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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1970
Page
12
Business leaders long for practical relevance while students demand current, meaningful courses. Administrators professors and legislators each hold a shard of wisdom, and dialogue among all is urged to strengthen colleges and society. Chancellor Dumke notes the shift toward intellectual demand and solid achievement.
Readers recount difficulties reaching California residents via Long Beach directory errors and misrouted calls. Elizabeth Sunblade of Los Alamitos laments prolonged contact issues while Vivian Murphy of Long Beach defends presidential correspondence amid heavy mail volume and occasional errors.
In a sober reply the editor condemns equating a Long Beach factory with Auschwitz noting the comparison inflames public sentiment and harms peace efforts. The piece argues such rhetoric damages the sos cause and highlights the dangers of hyperbolic claims.
The piece argues against pressuring napalm manufacturers to end war plans and calls for peace through dialogue. It notes religious language, defense concerns, and protests by Long Beach Citizens for Peace while warning against alienating residents who share the peace goal but differ on methods.
In a harsh local view Maywood resident Lundberg denounces Prohlaldism as the source of national strife blaming woman suffrage, divorce, and displaced persons from a red light district for corrupting society.
A CBS News poll suggests Americans may favor restricting basic freedoms to project order amid Vietnam war and domestic turmoil. Many oppose protests against the government, limit criticism of officials, and support restricting press reporting seen as harmful to national interest. The piece critiques creeping illiberal policies and defends civil liberties.
The editor argues that college students show less affection for their alma mater and campus life has grown dreary since World War II. Overcrowded, dull buildings and shopping-center like campuses are blamed, with Dr. William R. Wood urging more greenery and musical, life filled campus environments to rekindle pride.
Russell Kirk attacks modern university architecture and campus sprawl, contrasting cheerful California community colleges with grim state campuses. He argues aesthetic decay erodes liberal imagination, notes Michigan’s brick expansion, and warns factorylike administration replacing the Ivory Tower harms tradition.
French sociologist Jean Duvignaud presents in Report from North African Village how Arab farmers and housing methods on the edge of the Tunisian desert kept peasants attached to tradition while awakening them to modernity. The study contrasts outside acting with cold statistics.
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