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Susan Waltz
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Mary Bane. Margo Hilfinger, John
Crittenden, Mike Zeaman, Barbara A Winn
A. T. Eschbach
Assistant Sports Editors Joe Coyne. Rusty Weller
Campus Editor Jimmy Miller
Assistant Campus Editor .... Linda Haag
Photographers Jim Shauberger. Bob Wright
Advertising Salesmen Robert Alterman. Jan Asbury.
Perry Fletcher. Malcolm Haney. Nancy Johnson. Karla McNary.
Ann Meffert. Bill Poythress. Linda G. Pratt. Richard J. Rat-
cheson, Robert Spillers. John H. Stevens, Sharon VanHorn, Cliff
Whitmore, Skip Zediitz.
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that change has become the
norm, rejection has become the
pole.
By BARBARA A. WINN
Daily News Editor
Self-limiting hours for seniors and B-average juniors will probably
be approved by AWS Tuesday.
And it appears that sororities, the chief objectors to the un-
successful 1964 attempt at passing a key program, are lining up
with the current proposal and will be telling the Board of Regents
and their advisory boards they can implement the program as
safely as dormitories.
The chief doubt voiced towards the program has not been the
principle of allowing freedom of movement, but the problem of
house security.
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—p e o p 1 e who are sensitive
enough to love, articulate enough
to express it, committed enough
to desire it, and compassionate
enough to realize how difficult it
is to sustain.
THAT SOUNDS pretty soppy-
like one of old Dr. King’s
speeches which used to get the
masses moving. Yet if the rhet-
oric is stale, the prescription is
not. There are reasons for all
these principles, friends. We want
civil liberties because the pre-
sumption that there are w o r d s
which should not be heard de-
bases the character of those who
would speak them.
We want participation because
exclusion presumes that we are
inadequate to the occasion oi life.
We want some people to give
other people their money or their
time or their services because we
think that people want to help
others, more than to exploit
them.
We want professors to ask us
questions or get to know us or
stop gliding us because we be-
lieve that the complexity of our
identity and its creation is a little
more complicated than the let-
tered critique of an 18-line es-
say.
ALL OF THAT rhetoric has to
do with people. The New Left
says this when they talk about
the "game,” but they say it bad-
ly, and many of them are less
appealing than their ideologies
would have them become The
New Middle has picked up the
principles—even a few of the pro-
grams—without the bunting man-
date to apply them to the human
dimension which makes a poli-
tical stance relevant or irrele-
vant. The problem is serious—
endemic, in fact, to a mass so-
city—to a society, “which places
no particular value on the indiv-
idual.' Start worrying about it,
friends; it's more difficult than
you think. Look around you.
Security Problem
The posibilities of lost keys and unlocked doors shroud the
issue for a number of sororities.
A university housing unit, with only one entrance, is not so
concerned
In response to an AWS questionaire. eight of the 11 sororities who
replied indicated that either their national or local advisory board,
or both, objected to a self-limiting hours program—mainly for
security reasons.
In telephone interviews Wednesday, only one of the eight presi-
dents said her chapter, in respect to the wishes of its advisors, will
vote ‘no’ Tuesday.
Six of the eight presidents said they will vote for the program
Tuesday and were confident they would be able to adapt one of the
proposed physical systems to the satisfaction of members and alumnae
advisors.
Advisors Voice Doubts
Two said at this time that they were doubtful alumnae advisors
would allow them to participate in such a program The first said
her chapter approved the program. The second declined to say how
her house voted.
The only other objection expressed by sororities is the expense
of utilizing any one of the three proposed physical systems: install-
ing lock systems operated by insertion of a laminated card, being
prepared to change locks in the event of a lost key. or hiring a night
watchman to unlock doors.
For the dorms, probably the only expense will be $1 per girl
for a key to the front door.
However, if AWS and Regents pass the program, it is expected
that all sororities will participate, for the loners who maintain senior
hours would probably reap the consequences during rush.
Proposal Complete
The proposal prepared by Laura Crouch. Bartlesville junior, and
her committee of 12 (including four Panhellenic representatives’
is thorough and complete One of the three physical systems surely
can be adapted to every housing situation
Dr. Dorothy Truex, dean of women, said she is pleased with
the proposal and favors passage.
On-the-street interviews Thursday by Daily reporters Dianne
Nelson and Wayne Rhodes revealed overwhelming approval of the
issue.
Expressing the majority opinion was Kerry McCrady. Norman
sophomore, who said, “Seniors have enough responsibility to keep
up with a key Their age should give them certain privileges If
they lived at home they would have a key to their home. I don't
see any reason why we couldn'd try it out and see.”
A Mother Objects
The only woman differing from the affirmative opinions of 15
others was Mrs. Alvna Faubion, mother of a freshman coed who
said. **. . . maybe the privileges can be justified on weekends, but
students come to a university to acquire an education and they
couldn't do very well with hours like this during the week There are
always those who would abuse the privilege.”
However. Kay Rodgers. Tulsa freshman, was sure "most girls
aren’t going to stay out all night long. What would they do?”
The consensus among the 20 male students queried is that it is
ridiculous to keep girls who are 21 and 22 years old cooped up.
Don King. Hamburg, Iowa, senior observed. "They are right to go
by the age factor If they were out of school, they would be married
or career girls In either case they would be making this decision
by their own discretion "
Positive Opinions
Over and over, the words "old enough,” "mature enough." "re-
and "capable enough" were used in expressing
[Politicization of the Middle
By ED SCHWARTZ
Collegiate Press Service
(Washington, D. C.) The line
is shifting Earlier in the aca-
demic year, it appeared that the
political movements which char-
acterized the 60's would yield to
a national "cop out, drop out”
drive. This has not occurred.
What instead has happened is the
politicization of the middle. As
the Left wanders off in a cloud
of its own creation, the "moder-
ate" campus factions have
emerged.
The Vietnam letter to the Presi-
dent, signed by over 200 student
body presidents and editors is
the most prominent example, but
there arc others. The drive
against Ronald Reagan in Cali-
fornis is being spearheaded by
student government leadership.
STUDENT moderates in Illi-
nois have initiated a campaign
to end the state speaker-ban law.
Educational reform—even radical
reiorm—has been coopted by the
student Establishment Tutorials,
the draft, the eighteen-year-old
vote—old causes, new marchers.
The Old New Left, the Old Old
Left, and the New Old Left can
take heart. A’l those speeches
about involvement in the late
50’s, all those cries that people
were dying in Mississippi, all
those pamphlets about apathy
and alienation—people who never
read them are offering a belated
response.
It's even respectable—the p~u-
dent. responsible, aware course
of action for today s young inge-
nue to pursue. The American
Council on Education reports that
82 per cent of last year’s enter-
ing freshman class believes "to
be aware of political events" is
important.
THE TONE of the campus pol-
itical debate has shifted as well.
When stability was the norm, be-
lief in the necessity for change
became the radical pole Now
sponsible enough,
positive opinions
Dr. William O. Felkner. professor of botany, expressed the only
dissenting opinion "I am probably a little old fashioned." he said,
"but I would want my daughter to keep certain hours and I would
want to know about them . . ."
Alan Jones, Oklahoma City senior, succinctly commented. "They
ought to be old enough to come home ”
An equally everwhelming acceptance by AWS Tuesday—especially
if votes are based on the majority will of their constituents—will be
a decisive influence on the Board of Regents, who will consider
enacting the plan next fall
However, an equally important influence of the Regents is the
opinion of parents, whose state tax money supports the University.
Hopefully, a representative majority vote in AWS will be a mature
decision, indicative of the thoughts of parents
Senate Really Representative?
icy before the Student Senate."
You then said, "We are con-
cerned with:" and listed your
gripes.
Well. OU is no Berkeley, but
neither is it a milksop congrega-
tion of happy students united be-
hind a representative Student
Senate and Senate President.
Most students are passive and
will let you represent them be-
cause they do not want to bother
themselves with student govern-
ment. an institution many stu-
dents consider bonded to the ad-
ministration so strongly that the
two governments become one in
the same.
THEY WILL work and play
hard, attend their classes and
be virtually unrepresented and
unheard as long as they are not
directly threatened by rules or
requirements
That is why. sad to say, the
students of OU who don't like
the Student Senate will never
work together in enough num-
bers to rid the university of this.
I really hate to say it again but
it's true, farce.
Usually when students who
hold campus offices are attack-
ed. they wail en masse. "But we
are the only ones who care
enough to do anything.”
This cliche is used to explain
everything from why Greeks are
over-represented on student gov-
ernments at most universities to
why some students hold office
after office on committee after
committee.
Wake up, Student Senate and
smell the coffee! You are not
the only ones on this campus who
care.
IN HIS DIATRIBE against the
press Paul said that 15 students
picketed the Model UN meet-
ings. This is over one-third the
number of senators in your club.
I would guess that there were
just as many students "with
them in spirit" as you truly rep-
resent on this campus.
But let's examine your mot-
ives for working with the admin-
istration in Student Government.
It would appear that your only
payment for all your work is a
“howdy'" in the hall from some
kindly dean.
From the legislation you pass
and the interest you show in
reviewing responsibly rules and
regulations you've made and al-
lowed others to make for stu-
dents. it would appear that warm
greeting or two is all your work
is worth.
WELL, LIKE IT you may not,
a warm smile from an adminis-
tration boss never made a dol-
lar for anyone in the post-gradu-
ation world.
But wait a minute. It might
make you a dollar or two or
three if by your submissive ac-
tions you can win favor with
those whose names would make
nice "references" on job appli-
cations
If I were an administrator at
OU, I would think twice before
saying a warm hello to the next
"student leader" I meet I would
wonder if they were not just out
to steal my good name.
"Traditional politics is a drag,
man; we’ve got to create a new
style. Until we do that, none of
your steps will do anything to
change the system." The Old
Middle used to say that from an-
other perspective — “there’s no-
thing we can do." Now they're
insulted at the suggestion.
Yet agonizing questions re-
main; it's unfortunate that the
Left does not ask them more pre-
cisely. What is, in fact, the dir-
ection of the New Middle? Does
it have any direction? Is it strict-
ly a set of pragmatic responses
to specific issues, or docs a
broader set of goals dictate its
new militancy? I would like to
believe the latter; I fear the for-
mer.
POLITICS is people—only a
generation encapsulated in ab-
stractions could believe anything
else. Students spend their aca-
demic lives fighting for some-
thing called "principles" without
any consideration of the impact
of one or another of them on
the constituencies involved. That,
more than any reason, explains
the collapse of the Civil Rights
Movement.
We erected the principle of in-
tegration. without reflecting that
the Negro middle class was the
only group that really wanted it.
Dick Gregory told us: "1 waited
six months to get into that res-
taurant. and then they didn't
have what I wanted.” At least
he could afford the price tag.
So the problem becomes not
the creation of a "radical cri-
tique of society" or the build-
ing of a Movement—the grand
images of a search for coher-
ence. The question becomes whe-
ther or not the premises of our
culture and the institutions of our
society are conducive to the dev-
elopment of decent human beings
By JOHN CRITTENDEN
Daily News Editor
Paul Petersen, how dare you
say that you and the rest of the
Senate represent me?
In the press conference you
held Thursday, you stated, "on
behalf of the Student Senate of
OU and acting in my capacity as
Student Body and Student Sen-
ate President. I wish to issue the
following statements.”
You then went into a blast
against the press for "sensa-
tional" coverage certain stu-
dents were given in their various
protest reform movements at
OU recently.
BUT MORE important, you
said you were calling the meet-
ing "due to a growing concern
within the Student Body of OU.
as expressed unanimously in a
recently passed statement of pol-
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