1986_03 The Daily Collegian March 1986

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Page 4   The Daily Collegian
OPINION    March 12, 1986
Series on Nicaraguan background continues
A Closer Look
STEVE BRUHN
term. Reagan has done ever
ditions in Nicaragua that h:
(ion so hypocritically decries
overthrow the Sandinistas
According lo Reagan, th
*erc" .enemies of God and
very first days" and arc"infi
hand, he has called the
the Sandinistas "the
quivalent of our Founding Fathers
freedom fighters struggling for liberty
nd democracy... our brothers..."and just
other politically symbolic and
rt for his war against the San-
aims are characteristic of the
Reagan's approach to Central
Com i
Says LIP is too loose
o-called "allies" in Central America ha
luman rights records far more disgraccf
han Nicaragua under the Sandinistas.
teagan has his way with aid to tl
rontras. Nicaragua could return to tl
evelopmcnt the Nicaraguan people a
It's not enough to simply say that
teagan's war against the first democratically-
lectcd government in modern Nicaraguan
islorydocsn\ make any sense; unfortunately
's designed
.'ilh,pr4crslptr
group io b* >
this isthegroupof tc
a fool o
t  of
thing except mom and apple pie (maybe I
shouldn't give him any ideas).
The Contra's tactics arc absolutely
shocking. They avoid any confrontation
with the Nicaraguan army, preferring to
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Letters
to the editor
editor
It is lime thai The Daily Collegian be
:ontinuous charges of editorial  "
:ffon to control the often solalilt
imbcr). So.let
i facts. First,
scheduling. It is too bad th
Davs Committee decided
Simple Minds. But when
finally arrives. Greeks will
lrd World,
how well they might work, from inlcrfer
ring with ihe long term goals and objee
lives of American multi-national corpora
lions. The Nicaraguan government couk
be a perfect model of freedom and demo
cracy and U.S. policy would be no differ
cm. unless the government would agree ti
put corporate America's property right:
ahead of the well-being of the Nicaraguai
idable American aggression following ihe
1979 overthrow of the dictator Somoza.
the Sandinistas have directed the country's
nd D
According to Edgar Chammorro, ai
rx-Contra leader who was recruiied by th<
~IA, "During my four years as a Contr;
director, it was prc-meditaicd policy tt
"The Contra
(ed   Janell
called  lip
I The Daily Coltegiai
is reorganized the National
led ihe country with an iron
<z. until 1979. Several thou-
ex-Guardia  were  living  in
...I resigned
e as a CIA puppet."
cagan administration.
it year. "The Contra*
i   Their
•veil
'No place' for ROTC
Editor
I was saddened by your coverage of the
CSC F ROTC Ranger Challenge Team It
is my opinion that ihe ROTC has no place
in Ihe academic community; they should
be far removed from those deeply com¬
mitted to peaceful
tise   - paramilitary  c
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Newspapers criticized
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ideA
But
L-niL- il
c  pape
i  llye Sharzhoom     for in insighl to the Mexi,
sm and should be    student
>se who pul them Accomplishments of these publications?
fry irregular publishing schedules, wasted
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general nuisances to The Daily Collegian
The papers have never made a real or
consistent effort lo solicit advertising and
The Daily Collegian has had to pick up
than a decade and a half ago. they were
supposed to cover the issues of those
minority students in Ihe campus commun¬
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life. Supposedly.
What they became were eye-sores. They
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gian to carry, since neither paper could
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three are sorry excuses for newspapers.
Uhuru has never been anything more
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silly poetry and "feature" stories that crutch at F
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March 12, 1986        NEWS
The Daily Collegian   Page 5
Teaching as art is his lesson
mplex
cally    a philosophy of th
The potential for making teaching into
an art is not frequently acted upon in the
United States because of the way educa¬
tors see the role of schooling, said Sanford
W. Rcitman, author of the article "Daring
to Make Teaching an Art."
"You have the right to
your own philosophy even
if it differs from mine."
— Reitman
this country.
"Schools should have a different pur
pose other than to change society radi
cally tomorrow." he said.
"What we have done is to pawn every
thing off on the schools. Schools cs
themselves."
Besides writing about teaching
intcachingasanartl
for
In summer school, Reitman teaches
"Survival Strategies for Classroom Tea¬
chers." Student teachers and teachers who
Hired are the most attracted to
a pain
Reitman, a professor of education since
1966, began studying the art of teaching in
1969 when he started his dissertation. Sinct
then he has devoted many pamphlets to
the topic of teaching. He wants lo bring
out the artistic potential of ordinary
ft elegant togethc
Reitman said, "describing Ihe feeling as
something magical. "There arc no recipes,
it is just pure magic — mystery."
Teachers cither burn out and get into
other fields or go into teaching for the
wrong reasons, he said.
"In order to prevent the burnout from
happening, teachers have to constantly
:valuate themselves," he said, adding that
n for people to see    sludent teachers and teachers have to
the roles of schoolsasan institution which     release themselves from the anxiety that
teaches social change. tney always have to please someone.
"Most   people  think  the  purpose  of        "We have an obligation to tell students
but social change," he said. "I think the ous involvement of creativity and theycan
function of schooling and teaching is lo consider themselves free in their own
civilize, to humanize, and everybody to classroom lo use their own unique philo-
hclp change society progressively for the sophy of teaching," Reitman said,
better. Through teaching philosophy he real-
Americans must take social self-rcspon- jze<j it was not his position to force his
sibility, he said, in order to create a better philosophy on students, because they have
Series
■.  Once
■  Nici
■aguan
Continued from page 4
n, many other impoverished Thirc
is (where multinational <
porations are making a killing) might see
assassination manual for the Contras that it as a good example, and  Corporate
was published and distributed by the CIA. America and the Somozas of the world
Reagan administration officials have will have to rethink their priorities, or find
repeatedly denied that the Contras have themselves in the trash bin of history,
ties to Somoza's ex-Guardia, but a 1985 Nicaraguan people is seen in Reagan's
Congressional study showed that 46 out imperial mind as an "extraordinary threat
of 48  of the top  Contra  leaders  were tothe national jecurityandforeign policy
ex-Guardia. of the United States." Why? Because it's
Reagan has relied on the most depen- working. Nicaragua has declared inde-
dable tactic to whip up anti-Sandinista pendance from the U.S. and most Nic-
hysteria and gain suport for the Contra araguans are much better off for it.
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"There are no recipes, it is
just pure magic —
mystery."
— Reitman
"You have to understand first thi
aching is partly a political matter." I
id. "A lot of teachers come in over disc
ine problems." Which, he claims, is tl
n 1983 Rcitman went to Israel on sab-
the atmosphere that  teachers could
in the classroom.
"I was amazed at the freedom of the
teachers there." he said. "Teachers should
have the right to autonomy in their class¬
room, within the boundaries of the system."
The educational system in Israel is
based/On a group of teachers forced to
come Jogclher collectively and cope with
the reality of survival.
"They cannot run away from their
problems," Reitman said, adding Israeli
teachers are free to educate, instead of
trying to solve problems.
However, he said, everyone has differ¬
ent views of what a school is for, but every¬
one agrees that the school should produce
short term will produce a better world.
Reitman believes schools do not have the
social efficiency that most people in this
country believe.
Reilman's article, "Daring to Make
teaching an Art," is not the final step in
solving the problems of burned-out tea¬
chers and making leaching an art, he
admitted. He is working on another arti¬
cle on how to prepare artists in the class¬
room. He wants to put all his articles
toeelher in a book to be titled "Preparing
Teachers as Artists in Terms of the Prob¬
lems of the Society We Live In."
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