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USC professor pro
By Becca Mercer
Promoting the metric system is an
important objective for Donald Jordan,
a USC professor who is the newly
appointed Eastern director for the
U.S. Metric Association.
"The primary force behind conver- J
ting to the metric system in the U.S. is 4g
the enhancement of the marketplace
for industry," said Jordan, a .
mamemancs proiessor in tne college |
of Applied Professional Sciences.
Although big industry has already *
converted, Jordan advocates starting
at the elementary school level to
educate the public. [ -
" l liere is a silent motion that you ;
may not notice, but the metric system ,
is slowly taking hold," Jordan said. [ -?'"
ACADEMICALLY, SIX months e:
to two years of elementary ci
mathematics may be eliminated by its
full implementation. U
"The metric system makes good a
sense," Jordan said, "because it's
easier to measure in terms of the si
decimal system instead of our sj
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Jordan said, 4,Not only are the p
metric computational advantages im- w
portant but when the metric system is e<
fully imposed, it will be the first time a
universal language of measurement is d
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