Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

 - Class of 1971

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ADMINISTRATION

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1 ' Often ignored, occasionally beseiged, and rarely praised, the administration again proved to be rea- sonably responsive. Although forced to declare a substantial increase in fees, the college labored to increase financial aid to students and substantially increased minority admissions. Though administrative perspectives on college priorities were occasionally challenged, the Spring of ' 71 brought no confrontations.



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Richard Gilman completed his sixth year as President of Occidental Col- lege this year. At the beginning of the school year last September, Dr. Gilman spoke on academic freedom in the first convocation: I think our stated policies are reasonably clear and straightforward — policies relating to the freedom to teach and the freedom to learn, without interference or disruption; policies defending the right of both students and faculty to exercise their responsibilities as free citizens without fear of reprisal; pol- icies relating to campus speakers, to the right to dissent, and so on. It is not so much a case of defining our policies with respect to academic freedom as it is of defending them and making sure that they exist in practice as well as in theory here on this campus. First, to what extent do we permit emotion to ride roughshod over what should be ra- tional discourse in the presentation of issues? To what extent do we allow fuzzy thinking, sweeping generalizations, and the facile car- icature or irresponsible distortion of other points of view to go unchallenged, in the classroom or out on the Quad? To what ex- tent do we really engage one another in dialogue, rather than tossing cliches and slo- gans back and forth and not really listening or caring about what the other person has to say? James Rowland Angell, former President of Yale, put it succinctly when he wrote, If University men are to claim freedom of teach- ing and freedom of thought and speech, they must in turn justify the claim not only by a decent respect for the opinions of man- kind but also by sobriety of utterance on 18

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