Vol. 5 No. 3, October 31, 1968
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THE VOL. 5 NO. 3 MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601 OCTOBER 31,1968 AUTHOR-HISTORIANS REVIEW CORE CURRICULUM FDR CAMPAIGNS EXAMINED Last Friday in the rotund hall As the conference progressed of Donnelly Hall the sixty odd both proponents and opponents Huthmacher membered faculty of Marist of the curriculum proposals College held a two hour engaged in complex.oratory and colloquim concerning heavy sanctimonializing with & Freidel curriculum revision. The light witticisms thrown in to cut conference attempted to give a down the personal monologues. clear-cut policy on changing the The chairman of the APC, Bro. Are Speakers nature of core requirements and Brian Desilets, ran the colliquim presenting a more meaningful designing the question and answer period to relate only to The Fourth Annual Franklin approach in higher education. The main- thrust in curriculum those issues pertinent to the D. Roosevelt Symposium, matter at hand. sponsored by the Marist College revision assaulted the traditional History Department in make-up of core obligations. The The structure of both cooperation with the Roosevelt Academic Policy Committee proposals as outlined in the Library and the American (APC) set forth four general committees report appeared Historical Association's Service principles to act as guidelines in questionable to neutrals, but to Center for Teachers of History, implementing needed change. conservative elements almost' took place Saturday, in the They wished the majority of frightening in its radicalism from Campus Center The theme for core requirements to be the present curriculum structure. this year's symposium was completed in Freshman year on However, a perceptive look into "F.D.R. As Politician and an organized inter-disciplinary actual one of the proposals Campaigner" in keeping with the level.- Both major proposals might allay the fears of many spirit of this, an election year. reflect this structure along with students who also feel confused The main speakers this year the ideal of inculcating into the as to what this new orientation \ were Professors J. Joseph- student more emphasis on would constitute. Incoming- Hutmacher of Rutgers concepts rather than the usual Freshman would face a University and Frank Freidel of parcelled facts. maximum core requirement of Harvard .University. Prof. Freidel frtank Freidel and Harold Cosnell talk over aspects of F.D.R.'s 36 credits in interelated celebrated a return to Marist in campaign. disciplines. One course would that- he delivered one of the Offcampus probe the basis of art, finding addresses at the-first Symposium by Professor Charles C. Griffin covered "The Ups and Downs of out what constitutes art in held in 1965. of Vassar, and augmented by a Champion Campaigner." Once Literature, Music, Painting and three distinguished author and again, a panel challenged the Living Film. Students would search the - - Professor Huthmacher spoke political commentator for The speaker. Prof. Griffin acted as basis of History, enter the role first to ,the- audience of about New Yorker. This was followed chairman- for .three new of science and its methodology 200 teachers -and students. of by a brief question and "answer panelists,-'Professors Bernard Considered and even to question the history. ,He apol'ogized^fbr period jvhere, the audience''was. BeUirsh - of City" University of meaning of life in a human deviating ,-from. his. announced-.^^ permitted;;to query.--noF^onlyr •.New'York,i David : Burner' of ."OffCampus.Living" is anew" conditions course. As-much as and alive /topic . on- campus topic..His' paper originally'.was Prof. Huthmacher, but the panel - Stony. Brook and Harol'dGo'snell 86 credits could be spent to treat "The Presidential of Howard University.' For those recently. Mr. Peter Masterson, profitably in electives. This new Leadership of ' FDR," but he ' A luncheon was served in the who wished, there was a tour of .'Resident Board member and drive would advance the current instead covered President cafeteria separating the morning the Roosevelt Library and Home Assistant Proctor of the sixth trends followed by liberal arts Roosevelt in a relatively new from the afternooiu'session. The sponsored by the Symposium. , floor Champagnat, approached schools. light, that of a Conservative afternoon session was This year, it might be noted Dean Wade last week in rather than a liberal. His address highlighted by the address.by that there was an absence of reference to the extension of Yet sometimes it becomes was followed by a discussion led Prof. Freidel in which he "big" names at the Roosevelt "Off Campus Living" rules. In necessary to analyze the Symposium. In past years we the course of a very congenial panaceas, our intellectualized were honored with the presence discussion, as Mr. Masterson minds seek and create. One of such names as Justice William noted, Dean Wade and he hit comfortable teacher weary of O. Douglas arid ,Arthur upon some interesting and • change felt that this new Students Speak Out Schlesinger, Jr. As Mr. Skau, the important points. direction was merely the fashion moderator of the symposium, The Marist College Catalogue of the times questioning the pointed out, every one of the states that, {'All students who do students ability or lack of it to New /Dealers contacted an not live at home during the adapt himself to such a system. appearance at MOTH were either College year are required to Other colleagues' waving their Against Wallace negative statistics expressed committed to Campaign '68 as reside on campus." Mr. Last Thursday evening, while the Wallace forces were staging a pro journalists or campaigners . or Masterson went further to there own disenchantment over Wallace rally at Madison Square Garden, the students for O'Dwyer were too distant to attend. persue the exceptions to the the program. Some needed more from Marist College staged .their own "rally." What was billed as Instead of having the celebraties rule. The exceptions stand as time to evaluate the proposals at ."Speak out against George Wallace" night, actually turned into a of the New Deal'Era, the follows: hand, a few suggested a new poll sober-discussion of the issues facing the American public today and planning committee invited" the * Any. married student may and still others felt a need to an analysis of the American'situation. authors. Prof. Huthmacher is the live off campus. In this case it is modify the nature of curriculum One of the" spe.akers, Dr. Ros'coe Balch of Marist College was author of three respected books perferred due primarily to the proposals. applauded for his.perceptive view of the American situation. Dr. including his most recent, Sen. inevitability of his responsibility The faculty in favor of Balch reminde'd us that George Wallace is only one extreme attack Robert F. Wagner and the Rise to some kind of a home life. implementing revision clearly on the American system. "That tradition of two parties willing to of Urban Liberalism. Prof. * Any veteran, who because of recognize the necessity of compromise and accomodate for the good of the country, Wallace as Freidel is now completing work age and attitudinal difference modernizing the constitution well as the 'peace people' must realize. They have to put the part on a multi-volume biography of may not feel an affinity for and express their disatisfaction Franklin Roosevelt. before the whole in that tradition known as French ideological Continued on 5 Continued on 5 purity." Dr. Balch went .on to state that America has been on an emotional binge with George Wallace as the morning after and that his support is more a reaction against the "peace people" than anything else. The saving philosophy of America, according'to the.Doctor is the reaffirmation of trust in our society "by having first best for the- country and second best for ourselves." As Dr. Balch leftthe stage, though, he expressed dismay at the O'Dwyer overtones of some members of the audience. • - ' Following Dr. Balch on stage was Mr. John O'Dcll, editor of Freedom Ways a peace and civil rights magazine. As a former aid to Martin Luther King and co%h£irman of Black Citizens for O'Dwyer, his remarks were, as onejisfe'ner put it, "a mixed "bag of curruptive George, Nortlxexn- investment in; Alabama and; tales of Paul O'DwyerZT^ Mr. O'Dell reminded his audience of Alabama's recent history, Selma, Birmingham, and Montgomery. Then the editor editorialized that O'Dwyer was doing a service in recognizing the Wallace mentality and threat As opposed to Dr. Balch,;Mr. O'Dell called for the invention of a new American system. He placed, the blame for Wallacism; on the doorstep of Yankee businessmen and the police state atmosphere of Alabama. With a short look at George Wallace in his own state we see-a "governor not by accident." In a brief breakdown of Wallace's financial support, Mr. O'Dell charged that United States Steel owns Tennessee Coal deposits located in Alabama and controlled by Pittsburgh executives and financed by New Yorker J.P. Morgan. Northern industries in the past few years have invested over one billion dollars in Alabama and thus "we must see the economic base of Wallace politics." With this in Vikings Break Through Continued on 2 For Results See Page 8 PAGE 3 THE CIRCLE OCTOBER 31.1968 PAGE 2 THE CIRCLE OCTOBER 31/1968 RESPONSIBLE POWER JUSTICE A View From The Sidelines Prof works on amodJ)dyssey SHAKESPEARE UNCHAINED "Don't play cool," said Big Al by Steve Nohe out of this campaign some new democracy and freedom. Brodax, producer of the new Review of "Romeo and Juliet" approach to justice in this Perhaps what we need today is a animated Beatle motion picture by James Parker Regarding APC The political year 1968 is country will take place.