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v. uJ s. I I 1 Jr 1 i it I IJ i i i mam I I'll I fl I il About half of Madison's public high school seniors will be attending a college or university this. fall. Another 20 to 25 per cent of this year's graduates could profit from college but for one reason or another will not attend.

The majority of those who do go on to college will do well. But some of them, about 25 per cent, should not be planning to attend college. These figures on college attendance come from long range studies conducted by the department of child study and service of the Madison public They tell part of the story on college attendance, but only a part Each student who enrolls in a college What about college? That's the question hundreds of Madison young peopfe are asking themselves these spring days. And in 1963 that question involves not only the decision os to whether or not they should go on for more education after high school but whether they can get into a college. To bring you a picture of how this nationwide problem affects youngsters here, David Bednarek, Wisconsin State Journal education writer, examined the situation from the viewpoints of both the schools preparing the students and the University of Wisconsin and other universities where they may study.

His findings are reported in adjoining columns of this page. i.i i 5 i VV" 1A UK I it BMi 'H wm wiip MTlli 1 Mill WiiiiVii iMffl A ir them are in college as a direct result of the center. Another one-third could have accepted an offer through the center but chose another opportunity. The third group did not gain admission because they applied too late or were unable to do college work. Most colleges now expect their applications early in the senior year of high school.

The University of Wisconsin is one of the few schools reauiring applications for the fall semester after Feb. 15 and before Aug. 1. For the student planning to attend college, the first step is talking with high school guidance counselors to find but the kind of college for which he is best suited. The next step would be getting information on several different colleges.

The last step is applying for admission. The qualified student who wants to go to college should have no trouble gaining admission. He may not be able to go to the college his father attended, or the first college to which he applies, but he can go to college. This opinion is voiced by admissions personnel at the University of Wisconsin, and others who deal with college admissions on a national level. The University of Wisconsin, which enrolls the majority of Madison students who go on to college, will continue to have a "generous" admissions policy according to Wayne L.

Kuckkahn, director of admissions. Mrs. Leola R. Hays, assistant director of admissions, said the admissions policy at the university is not strict: i "We are strict with the student after he Is In, not before." For Wisconsin residents, the university requires graduation from an accredited high school; recommendation by the high school principal; completion of three units (years) of work in English; six units in mathematics, foreign language, history and social studies, or natural science; seven units in electives; and scores of tests by either the American College Testing program or the College Entrance Examination board. Out-of-state students must fulfill the same general requirements and must also rank in the upper two-fifths among high school graduates.

Wisconsin's admission policy is set by a faculty committee and administered by the admissions office five full-time counselors, 10 clerks, and part time help. Last year the office processed 14,824 applications and enrolled 7,177 new students. In 1957, the o'fice processed 7,841 applications. Routine applications are examined by at 1 least one counselor, the more difficult ones by two or more counselors. Students who don't qualify for admission are advised to take additional high school courses if necessary, or go to another college where there is less competition.

Both Kuckkahn and Mrs. Hays agree there is "no real difficulty in getting into college if one refuses, another will often accept the difficulty is selecting the right college." "This is less of a problem if the student realizes his capabilities before he applies," Kuckkahn said. The problem is compounded by pressure from parents or friends who make the student apply to a college which is above his capacity, they said. The same belief is voiced by persons dealing with college applications on the national level. Joe Jefferson, director of the College Admissions Center, Evanston, says, "Despite the clamorlngs of certain panicky in-dividuals and the misunderstandings which exist in many communities, there are still more places in college than there are Students to fill them." The College Admissions Center is a kind of clearing house for college applications.

The center makes the students' credentials available to colleges who rise them in their search for a more diversified student body. Last year 6,641 students registered with State Journal Opinion SECTION 5, PAGE 5 Must Face Up to has behind him some three to four years of counseling by the high schools' guidance services. This counseling serves to lead the student not only to college if he is qualified, but also to the particular kind of college for which he is best suited. It also leads some students away from college if their record indicates they are incapable of handling college work. "We try to give the pupils and the parents information and advice over a long period of time on whether the particular student is suited for college," said Carl Waller, director of child study and service.

"Some students go to college who shouldn't, and others don't who should. We try to correct this," he said. There is no single answer to the question of who should go to college. Waller quoted a pamphlet given to parents of high school students: "For the youth who likes to study, has ambitions which require college training, and the ability to succeed In college, it is desirable. "For the youth who has insufficient scholastic ability, a poor high school record, limited intellectual interests, and abilities which require other kinds of training, col- lege may be a tragic mistake." Students are assigned to one of four different courses of study as they begin the and get it out of his house.

Washington news stories are drearily repetitive about young muggers and purse-snatchers who are "released to the custody of their parents." What kind of parents? Sure, there's plenty of white juvenile delinquency. But the comparative crime rates make chilling reading even though the NAACP has made every effort to have racial designations suppressed on the police records. The southern whites have plenty to answer for, and one of their great errors was the acceptance of a double standard of behavior among the races. Southern courts were notoriously lenient with Negroes who stole from Negroes or killed Negroes. It was only when Negroes transgressed against whites that retribution was swift and often brutal.

But the northern sentimentalists have also set up a double standard in reverse. The little candy store owner who is beat- Ansfield periments, he jumped at the chance. "What with the busy schedule I'd had, I thought I'd come here and relax," he said, "but I've never worked so hard in my life." It was just after he arrived here that Dr. Ansfield proposed that dosages of a new drug, 5-flourouracil, be increased in the treatment of Incurable cancer to find if it had more value than was generally believed. Since that time the drug has been given to 1,500 patients with inoperable, incurable cancer.

Some types of cancer responded to the treatment, others didn't, said Dr. Ansfield. But as a result of the treatments, tlicre are now two patients alive and heal- thy five years after being given three to six months to live, he added. "This doesn't produce a cure, but in some cases it has a long-term benefit, he explained, adding, "unfortunately, many cancers don't respond." Dr. Ansfield now has 400 patients suffering from incurable cancer which can only be treated chemically.

Is treating this kind of patient disheartening? Not at all, says Dr. Ansfield. "They all feel that something positive is being done, and that a real effort is being made to help them. As a result, they're quite cheerful and optimistic." To carry on tlie studies, Dr. Ansfield hii been granted a $230,000 a year grant, renewable annually for seven years, by the National Institute of Health.

"The grant was mndo on Die basis of teamwork by the entire clinical staff, headed by Dr. An-thony R. Currerl," said Dr. Ansfield. Born in Milwaukee, Dr.

Ansfield graduated from Medical School here in 1933, His internship and residency were spent at Milwaukee County hospital, and for the next yenr ho was tho surgeon at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Clidden. His Toby, 15, Is a student at West Ilih school; his son, Y'ul, 19, Is a student at Hie university. the center for assistance in getting into, college. Jefferson said this number "was not sufficient to provide as many different kinds of students as were wanted by the 265 colleges which used the center. "Right now, more than 170 colleges are looking through registrations on file in the center in search of students who they feel will be able to benefit from and contribute to their campuses." The problem of getting into college is not one of too few colleges, he said.

"It is one of over-concentration too many students applying to' the same few institutions." The College Admissions Center, sponsored by the Assn. of College Admissions Counselors, does not guarantee admission to college. About 98 per cent of the students who register with the center are contacted by one or more colleges. About one-third of Wisconsin People SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1963 Negro By JENKIN LLOYD JONES Among the worst enemies of American Negroes today are many who proclaim themselves as the Negroes' best friends. These are the people who gloss over, alibi, explain away, or attempt to cover up a rising tide of Negro misbehavior in America's big cities.

They represent the "Ifs-all-the-white-man's fault" school. And down this road lie endless disappointments and setbacks for America's Negro citizens. The inevitable reaction will be particularly rough on those young colored kids who are really trying to better themselves. A once-submerged race doesn't rise on a record of irresponsibility. Unpunished crime is not the way to obtain social acceptance.

Illegitimacy, family abandonment, and relief loafing by preference are pretty sure methods of drying up good will. No amount of fair employment legislation will overcome the disastrous results of a DK. FRED mudi for the mlr, so for the next 13 nionthi Dr. Ansfield -nt wwk days In Mndi.ujn working on his experiment, end returned to Clidden on weekends to visit will maintain a "generous" admissions -Statt Journal Photo by Edwin Stein grades, intelligence and aptitude tests, recommendations of teachers and counselors, and talks with the student and his parents. "The assignment is re-evaluated each semester and may be changed if a teacher or counselor recommends it," she said.

The actual decision to apply to college is always made by the studen', and his parents, never by the school. Both Miss Perego and Nina Fredrickson, guidance counselor at Central High school, pointed out that the school will advise the student, give him information on colleges, and help him in preparing applications. Both the student and his parents must make the ultimate decision. The high schools here also have other programs designed to acquaint students with the different colleges and their admission requirements. These include information on college entrance tests, visits by college representatives, and an up-to-date file on college catalogs in the school libraries.

A Book To Live With "Sword at Sunset." By Rosemary Sut-cliff. Coward-McCann. $6.95. Few historical novels can match this one for substance, scope, and beauty. For it no frothy costume drama.

It is a fascinating heroic tale. The setting is England of the Fifth Century, when the Roman legions have pulled away, leaving no centra force to maintain law and order, and dooming the primitive land to barbarian darkness. The hero is Artos the Bear, a hard-riding, sword-swinging leader of cavalry, who is imbued with the ideal and hope of keeping the lights of civilization burning. Miss Sutcliff has looked behind the Arthurian legend in creating Artos. From a few hints and clues sifted from the mist of pagan and Christian legend, she has assumed that there really was a war leader in that era.

But he is not the fancy figure of the Mallory or later versions; not the Arthur of the Round Table, ceremonial jousting tournaments and courtly love. Artos is a rougher, hardier hero. He personally leads his small band of companions in ceaseless warfare against the raiding Saxons, fends off the Scots, and tries desperately to get the squabbling little British princelings to unite for the common defense. Of course he Is a tragic figure, one Idealistic man with a sword, trying to stave off the sunset. His personal life is crossed by a fateful, ancient sin.

He is betrayed by the man on his right hand. But even as he goes into the last desperate battle, this rude Caesar of the English countryside has become a man of history. The novel is huge, the characters are many and vivid. It Is not a light, lime-killing piece of fiction, but a book to live with, keep, and read again. There are many dramatic incidents, graphic battle scenes, sensuous descriptive passages.

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"The Sand Pebbles," McKcnna 4. "Seven Days in May," Kncbel and Bailey 5. "Grandmother and the Priests," Caldwell. NONFICTION 1. "Travels With Charley." Steinbeck 2.

"The Whole Truth and Nothing But," Hopper and Brooch S. "The Ordeal of Power," llunhct 4. "The Fire Next Tin1." Baldwin 5. "Happiness li a Warm Puppy." Schulz The University of Wisconsin policy, officials say. last three years of high school.

These include one which offers college-level work for students definitely planning to attend college; a college-preparatory course, recommended by colleges, for students who may or may not go on to college; and a basic course offering the minimum essentials of a high school education. The decision to apply to college, then, is often made, not during the last year of high school, but in many cases two or three years before. Betty Perego, guidance counselor at West High school which sends about 70 per cent of its graduates to college, said assignment to one of the four courses is made on the basis of several factors, and may be changed at any time. These factors include work in the lower en to death by colored thugs draws only mild tongue-clucking and perhaps an editorial, "Where Have We Failed?" Yet the riotous white kid on the 01' Miss campus who throws eggs et Meredith is photographed for a four-column spread on Page 1 and treated as a national menace. Race relations are not going to improve in America until we climb off these double standards.

Crime is crime. Whites and Negroes, alike, have a. right to be protected. And they have equal obligations in crime prevention. In this respect, American Negroes who count themselves among the leaders of their race have been doing a terrible job.

They have been long on self-pity and short on self-criticism, It has been more fun to organize marches into Dixie than to level with their people about the end result of the attacks on police in Harlem. This failure of leadership has been immensely damaging to Negro aspirations. The shenanigans of Adam Clayton Powell have hurt Negroes at least as badly as the stubbornness of Gov. Ross Barnett It is ironic that the only strong voice calling for better Negro behavior comes from the Black Muslims, who are as racist as the White Citizens Courrcilites except that they are in favor black, supremacy. Better opportunities may be presented to Negroes by court action but they can only be retained and expanded by demonstrating reliability.

A court has ordered Continental Airlines to hire a Negro pilot. Hooray! There isn't any reason why a Negro shouldn't fly a transport plane. But if he shows up at operations disheveled and hungover he'll betray his people. Many Americans now concede that it is an outrage to keep a good pilot on the ground because his skin is black. But no one will want to fly with a bad pilot who is in the cockpit by court order merely because his skin is black.

It's as simple as that Second-class citizens will never become first-clas citizens by behaving like third-class citizens. American Negroes need more friends who are honest with them and more leaders who are ready to go to war against all double standards even those that have been comfortable. WisconsIniStatc Journal A lit Newipaptr Ait Independent Nwipjpr Edited by Th Wlicontln Sft Journal Published by Madiion Ntwipapen, Inc. Don Andanon Publiihtr I. H.

fitxparrlck Managing- Editor Helen Mathaion Ant. Managing Editor C. Bobbins Editor, Editorial Pag Clann Miller i City Editor Jcteph Capoiiela New. Editor H. E.

McClelland Stat Editor Robert Bjorkljnd Farm Editor Donald Device Sunday Editor Roger Cantwell Sports Editor Editorial Board Don Anderion, Chairman Eitipatrick, W. C. Robblnt, John Newhoute, Helen Matneion, red J. Curtan, Robert Ejorklund Truth Know Your Madisonian: Dr. record of bad citizenship.

Yet these are the net result of a peculiar social philosophy that has attempted to tell Negroes that they are not responsible for their actions. After a riot at the Washington baseball park last month in which a group of young Negro toughs attacked white fans for no reason, one of Washington's celebrated bleeding hearts, Mrs. Agnes Meyer, ascribed the outbreak to frustration. "The Negro is sick and tired of being kicked around 90 years after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment which promised him equally," said Mrs. Meyer.

She called for a new outpouring of federal mo to meet the "social, educational, and economic problems" of Negroes in the District of Columbia. Well, the Negro has certainly been kicked around. He needs better schools and wider job opportunities. But he also needs a more acute sense of smell that will impel him to sack up his own garbage i ANSFIELD hi family and carry on his practice, When he was Rlvm the opxrlimily to move to Madison in with the promise he could spend half his time on hu ex Dr. Fred J.

Ansfield, associate professor In cancer research at the McArdle Memorial Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, has a dramatic reason for his dedication to cancer research both his parents were victims of the disease, and so was a brother, then an intern. It was the death of his parents before he was 14 that prompted him to go into medicine, and cancer research In particular, he said. Another brother is also a doctor in Milwaukee. While a student at the university's Medical school, Dr. Ansfield came up with the idea experimenting with mice in an attempt to irradicate mammary cancer in the animals.

He planned to practice medicine for a few years so he could save the money to undertake the Two things intervened, however, One was his marriage in J940 to the former Ruth Besar, whom he met while a general practitioner in Clidden, where he had opened his practice In 1936. And two years later, ho was involved in World War II. During the war, Dr. Ansfield, a slightly built, soft-spoken man, served as a battalion surgeon with the 11th Airborne division. Before being discharged as major in 1946, he received the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Silver Star for service on Loyto and Luzon.

He returned to the university because he felt tho need for a refresher course, he mid. Dr. Harold Rusch, who heads McArdle Laboratory helped him get started witli his mouse surgery experiments, and i provided him with space and equipment Returning to Gliddcn to resume his practice Dr. Ansfield mm started coming beck to Madison to perform the surgery and the injections which were part of his study. Then be look Die mice bock to Clidden to observe the mulls.

But the I'Omila trip proved to bo too.