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EDUCATE LEAD REFLECT Vol. III, No. 10 Newark State College TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1960 Author,John Roy Charlson Harvard Prof Student Council Turns Talks on Cuban Revolution To Speak Here Down Reflector Editors John Roy Carlson, author and lecturer, who has re c en t 1 y returned from Cuba, spoke at Request for Salaries Newark State on Tuesday, The Student Council turned down the request of the editors of November 22, on "Cuba, the REFLECTOR for salaries at i~ meeting on Friday, November Revolution In Our Backyard," 18. This was one of the items considered by the Council in a meeting He said that with the revolution where school rings, revision of the constitution, the Lecture Series, a basic change took place, Now and the parking problem were discussed. there is hate for the West and the SALARIES .concepts of Democracy, including In discussing salaries for the editors, the Council brought up hate for the religious and political sev_erar objections to the plan proposed by editor of the newspaper, aspects of the West, Peter Barrett. At the last council meeting, Barrett had asked Mr. Carlson cited some of the for permission to pay ten dollars a week to himself and Andrea arguments for Castro. He point­ Loomis, the managing editor, and five dollars a week to the feature ed out that under Batista 55% editor, news editor, sports editors and business manager. of Cuba's best lands were owned John Roy Carlson The first objection to the plan was raised by C,ouncil member Bob and controiled by American interests. He said that Americans Zolkiewicz who asserted that, in his opinion, the editors "didn't exploited Cuban resources and delegated Cuba to a colonial status; do so much work". Councilman Joe J akub suggested that the editors that Cuba was made economically dependent upon the United States. were only making the work difficult for themselves by not getting Under Batista, Havana was a corrupt city, and that of the annual GEORGE C. HOMANS more students to work for them. ''There are many people", he $150,000,000 from tourists, none was used for the peoples' welfare. stated "who would be willing to work for the paper. It's up to the Professor George C. Homans Mr. Carl"on said that the people supported Castro because they editors to find them." It was also feared by most of the members hated Bastista and the acts of violence under him. They felt that of Harvard University will be that granting salaries would necessitate giving them to the many the fir st speaker of the reforms could be made only if Castro was put into power, He also other organizations on campus which do as much work as the • 'University Lecture Series" noted that when Castro visited the United States, Washington chose newspaper. sponsored by the Harvard and to shun him and that his request for $4 million was refused, In replying to the arguments against granting salaries, Barrett Radcliffs clubs of New Jersey. Mr, Carlson cited arguments against Castro, the most important explained that the editors do a great deal of work, that he felt the This lecture will be held in the being the lack of freedom on the island, He pointed out that the press, appearance of the newspaper every Tuesday indicated the editors Little Theater of Newark State radio, and television are _all completely in the hands of the Castro were not falling down on the job, and that he thought the Council college, on Wednesday, Novem­ regime, Mail is censored and phones tapped, was "being led down the_ garden path" if they felt that requests ber 30 at 8:30 P.M. His subject He said that the University of Havana is controlled by a small from other organizations for salaries was an important considera­ will be "How to be Satisfied group of pro-Castro students and that many faculty members tion. ''It's up to the Council to decide what groups deserve salaries," Through Working", have been forced to resign, he stated. As a sociologist, Professor The businessman is in a particularly precarious position, Carlson After much discussion, the Council voted down the proposal, Homans has engaged in studying noted, because banks can do little business and all capital gains but established a committee to look into the entire matter of giving the behavior of small groups of are controlled by the government, salaries to officers of campus organizations. Senior Bascia Welch people-whether members of a Castro promised to divide the large sugar holdings for the farmers, was appointed chairman of the committee. primitive tribe, a factory crew, During the discussion, the question was raised on the but now, two years later, the land is state owned and the peasant a street - corner g,ang or REFLECTOR's right to take advertisments. Several members of the farmer works as a laborer, and does not own any land, m_anagers of a business concern, Followers of Castro are deserting him, Carlson noted, because Council felt that they should have right of approval in this area, He also has studied their activi­ they feel he has betrayed the people and has Communist leanings. but Barrett asserted that the Council did and could have no say in ties and interactions, and what He said that Castro's domestic and foreign policies are patterned the internal workings of the paper. organized groups expect of their after the Communist line, Council member Doug Pecina reminded the editor that the members, Some of his findings Council had the right to withdraw budget appropriations from the r-.1r. Carlson noted that the issue is not only Castro, rather it is were published in his book THE the dictatorship, brutality, tyranny and the resentment toward the newspaper, if necessary, and Barrett replied that if the Council HUMAN GROUP. did this, there would simp\y be no newspaper. "But,'• he insisted. United States which must be healed. He said that the United States Graduated from Harvard in is in trouble unless it faces the issues confronting it, '' I will not permit the Council to interfere with the paper in doing 1932, Professor Homans, a native what it feels it would like to do in its pages." He said that the United States trusts the minority feudal class of Boston, was a Junior F-ellow which is the "doom class". When the "doom class" falls, the CONSTITUTION REVISION u. s. of the Society of Fellows from investment in the top one per cent falls, Therefore, Carlson said, The subject of change in the wording of the Constitution was 1934 to 1939. An instructor at the must apply economic aid to the people, not the corrupt brought up for the third consecutive meeting. Doug Pecina. who u. s. Harvard in 1940-41, he became forces. had made the original proposal, expl,ained that the preamble to the Associate Professor in 1946 and Carlson predicted that the happenings in Cuba will be repeated in Constitution made reference to the "limits" on the '•rights" of the Professor in 1953, In 1958-59, other Latin American nations within the next ten years. He said Student Organization. He felt that some change was necessary he was a fellow at the Center that the Communists are financed and well organized and that the in the wording, insofar as "there should be no limit on the rights". for Advanced Studies in the forces of revolution which exist in Cuba today may easily spread, Because no new wording could be proposed, the subject ~as post­ Behaviorial Sciences at Stanford poned until the next meeting, when, Pecina said, he would have a He also said that the U. S. must be prepared to face these issues University, and to solve them. reworded preamble. Mr. Carlson, who was arrested twice in Cuba, also witnessed During World War II he was LECTURE SERIES revolutions in the t,.,1iddle East. He said that "Change is a law of commanding officer of the USS The Council as a whole expressed disapproval with the manner life, you can't stop it," and that the revolution cannot be stopped Accentor and later was opera­ in which the Lecture Series was being run. Several members felt tions officer at Transport by war. Revolution, he noted, is change and which the U, S. must that they should have some say .in what persons wo·uld be appearing Division 69, adjust to, as it must adjust to Cuba's revolution. at the college this year, the third year of the series' existence. The "University Lecture Lucille Pace and Thomas Gega, members of the Council's Lecture Series" is a new joint activity Series comP-.ittee, explained that they had seen Dr.