The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1963 Page: 2 of 6
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PAGE 2—EDITORIALS
Villagers Pitch In
The Campus Chat
Friday, January II, 1963
Peace Corps Inspires
Do-lt-Yourself Town
If you entered the city of Zipaeon,
( olombia. you would me a new coop-
erative food store. Farther down the
r«>ad you would see a low-rent hous-
ing project and on the other side of
town a new, one-room schoolhouse.
Why is this so different from other
towns in this area ?
One year ago these facilities were
not available for the 8,500 villagers
living in a small green valley 8,700
fit t high in the Andes. At present the
people of Zipacon have running water
and some sewage facilities and a few
houses have electricity.
The physical progress being made in
and around this city can be traced to
the work of two young members of
the IVau Corps who went to Zipacon
late in 1! 61.
The aforementioned projects are but
a tVw the young men have started in
their short stay in Colombia. Freshly
cut roads wind out of the village in
three directions. Along one of these
roads is a small electric-power plant
and in the center of town an old build-
ing if being converted into a recrea-
tion hall.
Although these projects are being
spearheaded by the Peace Corps rep-
resentatives. most of the work is being
done by the adults of Zipacon. Most
of the population are farm laborers,
who earn about 5o cents a day. Until
recently thtn expected all improve-
ments. if any, to come from the gov-
ernment. They had no organization for
self-improvement in the village.
One measure of how far the civic
do-it-yourself movement has gone in
the beginning is the number of vil-
lagers who show up each weekday for
voluntary work. In recent months the
turnout had numbered almost 80 per
cent of the farm workers in the dis-
trict, working on their days off.
One of the early projects undertak-
en by the corpsmen and civic leaders
was the erection of a school. Land had
been available for a school before the
corpsmen came, but money for con-
struction couldn't be raised. The corps-
men found the villagers willing to build
the school themselves if they could
get the materials.
The Peace Corps furnished a small
hand-operated machine for making
building blocks, and the villagers
finished the school in nine weeks.
The corpsmen and villagers then set
out to build several roads leading to
and from the city. This they did with
the aid of several business concerns
and equipment from the Colombian
government.
"Roth men and women chipped in to
help build the road," one of the corps-
men commented. "They pitched in and
shoveled dirt when necessary."
Even the Communists in Bogota
have noticed the work of the Peace
Corps in Zipacon. At one meeting they
tried to start a riot, but one of the
corpsmen spoke directly to them:
"Just what have you Communists
done to help the people of Zipacon?"
The Reds had no answer.
What is all this accomplishing?
Not only is the physical appearance
of the small village being improved,
but the people themselves have a new
confidence in their ability to help
themselves. They have learned to work
together for the betterment of their
community and their own personal wel-
fare.
—Karl Prohl
House Divided?
Union's Union Causes
Strife Among Laborers
A longshoreman's strike has tied up
shipping all along the Atlantic and
Culf Coasts. The New York City news-
paper strike has to a great extent iso-
lated New Yorkers from the rest of
the world.
These are only two evidences of the
powerful influence American labor
unions have come to exert on the Uni-
ted States' economv and general wav
of life.
Harassed employers — and discom-
fited consumers — have !>egun to pro-
test violently against the ever-increas-
ing and uncheckable union activities.
But the unions stand adamant on their
right of collective bargaining and all
it entails.
But what hapi>ens when a group of
union staff members decides to orga-
nize in order to bargain with the union
itself about wages and working condi-
t ions ?
In 1969 staff members of the In-
ternational Ladies' Carment Workers'
Union (IL(IWU) formed their own
union, the Federation of Union Repre-
sentatives (FOUR). The members,
mostly business agents and organizers,
chiefly wanted higher wages.
IL(JWU leader David Dubinsky la-
Mainly Hallucinations
Student Reads With Seeinq-Eye Coeds
Just to stop and tuik to Franklin Johnson,
a majority of students would think the most
outstanding thing about him was his friend-
liness and cusuul ease with strangers.
Like other collegians, Johnson studies daily
in a Library carrel, drinks coffee in the Un-
ion Building and talks himself into studying
when the mood hasn't struck. On the sur-
face, Johnson is fairly typical of many other
adults getting a college education.
Unlike the mujority of college students.
Franklin Johnson is blind.
Johnson, u transfer student from Texas
Tech, has been blind only six years and was
able to plan ahead, mentally and physically,
for his handicap.
And blindness hasn't decreased his inter-
est in others. A psychology major, he plans
eventually to work in the counseling and re-
habilitation of blind persons who lost their
sight after their teen-age or adult years.
These people, Johnson says, need to re-
learn even simple actions like .self-feeding
and tying their shoelaces. Most ure also re-
sentful because of their incapacity and need
mental rehabilitation to become productive
members of society again.
"So many people," Johnson said, "are
afraid to mention blindness in front of a
blind person. They are usually ten times
more ill at ease than the blind are."
"This usually comes from a lack of un-
derstanding or fear of offending the person,"
he added.
Johnson, who is completing his undergrad-
uate work and beginning studies on a mas-
ter's degree, depends on the members of
Delta Gamma sorority as his "aeeing-eye
people." The girls read weekly to Franklin,
helping him get lessons, finish reports, and
do whatever needs to be done for his courses.
The helping is not always a one-sided af-
t'air. More than once Johnson has had to
guide a "lost" reader from the library maze
to the outside world. He's also a more-than-
willing sounding board for a variety of prob-
lems and dilemmas and shows a keen under-
standing of human nature.
An avid joke collector, Franklin usually
begins his reading session with his latest,
and then continues on to reading a l ook for
a course or to typing out assignments on a
Braille typewriter, which he later transcribes
for class. His tests are t ken orally.
Delta Gamma members at the Tech chap-
ter read to Johnson during his four years
there ami informed the North Texas Dlis
of his trunsfer here. Sight conservation und
aid to the blind form the sorority's national
philanthrophy.
"I think each of the girls has gained some-
thing for herself in reading to him," Melis-
sa Payne, projects chairman suid. "We've
each learned the vulue of doing something for
someone else."
News in Review
Contraband Magazine Raids
Privacy of Adenauer Regime
beied the FOUR members "traitors."
The ILCWU executive board said, "We
look upon this (an organization like
FOUR* as a violation of the tradi-
tional spirit of our union."
The board added, "We are convinced
that such an organization would be
an instrument of internal dissension
and strife, bound to undermine the
standards and welfare of the ILGWU
and its members."
The ILGWU has refused to bargain
with FOUR despite the fact that the
National Labor Relations Board con-
ducted an election in which FOUR
proved it had enough votes to organize.
The NLRB has charged ILGWU with
refusal to bargain and taken the mat-
ter to court.
The FOUR organizers, many of
whom have worked tirelessly and de-
votedly to build and maintain the jjow-
er of ILGWU since the hitter's forma-
tion. simply cannot understand the
ILGWU's bitter opposition.
Kmployers throughout the nation
can certainly understand the ILGWU's
feelings, but they probably aren't
shedding too many tears of sympathy..
—Nancy Keil
By DAVID WALVOORD
Crime may not pay but charges of
treason and bribery have paid off for
West Germany's weekly newsmaga-
zine Der Spiegel.
Two months ago the magazine's of-
fice was raided and occupied by po-
lice, and the publisher and lfi ranking
editors were arrested.
Today most of the jailed editors
have been freed to await trial, the im>-
liee have left the magazine's office, and
the magazine is back to its weekly at-
tacks on the Bonn government.
In addition, the magazine's preraid
circulation of 480,000-has climbed to
590,000. Advertising is also up.
From his jail cell, publisher Aug-
stein orders his meals from a nearby
restaurant and writes a weekly col-
umn.
The arrests won the magazine
friends, lost it some enemies and
brought many who once campaigned
vigorously against the journal to its
defense.
The recent situation has caused the
magazine little trouble in it operation.
"No sources have clammed up," says
Editor-in-Chief Claus Jacobi. "We are
still getting all the information we
want."
In contrast the affair caused a sev-
en-week cabinet crisis in the govern-
ment which led Defense Minister
Franz Josef Strauss to leave his post
and 86-year-old Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer to promise to resign from
his office next year, presumably to be
succeeded by Economics Minister Lud-
wig Erhard.
The feud with Strauss started after
the minister drove down a one-way
street the wrong way and later tried
to get the reprimanding policeman
fired.
During a recent NATO exercise the
magazine attacked Strauss indirectly
by taking a swipe at Gen. Friedrich
Foertsch. Strauss has sued the maga-
zine several times in the past without
success.
At first Strauss denied that he had
anything to do with the case. Later he
reluctantly confessed he had personal-
Woodpecker, Old Friends Flit Past
• i Molt VETETO
Have you ever had a toothbrush with a
red woodpecker on the handle that shed
bristles in your mouth every time you used
it?
Or a pair of grey
pants with a hole
in the right-hand
pocket?
Or a lavatory
with the cold water
faucet labeled
"hot"?
If you've had any
of those things, you
know what I mean
by "old friends."
You tell every-
body what a blight
they arc to your life,
but you really like
herish them.
The old friends sort of keep you alert;
they afford you a distraction.
What could be duller than having hot
water spurt out every time you turn on the
hot water tap? How easy it would be to
simply drop your change into your right-
hand pocket with your right hand. No chal-
lenge whatever.
Not only do they have their own person-
alities, but they're also dependable. They
stick with you. The Colgate, the Crest and
away. But the wood-
so do most of the
them—in fact, you c
the Ipana all squeeze
pecker remains and
bristles.
The water freezes, the pipes rust away
and the hot water heater plays out, but hot
is still cold and cold is hot.
What's more they're not anybody else's
friends the way they are yours. And a man
needs that kind of friends nowadays.
You see they just elected a new editor for
the Campus Chat Thursday, so that's why
I'm talking about old friends. 1 won't really
be leaving most of them, but it's a good
time to think about them anyway.
After you've worked on the Chat for two
years the way I have you really collect an
odd assortment of old friends.
One of the most dependable has been
eight to twelve inches of nothing. Well, blank
space then. It's the editorial or column space
that must be filled each week.
Now this is no easy task. That's why the
editorial editors have handed down from
time out of mind « loud "No," a vicious whip
and an invincible spirit.
I've tried all the dodges. Here's an exam-
ple of one that won't work: "I can't add
three inches to my editorial. What else can
I say about the economic implications of
chewing gum in Afghanistan . . . when some-
body's stolen my Newsweek. Why not add
another line to the head?"
"It's got five now," she says softly.
What can you do?
ly confirmed the order to arrest a
Spiegel editor in Spain after the Ger-
man military attache in Madrid had
refused to believe it.
On his way out of the government,
Strauss loudly proclaimed that Ade-
nauer was making him a sacrificial
lamb just to save his tottering coali-
tion.
But rather than commit political
suicide by being blamed for snuffing
out Adenauer's long political career,
he resigned.
How Now Brown?
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FRANKLIN JOHNSON, who is blind, studies his daily assignments as Delta Gamma
pledge Barbara Gartman reads to him. Sometimes he transcribes the readings onto
paper with a Braille typewriter.
Academics Fade at Semesters End;
Friends, Memories, Opinions Endure
Another old friend is deadlines. They nev-
er back up; never sneak forward; they just
stand there.
Don't get the idea they're bad. You
couldn't publish papers without them. But
they have an idiosyncrasy you've got to
watch: you must not miss appointments.
If you're supposed to meet a deadline at
2 p.m. and don't meet it until 4, then you're
in for trouble. Chances are you'll be four
hours behind making the next deadline, and
before you know it you're holding up press
runs and everybody's screaming at you.
Treat them right though and they will
keep you honest, your editor happy and your
readers contented.
When you start talking about old friends
like these, there's almost no stopping place.
You've just got to pick out something specinl
and end with it. So I'm going to leave tooth-
brushes and water faucets and go to people
friends.
The Chat suffers who have tolerated me
this fall are about the most special group
I can think of. When I overslept or refused
to pass a good headline or made a needless
change on their page, they let me think I
was right.
You will notice in the masthead on this
page that my name is on top of all the rest.
That's not because I'm above them; that's
because they're holding me up.
It's just a characteristic of old friends:
they won't let you down.
By STEVE BROWN
The end of an academic term always brings
a combination of relief, anxiety and prog-
nostication. Thus ends another semester at
Eegleland.
The remembrances
of these past four
months will linger.
Some of them will
be gay and happy,
others not so pleas-
ant.
The perspiring
days of September
regis tration, the
crisp, lighthearted
autumn hours of
fun, student fellow-
ship, classes and
study habits — all
are things that will
not be forgotten quickly
Faces will cease to be so familiar, names
will fade from memory into confused time
periods.
As I sit and wonder what tomorrow will
bring I realize that all the present and past
occurrences that leave a lasting imprint on
our brain are part of the process of matur-
ing as an individual.
So college life, to me, is more of a phase
of growing up than of making a straight-A
record on a dexigraph.
Not that I could make such a record any-
way!
While in college the student has the chance
to take a look at himself and the world out-
side him. Because in reality, the student is
in n world all his own.
Such a position is justified in that he is
not yet obligated by outside responsibilities—
except perhaps to his family. The student
can back off and see what the world is
about. While in school he will form opin-
ions, concepts and ideals that will guide him
the rest of his life.
He can decide whether he wants to be a
part of the present society, or what changes
he will attempt to make in it.
The student won't remember the detailed
content of the courses he took, but he will
recall the professors who taught them—fa-
vorably or otherwise.
Thus to me, the most valuable thing 1 de-
rive from college is not the books, the class-
es and quizzes. It is the acquaintances of
students as well as teachers, the ideas that
have been exchanged and the trials, gaiety
and purpose that one experiences with a like
group.
The academic life of a .student is impor-
tant, because it demonstrates the diligence
with which the graduated student will work
and the finesse that he will show in attack-
ing a future job or problem.
With these things in mind, it would seem
that college is an aging process, not physical
but mental—a process that is required if one
is to live successfully in this complex world.
Sometime, when there is nothing else to
do, walk through the campus and think of
the gift that is made possible through its
many facilities.
It's a great und varied life, one filled with
rich experiences and one not to be taken
lightly.
Nothing stays the same, everything
changes, and if a person has a Presbyterian
or predestination belief—it changes in the
long run for the better.
The Coffee Cup
Analytical Age Fails
To Weigh Knowledge
By CARL LEATHER WOOD
Browsing through local book stores I no-
ticed recently a series of paperbacks on the
ages of man. The past dozen centuries or
so have each gained prominence as an era
distinctive from ail the rest, such as the age
of adventure or the
ngc of reason. The
20th century, little
more than half over,
has earned recogni-
tion as the age of
analysis.
Not cherishing the
thought of maroon-
ing myself on a rea-
sonable plateau, I
will plunge into this
modern life for a
brief dog paddle,
But no attempt to
reach conclusions to
any social puzzle will be made.
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To begin, as one writer phrases it, "It is
a remarkable fact that a culture that places
relatively little value upon learning or the
intellectual life, and has little understanding
of, or sympathy for, what professors are
trying to do, nevertheless regards college-
the experience of college for young people-
as one of the greatest goods, virtually as
one of the necessities of life."
Over the holidays you may have noticed
how many people asked these questions:
"How are your grades?" "Will you get a
degree in June?" "Are you having fun?"
I appreciated the human element present
in them, but I also grew discontent with the
apparent lack of concern for a higher value
of college—knowledge. Almost nobody asked,
"What are you learning?" or. "Are your
studies interesting?"
My analytical response to this circum-
stance is: What has produced a culture which
loses sight of one of the most important
parts of a college education?
Grades measure the knowledge stored or
skill acquired but hardly determine the
worth of various courses to an individual.
He may elect to open an avenue to new ex-
periences by enrolling in a subject for which
he has little aptitude. An enriching experi-
ence and broader outlook, plus a C, for him
would prove worthwhile.
Now the degree for which so many people
show concern can lead to economic security.
But if a graduate cannot support it with an
abundance of knowledge and disciplined
thinking, he owns only a itatus symbol of
no value to society, including the people who
blindly worship it.
I contend that the majority of persons in
our society misunderstand what grades and
degrees arc and what they sometimes can
be. They have heard the cry "you have to
go to college in order to get anywhere these
days" and think the degree and the grades
guarantee success.
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Veteto, Bob. The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1963, newspaper, January 11, 1963; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth314252/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.