WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1968
The Daily Nebraskan
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dentists
from ivy-tower
Washington (CPS) - A
group of rebel political scien
tists has succeeded In getting
the American Political
Faience Association to of
ficially encourage concern for
controversial social and
political problems.
The Caucus for a New
Political Science had
challenged the association to
replace its traditional
scholarly detachment with "a
radically critical spirit" about
contemporary "crises" and
"inherent weaknesses" in the
American political system.
THE AMENDMENT and
the success of Caucus panel
at the APSA's convention
represents a victory for the
rebellious offshoot. It was
formed last year after the
association refused to even
discuss certain controversial
subjects, including opposition
to universities' revealing
membership lists of radical
campus groups to HUAC.
Caucus leaders feel their
work is not done, they are
seeking members, will con
tinue the push for relevancy,
and will publish a journal.
Plans for a program at next
year's convention on
"prospects for revolution in
America" are being made.
Panels arranged by the
Caucus at this session ex
plored urban politics, the 1968
elections, student unrest at
Columbia University, Viet
nam, Czechoslovakia, radical
political thought and the
Chicago Democratic Conven
tion. Selective Service Chief
Lewis Hershey held forth at a
session on "the draft and the
rights of conscripted
citizens."
Caucus members also
pushed through a motion
prohibiting APSA officers and
employes from "engaging in
intelligence and cover ac
tivities." The decision was an
apparent slap at two former
leaders whose research firm
had received CIA funds.
The association approved a
declaration that it will "not
remain silent on threats to
academic freedom" and voted
to move its 1970 convention
from Chicago to another city
with . "an atmosphere con
ducive to free discussion." A
stronger resolution condemn
ing Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley and his police for their
suppression and brutality wei
Centers to
focus on
integration
A film on the mutual re
sponsibilities of blacks and
white will be the focus of
the Newman Center - United
Methodist Chapel discussion
on race relations, Thursday.
After the film, resource
people Jerome Drakeford,
Hugh Shanks and Lucy Ne
ville will lead a discussion on
racism, according to Mel
Luetchens, associate director
of the Methodist Chapel.
"No man Is an Island" will
portray two friends, a black
and a white, after their dis
charge from the army, Luet
chens said.
The film shows the respon
sibility of the white to open
the door to the black and the
responsibility of the black to
walk through that door.
The discussion will begin at
7:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Methodist chapel.
Abel-Sandoz
to rally spirit
for Big Red
Abel-Sandoz is sponsoring a
"Go Big Red" week.
Within the complex there
will be a dance and special
dinner on Thursday.
The all-University Yell Like
Hell pep rally will be across
from Abel-Sandoz on Friday.
After the game on Saturday,
there will be an open house
when the floors will display
their decorations that parti
cipated in dorm competition,
according to Bob Brandt,
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iefeated after heated debate.
In the Caucus session on the
draft, Lt. Gen. Hershey
managed to avoid or
misunderstand most of the
political scientists' pointed
Questions. His brief nrespn-
tation dealt with a history of
selective service. Several
times Hershey was booed and
hissed, as when he implied
that conscientious objectors
were "undesirables." He
refused to answer questions
concerning the length of
tenure as SSS chief.
IN THE session on the up
coming presidential elections,
professors Clinton Rossiter
and James MacGregor Burns
disagreed on whether a real
choice exists. Burns said
there is a difference between
the candidates, "but not a
decisive one." Rossiter said
no real choice exists, partly
because the candidates are
ignoring "cries" in the en
vironment, economy, war,
t e chnology, constitutional
government, and culture.
One APSA-arranged panel
dealt with the relationship
between "government, the
foundations, and
universities." President
James A. Perkins of Cornell
said the ties binding the three
must be loosened so they can
function best as critics of one
another. Rep. John Brademas
(D-Ind.), a member of the
House Education Committee,
predicted that federal support
of colleges will rise substan
tially in the next decade, re
quiring "more thought about
the nature, conditions and
shape of this support" and to
national planning for
balanced development of
higher education.
McGeorge Bundy, Ford
Foundation president, com
pared the role of private
philanthropic institutons to
higher learning as an oil can
to a very large piece of
machinery no large role,
but at times very important.
He said "the requiremtnts of
freedom and the inevitability
of diversity on the campus,
when considered with the
growing dependence of the
American University upon
national political decisions,
creates a major dilemma."
The amount of government
aid now, he added, exceeds
popular commitment to fede
ral support and has been
based on "good will and
trust." "There will be much
hard work before a truly solid
basis is laid for the kind of
relationship in which one side
pays and the other raise
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Amid the reddish-gold tailing
leaves, Students for a
Democratic Society foretold
the fall of the university and
the society sustaining it when
they met in Boulder last
weekend for one of their four
annual National Council (NO
meetings.
As they have been doing
across the country, the 450
SDS members did more than
talk ideology and strategy.
They acted and reacted to the
University of Colorado in
ways the school is likely to
feel for a long time.
A battle over press
coverage of the SDS meetings
may yet spawn a call by con
servative Regent Joseph
Coors (of the Coors beer
family) for the resignation of
the University's president.
IT WAS the New Left in
microcosm. The confrontation
portrayed SDS better than the
two major resolutions ap
proved during the three-day
NC. There was SDS, there
were the students, the Re
gents, the administration, the
police and the press who
somehow all got sucked into
the controversy over whether
tape recorders and cameras
should be barred from SDS
meetings.
Although the university
didn't come close to falling
and no outside police were
called in, there was a
polarization of administra
tion, students and virtually all
the press against the Regents.
The controversy stemmed
from the Regents' decision to
allow SDS use of university
facilities if their meetings
were "public and open to the
press."
The vote on whether
to allow on campus what one
Regent termed "this anarch
istic, nihilistic, organization
responsible for Columbia
disruptions" was part of the
"red" carpet treatment
reserved for SDS throughout
the country.
Another question arose on
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Friday, the first day of the
NC were cameras and tape
recorders (barred from
Regents' meetings) included
in th vague university-SDS
contract for open meetings?
As in Chicago, the coalitions
were a bit strange. The press
agreed with SDS that press
relations were outside tie
appropriate concern of the
university Regents.
The administration
originally sided with the SDS
request that meetings be open
only to the written press, not
the disruptive lights of
television cameras.
The antagonists were the
Regents, two of whom let it
be known they wanted elec
tronic media admitted to Vhi
NC.
A local radio station
reported that Regent Coors
said he would ask for the
"immediate resignation" of
University President Joseph
fa ivas the New Left in
microcosm. The SDS members
did more than talk . . .
Smiley if the intent of the call
for open meetings was not
enforced.
SMILY THEN reversed the
earlier stand of his al
ministration and decided to
admit Tilm and recorders.
SDS thought and acted -
otherwise.
A reporter from a Denver
radio station, enraged by l.hs
decision of his colleagues who
announced they would work
out press relations with SDS
rather than the university,
armed himself with a tape
recorder and entered tin
ballroom where SDS was
meeting.
SDS members swarmed
the newsmen, who couldnt
get further than a foot inside
the doorway. He nervously
questioned them: "Are you a
member of SDS?" "What do
you think of their violent tac
tics?" "Why aren't you
saying anything?" "Why d)
you keep nodding your
head?" "What's so funny?"
Finally the persistent
newsman did get a vocal
response from SDS members
One of them opened up with a
bar from "Silent Night," and
50 persons gathered around
the tape recorder to render
their version of the Christmas
carol. The biggest smiles
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police.
One more confrontation oc
curred early Saturday morn
ing when a security area was
roped off for the press
Another campus policeman
allowed SDS members t
enter the press area, anJ a
brief scuffle between SDS and
the press, flanked by police,
ensued.
The press was pushed out of
the meeting room. There
were no injuries, although an
ice-cream cone was smashed
against a television camera.
Shaken by the near
violence, the administration
reversed itself again and
decided to bar film and
recorders "except by prior
arrangement with SDS." It
was the administration which
convinced four of the six
Regents to avoid un
neccessary violence rather
than attempt to oust the
meeting with the help of
police force.
SDS REJOICED that the
university had "capitulated."
The issue of the press
dramatized the character of
SDS better than the drawn-out
debates on resolutions. SDS
showed itself capable of vic
tory in a limited struggle
where the action of the
established power is
arbitrary.
The confrontation tended to
push strategic and ideological
questions into the
background, although SDS did
ask itself about the press,
labor, elections, high schools,
GIs, campus organizing, draft
resistance, liberation o f
women and internationalism
in its workshops Saturday
afternoon.
Members gathered outside
on the leaf-covered campus in
groups of about 30. Oc
casionally, University of Col
orado students would cluster
not have thought off
a
on the outskirts of a
discussion to hear and
lege, on an elementary level,
the SDS ideas.
There was no neat con
sensus at the meetings, nor
did the sessions attempt a
more up-to-date statement of
ideology. Their only concrete
residue were resolutions on
elections and on organizing
within the high schools.
Members seemed to agree
on the need to attract and
radicalize other disenchanted
elements like high school
students, GI's, factory
workers, and (Through con
version) Wallace fans,.
STUDENT consciousness,
members said again and
again, can be radicalized by
redefining issues. University
research on biological
warfare should not be at
tacked primarily on the
grounds that secrecy violates
academic freedom; victory on
that basis merely means the
research is continued some
where off campus.
Instead, such research
should be vitiated in itself by
exposing the inhuman
theoretical and financial
stance of a government ra
tionalizing death through
courtship with "national
defense."
Some of the SDSers saw
disruptive strategy as a
means of de-legitimizing the
society's institutions the
electoral process, the schools,
the entire government.
National secretary Mike.
Klonsky said the NC meeting
clearly showed that "SDS is
embarking on a pre-election
program." One of the ap
proved resolutions, enuuea
'Boulder and Boulder, calls
for a nationwide strike of high
school and college students on
Nov. 4 and 5, regional
demonstrations in major
cities, and support of National
GI week Nov. 1-5.
GI Week is a project of the
National Mobilization Com
mittee to End the War in
Vietnam, whose pupose Is to
show support for GIs who
don't support the war.
Another resolution provided
for organizing in high schools
to move students to
otherthrow the system by
confronting the issues that
Boulder
directly affect them.
There was also some talk of
the organization's internal
problems. Although some
msmhrs deny it, others
rea 'ib' a'mit the existence of
factiorls'm within SDS.
A National Labor Action
Project calling for an SDS
alliance with "working people
in sharp struggle against im
perialism" was defeated by a
two-to-one margin.
SDS showed Itself this
weekend to be, In the words of
one of the national officers,
"a fighting organization,"
battling society and one
another.
The search for a slogan
(The one finally adopted:
'Vote With Your Feet; Go to
the Streets') rather than an
ideology, and the sparseness
of resolutions, indicate that
organization is likely to re
main undisciplined and most
potent on a local level.
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or killing a ROTC program
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more campuses.
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