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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, Dec. 29,1971
Page 24
New mood on campus
Students would rather read than riot
By DICK KLEINER
LOS ANGELES—(NEA)—
At the University of South
ern California, a group of
militant Chicano students
took over a floor in one of
the buildings. Nobody paid
much attention to them and.
within an hour, the whole
thing had fizzled out.
At the University of Cal
ifornia, Los Angeles, stu
dents met to organize a
movement to do something
about ecology. They turned
down the suggestion that
they march and, instead,
agreed to support Cal Ad
vocates, which wants to
charge each student $1.50
and hire lawyers and lobby
ists to press their demands
These are typical of the
mood on California cam
puses this year. It is a mood
which one USC professor
characterizes as “closer to
their parents’ attitude than
to the student body of a year
ago.”
A new breed has appeared
on campus, and the student
rebellion which threatened
to wreck American colleges
is over. The militant student
body has been replaced, gen
erally, by young men and
women who would rather
read than riot.
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year s,” says Irwin R.
Blacker, professor of film
writing at USC, “I listed the
class assignments—and they
are tough—and I didn’t hear
a single squawk.”
What accounts for the sud
den change? Blacker be
lieves it is economic, a by
product of the depression.
Today’s collegian has noted
that there are no recruiters
on campus, that tuition costs
have jumped while income
has gone down, that it isn’t
easy, financially, to stay in
college.
“Fees have gone up while
the general economic condi
tion has gone down," says
Chandler Harris, head of
UCLA’s public information
department. “When the wolf
is at the door, you want to
chase him away and not
raise hell.”
Many students today have
to work to make ends meet.
So they either take fewer
courses or they take more,
in an effort to get through
faster. In either case, they
haven’t got time for such ex
tracurricular activities as
setting fire to buildings.
“Student activism has not
only tapered off,” Blacker
says, “it has virtually dis
appeared.”
“There are less and less
protests on campus,” says
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Not a single squawk.
a UCLA graduate student,
Coby Atlas. “I think it’s be
cause it didn’t do much good
—nobody wants to get out
and march when it doesn’t
help anything.”
Simultaneously, college
administrations have gotten
tougher. Blacker says they
will listen to student com
plaints, but they do not
easily yield.
“The days when they
shivered and cowered before
student activists are gone,”
he says. “They are prepared
to kick a student out like a
shot.”
Was the student rebellion
successful? Blacker, a novel
ist as well as professor and
author of the current book,
“Middle of the Fire,” be
-1 i e v e s it accomplished a
little, but not much.
The big push for ethnic
students, he says, didn’t
work. The black studies pro
grams on most campuses
have been a bust.
“Most intelligent blacks,”
Blacker says, “listened to
men like Roy Wilkens who
said you have to succeed by
taking general courses, not
black studies.”
At many campuses across
the nation, those hastily in
stalled black studies pro
grams have been quietly
dropped. At UCLA, for ex
ample, black studies have
been integrated into the gen
eral curriculum—the English
department has some
courses in black poets and
writers, the History depart
ment includes black history
in its regular courses.
But the rebellion did cause
many campuses to give stu
dents a somewhat stronger
voice in campus matters.
The consensus is that, curi
ously, students are frequent
ly rougher on student acti
vists today than the faculties
were formerly.
At USC, students now sit
on certain academic com
mittees which used to be en
tirely faculty-manned. When
a faculty member seeks a
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St. Thomas More Church here with her bridegroom, stockbroker Joseph Daly, following their
marriage. The bride’s mother attended the ceremony, but did not pose for pictures with the
couple. (UPI)
Stock brokerage houses
accused of mismanagement
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Securities and Exchange Com
mission has accused the na
tion’s brokerage houses of
mismanagement during a stock
market volume boom —and
later of helping to precipitate a
stock market price bust.
Its charges are in a
mammoth report of several
hundred thousand words asking
Congress to give it more power
to make more effective the
“self-regulation” system which
has policed the Securities
industry since Congress created
the SEC in response to the 1929
stock market crash.
Its recommendations may
disappoint some who believe
that self-regulation is inade
quate. Sen. Harrison A. Wil
liams Jr., D-N.J., chairman of
the Senate securities subcom
mittee, said in March he saw
signs that self-regulation “is in
some instances inadequate to
meet the needs of the 705.”
SEC Crticism
The SEC criticism was aimed
at the securities industry’s
reaction to the huge and
unexpected surge of orders
which occurred in 1967. It
produced days in which more
than 20 million shares changed
hands —and the industry
proved incapable of dealing
with the resulting paperwork.
In the paper crisis, the SEC
said, brokers’ back offices
became “a trackless forest”
and brokers “lost control,” with
their records “a veritable
Gambles” in “the worst
securities snarl ever exper
ienced.”
Before that problem had
subsided, the industry helped
create the market plunge of
1969-70 by investing too much of
its own capital in stocks, rather
than in improving its own
promotion today, he must
have a certain number of
student signatures on his re
quest. Handbooks are circu
lated which give a student
assessment of courses of
fered and the professors who
give them. Students have a
voice in what happens to
their funds.
In certain departments in
UCLA, students now get to
pick their professors. When
there is to be a sac ull y
change, students interview
prospective professors and
have a voice in selecting the
new one. Students are also
given a voice in the curricu
lum.
“Before the rebellion,”
says Miss Atlas, “most of
us never were able to talk
to a professor individually.
But now, most professors at
tempt an on-going relation
ship and are available.”
There are, today, many
Vietnam veterans on cam
pus and they are older and
more serious toward their
work. Then, too, the colleges
are caught in a population
growth squeeze — each year
there are more applications
for admission, yet no more
places, so the academic
standards are raised and a
more serious crop of stu-
operations. When it was forced
to sell to raise cash, it fed the
downturn in stock prices, the
SEC said.
It also was critical of how the
industry plays the market with
money it does not own —the
uninvested cash left in dealers’
hands by their customers. The
customers realize none of the
profits that might result when
their money is used in that
fashion.
More Power Asked
To prevent a recurrence of
the problem, the SEC asked
Congress for more power to
regulate the New York, Ameri
can and regional stock exchan
ges and th National Association
of Securities Dealers —the
agencies that are supposed to
regulate brokerage houses.
It also sought power to
regulate banks in their role as
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dents results.
From all these factors, a
new type of student body is
emerging. Blacker says
there seems to be less inter
est in athletics (but that
could be because both USC
and UCLA had off-years in
football).
He also thinks fraternities
and sororities no longer have
much appeal. Harris says
that, on the UCLA campus,
the number of fraternities
has declined from a high of
29 to 18.
“The Spring Sing is dead,”
Harris says. “Homecoming
is declining. The only big
campus activity that seems
to survive is the Mardi Gras,
and I believe that’s because
it benefits student charities.”
Blacker thinks all this is
beneficial to academic work.
“Today’s students,” he
says, “are coming to school
for the purpose of getting an
education, not to change the
world. This is a much more
stimulating academic com
munity. The word ‘rele
vance’ has all but disap
peared.
“This year’s student is
just plain more interested in
getting his work done than
he has been for the past 10
years.”
stock depository agents and to
regulate stock transfer agents,
where some of the bottlenecks
occurred.
It sought power to review
rules of the self-regulators
before, not after, these are put
into effect and to discipline
violators if the self-regulators
are too lax.
Viking style
Minnesota Viking coach
Bud Grants compares his
team’s style to that of a
counter-punching boxer: “A
counterpuncher doesn’t wade
in and throw his right hand
all the time. He stays in
there and when the opening
comes, takes advantage of
it. He wins a lot of decisions
that way. We’ve been in
volved in a lot of decisions,
although we don’t have
many knockouts.”
SHOWBfAT
Kanin Remembers
"Spence and Kate"
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By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD—(NEA)—A chance remark more than
35 years ago has led to one of this year’s most interesting
books about Hollywood. The book is “Tracy and Hep
burn,” Garson Kanin’s reminiscences about those two
fascinating people/stars.
The remark was made in 1935 to Kanin by Thornton
Wilder, the great novelist and playwright.
In that year, Kanin, then a young actor, was in a Broad
way play which was based on a Wilder book, so the author
hung around the theater and got to know Kanin.
Wilder was, Kanin says, appalled at the youthful actor’s
lack of education. Kanin had quit high school at 16 and
gone to work as a saxophone player in a Chinese restau
rant, which is how he started his career.
“Wilder outlined a course of reading for me,” Kanin
says, “and furthermore admonished me to write every
thing down, as a means of retaining what I had learned.
I’ve done that carefully ever since. If I don’t write in my
notebooks for a few days, I become ill.”
Kanin estimates his notebooks now contain some five
million words, and his assistants and secretaries are cur
rently cataloguing and microfilming the material.
Much of the material for the book comes out of these
notebooks. But it wasn’t easy. Kanin says he spent more
than a year and a half writing, editing, rewriting and re
editing “Tracy and Hepburn.”
“I’ll never do it again,” he says, “even though my note
books are crammed with material on Wilder, who has
become a great friend, and on Larry Olivier, who is
probably my closest friend.
“But time is slipping away, and I have other, more
creative projects I want to do.”
Kanin first wrote a piece about Katharine Hepburn
alone, for a magazine two years ago. His publisher kept
after him to expand it into a book, but he wasn’t inter
ested until they suggested he enlarge it and include both
Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. He says that idea was so
exciting he couldn’t say no.
Miss Hepburn hasn’t read the book, at least as far as
Kanin knows.
“I wouldn’t send her one,” he says. “I imagine it would
be very painful for her to read about Spence and her that
way. She did read the magazine piece, which was some
thing of a miracle because she honestly doesn’t even read
her own reviews.
“But one morning--it was about 3 a.m. as I remember
—she called to thank me for the piece. Some time later,
she drew me aside and pointed out a factual error, and
also told me of a couple of things she would rather I
hadn’t mentioned. Naturally, those things are not in the
book.”
Kanin and his actress-author wife, Ruth Gordon, no
longer do any writing together. They did do four films
together—including a couple for Tracy and Hepburn—
but no more.
“We never got in the habit of quarreling—and that’s
all quarreling is, just a habit—until after we had written
those four pictures together,” Kanin says. “Then we
fought so hard it was a question of who would kill whom
first.
“So we felt we had better get a professional divorce
before we’d need a physical one. Now she writes and I
write, and neither of us knows what the other one is
working on until it’s finished.”
He lovingly describes his wife as “that nut,” and says
she forces him to get up at 6:30 every morning—she’s up
at six—and he has a hard time keeping up with her. She
just turned 75.
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