The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1967 Page: 1 of 12
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THE PROSPEC TOR
“Assayer Of Student Opinion”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967
VOL. XXXIV
No. 4
Resident Veto
Stops Change
DR. RUSSELL KIRK
Top Comedian Hits
onight
Campus
(Staff Photo).
Fields.
RICHARD PRYOR
beard and ‘tune-in, turn on,
and drop out,’ he is bound to
be a little worried.”
This forum is the second in
a series of eight for the fall,
and is free to students, facul-
ty members and staff. Coffee
will be served before the for-
um begins.
By BOBBIE DURHAM
And RAY BARON
Pryor. This trio has appeared
at various social functions in
the El Paso area.
According to the SA Office,
a few tickets are still avail
able. They may be picked up
in Union 302 or in the Union
lounge. General admission is
$1 or 50 cents with an SA
card.
Orangemen!
Show WAC
Who’s Best
Dr. Russell Kirk Next
In Goff Lyceum Series
FACULTY LUNCHEON
WEDNESDAY
Richard Pryor, singing, dan-
cing and acting comedian, will
appear in Memorial Gym at 8
p.m., tonight. Already hailed
as one of America’s greatest
new comedians, Pryor writes
all of his own material. Most
of the routines he does come
from his own life’s experien-
ces.
Since Pryor has been in
some kind of show business
all of his life, his experiences
go to formulate a new fresh
kind of comedy. His presenta-
tion is unique since few per-
formers employ and combine
such a diversity of talent.
Before coming to El Paso,
Pryor wound up a personal ap-
pearance in Las Vegas, Nev.
In the past year he has shown
his abilities on the Johnny
Carson Tonight Show, the Ed
Sullivan Show, and the Kraft
Summer Music Hall. This sea-
son he will again appear on
the Sullivan Show.
El Paso folksinging group,
Bob, Judy and Wayne, will ap-
pear on the program with
reasoning behind the negation
would be nullified.
On the student side, SA Pre-
ident Phelan and his executive
vice president Roger Ellison
are currently working with
Suzi Navarro, treasurer and
chairman of the Student Name
Committee. Some 10 SA per-
sonnel will be visiting with the
homeowners in an attempt to
gain their cooperation.
MAYOR’S SUPPORT
“We received a call from the
Mayor’s office,” said Phelan,
“and he has assured us of his
support in the matter.”
The student effort in the at-
tempt to get the name change
also includes the enlisting of
support from the downtown
newspapers, since the attempt
to change the name is part of
the transition to University
status.
The major difficulty in ob-
taining the name change is the
failure of property owners on
the street to go along with the
change. As Presideent Ray put
it: “The strongest power in
human relations is inertia.”
Dr. Kirk, who spoke on our
Campus five years ago, stated
that he is looking forward
with great pleasure to this re-
turn visit. At present, the
scholarly educator delivers ap-
proximately 100 lectures a
year. Through these many
lectures, Dr. Kirk has found
that most college audiences
throughout the country do not
differ in their opinions con-
cerning liberalism and conser-
vatism. During the month of
October, Dr. Kirk plans to
give lectures in New York,
Ohio and California.
A faculty luncheon will be
held Wednesday, October 11
from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the
Union Ballroom.
Price of tickets is $1.55 and
reservations may be made
with Mrs. Grace Smith in the
English Department, telephone
5728. Deadline for reserva-
tions is 10 a.m. Monday, Oc-
tober 9.
Dr. Ted Windt, scheduled to
speak on “The Love Genera-
tion” October 11, in the Union
Ballroom, poses beside his wall
poster of a resolute W. C.
“Yes, America will go back
to conservatism.” said Dr. Rus-
sell Kirk, who will speak on
the UT El Paso Campus, Oc-
tober 16. Dr. Kirk, distinguish-
ed conservative spokesman,
professor of politics and writ-
er, discussed this and many
other important issues with
two Prospector reporters in a
recent long distance telephone
interview.
Dr. Ted Windt, associate pro-
fessor of speech and drama
will speak on the Love Gene-
ration, a study of the Hippie
Movement, at 12 p.m. Wed-
nesday, October 11, in Union
308.
Much has been said recently
about the so-called Hippie
Movement. The younger gene-
ration has copied their cloth-
ing, their psychedelic lighting
and many of their “turned-on”
ideas; and for this reason, the
elders are growing more and
more concerned. But what ex-
actly is the Hippie Movement?
Actually, it is no more than an
extension of a Bohemian past.
As Dr. Windt says, “Actually,
we’re just livin’ it up in a Bo-
hemian way.”
The hippie of today has been
blown up and distorted out of
any sense of proportion. “Some
of these distortions are for
good reasons. The use of drugs
is a dangerous thing and must
be controlled.” This constant
reliance on drugs has thrown
the hippie in a bad light. Ac-
tually, many who profess to
be “Love Children” are psy-
chotics and neurotics who use
the hippies as a haven simply
because they have nowhere
else to run.
Dr. Windt will discuss in de-
tail the thoughts of the “Love
Children” and their philoso-
phy of “make love, not war.”
He will try to explain the in-
fluence the hippies have on
today’s society, and the contro-
versy that they have stirred
from Berkeley to the Univer-
sity of Texas.
“After all, when a father
who has worked all his life
has a son who wants to grow a
POLICIES OUT DATED
When asked his views on the
Johnson Administration, Dr.
Kirk replied that because there
is an entirely new generation
of people today, the New Deal
slogans which President John-
son has adopted are no longer
applicable. He also stated that
Johnson’s domestic policies are
out-dated and, therefore, inef-
fective.
In the important area of con-
servatism Dr. Kirk said, “The
public is discontent with pre-
sent leadership and policies.
This, in time, will turn the out-
look of the nation toward con-
servatism.”
Dr. Kirk believes that the
two major mistakes made by
the United States in the past
25 years have been our foreign
policy and our internal gov-
ernmental supervision.
“The United States,” he said,
“thinks that other countries
should be and should want to
be just like us. They don’t, al-
ways.”
SUPERVISION ON RISE
“Our own country has ex-
perienced a cultural lag in the
last two decades,” he stated.
“This is because the supervi-
sion of the government has
been steadily increasing.”
Dr. Kirk said he believes
that John F. Kennedy would
not have gone down in history
as a great president if he had
not been assassinated. Intelec-
tuals feel that his memory was
saved because of his death, ac-
cording to Dr. Kirk.
Because Dr. Kirk is antici-
pating his lecture here, he
plans to hold a lengthy ques-
tion-answer period following
his speech. He will also discuss
his new book, The Political
Principles of Robert A. Taft,
to be published October 31,
1967.
‘Love Children'
To Be Discussed
By CHUCK MILLER
Early last spring, when Tex-
as Western College was chang-
ed to UT El Paso, President
Joseph M. Ray began an at-
tempt to orient the Campus
area to fit in with the status of
University. Part of this transi-
tion included the initiation of
the steps necessary in changing
the name College Avenue to
University Avenue.
The official steps necessary
include the mailing out of bal-
lots to the property owners
residing on College Avenue.
Of the 31 ballots received, 12
residents voted yes, and 19
voted no. There the issue lies.
In an interview with Presi-
dent Ray and Student Asso-
ciation President Jim Phelan,
the Prospector has learned of
yet another attempt to per-
suade the property owners to
change their minds.
STUDENT ACTION
“The mayor”, remarked
President Ray “suggested some
sort of student action in ob-
taining the name change and
when I approached Dean Jim-
my Walker on the matter the
first of last May, he felt it was
the wrong time to mount any
student effort.”
Evaluating the probable rea-
soning behind the home own-
ers’ negative attitude, the Pres-
ident remarked that it was a
case of them not wanting to
have to bother with the change
of address in their correspond-
ence.
ADDRESS STICKERS
The Prospector learned from
Phelan that the SA would be
willing to replace address
stickers for those who have
printed ones. During the in-
terview the feeling that the
Post Office would automatical-
ly handle such a change was
also brought out into the open.
If the problem of address
changes could be handled by
the Post Office, (much akin to
a change of address card a
person uses when moving) it
would appear that the main
Student Activities
Requests Tickets
Tom Chism, Director of Stu-
dent Activities, has requested
that students who obtain tick-
ets to the Goff Lyceum lec-
tures and then find that they
cannot attend, please turn in
those tickets to his office so
they may be re-issued
He said that hundreds of
people were turned away at
the box office last Friday be-
cause all available tickets had
been sold or issued to stu-
dents the previous day. How-
ever, there were empty seats
in the auditorium because
many ticket holders did not
attend.
Tickets for the lecture by
Dr. Russell Kirk may be pick-
ed up in the Union, Room 306
today or at the ticket booth
in the Union on October 9-14.
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