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Volume 90 Number 15
Stetson University DeLand, Fla.
January 20, 1978
Fellows Visit
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Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellows
Padraic Kennedy (above) and Ellen
Kennedy complete a w.eek-bng
visit to Stetson today. A recap of
their interview with the REPORTER
[ appears on page 8.
Duncan To Speak
On Stetson's Future
"The Future of Stetson: Where Should The University
Be In Its Centennial Year?" will be the subject of a lecture
by Stetson president Dr. Pope. A. Duncan on Monday, Jan.
30.
The president's lecture will mark the closing and final
major event of Winter Term 78, according to Winter Term
Committee Chairman Dr. Brad Crain. It will be given at 8
p.m. in the Elizabeth Hall Auditorium.
Dr. Crain indicated that the Duncan speech could be
seen simultaneously as a closing for Winter Term and as a
keynote address for the next five years. Stetson will hit its
100 year mark in 1983.
In keeping with the Winter Term theme of "Worlds of
Imagination, Worlds of Reality," Crain indicated that Dr.
Duncan's speech might concern "the realistic imagination
of goals for Stetson" as the university moves into the 1980's.
Forums Highlight Jaynes' Visit
Four lectures and three
faculty forums will highlight
the week-long visit of
psychologist Julian Jaynes
to the Stetson campus, Jan.
23-27.
Professor Jaynes,
Associate Professor and
Research Psychologist at
Princeton University, is the
innovator of a startling new
theory on consciousness in
man, a theory set forth in his
new book, The Origin Of
Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Jaynes and his work were
featured in the March 14,
1977, issue of TIME
magazine. According to that
article, Jaynes asserts that
man operated without
consciousness for thousands
of years, guided mostly by
habit.
When new situations
confronted man, stress was
produced, a stress which
"resulted in unconscious
decisions in the form of inner, audible commands," or
inner voices.
According to Jaynes, man
gradually accommodated
these inner voices, and his
brain became "bicameral":
that is, the left hemisphere of
the brain controlled speech
while the right hemisphere
produced the inner voices.
Eventually, modern man
lost his bicamerality: the
inner voices ceased and
consciousness resulted.
Social institutions such as
religion and the law replaced
the inner voices as the
guidelines for conduct in new
situations.
Some physiological sup
port has been generated for
Jaynes' theories, but they
remain highly controversial
among today's leading
psychologists.
Since Jaynes' interests
naturally spill over into
. other disciplines, a series of
three colloquia will be held
during the week with appropriate faculty members
and outside specialists.
On Tuesday, Jan. 24, the
forum will concern the
implications of Jaynes'
theories for religion. On the
panel will be Dr. William
Thomason of the Religion
Department, Dr. Paul
Steeves of the History
Department, and the Rev.
Charles Bugg, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of
DeLand. The forum will be
held at 3 p.m. in Davis Hall
Auditorium.
The second colloquia with
Jaynes will concern
"Literature and The Arts,"
and will be held Wednesday,
Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. in Davis
Auditorium. Dr. William
Johnson and Dr. Carter
Colwell of the English
Department, and Dr. Rob
Brady of the Philosophy
Department will be panelists
for that forum.
The third and final
colloquia will be held
Thursday, Jan. 26, also at 3
p.m. in the Davis
Auditorium. This forum will
concern the implications
of Jaynes' theories on
psychology and sociology,
and will feature Dr. Charles
Vedder of the Sociology
Department and Dr. Richard
Kindred of the Psychology
Cont'd, p. 4
Gurney, Hoopes Debate Treaty
By Frank X. McAloon
Stetson University played host to two distinguished
guests last Friday the thirteenth. The occasion was a public
forum entitled "The Panama Treaties: A Boon to the
Americas?"
Former United States senator Edward Gurney spoke
against the Panama Canal treaties. Townsend Hoopes,
former Undersecretary of the Air Force, spoke in favor of
the treaties.
Both men spoke to nearly full Elizabeth Hall Chapel
crowd composed of students and a large number of town's
people.
Gurney, who is rumored to be making a an attempt at
reentering the political arena, labled the treaties "absurd"
in reference to the U.S. having to seek bilateral agreement
for any kind of intervention in the Canal zone.
Hoopes rebuttled that the committee Gurney was
referring to, a board composed of half Panamanians and
half Americans, had no power over possible U.S. intervention. Said Hoopes, "The treaty in no way encumbers
our right to intervene." "There is no link between the
committee and us," he stated.
In his summation, Hoopes made reference to the
dwindling use by U.S. ships of the Canal. It is important,
"not to exaggerate the Canal's importance," said Hoopes!
"total ship transits has declined to 13,000 a year in 1976."
Gurney objected to the removal of the U.S. presence in
Panama. "The right of intervention is no good without our
actually oeing mere," said Gumey.
Gurney also claimed the economic value of the Canal.
"The Canal is essential to the economics of the U.S." he
stated. "We must have unfettered use of the Canal,"
Gurney said.
the ex-senator emphasized the continued presence of
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U.S. can act at once."
Retorting to claims of neo-colonialism, Gurney firmly
stated, "There is no colonial exploitation."
In response to the possiblity of terrorism if the U.S.
does not ratify the treaties, Gurney said, "We would be in a
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