Theobald sees
University sausage machine
by CAROL ANDERSON
Nefaraskaa Stiff Writer
The university is a sausage machine
which takes in raw material high
school students and turns out pieces
of paper college graduates ac
cording to Robert Theobald.
"Anything colleges teach can be
learned quicker in a dozen other ways,"
said Theobald," a sociologist and
economist who spoke Monday night for
the World in Revolution program.
Most of the training received at a
university prepares students for
obsolescence, Theobald charged, because
"20.000 people in one place cut off from
life is a monstrosity that could only
be designed by a society that doesn't
think."
Although "the campus is not designed
to act," the university could become
relevant by integrating with the com
munity, he said. "The University doesn't
have to be a closed system, if students
can take advantage of the opportunities
here."
ff students want to participate in
changing society, they must know what
they want not just what they don't
want, he said.
Theobald doesn't condone violence
because "I don't think, it works." But
he says violence is less dangerous than
copping out or ignoring problems.
"Violence keeps it alive that something
is wrong."
"I agree with Nixon that we must
reduce violence to encourage change,"
he continued. The student riots at Col
umbia University let people know
something was wrong by "clubbing them
across the eyes to get their attention.
But if society is clubbed too many times,
it will become dangerous. The people
are so up tight they won't listen
anymore."
"Revolution must be the same thing
as evolution because a profound change
must be evolutionary," Theobald said.
He cited the Russian revolution as an
example of a successful revolution that
didn't change the character of the people
at all.
Besides criticizing violence, Theobald
also had sharp words for college ex
aminations. t
"Kids go to college to get good jobs,
and to get a good job they must get
good grades on multiple choice tests,"
Theobald said. "But it is not necessary
to think to pass such examinations."
Testing is based on the premise that
people, will not exert themselves unless
they are forced to, he said.
And Theobald also had sharp words
for the citizens of Nebraska.
"The problem with your state is its
inferiority complex," Theobald said.
"You wanted to industrialize ,and you
failed. Yet the industrial northeast is
collapsing so I can't understand why
Nebraska wants to move in the same
direction."
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The 1970 census will be one of the "most significant
documents" in the history of the American black man
according to a National Labor Director of the NAACI.
7 wi" be s'g"ificant because it will show that, for
the first time in history, there are more blacks in the
north than in the south," Herbert Hill said Monday.
Also, the census will show that segregation is continuing
with increasing rigidity as more whites move to the suburbs
said Hill, who was on campus as part of the World in
' Revolution Conference.
Hill said that segregation is the result of the systematic
policies of our government and its political parties.
"Since 1619 the American obsession with race and color
has continued to corrupt our culture," Hill added.
He also said that rasclsm. exists in every part of
our country. It exists in the South only in an exaggerated
degree.J'Hacism permeates our whole society."
Hill emphasized that all segregation is the result of
deliberate and systematic action taken by white America.
"I repeat, segregation is not the amorphous result of
a vague thing called prejudice. It is planned and Intentional,"
he added.
Hill said another characteristic of rasclsm was the
poverty of the black man which is due to job discrimina
tion. "Recently the Burp.itl nf I.nhnr Slitwllre en,) ), .
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black sections of our larger cities a good example is
Watts in Los Angeles, the rate of unemployment since
the riots has fluctuated between 38 percent and 42 per
cent.
"The rate of unemployment during the Great Depression
of the thirties was never higher than 23 per cent," he
pointed out.
"The actual dollar gap between whites and blacks since
1952 has not'decreased as many think, it has grown greater,"
Hill said.
"George Meany and Patrick Moynlhan have distorted
the facts. This country cannot afford benign neglect."
Hill termed the last 16 years as the second American
Reconstruction. "Most of our optimism that emerged with
the Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, in 1954 has
disappeared. We are now faced with a second disaster,"
tie said.
"All of our legislative victories have not brought justice
to the Black man," he continued.
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