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Educator to Speak to Taylor Faculty VOL. L111 — NO. 2 TAYLOR UNIVERSITY, UPLAND. INDIANA 46989 SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 Educator to speak Grounds, to Taylor faculty facilities Dr. Lewis B. Mayhew, spokes­ in higher education, the book man in higher education, will be improved deals with the crises that en­ on campus September 16-17. gulfed campuses during the late 1960's. Dr. Mayhew believes that by Kathy Montgomery Dr. Mayhew will address the errors can be corrected once they Taylor faculty Thursday morning. ECHO news editor are identified. He criticizes the He will also meet with the Edu­ actions of faculties, student Construction of South Hall and cational Policies Committee, Ad­ bodies, and administrators alike, work on the new cafeteria have ministrative Council, and individ­ proposing reforms to return captured the spotlight of develop­ ual members of the faculty. His balance and objectivity to cam­ ments on Taylor's campus over schedule will include an inter­ puses. the summer. Even so, several view session with students Thurs­ other improvements have been day afternoon. In preparation for his visit to achieved, and should be noted by Taylor, Dr. Mayhew has been sent new and returning students. Dr. Mayhew, professor of edu­ a school catalogue, a Taylor cation at Stanford College, is the Rising high over the campus is self-study for the National Coun­ author of Arrogance on Campus. the newly-painted water tower. cil for the Accreditation of Teach­ The town of Upland supplied the An analysis of current problems er education (NCATE) and several silver-blue color as well as the of the papers that were presented man-power. at the faculty-study conference Students entering the library NOTICE this fall. should be aware of the new green Sept. 13-17, individual pictures Dr. Mayhew has authored an­ carpeting around the check-out will be taken for the Ilium. other book Colleges Today and desk on the main level of the 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday Tomorrow. He is director of in­ building. This should aid in re­ 8 a.m.-5:30 a.m. Tuesday stitutional research for Stevens ducing noise. College and served as president A new sidewalk was welcomed Friday of the American Association for by those students who used to Sign up sheets will be outside Higher Education in 1967-1968. tramp the path between the the dining hall. A sitting fee NBC News Washington Correspondent, Robert Goralski, will be on Science building and the Liberal Dr. Mayhew received his Ph. campus Wednesday to lecture about United States military strategy. of $3 will be charged. D. in history from Michigan State He will speak in Maytag at 8:15 p.m. General admission is free with Arts building. University. identification cards. Much work has "been done over the summer to improve the condi­ tion of Taylor's tennis courts. Re­ surfacing has been partially com­ pleted on the courts. The final surface will be applied next week. For those students who wish to NBC News Correspondent to lecture take advantage of the courts in the evenings, new lighting facili­ Robert Goralski, NBC News book" and is a reviewer of books After graduation he began his for those with identification cards ties have been installed. Last year Washington Correspondent, is on current events for the Wash­ broadcasting career at Radio Sta­ will be free; reserved seats will three courts were lighted; this scheduled to speak in Maytag on ington Post. tion WDWS in Champaign, 111. be $1.00. year all six have new lighting. campus, Wednesday, Sept. 15 at Goralski appeared on two re­ Goralski because of his experi­ 8:15 p.m. This lecture entitled cent Emmy-award winning pro­ ence, is regarded as a superlative "Military Strategy: Billions for grams, the NBC News "White speaker, whose perception of sub­ What?", is being sponsored by the Paper on U.S. Foreign Policy" ject establishes rapport with his Special Events Committee. and "The Hearings of the Senate audience. Goralski has made the nation's Foreign Relations Committee." Tickets may be reserved by capital his base of operations Born in Chicago in 1928, Goralski calling 998-2751, extension 203 since Aug. 1961 when he joined graduated in 1949 from the Uni­ or may be attained from Thomas NBC News. He has been assigned versity of Illinois majoring in -Beers, administrative assistant to to the White House, covering the political science and journalism. the president. General admision administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, as well as the Department of State and the Pentagon. Goralski has travelled in 35 Judith Abbott to < foreign countries. His overseas assignments have been coverage of the 1967 Middle East war from recital in Shreine the United States Sixth Fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean, the by Kathy Montgomery University and the Dallas In­ war in Vietnam (which he first ECHO news editor dependent School District. visited in 1953 during the French Indo-Chinese war), revolution in Judith W. Abbott, assistant pro­ Mrs. Abbott has performed as the Dominican Republic, the war fessor of music, Mil be presented both a soloist and as a chamber in Laos, and the Dispatch of in a piano recital tonight at 8:15 musician. A highlight of her United States troops to Thailand p.m. in Shreiner Auditorium. career was a performance at the in 1962. Hers is the first in a series of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. weekly faculty recitals given with His reports are seen and heard Mrs. Abbott's recital will con­ the purpose of introducing the on NBC television and radio. He sist of Beethoven's "Waldstein" music staff. has been a frequent contributor sonata, a group of Chopin's works to the "Huntley-Brinkley Report" Mrs. Abbott of Commerce, Tex. and several compositions by Scar­ has been appointed assistant pro­ and the morning "Today" pro­ latti. gram. Goralski regularly writes fessor of piano and French horn. Judith Abbott, assistant professor of music, prepares for a piano the section on Vietnam for the She has previously taught at East There is no admission fee for recital to be given in Shreiner tonight at 8:15 p.m. Admission is Encyclopedia Britannica "Year- Texas State University, Drake the recital. free. 2 ECHO The editorial policy of this paper is determined and do not express the official opinion of Taylor by the editorial board. All unsigned editorials are University. Signed columns, letters to the editor, THE MENISCUS the official expression of the ECHO. Opinions ex­ and other signed materials represent only the pressed as ECHO editorial policy are the re­ individual opinions of their authors. sponsibility of the editor and the editorial board. A film to encounter by Bob Whitehead spontaneous skits in establishing ECHO columnist rapport between hostile towns­ Numbering high among the people and the students of the The right to vote: a right to use more interesting movies released school. Both humor and the value last summer is the film Billy Jack, of verbal interaction is presented During the past summer President Nixon Since you must register before you are a short, touching story of conflict richly in these scenes. One brief signed into law the 25th amendment/ giving eligible to vote, the first step is to register, at within modern society. This cine­ instance in which two city coun- eighteen year-olds the right to vote in all local, least 30 days before the election. If you have matic tale incorporates such di­ cilmen and two students inter­ state, and national elections. registered, then you can concern yourself with verse elements as blatantly stated change roles as parents and their the voting. Most of us enrolled in college must Now, for good or ill the amendment has idealism, dashes of humor, and pot-smoking offspring is absolute­ vote by absentee ballot, which may be ob­ been passed, and those of us under 21 have the beautiful portrayal of a Christ ly priceless. Such flashes of good tained when you register. One fact to remem­ the right to vote. Those who opposed the pas­ figure into a fast-moving, enter­ comedy help tone down the ideo­ ber is that the ballot must be notarized before sage of the amendment , have issued a direct taining totality. logical overstatement which at it is returned. This, briefly, is what a Taylor challenge to our intelligence, maturity, and The strongest feature of the times impedes the movie's pro­ student must do in order to vote. sense of responsibility; it is up to us under 21 film is the portrayal of Gene, gress. This humor, coupled skill­ It would seem natural that a majority of the to prove that we deserve to have the right to the headmistress of a very libe­ fully with the use of local color, newly eligible students would participate in the vote. rated school for Indians, blacks, is invaluable in rendering the elections, particularly because of the clamor We have only ourselves to blame if we fail street people and a sprinkling of movie credible. they raised in the past. It seemed so important to vote on election day. We have heard it so other characters. Gene is an un­ The greatest flaw of Billy Jack then that we should be given the right to vote; often that it has practically become a cliche, questionable representation of is the extreme villification of the let us not become apathetic now that we have but it is true that we must act like adults if we Christ as she instructs her movies miscreants. Although one that right. Many political experts are skeptical wish to be treated as adults.
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