European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes april David Broder Senneff is of education what Watt is to forests when Georgetown University president Timothy Healy found him self seated next to attorney general Edwin Meese Iii last month at a Friendly sons of Patrick Meese asked him How he thought the new Secretary of William was As father Healy recalled in a recent i just i told i get tired of a Guy who went to Williams College and Harvard telling the poor kids that the state College or Junior College is Good enough for heals emotional reaction was much the same i had expressed in a column last assailing Bennett As the new James Watt of the Reagan adm Nistra i had been As angered As Healy at the cheap shots Bennett had taken at the elite private colleges such As those he had attended along with the University of where he earned his third and at students he said were using government Loans to pay for expensive Educa rather than practising stereo automobile three  in the flood of comments 1 received mainly from parents and univer sity officials there were several Mes sages from people whose judgment i value saying that i had gotten Bennett that he was not the person i had i take such warnings i knew that on a fundamental question of Educa Tion philosophy the importance of the humanities in the College curriculum Bennett and 1 see Eye to i had read and admired his writing on that topic be fore the recent controversy but i did not know him at All so i went to see and Frank i am puzzled by the Man i there was none of the pro James Reston Vocative rhetoric of his first press Confer on the he i am proud of the fact that 52 percent of our High school students go on to posts econ Dary education but id like it to be More than a id like it to be an so would we but when Bennett tried to link his education Reform goals to the administrations proposals for a Cut Back in higher education i was not certain whether he was simply being a Reagan loyalist or was As a needing of the realities As he in press conferences and congressional Bennett has insisted that in proposing to reduce student Loans and Grants by billion and end assistance to one million the administration is trying to focus available funds on those most in need of in almost All he told a student who really wants to stay in College will find a Way to do so without the governments that judgment is contradicted by every College president and student i have heard so i asked Bennett if his department had done any studies of the Likely effects of the cuts in moving students from private colleges into Public or making them involuntary there want he i think the people who put the proposal together Here and at bomb the office of management and budget understood that there would be some and my guess that they took the estimate that the private College people were offering and reduced it by a thinking that they May Well be exaggerate were hearing from the private col lege people that there will be at least a 20 percent dropout i dont think its going to be anything like that would it concern you if it i not by he if i thought it would represent great disappointment and a serious Sacri fice in the Quality of education for Large numbers of then id gel i would not deny that in some circumstance All three of those things will occur but 1 dont think in most in a recent appearance on Capitol Bennett was told by Marge Rouke in the Congress had rejected the kind of income ceiling for student Aid the administration is again because we Learned that an absolute income test is not the most valid Way to decide whether a family can afford College for two or three Stu Bennett told her he knew this will have impacts on some people that Are difficult because we cannot be As at tuned to the specific circumstances and conditions As we would like never the to make the savings that we feel we need to we have to draw the line when i told him that didst sound like much of a defense of the equity of the he David Stockman the bomb director and his colleagues Tell me that this is the Best Way to do and the All factors they May be i want to look at it my leaving Bennetts was that the education Secretary is a Man who will give Good speeches on his philos Ophy of education while Stockman goes merrily cutting the programs that allow kids to go to that is a dangerous c 1985 Washington Post writers group ifs time for a meeting of the to poo Bahs the opening Day of the baseball season began this year in the Snow and wont end until the Snow Falls again on the world series in the the College basketball playoffs Are but Larry Bird is still flying in Boston and Spring football is still struggling in lonely Arenas at the Start of the Golf sea son amid the Dogwood and azaleas in to everything there is a says but not in this is the Flutie go for the bomb get it while you can graduate and negotiate for time is fleeting and Money and television Are every thing we have masters tournaments in sports but no Mas who will control these Star with their Law yers and their drugs and their and Divide the Calendar Between them All of us have our As the old woman said when she kissed her but baseball in the ice hockey in the and a lot of giants running up and Down shiny floors in their underwear in april Are obviously we need a Summit meeting of the sports and television poo Bahs to take this american Way of strife in a Good and Loyal wife May be Able to scrub up the kids for fix the grub and tolerate the old Man watching George Bush throw out the first Ball for the mets in but also watching the head of the for weeks on cheering the Roun Dball playoffs and the College football draft meat auction is obviously a Strain on the family theres obviously another you May have noticed that after flying around the Tennis courts of the world for 15 years or so Jimmy Connors had to default and pull out of his this illustrates the silent touches of even Martina while still presiding As the Queen of world has Cut her hair like Jimmy Connors to look younger but is now wearing specs to hit the its no wonder that sports on television Are so popu they Are so human and so i grew up in Ohio and watched Jack Nicklaus when he was a Pudgy kid and Bob my buddy in was his coach at Ohio state and Mentor at the Scioto course in Colum i watch him now in his practising for the Mas ters this week in the master of the Best of them in the better than Bobby Jones or Walter Hagen or Harry wanting one More with his tall son at his As if he haunt won More than anybody theres something wonderful about All this yearning and that is Calvin a Black Man with a twisted left a crooked backswing and the loveliest follow through on the Hes a straight and narrow unacquainted with the tall and he May give Nick Laus and even Tom the Best swinger in the a hard time at but to come there Are so Many of these doing so much at the same that there bumping into one another and wearing themselves out in the there should be a As we Are always say ing while passing More Laws than we but there int a Bird in this sports no matter How much they make out of who Doest think the sports seasons Are too and that Domebo somewhere should do something about the obvious place to begin is it wont solve the problem maybe even make it worse but one thing is it needs a baseball and has the political clout to get no matter How it needs to know at the end of the the week or the month who it cant go on like this arguing about which is not even in the big or who up and who Down in the Middle or whether Gorbachev and Reagan Are going to meet at the Washington has heard All there is to know about the budget the Trade the interest Teddy Kennedy weight and and the promises of Japan and the capitalist flirtation of it has been hearing All about the transformation of the Washington and Joe Theismann person Al but somehow its political and sports sea sons Are out of the president says he wants to go to Moscow but goes to California to Cut Brush when Hes run out of and tip Oneill goes to Moscow in things Are out of what Washington needs is a policy for the seasons and a Ball team to take its mind off the facts and know who and whats on c 1985 new York times Syndicate Wair