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THE OPTIMIST
MARCH IS 1870
PAGE 2
EDITORIAL
'Give Time to People'
Quoting from Joseph Adel-
son's article "What Generation
Gap?" In the January 18 New
York Times magazine: "The
meat obvious conceptions! error
and yet the most common is to
generalize from a narrow seg-
ment of the young to the entire
younger generation."
People who believe there is a
generation gap with remarkable
consistency simply ignore the
statements belcifs and activities
of the non-college youth or the
ordinary straight un-turned-on
nonactivist collegian.
The typical television special
on the theme "What Is Happen-
ing to Our Youth?" is likely to
feature a panel of four: (1) a
ferocious black militant (2) a
feverish member of the SDS (3)
a supercilious leader of the
Young Americans for Freedom
and (4) a hopelessly muddled
moderate presumably to repre-
sent the other 90 percent.
Adelson points out that "hav-
ing attended to my sorrow
many convocations of experts
on the young I can attest that
most of us are experts on
atypical fractions of the young:
on heavy drug users or delin-
quents or hippies or the alien-
ated or dropouts or the dissi-
dent . . . Most of us have never
had a serious and extended
conversation with a youngster
from the working or lower
middle class"
Another man this one a
minister who spoke here re-
cently explained the "gap"
better. He said it was not a
generation gap but a communi-
cation gap. He added: "I would
hope that young people and old
people alike may soon come to
realize that they do not have to
be boxed into the problem of
communication within their gen-
eration or the mass with whloh
they identify.
"Breakdown in communica-
tion" he continued "is still a
breakdown between individuals
or one generation and individ-
uals of another." He concluded
his talk: "It is Important that
you give time to people young
and old if you expect to
communloate."
There is some evidence which
can be used to argue that the
"gap" is closing. Life magazine
reported recently that "a strange
quiet has settled on America's
college campuses which only
last spring were boiling with
noisy confrontations."
The magazine conducted a
survey and pointed to this quote
by a Colorado student as coming
closest to summing up the
mood: "The radicals are suffer-
ing from a case of the blahs the
liberals are frustrated and there
seems to be no movement in any
directions except back toward
oneself."
WHO SAID THINGS ARE
BLACK
an
1 1 1 li HIM iB i iK i
And then who proved it?
Very few things are.
Some people you like a little
some a lot it isn't just like and
dislike. Neither is a man's skin.
Caucasian (white) Negro (black)
Indian (red) Oriental (yellow)
- all are only a certain
shade of brown.
Try Friendship
But Life pointed out that the
stillness is hardly serenity. "The
hard issues (the draft Vietnam
drugs) are still deeply felt.
Concern Is too Ingrained for a
return to the cool detachment of
the 1950s . . . The strategy of
head-on dissent however suc-
cessful proved to be too painful
to sustain."
The Urban Research Corpora-
tion of Chicago recently re-
ported from a study of 232
campuses only one out of 10
students directly participated in
protests violence of any kind
occurred in less than one-fourth
of the protests and Injuries In
seven percent of them and
non-negotiable demands were
made in only six percent of the
protests.
Pay attention to something
besides the six o'clock news and
the morning headlines. Often
they don't get excited about the
other 90 percent.
LETTER TO EDITOR
Paty Family
Sends Thanks
Student body and faculty:
We thank God every day for
the wonderful Christian colleges
of our nation and more
especially for Abilene Christian
College. Abilene Christian Col-
lege has been very much a part
of our lives for the past 10 years.
We appreciate the many things
done for our sons Joe and Britt
and for us in our time of great
need.
We would like to thank each
of you Individually but of
course that is impossible. One of
the speakers in the memorial
service said "This k a wonderful
plaee and there are many
wonderful people here."
I heartily agree with this. So
many of you did so many things
to help us and Britt and to
encourage him and to help
relieve our grief we just couldn't
imagine so many would care
enough to do the many things
you wonderful people did. For
all of this we are very grateful.
We have heard from all over
the world word from people
who attended the service or
talked to someone who did
attend saying how beautiful the
singing was and how much it
added to the service. Many
heartfelt thanks to the members
of the choir who sang at Britt's
funeral.
Our thanks also to those who
gave blood and those who
offered to but were unable to
give and for the many other
gifts and messages and visits.
Again we would like to express
our appreciation to those who
had charge of the Sing-Song for
our tickets. It was a wonderful
show and a great inspiration to
see that many young people
putting on a good show and
having a wonderful time doing
it.
Thanks again for being the
kind of people who care enough
to do something about it. May
ACC continue to be a great
Christian institution and it will
be with people like you as a part
of It.
Love
The Family of Britt Paty
some truth
some shuck
from raymon fullwton
The elections held this week
bring on the usual onslaught of
spring action anchored by the
cheerleader selections. I use the
word selection rather than elec-
tion beoause that Is just what
transpires a selection.
We could go back to the high
school days and remember how
we chose the people beoause
they were the cutest girl or best
looking boy. Well I ant here to
say that this method Is a bunoh
of trash. How about that old
favorite descriptive noun:
ability? But then someone has to
determine what ability is and of
course who are we to set
ourselves up as judges?
I suggest that we throw out
the method of letting the initial
try outs be held in front of the
ACC senate. Obviously no up-
right senator will read this and
agree with it because It is a
threat to his power. Nobody in
his right mind is gonna give away
power invested in him by demo-
cratic processes.
Anyway there are qualified
persons on campus (students)
who know what to look for In a
cheerleader hopeful. I say quali-
fied and I mean more qualified
than the senate as a group
representing the student body.
Immediately some will say after
reading this today "He is
crazy."
Think about it. There are two
graduating senior cheerleaders
who will not be back next year.
ASP Grants
Announced
Thirty graduate fellowships
have been made available to
qualified teachers for the 14 th
annual American Studies Pro-
gram this summer at Abilene
Christian College according to
Edward L. Kirk ACC associate
professor of education and
program coordinator.
The fellowships pay for room
board tuition and fees for the
summer program June 1 - July
10.
The program was established
in 1957 at ACC with coopera-
tion from the Coe Foundation
of New York.
Kirk explained that "any
teacher under 60 years of age
may apply. Abo eligible will be
college students who are grad-
uating and who fulfill require-
ments for certification as teach-
ers." All American Studies Program
participants must be admitted to
the ACC Graduate School and
completed application forms
must be returned to Kirk by
April 1.
ASP faculty members include
Kirk; Dr. George Ewlng profes-
sor and head of the ACC
Department of English; Dr. Oval
Fllbeck professor and head of
the ACC Department of Educa-
tion; Dr. Rex P. Kyker
professor and head of the ACC
Department of Communication;
and Dr. William E. Wright
professor of business administration.
A member of the senate who is
the president of that group is a
former cheerleader. These I site
as "qualified" pern to attest
to desirability ability and
capability of potential cheer-
leaders. So how about it? I call on
whoever is Interested enough to
get with It before time runs out.
I am not and hear m out I
am not proclaiming myself to be
an expert oheerleader scout nor
am I announcing my eandldacy
for cheerleader.
I am merely airing some
legitimate questions which need
attention . . . and now. Some
possible alternatives .would be
for the first tryouts to be before
the two outgoing senior cheer-
leaders and a small group se-
lected by them; tryouts still held
before the senate but removal
of the senate's power of weeding
people out; or a secret ballot
selection by members of ACC
athletic teams. The latter sugges-
tion has been tried and found to
be workable on other campuses.
By now you begin to get the
picture that there may be room
for improvement in the area
discussed. And before you rush
home to your typewriter and
fire off an obnoxious letter to
me or the editor think about
what I have said here and hash it
over.
One thing In closing concern-
ing the band and halftlme shows.
There seemed to be an evident
Increase of folks who stayed on
to hear and see the musloal
numbers done by the Big Purple
rather than stay out until the
last possible second before the
second half tip off. This has to
be indicative of increasing stu-
dent support of our fine band.
Mission Study
To Host Meeting
By DIBI ROBERTS
Optimist Staff Writer
An "Outreach Seminar" for
high school and interested col-
lege students will be hosted by
the Abilene Christian College
Mission Study and Students
Association Saturday April 18.
Registration will be at S a.m.
in the main room of the
McGlothlin Campus Center.
Tiie purpose of the seminar
will be to help high school
students understand God's com-
mand to reach out to others
with His Word according to
officials.
Stanley Shlpp director of
missions for Highland Church of
Christ In Abilene; Dr. Anthony
L. Ash associate professor of
Bible at ACC; and Bob Douglas
minister for College Church of
Christ in Abilene will deliver the
day's keynote addresses.
Shipp will begin the seminar
at 9 a.m. with "Christ Now." Dr.
Ash will speak at 10 a.m. on
"Who Is Christ?" and Douglas
will discuss "Christ In Your
Future" at 1 p.m.
For further information write
to Outreach Seminar ACC Sta-
tion Box 7318 Abilene Texas
78601.
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