Wednesday, April 16, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pnri Ce-~ Wednesday, April 16, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rag e m The Campus in turmoil: Review of rhetoric I 1 By HOWARD KOHN If Mike Wallace, Harry Rea- soner and Eric Sevareid were on' campus as students, President Robben Fleming's dilemmas would be solved. The CBS' news triumverate turned Sunday dinner cook last night and served up the student protester glazed over with media images and sprinkled lightly with addled adolescence. P r o- duced by Burton Benjamin "to shed light rather than heat," the TV magazine special w a s simply a lesson in static com- munication. Mike Wallace moderated the student half-hour: "What can. we expect from you?" he asked. To answer him were four of the most stereotyped students CBS could apparently find in Chicago: (1) Bob Ross, the aca- demic radical, organizer of; a Radical Sociology Union at the University of Chicago; (2) Gloria Ferris, the token unlib- erated woman, a graduate stu- dent in humanities at the U of Chicago; (3) Denny Boggs, the articulate conservative, former president of the Young Repub- licans at the U of Chicago; and' (4) Jim Turner, the black spirit- man, a goatteed representative from Northwestern University. Conversation between the mod- erator and his four subjects was an exercise in rhetoric, unsatis- fying for the lecture-hardened student, unintelligible to the as- sembly line engineer and gen- erally unexciting. Turner hit hardest at the is- sues, expunging the universi- ties for "gobbling up land in the cities where black people live" and exposing their double stan- dards in "saying they don't want violence on campus when the campus is a breeding ground for violence with ROTC and the Institute for Defense Analysis." Ross, consistently remote and ideological, saw clearly enough to ask "How are we going to get .air that is breathable and water that is drinkable - write to US Steel? Or how are we going to end poverty - by p r e s s clip- pings?" "How are we?," Wallace count- ered. Ross began mumbling some- thing about organizing politi- cal campaigns or picketing or circulating petitions or using pressure tactics. In the back- ground Boggs of the YR, who earlier allowed that he was against Social Security but didn't go around blowing up Social Security offices, piped up "That's been done before' and you know where that leads . .." "Why, you're such a fantas- tic distorter, it's laughable," Ross smiled back. "Did you know that Hitler learned everything he did from America - . . from the way America treats its black peo- ple?" interjected Turner, who had gotten a little carried away. "Let me ask you this, Bob," shrilled Gloria, who had been successfully ignored up until then. "Yes, let Gloria talk. She hasn't had a chance to say any- thing," observed Wallace. And Gloria proceeded to talk and continued to say nothing. Then it was Harry Reasoner's turn with the university presi- dents, whom CBS had secluded in another roundtabled confer- ence room to avoid any direct confrontation and possible dia- logue. In order of appearance were Morris Abram, a former govern- ment bureaucrat now president of Brandeis; S. I. Hayakawa, a former semanticist now presi- dent of San Francisco State; and Robben Fleming, a former labor mediator now president of the University. In a rather amazing sequence of answers all three adminis- trators agreed wholeheartedly with each other. Hayakawa: "White radicals just want to destroy this culture. But I take blacks seriously because they have a reason for redress." Fleming: "Whites try to capi- talize on black demonstrations. But they haven't been success- ful because the blacks run their own show." Abram: "Blacks de- serve special attention because of special needs." Reasoner didn't bother to ask each man exactly what he had done to meet those needs. In unrehearsed unison the three ran down a list of com- mon pleas: Universities don't need reform as much as the society outside, universities are picked on because they are the most vulnerable to internal and external pressure, universities have no alternative but to meet with force, student militancy is polarizing the general public against universities, etc. Hayakawa showed some of his patented aggressiveness by placing part of the blame for "campus turmoil" on professors. "Hell hath no fury like an in- tellectual scorned," he recited. "Faculty members, especially in the humanities, feel that they're smarter than the average busi- nessman and are incensed that' the wrong kind of mentality is running this society." / "But what happened to the kids?" Reasoner wanted to know. "Is it something in the air from nuclear testing?" "Most students come from af- fluent families and they have feelings of guilt when they see examples of poverty. And there is no good reason why there should be poverty with all of our affluence," said Fleming. "In fact if we ever lose sight of the fact that our young peo- ple are basically right, then we'll have lost . "But they're wrong about a lot of things," interrupted Abram, who had been looking anxiously at Fleming "Oh, yes, certainly," Fleming hurried to agree. "I didn't mean to ,,." "Listen, I'll give you an ex- ample of their backwards think- ing-logic, I guess they call it..." . And so it went, every man to his own myth. And Eric Sevareid also-to the city of weeping and gnashing of teeth. "In no other country is it a social sin to be old," piqued Sevareid, although seemingly oblivious to the fact his gen- eration lets our grandparents subsist on less than $5,000 per year. "If the young do start a re- volution, it will. be only sym- bolistic," he added. "But the repression that will move to stop it will be realistic." Eric Sevareid, in his wisdom, had said it for us all. And CBS news had reached a journalistic low in the abyss of media in- sensitivity. FPA differs with Phi'Ep over women (Continued from Page 1) ed with the fellows in the fra- ternity system, and for the frater- nity members to decide whom they want to be a part of their house, and since the girls do not have a role in deciding who will be ad- mitted, then the role they play should be limited. But Natale went on to say that "since the girls are a vital part of the system at Phi Epsilon Phi," the recommendation sought only to limit their role and not com- pletely ban it. Natale said that he felt that the presidents were also concerned that the purpose of the fraternity system would be destroyed and that each house would be vying with one another to see who could get the prettiest girls, "which would set up a false front of what the fraternity system is all about." Natale also pointed out that there is a ruling against the usage of girls in rush according to IFC bylaws. 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The RC Representative Assem- bly, which has eight students, two resident fellows and eight facul- ty members, in the past semester, has decided to: - extend the time a student has for satisfying RC's rigorous lang- uage requirement from two years to four; - establish a student-run course as an alternative to "Logic" or another required course for a limited number of students; -oremove, the obligation of sophomores to complete a set of comprehensive exams on t h e i r .,first two years of study. Reform in massive educational institutions must usually be forc- ed by the now classic techniques of confrontation. But the aca- demic generation gap in RC is bridged by the common loyalty of faculty, students and administra- tors on which none of them pre- tends to lay an exclusive claim. The coming year will show whe- ther, or not the= source of that loyalty can be legitimately iden- tified as the "core" or, instead, as the' more subtle concept of a; col- lective ways of learning and teaching. Next year, RC's first junior class will leave East Quad, which har- bors all underclassmen. Almost all will have completed "core" r e - quirements and only 45 per cent will be pursuing RC concentra- tions. Even these concentrations will involve taikng a majority of courses in the literary college. The concentrations are none- theless very much designed with the RC student, and his distinctive features, in mind. RC is develop- ing new interdisciplinary concen- tration programs in urban stud- ies, the history of ideas, polyling- ual comparative literature and the drama. Innovative concentrations are in the near future for many RC stu- :ents, and this should form one of the ties holding them to the college. Another project designed to ar- rest the RC's decline to a two- year junior college is the $3 nil- lion remodeling of East Quad in- tended to improve the massive pre-war dormitory's merits as a community center by the addition of a library, lecture hall and cof- fee shop. Another step taken to assure the continued participation of upperclassmen in the college is the recent selection of five students to serve as resident fellows in their junior year. It is characteristic of the RC that the success of a residential experiment has been left, not to a residency requirement, but to the resources .of its students. Tomorrow: The Faculty Hang-up meet today. Sociology students and faculty will meet today at 4 p.m. to discuss problems which have arisen be- tween students and faculty within the department. The meeting, which will be in the sociology graduate lounge, was called by the Sociology Student Union. The students sent the faculty a letter inviting them to the meet-, ing to try to relieve some of the hostility resulting from students' attendance at a departmental fac- ulty meeting two weeks ago, ex- plained Robert Grobe, '70. At that time the faculty ad- journed the meeting because stu- dents were in attendance. All fac- ulty meetings in the department are closed sessions. The sociology union has demanded all faculty meetings to be open to students. Students want to discuss the questions of a student yoice in tenure decisions, opening faculty meetings, undergraduate curricu- lum reform and releasing student evaluations of department faculty members to students. N. F I CAr f : . _ : . , < ._ r ;' 4 _ a:Y: }i f i: i': r'. .' 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