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occpt the nnessQcp youf i "Yet we still have not taken the message of youth for what it is worth-a source of truely radical and fundamental questions about our society and what it does to the people, ourselves, who live it. To accept this message is the central responsibility we now share with youth." The above quote, taken from the Congressional Record, April 30, 1970, concludes Senator Charles E. Goodell's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" address. Senator Goodell has studied the question of dissent and the problems of the varied sources of alienation. In his address opening the World in Revolution conference Monday he will use his knowledge and experience to increase understanding of the purpose of the conference as well as speaking on the subject of alienation. The former Senator will attempt to enlarge the perspectives of participants on how to initiate social change and meaningful communication. Goodell, married and the father of five sons, is a native of New York state. After receiving his B.A. from Williams College in 1948 he entered Yale Law School and obtained his L.L.B. in 1951. HE CONTINUED his studies at the Yale University of Graduate Studies and was awarded his M.A. in 1952. After serving in the Korean War, he became a member of the New York Bar, serving as a partner in a law firm from 1955 until his election to the House of Representatives. He was elected to the House in 1958 where he remained until Gov. Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. On October 7, 1969, Senator Goodell introduced the "Vietnam Disengagement Act of 1969". The bill was the first demanding an end to appropriations which would support United States Military Forces in Vietnam. The bill eventually became the basis for the much-publicized Cooper-Church amendment. Goodell was a Senator of dissent, debate and discussion. He is a man of strong convictions with the courage to match. In his two-and-one-half years in the Senate, Charles Goodell was never silent when he felt it was his duty to speak out. His courage and conviction to face controversial issues proved to be politically damaging. GOODELL'S UNCOMPROMISING stance as a war critic, coupled with his positions aimed at many targets of domestic neglect, drew the anger of the leaders of his own political party. He was not supported for re-election by President Nixon or Vice President Agnew. In fact, he was actively opposed by the Republican Party elite. Agnew created a furor when he labeled Goodell the "Christine Jorgenson of the Republican Party", an implication aimed at weakening Goodell's support among New York Republican voters. Goodell was ultimately defeated in a three man race for the Senate Seat by Conservative Party candidate James Buckley, whom the Republican administration supported. Despite the differences with many of his own party, Goodell is intent on remaining a Republican because "it is important that the type of viewpoint I hold be represented in the Republican Party." ON HIS RETIREMENT from the Senate, January 3. 1971, Goodell was paid tribute by his colleagues. The comments included: "Several adjectives come immediately to mind when I consider the senatorial career of Charlie Goodell conscientious, competent, courageous, compassionate. They create a picture of a model legislator."- Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois. Goodell will speak at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. 3 Max Lerner, author, historian, lecturer, columnist, editor-currently teaching at Brandeis University, will be one of the speakers for the World in Revolution. Lerner will give an initial address in the Nebraska Union Ballroom Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. He will be at Centennial College at 1:30 p.m. and will then meet with students at Harper Hall for supper and discussions tuesday night. To "create an awareness of your world," Lerner will lead discussions dealing with the pressures of social issues and structures in technological society. "Know your country and your world. Know your facts. Know yourself. Above all, be aware of what is happening around you," says Lerner. Some of Lerner's books are: Ideas Are Weapons, Actions and Passions, American as a Civilization, The Unfinished Country, Education and a Radical Humanism, Democracy in America. Radical Humanism In his teaching career Lerner has held positions at Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, Harvard, Williams College, the University of Delhi, India and Brandeis. He is past editor of the Nation and now writes a syndicated newspaper column. Lerner was born in Russia in 1902 and came to the U.S. five years later. He has studied at Yale, Washington University, and received his doctorate degree from Robert Brooking Graduate School. He teaches political science, American Civilization and has done research on European unity with a Ford Foundation grant. ( m$fo Iff & George Peabody is the president of Peabody Organizational Development, Inc., which he established for the purpose of training and consulting organizations and communities. His primary training activities during the last five years have been in intergroup confrontation and collaboration for the purpose of social change. During this time, he has set up programs throughout the world. In Uganda, East Africa, he conducted a community development program for the one-million-member Church of Uganda. Three years and Lerner creote on oworeneness of your world i i numerous projects later, he planned and set up the training d epartment for the Neighborhood Youth Corps in New York City. During the past year, Peabody has been training administrators of New York University in the theories of power and tactics for social change. He has also been leading career-planning workshops for executives of Western Electric. He has written numerous articles on training and on community development. His chapter on "Power" can be found in Strategies for Social Intervention. Peabody studied organizational change at the Sloane School of Management, MIT, and focused on applied social change in work for the doctorate at Union Graduate School, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Peabody will hold two types of sessions while here at the University. The largest session will be Tuesday at 7 pminthe Nebraska Union Ballroom. This session will be on "Alienation", and a guideline for the number of participants, will be the number of people who can line the walls of the ballroom, plus a few. This will be about 2 hours of structured exercises, verbal and non-verbal, designed to help people get in touch with each other and with iheir own feelings. The second session will be on social power, and because of its working plan will be limited to 60 people. (Sign-up will be March 19 at 1 p.m. in a Union booth) This social power session will take from two to five hours, and participants need a notebook and a pencil. The plan for this social power session is: 1) Peabody Power game a simulation des-gned by George Peabody for the following purposes: a) Recognize three power strategies: fight, negotiate, colaborate. b) Recognize central importance of self-interest in politics, c) Tag one's own feelings about using power, d) Learn how to increase your number of tactical options. 2) Guidelines for designing fight tactics. 3) If time, thumb-rules for negotiation These sessions will expand perspectives of participating individuals by providing positive, concrete methods of dealing with and initiating social change and meaningful communication. Michael understanding cybernation rahflEil David Graham is a person primarily concerned with the problems and possibilities of the future. One of the few philosopher--economists in the United States, he is attempting to generate information about the new world and to direct this information where it can be effectively used. Graham took his BA in philosophy, religion and literature, at the University of Redlands, California and his BD in Old Testament and cybernetics at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. During the World in Revolution Conference Graham will present a series of four modules, which include films, slides, movies and tape recordings that will help students discover the role of the individual within a social framework. According to Graham these modules were developed by a group at the School of Architecture, Arizone State University for a specific conference on the future. The four modules include: The I ndustrial Age, describing the industrial age in its own terms and then showing how, even in its own terms, the industrial age undercuts the basis of its own existence. -Authority Models, describing the process of phasing out of structural authority based on age, position, seniority, and the phasing in of authority based on knowledge and wisdom. --Synergy. Idea and uses of synergy are traced from early medical and theological concepts through present applications. Synergy is seen as the source of the present attempt to build a society in which the interests of the individual and society are the same. -Life. An attempt to link the understanding of man and nature with the creation of a new living system. "Cybernation" refers to the electro-mechanical manipulation of material things by automation, to the electro-mechanical manipulation of symbols by computers, and to the simultaneous use of computers and automation for the organization and control of material and social processes." Donald Michael has made the previous definition of cybernation in his article "The Impact of Cybernation." Such as in this article, Michael will help individuals dispell misconceptions about the scope of this cybernetic era. Through discussions, he will help create a better understanding of the implications of cybernation upon all phases of our lives-employment, workers, leisure-time and education. Michael was born in Chicago in 1923. He is a social psychologist with a background in the physical sciences, and was educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, Throughout his professinal career he has combined his interest in the physical and social sciences. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard, Michael taught at Boston University, did research on teaching from audiovisual aids on contract to the Air Force, and joined the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was a Senior Staff Member of the Brookings institution in Washington, D.C. where he directed a study project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the social implicationsof peaceful space activities. He was Director of the Peace Research Policy Studies there. Presently he is professor of psychology, professor of planning and public policy, and a program director in the Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan. Michael has been a consultant to UNESCO, the Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Research Council, the Department of Defense, as well as a member of the ad hoc Committee on Youth Services, Childrens Bureau of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He has published many professional papers, essays, and raports on practical and theoretical problems dealing with man's ability to adjust to the social and psychological changes which technology produces. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Michael will present a major address Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. He will also attend a seminar in Secondary Education Curriculum at University High School. After dinner at Pound Hall, he will lead a discussion in the Pound TV Lounge at 7 p.m. and Tuesday morning he will speak at Centennial College. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1971 "The earth needs a face lifting, I think I can make suggestions." Driven by that philosophy, Architect Paolo Soleri has become a visionary who executes his dreams. The difference between Soleri and other architects lies in his definition of Architecture as "the physical form of the ecology of the human," and his intense preoccupation with man's relationship with his surroundings. The result of these two interests is arcology. Combining architecture and ecology, Soleri, as the chief arcologist, seeks to proved some answers to the probable ills of life on earth in the year 2000. Born in Torino, Italy in 1919, Soleri came to the United States in 1947 to study with architect Frank Lloyd Wright and eventually became one of his most brillant students. Kicked out of Wright's studio in Arizona because of his independence, Soleri later explained this as a difference in styles of architecture. According to Soleri, Wright was essentially a man of the Great Plains whose architectural concepts were predicated on flatness and, as such, were devoid of the inspiration of mountains that pervades Soleri's forms. After his association with Wright was ended he moved to Schottsdale, Ariz, where he has been endlessly writing, drawing, and building. As time went on, his underground reputation grew, especially among the young architects and students. Many of them made the pilgrimage to Arizona to see more of the work and often to participate in it. His ideas and proposals thus became increasingly influential. Working with roughly 100 students and 12 apprentices Soleri supports himself mainly by selling small ceramic and cast bronze bells. He teaches by example rather than by an academic method, and his students learn a great deal about architecture from actually building their own living and working spaces. These are created by casting mounds of shaped earth in concrete. Soleri's next project is Vcosanti, part of a continuing experiment in building a significant human environment. These proposed cities are not spaced out, saturated by pollution and waste, divided racially, or spiritually destroyed by their own misuse of material wealth. Soleri's cities are open vessels, self-contained single structures thousands of feet in height but occupying a relatively small parcel of land. The analogy is to the human body, not to the machine. The underlying thesis is the miniaturization of "energies, logistics, information, performances, thinking, doing, living, learning, playing into urban-human integrals that are the essential phenomena of life." According to Soleri, "The crucial problem is not to invent and produce a less pollutant car, to filter all smokestacks, to dispose better of our wastes-we can justly say that the whole history of man is in the future-the future will be the willful and structural construction of itself in the actual process of self creation." Solari give the earth a facelift Albert Ellis provides posi tive, rational methods of dealing with modern problems and initi ating social change. Ellis was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in New York City. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and has taught at Rutgers and New York Universities. For the last 25 years Ellis has practiced psychotherapy, marriage, and family counseling. He is now executive director of the Institute for Rational Living Inc. and Director of Clinical Services for the Institute for Advanced Study in Rational Psychotherapy in New York City. He has published a monumental 350 papers and authored or edited 28 books. His books include: The Folklore of Sex, The American Sexual Tragedy, Sex Without Guilt, How to Live with a Neurotic, The Art and Science of Love, A Guide to Rational Living, Creative Marriage, Homosexuality: Its Causes and Cure, and Violence, Murder and Assassination. Active in marriage counseling, Ellis is a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Marriage Counselors and has served as associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family. The psychologist will present a major address in the Nebraska Union at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday with an informal discussion at Burr Hall at 7 p.m. Ellis- live ration oily ' wit l; i i I ft. .1 r. 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