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Show v , . ." . .' v' : . . T - " ' - '"' l.'l - , rcellor Gives Insights of Campus Siihr,,lt,,r,. s Bd Soys reeks seoytrs ' ' W " 1 . Vv i i ili;:. : ? ...' 5 . J r 1 By Joan Letson Staff Writer "Student-watching has recently become a national na-tional pass-time," said William B. Boyd vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California at Berkeley. Boyd, who opened the first phase of the National Na-tional Issues program, "College Student Circa '67" with a discussion-lecture on "Dissent in the multi-versity," categorized students in campus subcultures when he said, "Presumptiousness is in good supply in academic communities." Boyd classes students into seven categories: Greek culture, professional culture, intellectual culture, apathetic culture, constructionist culture, cul-ture, hippy crowd, and political activists. Greek Dinosaurs First he sees the "dinosaur" Greek culture, a campus subculture which has failed to adapt to changing times. "The Greeks are more involved, in-volved, with assessment than with brotherhood," he said. Boyd said, "It is hard sometimes to draw a line between the professional and intellectual groups on campus because both groups identify themselves with the university." Professional groups are more future oriented and use the university as a means to an end while intellectual intellec-tual groups are oriented to availability of knowledge knowl-edge and understanding at a university and use the university as a means unto itself. He said, the Intellectual group is probably the best measure meas-ure of quality of a campus. 'Murcky' Motivation Boyd said, "The apathetic culture has murcky motivation." It is concerned about the' number of units acquired for graduations and area requirements. "The constructionists are critical of society but choose to live in society," he said. "The constructionists are the Peace Corps and Vista types who divert their energies to off campus activities." "The Hippy culture, called Bohemian or Beatnik by parents, is pessimistic, non-conformist and alien to society and parents," Boyd said. "The Hippys find their authenticity in inner experiences," ex-periences," according to Boyd. Members of the political activist group, the group given the most consideration by Boyd, is not monolithic. He said, "The political activist as an individual is not what is considered fallout fall-out from Dr. Spock. The actvist as in individual is not involved in a sharp rebellion with his parents, or the 'loco-partentis,' college administrators." adminis-trators." Surveys taken at the Berkeley campus show that the political activist comes from an advantageous ad-vantageous family, one with high income, security, secur-ity, status in the community, and the parents are generally liberal politically. Boyd defines the new left not as being definitely defin-itely communist or Marxist in their attitudes, but as a group operating on an eclectic ideology based on moral indignation, and moral outrage. He said, they tend to polarize issues on moral principles. "New Left" Boyd said, "The political activist, 'the new left' are a well intentioned people operating on different assumptions than the liberals of the last generation." He said that most of the college col-lege administrators belong to the liberal group. He said, "There is a basic and fundamental difference between the concepts of the new left and the old university liberals." The old liberals liber-als see the university as a place of dissemination dissemina-tion of knowledge and the new left sees the university uni-versity as a place of dissemination of change. Boyd said, the new left's tactics of confrontation confron-tation worry and make the old liberals suspicious suspi-cious of political change. Confrontation .dramatizes .drama-tizes the offense and applies cohersive force to the liberals. He said, "The new left sees the old liberals as their enemy." A Welcome Change "The new left movement was at first a welcome wel-come change from the apathy of the 1950's, but the effort to assimulate the movement has now (Continued on Page 3) K" vvilliam B. Boyd chancellor for student affairs at Berkeley iloydSays Greeks Are Dinosaurs day, on "In Defense of Student Protest." "College Student Circa '67" is a three phase lecture-discussion program which ends with student body elections this spring. The first phase of the program emphasizes student-to-administration relationships, according ac-cording to Kent Calder, Forum Chairman. Phase II will explore student-to-student relationship and Phase III the candidate-to-student relationship. l fc. fjlinued from Page 1) .ttipfiyto e&emes oi stu' 'jrjfer'hesaid. iof trend now is toward f'JCstodent control because fe;'-5 are more numerous first students and ad-1fration ad-1fration must identify the 1 1 . There students are com-Boyd com-Boyd said. "Student J1:! forces students to ac-.,! ac-.,! responsibility for their ac- mvn& phase of student con-1 con-1 Mi for legiraacy of the - Jim, he said. "The revo- :;hould be directed against :tiilty and the quality of yj :Sm they offer," he said. 7T MCtoiculum Reform L.d said the real test renais-f' renais-f' -ol American education is W ".students begin a curricu-lf curricu-lf reformation." ;: John Hadsell, protestant Q ' lor the Berkeley cam-- cam-- present a noon lecture ynion Ballroom, Thurs- |