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December 17, 1968 The N.C. Essay Terry Tickle San FRANCISCO BAY BLUES Alright, I'll admit it! I am an old line liberal and as such I am still oriented to Eugene V. Debs, the New Deal and Rex Tugwell rather than Clever, Carmichael and company although I am sympathetic to many things they say. Every society must be in a continual process of change for it to grow and survive, and hum an nature being what it is, a cer tain amount of agitation must occur to provide this change until such time as men are able to solve their problems intelligently and intellec tually. Clever, Carmichael and com pany have done much to provide the needed agitation. However the prin ciple method by which men advance has for 2000 years been the univer- sity-~not the university as a bat tlefield but the university as a place of collectively high intelli gence where societies* new ideas can be born. If the college and univer sity students and faculties cannot change their curriculum, rules and social environment without violence, the prospects for the future of man kind looks dismal. Violence can be expected from the poor and the under educated. They do not understand the world in which they live and have no other outlet of protest against their uncontrolable environ ment. Such is not the case with the students and faculties of our col leges who have the intelligence to understand their world and through research, writing, and teaching to do something about it. It is be cause of the many ourlets available for intellectual expression that one must find totally objectionable the events at San Francisco State Col lege. Two groups, the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front have torn the campus apart with their demands, many of which have no logical application to a "street car" college like SFSC. Numbers roll... and thoughts begin to stroll... Through the canyons of my mind... Clouds of incense fill the room The world keeps going in all its gloom. While I sit and watch it pass... Knowing I've found peace of mind at last Not forever... But I'll be back Rick Caswell They have demanded "the rapid estab lishment" of a school of ethnic stu dies . Such a department is not a bad idea but not if it is rapidly established. Such a school and de partment requires new faculty mem bers, carefully selected, a special ized library, always an absorbing cost; as well as new office and staff. They have also demanded un limited admission of non-white stu dents regardless of qualifications. Now no one denies the need for equal admissions but would anyone at NCSA demand admission of a student re gardless of dancing ability or musi cal training. The quality of any school would be destroyed by such demands. The behavior of these groups has been most unintellectual. Not only have they attacked newsmen on campus, they also broke into the of fice of the campus newspaper and beat up the editor and several re porters. The last group to use such violent methods of intimidation was the Klu Klux Klan. Liberals always face the prob lem of a lack of unity, yet if soc iety is to advance under the leader ship of the liberal community, the liberal is duty-swom to act with all his intellectual capacity. The liberal community, of which SFSC president Ichiya Hayakawa is surely a member, must not give support to fascism hiding under the guise of liberalism. The liberal must be willing to listen to each new idea and be ready and willing to adopt it, if it proves Intellectually val id, but he must not accept nor sup port an idea simply because it is new or because followers of the idea call themselves liberal. We are at a time which requires much more in telligent thought and much less ir rational violence. TICKLE'S In reply to Mr. Wilson's letter in last week's Essay I would first request that his various theses be broken down into their separate units for more accessable analysis. To discuss pure economic systems is to beg the point of their reality. Some qualifiers must be given. I also question limiting the discuss ion to economic aspects when most contemporary research indicates man's psycho-physical actions are more the foundation of his life than an economic system. Men, after all, have lived successfully flourished under a variety of economic systems. But the statement which I oppose most vehemently is Mr. Wilson's assumption that a "basic requirement of the nature of man is the freedom of his mind." Every event of writ ten history indicates that man is most willing to surrender his free- Page 7 GOING TO EUROPE? 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Thursday, January 2, 7:30-9:00 pm - MARK TWAIN TONIGHT REPLY dom of mind as long as he is given or is promised security. This thesis, discussed in detail in Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom, demon strates that even in the 20th cent ury the human community will entrust itself to a madman. Hitler, for example, in return for security. Man will burn books, colse schools,' annil his intellectuals and censor all forms of communication in return for an extra five minutes on this earth. Futheromore, I submit that al though there has never been a pure system of laissez-faire, that the closer we have come to it, the more life has been a living hell for the masses of people, I now hope that Mr. Wilson will find here more material for discuss ion.
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