European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 10, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 move to get out of debt co Ege Hopes of survive by taking boarders mount Carroll. Iii. A tiny Shimer College so far in financial arrears that it owes its professors Money. Is taking in boarders this summer As the latest tactic in a continuing Battle to avoid shutdown. Officials of the 124-year-old Liberal arts school in this Northwestern Illinois town near the Mississippi River Hope to net $50.000 by opening the tree studded Campus to families and organizations. So far three Church retreats a dance studio group and More than 100 individuals and families have signed up said Dan Shiner a part time student from Tennent n.j., who is in charge of the program. In All we now have 1,340 persons As summer renters. Our target is 2,000. Each staying an average of five Days. This would Gross nearly $200,000 and net $50,000," Shiner added. The Money would help fight a $560. 000 debt which includes 80,000 owed in Back salary to the 28 faculty enrolment and an inadequate endowment fund prompted the Board of trustees to vote in december 1973 to close the coeducational inde pendent school. But about $150.000 raised in pledges and donations kept the College going. The faculty agreed to work for $500 a month top pay and 130 students paid $200 each As an Advance toward their $2,500 annual tuition. The College also obtained pledges from townspeople and sold some housing and land. What we Are trying now is for Maxi mum economic use of the Campus at All said or. Ralph Conant 51,Shimer s president. The Campus is Ideal for Large corporations wanting a Retreat for their he said the academic summer pro Gram offers courses on such subjects As contemporary economic problems the humanities political science and the average room rate for the summer is $5 a Day including use of Tennis courts gymnasium and playing Fields. The indoor swimming Pool costs extra. Three meals in the College cafe Teria Are $6 a Day. In the 1960s, Shimer was known forts experimental programs which included accepting Bright students who had completed Only two or three years of High school. Enrolment peaked at 550 in 1967, when colleges were crowded with Young men seeking draft deferments. When the shutdown was announced inthe fall of 1973, enrolment had dropped to 236. Current enrolment is 195. Conant who became president in 1975, said he got the hint of the col ice s precarious situation when i had to pay my family s moving expense. And on the Day i took office the As signee for the Benefit of creditors demanded $40.000 in two Days or the College would close. We raised it last february a merger with St. John s College of Annapolis. My. Fell through. Fund raising efforts were stepped up especially by the town of mount Carroll pop. 2,150, which figures it would lose $700,000 a year in wage income should Shimer thinks Shimer will sur Vive and it will survive said Conant. Be strictly within Law intelligence aides told by Anthony Marro Washington not Secretary of defense Harold Brown has told the Mem Bers of the various military intelligence agencies that their operations should be conducted strictly within the Law and that he expects them to report without hesitation any abuses improprieties or illegalities which occur. Boy mauled by dogs gets 200 stitches ishpem1ng. Mich. A an 11-year old boy who received More than 200 stitches after he was attacked and mauled by three Large dogs was reported in stable condition late sunday after three hours of surgery at Bell memorial Hospital in this upper Peninsula police said Mark Oulette had bicycled to a neighbor s House to see some puppies when a great Dane owned by the neighbor attacked him and dragged him off the Bike. Two St. Bernards in the Yard also at tacked the boy As he was being drag gel by the great Dane police said the boy s sister saw the attack and ran to get help. The boy suffered deep lacerations of the upper body Back arms and head Accord ing to Hospital officials. Troopers said the great Dane was the father of the puppies and one of the St. Bernards was the Mother. The owner of the dogs will be required to keep them quarantined for 10 Days while the boy is monitored for symptoms of rabies officials said. The owner told investigating officers the dogs had never attacked anyone before. Good news from Portugal for nude bathing buffs Lisbon a Portugal s tourist Industry expects a boost from news that the Justice ministry is proposing to set aside special beaches for nudists in popular tourist areas. Sun worshippers already have been Able to Tan All Over on Many portuguese beaches under the winking eyes of authorities who have relaxed restrictions in the three years since a leftist revolt overthrew a 48-year-old rightist dictatorship. The order which was contained in memorandum obtained by the new York times also affirms the Broad Power of the recently established inspector general for defense intelligence to investigate All such activities regardless of location or Security classification " the order by the new Secretary comes at a time when both the White House and con Gress Are insisting that they intend to exert stronger control in the Wake of widely publicized abuses by the intelligence Community. According to a military intelligence offi Cial the purpose of the feb. 8 memorandum was both to give Brown s backing to the inspector general and to try to insure that he won t have to spend time mired in the intelligence nightmares of past admin the memorandum which was addressed to the Heads of the National Security Agency the defense intelligence Agency and the secretaries of the army Navy and air Force said that Brown is aware of the crucial role of defense Intelli gence and intends to give in a High priority during his tenure. But it also said that he will not con done. Activities which violate or in fringe on the constitutional rights of United states and added that he expects any such abuses to be reported immediate Feldbaum. The former assistant watergate special prosecutor who was named to the defense inspector general s Post last autumn said that some abuses have been reported to his office in the two months since Brown issued the memorandum. He said that they have been investigated and reported to the intelligence oversight Board but he refused to describe them except to say that they concerned isolated incidents of individual misjudgment rather than bad policies or Brown s action is similar to but appears somewhat stronger than actions taken in recent months by the new head of the Cia Lansfield Turner and the new attorney general. Griffin Bell to encourage persons in their agencies to report any past or pre sent abuses a spokesman for Turner said that he has not issued a specific order similar to Browns but that he has made Clear he expects any bases to be reported. Last week in a newsletter headed notes from the which was pasted on bulletin boards at Cia Headquarters and cabled to stations overseas he said that anyone with allegations about improper conduct or management deficiencies should report them. If the person did t feel comfortable re porting allegations to the director or the in Spector general Turner said he or she should report them directly and privately to the oversight statement by Turner came after a Veteran Cia official John Stockwell re signed a month ago and released to the press a copy of his letter of resignation. In his letter Stockwell accused the Agency of Petty corruption and serious incompetence at its upper Levels and said that his at tempts to complain privately about such matters had been ignored within the Agency. Bell in a recent discussion with Fri agents urged them to inform him of exactly what sort of investigative techniques the Bureau has used in the past in order to help him determine whether break ins and mail openings used by Fri agents to Hunt Tor Radical fugitives were unusual activities or a common practice. Introduction to metrics a student at St. Paul minn., uses a projected image of herself to focus Atten Tion on the liter or litre As it is Spelta Here during a training session on the metric system which has become Standard throughout most of the world. The 3m co., which supplied the projector offers an instruction kit to help teachers and students learn about the liter liquid measure roughly 5 per cent More than a quart and other metric measurements. Dpi
