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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 72
World in Revolution
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by JAN PARKS
Nabraskan Staff Writtr
Three World in Revolution
speakers and two University
professors failed to com
municate for the first 45
minutes of Tuesday's panel
discussion on "Cities in Tur
moil." Comments such as "let's
stop all this one-upsmanship"
characterized the dialogue
until a student arbitrator
requested that the panel
discuss "something per
tinent." Professor Arthur Winter had
previously asked the guest
speakers what action could be
taken to get the poor
meaningfully involved in social
change.
Alinsky fears
Government may jail radicals
by GARY SEACREST
Nabraskan Staff Writar
Activist Saul Alinsky said Tuesday that
he fears the national government might
imprison all radicals if the current wave
of bombings in the U.S. produces
numerous human fatalities.
He said that if many people are killed
In future bombings U.S. Attorney
General John Mitchell and FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover might "haul out the
McCarran Internal Security Act and put
all radicals in concentration camps."
Alinsky made his remarks during a
session of this week's World in Revolu
tion conference.
Alinsky Is director of the Industrial
Areas Foundation, which specializes in
organizing people into political pressure
groups so they can help themselves.
The self-termed professional radical
also said Tuesday that many of
America's disillusioned youth are af
flicted with political senility. He noted
that these disillusioned youth, instead
of facing political realities, "jump into
a fantasy of the future" in trying to
bring about change.
However, Alinsky added, "If we don't
get power diffused to different groups,
we will lose our democratic type of
society."
He said he feared that many campus
activist groups, like the Weathermen,
are turning into fascists. Instead of
becoming anarchists, campus activists
should become realistic revolutionists,
he added.
Alinsky stressed Tuesday that
organization is the only way to imple
ment ideas into action. He also said
that a revolutionary must create an
Issue before he can bring about any
change.
"Controversy and conflict Is the
matrix out of what all creativity
emerges," Alinsky said. But he added
that all action necessary for change is
rude and involves offending many peo
ple. Alinsky emphasized Tuesday the prin-
clples of organization that are necessary
to bring about social change:
"You've got to begin with the world
as it is. In the world as it is man
is motivated by self-interest and not
by any mystical altruism."
"In the world as it is not all
decisions are made on what is best,
but rather on the basis of alternatives."
"Right things are invariably done
for the wrong reasons. Then you dig
up the right reasons to rationalize your
actions."
"Alliances are not made on trust,
but on the basis that I need you and
you need me."
Alinsky said Tuesday that Nebraska
is the "most un-American state." He
explained his statement by humorously
saying that Chicago has the decency
of keeping Mayor Richard Daley in Il
linois, but Nebraska sends Sen. Roman
Hruska to Washington where he in
fluences the rest of the nation.
Recently Alinsky has been organizing
stock owners into groups so they can
exert pressure on the corporations to
become more socially concerned. One
of the main tactics used by these groups
is the use of proxy voting in stockhold
ers' meetings.
Alinsky has been in the forefront of
the activist movement throughout the
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past decade. In the early 1960's he
organized a black ghetto, the Woodlawn
section of Chicago, into a successful
political pressure group. The Chicago
Woodlawn Organization was followed by
similar organizations founded by Alinsky
in other major American cities.
M raass
Ribicoff page 2
Editorials .page 4
Entertainment page 6
East Campus page 11
"It's not our job to get them
anything," Saul Alinsky,
political radical, replied
"Our job is to provide the
means for the poor to im
prove." "Go in and agitate tell
them, convince them they don't
have to take this crap
anymore," Alinsky said.
Robert Theobald, economist,
remarked that University
students could not identify with
the problems of the poor.
"During this whole con
ference, you're just playing
intellectual games," Theobald
said, "because you don't have
to commit yourselves."
Everyone must do what he
thinks best to help change the
consciousness of this country,
Theobald continued, and
everybody will serve in a
different way.
For better or worse, "man
is becoming god and we don't
have the competence for this
role yet," Theobald said. "We
just can't muddle through. We
must learn to communicate
and think together," Theobald
said.
Alinskv. however, said he
favored an immediate
organized plan of action to
foster social change.
"We shouldn't be sterile
principles hanging up there
and not accomplishing
a n y t h i ng," he said.
Organization is essential for
mass change, Alinsky said,
"but I don't think ahead in
terms of 25-30 years. Life is
too uncertain."
Later in the discussion Jack
Newfield, assistant editor ol
The Village Voice, commented
on the nature of a Univer
sity. "Universities should be
training grounds and launching
pads for guerilla raids on all
of society," Newfield said.
"Even with all its faults, the
University is still more liberal
than the rest of society," he
said.
Referring to his use of the
word, "liberal," Newfield said,
"By this I mean open, rational
and superficial I guess some
people have a different
meaning for the word now,"
he said.
"I always did call myself a
member of the old new left."
Newfield added.
NU Foundation
receives grant
The University of Nebraska
Foundation announced it has
received a $60,000 grant from
the Woods Charitable Fund,
Inc.
The grant will be used to
continue and expand the Frank
H. Woods faculty fellowships
each year.
Thomas C. Woods, Jr.,
president of the Woods fund,
said approximately 60 faculty
members have been named as
Woods fellows s 1 n c e the pro
gram began In 1955.
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