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EDITORIAL
Schlesinger Misses
Sevareid's Point
Eric Sevareid fans will recall a, column which ap
peared on this page sometime back in which he criticized
Nixon and Kennedy as "tailor-made candidates" and
packaged products of the "managerial revolution."
The brilliant Harvard University historian, Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., has written a book as his answer to
the column, which he calls "brilliantly written by wrong
headed" Sevareic. (Schlesinger, by the way, is backing
Senator John F. Kennedy 100 per cent.)
" Schlesinger describes his effort as a "pamphlet in the
best tradition of political discourse." The "pamphlet,
which is hard cover book, published by Macmillan, is
entitled "Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Differ
ence?" i
Schlesinger, in a press conference took sharp excep
tion to the notion that the candidates are "machine twins.
He argues, "They are very different in crucial ways.
One of these differences, he claims, is Nixon's "lack of
acquaintance with American history. "Anyone ac
quainted with the American historical tradition would
not" indicate that a man who disagrees with him is dis
loyal." The author of the "Age of Roosevelt" pinned sociol
ogist David Reisman's label "other directed man" on
Nixon. "In place of a sense of history," he said, 'Nitfon,
because of his own relationships to the world, is at once
passive and manipulative ... he tends to believe in
stinctively in fatalism and in conspiracy.
"If Nixon is elected," he told the press conference,
"it would be a catastrophe. I really feel," he said "that
four more years of the kind of moral, Intellectual and
political slowdown we have now is more than we can af
ford." Schlesinger is typical of the group of ultra liberals
who side with Kennedy and who contrast with the re
actionary Republicans, such as Senator Barry Goldwater,
who are fighting Kennedy tooth and nail. ,
These two groups are of .the opinion that the country
will fall part overnight if the candidate whom they so
vehemently oppose is elected. We don't go quite this far,
although we do prefer one above the other and we will
shortly state our preference. However, if our 'candidate
is defeated, we will stand whole heartedly behind the
President-elect. Both Nixon and Kennedy are qualified
for the Presidency, although we feel one is more quali
fied than the other. They would not be running if they
were not qualified.
We do, however, support Sevareid's criticism of the
candidates. Neither candidate bears the mark of a states
man. "They represent a clean break with the past," as
Sevareid puts it.
Schlesinger missed the point of Sevareid's column.
He was not attempting to show that there were no phil
osophical differences between the two men as Schles
inger seems to interpret it. He was quite legitimately
pointing out that Kennedy and Nixon are packaged
politicians and we agree with him 100 per cent.
Cartoonist Pokes Fun
At Nixon's Prose
The presidential candidates this year lend them
selves quite well to political satire and writers and car
toonists alike have not missed a', tricky although Vice
President Nixon seems to attract more than his share
of attention along this line.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, a rather cynical observer of
the times, has poked fun at Nixon's prose style in a panel
strip showing the Vice President in several speaking
poses with the following captions:
"I believe Senator Kennedy believes what he believes
sincerely as I believe that I
cerely.
"What do I mean by 'sincerely?' This is what I mean
by 'sincerely.' I mean that both of us are honest in our
feelings about our differences in approach to what is
best for our nation's future.
"What do I mean by 'approach to?' This is what I
mean by 'approach to I mean that in the words of Jef
ferson, 'That government is best which governs least.'
Now what did Jefferson mean by 'least?' This is what I
believe Jefferson meant by 'least.'
"Senator Kennedy may disagree with me in my in
terpretation. I have no doubt he will be sincere in his dis
agreement with my interpretation as I am sincere in my
agreement with my interpretation. More about that later!
What do I mean by 'later?'
"I mean that while Mr. Khrushchev is in this coun
try it is not in the best interests of the American people
to show our dissension or lack of faith in our system, al
though I feel that Mr. Khrushchev (and I have told him
this point blank) is sincere in his lack of faith in our
system.
"What do I mean by 'sincere,' 'faith,' 'our' and 'sys
tem?' This is what I mean by ..."
Somewhat exaggerated, but also somewhat typical of
a Nixon speech prior to last Friday night when he uttered
his strategy. Perhaps he read the cartoon after the first
debate.
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OPINION
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England's Great Debate
Shall Britain Be Weaker?
By Eric Sevareid
In the United States the
great debate centers on how
to make America stronger
against the riptides of Com
munism. In England this
week the
great de
bate has
been on
w h e ther
to make
Great
B r i tain
weaker
and, if so,
what steps
should be
taken . to
Sevareid
begin the surrender to Rus
sian power.
There is really no other
way to describe the feroci
ous fight in the dank York
shire city of Scarborough,
where the British Labor
Party, technically repre
senting very nearly one
half of United Kindom
voters, has been eagerly
destroying itself in its show
down argument over de
fense. By the time these
words appear the party con
ference will have decided
.whether Britain should
stay in NATO and keep
American nuclear weapons
in Britain while ceasing the
costly effort for an inde
pendent British nuclear
arsenal, or get out of
NATO, get American bases
out of Britain and throw
away Britain's own nuclear
weapons, or a variation of
either theme. But, however,
the vote goes, the issue it
self will not be decided in
the ranks of Labor. If the
vote goes for unilateral
British disarmament, the
Labor Party stands offici
ally self-branded as a neu
tralist indeed, a pacifist
party, the leadership
will probably quit, its mem
bers of Parliament would
be technically bound to fol
low this line, and for more
months to come our strong
est ally would continue to
be convulsed by a nation
wide argument as to
whether it is to quit the
alliance in an illusory run
for safety an action the
government and a major
ity of the people, including
labor votes, are now against.
If the vote is for Britain's
remaining a nuclear power
within the alliance, the ar
gument will be muted, hut
onlj for a time. For the
heart muscles of the La
bor Pflrty arc "Tlrivcn by
doctrine, not pragmatism.
This matter is a matter of
faith with its, left-wing, as
is the matter of nationaliza
tion of Industry, and dreams
are unadjustable. Either
way, Britain will continue
to be distracted by this cor
roding argument over her
proper role in the nuclear
age.
Unless some magical
progress is made toward
East-West disarmament,
this incessant controversy
is fairly sure to weaken
Britain's will to remain
dug in at the front line of
4he Western alliance. The
befuddled, inchoate yearn
ing for island safety, rid
of the dreadful bomb, is
bound to eat into the souls
Lel
FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP
of more and more Britons
who know that their tiny
parcel of this earth . could
he carbonized in an hour.
I fail to see how it could
go otherwise j and with it
will go a spreading anti
Americanism, already
more prevalent than most
Americans comprehend.
'The East-West stalemate is
hardening, not thawing,
and as long as this con
tinues, the spirit of British
neutralism "A plague on
both your honsesr" will
grow. It grows perceptibly
every time Washington
makes a blunder or an ap
parent blunder. These days
America is getting the bene
fit of the doubt scarcely
any more often than is
Russia. America's tawdry
welcome of Khrushchev at
the East River dock seemed
to annoy Britons just about
as much as Khrushchev's
naked grab to make the
Congo a Communist base.
The image being created
in Britain of Eisenhower
and Khrushchev is that of
two men equally stubborn
and wrong headed.
All that the present
world, naked of trust, pos
sesses to hold the peace is
the mutual deterrent,
ghastly makeshift though it
be. The Western deterrent
in the present technological
stage, could be gravely
weakened without Europe,
that is, without nuclear
bases in Britain. The time
is coming when this would
not be necessarily so, when
quasi-indestructible hard
fuel intercontinental m 1 s
silcs wH nest under Amer
ican and Russian soil and
when quasi-Inviolable m t s-sile-equipped
submarines
will roam the seas. At that
point, a decisive surprise
attack by either side would
be impossible. Then deter
rence will be complete un
less mad goes mad, and
then small nations like
Britain can begin o "
ab'nit unilateral nuclear dis
armament, doub'fu! though
it is that this would save
them if the madness broke
out.
But left-wing British So
cialists cannot tolerate de
lay in this any more than
they can tolerate a work
ing class orosperity that
did not happen to come
about by their mi'tnods and
u-'dcr the'r aegis. The old
strain of British Puritanism
survives in them: they thus
believe that Spartan, that
is shabby, living is good for
the soul and that by their
moral example they can
persuade the Communist
lion to lie down with the
lambs.
After all, they were the
people who voted against
heavier armaments for
Britain almost on the eve
of World War II. Marxism
is dead in West Europe, and
because European socialist
parties are semi-Marxists,
still yearning to give the
Kremlin the benefit of many
doubts, they are dying as
true opposition parties. Like
the dinosaurs of the Juras
sic Age they can no longer
cope with their environ
ment. But give the dedi
cated left-wing British So
cialists their due they are
ending not with a whimper
but a bang.
Let this also be the end
of the patronizing European
complaint that the two
American political' parties
are too drearily alike and
provide no true philosophi
cal (i.e., class-based) al
ternatives. European peoples, too,
are being forced into a
basic concensus on pros
' perity through regulated
capitalism based on the sci
entific revolution.
In popular politics as in
popular culture, the much
- derided "American way of
life" remorselessly spreads.
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Staff Views
BOVINE
Curriculum reviews seem
to be the latest subject on
the Ag campus as a com
mittee has undertaken a
project to study that pro
gram. The curriculum commit
tee reported to the Ag
teaching forum Friday af
, ternoon that it should de
velop principles not tech
niques in Ag courses and
that curriculums should
follow these principles.
Establishing the p r i n
ciples in the Ag programs
would allow the students to
know the reason behind the
techniques. It is not so val
uable today to know how
to milk a cow or to plow
a field. For only a faction
of the educated ' students
will ever return to the farm
to use this technique.
Students that go into re
search, business and edu
cation jobs related to agri
culture will not need to
know just the techniques
but the principles behind
the techniques so that they
'might know the answers.
At present, Ag students
are required to the take an
introductory course in five
departments. Introductory
courses are basicly tech
nique courses which many
of the students, especially
those from the farm, al
ready know the techniques.
Therefore the introductory
courses seem to fulfill no
purpose but to load the stu
dent's curriculum.
Introductory courses in
five departments would
only serve as a broader
background for the student.
Today our education is look
ing away from diversifica
tion toward specialization.
Five introductory courses
Is in itself contradictory to
any such theory. If the stu
dent is going to specialize
in his vocation, let him
take more subjects pertain
ing to his vocation..
. Specialized , study pro
grams will add breadth and
depth to the student's cur
riculum and will develop
the physical, biological and
social perspective.
With the shift to the
teaching of principles, the
Ag campus is taking a big
step forward and may soon
achieve the level attained
by most of the other Ag
Colleges in the midwest
area. The modern trend is
to educate the student with
something he can use in
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strengthening his , special
ized field.
For example, one Ag Col
lege has dropped all Intro
ductory courses. The fresh
man year is filled with sci
entific and basic require
ments. Courses pertaining
to agriculture may be only
seminars explaining the
principles of each field and
the values contained in
each. Then in the sopho
more year the student is
ready to begin specializing.
Five introductory courses
take practically a whole
year and the student still
has not filled many of the
scientific and basic require
ments. After the student
has taken these courses he
still is unaware of many
of the principles in each of
the fields. Introductory
courses have failed their
purpose. , 1
The same Ag College has
also said that a good spe
cialized education takes
more than 128 semester
hours. So they have in
creased the semester hours
to 138 excluding ROTC.
The Ag College has taken
a big step forward in trying
to evaluate the program
which has been termed the
favorite indoor sport
curriculum review.
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New pledges have been
selected to Gamma Lambda,
honorary band fraternity on
the basis of their musical
ability and interest in the
University band.
They are: Leonard Lam
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Richard Slepicka, Don Mor
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