Campaign drives at G
M
Washington (CPS) Cam
paign GM is back for Round II
in its battle to make General
Motors more responsible.
Campaign GM, the offshoot
of Project on Corporate
Responsibility (PCR) devoted
to haunting GM until it
becomes responsive to those it
effects, recently announced
plans of taking on the GM
board of Directors.
Maintaining that corporate
shareholders, consumers,
dealers and employes have no
effective voice in corporate
decisions or directions that
directly affect them, Round II
will focus on restructuring the
d e c i s i on-making process
presently locked in the secret
sanctums of GM's Isolated
Board of Directors.
Phillip Moore, Campaign GM
coordinator, presented three
proposals, already on their way
to Chairman of the Board
James Roche, which
would:
require the General Motors
proxy to list shareholder
nominees for Director and
management employes.
expand the corporation's,
decision-making base by
permitting GM constituencies
(employes, dealers and con
sumers to participate in tne
election of directors.
provide shareholders and
constituencies with the
minimum information they
need to effectively judge
whether management is
meeting its public
responsibilities.
At present, election of GM
management is conducted as it
is in most other big corpora
tions. The management picks
its slate of candidates and
sends it out in the form of a
proxy statement
Shareholders fill in the
blanks and send them back in.
As Moore put it, "There is no
debate, no campaign, no con
test" Proposal No. 1 would force
GM to list both management
and non-management can
didates on the proxy. Nomina
tions by management would be
as they had been in the past.
Nomination by shareholders
would be by petition.
As few as 100 shareholders
could submit nominations for
management and these names
would be listed along with the
GM candidates, alphabetically,
on the ballot. The Project on
Corporate Responsibility owns
12 shares of GM stock.
Proposal No. 2 would permit
GM's 794,000 employes, as well
as countless GM dealers and
consumers to participate in the
selection of three of the com
pany's directors. Each consti
tuency would hold a special
election, in which it would
select one director, subject to
shareholder ratification. At
present these constituencies
have virtually no participatory
role in GM decision making
other than building their $24.2
billion annual revenues.
Proposal No. 3 requires GM
to publish its annuall reports of
hard statistics of concern to
both shareholders and the
public: air pohition control,
automobile safety and minority
hiring. In the past GM has
refused to make this informa
tion public.
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HERE'S OUR OFFER: You can start
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You're a big part of our operation. And
you accomplish whatever your talents
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by CAROL GOETSCUUS
Nebraskan Staff Writer
In an experiment with com
puter education, students at a
recent Physics n pre-exara
tutorial session "actually car
ried on a conversation with a
computer," said Robert Fuller,
associate professor of
physics.
In Brace Lab, each of 24
volunteers sat at a remote
terminal, a combination
keyboard and video screen
connected by telephone to the
computer in Nebraska Hall,
about a mile away.
To operate the remote
terminal, the student types his
name on the key board and
calls up the first question of a
tutorial quiz. The question ap
pears on the screen.
Then the student punches his
answer to the true-false,
multiple choice or matching
questions on the keyboard and
the computer tells him if he Is
right or wrong.
If the student answered the
question wrong, but in a direc
tion anticipated by the instruc
tor, hints are supplied by the
computer U steer the student
la the right direction.
Fuller and Steve Cunn
ingham, an assistant instructor
in physics, worked 40 hours td
prepare the 26 questions,
however, once a supply of
questions is built into the com
puter, "it's very easy to edit
and improve the questions for
future use," Fuller said
Volunteers at the session
were given questionnaires to
determine If they liked working
with the computer and an
analysis of exam results
following the session is being
conducted, said Fuller.
"The success of th
computer-assisted students will
be measured against others in
the class," said Fuller, "and I
feel there ought to be a strong,
favorable correlation.'
The analysis wiO also
determine whether students
study more than usual after
using the computer, if they
learn better and if the benefits
to study wear off along with the
novelty of using the computer,
Fuller added.
The students were very ex
cited about using the computer,
be continued, and he believes it
stimulates them to work twice
as hard on assignments.
Fuller said there are 50
remote terminals on the cam
pus, and some physics labs use
them as calculators. The com
puter service UNITS,
(University of Nebraska In
teractlve Testing . Service) is
available to all departments at
NU.be added.
Any question of expanding
the computer tatoriag system
is only "the tip of the iceberg"
f a greater question, he said.
This is whether the University
computer should be ased for
research or educational
purposes.
"It depends on how com
mitted the University is to
trying some of these ex
perimental things' Fuller ad
ded. Outdoors club
meets indoors
Tlte organizational meeting
of a University outdoors club
is scheduled fcr Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity house, according
to Jeff Stern, one of the
group's organizers.
He said the group would be
ideal for anyone interested m
climbing, hiking, camping or
environmental work. For more
information call 435-8384.
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THE NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1970