Campus (Newspaper) - February 14, 1962, Ottawa, Kansas Page 2 THE OTTAWA CAMPUS February 14, 1962 and Community In human with its common life and association in words and there are persons who seem They are people who try to please us by praising everything we do and never opposing and who think they ought to take care not to annoy anybody they There are others who take the contrary line of always opposing us and never give a thought to the pain they these are called surly and quarrelsome - from the The activities of any community are maintained and governed by the special groups and institutions of that The prospers and gains in proportion to the creativity and insight of the individuals who compose these groups and these things are maintained only so long as the community supports the best goals of people engaged in purposeful Now it is inevitable that as a result of the natural diversity of activity in a community certain stereotypes and expected patterns of behavior should Thus we speak of the and the the the the the and even Campus To some extent each of these things correspond to what is real and to some considerable extent they do not only because one individual may belong to more than one of these but also because his life and activity are not totally described by these The common gripe which every one of us occasionally holds against many times is a result of the fact that stereotypes often grow by misunderstanding and conflict into false labels contradicting at many tangent points in our lives what we truly Hence an who is cruelly circumscribed by the corollary may justly and fiercely resent the commensurate implication that he is devoid of intellectual capacity and So may the resent the fact that the term becomes equivalent to etc. may also justly resent the implication that he is a simply and only because he opposes certain policies of the and The evil is compounded when as a result of bad stereotypes we fulfill the image given to us by attempting to or by seeking the approval those who use creating what Sociologists and Psychiatrists call Self-Fulfilling This is partly why groups and individuals may begin to fear and/or suspect one another - sometimes even why new groups are formed as the result of Frankness and openness are exchanged for fear and and the community is adrift with smoldering created or maybe just nervous The reactions may be I as Aristotle try to be the universal - in order to protect my hide I become the absurd creature who tries to be all things to all men and nothing to any My credo really same or just a semantic difference or we're all in Or I may become given the chance I'll destroy every good thing you try to Dare to leave your syllogism and I'll knock your whole argument and Don't forget to wear the right clothes and say the appropriate make one mistake and I'll casually slip a to your moral Create a program or think an idea and let me see if I can't knock it at some real or imagined weak spot fey my consistent Now all of us at some time fall into these personality Aristotle's high-minded man who consistently hits the golden mean in all situations is really a rather ideal But let us understand in our life together that stereotypes Ave only categories of that we only destroy ourselves by faking our real that discussion is preferable to and that trust and generosity are desirable above suspicion and In this way we might be truly aware of our unique differences and our human similarities which unite us in a form of creatively common - in the PuL We Mr. Let us hope that most C. of E. students have more creative things to do with their time than to deface Maybe now we need a peace agreement with C. of E. as well as A note to the We hope you don't make any weak A word of appreciation to the Committee and the Film Series Committee is in The quality of their productions has been consistently VISITING CHEMIST LECTURES Cultural POLITICAL PARTICLES Dr. Richard Head of the Department of Chemistry at Carleton College in will begin a three-day visit to the University this During his Dr. Remette will lecture to three chemistry classes on Historical Development of the Idea of Acids and Bases Remette is sponsored under the auspices of the Visiting Scientists Program and the Department of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Half of his expenses will be underwritten by the Dr. Robert J. head of the Chemistry Department in the University said that students who are not in Chemistry are invited to attend Dr. They are scheduled for 8:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Movies in Kansas City Don a Russian film of the classic by Miguel and The Swan with Grace Kelley and Alec Rockhill A Majority of One with Rosalind Russell and Alec Roxy El with Charlton Heston and Sophia Capri Tender Is the an adaptation of a novel by F. Scott Jazz Stan February 16; Concerts Robert Shaw February 20; Music Medical Arts Symphony February 16; Battenfeld Hall at the University of Kansas Medical Independence February 18; William Chrisman High LETTER TO THE EDITOR To Last night I had a disconcerting dream that while I was leading in prayer in a student decided to seize the opportunity to slip but He didn't succeed - others and soon the stampede was Of that didn't really We haven't openly insulted God that way But a large number of students did insult the lecturer in last Friday's assembly by starting the rush for the exits before she was quite A student said wouldn't want a friend of to speak here and be treated that I also wonder what about another aspect of the rush that should be of even more concern to those For what purpose is the We build up tenseness when we develop the habit of hurrying to to and to and then of pushing the food down or wishing the class would hurry and The purposeless hurry - the habit - is not only senseless but possibly The ulcer I developed as a student did not come from being I learned my lesson the hard and a little E. J. McKenzie Algeria and the Fascist French by Bob Tiller On the northern coast of Africa lies one of the most cosmopolitan of all African Algiers is a melting pot for the widely divergent cultures of North southern and the Near East. Algiers of the principal city of the French territory of and some sections of Algiers still earn it a place among the most beautiful cities of the Yet each day and its following night are a day and a night of terror in for no one knows where the next homemade bomb may explode or where the next machine-gun nest may turn For many years the conflict has raged as an undeclared war between France and its African possession There are today ten million people in and nine million of them are The prevailing sentiment among them is that they wish to be free of French control and to be permitted to rule This feeling has been heightened by the large number of European colonies in Africa which have gained their independence in recent As has often been the case the Moslem agitation for a free Algeria began with a secret known as the which Ms been terrorizing the one million Europeans in Algeria for many by means of and so The European Algerians did not become too although the death toll in this is approaching 400,000, only ten to fifteen per cent of these have been and many of them went looking for The remainder have been Moslems killed by a French army well-trained to put down revolts anywhere in the DeGaulle and the In recent months it has become clear that President of France favors a free Algeria and he has begun negotiations with the leaders of the in order to work out the details of When DeGaulle came to power four years the Europeans in Algeria hailed him as one who would keep Algeria as a part of even in the face of the so-called both in Paris and for a free Now these same people feel that DeGaulle has sold out and is abandoning them to the The Europeans LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS in Algeria are afraid of what will happen to them in a free where those whom they have subjugated for many years suddenly have control by a The upshot is that a third party has entered the Algerian a secret organization of deserted soldiers known as the This group is firmly opposed to a free and will apparently die to keep Algeria and France as one In a few short months the has replaced the as the most terroristic group in Algiers and has become the new fly in the Algerian They seem to know all the movements of the French army and of the and they have become the virtual rulers of Algiers with the support of most European Although cooperation with the might have lowered the death rate in this war of the advent of the has kept the death rate very Their favorite weapon is the homemade with which they strike at both Moslems and Philosophy The philosophy of the is that Algeria and France should remain a united republic at all They are reactionary to any program which would allow the entire population of Algeria to rule rather than to be controlled by the government of The leading political theorist of the openly avows himself to be a Leadership in the is provided principally by some of France's toughest fighting generals who have decided that it is more important to oppose DeGaulle than to remain in the What will be the ultimate result in With a three-sided no one can predict the Each of the sides is strongly opposed to the other except as the army will follow DeGaulle in supporting an attempt at a free By way of it looks like DeGaulle will try to get the army and the together to crush the but it isn't easy to get Frenchmen to fight each INFIRMARY OFFICE HOURS 2:30-5:00 Mon. thru Fri. 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