Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1969 Page: 2 of 6
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Student Support For
Youth Air Fores
By Ken Kramer
The fate of airline Youth Fare (LSL, March 7)
is now is the hands of the five-man Civil Aeronau-
tics Board. The CAB is currently weighing the ar-
guments presented last week by opponents and sup-
porters of the special discount rates for students.
Since the CAB is presently considering other matters
and plans to study fully the implications of a can-
cellation of the youth discounts, it will be a while
before a decision is reached. In the meantime, the
youth fare will continue in effect. Even if a negative
decision is made, new evidence would require more
consideration by the board, and probable court challen-
ges would allow the youth fare to continue inde-
finitely.
Either the courts or Congress will probably ultimate-
ly decide the issue. Unless the CAB comes up with a
compromise acceptable to everyone, its decision will
be appealed in court undoubtedly. Several members ot
Congress are trying to amend the Federal Aviation Act
of 1958 so that a Youth Fare would be specifically
permitted.
Most students are well aware of the benefits of
having such a youth fare discount on air travel. If
you are interested in helping to keep the youth fare,
write your Congressman or Senator and urge his
support of the proposed amendment. If the youth
fare is discontinued, the ability of students to travel
economically will be seriously hurt. Now is the time
to act if you are interested in maintaining this pri-
vilege.
ALCU .. By Way Of
An Explanation
By Dyne Hilbrich
TLC is now a member of the American Lutheran
Church Student Union, yet the amendment granting us
such membership passed by less than a narrow mar-
gin. Doubtless, a clearer explanation concerning the
ALCSU is in order.
The ALCSU is a large overhaul in the structure that
houses the ALC colleges. The change is necessary;
it is a positive attempt to do away with the flaws
in contemporary campus approaches to students, both
educational and social. The problems are being seen
more and more as price. They carry similarities
wherever the campus might be located.
The new organization can be viewed as a miniature
NS A. It is a smaller model for student action, and
the possibilities for significant action should not be
underestimated. The ALCSU will have strong influ-
ences on member schools. It will aid remarkably
in large re-educational efforts needed in the con-
stituency of the ALC. It will develop ‘Volkswagen’*
models for large endeavors in secular society.
The fifty cents per student is an important figure
in the ALCSU; It will finance a traveling secre-
tary and an adequate travel budget for him. He will
be an important means of communication among ALC
colleges and will spend several weeks gathering his
forces on each campus. For the first time, each stu-
dent will be getting his money’s worth.
Social Concerns Committe
Sponsors Children’s Picnic
LONE STAR LUTHERAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1969
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Comment: Proposal To Change
The Way Universities Are Run
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(CPS) — If the student unrest
currently sweeping American
campuses has proved nothing
else, it has shown that drastic
changes are needed in the way
universities and colleges are run.
Behind most of the immediate
issues in the present student
movement— centering around de-
mands that universities start
meeting the needs of ethnic min-
orities—is a more general de-
sire of students for real power
over their campuses.
In many ways, this is a more
radical cause. If black stud-
ents are to have control over
their education as they have
rightfully demanded, why
shouldn’t white students? Stud-
ent power can be as radical an
idea as black power, although it
has been perverted on many cam-
puses to mean something other
than real power--token student
membership on committees,
student control over meaningless
“student activities,” and soon.
If students had real power equal
to the power of administrators,
faculty members and governing
boards, our universities might
have done what should have been
done long ago to meet the needs
of third-world people--which
would make the present protests
unnecessary.
And some really significant
changes might be made in ed-
ucation in general. The current
student strikes have clearly
shown that administrators, fac-
ulties and governing boards are
too tied to the old traditional pro-
cesses and ideas to ever make
meaningful changes in the role
of the university. Student pro-
test tactics have escalated be-
cause of the inability of those
who govern these institutions to
make meaningful changes.
If students are ever going to
be able to turn from tearing
down the present educational sy-
stem to building a new one—as
everyone keeps telling them to—
they are going to have to have
real power. Universities are go-
ing to have to change the sy-
stem by which they are gov-
erned.
In most colleges and univer-
sities the ultimate authority lies
with a board of directors called
regents or trustees or some
such title. In state universities
Pat Lewis and Dennis Hart-
zog, co-chairmen of the Social
Concerns Committee, are plan-
ning a picnic on Saturday, March
29 on the TLC mall for about
150 children from lower income
families. The Student Senate and
Circle K are helping to sponsor
the picnic, and members of
the Circle K Club will be on hand
to help with games and relay
races.
The picnic will start at 4:00
in the afternoon with a “Texas
bar-be-que” dinner catered by
Mr. Henderson of Slater Food
Service. After the bar-be-que,
TLC students willpresentashort
program of folk singing and other
entertainment. This period of
entertainment is scheduled as a
rest period between dinner and
the various games that the child-
ren will be able to take part in. '
At seven o’clock, members of
the Circle K Club will take the
children to the TLC baseball
game as their special games
for the evening.
Students are needed to help
supervise the chirldren’s acti-
vities; anyone interested is asked
to contact Pat Lewis or Dennis
Hartzog by next Wednesday even-
ing.
Auditions
For
The Bald Soprano
By
Eugene Ionesco
Open Stage-5:30 p.m.
Tonight
By Phil Semas
College Press Service
these boards are either ap-
pointed by the governor or elec-
ted by the people. Governing
boards of private universities are
usually self - perpetuating or
controlled by alumni.
A recent study by the Educ-
ational Testing Service showed
that most members of governing
boards are white, financially
well-off businessmen, Protest-
ant, Republican, and moderate-
conservative. The study said
a majority of these board mem-
bers oppose involving their in-
stitutions more directly in sol-
ving social problems.
These board have a tendency
to make things worse by wanting
to crack down on student dissent,
instead of trying to understand
the real grievances that caused
it. They are also often out of
touch with what goes on on the
campuses they govern. The Cal-
ifornia State College Board of
Trustees, for example, has not
met on a college campus since
the San Francisco State student
strike began more than four
months ago.
A few governing boards are
moving to give students repres-
entation but it is usually a token
voice. For example, Kentucky’s
board of higher education has a
student member, but he has no
vote and can be excluded from
executive sessions.
What is needed is a whole new
philosophy about running univer-
sities.
One answer is a govern-
ing board composed of equal nem-
bers of students, faculty mem-
bers and public representatives.
In some cases the president or
chancellor of the institution might
also sit on the board. Alumni
might be represented by the head
of their alumni organization or
an elected representative.
Such a structure at the top
assumes similar representation
throughout the institution, includ-
ing the committees that make
many of the important decisions
about course content, faculty hir-
ing, and other educational
policies.
Selecting such a body should
not be too difficult. The stud-
ents and faculty members could
be elected by their respective
constituencies. On boards gov-
erning a number of campuses,
each campus might elect one
student and one faculty member
to the board.
Public representatives could
continue to be appointed by the
governor or elected. They might
be chosen on a regional basis
or at large from the state.
In privite universities the
equivalent of the public repres-
entatives could continue to be
chosen as the entire governing
boards are now, usually elected
by alumni or perpetuating them-
selves.
Minority group representation
should be guaranteed among all
segments.
Such a board would provide
representation for all groups dir-
ectly concerned with and involved
in the institution. It would" not
allow one group to get complete
control like politicians, admini-
strators and faculty now have.
Nor would it allow one group to
be completely subjected to the
will of others, as students now
are.
Of course, the probability of
such structures being widely en-
acted—indeed, the probability of
its being enacted anywhere--is
slim.
There will be many objections.
The public and their ‘‘pro-
tectors”—politicians like Ronald
Reagan, Warrne Knowles and
Spiro Agnew—will undoubtedly
object that the public pays for
the universities and thus should
control them.
But students also pay a large
share of the cost of running ed-
ucational institutions, and the
faculty bring in money, too, in
research grants. Indeed, in many
universities, the share paid by
the public in taxes is less than
one-third the university*s bud-
get. Yet the people who pay that
third have complete control over
the institution.
And a university’s resources
include more than money
and buildings. Besides contrib-
uting a good share of the money,
students contribute something no
amount of taxes can buy—their
minds and ideas. For that con-
tribution they deserve real,
power in the running of their un-
iversities.
Employment Prospects For Grads
(ACP) — Employeement pro-
spects for American college
graduates will be better than ever
this year, according to a survey
of 208 prominent business and in-
dustrial concerns by Frank S.
Endicott, director of placement
at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.
Companies plan to hire six men
with bachelor’s degrees for every
five they employed in 1968, Mr.
Endicott reported after his 23rd
annual survey of employment
trends.
Companies also plan to hire
about 16 percent more men with
master’s degrees than they hired
last year, he said.
An increase of 20 percent in
the number of women who are
ejected to be hired was in-
dicated in reports from 132 of
the companies.
The survey also showed that
salaries of college graduates
were expected to average more
than in 1968, with engineers get-
ting the top pay.
For engineers with bachelor’s
degrees, the monthly figure was
expected to be $818 (compared
with $776 in 1968), and for those
with master’s, degrees, $957 a
month (compared with $911 in
1968).
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Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1969, newspaper, March 21, 1969; Seguin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1169930/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Lutheran University.