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Middh D.. cii^. R9j ciucu vjtwi They call it the politics desperately dull, pedestrian The eyes of the voters refuse larger than the fine print oi candidates in turn have no than that of a simple majority What nasses for leadershic the apocryphal Frenchman table at the sidewalk cafe goes the mob. I am their lea ? them." At times it seems rather a: paign is just a case study foi Burns, the Williams profe congressional candidate, whc original book on something a Burns no longer looks at po the power or even the persona J from the point of view of the ft he describes as a dynamic, b Using a psychological moc hierarchy of human needs. 1 "lowest" ? the simple a matters of survival like food, to the higher issues of self-fi values like those of justice c playwright Bertolt Brecht, h comes the belly, then morali Burns says that those who a just power-holders, engage p< needs they feel. But they go o "lower," even "selfish," need profound social values. They inspire followers. In this leader-less camps talking about "basics." Desj live in a country that is rel; election is heralded as a br< paign about economics, taxe The pain that's felt over th real. But it's not the pain of hi the middle class that is protest and not the poor. Yet, the panicked about the lack of fo< the price of meat. They arei lack of a roof over their heack I of a home of their own. (3?lly Quffiru^oa \Q/; * /mHbL v^8B Jfffi^K \ i i ? class want Iman They are plagt status and bv the 1 of selfishness, this are people who ar mid-term election. to avoid lowering to focus on any issue Psychologists li f their tax bill. The defined this hiera vision more cosmic the "lower" needs on election day. are satisfied, the; ? now reminds me of "higher" needs, who leapt from his people are simply exclaiming, "There is essential to the der. I have to follow Among the votir a television set, t b if this entire cam- for their childrer r James MacGregor Doing without the ssor and one-time This feeling is be > has written a truly by the power-seek illed, "Leadership." don't have the soi litics as a matter of who can articula lity of the leader, but cerns into the lar blowers. Leadership Right now we vo-way relationship. mistrust and a v lei, this man lists a candidate to appc Tiey range from the higher values wai nri sh*niohtfnPuror/l nKftril nf TT?MU VUVftU VI WlXl^CI II shelter and safety ? trust. But all this 1 ilfillment and moral White House dail ItSSLH^Si Theo^othern it 7, ' sensibility greatei y* Kennedy, a man re great leaders, not goosebumps, but eople in terms of the climate, n to transform these The politics of s Is into broader, more expression of the both respond to and government wast* of rptrpflt of lasl lign, we are again A people witho rite the fact that we terms, without a atively affluent, the fused not only ab< sad-and-butter cam- about the directio: s, inflation. back from the pu People who arei esc matters is very do {or the mger or of cold. It s left deserted an, lng most effectively questions about vt middle class isn't ^ od but rather about p i't angry about the i hut nhnnt (ho /?/**? (cj 1Q7Q TV?*? 'j ??#? ? MIWM* MIV WOV AiTIU) A AIV/ UUOt\j The Washington 1 76 pP^ " He DROPPED HIS MAT! HE. CAN'T FIND IT F s more ied by the need for security of fear of upward immobility. They e most desperate in their desire [ their expectations. ike Abe Maslow (who originally rcny) nave suggested that when \ of people ? food, shelter, etc. ? y'll move on and up to express What is happening then is that changing their ideas about what jm. ig American middle class, a car, i house, even college education i are now considered "basic." :se things feels like deprivation, ing reflected, even encouraged, arc Ufhnwanf tKaiv D..* WU ? nuut uiwi V ULCJ. IJUI YVC rt of leaders Burns talks about, te and transform specific conger issues underlying them, seem to suffer from both a acuum of leadership. The last sal to the voters on the basis of s Carter. He touched a national about family, community and has lain dormant in the crush of iness. ational figure appealing to some * fKon fVin fov Kill Kto f11 . uian uit uxa uni uua icux id icu who can still raise hopes and who isn't running for office in elfishness is in part a legitimate anger aroused by inflation and 3. But I think it is also the politics ; resort. ut real leadership, in Burns' sense of shared purpose, conout the erosion of security, but n and meaning of society, turn blic arena. n't even asked these days what | iir country or for each other are d fractured, with no deeper ilues than the ones they see on a in Globe Newspaper Company- . Post Writers Group \ BOOK AND NOW OR ALL THE TRASH" SG imma tolerated rr? al? njia iv me CiUiiur; Two months at this campus have acquire a disgust with the childish sti why its continuation is allowed. Never before have I seen such imn submit that it is past time that it be put of a strong student voice in the decisi< equally strong advocate of requiremei maturity and responsibility expected What exists here is not student g< sophomoric individuals seeking to i perceive to be the hard-nosed world of but well-deserved. Even without formal charges of n embezzlement, rigged elections and p< concerns of the student leaders are i within the university. Instead, their in political maneuvers, rather than in government. And now there is a threat to sue the of a civil statute. If nothing else does, school that conditions have become ic Paper not jc 'why stai To the Editor: n a With regard to the Oct. 27 page ii story and editorial concerning a ti violation of the Freedom of In- s< formation Act by the Student Senate, let me say that you people at the Gamecock are taking a G rather holier-than-thou attitude. " v, You say on the front page that it, a ? * - - - me siuaent senate's failure "to comply with the FOI has hampered J our ability to report that we deem ( ? Ganxaco c k j I PI 4 F J jSB j II s *HaM . < j j&B , - BUH]IBBBBHMi8BfilHB^B ' j . . - HPn i|pgfasg^j ES*$3?5 w jgRHBSB w ^BBBbBBB ^ j/ v G tturity too long been sufficient time for me to udent legislature and to wonder laturity tolerated so long, and I to an end. 1 am a strong advocate >ns of a university, but I am an its that the students act with the of college-aged adults. overnment, but a plaything for mitate what they superficially politics. These are harsh words, lisconduct, the rumors alone of tlitical infighting indicate that the not with providing student input terests lie in the exercise of petty the provision of leadership and SG in state court for the violation this matter alone should show the lintin U - - uvuk, wuc3 n nui provuKe a sense See IMMATURITY, page 19 urnalistic; rt now?' ewsworthy." Granted, it may be a journalistic" right to seek an function to make public the anscripts of the illegal executive sssion. 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