Show The Round Table By CHUCK About three years ago the keynote speaker at the U-Days celebration was William O. He forewarned of the great struggle between the East and the West or the Free World and the Communist The comment he made in summarizing his remark s got to do more than be against Communism to win this thing that confronts HOW And how mis Cleon thinks that by being against diploma- open de- M Depart gress he is M than just b e i n g against i s m. he is certainly against SECRETARY of State Lamont in removing the Russian flag from the Capitol is doing more than just being against Communism NOW I'M SURE that Justice Douglas had more in mind than just being against a host of other things in addition to I'm sure he meant positive programs were needed to counter the Communist And I'd like to cite some such First of the university community is most vulnerable when it neglects to its Buzz groups serve the purpose of informing but forget the final step of committing to WHILE discussion groups are essential to so is active the kind of thing I talked about three weeks To remedy this situation I think the re-activation of the Student Faculty Discussion Council would be in Professor George Adamson has been lobbying for its around offices for the last two Nothing has THE IDEA of such a council would be to program series of intercollegiate discussion groups which would meet each other in open It seems to me that the real strength of such a group would be to offer sensible exploration into various social The ultimate idea of the group would be to involve people who would take the knowledge gained into their active societal ANOTHER NEED which the or some similar group should adopt is that of a Speakers This bureau would provide listings of university professors and others who would be willing to speak to the various groups on Martha Hales' of the Alpha Chi noon-time issues series last year is example of the kind of thing a Speakers Bureau could More of this kind of programming in the social groups and service groups would enable this campus to become more an active than a passive center of To my friends in the let me say Justice Douglas was asking for good constructive and positive programs when he made the above Unfortunately he isn't here to program these things for Wo must do And we |