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Student fictivism Grows More Mature
By Mike Ochsenreiter
Student Editor
A decade or so ago it might have led
to a demonstration, or worse. But in
the style of today's campus activism,
when the president of the University
of Florida re-allocated fees that the
^^Student Government Association
assumed were under its jurisdiction,
the student leaders sued the president
instead of occupying his office. And in
a remarkable display of chutzpah, they
requested his signature on a voucher
allowing them to hire a lawyer to press
their legal suit. He refused.
The incident illustrates the degree to
which today's collegians believe they
are entitled to roles in campus gover
nance, in addition to their willingness
to operate within the system to
achieve their objectives. College
students in the 1970s evolved into a
new mode, moving from strident con
frontation to relatively peaceful
cooperation. The warcry of H. Rap
Brown to "burn it down" has been
eschewed in favor of the sage advice
of the late Sam Rayburn that "to go
along is to get along."
The maturation of student activism
reflects student acceptance of fresh
realities. Gone are searing issues, such
as the Vietnam War and the struggle
for civil rights, that so effectively
galvanized students in years past. In
stead, students today concentrate
their energies on preparation for
careers, and getting into professional
schools, rather than on expanding
their political influence on campus.
While students in some schools, UNC-
A being one, sit on boards of trustees
and in faculty senates, other oppor
tunities for influence are allowed to
lapse from lack of attention.
In some cases, the exercise of power
has not always proved to be the heady
experience that many students ex
pected when they took part in sit-ins,
propped their feet on the mahogany
desks and smoked the adminstrators'
best cigars. As members of student-
faculty committees, for instance,
undergraduates at Harvard recently
won a drive for free toilet paper in dor
mitories. Snickers aside, such "tissue"
issues are not of the sort one would
brag, or write home, about.
Areas of greater interest and respon
sibility — the selection and promotion
of faculty and the budgetary process,
for example — are usually off-limits to
students as they require total immer
sion in the issues, something students
just cannot achieve, given the other
demands on their time.
Such is the fruit of the student
rebellions of the 1960s and the early
1970s: an uneven harvest on cam
puses across the country. Anarchy has
yielded to academics, raucousness has
given way to quietude, and ad
ministrators are no longer perceived as
the enemy ... at least for the time
being.
Incidentally, if you were wondering
about the outcome of the suit against
the president of the University of
Florida, it was recently decided. Ac
cording to a report in the New York
Times, a state court upheld the refusal
of the president to permit student
monies to be spent for a lawyer to sue
him.
1979-80 GRE FEE WAIVER PROGRAM
OWEN BUILDING
From Page One
the university to offer a much broader
range of services to education in this
field.
the specialties embraced by the
department cover general manage
ment, business administration, public
administration, financial management
and personnel management.
"These facilities," said the
chancellor, "will enable two depart
ments which have been making ex
cellent contributions to art and
management to increase those con
tributions many times."
Both the Art and Management
departments will make full use of the
building from now on.
The additional space allows the Art
Department to vacate the Art Annex
on Merrimon Avenue which it has us
ed for the past five years, through the
cooperation of Fred Pearlman and
Julius Blum and later McDonald's
Restaurants.
The Rev. Graham Butler-Nixon, rec
tor of Asheville's Trinity Episcopal
Church, offered the prayer of invoca
tion and dedication.
The University still has GRE Fee-
Waiver Certificates available for
students who are U.S. citizens, enroll
ed seniors, and receiving financial
assistance from a college or university
in the U.S. with a parental contribu
tion of $200 or less to their senior year.
Self-supporting students qualify if
their total family contribution is $200
It is difficult to believe that someone
can differ from us and be right.
Everybody who got where he is had
to start from where he was.
Middle-age is when you go all out and
end up all in.
A real loser is one who moved into a
new neighborhood and got run over
by the Welcome Wagon.
Male chauvinist pig is an overbear
ing boar.
Tact is rubbing out anothers's
mistake instead of rubbing it in.
or less for the student's senior year.
All of this must have been
documented from financial aid forms
currently on file in the Financial Aid
Office.
If you anticipate taking the GRE by
June 1980, you should contact the
Financial Aid Office prior to January
31, 1980.
It isn't work unless you would rather
be doing something else.
Nothing is quite so annoying as to
have someone go right on talking
when you are interrupting.
The real test in golf and in life is not
keeping out of the rough, but in get
ting out after we are in.
A man is getting old when he scans
the menu without first looking at the
waitress.
He who gets to big for his britches
will be exposed in the end.
SHORT SHOTS