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Show Pay for voters Editor: The LDSSA sororities offered a cash prize to the chapter with the highest percentage of members voting in ASUU elections. As members of LDSSA, we are concerned that the results of the primary elections did not reflect the feelings of the university at large. We encourage all students even if unpaid to show concern for their university by voting in the final elections, so that the elections will reflect their college interests and goals. Robert ). Grow Bob Curtis Barbara Croft Ronald D. Mitchell Neil S. Nelson Robyn Head Tom Kroescher Leonard McCee Louise Fowler Stereotypes Editor: The following passage is an example of today's fashionable and accepted way of presenting racism at the university level. Speculations about this question were brought to a head when an article bv Arthur R. Jensen titled "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?" appeared in the Winter, 1969, issue of the Harvard Educational Educa-tional Review, lensen started out by summarizing the results re-sults of studies on compensatory compensa-tory education and comes to the conclusion that Head Start and similar programs have failed bring about permanent per-manent improvement in general gen-eral learning ability. He questions ques-tions the basic premise behind be-hind the programs that differences dif-ferences in IQ are due primarily pri-marily to environmental influencesand in-fluencesand provides evidence evi-dence to support the opposite oppo-site point of view, i.e., that genetic factors are much more important than environmental envi-ronmental ones in producing differences in intelligence. Jensen argues that extreme environmental deprivation can keep a child from performing per-forming up to his genetic potential, po-tential, but an enriched educational edu-cational program cannot push a child above that potential. po-tential. . . . there is a genetic factor -.. which makes it relatively difficult for Negroes to respond to cognitive approaches ap-proaches to learning. ... it is suggested that certain teaching advantages may stem from tentative and cautious cau-tious endorsement of Jensen's genetic potential hypothesis, i e , that the intelligence of. a child is established, within limits, by genetic factors. These statements are from Psychology Applied to Teaching, by Robert Biehler and is used in the only two sections of Ed. Psych. 502. When Arthur Jensen's, "study" came out in 1969 it was the first such theory attempting to prove the genetic inferiority of blacks since similar theories were peddled by Southern professors 100 years ago. lensen's article was bad enough, but what is significant is the popularization and widespread dissemination of his theories. First, his article appeared in summarized form in newspapers coast to coast, newsweeklies, and several journals read by elementary elemen-tary and secondary teachers all over the country. Now he is gaining gain-ing a following among other "scholars" who are rewriting his theories in easier-to-understand language and incorporating them in a whole raft of new sociology and pyschology books used in thousands of undergraduate classes nationwide. Biehler's book is just one example. It doesn't stop there students take these ideas with them when they become teachers. The publication of Jensen's article prompted a series of replies in the Harvard Educational Review criticizing his methodology, his sample, his use of IQ tests, his conclusions, etc. Jensen's theories by then were reduced to no more than racist lies. However, all the popularized version overlooked these criticisms or if they did mention them it was only by way ot referring to the critics' names and then back to expounding the importance of Jensen's newly-founded newly-founded "truths." The "Kerner Report" of a few years ago blamed America's racial problems on the racism of the American people. True, all of us hold many racist ideas and fears, but where did they come from? We're certainly not born with them. When we were growing up we watched T.V. and every week saw how the "stupid" "Amos and Andy" and other such black characters were always being taken. Our school books (elementary through college) portrayed slaves as basically well-treated and happy with their lot (both of these have been proven to be myths perpetuated by Southern"scholars"). By giving us this distorted image it planted the seed in our minds that blacks must be different than whites "because whites would never stand to be treated like cattle, but since blacks did, they must be less sensitive, less human, etc." Reinforcing our education, newspapers and T.V. continually tell us black workers are "lazy and don't want to work, are welfare chiselers, sexually promiscuous, and are out to get whitey." Over the years these all add up to the racism that exists in us all. We didn't put it there, the eta J people who produce TV prog' and movies and publish seta books, newspapers, magazine etc. did! Biehler's book is simpl , the more sophisticated dose get at college; when we at this or another book, we're tacking the whole racist w . elation we've been brought' . American people are living . many problems-P : decreasing quality ol irrelevant and meaning , classes and jobs, detew . cities, wars no one wants pensive and poor housing , flation, growing unempl" etc. These problems atW us every day BUT ESPECJAU f AFFECT MINORITIES. , While most of this is due ' ruling class of big busing 1 high-ranking military per bankers, and polite j make their billions in J we're helpless to do about it as long as they J ; us d.vided and wea ( against white, young , men against women , against worker, etcj. " it divisions, the raca M , their most import , ; cessful tool and .s 1", forcefully attacked. This attack is ) over the country. J black and white w . came their racist , ,0ge.her shut down' . - (continued'" n so I asked him. "Do you not think that security clearances and investigations threaten the 'right of privacy' in the world today?" I asked. And Calame answered: "Well, I have nothing to hide. Why should anyone else?" I guess he really thought I believed what he told me. But, in truth, it was a little too much for me to take. I, Stegger, the cub reporter, though I had never done anything wrong (really) would not Page Three like some Fed prying into my personal affairs. (And reading back a few weeks, neither did Daniel Schorr.) Calame finished his "indoctrination." "in-doctrination." And our group walked out the door. Some plaques hung on the wall which read: "Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity." "F B I ," I repeated. But any thought of being a special agent had receded too far from my mind. And then I thought back over that last requirement... "No two fingerprints are the e: ,one f the agents was explaining to our crowd. Seems I had heard it somewhere, someplace, sometime before. "Why should they want to exhaustively investigate my life?" queried. Calame had just got through explaining to us that the ,?' took PeP'e of all faiths and ; divergent views (unless you're a . woman). But it seemed a little hard to believe. Our tour guide, )im , S ewart, had been telling us all . along that the Bureau was looking tor the communists. Now, isn't "communism" a divergent 'view? "The FBI most likely does have a tew Democrats," I theorized Possibly, that is what is meant by divergent views." A second glance into the next room revealed a huge filing system which contained the fingerprints and record cards of known radicals, felons and voluntary citizens. "Am I in that file?" I wondered. But it seemed useless to ponder such a situation. "I'm a good, upstanding, All-American All-American kid," I thought, "no one would want to investigate me." After all, there is some right of privacy, isn't there? I didn't know LETTERS TO 1HE EDITOR never met. Know Him, study Him and learn of Him. At least deny the real Christ, not a caricature. Or accept Him and know the truth of His promises in your own life. )ohn A. Codwell Robert E. Stephenson Creg Giles Jon R. Kastella I I'oni page 2) system and walked out of CM. I and Chrysler plants in protest of 1 I intolerable working conditions. ' Sacism is being attacked by i thousands of students and faculty jt Harvard, Tufts, Columbia, I Serkeley, S.F. State, U of Iowa, j ! Hmii, and many, many other schools demanding the removal . st racist professors like Jensen. ' i Ad Hoc Committee Against "f i i Racist Education Jty it... Editor: Using a poor preacher in luesday's 'Once upon a park snch' was unjust to the content sithe column. To show the end J' a 'way of life' it exemplifies ' Christians as indigent, ignorant ' ad defeated. On what grounds to you malign the power of esus fet? Have you really studied claims of Christ and do you ' filly know His promises? Just "wbe, you're dealing with a way alife which is the very beginning ' : life itself. , tiepovver that Christ gives today . ' e power to change men, "( 'Ming strong men of weak men, j ,ld "eating complete people of f :Wen parts left when all else j hen th's power of Christ is f d' 'hen surgery on the Problems is lacking a W Actually the only scalpel-V. scalpel-V. the truth and the life. ; best way, or even one of ,U but the only way. j .ution will ever create a i ' ;ocietV until a better in- found to man that i 2 US Christ' Cod and dethat man Possible , a ,ChStt0HimSelf-aman , e of having His abundant ., iewho ill receive Him. i '"IOni.shaPPeninghereat :Ve-tY. of Utah. Men olu,'n Ch,r,st need the nnarV love He offers, and - out for the gift He ,f!0Vnow that8 Cod. I , hu.chlng hearts and is I i ,e i hrist'o be the answer. bfiPI solution is started, 1 45" nW' and h 'he I j cirer of christ ' I denV this Person you've Don't like us Editor: During the past few days a leaflet has been circulated among the students suggesting that political activism and a bad press have not damaged the rapport between the University and the downtown community. As evidence of this the leaflet states that the Alumni Association has had a 400 increase in funds donated over the past two years. The above statement is only a half-truth. It infers that alumni are over-anxious to give money to our school. Nothing could be further from the truth. True, there has been an increase in donations to the Alumni Fund; this is due to the expansion of facilities (more phones, mailings and an extended time period to raise money) than in previous years. Also the appointment ap-pointment of a chairman to head up the Alumni Fund has contributed con-tributed to make this a good year to raise money. A far better barometer to measure our rapport with the community is to look at the budget cuts from the legislature. Do these substantial sub-stantial decreases in monies to fund the University suggest that the law-makers are thrilled at the direction the University is taking? Does it suggest they repose confidence in our abilities as students to use their money in a credible way? I suggest the answers an-swers to these questions are negative. Further, these problems have been discussed at the Alumni Association board meetings. Problems regarding a bad press in particular. From my point of view as a member of the Alumni Board, tjur rapport with the downtown aeople in the past has been much, nuch better. William Pingree Senior Class President |