Stetson Reporter

Forum, Poetry Reading To Highlight Wilson Visit An open forum on urban planning and a poetry reading of black arid European literature will be the featured events next week as Stetson hosts two visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellows, Padraic and Ellen Kennedy. Both of the major events are scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 18. The poetry reading by Ellen Kennedy will take place at 4 p.m. in Allen Hall, and the forum with Padriac Kennedy will begin at 8 p.m. in the Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. Ellen Kennedy has had a distinguished career as a writer and translator of modern French and black French writers. German and Spanish poetry, as well as French, will be discussed at the reading, according to Marjorie Gilbert, organizer of the event. The forum with Padriac Kennedy features the president of the Columbia Association in an open discussion with a panel of four Stetson students. Those students include Debbie Farmer, Edward Dupree, Russell Schropp, and a student froir. the Business School to be named later. Ion Sancho will moderate the discussion. The forum is being organized by John Schorr of the Stetson Sociology Department. The Columbia Association administers Columbia, Md.. Cont'd, pg. 3 The Stetson Volume 90 Number 14 Stetson University DeLand, Fla. January 13, 1978 omen Back In Action sk^V?:6 y ..if -1 ; - ,?*:■, .11 , i*Vf- The Women's Basketball Team returned to action last week in this loss to Upper Iowa. The women had better luck with Brevard CC. Stories on pg. 7 Canal Debates, Art-Show Scheduled For This Weekend Edward Gurney, former U.S. Senator from Florida, will debate Townsend Hoopes, former Undersecretary of the Air Force, on the Panama Canal treaties at Stetson University on January 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Elizabeth Hall. Hoopes, now president of the Association of American Publishers, will debate in support of the treaties now pending for ratification before the U.S. Senate. Gurney, who served in the senate from 1969-75, will oppose the pacts. Hoopes is the author of the Devil and John Foster Dulles and The Limits of Intervention. Gurney gained national prominence as a member of the Senate Select Debate Held On Minority Quotas, Bakke Before nearly 100 students and faculty members last Tuesday in the Elizabeth Hall auditorium, a debate between two professors from the Stetson College of law was held on the legal aspects of minority quotas in college admissions. "We feel that this is the type of topic that touches upon many of our graduates," explained Dr. Gary Maris, moderator of the debate. Maris is professor of Political Science at Stetson. The arguments and discussions centered on the case of Allan Bakke v. the University of California, a case that is now before the Supreme Court of the United States. Several years ago, Bakke was denied admission to the California Medical School even though his admissions credentials were substantially higher than many of those admitted. Admissions policy at the medical school reserved a certain number of places in each entering class for minority group students. As far as Bakke was concerned, it was a case of ".c discrimination' where he was denied admission because he was white. The Supreme Court of the State of California upheld Bakke's suit, and the university appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Minority quotas in high education are going against the laws of the land, against the Constitution of the United States, and in some cases it can be said that the cure is worse than the disease," commented Dr. Tom Marks, who argued for Bakke in the debate. He elaborated that, while minority quotas were designed to offset years of injustice suffered by blacks and other minorities, they also did result in reverse discrimination against whites. Marks cited a comment by Supreme Court Justice Douglass as an option to minority quotas. Douglass proposed that each applicant for admission be evaluated on his individual merit, an evaluation that could consider such things as an underprivileged background. On the other hand, Dr. Everett Cushman argued that there must be made a distinction of "invideous" and "benign" classification by race, and that minority quotas Committee investigating the 1972 national elections and dubbed the "Watergate Committee." Dr. Evans C. Johnson, director of the two-day program and chairman of the Department of History at Stetson University said that the speakers were chosen because "each has national name recognition, each has taken a well defined position on the treaties, and each is an articulate spokesman for his position." After the debaters have spoken, they will be questiosted by a panel of Stetson faculty and staff members: Major General John Bowley (USAF. ret Dr. Gerald Critoph Chairman of the Depart ment of American Studies and Dr. Gary Maris Associate Professor of Political Science. The two-day program will begin at 2:00 p.m., January 13, in the Stetson Room of the Carlton Union Building with a statement of historical background by Dr. Kevin J. O'Keefe, Stetson's diplomatic historian and author of A Thousand Deadlines. O'Keefe's talk will introduce "Canai Zone," a Frederick Wiseman film. Following the Friday night debate, the program will continue with the opening of a Caribbean Art Show on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. in Stetson's Sampson Hall gallery. It will include paintings of Central American scenes recently given to Stetson by Louis Freund, formerly chairman of Stetson's Department of Art; paintings from the Cuban collection of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona. Beach; and Stetson's Lattin Collection of Chiriqui Indian artifacts. The art show will be followed at 10 a.m. Saturday by a panel discussion of isthmian alternatives in Sampson Hall. The panel will be chaired by Dr. William Mareno of the History Department of the Ft.. Lauderdale campus of Florida Atlantic University. Also on the panel are Sietson faculty members; Dr. Fred Clark, Associate Professor of Biology; Dr. Richard Wood, Associate Professor of Economics and assistant director of the project; and Dr. Robert Smith, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages. 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