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selyte, to challenge and to further who directed the program. They acareer seems somewhat unrealistic i     I »·
motivate our students. llowevcr. did an admirable job. \Vhat really or unimportant to many young       i
llnnttendanee was ahysmally low. accounts for the lack of interest people. That is, from my point of 3 % l I  
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ltnday waiting in line to cash on social morality is much deeper of their deep commitment. The Y E · A i
cheeks in the Student Center than than that. There is underway desirable consequences, however, · i » .
onefound at Focus ’69. The reasons among all young Americans, and far outweigh, in my opinion, the   I i
for this are. I think. unrelated especially young Americans on the undesirable ones. \Ve should keep j
either to the speakers who came or college campuses, a fundamental a very close look at what is going   . ¢
to the messages they had for us. transformation in their attitudes to- to be happening with young people 1     l
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national figure. \Villiam Kunstler is questions of social morality. Very not allow the very small minority of   ‘     `
the most prominent. the most able simply. they do not want to fall into students who are oriented toward l , l e
andthe most fearless constitutional the trap of talking more and doing violence in expressing their com-   l l Z
lavwer in this country today. Ile less. Debating questions of social mitment to overshadow the much,     lr . 5
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what I considered to be a brilliance ful an experience as acting on ques- not a part of the idle majority, who   l lg I t
that seldom. if ever. has hit this tions related to social morality. I will find other ways to express l  
tampus. The others are promi- have no doubt that any event in- themselves. They’re going to com- .  
nent in their own right as well. volving significant social action on municate just as Focus ’69 wanted l I
lohn Seigcnthaler. for example. a moral issue would generate ten them to communicate, but that com-   .
tditor of the Nashville Tennessean, times the number of students given munication will involve SOITIQ form f   —
isa real fighter on questions of the same publicity. The students of action. It’s our responsibility to 1 I
nffltlftl morality. I had the good want to extend themselves into the insure that such action finds others ,
lnttune of working closely with him lives of others rather than talk receptive.    
last spring during the California about the need to do so. Gene L. Mason   ,
Democratic Primary, as both of us This has some desirable as well Assistant Professor   t
were OU Scnator Robert Kennedy’s as some undesirable consequences, Depaftlnént of Political Science I   I
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' have goals so shining and glorious to be found in the Kerner Report.
  that they are willing to iight for Mr. Harris criticized the youth of
2;. their beliefs, instead of blindly con- today for too often simply con- \ .
Q forming to a safe, bland, like—every- fessing the sins of others and
{ body-else—with-no-enemies exis- labeling it social action. "We   .
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{   troy minority groups or people with dichotomizing the world into the 4 ` .   ,   { _
unpopular ideas: by manipuating “good guys' and the `bad guys` and ` e FOCUS -69
{ within a group, human beings can then we point the finger of guilt in \ $_ _ "   ' In Om, Sousa
{ be destroyed neatly; the art of the direction of the establishment _ if . y  `,p(,,){,{,_ \
= decapitation without getting a drop as the “bad guys] which makes them   ~   md S0
{ of blood, in such a way we are not the source of all evil. Targets are ·  I l { Em Thi. {
  ashamed of ourselves, has been numerous and easy to find. but we  if W    Omiiiiq pi
{ learned. But the power to transcend need less talk and more action.” /‘}· 5- _ ` *"` ,    I miimmi
{ ourselves does exist and “greater “One reason for the confusion   {    medwiiil
{ love hath no man than he lay down over youth’s role in society is re- ` ` {  {mi ii, Ch
v his life for another.” Hected in the urban crisis. where. _  tivutc mi
{ Mr. Mount blamed the ills of for lack of an `urban theology] with i   ,,{. mmdim
  society on puritanism. He said its concomitant answers, we also V i,  gmk
{ change is the central issue in “the lack the tools and experience to i-ida`- miii
, new morality.” “We’re changing solve the problems quickly and  eckg in th
ji more now in 15 years than we did adequately. Until now. man has ,,. {Omit] iii
? before in five or six centuries.” been conditioned by Christian ég, i.  this im
` . Mr. Wahking, who shared the theology to picture himself as ejihgitiitiw
{ platform with Mount at one session, having been placed in a hostile to the {mw
{ K agreed that the main issue of environment not of his own making. Each was
{ ‘ morality has changed, but he added, but one in which he must learn to national {im,
-   “Playb0y magazine doesn’t talk live. Suddenly. the city surrounding the megt im
{ enough about the dangers of (pre- him is his omi creation. The chal- andthe inosi
{ marital) sex, but then the church lenge now is to recreate cities laxwer in ti
{ talks too much about it.” Wahking which answer the needs of its in-   Spvlc as the
  said, “It’s marriage that makes sex habitants.  hatlconsit
{ exciting.” He added that he didn’t “Man is in a constant act of '···  seldom.
{ necessarily mean legal marriage, second genesis. Radical new de-  mpus. Th
{ but “the spiritual unity and one- mands are made upon him, forcing neiit in the
{ H€SS” of 3 lasting 1'el&tiOnSl`1ip. on him a new role which calls for T. Ce‘<>f£¤‘ Hm  l0l1l1 Seigei
{ Mr. Sigenthaler expressed the new answers, and which can only  editor of the
  opinion that the cities are symbolic be found by a new creativity. hgimiouized so that ultiinatelt tlrft  is A nal fit
of the people Wl'1O make decisions “The question then becomes Wil] bp HO ggiifiieti)(·[\\‘t*t‘1lll{l’lll‘lf  wtiul inoral
{ Bild d€t€I`I`1'liH€ the COl1I`S€ of events; (What kind of pressure can we Iiistitiitigiis tend to tri1I1${f’fYl  l0flUl1t‘ of wi
{ that the only glisten and shine in create which will be effective in individuals into specialist {mls. last spring
· the downtown area is from neon bringing about eh;mge?"’ iockcd tim, tht-ii mice who stl?  lltmocratie
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{ a group Of Students who M6 Willing time to research. His subject; How rind they should providv =* l““l°
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s Focus ’69 was a real catastrophe staff at that time. No, it is not a I think those of ns oider than the
· ° I,. one sense. That is, there were so question of who the speakers were present college generation are likely A {
. people who came to hear what or what the speakers had to say to be somewhat envious of the eoni_ I I  
  said so meaningfully by our that resulted in such abysmal at- mitment that many young people g  
_ gsts, The topic. "Focus on Social tendance. have toward othei-sy a ooininitinent   I ‘ 
 0mlity,” provided an opportunity In no way can such attendance that is relatively selfless, a Cornrnit-   I ' I
 y national speakers. clearly COD- fw attributed to lliatléquafe pLlb~ ment not especially related to their fs - .·  
 med with social morality, to pro- lfCfi}’ or the incompetence of those careers. In that sense, preparing for It I I  
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 tivate Olll' Students. IIOWCVCT. tlftl ill] 3(lIHlI‘t1l)le job. What really or unimportant to many young   I 
...- attendance was abysmally low. accounts for the lack of interest people. That is, from my point of · I ’ 
`•.  finds more students every shown by our students in a forum xiew, an undesirable consequence 1 I ·
i-iday waiting in line to cash on social morality is much deeper of their deep commitment. The - I I
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 found at Focus ,69. The reasons among all young Americans, and far outweigh, in my opinion, the I  
wrt il  this are, I think, unrelated especially young Americans on the undesirable ones. We should keep l
neither to the speakers who came or college campuses, a fundamental a very close look at what is going . -
to the messages they had for us. transfomiation in their attitudes to- to be happening with young people I I   ‘
Each was a very distinguished ward. and their behavior regarding. in college communities. \Ve should I I I Q
national figure. William Kunstler is questions of social morality. Very not allow the very small minority of I ,   ’
 the most prominent. the most able simply. they do not want to fall into students who are oriented toward I ,   l
 and the most fearless constitutional the trap of talking more and doing violence in expressing their com- I I   —
lawyer in this country today. He less. Debating questions of social mitment to overshadow the much,     I ;
a·•  as the first in the series with morality was simply not as meaning- much larger group of students, still     _ `
l `h8fl considered to be a brilliance ful an experience as acting on ques- not a part of the idle majority, who     ‘
M.  seldom. if ever. has hit this tions related to social morality. I will find other ways to express I
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nent in their own right as well. volving significant social action on municate just as Focus ’69 wanted I
argc HW lnhn Seigenthaler. for example_ a moral issue would generate ten them to communicate. but that com-   I I
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P is He sent a letter to Notre Dame stu- prove the scholastic level of New Court in R
k   dents warning them that anyone students and to enable thrill it Speech at
‘ i engaged in disruptive protest make their academic way A Dillard Um
  Probably one of the most dis- would be given 15 minutes to desist In a question and answvf FWOU that black It
  turbing occurrence ever to happen or be liable for suspension. with a reporter on Nl‘LU`(l llllmlpl law should
  OU an Am€YiC&¤ Campus WZS the But the scholarly priest later campus, Rustin_ who is vN¢<`l*l"`“ consequence
  sight of 3.1'm€d black militant Stu- added, “I didn’t want to como out director of the A. Philip llimllnlllh ·· · and it S
  d€DtS at C01'I1€ll University HS they HS 21 hawk. I Wanted to act as a Institute, pointed ont (hilt Ntmfi RMB is nota
  filed out ofthe Student Center after rational man, reacting to a crisis have made Slll)St1UTllill ¥*““‘   lllifacialag
  their occupation of it this spring situation. I think young people de- educational opportuniti<‘$» ull l’  'mihiug wit]
» during P3.I‘€I1tS’ W€€k. The Uni- serve to know where they 5t;in(l_ tlierofore all the m0fl’ trnsis lm HIE bombs i
‘ versity of Kentucky also has dis- They need better leadership than instead of taking :1l¢lCkSi“° the decisions for thousands of State University College in New     -
k Slllllm people where no vote has been York has endorsed a demand by cashmere sweaters. Then there were l I A
h€tll""ll taken. Who are they that they black students that they be given a several of my peers who lived off l
ltlli*i“l' Should do this?" S35 weekly spending allowance. campus in nice apartments. Lots of   ‘
ssiv€’-lllll Thurgood hlgrgligll, the Hrgt "'I`he black students base their the other students had these things.  
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