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inter/national Bell comments on U.S. colleges WASHINGTON — Education Secretary T.H. Bell said today a study by a team of scholars shows “American higher education has the sniffles” and needs prompt action to avoid “a bad cold or even pneumonia.” But Bell, at a news conference after briefing educators on the report commissioned by his Na tional Institute of Education, said colleges have not fallen as far behind as elementary and secondary schools. The education secretary said he had expected the scholars to render an even harsher verdict on the quality of the nation’s nearly 3,300 colleges and universities than they did. “American higher education has the sniffles. It might come down With a bad cold or even pneumonia if we don't do something about it,” he told reporters. Earlier, he told 150 educators, lobbyists and congressional staff members, “We have the finest and the most advanced and emulated system of higher education in the world. Our justifiable pride ought to be tempered with a bit of apprehension.” But “no one should conclude we are poorly served” by the nation’s colleges, he said. The report was written by a panel of seven scholars, chaired by Pennsylvania State Universi ty professor and administrator Kenneth Mortimer. It makes 27 recommendations to improve undergraduate education, in cluding the proposal that all students take at least two years of liberal arts courses, even if that forces them to spend more than four years getting a bachelor’s degree in business, nursing or other fields. Mortimer called it “a report written by insiders about the enterprise to which they have all devoted their lives.” He said the nation’s debate about educa tional excellence has now ad vanced to colleges, which have “the opportunity and indeed the obligation to concentrate on qualitative rather than quan titative growth.” Bell said, “We need to act promptly to maintain the tradi tional excellence in our higher education system. Some ‘warn ing signs and trouble spots’ identified in the report will re quire the prompt attention of the higher education communi ty if we are to avoid some of the difficulties that have affected our elementary and secondary schools.” Polish church fears for cleric WARSAW. Poland — Poland’s Roman Catholic Church said Monday that it feared for the life of a kidnap ped pro-Solidarity priest, and government spokesman Jerzy Urban asserted that the abduc tion was aimed at undermining the authorities. The church also said there were indications the kidnappers had political motives. The whereabouts or condition of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko were not known and no one had claimed responsibility for his abduction, which occurred Fri day in northern Poland. Keston College, an institution near London that monitors religious affairs in Eastern Europe, reported Monday that Popieluszko had received i numerous death threats in re cent weeks. Solidarity leaders confirmed the report. The Catholic episcopate, in its first comment on the priest's disappearance, said it “brings deep concern." * ‘On the one hand there is fear about his life and on the other there is fear that kidnapping may become a method of political strife in our country,” said a statement issued by the episcopate in Warsaw. “The in formation we have about the cir cumstances of the kidnapping indicate that the culprits acted for political motives.” The statement did not elaborate. Popieluszko. 37, is one of the Polish clergy’s most outspoken advocates of the now-outlawed Solidarity labor union and had been the target of frequent government attacks for his pro Solidarity sermons. In Washington. State Depart-. ment spokesman John Hughes voiced concern over the kidnap- , ping and expressed "the strong hope that the Polish govern- ' . ment will ensure Popieluszko's speedy release." Polish government spokesman |erzy Urban said police had received “signals » .from the population" that Popieluszko wa°s seen alive after the kidnapping, but had not - been able to establish the identi ty of the kidnappers or to deter mine Popieluszko’s whereabouts. Urban, who said he was speaking in an unofficial., capacity, dismissed as "sensa-. . tional" allegations that the authorities had been involved, in' the. disappearance of Popieluszko. The kidnapping “is a careful ly timed provocation aimed against us,” Urban said. The priest’s disappearance came at an awkward moment, for Polish leader Gen. Wojciecih Jaruzelski, who welcomed Prime Minister Andreas Papan dreou of Greece to Warsaw oil Monday in the first visit by a leader of a NATO country since the Dec. 13, 1981, imposition of martial law that crushed' Solidarity. ” Solidarity activists said they would.press authorities to ex plain the priest’s ’disap pearance. They organized daily prayer sessions at factories and a round-the-clock vigil at St. . Stanislaw Kostka Ghurch in Warsaw, where Popieluszko served. - A senior Solidarity adviser said the kidnapping was similar to at least three other abduc tions in the Torun area this year, and confirmed reports that an anti-Solidarity “terrorist group” had been operating in the region. It’s not what you see...it’s how you see it Everyone has his or her own way of looking at things. Now, Kodak is giving you a chance to show your vision of life at school, through the “Freeze Frame' program. The theme is 'Campus Life.' How do you enter? just submit photos like these, following the instructions below. In weeks to come, pictures will be chosen and published in this space. Each school's 'Freeze Frame" will then be entered into a national competition. If your school wins, your photograph will be seen in Kodak's Break magazine, distribute! at colleges all across the country! Make sure your entries are on Kodak film. Kodak has the right film for all your picture-taking needs. So get out there with your Kodak film and give us your best shot! Campus Life. Vi x photographs dup: November 26/ 1984 Submit Photos to: MichflCl Clflpp _ Publication Dato: December 3, 1984 HIM vjMkuii ivlJOkunuM-JO Opening of Moosehead Season at The Paddock! Wed. Oct. 24 Details in Wednesday's Emerald