NEWS CONFERENCE 523

A. I think it would be very helpful for university students to par-
ticipate more fully in the general obligations and decisions involving
the conduct of university affairs. It's always been my feeling that when
people are involved in the solution to problems and accept the respon-
sibility for contributing to the solution that they act more responsibly.
So I think it would be a good thing for the students, and I think it
would assist the college authorities to a great extent in meeting the
problems that they face and in being provided with a look from the
other side. Perhaps the students will contribute a great amount of in-
formation that you wouldn't see as a university official.

Q. Governor, would you say that most of your information regarding
the statement you made about problems of student conduct in schools
is — very "sketchy" was the word you used. How come you haven't
done some further investigating before announcing your feelings about
this, to make sure that these situations really do exist?

A. Well, I think I'm responding fairly quickly. I haven't been re-
ceiving this information for a long period of time. Actually, it's only
been over a period of the past two or three months that these reports
have become more prevalent to give me this concern; and of course
Senator Dorf's great concern in this area, in our conversation yester-
day, was so persuasive on me that we had to do something fairly
quickly about it at this point.

Q. What exactly did Senator Dorf tell you? What is his documenta-
tion?

A. I think you ought to ask him about his own matters. I didn't take
the information down. He has quite a bit of information on it. I
think most of it has already been presented to the media.

Q. Your office is actually making a study of the problem. What's the
course of that examination?

A. Well, it's my feeling that the State Superintendent of Schools has
very broad powers to set policy, administrative policy, within the
school system. And it's also my feeling that, while we can't wholly con-
trol juvenile delinquency, we can exercise substantial control by mak-
ing certain that we adopt the best possible structure within our sys-
tem and by assuring that teaching professionals are thoroughly and
completely and clearly instructed about how to handle these matters
and to assist in curtailing them.

Q. You don't think the fact that he doesn't take his children out of
that school and put them in private school has anything to do with
his statements, such as the one about barbaric conduct?