBERT R.

FRANCE, acting dean of College of Arts and Science. of university units. HOT Eft ''S is driven back to the fundamentals of his discipline he can't assume that his students will have the background to fill in any gaps in his presentation." The proof of this particular academic pudding, according to Provost is the fact that the men generally acknowledged to be among the best teachers in the College also are among its top scholars. Prof. Lewis Beck, last year's winner of the first Edward P.

Curtis Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, is one of the world's foremost authorities on the great Ger man philosopher, Kant. Associate Prof. R. James Kauf-m a an outstanding young literary scholar, is one of the most popular lecturers on campus. Pro-, vost Hazlett says that if students and faculty were asked to name the best scholars and the best teachers in the College, the chances are better than good that there would be a very sizeable overlap.

IT'S NOT EASY to make the jump from a "good little" college which offers fa Continued en Page 2M All regular full time River Campus undergraduates spend their first two years as students in the College. Seventy-six per cent of River Campus up-perclassmen major in one of its departments. The others complete their undergraduate work in one of the University's up-and-coming professional units in business administration, education, engineering or nursing. Time was when the College was pretty well eclipsed by the University's world famous schools of medicine and music. In those days Rochester's arts and science unit was regarded correctly although somewhat condescendingly as a "good little college." What was generally overlooked, however, was the fact that, unlike most "good little colleges," this one had two departments physics and chemistry with internationally distinguished reputations.

It also had strong departments in history, English, and psychology, and a few other areas. To Dr. Cornelis W. de Kiewiet, then president of the University, and to its board of trustees, the presence of these departments plus the Medical School and the Eastman School of Music gave Rochester the base for becoming a really first-rank university. The nation, President de Kiewiet insisted, urgently reeded more universities of the first rank universities that could participate creatively in the discovery of new knowledge and in the advanced training of future scholars and scientists.

Rochester, he felt, could be one of these and the College of Arts and Science would be in the vanguard of the University's march toward national distinction. XOT EVERYONE agreed. Some feared that undergraduates would be neglected by research-minded faculties intent on pursuing their scholarly interests. Others protested that good teachers would go unrewarded in what they direly predicted would be a "publish or perish" atmosphere. Still others prophesied that the "science boys," with their research grants and their "labs," would soon dominate the College.

Even today there still are occasional cries for the "good little college" days of yore. But, as Provost McCrea Hazlett noted recently, "their arguments have a very tired sound these days." Take the matter of the scholar vs. the teacher. To By GERALD S. SNYDER United Press International On a typical evening, 30-year-old Bob Rosenberg sits in the living room of his Washington, D.C., home watching television with his pet dog "Buddy" flopped beside him.

Shortly before 7 o'clock, Rosenberg gets up, puts on the uniform of a sergeant in the Washington Metropolitan Police force and goes to work. "Buddy," who weighs 103 pounds and stands three feet from ground to back, goes along with him. Rosenberg and "Buddy," a black and silver German shepherd, are one of the 63 man-dog teams on patrol in crime-prone Washington, where the dogs have been so successful that the House of Representatives recently passed a bill authorizing district police to get as many "as may be necessary" for local law enforcement. Man-dog teams have been used by U.S. police departments for five years.

(St. Louis had the first in 1958.) But only recently, with the growing use of police dogs for crowd control in the South, has interest in their employment been so great. In Pittsburgh, a "K-9 Corps" (of one dog) was established as a regular part of the police force in November, 1958. Sgt. Jules Kmak said the 38 dogs (mostly German shepherds) and 38 officers now in the corps were responsible for about 400 arrests last year alone.

In one instance, he said, a K-9 team helped rescue a woman from a burning house. Another team led to the discovery of a boy's body at the bottom of an abandoned well. A riot at a high school football game was quelled by dogs. The animals also are used along all fire lines. The officers are paid $2 a day for each dog's keep.

Five days a week, the dogs report to a training class where they're kept up on obedience, jumping, tracking and attacking. They even have four K-9 motorcycle units now where the officer drives as the dog sits in the sidecar. last December the University of Rochester student newspaper Campus Times surprised its readers by announcing plans to reduce its 8 to-12 page format to four pages. The reason? Quite simply, the editors had de-. cided that they were more interested in pursuing their academic interests than in putting out a newspaper.

What's more, they were convinced that many of their fellow students felt the same way about other extr a-curricular activities. Said the Campus Times editorial writer: "The most intelligent and able students want now to spend their time not Only on their studies but on activities which more directly gratify their sense of purpose at college to exercise their minds. They want to do independent reading and research, to write for the new student philosophy journal, to attend departmental col-loquia, in short, to satisfy intellectual needs which extra-curricular activities are not satisfying." To Old Grads this was something of a shock. But to people like Prof. Robert France, now acting dean of the College of Arts and Science pending the arrival July 1 of newly-appointed Dean Kenneth E.

Clark from the University of Colorado, the episode reflected quite accurately the change between life on the River Campus several years ago and interests today. A decade ago. the terms "River Campus' and "Col-lege of Arts and Science" were, In a sense, synonymous. At that time the College was for men only; the University's coeds inhabited a college of their own on the Prince Street Campus. In 1955 the two colleges were merged Into a single College of Arts and Science.

Then, just about the time that even the most die-hard opponents of merger had reconciled themselves to the River "revolution," another series of changes was in motion: the College's in engineering, education, and business administration were from Arts and Science and set up as full-Medged colleges in their own right. Despite these latter changes, the College of Arts and Science, more than any other unit of the University, still sets the tone and the academic temper of the campus. To say that the College is the "heart of the University" sounds sentimental; it is, in fact, very much the case. Thus, what's happened to the College of Arts and Science in the last several years tells much about what's happened to the University as a whole. JUST WHAT is a college of arts and science? The name itself, like so many academic titles, implies different things at different universities.

Here in Rochester the College embraces the humanities, the basic physical and biological sciences, and the social sciences. Sometimes the line separating one group from the other is a fine one indeed. Is psychology, for example, a natural science or a social science? Does history belong with the humanities or the social sciences? And how about the new field of linguistics is it really a part of the humanities, or, as a "scientific study of language," is it more properly a social science? Such semantic hairsplitting aside, Rochester's College of Arts and Science, with its 15 academic departments, is certainly the and, in many ways, the most powerful academic unit In the University. ON DUTY Rochester "team" of Policeman M. Dominick Dl Fante and Duke IIL would find it physically impossible to handle," he said.

"We've had several situations (not racial) that, had the dogs not been there, the incident could very well have resulted in a riot." POLICE DEPARTMENTS in non-Southern cities generally agree. But in San Francisco, where a K-9 Corps was formed last year after a number of unusually vicious street crimes, local NAACP leader Terry Francois complained that the use of dogs was degrading, dehumanizing and potentially dangerous. It reminds recently-arrived Negroes of the use of dogs against their race in the South, Francois asserted. The San Francisco unit (citizen-donated) consists of one Doberman Pinscher and six German shepherds. Capt.

Philip G. Kiely, who has overall charge of the dog patrol, said the police are "fully satisfied" with the results and considering adding more. Dogs have been particularly valuable in flushing burglars, in controlling crowds, and in their psychological effect of preventing street crimes and keeping sex deviates out of the parks, he said. OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS There are many of them on the faculty of the college. Two of the most respected are Dr.

Edwin 0. Wilg, professor of chemistry, left, and Dr. Ernst W. professor of biology. Each has won many high honors in his respective field.

XEGROES in the South have been among the most outspoken critics of police dogs. In Petersburg, where the animals were used in one racial demonstration, Negro leaders charged police with brutality. Richmond, which has the largest K-9 force in the state with 13 dogs, used the animals to stop potential mob action (not racial) at a football game two years ago. Richmond has had dogs for two years, Hampton and Petersburg less than a year. In Mississippi, only two municipalities Vicksburg and Greenville had dogs until the "Freedom Riders" arrived in the summer of 1961.

Today, about a dozen municipalities or counties in the state have from one to six police dogs. Dogs (on leashes) were used twice to disperse Negro marchers at Greenwood, where a couple of Negroes were bitten. Dogs also have been used on a few occasions in Jackson to break up Negro racial demonstrations there, and a few Negroes have been bitten. But the dogs' main purpose, police officials maintain, is in other areas. liyiillllMlilf Wimmmm itjnf IN CHICAGO, dogs have been used successfully in ferreting out burglara from stores, factories, trapping them on rooftops, and the city's 58 man-dog corps has received creditable mentions in dealing with racial violence and other mob-type actions.

The dogs, one to two years old of good breed, were first brought into use in the summer of 1961 when riots broke out in the southwest side Lawndale District following the fatal shooting of a Negro youth outside a school. Late last month, they were called Into action when a crowd of 1,500 whites, some throwing stones and shouting insults, gathered at a South Side building where a Negro family reputedly was moving in. The dogs helped control the crowds. Two persons were nipped. Boston recently imported a trainer from West Berlin to handle the eight German shepherds newly attached to its mobile tactical force.

School students built the kennels. Local Army groups supplied an armory and protective suits, for training. And the Animal Rescue League donated veterinary care. gT. LOUIS boasts the oldest canine corps in the country.

Dogs began work on 13, 1958 after five men were sent to. London for 14 weeks training in dog handling at Scotland Yard. Today, St. Louis has 41 man-dog teams, all German shepherds, after bloodhounds, Labradors and Dobermen were all considered. The dogs are trained (some to sniff for marijuana) in a 14-week program.

JACKSON DETECTIVE CHIEF M. B. Pierce said police with dogs have had "wonderful success" in catching burglars who have broken into buildings. On three occasions, he said, burglars emerged to surrender when officers threatened to send the dogs in. Police in Birmingham, with six German shepherds on hand and plans for seven more, cite their psychological effect as the chief asset in crowd control.

They were used once in the city's current racial troubles when called on to clear some 1,500 Negroes from a park. Dogs are definitely better than plain manpower, said Sgt. E. A. McRride, in charge of the Canine Corps in Birmingham.

"Three dogs with few officers can disperse or control a crowd of 1,500 to 1,000 that 50 to 100 foot patrolmen AN HONORS SEMINAR This group meets with Dr. Wilbur D. Dunkel, Roswall S. Borrows professor of English, to discuss student papers on Shakespeare. Rush Rheei Library la center for many classes..