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Show r Looking" iPLL Dr. George S. Benson NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM HIGHER EDUCATION IN SHAMBLES Every mother and father of school or college-age children should have access to a report just issued (for strictly limited distribution) by the Fire and Police Research Association of Los Angles. It shows the true nature of some of the people causing the turmoil throughout our country. It is the most shocking document I have ever seen. The facts in it would be unbelievable if they were not so thoroughly documented. Some of the photographs display dis-play obscenities and blasphemy blas-phemy so gross and repulsive they could never be erased from the mind's eye of the viewer. The 38-page report dramatizes one of the most sordid periods in the history of public education: the present moment in the United States. The Research Association which gathered the facts and, photographs and published the report deserves the everlasting everlast-ing gratitude of every sober-minded sober-minded American. The title of the report: "Public Higher Education in California: Some Causes of Student Revolt." The Association, in a preface, says: "The reader is warned that he will encounter photographs photo-graphs and descriptions of events which go far beyond the bounds of normal decency. The materials have been included in-cluded because in no other way can their full effect be presented." Communist Successes The report gives details of many "student demonstrations" demonstra-tions" on California campuses that led to, finally, police actions which invariably were censored by many members of the academic community, prominent members of the press, and famous public figures. One, on the University of California campus at Berkeley, Berke-ley, is typical. The photographs photo-graphs and descriptions show "the black flag of anarchy and the red flag of Communism fly side by side with the banner of the Viet Cong." The report continues: "Chanting young people barricade bar-ricade the streets, some wav- ing copies of 'Thoughts of Chairman Mao' (Boss of Red China). One group sings the Internationale (Communist rallying ral-lying song), while another shouts slogans of doom to capitalist imperialism. A bearded agitator urges the crowd on while another entertains enter-tains with poems exalting sexual sex-ual perversion." The ugly mob is demanding of the University something its leaders know will be rejected. They then force themselves into a "confrontation." "confronta-tion." Violence breaks out, the police are called in, buildings are set fire, bloody battles ensue. Obscenity Unlimited On the campus of Long Beach State College, the Students Stu-dents for a Democratic Society (SDS) whose most prominent leaders have described themselves them-selves as "revolutionary communists," com-munists," organized a violent protest "demonstration," disrupting dis-rupting the operation of the college, because a statuary group of sculptures made by Wililam Spater, a graduating fine arts student, were removed re-moved from the west lawn of the campus where the figures were being displayed. Presi-dnt Presi-dnt Carl Mcintosh ordered their display discontinued after Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke had heard about them and telephoned tele-phoned him. Later in the eventful day, the College's Academic Senate (faculty body) voted 27 to. 17 to censure Chancellor Dumke for his action. ac-tion. Then the SDS began its disruptive "demonstration." The Long Beach State College Col-lege campus newspaper, "Forty Niner," carried this editorial comment: "A person would have to get his hot, narrow little mind working feverishly to see something obscene in the Spater sculpture. sculp-ture. (Signed) Craig Hendricks, Hen-dricks, Managing Editor." Mr. Spater was awarded the degree of Master of Arts for the statuary. stat-uary. "The Last Supper" The Research Association report re-port publishes three photographs photo-graphs of the statuary. The figures of the men and women are naked and most of them in acts of sexual perversion. They are revolting, repulsive, unbelievably obscene. Another incident on the LBSC campus described in the report was a play staged in the Lecture Hall by a "creative "crea-tive literature" class. The audience numbered 200 persons students, faculty, and a few outsiders. "As protrayed at Long Beach State," said the report, " 'The Last Supper' consisted of homosexual advances ad-vances made by Jesus Christ to His disciples, with Jesus finally departing the scene with Judas Iscariot. In the finale of this play, chickens were decapitated and thrown (bleeding) among the audience." aud-ience." Dr. Peter Carr, Chairman Chair-man of the Department of Comparative Literature, said: "(The performing students) are adults, which means they are responsible for their actions; ac-tions; they do not need to consult me." He said the class was "one of the most successful success-ful teaching situations I have ever had." Next week: More on the Association As-sociation report. Loyola's Dental School was the frist to purchase closed-circuit closed-circuit television for use in classroom teaching. |