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Show looking Ahead ! by Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas THE MORAL POLLUTERS In a University of Michigan auditorium crowded with men and women students and faculty, ten members of the cast of the stage play "Dionysus "Diony-sus in '69" six men and four women performed naked according ac-cording to the Associated Press, during 35 minutes of the three hour play. Several hours after the performance, they were arrested for "indecent exposure". University President Presi-dent Robben Fleming said, following fol-lowing the show and the arrests, ar-rests, that " academic and professional people regarded the production as worthy of serious consideration." Nudity is difficult to describe as obscene, ob-scene, President Fleming said, and the question was "the context con-text within which nudity occurred." oc-curred." The incidents of public display dis-play of nakedness at Ann Arbor followed several similar reported incidents on college campuses some in which men and women university students were the "actors". A group of students gave such performances at the University Univer-sity of Wisconsin. The University Univer-sity of California at Berkeley and the University of Colorado at Boulder are reported to have permitted public nudity displays. Generally speaking, University authorities have taken a "permissive" attitude toward such activities. Revolutionary "Standards" After the murder of a co-ed at Iowa State University at Ames, a County Grand Jury investigated and subsequently issued a report warning the parents of ISU students and the people of Iowa generally of "moral pollution by faculty and paid speakers" at the university. uni-versity. One of the documents in the Grand Jury's report was a news clipping reporting on a big campus event a lecture lect-ure by "Dr. Albert Ellis" of the "Institute for Rational Living, New York". The lecture was sponsored by the YWCA, YMCA and the University Uni-versity Lectures Committee. Ellis urged the young men and women students to throw off the "old standards" of behavior be-havior and participate freely in sex "outside marriage". Those who didn't, he said, "need a psychotherapist". He advocated breaking down "taboos" and explicitly recommended recom-mended that after marriage the man and wife should both participate in extra-marital sex; he recommended that "the husband and wife go out separately looking for extramarital extra-marital sex." Undergraduate students and faculty crowded the university's Great Hall in Memorial Union for the lecture. Jury Report Attacked After the Grand Jury report, the University President W. Robert Parks attacked the Jury. "No amount of vague wording," he said, ", . . can cloud the fact that the main thrust of the Grand Jury report re-port is a demand for censorship. censor-ship. I need not point out", he said, "how dangerous to a free society the imposition of such controls can be far more dangerous than permitting permit-ting ideas to be heard with which we may not agree." The foregoing facts of campus cam-pus life in some Universities have been cited, and the permissiveness per-missiveness of some University Univer-sity officialdom documented, because the American people, especially the parents, need to know about the activities, the institutional attitudes, and particularly par-ticularly the forces working to expand the "moral pollution" pollu-tion" and set the stage for revolution. Not enough Americans Ameri-cans are aware of the fact that Communists are working to break down "old standards" of decency and morals as a means of creating and entrapping en-trapping an army of young revolutionaries. The proof of this is voluminous and undeniable. undeni-able. Their participation in many college outbreaks is evident to all who investigate. Strategy: Pollute Morals At a Seminar held by the Center for the Study of Democratic Demo-cratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, California, 30 campus cam-pus leaders from throughout the country discussed "Toward "To-ward a Strategy of Disruption" Disrup-tion" and other revolutionary subjects. Devereaux Kennedy, Student Body President at Washington University, St. Louis, said that one of the strategies of student revolutionaries revolu-tionaries dedicated to overthrowing over-throwing the United States was to establish University rules permitting men and women students to spend as much time as they wished together in dormitory bedrooms. "If you want to get kids interested in-terested in the other kinds of issues (Ed's note: stopping the Vietnam war on Vietcong terms, overthrowing the United States), you have to show that your interests lie with them, too. And we all realize parietal hours (restricting unlimited bedroom "dating") are a big thing on campuses because kids want to get rid of them. So let's get rid of them! But let's not stop there." Then he spoke of revolution (the kind being organized by the Communists). Com-munists). "What I mean by revolution," he said, "is overthrowing over-throwing the American government govern-ment starting up 50 Vict nams . . . black rebellions . . . giving these people guns . . . performing acts of terrorism and sabotage outside the ghetto . . ." As parents and taxpayers, the mothers and fathers of America should awaken to what is happening to youth in many American Universities today. Next column: Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles documents docu-ments the Communist agitation agita-tion of campus strife. |