Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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dent representing a different faction. The faculty is among the most diverse around and consequently offers to the student the opportunity to learn from many different types of experienced people. Dr. Phan Thien Chau is one of the foremost Vietnamese scholars in the United States today and is currently on a committee of Tufts University in Masssachusetts which is studying the possible role of international organiza- tions in the economic rehabilitation of Vietnam. Louis Mitchell offers the faculty and students his many years of experience in practical politics in such cities as Chicago, Sacramento and Philadelphia. This practical teaching augments textbook learning and helps the student better understand the reality of the political world. Dr. Paul E. Corcoran brings to the Rider faculty degrees from such respected institutions as Princeton, Washington and Lee and Duke. Add to the list Barry Seldes, Flaymond Male, Dr. David Moskowitz, William Stuck and Dr. Frederick Yeager, and Rider has some of the finest political scholars in the United States. l l X i1'nr- 55-L if P11 2-?g Q93 and S 5 Q EUROPE SEC. DEF ssc. STATE ,msn-AM POL. PLAN But Rider must share these fine thinkers with the out- side world. Most of the faculty has had material pub- lished in political journals and professional magazines. Dr. Chau and Dr. Corcoran are currently working on books, and the others on the faculty are tied-up in sim- ilar endeavors. So politics is not just the arena where the men are separated from the boys. lt is something much more. lt is interpretation, cooperation and learning. lt is the in- teraction of the ideas and the implementation of those ideas. Its job is to develop maximum motivation among those it comes in contact with. And Ftider students have this year had the opportunity to come into contact with some of the top names in the field of government. For example, there was a United Nations speaker series in the first semester which featured Ernest Gross and Clayton Fritchey. Each individual took a part of the last 25 years and tried to convey his impressions of it, as also did the in- comparable Harold Stassen . . . HV' ' NC e if AMB TO UN f 99

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Political Science Focus by the Staff The political arena. That no man's land where only the strong survive. Some life for a political science stu- dent to look forward to. ' But political science extends much further than the campaign trail and Ftider's Political Science Department has shown where. For example, 'poli-sci' delves into the issues and at- tempts to awaken a political awareness among the stu- dent body of the institution. This can be seen in one of the series of lectures that was partly sponsored by the department. The Men Of Peace series centered around Erasmus, Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. Each subject was presented by an eminent scholar in the field of human relations. On a more regular basis, the department in con- junction with the Political Science Society, sponsors a United Nations Month on campus and sponsors a Na- tional Model United Nations, usually held in the late fall. It also jointly advises the International Relations Club, which schedules weekly meetings on world problems and issues. While the department seeks to better the campus' awareness of political thought and ideas, it further spends much time developing these students who will be going out into the world with that kind of thinking- the political science major. We try to have an open-door policy for students who are apprehensive about their place in the political world, Dr. Kenneth Maxwell, chairman of the depart ment said. For this reason, they have developed some intern-type courses to give the student an idea while he is in school what he would like to pursue when he gets out. Our field training program attempts to place stu dents in local and state government in order to gain practical experience. Some of our students have even worked in Washington for senators and represent atives, Dr. Maxwell continued. On campus the department has done much to further the political education of its majors. The Situation Room, located on the third floor of the Fine Arts Build ing, is an innovation of Dr. Maxwell who has worked in such rooms in the United Nations and the State Depart ment. Classes in that room are conducted much the same way that international meetings are, with each stu College-One Man's Opinion by Dr. Study, work, get involved! Or get drowned in rock mu- sic or booze, blow your mind, take a trip, say to hell with the system! Or just let yourself be carried away in the swirl of numbing routine. Are these the only alterna- tives in college? lt is said that college is for learning. About a lot of things: fine arts, social sciences, exact sciences. In this realm, colleges could be said to be doing all right. But how about the other type of learning, not measurable by any test, or for that matter infrequently appreciated by prospective employers? That is learning to find oneself, to become what one is, to think for oneself. Books and teachers, classmates and the media, these are so many catalysts for this type of learning. But above all it requires a more and more undefinable pre- requisite-solitude. Not the solitude that spells isolation and insulation, but the constructive solitude that puts one back into perspective with oneself, with others, with nature. Untried and unappreciated by the activist few and the apathetic mass alike, could its absence be a contributing factor to today's rampant sense of ruth- lessness and crisis of identity among collegians? ' Civilization is pressing on us from all sides, pollut- ing not only our environment but our minds as well. Our technology has created marvels, but it also created problems greater than our -will andfor our ability to solve them. Has our thinking been too much directed toward taming nature and too little toward under- standing human nature? And understanding man starts with the understanding of oneself. It has also been said that man is a social animal, therefore solitude is sometimes considered as an ano- i maly. Many dread it because for them solitude spells lo- Phan Thien Chau Asst. Prof. of Political Science neliness. Yet loneliness is a condition of the mind, not of physical surroundings. The cure of loneliness, in col- leges and elsewhere, is not to be found in more socia- Iizing but rather in getting to know oneself by learning to be oneself. A few times during one's college years, one should try solitude. To be alone with oneself, fully awake yet not bored, fully self-conscious yet not morbid, doing nothing in particular yet not feeling restless and uncom- fortable. Walking the untracked snow or the sand of a deserted beach or in the woods, alone, attuned to the sounds of wind, waves, insects, or watching the sun ris- ing or setting from some secluded spot, one asks a few simple questions about one-self: being, living, relating, about purpose, values, meaning of who one is and what is one doing with one's life. The answers are not guar- anteed to flash by complete or to be wholly satisfactory. A few minutes a month, a few hours a year, gradually one should feel at ease with oneself, with life's per- spectives beginning to dawn in one's mind. Construc- tive solitude should be refreshing rather than oppres- sive. One should get away thoughtful but serene, at ease with oneself, attuned to others, and at one with the universe. The college years, generally coming be- tween adolescense and the routine years of making a living, afford the greatest opportunity for self-knowl- edge. For what is the use of all the stored intruction data if one fails to know oneself? After all, robots could ingest, arrange, update and spew out data much more efficiently than any college grad. But machines shall not make this a more livable world. Only thoughtful people have the best chance of making it so. QQ

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According to Harold E. Stassen, who spoke at Rider on October 5, 1970, the world needs a new and strengthened United Nations charter. Stassen, a former Minnesota governor and the last liv- ing signer ofthe original U.N. document, offered the fol- lowing plan for revision and improvement: 13 Make the U.N. truly a world organization and in- clude both Germanies, both Chinas and both Vietnams. 23 Establish a regular means of financing the oper- ations of the U.N., e.g., by levying a one per cent duty on all movement of goods between nations. 33 Establish a true U.N. peace or police force, distinct from and not part of any nation's armies. 43 Organize a Central Council of Ministers. 53 Establish a World Court of Equity, as well as a World Board of Arbitration and a World Panel of Mediators. 63 Have the charter ratified by three-fourths of the na- tions, including the proposed new members. 73 Make 'some rational decision on the status of inter- national waters and the vast area of outer space. 83 The U.N. should initiate affirmative objectives and methods for the safeguarding of life from pollution. He concluded that if his proposals were accepted, Mankind could avoid the scourge of war and open the way for the enjoyment of the world for all. SQ