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Show No "Hulls ol Ivy" at U. of V. the Democratic State Chairman. Not only enrolled students, but the entire citizenry of the state is invited to participate. The wisdom of such a policy in a time of political change like the present is self-evident to all except the most narrow partisan. The people of Utah are moving into a period when it will be necessary to choose a new political po-litical course, and the more ideas they can bring to the subject the better. Dr. Waldermer Read, in the philosophy department has presented pre-sented a remarkable series of public ethical discussions this year, a series that has set new religious and philosophical goals for many people. He and his public pub-lic lectures have, truly, taught a great many people to think for themselves. Perhaps the most startling jolt to complacency of all has been delivered by Dr. Obert C. Tanner, Tan-ner, who has exercised an academic aca-demic freedom dared by none of our politicians in insisting we try to understand Russia, and not merely hate her. Democracy will never be dead in Utah as long as such an institution insti-tution as the University of Uh can flourish and teach think for ourselves at all ages: By Joseph H. Weston There's none of this "halls of ivy" stuff out at the University of Utah. Its professors don't live in ivory towers. Instead, they have taken the ideal of higher learning directly to the people. And the ideas which they have disseminated among the people are acting as a yeast fermentation fermenta-tion that is lifting the entire state to new, higher levels in our social, cultural, philosophical and political life. There is not just one outstanding outstand-ing educator at the "U". There are scores of them, each of whom has become a famous man in his own particular field. They are a diverse lot, and would soon pull themselves to pieces without a strong man to hold them together. to-gether. And the U has its strong man, too, in Dr. A. Ray Olpin, who for a decade has steadily steered the U on an upward path through a maze of such conflicting interests inter-ests as political parties, religious and cultural groups, privately-owned privately-owned corporations and labor unions. Without the physical plant at the University, including the beautiful new Union Building and Orson Spencer Hall, the professors pro-fessors could not reach their public. pub-lic. Dr. Ray Olpin is the man who steadily kept to the course that brought such expansion. He has conquered many adverse circumstances cir-cumstances and is so doing has established himself firmly as one of Utah's great men. In political freedom, Dr. J. D. Williams has become outstanding, outstand-ing, with his firm conviction that the University should not avoid politics but should take a leading lead-ing part in presenting all sides of a question. As a result, the Republican State Chairman is invited to the campus for lectures and press conferences, and the next week, the same courtesy is extended to |
