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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1961-1970 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 5-2-1969 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1969-05-02 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1969-05-02" (1969). The Voice: 1961-1970. 198. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970/198 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1961-1970 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "AS WE UNDERTAKE TO RID THE THE ANGLO MUST REALIZE THAT SOUTHWEST WE MUST OF POVERTY, i MANY WHO ARE POOR IN THE BE SURE OUR EFFORTS IN NO WAY SOUTHWEST HAVE RICH AND PRICE- ERODE THE GREAT GIFTS OF DIVER- LESS TRADITIONS A CULTURAL SITY WHICH WE ENJOY HERE DI- KIND OF AFFLUENCE WE NEED VERSITY OF LANGUAGE, ART, (Dim BADLY TO SHARE." W(SH Tribal leader DANCE, CEREMONY, RELIGION. PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER quoted in the "American Indian" A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Volume LXXXV Wooster, Ohio, Friday, May 2, 1969 Number 24 Mew Urban Studies Program Czech To Lecture On - f - f i To Offer Varied Challenges Christian Marxism On Friday, May 2, at 8:15 p.m., by Bonnie Enke Jan Milic Lochman, theologian (Editors Note: This is the first of As Mr. Day began to describe from Prague, Czechoslovakia, will a two-pa- rt article the Urban the I was 'Mi on structure of the U.S.P., address the student body in the Studies Program. Next week's amazed at its complexity and even Chapel. He has been one of the story will cover the students' ex- more so, the and at organization leading spokesmen for the Chris- perience in the U.S.P.) coordination of all its divisions. mm tian understanding of man and After my editorial of March 14, The GLCA Philadelphia Program society within the Communist I Al- couldn't be happier to follow it is one phase of the U.S.P. countries of Eastern Europe and with this of Urban though not all the students in up story our has been viewed by some as a Studies Program an exciting pro- Philadelphia are in urban situ- an - V. prophet behind the Iron Curtain. gram under the direction of a ation, Mr. Hoffman, Chairman of unique individual, Rev. Day. As the Education Department, and Frequently becoming involved I talked to Mr. Day, I found my- director of the GLCA program, is in probing dialogue with Marxist self enraptured in enthusiasm and working closely with the U.S.P. ideologists over matters relating hope as he described the philo- committee to coordinate the stu to understanding man, the goal sophy, plans and realization of dents' urban experiences in Phila- of human life, and the nature of the Program. For I realized that delphia with those designed by the society, Lochman sees less danger he was talking about a new ap- U.S.P. The U.S.P. in Birmingham of an uncritical assimilation be proach, away from the teacher-directe- d, is also being coordinated by Woos- tween Christianity and the culture subservient, passive edu- ter's U.S.P. Still another division of a Marxist state than between cational processes we've been liv- identified with the U.S.P., is the M Christianity and the culture of a self-directe- ing toward a d, active, Four College Program in Cleve A Capitalist state. Because of Mar-ism'- s anti-religio- involved process of learning, so land. Two vears ago. representa-- ! traditional us posi- Hi-- very foreign to so many of us. tives from Wooster, Oberlin, 1 tion, the Czechoslovakian theolog- Let me describe our talk, in hopes ram, and Heidelberg discussed the ! ian views Christianity in Marxist that you too will be informed and possibility of a combined urban ! lands as ending up being less com- challenged as I was. studies program in Cleveland. promised than Christianity in The Urban Studies Program These discussions have led to the countries where a nominally "re- has been a combined effort on the final planning stages of a three ligious" capitalism prevails. "Wooster," a painting inspired by the place, is still part of students, faculty and ad- year experimental program a hanging in Lowry Center although there has been dispute over ministrators ever1 since its begin- program that can easily be in- whether The renowned and articulate it should. The administration it known LCB ning in 1963. Mr. Day, who was corporated into the actual U.S.P. made to that it Dr.Lochman has titled his relevant thought the painting in taste, then director of Beacon House in structure. The Four College Pro- bad especially on weekends speech, "The Christian Marxist of Trustee and Alumni meetings. Chicago, was approached by Woos- gram in Cleveland, which is being Dialogue." ter students working in the com planned by faculty representatives munity house for the summer, to and the Dean from each of the establish an academic program four colleges, will probably get Militarism To with the College in connection underway in the fall. Day Cover War, ABM with their experience at Beacon by Bob Bonthius implications of militarism will be A year ago, the Academic tral Committee for Conscientious House. Mr. Day contacted the Col- explored such the ABM Standards Committee approved the On Friday, May 9, our fair cam- as and Objectors, and Dr. Robert Bon- lege about the possibility of such CIA. The setting will be the library thius, former chairman of the fourth division of our Urban Stud- pus will be alive with a very im- a program. From there, the idea steps (Campus side) if fair weath- Cleveland Area Peace Action ies Program, which is separate n has evolved with the help and portant teach-i- and workshop. er prevails. Council. Several from the GLCA, the Miles ex- - other equally cap- planning of the three segments of "Militarism Day" will bring to Speakers and workshop leaders able and vocal speakers will be change and Four College pro-I- n the College the exciting Urban of national fame will Ron into grams. approving this phase Wooster many speakers on various include on hand: Ray Swartzback, Am Studies Program we know today Young, of the Fellowship of Recon of the U.S.P., the faculty stressed aspects of U. S. Militarism, at Lewis, J. Arthur Baird, Gunnar The Urban Studies Committee in- ciliation, Mike Wittels of the Cen Urang, the necessity of establishing and home and abroad. Unlike last and James Norton. cludes Tom Rait (Chairman), maintaining the academic validity year's "Vietnam Day," this year's from the Religion Department, Joe of the program which the Urban program will not center on the Lawrence from Sociology, Jim Afro-America- Studies Committee has carefully j U.S. war in southeast Asia, rather n WA" Hodges from History, Bill Baird Major done. the. broad spectrum and greater from Economics, Kent Weeks from Political Science, and Lee Eber Approved With 13 Courses Added hart, student representative from Weekend Conference Tells Plight the Educational Affairs Committee. Faculty approval of an inter with a minimum of two courses in As a result of the committee's departmental Afro-America- n Stud- Independent Study at the senior efforts, the program, coordinating And Pride Of American Indian ies "A" major last Monday eve- level. Independent Study must be off-camp- on-camp- us and us study r-- r and Indian leadership either died ning insures inclusion of the 14 done in one of the participating is carefully built into Wooster's or was suppressed. Although to- course program in next year's new departments on a dealing curriculum. The Urban Studies topic day's Indian leaders are men who curriculum. with Afro-America- n Studies. Committee has done an outstand- Off-camp- have been educated in the white us programs will prob ing job in setting its own standards Composed of both presendy man's schools, they are proclaim- ably became a part of the Afro-Americ- an for the U.S.P. in with the m existing courses and new oner- - keeping ing a new Indian spirit. The new Studies major. Each stu- principles and philosophies of the gs, the Afro-America- n Studies off-camp- Indian leader is well acquainted us will be Department will offer students a dent's program college. Afro-America- with the white man's ways, and examined by the n major in Black Studies independ- therefore more capable of under- Studies Curriculum Committee as cul- ent of a major in any other depart how the te "South Is standing to preserve a pre-requisi- to its approval. Pacific' ment as well as increasing the ture of the stoic Indian people and Afro-Ame-ri number of Black Studies courses Finally, the potential yet at the same time establish can Studies major must indicate Spring Production in tlv curriculum for non-major- s, communication between the two whether his major humanities or according to Hayden Schilling, is The Color Day play this year races that will be beneficial to social science oriented and must Chairman of the 11-memb- er will be "South Pacific," written by both. These new leaders have complete concentration and dis- student-facult- y Committee, on Black Oscar Hammerstein and Richard formed groups to further their tribution requirements accord Education that formulated the pro- - Rodgers, which first opened on, goals and promote unity.