VOLUME LIII
Chicago Hurting For Conventions
Dr. William Carroll, Chairman
of the Political Science
Department, voted with the
American Political Science
Association two weeks ago
against holding its meeting in
Chicago. The ban covers a three
year period.
Also the American
Sociological Association
canceled annual meetings
scheduled in Chicago for 1969
and 1970. The American
Psychological Association
recently made a similar move.
The American Humanist
Association became the fourth
major organization to announce
that it is moving future
Columbia Faculty Meets
Classes were two weeks off,
but the midday rally around the
sundial on the Columbia
University campus still drew
about 200 persons. Leaders of
the local Students for a
Democratic Society chapter
(SDS) denounced Columbia for
its war research, its ties with
governmental agencies, and
policies in the surrounding
neighborhood.
Just before one o'clock, an
SDS leader urged the crowd to
move to McMillin Theater,
where Columbia's first faculty
meeting ever called by the
faculty itself was being held.
"Let's go,' he shouted.
The youths demanded
entrance to the meeting, but
Campus security police stood
firm. There was no violence,
only pushing and shoving, until
the door was locked and the
students left.
The confrontation was
significant because it dramatized
the likelihood of recurrent
protests on the Morningside
Heights campus by students who
are not satisfied with recent
YR Club Takes Shape
Although the evidence of
political activity on the campus
has thus far been nil, campaign
fever has hit the Guilford
College campus once again,
according to the Young
Republicans Club president
Sarah Hodell. It is her hope that
students will see a tremendous
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conventions planned for Chicago
away from that city to
somewhere else. The association
said it had placed itself under a
five-year ban on all national
regional meetings in Chicago.
The action came in protesting
the treatment of thousands of
demonstrators at the hands of
the Chicago police department
during the recent Democratic
National Convention.
Executive Director of the
Humanist Association, Tolbert
McCarroll announced last week
that the Association has sent
letters urging similar action to
hundreds of other
organizations.
changes in administration and
policies.
It was also ironic because of
what was happening inside at the
faculty meeting. Up for
consideration was a report
outlining rules for campus
demonstrations.
While the students were
trying to force their way in, the
professors were upholding their
right to demonstrate peacefully.
Previously-illegal indoor protests
were okayed, but violence, loud
noise, force, blocking doorways,
mass invasions of offices, and
other disruptions were outlawed.
The new rules also require the
university president to consult a
faculty committee before he
calls police. Demonstrators must
be notified if police are to be
used.
The faculty also
recommended broader clemency
for those arrested or suspended
last spring. An amendment
requesting total amnesty was
defeated. Some felt the protest
outside was a factor in the vote.
rise in political involvement this
year.
In an effort to prove her
prediction correct, the Young
Republicans plan to kick off
their activities with a
membership drive from Monday,
Sept. 23, to Friday, Sept. 27.
This drive will be followed by
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968
Youth Lobby Formed
The millions of young people
who are outraged about the war
in Vietnam, the draft and what
they think of as their
"second-class status" in
American society have many
ways of showing their feelings.
Some riot, some of them
write or publish pamphlets or
newspapers, some have this year
been working to elect to office
the candidates they think best
exemplify their views and speak
for them.
One young man in Florida
has decided that the answer to
youth's problems may lie in a
Catholic Professors Investigated
When students at Catholic
colleges and universities return
to their campuses this fall, they
will be faced not only with the
usual problems of campus and
national politics, student
movements, and the peculiar
problems of private and tightly
controlled institutions, but also
with a set of new ones spawned
by Pope Paul Vl's June edict on
birth control.
The controversy over his
encyclical, "Humanae Vitae,"
which reaffirmed the Catholic
Church stand against
contraception and with which
more than 650 theologians and
Church officials around the
world have publicly disagreed,
may spread to the campuses this
fall.
In other nations, bishops have
been satisfied to interpret the
edict loosely; the hierarchies in
Belgium, West Germany and the
Netherlands have endorsed the
right of individual Catholics to
follow their own consciences in
considering the issue for
themselves and their families.
In the United States,
however, bishops have taken it
upon themselves to enforce
several meetings, forums,
debates, party speakers, a
campus poll, and fund-raising
functions. These various
activities, the exact nature of
which will be announced later,
will be directed toward a
"turn-out-the-vote" program for
GOP Presidential nominee
Richard Nixon and North
Carolina Gubernatorial
candidate Jim Gardner.
Sarah says that there is no
reason why Guilford cannot
have a YR Club of at least two
hundred members. "I am
confident that the students care
about their country and want to
do something to help it out of
the mess our Democratic
Administration has created."
The YR's objectives are to
educate students in local, state,
and national politics as well as
aid the GOP in electing its
candidates.
The first meeting has been
tentatively set for Wednesday,
Oct. 2. Further information and
other activities will be posted
later.
National Lobby to campaign
solely for the views of the young
in the political arena.
Kenneth Rothschild of
Deerfield, Fla., contends that
the generation of under-26
citizens in this country (in other
words, the draftables) are being
exploited by a political system
run almost exclusively by those
over 26, and that it is time for
young people to do something
about it.
The fault, Rothschild
m aintains, lies in the
decision-making process in the
U.S. government, which decides
strict obedience to and
endorsement of the encyclical;
they view any deviation from
the Pope's edict by individual
priests or professors in
church-run universities as a
potential breakdown in Church
authority.
In Washington, the issue came
to a head last week as Patrick
Cardinal O'Donoghue, who had
read arguments for both sides of
the birth Control question to his
congregation and urged them to
follow their consciences. He has
threatened 52 other priests with
suspension if they do
not retract their public defense
of the right of Catholics to
follow their consciences.
O'Boyle also called a meeting
of the trustees of Washington's
Catholic University of America
(of which he is chancellor) to
discuss possible action against 17
CU faculty members who signed
an anti-encyclical statement.
The statement said that
"spouses may responsibly decide
according to their consciences
that artificial contraception in
some circumstances is
permissible and indeed necessary
to preserve and foster the values
and sacredness of marriage."
The trustees ordered an
"immediate investigation" of the
dissidents through academic
channels, and voted to prohibit
the 17 from teaching until the
investigation was completed
unless they promised to refrain
from further public statements
against the Pope's edict which
would involve the name of the
University.
The University's Academic
Senate, made up of about 30
professors and administrators,
met Thursday and took the first
slow steps toward an
investigation. The Senate set up
a "committee on committees,"
which they said would create
two subcommittees to
investigate procedural questions.
One subcommittee will
examine the conditions set down
by the trustees-no public
statements of dissension
involving the name of the
university—for the dissenters to
avoid suspension, to determine
whether the trustees have the
right to impose those conditions.
The other will recommend
procedure for carrying out the
inquiry demanded by the
trustees.
Whether the 17 professors
will accept conditions of silence
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NUMBER 1
among alternative courses of
action on the basis of weighing
the vested interests in each
possibility. In the case of the
Vietnam war, President Johnson
initially made a war decision
rather than a non-war decision,
because he took into account
the interests of the adult
population and neglected the
interests of the under-26
generation which would have to
fight and die in the war.
"The beneficial value of war,
although only slightly greater
than those of non-war,
continually lures Johnson," he
says. "The harm of war can be
very great. What Johnson has
done is reduce the probability of
harm for himself and his
constituents (adults) while still
pursuing the rewards."
Rothschild hopes the Youth
Lobby, for which he has issued a
proposal, can be a way for youth
to fight back against such
decision-making. The Lobby is
to be an "inter-racial,
non-partisan power center," is to
set up an organization "which
will be influential in directing
current legislation," is to provide
a "clearinghouse for youth's
opinions."
The organization is clearly
not aimed at those who would,
SDS-style, tear the system down
and start over, who think the
established political process is
incurably ill. The Lobby's
objectives include "providing a
constructive outlet for young
activists who may move in time
of frustration to rebellion and
lawlessness" and "Providing
some rapport between youth
and the Establishment."
The main evil Rothschild
wants to change is the draft,
which he sees as the most
blatant exploitation of youth by
adults.
While he does not advocate
making the old fight or even
turning the decision-making over
entirely to the young, he
proposes a way to "make the old
agonize too." He, like Senator
McGovern, calls for the
establishment of a volunteer
army, both because it, "unlike
the present Selective Service
system, is not involuntary
servitude," and because it would
make the cost of war greater
than the cost of peace. If the
military were run on a
free-enterprise basis, the
government would have to bid
for soldiers' services; and those
services would command a much
higher price in wartime.
GHEZZI RESIGNS
Janet Ghezzi, editor of the
1968 Quaker has resigned.
Miss Ghezzi refused
comment when questioned
by a staff member on the
cause of her action.
A junior political science
major, Miss Ghezzi was
named to the position last
spring by the Publications
Board.
No information has been
released concerning a
replacement. One member of
the Pub Board expressed
surprise Sunday when
informed of the resignation.