The Stetson Reporter

FLORIDA'S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Friday, May 10, 1968 NUMBER 22 •a __ O /• ,»»?-_. 5 Va ,_? / ,/.' j-fx-Zj&i-. >#■■/• Bond, Lerner, Russell Kirk Featured Political Emp Week Starts S asis THE PMS AWARD which goes to the senior cadet who, in the opinion of the Professor of Military Science, has demonstrated outstanding achevement, was presented by Colonel McCorvey to Cadet Colonel Ned B. Ricks. English Majors Win Awards Six senior English major's have been awarded fellowships for graduate study next fall, according to Dr. Byron Gibson, English Department chair man. David Heath, Mike Raymond, Larry L u s t i g. Jay Evans, Cindy McClain and Dennis Ripley have been notified of grants up to $6,600 in value. Heath, one of two Stetsonites recently named Woodrow Wilson Fellows, and Raymond have won NDEA fellowships. to .the University of Florida. Jay Evans goes to Duke. University, courtesy of the NDEA. Evans' roommate, Larry Lus- tig, has been awarded a U.of F. English assistantship. Cindy McClain , is the recipient of a University of North •Carolina fellowship grant of $2100 plus a waiver of out-of- state tuition, to specialize in Linguistics. Dennis Ripley has won an NDEA three-year doctoral program award at the University of Georgia. Ripley's award is for a total of $6,600. By DAVE DEMURS The DIALOGUE '68 program will begin on Sunday night. May 12, and continue through Friday, May 17. Its main point of emphasis will be Urban Problems, specifically the challenge presented to America by deprivation and poverty. The schedule included with this article states the various titles and subjects to be considered. CHAPEL CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN. BRING YOUR IBM CARDS. A new event has been added to the Political Emphasis Week program this year, by Co-Chairmen David Demers and Thomas Johnston. They have decided to include a brief prologue or introduction to the entire week. The Lincoln-Douglas debates have been selected for this purpose. They will be presented by Dr. Gerald Critoph and Dr. Rollin Armour of the Stetson faculty and music will be provided by Tom Ivey, Mary Hood ahd Mike Smith. The first guest to appeal;, ou cur campus will be Dr. Russell Kirk who is well known as a lecturer, columnist, and Professor of Politics. He writes and speaks widely on conservative thought, educational theory, and literary criticism, and he is one of the top conservative thinkers in the United States today. ... Professor Kirk is a Bachelor of Arts of Michigan State University, and a Doctor of Letters at St. Andrews University in Scotland^He has been a Senior fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and is a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of many books, his best known being The Conservative Mind. His daily column, "To the Point," appears in more than one hundred newspapers across America, and he is recognized for iris excellent STETSON ROYALTY selected at Wednesday's Hatter Holiday festivities are, from left: 3rd Runner Up Ann McTureous; 1st Runner Up Kris Kane; Miss Stetson Dee Lewis; Mr. Stetson Frank Thomas; 2nd "Runner Up Lindy Jackson; 4th Runner Up Toni Walter; and Friendship Award Winner Pat Stultz. Winners of the field day events were Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta Delta Delta. presentation of the conservative philosophy. The students will have an opportunity to delve into this philosophy on Monday, May 13. On Wednesday, May 15, Stetson will be honored by the presence of two distinguished guests —Mr. Julian Bond of the Georgia State Legislature and Mr. Louis Ritter of the Office of Economic Opportunity. These two gentlemen will join together to discuss the present efforts being made alleviate the poverty problem. Mr. Bond, presently a member of the Georgia legislature, is noted as a writer and lecturer. He was brought to national recognition after his election in 1966 to his present office, at which time he spoke out against the U.S. position in Vietnam. His own personal commitment on this issue resulted in a denial of his House seat, and the issue was finally settled by the United States Supreme Court. They ruled that the young Mr. Bond could not be legally deprived of his seat on the grounds put forward by thc legislature. Julian Bond is also known for his liberalism and his participation in the Civil Rights movement. Along these lines he has been an organizer and advocate cf the New Left, Publicity Director of SNCC until September of 1965, and an officer in C.O.R.E. A high ranking official of the Office of Economic Opportunity will also be with us on May 15 — Mr. Louis Ritter, who is now the Assistant Director of that agency for Public Officials Relations and thus is in a position to describe most of the present programs. He is a native of Florida and was at one time Mayor of Jacksonville, where his family now resides. Mr. Ritter will speak to the issue of adequacy of the present programs. On Thursday, May 16, author, teacher, journalist, Max Lerner will be on our campus. He dirt his college and law'studies at Yale University, his graduate work at the Brookings graduate School of Economics and Government, and he has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Williams College, and Harvard University. Mr. Lerner is currently a professor of American civilization and World Politics at Brandeis University. The well known journalist and scholar has traveled to almost every part of the world, and has lectured before university groups on six continents. His newspaper column, which he writes three times a week, appears in the New York Post, and is widely syndicated, in the United States and internationally, by the Los Angeles Times. This column can be read regularly in one of the area newspapers — The Daytona Beach News Journal. Mr. Lerner has also written for many national magazines. unday JULIAN BOND MAX LERNER It _-&» IT •_»* KUSSEL-L KIRK