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PAGE • - PLAIN OR ALKR - FRIDAY. DKCKMBER 7. It7f Learning In Computer Age Students in McHenry County college's In traduction to Data Processing classes are learning to work the new microcomputers that are bwwming popular for small IwsiiiMS and home use. The college recently purchased six of the small • computers and has them available for student use in the Learcing Resources center. MCC instructor Steve Mansfield explains that having the small, self-, contained computers available gives students a chance to interact with a computer, something that was nearly impossible when the more complex NCR computer that MCC uses for advanced courses was also used for the introductory classes. "In most industries today, handing the paperwork is becoming more and more of a problem. It's getting so that processing data is taking more time than the actual production of the product. These computers can help reduce that time, and they are already creating a demand for people trained in BASIC, the language used to com­ municate with the microcomputers," Man-, sfield said. In addition to students majoring in business and those specifically planning a career in data processing, the introductory classes also attract students who "just want to know what com­ puters are all about," Mansfield said. Although a microcom­ puter costs approximately $1,000 now, Mansfield predicts the price will drop as it has in computers and they will become more popular for home use. It takes approximately an hour of classroom training before a student can operate > CHRISTMAS TREES In our Heated - Lighted Showroom Shop Inside... 250 • • Oa Display!! ANOTHER tOO M STOCK! MB WIT mm IHBS ARE BEST! 1. RAISED ON OUR OWN FARM • 2. SHEARED & SHAPED ANNUALLY 3. SPRAYED WITH A FIRE RETARDANT CHEMICAL * V •4 % the microcomputers, Mansfield said. He estimated that three or four weeks out of the 10 week introductory class is devoted to the microcomputers and their language. Mansfield says he is hopeful that MCC will be able to offer an even more extensive introduction to the microcomputers as part of its adult education program next falk And he says credit courses in BASIC are also on the drawing board for the future. The brand of computers that the college purchased are versatile so that they can eventually be used as ter­ minals for a more complex computer or can be con­ nected to a printer so students can have a printed copy of their work, Man­ sfield said. MCC has two varieties of the same machine. Both can hold up to 16.000 words, but the CBM model has a keyboard similar to a typewriter and the PET model has a scientific and mathematical keyboard, Mansfield ex­ plained. Spring sections of the Introduction to Dala Processing classes .are scheduled for daytime, evening and Saturday times. Additional information on the classes is available in the schedule recently mailed to all homes in the .MCC district. Mansfield notes that anyone who would like to know more about the microcomputer may telephone him at the college (815 ) 455-3700. WASHINGTON. D C FROM THE HERITAGE FOUNDA The black rhinoceros cow bears only one calf about every three years, and both parents guard it jealously. WARNING: SOVIETS DEAL IN IDEOLOGY, NOT HORSES By Edwin Feulner President Carter has appointed a businessman -- top IBM executive Thomas J. Watson, Jr. -- as the new Ameri­ can Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Though Watson re­ places a career diplomat with many years' East European experience, he is, by all accounts, a competent and highly qualified man. Let's hope, however, that the President chose the new ambassador for these positive qualities and not because he feels that only a businessman can deal with the Soviets. According to a recent Heritage Foundation study, American policy-makers still have not come to grips with the fact that the Soviet leadership operates on a different wave-length than we do. Soviet affairs analyst Richard Harrison says die Ameri­ cans seem to view detente as "serious horse-trading," while the Soviet Union regards Marxist-Leninist thought as the sole basis of its foreign policy. We should take off those silly rose-colored glasses we've been wearing, Harrison says, and sit down for some realistic negotiations with what should be recognized as a deadly serious enemy. Meanwhile, he warns, our myopia is interfering with the world balance of power. Because we're not able to understand Soviet thought, we're not able to see what they're up to. The principal American weakness, says Harrison, is "our failure to understand an enemy who operates from premises which we fail to take seriously. At the heart of things lies a peculiarly American scorn for ideas, which hinders us in our dealings with the Soviets. This is part and parcel of what could be termed our 'businesslike' approach to our relations with the Soviet Union, an approach whose underlying premise is that we and our opponents are basi­ cally businessmen at heart and that we should get down to serious 'horse-trading' as quickly as possible and not be bothered by such nonsense as ideology." Here we are, says Harrison, the greatest industrial power the world has even known, with the potential and the necessity for corresponding militaiy strength. In our naive optimism, however, we misjudge the darkness and the chill­ iness of the surrounding world, and are seen by many at home and abroad to be falling behind the Soviet Union in the struggle for influence around the world. How is it, he asks, that a country with so many advantages has come to such a pass? He calls this American short-sightedness "highly ethnocentric" and points out that Americans tend to think all "nations, regardless of their past traditions," share a "generally Western outlook, which even a cursory glance at the condition of political and other rights in the majority of the world's countries refutes immediately. Nowhere is this more true than in die Soviet Union, where the lettfcrship regards all forms of thought deviating from its own interpre­ tation of Marxism-Leninism -- both internal and external -- as illegitimate." To the Soviets, says Harrison, detente opens new doors in the straggle against capitalism through increased com­ munications and new-found Soviet authority around the globe. In other words, the Russians know that die implicit "good will" of detente makes the U.S.S.R. "look good," increasing the chances its propagandizing will be listened to. The American concept of detente, however, is a set of rales that will allow us "to play the game" -- optimistically seeing Soviet pragmatism eventually winning out oyer ideology. Americans fail to see that the narrower Soviet version of detente deals only with interstate relations and is concerned primarily with avoiding nuclear war between the superpowers. "Missing are die rosy hopes for expanded contacts, freer emigration and a reduction of ideological tensions that are an integral part of the Western concept of detente," Harrison writes. Kipling was probably right about East being East and West being West and "never the twain shall meet." Recog­ nizing that the rest of the world does not necessarily think the way we do, and then learning how to work with this knowledge is a necessary step forward in our national maturity. • (Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research organization.) 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