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Show News Briefs Militancy Dangerous Iowa City, Iowa-IJ'.) "A university uni-versity views dissent as an accept-ible accept-ible means of bringing about change but can never accept the position that a small group can destroy both the processes and institutions in-stitutions of freedom." James Chapman, associate dean of student affairs at The University Univer-sity of Iowa, offers tills view in a recently published paper, "Student Militancy on the College Campus." "A college or university must be willing to institute reform," Dean Chapman says,"but it will not be forced to the point of accepting ac-cepting revolution as a means of change." Citing a wide rannge of opinion and hiw own experience, Dean Chapman discusses the "h-istorical "h-istorical roots" of student militancy, its causes and his suggestions sug-gestions for needed reform in higher education in general. "The problem of student militancy," mili-tancy," he states, "has its historical histor-ical roots in college students becoming be-coming directly involved in the civil rights movement in the South in the early 1960s. This idealism and enthusiasm has turned in the direction of different segments of our society and in particular to institutions in-stitutions of higher learning." Dean Chapman cites what he thinks are four major causes of student militancy: teaching is "being slighted by a majority of the faculties;" emphasis on "thedevelopment of rational processes" is neglecting "the dreams, hopes, and rights of other people;" many college administrators ad-ministrators are preoccupied "with the building of an institution insti-tution rather than the development develop-ment of individuals;" and "the typical student of today is "action oriented rather than passively involved in-volved in the discussion of ideas and issues." "We are prone to be pragmatic people," Dean Chapman says, "and look for rewards in the construction con-struction of a building or the development de-velopment of a program or the proper administration of an office which comes under our responsibility. re-sponsibility. The axiom that a great idea initiates an institution, and the institution in turn can kill the great idea, is easily overlooked by many administrators." |