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AT THE...V.
We are an
education. We are
primarily
personality and inner being.” INTERFACE
Asa graduate student in Sociology
and a someone who believes in the pur
suit of excellence, of quality, of
aesthetics but more especially in what I
would call the dialogue of inquiry, I
would like to address the issue which
now rages in many minds and souls and
probably in a few other unmentionable
places The issue of concern, I believe,
is the craft of educators.
I would insist, for brevity’s sake first
of all. to pose the question what is the
highest priority in the transmission of
knowledge? I happen to hold a rather
firm belief that given the right at
mosphere or environment, that being
one who can promote individual worth
in all persons goes a long way towards
establishing the nch soil for growth
For there to be growth, nurture must
antecede To carry the garden analogy
a bit further, let us say that there needs
to be a concern for how well we want
something to grow.
In the human picture, 1 think we need
to ask the question for some folks Some
would say that is is not our business to
mold people; just give them the facts
encyclopedic an superficial data will
suffice 1 find that a rather boorish at
tituae, however Oddly enough when I
went to my old copy of Webster's to
check up on humanism one more time, I
discovered that just above is the term,
human engineering The definition goes
like this: “management of human be
ings and affairs esp in industry ” The
Letters
Stupid, Ignorant Remarks
The Editor:
Asa cast member of “Grease", I am
appalled at Dodd's disturbing
.criticism In defense of the play selec
tion, I must inform him that “Grease’’
is the longest running musical in Broad
way history This information comes
, not from me, but from the Guinness
Kook of World Records.
Since Dodd stated in his letter that he
f ,has “little knowledge of the play”, I
agree that he does have “little
knowledge” The play and the movie
are two totally different works and
..should be kept separate.
I have nothing against Dodd per
sonally, and I could care less if he
makes stupid, ignorant remarks But, if
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Oh what a woeful land, Wundagore
had become!
It did not take long before the magic
of Wundagore had nearly died. The
quantity-quality of things had returned
the people to simple-verb and plus
minus sections and even the wunda
stool had been forgotten
You know some times 1 get to think
ing about the durdnest things Just for
instance, the other day I got to thinking
about garbage Now the reason 1 got to
thinking about garbage is plain and
simple One day last week I got to look
ing out the window and I noticed my
dog, Bill, working away on something.
Now ordinarily, I wouldn’t be concern
ed about this. But this thing that Bill
had was different It looked for all the
world like Bill had gone and done
something awful.
When I got out there to take a look, it
turned out to be the head from a child's
throw ed-away doll baby Anyhow I took
it away from Bill and then I got to
wondering where he got it from. I decid
ed it was time for me and Bill to go for a
walk By the time we got over to Black
Creek Road. I know'd Bill was onto
something. Well he hadn't gone 50
yards when there it was, a dadgum
bright green dump box, a brand new
one, some people call them dempsty
dumpsters. I call them eyesores And
this one had somebody’s garbage lay
ing all over the ground instead of inside
the thing.
Now that disturbs me the
dadblamedest about these things is that
they tend * *t over stuffed and then
everyth. ts to spill over. The
other thii like I was just mention
ing. a good number of people are just
too lazy to put their garbage in the con
traption in the first place. Now folks I
could go on complainin' like this till I
am blue in the face So instead of doing
that which would only get me more
flustered I’m going to tell you what I
did.
word management seems to stand out
Now to humanism: “the revival of
classical letters, individualistic and
critical spirit, and emphasis on secular
concerns characteristic of the
Renaissance.” For my concerns, the
words "critical spirit” are important,
very important It is important to me
that four years of college should pro
duce, not someone who will be "manag
ed", but someone who will see the need
to maintain personal dignity in the face
of a somewhat alienating work world
In that sense, I would say that the task
of the educator includes providing the
student with a clearly delineated view
of social reality. Of course I speak from
the perspective of socialogist which
naturally has a bias.
But beyond Sociology, 1 hope 1 speak
from a wider base of support. I would
like to quote a length from a 1973 report
by a Special Task Force under the
auspices of what was formerly known
as HEW:
"Here we find the ‘blues’ of
blue-collar workers linked to
their job dissatisfactions, as is
the disgruntlement of white
collar workers and the growing
discontent among managers
Many workers at all occupational
levels feel locked-in, their mobili
ty is blocked, the opportunity to
grow lacking in their jobs and the
he wants to be referred to as a fool let
him keep up the good work
s-Rodney Shumake
Go Blow Your
Closed Mind Away
The Editor:
Concerning student apathy about the
College Program Board attempts to
provide good entertainment:
I have attended several of the coffee
house entertainment events this year,
and I must commend the CPB for its
selection of some very fine, quality
music They have brought tu West
Georgia a mime act, a juggler, a magi
cian, a comedy duo, and several really
excellent singer-songwriters However,
attendance at these events averages
about 1 percent (ONE PERCENT!!!)
When you students have been polled.
AAattison
HEAVY-HANDED AUTHORITY
still was Supreme HEAD and his silent
boss and he sat around their mahogany
and chuckled about how they had van
quished the magic of Wundagore
There were a few HEADS and people
who worked the old magic but they
were afraid and too few
From The Earth' —
By Uncle Wilbur
Live In Good Faith
I decided to get hold ot one of my bud
dies that teaches a course called En
vironmental Ethics Well, he brought
me up a bunch of books and all kinds ot
papers and stuff and we commenced to
going over the facts of garbage. Now in
order to keep this piece of writing down
to some unlongwinded talk, we decided
to bring it down to one thing
Brownpaper bags is what we decided to
talk about.
Now it seems that some folks did a
study a few years back and they came
up with some mightly interesting
observations. Did you know that the
average American uses about 576
pounds of paper every year. Yep, and in
1969, 54 million tons of paper were pro
duced. Now it’s about 69 million tons.
Way back in 1925 an average person us
ed about 180 pounds for his own needs
and there were only about 9 million tons
produced Now of course, we done
growed a whole heap since back in
them days.
Now about them brown paper bags.
Did you know that brown grocery bags
used by supermarkets every year
average about 200 per American— that
comes out to roughly 20 billion bags!!!!
Union Camp proudly announced and I
quote, “The number of bags made at
the Savannah plant since it opened
would reach, if laid end to end, from
Earth to Venus and back with enough
left over to encircle both Earth and
Venus almost 100 times." Now if that
don’t just take the cake The problem is
they end up at the dump
challenge missing from their
tasks. Young workers appear to
be as committed to the institution
of work as their elders have been,
but many are rebelling against
the anachronistic authori
tarianism of the workplace.
Minority workers similarly see
authoritarian worksettings as
evidence that society is falling
short of its democratic ideals
Women, who are looking to work
as an additional source of identi
ty, are being frustrated by an op
portunity structure that confines
them to jobs damaging to their
esteem "
This happens to be one view of social"
reality There have been any number of
articles and books written on the nature
of alienation in our society In this light
I would urge educators to consider this
personal observation: one, that we as a
nation are spoiled by a capitalist
“bulldozer" technology which strongly
hints of a 19th-century philosophy of
“Manifest Destiny”; two, that under
this system everything is supposed to
be attainable at any cost with the added
deception of positing the belief that
material rewards will be forever abun
dant
As far as jobs are concerned,
especially as they are related to the
you say the CFB needs to have more
rock concerts and keg parties. You say
you don’t like the entertainment offered
by the coffee-houses. How do you know
you don’t "like" it if you never
come????? Have you ever tried singing
along with a really good performer, like
Gene Cotton, while sitting only thret>
feet from the stage?? The reason you
are in collge is to learn and that in
cludes exposing yourself to a variety of
arts and entertainment. Again, I thank
CPB for a superb job
In closing, let me say this: 1 like rock
concerts and beer bashes as well as
anyone else, but if that is all you really
want out of the CPB, 1 suggest that you
would do just as well to sit down with
your headphone's and a 12-pack, crank
Mother’s Finest up to 10, and blow your
closed mind away.
Sincerely, Skip Sweat
The magical land of Wundagore
became what you might recognize as
middle-class mediocrity A H Maslow
(one of the original magical HEADS)
would call it the psychopathology of the
average. And only the Supreme HEAD
and his silent boss lived happily ever
after
sigh.
In the making of paper products (all
you paper experts correct me if I’m
wrong), there are about 17 trees that go
to make one ton of paper Then there
are about 100,000 to 150,000 gallons of
polluted water and some right dirty and
smelly air that goes along with chang
ing them trees into paper
And last but certainly durn shore not
least, you’ve got the problem of how to
get rid of all that paper after we get
done using it And besides brown paper
bags, it comes in every form im
aginable Like the box the tooth paste
comes in. Off to the dump with
thousands upon thousands of toothpaste
boxes
I’ve heard about them folks out
yonder in Oregon now they are sup
posed to have passed all kinds of laws
One had to do with returnable bottles I
believe the law states something to the
effect that is all them folks are allowed
to use I’m here to tell you that we could
shore use something like that here. I
wonder what they do with all their
toothpaste boxes
All kidding aside, folks, it’s getting
high time we all start thinking about
what we are going to do with our gar
bage. as a matter of fact, it’s already
past time
And we better be thinking about other
decisions that will affect us and the
children that ain’t even bom yet. We
owe the future generations a decent
place to live; that’s what we were given
a long time ago. People have got to live
in good faith with one another, ‘cause to
live in bad faith is to live dishonestly.’
Take it easy,
Uncle Wilbur
function ot schooling, I would like to
conclude with a quote from Studs
Terkel’s book. Working:
“I think most of us are looking for
a calling, not a job. Most of us,
like the assembly line worker,
have jobs that are too small for
our spirit. Jobs are not big
enough tor some people," Nora
Watson
There will be a forum sponsored
by the AAUP on Tuesday, March 3 at
3:00 p.m. in the Social Science lec
ture Hall. The topic will tie "The
Hole of the Humanities in Educa
tion" and panelists will be former
contributors to “At the Interface;”
Mike Arons, Douglas Hilt and
Siegfried Karsten, as well as
William S. Doxev.
There will be opening presenta
tions by the panel members and a
chance for rebuttal. Afterwards
there will be a question and answer
period with the audience. All in
terested students and faculty are in
vited.
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