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tlje famitlp el Detro M an, IN CO Jan. 21st Township. $3 Ti,c,ets ma presents 0 'it. featuring itch Ryder i others NCERT - 8:00pm Auditorium Box Office Humble c win, stud To win a local election in South Carolina it's good to have a higher social status, more education and be more humble than your op ponent, but it's not necessary to out do him in campaign spending or television appearances. These facts were revealed in a study completed by USC political scientist John B. McConaughy which looked at personality traits and other characteristics of 67 candidates--46 winners and 21 losers. The candidates, who came from three South Carolina coun ties, had all run in 1968 local elections. The study, McConaughy said, aimed first to determine whether elected officials are commonplace, as contended by the critics of democracy, and secondly to find if personality factors play an im potant role in the success of a candidate. "From the 16 personality tests given to each candidate, both the successful and unsuccessful candidates ranked far above the general population of the United States," McConaughy said. "The candidates were more intelligent, Professor x freedom in Educators today disagree on whether or not it's possible to teach values to children in the classroom, but a USC philosophy professor has proposed a method to teach the value of freedom. In a paper entitled "Teaching a Man to be Free," Dr. Robert J. Mulvaney em phasizes that "a man learns to be free by learning to act justly." Mulvaney argued that a child can learn to act justly through artistic instruction in his school. "Since school is the place where politics and education meet (sometimes head on)," Mul van ey wr ote, "philosophers of education ought to give renewed at tention to the possibility that the only education for freedom is an education for justice." Some contemporary radicals, Mulvaney explained, define freedom as "the ab sence of all conceivable restraint," and this type of freedom, he said, would indeed be impossible to teach in the classroom. Drawing from the works of philosophers such as Kant and Montesquieu, Mulvaney< argued that basic freedom can I be defined as "freedom from 8-TRACK STEREO TAP Mo~st All Artists Availab All Priced $3.00-$3.50 Large Selection in Stock Unlimited Supply Fully SPECIAL This Week On $2.75 For Artists Such A Issac Hayes, Hendrix, i 3 Dog Niaht, and more. C'all 'tS4-7570 or Cc 77 UniversIty Terr andidates y shows outgoing and controlled in their behavior." However, McConaughy found only one personality trait, that of humility, to be significantly stronger in the winners than in the losers. On the scale of humble to assertive, he said, the successful candidates rated 22 per cent more humble than the unsuccessful ones. "Thus personality does not seem to play a large role in the success of a candidate," McConaughy said. "But it does seem that a certain type of personality chooses to run for office in the first '*ce." McConaughy did find that several characteristics other than personality traits were significantly stronger among the winners than the losers. These include being an in cumbent or having held office before, coming from the upper social status and having a higher education, planning to run again, being a lawyer and being a member of civic cinhA >roposes struction the fear of another." The professor said a man is free in a society in which he does not fear for his own safety and in which he respects the safety of others. "So if we ask what does it mean to teach a man to be free," Mulvaney said, "we can answer that it means to teach him to have consistent rules of conduct and to respect himself and other men, and these characteristics are also characteristics of justice." Mulvaney then argued that one way to teach children these common characteristics of freedom and justice is to in troduce them to the arts. For example, he said, lhrough school art class a child tirst sees that others in his class also deserve respect. The child then learns to respect iimself and other children as 'free creative agents," Mulvaney said. Similarly, he said, the ar ristic experience for the child n art or music class reveals to tim that he actually has inner iemands for form and order. "A child learns that his art work needs to have set rules and limits to go by," Mulvaney explained, "and this can help tim learn that his own freedom leeds a notion of order." E S $3.00 le iuaranteed CASS ET TE S : & Tina, Tull Havens, Sly, me By ace m-9 m