Provided, That the personnel so transferred shall suffer no loss of current salary or increases thereto provided by existing law, nor any loss of rights or benefits (such as leave of absence, sick leave, pension, term life insurance, and health insurance) now provided by existing law.

S. 293, section 4 (b), page 5, line 24, add:

Provided, That the professional personnel of the laboratory school may hold, if qualified, academic rank of assistant professor, or higher, in the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, and that any excess of salary due thereto over that of the regular position as teacher shall be paid from the appropriation for the College of Arts and Sciences.

S. 293, section 5 (a), add new section 3:

To prepare plans for the establishment of any other institution of higher education which the needs of the community from time to time necessitate.

Renumber the other subsections of section 5(a).

S. 293, section 5 (a), old subsection 5, insert clause protecting tenure, salary, and all other rights of employees.

S. 293, section 5 (a), old subsection 4, change "four" to "six".

S. 293, section 5 (b), delete entire section.

It should be pointed out that neither S. 293 nor S. 1612 has satisfactory provisions for the financial autonomy of the proposed colleges. If financial provisions do not accompany the authorization to establish the proposed colleges, unnecessary delays will result.

Either S. 293 or S. 1612, if adopted, would establish a board of higher education which would have control over the junior college and the 4-year liberal arts college.

The present District of Columbia Teachers College, with its able faculty, has been operating under great handicaps in its present obsolete buildings-both of which were erected more than 50 years ago. The present accreditation will be withdrawn in 1971 if steps are not taken to provide a modern college plant. Accreditation by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education already has been withdrawn.

The District of Columbia Teachers College should be included in the proposed 4-year liberal arts college. The present institution (and its two predecessors, Miner Normal School and Wilson Normal School) has proven its worth through its contribution to the thousands of young people who have received their higher education within its halls, whether in its 2-, 3-, or 4-year programs. The present college and its predecessors has been the major source for the recruitment of teachers for the classrooms of the District of Columbia public schools. Favorable action of S. 293 or S. 1612 will provide the same opportunities for higher learning to District of Columbia youth as are now provided within the respective States. The new facilities will open doors for training those who can best profit from higher education among our high school graduates. A college of liberal arts and a community junior college for the District of Columbia are most urgently needed. We would urge therefore that every means be taken by your committee to establish the liberal arts college and create it so that it can be in operation within the next year or so.

I want to point out there is one provision in here that would protect the staff of the college when they are transferred to the proposed college of liberal arts and sciences. We would hope that provision would be made so those people would not suffer loss of salary and their rights and benefits would be protected, such as sick leave, pen

sions, term life insurance, health insurance, et cetera. I don't believe there is provision in the present bill, in either S. 293 or S. 1612, that would do this.

Senator MORSE. As I said yesterday, Miss Griffith, it is not the intention of the chairman that they suffer such inequity. It is something that must be worked out.

Miss GRIFFITH. We wanted to call this to your attention also we would hope that some financial provisions would be made to accompany this authorization of the college because otherwise the plans might suffer unnecessary delay. Either S. 293 or the S. 1612, if adopted would establish a board of higher education which would have control over the junior college and the 4-year liberal arts college. This, I think, will be our main part of our statement. And may I add just a personal comment. I happen to have graduated from the Wilson Normal School which provided a 2-year college program. I believe that this college and the Miner Normal School has made a major contribution in providing teachers for the District of Columbia and more than ever have they served with devotion for years after their graduation and fully paid for the education that they have received, and I feel that the liberal arts college and the junior college would do the same for the residents of the District and provide a way that parents can send their children to higher education with some degree of being able to give their children the privilege which the new world demands of them.

Thank you very much.

Senator MORSE. Thank you. And express to the District of Columbia Education Association my appreciation.

Miss GRIFFITH. Thank you very much.

Senator MORSE. Our next witness will be Mr. Kenneth G. Franklin, president, student council, District of Columbia Teachers College. Is Mr. Franklin here?

I am so glad, Mr. Franklin, that we have some student representation at these hearings. We are glad to have you.

STATEMENT OF KENNETH G. FRANKLIN, PRESIDENT, STUDENT COUNCIL, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE

Mr. FRANKLIN. My comments today are not of a statistical nature. They are more or less personal. And I put it in the first person because I figure that, if it is multiplied by x, you will have how each Washingtonian feels.

I hope I do not step on too many people's toes, but too many times have I been accused of not doing anything or not having said anything to the people who are in charge.

So first of all I thank all of you for the opportunity given to me today to express my opinions.

First, I speak on Congress. Congress owes me a debt and an enormous debt. Far too long has it made use of my city, its people, officials, employees, and taxes therefrom collected, so, as of today, I demand payment. I do not vote for any part of Congress but I help to pay its salaries, expenses, and privileges. If I get no single downpayment, I truly hope that God will take action because of my being neglected years more than one cares to mention.

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Then, too, I hope that Congress has enough insight to deem it necessary and sufficient to take action to get a 4-year community college as well as a 2-year community junior college. I address this to the anonymous. I truly do not know who has, in the past, decided to spend such large sums of the taxpayers' money to repaint our District of Columbia Teachers College. It was previously mentioned how antiquated it is. I dare say that as of yet the public has no idea as to how "responsible”—that is in quotations-persons have unwisely, with a question mark, spent tax money.

I often ask myself, does Washington, D.C., really exist. I was born here. I have been educated here, and eventually I hope to work here. According to science I do exist but politically I do not. I look at this itemized list of questions. Do good job opportunities compensate for my not having the right to vote?

Should I sing the national anthem with sincere feeling as I do, though I am not a real and full U.S. citizen?

Should I pledge allegiance to the flag and die for my country, which is the symbol of freedom, and Washington is the Capital of such a great Nation? Should I be given choice as to what profession I wish to enter in this city?

Do I get pleasure from watching others coming here to go to Capitol Hill to their Congressmen in my city, on my streets, using taxi cabs provided by my fellow citizens?

What if it fails because most of the area, private institutions of higher learning do not want an adequate institution of higher learning which will lower their enrollment, supposedly-suppose that I not be given that which is rightly mine?

Question: On District of Columbia Teachers College. Neither could I mention too often the adequacy of its faculty or its student body, which was mentioned previously, about an average student. Again I say, the above are adequate but not for physical plans of the college.

My first complaint. The library has a great number of worthy volumes, though each rain causes some of the waterlogged books to be thrown away; taxpayers' money gone. Two, the registrar's office is very efficient in functioning but each rain causes raindrops to fall from through the ceiling and trash cans have to be put out to catch the raindrops and they have to close shop for the day. Taxpayers'

money gone.

The rooms are of an appropriate size for the class but have chipped and peeling walls caused by rain. They seem to be painted just before we are up for evaluation of another term of accreditation.

Here I might mention, in the Washington Post, and with a little conceit, there was a picture of me with an umbrella standing inside. That was because the rain was coming in, which is a fire hazard, which caused the shortage in the fire alarm system. We had a false, false fire alarm.

The third floor rooms are of no use since they were condemned at least 5 years ago in the Miner Building and 27 years ago in the Wilson Building. The auditorium at the Miner Building-as Mrs. Fletcher who has done an excellent job with the dramatics in our school knows-we have no up-to-date stage outlay. We have no capacity for any type of program that we want to give that includes people other than the students at the college. We have no acoustical structures.

Who has ever heard of an auditorium with glass windows? It is not supposed to be a mansion. It is supposed to be an auditorium.

Significant, I say, no cafeteria in either building, with those teachers stressing dietary habits. No food in the so-called eating areas unless one calls diluted sodas, dead sandwiches, coffee only by name, pastry with some form of carbon on it-why not live food?

We have no proper flooring in the Wilson Building. As one walks he bounces. We have no gymnasium for the boys or girls.

As we stressed an individual should be well rounded mentally and physically.

We have no appropriate number of restrooms in either building for either sex. No steam-table service, though we have the equipment. No safe way to get from one building to the other. Might I add there is a distance of 1 mile crossing Georgia Avenue and Sherman Avenue, hoping to make it across each time you go from one building to the other.

I conclude in this gripe session by saying that we have to buy our own U.S. flag as well as the District of Columbia flag. To me I do not have any understanding as to why an institution which is set up to provide teachers for the Nation's Capital should have to buy a flag for the country of which it is the seat of its Government and a city which is looked up to by all.

In closing I leave the above and even suggest statements of my own belief; No. 1, education is a necessity, not now a luxury, as otherwise in some times.

Exemptions should be discussed presently in political bodies, for college students and/or their parents to be compensated. Two, the District of Columbia Teachers College is not in the least representative of the educational concern of the city of Washington, D.C. or the Capital of the United States of America, which is the world's most strong and most free nation. Third, the Nation should be aware of the amount of their tax money which is being used unwisely, again with a question mark.

I am interested in architecture. I am majoring in math so what I say in statement 4, I think I say in a qualified nature. Repairs are made from the top to the bottom. Construction is done from the bottom to the top. Note, the District of Columbia Teachers College has required construction from the bottom to the top and from the inside out.

Think what this means. More taxpayer's money wasted.

Fifth, I am tired of having to use facilities of other institutions for programs, for swimming classes, and other such. For athletic competition when other institutions of other States come to play us in the games. Incidentally I might add, our basketball team did a splended job this year. We won the Maryland Intercollegiate Conference tournament. But we had no place to play. We went to McKinley.

And mainly, having to use the auditorium of another school for graduation exercises. This is something I believe that really hurts after having spent so many semesters in one institution, I do not feel that one should have to go to another place to get his degree. I thank you.

Senator MORSE. Mr. Franklin, one of my reactions to this testimony is that there is no hope for utopia if we do not have utopians

and you are surely a young utopian. I want to commend you for your forthrightness in expressing to us, in this very refreshing style criticism of the neglect that the Teachers College has suffered.

I cannot help very much at this point except to continue to do what I can to try to get this legislation through which will alleviate the complaints that you raised in your testimony. When you suggested that you cannot even get a flag without buying it I just thought that after all, as a Senator, I do have a prerogative of obtaining a flag that is flown over the Capitol. So I assign counsel now the task of preparing the necessary letter to have a flag flown over the Capitol dome. I think this will be very symbolic and I will present it to the Teachers College as a gift from me. I think at least we will get the Congress in the Teachers College by way of a flag.

Mr. FRANKLIN. Thank you.

Senator MORSE. Our next witness will be Mrs. Walter Stults, education chairman, League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia. STATEMENT OF MRS. WALTER STULTS, EDUCATION CHAIRMAN, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Mrs. STULTS. The League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia thanks you for this opportunity to be heard. We urge the establishment of a 2-year junior college, a 4-year liberal arts college, both publicly supported, and a separate board of higher education.

In the 103 years since the passage of the Morrill Act establishing land-grant colleges, the United States has given active support to the premise that higher education should be available to all capable of profiting from it. For this reason there is throughout the country a network of publicly supported State colleges and universities, at least one of which is available to every high school graduate in the country— except to those who live in the District of Columbia. Over the past 40 years, the growing need for continuing education has brought about the development of junior colleges, offering various kinds of interim or terminal education, so that there are now 452 public junior colleges in the country, with only eight States which do not now have them.

These figures indicate how very far behind the District of Columbia has fallen in its responsibility to provide full educational facilities for those directly under its jurisdiction.

One compelling reason for providing facilities for public higher education in Washington is to give hope and aspiration to many of the children in our schools. In Chipola County, Fla., before the establishment of a junior college, 7 percent of the high school graduates enrolled in college. Twelve years later 52 percent began college careers, 45 percent of them at Chipola Junior College.

A 2-year college would provide additional academic courses for bright students who, for one reason or another, are not ready for a 4year college; technical courses for students interested in such varying occupations as nursing, medical technician, draftsman, engineering aid, junior municipal executive; courses to upgrade and retrain persons already employed, and continuous opportunity for them to grow intellectually. The President's Committee on Needs for Higher Education in the District of Columbia has estimated that at least 1,400 students yearly would benefit from such a college.