University of Cincinnati News Record. Thursday, February 7, 1963. Vol
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NR EndorsesCouncilAmendment Avery important amendment to the Student Council constitution will be be their official representative. Many opponents to -the amendment have on the ballot this month in the annual campus 'elections. This amendment, if pointed out that Council president is not the official president of .the student passed, will .chanqe the office of Student Council.president from an internal- body. If this is true then. there certainly shouldbe a student body president. ~ ly elected position to a, campus-wide student elected position: , and 'he should be somebody whopossesses the power to make :the position ~ The passage of this .amendment will resultin a more democratic way of worthwhile-not a -mere figurehead.. -, student: qovernment: the presentettuetlon-cCouncf electinq the president- If the opposite is true, that Student Council president is the student body, f ....; ? permits a great 'dealor'political maneuvering amol1~ the_~a.rious factions and president; then students should hevea voice 'in his selection-it is their.right. co~Htions.. DirtY'poli,ticsmCil.-?,~~a;l~p:rrFW~me.I:~'~i'~~~~n~e~CriQ~thi~ but it is , In sddition, thisWou'ldbring' Council closer, to the sfudent body than it is now.:: quite ObVI,?U'S,to· anyone wrt.Mt!pt.9~~rV,-~"~P\jJ1ttil'i\(df!cer elections, that.. , The problernln campus.politics is I~thargy; to lick this problem changes these elections are pretty much predetermined. ..' ~.., . ., will.have to be made. ': '- .'" , , ; But-more-important- th t n ·thisri-s.-~beriact £t. f with,'f .e passeqeiof fhis-' The NEWS ','RECORD heartily endorses, this amendment and urqes all . amendment students wilLP! ..able 1t>ten6o~eth~~~rs,oo_ l. am they wish' t6 "St'l-!dentst<;)v'?tey~s. " , . '-' U:r;liyers]. ty' \of.,-,C'lno:l.:riri.etti I N::EWS~"R:'EC;O~RD• .1 < "- - ~ .. Series SF 1 Z552 Cincinna'ti, Ohi?, !hursd~y, February'7, 1963 ' Vol. XLVIII, No: 18 ReLigion, MoraLs, fconomy:' In .Student ~ • Status~ Quo'+" >(iovernment Are' .Birth Control Issues Good "'overnment .Group Platform by Betty B. Ames I (Betty Ames ·is the 'wife Professor Van Meter of The Good Government Group leadership. pation in student government?, Ames, vtite: head of the: department of phi~os:ophy .. under the leadership oLJim Say- . (3) 'to. gi,ve students a 'chance . .... ~ '. .' .' .... .. ,'. ( Unfortunately, at the moment, Since her ' marriaqe, she 'has lived ..in Hawaii, 'France, lor, released their platform to the -. to handle' 'additional responsi- the answers to -rhese are not and Japan; wherever Professor Ames teaching and research NEWS RECORD Monday. It is as. bility beyond that of solely aca- very obvious. We hope that their follows: demic studies. has taken the family. Since their children have grown, she, raising will get some results. The platform of GGG this - (4) To, give valuable experi- We have endorsed men who we has worked with various community agencies mid civic year is· to question the status ence in human relationships. - feel will bear these in mind, gro:ups. She is currently on the Boards of The City Charter quo in student government. Our With these obligations in mind who will bring to office a real Committee, The Clifton Town Meeting, and The Cincinnati ,intent is not to' raise centre- many questions become ebvi- desire to make student govern- versy for the sake of contra- . ous: ment something more than sim- Association Planned Parenthood. of versy, but rather to look criti- ' (1) Does the Student Council ply another campus activity. In this article, the NEWS RECORD has asked her to cally at elass offices,:" Student :..president. function as, the presi- But regardles of how high their examine the vital and controversial issue oj 'birth control Council, tribunals and" political dentef'.the student body? If so, aspirations, ,without support ';0 and family limitation: Ed.) parties' tose how well they are why is he not elected by the change .ean be expected .. It -is -'fulfiiling their obligations to the stud~nts? - .' . -, in ..the,.yote,rs that the real po- need about heart disease and Today birth control is recog- student and the University., (2L,Does Student Councilfunc- litical process lies; GGG hopes nized to have economic, moral, cancer. Again and again we are warnedfhat if war, famine, and GGG feels the' obligations~f tion as the"·hub' of student ae- only to raise fhe issues which and religious aspects. From the pestilence, the great population studenf government are' as fol- tivities? they wil1 decide. lows: (3) Are the workings of stu- economic. point of view, contro- reducers, can be averted or even versy over the necessity for con- postponed for a time, and present (1') To provide worthwhile ex- dent government comparable to I trol of conception has almost birth rates continue, the numbers perience in the democratic the workings of American gov- process. \ . ernment? lei rc'le' ,K ceased in a world where scientific of hungry, desperate people will research and technology have multiply and may turn to Com- (2) To provide the epper-': c- (4) What accounts for the made enormous strides in death munism for solution of.their prob- tunities for the development of relatively small student parfict- Gets Charter control- So that, exploding popu- 'I~Ihs.-·'·J ' by Ed 'Schroer lations in,; underdeveloped coun- A moral dimension .enters tries absorb like sponges any here. Reflective adults may AFROTC Cadet Completes Circle K~a service organization amount of aid simply to maintain well ask themselves if there is .... in the College of pharmacy spon- their present low standards of liv- any greater crime against the sored .by the Kiwanis Club of ing. .Dr. Karl Sax [author of human race than bringing un- Fly'ing -Instruetion Program Norwood, Ohio; was granted' a STANDING ROOM ONLY] last wanted, unloved, diseased and Charter at the Charter Night Pro- yea't on the DC campus delivered Recently completing the Air assigned to' an Air Force fly- neglected children into. a world gram held February 1 in the Force ROTC Flying Instruction ing school. a lecture on "The World's Explod- which cannot offer them even Union. ing Population." OUf own Dr. a minimal chance of health and Program at Lunken Airport was Cadet Istock is the -first student Dr. Harold Carbin, pas't Ohio Sabin has said that fertility con- Cadet Paul H. Istock of the., to complete the FIP this acadern- happiness. So religious men, District Governor of Kiwanis, trol is more important to the fu- from' Pope Pius XII and The A F R C? T C ic year. ,He is a 'senior in Arts presented the. Charter to' Tru- ture, well-being of, the United . Cadet Wing at 'and Sciences 'College and a mem- '. World Council of Churches to man R. :ShelC:I't,president of the' States than thenew knowledge we the University ber of AF Arnold Air Society the Cincinnati Presbytery, have of Cincinnati. Circle, K Club. The, other' offi- taken the stand that voluntary Upon comple- cers are M'ar'shall Edwards, vice president and Thomas Schu- regulation of' offspring is mer- tion 0 f the ~ Endowment Fund; man,n" secretary and treasurer, aUy justifiable. Even the most co u r s e, he , '. ferv-entadvocates of Planned p as sed the Dr., Gilbert .Schmidt, [s the fac- Parenthood; have not tried to FA A written Declines In·l962 '- ulty advisor, "' -: impose birth control on any- e x a mination . , The club was formed by six body. and received . A1though·ma~ket ~a~ue of .hQ~d-- Pharmacy students and now in- his pri vat e. mg~. of the ~mverslty of Cmc~n- Disagreement today is more cludes 21 charter membres. The . Paul Istock pilot's license. I1;atI En~owment Fund Associa- likely to be about methods of con- group hopes to' expand to include The FAA -exam requires addition- ~lOn d:clmed nearly 13 per cent traception. Once camp holds that all colleges on the campus in the al study and instruction and is III 1~52, earrnngs were up ~p- .future. "natural" methods (rhythm, ab- an optional phase of the flying proximately L1 per cent, assoc,l~- stinence) are legitimate and program. tlO~ members we~e told at their Being a service' organizatio.n . the group lis open to suggestions moral, but that mechanical Of, Cadet Istock also received 60 ?7tli annual meeting Wednesday "artificial" means are not. The- hours of ground school instruc> l~ the Central Trust. Company from the student, body con- ologians, biologists, and philoso- tion in weather, navigation, and directorst.room.. cerning improvements whleh can.vbe made to the. campus. phers could argue until the last Civil Air ,Regulations taught by The association turned ,over The motto of the- dub is "We atomic explosion about what. is Major Thomas F. Carroll, 'an $117,806.50 to UC in 1962. Market Build" and thus the .purpose of natural and what is artificial, Dr. Air Force Command Pilot. as- value of its holdings was $3,938,- John Rock, a. Catholic .physician signed to the AF ROTC unti at 20L ,The decline reflected the the club is to create-abetter and one of the researchers on the ·UC. drop in equity pricesduring 1962. coll~ge for a better wo.rld. contraceptive pill (which regu- The Flying Instruction Program Association trustees' re-elected The chairman of the program lates women's cyclesj.. maintains is a required course for AFROTC all officers: Carl M. Jacobs, was Mr. l}.- L. Puls.. past presi- that its use constitutes,e natural seniors who have : qualified for, president; Walter W. .Tangeman, dent of the Norwood Kiwanis , method; but not-all hisco-religion- Air Force .. pilot training,' The vice president.