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THE. HAVERFORD NEWS - THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, May 6, 1966





Alinsky States

Unethical Methods Sophs Choose Majors;

Justified If Alternatives Limited Social Sciences Gain

by Nora Clearman

Saul Alinsky, speaking at Bryn
Mawr Tuesday night, managed to
provoke some of the controversy
he is noted for.

The objectives of his organiza-
tion, the Industrial Areas Founda-
tion, are based on the American
Dream, as conceived of by the
Founding Fathers -- to make sure
that no sizeable group is denied
economic opportunity or political
power. ‘{he bbject of his group is
to organize ona mass level, organ-
ization being the basis on which
man, from earliest time, has had
the power (ability) to do those
things he has wanted to do. In
organizing a community, the group
waits to be asked, for he feels
it has no right to go into any
community and say ‘‘we’re here
to help you.’”? This is no more
acceptable in a poor ghetto than
it would be in the Main Line.

The largest issue which Mr.
Alinsky discussed was that of the
kind of tactics he uses, which is
the most controversial aspect of
his work. He said that when there
are innumerable means possible
for achieving a goal, one can af-
ford to choose the most ethical,
the most acceptable means. How-
ever, if there is a limited number
of means to achieve a goal, one
may be forced to use means that
may be considered unethical or
may even be the tactics employed
by the enemy you are fighting. How-
ever, as long as any means are
available to achieve certain aims,
it is justifiable to use those means.
He drew. an analogy with people
who during the second world war
said that we should not ‘‘stoop”’
to using the tactics that Hitler
used, while meanwhile six million
people were being incinerated. He
severely criticized such people,
whose attitude is ‘‘we like your
aims, but disapprove of your
means, so we shall have to oppose
> you.’? Another point he made was
that when he is fighting a battle,
he must at times ignore the good
that comes from the same source
he is fighting, so that he can com-
mit himself fully: to winning that
battle. While Alinsky may have ap-
peared to be saying that any means
are justified by the ends to which

they are applied, I think that what
he was trying to express is that
when a battle is to be fought and
won, means with which to fight it
may not be ‘‘nice’? because the
means of those who do not have
the power to act are very limited.
It is too intellectual and unrealis-
tic to say that it is degrading and
unethical to use the same tactics
that are used by the opposition.

While a large part of the aud-

ience seemed to agree with much °

of what Alinsky said, many were
disturbed by his discussion of
ethics. Other problems were that
Alinsky did not give an idea of
the issues which he is generally
committed to fighting, and that
he did not speak of the specific

tactics his organization uses in
mass organization. We would have
liked to have had a better idea of
just what they do,.in a real physi-
cal sense, to achieve mass or-
ganization.

Alinsky was dynamic, partly be-
cause of his manner, but also be-
cause he is able to do what he sets
out to do. I think this adds a great
deal of weight to his discussion of
means; he has shown that when he
sets out to win a fight to give a
sector of people political power, he
can win it, so that the tactics he
uses are certainly effective. Alin-
sky showed that the reasons his

tactics are so often criticized is:

because he has no other ‘‘nicer’’
alternatives.

Newsletter Will Publish |
Intuitions and Platforms

Irving’s Armchair , accord-
ing to editors Paul Breslin and
Don Dal Maso, is a new publi-
cation aimed at English students
and faculty, intended for a dis-

‘cussion of ‘‘goals and attitudes in

English studies at Haverford,’’ The
Students’ Council is supporting the
venture,

Plans for |.A. include articles
by faculty members, installments
from a round-table on specific
classroom problems, a survey of
Freshman reactions to the re-
quired English. courses, articles
on ‘the student performance,’’
‘professional needs,’’ and in-
dividual grand intuitions regarding
the form and function of the
discipline,

The newsletter will publish again
this week, One editor dismissed
initial criticism of |.A. and re-
gretted having from the critics
little fit to print, ‘‘We don’t want
or need a consensus to write about
the classroom and our place init,’’
he said, ‘‘Our motto is, Blessed
are they who raise questions, We
are asking people about an old,
lurking Haverford attitude toward
English studies as boring, in-bred
or unsubstantial. The attitude
exists and so must some reasons
for it; withl.A., we are trying





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to be realistic about something
that is vitality important to us.’’

‘<],A. may be just another stu-
dent melodrama ora real forum,”’
he continued, ‘The response de-

-termines this, Its creation points

out one major question: to what
extent do students share in form-
ing the grounds of their own in-
tellectual and emotional develop-
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Members. of the Haverford
sophomore class have chosen their
major fields. Departments which
showed the greatest gains were
English, Political Science, and
Psychology. Twenty sophomores
elected to major in History, com-
pared to last year’s twenty-six,
While none of. the present juniors
are double majors, three students
in the present sophomore class
have chosen double majors and
two, interdepartmentals.

The distribution of majors in
the three fields of interest is
roughly proportional to that of last
year, the natural sciences losing
ground slightly.

Geology, History of Art, and
Italian have their first majors in
three years, while no sophomore
chose to study Engineering.

Distribution ._ of the present
sophomore majors is as follows:
44 in the humanities, 29-1/2 in
the natural sciences, and 62-1/2
in the social sciences, The number
of majors for this and the past
two years follows:

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Majors
Department 1968 1967 1966
Archaeology 0 1 0
Astronomy 1/2* 0 1
Biology 6-1/2** 5 11
Chemistry 9 11 4
Classics 2 a 5
Economics 9-1/2* 6 5
Engineering . 0 1 1/2**
*English 18-1/2** 13 14-1/2**

Geology 1 0 0
German 1 0 1
History 20 26 21
History of Art 1 0 0
Italian 1 0 0
Mathematics 5 5 5
Music 2 3 1
Philosophy 10 ye $
Physics 7-1/2* 7 6-1/2**
Political

Science 15*** 9 13-1/2**
Psychology 11 5 5
Religion 6** d 3
Romance

Lang. 2-1/2" 1 3
Sociology 7 7 3

* Interdepartmental major
** Double major





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