Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1968 Page: 5 of 6
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November 15 1Q*R
LONE STAR LUTHERAN
Page 5
A Note To Artists—
Be Your Own Thing
Dr. Grant has moved his latest project into
his office. His other works of art are presently
on display in the art foyer of the Fine Arts
Building.
For three weeks now the art
work of Dr. Allan Grant has been
displayed in the Fine Arts build-
ing. I Interviewed him this week
about his work, and his responses
were both interesting and ad-
mirable.
“My art is.” He explained
that he doesn’t philosophize a-
bout his art. He can’t say, “To-
day I am going to paint...” such
and such. He just sits dawn
and produces what is going on
Inside him at the time. This
leaves him open to a variety of '
styles of expression, and yet each
will bear the stamp of his in-
Survey Shows Vietnam
Main Cause Of Protests
Fentress Miller
dividuality.
Not aU of his works are oils.
For instance the rabbit and cat
were done with drops of Ink, a
rough brush and “an old scratchy
pen I ‘borrowed* from the post
office.”
Some of his oils were painted
and then scraped down to one
layer or other to bring out the
essentials. He feels that he
sometimes gets carried away
“just in painting.” To Dr.
Grant, his art is a learning ex-
perience—he explores and dis-
covers himself through the pro-
cess of art. This, he states,
is more important-to him than
analyzing the finished product.
I use the word “product” with
some misgivings—because art Is
not producing for the sake of
PRINCETON, N.J. (CPS)~ A
recent survey of more than 800
deans at the nation’s ‘ coUeges
shows that Vietnam was the major
cause of organized protests by
college students during the 1967-
68 academic year.
Dormitory rules, Civil Rights,
and student participation in
college government were, in that
order, the next most frequently
protested issues on the nation’s
campuses, according to the sur-
vey by the Educational Testing
Service.
The ETS report also notes that
ORGANIZED groups demon-
strating against most issues
rarely made up more than ten
percent of a college student body.
Protesters against U.S. Govern-
ment policy in Vietnam, for ex-
ample, averaged about five per-
cent of their respective student
bodies, according to the deans’
estimates. Protests not or-
ganized in advance were not in-
cluded in the findings.
ETS’s questionnaire survey
was completed by deans of stu-
dents in 860 accredited four-
year colleges and universities.
Each dean was asked to note the
extent of organized student pro-
test over 27 educational, social,
and political issues during the
1967-68 academic year.
38 percent of the deans re-
ported Vietnam demonstrations
on their campuses last year.
34 percent reported protests over
dormitory regulations, and 29
percent over local, off-campus
Civil Right matters.
Protests over greater student
participation in campus policy-
making was reported at 27
percent of the colleges. In one
out of four colleges there were
protests about the draft and
about the presence of military
recruiters. One out of five col-
leges noted demonstrations over
governmental agency and indus-
trial recruiters on campus.
In a survey in 1965, a similar
group of deans was asked to pro-
vide the same information about
many of ths same issues. At
that time, they reported that
Civil Rights was the most fre-
quent cause for student activism.
Campus food service ranked se-
cond, and Vietnam third. Viet-
nam, then was cited by one out
of five colleges as a cause of
organized protests, compared to
almost two out of five today.
A comparison of the results
of both studies indicates that
since 1965 three particular
Issues have triggered protests
with increasing frequency. Or-
ganized discontent with dormi-
tory rules wat registered at 34
percent of the colleges, as com-
pared to 28 percent in 1965.
Student demands for a larger
role in campus governance in-
creaded from 19 to 27 percent.
This past year racial matters,
especially demands for studies
of black culture, accounted for
demonstrations in 18 percent of
he schools, Three years ago,
five percent of the deans re-
ported student activism over ra-
cial issues.
The ETS study also reports
that:
--issues relating to the cur-
riculum, quality of instruction,
class size, or faculty involve-
ment seldom sparked student
protests. Fifteen percent of the
deans reported protests over
curriculum inflexibility, 13 per-
cent over quality of instruction
3 percent over class size, and
2 percent over the limited ex-
tent of the_seniQr_.faculties in-
volved in undergraduate teach-
ing.
—there was substantial varia-
tion by size and tvoe of school
in the nature and extent of stu-
dent protests. The large univer-
sities in the survey reported
more student involvement in al-
most all issues. Protests over
Vietnam occurred at twice as
many independent universities as
at public colleges and sectarian
and career-oriented schools.
Draft protests took place at half
of the independent universities
in the survey, but at no more
than 20 percent of the Catholic,
teacher-training, and technical
institutions.
—Civil Rights activism among
white college students has de-
clined significantly..
This picture of student pro-
tests, only partly accurate in
Lucky’s
Ladies
“Come on, Bulldogs! Fight!
—and we’ll do all we can to help
you!” That’s the enthusiasm
that TLC’s new drill team,
Lucky’s Ladies, thrives on.
Though they got off to a late
start, Lucky’s Ladies have added
a new dimension to the spirit
of TLC.
At the Homecoming Pep Rally
the eight girls made their first
appearance in the form of a
pom-pom routine to “Go Twist,”
played by the band. For the last
football game of the season
against Austin college, the drill
team accentuated a military half-
time show with their hat rou-
tine to “You’re a Grand Old
Flag”.
The team’s main interest is
in promotion of school spirit.
The girls have taken on various
spirit booster projects for the
football team each week, as well
as making a point of being at
at the pep rallies and every
game. Besides the special
routines, they plan to boost the
Bulldogs on during the games with
pom-pom routines to band music
and cheers.
The next performance will be
at the second home basketball
geme on Dec. 6, for which the
drill team is working on a jazz
routine to “Wade in the Water.”
Members of the group are:
Joan Perry (co-ordinator), Paul-
ette Bockhorn, Janie Brenner,
Janet Frazier, Ann Jarvis, Me-
linda Oldfield, Caryl Tagge and
Betty Westcott.
itself (since it was compiled by
deans of students and did not in-
clude spontaneous protests), is
likely to change radically this
year.
A prediction in August by
Brandelis University’s center for:
THE Study of Violence
seems to be coming true: that
there would be more protests
than ever in both colleges and
high schools, and that large num-
bers of them
oriented in
turning out a painting: it then
loses its value as an expression
of self.
Speaking of self-expression,
Dr. Grant also said that he could
spot an insincere work of art,
even in an abstract. It is a
copy of a style or an idea not
original in the artist who pro-
duced the work.
Not only does. he have lucid
views about art. I also found
Dr. Grant to have a comment
which I consider to be of high
importance to youth today. In
essence he stated that people
should “do their own thing”, but
not that they should do some-
thing just to be different in order
to stand out, “Whatever he
does, the individual should be
natural.” So if you’re being
different just to attract attention,
forget it; if it’s not you, for-
get it. If you’re different , have
different tastes than the crowd;
if you’re for real, then “do you’re
own thing.” Better yet, be your
own thing. Dr. Grant certainly
seems to be just that.
Lucky's Ladies—(L toR) Front row: Joan Perry, Bette
Westcott, Melinda Oldfield, Caryl Tagge. Back row:
Paulette Bockhorn, Janie Brnner, Ann Jarvis, Janet
Frazier.
Find Your
Own
Thing
At...
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So iVfvmfli+uKe..
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