COLUMBIA^.$PECTATOR

        ROBĨ.RT FRIEDMAN

           Ediior - 'm --Chief

      NICHOLAS G. GARAUFIS

           Buíiiiess Manager
 

      Student  Participalion

  Late  last week  thc Strike Coordin'

ating Committee demanded as a precon

dition to negotiattons  that students b>

nllowed to participate ĩn the restructur

ing of the University.  Whíié the com-

mittee has not since  eome up with any

specífic  mechanisms  to effect this, two

proposals have been  recently forwarded

to assure students of at least some de-

gree  of participation in the reconstruc-

tion process.

  The first  of these plans  comes from

a  special committee  of  the Trustees

created   last  Wednesday  to study  and

recommend  structural changes.   Under

this  plan,   students  would  be  elected

from  each division of  the  Univérsity to

meet  with  the   Trustees1  committee.

While this  and  other suggestions pre-

sented recenĩly  may be unacceptible to

some groups,  participation in tnem can

certainly do no  harm and  may  well do

a lot  of good.

  The Executive Faculty Committee an-

nounced  yesterday that it too is maklng

plans for student participation by pi

viding summer  jobs  for   students  who

wish  to   work  on  restructuring.   Thi

is  another  needed step,   but  there i

some danger that the faculty willmerely

be  co-opting  student assistants.    .'

proposal   from  the  College  Academii

Affaĩrs Committee, however, wouldena

ble students  to select their own com-

mittee  to worlt  wíth  the  faculty.   All

interested students—including strikers

—should  take advantage  of the  oppor-

tunity to  serve on the  seleetion commit-

tee which will choose fifteen students to

serve on  a student executiveboard. Thí

board will parallel the faculty executive

committee  and  will  work together  and

on an equaĩ footing with thefacultyp;mel

  Admittedly  the  board  would  not be

chosen   democratícally in  the  fullest

sense of the word, ■but  the selectioi

committee  is  open-ended and the mech-

anisím  provides  a means whereby all

concerncd sludents can get involved

restructuring.    S upport  of this board

from students, factilty, and Trustees

crucial.    A working model of students

and faculty  operatĩng in  tandem on  the

probĩems of  restrueturing wilĩ  have í

dtrect bearing on the nature of student-

faculty   participation that  will evolve

  These  mechanisms, however, involve

students  in  restructuring in onĩy a 1:

ited  and  preliminary  manner.

student  participation to  be meaningful

and not  token,  ĩt wíll be  necessary to

devise  some  sort of  ratification pro-

cedure for approving alĩ proposed chan-

ges.  The Trustees should participate ii

such  ratification, but should not havethe

authority toveto. Onepossibleplanwhich

at this point seems desirable wouldbeto

have  a  constitutional  convention some

time  next  year,  when  fínal  proposal:

are drafted.  Delegates from the  stu-

dents, faculty, and administratíon would

be  elected to  the convention and each of

the three groups would be given equal

weight.   Only  if students and faculty  are

guaranteed  that  they  can  have  such ;

say,  can  they rest assured that mean-

ingful and  legitmate  changes  will be
 

COLUM1.IA DAILY SPECTATC_1
 

A Telling Photo
 

y WALLACE GRAY ,
 

  It ivas 1943 (my senior year) andyoucouldn't e,

tell from the .vciiubooli llsil ihcrt'Wasa ii'ai-'j.iiimi o:

Square photos of everything-all eiiiidíng that wor

derful new jearbook smell (all yearbooks smcll;

iike, Glue?) , i....

  Wlitii  I caitiu !n CoJuinlija, I cíjĩui'kjíl uvui-.i!Iiíi:j;-

be different^j ■ (Over Butler:  "llomer, Ilerodotus,

Sophocles, Plato..." and "Gee," I thought,  "ivhat

facullv!") HtiL, oii íhc vcai'btiiili. Itwus the l'arudis

PiiiL'liiiolt>rtli(.']'i>t-esLui-tifl'oi-usll[i)lsI!iEli^u[ii.it>l-

you couldn't tcll 19-13 from 1953 from 1963, all stalt

unereative and unrealistic.

  Thc 1968 Columbian is a ivorkof art.

  Somc  of tlie best artlsts transmutc gut rcaclions

to society (here Columbia) out through the camera

lens, ivords, sounds, draivings.  Thenyoureallyhave

a permanent record.  And the 19GB Columblan is a

permanent rccord of thc feelit'o:.. aiul intulluuinal ;a-

titudes of students  in thls year of crisis,  Twenty

years from now you will be  able to experience

through  this book whtit it was liko at Columbla this

year.  (On the Moratorium: 'The classrooms were

deserled—perhaps a dratnatic foreshadowinj; of the

immhient fumrc")

  Tivo books? Ves. Two art books in a Bturdy llght

blue txft.  (Let me get my major criticism in heret

the 1968 Columbian is just a little bit too conscious

of being a ivork of art. "Look* it says, much like

a palnting by Jasper Johns or Marisol, "I'm a work

nf ai
 

irganized p
 

o what j'ou may have heard, there a:
 

r-aphic
 

iUliuinisti-aLia's, l'aciilly membei-s, and campus or-

ganiĩatíons.

  T'he tÍTSt book primarily consisls nl s;;ulia icuord

along nith excellent articles on faculty ("TheSocra-

tus -iyndromc* by Michael March and Stevcn Gold-

field), The Moratorium (yes, an event of March 13,

1968  ĩs  there), the administration CThe Powet

Structure"), fraternitics ("The non-power elite"),

aud iiLhlclks ("Thc Psyi-liuil-tliiL Su.ĩculture.")

  liut  1  am most ovciwhelmed  by the fantastit

pholographs—a gieat manj' in color—in the second

book,  Alan l'psteiti'.s plioto e>,;.ay (-The Cnllaged

['emale")  Is a cloritius hyinn lt>  tlie  beattty

jnyMiq.ie of ivoman.

  Uesist the lemptation lo cut out and friime Chuck

Lindholm's supcrb draivings.

  Michael Mat-ch is a bettcr Tom Wolfe (thu llurald

Trib's not Asheville's) than  Tom Wolfe  is.  His

lively articlc,  entitled " l.nvĩronmei.tal Eock Art* is

malchod by glorioiu. colof photiĸraphs of thc  Kast

Villaj.c, discinlicqtiijs, a Imukut ol paint, etc. etc,



  Also in the second book I.aivrenue Aaron lias cdited

hls taped convcrsatioii ivith s!jí I.Uick students at

Columbĩa. It is a remafliablc |ii_cu of oral history,



  l.arry Susskind's "I kissed my Teddybear Good-

bye" shows thc process of a  voiiiiit iii_ii iinnins 10

maturity through  casting off thc  overly-famlliar

qnotations of contemporary poetry—moving lliat is,

from  that room ivhere "the  women come and go

tali.in.i; íĩi" Micho...*

  Yes, the prohlem is to get out oi' that room.  How

d:'d we get into it? We don't know, but we will find

out.  Whjdid wcslay solong? *e don't knoiv, but

we will find out. Ilow do we get outV V>'e don't know,

bnl we are at the door, aren't we?

  Thc 1968 Columbian is a telling photo of ĩhc room
 

Letter to the Editor
 

     Mvrr  Cvrvbral IStmins?

To tlie Editor:

  The use of police force on campus last Tuesdaj'

seems tô have  had somc far-reachingconsequences.

Not only werc sludcnts and ín.ulty mjurcd then, but

they also apparently incurred olher, morc sympa-

thetic, injuries at a later time,  A good example ot

this is our own counselor to Jewish studenls, Habbi

liruce Goldman, whom I suiv on Tucsdayla.sl, spuak-

Ing before a crowd of students  outside ^t. Paul's

Chapel at 4:00  p.m.  He had(andpcrhaps my glasscs

need  e-__mining) two  small bandages on hís head,

Nbw, accordinj! to Itĸlay's Spcciiituf (May S), hc haf

suddcnly sprouted an eye-patch.

  I.et the "brulalitj" victims beivarel  Vou,too,maj

find that those  mero cerebral .bumps might turn into

brolten arms and dan;:ui-oii.=ily i-uiitagious "skin dis-



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