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- Fringe" because it means that there's nothing you can do about it ex cept maybe join a militant movement," she added. "The truth is," she declared,"that for the vast majority of women it is much more fulfilling--if they want--to stay at home with the children than to have a job outside which very often would be a factory or clerical or secretarial job." Most social problems--in particular, "the impersonality and monotony of a lot of jobs, the impersonality of society generally "--are problems faced by men and women alike--and not as men against women, or vice The Editc CU, but I would surmise that even that would be performed by a close, personal friend. A third case in point is the Center for Cultural Development. The Center was begun under Dr. Jones, so the trend appears to be consistent. Without even having a chance to prove itself, the Center will be abolished as of Sept. 1. As a result, the Director of the Center, Dr. Bert Dillon, resigned to return to teaching. It seems that whenever a comp etent person is given an ad ministrative position, the rest of . the administrators react with an extreme amount of paranoia. Are they fearful that if too many competent people became administrators at USC, it would case the downfall of the University structure! And so it has been shown that decisions are going to be made arbitrarily at the top by the "upper echelon clique." It has been said that when rape is inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it. While this bears no semblance to enjoyment, it does seem very likely that it is inevitable. And it also appears that any reminders of President Jones will be exterminated so that not a trace remains, regardless of merit. It's quite ironic that while the state of South Carolina seems to be moving towards progression, the university is regressing further than ever, with no rational reasons able to be found . Thomas Jones, where are you? With all your faults, at least you were sincerely in terested in education and in novation. Name witheld by request. .Ed.--The other sIde took the opport(unlty to speak out on this issue. Keep reading. Doris Repliesr TIo T'he Editor l{ecent accounts and( letters sugge'st tha t considera ble con - fusion exist s over' the' stat us of t he ('nt cmnporarv> liniversity Editor's Note: This article was we received from "Viva" mag. versa, she said. "In that sense women's lib has the targets all wrong." "Women's lib tries to get around the problem of meaninglessness by a tremen dous emphasis on self development and self-fulfillment. They emphasize selfishness to the exclusion of everything else, and completely ignore the fact that very often the easiest and most fulfilling way to find con tentment and happiness is through relationships with others." On marriage, Miss Stassinopoulos observes that "today, marriage is expected to Program. The Program has two quite different components that must be carefully distinguished. First, and most important, is the opportunity for students to work out --with a faculty committee up to nine (12 or 15) hours of guided independent study. This opportunity was approved by the Faculty Senate and conti,ues in effect until such tirrie (if any) that it is changed by faculty action. I know of no proposed faculty action to change this opportunity. The. second component of the Contemporary University Program has been a separate administrative unit, consisting of a faculty director and two or more staff. The question of whether the cuerrent ad ministrative structure of Contemporary University Projects is required to make possible intensive, in terdisciplinary independent study has been reviewed, and the answer is clearly, "No." It is extremely difficult to justily the continuation of a separate ad ministrative structure for a student load that is currently 12 persons and that has seldom been above 30 in the recent past. I have asked the Vice President for Instruction, Dr. John R. Welsh, to determine how best to ensure continued student op portunity to engage in Con temporary University Projects, and I expect his report on this matter early in the fall term. Dr. Bert Dillon. acting director of Contemporary University has made a personal pledge to see that students currently enrolled in Contemporary University projects have someone to consult during fall term registration and later. Students interested in Con temporary University projects for the spring term should work out their plans with one or more faculty members and get in touch withVicePresident Welsh's office about policies and procedures for such projects prior to spring term pre-registration. Keith E Davis Actinlg Provost Ed(.--Thanlk you for presenting the admiinistration's side of the issue'. You can see manyIB opinionS a)f the, studt'nts on this nage. .4 taken from a press release zine. fulfill practically all the needs of the two partners, whereas it used to be chiefly a convenient arrangement. . . . In ' way, the very high divorce cate is a manifestation not of the failure of marriage as an institution, but of how much higher our ex pectations are now than they once were." Moreover, she said, "the strength of a relationship only comes after a couple have fought through their difficulties." In the contemporary rush for "new experiences," many people don't. have the patience to wait for a relationship to mature and strengthen. Nixon: President Nixon is a King Richard and most Americans know it. That's the opinion of the genial anarchist philosopher Karl Hess, the former speechwriter for Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) and the author of Nixon's 1960 Republican campaign platform. Writing in the August issue of "Penthouse" magazine, Hess who has changed radically in recent years--declares: "No matter what the Con stitution says about the President being merely the chief executive or administrator of the govern ment, the President actually is king." Moreover, Hess asserts, "Most Americans fully understand this." He cites Sen. Hugh Scott (R.-Pa.) who called "the im peachment of the President 'regicide,' the killing of a king." Hess achieved fame, in part, by authoring the controversial lines used by Sen. Goldwater during his 1964 presidential bid against Lyndon Johnson: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And. .. moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Today, Hess attacks hard-core Nixon supporters, saying, "Some, those who call themselves the silent majority, say that, in effect, they want the president to be a king, to have absolute power and not be subject to restrictions.... Such 'people seem to feel that the natural order of things is for a few powerful people to run things." A position of such power lends itself readily to the assumption of kingly attitudes, but, says Hess, the men attracted to the office in late years have seemed unusually susceptible--and for a r'eason. According to Hess, "Recent presidents. . . are not working people," in any sense. "They have no craft." he goes on to say, and "they have been essentially non-creative, but ambitiously consumed people." "Nixon has done nothing but seek power all of his life." as Hess sees it. But the larger implications of th(' nrnbhl('m hane les to (10 with COM Isolated So Editor's Note: This article was taken from a press release we received from "Penthouse" magazine. individually ambitious men, says Hess, and more to do with a political tendency in the country which has destroyed politics: "The problem really isn't--or wasn't--Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy at all. The problem is the presidency itself and the sort of totally dependent, top-down, kinglike sort of politics that the office has come to embody and that the country has had to endure." The result is that, according to Hess, "Politics has been dead for many Americans, for many years." The whole direction of American politics is toward placing all power and political action in the hands of the few, "Who use the rhetoric of democracy simply to in stitutionalize the practice of monarchy or dictatorship." For the mass of citizens at the bottom of the pyramid of power, ."loyalty to the president has become a full measure of their identity," or so says Hess. Hess also sees something dangerous in certain cliches about the relation of the mass to its leaders: we [ Jr vereign 'rally behind," and "look up :o' them. The spectre of Watergate makes clear the langers of the tendency. Hess ays, "The highest praise reaped >r sought by most people is to be a 'team player.' " The shape of political power in America. which has a few exercising power over the many, has begun to find expression in other aspects of our lives, says Hess: "There are 13 million govern ment workers in America. That means that more than one out of every five working Americans has a government job and those jobs. in turn, are over whelmingly--almost exclusively concerned withcontrolling, rather than producing for, citizens." "On top of that," says Hess, "the number of foremen, supervisors, clerks, and policemen in private industry and business is obviously in creasing, as administration becomes one of the major 'work' catagories of out time." Hess offers these figures to back up his contention: "In 1950 there were 14 million persons classified as clerks, managers, officials, or proprietors, while 22 million were classified as people doing real work;" in 1970, "the clerk-managers had risen to more than 21 million while the number of productive workers fell to 18 million." In addition, says Hess, "The number of self-employed people declined from about five million twenty years ago to just about a million today." The point Karl Hess makes is that when Nixon says the citizenry are "like children in a family," he is describing a turn towards dependency in the people which permits kings at the top where there once were presidents. The further point is that what is happening in politics is reflected throughout American life. Hess concludes that, "Today the working people of the world, all the creative, productive people have a new need to act." And the place to begin, says Hess. may be with more and more communication among the mass of Americans. His advice: "Start talking to your neighhor."