Stetson Reporter

™::T5r:!'ii:.;^^ sirsiiisiiSBWiiiiiiiS «i««minwstMHWMmn<>nw lie Stetson Volume 90 Number 15 Stetson University DeLand, Fla. January 20, 1978 Fellows Visit ? 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 , *e.u;!^ ???^f^;-$fl>.t*e u-s-. jhPlace/Vbesaid.rthe., 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 Cont'd, d. 4 i ■*:- ■* 'v ■ i- iV.'- . ^y i