Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1965-06-12

              Secretary Rusk To Get Teachin By LYNN ZEISER The questions will ask Rusk wft A facultystudent committee which has serious doubt about US foreign policy in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic willinvite Secretary of State Dean Rusk to speak at a Teachin beginning at 800 tomorrow night in Bryant Lecture nan Speaking will be seniors Bob Kuttner and Phil Ehrensaft and Arthur Wright instructor ofeconomics The committee composedchiefly of graduating honors students and headed by College senior Phil Ehrensaft will present Rusk with a document stating their views and containing questions on topics of major foreign policy interest when he arrives on campustomorrow afternoon to receive anhonorary degree Monday They will then invite him to answer the questions at theTeachin We are hoping for a serious discussion of issues rather than textbook answers Tim Craine former president of StudentCouncil and member of the committee commented Faculty Lacks Quorum Postpones Activist Vote Lack of a quorum at the meet ing or me general iauuuyjulsday forestalled consideration of College recognition of thestudent magazine the Activist and the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association OSCA which would sell beer in the Rathskeller Although there was no June meeting of the general faculty scheduled the faculty of theCollege of Arts and Sciences at their regular meeting June 1 passed a resolution calling for a special session The two proposals hadoriginally been tabled from the Maymeeting However the faculty noted that the chairmen of theStudentFaculty Publications Committee and the Student AffairsCommittee would not be on campus next fall and requested that theunfinished business be settled before they left President Carr sent out a letter to faculty explaining that he would call the meeting butreluctantly because many faculty would have left by that time About 40 per cent of the faculty came to the meeting Last year in June in anunprecedented action President Carr vetoed a Student Councilexpenditure of 500 to help theActivist a studentmanagedperiodical of controversy and opinion Students objected violently to this i i r l i rn An SEdilorial Unfortunately it seems many College alumni parents students and friends misunderstand the intent and purpose of tomorrow nights teachin It is not an attempt to embarrass the College or the Secretary of State The teachin is not being exploited by subversive elements for ther own diabolical ends It is not an irresponsibly organized gathering but rather represent one of the most responsible means of expressing discontent that the academic community possesses We urge everyone on campus now to attend if possible attend with an open and questioning mind The College teachin should provide an extremely valuable educative se rvice of the nations other marathon teachins have so far The Review strongly opposes further extension of the ar In Vietnam but we are equally disturbed by the Johnson Administrations sdence and failure to explain why we are at war there Secretary of State Rusk could be presented with no better opportunity to explain the Administrations policies and to clarity his statements regarding the role of the academic conununity m the national debate over Vietnam He can clarify the purpose of the war just exactly where the war is leading now and what the United States wants out of it and at the same time he canexPlain Administration responses to the academic commun tyscriticism We hope that Mr Rusk realizes that there are hund eds of concerned individuals here who have been protesting because they have very honest questions about the drift of our governments actions they have not been duped by communists It would certainly be unfortunate if Mr Rusk decides that he cannot come to Oberlin or declines to speak at the tcacnin While the teachin has evolved into a very useful etonal tool it must not be forgotten that some of the program planners originally proposed protesting the awarding of an honorarydecree tHlr Rusk As a compromise plan the teachm necessarily lose some of the nature of protest which an actualdeinoutntion would have had but we cannot overlook the ct that the teachins inception was caused by a very real concern about what is happening in Vietnam We hope to see Mr Rusk in Bryantlecture hall tomorrow evening for some explanations iocus on lour specific areas 1 The present approach of American foreign policy towardrevolutionary social change inunderdeveloped countries in the light of US actions in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic 2 The longrange goals of American foreign policy inVietnam and the hopes for achieving political stability in Southeast Asia 3 Whether the US shouldcontinue the bombing of NorthVietnam 4 The present attitude ofAdministration officials towardcriticism of government policies by members of the academiccommunity The first question is designed Volume 93 Z572 action but Mr Carr maintained that the College as collector of the student activities fee had the authority to overturn the Council allocation OSCA was organized bystudents for the purpose of distrib uting beer to its members in the Rathskeller The cooperativecircumvents the Trustees objection to the sale of 32 beer on campus Council Opposes Rusk Sends Letter to By JEFF BOCH Student Council last week sent a letter to President Carr expres sing opposition to the Colleges awarding Dean Rusk an honorary degree The text of the letter is asfollows We would like to express our dissatisfaction with the choice of Dean Rusk for an honorarydegree Although we realize that Mr Rusk is an eminent man and has in the past made important contributions to our society Many members of the OberlinCommunity students and faculty have strong reservations about the wisdom of Mr Rusks policies in to elicit general discussion H ih situation as well as to introduce the revolutions for export topic according to Ehrensaft Thepresent US attitude that revolutionary social change is invariablyinitiated by outside agitation may close all other possibilities for people legitimately working for change and force them intoCommunist hands he stated Headded that the scope of thisquestion will also include theDominican Republic The second and third questions are intended to deal with the availability of information to the public and academic community according to Craine The last question willhopefully elicit a review of Rusks attack on the academic communi for OBERLIN OHIO SATURDAY JUNE 12 1965 Grads Campaign for Guest 63 Eye Post on Board of Trustees By JEFF LIEBMAN Members of the classes of 64 and 65 have opened a drive to elect A M Pete Guest 63 to the Board of Trustees in September 1966 Spearheading the drive is an ad hoc committee of student leaders of the classes of 64 and 65 Vietnam and in the Dominican ICepuDiic ana arc iMunmauj disturbed at his intolerantcriticism of the academic community We believe that an honorary degree should not be given topersons who have aroused such criticism in the CollegeCommunity However because Mr Rusk was selected many months ago we do not feel that Mr Rusk should now be denied a degree We urge that in the future astudentfacultyadministration committee will make degreeselections Hopefully the committee will select nominees who reflect the spirit and beliefs of theOberlin Community After a heated debate in special executive session last Saturday Council voted to sponsor College junior Rich Koritz to the World Youth Festival to be held inAlgiers Algeria at the end of July Council appropriated 225 from the Conference Fund to help cover his expenses The World Youth Festival is theoretically a nonpoliticalbiannual event The last festivalattended by 18000 youths was held in Helsinki Finland in 1961 Former NSA committeechairman Dave Steinberg who had publicized the festival in late April noted that it was usually less than unbiased as many Communist block countries send large delegations and that in the past it has received financial support from Moscow Koritz appeared at the last scheduled meeting of Council to request the money PaulOsterman freshman PSL stated that the appropriation was passed843 after a tense debate Council later realized however heexninined that a majority of Coun cil nine votes are required for appropriations from theConferonro Fund Some members object ed he continued that by bypass ing the Financial Committee in making the appropriation Council had not followed the usual pro ppdnre College sophomore Penny Hanna vsi reasoned that Council had to act on the request before the pnd of the year She remarked ty Ehrensaft explained It is deTeachIn is taking place a dele signed to include such questions as What is the place of academic criticism of foreign policy and How can objectors bestcommunicate their views he noted Based on National Trend The Teachin similar tohundreds of others held throughout the nation the last two months will begin at 800 with speeches by interested professors This part of the Teachin will deal with the history of US involvement in South Vietnam our presentstrategic position there and itsimplications in larger areas ofpolicy and the revolutions forexport theory with the Dominican Republic as a case in point Ehrensaft continued While the first part of the College senior Mike Faden member of the committee to elect Guest to the Board of Trustees explained that in September alumni will be asked to submit nominations for the annualelection of a new Trustee which takes place one year after thenominations are submitted He continued Garr that Council votej to wave the oneweek requirement on all financial appropriations even though it was unprepared todiscuss the situation and did not know all of the facts The revote was 97 Koritz is an officer in the Col lege Socialist Club and is active in College politics and protest movements Graduation Exercises Draw 2500 Guests Dr Martin Luther Kings comalso mencement address Remaining Awake Through a Revolution will be heard by nearly 500 degree pandidates in the College Con servatory and Graduate of Theol ogy in addition to some guests half of them alumni all participating in the Colleges lna anniversary commencement pro gram R H Edwin general secretary of the National Council ot Churches in the USA New York This issue of the Review is being sent to the approximately 800 incoming freshmen Seniors alumni and friends wishing to subscribe next year should make checks out for 550 or 350 the semester and send with name and address to theReview 60 S Pleasant St City will deliver the baccalaur ate sermon Does the Churcnbelong in the World tomorrow at 3 pm in Finney Chapel In addition to King and Espy honorary degree recipients are Dean Rusk Secretary of State Frank Stanton president of CBS Leona Baumgartner assistantadminstrator in the Agency forInternational Development in the Department of State and Peter Mennin president of the Juillard School of Music Baccalureate Day tomorrow will Request 1 gation from the studentcommittee will be introduced to Rusk at his tilace of residence and will then invite him to address the meeting He may prefere to give his answers to the small delega tion Craine noted If this is the case the delegation willreport back as a group to the Teachin If Rusk decides to participate in the Teachin Craineestimated that he would speak for at least 30 minutes If there isadditional time Craine continued other professors will continue the discussion or Rusk mayentertain specific questions The Teachin is scheduled to continue until 1000 pm Alumni parents See RUSK p 8 Number 56 Tthat the candidates with the most nominations nrovided that they net over 100 votes each are put on the ballot The six Trustees directly elected by the alumni one everv year serve for six years each The rest of the Trus tees are selected by the Board of Trustees Seek Young Trustee Members of the committee and other seniors according to Faden feel that as the Board ofTrustees has become more involved in student affairs over the last five years it is increasinglyimportant that Trustees be close to the campus and familiar withcampus problems Also Faden noted the election of Guest would help keep the younger alumniinterested in College affairs inaddition to presenting theirviewpoints Guest has been very active in student affairs Faden pointed out During his stay here he was an associate editor of the Review chairman of the StudentEducational Policy Committee anhonSee GUEST p 8 be marked by the commis sioning of three Shansi Teaching Fellows at the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association breakfast class reunion dinners an evening concert by the College cnior The four days of commence ment events began at noon yes terday with the annual Alumni Senior luncheon at Dascomb Hall They will close Monday morning with graduation exercise on lap pan square or in case or ram in Finney Chapel The academic procession will begin at 9 am commencement exercises at 930 The commencement symposium on The American CollegeCamdus Today Involvement or Apa thy was held this morning Er win N Gnswold dean of the Harvard Law School and College trustee Robert W Tuftaprofesor of economics and College senior Tim Crain participated in this discussion The alumni lunch eon this noon featured talks by President Carr Herbert C Mayer 1915 class president and Ed Schwartz senior class president The program for Alumni Day today included a performance of Iolanthe by the Gilbert andSullivan players in Hall Auditorium at 3 pm an alumnivarsitybaseball game at the athletic field at at 3 pm a reception for members of the class of 65 parents and alumni at the home of president and Mrs Robert K Carr from 330 pm to 530 pm