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BY tO,, lVlacL,EOb] ROSS
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"There's a breathless hush" in measure of conformity and I
,lnlverslties just now as the discipline which is essential if
'wanner inner vacation intervenes, and the vast majority of sincere
1K h e r e v e r you read, students is to, be enabled to
commentators are picking up the continue their studies in peace?
debris of battle and searching • for For how much longer are
li solution; For a peace. As ever taxpayers to be, coerced by
,there are the hawks and the politicians to provide elaborate
doves,or perhaps more fairly, buildings and priceless
the foolish and the wise. The equipment for so-called students
ha vks have suggested some to use solely as battlegrounds?
extraordinary measures. Some of Truly 6 those who feared the
their arguments run.like this: deterioration of warlike qualities
Ir -view of the political belief in our youth have ,had to eat
' that, every man is equally their - words. It has been
capable of absorbing education; 'demonstrated daily that we are
in view of the battle conditions Possessed of some of the finest
on so many Campuses; in view guerilla material to be found
of the number of college anywhere. Why not reinforce
presidents who have decided to , success? Why not send them' for
soldier no more" under threat higher education into the Armed
of bodily harm (in Canada the .Forces, where their warlike
casualties already number 15) ` talents can be honed.. into even
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the civilian architect, to model
t o m o'r r ow's educational
buildings? Does every university
have to have a "keep" to which
the administration and sincere
students can repair until the
siege is razed?
The president, and such loyal
supporters as he can rely on
from the faculty, are not
available in sufficient numbers
to put down what is virtually a
mutiny. ' For, as a result of
admitting large numbers of
intractable youths, the campus
mob thus formed has taken•
advantage of our credulity; our
civilised social usages and
opened the Pandora's box which
We fondly believed was closed
some centuries ago. From it they
have exhumed a strategy of.
breaking all the rules of, society,
which has been found capable of
meted out indiscriminately to finer weapons? turning enlightened society into
just and unjust presidents and to The fabric of a university was chaos.
the property of taxpayers; in , designed in the likeness of a . The appeasers say: 0 the boy
view of all these circumstances, glasshouse, the very construction is old enough to fight for .his
two questions arise: , of .. which, presupposed country, then he is old enough
The lesser one Is whether acceptance of certain rules of to assume the responsibilities of
courageous presidents, like Dr. behaviour and . deportment. It voting and of marriage. No one
S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco was never intended as a fort or a stops to realise that voting and
State, should not become series of pillboxes, deep dugouts marriage can also be undertaken
• eligible for combat pay and to or strong points. Even barbed without any semblance of social
` military decorations for their wire entanglements were responsibility. :On the other
heroic actions in exchanging fire omitted from the specification. hand, those old enough to "do
with; fire in defence of their It is, therefore, surprising that their thing," which means
campuses against the seige when a portion of the student p r a c t i s i n g u n 1 i c e n s e d
tactics of their "students"? body, suddenly unites to "throw ° irresponsibility of the grosser
The second and major Stones" that the: vulnerability of variety, can only' double as
question is whether universities the glasshouse becomes a matter useful soldiery because of. the
should not recruit and train of surprise to so many. high standard of enforced
commando 'Unit— .in return Do we have to requisition the discipline and confortnity which
embattled ' campuses to that , military engineer, rather than a 'military organization imposes.
The deduction is that Hitler
Brookside
school h
00
was not such a fool as some aver,
when he organized his rebellious
adopts . Columbian giri organization. Thus it is apposite
•
inevitable use of physical force.
Yet any normally intelligent
individual must have been
amazed ° at the sudden
mushrooming of new and ever
enlarging universities; All at the
bidding of one political dictator.
Flaying built with illconsidered
purpose, the question was bow
to populate them with bodies;,,
bodies to be collected under the -
aegis' of
he'aegis'of an ideal,•which had as its'
goal the complete elimination of
a degreeless Ontario.
This seiche, of assumedly
educateable bodies, demanded a -
second minor seiche, of faculty,
as a prerequisite. In the result
the latter , seiche never quite
caught up with the former, since
both had to be recruited at a
rate which the population could
not satisfy. Thus we became
enmeshed with large numbers of
unteachables, together with a
proportion of incapable
teachers.
What is the answer to be? Are
we for quantity or quality? What
can be done to arrest this
unseemly rush to Gadarene, ever
spurred on by our idealistic
politicos? Or do We decide to
• make "higher education"
something to he deserved, rather
than commanded?
Already some universities are
cdnsidering a system .- of
references (a return to the idea
of bonding?) before an aspirant
is accepted for adegree cpurse,
for quiteobviously, academic
prowess is,io longer an adequate
criterion for admission. Shall we
'youth into a para -military •
The Brookside Public School skimpy and seldom_ nourishing.. to say that- universal military
of Lucknow have financially There is a 12 -year-old girl living service would soon• quieten our
adopted 'Victoria Torres, a with this family because she is campus mobs. For the beast has
flaunted his mark for far too
" ""10 -year-old Colombian
through Foster , Parents
P.O. Box 65, Station
Montreal.
' girl totally alone in the world, and
Plan, long ago they befriended her and
"B," keep her as a member of the
family, so that she does not have
to be iti an orphanage. She is in
school- PLAN aid provides a
monthly cash grant of. $8.00,
clothing, supplies, special family
medical and dental care at our
clinic, and the encouragement
and . guidance of tial workers
and director. No ur own least
gift is a heart that really cares.
To Victoria it is a gift for
-today and, tomorrow: She is in
1st grade, dresses poorly, wears
wornout , shoes, has brown hair
andblue eyes. She is shy, likes
to play with the makeshift little
things she calls dolls.
The Foster Parent's
responsibility is financial, not
legal and the child grows up
within his own family. The
objective is to help the child and
family to become self-supporting
roved
im p health,
p
nutrition, and educational
opportunities.
The $17 a month (or $204 a
year) contributed by the Foster
Parent through PLAN for a
minirpum.of one year, provides a
monthly cash grant,
supplementary new clothing and
household goods . carefully
selected to meet the needs in
each area. In addition PLAN
care when called
school education
cases vocational
This child's father is • a
'cargoman, earns about $43.50 a
month. The mother is heeded at-
home to care for the small
children of the family.- Both can
read and write, but have little
more education than this. Both
want not . only a basic living for
their children, but also the
chance for them to
.be
sufficiently • educated to escape
this long heritage of poverty and
near -despair. The children are
Victoria, Eliecer, Daniel,
Yolanda, Clenientina, 11, 10, 5,
4, respectively. Victoria and the
elder boys are in grade school,
and PLAN aid for her helps with
their school supplies and books,
and clothing and -so on, as well,
and brings new life and hope to
a whole, struggling family. The
mother has an ulcer. , •
They live in the slums of
Bogota. There they have a little
shack, that is unfinished. They
have one room about 13' square.
Walls are brick, floor concrete,
or rough wood in part, and the,
roof is concrete, all materials
being extremely . shabby and
cheap. Furnishings • are - also
shabby, shoddy, and consist of a
double bed, 2 single beds, cradle,
wooden wardrobe, 2 night
tables, shelves, and small
suitcase. The kitchen is separate
ands' has coal stove and a few
utensils in it. There is also a
2btrrner gasoline burner, and
they have 2 small tables, bench.
There is an outside latrine, and a
kind of makeshift concrete
washing place with a can to hold
water. Such as it is, this shack is
their own. Light, water, soap,
gasoline all cost $3.00 • a month
and' they are spending about
$6.00 in,, tuition fees. Meals are
Walter Safety says,
"Keep air -inflated toys
out of the water. Play
with therm on the beach
whet() they•belong."
offers nledical
for, primary
and in some
training.
long. He • has almost established
his right to arson, pillage and
rape. He has opposed
reasonableness • with physical
violence and pro1erty
destruction
Some hoards and senates have
huddled, only to . emerge with
the distribution of some crumbs
of appeasement, which served
only to encourage' increasingly
irresponsible "demands." In too
many cases members • of the
faculty gloried in their role as
Trojan horses,,,identifying with,
organizing and encouraging the
mobs. .
It can be argued that these
campus rebellions arose for no
valid cause. Certainly' there was-
no reason to suspect mass
intimidation, followed by the
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apply the Baine, kind of sieve to
those who apply to teach, before
we set them loose to debauch •
our youth? Will this unseemly
outburst' of- irresponsible. youth
perhapsrevive the strength of
our convictions and enable' us
once. more to • differentiate
between what civilised society
holds to be right, without
waffling into some grey area of
ill-considered appeasement?
Perhaps it is not too much to
hope that some day the so-called
higher education will be
denationalised or
deprovincialised, for what have,
our political dictators done
which sets them apart as lights in
our .darkness, and overlords of
how much of the provincial
purse •shall ` be squandered on
campus mobs. Thus with a
return to • a more balanced
outlook, a revision of the
priorities,we might be able to
dispense with campus
commandoes; combat pay 'for
presidents and the rebuilding of
our hoardes of universities in the
form of Norman castles,
complete with moat,
drawbridge, battlements, keep,
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