1940_01 The Daily Collegian January 1940

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DISAPPOINTED . . will be many a high school
senior when a year from now he has completed
his first year in some California institution of
reading the reports of such groups as the N.C.
C.W.C.F.A.. Nation*] Crusade Convention of thc
World's Christian Fundamentals Association,
the embryonic freshmen will come to collegeex-
pecting to be harangued with communistic and
atheistic propaganda and to experience the
"pleasures" of free love. . . However, wc fear
that at the end of his first year, sin fact even
after four, the misinformed student will return
to his family as much a Christian and American M when he left them. But his greatest disappointment will be that he will have found,
contrary to the lovely promises of the crusading groups, that love at college is anything but
FREE. .. All of the above with apologies to G.
J. of thc Daily Bruin.
EDITORIALS-
What Do YOU Think?
Y Provocative are the views of Carlton L. Wood.
professor of rx.litic.il science at William jnd Miry.
who wrote recently in the Chmtian Century, asking   What Do YOU Think. Professor?'
Grist for Professor Wood's mill comes from
thc universal and easily corroborated observation
that college instructor:, seldom disclose their own
beliefs in the course* in which they teach. By disclosure ' is not meant an expounding of some
personal bit of dogmatism or idiosyncrasy, but a
general revelation of attitudes on social problems
in terms ol generally discussed 'explanations'' or
"solutions ."
After making a rather broad assumption that
professc.-s do not commit themselves. Dr. Wood
offers four answers to the "why": (1) Instructors
do not state their beliefs because they haven't
any; many of them have had no life experience
and prefer to be arm-chair philosophers; (2) the
instructor would have to defend his beliefs, once
they were stated—and that requires some original
and extemporaneous thought; further, having once
MISTAKEN . . . was the column in the November 17 issue of the Collegian, when it said
that a local "department head" had dismissed
his class to vote in the Campus Queen election.
The person referred to did not dismiss the class,
but rather, the act was performed by one of his
subordinates. We implied that the purpose of
this dismissal was to aid one of this department's representatives in thc election. We based
our supposition on previous acts of this department ; however, we have not been able to prove
"WE .
studen
contributed their nickles I
radical departure from which was supposed to have been run off last
that platform would require logical explanation; month, for four chairs and a table. Two of the
(3) thc mstrucror isn't trained to think and ex- students who claim to have been sucked in on
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pound subjectively, he has been taught to work ^ ^   gj ^ ^  ^ ^ ^.^
scientifically, with FACTS;  (I)  declaration ol p|an m to give away four chairs and a table,
principles might endanger—and has endangered coming from thc union.
—many an instructor's position on the faculty.  Q	
and through that fulcrum his bread and butter. possibility . . . that members of a local (rater.
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,   that
his personal opinion, welcome it as a shaft bv
which they may measure thc shadow of their own
ideas. Many students give no thought about their
opinions until forced to consolidate and clarify
them by open argumentation with a more or less
stlrc-footed lecturer.
That there is a need for such a thing as intelligent public opinion cannot be denied; and that
there is very little fostering of intelligent opinion
in many of our colleges and universities also cannot be denied. However, when Professor Wood
indirectly suggests ihat professors one and all
should by means, devious or otherwise, acquire
and if necessary actually flaunt opinionations for
the benefit of their students, wc think he is endeavoring to lump all educators into a nice bit of
green and yellow icing which inevitably will be
squeezed out on thc academic cake in phrases
like "I am against Argentine wheat, because it
—ilmrait-m the lima fanner." ■	
It appears to us that if a professor is normally
an intense, sensitive, discerning, vital personality
he will unconsciously make his beliefs known to
' the students by his every lecrure, his every rnbve-
menr, his. every reaction to the hundreds of details
which, bombard the student microcosm. Such a
man's views will be appreciated, valued, and perhaps appropriated by those whom he mutatis; he
who must consciously strain himself to display his
attitude:, and opinions lest the students think he
OUT OF LUCK ... is any hapless male student
who happened to mention the fact that he is in
the market for a bid to the frosh dance in public. It is our estimate that at least two-thirds
of the women in the first year class are ready,
11 the di
i. One n
displays a ripped :
torn in thc rush when he mentioned to a companion, while passing down the hall, that he
wished he knew where he could buy a bid to the
affair.
has none and care not, will find such artificially
stimulated reactions received silently and superficially by his classes.
If a man has worth, ^rr se, then his .,pinions
will   have worth;  it  he is  merely -i d,  lu.
his opinions will be as valuable as a rusty sardine tin. .
We believe students know and appreciate the
difference!
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But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless
evil, it is full of deadly poison . . . Out of the
same month Cometh forth blessing and cursing ...
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?—Epistle of James,
III:8ff.
ISLANDS an _     _
their places, but an'island
of light in a dark room is
something to be avoided.
-The reason for-thia-is inter-—
esting. If we are reading
beneath a single light in a
dark room, Nature says:
"Look into the darkness"—
the books "Look at me." The
result  is   nervousness  and
When we read or sew, it
paysjto have light through-
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