Volume 81, Number 16, February 17, 1962

Run-off,· Amendment f!!!,,?,,wum~~,~,~~,~,~' IIIIII IIIII IIIIIIIIIIJ' in.rn111111111111u11111111111111111111111111111u1 Fails by Ten Council Lets Liz Campaign; f4' Lawre~(i;;"'' :T·urnout 'Sets Voting Mark The student body turned down an amendment to . Vol. 81 No. 16 · Lawrence College A ' PP1 eton , Wi sconsin S broaden the powers of the SEC, and failed to grant a a turday, Fe1bruary 17, 1962 1:1a.iority to a presidential candidate in Friday's elec tion. Eli zabeth Cole and Joe Lubenow the candidates ~irk Dr:1-ws Large Crowd; COMMITTEE receiving the highest number of vote; in the primary, P0S'1'S OPEN were placed on the ballot for today's run-off election. Liberal Philosophy Candidates for SEC com Bia.st$ mittee chairmans'hips must The SEC, meeting in an emergency session last night By ALEX WILDE submi_t pet itions containing agreed to place Miss Cole's name on the ballot and · A large and alert audience heard Dr R . qualifications and plat passed a ~tandi:1g rule allowing her' to campaign. 'until deliver _his provoc~tive interpretation of ,;Di u_sstell Kirk forms to the new SEC the 1:1eetmg Miss Cole had campaigned as, a write-in Liberalism m .Foreign Poli. cy" in the Uni·o n 1as.srn t Segrateclunday President by midnight candidate. 11 Th Sa~urday, February 24 '. F· eb ruary . e promment con servative th· k l ' Friday's turnout was the largest in Lawrence's his d · d t . rn er crew 1962 All candidates must 01,1er ene h un 1e spe.c ators ' from Appleto n an d near- tory. A total of 698 cast votes, in the referendum and by towns ._as_we 11 as f rom Lawren ce and h t· l · have served on the com · t ' t · 1·t· h' ' e s 1pu ated miUee for which they are 712 _voted in the presidential primary. The 455 ~ffir an m eres m· d pot 1 1csf w 1ch h as rarelv- been seen. a t t h e pet~t10ning for one semes mative votes were ten short of the two-thirds needed co lLeg~. St.u ens, acuity, and townspeople clustered ter. to pass t he amendment. The presidential votes were around' ,:J{1rk for over an _h our following his formal not revealed. lecture and half-hour questwn p eriod. The br.oad ptjnciples of ~rk, of assuming that educa La-Ta-Va Tryouts Kirk's "conservatism," con twn, :truth, and light will tri trasted throughout with his umph. He will know with RLC Participants Debate concep~ion :of "liberalism," Evelyn Waugh that wars are Take Place Sunday emerged from bis hanqling w.cm by " lies and the long Try-outs for La-Ta-Va the ef the ,problem of foreign pol spear." Lawrence talent show, ' will Moral Goals, Commitment icy. Kirk_ tended to outline Because the conservative take place from 6:30-8 p.m. By TONY CARTER the two "isrps" in terms of sees man for what ·he is he Sunday, Feb. 18, and from 9'. their historic.al development' realizes that all men have 11 p.m. Monday through Fri . The Thursday sessions of last week's Religion-in with the i r . distinctiveness certain lu sts ., which in our day, Feb. 19-23, in the Union L1fe .c?nferen_ce were highlighted by a panel discussion crys.talizing m the time of the society are rewarded by pros basement, according to social part1c1pated m. by Dr. Knight, Rabbi Brickman, Mr. French Revolution, ,Burke on perity and a good name, but chairmen Tom Oakland and Stanle_y, Dr. Fite~, Fll;ther Br_ooks and Dr. Waring, ope sid,e, . ~ousseau on the which in totalitarian socie .Dave Fisher. The talent show mode1 ator. The d1s~uss1on _consrnted of commentary by o~er-fllld the two develop ties, with ordinary rewards is scheduled to take place on April 7, in Stansbury theater. the pa:ieJ on questwns raised by the audience. Prob ing in ·· more-or-less parallel absent, result in an ever-in Je1!1s 1drncussed ranged from the concepts of love and tr~ditions from that period. creasing appetite for power. Marles No'ie and Judy Bez anson, chairmen of the vari faith ~o the applications of such moral absolutes to ec Kirk b:egan by .decrying the In dealing with Russia 0 whose ety show, are planning to umenical movements, academia, logical positivism and "disint'egrated liberalism" of society is dominated by the total war. our foreign ipolicy-a slogan lust for power, we must rec make the event as profession izing and sentimentality, of ognize that she will respect al as possible. The commit Th:e panel members opened absolutes because it is pain tee has scheduled a large wh1$ both parties have been only a counter-vailing power, the >discussion •by ·briefly stat ful and difficult. band, under the direction of · miJlty, .wb~c'h,, has dominated both military and moral. ing what they felt to be key Dr. Knight was concerned J. D . Miller, for 1:he show " moral dilemmas of our thl) ,cong.µct ~ , our foreign af The Liberal, asserts Kirk, with two related problems: and have enlisted the aid of time." Significantly, · a num fairs and injured ow· inter cherishes the t a r n i s hed first, the obstacles which Ted Cloak and Joe Hopfens ber of the panelists posed very ests. This ."ritualistic Hberal eighteenth century dream of stand in the way of making perger in the staging. similar problems. Dr. Fitch moral decisions and second ism.,." :J{,irk _suggested, was the egalitarianism, a world be "The last student variety .asserted that we have no ba the making of 'choices with natural, e~\1, prod'llct of the come one, in Woodrow Wil show was held three years sic goals and are afraid of integrity when the range of assuinptions of iilberalism, son' s phrase, a " Universal Democracy.'' Representative ago and was a great success," making moral commitments. choices doesn't seem ade and qµreality and un-realpoli said Oakland. "We would like Rabbi Brickman pointed out quate to moral imperatives. tik were integral and destruc of the ritualistic Liberals mumbling "shallow and shop to make this ty.pe of show in that moral absolutes are ob Ecumenical Movement tive. characteristics of its ap to an annual affair." vious, that the Ten Com p~atiqn to fpreign policy. worn slogans" is, for K irk, One of the most controver Chester Bowles. ·Bowles, said Single type acts, as well as mandments are what peo.ple U:JWke the liberal, Kirk s mall and large groups, are most easily recognize, but sial questions was that of the Kirk wants to recast all so desirability of ecumenical sug~ested, . ,the conservative encouraged to try out. that people don't fotlow these views man has inherently cieti~s in the American im movements in the c hurches. flawed by original sin. Man age, a heritage he fail s to Dr. Fitch pointed out that a · is not naturally good, and can understand. Forgetting per Protestant believes in the not 1be made good by positive sonal rights and liberties, plurality of sects and that re Bowles stretches c ountries, law, a Pelagian and Uberal Tjossem Speaks on "Time and Rhyme" ligious vitality is the result s uch a s the Congo, over his heresy, but rather he is a of diver sification. Procustean bed of "self-deter mixture of good and had, kept Ra•bbi Brickman asserted mination" and " liberal de In Second Phi Beta Kappa Lecture good by custom and preju that one of the reasons for mocracy." Basical'ly a Ben dice. Because the conserv a By WALLY GLASCOFF the modern lack of religious themite utilitarian, Bowles vision and commitment is tive is ,more realistic about Mr. Herbert Tjossem, as io·d , including the Bay Psalm neglects the practical differ that our large institutions hurnat). ' nature, he does not e nces between countries and sistant professor of English, Book and such poets as Brad make the Liberal error, s~id street, Wigglesworth, Taylor, have taken away the individ discards history and pru spoke on "Time and ual's sense of identity and d ence , by whicih the true con Rhyme: A Consideration of and Thompson. All of these poets, except Thompson, were distinctiveness. Religious uni servative guides his act10n. the Development of American fication, he said, would be a Fraternity F:orum The conservative believes English from British Eng natives of England, and, a s a result, their poetry represent further step in the wron"0 di- t hat an egalitarian order is lish" at the second in this r ection . To Feature Taylor, neither possible nor desira- year's series of Phi Beta ed something closer to spok Kappa lectures Tuesday, Feb en British English than to Both Dr. Knight and Father Scbneiaer Sunday b~ '. Brooks felt that the religious The Liberal's unrea!Jst1c ruary 13, in Harper Hall. spoken American English. Norman Taylor, assist However, both, because this revival sought by the other ;Mr. view of human nature has _a ant professor of economics, Mr. Tjossem opened his is the primary evidence we panelists could be achieved and Mr,. Harold Schneider, disastrous carry-over to hi s tall, by stressing che import ha\'e today, and because the in an institutionalized church proposed solutions to world ance of the connections be Psal!rn versifiers were forced as well or among plural sects. assistant 'Professor of anthro problems. The Lirber., 1' said PQlogy, w~ speak on "Under tween writ ten texts and 1his to twist their rhymes to fit Father Brooks supported his Kirk, ho Pe s to solve the tory in determining pronun the meter, we must use these position by descri'bing various developed Economies" for the world's problems permanent ciation of English in a given Fraternity· forum at 1 :30 p .m .

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