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Good Heavens
RAM Council took the bull by the horns Monday and
considered a motion to investigate the possibility of allow-'
ing visiting hours during which women would be allowed in
men's rooms.
The first thought is, "Good Heavens, what do they need
them in their rooms for?" A negative reaction.
But just where are the residents of Selleck Quadrangle
to take their girls? Fraternities and sororities have living
rooms, Cather Hall has a lounge with a homey atmosphere,
television and other facilities. There is a limited amount of
privacy in all of these places.
But Selleck Quad has only a cold, impersonal hall at
the entrance, and an equally cold, impersonal television
lounge in the basement usually occupied to capacity by
boistrous men of the Quad.
There are small lounges in each hall containing two
chairs, a table and again the impersonal atmosphere. They
are also cold and noisy.
Women in the rooms might not be the best answer,
but lacking other facilities, it may be the only answer.
The visiting hours may also give men encouragement
to socialize with women on the campus more. Dorm per
sons do not have the opportunity at the beginning of the
school year to meet other persons that the frat men
have.
If the men know that they have a place where they may
entertain a young lady, a place where they may exchange
common interests in a home atmosphere, they would be
able to enjoy more fully the social graces, which should be
considered a part of the development of the total student.
At least it is a proposal worth considering.
SUSAN SMITHBERGER
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W W 5 Dear Krlitnr!
What engenders extrem
ist political behavior among
college students in times of
general political and social
stress? Surely extensive po
litical extremism occurs
among college students dur
ing those periods when the
old order is being chal
lenged and perhaps even
being displaced when ra
pid change causes wide
spread dissatisfaction with
the status quo.
A notable example of po
litical extremism among
college students occurred
during the 1930's when many
were attracted to the ban
ner of the Communist Par
ty or to fellow-travelling or
ganizations closely identi
fied with the party line. Of
course, the environmental
crisis of the age was the
Great Depression.
To many young people it
stood to reason that in
times of extreme difficulty
the proper response was
some form of political ex
tremism. The student ex
tremism of the Thirties ex
aggerated the predominant
adult commitment which
at that time was to the mod
erate liberalism of the New
Deal the moderate liberal
ism of Franklin Roosevelt
or George Norris.
Had the adult population
been committed to moder
ate conservatism it follows
that the students would have
tended to political reaction.
What kinds of students
were attracted to left-wing
radicalism in the Thirties?
What motives led them into
the way-out movements of
the day? Of course, a smail
percentage of the movement
was made up of those who
found excitement and en
thusiasm in the enterprise
and joined just for the fun
of it.
But certainly the great
majority was composed of
those who were especially
confused and frightened by
the complexities around
them and who found appar
ently adequate solutions to
political and social prob
lems in the deceptively sim
ple programs of the radical
left. Extremist groups al
ways pose simplistic solu
tions to complex problems.
A third element small in
number but exceedingly
dangerous was those who
lusted for power power for
the sake of power and who
latched on to radicalism as
a vehicle for its acquisi
tion. Most student manipu
lators of this sort were cer
tainly authoritarians and
would have established a
dictatorial regime, had they
managed to seize power
through radical politics.
Finally, of course, many
members of radical organi
zation simply didn't realize
what they were getting into.
They thought that being in
the Young Communist
League or something of the
sort was like being in the
student YMCA or the Young
Republicans just another
activity.
In our own time we are
confronted by a quite paral
lel form of student extrem
ismthis time of a right
reactionary stripe. Gone
are the left-wing radicals of
yore and in their places
one finds right-wing reac
tionaries. For these students
the stimulus ' to extremes
has been the Cold War. The
responsible political phe
nomi 'on among the adult
population has been moder
ate conservatism repre
sented ably by Lyndon B.
Johnson and Kenneth Keat
ing. The moderation of the re
sponsibles is distorted into
right extremism by the stu
dent echelon. One wonders
if the motives which once
led students into the radical
movements of the Thirties
are not the same motives
which now lead students
into the reactionary move
ments of the Sixties.
Perhaps the Birchite stu
dent of today would have
been a Young Communist
in the Thirties. Is it a crav
ing for excitement, or a re
sponse to fear, or an urge
to power, or just plain care
lessness which attracts stu
dents to collegiate right ex
tremism today?
I conclude on an opti
mistic note. Not surprising
ly, most of those students
who found a temporary
home in left-wing radical
ism during the Thirties
turned into responsible mod
erates during the Fifties
and Sixties.
Many of them function as
parents of the present stu
dent generation. It seems
highly probably that a dom
inant majority of those stu
dents who now flirt with
right-wing reaction will be
the responsible moderates
of the Eighties the sup
porters of those who then
will fill the roles previously
held by a Wendell Willkie
or a John F. Kennedy.
Perhaps we have here
some additional support for
that old adage that the
more things change, the
more they remain the same.
DAVID F. TRASK
Dear Editor:
Time is running out for
the liberals and the screams
of panic are heard across
the campus. Climbing out of
their shells, they are quick
to air their unenlightened
opinions.
But the loud liberals of
the Democratic Party have
shown by their highly "in
tellectual" criticisms that
they have no political con
cept, no convictions and no
conscience to write about.
Prof. T r a s k, addressing
the meeting of the Young
Democrats, came up w i t h
some of the most fantastic
drivel ever concocted. In
surely twisted semantics
Mr. Trask attacked Senator
Goldwater as being, among
other things, "anti-intellectual."
Since he is speaking as a
Democrat, he is in fact in
tellectually defending infla
tionary deficit spending. He
is intellectually defending
bailing out Communism. He
is intellectually defending
the slide into socialism,
which is incompatable with
the c o n c e p t of Freedom.
Standing in defense of all
this, Mr. Trask steps furth
er out on that dead tree's
limb by saying "But in
reality Goldwater as a man
is ignorant and anti-intellectual."
Was Mr. Trask referring
to the expediancy of declar
ing Communism the enemy
of Freedom in the world?
of the expediancy of nam
ing victory the goal of the
war in Viet Nam? of the ex
pediancy of the govern
ment's non-intervention into
the laws of economics? Was
Mr. Trask branding as ig
norant and intellectual the
refusal to unilaterally dis
arm this nation in the face
of the enemy? The answer
to all this is probably yes,
but that doesn't matter
right now.
Mr. Trask also wishes to
indict Senator Goldwater
with not thinking about
people. However, a totally
isolated mind could miss
Barry Goldwater's call for
the development of the
whole man. It is Mr. Trask
who is unaware of the deli
cacy and scope of the whole
man.
Vic Aufdemberge
Traffic Troubles
Dear Editor: I am a
freshman living in Piper
Hall. Just a moment ago, I
saw a car run into the one
in front of it. The first car
had to stop suddenly for
some students crossing the
street. Perhaps the second
car was going too fast or
maybe the students decided
to cross the street without
waiting. At any rate, I think
the crosswalks at 16th and
S streets should have a light
or a "walk-wait" light or
both.
The haphazard crossing
of 16th street is a hazard to
both the students and the
drivers. I sincerely hope
something can be done about
it.
Sincerely,
Carol Mudgett
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