ridgerunner • thursday, January 27, 1972
Young Democrats Say:
Three Million Youths Registered To Vote
Approximately 3,000,000
18-20 year olds have registered
to vote at 2.7 to 1 Democratic
rate, Robert Weiner, National
Youth registration coordinator
for the Young Democrats
office at the Democratic Na
tional Committee, announced
today. These are the results
of a survey of Secretaries of
State and Voter Registration
Coordinators across the
country conducted by the
Young Democrats’ National
Headquarters in Washington,
D.C.
This total represents 27
per cent of the ll'A million
elegible 18-21 year olds
with the presidential election
coming up in more than ten
months. The total registered
at this early time surprises
many political analysts who
had predicted that young
persons would not register
in large numbers.
Results were obtained from
thirty-two states, as well as
a breakdown of party registra
tion for fourteen.
The National Young
Democrats, Weiner said, have
been conducting an intensive
registration drive in the 18-20
year old age group since June
1, 1971. They have sent teams
of canvasers to assist local
groups, sponsored rock con
certs, held statewide and local
registration workshops, and
utilized telephone banks and
other techniques. College,
high school, and non-student
youth are all being urged to
register.
Weiner also praised the
many local and national
groups besides the Young
Democrats which have con
tributed to what he termed,
“an excellent beginning.”
He stressed, however that it
is only a beginning, and that
Future of Campus
Radio To Be
Determined Soon
Meetings of the Student Senate
will be held in the next few weeks
to determine the future of the
campus radio station, WUNF,
according to SGA sources.
SGA President Jim Cochran
has appealed to those interested
in seeing the station revived to
come to the meetings with some
concrete plans and some pro
posals prepared.
The specific times for the
meetings will be announced in
the near future.
Special Programs Still
In Limbo Pending Action
The Special Programs Com
mittee is still in limbo here at
UNC-A until there is some pos
itive action by the Chancellor.
Members of the committee
forwarded a proposal to the
Chancellor at their last meeting
to set up a new committee, making
it a commission and giving it
regular, institutional funding as
well as student funding.
The proposal, written up by the
Chairman of the committee, Mr.
Robert Trullinger, added that
members of the commission
should serve terms of two years,
thus giving the body a continuity.
Further, it advicated the develop
ment of a file of speakers and
programs available.
Chancellor Highsmith, in an
interview with the Ridgerunner,
stated that at present there are
several avenues open.
First, the Chancellor will
request from the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Trustees
that the present recreation
facilities use fee of $7.50 be
expanded to $12.00 and that the
fee be split in half, six dollars per
year per student for recreations
use and the other six dollars for
speakers, cultural programs,
music, entertainment, etc. All
programs would be under the
discretion of the Commission.
Another path is for the Chan
cellor to request in the next
budgetary requests, .the addition
of a line-item for special programs,
thus granting specifically des
ignated funds for such programs.
The second alternative in this
direction is to seek a looser line-
item budget so that there would
be money available, although
not on a designated basis.
The SGA, also at the last
meeting of the committee with
drew any guaranteed support
from the committee, due to the
fact that the administration can
not guarantee funds. Chancellor
Highsmith explained that at
present, the funding for events
like the upcoming writers’ sym
posium and the Russell Johnson
appearance have to be liberated
from the general expenses budget.
“We think we’re still going to
pay all our bills and we see the
importance of having speakers
on campus, so we pull the money
out of the general operating
expenses budget, “Highsmith
pointed out.
Until there is solid administra
tive guaranteed funding, SGA
President Jim Cochran feels that
it is useless to continue on any
planning since there is no budget
to base a program on.
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the critical period for register
ing young voters will be the
next six months, in order for
these voters to have the
maximum impact on next
year’s Presidential, Congress
ional, and local elections.
Weiner cited th'e 2.7 to 1
Democraic to Repubican
registration ratio nation
wide as proof .that “the young
people of America are ready
for constructive, responsible
change.”
(CPS)—If you’ve ever floated on a
waterbed and enjoyed it, you’ll
soon have the chance to ooze
around on a mud bed.
The developer calls it “in
credibly comfortable. It’s softer
than a feather bed. It’s like
floating. You can relax com
pletely.”
The bed is made of a square
wooden frame with a sealed bottom
filled with “special mud” and
covered by a vinyl sheet sealed
to the frame. The mud is elec
trically heated to 85 degrees.
One disadvantage is that the
mud weights twice as much as
water and therefore poses a
weighty problem.
FOOTBALL DROPPED AT
UC-SANTA BARBARA
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.
(CPS)—The University of Calif
ornia at Santa Barbara has
dropped intercollegiate foot
ball because of financial dif
ficulties.
The decision ends 50 years of
football at UC-Santa Barbara.
Football coach Andy Everest
had his contract extended formne
year. He will take on classroom
duties. The assistant coaches
were fired.
TURTLE DOVES SING IT OUT
KUALA LUMPUR (CPS)—
Seventy-two turtledoves competed
recently in a singing contest run
by the Aquarists and Aviarists
Society of Penang.
The winning bird was imported
from Bali by a policeman at
a cost of $1,300.
Kuala Lumpur was the scene
last spring of what was first
reported to be a war involving
several tens of thousands of
frogs but later was reported to be
an annual mating rite.
“people are driven mad by other people”
Review: R. D. Laing’s
Self and Others
On January 20, Penguin Books
Inc. will publish the revised
edition of SELF AND OTHERS,
a startling probe of the relations
between the self and other people
by British psychoanalyst R. D.
Laing, the controversial author
of THE DIVIDED SELF.
In SELF AND OTHERS,
Laing attempts to “weave ex
perience and behavior into a
consistent theory” since they are
“so woven in real life.” He begins
by looking at different modes of
expereince as forms of relation
ships between individuals. He
then goes on to consider key
patterns of interaction, especially
those that characterize extreme
forms of disturbance or breakdown
of relationships. Drawing on
sources such as psychoanalysis
and literature, SELF AND
OTHERS provides a provocative
study of schizophrenia and the
varieties of human experience.
Both R. D. Laing's books and
practice have popularized the
radical new theory of the causes
of schizophrenia and other forms
of “insanity.” “People are driven
mad by other people,” he writes,
by the pressures of society and
the family. Laing’s ideas have
been the cause of considerable
interest and controversy in recent
years.
Here is what they are saying
about R. D. Laing;
“The life and energy of Laing’s
vision—in his practice as well as
his books—creates a little more
open space for the self in the
world .. . Laing can at least give
us a start in the direction we need
to go.” Marshall Berman, The New
York Times Book lieview.
“. . . he is that rare breed in
which the scientist and artist
dwell in the same skin ...”
Rollo May, Saturday Review.
“An exceptionally courageous
psychiatrist who is willing to
plumb his own depths and chal
lenge head on the hypocrisy and
duplicity of his own profession
and the larger society of which
it is so prominent a part.” Robert
Coles, The New Republc.
R. D. Laing’s THE DIVIDED
SELF and SANITY, MADNESS
AND THE FAMILY are also
available in Penguin edition.
SELF AND OTHERS
by R. D. Laing
A Penguin Book-$ 1.25
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Ion Uietnom
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