lance, OCTOBER 23,1975
Shulz
St. Andrews Assistant
Professor of PoUtics Larry
Shulz returned late in the sum
mer from a several-week stay
in India, where visited with In
dian scholars and conducted
research at various peace
study centers. Schulz con
ducted his research under St.
Andrews’ auspices as part of a
broadly-based study entitled
"Cross-Cultural Dimensions
of Peace Education.”
Eas
Early last spring, the SA
professor was awarded an
{800 overseas study grant with
which to finance the India trip.
“My purpose in traveling
and studying in India,” Schulz
says, “was to add to my un-
erstanding of international
ace education.”
Schulz’s interest in the area
of j)eace education stems from
professional training in the
eld of international politics,
ndhis experience in teaching
“War and Peace,” a course he
s offered to SA students
uring the past three years.
training, experience and
flection, the professor says,
ve led him to the conviction
at the ultimate question
acing our global community
whether postures of peace
-an preval over self-
nihilation through all-out
orld warfare.
India has been much in the
ews lately, Schulz points out,
ue to the current political
Ituation there, in which
'me Minister Indira Gandhi
as instigated controversial
‘emergency actions” in the
“terest of what she sees as
er nation’s survival as a
emocracy.
Upon his return from India,
ofessor Schulz reflected on
sstay in India:
“Peace research in India is
expanding and exciting en-
rprise. India leads the Third
orld countries in the
ublication of new findings in
uch areas as global economic
ends affecting the poorer
ountries, structural
nequities contributing to
olence, and comparisons of
alues held by those of
astern cultures. For peace
dies, the most important of
ese values are the ones
hich shape the respective at-
tudes on such issues as
eaceful settlements of
spates regional cooperation,
nvironmental protection,
isarmament and the
utonomy of individuals,
oups and regions from ex-
srnal control.
Finds Surprises
Harrington Speaks
5
“Since I have a professional
interest in Asian politics, I
was eager to gain a first-hand
impression of the current
political situation in India
During my stay, I talked with
public employees, private
citizens and scholars, and
read a wide variety of Indian
newspapers. I also kept a
lengthy journal of my im
pressions and experiences.
“What I found was not what
I expected to find. I had left
the U. S. with the American
press reports of the
“Emergency” actions of Ms.
Gandhi’s government fresh in
my mind. Almost all of these
were unquestioningly
negative in their conclusions
with respect to the future of
Indian democracy. Instead of
arriving in the midst of a
“police state” backed by a
strong-armed dictatorship, I
found a nation and society
remarkably calm and over
whelmingly in support of what
was being attempted.
“By the time I was ready to
return home, a more complete
image of Indian politics had
begun to form in my mind.
“For 28 years India has
maintained a democratic
system characterized by a
single dominant party,
several active opposition par
ties of varying regional
strength, an active press and
the rule of law. Though there
have obviously been some
serious encroachments on
freedom of the press and civl
liberties under the Emergen
cy, I have not seen or read
anything which warrants the
conclusion that India’s pattern
of democratic government has
failed,” Shulz said.
“Most Americans and
Western Europeans have
judged India’s performance
by their own standards”, #ie
said, “namely, that unless
there are two parties alter
native in power with complete
freedom of the press, there is
no democracy. Indians like to
point out that in Great Britain
the press is heavily censored
in such areas as reporting on
court trials in progress, and in
France the political system
has been dominated by a post-
Gaullist center which uses the
electoral process to assure
that the centrists keep the
balance of the six major par
ties in line. Yet no one con
cludes that democracy is dead
in either Britain or France.
“Some of the consequences
of the economic policies being
carried out under the
Emergency were strikingly
apparent to me while in India.
At the end of July the inflation
rate had dropped from 28 per
cent (the rate of one year ago)
to .4 per cent. The price of
such critical commodities as
rice and sugar had stabilized.
More hoarders and tax-
dodgers had been arrested in a
one-month period than in the
pre'jous year’s time. It was
clar to me that if anyone was
kicking, it was not the large
percentage of India’s urban
and rural poor, but rather the
few elite groups who now feel
more threatened than ever
before, in the face of a
program which calls for an
end to some gross inef
ficiencies, glaring inequities
and callous disregard for the
minimal standards of human
existence. Whether per
formance continues to match
stated objectives is an open
question,” concluded Shulz,
“but the attempt should count
for something in the treatment
of India’s problems by the
Western media.”
Parents Undertake
Fund Raising Effort
The Parent’s Division of the
St. Andrews Annual Fund will
seek to raise $40,000 as its part
of the $675,000 goal of the 1975-
1976 /nnual Fund. This
represents an increase from
the $2j,300 raised last year.
According to Champn^y A.
McNair, Chairman of the 1975-
1976 Parent’s Fund, last
year’s $23,300 was raised
without any special
COLLEGE GULF
across from south
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ENTRANCE
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DRIVE SAFELY
Scotland county’s Blcen-
toinial observance will focus
on how Americans use and
abuse their “land of plenty”
tomorrow ni^t in a puUic
program at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College. It
be the second in the local
series of the American Issues
Forum.
Secretary James E.
Harrington of the North
Carolina Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources will be the speaker
in a i»-ogram sponsored
jointly by the college’s divi
sion of Mathematical, Nat
ural and Health Sciences and
the Scotland County Bicen
tennial Commission’s Ameri
can Issues Forum. Arrange
ments for the program were
by Dr. Clarence E.
Styrcn of the science divisi(Ki
in cooperatirai with Betty
Myers, forum chairman.
Harrington’s address will be
delivered in the Avinger
auditorium on campus at 8
o’clock, and the publk is in
vited.
‘ ‘Use and Abuse in the Land
of Plenty,” the speaker’s
topic, is tte forum theme for
this week, which is part of the
overall forum issue, “The
Land of Plenty”, for the Sept.
28 - Oct. 25 period. It is ex
pected that Harrington will
discuss nvironmental pro
blems in his address.
A native of Southern Pines,
Harrington received his for
med education at Virginia
Military bistitute, where he
graduated with a Bachelor
of Sdoice degree in diemi-
stry. He has served as a com
pany executive with both
Pinehurst, Inc. and the Sugar
Mountain Conpany.
Harrington has served in
4he Young Presidents Organi-
zaticn, a national organi
zation composed of OHnpany
presidents under the age of
40. He has been actwe a num
ber of years in the RepuUican
Party, at flie state level as
wdl as in his native Moore
county. In 1964 he was a dele
gate to the National Re
publican Convention.
Harringtffli told his audi
ence the greatest challenge
America wiU face in its next
two hundred years will be
that of balancing devdo-
pment and energy needs with
conservaticHi of natural re
sources.
He also discussed issues of
local interest as well as those
of statewide concern, pre
dicting a natural gas crisis
in North Carolina and that the
New River will indeed be in
cluded in the WUd and Scenic
Rivers System.
Entitled “Our 200 Years;
Tradition and Renewal”, the
American Issues Forum ex
plores the issues which have
developed during the nation’s
history. Covered are the
people, the land, rights and
government work, business
and institutions.
First in the series was held
in September when Karen
Helms, artist-in-residence at
Richmond Technical Institute,
presented a concert-lecture.
“A Nation of Nations” was the
opening theme in the forum
series.
Book Published
On N. C. Indians
solicitation at all. “If St. An
drews parents will give that
much without being asked, it
is reasonable to assume that
we can reach our goal of
$40,000 it an organized cam
paign is conducted,” McNair
added.
McNair is president of the
Trust Company Bank of Atlan
ta, Georgia, and is a double-
barreled St. Andrews parent.
Bill graduated in 1975, and
Johnny is currently a junior at
the College.
Pick Up
Your Grades
Assistant Dean Bob Valentine
says mid-term grades can be
picked iq) by students at
their advisors’ offices. They
will not be mailed this year.
North Carolina has the
largest Indian population of
any state east of the Mississippi
and the fifth largest of any
state.
In view of this, Ruth Wet-
more, Curator of the Indian
Museum of the Carolinas, was
surprised to find that so little
had been written about the
North Carolina Indians.
After several years of
research and work, her own
Indian book will be published
September 27 by John F. Blair,
in Winston-Salem. “First on the
Land: The North Carolina
Indians” traces Indian history
from the wandering bands of
hunters of about 10,000 B.C. to
the Cherokees’ tourist business
of today and the Lumbees’
current struggle for tribal
recognition.
Mrs. Wetmore tells which
tribes occupied which present-
day counties and summarizes
what is known of tribes no
longer in existence. She also
outlines distinguishing
characteristics of arrowheads
and other relics to aid readers
in identifying and dating their
finds.
Mrs. Wetmore says that she
has found great interest in
American Indian culture in
recent years. She has devoted a
large section of her book to
discussing the Indians’ daily
life: which wood was preferred
for making a bow or grinding
corn, which herbs were used to
treat ailments, how pottery was
shaped without a wheel. She
details myths and religious
beliefs and ceremonies, such as
the warrior’s purification with
the “black drink” before a
battle.
Born in Nebraska, Mrs.
Wetmore graduated from Park
College in ^lissouri and
received her master’s degree
from th6 University of Kansas.
She has participated in ar
cheological excavations in
North Carolina and has ac
companied archeology classes
from St. Andrews CoUege to
Mexico as a lecturer on the
Spanish Conquest. Mrs. Wet
more lives in Laurinburg,
where the Indian Museum of
the Carolinas is located and
where her husband is a
professor of chemistry at St.
Andrews.
Sept. 18,1775
The Continental Congress
appoints a secret committee to
import up to 500 tons of gun
powder as well as 20,000 musket
locks and other arms.