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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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A University student who did
not receive his ROTC commission last semester because of
his public protests against the
Vietnam war said today he will
refuse to enter the armed serclassifivices, despite his

cation.
Don Pratt, 22, a Commerce
senior, said he has been classified
by his draft board since
his

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through. "I will at this point
refuse to be drafted," he said.
Last semester Pratt and
Photo by Schley Cox
ROTC officials agreed that he
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt points to the archiceremonies yesterday. The center,
would not receive his commistect's drawing of the state's educational teleis being built on land donated by the University
sion as a second lieutenant bevision network production center during corner- - on Cooper Drive near the new dortnitory complex.
cause of his protest activities
against the Vietnam war and
his inability to answer affirmatively questions like: "can you
carry out all the duties and obligations of an officer?"
"I can't participate in the
Vietnam war. I follow the views
of people like Dr. Martin Luther
the greatest man living toThe $9 million Kentucky Edschools.
system that will serve as many King,
Sen. J. William Fullbright,
fiA 1961 feasibility study by
ucational Television Network
citizens at as many levels. Not day;
C. Benthe Legislative Research Coma one can funnel such an array Sen. Wayne Morse,
nally began construction yesteras Gov. Edward Breathitt mission stemmed from a 19G0 of resources from institutions of nett, president of Union Theologday
and Mr. Hoy Owsley, Kentucky House resolution to study the higher education to each other, ical Seminar)' in New York, the
British historian Toynbee, Sen.
to the schools, to the public."
Authority for Educational TV pssibilities of ETV in Kentucky.
and the
McGovern,
George
of On the strength of that study,
The Governor's speech ended
chairman, laid the cornerstone
United Presbyterian Church, all
the network production center. the
with a commendation to the of
was apAuthority
whom are on record in oppoLocated on Cooper Drive bepointed in 1962. The facilities University for donating the land sition to the war in Vietnam."
tween Xicholasville and Tates begun yesterday are scheduled for where the Center is being built.
Pratt does not consider hiiin
Creek Road, the production facompletion in June, 1968, with "With a beginning like that," self to be a conscientious objeccility will be part of a twelve the first broadcasts a month later. Gov. Breathitt said, "the future tor. "While I do not advocate
Gov. Breathitt's remarks at of this project can be nothing
transmitter network covering the
violence personally I am not
the cornerstone laying centered less than rewarding.
entire Commonwealth.
totally against violence," he
around the saturation of teleThe communications network
said.
is financed by a $1 million apvision in Kentucky homes and
Pratt finds himself in a bind
the tremendous opportunity for
propriation through the Appalaat the moment due to the un
chian Regional Development Act, education. Breathitt listed seven
See pages 4 and 5 of this
million
a $1
major projects he saw that ETV
appropriation
would accomplish:
issue for an interesting analysis
the Educational Telethrough
of the nation's 'Think Tanks'
vision Facilities Act, Federal,
put programs for
children which are once capti- center for the new revolution in
and matching State funds,
and matching State hinds.
American research. New York
vating and educational.
The Lexington communicaexpand the effectiveness of Times reporter Richard Beeves,
tion center will house the netthe Head Start Program
in a two part scries beginning
By GRETA FIELDS
work staff, two studios for telehelp and advise parents in this week, analyzes five research
The women's residence hall
vision production, and the com- the handling and training of ex- operations representative of their directors are
presently usingiiues-tionaire- s
plex switching point for the sysceptional children.
to pair off compatible
counterparts throughout the naaid teachers and teaching at tion.
tem of interconnected transmisroommates. The method works.
sion points.
every grade level
First semester freshmen are
Today's articles concern The
12 transmitters will be
his
reach the illiterate in
The
BAND Corp., and The Center
assigned roommates rather than
located in Ashland, Bowling home
Elizabeth-town- ,
being allowed to make their own
Kcntuckian out- for the Study of Democratic InGreen, Covington,
bring ever)'
stitutions. Next week's articles selections since roommate probHazard, Madison County, standing cultural events, and
will feature Western Behavioral
lems tend to arise during the first
Madionville, Morehead, Murray,
help doctors, lawyers, and
semester of the freshman year
businessmen keep abreast of new Science Institute, Illinois InstiPikeville, Owenton, and Somertute of Technology, Research Inmore than at any other time.
set.'
knowledge and ideas.
A regional production at the
Pond, associate
Gov. Breathitt sited the flex- stitute, and the A. D. Little Corp.
Rosemary
will be one of six ibility of Kentucky's ETV Netdean of students for residence
University
located at the Commonwealth's work saying "there isn't another
hall programming, considers it
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New ETV Building Underway
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and he has reservations about
his form of protest resulting in
the inequitable situation of a
19-) ear old being drafted and
sent to Vietnam in his place.
"Why should I have an obligation to serve in a war which
I believe is wrong morally, so-

cially and politically? I advocate building. War is a system
of destruction," he said.
"If the men in Germany in
the late 1930s had resisted the
draft there would have been no
World W ar II, because men make
wars. If the majority, through
government, rules. and
in)' obligation i not to
participate. Any participation!))
me in the armed services other
than in Vietnam frees another
man to go and fight an unjust
war," Pratt added.
America should discard its
phobia and cease
to act out of fear, Pratt believes.
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America should act constructively, but the extent of American
involvement should be in bringing about social changes, through
as the Peace
such programs
Corps.
"Maybe someday I'll have to
become another George Washington and find another countrybut at this point I believe
fleeing to Canada is not the
answer. The extent of my active protest against this unjust
war to date has been declining
a commission," Pratt concluded.

Room mates Determined
By Personality Match

pre-scho-

"amazing" how few complaints
are heard.
To pair off compatible students, head residents study personnel forms which the students
complete. The personnel form is
based on part of a University
doctoral thesis prepared by a
clinical psychologist.
On the form, the student lists
his height, weight, number of
brothers and sisters, stud) habits, feelings toward smoking
and drinking, participation in
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State' May Give Aid To U of L, But Hoiv?
By WALTER GRANT

Kentucky's General Assembly, which
created four new state universities in
its last session, will face another important question involving higher education when it meets again in January.
The question is: Should the Univera
sity of Louisville
institution of higher education, and
if so, how will it be administered and
supported?
Undoubtedly, U of L is destined for
future state affiliation. Most persons now
agree the institution cannot possibly
meet its responsibilities to the state, and
particularly to leffcrson County, if it
does not receive considerable financial
assistance from the state legislature.
But the details of possible state subsidy are indeed more complex. Already,
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there are numerous views and suggestions about the possible relationships
of the nation's first municipally chartered
university with the state.
A link between U of L and the state
was first suggested in January, 196b' by
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt's Commission
on Higher Education. The commission
recommended that U of L Ik "invited"
by the legislature to Income a state
institution. The suggestion came shortly
before the legislature decided to change
from college to university status the institutions at Morehead, Richmond, Bowling Green, and Murray.
Facts clearl) support the theory that
U of L is at a most crucial point in
its history. It simply docs not have the
facilities to provide adequate educational
opportunities even for the students living

in Jefferson County. In addition, its tuition is nearly live times that at the
University of Kentucky.
Conservative projections indicate there
will Ik- 23,000 to 30,000 undergraduate
students from Jefferson County attending
college by 19S0. U of L will probably
have between 1,000 and 5,000 graduate-studentby then.
But the combined facilities at U of
L and at other colleges in Jefferson
County indicate an ability to absoih only alH)ut 15,000 to 20.000 of these students, leaving some 10,000 who will have
to go elsewhere if they want a college
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education.

Moreover, U of L's tuition is now
a year lor residents of Jefferson
County. State residents pay only $2S0
a year to attend UK.
$1,200

Residents of Jefferson County are dissatisfied with the present setup and worried almut the luture. Count) residents
feel they are paving much more than the
residents of other counties for higher
education because their taxes support
the state instiutious, and, at the same
time, the) must pay high tuition to attend U of I.
The piobleins aie magnified by the
fact that neither the city nor the county can be counted upon tor long-tersupport of the institution. In PHk") ((),
the count) provided $S00.0O0 and illicit) $1.3 million out of a univeisity
budget of $17.3 million. And indications
are that loth the city and count) will
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The new selective service law,
which will go into effect July 1
seems to be somewhat fairer than
the law it is replacing. Hut there
is still room for improvement before the draft will ever become
fair, if, indeed, the draft might
ever be called fair.
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college, they become inrrtiedijitely
eligible for the iraft, 'vttif
deferments fort hroming except in cases of hardship.
Previously, a student could go
through college, go on to graduate
school for from two to five years,
then find a
job if
he was still not 26 years of age,
the maximum age a person is usually to be called up.
There is one problem with the
new law: younger men, those in the
e
18 and 19
group, are
called first, whereas under
being
the old law the older men were
taken on a priority basis. With
four years of college guaranteed,
the student will be 21 or 22 by
graduation. Thus, except in times
of emergency, he will likely escape the draft altogether.
Then the old problem pops up:
the older person is draft eligible
while the younger one goes free.
More and more young men will
be going to college as the demand
for higher education quickens, and,
with the exception of a high school
dropout, most of the 2,000,000 men
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read its teachings and preloyally, and cannot help but
our continuous search for
truth is a little nearer completion.
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headed for additional discussion
duration of the
in the four-yea- r
new law.
Of course we look to the final
answer as the complete elimination
of the selective service system. One
ideal situation is for the United
States to have a professional, well-pai- d
army. If our armed forces
aren't attractive enough to America's men, so as to have sufficient
manpower, something is obviously
wrong. Congress should find out
what it is.
An alternate solution might be
to have all men spend two years
in service to their nation, with the
choice left up to them as to whether they wish to participate in
a military group, or in a humanitarian group, such as VISTA or
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slogans. Hut the painters made another round after the
student elections, and the teachings became more current and informative. We were asked to "Make
Love, Not War," and to seriously
consider the merits of "Manning
the lira."
Hut alas, our dear friend has
been painted again. It would be so
much easier if we could begin a
new phase by merely erasing a
chalk board, and cheaper too. Hut
we have to wait.
A definite paint-gaexists at
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Juke Box Relocation
Stirs Student Government
In a display of foresight rare
to the institution, the staff of the
Student Center Grille last week
moved the juke box to its original
position in the front of the grille,
thereby averting the social inversion we had foreseen. Now however comes word that Hrint
Mil-war-

Student Government's

The Wall has gone through three
stages. During the first stage, we
were reminded of the bathroom
every time we walked by and read
the naught)' slogans. It was like
reading the bathroom wall outdoors. We almost felt nude in
public.
Then the political slogans and
campaign signs appeared. In away,
these were similar to the bath- -

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giant chalk board have been more
practical than a mere plywood
wall?
We hate to criticize the continuous painting and repainting
of The Creat Wall, but we do
regret that it takes so long for the
painters to make the entire round
and start all over again. This no
doubt stiflles the possible dialogue
and limits the number of stages
the Wall can experience. If the
Wall were a giant chalk board,
with erasers supplied, then the
slogan painters could clean the
slate themselves.

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who annually turn 19 will not be
taken.
And the old arguments about
the unfairness of those who cannot afford college being drafted,
will continue.
At least the new law will end
the hodg-podyearly guessing
garn on the i'art- - of the student
Afix-twhejffcjr fr Will receive his
deferment of nbt:
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rector of Student Services, plans
a campaign to have the machine
to the back of the Grille.
Predicting a wide base of support for his campaign, Milward
hinted that certain concessions
might persuade him to consent
to the present position of the juke
box. "A series of speakers in other
parts of the Grille might satisfy
us," he said recently. "At least
other people could hear the mu-

sic."

To us, however, the democratic
aspects of Milward's proposal do
not outweigh the horrific prospect
of actually hearing what is played
on the juke box.
What is needed, rather, is a
series of juke boxes, at least a
dozen in number, each with a
unique selection of recordings. The
cacophony which would result

wou'd, we feel, deter anyone from
playing any of the thing:, which
we have long viewed as the final
goal of our juke box commentaries.

Letters To The Editor
To ihc Editor of The Kernel:
Too often our public officials are criticized for their errors, yet denied credit
for their accomplishments.
During the past four years, Kentucky
has enjoyed a progressive state government under the administration of Governor Kdward T. Breathitt. As chairman
and
of the Young Citizens
Committee, a group formed to express
the appreciation of the young people of
Kentucky to the Coventor for his services, we would like to urge all
to join with us in saying
Ken-tuckia-

"Thanks, Ned."
W e intend to conduct a
campaign to
place our message conspicuously before
the public. Anyone desiring to lend their
support to this effort may contact us at
the iuldress below Thank you.

The Kentucky

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Sincerely,
Bill Prebhle (chairman)
Lexington
Bob Denhardt
Bow ling Green

Walt

Dais
Louisville

Young Citizens Committee
633 Cardinal Lane
Lexington, Kentucky ().().')
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In Mideast
Menial Or Meaningful?

UN Role
By JOHN O'BRIEN
When one looks at the Middle
East War in retrospect, it ajv
pears on the surface that the
U.N. may as well have been
devoting its total resources to
feeding the teaming masses of
India.
First came the highly criticized announcement by
U Thant that he
was ordering the United Nations
Emergency Force in the
buffer zone home at the
request of the U.A.H.'s President
Secretary--

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Nasser.

The move was later criticized
by Israeli Foreign Minister, Abba
Elian, to which Thant made an
unprceented defense of his actions which spelled the end of
ten years of shaky
presence by U.N. forces.
Then the Security Council
failed to pass a resolution calling
for a "breathing-spell- "
in the
rising crisis which developed
when Nasser introduced his
blockade of Israeli shipping
through the Strait of Tiran.
Thant had requested the
breathing spell after his visit
peace-keepin- g

to Cairo on May 24. The U.N.
seemed plagued with indecision
in Thant's absence and an emergency session of the Security
Council was convened in which
charges and counter charges of
"aggressive action" were made.
Thant was reportedly dis

mayed and angered at the council's decision to meet in his
When he finally did return
and the council failed to act on
his recommended
"breathing
spell" was was an inevitability.
When hostilities did break out
on June 4, it took the United
Nations four days to pass an effective cease-fir- e
resolution in
the midst of ghoulish irony created by U.N. troops lxing cut
crossfire
down in
while trying to flee the area as
they had been ordered to do.
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The U.N. may have lest the
race for time in this crisis but
its presence will still be f'It in
the area in the uncertain days to
come. This is the contention of
two University of Kentucky Political Science professors.
Dr. M. (). Ileisler, visiting
professor from the University of
Maryland, feels that the U.N.'s
role in the conflict was not as
menial as may have appeared on
the surface.
"In terms of the U.N. , the
situation has been not at all
bad. U Thant had no alternative
but to withdraw the emergency
force. I think that the Security
Council acted with a bit more
speed than I would have expected," Mr. Ileisler said.
He also feels that the Soviet
Union's willingness to
with the United States in bringresolution
ing about a cease-fir- e
is a significant factor.
te

Administrative Cohesiveness

Columbia Reshuffle
Marks Future Trend
By FRED M. HECHINCER
N.Y. Times Education Editor
New York Times News Service

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Dr. Lloyd Jensen, Associate
professor of Political Science at
UK, agrees with Ileisler. "The
problem is the high expectations
of people. These are sovereign
states the U.N. is dealing with.
The U.N. can resolve conflicts
when the major jxmcrs desire
it," Jensen said.
Jensen feels that the fact that
Kosygin has chosen to come to
New York adds prestige to the
U.N. He stated that "it docs
suggest that they (the Soviets)
sec some utility in the U.N.
and would like to sec the conflict settled."
The United Nations w ith long
range economic and developmental programs, Jensen feels, can
reduce the perpetual conflict. He

reiterated his position that the
U.N. is desirable machinery to
be used when one gets into hot
water.

"Both the Arabs and Israelis
can gracefully back down in any
given situation like this as long
as tjie U.N. is around," he said.
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agreed that United Nations police action would be reintroduced
into the area in the future.

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Nations. In this case its diplomatic medium was very clearly
demonstrated," he maintained.
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international relations seminars
at the pentagon, feels the Soviets
can only obtain something less
than a limited victory if they are
successful in persuading the General Assembly to brand Israel the

grass. In this view, the administration administers best that

administers least, letting teachNEW YORK -- The reshuffling ers teach and students learn.
There are many reasons for
of Columbia University's adminthe hostility toward strong inistration this week put the spotlight on academic leadership at stitutional leadership. At Columa time when the importance of bia, as elsewhere, grievances accumulated and bottled up during
such leadership is often downgraded and even ridiculed. What a period of strong leadership,
happened at Columbia might symbolized by a towering figure,
have happened and may still lead to a swing of the pendulum
on many university to nonleadership.
happen
John W. Gardner, in his last
campuses.
In brief review, the "recastreport as President of the Carnegie Corporation before he being" (as it was officially described by Columbia's President came Secretary of Health, EduGrayson Kirk) raised to a posi- cation and Welfare, said that the
colleges themselves were immution of new power one
B. Truman-- by
moving nizing their students with an
him from the deanship of the "antileadcrship vaccine," and
that young people came away
Undergraduate Columbia College to the combined post of vice with the idea that institutional
president and provost of the en- leadership is synonymous with
tire university.
corrupted power.
On the one side, said GardAt the same time, three key
are departing from posiner, are the men with bright
figures
tions of far more scattered ad- ideas and ready criticism but
without the willingness to dirty
ministrative power.
Kirk said merely that the their hands with management.
shifts were necessary in view of On the other side, he added,
are the managers, including those
academic plans, ina current $200 million of the universities, who tend the
cluding
fund drive. He stressed that Comachinery well but fail to see the
lumbia suffered because its ad- whole picture.
Failure to see the whole picministrative staff was the smallest of any major university. But ture has led to a series of sepfaculty, students and even the arate but interrelated crisis.
larger community had long been Oversimplified diagnosis tends
aware of a more fundamental to ix)int to the fact thut faculty
an institution that salaries have not kept up, which
weakness
had Ixuome a loose federation is true but not basic, or that
of units, without sufficient co- science facilities have deteriohesion.
rated, which is also true but
If the popular legend ami the rather easily remedied.
The more important, but less
current academic propaganda
line were to be believed, this tangible, consequence of not seelack of cohesion ought to be the ing the whole picture and
worse not having a clear vipassword to Utopia.
it has sion of what the picture ought
Among undergraduates
become fashionable to insist that to be a decade hence, is a seepthe model of the modern univerage of esprit and a crisis of inadministrator should fnerely ternal and external confidence.
sity
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- Till: KENTUCKY KERNEL. Thursday, Juno 22,

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, June

I9f7

The Rand Corporation
Parent Of Think Tanks
Development

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Two retired
generals Ixvster Wliecler of the army and
It. K. Koon of the air force sat in the
"red room" and talked quietly alxnit launching a surprise lomhiug raid.
The electric calendar on the w all of the
mainlined room showed the date June 9,
1975.

The battleground was Asia.
A war game was being played at Rand

Correlation, the "Think Tank" generally
credited with helping to shape United
States military strategy for almost two
decades.
In the basement of Rand's two
buildings lies the games room bedoor overhind a
the Pacific Ocean here.
looking
Two smaller rooms, marked "red army"
and "blue army," were linked to the games'
room by
swinging panels, called "Judas Doors." Inside the small rooms,
the opposing red and blue officers planned
their battlefield strategies for that future
June 9.
After discussing raids and combat tactics for hours, the red and blue officers
passed their battle plans through the Judas
Doors to Rand game controllers. In turn,
they marked troop movements and aerial
attacks on maps of Asia, and then evaluated the casualties and damage suffered
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Not A Research Institute, University, Or YMCA

Where 1 he Research Aclion Is

By RICHARD REEVES
Ntw York Timet Newt Service

22, IW7

of inqxutant new

com-

puter techniques.
Development of "program budgeting,"
financial planning technique.
a
Refinement of gaming to clarify military problems and train military officers.
Sxaking alxnit the accomplishments of
Rand three years ago, defencse secretary
Rolert S. idcNamara remarked that the
Air Force had received ten times the value
of the money it spent at Rand.
Nevertheless, Rand's greatest achievement may he the effect its survival and
growth have had on the development of other
DevelThink Tanks. Two of
opment Corporation and Analytic Services,
Inc. were formed from Rand divisions.
Furthermore, the Navy and Army have
both founded Rand-typ- e
corporations. Several Rand employees have organized independent Think Tanks, and Rand was the
model for many centers that put less emphasis on military matters.
The Rand influence also has spread
with the movement of staff members into
important government jobs.
long-rang- e

These institutcsoftcn compctefor government and industrial contracts with univerresearch organisities and
zations such as the Arthur D. Little
of Cambridge, Mass.
Rand is a
corporation of
1,141 employees including 524 researchers,
162 of whom have Ph. D. degrees-w- ho
walk past armed guards each morning to
work in the two buildings along ocean
profit-makin-

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corn-compa-

front.
About half the work at Rand is classi- -

thcm-Syst- cm

Henry S. Rowen, a
economist, who is now Rand's

president, joined the government after 11
years as a Rand staff member.
The tall, scholarly looking Bostonian first
joined Rand in 1950, a year after graduating
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He left to become assistant secretary of
by each side.
defense for Internal Security Affairs and then
Finally, the red and blue commanders
Director of the Bureau of the Budwere called in separately to learn what Assistant
get. Subsequently, he returned to Rand.
they had wrought in the latest of a series
The origin of the term" Think Tank"
of "Rand Wars" that have been fought is
uncertain and there is no single accepted
every weekday for almost 20 years.
definition. But the term has been used to
Cames are just one of the 200 research
descrilx a wide spectrum of organizations
projects at Rand, best known of the more
from the center for the study of democratic
than 100 Think Tanks in the United States.
a scholarly discussion group,
When it was founded in 1916 by the Air institutions,
to Rand and other corporations closely linked
was one of fewer than a dozen
Force, Rand
to the defense department.
organizations that had been formed to
The work of Think Tanks is often simindependently analyze other j)eopIe's probilar to work done by universities, induslems.
trial research and development departments,
Think-Tanexpenditures now amount and
management consultants.
to almost $2 billion a year with about
A w ide variety of problems arc analyzed
from
90 percent of that money coming
in these organizations. Rand has studied
federal research contracts and grants.
the best way to drop an
The cenWhat do Rand and other Think Tanks
ter for the study of democratic institutions
do?
Rand, whose name is a contraction of is studying the best ways to achieve world
research and development, was conceived
peace. Other Think Tanks are working in
fields as different as psychotherapy and
by the late Air Force Cen. II. II. (Hap)
Arnold to keep together some of the ciwelding.
Rand received all of its $22.3 million in
vilian scientists and engineers who had
advised the Air Force in World War II. operating funds last year from government
It was set up as an independent oragencies, 88 percent of it from the defense
ganization in which scholars would be free department.
At the other end of the spectrum, the
to concentrate on government problems
without becoming involved in the Federal center for the study of democratic institutions raised almost a million dollars in
Bureaucracy.
A partial list of achievements generally
private contributions to pay for its intellectual dialogues.
credited to Rand includes:
In the middle of the Think Tank specStrategic studies that helped make
the Air Force