VISTA visits to recruit volunteers for tutoring program By ELAINE JENSEN

Two VISTA volunteer work-ers recently spoke to a large group of Rice students inter-ested in getting involved with a new tutoring program in Houston's sixth ward, a low-

income, predominantly Negro area.

Students participating in the program will have the oppor-tunity to tutor those children in grades two through six a t Harper Elementary School who,

due to inadequate facilities and lack of individual attention from overburdened teachers, have fallen f a r below their grade levels in arithmetic and read-ing ability.

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the rice thresher vol. 56, no. 4 rice university, houston, texas thurs., sept. 26, 1968

Asks for mass support

Hyiden wants student opinion, oid By LAURA KAPLAN

SCEP chairman Tom Hyiden called "mobilization of student opinion" the primary concern of his committee this year during an open discussion on educa-tional policy at the Senate meet-ing Tuesday night.

In a statement summarizing currently effective innovations,

^ such as self-scheduled finals and the pass-fail option, Hyiden criticized these procedures as "decision-making by procrastin-ation," as skirting the real is-sue of basic educational policy.

He noted that only the col-lege courses offered opportuni-ties for creativity.

Planned Irrelevence? Generalized projections from

the Ten-Year Plan, from which Rice is to emerge as a "center of excellence," such as increased f a c u l t y and student body, strengthening the social science and fine arts departments, and raising the quality of the fresh-man class, are, said Hyiden, on-ly quantitative, external meas-ures.

C a u s ' e s of dissatisfaction which remain unresolved include increasing-the level of relevance of humanities requirements for SE's and math-science require-ments for Academs. The ques-tion of the necessity of a for-eign language requirement is one aspect of the problem.

Disciplinary Blinders Dr. Franz Brotzen, professor

of engineering and a member of the faculty council, pointed out that the most exciting dev-elopments in science are affect-ed by problems in the social sciences. This suggests that an inter- or even non-disciplinary

approach might create an at- position. mosphere of greater awareness.

The present system has in-stead tended to produce gradu-ates who leave the University without real appreciation of how fields outside of their own discipline will affect "their lives.

Conflicts A major aspect of the prob-

lem then evolves as the conflict between specialization or com-mitment to a department, and the diversity which has been a standard of proponents of a liberal education.

Members of the faculty coun-cil who attended the meeting, including Drs. Ronald Sass and John Margrave of the Chemis-try Department, and Dean Gordon of the Engineering De-partment, 'agree that realization of this conflict placed the pro-fessor in an almost impossible

Humanism Second For because he is trained and

hired as a specialist in a parti-cular area, his f irst obligation is to teach this material. So on a priority level, his awareness as a human being must be sec-ond.

Yet, as Dr. Douglas Milburn of the Germanics Department ad-ded, it is extremely difficult to see how education can be made more relevant to life when hum-an values are relegated to a secondary position.

Most students regard the Uni-versity as a temporary place of residence where they receive necessary training to carry out their life plans. Thus it is of highest importance for the Uni-versity to be a system in which human sensitivity can survive

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Grad students unaffected by draft The dra f t has had no signifi-

cant effect upon graduate stu-dent enrollment a t Rice, claims Dr. George Richter, Dean of Graduate Studies.

The Selective Service decreed last spring that graduate defer-ments would be discontinued for all but those in the fields of medicine and dentistry, and many prominent educators ex-pressed fears that graduate schools would lose m^ny of their students to the draf t . Hai-vard University President Nathan Pusey remai'ked that grad schools would consist of "the lame, the halt, the blind, and the female."

Citing statistics to substanti-ate his belief that students'

fears about the draf t are great-ly exaggerated, Richter noted that of 140 students at Rice on NDEA Fellowships last year, only ten percent were not on the rolls this fall. Several of these 14 were terminated from the program because of work deficiencies, others had dropped out to accept teaching posts, and four, anticipating being drafted, had enlisted in the Armed Forces. None were actu-ally called to active duty.

Richter pointed out^however, tha t 1968 offered an extrawdi-nary set of circumstances as an election year, and that perhaps political considerations were re-sponsible for the draf t ' s failure to achieve its anticipated effect.

Carlo and Fred Fowler are or-ganizing the program which will eventually be turned over entirely to the Rice stu^fents, Tania Bemko of Jones College and Chris Stansell and Andrea Primdahl of Brown College are working with the VISTA volun-teers to organize Rice students for the program.

Sensitivity Training Three training sessions, each

lasting three hours, will pro-vide tutors with information that will enable them to max-imize the benefits of tutoring. These sessions will be held on the evenings of Oct. 1, 3, and 8 on the Rice campus to sign up students prior to the train-ing sessions, and it will then be announced exactly where the sessions will held.

The training sessions will attempt to prepare the tutors for all aspects of their new situations. Three psychologists will conduct "sensitivity" ses-sions, a type of group discus-sion which will be helpful to tutors in realizing their capabil-ities for working with under-privileged children.

Foo tball m a gaz i n es As another part of the pre-

paration, students will learn ef-fective methods of tutoring, such as gearing the material to the needs and interests of the tutee.

O -For example," said Miss Di-

Cario, "if your tutee is a little boy who loves football and foot-ball ^pfrs, the -best way to get him interested in learning to read is to use a football maga-zine rather than a reading text-book."

The third aspect of the train-ing program will consist of orienting the prospective tutors to the background and environ-ment of the children they will be tutoring.

"This is the hardest part of the training," said Miss Di-Cario, "for it involves trying to comprehend a way of growing up that is drastically different from what we are used to."

Horizons, alternatives She pointed out that most ol

the children have never been

Harwood forms group to discuss right-wing issues

Dr. Edwin Harwood of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology is laying prelim-inary plans for a conservative study club on the Rice campus.

If the group is formed, Har-wood said, "We would go full tilt at the liberal editorializing of the Thresher as well as pro-vide a forum for conservative points of view on campus through seminar discussion."

Harwood, in announcing his plans, suggested electing offi-cers from both the student body and faculty, and conducting monthly meetings.

Initial topics he suggested for discussion included "American Social Successes," "Why Gov-ernment Cannot Solve the Ur-ban Problem," "Poverty and Slums in Fi-ance and Italy," '"What Socialism Costs the Mid-dle Classes in Sweden," "How to Bring Order Back to the American University," and "Should Rioters be Considered Law-Breakers ? "

Harwood invites all interested students and faculty to contact him in his office a t 302 Rayzor Hall, or by telephone at Ext. 750.

outside of their immediate neighborhood, that some of them have never ridden on an elevator, and that many of their homes are entirely barren of books or magazines.

An integral part of the VISTA program is broadening the children's horizons and in-troducing them to ways of life alternative to the life of the streets. Tutors will occasionally take the children to such places as the zoo, shopping centers, museums, or even the Rice cam-pus.

Recalcitrant Board After the training program,

tutors will be assigned to chil-dren at Harper School on a one-to-one basis. Each tutor will be expected to meet with his tutee for two hours a week on a regular day convenient for both.

Fowler said that the tutoring sessions would have to be held at nearby St. Joseph's Church rather than at the Harper School, since the Houston School Board will not allow the school to remain open a f te r hours tor "activities not sponsored by the school." A car pool or possibly a bus will t ransport Rice tu-tors to St. Joseph's and back every weekday.

The VISTA volunteers stress-ed the importance of establish-ing a friendship with the tutee, using the f i rs t few sessions just to" get to know eaeh'other rather than starting to tutor right away. One of the f i rs t things the tu-tor will do is to visit the child s home and meet his family. He will also talk to the child's teacher about areas of weak-ness before the tutoring begins, and will maintain close contact with, the teacher th> oughout the program.

Frust rat ion The students were warned

tha t tutoring is not easv. "It you let yourself become in-volved at all, there are almost certain to be times when you will be depressed and foe! frus-trated with the whole thing," said Miss DiCario. "Progn sometimes very slow and will feel like you aren ; i accomplishing anything."

Foreseeing such difl'icu.ties, the volunteers plan to have the tutors meet occasionally t<> tanc about these frustrations ami to work out solutions to common problems.

Miss DiCario, from Buitalo. N. Y., and Fowler, from lioul-der, Colo., have taken a year's leave of absence from college to become volunteer workers in VISTA, the "domestic Peace Corps." VISTA, volunteers live right in the area in which they work and receive just enough pay to live on.

I n i t i a t i v e

There is no pre-formulated plan for the VISTA worker to carry out. Af te r living in the neighborhood for a while, talk-ing to the people, and finding out what they want, the VISTA worker must use his own ini-tiative to devise projects and seek financial backing for them.

The Rice-Harper School tu*> toring program is one of the projects Fowler and Miss Di-Cario have come up with in response to the needs of their neighborhood.

The project will be left en-tirely in the hands of the Rice students when the two volun-teers end their VISTA service in January. It is hoped that the Rice students will later expand the program to include such possibilities as tutoring high school students and organizing children's theatre groups.

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Rice not consumer factory

Concerned SCEP looks for advanced educational policy (following^ are the opening remarks of Tom

Hylden, chairman of the Student Committee on Educational Policy, at the informal discussion of Rice 's educational policy at the Senate meeting Tuesday night.—Ed.)

The Student Committee on Educa-tional Policy has, fo r the last few years , concerned itself with a number of t a sks which were at least peripherally re la ted to educational policy at Rice. Each y e a r a review of the courses t a u g h t a t Rice has been prepared, with vary ing degrees of success. Each year a number of s tud-ies has been prepared and subsequent proposals have been submit ted to t he universi ty authori t ies , also with v a r y i n g degrees of success.

Changes in universi ty policy have been accomplished th rough var ious in-st i tutional channels open a t Rice, in-cluding SCEP, the resident ial colleges, various universi ty facul ty commit tees , and the d i f fe ren t depa r tmen t s of the Univi rsity. But w h a t has been the resu l t oi the various new proposals adopted by the Universi ty in recent years , and w h a t is their relat ionship to educational policy a t Rice?

Some of the changes, like self-sched-uled final examinat ions in most upper-level courses, have merely made some aspects of Rice education less pa inful , or, if you p re fe r to use liberal terminology, more convenient. Others, like the pass-tail option, have involved a concession to s tudent requests while sk i r t ing the real issue of, in this example, should there be any grades a t a l l? (This is called "decision-making by procras t ina-tion," i.e., "maybe if ignored, the prob-lem will d isappear .") Too few have re-sulted in a real change of univers i ty policy or a willingness to t ry new inno-vat ion—the s tudent- ini t ia ted, college-sponsored courses being an exception.

No subs tant ia l change I think, then, t h a t most of the discus-

sion of "educational policy" in the pas t lias resul ted in wha t should be te rmed minimal change; it has not resul ted in substant ive change, and it has not really concerned itself with educational policy.

The discussion has not concerned itself with educational policy because, when one invest igates educational policy, he should concern himself with the sub-stance of tha t policy, not the rubrics . Even more basically, we can ' t say we have concerned ourselves with educa-tional policy at Rice because educational po]j<-y at Rice is undefinable. It is unde-finable because the tie ju re and tie fac to policies at Rice are so d i f fe ren t as to be almost comical.

If you weren ' t aware t ha t there does exist a general de jure educational policy at Rice, 1 can perhaps enlighten you in tha t regard. All.of the following quota-tions are taken f rom "A Ten-Year Plan for Rice Universi ty . . . 1965—1975":

"Rice Univers i ty 's goal and asp i ra -tion is, to be a universi ty of the h ighes t quali ty, serving not only as an educa-tional center of excellence fo r selected •^t^jjh'nts of high intellectual ability, but also as a center of creat ivi ty where new knowledge and new ideas resul t f rom research and other scholarly-creative ac-tivit ies."

In order to implement th is "h ighes t quali ty, ' the following are thought to be the modes of action*

@ Increase the number of people on the faculty and the number of s tudents in the Universi ty.

9 Increase the budget of the Uni-versity.

• Increase the number of colleges ("to accommodate all unde rg radua te s who desire to live on campus." We m u s t conclude t ha t no more women under-gradua tes desire to live on campus.)

® Strengthen programs- in the social sciences and fine a r t s (provided "ade-quate financial support is for thcoming.")

O Increase the quali ty of each incom-ing f reshman class.

® Increase the income f rom s tudent fees and tuition.

O Get hold of $21,000,000 fo r capi tal purposes.

This, apparent ly , is what is mean t by educational excellence.

The policy of the past , then, seems to be one of quite desirable goals f o r achieving a t ru ly f ine universi ty, bu t

one t h a t believes the quali ty of such a univers i ty is measured in t e rms of var i -ous quant i ta t ive fac tors , such as f inan-cial resuorces, number of top- ranking g radua tes , and the breadth of cer ta in depar tments . Such th ings are, of course, of ten found in the "g rea t uni-vers i t ies" ; some of them are no doubt necessary to have a g r e a t univers i ty ; but none of them is suff ic ient .

Two areas

Reading f u r t h e r in search of Rice's educational policy, we find "Rice Uni-versi ty aspires to a level of excellence which clearly t ranscends a regional f r a m e of reference. The real izat ion of this aspirat ion will require the assump-tion of a role of internat ional leader-ship."

This is indeed interes t ing, coming f rom a school th i r ty - th ree per cent of whose students come f r o m the immedi-ate region, Houston, and sixty-seven per cent of whose s tudents come f r o m the more broad region called the S ta te of Texas.

Along the lines of a more specific edu-cational policy, the repor t s ta tes , "The essential unity of knowledge and the re-lationships among disciplines will be emphasized, r a the r than diversity and extreme specialization. The Rice objec-tive is a universi ty r a t h e r than a multi-versity."

The contras t between this s ta tement of policy and the actual si tuation a t Rice should be quite evident to any s tudent a t Rice, whether his discipline be in the liberal a r t s or the sciences.

Although this en ter ta in ing reading could be pursued a t length, I hope t ha t the point is clear by now: the de jure and de facto aspects of educational pol-icy a t Rice are not one.

What then will be the role assumed by SCEP this year, and w h a t will be the s tudents ' pa r t in t ha t role? The answer is tha t both roles be t te r be the same.

SCEP this year should work in two general a reas :

• I t should provide a decent course evaluation procedure in response to the desires of both s tudents and facu l ty for such and in the hopes of providing some quant i ta t ive basis fo r an investigation of educational policy a t Rice. In a similar vein, I would hope t h a t leaders of SCEP, as well as of other universi ty and col-lege groups, will be invited to partici-pate in the "General Rc-evaluation of Undergradua te Educat ion a t Rice," to which I unders tand the Universi ty has committed itself th is year .

"® SCEP should help mobilize student-faculty thought , as well as action, around educational policy at Rice.

It is this last point t h a t 1 would like to dwell upon now. In the pas t SCEP has been a r a the r elitist group t h a t made studies and submit ted proposals. Unfor-tunately, not much ever came of these proposals; a l though I think we can say t ha t a t the present t ime there is more of an awareness on the p a r t of both stu-dents and facu l ty alike t h a t Rice mus t seriously consider its role as a univer-sity—both in the context of wha t it can do for the s tudents a t Rice and "in the la rger context of the world we live in.

Depar tmenta l pow-wows Therefore S C E P mus t now take steps

to see t h a t s tudent opinion on educa-tional m a t t e r s a t Rice is sought and tha t consequent action is taken.

By this I mean t h a t it is not my posi-tion, or within my capabil i ty, to lead any evaluation of," fo r example, the his tory depar tment a t Rice. Ra ther , I would like to see a number of " S C E P Study Ses-sions" or " S C E P Inqui r ies" init iated, which woul'd consist of open meet ings of all s tudents and interested- facu l ty in t ha t depar tment .

Such sessions migh t invest igate the na ture of the courses t a u g h t in the par-t icular depar tment , any assumpt ions made by the depa r tmen t in i ts teaching (e.g., the question a few years ago of whether the Economics Depar tment preaches Keynesian economics as dog-m a ) . They might invest igate the author-i tar ian (political) s t ruc tu re of the de-par tment , the re la t ionship between re-search and teaching, etc.

The idea, then, is to open up dialogue in the Univers i ty r ega rd ing educational policy a t Rice and any th ing else people w a n t to talk about. There are a number of a reas with which open discussion followed by action should concern i tself . I o f fe r the following as examples and in the hope t h a t they might encourage your thought on these ma t t e r s , so t h a t we can get something done as a s tudent body.

• The academic requirement fo r sci-ence-engineering students .

The question here, in my opinion, is "Should the engineer be as well versed in the wri t ings of Marshal l McLuhan as he is in applied m a t h e m a t i c s ? " The point is tha t , while we can educate and t ra in s tudents to be exper ts on mass technology, it is these same s tudents who should be most concerned about the pos-sible consequences of their work. Unfor-tunately, technology develops f a s t e r than man 's ability to cope morally and sociologically wi th it.

® The science-math requirement fo r academs.

A goodly amount of work was done in this area last year by SCEP and other interested par t ies . Questionnaires were sent to all the deans, depar tment heads, other facul ty and s tudents . One could general ly categbrize the content of the responses received into those f rom the s tudents , the liberal a r t s professors , and the science-engineering facul ty .

An a t t emp t was made by SCEP to formula te a proposal, which was sub-mitted, and we unders tand various fac-ulty groups are now s tudying the pro-posal as well as a l te rna te schemes.

• The language requirement fo r all s tudents .

The broader view The reasoning behind the language re-

quirements seems to be tha t i t is fe l t tha t such is an in tegral p a r t of a liberal education, a proposition to which, in theory a t least, Rice is dedicated. I t is fel t by others, notably students , t h a t the language requirement is a hindrance to a liberal education. Do the language re-quirements serve the Univers i ty as a whole, or do they serve special interest groups within the universi ty s t ructure a t the expense of those outside the spe-cial in teres t g roups?

This question has been debated ever since I have been a t Rice wi th no resul t . We can do something about it this yea r if we w a n t to.

# Should the Univers i ty (or does Rice Univers i ty) serve the role of t ra in ing people to s ta f f the various pigeon holes t h a t the U. S. politico-economic system mus t f i l l?

"Al though professional instruction is cer tainly not the p r imary ingredient of underg radua te education, the Univer-si ty 's role in p repa r ing s tudents for thei r f u t u r e life work cannot be ignored. The Univers i ty m u s t contribute to society g radua tes able to think and to question, educated to cope with a rapidly chang-ing world." (F rom "A Ten-Year P lan for Rice Univers i ty .")

The question here is the liberal view (most ar t iculate ly s ta ted by Clark Ker r ) of the univers i ty as an in tegral a rm of an a l ready defined nat ional purpose.

(Hylden then expressed the view t h a t Rice Univers i ty ' s educat ional policy cannot be divorced f rom its larger na t iona l context . Educators , he said, need to recognize t h a t the resul ts of the i r teaching and research have an impact on the society a t l a rge as well as on the academic communi ty . He concluded by quot ing Mark Rudd, head of the S tuden t s fo r a Democrat ic Society a t Columbia Univers i ty . )

"Young people feel more strongly, too, the gap between the possibilities and the real izat ions of this society. The richest economy the world has ever known de-pends on waste-production—production to sa t i s fy created needs, not real needs— for a g r e a t p a r t of its nat ional income, while it leaves unbearable and degrading slums in every city. Our factor ies pro-duce at a f rac t ion of their potential ca-pacities yet thousands of people s tarve to death in the world every day. The po-tent ial fo r l iberation f r o m toil and want , leaving people f r ee to create, is enor-mous, yet men m u s t still work in mean-ingless, was te fu l jobs to keep themselves and this economic system going. How meaningful , in t e rms of real human needs, is the work of a marke t research ana lys t developing an advert is ing pro-g ram fo r a new brand of toothpas te? Or t h a t of a worker making a p a r t fo r a car he knows is designed to become ob-solete in two y e a r s ? We students see the huge gap between potential and real izat ion in our^lives. We see t h a t the unvers i ty p repa res us for meaningless work and we see t h a t so much remains to be done."

editorial

the rice thresher ., , rfM t&e &6«ta'd 6<ttde4.,, Onc-e upon a time, during the 19G(i Senatorial election campaign. Thresher read-

ers were advised in these pages t ha t "even t rue l iberals" should vote for Democrat Waggoner Carr , a man with a s ingular lack of appeal to any but the most rabidly conservative. This year, it seems, tha t invitation to political expediency has been amended to read "even t rue l iberals" should vote fo r Huber t Humphrey, a man whose appeal to those of a liberal bent has vir tual ly evaporated during his tenure as Vice-President.

Humphrey, to be sure, needs all the votes he can muster . The combined th rea t of Nixon and Wallace, with its appeal to those who long fo r a sort of "Return to Normalcy," and a solution, of America 's dilemmas, wi thout knowing or car ing to know wha t this would cost, has hu r t the Vice-President so deeply t h a t some observ-ers already accept his defea t as an inevitability. The proceedings a t the Democratic convention, up to and including the actual nomination, so repulsed a s ignif icant percentage of potential Humphrey supporters t ha t they have l e f t the fold entirely, and vowed never to re tu rn . The Humphrey camp, unders tandably upset, apparen t ly feels t ha t pronounced and highly visible measures are in order to entice these vot-ers—many of them young, many of them McCarthy suppor ters—back into the Democratic par ty . They need, you might say, a good ta lking to.

The man doing the ta lking Tuesday night , Berkeley political scientist Nelson Polsby, drew on the twin points of "record" and " f a i t h " to explain why liberals should stop pouting and unite behind his man . Humphrey , once the mftst powerful and outspoken liberal in the Senate, was the driving force behind every piece of progressive legislation passed since 1954, Polsby said. Tha t is probably t rue . Richard Nixon's ma jo r political accomplishment, Polsby continued, was the persecution of Alger Hiss dur ing the ear ly days of th% McCarthy bloodletting'. Also t r u e .

I t is when turn ing f r o m the pas t to the present t h a t Polsby, and all o ther Humphrey supporters , slip up. Polsby defends Humphrey ' s record as Vice-President by saying t h a t it has been Humphrey ' s duty to suppor t the Johnson adminis trat ion, and tha t there is simply no other possibility fo r a modern Vice-President. There-fore, one m u s t have " f a i t h " in the "decency" of the man, and t r u s t him to car ry on his liberal record a f t e r its four-year in ter rupt ion when he gets in the Whi te House. That , to say the least, is a r isky proposition.

The American people th is year demand a choice between the policies of the Johnson adminis t ra t ion—and ones t ha t ape it, like the Connally regime in Texas and the Daley machine in Chicago—and a new approach, one more human, less devious and expedient. I t is precisely because of his own intolerable political posi-tion t ha t Huber t Humphrey is in no position to advance or ar t icula te tha t choice.

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Viet letter debate continues; Seewann attacks Marsh To the Editor:

Mr. Marsh's letter to the edit-or in last week's Thresher de-serves some comment, I think, even if only for the fact that the man seems interested in the Vietnam situation.

In denying the parallel be-tween the U.S.'s, excuse for in-tervention in Vietnam and that of the U.S.S.R. for the invasion of the C.S.S.R., Mr. Marsh ap-parently wants to show that the U.S. was "invited" by a respect-able and representative govern-ment. To accomplish this goal, he immediately begins at the tail end, by extolling the virtues of the present Saigon govern-ment. Apparently he has for-gotten that U.S. intervention in Vietnam goes back as f a r as the Eisenhower administration.

Mi\ Marsh's comments would, I feel, have been much more relevant, had he tried to show that the government which ex-isted in 1954 and to which Eisenhower offered "qualified conditional aid" was respectable, or that the government in 1063 to which Kennedy sent 18,000 "advisors" who were permitted to engage in combat alongside the troops they were "advis-ing," was respectable, or even that the government in 1965-66 when Johnson escalated from 20,000 men to 375,000 men was respectable.

Undoubtably, the present gov-ernment is a big improvement and it certainly ought to be, since the U.S. has "nursed and rehearsed" Saigon governments for over a decade. Unfortun-ately, the present government .never "invited" us in the f i rs t place. That was done by one of the less respectable ones. The present government merely ex-tended the invitation. To have done otherwise would have been a serious blunder on their part , I think.

In his second point, Mr. Marsh apparently wants to lend some semblance of creditability to our SEATO pact alliances. He tries to do this by stating that North Vietnam currently has eight howitzers and rockets (divisions? companies?) in South Vietnam and is currently invading South Vietnam at a rate of 12,000 men per month. At f irst glance, these statistics seem to have very little to do with our SEATO alliances, and at a second, more careful per-usal, absolutely nothing at all. One suddenly feels himself rudely dragged into a dark, dark-void.

Eventually though, one sees 'a faint g l i m m e r of light bravely oozing through the logical traps in his argument.

Mr. Marsh apparently wants his readers to recognize the follow-ing three t ru ths :

0 The creation and continu-ing existence of SEATO are eminently justifiable.

% The SEATO terms com-mit the U.S. to aid a troubled Vietnam.

9 Vietnam is indeed trou-bled.

Truths one and two appear to be so transparently obvious to Mr. Marsh as not to merit any discussion whatsoever. Truth three, on the other hand, being of a delusively obscure and opaque nature, deserves the most painstaking illumination available. Military statistics!

How much better his time would have been spent examin-ing SEATO than in aimlessly wallowing about in all that murky statistical hogwash. He might have provided answers for those who feel SEATO was too hurriedly organized a month before Eisenhower took the f i rs t steps toward intervention in Vietnam, or for those who still wonder why the most populous Asian countries refused to sign the treaty, why three of the eight signatories are non-Asian countries (U.S., France, Eng-land) and why SEATO is and always has been so completely dominated by the U.S.

Had he actually bothered to read the SEATO terms, he might h*ive uncovered some-thing to silence those critics who so stubbornly insist that there is nothing there that com-mits the U.S. to intervene in Vietnam. (Secretary of State Dulles, for instance, the^creator of SEATO, testified to that ef-fect in the Senate).

He might have reassured those who are disturbed by the fact that France, England, and Pakistan signed the same treaty and don't feel obligated to send even token support, or those who are perturbed by the nu-merous quotations from Eisen-h o w y and Kennedy news con-ferences, in which both men state that SEATO in no way commits the U.S. to intervene in Vietnam.

Mr. Marsh continues by at-tempting to convince his read-ers that there may well be some validity in the Domino theory. And again with military statis-

t i c s ! The four divisions guard-ing the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos are as much dictated by military necessity as are our air-bases in Thailand. Both are equally irrelevant to any rea-sonable discussion of the Domi-no theory.

He might instead have given his readers a long list of Asian countries that have turned com-

Bacon justifies integration record To the Editor:

"Rice University is racist, and has been adamant about ignoring it," to quote someone.

However, integration is now here at Rice; it will be f rom now on; and it will probably be a good policy in^the long run.

One must remember, never-theless, that in an age when society openly condoned segre-gation, a man with a dream for the world, and indirectly mur-dered for it, chartered and funded this university. His wish-es, and we must certainly re-spect his right to them, includ-ed the desire that Rice remain segregated.

As a private institution, how-

ever, Rice has come under gov-ernment pressure from without and constructive criticism from

^nvithin to reinterpret W. M. Rice's wishes to be primarily for a f i r s t class educational in-stitution (whatever that can be?) , rather thafi a school-for the 'white.'

So be it, we have integrated. But the fact that we did so years af ter the 1954 Supreme Court puling is irrelavant (sic).

' Fortunately, Rice is still a ^private university, capable of

making its own rules, subject only to itself.

But, Rice—'Shameful' — Oh, really!

BOB BACON Baker '70

munist since Red China did in 1949. That would have been challenging, I think, especially since many people claim that there aren't any. He might also have tried to provide an answer for those who seem to think that Asian countries are more influenced by their own intern-al social, economic and political make-up, than by anything that can possibly occur in foreign countries.

The remaining part of Mr. Marsh's letter, when considered as a whole (like about six feet deep), is filled with all kinds of rambling, loosely organized blithering. In his narrow-mind-ed argument that Senator Inouye of Hawaii could not pos-sibly be inhuman, he cites the fact that the man lost his arm in WW II fighting the Nazis. Now I never heard of Senator Inouye and couldn't really say whether or not he is inhuman, but I am certainly not going to rule it out simply because the man lost his arm fighting the Nazis!

His "reasonable rebuttal" of Dinh's satement that the U.S.'s use of napalm has unified the Vietnamese in the Revolution seems to me to approach asymp-toically, via the complex in-variable elliptic plane, a lot of "mindless slop" (to borrow a phrase). Simply because one old peasant ignored one of the many bombing runs to concen-trate on his more immediate duties doesn't show t^at all Vietnamese are that way, no more than the fact that one American demonstrator bit a policeman's leg shows that all Americans bite policemen's legs.

Wouldn't it be something if all Americans really did bite policemen's legs! The country would go to the dogs! There-fore, I was very pleased to find that Mr. Marsh has decided to take a strong stand against that sort of thing-. Let's face it, demonstrators, he's right! That sortvof thing is just plain nasty! Shame on you! And that goes for all the rest of you disgusting hippies and yippies whose "feeling against the^use of mechanical w e a p o n s ( na-palm ? ) is in fact subconscious racism projected onto the Viet-namese" and who try to "trans-fer aggression against parental control over to the police"!

Shame, shame on you! De-stroying a young man's faith in his generation! Biting huge chunks of flesh out of police-men's legs! M-o-t-h-e-r B-e-a-r! And then to ask to be treated like human beings! After bit-ing huge chunks of flesh out of policemen's legs!! Lord have mercy!

They ought to be shipped to Vietnam to help napalm North Vietnam's pregnant women and fat , chubbie little old babies in just retribution for the bloody butchery of South Vietnam's pregnant women and fa t , chub-bie little old babies by North Vietnamese terror attacks. The damned yellow little monkeys have got to.-be taught,ei ther to s tar t taking the pill or stop reproducing so indiscriminantly, don't they, Mr. Marsh?

ED SEEWANN

Hanszen '68

(The sentence in Mr. Marsh's letter referred to by Mr. Seewann should have read, "There are eight infantry divisions, equipped with AK 47's, and about two armored divisions, with both howitzers and rockets, of the regular North Vie tnamese army currently in South Vie tnam." The Thresher apolo-gizes for its typographical error.—Ed.)

East side story By JON GLAZIER

On Saturday, September 21, Austin is clear and hot but not with Houston's oppressive heat. The west side of town around the University campus swarms with returning UT students and UH students here for the Saturday night foot-ball game. Across Congress Avenue in Austin's predomi-nately Negro east side, students are returning to Ilouston-Tillotson College, and delegates are arriving for a statewide convention Saturday of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordi-nating Committee, SNCC. Sunday a combined meeting of SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, is planned.

Down E 11th Street, away from the Capitol, the Uni-versity and white Austin, past the Stop and Go supermarket and across from Jack The Killer Shine Parlor, is the Victory Grill. Inside sit the usual gathering of Saturday morning beer drinkers and today, along with them, sit white news reporters and black cameramen.

It is 1 pm and the convention, now three hours behind schedule, is beginning. White reporters wait in the front while black cameramen follow SNCC delegates dressed in flowing, colorfully striped shirts called dashikis (from the Swahili for "freedom") into the banquet room at the rear.

Peace and Freedom Par ty Presidential candidate El-dridge Cleaver and his wife and Phil Hutchines, national SNCC chairman, reputedly will appear.

The delegates are scheduled to discuss court cases of several members awaiting trial in Austin, Dallas and Hous-

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ton for actions resulting from demonstrations. A delegate re-ports "they understand the necessity of getting on the move and getting on the move now. If I'm living in Houston, I'm not going to sit while my brother in Dallas is getting thirty years'."

Af ter the day's meeting, Austin SNCC's Minister of Education speaks of SNCC and the Black Power movement. He says that although not as militant as the Panthers. "SNCC doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. Revolu-tions are not won by turning the other cheek; the NAACP believes in turning the other cheek."

"We want unity in the black community: once we are united we can deal with the white society," he continues. This ideal is substantiated by a Negro who says he has re-fused a job downtown until his black brother can get the same job. SNCC refers to this denial as the "I won't he your tokenj,' attitude.

Sunday, the Victory Grill has a different atmosphere. Today is to be a combined meeting of SNCC and SDS and there are SDS members there since 10 am. They are clean-scrubbed, white middle class, and intense, or long-haired, work-shirted, and intense. They come in little groups and hand out reams of literature to SNCC members, bystanders, and each other. For the most part they are well informed of the many differences in theory among their own New Left organizations, although often hazy on specific methods. They come to talk and they are good at it. An Austin lawyer is there, as is a dismissed New York University professor on his way to Cuba.

An SNCC organizer from New York tells the combined group, "We are both political organizations and we must move together against the oppressor." Speaking now to the predominately white SDS group, he says "Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, and now the blacks. What are they going to do when there's no more blacks 2 Then they s tar t on dissident whites."

There is much discussion and a plan of sorts is decided upon. Both groups leave the banquet room, pass through the Victory Grill with its-' Abraham Lincoln—John F. Kennedy calendar and outside to East Austin. SNCC members cross the street to the Derby Lounge or walk down the narrow streets to homes of friends. SDS members get into their VW's and drive off under the hazy Austin sky.

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We are, unfor tunate ly , al-ready aware of the s t ructure of the CAM building, having been there before in periods of more conventional illumina-tion, and we cannot forge t the fac t t h a t the black space is in actuali ty a building, with walls, f loor and ceiling.

Dematerialization But in fact , the space created

by Mefferd 's strobe room is non-architectural and non-struc-tura l : it is in essence a dema-terialized world of light and darkness. Each strobe, in illu-minat ing a portion of the black void, creates i ts own specific-space. Due to the random order of the blinking lights, the space is constantly shif t ing, creating a dizzying spatial experience.

This illumination appears to be random (though it is in fac t programmed) , as each strobe blinks on once in 30 seconds or so, in an apparently incoherent and unprogrammed manner. At times one strobe blinks singly,

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Bombardment

In actuali ty, the longest pause is probably no more than two or three seconds long, but in t e rms of the rapidi ty of each f lash and the sometimes-bombardment of several strobes per second, two or three sec-onds is a remarkably long time.

These aspects of motion (the shi f t ing spaces) and t ime (anti-cipation, f lash, a f te r image, f lash, etc.) create an experi-ence of pure energy. The spaces created by the strobes are like burs ts of energy emanat ing f rom the total void—they are centers of energy, as i t were, manifes ta t ions of the total mys-terious energy of the blackness.

The anticipation which the viewer (or more precisely, the part icipant) feels, intensifies the energy of the void: because he realizes a center of energy will soon be created, the black space is charged with potential ener-gy. This potential energy is a directionless beginning f rom which new worlds are constant-ly being created and destroyed.

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The strobe room is a world in which (in the words of Lippard and Chandler) "mat ter has been t ransformed into energy and time-motion." Though the ar t i -cle mentioned above does not deal with Mefferd at all, the strobe room certainly seems to be a manifestat ion of this de-materialization of ar t .

Time/color/sequences The strobe room is commen-

surate with certain electronic music in creating - a rhy thm of randomness. The "sounds" are primari ly visual, but are audial as well. As each of the strobes blinks on, a slight sound is produced (it is vaguely like the sound of an incandescent bulb when i t burns out) . These •sounds emphasize the rhythmic-al pa t tern of randomness which is established visually. Mefferd calls himself a composer in elec-tronics, using his mater ia ls to provide time/color./sequences to reach levels of perception not available through tradi t ional ar t is t ic media.

There are two means of view-ing t]ie strobe room. Singly, or in a group"—the ' effects vary considerably. We have primari-ly concerned ourselves thus f a r

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with the fo rmer method, which produces a sense of solitude and isolation which can be a bit f r ightening. Solitude due to the quiet vastness, isolation due to the random creation and de-struction of spaces over which the part ic ipant has no control. The solitary experience is best achieved by lying or s i t t ing down somewhere in the black void and feeling the active spaces being created around you.

Spatial ambiguity The second method of expex-i-

ence, viewing in a group, is of a very di f ferent nature . Spatial relationships between individu-als are extremely ambiguous, since the other individuals in the room exist only momentari-ly when the lights f lash on. If these individuals begin moving around, the relationships are even more ambiguous, since other f igures are in constantly varied positions.

If the l ights blinked in a regu la r interval pat tern, the ef-fec t would be like tha t of an old-time movie, where though the action is stilted, we tend to see actions ra ther than stat ic positions.

Denial of motion Since, however, the l ights

blink a t random intervals, the f igures in the room are seen primari ly in static positions: without a regular order of posi-t ions in time, there is no clear relationship between one posi-tion and the next, and motion is denied.

Boyd Mefferd, who studied a t the Rhode Island School of Design, began working exclu-sively with lights in 1965. His CAM installation, which is spon-sored by Foley's, is the second of i ts kind (the f i r s t being a t thei Nelson Gallery, Kansas Ci-ty ) and is the largest to date. I t consists of high voltage f lash equipment valued a t over $10,-000.

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Rice soccer provides unique kick By DAVID NORMAN

Soccer enjoys a lowly position in Houston athletic circles, as evidenced by the lack of sup-port for the Houston Stars last season. Athletics enjoys an even more unemphasized position in the mind of the standard Rice student: witness the Washington pep rally, attended mainly by freshmen pressed into service.

But a paradox unfolds this Saturday after-noon at 2 pm when a group of Rice students meet LSU's soccer team, and probably on even terms.

Indication of the even game comes from the season opener with Fort Polk, La., whom Rice destroyed by a score of 9-2. Since a Fort Polk team of comparable quality defeated an infant Rice squad 11-1 only two years ago, soccer has come a long way on the Rice campus.

The team in 19GG was composed mainly of foreign students who turned up at gametime hoping enough Owls would show to avoid default.

Last year more American students who were interested came and learned, and Rice moved from a 0-10 season to a respectable 4-6-2.

This year an added influx of students, plus the experience gained last year, promises an even more frui tful season.

Rice's soccer team is unique in its abundance of homegrown participants. Although the scoring star in the Fort Polk conquest was Frenchman Eric Painvin (5 goals, soccer buffs) , around seven or eight of our starters were from the U. S., with an even higher percentage than that among the reserves.

In comparison, the University of Texas fields a team 70 percent foreign, and our U. S. Army opponents last Sunday discussed their strategy in Spanish.

Co-captain Allen Collin, a veteran of leaner days, invites his fellow students who have an in-terest to come by the team's practices, which are held at 4 pm on Monday, Wednseday, and Friday. He remarks that soccer combines conditioning, quickness, agility, and a certain disregard fox-danger, and stresses the team's overall objective of personal enjoyment.

To dispell some doubts among more cautious students, Coffin asserts that soccer is relatively easy to understand, with few rules and regula-tions to clutter the mathematical mind.

Soccer skills are learned mainly in scrim-mages, which became possible for the Rice team only late last year af ter rising interest Had brought enough players into the fold. The team is backed financially by the Physical Education Department, in the form of travel expenses and a promise of uniforms.

This season's schedule consists of a possible twenty matches, with the big event a November tournament of the Southwest Soccer Conference in Austin. This year is the f irst time Rice has fielded a team for this event. The tournament breakthrough will be followed for Rice by actual entry into the conference for the 1969 season, and a '69 schedule including Texas A&M, the Univer-sity of Texas, the University of Houston, and Trinity, among others.

This season will be completed by a Louisiana swing visiting LSU and Tulane, and probable bouts with next year's conference foes. Several matches with local high schools are in the offing for the second team.

Saturday's dual engagement with LSU (twi-night double-header—soccer and football) should spark some semblance of spectator support on the soccer field behind the gym. LSU eked out a 7-2 victory last year, but remember Fort Polk.

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Hylden also plans to organize small open meetings with stu-dents and faculty in the indivi-dual departments. He hopes that meeting in a small, decen-tralized group will encourage an objective evaluation of pro-

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Symphony—On Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 the Houston Symphony will present the first concerts of the 1968-9 season, with Andre Previn conducting Web-er's Overture "Euryanthe," Walter Piston's Symphony No. 6, and Schubert's Symphony No. 9. For information, visit the Jones Hall box ofice or call CA 2-9823.

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Film—"The Historical Under-ground," a 90-minute program of motion pictures which form-ed the foundation for today's experimental films, will be pre-sented by the Baker College Film Workshop on Friday, Sept. 27 at 8 and 10 pm in Hamman Hall. Admission is 75 cents.

Chapel — Dr. David Bakan, an authority on alcoholism, psy-chological data interpretation, and Sigmund Freud, will speak on "Freudian Thought and Reli-gious Tradition" at 7:30 pm to-night in the Chapel.

Study Abroad—The deadline for filing applications on the Rice campus for U. S. Govern-ment grants for graduate study or research, or for study and professional training in the creative and performing ar ts abroad in 1969-70, is Oct. 15. Application forms and detailed information may be obtained f rom Dr. John E. Parrish of the English Dept.

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Fiesta—Series tickets for the 1968-69 season of the Society of the Performing Arts will be on sale through the month of September.

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Flicks — "Walk-Over," Jerzy Skolimowski's chronicle of con-tinuing social alienation, is scheduled for presentation by Contemporary Films on Sept. 26 at Jones Hall. Three crea-tive short subjects, "Help! My Snowman's Burning Down," "Poppycock," and "Time Piece," will also be shown.

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Who's Who—Until noon to-morrow, Sept. 27, the office of the Dean of Students will be accepting nominations for stu-dents whose names will appear in "Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Uni-versities." Any student who will receive a Bachelor's degree or higher between the dates of Sept. 1968 and June 1970 is eligible to be nominated. Nomi-nations should be sent to the office of the Dean of Students in the RMC, giving the name of the student and reason for nomination.

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Sculpture—Forty examples of rare Benin sculpture are on view in the Masterson Junior Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts until Nov. 21.

Silver—From Sept. 27 to Nov. 10 several hundred pieces of silver will grace the Jones Gal-leries of The Museum of Fine Arts in the f i rs t comprehensive exhibition of silver made in the South prior to 1860.

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Draft — Phil Stephan, who works with university students, is concerned that young men know their rights and under-stand the draft laws. He will lead a discussion on these mat-ters and discuss the draft coun-seling service established in Houston on Sun., Sept. 29, at 6:15 pm in the lounge of the Catholic Center, 1703 Bolsover. Supper will be served at 5:45.

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Activism—Gisela Mandel, one of the founders of the German SDS and a friend of Rudi Dutschke, will speak on the Eu-ropean Student Movement, East and West, Friday, Sept. 27 at 7:30 pm in Lovett Commons.

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Lecture — Dr. Francis L. Loewenheim will speak on "Munich and America—Thirty Years Af te r" in the Fondren Lecture Lounge on Mon., Sept. 30. Call 538 for fur ther informa-tion.

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Chamber Music — The Rice Chamber Orchestra will hold its f i rs t rehearsal at 9:45 am, Sat., Sept. 28 in the basement of I lamman Hall. Both baroque and classical music will be played, and all those interested in a morning of stimulating music are invited. For fur ther information call MO 5-2865.

campus calendar

thursday, sept. 26 7:30 pm Dr. David Bakan on "Freud-

ian Thought and Western Religious Tradition" Chapel

S pm "Walk-Over." " H e l p ! My Snow-man's Burning Down." "Poppycock," "Time Piece" Jones Hall U of St T

S ::i0 pm "The Folk Thing" U H Cullen Auditorium

friday, sept. 27 7 :30 pm Gisela Mandel "European Stu-

dent Movement, East and West ," Lov Com

8 & 10 pm "The Historical Under-ground" H H „ 8 pm "Mickey One" U H Anderson

Memorial Audit

Saturday, sept. 28 5-7 pm Buf fe t RMC $1.50 7 :30 Jim Ricc-LSU Rice Stadium

sunday, sept. 29 7 :3U pm "The Chase"

Grand Hall RMC pm "Dr. Strangelove" Jew Com Ctr

monday, sept. 30 8:30 pm Houston Symphony Jones Hal l

tuesday, oct. I 8 :30 pm Houston Symphony Jones Hal l

exhibits 15 sept Rice Fine Art s Gallery

"The British Eye" 326 Al len Center 17 sept-8 oct Contemporary Art s Muse-um "Boyd Mef ferd /L ight Environ-

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IBM invites you to join an infant industry.

Big as it is, the information processing industry is just beginning to grow.

Recently, Fortune estimated that the value of general purpose computers installed in this country will more than double by 1972. Other publications have other predictions, and probably no source is totally precise. But most agree that information processing is one of America's fastest growing major industries.

Every day, it seems, computers go to work in a new field or new application. IBM com-puters are working in such diverse fields as business, law, medicine, oceanography, traffic control, air pollution. Just about any area you can name.

To somebody just starting out, this growth means exceptionally good chances for advancement. Last year, for example, we appointed over 4,000 managers—on performance, not seniority. Here are four ways you could grow with IBM:

Engineering and Science

The interdisciplinary environment keeps you technologically hot."

"Working in data process-ing today pretty much means you work in a broad spectrum of technologies," says Nick Donofrio.

An Associate Engineer at IBM, Nick is a 1967 graduate in Electrical Engineering. He designs circuits using MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) technology.

Nick says, "Your specialty at IBM can take you into the front yard of half a dozen dif-ferent fields. In my job, for example, I work wifh systems design engineers, chemists, physicists, metallurgists, and programmers. The diversity helps me keep up to date on the latest technologies."

Career areas in engineering and science — at IBM include: Research, Design & Develop-

ment, Manufacturing, Product Test, Space and Defense Projects, and Field Engineering. You'll need at least a B.S. in any technical field.

Marketing

'Working with company presidents is part of the job."

"I 'm pretty much the IBM Corporation in the eyes of my customers," says Andy Moran. " I consider that fairly good for an engineer who graduated only two years ago."

Andy earned his B.S.E.E. in 1966. Today, he's a Marketing Representative with IBM, involved in the planning, selling and installa-tion of data processing systems.

Andy's customers in'clude companies with annual sales ranging from 20 million to 120 million dollars. He often works with executive vice-presidents and presi-dents. Andy says, "At first I was a little nervous about the idea of advising execu-tives at that level. But by the time I finished training, I knew I was equipped to do the job."

Career areas in marketing at IBM include: Data Processing Marketing and Systems Engineering, Office Products Sales, and Information Records Sales. Degree require-ment: B.S. or B.A. in any field.

Finance

"You're in an ideal spot to move ahead fast."

"I've always figured my chances for advance-ment would be better in a growth industry. That's why I picked IBM," says Joe Takacs.

Joe's been working in general accounting

since he got his B.B.A. in June, 1968. Growth wasn't the only reason he chose IBM. He says, " I learned that it's general practice at IBM to promote from within and to promote on merit alone. I like that.

"Another growth factor is the job itself," Joe says."During my first few years, I'll getexperi-ence in nearly every area of general account-ing—income & Expense, Balance Sheet, and so on. I'll be learning how the company is structured and how it operates on a broad scale. That's exactly the kind of knowledge I'll needtohelp mequalify foramanager's job.'

Career areas in finance at IBM include: Financial Planning, Financial Analysis, Pricing and Business Policy Development, Accounting, Information Systems, and Internal Auditing. You'll need at least a Bachelor's degree.

Programming

"It's a mixture of science and art."

"A computer is prac-tically use-less until some-body writes a program for it," says Earl Wilson.

Earl got a B.A. in Modern | Languages in June, 1967. He's now an IBM programmer working on a teleprocessing system that will link the computerized management information systems of several IBM divisions.

Earl defines a "program" as a set of instructions that enables a computer to do a specific job. "Programming involves science," says Earl, "because you have to analyze problems logically and objectively. But once you've made your analysis, you have an infinite variety of ways to use a computer's basic abilities. There's all the room in the world for individual expression."

Career areas in programming at IBM include: Systems Programming, Applications Pro-gramming, Programming Research, and Internal Programming for IBM's own use. You'll need at least a B.S. or B.A.

Other reasons to consider IBM

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European students seek to 'refunctionalize' their society By KAROLYN KENDRICK

The international student ac-t ivist movement nei ther favors Soviet-type communism nor ad-vocates violence, Adi'ian Abel, t h e Abraham Scholar to Cam-bridge last year, told over 100 people in Brown Commons Tues-day night. Speaking on the stu-dent movements in Germany, France, and England, Abel f i r s t corrected popular misconcep-tions of the movement .

Their anti-communism, he claimed, has been demonstrated by the march on the Berlin Wall by German students and a recent march in England on the Soviet Embassy by 10,000 people protest ing the invasion of' Czechoslovakia.

No group of European stu-dent radicals advocates the violent overthrow of a govern-ment. Rather the keynote is to rest rueture society. However, Abel added, direct action tactics do often result in violence.

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universities. Its main goal is to • el'inu-tionalize society as a • y : > ! f r , y beginning radicaliza-' ion in exist ing social institu-:o>)s, such as the universities ind factories.

anti-capitalists, s tudents hi tin' movement seek to elimi-nate the type of huge, mono-polistic corporations tha t exist in America and have a s trangle-hold on the Third World na-

the now-exploited coun-' i ies of Asia, Africa, and Latin -America. The radicals, Abel said, advocate centralization and I ar t icipatory democracy, such as workers ' control of factories.

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Abel gave a number of rea-sons fo r the bad name of the European Students fo r a Dem-ocratic Society and other radical groups. Among these is the newness of their ideas. The average man, he said, cannot understand how a group can be both anti-communist and anti-capitalist.

The immatur i ty of some stu-dent leaders and their unreal-istic ideas also discredit t he m o v e m e n t, Abel contended. Since the radical movement is so young, its leaders are also young and inexperienced. There is also a tendency among them to become too emotionally in-volved, which, Abel held, is un-derstandable with police repres-sion and harassment .

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for direct action and merely re-ports its consequences.

In Berlin, radicals have set up a counter-university that sponsors courses supplementary to and highly critical of those regularly taught. Students chal-lenge professors to debate, which Abel said the professors are now afraid to do, and give critiques of the week's lectures. Abel stressed that part of the success of this venture was due to German students' being al-lowed to continue at a univer-sity as long as they wish. Thus, some have remained ten years, working with the movement since its inception.

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The Germans ' aims now are to forge links with the workers and to work to phase out insti-tutions as they now exist, such as the universities, factories, high schools, and mass media.

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In England again, formation

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