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Volume 50, Number 9

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1985-11-01

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o\itics in Educatio I Campus Wrap-up
L rusaders
condemn for
rose I tizin
Tne Lewas and Clark Wtno
Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble unoer
the drrectton o1 Dav10 Becker wtll
presentthetr Fall Concen SaiUroay
Featured solotst wtth the W.nd
Ensemble Will be James 0 Banton
wno wall perform the ArutuniCin
Trumpet Concerto The band Wlf
also perform work.s 0y Rlmsky­
KOTsakO'o', Sousa Gra!nger ana a
set of Armenl8n dances by Lons
Chobaman
The Jazz Ensemble wtlt perform
contemporary Btg Band standards
and feature a number ol student
solotsts Worl<s programmed Will
be from the hbrartes olthe Maynard
Ferguson B1g Band and Pete
PetersonJanCollectiOOOrchestra
and wtll be predomtnanlly stra!ght·
ahead ma•nstream razz.
The program wtll beg nate p m
1n Evans Audrtonum admtSSIOll •s
free
•
The Mothers Club annual Bake
Sate and M•m-Bazaar Will be held tn
tne Tnayer rooms today
Cooktes oceadandcal<esWIIIbe
available as well as fresh apples
pears ano nuts
The M1nt-Bazaar as new tnas year
Among the usualandunusua1ttems
you mayr,r.d on conSignment tables
are articles of value, trlcludtng
anhques
Count your penn1esand run over
toT empletonCollege Center to help
ttte Momers Club help you
IN FOCUS Brie s
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Pht Kappa Ph• a nat tOnal sehOiaSliC
honorary •sacceot•ngapphcattons
for the graduate lellowsh1ps tney
award annually
The supend of $6,000 ts to t>e
used lor the ltrst year of graduate
school Senrors wtth ootstandtng
grades and test scores are encour·
aged to apply now
Applicants need nOt be members
or Pht Kappa Ph1 The apphcatton
deadline 1s Feb 1 1 986
For aOdthonat tnformat•on and
apphcatoo forms contact Ed•th Sm•th
1n the Pres•dent s oH1ce
•
T rt·Met has released a proposed
fall schedule The trans11 company
w1ll hold pubhc heartngs on the
proposed changes
Among tne proposals csa reducOOO
or seMce lor the Route 39·Lew•s
and Clark bus If the draft proposal
ts approved servtce wtll end at 1 0
p m weekoayS and SaturdayS
Servtcecurrentlyendsatl am The
tare structure would rematl the same
w1th the new hght ra1l serv~ce
Other proposed changes include
Roote8.JacksonPark,Whlchwould
be extended to the Burlingame
T rans•t Center every second or third
peak hour lrtp
Comments on the Changes may
be sent to Tn-met Public Affatrs
4012S E 171hAve ,Pontand Oregon
97202
Tri·Met w111 hold community
Editor In Chief: Roo n Franzen
Auoclate Editor: Mcgnan F~nteoau
Proc1ucUon Editor Carolyn Jessup
Copy Editor ...twen Rosenbaum
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Oet#E!•Jet Meghan Ftenrenau Robin Franzen. James GasOI'\el, J Dana Ha)'Ties
Rcnaro Leider 1om lyOcn She1la Mcl.a•en. Ezra Madl Karl Schomburg David
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Photogr~phet's; Owtes &lgham. Lynn Casey laura Fitzgerald Dave
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Photography Editor mne Casey
Bu.lneu EdJtor fu Hlf8hara
Circulation Editor 1 Komgsbetg
· Advertising rMn.ger Gary Goldsmun
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page2 Tom Lyden
Of the PlonMr Log
ThemembefsoiCampusCrusade
ror Chrtst found OUt JUSt how thtn a
hne there •s between poltllcs and
educat1on last week when Dean of
Students Meg O'Hara banned the
organtzatton's staH members lrom
campus lor the remamder of the
academ1c year lor proselytiZing
The declStOn stems from a theatre
performance on Fnday. Nov 1, •n
Tamarack Lounge by the Masters
Playersenhtled TneGreatAmencan
RelationShip A Comedy about Life,
SelC and Dating The group was
sponsoredbyCsmpusCrusadelor
Chnst
The play was lollowedby a prayer
and a reiiQtous presentation by one
workshops tn November Those
closest to Lewas and Clark are
Thursday, Nov 14 noon·2 p m and
7 30·9·30 p m •n the Portland
Butleltng Room C, 1 120 S W Ftllh
Ave. Tuesday. Nov 19 7 30·9 30
p m en the Beaverton H1gh School
Caletena 13000 S W Second St •
Beaverton , and Wednesday . Nov
207 30·9 30p m tntheMultnomah
Arts Center, Room 14, 7688 S W
Cap1t0l H1ghway
In January pubhc hearmgs w111
be held Wednesday . Jan 8 noon· 3
p m and 7-1 0 p m tn the Portland
ButldlngAudttonum, and Thursday
Jan 9 7 10 p m 1n the Mullnomah
County ESD AUdltOrtum . 220 S E
1 02nd Avenue •
The Lew1s and Clark volleyball
teamcaptureda third place f1ntsh tn
the dtstrtct tournament held at
PampltnSportsCenter on Nov 8·9
The LC women defeated Oregon
lnst•tute ofT echnologyand Western
Oregon State College on Fnday •n
the double eltmtnatton tourney On
Saturday mornu-.g the P100eers were
beaten by the Unrversttyof Portland
1nfrvehard-foughtgames lhatpttted
themaga1nstWOSCagatn1namatch
for second place LC dropped the
match to the Wolves tn lour games
to gtve them lhtrd place
Coach Ron Kay was a !title diS­
appointed saytng that once they
had won the ftrst two matches they
were really hop1ng lo take the tour­
nament However he sa•d. "If
someone had told me at the begin·
n•ng of the season we weregocng to
fentsh thtrd tn the dlstnct I would
have been very nappy"
•
Bob Glanvtlle had another
memorable day last Saturday as he
set three more Lew1s and Clark
football receiVIng records The All·
Amertcan spltt -end pulled down 13
passes to set a record for most
recept1ons by a P10 1n one game
Healsop1ckedup 1'30yardstogwe
hlm9391or the season Thatmarkts
anaii·Ume LCstngteseason record
lor yardage by a recetver The th1rd
recora he set1s lor most receptions
10 a season, Glanv•lle currently has
7 1 Wtth one game left to play tn h1s
career. Glanv1lle has a chance to be
the hrst LC rece1ver ever to gam
1 000 yards cn a season
Unfortunately, the P1oneer fOOiball
team diO not hav~ as good or a day
a'S they were defeated by the Western
Oregon State College Wotves 40·0
LCfell beh•nd 20·0 10 the ltrst quarter
and were unable to mount any ktnd
ot a comeback on the cold and
soggytur1 of Guswold Stad1um The
P1o's tal<e thetr 3·5 record to Salem
tomorrow to face Wellamette Unl­
verstty tn the ltnal game ot the year
Game ttme •s 1 p m ol the members of the theatre com
pany Evaluatton cards were also
handed out that cnqwred tnto the
patrons reltgtous behefs
Forest Hall Res1dence Dtrector
Jeff Wallach. along w1th many of the
students felt as though they had
been decewed "When they came
to Forest Dorm (to ask perm1ss1on
lor the use ofT amarack}they made
no mentton whatsoever that they
were from Campus Crusade
Wallach sald
Other adverus1ng errors for the
show were made as well A large
stgn m Faelds d1n1ng room did not
mentton the fact that Campus Cru·
sade was sponsoring the perfor­
mance and a m1nortly of the flyers
that were c•rcutated also excluded
that tact
Wallach informed Lew1s end Clark
Chaplarn Jtm Stuart of the pertor
mance. and on Nov 5 Stuart sent a
letter to OeanolStudents MegOHara
recommendlngthatthestaHrepre ·
sentattvesofCampusCrusade . who
are not Lew•s and Clark students,
be banned from campus lor the
duralton of the academ 1c year
In the memo Stuart sayS, "In hght
or the recentSttuatl()('lln the Tamarack
Lounge 1t1s apparent to me that the
Campus Crusade staH persons dtd
not adequately anform students
tnvotved tn thetr organiZatiOn about
the gu•dellnes and expectations
established by thts oH1ce I do not
believe the Campus Crusade stu­
dents 1ntended any mahce when
they planned and ac:Jverttsed the
Masters Players performance
Nevertheless wh1leLew1sand Clark
College seeks to ma1nta1n an
atmosphere of open and free 1nqutry that atmosphere can only be matn·
ta1ned II there Is 1ntegnty In advertiSing.
students are not pressured and the
prwacy of the restdence halls ~;
respected '
lnantnteMew. Stuansaid 'If you
were Jew1sh or a Buddhtst, how
would you feel about it
(proselyt•z•ng)? ·
Doug Henkle a staff person for
campus Ousade, said he Will freely
admtt to advertlstng m1stakes He
says, however. thatCampusOusade
wasneverwarnedspecdallySQaJns
proselytiZing by the chapla1n or
anyone else
''The 1nc•dent has probably made
usmOI'eawareolproselytiZing There
rs no mention of a policy agatnSI
proselytrztng Alterthesho.vwewere
told there 1s a pohcy agacnstlt but~
afOtmalpohcy ThatltiSMegO'Hara's
(Dean of Students) feehng that
prosety11Z1ng 1swrong." Henkle said
"We do not spell out1n elaborate
detatllhe standards of acceptable
behavtor We operate on certa1n
assumptions of how we ought to
hve together," O'Hara sa1d
O'Hara satd she feels that n01
only 1s there adequate spintua
leadershtp on thts campus tn the
form of Chaplatn J1m Stuart. butt hat
the Campus Crusade students can
accomplish thetr goals wtthout out·
s1de leadership
Henkle sayS he thought et was an
excellent show and was not SUfP'tsed
by the events that happened at1~
conclus1on, but sa rd. "Ill knew that
there would be thts much of a fuss
would not have Involved myself
In Oregon. there are Campus
Crusade groups at l.Jnfreld, PactftC
Umversttyand Unrvers1tyof Portland What's It
Poli1 pt
d
Who
Nowthatthe
the Mtss1o
comprehenstve
PrestdentJame:
try to get a n1
governance .
Durtng the PI
hadarockyhrs tc
. debate over the
a vote ol no-co
the faculty an a
dent's perforrru
or the "on-can
However thesl
uncque to Lewts
J Stmtlat vote of n
Coach Ron Kay Instructs the LC volleyball teem et the district tournamenl at Portland Stall
" " r there appears Letter
Faculty excludes alumni wherebylacull)
they believe IS
unportant corte
lnJoseph Ka~
To the Edt tor
11 was w1th dtsappotntmentthatl
read tn the Log on Oct 31 that LC s
facurtyhadvoted 38 to 1 lor a Dean
Search Committee structure that
eltmtnatedalumnl partopahon Whfle
1 am not so untnlormed or r'lawe to
believe thalalumm partlctpatton was
much of an 1ssue 1n that vote, the
resullts that once agatn a segment
or LCISdlsplaytng 1ts lack orsensltMty
for the need for alumm partec1pahon
tn I he Lew1s and Clark commumty
As a lor mer prestdento t theAlumm
Assoctat•on I recall spendtng a lot
of ttme try,ng to overcome an alumn•
logtelhatasked "tl we are not u1Ciuded
1n the LC communrty ,why should
we be expected to gtve hnanc•al
support? 'W1thJimGardner'sarrrvat
11 has become eaSJer and eas•er to
refute thts argument Jtm has gone
togreatlengthS totnvolve and Include
alumn• wtthtn the communtty Andy
Rembert as well as many other
responstble persons w1th1n the communtty ,haSiolloweduponJtm's ol the Board,"
lead WhtleAndy splan.asreport ed follows ltts 'the
d1d not ev•dently sattsfythe faculty s anclthestruc tur
need lor a vottng maJOrity, •I dtO orconsullatton
recogn•ze the roll and 1mponance l,,a1 caoem~ciCirls
olatumntwtthlnthecommuntty The
38 faculty members' vote to take a
posct1on away from the alumnc sug·
gestsa m1ndsetthatassumes atum01
are either not very 1nterested en the
dean search or arenotverytmportall
wtlhtn the lewiSandCiarkcommun•ty
-or bothl Thts IS wrong! At best it
displays 1gnoranca at worst b1gotry
We alums of Lewes and Clark
wanttocont1nue to be anacttve part
of the commun1ty We hope and
trust that these 381aculty w111 wake
up and recogn•ze that atumnt roles
tn the communtly must go beyonO
betngsourcesotmoney thatstudel1
concern about the 1nstttutton extendS
beyond graduatton
DavJd B Avtson
'68 and '80 (MPAI tadc:ontr·ot ove
lhaywantj
rwnAthertoentl1
:>res:ldent's rol
ra1se money tq
phys1ca1 pit
Durtng 11s m
aemofl
AmertcanJ
ssors' (AA
nest nment ~
IN FOCUS November 15, 1985 N FOC onlybematn
ylnadvertiSlng
~uredandthe
lance halls ~
art sa1d "II you
3uddhlst how
1 about 11
taft person fa
td he will freely
m•stakes He
ropusCrusade
.crficallyagcllnsl
3 chaplam ()
>robablymade
:etyti21ng There
pol1cy aga•nSI
'sha.vwewere
1ga1nSI It but ncl
sMegO'Hara's
) feeling that
d·" Henkle sal(!
ut 1n elaborate
of acceptable
1te on certa1n
11 we ought to
asa1d
feels that n01
~uate sp1ntua1
:ampus •n the
Stuart, but that
e students can
!IS Without OUt· •
What's Inside Staff ed1tonal
Soviet's inability to travel
damages scholarly exchange
Earlier lh•s term our can .pus was to be host to Sov1et scholar Serge•
Rogov Mr Rogovwasoneolthecollege 'sd•stulguiShedguestslorthe
lntornat10nal Alfa~rs Sympos1um two years ago As one of the 1ead1ng
Sov1et experts on Slar Wars, a dtshnguiShed member of ttl~ Soviet
Academy of Sc1ence. and dtplomahcstatus as the Ftrst Seaetar,oltne
embassy 1n Wash1ngron . 0 C. hiS VISit was eagerly awa1ted
Serge• Aogov d1d not come to Portland, though HIS scneouled
appearanciJs both hereandatlhe World Atfa11s Counc1l1n Eugene and
Portland haoto be cancelled The reason? Politics
The State Department den1ed Mr RogOOJ permrss1on ro ttavel to
Porttano as a retaliatory measure for a s1rn1lar restnct1oo tnat was
placed on h1s contemporary , the Ftrst Sectelary of the US embassy 1n
Moscow
As thts In Focus 1ssue makes obvious. 11 •s unrea1tst1c to say that
pollttcs and education shoulo go the1r own separate wavs and never
the twa•n shall meet When they do meet, however, moderat1on shoUld
be sought Educahon can often be a path to bener politics 1n much tne
same ·way that pohllcs cart lead to a better educat1on
lr •s easy to lake academ1c exchanne lor granred VtSIIS like Mr
Rogov swhiChareofapure tyacademtcnatureshould not be diSCOUraged
dunng t1mes of dtplomahc unrest, they should be encouraged People
whose interests are or an academic nature often have a way of see1ng
Slluat1ons more non-1deolog1cally than the1r poll heal counterparts and
are able to grve them substanhal1nformat10n on whtch to base foretgo
poltcy The only lh1ng worse than poor communtcahon tS nocommunt­
cahon at all
Instead of choos1ng a reacttonary pohcy, the Stare Department
should have conSldereothe propaganda benef1IS ga~ned by allow•ng
Mr RogovthefreedomtotraveltnthtScountry lfwearealreeandopen
SOCiety, no harm w1ll come I rom h1s vrs•t and an open publiC debate on
the Space Defense lmhallve As 11 stands now 11 looks as though the
State Department nas someth1ng to h10e
10ught•t was an
esnotsurpnsed
1appened at•l\
1. "If I knew thai
much of a fuss
>lved myself " ~Who has a say in colle. e """overnance?
~ are Campus
Linfield, PacifiC
rsityol Portland
rlct toumamenl
' , t •
• nnt
?WedupooJ•mS
ttan.asreponed
•sfythe faculty s
maJOrity 1t d1d
nd •mportanoe
commumty The
rs' vote to take a
the alumn1 sug·
assumes alumni
mterested 1n th&
'otvery1mportaR
C1arkcommun11Y wr ongl At best 11
r at worst. bigotry
ew1s and Clar~
beanactJVe par1
We hope ana
faculty w111 wake
that alumn1 roiEts.
must go beyond
pney,thatstudet1
rst•tut•on extendS
n
Dav1d B AVtSOil
8 and '80 (MPAJ ... -
Bumped from a "prized" position in
the '60s, the professoriate
N ow thatthe dust has settled a btlfollowmg
ltle MISSion Plann1ng process and the
comprehensrve evaluation of Lewis and Clark
· President James Gardner, perhaps we should
1 try to get a new perspectrve on college
1 governance
Ounng the past two years the college has
had a rocky h1story. culm1na11ng rna drawn-out
debate over the m1ss1on or goal or tne college.
a vote of no ·confidence 1n the pres1dent by
lhe faculty an ad hoc evaluation of the prest­
denrs performance and the Implementation
of the 'on campus president,' ' or provost
However these acliVIlles are by no means
un1que to lewtsand Clark One m1ght recall a
s1m1lar vote of noconltdence In the pres1dent
1 UnrverStty,late 1984 In fact
there appears to be a natton-w1de trend
wnerebyfacultymembersareassertlng, what
they believe IS the1r rtght to parttctpate 1n
Important college deCISions
In Joseph KauHman · s book. "/!J. the Pleasure
of the Board." he def1nes governance as
follows It 1s "the processofdectslon-maktng
the structures for enabehng partiCipallon
or consultatiOn in that process "The des1re of
m the '80s 101' more partte1patJon
1n adm1n1str auve deets1on ·mak1ng may stem
lrom a sense of relatrve power loss H1story
laernon1slrc:l!es that after World War II 'the
prolessonate was pnzed as never before "
Dur1ng th1s "academic revolution" governtng
board& 'expressed thetr support of acade-
by granttng to faculty s1gniftcant self·
•cn.ot~rnai'II'O 1n academic and faculty personnel
matters · Kaulfman states Each department
had control over tis own budget. could dec1de
they wanted to teach, at what levels and
iWn~lthA to engage tn researchachvtlles The
~PrEtS id'ent's role on the other hand. was to
~rat!~ money tor the college and to develop
physical plant
Du11ng 1ts m1d 1960s heyday,the profes·
1iSOr118te demonstrated 11s 1nlluence through
Ame11can Assoctation of Un1verS1ty Pro­
•~:::»~;ors ' (AAUP) 1966 Statement on
uO\i•ernment ol Colleges and Unrvers111es
&tatementouthned the pr1nctple of shared reasserts its desire
for participation
authofltyor shared Qovernance States Kauff-
man. "the 1966 statement makes clear that
wh1le the govern1ng board operates as the
f1nal authontyfor the 1nstrtutton and the president
IS the ch1ef exec~.:ttve offteer operatmg under
the delegated authontv of that board 11 is the
faculty that have the pt~mary responstbiltty
for such fundamental areas as curnculum .
subject matter and methods of instruction.
research. faculty status andthoseaspectsof
student hie wh1ch related to the eduahonal
process·"
F or a number or reasons, college
governance structures have changed
dramatically s1nce the '60s Many of these
fundamental changes can be round at the
heart of the recent governance controvers1es
that have extstedat LC andcontmue to ltnger
Issues such as tenure, faculty research, the
curnculum and the endowment all serve as
examples The t966 AAUP statement rec­
ognizes the president's role 1n these areas
and "offers a broad and amb•llous v1ston of
the prestdenhat role and leadresh1p "It states
''As the chrel plann1ng offtcer of an mst1tu1ton.
the pcestdenthaS a specal obhgatoo to •nnc:Mlle
and Inthate The prestdent must at t1mes.
w1th or w1thoul support mfuse new file Into a
department,relatedlyhe/she may at hmes be
required worktngwllhtn theconceptoftenure,
to solve problems of obsolescence
One of the causal factors for changmg
governance •s dechmng enrollment and a
hm1ted budgetary p1e In the May/June 1982
1ssue of Change magaz1ne Kauffman states
that "II seems clear that there w1ll be a great
struggle to obtatn stable, adequate, hnanctal
suppon for n1gher educahon •• Other factors
accounttng lorthiSchangem~ghtbe 1ncteased
demands lor accountabthty and eHtc•ency,
and more centralized control ol the
admtmstraliOn
er IS. 1985 IN FOCUS November 15, 1985 The crux of tile contr~ersy can be h•gh­
hghted tn two qu(){es from Kauffamn's book
-"In recent years. some faculty, at least, regard~'"~\\\'
the faCilitator (the admin•strahon} as havtng
become the diCtator "Contrartly,the admln­
tSltatlon, the college pres1dentln panteular, done, that and staff members and
f1nd It mcreasmgly d•fflcult to succeed at hiS
or heqob "Perhaps the most d1ff1cult problem
for the pres1dent1s that realtZallon that '' he
does h1S JOb well under contemporarycondl­
hons. he almost certa1nly will be d1shked by
the raculty ' Kaullman comments further on
the tensron created because the pres1dent
both serves at the pleasure of the board and
1s to tacihtate good rolatton~ between all
segments of the college population At ttmes
drverse goals are diffiCUlt to accomplish
simultaneously
The quesuon asked by Eugene Arden 1n
h1sSept 12. 1984 an tete tn the Chron1cle
of Htgher EduaJtton 1s, "Ooch1el execuhves
serve only 'at the pleasure ol the board' or do
other consmuencies have a say?" In tn•s
art1cte he looks specthcally at whether racultv
ano students should partte•pate 1n tne tor mal
review of a college president He states, "It IS
a m1stake to conclude, as some cr11tCS hav-e students are not competent to evaluate a
pres1dent In certatn areas ol actMtv (such as
bu11d1ng good relatiOnships w\thpower brokers
•n the state cap1tol}. they may be UMble to
make 1ntormed 1udgments, but not so 1n the
areas as resolving gnevances or WOiking
harmontously w1th campus conshtuenc•es"
The raculty ,1n their Sept 7, 198<J statement of
no confidence tn Gardner made 11 clear lhar
he had laHed 1n their eyes to successfully
worl<wlthvanoustacultvgroups Andrhatthts
pres1dent fa1led • to respond to tfle e«orts or
tndMduat and groups ot faculty to resolve
compfelr.ISSUesdemonstrates an madequate
pertormance '
Continued on page 8
Room Franzen ts a semor commumcar1011
slmtematronat alta1rs double ma;o' at Lev.1s
and Clark CoJfttge.
page3 •
Reed students stage
sit-in for divestment
In an Olfort topl'omo(e rrm~ atf•dNeS~ment
lromtMCommonFund t7studentsa tReed
Cotlegestageoa52 hours1t·tn 1ntheotf•cc ot
oot eo Prestdent Paul Bragdon
TI1e emonstrators gQal was to have an
em gency moet nQ Oil he Board ofl rustees
cal f'd mmed1ately that would result n a
aeciS on to d vest ol aboUt S8 m Ilion dollars
nvestecs'" buSinesses 1n South Aluca nsteao
ot wa ling unt Januar tonne board 10m et
and OISCUSS tne 1SSUe
lbeganat4 p m N<N 1 Seventeen students.
parate I om the school s reoogmzed ant
aparme10 gToup the SouthAfncan Concerns
Comm nee {SACCI went to the pres dent
off lheyknew naavancelhatthepresld 1
v.rasoutoltOWI'I Reed sen or Ben N~rschalter
satd t was tne president s ot11ce not hiS
person thai v.-as represenl31rve olthe trustees
headoed
The protestors were met by Susan Cr m •
oeanol&uoents.andMarsha 'Oonon pt(M)St
and vtOe·pre5ioenl o1 the college who
1mme-d.atet) ask o them 10 leave tne olhcc
C .m present IOf mostol&he 52110ursolthe
occupauon satd she talked w11n students n
or de• to ga•n an understanding ol why mey
(tne stuoentsl were tnere and ..mat lhC)
wanteCI SnesmdshealsoreVJewedw mthe
students the Honor Pnnc pie and dehned
the op11ons wn•cn she !ell were appropuate
for dealing mth the Sltuatton
The Honor Pnnc p e the only rule at Reed
Co lege a! ows lor diSSenting op mons from
th~ students of the Reed commuMy bu1
states that Iaroe and phys•cal obstruction or
destruct[()f) areVteweo as 1nappropr.a te and
1n VIOiatton ~ the code
Cr~msalCithatthestudents opr onsranged
I rom staymg m tne olf&ce wtth the freedom ol
comtnglnandoutasttle pleased todeahng
w.Lhthea ClJOOOI theCMiauthorllleS WJJSChaher
said he tell that the optoos presented to the
students were to leave ordeal w1th the pol1ce
By 5 p m theoec•Sion had oeen made by
tne admtnlStr aiJOf'l U the students were senous
abOut slaYing 1n rne president s of1tce they
would be conllned to the toner ol1•ce. Without
access to food releptlOnes other people or bathroom tac1hlles Thts conhnuted tor 24
hours The students \vere torced to use a
wastepaper basket as a toilet and reheC1 only
on the lood they carne 1nto the oll1ce wtth
On Nov 2 som"' ot the students began to
leave theott1ce because "theylell they should
be ntoucnw.ththepeopJebelow Noonalelt
because theyLhouqhtlt\e occupation should
be end d Wirscrafler said
AI 1 p m Ron Herndon 1970 Re c::
graduale whO nao been .nvolved 1n a s1m1lar
s 1 1n addressedurallyolabout200students
and faculty The students 1n Bragdon sotf1cc
MCS contacted Herndon earher tn the week
about the~r 1ntent1ons
/ij_ the rally Herndonspokeabou1the Honor
Prlnclpfeandthee)(rstenoeolamoralpnnctp'e
thatwasgreatertnanReed s 8(yanMcGowan
a Reed sen1or who was ptesenr Lhe enure 52
hours sa•d he fell 11 was a pretty emo11onat
expefl(~nce' and that •l"ratsed our morale a
lot W.rschaller said he tell "the rAlly on
Saturday oemonstrateo !here was a 101 ot
support (for us I
AtteruterallyandadiSCUSSJonw•thHernoon
Cnmannouncedtheconhnemen tswerelllted
from the students who remamed w1th1n the
ol11c andtheywereallowedtOOO bathroom
lactht1es and access 10 the outer office Cnm
sa1d It sa d1t1eren1 sauatton alter 24 hours
On Nov 3there was an open mtcr ophone
diSCUSSIOn outSide lheacnurustratnon budd ng
where cfrvestmentand tne efhiCSoltlle students
aclloriS were debated McGowan sa1d thai
th1S reflected a drop'" morale s.nce only ll\le
students were ett 1n the otflce
By Sunday n•ghl at 8 p m when the v1g1l
ended tnere were four ol the ong1nal 17
students lett 1n the o«rce At 1h1s po1nt, they
poceeded toa meebngoll SO to 200students
at the student umon Accord1ng to Harnet
Watson drrector of newsand pubhcrelahons
at Reed, there was a wide rang1ngdtscuss1on
or the compie)(•lles.nvo lvedwlth dlVCstment •
One or the tour students who rema1ned tn the
pres1denl's olhce lor the ent~re 52 hours and
Chr~stopher Phelps. a member of SACC
addressed the move toward motiVes tor
drveslment When asked how he felt about the act ton or
the tndMduals notatftllated w1lh SACC Phelps
sa1d, "lmllally we were pretty upset because 11
would 1eopard1Ze divestment by anger1ng
the trustees " The lwo groups have s1nce
merged and are currentlyworkmg on drafhnQ
a report to the trustees and "are work1ng tn a much b1gger waytoart1culatea clear rat1onale
for diVestment " Phelps sa1d
Sheila McLaren is a freshman business and
admmrstratiVe studres ma,or at Lew1s and
Clarl< Colfege
-'-"" hristmas spirit of Hart haunts liberal heart-
I "'ow ChriStmas IS 0011\lng because 1\oe
been haVIng aWful n1ghtmares
last mght I Oreamt that Gary Hart wearmg
cha1ns all over htS tnree p1eoe sun. entered
my room and tnVJteome togo tor a OtJVe WJih
h1m
I am the sputl of I berahsm present." he
sa•d Let sdr1VedownPalatmeH1II Roadand
chec ~· out the lloeral pollllcs scene." the
metaphystcal representalton ol the former
presldentlCll cand1oate satd
"How can you be the sptrll ot present
l1berahsm wnen you're not even dead?' I
asked the specter
Hey man people 1n the 60s dtdn 1 worry
abOUtlechmcaltlles ·he sa1d sternly "How
canyoucallyoursell an '80s hberalwhenyou
Oon'l NOIShlO the 60s?" We hopped 10 hiS
red Saao ana cru1sed down to one of the
cla~ooms for Communal Harmony meeting These RICH
folks know wnat 60s llberahsm IS all about'
We walked mto a room filled wtlh some of
lhe best dressed peaple I had ever seen
'Tn1s looks hke a Jumor Ach•evement
mee11ng With he-dye. 'I told h1m
''Don 1 worry he assured me, ''Ltberalts
these people"s mtddle name
As we entered tne woman 10 charge put
down her teacup and spoke
• Fellow liberals, 11's 11me lor us to pay our
dues, JUSt hke liberals 1n the '60s had to And
when I say pay, I mean PAYI"
Everyone reached for thear wallets ready
to pay thelf dues except lor one guy The
woman tn charge was concerned "No way " satd the chair. mo11on1ng for the
RICHsecurttyguardstotakeh,maway "Abbte
HoHman d1dn·t payh1S duesw1thcred•t cards
HepaldW!thcash iWnatkmdofhberaldoyou
th1nk you are? Guards. take htm away!"
The trouble maker was soon removed from
theroomandthel,beratsgotdowntobus•ness
''It s almost noon Does everyone have
the1r k1tchen utensils?"
The ghost ot Gary Hart sm1led proudly
''I've got a blender," sa1d one person
"Yea," added another, "I've brought my
Cu1s1nart"
''Ftne"sald tht-womanmcharge 'Mydad
w111 meet us there wtlh h1s generator Does
everyone have the1r lte-<1yed extension cords?"
There were nods ot agreement Mon·ey talks and so do we
Gar·den·er don t let 11 be
Or-vest now. 1t's not too late
Isn't Des-mond Tutu great'
Gary was sm1hng ear to ear as he drove me
home ''That's JUSt great Wanna goget some
br&eandwhltewlne? "heaskedme "ltwould
probably oo you some good "
When I declined h1s tnvttahon he dec1dedk
was l1me for h1m to go
"Nexttlmeyou 'reasleepmaybewecan
toBamngersand p1ck up some stewardesses
I hear they're pretty hberal these days. ' he
sa10 as he drove off
I've been afra1d to go to sleep ever s.nce
Liberal politics are giVIng me mghlmares
R1chatd Letder 1s a sophomore communrca
trons mBJOf w1th sevete emot1onal problems
Lets drop'" on tl'le RealistiC Intellectuals 'What's wrong W1thyou?" she asked "You
lhtnk you don't have to pay your dues?"
"f'msorry,"hemumbled ''ldtdn tbrtngany
moneyw1thme W•llyoutakemymom 'sGold
Card?" "Let <-got she sa1d and off they went.
marchmgtoward the Mano1 House 1n pertect
lormattonchanhng thetr demonstration song
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One mghtth1nl<
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reported that 5
lhe leading ph~
States have StQ
trom the gove~
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tory tnstrumer;
term benefits
could also sup
produce data a
SOl program
practtcal reasc
tne poss1ble bE
costs to our so
Not all prolf
tnelr tnSiltuiiO~
magazme rep<
SO olf1ce wa~
many ol whor
research oppc
Issues relate
not hm&ted to
AmencanAssO
and the Ame1
recently 1ssuet
"Yet, forp.
believe ttt
to our soc
concern ltlat
research purs
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Accordtngt
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15,1985 Reagan ties lab research
money to national
M onoyoltencawes a lot ol polrhcat, eth•cal
and pracucar baggage Tho sctent•f•c
research commu011y ts learntng lh•s all too
wtlll Because thO Department ol Oetense •s
stared tocontto170 percent ol all government
tundsava•lab!t1 for research and development
111986. some unr.oersotyprofessorsare eled•ng
notto tnkeanymoney at all-the baggage •s
100 heavy and there's not a porter tn s•ght
The Srrategtc Defense lnrttat.ve program
ptCMdes an 1mmed1ate example of the nature
dOODiund•ngofcampusresearch AGc:ord•ng
to me Aprtltssue of Discovery magazrne, the
Reagan Adm•n•stratron wants $4 brlhon to
support research that has SOl apphcatrons
One miQht thtnk researChers, lex Whom f•naroal
back•ng has tradllronally been an obstacle,
, woold be ctamor.ng to get a p1ece ol the
actton Th•s has not been the case
The Oct 2 4 •ssue ol New Sctentlst magallne
reported that 54 percent of the members or
the load•ng phys•csdepartments •n the United
States nave stgned pellhons refusing money
rrom the government's SOl off tee
SOl money could pay ror eJCpens111e labora­
tory tnslrumentalton that could have long
term benehts for a college or umvers•ty It
could also support basrc research that may
produce data applicable to more than JuSt the
SOl program Yet, for polthcal. eth1ca. and
pracltcal reasons these profeSSOf~ 1>9 1eve
the poSSible benefits could not oC:·· 1nh the
costs to our soc1ety
Not all protessors are w•lhng to depr111e
the r 1nslltullon of research grants SCience
magazme reported that a forum held by the
SO ofltce was attended by 250 sc•enlrsts.
many ot whom ''spoke enthus1ast•cally or
research opportun1t1es"
Issues related to DOD research grants are
nor hmtted to the SOl program Both the
AmerJcanAssocraltono fUntversltyProfessors
and tne Amer~can Physical Soc1ety have
recently •ssued statements expressmg the•r theproductsoltheu endeavor ''W1tsonrefers
to closed sc•enhftc meehngs '"the mteresl ol
nat tonal securttyas 'dtstasteful • addtng, • No
less pern•c•ous 1s the concern of lndMdual
sc'enttsts that presentat•on ol the•r results
could reopardrze the1r funding or SUbJeCt
them ro legal harassment "
Aga1n the sclent1hc commumty •s madE!
a~tely aware of tne politiCS and practrcal1ty
ol recetvmg ltnanool backmg trom the
Qovernment D ISirtbutron ot DOD research tundtng IS
another subject of content ron The Amer.
•can Fr1ends Servrce Committee reported
tnatrrom mid·198010md·1982 Massachusetts
lnshtute of Technology and Johns Hopkms
Un111erstly rece•ved 46 percent of more than
$1 btllton tn mrlrlary·related contracts An
addtllonal 26 percent wasd•slrtbutedamong
only 1 0 other schools
If schools are not awarded research grants
stuclly on a needs bas1s, more questions ol
poltltcs and eth•cs arrse Were Lewrs and
Clark a research tnstttute, whether or not 11
would accept DOD fundrng m•ght be a moot
quesuon constdenng the apparent tack of
consrderallongtven to smaller SChools when
drvytng-up the research dollars
Government funding ot scienllftc research
has also been sub1ectto the usual Congres­
Stonal pork barrels TheJulyassue or Sctence
reproted that when the Senate Alms SeMce
Commtttee took under constderauon tne
Un~rsrt~es Research tnitetrve. Senator AJfonse
d'Amato(R·N Y ltookstepstoensurethathtS
alma mater, Syracuse Untverstty. "NOUid r ecer.oe
a good portton of the proposed $25 btllton
thts orOQram would prOVIde
Yet another po1ntto be constdered tn the
realm of DOD research fund•ng IS where thiS
money ts comtng from Dtscovery magazme
reported that under Reagan's proposed 1986
budget, the defense sector would stand to
ga1n 22 percent more monev for research
"Yet, for political, ethical and practical reasons these professors
believe the possible benefits could not out weigh the costs
to our society."
concern that hav•ng the DOD controlltng
research purse stnngs wtll htnder academ•c
lreedom
Accordtng to the Apnl t 9 rssue o tSctence
magaztne,lor the past four years the Reagan
admtntstrattonhastnedsporad•callytocontrol
tne pubhcat•on of unclasstfled but potenttally
seOSJtr.e data lnAprd ollhrsyear the gcM!fMleOt
exerc•sed a h1gh degree of pr1or restramt
when Pentagon off1C1als ruled that t 6 papers
could not be presented at a meeting of the
Phot Optical Eng1neersfor reasons of nallonal
secur•tv
I nan edttor •a I published •n the July •ssue of
Phystcs Today, Robert Wilson. pres•dent of
the APS states, ''lncreas•ngly, researchers
are accepllng governmen t contracts that
abridge their trad•honal freedOm todtSSemrnate and development . but the Department of
HealthandHumanSeMCe 'sresearchbvdget
would be cut by6percenr RobertWetnberg ,
a cancer researcher at the M I T -alfthated
Whttehead tnslltute commented, "Thrs
adm•n•stra rton more than any other IS really
doJng a number on us It's rnaddenlngwhen
you see where the money tS go1ng •nstead "
Campus research wtthmthtary appltcahons
wtns at the cost of researchers whose work
has soc1a1 •mphcauons Reagan's research
rund1ng 1s a clear tndlcator ot h•s pohhcal
pnonltes as well
JJ/Itan Detwetler tS a JUniOI poltttcal sc1ence
tnaJOr at Lew1s and Cltuk College
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NO QUANTITY LIMIT Oregon's financial aid increases
A collegeeducahontsexpenstve Al•beral
arts educatton even mofe so
Most students atteno•ng Lew•s and Oark
have applied lor -and perhaps recerved
hnanctal aid from the state cl Oregon,tn the
form of Slther the State Need Grant Program
or a cash award However,lew students are
aware thai, as recently as a decade ago,
these programs were vastly d1lferent than
they are today, or tnattney were created as
partandparcelot an eft on todtrect tneflowot
money to neeoy Oregon students
Rnanctal aid money rn thiS state IS diSbursed
Wlthe State Sr holarsh•pCommiSSton. wh1ch
wascreared ln 1959 lnthePBSttwo-and·a-ha•l
decade~ every vesuge of the ortgtnal com­
miSS ton haS van•shed. leaVIng only •ts name
and ongtnal purpose tntact
The tntent of thecomm•ss,on was two-fold
to select 126 needy scholars, and to engage
lnV"E!rs,ght responstbthtres tor the grant pro­
grams adm•n•stereo by the state system
schools (lnOregon, colleges and unrverStties
lalltnto one of three caregor•es , state system
schOOls. ndependent collegesandOOOlmlKllty
colleges)
The commrssron contJnued these functiOOS
through the 1960s. and took on tne added
responstbtltt•es ol the Cash Award Program
(1nshtuted tn ~ 961 ), the Oregon Guaranteed
Student Loan Program (19671 and the
AssiStance to Independent Colleges Program
(1969)
In 1969 Oregon's Independent schools
came to take astronghand •nthe linancsalatd
system Jun SuiiMlllwaslhe execut~d((ector
and cn•ef lobbyist!()(' the Independent Colleges
or Oregon from 1969·76 It was a penod of
s•gn11tcant changes for students •n Oregon.
Sullivan satd The a•d cnanged I rom "a rot of
m•scellaneous. small programs tn the '60s''
to JUSt three programs tn the late 1 970s
Need Grant Program cashawardsand PESIC
(Purchases of Educational Servtces for lnde·
pendent Colleges)
Also dunng th•s tlfT!e, total appt'opnallons
andmax•mumdoltar-amounts•naeased The
• reason for these structural and monetary
Changes, Sufhvan said was tne Jotbting efforts
of the Independent Colleges of Orepon
A tthough mere are more Independent
colleges than state system schools rn
Oregon (20 Independent schools, tndUdtng
leWISand Oarl<. to eight Slate system SChools)
tn 1983..S4, state system school students
recerved atmost tw1ce as many caSh a war as
as Independent stUdents and nearly seven
ttmes as many Need Grants as Independent
school enrollees
Under the PESIC pt'ogram, the state pays
•ndependent colleges $570 (1n 1983-84) for
each full·hme eoutva'ent (FTE) resrdent
undergraduate student The funds are paid
tocolleges,nottothesrodents Unttllastyear.
tnese montes were granted wllhout smngs.
and could be used for any purpose the parttC·
tpaltngcollegescnose However ,unoer new
{egula\tons, PEStC morues are ear-marked
tor tuttlon grants
Otane T suk::arr'aki, LCs ftnanc&al aid dlleclOf
sard LC has alwaY!'> tunneled PESIC funds
rntogartprogams These lundsaredislnbuted
tostudentsbasedonneed Th1syear. 1,096
of the college's 1 626studentsare0regonans
In 1983-84 (the most recent year f()(' collated
state ftgures). PESIC pt'ogram diSbursed
$231,958 to LC That hgure was surpassed
only by tne Unr.'9rSity of Ponlaoo whtch
recetved $326,963 A total of $1,349 430
was dtstnt>uted to the 10 parue~pat1ng Inde­
pendent SChools
Sulhvan sa10 Oregon's rapid expantSOO ol
hnanctal aid monies pt'eceded tne expanstan
of federal programs He suggested thiS nas
giVen Oregon an edge durrng tne Reagan
adm•nrstratron beCause ot the President s
efforts on be halt ot state 'snghts "Wtth Ronald
Reagan. states have more to do,' Sullivan
sa•d "Thts Slate has more control (of atd
programs} than other states "
J Dana Haynes rs a sen10r po/tlrcal SCtence
mBJOf ar Lewis and Clark College
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IN FOCUS November 15, 1985 pageS In Focus reporter Tom Lyden Inter·
views eduattor Zither Wahab.
In Focus: The rnp vou ed to Ntearagua may
be co ,s,dered by some to be outside the
appropnate oomam ot eaucat1on How do
you respond to sucn CJIIICtsm?
Wahab:l'msurpnsed ,l'mamazedthatanyone
could th1nk that We have had an .nternallonal
programheressncethe 1960s and the college
JScntemahooahz•ngaRolilScurriCUiumolferrngs
We are embarking on area stud•es courses
and we have a conllnumg studtCS diVISIOn I
don 1 see anyth1ng unusual abOut 1M lrtp to
N1caragua
In lacttl mayenhaooe the rmnge,leg111macy
and cred1b1htv oft he tnst1tut1on There are elements thatres1st As you know
there are many sc1enltsts across thiS country
who are atlh1s moment ctrculat,ng pehhons
rerustng to even accept grants from the
government to do research on Star Wars On
the other hand, there are places like my own
alma mater Stanford Unrvers1ty that get tens
ot b1thons or dollars to do research lor the
government So tile response tn the academy
to Reagan's behav1or both domestically and
tnternaltonally tS s•m11ar to the response that
tt's getting throughout the country, lrom
c.c 1lplacency , to support to res1stance
In Focus: Who's w1nnmg the battle.,
Wahab· Wen I'm atarald thts tS not a very good
11m1. 1n t1'11. country I th1nk what•s happemng
1n the academy and 1n tho outstde 1s groups
are postunng and polar 1Zat1on 1s conunu.ng I
th1nk more and more people are try1ng to
clarrtv the 1ssuesand the1r pos1tronson them
In the academy tnere 1s a struggle underway
bulttiS sort of a Crvtl and conta1ned struggle,
butrt1s there nooethe1ess 111es Wa take I rom th1s world The world and
socrety allowed us th1s tultury ot play1ng w1th
data of th1nk1ng to eltpand our mtnds We
(academiCS) owe 11 to soc1ety to rec1procate
ThewaytoreclprocatelstolrveasfullciiiZens
I don'tth1nk you and I as student and faculty
should devote our enhre hves to worry1ng
about our careers and worrymg abOut our
transcnpt and vttae I th1nk we must spend
some t1me. energy, and money on public
concerns We should g1ve a certa1n amount
ol ttme to public and global soc1a1 1ssues
After all. 11 s the world that enables us to sit
hert. and ponttltcate
In Focus Can you ever have roo much politics
1n the c la~room?
Wahab: Yes, I lh1n" so It depends Some
c:las!:.e~ lend themselves to pohttcs more than
other classes I would say lh1s though, and
that IS pohllcs Is 1n all and every aspect ot
educatton at all levels lth1nk 11 IS helton. a
myrh the he1ght of narvete',to thmk that edu·
calion IS separate from poht1cs Educalton 1S 11 s tmportant tor Amencans espec~atty to
~per ence Thud World countues to hnd out
.... 'hat s happenrng ltrst hand beCause oerta1nly
there «Sa hlstoryol wasnmgron tymg toAmer
rcans and ly1ng to trle world miSrepresenttng
people events pnenomenon , and m1sre
presenting the nattons So I thOught rt was an
excellent oppottunlt)'togoancs VISit the oountty
to see what the N1caraguans are do1ng why
they are do1ng 11 and now they are domg 11
andwttytneU S conllnuestohc' 'hal country
h tag.., We (academtcs) owe 1t to soctety to rec1procate the way we
rec1procate ts to trve as full Clttzens
In Focus; Mlat rs your assessment ol the
acao cc:>mmumues responsetoAeagan
AdfTllniStrahon poliCies? lSI hell CllhCISTTl'IJOCal
erovql"-::~
Wahab: th1nk •n some ways all educahon 1n
thtl> country tS under se1ge lthrnk educa11on
hasbecomeabanlegroundfor allttled1fferent
tdeologtcal camps, 1deotog•cal forces, and
the dtl1erent 1nterest groups tn th1S SOC1el'/
and 1 th1nk. htgher eoucabon tS no excep110n
These are alsovetyd•ffiCUfillmes economiCally
and prolesscooally tn me academy
Unrverslltes do not have tne money
resources or clout thai they used to I also
th1nk the ught w1ng forces I rom Accuracy 1n
Academ1a lrom Schlally, even to the US
CommtSSIOO on CMI Atghts and so torttl,all or
these are c::orNergtng on the educabonalsystem
because tt1s so centralia the nahan-state II
beCOmeS very tmportant what happens '"
that educattonal system and Who controls It
The academ1c world you know has never
been very unrted There are what you call the
racf1C811ntellectuals the moderate tntellectuals.
the conservatrve mtellectuals. and the liberal
tntellectuals The same goes ror students I
tn1nkh.gner educatoomore01lessrepltcates
and represents the tdeolog1cal camps 1n our
soc1ety at large In Focus: ts '' a balance ol opm1on that
](GtJP.. Ke.Accuracy•n~..a are search-
4 ' )' IS censorShip the If ObJeCtNe?
Wahab· 1 lh1nk lt •s rncred1ble 1 th1nk the
Accuracy 1n Academ1a people are closely
assoc~atedw•th the Accuracy 1n Medl8 people
I th1nk 11 represents a form ol v1g1lan1tsm I
lh1nk 11 tS a form ol1nttm1datlon lth1nk 111s a
form ol repress•on and lthtnk 11 IS a form of
censorsh•p lthmk 11 1S1nd1catrveofthegeneral
1deo1og1cal conservatism and bacl<lash 1n
th1s country ll•s gotng back to the McCarthy
days T neyar e maktngthrscounttyltke Poland
I tiS atso deprrvtng academ1cs of some of the
bestlhlnklngpeoplecancomeupwdh lth1nk
the academy should be a place where an
k1nds ol ideas can be represented , expressed
researched rnveshgaled, challenged, exam­
tnl¥1 and aovocated
In Focus.: What can our educatJOnallnstllutiOfiS
do 10 hght censorsh1p?
Wahab· Well. all we can do rs de-mysltly the
ulture and 1ts p01sonous nature To help
people see the 1ssues and problems for what
they are and come up wrth solutions All we
can do1n the educat•onal system rsdoaoatysJS .
come upw1th solut1ons clanfy, 1nform people.
and raiSe conSCIOUSfleSS
We must all face up to our CMC responstbtl ·
If truth 1s not ObJeCtive and reality is not neutral,
what ts left?
I'll beg1n by repealing myself (Some truths
JUSt won't go away 1 Teachers 1n Amertca
are expected toconvmce the young that they
trve ,, a raltonal wOtld
(If I were wntmg a play 1 would have to rnsert
thewordS"oproanouslaughter "lntothescr•pt
at th1s po.nt ){And If I had Nntten the sentence
beg1M1ng wrth "Teachers" atanearlter penod
of hiStory, although wno knO"WS whon \hal
would have been, I m~ght hir¥e wnnen "assvre"
ratner than· COOVtOGe ")
We dOn 1 hve 1n a raltonal world, of courGe,
as any damn fOOl knows You have ooly to
th1nk of the threat of nuclear warfare Of of wha1 the tunanrace isdotng to the erMronment
(I he greenhouse effect ts already rn effect)
or of the unequal distribution or food among
the world s population to know that by any
standard ol human decency (wh1ch 1sn 1 all
that h1gh to beg1n wrth) (Sartte sa1d that we
have yet to become human) the world we hve
1n and 1s prtmattty of our makmg 1S almost
totally trrattonal -l e 1nhumanand unnatural
How we love to prat$8lhose who 1ns1st as
Sir Franc1s Uncooked Bacon loved to 1nS1St.
that the real adversary ot numanktnd 1s the
natural world and that the sooner we convert
r11n1o an artlftcl81 world the happier. the more tughly pollhcal and poltllcs 1s educahonal
The two are •nterrelated
Edllcahon ts a very 1mportant arm ol the
state 1deolog1cal apparatus So lth1nk every
classroom should deal w•lh what I would call
thesocl81andeconomJCaspeclSolthatsubject
There IS pohltcs rn math, there 1s pohltcs tn
what we aredo1ng 1n space.there 1spoltttcs 1n
oceanography there 1spoht1cs 1n econom1cs ,
there 1S pohttcs 1n everyth1ng I can't see how
we can separate a subJeCt from what would
be called poltllcal economy
You have to establish a balance If all you
engage 1n 1s pohtJCal evangehsm a! the expense
olthe subtect matter then you are shOrtChanging
the students becuase they also need to learn
erta•n skills
In Focus: How are we cndoctttnated by our
educa11ona1 system?
Wahab: As I have sa1d education 1sextremely
tmportantto the state Education •n Amertcan
soc1ety must per1ormseveral typeS of functiOnS
It does 11 most through 1deolog1cal hegemony
It does 11 through preseMng leg1ltm1Z1ng,
peddling, and tolerahng the status·quo Th1s
1deolog1cal hegemony tsdone '"several ways
fromktndergartenallthewaytopost·doctoral
semtnars
II 1s done through the open curnculum
prosperous we shall all be (Sutftclent prool
that madness ortg1nates 1n h1gh places ) (Let
us not pra1se lamous men 1
ttshouldbeourtaskasteacherstoconVInce
the young that they hve •n a profoundly , dan·
gerously. catastrophtcally 1rrat1onatwortd and
that they should prepare themselves to change
11 rad1cally Every class taught here should
have that ouroose clearly 1n m1nd
Ftrst hOwever. we must all learn that there 1S
no such lh1ng as ObJeCIIVeturth Truth tS not
obtectrve because the reality we lrve tn 1s not
neutral Everywhere we turn we are forced to
choose what kmd of a world we want to lrve 1n,
wh1ch 1s really to choose what k1ndof a world
we can trve tn
But don't think I'm calling lor peace There
can be no peace unulthere 1s fUsttce lor
everyone lor all creatures great and small
Whatever world we choose 11 cannot. must
not be the one we live tn now
S1ncethe Aena1ssance educatton has been
a quest tor knowledge , 1n short. a cognitive
endeavor But education has always needed
to be a moral quest How should we live? Is
the eternal quest1on To address that quest ton
1s to seek answers that touch the whole of our
ex1stence Those answers are poht1cal, social.
economic. ldeologtcal. moral necessanly
because theyw111 determine how we shalllrve
together on th1s earth. our home
Given the worlci WP llvP in nnw h"w ,..An
anyone belte1:e that what we do here at LC
need not be polittcal or moral? If we continue people study SOCial studleS.Internat!OrQI~
cap1tahsm . Amencan democracy,
B1ll of A1ghts But 11 also does ltth·-·­
hldden curncutum,lha tiS, om1SS10n
the educaltonal system serves the sta::
delete certa1n th1ngs from the """
enhrely Certa1n schools ol thought
ld90IOQ19S, certatn Wfltersand thl nkAr~
models of how to organ1ze soc1etv AMI
can mean s1mply the rules and
pervade at a certatn school or college
It also does 11 through the way a
managed A gOod college a good u
1s mananed and charactemed as a
bus1ness The cliche' today IS that to
good college pre51dent1s to be a QOO<III
nessman Schoolsaremoraand nor1eb
run ltke ellictent lactones w1th norms
ductiVlty,tallonsm,the nohon ot pun
the standards ol effiCiency, and the
My work 1S not all that dtfferent
worker I know what my hm11sare Jltn ....
1S expected of me around here. I know
tokeepmymouthshut lknowwhat\sexn
or me 1n terms of productMly , 1n
ot11ce hours, talktng to you on thts
dolngresearch ,servmgonlcornmtnetilS.
a QOOd member of Whatrscalled I no.,., ....
In Focus: Should professors be
the1r prnsentalton of mater~at?
Wahab· Well, I th1nk be1ng unb1ased
some good, butlrhmk 1t's hchon.lt ww
rmposstble lor us to grow up tn th1s
w1thout b1ases We are men or wo1rne"~
are while or black, or yellow or brown,
poor or nch, we are ugly or beaut1fut,
brutalized by hie or life treats us very
The only problem •s thatllh1nk some BC81r.IIJ
show their b1ases. others carnOltllacJel
b1asesand rnasqueratdeas~s.ut>lec:IM! o
are nol be1ng very honest w1th tt-u:1.m~Al,
lmpostngyour Vlewsandbiasesrsso~
else ldon'tthlnkparentsShould lrylouw.
themselves through lhetr Children 1
lh1nk teachers should coerce studerl
adoptthetr v1ews That would be an.EtD.:
power, or of trust. 11 you wtll So I
clear diShnCiton We don't hve in a nE
world, bull don tthrnk you can f1nd a
who can say "I was threatened w1th a
grade because I d1d not agree ~
professor"
In Focus: Other 1nSI1tultons of learnln:
the Unrvers1tyof Bettut and the UnivE!rslU
Salvador are h1ghty poltttctZed
that affect educatton?
Wahab: There 1seducatton end ..... ~ ...
educatton Educaii()(IISSOcentralto 1""" ·""'
and preservat1on of the SOCial order
Jerry B1um
trymg to conVInce the young that they live Ins
rational world. we will have made pollltcsand
moraltty trrelevant to education . yes, and
Irrelevant. too. to those few pnnclples we
humans have managed to squeeze from our
dub1ous eltlstence. pnnctples wh1ch Qtve us
our only reason for feeling a linle pleased and
hope lull am speaking of love. equaJIIy,lreedom
JUSitce. and then perhaps. but not before 1ts
lime, peace -
JerryBaumls8flsssoetateptOiessoroiEnglls/l
at Lewis and C/811< College
page6 IN FOCUS November tS, 1985 r
'fnt'IA through ec
Xl\v,er structure th
1n soc1ety S
JVate schools tu
nuc:n pr 1vate owr
commitmen t• •
•mponant, what
part1cular sta~
w
th1s soc1ety 1s a
Yl'fd,te eouc:atiCM'llr
the line arts lor
Focus: Are [
rca?
Vahetb. Yes, if b~
power ustnj
IS politiCS ar
meanarelhey
they usk-take
u•m If you were I<
bulk of the•
IIVI!ltAcommmec
vu''" eo•sliberal p
INFO 1 1nte,mauoo
3mocraey
does 1tthrour,t
,om1ss1on
;erves the :.~ .
::>m the
of thought,
andtnml<ers
BSOClely ArvJ
sand ehquel'r
X>l or college
lhewaya
1e. a good u•'"'
;tenzed as a
rdav 1s that
stobeagoo
oreandmo,rel
~s With norms.
bonofpu
;y and the
1erentlrom
:mtsare I Kno.r
a here I
ow what 1S exp;
UCtiVlty, In
ou on thiS ..... ...,
n coonm,neas.~
ailed the NYTrl
sors be urmc
enal?
1ng unb1ased
s ftchon.lt
N up 1n thiS
men or womer ' •
•
ow or brown. r1nnA through education depends on the
or beauhlul, structure that preva1bat thatpart1cular
·eats us very 1n soctety So 1n Cuba you don't have
lnksornec!<3)! schools JUSt hke you don't have very
rs carm~ur atJe' priVate ownership of anythtng Here
assut>)ec~trvelp comm1tmentts to prrvate ownersh1p and
;t w1th themse wehclveveryexclusiV9andexpei1SIIIe
dbiCISeS IS c:tYM You see,ahhough education
hould try 1mportant what is done w1th 11 depends on
:311 Children I parttcutar stage of development and the
coerce ::.1u~~ structurew,thlnlhatsocJety Education
'Ould be an thiS soctety 1s a lorm of culture cap1ta1 The
lVIII So I make a educahon 1n thiS soc1ety IS the equrvalent
)n·t hve rn a I) tne line arts for the bourgeorste
1u can ftnd a Focus Are Lew1s and Clark students
~atened w1th 1tc..11?
~ot agree Y('ls, 1f by pohtrcs we mean dealing
•th power us1ng 11. abusmg 11 But agam,
rn~'~'~'~IS pohttcs and then there IS polrttcs Do
rourne<lln a1retheyradrcat? Ale they aCtiVIsts?
they r~sk-takers? 1 would say very few of
If you were to put labels on them I would
the bulk oft he students are sort of liberals 'ons ol ........
ld the JniVlerSif,~
lltiCIZed
on.and tnAnnl!
central to the
)()C'lal order
'lattheylive ina
,de politics and
lion; yes, and
principles we
Jeeze from our
~ WhiCh QIVB US
Je pleased and
juallty, freedom.
It not before 1ts
~ssorofEnglts/1
1S,t98S Joa,recommu tea tobourgeotsdemocracy
hberal pohtics, free enterpnse. and
IN FOCUS November IS, 198S ZaherWahab IS lhts latent good w1llthat when rt ts tapped,
you can see 11 But the students are under
pressure, I suc;pect lrom the1r parents and
even from th1s inslttution There IS a certa1n
Lewts and Clark syndrome
When there tS poht1ca1 good Will I feel•• Is
channeled rnto the triVIal causes symbolic
tokenactJOOS lil<e taslilg fa one da:y()(cdledlng
canfooelfor anotherday,go1ngtomarchona
n•ceday TheyaregOOdbuttheyaresymboltc
token struggles I lh1nk what the studenrs
need are SIQn11tcant struggles
In Focus: How poliltCIZed IS the Lew•s and
Clark campus?
Wahab: Well,ltts ltke a bus1nessand a ranch
You and have been here long enough to
know the ter'ISlons, struggles. the consp•raoes,
the counter consplractes The enormous
amount of paper that has gone Into th•ngs
There tS a cenam amount of ego warfare thai
goes on People JOCkeyrng lex power. glory,
domrnalton. people promotrng tnemselves
and thetr careers There are ot course the
rad1cals on the campus who propose very
creatiVB soluhons And there IS some liberal
poltt1CS people who behave tn tne process
and procedures of the 1nst1lutton There are
also some conservat.ves who d•shke tne rett
element
Then there are people who are completely
marg1nalto lh•s•nsttlultOn ThiS goes for faculty,
staff and students lth1nk the pohttcs of the
tnslltuhon the last two to three years have
taught people very brtter lessons and have
demoralized a lot of people There 1s a fa•r
amount of dtstrust People tnt he top echelons
are cheerleaders and don't see 1llhat way.
but that rs becauSE' they don't know what
most of the faculty 1s feehng or what they
thtnk 11 1s not a very pleasant. congental,
open. Sl.JpportNe, democratic place lt cs cet'lalrw
not a communrty
Zaher Wahab 1s a protessot of eaucat1on at
Lew1s ancJ Ctatk College
Thomas LycJen IS BJUniOI mtemational atfa1rs
fT'IBJOI at Lew1s ancJ Clarli College •••
There 1s education,
and then there 1s
educat1on . Educa­
tion 1s so central to
the integrity of the
social order. What is
done through edu­
cation depends on
the power structure
that preva1ls at that
particular time in
SOCiety.
page7 .and oviets enter summit with distrust
ExcJ1anoe hetween edUCAIIOf\31 msMufiOfl!)
c.sn have SJgmfiCllrlf etfect on 111e pollt,caf en
~ tOM>t m around them. JUSI as po!ILJGBI co-l
ooeraroos can IJm«e 1mpacl 01'1 the qua Itt)• am
el(tenl of ones ooucaroo LeWis and Clark
001 ooe 1s pan ol an on-gDing eAc/1allge \\,ttl
me lnsfttute 101 US and C8nad:J Sroo~es m
MOSCO\\ Folto .... ;no hiS taresr rerum from me
Sovrer Unton Le\\1S and Clark PreSident
James GB!dner exp<)cJf)dad on SOVIet-Amen
can retatJOnS
In an envuonment ol d strust ana rccr mr·
nahcms the world locuses tremendous
tenSJon. lear and hope on the lonhcomtng
u s &Met sumTTllt meetmg But m approachrng
the summ t bOth Sldes have fallen rnto a
tam l:artrap trymgtolookgOOdandmakethe
ol!ler s1de look bad locus,ng on areas ol
disagreement tQCUSlng on the most dllltcull
anotnsomemeasureshlttmgiSSUesotcurrenl
diSagreement Star Wars arms conl!OI
anareg1onatconfitcts lntheprocesswaueat
w•th the symptoms rather than the causes 01
lear diStrust and m1sunder~tand1ng 1n
Sov;et-Amencanretatrons lnfocustngonarms
rssues tor e :ample tne Sov1ets larl to
aclmow•edge tnerr own ear her arms owtd up
unoer detente and ulOeed the~r O\'•n space
arms program and they la111o realiZe that
arms or technologrcal agreements usually
lollov. more lunaamental polu.cal and psy·
chologteal accommodauon rather than the
other way arouno In IOOOSIOQ on Soviet for e10n
pohcyopportumsm. AmencaosulVIte the same
cr•trctsm m return.
Thus the trameWO!k of Sovtet·Amer~can
OISCUSS!onsshdtsbuttheunoerlymgapproach
rema ns the same Both Sides laoor to dem·
onstratetothewortdandthelrownpopulatron
the peaceful and reasonao e character ol
their pos111ons. and the mtransrgent and mlhl·
ausucposture of the other srde The problem
w1th thiS approaCh Is s1mpte 11 does not per • suade me world at large. n does not work tl
does noltmprove Sovtet·Amet~can retat1ons
On tne contrary such an approach offers
continued recnmrnatron and accelerated
polanzauon Nauonal &ecur!ly • tears and
de tenses ma\' oe rern101ced tn thiS orocess
as SOVlet and Amencan leaders speak to I I""' t ,
LC Pruldent James Gardner talkS to the presldenllal.chol ar. at a reception held In their honor.
theu own peoples and 1nterests, but surely
not rn ways des1gned to be persuasrve to the
otherSide Mutualrnterests "ssgrvenoccaSl0081
hpseMce butarela!lonshlpolrecnmrnahon
IS conhnued and e)((lcerbated
II SoVIet· Amertcanrelatronsare to rmprove
Slgmltcantly we need world class leadershiP
capable of recogniZing that rt takes greater
courage to be crrucal ol sell, and 1n some
measure generous to others than 11 takes to
oecnltcalofothersandgeneroustosell Both
stdes need to recogniZe tnal tne current
approaCh otfers lsnle prospect fOf lll1ptC1Jemenl
and real rask of contmued detenoratton Both
stdes need to develop a capactty to deal wtlh
our d1sagreements thoughtfully and 1n non·
coercrve ways, and both s1des urgenuyneed
to pursue mutuahnterests From lheAmertcan
perspective 1n pawcular cn11crsm snould be
fam•har and not threatenrng , an element ol
tearn1ng and sell-renewal
S uchanapp~oach-amovementbeyond
nat1ona1 secur1IV 10 mutual secuntv -ts audaCious 8ut1t1Snot w•shfulthrnktng Mutual
1nterests ex 1st, we stmply have not been sufft.
C1ent1y tnlellrgent or courageous 1n thetr
art1culatton as an 1mportant pan of the rela·
11onsh1p SOVtel and Amer1can people do
want to surv•ve. they have thrs 1nteres1 In
common Moreover. both sides need to rec­
ognrze the ex1stence of the other system
not uncrttrcally, w1th false nohons of moral
equrvalency, and surely not w1th the rllusron
that somehow we are all "rust alike " But
acceptance ot mutual ex•stence and efforts
to eschew an underlying m1sston to transfOtm
the other srde, or more partrcularly ol the use
ot coercton to these ends. would represent
tmportant advance toward coexastence.
1m proved relatrons. and world peace lserther
Stde genUinely ready to take such a step. and
follow through? Thequest1on of 1ntent ascructal
tf mutllal secunty 1S to have mean1ng
Follow1no;hese basrc steps. we need to
focus on broader mutual 1nterests rncludtng
cultural and educatronal exchange , env1· ronmental 1ssues rnc lud1ng oceans and
lrshe11es, space and air gaopollt1cat and stra­
tegiC 1ssuessuch as nuclear nonproliferatiOn
andAntarchca,llle avo1danceol unanuctpated
reg1ona1 dtsputes, and tho capac1ty to handle
our man9 disagreements Without confrontahon
We also have a shared 1nterest 1n Interchange
that encourages clar 1tyof analySts and depth
ot understanding of our drfferrng systems
andsoctet•es,and 1n strengthening trade and
econom1c Interdependence betw'een our
nat1ons Also, we should encourage Inter­
change where our drlferrng systems and
perspechves may hnd common soctal ana
poht1cal ground, rocus1ng lor example on
theater. the arts and literature, on rehg1ous
lnStltutrons, or on pr rvate 1nltta1rves. prof•t. a no
consumer 1nterests tn the Sovtet economy
-or focus1ng on pubhc sector funCtions such
as trnnsportalton, publlceducatron,and met·
ropohtanand state government1n th1scountry
Obvrously, such a locus on areas of mutual
rnterests w111 not make other serrous drs
agreementsdrsappear but1t should advance
areas of commonahtyas part oft he retahonsh1p
as well
Wefaceacommonpohtrcalandconceptual
challenge, then, lndeveloptng Soviet ·AmeriCan
r elahonsthatare less self·seMng, more entreat
ol the fauns tn one sown system. and more
balanced 1n portra1ts of the other s1de Such
retatrons should be more predrctable , and
less charactenzed by recrtmlnahon, drstrust,
c:onfrontahon. and polaraahon , and more actrve
1n explor~ng mutual 1nterests and mutual
securtly Marttn luther K1ng satd 11 clearly
"Aeturn1ng hate I Of hatemultrpheshate , addrng
deeper darkness to the n1ghts atreadyde"ord
of stars Darkness cannot drNeOul dar I< ness,
only light can do that Hate cannot dnve out
hate, only love can do that Hate mult1phes
hate. v1olence mulltpltes VIOlence. and
toughness multtphes toughness rn a des·
cend1ng sp1rat of destruction
James A Gardner has been t11e pres,dent or
Lewrs and Clark Coflege smce 798 1
The duties of university president questioned by faculty
Continued from P•&e t
wn ·et; sstateme ..vasmadeoutsldeo:a
formal prestdent.al reVIew procedure, the
follovNJgyeartnefacultydtOnavethechanoe
to partlctpate tn Gardner s rev~ew. conoucted
by an ad hoc comm1ttee led by outs1de con·
sultan! Barry Munuz. However. there IS a
tltp-slde to Lne presadenttal evatuauon 1ssue
Willie some lind 11 1ncreastng!y necessary
to conduct a camous·wlde e~~aluahon or tne
pres,denl. tn an artiCle tn Change magaztne
the pres1dent olthe Councillor Independent
Colleges stated that ··Formal presrdenhal evaluauon may be the s.ngle greatest barner
to a heallny luture lor h1gher educat1on "
Gardner states mat "At Lew1s and Clark
College.asat other colleges and unrverSil1es
plann1ng to confront demographiC and eco­
nomtc challenges and strengthen academ1c
quahty, 111s rne111table that change 1S accom·
panted by controversy " The questton we
may continue 10 ask ourselves IS whether
these pohhcal struggles wrll cont1nue to
reverbera te through the college and whether
lhelf effects are detnmental or constructrve
In an artrcle as hmrted as th1s one 1s forced
Presen[ed by Donald F Sandner, N. D to be ,It 1s rmposs1ble to properly analyze all of
the complex111es of th1s 1ssue However rt can
present us1ngoutsldeSOOrces .a hm1ted range
of governance scenarros The most extreme
case hm11!nQ admrnastratrve power and
emphas1Z1ng faculty 1nput would be Kenneth
Ashworth s observatton that "Ltke Pavlov~
dogs. admrn1stratorsblt byb•tare berngcon­
dlhoned to stay w1th1n very hm1ted and well·
trodden paths by shocks, commands. rntrmr·
datrons. and orders " Wh1le probably an
overstatement, Ashworth's comment forces
us to took at go"ernance tn a cr111ca1 way and to assess whatrs rrght tor LC. Our new admr·
n1stratrve structure, tncludtng a provoslanda
graduate school dean, has not been 1n place
long enough to otter useful comment on
Perhaps these changes wrll spawn benefiCial
effectsrnboththecommunlcatrveandpohtlcal
realms II not, tl once aga1n becomes the task
ot the college to delineate governance prob­
lems and offer alternatrve soluttons Because
no outs1de authorrty can do that for us, tl ts
here that thts arhcle w1ll end and our work
resumes
OPtN 00 ·10 PM
7 duy, a wed.
Donald Sandner rece1ved h1s trarntng tn Analyttcal Psychology througt1 U1e
Sooecy of Jungtan Analysts of Northern Caltfom1a. an organ1zat1on of (~OM'~'"]) lnBurll Q1rt' Marker
wh1ch he IS now presrdent
Dr Sandner 1s the author of "Navat1o Symbols of Heat1ng ... and he has
contrtbuted to numerous journals and publrcauons .
ThiS lecture will focus on the use of dreams. vts1ons and acuve trnagrnauon
tr1 analyucal work IL Wtll explore the myth and mual of tr 1bal people as an
amphficauon of mts process. and will cemer on che symbol of [he snake as a
powerful. uansform1ng agent
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look tor any
wtnner
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atterthey ha,
face sanct1011
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moves onto
CharleyPE
dunng hrs te1
football COCll
Pelf was fore
so great that
were IOfced I
Conference
fired, a groJ
Pell w1th a
apprec1attor
football Ace
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15,1985 Athletics political--
One of tho most pohltcalareasol educahon
tS tho retat1onshrp between sports recru-
1t1ng und elh1cs Recenttv tl seems that every
1ssue of sport magaztnes . such as Sports
1/fusttated (SI), has an arttcte dealing w•th
somn soli or vlolatron of Nat tonal Colleg1ate
Atlettc Assoc1a1ton (NCAA) recru11tng rules
lhe rssue of recrurltng has created much
controversy throughout the country especaally
on college campuses
The 1ssue or recrurttng has tncreased rn
controversyw1th each succeed1ngyear With
tno lncreased ltnanoal garn many schoolS
derMJ from the spats of basketball and football,
the empnasrs on wrnn1ng has become a
maJOf concern Many colleges and un~Wrsrtres
are 1n hnanctal b1nds and the possrbiltty ol
1ncreasrng their revenuesVJa sports ISSome·
t mestheontywaytheschoo lsrueabletostay
open The September 1ssue of Newsweek
on Campus said that the 64 teams 1n the 1985
NCAA basketball tournament spht$18 6m.thoo.
W1nnrng a srngle game meant $300,760 tor
the school and reach1ng the Ftnal Four was
good for $751,899 Wtlh lh•s much money
available to w1nn1ng teams, many schools
look for any edge they can hnd to produce a
wrnner
Many coaches are allowed to coach even
attar they have caused more than one team to
lacesanctJons from the NCAA f()( lhelf VIOiahoos
Many ttmes the coach violates a rule and the
team rs put on suspensron , so the coach
moves on to anomer school and starts over
Charley Pell comm1tted 1 0 7 NCAA violations
dur1ng hiS tenure as the Unrvers•tyof Aorrda's
football coach When the NCAA found out.
Pelf was forced to res1gn H1s populantywas
so great that even though the Flouda Gators
were forced to gNe up the 1984 Southeastern
Conference IItie they won after he had been
fired, a Qroup of Gator boosters presented
Pelf wtth a $24,000 L1nco1n Town car rn
apprec1ahon for all he had done for Aorrda
football Accord1ng to the same Newsweek On Campus art1c1e, Pall was the reason the
Clemson Tlgers were placed on probdt1on
alter hO had bullllhotr 1981 nat•onal cham
ptonshrplearn He had goo a to FIOI'Ida leavrng
Ctemson on probat1on lor h1s c•tmes A not her problem Wtlh athlei1C tecrurhng IS
hatmany~erspayalhletes ,sometmes
wunout the coaches' knowledge On Sept
19,1985 ,lhecoachatTe~ChnshcmUn~rs.tv
recerved a tOll when he was notrlted that
runn1ng baCk Kenneth Davis admrtted to beiog
patd TCU trustee 01ck lowe had s1gned a
contract w1th Oa\lls tn wh1ch Lowe agreed to
pay Oavts $38,000 In cash and goods for h1s
football play1ng servtces TCU coach J1m
Wacker placed sue members or the Horned
Frogs tootball team on suspens1on that day
and added another player hve days later
What IS uon1c IS that Wacker had welcomed
an 1mpend1ng NCAA lnvesltgahon because
he behaved hr• I( am to be clean Lowe was
forced tore ~rqnh1 sposiiiOnfromlheboardol
uusteesand he and booster Chrts Farkas are
not allowed near pot en hal recrUits
Payoffs have also been tracked to 1983
Hersman Trophy wrnner M1ke Rozrer ot the
Un1vers1ty of Nebraska and the P11tsburgh
Maulers IUSFLI. and ro New York Jets wrde
rece1ver, Wesley Walker. who played for the
Unrversrtyof Cahforn1a Arecenttssuesot the
L exmgtonHerald·leaderquot.ed several former
UniVersity ol Kentucky basketball players
adm1tt1ng to takrng payoHs. erther 1n season
tickets (which were scalped} or 1n payment
lor speakrng engagements above the $100
ltmtl rmposed by the NCAA Among those
Implicated rscurrent PoftlandT rarlblazer center
Sam Bow1e who was allegedly patd $500 for
each personal appearnce between 1979
and 1984
Sometimes 1n a coach's zeal to produce a
wrnn1ng team they wtll recrUit an athlete who
IS a marg1nal student When North Carolina
State Universtty'scenter Chns Washburn was
convrcted of steallna a stereo from the dorms, Senior Bob Glanville Is one of many LC elhletu who not only exc:eta on the playing fteld,
but worka hord In tho classroom . Owrll• BUu'-'
rt wa:. r ewaled that he only had a com btned
SATscoreof470 ThrsscoreJS Nellbelowthe
1.030averageolthc1984·85freshmanclass
at NCState
Until the Allanhc Coast Conference (ACC)
was sued by some athletes, tney had stncter
admrsston standards than the current 800
mtntmum SAT score reqorred of scholarshtp
athletes by tM NCAA When the rule was
deClared Uncoosi11Uil01131 , I he ACCwos forced
to drop the standaro tn 1 972 NC Stare rs
qurck to pornt out that Washburn d1d pass all
hts classes but 11 ts obvious he was only
recru1ted tor hiS basketball skills What IS
surpr,stng IS that over 1,000 recrUittng letters
were sent to Washburn by as many as t 50
schools m sp1te ol hiS academic recoro
The problem becomes espectally ugly
when the pr8Sident of the unrversayloses
a"'l control over tne athlehc depanment and
lhe Board or Trustees reluses to back h1m
when confronted w1th PfObtems 1n the
department Earlier thrs year the Clemson
Unrversrty Boaroot Trustees forced president
Brll L Atchley to res1gn and reass~gnea athletiC
drrector Brit Mclellan to a new po5111on ThiS
was a result or Atchley's attempt to remove
McLellan as head of the unNerStty'sscaooar­
ndden athletic department
EventhoughproblemsremalnWithathlettcs 1ncolleges theyfLnallyseemtobemaklngan
efforttocleanuotneJr act The NCAA Presidents
CommtSSton ts enacting new legrslallon and
exam.n1ng other proposals In an anempl to
ehmlnate problems
The athlete should exh1b1l sai.ISfactory
progress toward a degree Thrscan be helped
NrththeshOftenmgot seasonsandarOOUCIIon
In prac11ce lime Some schoolsaverageseven
hoursaday lnworkouts,fdmrEMews strategy
sess1011S etc
Proposruon 4H would hmrt the number o:
speaal case admttsand 'NOOid mal<espeCI;:JI
cases(tnfenorGPAoreollegeboardsscores)
tneltgtble as freshmen It has been proposed
that all freshman be tnel:gtble for basketball
Of lootDall
The t>tggest coange lh1s year IS the so­
cal.ea"oearhpena!ty 'whtchcaiiSfor the
eltmrnatton of a team if they are punlStled twJCe
rn a penod of hve years Th1s .vtll cause
schoc:MssuchasSouthem Methocfs UI'INel'Stty
whlchhasoeenonproballon 12ofthelast 15
years. to be more cons:c::aentJouaboU1IoiJo,11ng
rules Teams lllal diSplay such a flagrant
disregard lor tne rules should not be allowed
to compete
Charles Bmgtram rs a sen101 commumcat/Ofl~
mBfOt wtro was not recrwted by the athletiC
aepanment at tew1s and Clark College..
-Athletics do not pay tuition for L athletes-
How does Lewts and Clark
handle athlehc recrUiting? LC 1s
a1Herent trom the ma1or NCAA
Orvts1on I schools because LC
does not grve athlehc scholar­
Ships LC hasdualmembershrp
In the Nattonal Assoctat•on of
lntercollegJate Athlehcs (NAIA)
aod 1n the NCAA OMs1on Ill The
NAJA does allow scholarshtps to
be grven. but NCAA-Ill does not
Men'sbasketballcoachDean
Sempert sard the reason LC
added NCAA Ill thrs year 1s an
attempttoplayschools that were
more s1m1lar to LC 'We have
been play1ng teams, such as
College of Idaho. wh1ch do g1ve
athletiC scholarsh1ps Sempert
sa1d He also sa1d that LC would
take part 1n the NAlAplayoHs th1s
year 11 they qualify Volleyball coach Ron Kaysard
that LC w11l rema1n tn the NAtA
unhllhere are enough NCAA· Ill
teams 1n the area to make a full
schedule Currently the Pioneers
play tntheNorthwest Conference
of JnterCoUeg ISle AthletiCS (NOC)
rnwhiChteamsdOnotgNeatnletre
schOlarships The NCICcontarns
SIX teams Wtllamette . Whrtman.
Pacrflc Lutheran. Pac1frc, Unf1eld,
andLC
Even though LC does not oHer
alhletiCscholarshrps ,Kaydoesn 1
feel they are hrndered when
recru111ng "We reel we can sell
our school on the posrhve thtngs
we do have We have a gOOd
hnanctal a1d otflce that trtes ro
meet need a beautiful campus
low student teacher rat10 and
we play a good solid s~hedule
IN FOCUS November 15, 1985 of games," Kay sard 'We thrnk
we can recrurt effectrvety wrth
the tools at our drsposal •·
S10ceLCdOessomerecnntrng
the coaches ftnd that srudents
are curiOUS about the scholarsh1p
Sltuatton Kay sard, ··one of the
ftrst queshons recru1ts ask iS do
we grve athletic scholarshrps?
All we can do ts ~tress thai LC
does try and meet need tn hnan­
cral a1d All hnancral aid at LewiS
and Clark IS based on need "
LewiS and Clark does try to recruu the best athletes poss.ble
But reahstreaUyany atn!ete iS gc:mg
to want to play at the hrghest
levelthe1r phystcal stature and
sktlls are gotng to allow them to.
Kaysa1d
I tiS unhkely that a school that
doesnotgtvealtlletcschOiarshlps
or der~ve a ma1or portiOI'l of Its
operatrng budget from sports wrll
ha11e to resort to cneahng
Cheab"Qhas happened though,
as LC 01cked up a vrctory tn
football when Southern Oregon
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FREE AfOJ'IES
011 Wed11e .. da.v 11igl1t
Of>c'tl \un flwr.,. , ·.I: p.m.
f rt \(/[ V fUll.-/ cl,/11. State College useo an 1nelrg1ble
player StrlCe smaUer schools
stress acaderrucs there IS also
less of a chance that a player
Wlth low SAT scores like North
CarollflaState's OYrs Washburn
would get mtotheschool 'When
tari(Jng wrtn a recru twe askabc)Jt
lhetr GPA and SAT SCOfes Kay
said
Charles &nghsm ts a seno com­
mumcartOns ITI3fOl whO wasn r te­
Cilllreo tJy 81l'/ Olhet senoor s lllh!eCJC
depatf/F'Ie(IIS. fllflel
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I The Plattform thanks everyone tor thetr patronage thts term We I I wtsh everyone a good finals week and a great vacatron! See you 1
1 next term 1
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page9 survey reveals
A QUICk survey ol the speakers LewiS and
Clark has hosted '~"~ recent years tndtcates
that be1ngaware at ourpohllcal surroundings
IS an 1mponant facet or our educational
expenence era
Stmllarly, when the top1c. or a Ierum
encompassed the roles of the super -powers,
LC has been presented wtth not only lhe
optntons or top·rankmg CIVIl setvants and
tndependentAmencanacademlcl8nsbutalso
the11 ScMetcoonterparts The 19821nternahonal
Atfaus Sympostum Illustrates th1s po1n1 Tne
theme olthe sympostum ,tnternahonat secunty,
has East· West rmphcahons Robert Grey, deputy
dtrector of the US Arms Control and Olsar­
marment Agency and Or Henry T rohtmenko
a Soviet scholar on U S /Soviet relalaoos were
among those 1n anendance Sctence Sympos1um rnctuded Stanford Unr­
verslty Professor StdneyOrellwhodlscussed
thesoc&al 1ssues related toadvanc1ng etectronlc
technology , a top1c of pohtccal as well as
SCienhhc debate
Althougtl a stngutar pollhcat philosophy
cannot be determ:ned by anatyz~ng a hst or
speakers several constant concerns do
emerge Last but not least, the survey of recent
speakers 1nd1cates LC's htgh degree of
"tnternahonahzallon "ThemaJOntyolspeakers
on campus have dtscussed rssues mvolvrng
a vartety of countrtes, from Et Salvador to
Japan to South Alrtca to the Sov1et Umon
Lev Ka."PP" representoo L'le Academy ol Soen
ces o! the USSR al the North~Nest Con!erence
oo US -~et Relalons held al LC n Fcbrumy
•894 The lust •s the concern that both (and 'n
some cases many) Sides ot an argument be
represented tnanytypeofforum For example.
en 1981 alorumtakrngaretrospectrvelookat
the 1960s placed Eugene McCanhyoppos tte
Ken Kesey The planners olthts torum were
obvtouslyawarethatntsnecessarytoexplore
the pohllcs ol both the left and the nght tn
order to unoerstand thrs politically volattte Another tntereshng potntthat can be das·
cerned by evatuaung LC's recent forums tS
that polihcs rnvades more than those toptcs
presenled by the sooal sctences The 1983 Jllllan Detwe11er 1s a JUniOf poltttcal sc1ence
fT'IBJOI at Lewts and Clark Colleae
Nan WtiiiCJ/Tistsa sophomotecommumcatiOils
ma;or at Lewts and Clark College
"Intellectual " means one thing here, another elsewhere
S ucha1e 1ne PJI ucsol ~too
In thiS place at thas moment
that. were we to teach each olher
to be more mlellectual' or pro
lesoona or soentihc a persona
ve NOUid beCOme even more
reacnonary or po!rhcany rnnocuous
tnan we already are ro me 10 lhe laiKs Nov 8 or the
Satvaooran students Rooouo
Rosales and Antonao Cue.zata As
they used tnose key words 11 was
sell-eVIdent that an theu context to
be p(Oiess•onal sc,enhhc' and In 1980 the un1versaty was
•nvaded, hundreds ol students and
teachers mctud1ng thau pres1dent
were kdteo. hbraraes and labOratortes
were devaslated Evan now, our
fnend Duarte grves no assurance
lhat moneyw1ll be released to repa11
me schools or to pay teachers'
sa lanes To t>e an tntellectualthere
rs wrlly·ntlly to be an enemy of tne
mlhtansuclplutocrallc despot:sm The ten ble spl.l en thtS country
between profess,onahsm and pol­
rttca relevanoe was Drought home cntellectual meamto De ol greater
use m I berating thear people lrom
poverty drsease ana pohltcal
oppress1on The mrhtary regtme
boasled ol•ls aotHntelleciUahsm
Peace Corps volunteer
have a tradition of haring
their knO\\lege and skills with
the people of the developing
nations. Thev're individual •
who combine a special en e of
adventure with a de ire to help
other people.
Former volunteers will
confirm that two years tn the
Peace Corps can mean per­
sonal growl h, cros')-cu1tural
experiences . and a sense of
atisfaction found nowhere
eJ e. It isn'l easy. and it i n't
CONTA(T Experience
Guaranteed
for ever}one, but ince 1961
nearly 100,000 Americans
have made the commitment
and found it to be one of the
central e\ent in their lives.
Our representatives will
be pleased to dtscuss with you
the opportunities beginning in
the next 3-12 month 1n
Africa, Asta, Latin America,
and the Paci fie.
The Toughest Job
You'll Ever Love
BROCK BRADY
PJ:,\CI:. COl{PS CAMPUS REP.
PSU PLACEI\1 ENT SERVICES
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page 10 In th1s country. to accept the label
"Intellectual " could easily mean to
reJeCt the rote of actiVISt And th1nk
of' prolesstonal "' Here 11 seems to
potnlltrst ol all toward zeal 1n pro·
tect•ng the prestige and preogataves
e1 one's speoatty It perta•ns to cai eer
and not to vocahon -to recogn1taon
and reward wrthan the establishment
In lhts country a prolessaona l works
lor money, presttge, power not for
liberation tn our schools we are
tratned to thank profeSSionally
Roootto Rosales exptamed that
because they. as students. wanted
to be· sc,enlllic' they realized they
must be Cflhcat of corrupt and
tyrannical reg1mes In our country
"sc1enlllrc'' QUite readtly means
detached non partiSan -engaged
tn "pure'' research
tn· hts essay ··Poht1cs and the
English Language·· George Orwell
stated the liberal assumption thatal
we used language more clearly we
could lhtnk more clearly But a
deluston lurks here and throughout
the liberal disc1phnes We could
talk and teach w1than our context
w•th perfect preciSion and never
achteve the clanty and dareclness
w1th whrch these two Salvadoran
students are facmg the pohttcal
SltlJallon They are not ustng words like' rntellcctual, '"professtonal' ' or
"sc1enllhc" more correctly than we
do In theu mouths they are stmply
dtfferent words. they name drfferent
Or•ences
ne br1dge between then
sttuahon and ours ts the sheer
energy and leadership of students
Thts tS a rem1nder that crrses d~rectly
expenenced are tar better ltlStructors
th;:m what we call protess1onat
teachers
lncredtbly power1ut was Antonao
Ouezata's answer when queshoned
about the threats agarnst thetr lrves
The names of both of these students
have been listed rn the papers
among those targeted by a Death
Squad Ouezata sad a mostatnazJng
th1ng • We do not take those threats
personally They are tryrng to ktll
the umverstty" He sa1d, "We do
not want to be heroes or martyrs '
Here, aren't we schooled to take
threats personally? Aren't we tra1ned
to want to be heroes? Antomo
Ouezata and Rodolro Rosales are
ltghllng lor thetr school but I do not
thtnk 11 was thetr school exactly that
taught them how to ftght
Ted Braun ts a professor of Engltsh
at Lewts and Clark College
Political apathy expressed
P ohtrcs has tnhllraleO our 1deas
Wevote,paytaxes ,s.gnpelttiOnS
and protest aga1nst outrages rn our
soctety Yet, here on campus. an
undenaable trend has developed to
neglect pohttcs
Wedontsee1nnumerablepr01ests
here,ontyoccastonalones Even 1n
student government itself there rsa
general lack of actMty and Interest
The amount of sludentgovernment
and pohticalactMtyseenoncampus
has been small The Queshon rs
"Why?"
"I tnrnk a lot of students don't
parllcrpate because they feel
somebody else ts already dotng tl,
and they don t see theJr role rn tt all
II s not that they thrnk they can't
make an tmpact, -satd Jane
Yedinak, current pres•dent of the
Assoc•ated Students of Lew1s and
Clark
Another posstble answer 1s that
students are too busy to become
rnvolved "We don't have much
(1n1erest tn poht1cs) lth1nk because
manystudentsareconcemedaboul
thetr own futures thetrowncareers,
thetr awn performance. and therefore,
be1ng 1nvolved 1nstuden t~rnme nt
•snot relevantandmaybealuxury"
said Don Balmer. pcotessor of politiCal
sclence at Lew•sandCtark College
Are students too busy w1th their
own proJeCIS and educatron to
become tnvolved •n pohtrcs?
"I thank tl'S a nallonal problem I
thtnk tl1nd1ca1es a serrous eros1on
ol democracy, " satd Zaher Wahab,
protessor of educataon ''I th1nk not
V011ng, notpartactpahng, no1 runntng
means a vote of no conlidence
"People are say1ng 'I don'tllave a
lotol respect for thts process,! don't have much fa1th rn ll.lhecandtdates
the rnstllut10n, or the people I am
aware of cts hm1ts and therefore I
don't want to teg1hm1Ze 1t." he sa1d
Because the same attitudes can
bt:. found nauonw1deascan be
toundatLCconcernlnggovernmenl
1t can be put ron h. that the student
government rs a replica of local,
state. and national governments.
and operates rn the same manner
Who s to say though
what student government 1s
supposed to be dorng Is there a
d•vme authoratywh1ch says 'All stu·
dent governmentsmusttakea poht ..
teal stand on controvers1al assues,
advocate what students wrsh. and
cause general conll1ct between the
adm1nrstrat10n and the students?
Nol Obvtously there is no such
authonty
"lth1nk a lot of 1t depends upon
the leadership, and whaltheyfee lts
1mportantlor students to address,''
said Peter Cook, assoc1ate d11ector
of developmentservtces tn the olf1ce
for H1Sl1lUtlonal advancement. and
formerASLCprestdent1982 1983 "We should not reel that we
can deal with certatn types
of Issues and we won't deal wrth
others,'' said Cook 'llh1nk that cuts
off the lull educat1onal potenttal of
studentgovernment which1stohelp
students grow Intellectually, per­
sonally, and to really feel like they
are havrnoa strong 1m pact on th1ngs
that really count, 1n I he communtty,
outstde the commun1ty," he said
Ramona Brandes as a lreshman
commumca ttons ma1or at Lew•s
and Clark College
IN FOCUS November 15,1985 I
'
"Then on I
ansltlllnga II
a new orgc
(AlA). a Wa:
on recrUttu
suspected
challenge I
foundedb~
AlA 1S a sui
ocganaatJoc
out liberal I
In the AI.
!Mnewasq
thatptessb
and lor ma
the preble
such an Oj
goals, AlA
towardsp<
soon es~
250000 h
Malcolm L
sc1ence a
exempted!
Mllbeplac
h1story ah
obtamed t
"peaces t~o
whtch he c
research
lleutarly trkt
'feel gual~
problem II
10 ltle QOVI
Desp,te
candtdate
lneotnam4
lrncluOtng
ana Clarks
states 'Wf
group real
bustness~
been 'tnlal
communtr
'truthandt
tthndsate
system
Law rene
SIUdent"m
sen a or <.til?.
may lake
schools~
found a "Pj
ro add
someone
tnt hal effo
fand1ngs 1
IN F I
•
tford Uni­
ISCussed
atectronrc
; well as
of recent
egree of
speakers
rnvolvtng
tvador to
Unton
r
~ sc1ence
m/Catl()(ls
re
;s1onat or
llythan we
are s1mply
tedtfferent
3en therr
;the sheer
•f students
;esd~rectly
inStruCtors
oress1ona1
asAnton•o
~uest10ned
!the1rlrves
;estudents
:~e papers
>y a Death
lSlamallng
osethreats
[Ying to ktll
:1 'We do
if martyrs ·•
ed to take
t 111e tratned
'? Anton•o
:osates are
bull do not
exactly that
l
r -
of English
ege
;ed
::and•dates.
eopte I am
therefore I
n," he satd
t11tudescan
leas can be
,overnmen1
the student
~ of local,
Nernments,
me manner
though
vernment1s
) Is there a
.ays All StU·
hakeapoJtt,
fS1al ISSUeS,
JS WISh and
:>a tween the
students?··
1s no such
:>ends upon
atlheyteelts
lo address,"
iate director
s1n theoff1ce
)ement. and
1982-1983
feel that we
~rtain types
l'l deal wtth
unk that cuts
potential of
~lch IS to help
:tualty, per­
pel like they
actonthmgs
communtty,
t," he satd
freshman
)fat Lewts
lS, 1985 ()(ccut. Mt,
rl\D~L$.SoP. .
A i\L ~two ~o"'-'
~ ~flll'ft. "101.1. t.Vl.SI..
'au,.,..> A Mt.t\tll.~
Of: 1'Kl 1)t110<M,IC.
....__ YRC.W 1
"T het'eareo..er 1 O.OOOMaoosl professors
on U S college campuses who are
tnst1IIJng a lefust bras in young mmds," asserts
a new orgamzat•on. Accuracy 1n Academta
(AlA). a Washmgton , D C based group tntent
on recru1t1ng student volunteers to 1den1tfy
suspected lefltsts, audtt the1r classes. and
challenge them publlcally 11 necessary Newly
founded by 1tscurrent cha•rman Reed IMne
AJA IS a subs1d1ary of Accuracy 1n Medta. an
organll.atiOOS whose Interests locus on fenet1ng
out liberal b1as 1n the press
In the August 1985 1ssue of Sctence. Mr
IMne was quoted asstatJng !hal he lS COI'Mnced
tnatPfeSS biBs has 1tsorcgrns •n the unrversches .
and tor many years he has wanted to root out
the problem at 1ts source. AlA provtdes JUst
such an opportumty In order to reahze 1ts
goals, AlA has begun network•nQ ts way
towaros potential f1nanc1a1 contacts, and well
soon escalate et1orts by canvasmg over
250.000 households by ma1l AlA President
Malcolm Lawrence told Sc1ence that hard
scrence and JOurnalism courses w1ll be
exempted lrOIT'I examu'\8llon, and the emphas•s
Mllbeptacedonpohllcalsclence.econom•cs
h1story and soccology Lawrence recently
obtamed the World Future Soc1ety's hst of
"peacestud1es," courses at US un1vers1t1es ,
wh1ch he constders an important area ol h1s
research Lawrence c1a1ms also to be "par·
llCUiarly 1rked · bycoursesthat makeAmer 1cans
· reel gu1lty" abOut hunger 1n Eth1op1a The
problem there, Slates Lawrence . ongtnates
rn the government
Desprte the fact that the AlA's hst of typ1cal
candidates 1ncludes some of the more prom­
Inent names tn the Amencan academ1c world,
l1nclud1ng RtchardFagan ot Stanloro. a Lew•S
and Clark speaker of past years), Mr lawrence
stales "Wedon tseeourselvesasapressure
grouprealtygotnga lter people ''AlA 1s ''1n the
business ol1nlorm1ng the public." which has
been "1nt1m1dated by the htgher educallon
communny •· The group w11t seek to bnng . -Uuth and balance to the c.lasstoom " whenever
•t hnds a teacher runn1ng down the Amencan
system
lawrence also stated that 1n add•t•on to
Sludent''monltors."theAIAwlllalsoberecrutllng
semor ~1hzens. po1nt1ng out thai older CitiZens
may take courses free of charge at state
schools When the AlA deter mmes that 11 has
found a "problem," II Will hrstask the professor
to add balance to the course or bnng tn
someone to present an opposmg VIew lllhts
1011tal effort lacls the AlA then maywr1te up its
hnd1ngs 1n a newsletter hopmg toarouse the 1nterest of alumm, 1nfluencraltaxpayers and
school trustees According to the New York Times. the
AlA's ltrst newsletter focus has already
1nsp1redahotdeba teastothepropnetyofthe
orgamzahon Featured 1n lhe newsletter was
AnzonaStaleUnrversrtyprolessorMatkReader
a political sc•ence survey course 1nstructor
for overemphas1z1ng such th1n~ as ·rears of
nuclearwar,power ,andweapoos "Dr Reader,
a 52 year old assoc1ate professor, has
denounced the AJA as "thought pollee •·
AsamusedyetdiSturbedAJAwatcher .LeWIS
and Clark's 8111 Lew1s adds h1s own cniiCISm
to that of Or Reader by pornhng out that the
AJA "presumes there tSsudla th1ngasobjedMty
10 the teach1ng of any social sctence ·• In
add1hon Lew1s noted that "the efforts ott hose
who would ferret ool bias 1n1each•ng tStnsultrng
to students" whO are clearly rntelhgent enough
to determtne the 1deolog1cal btas ot the1r
professor 1ndependen1 of any outs1de organ­
tzahon or group Freshman Dean Heyerly
and sophomore Mary Oak1n, howe...er, po1n1ed
out what they fell was a pos1hve by-prOduct or
the AJA "Now we'll be able to more eaSilY
determ1newh1charethe best lethst proleSSOfS
to take. remarked Heverly
The Amer1can Ass~ tahon ol Umvers1ty
Professors, m add•tton.also had a few remarks
to make concetntng the AJA, and tn therr
oH1C1al statement on the subJeCt noted
Academtc freedom has been the central
concern of the AmeflcanAssocJaliOnol Um­
verSJtyProtessorssmceourfoundmgm 1915
We have expeflenced. and have reststed
many attempts over these seven decades to
curta11 the freedom to learn and to teach
Academtc fteedom ts vtiBI to the um .. erstty's
luiWment of tiS tesponstbtlttleS m advancmg
knowledge . educat1on soctety. and servmg
the common good AlA announces that 11s
tnterest 1s m combaung mtstnlorrnat1on, but.
m seekmg accuracy m the complex world ot
1deas. 11 approaches 1ts task w1th a clear and
narrowmmdset Its toundtng statement names
and attacks (w1th dtJbtousaccuracy} a Manust
professor, brands another faculty member
as a propagandiSt tor Castro and SOCI8flsm.
and goes on to characteoze certam graduate
students as ''even more ltberal-lelt m thelf
vtews than the med1a el1te "AlA's pres1dent
clatms to know of 10,000 alleged MaiXISt
professors. and he speaks of drawmg on
11ghtwmg student groups for asststance m
e~posmg them The callts tor accuracy m
scadem1a. but lhe goat 1s contorrmty w11h
AlA's part1CU/sr cast of mmd. We have con-
IN FOCUS November 15, 1985 "We don't see ourselves as a pressure group really gomg after the
public · AlA is "in the busmess of mforming the public "
SJstently opposed efforts by persons and
groups, whethet from the nght or the left and
whatever the If spec,al mterests,toshut down
c.lassesor prevent speaJ<ers from be1ng heard
Tom: Wow, Sevin's presentation on Engel's
analysis of the or.grn of property was fasonalll'lg
Susan: Tom, I've been mean1ng to speak to
you about Dr. H~rschbeln ·s 1deolog1cal slant
Tom:Youmeanheremphasisonthesttuggle
for equality?
Susan: No. Tom. her emphasiS on the works
of Marx'
Tom: What abOUt Plato,AtiStotle<X Socrates?
She·s c~rta.nly devoted quite a few class
hours to the~r thought
Susan. That s not my concern.l 011'1 As the
Lewtsand Clark moOJtor for the AlA, I thought
Tom: What?! You actually s1gned up to work
fo• those people?
Susan: 01 course It's my duty to my fellow
students and the mtegnty of LeWis and Clark
that we expose the leftiSts lor what they are
Tom: Who'sdeny1ng be1ng a leftist? People
are latrly open about thai these days
Su$8n; But we can't let such VleWS be taken
as ract
Tom: We? What does tnat comprtse?
Susan: Why, the concerned CitiZens that we
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fhc political • • • organarat10n ''
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rclephonc ~en 1
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