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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Thursday Evening, April

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP)-- An
committee was selected Wednesday to screen applicants for the presidency of
the University.
Gov. Louie B. Nunn selected
four members, ill tnistees of the
university, and the others were
picked by the faculty.
Gov. Numi's appointees were:
Dr. Ralph Angelucci, Lexington;
Mrs. Rex Blazer, Ashland; George
Griffin, London; and William
Black, Paducah.
Representing the faculty will
be Dr. Albert Kirwan, professor
of history; Dr. George Schwert,
chairman of the Biochemistry Department in the G)llege of Medicine; and Dr. Paul Sears, professor of Chemistry; who teach on
campus; and Charles Deusner,
a history instructor at Elizabeth-tow- n
Community Gllege.
Dr. John Oswald announced
recently that he was leaving Kentucky Aug. 31 to become executive vice president of the University of California.
At a UK faculty luncheon
Tuesday Robert Woo ley. Repul-lica- n
State Representative from
Southeast Fayette Gmnty, was
asked whether he thought "Governor Xunn would "appoint a political committee to select a new
University president, want a
Ixirn and. bred in
or want the man most

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The University Judicial Board
will meet at 6:30 p.m. today to
hear petitions contesting the recent Student Government elec-

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the job?"

"I think the latter," Rep.
Woo ley replied. "I have that

much confidence in our governor. I would certainly hope the

latter.

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Ben Avcritt, head of the University International
Center, spoke to members of the BSU in a meeting at the Student Center last night. The group
cancelled a program for a week from today which

appeal Ixmds to be covered
by property bonds instead of by
cash, as originally stated.
But the big bonds required
of the two. $10,000 to cover the
fines, were not changed.
Mr. Setller, an associate professor of law here, had asked
that the $10,000 IxmhIs be reduced to $1,000, the net assets
of each. He said unless this is
done, the two will be unable

Hope Tickets
Tickets to the Bob Hope
Concert Friday night will be
sold at the door of Memorial
Coliseum before the concert
for $1 above the advanced
ticket prices. Student tickets
for $3.25 have already been
sold out, but $2.75 and $2.25
tickets are still available.

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was to involve New York City Mayor John Lind-secivil rights leader Rev. Robert Abernathy,
and others in a monitored phone discussion of the
civil rights problem.
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For Lexington's Poor

BSU Plans 'Black Forum

GRETA FIELDS
Black Student Union
voted last night to host an
"Black People's Forum"
at which poor people from the
community can tell their problems.
The open meeting is set for
7:30 p.m. April 24 at Memorial
Hall.
The meeting evolved out of
two other separate meetings
held Tuesday by the Urban
Crises Committee and the Black
Coalition.
Members of BSU discussed
having organizations, particularly those directly involving Ne- By

The

By DARRELL RICE
filed by Prof. Robert Setller to lower the bonds of
Don Pratt and Joseph Mulloy convicted of refusing draft induction,
was turned down Monday by U.S. District Judge James Gordon in
Louisville.
The two men are in Jefferson to leave jail while awaiting their
County Jail, awaiting appeal of appeals, which he expects to come
their convictions. Both received up no sooner than October.
Prof. Setller told the Kernel
sentences of five years imprisonhe will appeal the judge's rement and $10,000 fines.
fusal to lower the bonds in the
One part of Prof. Sedler's moU. S. Court of Appeals, sixth
tion was granted by Judge Gordon: he allowed the two men's district. He expects this appeal
to come before the court in about
See related story, 'Illegality'
two weeks.
on page 3.
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groes, participate in the forum,
perhaps forming a panel.
The BSU initiated several
other actions to call attention
to race relations at the meeting,
which was attended by about
25 people, including four members of the Lexington-Fayett- e
County Congress on Racial

poned; meanwhile 12 potential
lesidents will be sought.
They also discussed encouraging Negro students to attend
the University. Berry said that
Dr. Lawrence Tarpey wrote to
high school students from a list
of 75 names gathered during
the spring break, "to let them
know we're interested in them
Equality.
Theodore Berry, BSU chair- coming." They will send postman, said that New York Mayor cards to elicit specific informaJohn Lindsay and Robert Abtion about the students intenernathy, civil rights leader, tions.
The prospective students
agreed to speak on a conference call on the topic of race reshould be informed about a
lations. Sam Davis Jr., Negro tutorial program Dr. Michael
entertainer, Cleveland Mayor Adelstein is organizing to help
Carl Stokes and President Lyn- those who have difficulty in
don B. Johnson were to be required English courses. Berry
asked to speak on the call, said.
which was discussed in a closed
Berry said that Dr. Edelstein
session, after which Berry said has already found instructors in
that the call would not take the English department who are
place. Students were to be able willing to tutor during the sumto listen in on the call.
mer and fall semester and who
Berry doubted that plans will, if necessary, tutor indiwould be made to rearrange the viduals through two years.
conference call, since the semesBerry said that the Educater is nearly over.
tion Honorary wanted about six
He said that the UK YMCA BSU members to serve on a
and the Student Government
joint committee to investigate
had agreed to help finance the existing tutorial programs. They
call.
can find out what programs
The BSU also briefly dis- exist and whether the BSU can
cussed the possibility of estabwork with them, or should perlishing an integrated (racially,
haps develop a new one. Berry
and perhaps sexually) residence
said. Tomorrow several BSU
or a Black Student Center in a members will attend a meeting
house on Maxwell Street. Acof the Education Honorary to
tion on the discussion was post
discuss this.

JeffersonCommunityCollege
Faces 'Cutbacks' Next Year
in a money squeeze, Jefferson
LOUISVILLE (AP)-Cau- ght
Community College may have to trim its project til enrollment,
staff and program for (M).
"I foresee a situation in which
we'll have to turn away some be insufficient to meet the needs
students and abandon some of anticipated in 1909.
The school, now in its first
the important technical training
programs," Dr. Heilx-i- t Jtlley, year, h is S00 students and Jel-Ic- y
said many have indicated a
director, said Wednesday.
Dr. J el ley said all colleges in desire to ret urn.
the community system operated
"Not only that, we've already
by the University apparently are had 1,200 new applications," he
in the same lxat.
said, adding that admissions may
"I know the directors at all have to be placed on a first
served basis.
of the colleges are saving the come-firs- t
same thing," he continued, "but
Dr. Ellis Hart lord, dean of
I
think our situation at Jeffer- community colleges, said he symson is particulaily acute."
pathized with Dr. Jelley but "this
Dr. J el ley said the Jefferson is a chronic problem. We never
college's appropriation lor the have enough money to do all of
1'JoS u'J school year probably will
the things we should."

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tions.
John

Cooper,

unsuccessful

and
presidential candidate,
Thorn Pat Juul, unsuccessful
candidate for representative, will
present their cases questioning
the validity of the elections.
It will be decided at a meeting at 3:30 p.m. today whether
See related story, page 3.
or not the hearing, to be held
in the Board Meeting Room in
the Administration Building, will
be open to the University public.
Cooper has charged election
irregularities occurred.
In a statement released Wednesday night, O.K. Curry, who
defeated Cooper by nearly atvvo-to-on- e
margin for SG president,
said he was "concerned about
certain allegations that have been
made against me."
He said he has spoken with
an attorney and is "contemplating filing a suit against that
IX' r son or those persons who have
slandered andor libeled me by
allegations in connection with
the recent student government

elections."

Legislator
Says KUAC

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Subterfuge
state
told
representative

UK

faculty members Tuesday that
he knows "nothing willbedone"
by the recently-create- d
Activities Committee created recently by the legislature.
Robert Wooley, Republican
from Southeast
Representative
Fayette County, told guests at
a UK faculty luncheon lie voted
for theconimittee's establishment
because there "undoubtedly is
some communist activity in the

mountains."

But he added he was unhappy
with the committee, which he
said was created "because the
public wanted something done."
He was asked whether this
was legislative "subterfuge," and
replied, "It is a subterfuge, if
it probyou want the truth
ably was a sop."

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About 50 students met last night with
Phil Pat ton
to outline the Student For McCarthy group's activities in upcoming primary elections. See story, page 3.

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Kernel Forum: the readers write

To the Editor of the Kernel:

the time tins letter is published.
Miss Jean Rockwell will be back in Syracuse University; but her comments on the
Cuban Revolution, published in the Kernel, Friday March 29, 1968, will still be
here with us. On her visit to Cuba, Miss
Rockwell was taken, by the Cuban govern-meninto a
tour of my country.
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As a Cuban exile, I would like to show

Miss Rockwell, as well as those that
read her comments, the other side of my
country; what I know to be the truth!
Miss Rockwell was quoted by the
Kernel on the high morale and revolutionary fervor of the Cuban people. In
every country there are militant followers
of government policies. President Batista
had followers, and so does Castro, so,
does any dictator in any country. This
high morale Miss Rockwell speaks of,
is irrelevant. She was allowed to see,
and talk to the people the Cuban government wanted her to. The people the
government knew were militant followers
of the Revolution; the militant minority
every dictator has.
Miss Rockwell also mentioned the desire to build of the Cuban Government.
Miss Rockwell was probably taken to some
government projects such as; housing,
farms, schools, etc., which were built
in 1959 in order to sell the Revolution
to the Cuban people. We Cubans believed in these projects, which were to
insure the prosj)erity, fairness and stability long sought by all Cubans. Castro
used this propagandistic method to win
the support of the Cuban people. The
Cuban people supported Castro, without
realizing that Communism was to take
over the island. I don't blame you Miss
Rockwell; we were deceived by the same
decoys you were.
You were surprised at the youthful-nes- s
of the country, and their revolutionary spirit. I understand this. Youth has
always been the spark of every revolution.
The Cuban youth is enthusiastic about
the Revolution; but only that percentage
of the youth you saw. You didn't see
the several thousand students in jail. You
didn't see hundreds of other students,
because they died in front of the firing
squad. You didn't see the twenty thousand
Cuban students in this country and all
ov er the world. You didn't talk to the majority of the Cuban students in Cuba, who
apparently colaborate with the government simply because they don't enjoy
the right that you enjoy. The right to
dissent!
You point out the Volunteer Brigades
working in the fields without pay, and
doing it for the Revolution. Well Miss
Rockwell, allow me to explain to you
this "Volunteer Brigades". Every institution of learning (as well as everything
else in Cuba) is controlled by the government. Just like in the United States

you need a certain grade, in Cuba you
need a certain amount of so called "emulation points" to pass a course. These
emulation points are obtained by working
on government farms. If you don't full fill
your quota of emulation points, you don't
get a grade. If you don't get a grade,
you are dismissed from school. If you
are dismissed from scIkxjI because of
failure to obtain emulation points, you
As a
become a
you are sent to a
prison farm. As you can see Miss Rockwell, what choice do the Cuban students
have but to join the "Volunteer Brigades"
counter-revolutionar-

counter-revolutionar-

Your comments on the slums are easily
understood. Since the Communist take
over in 1959, over half a million Cubans
have fled the island; and at the present
time, Cubans are leaving at the rate of
three thousand a month. Now, if you
take the half a million Cubans that have
left, and allow five persons to a family,
there are one hundred thousand homes

by Castro in 1959, to show the my country better. There are two sides
Cubans what he intended to do with to every argument; and every
peison
the shuns. They arc the only ones built interested should know Ixttli sides. You
since 1959.
were exposed to that side of my country ,
I am
still amazed with your com- the Cuban
government wanted you to
ments on fowl. How can you say there believe as the over-al- l
picture of the
is more food now than before; if now country. I am glad I have had the opit is rationed? Did you know Miss Rockportunity to expose you to the other side
well that all you need in Cuba to eat of
my country. The grim side of what
is $37.50 a month, for a family of five, Communism really does to a
country.
because there is nothing else to by
P. Marino Ruiz
because there is nothing else to buy?
Former UK Student
Did you know that every person is alPlacetas, L.V. Cuba
lowed three ounces of meat a week?
Did you know that if a person is be- To the Editor of the Kernel:
e
tween the ages of five and
I would like to express a few words,
he doesn't drink any milk, just because or ideas about the people who think that
there isn't enough? Do you really know the United States should not be in Viethow strict the rationing system is in Cuba? nam.
About trade between Cuba and the
The people that I am most concerned
Soviet Union, there is much to tell. I about are the people who burn their draft
just would like to mention that Russia cards, run off to Canada, and fail their
pays for sugar (the main source of income physical examinations on purpose.
for the country) world market price. BeThese are the people who someday
fore 1959, the U.S. maintained a policy will destroy our country. People who
of buying Cuban sugar at above world- - know nothing of the purpose of the Vietnam war. Not only are they destroying
their country, but they are destroying
everything that America has stood for
demonin the past. These
strators are y oung people who are afraid
of fighting. They are cowards who believe that if they go to Vietnam they
will not return. If these people think
this, then what is to become of our
security for the defense of the United
States in future years?
u sex

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anti-Vietna-

These people who do not believe in

our purpose in Vietnam are those who
are not
about this conflict.
They do not understand our position
as to what will happen if we get out
of Vietnam.
If the United States were to pull
out of Vietnam now, it would only be
a matter of years or even months before
the Red Chinese and communists would
well-inform-

be knocking at our back door. Yet, in
spite of all this, the draft card burners,
and others against the Vietnam war do
not understand that the United States
must set an example for the whole world.
We are a large and powerful country,
but we must keep other powerful countries from pursuing a threat to our country.
So if the United States is to stop the
El Gaucho
acts of aggression by the communists and
BIRTH CONTROL 1968
other major powers, then the citizens
which have been evacuated. Over a period
As you can see this was must stop the people who do not believe
market prices.
of ten years, that means ten thousand
a big help to our economy. Trading with in stopping this aggression. It is each
homes a year. For a population of six
failure for citizen's responsibility to see that these
Russia has been as over-al- l
demonstrators are punished,
millions, ten thousand homes a year is
Cuba because of low quality and high
it is also our responsibility to see that
more than enough to supply the demand.
low quality of Russian machinprices. The
are kept from further demWith this steady supply of homes from
ery cannot endure the heat of a tropical these people
Castro can afford to
So it is that Castro had to turn onstrating, draft card burning, and runfleeing refugees,
country.
demolish a few slums. Although, I assure
to Canada for quality, in order to main- ning to other countries for exile.
David Cundiff
Miss Rockwell, there are a lot more
tain some production in the country.
you
A&S Freshman
slums that what you can think in Cuba.
I hope my comments would help you,
Those new housing units you saw, were
and others, to understand the situation of
anti-Vietna-

Billboard Longhair Is Not A 'Hippie' s Hippie9

MIAMI. Ha. (AP)-T- he
sullen faced youth who
stares down from the "Beautify
America-Ce- t
a Haircut"
which dot the n ttion is
Frank Trabanello. thehippiewho
nev er was.
Looking like the most sinister
hippie of all me ins only an ex
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fee to the shy,
who
musician
lives at home with his folks and
studies data computer processing
in college.
Even his parents are unimpressed tint their youngest child,
who maintains a "B" average
and has never leen in trouble

tra

$25 modeling

in his

18 y ears, is foisted on the
nation as the hippie's hippie.
"They started laughing," said
the freshman at Miami-DadJunior Gllege. "They thought it
was a big joke."

explained, are students from the
Ivy League colleges.
Frank adorns some 2,000 billboards now up in the 48 contiguous states. Another 5,000 wall
posters have been sold by the
Miami advertising company
which started the project as a
gag to get some laughs at a
convention.
The biggest buyers next to
barbershops are police departments, the military and juvenile
courts, say executives of the John
Donnelly and Sons Advertising
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Frank, who is not a professional model, wears his naturally curly hair four inches long
as window dressing for the rock
group in which he plays lead

guitar.
"And

I happen to like long
hair, too, even tliough the police and some of the Ives are
down on it," he said. Ives, he

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CIVIL RIGHTS
AND WRONGS!
Today tk Block Movement it oh
greatest upheavals in our
national history.
IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN
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CONCERNED OR DO NOT FEEL
DIRECTLY AFFECTED . . .
YOU SHOULD . . .

because wo art all directly concerned, if not as Americans, or
as members of
the humon roce.
Unitarian Universolists or often
found in the center of the movement . . . and so is our church.
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Thit Sunday:
Service and Church
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Will University students be asked to help in choosing a new president to replace Dr. Oswald, who is leaving before the fall semester?
Will steps be taken by the facility and administration to allow students
a voice in the selection of a new college president?

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Student opinion should be allowed in the selection process. We
should be allowed to give feedback on the nominees and make recommendations after meeting the presidential candidates.

The selection of a new president can be made with the student's
opinions in mind if a student panel consisting of ten or more regularly-enrolle- d
students is appointed by President Oswald.

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The student panel would then meet with presidential candidates
and forward their recommendations on to the Faculty-Truste- e
Committee.
The new student Trustee might also aid in making recommendations
unless he is forbidden to debate and ask questions by his fellow voting
Trustee members.

State of the Student
By

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This Generation Is Interested In Finding Solutions
General
E. REEVES
to be members of or
with certain members of the
habitation; racial

Assoc. Prof. Of Pol. Sci.
"Students seem to realize today that
they are citizens in society, not just people preparing to enter society. This is
the most committed student generation
America ever produced." Those are the
words of Indiana Universityls Dean of
Students, Robert Schaeffer. Student leaders discouraged by apparent lack of interest, especially by the small responses
to their calls for assistance, may be
inclined to disagree, but from the vantage point of almost thirty years of college teaching experience plus several more
years as undergraduate student, law student and graduate student, i agree. Kentucky students are voters and they rise
to the challenge of citizenship in heartening numbers.

the John Birch Society.

sympathizers

They were at every meeting and in
every political science class always promoting their philosophies of government.
Young Americans for Freedom, the Richard
M. Weaver Society and the Henry Clay
Society, all promoters of conservative
doctrines, are with us now.
Young Americans for Freedom, recently very active on campus and still recognized as a student organization, seems to
be somewhat dormant at the moment.
The Richard M. Weaver Society is named
for a deceased UK graduate who became
a professor of philosophy at the University
of Chicago and a writer of books on
conservatism. The Society is affiliated

with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
the Intercollegiate Society of
Individualists).
Democrats
and
University
Young
Its main UK activity consists of
Young Republicans arrange meetings, distribute literature, ring door bells and bringing outstanding speakers for the
haul voters to the polls in the interest cause ot conservatism to the campus. The
of their party or candidate. When new Henry Clay Society, a relatively new oralso specializes in bringing
presidential candidates (McCarthy and ganization, conservative
speakers to the
announced their candidates, stu- well known
Kennedy)
campus.
dent groups were organized to promote
their campaigns and many students bePerhaps the current conservative stucame involved. In addition, students cam- dent groups think that their traditional
paign for bond issues, for state constitu- and quiet methods of bringing in well
tional revision, for local government re- known speakers to promote their causes
form in their own communities, for or is more likely to win converts than the
against issues that affect students such more raucous methods sometimes used by
as their effective work in opposition to their
counterparts. In this they
unreasonably high tuition for
may be right, but it does mean that they
students, and for and against other issues. are less constantly in the public view than
I know about these things. I have the
groups.
been adviser to Young Democrats and
Students On The Left
other student political groups, and I have
I dare say that many readers of the
worked with students in issue camthere is apathy (from Kernel know little or nothing about the
paigns. Always
the point of view of the activist) but conservative groups discussed above, but
who needs to be told about the groups
not as much as there used to be.
on the left? The Black Student Union,
More Than 40 Years Ago
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
When I was a college student, more and the Peace Action Croup (PAG) are
than 40 years ago, there was much less the important groups on the left which
student interest in politics and public are now recognized as student organizaaffairs. In 1924 Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. tions. The Black Student Union accuses
ran for President as the candidate of the professors of racial discrimination and
for the end of all racial segreganewly organized Progressive Party. His agitates
included government ownership tion, with special emphasis on housing,
platform
of public utilities, much legislation fa- recruiting athletes and the hiring of faculty members.
vored by organized labor, extensive conliberal proservation measures and other
The group has recently conferred with
posals. He received over 13 percent of University officials with a view, to acthe vote cast in the election. Can't you complishing its aims. Both SDS and
just imagine what would happen on cam- PAG demonstrate, sit in, hold meetings
and otherwise agitate against the Vietpus now if such a candidate were runnamese War and the Draft. PAG is now
ning? Weekly meetings would be held.
There would be a table in Student Center.
circulating a petition to get the names
Literature, buttons and bumper stickers of Dick Gregory and Dr. Benjamin Spock
would be distributed. Precincts would be on the Kentucky ballot as candidates for
canvassed and worked on election day, President and
SDS has
I'm sure these things would happen now. interests as wide as those of society
was for LaFollette in 1924 and I knew itself (always oriented to the left). It is
one other student who was. We did probably best known on campus for taknothing but talk a little, and were usual- ing the lead in organizing the recent
ly soon shouted down by our more conmeeting on Vietnam and the Draft. None
servative friends. Of course there are of the campus groups advocate the viomoit- students now than there were then,
lent overthrow of the government.
but not that many more.
Hysteria In The Legislature
Students On the Right
It was that meeting and bringing
Alxne we have discussed student ac- to the campus such speakers as a repretivists of the center and slightly to the sentative of Deacons for Defense and
left of center. What alxut those who Justice
l,f wing racial integrationist
are definitely to the light anil left? Only groups), and the prospective appearance
a few vvars ago whose who advocated here of Heibert Aptheker, the well known
iwtions on the extreme right seemed California Communist, which prompted
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Kentucky
prejudice that pits black
Assembly in its recent session to advocate against white; a war that we constantly
limiting freedom of expression at the escalate but cannot win; and over all,
the specter of atomic and hydrogen weaUniversity. Prompt and courageous action
by President John W. Oswald averted pons.
that disaster. However, the same meeting
They Will Find Solutions
and speakers probably influenced the esOn the other hand, mankind has retablishment by the recent legislative sescently made real progress in science and
sion of a joint legislative committee on technology, in standards of living, in the
activities with specific auuse of leisure time and in providing
thorization to investigate "the functioneducation and some degree of security
ing of any state agency, unemployment
for most people. Even in these matters
relief and other forms of public assistwe leave much for the oncoming generaance, and educational institutions in the tion to accomplish, but progress has been
The speakers referred to as nude. The one thing in which we have
state
legislative distrust were brought
causing
made practically no progress is learning to
to the campus by the Forum Committee
live in peace with one another internaof the Student Center Board, along with
tionally and in our cities.
more conservative speakers, in an attempt
All members of the present generation
to give students and others a collection
of varied points of view relative to soluof mature citizens can remember when il
was fashionable to hate "that man in tlx
tions for current social and political problems. This broad gauged approach of White House." The leaders of my genexamining all ideas seemed to have little eration went to college at a time when
influence on tliose who want to protect
government was considered a necessary
evil at least by the elite and politic;
students from "dangerous" (unpopular)
ideas.
was considered "a dirty business." Perhaps, in view of our background, the
It Takes All Kinds
young people of today can forgive my
Of course we have left wing students.
generation for the mess we are leaving
They are offset by those on the right.
for them.
It would be a queer and uninteresting
I hope, too, that we will be able to
alike. Of course,
world if we all thought
forgive them for their hippies, their demstudents want to hear left wing speakers,
onstrations and other lawful means of
right wing speakers and middle of the
road speakers. They want to get all of protest and rebellion that we don't quite
the evidence and make up their own understand.
ideas
minds instead of being spoon-fe- d
This generation of students has its
that some outsiders think are good for hippies, perhaps even a few wIjo take
them. There is little likelihood that large LSD trips (some smoked marijuana in
numbers of students are going to adopt
my student days); but these are not
left wing or right wing ideas, but they typical of today's students. Neither do
like to hear about them.
the students of the far left or the far
Because our students are interested right set the tone of today's campus
in hearing all about all kinds of soluactivities. Two characteristics of high
tions to our social and political prob- quality set this generation of students
lems, because they are receiving new apart from all other generations that I
ideas and some are thinking new thought, have known.
some oldsters believe they are going to
In the first place, they are searching
the dogs. This is as absurd as it was in for solutions to society's problems. The
my youth for oldsters to think that short more thoughtful ones read and attend
hair for girls was sinful, or as absurd lectures to secure guidance. Nearly all
as it is for my generation to condemn
of them talk, listen and seek some unthe present generation of male students derstanding of many proposals. In the
for long hair and beards.
second place, this generation of students
A vast majority of students (of any
has more activists in the areas of poligeneration) are slow to adopt new modes tics and government (here I am includof dress, new ways of doing things, new ing left wing, right wing and center
ideas about politics. Within limits this groups) than any recent student generais as it should be. There is considerable
tion.
evidence that this generation of students
The thoughtful and hard working ones
has more who are interested in finding
among today's students are using all
solutions for the ills that beset society
in their search for
possible
than most past generations. Of course solutions approaches problems (reading,
to today's
a few of them think extreme solutions
thinking, talking, listening, learning, unare required. A conservative oldster may
derstanding). They are also learning,
look ux)ii this as merely a part of the
through practical politics and other acgrowing pains.
tivities, how to implement solutions once
Herculean Tasks
they are found. In this they are a vital
My own fear is that not enough are part, the most obvious part, of what Tom
Wider (Chief of the New York Times
going to be dedicated to finding solutions. Because as the adult managers Washington Bureau) calls "a shift from
of society this generation of students organization olitics to participation politics."
is going to face herculean tasks.
I have
great faith that this generaIok what my generation bequeaths
them: an Elizabethan form of local rural tion of student