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[Volume 49, Number 27] [In Focus]

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1985-06-01

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Campus activism returns
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\ • F ollov. crs ot Gory Trudeau 's
Doonc~herr) wall r'"'c.all tu:, rcnnt
dcptction of the college student
nctivist of the Etghttl.~
"Divest NOW please!" f choc~ un
uparthetd demonstratcr in a recent
"Doonesb.:rry as the yuppie type
<1c ll\lst hunds n polu: c officer a list of
those who would hke to passively
rcsast arrest.
Wtth th1~ usual blend of wit and as·
tulc.. c;ommcntary , Trudeau presents
us with the organized and efficient
student activists of the Eighties who
arc: a (ry cry from their radical and
~pontnneous counterparts of the
Sixties.
The images are not entirely
complimentary , but ulways thought
provoking and contains a large degree
of truth.
Trudeau 's evaluative comments arc
.subJect to interpretation (mdeed that
is what moke.s them so wonderful)
bul he has given offtcial recognihon
to a long·awattcd (about 10 years)
rallying cry: student act1vasm is back1
Th~ decade of apathy hns been
transcended and once again we an
seemg protests and demonstrataons of
all kinds on a mynad of tssues such as
nuclear disarmament U S involve·
mcnt in Central Amenca the plight
of Salvadoran rdugets the scarcity
ol black faculty and most
notcworth} ' -South Africa's
apartheid .
The apartheid issue, having been
around for years, is the perfect
rallying point for the resurgence of
activism . Not onJy docs it prov1de a
clear and obtainable objective,
namely the withdrawal of invest·
ments from companies w1th subsid·
iaries m South Africa, but tl connects
their universities' investment
portfolio w1th the larger 50cial 1ssue
of instuhonalized ractsm. These
activists are also benefited by the
clear moral ch01ce wath apartheid
Have reason and cnlJcal analys1s
gone out the window with the rise of
student nchvasm? Some commentar·
ies by Trudeau and others seem to
leave this impression What of the
conservative student we have hear so much ubout: is he or she demon
strallng? Sometimes , sometimes not
Muny questions can be ra1s\!d con
ccrning this new hdl of ucllvhm lt is
clear thtft tht.: Stxhe:, l$ an unreason
able yardstick 10 nnulyzmg the
phenomenon
In Focus. Cltanging J.'accs of Student
Activism" trtes to cover some of the
criticul issues thot have been rntsed as
well as providing an update on uchv·
ism at Lewis and Clark College spcci·
fically.
lnve tigotivc reporter Dana Haynes
looks at u '\tudy of conservahvc
students at L(. and other schools
across the nataon He also intervtews
the last four ASLC prc..sidents to get
their perspcc..tive on conservatism
and feature wnter laune Under·
wood looks at tht. accomplishments
of professional student activists at
LC
Faculty ond students conlnbuted
their ms•ghts on the changing faces of
acllvbm .
Associate Professor of Pohtical
Sctencc Bill Lew•~ examtnes the con
ditions under which student acttvtsm
i5 hkely to occur wh1le Associate
Professor of Phtlosphy Servm Hn~ch
being ob:,crvcs the changmg dynam­
acs of activasm smct th~.: Sixties
')emor Rodney ~mtth cnt1c1zes the
techmcal aspect of dt~ent
Finally, socialist Fred Sm1th who
the LC community probably knows
better as the man who sells The
Bulletm in front of the Tra1l Room
Tuesdays, gives h1s analysis of the
critical differences between socialism
and student activism
In addihon , ln Focus prov1des an
update on activtst groups on campus
and thear agenda for the next year
The return of student activism to
college campuses and universities has
been a long awa1ted one There 1s an
mtamate connection between a lib~~e;~r;al;= ~~
education and the abthty to act JI
that education In fact, liberal arts
should make student activism m one
form or another tmperahve I
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LC activists applauded for stamina
By William 0. Lewis
Of the Pioneer Log
To began, let's hi! clear
about one (act students are always
active.
II is impossible to conceive of a
college campus populated by
somnolent, sloth· like slobs activated
only by repeated application of
electric cattle prods. (Well, almost
impossible .)
What we want to know about thb
activism is 1) whether it is individual
or collective, 21 whether it is private
and recreational or public and
ideological, and 3) wbelher it is
symbolic or practical or a
combination of lhe two.
1'o those of us who focus primarily
on the e~ternal world, the best kind
of student activism is that which is
collective, public. ideological,
~ymbolic, pructical and which has, as
its ultimate goal. the creation of a
world which in some way is more
peaceful , more sane and more just.
As is true with many others on this
campus, 1 want and encourage 1
students to be politically active. I try
lo provide the ways and mearu for them to be actiVe in connection wtth
classes. by andependent study and
through pract1ca Hundreds have
been involved in candidate and 1ssue
campaigns, social-pohctcaJ legal
ocl•on groups and grass-roots
lobbymg organizations .
Good. Although I am skeptical o{
the notion that •you learn a lot more
out of class than you do in class, I do
believe there are very important
lessons to be learned in a vanety of
settings.
What we're interested ln here ~ the
kind of activity where students get
themselvets organized, and dedicate a
part of their Jive.c; to the con{rontahon
of injustice -from local to global
My •mpression is that this year has
been on outstanding success for
activtsts c1t Lewis and Clark. We all
have n.:ason to be proud of the way
our 3tudents hove t.aken
respons1btlJty and action tn facing up
to issues of nuclear madness , world
hunger, sanctuary for political
refugees , racial brutuUty and
religious bigotry here and abroad,
minority rights and democracy in
college and governance. My personal
thanks and congratulatio ns to all of
you who hove: had the courage to do the good work that must be done
There 1s an ebb and flow to student
activism, and 1t seems to me these
vanahons have mostly to do with
conditions external to thts campus
Involvement and acllon are apt to be
most mten~e II when conditions or
events of outrageous mJushce
become w1dely known, Z) when there
is a broad recognition of nahonal
responsibility , 3) when student peers
on other campuses ure moved to
achon, 4) when there is an
understanding of personal
respons1bthty 5) when there IS the
realization that effective action is
posstble, and 6) when a few good
people will ptck up the tedious
burden of leadership And thts is just
whot ha~:; happened at LC thts year.
Agam, thanks and congrotulationb,
My advice? Forget about
componsons with other students at
other hm~s , and get on wath the only
worthy and mterestlngJob there is~
building .1 JUSt world society where
renl democracy ~~possible lt's a
miserable job. but someone has to do
it.
Will ram 0 Lewis is an associate
professor o{ political sc1ence .
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-By Rodney Smith
Of the Pioneer Log
As members of ncodemia ,
we arc constantly being exposed to
ideas ond situullons that many people
an other oren!! of our society rarely ex
pencncc
As participants in the educational
system, we arc each gavcn the
responsibahty of trying to assimilate
those new ideas into solutions to the
problems our society face:> today.
This is undeniably a very noble
burden, and one which many of us
toke seriously There are situations in
our society. and our environment,
which many of us feel directly
contradict the standards of justice
and equality we strave for as
members of the human race.
The phenomena of anjustice and in·
equahty are nothang new, nor are the
desires to right those wrongs. ln the
Umted States, particularly during the
1960s when the percentage of the
population ottendtng college was
higher than at any other hme m our
nation's htstory, many people took it
upon themselves to actively parhca­
pate an methods which they felt
would have an effect on the wrongs
in our socaety
Following the example of folks like
H 0 Thoreau and hts notion of ctval
dasobdaence and later that of other
socml discontents , they took to the
streets in demonstrations rangang
(rom simple, orgamzed marches to
full fledged raots
In the end, many of the problems
that spurred thas type of actton were
overcome, or at least advanced upon,
due to the efforts of those concerned
Whether those solutions were
d1rectly the result of activism or not ts
debatable . but the images that were
carraed into the homes of millions by
the n1ghtly news sure!) had some
am pact
For those too young to remember
those; were limes of great uncertainty
for many an our nation News f1lms
showed hundreds clashang with the
authorities tear gas, rock-and­
bottle throwing , chanting -all in the
name of everything from racial tn
JUStacc and an end to the draft to the
legalt7allon of certain drugs For a
nation of adults, wbtch had JUSt
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Rodney Smith, ~cnior .
Churltt« Bingham
barely overcome such socially
frightenmg events as the McCarthy
witchhunts and the successes of the
SovH~t space program, those televa·
ston tmoges carried terrifying
messages which bordered on the
anarchic.
Then came the 1970s. Gain~ were
mode toward racaal equality, the
American effort 10 Vaetnam suffoca­
ted and the justice system triumphed
over dishonesty an the Whlle House
Soc1ol responsibility gave way to
the self-concerned throbs of disco,
designer clothes and dedtcation to
one's place in society Marches and
rallies became passe, and disturbing
sttuottons were collectively swept
under the rug of moral apathy
Today we Cind ourselves one very
short genera lion away from the social
achvism of the 1960s The apathy and
egocentrism of the last decade have
given rise to a new feeling of concern
for today's problems . Ten years ago,
we felt that w~ had tackled and over·
come the greatest problems of this
century only to reawaken and find
that our relaxation has allowed the
spawning of newer, perhaps more
formidable problems .
It i~ only natural then, that those of
us feeling the immediacy of these
problems :..hould resort to methods
we feel are tned and tru~ . Oemonstra-
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social consciousness , hove sprung
into the media. But is this rcully the
hest method for accomplir;hing our
goals? Arc we trying to <.apture a ro·
mantictzcd feeling hecuuse we our·
~:.elves lack the creativity to develop
more appropriate , more sophtsticated
means?
During the 1 960s, demonstrations
worked for many reasons The most
significant may hove been their shock
effect. Underlying national conscrva·
tism aside, much of this wus due to
the advent of telcvhion . Lest we
forget, television was still u relative·
ly new medium at the tame.
For the first time in tustory, the
family living room became the scene
o( war, violent protest and civil dis·
sent In addition to this, we must also
cons1der the particular mind·set of
the P.OPUiace during that time
beatmks and flower children had
created a concern with consciousness
that was spreading to the rest of
society. Thas resulted in a national
consensus to do something about our
notional ills.
Fmally, much of the success of the
1960s demonstration:» can actuaiJy be
credtted to the government at that
time. The Johnson administnt1on ,
with its promise of the "Great Soct·
ety; was following hot on the foot·
steps o( the extremely popular Ken·
nedy administration . This was before
Watergate when the public still had
tremendous faith in our governments
ability to do whot was right and just.
"Now Watergate
does not bother me,
does your
conscience bother
you? (tell me true),"
-Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Sweet Home
Alabama .
Obvaously , our socaety has chunged
-matured if you wiiJ -from the
innocence that guided us in tho!)e
dayc;
Fortunately , that idealism can still
be found today, ulthough it tends to
manifest ibelf in other forms, and
often without regard for the holistic
pacture of its effect. Just as acad~miu
can act as the gerrninator of social
solutions so can it also act as a great
insulator from the views and pcrcep·
lions of the larger clements of our
soc1ety We must be extremely care·
ful not to assume that the rest of the
nation holds the .,ame views a~ our·
selves.
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many ways as pertinent , if not more
so. than those of 20 years ago. But the
environment thot lent itself so wen
toward the success of the demonstra­
tions of the I 960s is long since gone.
Demon!trating has become like the
joke lme in a play: the first time it as
delivered , it is funny; the second
time, it's acceptable; the third time, it
becomes annoying .
Demonstrating for the cause of to­
day's i~ues does not carry the shock­
ing intensity that is necessary for
such primitive methods of civil dis·
obedience . As a result, it is often
viewed as illegitimate by the larger
section of the populace, and works
conversely to its purpose by
alienating those it is intended to
inform. Information flows so much
faster in todoy's world than in the
1960s that often awareness isn't the
problem. Instead, the problem is to
find an effective solution.
Nor are the demonstrotion!i of
today a~ highly organized a~ tho:-.e of
the 1960s. There are no jerry Reu·
hens. no Abbie Hoffmans with
bullhorns to lead the crowd. This
only increases that perception o( ille·
gitimacy by seemiJ\g chaotic and un·
controlled.
Many of us who participated in dem·
onstrations validate our actions by
claiming demonstration5 contribute
to a sense of self-satis faction at
having done your part. This is a valid
sentiment, but it seem prey to a fabe
sense of accomplishment .
Demonstrating, by its very nature.
indicates that those doing the demon·
strating hove no power and are
appealing to those who do have
power or control, not unlike
medievul peasants laying siege on the
king. Once again, those involved \•t'ith
an issue arc:: most likely nlreudy
aware of the issue, but are perple.'(ed
as to the most expedient and effective
means for d~aling with that problem.
Todav s gt.:neration of demonstra·
tors, if they are truly concerned with
solving problems rather than just
complaining o( their existence.
should realize that as issues change.
so do their solutions. There is no
·quick fi · ,· no all·encompa~<;ing
answer to our problems . Effective
and intelligent means for ending in·
justice and inequality take careful
and refined examination Few
present-day dilemmas offer u~ that
courtesy of rationality ; we should
grudously take ndvantage of it when
it is presented .
For more than thosl! two elements,
though, the answers to loday's great
dilemmas must come from involve­
ment -not in u march or a demon·
stration. but from worktng within the
existing matrices of o sy~tem, cnre·
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I Students work for a better world
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Of the P•onccr 1 '
At the , .. hate tnun you rt
s1ttm~ on the tracks ond there nrc
hundred of people ''ilh ) au Cop
1rc itll around And you start tolkmg
to th rn a kmg "'h~ ther1e doan
"h t they re domg nnd ho" the)' feel
tboul thcar ch1ldren dymg an
uclcor ''or sntd Le\-.JS and CJork
'iCnlOr nthon) \'\'nkemon remem
bermg ha penenccs at the demon
strntmn to stop the whate train •n
\ anoou\ cr \\'o h
"The enerm there was mcrcd1bl
tdded emor Greg fr)'C another I C
rot tor And " hen n cop looks
ck at )'OU and gnns and Sll)' 'o
onunent you ha\ e to ''onder af you
haven t hlt home if you hoven t ac
cornphshcd something
For students like Frve Wakeman ..
and other actwists nt I..C pi)htac.al nc
oomplishments have become a very
amportont part of their lives. requtr·
mg mucll time and energy
Student ach\'lsm is on the rise on
cnmpu across the notton and LC IS
no exccptton In the wake of thas
trend seveml LC tudent octi"ast
talk about theu own perienccs and
predtct the outlook for student
ocll\'tsm mthe future
''People try to put
us do '"• n , just
becau~e we get
around, lhe things
they do look a\\rful
cold, hope I die
befot e 1 get
old,'' -1\ \y Genera­
tion, The V.Jho.
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Stopping the whste "''OS the
first protest Wnkemon had oartacioa·
ted m For Fr)•e 1l wa one of many
He ad be has been involved sn
countless demonst:mhons since h1gh
school begmnmg has pohucal career
as n 12·)'ear·old workmg on the com·
pmgn to re-elect N1xon After some
eye·openang realiz.ohons" nbout
Watergate and the V1etnom wru Frye
1d h1s pohucnl behcfs changed
radtcaUy
At LC Frye has worked wtth Stu­
dents Together Advocating Nuckar
Dtsnrmament written for SacaJCl\\'ea-.s
VOJce, ond participated in vanous
movements on campus, including the
recent anu-oparthe1d demonstrations
Dunng Lhe 1982 year-m-Mumch
program Frye also protested agnmst
the deplorment of the Pershang and
crutse missiles m Europe Here m
Port1nnd he has demonstrated an a
number of protests off-campus
Much of his time ns an octJVlst 1s
spent talkang to people on the streets
and trymg to anform them. 1'h1s as
often frustnuing since mnny people
v:ill 1gnore hun 01 evr.:n become
hoslllc
"I m kmd of on •eternal ophmi5t,­
Frye said. "I keep running m)' head
mto a cement wall and coming out
wllh bumps and bru•~s every c1ght
or nmc months, but I lmow l am
muking dents in that wall. And; one
ot thcst. days, I m going to break
through the f-·mtl-waH."
Other student:. shure Frye's sense of
dctcrmmall on "1 push a lot of peoph:
pas thctr hmits, and a lot of people
don 1 hke me. But tf you don 1 take:
r1 ks, and you don't accc!pt that there ore gomg to be people who don t like
)'OU or don t lake whnt you hove to
Stl)' then not only w1ll you not spread
n me sage to anyone else but )'OU
,.,.on t SJ rend a message to your elf -------, rnember finnlly asked for them
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"ather Sl:lld emor Julie !:iiln
sllns tronsfcrrcd to LC last }'C •r nnd
ince thc.n h been tn\•oh ed m the
tudcnt Uruon the Curnculum Com·
mittee and SacaJaW a V01ce and hn
upported STA1 D imnctuory and the
onU apnrthead movements on
campus he at o worked on Je se
Jacksons cnmpmgn m the foll
upportcd democratace 'ice prestden·
unl cnndtdate Geraldine Fe.rroro and
v•orked tor the Portland branch of the
'otaonnl Orgnnsr.atson for Women
Sophomore Anme Phelps is busy
de igning n mnJOr in Politico\ Socinl· •
• nght whnl good 1 the Con htu·
tlon Phelps asked
After evcrnl hours m the holding
t;mk, Phelps wns pluccd m u felon}'
cell even though she wns lll)t chnrged
with a felony "I'm not n cnnunol ll
was the fir t time I h.1d ever been to
JOtl and it wo on obvious tnat•c to
fraghtcn und dtscournge me Phelps
sntd Durmg that orrcst Phelps smd
she nlso saw act of unncccssury bru
tnhty from tl1e polic •, including drag­
ging n mnn m handcuffs with his focc
to the floor.
After about 15 hours in Jllll, Phelps
and other demonstrators were rt•·
leased with the agreement to £>8)' for
the repaanting of the bualdlng.
In the winter. Phelps wus also one 1sm to prepnre her,elf for o cnreer m
pohticnl nctavi m I pion on de\'Otmg ---~ !!::~d of JOG people nr rested nt the stopping
of the whtte truin m Vancouver n b1g chunk of my life to stoppmg the Gl·rrnun mujnr, Greg I• ~ ,t·nior.
arms race: smd Phelps She has be n .rv m"" Ratdrff
nchve m poliucnl demonstrations
incc hc:-r ophomorc yeur in high
school.
Phelp said thnt when he
grodunled from high ~chool, the issul'
of topping the urms roce seemed "ns
necessary to my baste urvaval as get·
tang o job ond finding o wurm place
to sleep •
"I came to LC to educate m)• elf
hastoricolly pohticolJy and economtc­
olly so that when I get out, I wtll be
able to get an front of the board of
commerce nnd teshf)' and be articu·
lute· Phelps said.
Smce htgh school, Ph ,Ips has spent
much of her free time demonstrating
for vnrious causes. In the summer of
1983, she pnrucipatcd sn a 400·mile
pence march from \'\lest Germany to
the NATO hendquartcrs in Bdgium
to prate 1 deployment ot the Pershing
nnd cruise mi site
Winter term, Phelps, Wakeman
nnd Frye organized the Shadow Pro­
ject on cnmpus for Sl'AND and
Phelps also demonstrated at the
white trntn prote~t This term, Phclp
has testified at the Department of
Energy against the proposed nuclear
waste s1te at Hanford Wash. nnd has
supported the sanctuary and anti·
apnrthead movements on campus
Phelps said she and other student
nctivasts have a hard time balancing
their politics and school work.
·Sometimes 11 menns I go to chool, I
go to rallies and I don't sleept• she
stud
Beang on acttvist can pose other
problems for ~tudents as wdl. Both
Phelps and Frye hove been arrested
nt d monstrotions, and both :;aad they
have seen or t!Xperienced police har­
ru~sment •t demonstrations . RH.f. T
ln December I qg·~ I rye n nd 52
other nuclear arm~ proh.'slt!is were
arrested at u plant of the Decis•on
Costparts Corporation in Portland.
The demonstrators were charRed
wath trcspossmJ;t. However , Frye s~ud
orne of the protesters were forced to
trespas by the police.
•At the plant where I was, there
wo n fence mnrkang the
approximate property tine (of the
corporation). Some of the prole!)ters
were dmgged m~tde the gate by the
police,• Frye said After ix days in
jail, Frye was released and the
charges were dropped for all but mne
of the demonstrators .
Phelps has been arrested tw1ce in
the past }'Cltr nt different
demonstrations She was urrcstcd at
the stopping of the white train in
Vancou,·er, and la!)t July during a
Shudow ProJect demonstration in
cattle, when one of the members ot
tht r'lup pointed on o Fred i\leyer
bu ldmg. Phelps said dunng both
urrl -.t she experienced unnece~sary
hnras ment from the pollee.
•1 grew up with the sdea that th~
police ore your b..:::,t friends, that they
are there to help )'Ou," Phelps aid
•My view of the police has r~ll)'
changed:
When he and seven other
prote5ters were arrested during the
Shudow ProJect demonstration ,
Phelps said she wns "appalled" at the
treatment police gave members oi the
group She s.tid th..:: police lied to
them and tried to trick ond pressure
them into conlt:!!sing, und thut no
one, not even the prosecuting officer
"CUd them them rights until one group
. \ L .. "' ....-::~
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{ll ), ) Phelps said dunng her urrcst, he w,as
denied 1cccss to 1 restroom . After
tv.·o hours of re4ucsting to b(' Iuken to
a restroom , und being denied even
one of the styrotoum cup <tvualuble
outside the cell, Phelps untl another
womun were forced to usc ll corner o(
the cell. Afterwur<ls, Phelps said the
police threatened to add another
violation to her charge Howe,·cr,
after about two hours she was
released ond churges were dropped
Phelps said the treatment she hns
seen and CJCpcncnccd at demon~tru·
tions is clearly cure t •ctics to get
people to stop protesting."
"Look \Nhat's hap­
pening ou l in the
street, got a
revolution, got to re­
volution, hey l'rn
dancing in Lhc
streets, got a revo­
lution, got to revolu­
tion." -Volunteers,
Jefferson Anplane,
r\ fl\ l M r\ 0
0 R\ \'flv ~ Tl DE T
In the. fal, when Phclp!! wa~ de-
• • • • monstratmg ngamst antcrvcnhon an
Central America ut the Univcr ity of
Washmgton cnmpus, she suid a group
of conscrvallve students threw rocks
at the protesters and houte!d MFour
more ycurs.ft ·11 wns really scary for
me to see thut !>lrong of a
con set vativc movt•men t on a ,,:otlcgc
campu!i/ Phelp suid
ontlnucd on patow S
-
/ n
u your
'onslltu
holding
!l felouy
ch ngcd
mnol It
hcen to
~UCtiC tO
Phelps
•Ips said
1my bru·
ng drag·
his lace
, Phelps
verc re·
11 pay for
'llso one
stopping
ilCOUVCr
he wus
n. After
taken to
cd even
•vailable
another
:orner of
said the
another
[owevcr,
'he wus
opped
she hus
monstra·
s to get
tap·
the
a
re­
I'm
the
vo­
>lu
ers,
ne,
)E 'T
wa:, de
• • •n11on an
ersity of
1 a group
~\'' rocks
·d NFour
fCary for
1 of a
B college
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Spring 1972: stud,·nts prtllC.'>I the Vlctn<Jnl \\'ur ~m M.tnur llou!>c lll"'fn. "I
ontinlll'd from pugc 4.
"Even nt LC, WJth the rcoctions to
the Shadow Project, people were
pulling up our sign:) around campus.
During one of the speeches, one of
the students got so ungry thnt urtcr
the speech he went up nnc.J punched
Jim {Stuurl) on the armlw remember s
Ph~lps
Phdps utlril>utcd some of the op
position to the Shadow Project to
ncgutavc reactions on the issue of
nuclenr wnr. "When people ore con·
fronted with something different
than their perception of the world,
their instinct of defense goes up,• she
said. •Rc..'il~tance is understondiible.
lt's u lot more! comfortable not to get
yoursrlf in f nghtening situatjons, und
nuclcur wnr is a very frightening
topic:
Frye said he felt more students_ ut
l.C ure .. stntus·quo students' rnthcr
than distinctl}' conservativ e. '"They
maght not have voted for Ronald
Reugun, and lhl!Y might not believe in
whut Jerry Fnlwell hus to say, but
tht•y nren'l saying anything agumst
I hem, either," he saul.
Frye sa ad after five )'Curs of mvolvc·
ment an STAND, he has been disup·
pointed in the lack of student pnrll·
clpation •It's hard to believe that stu·
dent just don't know about the
events with oil the puhhclty '''c put
up A lot of it as Just denial It's o
threat and the easiest WD)' to deal
with nuclear war is to not "he md •t thmk it' n common fallacy to call
people on th1s con.pus apathetic·
Situs ~tid, I think their reusous ior
inaction are ignorance, or students
not knowing where to put th"ir
energy mto u CHuse: Silos cited the
rect'nl involvement of LC students in
the unti ·<~purthcid movement as an
example.
•All of 1 suddl'n, conscrvattves,
lihcrnls und ocinlists have this one
cause they can agree on," Silas said
·vou c.m't say you rc for apartheid
No matter if you voted for Reagan or
Mondulc or Jackson, or tf you didn't
vote at nil, it's hord to look in your
heart ond say that Black people
deserve to be trcuted like sub·
humuns It's an issue you can't say no
to,• she suid
Situs und the other ncttvl:,ls inter·
v1cwed said they hope the recent
support for the onti·apurtheid
movcmcut nt LC will carry over into
other issues "We need to usc that
energy .. md 1 he uni fica lion of people
who arc usually not politlcal, and
bring 1t to sanctuary , nnd bring it to
nuclear disnrmomcnt • Silns snid "V\'c
Clln't [orgct there nrc n hell of 0 Jot
more 1ssues to get ncttvc on ·she saad
\\'I lA J'"S AllEJ\0?
Acllvasm espcciolly against npar
thc1d ho grown on campu cs across
the nnhon recent!)' but both Phelps
ond I rye agreed that actl\'ism seems • ··-l
i li"' hus hod prolouncJ lnllue.mc on activbm
nuw," ophnnwrc 1\nnl' J•hclp!> suid. J4r 1w
to occur m patterns of support and
nputhy ·a think pohhcal movements
do go 1n woves; Phelps said ·1 lhmk
the activism of the Sixties has hud a
profound mnucncc on nctivisrn now.
But, bccuu:.c of the arms r tee I don't
thmk we cun ulford to go in trends for
;mother :.w yctJrs," she Sltid
"You don't need a
weathern1an to
know which way the
'v\'ind blows." -Sub­
terranean Homesick
Blues by Bob Dylan,
·we can't nHord to just get anvolved
with the South Africa tssuc. People
have to ec thnt all these assues ore
connected nnd thnt we need to stoy
active in them; Phelps said.
The students also ugrecd th 1l they
bchcve the second term of Reagan's
pres1dcncy will help to BCLJVote
students agnmsl his policies Silos
said ~he b"'lieves mnny of the
students who supported Rc.ag n ore
bemg alienated dunng tus second
tem1 •t thmk the more Reagan as
there nd tl1e more he makes
mistake:; the more people who
supported hm1 ore gomg to start
quesuorung why they can support
ham econonucally when they cant n ads ring
of prot· lcr, dc:mon~tr aling
our ide the 1onM ttou~~ .
01 rio. Brnslwm
support htm mornlly • dns td
"'I thtnk the one good thmg bout
huvmg RCllgan an of 1ce these next
four years 1s that he' going to me s
up so bnd thnt people ore not goang to
be able to stond for tl anymore she
jd
•Jt s very optanu!\tlC vaey, and I
moy get critacazed for bemg ade hshc
but I thmk n awareness of the 1ssues
1s grov. mg Phelps smd
Whether c;tudenl uctJVI m
contmues to gro\1\ 111 upporf on tlus
campus and on other cro Lh
nat1on rcrndut to be en On thang
1 certatn ho\-. "er rhes tud nt
wtll c:ontanue to prole t .. md fight f r
what the) beh ve m
-,tu<h.-nt.. drnm11ti\; til prnt 'SI ngnin"t the" hitc tr nn tru,cling throu •h \ un )U\oCr, \\ l!>h helle"('()
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01 the Ptnneer Log
To nlllO)' Amtric:ms . the 1960s a~c
C!'t remembered as a time of ~·l\•tl
unte!\t. Cl'lllege campuse.s acro!}s the
naticm form("U the center of prolC!>l
marches, sit·in and Ol'Casionnlly,
not~ . The enemies were the Victnom
War. the draft and the Johnson and
Ni on adnunistrations
ln the 1980c;, American troops arc
not hghting over ens. The dr 11\ hns
been replaced b}· Selccth·e Service re·
gistrotion . and the current
adnunistmtion sailed into office -
both in 1980 and 191V1 -wuh the
upport of the tudent vote Colleges
ore no longer pictured ns ba~tions of
liberal ideology nnd The Good Fight.
The dominant tmagc.s of today .s col·
lege students nrc tweed and plntd,
business administration majors nnd
short hair.
Arc American college student~
more conscr\'allv c today? According
to research conductt."<i nationwide
and at l.e .. ,·i~ and Clark College, the
answer is Yes and No
The graduate school of education at
the Univer~ity of California at Los
Angeles and the Cooperative lnsti·
tutional Re c!arch Program released
their 19th report on The Aml'rr.'an
f'r£'sl1man: Nat1onal Norms (or Fall
19 4
The report, spearheaded by Or.
Alexander W. Astin of UCLA, ~tates:
" tudcnt vnlue.s continue to show
inr.reasingly materialism , which is
also renccted tn preference5 for
careers in the professions ,
e.ngmeenng and busmcss:
kt
•
I -i t-' -0 --?( .,
I , The stud)'~ goes em to cite changing
trends in politicul -.tnnccs and slight
incrcu~cs in both the liberal and • con~crvattvc camps.
For cntt.~ring I rc:.hm~.·n of thi-. )'Cln
Si'.·J pcrct·nt C\msidcrcd themsdve\
to lw moderate!> , down from the high
of 60.3 percent in 1983. The
"libctUIIldt " group increasc.>d in -.ize
for the uur<1 consecutive year up to
22.1 percent lfnr below lhc pc1k of
38.1 percent regt.,tercd in 1 Qil ),
'' hilc 20.5 percent of the .. tudcnts
que tioncd con!'ider themscl\'c S
·conservntive · or "'far right ~ (an
tncrcn e over the-1983 figure of 18.7
percent, hut slightly helo .. , the high
of 20.7 percent re~·ordt-d tn 1981).
Meg 0 llnra, Lcwi nnd Clark dean
of student , said although LC
parliciputed m the A:')tin project, ~tu·
dents here do not fit the norms.
"1 don't think conservntive trends
hit this cnmpus, because of the over·
~eas program,· O'Huru said ottribu·
ling this to the ~social consoence one
acquires when one steps out of ones
country. It's hard to go outside th<.
culture and not change:
However, 0 Harn said she sees the
·underpinning of con5ervatism· based
on economic shifts and added, We
are, each and every one of us,
affected by the economy of the 'out·
~ide ' world ... In times of uncertain ·
ty, people need to reduce the risk ...
we choo~ safer way5; more 'knf'wn'
way (of lh· ing)."
, Senio r~ Keller L.aros und Kevin Erd·
mnn pcr'JOntf}' the conservative ele­
ment nt t.C. Laros is a political
ciencc/hhtory double major,
•
•
''-Erdman ~~ a pohticol ~cicncc major.
Both voted for Ronnld Reagan over
Walter Mondtllt. in 1 qs4 und neither
!\8)' th~)· nrc sorry about that deci·
'\lOll
Erdmnn, who sees himself us only
!>lightly to the nght of the. mainstream
of t.C studl'nl!» c.atlls htm~df "a small·
c conservative My pohhcs haven't
been muppcd out 1 slowly hnd my
sd( becoming u Rcpubhcan
Nctthcr Erdman nor l.nros consider
thcm,clvcs troditionol conservatives .
They both ltnd themselves on the
pro·choicc side of the abortion issue,
believe in thl' pussngc of an equal
rights amendment to the Constitution
and arc against pruycr in schools.
·rhnt's why 1'm fearful of Ronald
Reagan (appointing! anyone into the
~uprcrm . Court,• Erdman said.
Still, both c;cniors arc Reagan fans,
and upprovc of the president's ceo
nomic und defense policies. The~
point to the prcsidental elections of
1980 and 1984 us catalytic times in
thetr pohttcuJ sociuliwlion "In '80.
everyone wo., anta Corter because he
was suth a wtmp with the lramans, •
Laros said. "'That's when 1 started
votmg:
Neither Luros nor Erdman are Ore·
gomons, and neither have been tn·
volvcd in stote or local politics, either
here or in their home states
(California for Laros. Colorado for
Erdman.) Their political activities
hove been primarily on the national
level.
"'There are crucial times m your_po·
hllcal (socioli7.ation) ," Laros ~id .
Your first time voting and college are
two of them."
' R
E R G R.
N'
~ Are studentt ro,
to the left? Jigl1
Toward the cent
According tore~
the bottom tine
There is no ott
For Erdmun, it was the lock of a
perceived strong Democratic choice
in the past two elections thut "solidi·
fied it (con~crvntisml for me." He saad
tht. o~mocrnliC.. party "hud no compc·
titivc candtdotes either year If
there had been a rcahshc Dl'moc..rati c
candtdatc m '84 1l would have mode
me think about whtch party I
wonted '
Now during the final stretch of
the1r lost term in c:ollege both semors
are facing the task of entering the JOb
market. While nctther said he was
very worried about finding employ­
ment, both Erdman and Laros dom
have some expectations.
"Kevin and 1 are looking for fun
jobs,• Laros said. ·we wont to make a
comfortable living, not just 'get a JOb
Erdman added: "We want to continue
the lifestyle we've led (at collcgcl."
Laros said that, in four years, he
has seen u shift in student attitudes at
l.C. When he entered college in the
fall of 1981, he )Oin~d the Sigma Phi
Epsilon frutermty which then in· • eluded 14 member!>, all male. Today
the fraternity membership numbers
61 men and 25 women.
Erdman ~ces it a~ •the old·club
mentality . Fruts arc! really 'in' now."
He also pointed to the cooperative
status of Stewart dorm us a signpost
of changL'. When Erdman was u
freshmun , he said Stewart hod u
liberal atmosphere of cooperation
and ncudemiu . Today: ''They're
rocking out in the hulls. They're
holding a boxer party -n boxer party
-there. There's been some real
c!Mnges ."
While unwilling to grant u major
con~te rvath c shift ut LC, Erdman said
then.; v.crt. more 'moderates and lib·
crab here four year!; ctgo." dents of L«
portionotel
le.sbians g~ l
Gay and l
likt St ut.lcn
1r.1l Arnenc
However
1his to shil
t')Cc~ the lib
•a vocal
tive s1
mello
7herc's a I
left and
the raghl
tllh .. left are j
Both sen
former dir
cont ributin
conservath
)'ell r 1 as ell
get a tot of
Erdman alt
schools.
They su
James Car
~rhool four
become me
md began
irom N..:w 1
mdicative
Erdman sai
Not all
graduatin~
ronscrvul i"
rryc, who SJ
rnd 1 ic·dy •
of 1960s'ral
Frye satd
servutivc :.1
t' more
• consl!rvottv
Jmmcdiale
War," he sat
Sl'nlor Keller l..uro' .. tudl~ in hh room In Pluu Howard
odornC'd with po ters extollJng President Ronold Rcul(on und
fellow Republican s. Char . 81ngham Rcugan mok~ o compolgn ~top ot the Unh cr~hy of
Port lund October 22, 1984. I ,uros snid the shift can ulso be seen
in on c;.arnpus drug use and other
social' factors There 1s les~ drug usc
on c.lmpus today he sutd but "mort·
beer and more sex
He also sees the Associated Stu· "People
ldeologic!i,
Dn them," R
ilefore you
Frye, w~
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~ no bottom line.
lack of a
Ltic choice
hut "soltdt
e .. He !>Old
no compc
:ar . U
)emocrotic
have mode
party I
stretch of
oth semors
ing the JOb
id he was
1g employ
l.aros dom
ng for fun
t to make a
'get a job'."
~o continue
)liege)."
· years. he
ott itudes at
lege in t h'-
Sigma Phi
:t then m
• ole. Today
p numbers
1e old·club
y 'in' now."
:ooperativc
a signpost
tan was a
art had a
:oopcrntion
'1'hc\''re • Is. They're
boxer party
some real
• nt a maJOr
rdman said
tes and lib·
· lso bt. seen
and other
,ss drug usc
, but 'more
ciated Stu·
25% dt•nh of Lewis and Clark as "dispro·
portionutdy liberal ... with guys and
lesbinns getting charters (Students for
Guy and Lesbian Rights) and g• oups
likt. ~tudents in Solidarity with Cen·
trul American Peoples •
However , lxlro~ docs not attribute
thts to shifting hberal attitudes . He
sees the hbcral contmgcnt on cmapus
IS "a vocal minority ," while the con
servutive students tend to be "quaet
d mellow' about their beliefs
1'here's n handful of people way to
c left and a handful of people way
the right," Laros said. People on
•111,. left are ju.st louder."
Both seniors point to Peter Loeb,
former director of admissions , as a
contributing fuctor to the college's
oon~crvative shift. Laros said, "Our
yeur (as entering freshmen) , we did
get u 1ot of prcppte~ Both Laros and
Erdman attended Mussachu~etts prep
schools.
They ~Hi Loch and President
l"n'cs Gardner who catm to the
school four years ugo wonted LC to
bt•comc more nationally recognized ,
and began to recruit more studenb
from New Englund ~tales . "Gnrdner is
mdicutivc of the whole school,•
Erdmon said, tiHe's Mr. Ivy League."
LIBERAl
Not nil members of this year's
&rutluuting cln s represent
ron:>crvutivc attitudes . Senior GreJI
•rye, who sports shoulder ·lcngth hair
tnd tie·dp!d clothes, evokes images
~r I 960s'rullics nnd pence marches.
Frye said he doesn't sec u true con·
rvutivc shift t1t LC "Students here
arc more critical, not more
ronservative. We don't have an
mmediate threat; i.e., a Vietnam
Wur," he snid.
'People still espouse liberal
idl·ologtes, but I don't set people act
on lht•m Fryt' said. "You·ve got to eat
before you can care ubout the next
person:
Frye, who helped create Saraja·
OR
61.9%
47.5%
bJ.3%
SO% I ccko wongonull c Sudun \ .. 1 .....
nportht•id rully outo;idc the Munor IJomc
wcas Voict• I h~ alternative news
publicataon on campu~ and has been
involved m protests over the white
train (which allegedly carries nuclear
weapons to the submarine pens at
Bremerton, Wash.), and Nicaragua,
said he is frustrated by complacency
in students. "It ~eems so apparent to
me that we're on the verge of annihi·
lotion of one kind or another -
nuclear, ecological or economic -
and no one seems to notice."
He .said part of the problem is ·an
academic bubble around the
campus," that keeps people separated
from the rest nf the world ·u·s so
easy to gel lost in thai bubble that you
lose touch with the world,· Fry~ stud
Unhkc taros und F.rdmun, but like
the UClA/ClRP study, Frye sec~ a
shift UWU}' from the middle of the
rond and toward hoth ends of the
political .spectrum . "People are em·
bracing more lihcrul philosophtc s,
like on nuclear proliferation und
jU.S. involvement in) Nacnroguo . .
but people nl o focus on dail}·
~urvivnl Dny·to·dor survival is a
struggle, nnd it's ensier to fight wtthin
the }'!>tcm than to ftght the system,"'
Frye said.
The senior nlso pointed to the liber·
nlbm of the 1960s us n problem.
"People who might be interested in
changing things ••. sec the rndiculisrn
of the '60:; and see t hut it got us
nowhert •
Brt!ndcn Hyde, sophomore , ugrt!CS
lbat much of the con!>ervutive ond
libt•rnl 5cntimcnt among sludt.nl~ i~ a
trend ruther th,m u life philo~ophy .
Hydt.: •~ u Reagan supporter, and has
constdercd himself a conservative:
since hagh school. i \
[ ' ... In Poc:u~. June 7, 1985 ,
porticlputc.-. In unti·
In 1972. un unidcntiOed lC ~tudent 'poke in the gyrnmulum
ogoln~l the Vletnom Wur. ... L
.nrCniW:~
"lrn no Republican bastion in this well us the white train itnd aparthcad
campus, but in my eyes, quite u few dernons\r'ations.
people on campus jumped onthe Jim Wallace, professor o(
political bandwagon ut tht.• election, educntion, said the trend moy be
because it was convenient ," Hyde toward •more cautious, if not more
said. He, like Frye, thought a war and conservative• student_s. Walluce
a draft would shake the b •liefs of docs sec some conservative clements
many members of the •new right." in his classes "My students are
concerned with surviving in the
career market,· he s:tid. LC in the '60
Pete Vlahos, dirt!ctor of student
activities , has bcen on employee of
LC since 1964, and wus a student
here from 1953·57 and 1962·63.
During that time, he said he hns seen
changes in the politics or the
students. "One f reshm.tn rc:cently
said he was the only liberal on hb
!dormitory) floor," Vlahos snid. "I
think Ronald Reagan did well with
students (here) "
However . Vlahos suid the shift only
appears to bt:' conservnti\'C in
direction v.·hen compared to 1 he
1960s Compared to Lhe 1950s,
students to<.loy nrc rclotivcl)' liberal,
he said.
Denise Thomp on, associate dean
of ::.tude.nls und diredor of ressdcncc
halls, agrees with Vlahos. • tudents
now are worried nbout the job
mnrkel, but .,., ith one brief time m
our history jthe Vietnnm War years),
that's ulwuys been true," she said.
Thompson h.ts been with the college
::.incc 1973
Vlahos und Thompson agreed thut
the liberal clt!ment at l.C is not
ab:,ent, just quiet, nnd poinl for proof
to the civic-uctiun organizutions, !;UCh
a~ Students Orgamud Agnmst
Kt.:ductions (in finunciul uid), the
Sanctuary Movement an<.l Oregon
Students Pubhc Interest Group as Still, Wallace .said he thinks the
trend has r~ched ils limit. "It's my
opinion that things have bottomed
out,· he said, und pointed to recent
protest rnllies and lib"'ral-oricnted or·
gamz.ations on campus. ·students (ot
I.C) urc more soctolly concerned than
elsewhere , I think f1 hey urcJ more
politically libernllhan averngc," Wol·
lace said.
Another instructor who sees the
shift ts Seven Hirschhein associate
professor of philo oph)'. who sa ad
students today have "an mnz.ing level
of sophistication • md under tnnd
their world better thnn tudent of
rhe 60s
'1 heres n qualitative daffcrence
(between students of the two ern J ln
the '60s, people understood the
dynamics of the system le •
When asked af LC students nrc
becoming more conserv tave
Hirschbein satd, )'es but onl)• in
compnrason to :)tudents of the 60
• ~hools are conscrvntive institu·
tions, so the}' reflect ,..,hnt h.sppens m
sodcty,• ·he said.
(Nole: Special thanks to Denn of
Students Meg O'Horn, J>\s 1rtte
Professor o{ Political • ience Dr Wil­
liam. ~wis nnd Brenden Hyde, ad­
verts!>mg man •gcr of fire Pioneer Log
for re e.trch us.si.stnnce .)
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South Africa Action Group protests Fund
E\ cf) Wednesday and Fnday ot
I he latter h lf of thts term Lev.is nd
Oark students h.a\·e been protesting
LOs Common Fund m~> estments m
uth Afnca Thos orgamung the
prol re members of the uth
Afncu Actaon Group
The groupot appro amately 25
people 11s di\-erse. 1tss not a fringe
group because aparthe.td is at the top
of e,. et')'One s agenda said
_ phomore Karl s.-::homburg
• • • "The groups pwpo._~ IS to or:garur.e o
net\~; ork of sctlobls to put pressure on
the Common Fund to divest from
corporations domg business in ...., uth
Africa • he satd
The Common Fund is a
Connecttcut-based mvestment firm
that pro\·ades investment
management :services for
appro "mat~)' .: ;s educattonal
institutions. assisting them in earning
h&gher returns on endov.ment , quasi·
endov•ment and operating funds.
The Common Fund has a Social
Responsibilities Committee and
adheres to the philosoph)' of
constructive engagement This
philosophy means the Common Fund
and the oomparues doing business
there believe they can affect more
good by their presence than b)' their
absence in ... uth Africa.
\\'ith the idea at s ·our future were
working for • freshman 1arc
Ch·erbecl J.S getting a Young
Oemoaats Orgamrauon ol Le\·1;is and
Clnr off ili ground
1 think the so-called .... -a-. e of
conservattsm ~ill now begin to
dtsappear especiaU. after (Presidentl
Reagan s announcement of cutting
ooUege aad • Ch erbed s.:ud 1 don t
think students rue us conservative as
many people bel1e\ e and 19 wall be
mdtcatn eof that
Q, erbeck was asked by th state
Democr t1c orgamzation to start an
LC ch pte.r of YOO \\hen he attended
an organizauonal trnirung conference
1n Salem last Apnl
At the conference Overbeck
paruapated m v.: orkshops on grass
roots lobbylllg and developmg fast
act1on networ:ks.
So far Overbeck has heard £rom a
number of people who are ante.rested
m part1cipatmg m YDO "'\\'ere
shooting for a good core group of l 0
people to.setgoals establish poliC)
and w odr. v.'lth other people in the
area • 0\ erbeck sa1d
Overbedt applled to Information
and PrO£romming for a charter for ilene anti aparth~id prol~t en made their point Ma) 20th o
demonstrat~d ouhide the board of trustees mee ~.in~. Cltarla B1~m
most effective meanc; bv which the Some members of the South Africa
Adion Group say they believe
dtvestmentls the onl}' effective
pressure on South Africa
Unlik at man)' schoob where the
clash between administrator.s and
students has been acrimonious ,
students and admmistrators at LC are
currently cooperating to find a
collecti\•e solution to the dilemma .
In an opinion article in the Prancer
Log. 1ay 23. Schomburg wrote, "The ..
LC community can upport the
dl\'estment movement placing
pressure on the uth African racist
government 1s not by asking the
administration and trustees of this
school to withdraw an .S8 million
portfolio from the Common Fund.
Rather we should concentrate on
dev~oping positive communicati on
between students, faculty.
administration and trustees in order
!>enlor kcff Thomas . sophomore YH~-> tlcllcrin nnd an unidentified pcrso
sbo\11 ed their support If or MondaJc and Ferraro in the fnll. Archlw.s
YDO but ~as toJd that because the
Associ ted Students of Lew1sand
Clark funds are augmented by state
and federnl government momes
parusan groups are mchgible to
rece1ve any chartenng funds
Overbeck said he doesn't see the
non-fundmg of YDO as COilSlstent
wath ASLC (undmg of other groups hke Students Together Agamst
Nuclear Destrucl10n or the Oregon
Student Publi~ Interest Research
Group "The~ re teclnucolly non·
party affiliated but they're more than
simpl)' mformatlonaJ groups.~
Overbeck s~nd
If you are mterested in JOimng
YDO Overbeck can be contacted at
Box 203i or ext 6827 tocreDte an LCwide tatementto the
Common Pund requesting that ther
divest nil of lhe1r subst mtial
investment from corporations
operoting m South Afnca •
At a il nt demonstration outside
the board of trustees meeting Ma)' 20
trustee Emanuel Rose satd he \'1.'85
pleased to see students taking action
and a ked the students to formnll)•
introduce their concerns and
recommendations about the
investment.5 in the Common Fund
Since then, the Polic)' Review
Board has approved a petition stating,
·we, the students of Lewas and Clark
College, recogniling the npartheid
policies in South Africa as
intolerable , request that the Common
Fund divest 1Ls equit)' holdings from
corporations operating in South
Africa."
Students have also propo~--d the
formation of an ad hoc committee
comprised of the administration,
board of trustees, (acuity and
students to address the issue of
investment ·. They will also ask to be
on the board of trustees' faJI agenda.
·u the Common Fund doesn't respond,
it's hard to say what we11 do,· Schorn
burg said. For more information. con
tact Greg Hamilton, Box 990, phone
245·4965
,
While the name Students for Gay
and Lesbtan R1ghts implies activism ,
the student group offers both an out·
let for activism and a support group
ior its members , depending upon
the1r current needs SGLR coordj.
nator Amy Smith JUniOr, said the
group cunently has a mailing list of
approximate!)' 30 people including
both students and faculty members .
The current participants see the
group focusmg more on education
and support, )'et ac:tivjsm has con­
tinued to pl3)' a par(. Members have
marched in the annual May Dny
parade and have been mvolved m
various letter .... ·rating campaigns .
ln part, the uew activism associated
with this group 1s a .. backlash rcac·
tion· to Reaganitc legislation Smith
said. The group is currently fighting
the Portland legislation promoted b)'
Drew Dnv1s that would repeal the
sexual prefer~ nee clause in the anti·
discrimination clause of the emplo)'·
ment practice stntcmen t.
SGLR 1s not meeting regularlr at
this time, however students interest·
ed in participating can contact Smith
through the \\'omen's Center office in
the ASLC lounge or at Box 2558.
OSPIKG activates research and education
Researchmg educaung and
advocating for conS'..ructive change m
environmental en~ and consumer
issues are the goals of the Oregon
Student Public Interest Research
Group.
Twoyearsago , the Lewis and Olark
dwpter of OSPIRG was te.chartered
after nearly a decade of non­
representation at LC.
Cwrentl)' . there are ch.apten at tbe
University of Orqon, Portland Stale
Universil)• and Willamette
University . It ts a statew~de non·
profit. non-panisan corporation
funded aod controlled by 5tudentlt OSPIRG also has a full-time staff to
aid students and pro .. •idc expertise
and contmult)'
At LC. OSPlRG is funded 92 cents
per student per term.
Lesbe SabeJ 1s the part-ume
OSPIRG organizer at LC.
The number of the par11opants has
fluctuated thas year and Saber
eshmates there are eaght to 15 people
lD\'otved at any one time '"Vt.'ere in
the process of butlding ngbt now,·
Snber said. There w& o period aa
OSPIRG Jnactivaty at LC for a
number of reasons,· she said. One of
those Saber cites is the fact that LC only has a part-time organi1..er
Another reason 1S tl1e lack ol b)·lows.
a problem OS PI RG is correcting
The LC chapter wall be more
organized next yeor because there
will be elections in the full lor officers
on the state board of OSPlRG and
weeki)• meetings will be a priority,
Saber sa1d.
1'he.re are many purposes for
OSPIRG; she said The most vital
ones are that it allows tudents to
make a d1Herence in the work thot
they do. It is o direct way to make a
dtfference in the world you're living
in right now: O~PI RG's orgunaza tional gools for
the year focus on env1ronmentnl,
uttlities, social and consumer 1ssues.
Some specific tssues on which
OSPIRG will ta~e action are hunger,
radio.1ctive wastes, divestment from
:South Africa acid rain and man}'
others.
Anyone interested in learning more
about OSPlRG should contact Saber
dunng the summer at the Portland
OSPIRG office, 222-9641, and at LC,
ext. 6749. tudent ..
Kalcido
T"' hter.
Whale tl
as an info1
~tudents 1
~uclear C
communi \
them.
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confronta
direct at ~
of lhe con
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that wea1
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primarily
Lsa Jibraq
collection
informati l
women.
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light issue
term tht! l
\\'omt!n's
Si lverbeq
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professor
Studies S1
1he Susan
Winter
Sa:
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referend\J
Clark sup
move men
with Cent
content tc
hmelighL
Sanctua
senior. wl
referend\J
·only 211
voted on l
to get tha ~
But as F
was not r~
sanctuary
publicize
and sensi1
For no
mvolved
Sohdarit ~
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the front 1
that abou
sanctuary
protests.
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sparse as
is clearly
You take
can. It is
efforts a~
Sopho
involved
SISCAP the
hey
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'
1 nt ogct cr Ad\IOC4ting Nuclear Oi<NJrmumcnt celebrate n~
1\uleido,<opc of l.ilc lc-.tival a\ta~ 12. Studenb conturt their budir_ .. 1in the game of
r~ htcr. Ch;Jyln B1nghilm
While the charter defines the group is undergoing a crucial penod of
ns an information source ior students transition where •the old crowd IS on
-tudents Together Advocating their WD)' out" and the younger
Nuclear Disarmament found that the members will need to redefine the
community JUSt wasn't coming to focus or the group.
them The core group of active members
The group has changed to a more ranges from !ieven to nine people who
confrontallonal approach , more have put on events such as the
direct at putting information 1n front speaker series, 1'hc Economics of the
of the communit)" . Arms Race:• brought Dr Helen
"This does not necessarily mean Caldicolt , disarmament advocate to
that we are more activist, il is one campus· The Shadow ProJect, a
option,· smd STAND member Greg simulation of the aftereffects of a
Frye, senior. As Frye sees it, STAND nuclear bomb; and two weeks ago,
The Women's Center functions
primanl}• as a resource center. There
is n library inside the center with a
collection of books ranging from
information on se uality to novels b)'
women.
The group also sponsors films and
other events in an effort to bnng to
tight issues around temmism . This
term the t\VO members of the
Women's Center, s~niors Donna
Silverberg and Collette Young
worked with communications
professor Jean Ward on the \:\'omen's
tudies }'mpo~ium and helped tund
the Susan Griffin lecture
Winter term, the group began a network to facilitate communication
among the femmist groups. Women
in Math and Science. Women m
Communications and the men's
femmist group.
The organization began as the
Women's Caucus but people tended
to stereotype group members . They
were referred to as "bra 6urning
le.sbians: People thought we were
militant, Silverberg said.
Despite the lack of members
Silverberg said many peoplt: attend
the event . There were always people
at the films and approximatel}' 40
people attended a potluck the)' had
with the other femimst groups the KalcJdoscope of Life a day of
muSJc balloons food race-paantmg
sunshme stlk screenang games and
fun • Frye s<ud
or the Kalc•doscope of I.1fe Frye
said, '7here was so much negntJVe
rcachon to the Shadov. ProJect we
decided to sponsor a day of fun so
that people can remember that1ls
fun to be ahve and that is why we
work for nuclear disarmament ·he
sa1d.
The diverse group works on a
consensus bas1s w1th no one person
admg as leader. •ftls smportant that
we are .seekmg not only to oher the
world, but to gi\'e everyone a fee.hng
of equal votce and power vo athm the
group Thts helps move us toward our
goat,• frye sa1d • Frye who has been invol,·ed w1th
STAND for five years, finds 1t
difficult to assess the causes of the
most recent upsurge of activism . "'The
conservative trend m the world?" I
think that the people are realiZing
that they aCfect the world . l don't
know It could ben lot of lhings,"' he
said.
Students interested in becoming
in\·olved with STAND can contact
either Frye. Box lJOl or Cila Oudijk
Box 2057.
The group members are all
graduatmg this year but Silverberg
doe.s not think the group will •die
out: "I see o new motivat1on toward
activism on campus 1 see more
people becommg interested m being
active: she said
'To contacl l he Women s Center
call ext. 6792 Box 116. The office :is
located in the ASLC lounge in the
basement ofTempleton College
Center. The}' do not have regularly
scheduled meetings at this time but
·we would like to try to get one
together if people are interest~ •
Silverberg said In Focus,junc 7. 1985 Pug 9
Group discusses
growing up mal
in America
Fonnerl the ten Fenum t
Group, the Mens Consciousness
Raist~ Group funcuons mamJy ns a
support group ror Its members
When Lhe"t' were the Mens
Ferrunist Group, members reoeaved
criticism from women und \\:ere
accused of factionalism been use the)
do not allow v.; omen in the group
How~·er theu mtent &S lo d1scuss
theu expenences os young males in
A:menca along With a.ssu mclud1ng
homophobm • parents roles tn
shapmg their li\ es and other
problems
Because all the members are
graduating most reoentl)'· the)' have
been dealing wtth the -what next~
quesllon how lo avo1d falhng into
sextst traps m the employment world
The group was also tnvolved
informally in the Womens Studies
Symposium but they do not generall>•
sponsor events for the community
The issue of the women's
movement and the ensuing changes
in roles needed to be addressed from
the other stde, from the male
perspective Men need to understand
what is going on sa1d :semor Greg
Hamihon
The group talks about more than
just the "'·omens movement \-Yomen
are socialized to talk more about un:;u
lives and explore who they a.re ·we
are trying to break thnt • saad :senior
Paul Johnson .
Hamilton said he IS very excited
about the gender studies minor at
Lewis and Clark but cautions that it
not become the women s studies
• manor.
On June 6. Hamilton, Assistant
Professor of History Grey Osterud
and Jeff Hedgepeth, director of
Career Planning and Placement met
with about 12 men to discuss gender
issues from a male perspecti\'e .
Ham1hon said he hopes some of the
men, mostly underclassmen will
continue the Mens Consciousness
Raising Group.
Sanctuary movement captures LC support
Alter achie\'ing a narrow
referendum victory for Lewts and
Clark support of the sanctuary
mo,·ement, LC acti,·ists concerned
with Central America issues are
content to let South Africa occupy the
limelight.
Sanctuar}' organizer, Jack Perrin,
senior, while pleased with the
referendum victory, cautioned that,
"Only 21 percent of the student body
voted on the movement, so it is hard
to get that excited about it."
But as Pernn points out, •winning"
was not reall}' the obJective of the
sanctuary movement. ·we meant to
publicize the issue and talk to people
and sensitize them,· he said.
For now. Perrin and others
ln\'O)ved in sanctuary and Students in
Solidarity with Central American
Peoples are putting South Africa on
the front burner. Perrin estimate s
that about two-thirds of the people in
sanctuary are involved in apartheid
protests.
•Participation by LC (in activism! is
sparse as is The mood of the campus
IS clearly focused on South Africa.
You take advantage of that when you
can. It is important to focus your
efforts and unite · Perrin sajd.
Sophomore Karl Schomburg who is
mvolved in both sanctuary and
SJSCAP agrees, "With South Africa, the issue has been a w1der audience .
It is not just liberals that are
concerned it s on top of everyone s
agenda. lt appeals to a wider ~
audience," he said
Schomburg said SISC.AP will striYe
for similar mass app~a l an the future.
Starting in the fall SlSCAPs efforts
will be focused particularly on fund­
raising efforts (or sanctuary. SISCAP
will also continue the slide show
presentation, discussion groups, and
perhaps the post card wrihng
campaigns that hove characterized
the group in the past
Sanctuary will continue to
publicize its referendum victory in
newspapers, other student groups
and in the fall they plan to
concentrate on fund-raising through
paper and bottle drive~
·once other schools find out we
passed this resolution, it will help
build some momentum . For other
schools it will mean '"Her, ir does
matter other people reall)' do care,·
Perrin ~id
Neither SISCAP nor sanctuary are
known for demonstrations. Penin
explams , •People are less willing to
risk reputation in protest, toda)"s
protests do not stem out of shallow
convictions. Protesting was in vogue
in the Sixties and it complimented
your reputation . Our culture doe$ not Studenb in 'upport of the sanctuar · movement at LC play music, slog songs on
\taoor House lawn. Charla Bin lwm
\'alue counterculture: campus • Perrin said.
While satisfied with the strides '"We haYe definitely educated only
they have made so far, organizers of the mioorit}• of students. It's too bad
sanctuary and SISCAP feel the task of more students aren t in\'olved:
educahng the majonty remains. Schomberg satd.
•J don't feel the campus reflect~ the However, Skdf Thomas junior,
changes in the nation. A large said that trend will change. ·As the
proportion of people on this campus issue gets larger like \~ietnam; as the
are .. what's the right word . situation gets wo~ and worse
lethargic . The majorit)' are not people will get more in\'Ol\'f'd ,• he
concerned with issues outside the said. ' In Fn<u~ June 7, 1985 Pogc 10
By J. Dana Ha}'o
Otthc Pioneer Log
\tuch hns been written concerning
•h~ political pendulum o{ !)tudent
opinion. At L~.!wh nnd Clark, the
mo~t direct outlet for political
ocializution h the Associated
'tudl.!nts oi Lewb and Clnrk
There arc currenth tour (onner
presidents of ASLC cmplO}'Cd by the
ollege: Rob) Roberts (who wus
president in 1978·79), L~c
\\'ein"tein ( 1980 ·~1), Bob jones ( 1981·
"21 ond Peter Cook ( 1982· 3).
Rober!:>, resident director of
Copeland Hall, ~ees a 'hift toward
economic conservatism ," at LC.
"People art> more interested in what
they're going to do when thcr
graduate, now; Roberts said.
On the social side, he satd, '1'herc
arc far fewer people ~mokmg pot ond
doing other drugs than "'hen r was
her!!."
Roberts also sees a shift in Lewis
and Clark College as an educational
insl1tution (LC is) a more difficult
school now he said The professors
are toughtr there are hea\ 1er rc·
quircments now . • (and) more de·
mands. There were 'er) few college
requirement:> "·hen l went here."
Roberts said he did not have to take
Math 075 when he was a student, and
there were fewer sentor theses de·
maoded. Lee \\ tanstdn, as~i~tant dean of ad·
ntl'-sion:o. s.1id of today s students,
1'hcy 're more conscr\ ah\ c and de·
finitt.h have better haircuts" than
whLn ht was the president, in 1980·
81.
However Wcu1stein s.aid I !Jenst.•
people arc mor~ conscrvntlVC but ...
lc~s politic.tl." He also sl.ud he believe~
the liberal dement on campus is
smaller than the con!)ervattvc but
mor~ vocal.
·You don't sec the conservative stu·
dents makmg their mark likt. (liberal
studenb) Wetmtein said pomting to
the recent (.(.;ntral America rallic:.
and South Africa prote~ls on campus.
(tonscrvutive .students) arc not going
to bring Jerrr Falwell (founder of the
Moral Majority) to the campus: he
prcdtt.ted
Whale Wemsten said he thmh
hberal students are more vasible 'con
servutive students moy vote more
than liberals," hl. scud
There is also a social conservatiVe
mood on campus, Weanstein satd
'Thcrt's mor<: beer and less drugs
than when 1 was here· he said bul
added that the (raterntty system, a
traditional signpost of conservatism .
1s shll relativclr weak at LC
Students used to be more con·
frontational . edltonals (m the
Pioneer Log) used to be more outra·
geous. There are not as many assues • bc.•ing debuted. Ll 1s still too isolated.
It's hurd to gd beyond the hill,"
Wctn~tein said.
Buh Jones, resident <hredor in
[•orcst Hall, followed the Wcmstein
~tudcnt udmini~tration into office in
1981·82. f le SI!C" the sh1ft a.s less
drnmatic thun his predecessor
(Students huvc) '' little more
conservative way of looktng nt the
world.'' Jones satd, hut rlddt:d the
changes hove not been c!Vidcnt with·
in ASLC. -rherc's ulwnys been lt
broad rangL~ of people in there," he
said.
Peter Cook, ussistant d1rcctor of
writing and rc~curch at the Office of
Institutional Advnnccmcnt followed
Jone~ into the presidenq Cook sees
·a tremendous shirt-in ccrtum sectors
of sehoul life, but is not comfortable
with the term ·conservative :
-rherc is an mcrcasing number of
students supportive of Ronald Rca
gan . but I don't know how much of
that is due to the election {as opposed
to political behefs) ·Cook sotd
•People gel mto premantal sex a b1t
more carefully than they used to
{Students seem) more thoughtful of
how they enter u relationship ,~ he
\Old.
The current prestdent of ASLC is
sophomore Jane Yedinak who said
she sees the student body as 'about 60
percent conservative but added that
students tend to shy away from ... Rob} Robert , A LC president
In 1978-79
Churlt' Bmgham
spec1fic categones (such as conserva·
tive or llberul) "
Yedmak is a businesslcommunica
lions maJor and satd she 1s concerned
wtth findmg a career after college
·students are spending $40,000 on
education here, and when they get
out mto the work force, they want to
recoup their investment; she satd
"Do you think you can change the world?"
J•llian Detwiler
of the P1one~r LUg
The Pioneer Log a"Sked a
random .-.ample of Lewis and
Clark ~tudents to re5pond to
the following question: Do
rou think rou can change the
world?
Loren haw frt!Shman: "I
believe l cl11l change this
world because everybody has
a part in lhts world to change.
I have to dPvelop myself and
do what I think is best, and
seek what 1 believe is right.
The good will always pre·
vail"
Rob johnston , senior: ·t
may not oe able to change the
world, but I would feel I had
done 8 disservice if I see in·
justices or things that I
thought were not ethically
right, if l didn't try to do any·
thing about it I feel there is
an obligalton and although it
may not be through 8 lot of
v1sual activism, I do believe
in some kind of activism.
Maybe it wouldn't chunge the
world, but if it changes the
thoughts or influences the
feelings of a couple, then it is
worthwhile, and it will make
me feel more at ease: Claire Randall, sopho·
more ·1 don t think it IS hope·
less, but change and progress
will take a long time.
·t think the reason a lot of
people are verr cynical is be·
cau::.e they join a movement.
und they don't see change
within two years, and then
they drop 1t I plan to protest
certain things during my life·
time and fight for things, but
1 don't expect to see even con·
crete change. If I feel that I'm
doing som~thing that in 100
years will benefit my cause,
•hen I think it's worth it."
•
Communication major
Robert johnson . o,enior Claire Randall
Mory imkin, junior: "I
don't think I can personally
change it, but I think that
when a large group of people
get together w1th the same
sentiment , workmg actively
it can change Like Gandh1 or
Martin Luther King •tf you
get a lot of people behmd you
l thjnk you can make some·
thmg work·
CONGM
• Michael Marco, sopho·
more •students nght now are
the next generation . They are
the educated generation and
through educating the pubhc
and through having their
voices heard 1l (change) wall
c:ome about.
Any kmd of protest.
whether &t tS singular or peo
pie working together. will
help because apathy will just
leave things dormant, and we
need to change something ."
Sociology major Mary
Simkin. junior. Engll h major Michael
Murco, ophomore.
"I'd love to change
the world, but I don't
know what to do, so
I'll leave it up to
you." Ten Years
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dommote
the late J!
Such o 1
ignoring
of the cl
revision is
geois phi
statis, pr~
pletely iJ
standing e
Much hl
Amenca
predomin
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ment wat
and work
financed
tatton of tl
The m~
Lyndon J•
was to
domestic
war with
the Amer
upn~tngs
vast inCJat
extended 1
Roosevelt ]
"New Fro•
was gone
head the
rupted all
made m 1!
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tary and
combmed
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credit exp
inflahon r
II The r
with tht;
class and
ffi8JOr WO'
1971 (G1
Motors, e~
and the p
1970 NtX(
resulted 111
at Kent St
Jackson
nationwtd
followed r
the struga
war in Vie
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,,, By Fred Smith
Of the Pionc:cr Log
To many the re-emergence
of student uctiv1sm on collegl
campuses todoy as by no meanr.; di£
fcrcnt from the prote.!it politics that
dominated the college campuses m
the lute 19b0s
Such a vtewpomt is sadly deficient,
ignoring the dynamic undercurrents
of the cia~ 5trugglc. Students and
revisionist~ ulike subscribe to bour·
gcois philosophy which promotes a
stalis, pragmatac , ccletic, and com·
plctely insufficient way of under ~
standing things.
Much has changed smce the Stxties.
America was unquestionably the
predominant industrial power, the
doJJnr WliS as good as gold, unemploy ·
mcnt was maintained at 4 percent
and working class complacency was
financed through the super explo1·
tahon of the Third World
The maJor concern of presidents
Lyndon johnson and Richard Nixon
was to prevent the mergmg of
domeshc political opposahon to the
war wtth the economac discontent of
the Amencan working class. Ghetto
upri~ings led to the legislation of the
vast inflationary social programs that
extended the welfare state far beyond
Roo~cvelt 's "New Deal" or Kennedy's
Nc:w Frontier: The balanced budget
wa~ gone forever. This brought to a
head the economic crisis which dis·
rupted all the post war agreements
mode in 1944.
The combination of massive. mili·
tary and social welfare spending
combined with low unemployment
required extraordmary measures of
credit expansio n producmg a rate of
inflation not seen sance World War
II. The recess10n an t 969 coupled
with the inflahon fueled working
class and the military producmg a
major wove of stnkes an 1970 and
1971 (General Electnc, General
Motors east and west longshoremen
and the postal wtldcat). In May of
1970 N1xon s invas1on of Cambocha
resulted an four students shot to death
at Kent Stale Umversa ty and two at
Jackson State Umversity . The
nationw1de student strikes that
followed mJrked the turning point in
the struggle against the 1mperialist
war m Vietnam .
"Tin soldiers and
Nixon's coming,
we're finally on our
own, this summer I
here the drumming ,
four dead in Ohio,"
-Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young
1972.
Industrial output dechned the U S
trade balance fell anto a deficll for the
first lime m a century and rumor<> of
an 1mpendmg devotuahon of lhe
dollar led Njxon to end dollar to gold
convertability estabhshed 27 year~
before at lht! Bretton Woods
Conf crc:nce
The rebuilding of German <1nd
j..apancse mdustry following World
War II undermined the position of
ll S 1ndustry . Arttf1C1ol credit stimu·
lonts c:onceuled but could not abolish
the dechne of the rate of U.S. profits.
Capitol flowed into the most profit· able areas, overseas investment ond
military production .
As controlled inCJotJon became un·
controlled countries wh.ach exchanged
the1r products for dollars were les.s
wtlling to do so OPEC, wh1ch was
selling Its oil for mcreasangly worth·
less paper dollars, quadrupled the
pnct of 011 tn 1973 Dougle digtl
inflation led to a world wade slump in
1974 and 1975. The Wall Street banks
recyded the OPEC surpluses (petr~
dollan) to the Third World countries
to stem ma~s starvation and social
explosions on o vast scale. The banks
charged interest rates and fees that
were fabulously profitable . Debts
grew at an enormous pace from $100
billion in 1971 to $800 billion in 1982
In 1979, with inflation already in
the double digits, the Federal Reserve
raised interest rates dramatically and
the economy plunged into the
deepest slump since the 1930s.
Unemployment skyrocketed and the
slump c.ompletely undermined the
ab1hty of the debtor nations to repay
their loans. Prom 1982 to 1984
Mexico, Brazil and Argentina all
threatened to default on their debts
which led to the collapse of
Continental Illinois, the eighth largest
By Sevin Hirschbein
Of the Pioneer Log
Student activism does not
take place in a vacuum. In the early
Sixhes when students began to agitate
for free speech, C1vil R1ghts, and
agamst the Vu~tnam War, they were
reflecting the ferment that has
already emerged an the American
SOCiety
Blacks had started pushing for their
rights several years ea rlicr, which hit
the national consciousness with Rosa
Parks and the Alabama Bus Boycott.
The year was 1959 Once the students
were moved, however they were in a
better position to agitate. They can
protest, get arrested and return to
normalcy without much delay and
loss.
Therefore , onc.e activated , they can
become more active for reform and
revolution A great many agitating
students 10 the late Sixties thought
that revolution was around the
corner, without much understancling
of socaal reality its contradtctions,
and the proce~ses of change The
mass media had a great deal to do in
the Sixties tn generating the chmate
of ferment and protest
Along with the coverage in
Vtetnam, televts1on audiences were
mhmtdatcd challenged, inv1ted
and moved by the energy, tdenhsm ,
recklessness and the charismaof
those who were protesting . To me.
Abb1e Hoffman wos not only •right
on · but he .1lso had a great sense of
life and fun Student~ in thi~ climate
began also to challenge their
educahon what tl wo~ about, whut is
wus for Campuses becume places of
upheavaltn wh1ch inh:rnul duthority
of admamstrators und faculty were
c.halleng ~d.
Relevant education wu., the slogan
of the day and relevanct: meant
confronting the morul ttnd political
i. ,ues of the time!. An overall
cnhque of so~: 1ety emerged thnt first
began to articulate race, clos~ und
gender oppression. In these
development s student~ played \'itol
roles. 1 remember that my own
serious reading of Murx sturt~ with • bank in the country und the largc3t
lender to American industry.
The Reagan administration seeks to
resolve this economic crisis on the
basis of a social counterrevolution .
He must brutally destroy all the gains
made by the workmg class in the lust
50 years. The budget cuts, passed
with bipartisan support, target
virtually the entire population . To
protect living standards the working
class must take the rood of political
struggle against the capitulist system.
The capitalists con no longer afford
compromise or reform. This cltplains
the radical shirt to the nght in both
the Democratic and Republican
parties.
Cuts in student loons, the nuclear
buildup, the preparation for war in
Central America , the continued
support for South Africa and the
brutal attock on the MOVE
household in Philadelphia , must be
viewed from an economic standpoint .
The task for today is to unite all the
forces affected by these policies o(
Reagan's counterrevolution into a
mass movement capable of driving
Reagan and his backers out of the
White House.
The young, the elderly, the
workers , the farmer~ . the
A rcluvcr.s
Associa te Profe sor of Philosophy
Sevin Htr~chbeln .
student pressure; and when 1 got
involved with the women's liberation
movement , my students were there
with me. The Suties was a time of
hope, anchored 10 the conviction that
we can make a difference.
ln the E1ghttes the climate is
somewhat different. By and large,
people do not think they can make
an 1mmediate difference . t do not
think that the students are more
conservative even though
conservatism has a legitimacy 1t did
not enJOY in the Sixties. but they are
fnghtened and I eel powerlec;s .
They are fragmented by their
individual aspirations and struggles
to find a place in the American .society,
wruch seems to be offering less and
less. within an increasingly
competitive framework . Reagan
glVes assurance, but deep inside
people remain frightened, and
students 3re not any different. This
ptcture may not be ultogether correct,
however, because despite fear nnd a
sense of powerle.ssne~s on the part o(
many people. agitations nnd prote~ts
have continued.
Let us not forget that huger
demoostrnhons than the ones in the
S1xt1es have taken place in the
E1ghties: the New York Pence
Demonstration of 1982 whtch
brought a miiJion people together
demanding an immediate freeze on
nuclear weapons ; and the Labor Da)'
Demonstration , I think of the 38me
year, that hod 800,000 protestor in
Washington. D.C., demnndingjobs .
• ln Poc:u~. June 7, J 985 Page I 1
unemployed and all others must be
brought together in n Congress of
Labor to bummer out a political
program to address their needs: o
new political party, pledged to a bold
program of socialist policies. The
nationalization of the banks and basic
industry under workers control and
without compensation to the owners,
must be established . A general trike
against Reagan must be organized.
The youth mu.st study politics and
learn the lessons contained in past
struggles . Revolutionary leadership
must be developed based on a
dialectical materialistic understand·
ing of the world. This is the only way
that a nuclear third world wor cnn be
averted.
The Trotskyist moveralent repre­
sented lbe Young Socialist and
Workers League represent the
contribution of Marxism. As such we
stand in opposition to the Stalinists
and revisionists who seek to derail
the struggle of the working das~ .
Devote your life to the struggle for
socialist revolution and the liberation
of humanity from capitalists' .slavery
and barbarism . join the Workers
League and build a revolutionary
party of the working cla~s .
Fred Smith is a socialist who sells a
.soc1alisr newspaper at Lewis and Clark.
"All your children
are poor unfortunate
victims of lies you
believe. A plague
• upon your 1gnorance
that keeps the young
from the truth they
- deserve ."
Mothers
Invention , 1967. The
of
There have been 10,000
demonstrations and civil
disobedtence happenings lost year on
nuclear weapons and war alone. A
good number of students participate
in these events, even though our
campuses do seem quiet. I wonder if
the feeling that people are resigned
and that the students arc morally and
politically asleep h partially a result
of a mass media which communicate s
these ideas to us.
Recently there have been wide and
van~ agttations both in our societr
and on campuses against apartheid;
yet the coverage of these activities on
national television has been almost
nil. 1 would maintain that in the
Eighties, people and students
continue to protest, even though they
have less faith in our system. And
they will continue to do so as long as
our lives and well-be.ing ore
threatened , our sense of decency and
our rights are undermined .
I think people who do protest these
days are more: serious, and they
understand social renlit)• better and
don't think that the revolution is
around the corn~r yc:t. The)' ol o
know that thing:; gottn change: thot
we need to stop produdion und
depl('}'ment of nuclear weapon , to
become les.s deslructh•e of nuture
and peopJc. to re,.pect the right of
everyone; that we are one people and
have one home, the Planet of E trth.
Sev~n H~r.schbem IS an as.~oc1att
pro(~.ssor of philosophy. • Br Thoma L)•den
of the Pioneer Log
In order to obtain o clear profile of
the political, social, ps)·chological
choracter of l.e .... ·is nnd Clark
students. we. followed nature's 1
calling.
We found the ultimate inner
snncto the toilet stalh·a fertile rolft--'--,--L- -r-1--.­
breeding ground for evidence of flC1.-r-L-r-L.--I­
social change and unrest as well as
wish fulfillment and loneline.c;s .
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hostility, degradation of women,
degradation of men, and just plain
sick.
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venture into the stalls, so
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