University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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icline in the study of foreign language the U.S. as a problem. The ambassador posed a German-American scholar- ip program, similar to the Rhodes ;holarships sponsored by the U.S. and reat Britain, to foster academic xchanges and language study. Jesus Aguirre, the Duke of Alba, from pain, gave a series of lectures the week f Nov. 10-14 in which he discussed the When you have a black family move into a white neighborhood, you see the rest of the neighborhood begin to move. ifficult political climate on university mpuses in Spain. Aguirre, also a writer r the Madrid newspaper ABC, said Spanish campuses have been trans- irmed into battlegrounds. Politics has reatly invaded Spanish life, deteriorat- ig campus activities, he said. In con- ast, he saw more order and less vio- nce in the U.S. American democracy lias had many years of existence and panish democracy is just now being rn, he explained. Steve Hamlett in T OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA U.T. MUST DIVEST SALAC member Lucky Bridgewater sings The Redemption Song to open the West Mall rally in October. I Izielen Agbon protests the treatment of blacks in South Africa at a rally sponsored by the South African Liberation Action Committee. Speakers 85

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Envoys, blacks air opinion Duke of Alba. Jesus Aguirre, a writer for a Madrid newspaper, exudes warmth at a reception in his honor. c SPEAKERS Lectures and discussions hosted on the! University campus in the fall of I960 all focused on a common concern: keeping relations harmonious on planet Earth. Interracial relations were the meat ofj a week-long symposium entitled Blacks and Political Machinery. The Texas Union Afro-American Culture Commit- tee sponsored the October event. Thd University experienced a drop in black ' enrollment in 1 980-8 1 , down to a level oft 1,000 students. Psychology major Veon McReynolds said this drop was the resulti of blacks questioning the value of a col-j lege education. He said the average) starting salary of black college graduates! was $18,000, the same that a white higW school graduate could expect to earn. University student Eric Frank said rac-| ism on campus was insidious, charging: that UT professors had an inbred bias) against black students which wasl reflected in the grades given to the stu- ' dents. Likewise, Emma Chambers, a jun ior radio-television-film major, said thai although civil rights advancements of tha 1960s abolished the outward signs of rac-l ism, negative racial attitudes continuec to exist. When you have a black famil move in to a white neighborhood, yoi see the rest of the neighborhood begir to move, she said. Frank Blair, a senior, called for a] greater involvement of the black church! in the political arena. You cannot sepa| rate the church from black unity, ha said. There should be an increased amount of involvement in the church aj related to political issues, he said. Later in the month, speakers drew stu dents attention away from domestic problems and into the sphere of interna tional relations. Dr. Peter Herms, Ger man ambassador to the United States spoke at the Lyndon B. Johnson School oj Public Affairs on Oct. 29. He told stuj dents that the close relations of Germar and American universities was one of the reasons for the strong ties between th two nations, but cited the deplorable ' Dr. Peter Herms answers questions following his lecture at the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs. r . 84 Speakers

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Activists and writers review state of U.S. Those speaking at UT during the spring included both makers of the news and reporters of it. Dick Gregory, the comedian-human rights activist, deliv- ered a disturbing message to a crowd of more than 1,000 in the Texas Union Ball- room the night of February 5. The crowd was left laughing at Gregory ' s jokes when it wasn ' t stunned and perhaps alarmed at the disquieting things he had to say. Gregory racked up numerous charges against many facets of society, princi- pally the handful of manipulators which he said c ontrols the United States. He said the government used the recently-ended hostage crisis in Iran to manipulate the American people and that ' the power of prayers, not diplo- matic efforts, released the hostages. As for politics, Gregory termed the Novem- Diclc Gregory delivers his message: Ya ' ll got a |ob to do. ber presidential election a CIA com- puter rip-off, noting that the ' closJ race became such a landslide that the networks declared the election results before western polls closed. Gregory ' s charges grew more serious, attributing the murders of black children in Atlanta to medical research. In addi- tion, he had some remarks about COM leges, greedy ol white folk and nig- gers. He said colleges teach students how to make a living, but not how to live and that a bunch of sick, greedy old men . . . determine what your (students ' ) curriculum is going to be. On the sub|ect of race, Gregory told how he-once said Lord, if I could just be like white folk, but Thank God He didn ' t answer that question niggers are crazy, but white folk are crazier than we are. When asked by an audience [A SPEAKERS] member how to organize against the manipulators, Gregory refused to comment but repeatedly spoke the words Ya II got a job to do. And there ain ' t much time . . . In March, another view of the national scene came from Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo ' s Nest. It came through the eyes of Patrick the Punk, one of America s new egion of dangerous disappointeds, whom Kesey described in Now We Know How Many Holes It Takes To Fill The Albert Hall, an article he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine about the murder of John Len- non. Reading from the article, Kesey told of his meeting with Patrick, who was disil- lusioned with the state of everything, about all the revolutionary sellouts . . . and brain-crippling shrinks . . . who run this dark . . . world. On April 3, a moderately sized crowd grew to a large one throughout the day at a seminar held at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The subject was Thai Ken Kesey discusses a new breed of American, those disappointed with the unfulfilled dreams spawnea m the I960 s. 86 Speakers