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Wednesday, December 7, 1960



Some Local Respunsibilities

Last week the United States Military Academy at West
Point held its twelfth annual Student Conference on United
States Affairs, for the purpose of examining national secur-
ity policy and providing students with an appreciation of the
complexities of policy formulation. Although it is the happy
prerogative and general practice of students to judge policy
makers and censure them for lack of foresight, boldness, and
imagination, nonetheless, this conference produced not the
usual gay round of verbal assault on Senate and State De-
partment, but amazingly enough, the complete reverse. While
allowing student delegates opportunity for critical examina-
_ tion of government procedures, it at the same time pointed
up, indirectly but dramatically, three distinct areas of for-
eign policy formulation in which they as students have a re-

sponsibility distinct from and surpassing that of the gad-fly. |'

The few hours of playing policy-maker and working
within the narrow limitations imposed by his power to exe-
cute, demonstrated as little else could just how essential it is
that students meet the first of these academic responsibilities.
While the professional policy maker must discard what may
be potentially good ideas because of difficulties involved in
their implementation, the student, in spite of or because of
nis lack of freedom to execute is free to transcend the limits
placed by expediency on the practicing politician and expand
beyond the bounds of the obvious. A sufficient number of
ideas (by definition of the term sufficient) will inevitably lead
to the translation of some into action; while the policy maker
tussles with the implementation and evaluation of existing
schemes, it is the responsibility of the student to keep up a
steady supply of new ones.

The second area of academic responsibility, one for which
the student qua student is even more directly answerable, is
the grand-scale study and analysis of social and political
situations in the United States and abroad. Though certain-
ly not a new demand, it was brought forth with a shocking
clarity in both the discussion sessions, where the number of
unknowns in any given problem became painfully apparent,
and in the closing address delivered by the Honorable Dean

Rusk at the final banquet. This responsibility for providing
policy makers with what they need to know of the values, |

mores, and institutions of newly emerging and underdevelop-
ed nations particularly, and for thinking through the com-
mon human denominators upon which a viable world com-
munity can be based, was stressed by Mr. Rusk, now Presi-
dent of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Finally, the three days of grappling with the issues and
nearing the experts was enough to make crystal clear what
everyone knows but few realize; that is, that the people in
the next few years who must teach in the schools, work in
the hospitals, and build the bridges in underdeveloped areas
throughout the world are not a distant and mysterious set
of the dedicated, but rather, we ourselves. The policies, pro-
grams, and ideas that must be put into play to meet the Com-
munist challenge in emerging nations are completely in our
hands. Our own preparation for facing up to and handling
this awesome task is then, the third and possibly the most
important of these academic responsibilities.



In spite of rumors to the contray, there is no sign of
a flu epedemic anywhere in the world at this time. How-
ever, for those who would still like immunization, the in-
firmary will offer ‘the innoculation at regular dispensary
hours. The price for a booster is $1.00, but there is no ad-

ditional charge for those needing two shots, the hardy



souls who survived last winter without one.







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Students Discuss —
Africa’s Situation,
Wish For Freedom

“It is impossible to understand
Africa today without knowing
what has made it that way”, said
Wamere Mwangi, BMC sophomore
from Kenya, at the’ Current Events
discussion Monday night. By
sketching briefly the original Euro-
pean trade routes around Africa,
Wamere gave the patterns of col-
onization, from which the twenti-
eth century is feeling so many re-
percussions.

The partitioning of Africa, de-
cided by a British convention in
the late nineteenth century, de-
pended upon the nationality of the
original white settlers. The re-
sulting partitions gave way to the
protectorates and territories which
the Africans are so desperately
anxious to abolish. The white set-
tlers changed the existing tribal
cultures by introducing Christian-
ity, European languages, educa-
tion, fashion. ‘Worst of all,” said
Wamere, “they took our land, And
if the Africans didn’t have land,

what did they have?”

A growing desire for the land,
and for freedom from European
government, has resulted in what
Wamere terms “the time to say
no”, Everyone in Africa today is
talking politics; all are burning
with national pride. As Wamere
said, “We are troubled and strug-
gling”’.

Jan Douglass, ’61, talked about
West Africa, which she visited
this summer as part of the Cross-
roads Africa program.

has brought many new advantages
and problems. Education, public
works, the cities and the status of
women have improved consider-
ably, but Jan noted that many .old-

er Africans fear their cultural
heritage is being submerged. Many
young people, Jan said, are break-
ing with their families and going
to the cities to work, as the new
movements accent the differences
between the generations,

Many of the American mission-
aries, tourists, and in some in-
stances the government officials,
have made grave mistakes in
Africa. Jan quoted a missionary
who was heard saying, “I didn’t
come here to love these ‘people,
but to preach the gospel.” Also,
African papers carry news stories
about America which we think
don’t get beyond our borders. This
is especially true of instances of
discrimination, as the African
identifies with the American Neg-
ro. “However”, Jan said, “there
is not really an anti-white feeling
in West Africa”. Though we are
closely linked with colonialism,
which may prove very harmful in
our dealings with Africa, we have
participated in some of the pro-
grams which are providing Africa
with the assistance she needs, The
teacher and student exchanges are
particularly good, as is the’ tech-
nical aid. 0

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Conference at West Point.
|Surveys National Security

by Marion Coen

Over two-hundred students con-
verged at West Point last week to
exchange ideas on American se-
curity, to sample the complica-
tions of actual policy formulation,
and to hear some advice and en-
couragement from the experts.
For three days 82 college delegates
(Hanna Woods and I among them)
wrestled with the problems facing
the United States in the ’60’s and
tried their hands at formulating
some ‘bold new policies’ to meet
them. ws

Opening the 12th annual Stud-
ent Conference for United States
Affairs, keynote speaker Nelson
A. Rockefeller suggested ‘as the
general goal of all United States
foreign policy the establishment
of “a viable world order in which
individual freedom and the dignity
of man can be advanced”. A panel
discussion later that evening about
the central problems facing policy
makers was considerably more
specific. General Courtland Schuy-
ler, executive assistant to Rocke-
feller and one-time second man on
NATO discussed the problems of
the Western alliance; Dr. Leo
Cherne, Executive Director of the
Institute of America spoke on’ aid
to underdeveloped nations and
arms control; and Mr. Charles
(Marshall of the Washington Cen-
ter of Foreign Policy Research,
talked on the Communist challenge
in emerging nations.

In speaking of NATO, General
Schuyler urged student policy mak-
ers to take a sufficiently wide view

chological effect on Western Eur-
ope of visible military strength
and described the current power: as
‘formidable — though not what
we'd like to have’,

Dr. Cherne ,on factors affecting
aid to underdeveloped areas, noted
that the current dollar deficit will
indubitably affect our aid to un-
derdeveloped nations while the de-
cidedly unnecessary investment in
developed Western Europe goes
unchecked.

He startled the audience with an
unabashed criticism of the UN
which has, he feels, been funda-
mentally and permanently altered
in the last 90 days, because of the
deep and corrosive effect of the
Soviets on the Secretariat. “They
may not have succeeded in giving
it three heads,” he said, “but they

certainly cut off the one it had.”|

Mr. Charles Marshall pointed out
and discussed the paradox involve
ed when new states whose insti-
tutions have not yet reached poli-
tical maturity, clothe themselves
in the morality of a questionable
neutralism and act as judges in
cold-war competitions.

The next day conferees met in
15-man discussion growps to hash
out some of these same problems.
Armed with gleanings from an in-
terminable reading list provided
by West Point earlier in the sem-
ester, discussants met for a total

of five hours formally, and double

'that on shuttle ~buses—andover__ Es

coffee, to try to accurately define
the difficulties,

Thursday night’s panel of ex-
perts dealt with the somewhat
more knotty problems of actual po-

resentatives of the executive and
legislative branches of government
and a member of the press.

General A, J. Goodpastor, staff
secretary to President. Eisenhower,
emphasized the tremendous area
of presidential responsibilty and
called for cooperation’ in~ helping
to meet it. Mr. J. K. Mansfield,
staff director of a senate sub-com-
mittee defended the Congress as
vastly underrated by the American
public. He cited “the awesomely
high percentage"of Phi Beta Kapi-
pas among them and suggested
the lack of time, information, and
technical knowledge as a factor
influencing and complicating their
work. :

Speaking for the press and pub-
lic opinion, Newsweek’s Ernest
Lindley challenged these decided-
.y sympathetic portrayals of the
legislative and executive branches
commenting that while some Con-
gressmen were, no doubt, superior,
the_election of most is hard to ex-
plain. Of public opinion, he~said
that while the American people
have generally needed crises to
keep them aroused each period of
national relaxatiom has been con-
siderably less protracted than the
one which preceded: it,

Lindley’s cynicism regarding ex-
ecutive and legislative prowess in

| policy~making—was—echoed pretty

consistently by student delegates

during the first hours of the con-
ference. Nonetheless, the result
of the next day’s discussion ses-
sions on policy making gave a
real insight into the complexity of
problems involved, Generally, stu-
dents discovered creativity and
initiative in policy-making easier
talked about than achieved; dis-
cussion revolved mainly about
evaluation of old ideas, and when
new ones came up they were often

‘by the State Department or aca-
demic expert assigmed to the pan-
el,

This discovery on the part of the
student delegates and the conclu-
sion that follows from it, that
some hard thinking must be done
in the area of foreign affairs be-
fore ‘boldness and orginiality’ in
policy making will be feasible, was
emphasized in the closing address
of the conference by the Honor-
able Dean Rusk, President of the
Rockefeller Foundation. He urged
that the social science depart-
ments in universities rise to their
responsibilities in meeting the
meeting the problems of the day.
The common bonds which unite all
men must be discovered and defin-
ed before a world community can
be built upon them, and this he



of our academic responsibility.



“In and Around Philadelphia

PLAYS

Show Girl, a new musical starring Carol Channing, opens at the Locust

Theater on December 12 for a

one-week stay.

The World of Susie Wong continues this week at the Forrest, ~

My Fair Lady opened this week at the Shubert. a

Born Yesterday will be presented by the Neighborhood Players at the
22nd and (Walnut Theater for five weekends from December 10: to

January 8.

MUSIC

\

Shanty Boys, recording artists from New York, will appear in an eve-
ning of folk music at the Moorestown Community House on Sat-
urday evening, December 17, at 8:30.

Kenneth §S.. Goldstein, folklorist, ballad scholar, and anthropologist,
will present tape recordings of living tradition in Scotland which
he made while on a Fulbright there. The program will take place
at the International House on Sunday, December 11 at 8:15.

licy formation. Speaking were rep- :

eliminated by a flaw pointed out .

called one of the central aspects:





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1 Renaissance is the title of an illustrated Sashes

by Colin. Eisler, Assistant Professor, New York University Insti-
tute of Fine Arts, to be given in the Van Pelt Auditorium at 2 p.m.
Sunday, December 11. Next week’s lecture in this series, What
do we mean by Renaissance Art? will be given by Charles Mitchell

___ of the Bryn Mawr History of Art Department. 0

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