The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1966 Page: 2 of 6
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THE RATTLER
FRiDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1966
The opinions expressed in the RATTLER
are those of the editor or the individual
writers, and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the University administration.
AAUPlause
The American Association of University Pro-
fessors has released a tentative statement on the
Academic Freedom of Students. The statement
scores several policies which are taken for granted
at most universities.
For instance, concerning the freedom of as-
sociation, the statement asserts that students
“should be free to organize and join associations'
to promote their common interests.” Most adminis-
ters nod in amiable assent when approached with
this idea, but when students attempt to form a
chapter of the W.E.B. DuBois Club or a “Commit-
tee for Responsible Sexual Freedom” such as the
one at the University of Texas the authorities tend
to forget freedom of association.
Another point made in the statement is that
student organizations should be free to choose
their own faculty advisors. The morale, efficiency,
and affectiveness of a student organization can
be affected seriously by its advisor, and adminis-
trators who make appointments rarely know how
well the students work with their advisor. Also,
when advisors are appointed, it can be a touchy
and embarrassing ordeal for an organization to
request a new one.
That students should be free to take part in
formulating university policies that affect them is
asserted firmly in the statement. “The student
body should have clearly defined means to partici-
pate in the formulation and application of regula-
tions affecting student affairs.” While St. Mary’s
students will have an opportunity to express their
opinions on many facets of student life in the
Student Personnel Services committees, these com-
mittees are advisory in nature and can be ignored
if it suits the administration.
Other freedoms argued for by the statement
are the freedom of students to invite and hear any
person of their own choosing to speak on campus
and freedom of the student press from censorship
and from the arbitrary removal or suspension of
student editors.
The problem with many of these suggestions
is that they worry very little about the image of
the school to the public. The problem of what will
the local John Birch Society (whose president
may be a large contributor to the college) will say
when students invite Communist Gus Hall to speak,
or what the local public will think if the student
newspaper frankly discusses the alcoholic image
of the school’s students at a nearly women’s col-
lege—these problems are ignored by the idealists
who authored this statement.
Perhaps it is our youthful idealism that leads
us to think that academic freedom is much more
important than a blissful public image, but we
would like to urge both our Student Council and
our Faculty Senate to study the AAUP statement
and to adopt resolutions to put its suggestions
into effect.
More Idealism
From time to time we will refer in these pages
to our concept of the “Ideal University.” While
we would be hard pressed to give a clear picture
of this university in a descriptive statement, we
can point out ideas, decisions, and establishments
which tend to shape St. Mary’s in this image and
those which tend to draw the University away from
our ideal.
A direct personification of our “Ideal Univer-
sity” has been initiated under the auspices of the
Cultural Activities Committee in the form of Stu-
dent-Faculty Discussion Seminars. Reminiscent
of the schools of Greek philosophers, this program
will provide all interested students with an op-
portunity to learn through intimate discussion with
a local authority.
At its best, this program can develop into a
remarkably intense learning situation, free from
the pressure of grades and compulsory attendance.
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Students Sing, Sing, Sing
At Mission Folk Mass Here
BY BOB SCALLAN
For the Catholics on cam-
pus who attended last week’s
Student Mission, it was al-
most a dream come true. They
sang, and sang, and sang. Al-
most all came out of the
Church a lot happier than
when they stepped in. Some
had come out of curiosity.
Some out of conformity. And
some out of faith. But all left
with identical attitudes; they
had experienced something vi-
vacious, something living.
These feelings were all due
to a Folk Mass composed by
a few of the scholastic Broth-
ers of Mary. The fact that the
Brothers originated it is ir-
relevant. What is important
is that someone did it.
Many of the Catholic
Church’s adult musicians say
that guitars and folk songs
have no place in a house of
worship. So where does that
leave teens and young adults?
These two groups thrive on
music with melodies formed
for the most part by guitars.
Hootenannies, folk-rock, and
Negro spirituals are almost
synonymous with teen and
young adult. Ask any musician
or recording artist; he’ll tell
you the same. So why stick to
the organ-ized chanted music
of the past?
You answer that Church mu-
sic should be solemn — dif-
ferent from the normal,
everyday type of music. You
say the organ is the official
musical instrument of the
Church? And I say that Latin
is the official language of the
Church; no vernacular should
be used. You say that those
are two entirely different mat-
ters of concern. I believe they
PUBLIUS
are very much related. Eng-
lish was introduced into the
Mass so that people could un-
derstand the words being said.
Why not use “vernacular”
music of the various age
groups to emphasize the feel-
ing that those same words in-
culcate in everyone? You’ve
got a group of 200 collegians
gathered around the altar.
They’re dying to get into fhe
act. The situation is all set.
What’s stopping the introduc-
tion of a musical type of Mass
they’ll get the deepest meaning
from and the most involve-
ment in? The answer is; noth-
ing. So the Brothers went
ahead and did something about
the situation.
The questionnaire passed
out at the 3rd Folk Mass re-
vealed one principal thing —
an overwhelming enthusiasm
for more of the same rich-
ness the participators had ex-
perienced in the previous
celebrations. Some commen-
ted that they were most im-
pressed with the words of the
folks songs. Others said it
was the music. Most believed
it was both that made the at-
mosphere more joyous. One
thing was certain; in a pe-
culiar way, something hap-
pened to 200 collegians with-
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in the span of less than an
hour — And it all took place
deep inside. Their good will
played a part. But there is
no doubt that the songs played
a greater part.
If songs can create a mood,
a feeling in a person that can
motivate him to do something
(look what rock n’ roll does
to its dancers, for example),
I feel it’s achieving its pur-
pose. Of course, some music
is composed merely to be lis-
tened to and enjoyed. Not folk
music. It stimulates action.
And for that very reason it has
a place in the Christian litur-
gy.
Perhaps those three Folk
Masses can stimulate a move-
ment toward more of the
same. However, people must
not let a Mass with this po-
tential become blase. Then it
loses its effect and proceeds
toward secularly. Will this
happen? It can never occur
unless people, you and I, in-
corporate the Folk Mass into
our liturgy in the first place.
Do we want it bad enough?
We’ve said that we were
greatly impressed by a “gui-
tar” Mass. Do our actions
speak louder than our words?
Let’s see what the situation
is by January 1, 1967. In fact,
something might even happen
this Sunday!
It's Big Brother
George Wallace is “se-
riously considering” opposing
LBJ for the presidency in
1968. Just think, we’d have
eight years of George, then
eight years of his wife Lur-
leen, then it would be 1984.
All letters written for publication here must be
signed, though initials will be used if the writer
requests. The RATTLER reserves the right to
edit all letters fpr length and good taste.
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Typifies Anti-Americanism
Editor;
In his article on students in other countries (Sept. 30)
Mr. Charles Stough generalizes and affirms things too
strongly. He shows a lack of knowledge of culture, and of
the fact that people of different cultures have different ways
of doing things. Furthermore he shows a strong ethnocen-
trism by criticising Latin ways. As a matter of fact, his
attitude is the main reason why there are anti-American
feelings in other countries.
Mr. Stough claims that the foreign students lack contact
with the “lower classes” of our countries. He thinks that
the two years that he spent with the Peace Corps in Panama
have given him infallible knowledge of Latin America.
Personally, in the last 21 years I have been in Mexico
(not just Nuevo Laredo), and throughout all the Central
American countries, besides every corner of my own coun-
try, Peru. In these many years I have come in contact
with people of all social and economic classes, I have
lived in their houses and eaten at their tables, but I cannot
say that I know that much about people as he does;
About the riots in Panama, I would like to refresh his
memory by asking him to recall that these riots started
when some American boys pulled down a Panamanian flag
from its mast.
Eduardo Dargent
Separate and Unequal
Editor;
So many wonderful things come to pass in this equally
wonderful University. Three weeks ago the Shoestring
Players were asked to prepare a skit for a faculty club
party. Though the task was somewhat impossible request,
i.e., working up a burlesque playing upon the individual
idiosyncrasies of the members of the faculty club, the
drama group worked up a half-hour show which they felt
would be both entertaining and enjoyable. It was written
and rewritten three times and valuable rehearsal time
was taken from the forthcoming “Death of a Salesman”
production. Then three hours before the scheduled party-
everything in readiness — low and behold — the Players
were notified that their services would not be required
and their company undesired -- as faculty and students
are not permitted to mingle according to the University
system. True college spirit in its finest hour — separa-
tion of students and faculty.
T.G.
Ode to an Unknown Babbit
Editor;
I am wondering if you would be interested to know
the opinion of a foreign student (German) about the “Pol-
icies and Rules on Dress;” I let the poet W.H. Auden,
an American, express my thoughts;
The Unknown Citizen
(To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected
by the State)
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word,
he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Commuity.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in
every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully
insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in the hospital
but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment
Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire,
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of the year;
When there was peace, he was for peace; when there
was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a
parent of his generation,
And our teachers report that he never interfered with
their education.
Was he free? Was he happy; The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
W.H. Auden (1907- )
Klaus W. Beyenbach
Young People, N-Threat and Demo Unity
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RATTLER STAFF
Editor ..................................................... Rick Casey
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In the Oct. 10, 1966 News-
week, Louis Harris points
out; “In the mid-1960s, the
cutting issues are a far cry
from the 1930s. Today’s big
issues are the role of Amer-
ica in a world where the ground
rules have been rewritten by
the existence of total nuclear
power, and where total war
would be man’s last act; the
quest by the minority 10 per-
cent of the population, the
Negroes, to achieve equal
status and equal opportunity,
and the struggle on the part
of young people to hew out
modes of behavior and thought
which are essentially noncon-
formist.”
Young people of today are
looking to the liberal ele-
ments of society and govern-
ment in their struggle for what
they consider their essential
freedoms. They seek free-
doms in such matters as
dress, speech, intellectual
and political activity. They re-
sist the constituted authority
of institutions (their school)
and the government to con-
trol them. Some do not rea-
lize that the economic and
social pattern of their lives
is subject to controls of one
kind or another. Which of such
controls should they submit to
and which should they resist?
More important, how should
such value judgments be
made?
NO PEACE
“The 1966 election cam-
paign has already clarified
one fact of U.S. political life,”
said one political analyst.
“This is no time to run as a
peace candidate.” The issue
of the conduct of the Viet
Nam war (?) is being side-
stepped by most candidates.
The politicians are apparent-
ly not willing to rish the jaws
of the nutcracker of public
opinion, which seems to be
divided into two factions.
There are those who are afraid
our action, if intensified would
result in a world-wide nuclear
conflict. Another group, those
who may have to engage in the
actual conflict, fear a go-for-
broke effort for obvious rea-
sons. Both groups might give
some consideration to those
who are now under actual
fire. Both groups ought to be
concerned by the business-
as-usual attitude of the non-
combatant public and a Con-
gress that sometimes seems
to be more interested in the
war on poverty, pollution, in-
flation, and other such mat-
ters than the war our fellow
Americans and others are
fighting in Viet Nam. Can we
really expect the Viet Cong or
any of our so-called allies, for
that matter, to really believe
we are serious about “con-
taining” Communism or what-
ever might be our “objec-
tive” if we do not make a
credible effort. Such an ef-
fort may not necessarily re-
quire additional ground forces,
etc. but could include some
of the “short of war” mea-
sures employed by both
Roosevelt, Truman, and even
Eisenjiower. Would you accede
to a request to cease and de-
sist; talk things over; if the
other fellow indicates that he
was gonna fight with one hand
tied behind his back?
LETTER TO HBG
Dear Henry B.:
Your fellow-Democrat Gov-
ernor John Connally said in
his keynote address to the re-
cent Democrat State Conven-
tion, “Regardless how we De-
mocrats and Texans may dif-
fer, there comes a time when
the welfare of the people
transcends all else...”
We all know that he con-
siders the election of Mr.
Carr important to the wel-
fare of Texas. Does he equate
Texans to Republicans, or is
he simply ignoring their ex-
istence? There seems to be
some doubt as to whether or
not you will actively support
Mr. Carr in his campaign. I
suppose that depends on
whether or not your consider
the election of a Democrat
or a Texan of the greatest
importance.
We commend to your at-
tention the platforms of both
the Democrats and the GOP.
Of special significance is the
liberal (one who wants change)
plank of our Democratic gov-
ernor advocating “changes”
in our 87-year-old constitu-
tion. Hallelujah!
The same thing has been
said by Democrats before but
the only constructive action
ever taken was by the League
of Women Voters and a few
college professors. Can our
conservative governor really
be serious?
UP WITH LOW GRADES
Knowledgeable candidates
of both parties are seeking
solutions to some of the more
pressing economic problems
of state and local government.
It has been suggested that a
portion of the revenues of the
national government be di-
verted, without strings, to
state and local needs. The
most unique solution to come
to our attention is “the nega-
tive income tax.” Democratic
incumbent, Representative
John J. Gilligan, maintains
that the federal government
must soon establish an in-
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