PAGE TWENTY THE MCMGAN DAILY THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20_ 1959 WAGE TWE TY HE M CI~IGA DAI Y T TIR~flA ~F T!~ J~' 90lOK a .a.a V AWK3 l.CAJL , 1;.1.VAK i ACAITA"r4iy RIV, 1 Z7 a 0 I the tradition that is MICH IGAN is fine performance -~e~ftft~/ff 1,t t ;:t et a f I rti M 1 r f " I 'y'4!" h lt t t" ," NM"..) I1 ~t*I {t j, 0 I #j ''_ si t"'w="i "t +, etSea*ea ra..r ." *S . "h r".."5 t"" a to f ft j " M M ," I i t t { t i t t 1 " t t; t " " i!" i" st "d t~ 1t*dft t ti/tt*1 1 t M " "f tiry4 n. yti/hy ryl ,n,'b« "y * t ti t +" ! " "t "}t" t" ; a. t ti t tt .t t .t;" "f tj t +bt e4 tIf tI4t,." 1+' ' '+'4 " '"*** N * M f**'~* M 4 ." M h "+ M N " i4""t* s% * i ";s %tip* 4i.*t.+i* e I..1*),t* IitIat te tf tf t * 1* i ," ,"# i 0 0 - ra %et~e Nra rr', r"a "*t Ta lo r (Continued from Page 19) Criti cizes Educators ceased to exist except for the nos- talgic, you turn inside." There is a whine and a whimper in the tone of this remark. "All large ideashave ceased to exist?" What about the idea of freedom? Isn't it large and isn't it what a large part of the world conflict is about? Isn't it real? What about truth? What aboutJ ustice? What about equality? These are large ideas, theyhare the ones which represent the heart of contem- porary struggle and change in America and everywhere else. If this generation is playing it safe and has turned inwards and away from conflict, it has been taught to do so by its adult leaders. . * * Caution to Bravery . . THE REAL question is, What can we do to change the, mood from caution to bravery, from conformity to independence, from suspicion to confidence? I believe that it is here that the student has a very great chance not to be quiet but to act with in- dependence and vigor. Often it is said that there are fewer op- portunities these days for break- ing new frontiers, and that this too is a reason for the new conser- vatism in youth. But look at some of these new frontiers: I have mentioned education and the teacher - the reform of edu- cation. We are at the beginning of what amounts to a cultural revolution in which we see the possibilities of a country in which every child born from now on will have a chance to receive the edu- cation his talents deserve. We can see a completely new era for Am- erican culture and the arts. The frontier is wide open for imagina- tive and forceful ideas to come in, and there are more students in- >i f Imo. 11#i."." %."w1 :ra 0 :jlji."14 .60*0q"rt M""tsr 1. f y4 " ""IIft"4 Z " % Y rI%#, -W 046.0%. f t M %" " " aa Ur 14 "iw %*w " " I t~ : .:"+i .:t.! ta"""'w.tr ~ " +. 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Here the American stu- search; when we think about these dent has a wide open opportunity things, we realize that somewhere and an enticing obligation. The in this country an opposition problem of the Negro student is movement needs to start in okder the problem of all students, the to return sanity to the cultural Negro's problem is an extreme policies of our Government. form of the one which everyone These are matters of great con- has. cern to the universities. Such an The Negro has less educational opposition movement can start in opportunity than the white man. the universities and colleges since The Negro child born in Scars- it is of concern to them more than dale has more than one born in to any other part of the country's Georgia. The poor white man has life. less opportunity than the wealthy If the cultural programs of the white man. The child of a happy United States are to be run ac- and interesting falnily has more cording to the accusations of ma- opportunity than one from a bro- licious and uninformed men, the ken home, contribution of the United States We know that potential intelli- to world culture wlil quickly qe- gence has never been less in the cline. This is something in which Negro than in the white, and it students have a natural interest-- has always been absurd to think the freedom of the artist and the otherwise. But the Negro's oppor- intellectual from the control of tunity for developing and using his government. what he has been denied and is still being denied. Hundreds of thosuands of white children have Creative Arts , . . been in the same situation for the I WOULD like to point out an- past years. To be intelligent the other area of large idea in which child must want to be intelligent, he must have materials and situa- a frontier exists-the area of the tions to be intelligent about, he creative arts. It is true that the In- must have motivations and en- terests of students have moved mustraemomiatios aunden-more towards personal and philo- him to makementhirom wish tose go ahearound sophical questions than towards with learning. If we put the young practical social issues in the last child, white or black, iftto situa- few years. There is no reason why tions where he feels free, encour- they shouldn't. But when we con- aged and wanted, where he can sider the question of where new look every man in the eye, we can works of art may emerge in the then hope to unleash the force of future, we look away from the his intelligence. Broadway commercial theater What is needed is the will and which is esthedtically bankrupt, the humanity to support the cause away from the commercial pro- of Negro equality, and to find ductions of the mass media, and ways in which the Negro child can toward new talents to be found find his place in white schools in the universities and colleges. and in white society, not as an There are more students who uninvited guest, but as a welcome write, paint, sculpt, compose and friend. The Negro and the white work directly in the creative arts should be educated together not than at any other time in our simply because it is the Negro's educational history. Here again is right, but because each has some- a frontier - and the college is a thing precious to give the other, place where experiments in the and each is the poorer without it. creative arts may take place in The colleges and universities have profusion and provide a new a primary role to play in bringing source for the cultural future of about that equality. the United States. 3 G t t i t G t r r t R M l t f t . laundry & cleaners and linen supply 721 North University PHONE NO 2-5200 FOR PICK-UP AND DELIVERY Daily Classifieds Bring Quick Results .e Th~iere is aso the field of in- ternational aid, the need for young Americans who can help the new Asiatic countries to establish themselves, the need for those who can help in America within the problem of juvenile delin- quency, the need for liberally- educated scientists to work at the outer edge of modern research. The frontiers stretch ahead of everyone, they are there for those who wish to go out that far. I have said enough to indicate that I think students in America have an open future ahead of them, that they have a special place in American society. I have given what private instruction I can. It remains only to say that you have the trust and confidence of the .American public. You are looked to abroad for leadership and help. You do genuinely repre- sent the student in America. I count it a privilege to be able to say to you that people like myself believe in you more than in al- most anything else. xI I fr -i m