Greens in U.S. (Editor's note: the following article is from the College Press Service (CPS), a service which the anchor will be using this year. It will be giving us news from other schools as well as cartoons. We hope you eojoy it.) More than 1,000 activists, students, and professors met at Hampshire College in July to try something unlikely: To transplant a leftist West German political movement to the United States. "We want to change politics from a spectator sport into a popular process, , , explained Howard Hawkins, a leader of the American Green Movement. \ The movement is an offshoot of the untraditional, anti-nuclear, environmental Green Movement In West Germany. The German Greens, who favor disarmament and oppose taking censuses, grew from a late-1970s group of street demonstrators into a major political force that now holds seats in the German parliament. While attendance at the conference encouraged organizers, other observers pondered whether American students would be interested. "Sure, students are more liberal these days," conceded pCenneth Green of UCLA, which, under Green's direction, surveys 200,000 freshmen a year about " M r political attitudes,"but *r (the Greens) will have impact on college students is other matter." He noted Western Europe "is more likely to accept splinter titical groups like the Green ovement than we are." American Green leaders, however, say they'll try to grow one locality at a time. "What we want to do is get strong on a local level," Hawkins said. This fall the movement, he added, is running candidates in New Haven, Connecticut, where Yale's Blake Student Organization has endorsed the slate. The H a m p s h i r e College conference, he contended, "just s t r a t c h e d the s u r f a c e of support." "There are groups scattered all over the nation, in California, New England, Wisconsin, to name a few." Hampshire College officials said they, too, were pleased by the conference and engaged by the prospect of trying to transplant the movement. "We wanted to host the conference. It's very much in spirit with our liberal campus," said Rosemary Morgan, the college's director of special programs. "It was a sophisticated event. The bigwigs in the Green movement spoke. I'm supportive of the philosophy, (which was) gently radical, not harsh. There was a good turnout. The guests were delightful. They actually practiced the philosophy they preached," she said.
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Wilson Travels Religion p r o f e s s o r Boyd Wilson studied this summer at the University of Sana'a in North Yemen in a program sponsored by the National Council on U.S.Arab Relations. W i l s o n w a s a m o n g 35 American scholars designated Joseph J . Malone Faculty Fellows for 1987 under the auspices of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. The Faculty Fellows are named in honor of the late Dr. Joseph J. Malone, a distinbuished scholar of Arab affairs who was also a member of the c o u n c i l ' s a d v i s o r y committee. They were chosen in a competitive process culminating in consideration by a national selection committee comprised of distinguished Arabists and educators. The P r o g r a m took place between 11 June and 26 July in Egypt, Jordan, North Yemen, and Tunisia. In all countries, the fellows attended lectures on Arab and Islamic Studies; met with professors, government officials, and specialists in various fields; and travelled to sites of historical and cultural importance. The council sponsors the Malone program in the hope that professors from institutions of higher learning with limited Middle East studies programs
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can offer expanded opportunities for students to study Arab and Islamic affairs and facilitate related activities for the citizens of their communities. The National Council on U.S.Arab Relations is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization located in Washington, D.C. Its goal is to increase dialogue and understanding between the peoples of the U.S. and the Arab World. An assistant professor of religion, Wilson joined the Hope faculty in 1982. A graduate of Trinity College, he earned a master's degree from Wheaton College and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. Wilson is a specialist in world religions, teaching several different courses on the topic. He has also developed a new course for the Hope religion department curriculum entitled "Studies in Islam." In 1984, as a Fulbright scholar, Wilson travelled to India to study its religious temples and people. Currently a member of the American Academy of Religion, Wilson is t h e a u t h o r of "Ultimacy as Unifier in Gandhi" published by Religion in Modern India in 1982. This spring he was voted the college's outstanding professor by members of the senior class.
by Tanis Published Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers of San Diego have announced the publication of two books by Dr. Elliot Tanis, professor of mathematics. The volumes, entitled " S t a t i s t i c s 1: D e s c r i p t i v e Statistics and Probability" and "Statistics II: Estimation Tests of Hypotheses," are part of the publisher's College Outline Series, a set of books which takes student-users through elemental explanations to more difficult problems in several different subjects. The College Outline Series, which consists of 31 books, was designed as a tool for s t u d e n t s to s h a r p e n their problem-solving skills. Together, Tanis' two volumes cover most of the topics which are taught in an introductory statistics course that has algebra a s its only m a t h e m a t i c s prerequisite. Each chapter covers a topic whose fundamental principles a r e
broken down in outline form for easy reference. The two volumes contain 1,362 examples and e x e r c i s e s , with c o m p l e t e solutions given for 950 of them. Interspersed within the book are e x a m p l e s w h i c h h a v e an international dimension. These examples were developed with the aid of a grant to Hope from the Exxon E d u c a t i o n a l Foundation for the purpose^ of internationalizing the College's curriculum. The field of statistics if Tanis' specialty. In 1977, he co-authored a text with Dr. Robert Hogg, of the University of Iowa, entitled "Probability and Statistical Inference" (Macmillan Publishing Co.). Currently in its second edition, the book's third will be published in 1988. A 1956 graduate of Central College, Tanis earned master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. He has been a Hope faculty member since 1965.
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