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Show 'Challenge7 Announces Program Theobald, Ginsberg Set lenge Week include Sidney Bijou, Patrick Healy, Abel Lajtha, Donald Eller, Banita Washington, Ian Mc-Harg, Mc-Harg, Ansel Adams, Paul Erlich, Rev. John P. Leary and Dr. James A. Moss. By JANET HEMMING Chronicle Staff Writer Challenge 1968 has bypassed the current presidential race and the war in Vietnam to focus on the domestic social problems facing Americans in this country. Speakers Speak-ers will be brought to the campus April 1 to 6 to talk around the theme "Man Against Himself." The Challenge Steering Committee Commit-tee has succeeded in attracting over fifteen speakers which included in-cluded Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of Labor ; poet Allen Ginsberg, Gins-berg, Julian Bond, founder of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) and currently a member of the Georgia House of Representatives; and Robert Theobald, Theo-bald, a prominent British socio-economist socio-economist who has earned degrees from Cambridge and Harvard. "We want to present a program stimulating to the student beyond the textbook," said Assistant Chairman Chair-man Lynn DeBry, "and we want students to see different aspects of their environment not necessarily allied with their major." Malin Moench, a member of Challenge steering Committee summed sum-med up the idea behind the theme. "Man's fate used to be determined by outside circumstances. Now it is in his own hands and he is handling hand-ling it badly." Speaker Robert Theobald is scheduled to keynote the week and set the tone for the conference. Theobald will center his remarks around the idea that "man has indeed in-deed been set against himself because be-cause of the fact that our present institutions and myths force us to act in ways which we would not normally accept." Committee members decided not to build the week around our for-ign for-ign policy in Vietnam. The alternatives alterna-tives left to Americans are to either join the army and fight or protest through demonstration. By focusing focus-ing on current domestic issues, the Challenge committee feels we can learn of ways as an individual to actually effect change instead of just talk about it. "The speakers attending Challenge Chal-lenge are coming not only as representatives rep-resentatives of their individual professions but as individuals concerned con-cerned about what's happening to society and man," said Chairman John Kirkham. Robert Theobald, a British citizen born in India, has been the author of six books including "The Rich and the Poor" and "The Challenge of Abundance" as well as over 60 articles which have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers news-papers in this country and overseas. Julian Bond has been an active leader in SNCC since its conception eight years ago, and after being refused his elected seat twice in the Georgia House of Representatives Representa-tives took the oath of office in January, Jan-uary, 1967. Other speakers attending Chal- |
