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Two Conservatives For Choice ’68 On National Student Primary Ballot RlDGERUNNER—ASHEViLLE. N. C.. MARCH 1. 1968->3 By PHIL SEMAS College Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS)—In any election year there are always numerous mock promaries and elections on college campuses. In 1968 these individual local primaries will be pushed into the background by Choice ’68, additional promary to be held April 24 on more than 1,000 college campuses. The organiz ers of the primary say they al ready have 1,100 schools with four-and-a-half million students signed up to participate, includ ing almost all of the large schools. They hope to have at least 1,500, which would give them a potential electorate of five-and-a-half million. That would make it the second larg est primary in the nation (after California’s). Some have pre dicted that they will get close to 2,000 schools, which would be nearly every college in the country. Choice ’68 is the idea of Bob Harris, a former Michigan State University student body president. It occurred to him last summer that, instead of a haphazard group of local prim aries, college students ought to vote at the same time in one national primary. He then started going to var ious companies to see if he could get money to finance the program. The first place he went was Time magazine main ly “because I could get in to see the published.” Time Pub lisher James Shepley decided in about ten minutes that it was a good idea, so Time sent Harris to 30 campuses to talk to students and see if the idea was feasible. After that trip, Time decided it could be done and gave Har ris $100,000 for the project “as a public service.” He picked 11 student leaders to make policy and determine the ballot. But being funded by Time is a problem for for Choice '68. Time’s editorial treatment of students, education, and Viet nam has not exactly made it creditable to many college stu dents and some of that lack of credibility may rub of on Choice ’68. But Harris says Time nas given him and his board of di rectors complete control over policy. “They do exercise qual ity control over how things are written and so forth,” he says, “but they let us decide on basic approaches and policies.” Har ris also points out that there has been no coverage of Choice ’68 in Time except in Shep- ley’s “publisher’s letter” on the table-of-contents page. The proj ects wasn’t announced in iTime and neither will be the results of the election be announced there. Harris is trying to set up a “30 or 60-minute television special” to announce the re sults. The student body presidents and college editors who make up the board were skeptical of Time when they first met last October, but they say that they have been given complete freedom to determine which candidates and issues go on the ballot as well as their policies. That does seem to be the way it is working. When the board of directors met last week in the Washington Hilton, there was no one from Time at the meet ing as they wrangled over the final candidates and issue which win go on the ballot. The directors were in Wash ington for four days. In between meetings with everyone from president Johnson. (“He looked like a ghost,” said one) to the leaders of the Young Republi cans. they spent long hours At one point, when there were about 20 people still on the ballot, only three of them hard-line conservatives, Harris told the board, “Sometimes I wish I hadn’t picked all stu dent leaders and had picked some of the students out of the middle of a big lecture hall. That list is balanced much too heavily to the left.” ical. So, although a number of doves made the ballot almost automatically, the directors d^ cided that might not be enough involved radicals. As an answer they added Fred Halstead, who is running for President from the Socialist Workers Party on a platform of black power and immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. The directors wound up drop- pickinc the candidates, choosing ping several other candidates, including J. William Fulbright, which questions would go on the ballot, and wording the ques tions. With mostly liberals on the board, they faced special prob lems in trying to make sure that conservatives were treated fair ly on the ballot. For example, they had their hardest time working the “hawk” alterna tives in Vietnam, which most of them oppose (although they generally refuses to give their personal positions on the war and are obligated not to en dorse or work for any candi date). They wound up with only two conservatives on the ballot — Reagan and Wallace, plus Nixon and Johnson, who will draw many conservative votes. The rest of the 14 candidates are “moderate to liberal.” Hav ing fewer candidates may work to the right wing’s advantage, however, since moderate and liberal votes will probably be more fragmented. (Texas’ conservative Sen. John Tower. Dr. Benjamin SpoQk, and Gen. James Gavin. They decided not to pare the list too sharply, however, because they wanted to give students a wide variety. “The question,” said Wisconsin student body presir dent Mike Fullwood, “is whose choice is Choice, our choice or the students’ choice?” They also spend a good deal of time trying to avoid a boy cott of the election by campus radicals. Harris said he found radicals cool to the idea in his visits to campuses. Most radi cals reject electoral politics as a means of changing policy. They are most likely to be skep tical of an election involving large number of college stu dents. most of whom are mod erate and unlikely to vote rad- Dick Beahrs, student body president at Berkeley gives an other reason why the ballot may interest radicals: the two refer enda questions on Vietnam, He points out that radicals have worked hard to put Vietnam referenda on the ballot, in the Bay Area and other places and radicals may decide to push this referendum hard. iwo Ij.s. IVIAKliSE KKCRUITKRS interviewed interested students on campus Wednesday, Feb. 29, and the Southern Student Organizing Committee set up a literature table across the room for students who weren’t interested in the Marines. The Marine recruit ers, talked to students, and the SSOC litrature table, manned by Miss Lyn Wells, organizer for SSOC, dis tributed anti-war literature, draft resistance informa tion and buttons. Both the Marines and the SSOC organizer arrived at 9 a.m. The SSOC table was One of Harris’ answers t« radicals is that “two*and-a- half millions Americans ought to be able to have some impact on the policy of the country.” That, then, is the key question about Choice ’68: will it have any impact on American policy and on the election? If it does not (and it is so far being ig nored at least by most of the press), then radicals will have additional proof of their view that students must take direct action to influence policy. Library Records Show Need For Finer Comb Joint Statements By Groups From Page 2 How a special committee with one representative from each of the five groups that draft ed the document interprets it. - How well college adminis trators themselves accept it. The Joint Statement has been approved by three groups; the NSA, the AAC, and AAUP. In light of the AAC approval last week, the other two groups, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the National Association of Wo men’s Deans and Counselors, are expected to approve it this spring. Since the AAUP approved the statement this fall, NSA Pres- Went Ed Schwartz has been ask ing the AAUP to look into vio lations of the statement report ed by students to NSA. Now that the AAC, which represents 750 small colleges, has approved it, he says he will also ask their office to get in touch with the president of a college which vio lates the statement. “Approval by these organiza tions is more important than it appears,’’ he says. “College Presidents look to their profes sional associations, like the AAC, for guidance and stand ards on things like student rights.” Thus, it will strength en the statement if the AAUP and AAC insist on its adoption by their members. Given the document’s many vague passages and escape clau ses, the interpretation commit tee’s job is perhaps most import ant. Strong interpretations will not only make for a stronger statement but will also reassure students who fear that the weak er passages might be used by administrators to justify repres sion of rights while proudly claiming that they adhere to the Joint Statement. then with 10 “clarifications.’’ The committee that drafted the Joint Statement proposed that one way to make the statement more meaningful would be to get the agencies which accredit colleges and universities to agree to with draw accreditation from schools that violate the statement. That would allow students to threaten administrations with a loss of accreditation if they were not granted at least minimal rights. The accrediting agencies will be approached by the interpret- committee after the five organizations have all ap proved the statement. Some ac- Overdue records of Ramsey Library show a total of more tlian 200 books overdue, some of them since 1966 and earlier. Many are checked .out to students who have dropped out of school; others were borrowed by non-students: residents of Asheville, high school students, and students of other colleges. If a non-student has books long overdue, he is not allowed to bor row more materials until he has returned what he has out. That and the overdue notice policy keeps the number ofbooks overdue by non-students down. Other than sending notices, there are few means to realize the re turn of books already out and overdue by non-students. Stu dents aides working at the main desk should have the names of people in mind who are unallow ed to borrow from Ramsey. Middle Earth Has Concerts Students who kept books long overdue are now confronted with the prospect of not being permit ted to register for (lie following term. It’s a fair policy and with the cooperation of the Registrar’s Office has worked well. There were some students last term, however, who were allow ed to register while having books overdue since last fall. We en courage the Registrar’s Office to put a finer comb before these de linquencies. Science Annex Says Highsmith Dr. William Highsmith, A-B president, has announced that the Appalachian Regional Commis sion has allocated $125 thousand dollars for equipment for the ad dition to be annexed to the science building. This, added to the exist ing funds of $500 thousand, makes 625 thousand dollars to be used. It was on recommendation of Governor Dan Moore that the Appalachian Regional Commis- manned by Miss Wells and several A-H students. Uoth groups left the campus around 1 p.m. Two students from Warren Wilson College joined the SSOC table around 10:,i0 a.m. Miss Wells reported a favorable de gree of interest in the work of SSOt:. She praised A-B’s administration for upholding the principle of equal re cruitment, During the four-hour recruiting period, the Marine officer selection te'am interviewed several stu dents and administered a series of basic Marine officer selection tests. UFB Committee Will Meet On A-B Campus President Pifer On Education Still the toughest job will be crediting agencies have been un getting college administrators to go along. That fact is demon strated by the difficulty in get ting even so minimal a docu ment passed by the AAC -- and willing to help enforce even the AAUP’s statements on faculty academic freedom, but others, especially in the South, have taken strong positions. Such methods may be neces sary. Last summer College Man agement magazine made a survey of the reactions of 225 college presidents to an AAUP state ment on student freedom, a state ment which NSA leaders found even more minimal than the Joint Statement The survey showed that most presidents would en dorse the basic ideas of student freedom but most balked at spec ific rights such as a free press or a free choice of speicers. One president said of a free student press: “Our student press is recognized as having a definite effect on public rela tions. Doesn’t the AAUP care about fund raising?” Middle Earth, the coffeehouse on Broadway and Cauble behind sion made the decision. A— B, has been scheduling con certs for Saturday nights. First was a concert by Larry Formato and several helpers. Last Saturday night a concert bv the Sandy Mush Electric String Band was given. Scheduled for this coming Saturday night at 8:00 is the Plain Folk Trio, for a more sul> dued program. There will be no cover charge. Various kinds of coffee and tea are the specialties of the house. Regular hours there are 7 till ... on Friday and Saturii.y nights and 5-11 on Sundays. Anyone interested in poetry readings there, let someone who is working there, or John Bern hardt or Lani Campbell, know. Other activities can be planned if they know just what the students want. The Manpower Education Committee of the Upper French Broad Economic Development Commission will meet on the campus of Asheville-Biltmore College on Wednesday, March 6, atl:30p.m„ it was announced today by Commission Executive Director L. D. Hyde. The purpose of the conference is to bring leaders in the fields of education, industryandgovern ment together to discuss “eco nomic development and skilled manpower,” Hyde said. The March 6 meeting is a follow-up of two similar confer ences held in the past few months. In November a study called “Manpower Education in the North Carolina Appalachian Re gion” was presented by Hammer, Greene and Siler Associates. At that time, it was pointed out that “the principal barriers to eco nomic development of North Carolina Appalachia is an in adequate number of skilled workers.” is basic to the difficulties within public school education. B. Tlie primary impediment to increasing the number of skill ed workers is money for program expansion in the public schools and in the community college in stitutions. C. If additional money for ex pansion results in program and facility overlap, it represents scarce funds not well spent. D. Areas identified for program recommendations are: 1. The 16 to 18 years old drop DEAN WUTSCHEL leads students on tour of A-B high school campus as part of get-acquainted program. m MULTI-STRIPE OXFORD New expression in a cotton oxford button-down! Three varied-color stripes - muted, mellow, distinctively Gant. Available in a variation of color combinations. Great for business and leisure wear. $8.00 22 PATTON AVENUE Free Parking at Rear of Store Outmoded Requirements Stifling BERKELEY, Calif.—“In this world of high-powered technol ogy and of sweeping social and economic forces, the promise of the future is not static but accelerated change. The cam pus should have built into it the capacity for continuous adap tion; it should have built into it a continuous tradition of trial and experiment.” Such is the stated purpose of the forty- two recommendations presented to the Academic Senate of the University of California, Berk- The Derby 62-1/ 2 Biltmore Ave., Asheville “where it’s at” 252-9766 ely, in “Education At Berkely: Report of the Select Committee on Education ,“The Muscatine Report,”, now published in its complete form by the Univer sity of California Press. Created in 1965 to examine the educational aims of the Berkeley campus and to dis cover new means for imple menting those aims, the nine- member Select Committee, headed by Charles Muscatine, spent almost a year considering suggestions offered by students, faculty, and administrators for insuring the University’s re sponsiveness to rapidly chang ing conditions while protecting its traditions of higher learning and scientific inquiry. Also in need of extensive re- Specialty Cleaners “The Home of Beaatifal Cleaning" 264 Tuonel Rd., Asheville form was the curriculm. String ent degree requirements based on outmoded concepts of the "liberally education man” prov ed in most cases to be more stifling than helpful and to alienate students even further. Inadequate provision had been made for individual abilities and preferences in determining certain basic requirements, or for the huge expension of knowl edge in every field of study which was making selectivity and specialization increasingly necessary. Hoyle Announces Writing Contest RALEIGH - The first writing contest sponsored by the Tar Heel Writers Roundtable has been announced by Roundtable Direct or Bernadette Hoyle. Categor ies are short story, article, ju venile fiction, and poetry. All entries must be unpublished and deadline for submissions is June 15, 1968. Contest rules include enroll ment in the Fouth Annual Tar Heel Writers Roundtable, a two- day session for published and un published writers, to be held August 16-17, 1968 at the Sir Walter Hotel. First place winners in each contest category will receive a beautiful trophy, second and third place winners will receive cer tificates. The awards are being given by the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, N.C., where the Round table is held annually, and will be called the Sir Walter Hotel Writing Awards. Contest rules and official entry forms may be obtained by writ ing to Bernadette Hoyle, Box 5393, Raleigh, N.C. 27607 Biltmore Dairy Farms “Milk Is Your Best Buy’ The most important solution proposed by the Committee cencerned the establishment of a Board of Educational Develop ment which would authorize and support experimental interdis ciplinary courses and degree programs which were outside the jurisdiction of any existing college or department. I,t would achieve the Committee’s prime objective by providing for sustained self-study and constant experimentation in the University. Bon Ton Linen Supply Guru Perry To Levitate Jim Perry, RIDGERUNNER guru, has announced that he will levitate the administration build ing 30 feet above its foundations. Perry says he will accomplish the feat through powers of con centration achieved through years of meditation. He also stated that he had been practic ing secretly for several months on bird houses, then dog houses, and finally Jim Walter Homes. He says he now feels qualified to attempt the two-story brick administration building and guar antees no internal dam^e to the building or himself. The reason or reasons for the demonstration are undisclosed at the present time. Perry did not say when he would attempt the levitation. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (CPS) - Carnegie Corporation President Alan Pifer told the American Association of Colleges (AAQ last week that the Federal Government will provide half of all funds for higher education by 1975. Pifer, whose foundation is one of the most influential in high er education, noted the growing movement toward federal grants for general support of univer sities as the major reason why federal support would more than double from its present 23 per cent. Federal aid to higher education is presently confined to grants for specific purposes. After Pifer spoke the ACC, which represents 750 colleges, most of them small liberal arts schools, added its voice to the growing call for general support grants. The ACC also called for increases in other types of federal aid. But Pifer went on to tell the educators that financing is not the only major problem they face. He called for better co operation between universities and the Federal Government, adding that “We can no longer afford the luxury of unplanned, wasteful, chaotic approach to higher education.” Government Employment Seniors interested in employ ment opportunities in North Car olina State Government will be able to talk with a representative from the State Personnel Depart ment on Friday, March 15. Arrangements for the interview are to be made with the College Placement Office. One should re port there to establish a specific appointment on this date. State Government employs over 36,000 persons in 1,300 different types of jobs. Business, account ing, rehabilitation, social work, laboratory science, education, computer programming, and the natural and physical sciences are only a few of the possible employment areas. Brochures, which fully describe the employment opportunities, are available at the Placement Office. In addition. State Govern ment offers its employees a con tinued educationprogram, excell ent possibilities for advance ment, paid vacation and holidays, sick leave, and other liberal employee benefits. Working with officials of the State Plannii^ Task Force, the North Carolina Department of Labor and local educators and Industry representatives, the up per French Broad Commission has found “the work effort divi ded into two phases. Phase I centers on problem identification and Phase n points out program recommendations. The theme of phase II is the re sources and capabilities for im proved occupational preparation can be found within the existing educational institutions, A summary of phase II iden- ^fifies some of the problems as: A. The idea that “everyone who can should go to college’* out 2. Improving the image of in- dustry and of vocational educa tion 3. Occupational information for curriculum design in vocational education 4. Communication and coordin ation between levels of education and between educators and the community 5. Reorientation of the public schools to the world of work The March 6 conference will be a three part program. The first part will be devoted to hearing from representatives of selected industries on (1) training pro grams, and (2) what instructional materials are used in their com pany. The second part of the program will be seminar discussions on particular problems of produc ing “skilled manpower.” Part three will be a report of the seminar groups on suggestions or recommendations. Andy Warhol In Hoax By College Press Service SALT LAKE CITY (CPS) - When Andy Warhol, the New York underground film-maker, ap peared at the Universities of Utah and Oregon last fall students weren’t very impressed. At both schools he showed a film which was followed by a stale question and answer period. Most students went away dis satisfied with what they expect ed to a “far out sesssion.” The student newspapers at both the campuses gave Warhol bad re views. At Utah some students demanded their money back. Then Utah art professor An thony Smith told Paul Cracroft, director of the campus lectures and concerts program, that he had seen Warhol in New York and that the man who appeared at Utah was not the same man. Later a friend of Warhol’s visited the Utah campus and said Warhol had never been to the West and was laughing about his purported ap pearances. On a trip to New York Cracroft made an appointment to see Warhol but Warhol never showed up. So Utah withheld WarhoPs pay “until we were certain of his identity” and told the campus paper, the Daily Utah Chronicle, about it. They got a picture of the real Warhol from the Vil lage Voice and compared it to nirhirpR of the man who had ap peared at Utah. There were sub stantial differences between them. Meanwhile, however, Oregon, the University of Montana, and Linfield College in Oregon had already paid Warhol’s fees. Warhol’s manager finally ad mitted the whole thing had been a hoax, “an experiment, a hap pening.” The Imposter wasOre- gon actor Alan Midgett, who had appeared in some Warhol films. Utah has sent Warhol a bill for losses in advertising, pro motion, and other expenses. Lin field has asked for its money back. Warhol has offered to actually appear at the schools to make good his contract. He will appear at Oregon February 21. Cracroft is unsure what to do with the money that would have gone to Warhol. He is not in clined to invite him back. He may use the money to bring some one else to the campus. 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