Equalization Plan: Li rll S P I ' Your Discontinued Textbooks worth real mone! if sold to ULRICH'S with your currently good ones. YOUR BEST DEAL-FIGURE IT OUT ULRICH'S sell your discontinued books to over 600 college bookstores. This way we get the highest possible prices for you. At least 25% of the books used this semester are now obso- lete or discontinued. 7 another ULRICH sere (Continued from Preceding Page) the only, extensive training pro- gram for the Olympic athletes of the United States. While other countries subsidize their Olympic training programs, the United States leaves its athletes on their own. The only ones that can af- ford to train well, then, are those that are on scholarship at the colleges and universities. AND, FINALLY, and probably the most important aspect of college athletes--or at least the one that makes them the most difficult to argue against-is the fact that they entertain the public. But whether the public wants it or not, things are in need of change on the college athletic front. Actually, a choice must be made, and the alternatives are: amateur or professional. Either college athletics will have to admit that they are operating a professional system where every- one gets paid, or else they will have to clean it up and face more rigid amateur standards. To remain amateur is the ob- vious choice, since the battle is against going "big time." To admit that college athletics are profes- sional would be inviting trouble in bigger "slush" funds, increased help in "under the table" loans and gifts and probably a greatly increased circulation of betting and bribery that have already taken a toll at some institutions. THE PROBLEM then, is how to become more amateur, and how to cut down on the "big time" without ruining the public appeal of college athletics, Actually, it is quite simple, and needs effort only in the centraliza- tion and organization on a na- tional level. What has to be done is an extensive program of equali- zation. All money matters must be run on a rigid basis, where no one school can offer any more-- money-wise-than another. This is currently being attempt.. ed by the Big Ten and is working quite well. The Conference has al- ready tightened to the point where some of the former powers have fallen and some newcomers ap- peared on top. However, the rumors around the league all say that the program is failing because it is not being enforced strictly. One hears fre- quently of another school that has slipped through some illegal aid. Granted, these sort of rumors multiply greatly, but they usually do not start without some founda- tion. T HE LOGICAL solution lies with a group that goes by the name of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This organization has, in the past, been almost powerless to attempt anything that would necessitate the enforcement that this suggestion demands. However, it is necessary that it be done on this level. Part of the trouble that the Big Ten has had is the result of equal restrictions not being in effect at neighboring schools. While Big Ten recruiters have their hands tied by the Big Ten Aid Plan, the schools in the Big Seven have come into the basket- ball states of Indiana and Illinois and run off with the best boys. This same story has been re- peated in other sports, and some Big Ten coaches have pointed out that even the Ivy League is able to offer an athlete more money than the Big Ten is at present. WHAT IS NEEDED, then, is a universal aid plan, in which every school in the country that wants to compete in the NCAA is allowed the same number of schol- arships and the same amount of money. This would be exactly the same as the Big Ten operates under now. Schools that failed to abide by this would be dropped from the (Concluded on Next Page) . (Continued from Preceding Page) coveries except by individual ef- fort, and life in the college of liberal arts must be organized in such a way that the student is continually thrust into situations from which he must extricate him- self by his own efforts. I would like to say that learn- ing does not thrive in the situa- tion in which the students are on one side facing a set of require- ments, all the way from examina- tions and grades based on them to required texts, lectures and par- ticular subjects, with the faculty on the other, waiting with their' criticisms to catch the man who hasn't done his work, or who hasn't read the right book, or-who doesn't say what he is supposed to. In that situation, the intelli- gence and animal cunning of the student are used to beat the system rather than to learn, and teaching becomes a series of tiny punitive actions which keep the student constantly on his guard. He is then unable to let himself go in the enjoyment of reading which he wants to do, reading which1 moves him into new insight or captures him as he reads, or tells - him something which he wants to know and needs to know in order; to accomplish something important to him. Most good students can beat any system the educators put in front of them, and the best stu- dent, the one we used to admire when I was in college, was the man who could beat the system with no. apparent effort, who was so clever at it and showed so much style and grace under stress, that no one would have believed that he' had ever opened a book, attended a class or listened to a word that was said. It is therefore very important,' In my judgement, to change ,the system so that it is one which you cannot beat, because there is' nothing to beat except oneself, a system which does not align the forces in opposite camps, but which joins together the teacher and the student in a common en- deavor to gain some insight into truth and knowledge. WHERE ARE WE then in the search for achieving liberal- ism? What is the future of liberal- ,ism and the liberal arts? If what has been said about... liberalism has any truth in it, one answer is clear. The essence of the liberal movement lies in its con- cern for human values as against material, political and money values. We who are teachers must teach passionately the faith we hold in the possibilities of man. There are enough who tell us of the faults of man, his inconstancy, his weak- ness, his indecision, his ignorance. That side is already adequately handled. We must say to all who will listen that this is not an ordinary period in American history. It is the first time in the history of civilization that one country has ever had the chance of leading the whole world in creative and democratic experiments in social planning. It is the first time in history that any country has had the means, both in material wealth and in social structure to give to every child born an opportunity for education up to the height of his powers. It is the first time that any country has had the economic strength to wipe out entirely the slums, and with them the bad human relations, the juvenile de- linquency and the evils of sub- urban and urban congestion. It is the first time that it has been possible for the entire resources of Western culture-its music, poetry, drama, literature, ballet, art ob- jects-to be brought to a whole population through television, mo- tion pictures, radio and the mass magazines. WE IN.AMERICA are at the be- ginning of what amounts to a cultural revolution made possible by science and education, moving in an incredibly short time from education and culture for the few to universal education and a high level of mass culture for a total population. 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