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World Without War,

College

Palomar

Peaceful Coexistence

-WrlrarnprVol. XVI No.5

San Marcos, California

Seen By Dr. Wallbank Recognition of Problem, Economic Balance Cited By Guest lecturer

Friday, October 24, 1963

"A warless world is possible," stated Dr. T. Walter Wallbank, professor of History at the University of Southern California, but qualified that a warless world was not inevitable.

School Growth Rate Will Force Limit On Admittance

In the first of a series of six Humanities Lectures, on the topic "Can We achieve A Warless World," Dr. Wallbank placed the responsibility of this achievement on the shoulders of this generation, and the generations to follow. The first step in the envisionment of a warless world is :.·.• "Recognition that a problem exists. In early times, wars were between man and man." He commented that there was a sharp distinction between the civilian and the warrior. Citing the French Revolution, where France was literally, "A nation in arms," he told of a change in the participants of conflicts. A practice of civil psychology was immediately involved in the conflict across the entire nation.

Certain attendance and ad· mittance limitations must even· tually be set up in regard to school sponsored dances the ASB Council decided at their regular Monday meeting held in the ASB office. The size of the Student Union will be a decisive factor in the degree of limitation. Unless the Student Union is enlarged, the rate of enrollment increase will force certain rules to be enacted to cut down on overcrowding during dances. · A possible solution would be to admit one student from another school only if accompanied by a Palomar student. This would cut down on the number of students not attending Palomar that come from surrounding areas to attend the dances.

GLORY OF WAR

DRINKING DISCUSSED

The problem of drinking on campus was again discussed and it was announced to the council that this same subject was also being covered by the Judicial Committee. Mr. Me Geever is to speak at their next session concerning the problem. Joe Lee, president of the Judicial Committee, announced that the judicial code was to be revised and approved in respect to freshman class offices. The revision will limit the freshman representation to just the president of the class, Bob Mullins. November 21 to 23 is the date set for the student government conference at Monterey. More details of the conference will be discussed at the next council meeting. CONVENTION HERE

Larry Clarke, ASB council president, discussed the Area I Junior College Convention to be heid on the Palomar campus October 26. The convention will be comprised of thirty delegates coming from various schools throughout Area I. There will be seven workshops with Palomar students as head delegates.

Friday Set As Sweatshirt Day Friday is sweatshirt day and everyone not wearing a sweatshirt will face arrest and trial by the Kangaroo Court at noon.

Dr. Minos Generales, professor of political science at San Diego State College, will be the featured speaker at the next humanities lecture.

Childish Student Conduct Hit By Cafeteria Manager Mrs. Coulter, cafeteria man- set an example for the rest of ager, came before the ASB the student body and to take council to discuss an increasing some sort of action. Mrs. Coulter problem of student behavior. stated that she has the authority According to Mrs. Coulter it is a to close the Student Union exmatter of "conduct, respect, and cept for lunching from 11:00 damage to property." to 1:00. The students have been parDean Wallace mentioned that ticipating in malicious mischief and have behaved like "little our school has tremendous kindergarteners." Mrs. Coulter's facilities for eating and activicomment was, "Just plain slop- ties. Our facilities are unique piness, I call it." Students have in the county. been setting fires on the floor and in ash trays on the tables. Not only is this childish, it is showing poor reasoning facilities. Students have also been making paper airplanes from the newspapers and have been littering the student Union with them. According to Mrs. Coulter, the Student Union has gotten where it "looks like a pig pen." CAN CLOSE SNACK BAR

Academic Counseling Rooms Told

She pointed out that the cafeAll students interested in teria serves good quality food obtaining additional counseland is proud of its service. The ing regardin·g specific academic workers are paid good salaries problems in their chosen field to· .cook, but their job does not• will meet with their department include "picking up after these heads or members of that dekids." partment Wednesday, October The ASB council was· asked to 30 at 11 o'clock in the following rooms :

Student Forum To Discuss Humanities Lecture Theme On Wednesday the 23rd the Palomar Forum will hold its second meeting in rqom R-2 at 3 p.m. This session's topic will be "How Can We Achieve a - Warless World." The guest faculty resource will be Mr. Palmer Kremer, history instructor. The Forum will be using Dr. Wallbank's Humanities Lecture of last Friday as a basis for the discussion. While the Forum will make no decisions or resolutions about the topic a variety of student and faculty viewpoints will be exchanged on the idea and ideals of peace. It is the Forum's intention to use the Humanities Lecture Series as a basis for many of its sessions throughout the coming year. The sponsoring organization, Phi Rho Pi, is open to any suggestion for topics or speakers from students and faculty.

Mr. Barlow - Art Department -FA-1 Mr. Brubeck - Music Department-M-3 Mr. Heyden - Speech Department- H-1 Mr. Heyne - Language Department- F-9 Mr. Mahan - Social Science Department, Sociology , Psychology, Geography- E-5 Mr. Boehn - Political Sci-. ence, History- F-11 Mr. Mikkelsen - English Department- R-1 Mr. Kilman - Journalism- D Mr. Meyers -:- Physical Education- G 2-3 Mr. Donahue - Mathematics Department- E-3 Mr. Mortimer Physical Science- S-7 Mr. Robertson Industrial Arts- E 7-8 Mr. Stevens Biological Science- S-3 Mr. Felton - Business- Secretarial- B-22

A major block in recognizing the problem of war, was the romanticizing of writers in reference to it. Dr. Wallbank said, "War glorification is bunk." He quoted two poets speaking for and against war, the former speaking in the early phase ofWWI and the later after the final hostilities had ceased. "Everybody realized that · war was a dirty business at the end of the war." "It is arrogance to think that this generation can wipe out the thousands of years of war being ingrained as a means of settling disputes." He pointed out the need of a vehicle for peaceful arbitration in international differences. This will involve a process of "Trial and error'', he stated. "The United Nations is inadequate ," he said. "There will be many world organizations that will follow it, with the same objectives but with a greater efficiency.

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omic concentration is major cause of war, "North America has 44% of the world's income and 9% of the world's population." These underprivileged people want "the good life", he said. They do not want to go through the hundreds of years of evolution that have been necessary. Hatreds of the past and race prejudices are two other causes for war given by Dr. Wallbank. "There is a great resentment of the Caucasian race because they have achieved so much." The African nations feel that colonialism practiced by the west and therefore, caucasion race, has "stunted their progress," he continued. FEAR OF WAR TOLD "It is ironic that the very de-

structiveness of modern weapons may be a good thing," Dr. Wallbank said . "Both the United States and Russia realize that there can be no victor in a thermo nuclear war. Simple fear may give the world time to think of a solution to international disputes." "Russia has something to lose in a nuclear war, China is the real danger. China can lose 200 million people and still have a 600 million population," he said. "The answer to world peace lies with your generation and the generations to follow, but you must think constructively and objectively looking at all aspects from various viewpoints," he added.

ECONOMY CITED

Dr. Wallbank said that econ-

NO FREE THINKING

"Unfortunately, free and objective thinking is not encouraged in the United States; it is considered subversive to think in terms of any world community. Your challenge is to think deeply and objectively. It is my hope that the great world (Continued on page 4)

WORKSHOPS PLANNED

College Conference Slated October 26 At Palomar October 26, Palomar College will host the first annual Area I Conference. There will be eight colleges from the area attending with each college sending the maximum of 30 delegates. These delegates will then break down into individual workshops where such areas as student activities, athletics, current problems, the role of the Junior College, and cultural activities will be discussed. The student body presidents will head the individual workshops. A regular conference procedure will be followed . There will first be a general assembly of all delegates, where the guest speaker, Dr. Dunn, will address the conference. The delegates will then move · into the workshops where reommendations and resolu·tions will be proposed. WORKSHOPS SET

After the first workshop period, the delegates will be given time to take individual stands: Following this they will move back into their workshops to polish their ideas and recommendations. The last workshop will be followed by a second general assembly where all final recommendations will be made and all resolutions will be voted on. At the end of the session a

constitution will be made and approved by each college and signed by each Student Body President. PROBLEMS DISCUSSED

"The purpose of the conference is to discuss the problems and goals of the Junior College today," explained Larry Clarke, A.S.B . President. "We will try to find all problems that are evident in the Junior College. Then we will analyze and discuss each individual problem, try to find a cause, explain the goals, and discuss what methods should be used in solving this problem. "We are trying to help the student feel that he is a part of the school and must help to meet and defend the goals of the Junior College," said Clarke. STATE CONFERENCE

November 21-23 there will be a State Conference in Monterey where all the Junior Colleges will be represented . Five delegates, from Palomar, and bean Wallace will attend this conference . All recommendations and resolutions will be sent to the state conference where they will go through the same procedure as they did in the Area Conferences, except that it will be on a larger scale.


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