Vol. IIT, No, 10 TWSRANDALONT ere May 7, 1965
EDITORIAL: Forget What They Wear and HELP!
: Of late there have been many complaints that SOOPE (the Summer Community
Organigation and Political Education Project) is run by a certain group of
Gungaree-wearing, work-shirted, guitar-strumming, rebel-type students, We of
SKANDALON regret that such trivial complaints have, apparently, hindered the
sucdess of the project. ie oa ‘
_. SCOPE has been campaigning here at Se Us Ne. Ys As since the beginning ef
April, hoping to raise a team of 5-10 students to go into the "blackbelt" counthes
of the South to assist in voter registration and political education of Negroes.
Secondly, in order to send the team, the SCOPE unit must also raise enough money
to pay transportation and living costs for the team for a 1@-week period,
It is true that some of the students who have been active in the SCOPE
campaign are of the social rebel stereotypes However, there is a geod reason
for this group's doing the SCOPE work,..they are the only ones who have volunteered
to help the préject! We, therefore, cannot dictate what they should wear or how
they should act; we can only commend them and encourage them to continue to wrk
for the project,
More important now, however, is our plea, while things seem darkest for the
SCOPE funderaising committee, that you, the well-groomed students, volunteer to
help the SCOPE unit by contributing your time to the various fund-raising projects
and/or your money. . i wey ss E
It should not be left to the so-called rebels to decide the future of the
SCOPE project; it should be your decision as well, Please, rather than remaining
indifferent or adamant in your opposition to the group coordinating the SCOPE
project, join them in making SCOPE a successa
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On Dialogue
The subject of student-faculty relations--dialogue--is one of the most
important questions facing the future of S, U. N. Y. A. t
This university in its attempt to reach the goal of excellence, has built
a new campus, expanded enrollment, faculty and administration, offered new courses
in Almost all departments and enlarged graduate studies, This is all well and
good, but a great university is not judged by the size of its swimming pool or
the number of volumes in its library, Rather it is judged by the quality of the
education it provides. totier : :
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and by n» means a minor one, is dialogue--
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gue on this campus— so would be complete fol in view of The
ye and President Uoli:as! weekly press conferences, What I do maintain
ere should be more dialogue and dialogue not only between faculty and
put also between students and administration,
Now just what can be done to improve dialogue on this campus? The answer to
this question is easily stated and not as easily implemented, The answer is
an increased faculty willingness to meet with students and an increased student
o meet with the faculty, outside of the classroom,
Dialogue is a two-way street--there must be a willingness on the part of
both students and faculty to sit down and talk to each other, The impetus that
The Golden Eye, President Collins! press conferences, and Speak-Out have given
his much needed addition to our education a good start, The initiative must not
be allowed to die but instead must be taken up by both the students and the
faculty. We believe that dialogue is a definite part of our educatien but we
also believe that only through increased student initiative can this phenomenon
be kept alive and assume its proper places
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‘ . HOW TO BECOME A BISHOP WITHOUT BEING RELIGIOUS: A Review
Tuther 20) once reputed to have said that, next to prayer, the most effective
weapon in attacking the diabolical was a goed jo If so, then the Christian
Church is much the better for Charles Merrill Smith's essay on H Bageme a
pee pWishout Being Religious (Garden City, New York: Deubleday, 131 9] 9 ,
$3.50 y for he has provided an an always devastating, frequently hilarious ’ satire
ee middle-class America otestantism, — Smith is the pastor of a large
Methodist parish in Bloomington his volume he advises the
would-be ecclesiastical climber how to achieve success, It is obviously not a
course provided by the usual theological seminary.
Crucial to professional succéss is the proper demeanor, the development’ of
a clerical stance, The successful preacher need not be religious, but he must
certainly be pious, that is, he must fulfill the image of the pious” preacher
oped by middle~ ass American church people. Since clothes make the man,
mit cellent advice on clerical attire designed to develen the
proper eleri cal stance. "Who would turn for spiritual ‘counsel to a man in a
tweed sport coat?" he asks, how many of the saintly Christians in
would believe that the acher wearing chartreuse socks could
possibly carry to the heavens?" — full chart outlining proper models
and yeolors of automobiles in accord with the changing parishes of upwardly
preahcer, But the clerical stance required for ecclesiastical —
6 for proper externals3 it also calls for the development
series of personal inhibitions, "Your pleasures, than, should not be. of a
rous nature, It is a pity that croquet is no longer pop it is the
al recreation for the clergy, No one gets very excited about it, | no one
ars over a poor shot, it is inexpensive, and it doesn't work up a sweate"
The one acceptable clerical fleshly sin in gluttony, "Not only will your people
permit it, they will urge it upon you at every opportunity, to the accampaniment
of coarse * numer about how preacher like to eat. ”
The arts? Ag cious mixture of Lloyd Douglas novels, the Stee ae
y and representational art (including Warner ‘Sallman's "Head and
aps a still life) will turn the trick, "In your early pastorates a small
+ banner reading "God Bless Our Homet and perhaps a wooden plaque with the
Lord's Prayer burned into it will complete the objets d'art necessary to inch
the image. By your third chureh, though, they ‘should be omitted ‘lest you: ‘be
considered a bit bucolic,”
ical wife is also important. Appearance is crucial, She must be
neither beatitful, stylish or sexy, nor hemely and frumpy, "A good, plain-looking
wife whom you like and about whom yeu can think with affection but without passin
is an inestimable aid in directing your primary devotion to your church and its
duties," Needless to say, a wealthy wife is doubly desirable.
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