Show October 2:19Q P editorial comment General Education “You cannot fasten a dollar education to a fifty-cefool the dude and the shirk come out of college pretty much boy The as they went in They dive deep in the Pierian springs as the duck dives in the pond and they come up as dry as the duck does" — So said David Starr Jordan scientist peace-activi-st and the first two-thousa- Drama in Chile rrr ‘Triumph’ reviewed by Dayne Goodwin nt nd president of Stanford University For three years now various members of the Utah State University community have engaged in a thorough study of the undergraduate experience at this university After two years of debate analysis and study the Undergraduate Assessment Committee recommended as part of its conclusions that the group-fille- r concept of the then existing general education program be scratched The committee recommended instead that a bold new plan of general education — one allowing much greater freedom of choice for the student be adopted Convinced by the logic of the committee’s arguments the Faculty Senate ratifying those recommendations one year ago last summer General Education Council chaired by Dr Farrell Edwards and consisting in membership of students faculty and administration was empowered to implement the Senate-passe- d guidelines A Collectively the council realizes the truth of Dr Jordan’s above statement They have delt with the question of education and other topics relating to it including advising at USU They know that good learning good teaching and good advising cannot be forced it can only be facilitated c ? There have been some skeptics though few in number who have said students do not want tetlearn They have said that students attend USU merely for social reasons or to get through as fast and as easily as possible in order to get a better job The General Education Council recognizes that along with those students who do care about the quality of their education there are fools dudes and shirks who “come out of college pretty much as they went in” Nonetheless the council refuses to be discouraged by such types There are concerned students at USU and they know it Therefore they continue to search for and to develop and to facilitate new and better ways to implement the new general education program at USU masses The Triumph of Allende: Chile’s Legal Revolution by Richard E Feinberg New American Library Inc 1172 271 paperback a pages Popular especially the Communist faction spends its time denouncing them as “ultra-lef- t and a threat to the revolution Allende of the Socialist Party seems to be relying more and more on the Communist Party the strongest conservative force within the Unidad Popular coalition Allende appears to be more Mentor $L25 Richard E Feinberg was a peace corps volunteer in Chile during the 1970 elections which Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular coalition won Feinberg sympathetic to Allende describes the elections the contending parties and forces and the first months of the Unidad Popular (UP) government Feinberg has written a good book It is moving from a historical sketch through the tension of the elections to a presentation of the problems confronting the “legal revolution” As a witness familiar with interested in consolidating strength of party and state well-organiz- ed Chilean socio-econom- ic literature and debate Feinberg Chile’s introduces “legal revolution” to his Anglo audience with clarity and perceptive analysis The Triumph ef Allende is affected by Feinberg’s own idealism both philosophical and emotional Much like Allende’s revolution the book is limited by respectful obeisance to the political and legal procedures and norms established by the bourgeoisie Feinberg’s optimistic -- Deuf Ande rsen editar People’s Assembly has bees con- clusions which I ‘see and raise’ do not appear to be based on an accurate estimation of the "legal revolution’s” enemies and weaknesses Allende has attacked the Conception province Socialist Party for participating in the While the right is mobilizing and provoking confrontations Peoples’ Assembly the Unidad Popular is more The period following elections with concerned restraining and in the UJS this fall and preceding even repressing spontaneous parliamentary elections in Chile next year will be full of danger actions of the left There are spontaneous actions for the "legal revolution” The because the government is not Triumph of Afieade is a valuable organizing and leading a ' tool ' for understanding' the revolutionary mobilization of the continuing drama in Chile Douglas Anderson editor Barry Willis managing editor entertainment ed: Jody Burnett opinions editor Lucy Thomas sports editor Mike Patchen senior writers: R Bruce Fleming Dayne Goodwin David Griffith Steve Snow business manager L than the working class into a workers’ democracy with both participation and control Since the publication of The Triumph f AQeade Jack Anderson has brought to our attention the machinations of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in attempting to bring the “legal revolution” before the firing squad Certainly ITT and other powerful forces continue their plots Meanwhile the Chilean masses defend the gains of the “legal revolution” and they are finding their own forms of mobilization In Concepcion province ‘a broad united front called the tnden executive editor Pam Taylor international ed: Soodhi Limthongkul the created It consists of most of the parties of the UP coalition plus many worker peasant student women's and ‘homeless people’ (unemployed) organizations Significantly the Communist Party is not part of this united front while the MJR is (MIR Revolutionary Left Movement is not part of the UP coalition) -- The council its chairman Dr Edwards and the many administrators and faculty members who are committed to seeing this program through to success are to be congratulated and thanked for their interest in us Instead the Unidad news editor Brent Barker environment ed: Bill DaVis art editor Colleen Riley staff editor Pat Berardy photo editors: Tom Caswell Tony Collis photo assist Richard Albright editorial asst Jodeane Albright Sharon Grasso Gary Iverson advertising STUDENT UPE WANTS -- (the ACROW Ij yQ(J IS AT: 752100 wt743F' |