Van den Haag states rights
the augustana college of student academic freedom
MIRROR
Sioux falls, south dakota
Baroque music to be featured
by Cologne Chamber Orchestra
The Cologne Chamber
Orchestra, from the Bruhl
Castle in Cologne, Germany,
will appear in concert Friday,
March 7 at 8:15 p.m. in the
gymnasium as a presentation of
the Augustana College Concert
and Lecture Series.
The establishment of the
Orchestra in 1958 was a result
of the renaissance of baroque
art throughout Europe.
Under the leadership of
conductor Helmut Miiller-Bruhl,
March 6. 1969
Al Schock
The New Horizons Fund
campaign which is seeking to
raise $1,600,000 for the
building of a new Humanities
Center, an addition to
Mikkelson Library and
renovating Old Main has just
named two Sioux Falls men to
positions on the board. Al
Schock and George Kirk,
prominent Sioux Falls
businessmen and members of
the Fellows of Augustana, are
taking leading roles in the
campaign.
restaurant owner,
Mr. Kirk,
will serve as
a local
Before long, Augustana may
have its own student-operated
radio station broadcasting from
the new Tower dorms.
The station, KAUR, is
tentatively scheduled to go on
the air this fall. It will
broadcast music, as well as
the Orchestra presents
twenty-five concerts annually in
the ballroom of the Castle. It
also travels extensively
throughout Germany, many of
the European countries, and is
currently in the midst of an
American tour.
The organization has over 35
recordings to its credit,
featuring mainly the works
of Telemann, Bach, Torelli,
Mozart and Hayden. The Grand
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57102
campaign chairman for the
Sioux Falls portion of the -
drive. His efforts will be
directed toward organizing a
400 member team which will
make local area contacts.
A National Leadership Gifts
team, under Mr. Schock's
direction, will visit a limited
number of alumni, parents, and
friends of the college who have
the ability to contribute
$10,000 or more to the fund
campaign.
Mr. Kirk
Mr. Schocic, piesiuent and
co-owner of Terrace Park Dairy,
has accepted the post of
National Leadership Gifts
Chairman.
campus events, including Augie
ball games.
A committee, headed by Dr.
Chester Whitney of the Physics
Department, already has some
of the necessary equipment. A
Federal grant will cover 50
Prix Du Disque was awarded to
the Orchestra for its recent
recording of works by
Telemann.
First Lutheran Church
College — parents will
accompany their adopted
families to the Friday evening
concert_
Tickets will be available at
the door the night of the public
concert.
Vol. 50. No. 18
Dr. Ernest Van den Haag
In keeping with Augustana
College's policy of broader
educational objectives, including
wider perspectives of grave
world problems, the Concert
and Lecture series announces
the appearance of Dr. Howard
Walker.
On March 11, Dr. Walker
will speak on Nigeria in
particular and Africa in general.
He comes to Augustana as part
percent of the cost of the
proposed station.
Other members of the
committee are Mrs. Clara Lee,
Dr. J.D. Thompson, and
students Bob Flores, JC
Les Miller, Dean Schuller and
Skip Reeves.
by Mike Niell
Dr. Ernest van den Haag,
who spoke at Convocation
Monday on the subject of
student unrest, came across in
sharp contrast to last week's
speaker, Dr. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. van den Haag, who is
Professor of Social Psychology
at New York University and
lecturer in Psychology and
Sociology at the New School
for Social Research impressed
his audience as a strong
opponent of student
demonstrations and student
participation in political
questions.
Dr. van den Haag said that
students had two rights. They
had the right to be taught by a
reasonably competent faculty
and, secondly, they had the
right to be taught by a faculty
that enjoyed academic freedom.
While he thought that the
competency of faculty was
declining due to the rapid
expansion of the American
of a program arranged through
the Department of State's
Speakers Bureau, which will
include appearances at the
University of South Dakota,
General Beadle and Southern
State College.
Howard Walker is presently
the U.N. Advisor to the Bureau
of Inter-African Affairs of the
Department of State. He has his
Ph.D. in political science from
Boston University where he
specialized at the African
Studies Center. He taught for a
time at Boston University,
served in the Air Force, and
since 1965 has been on the
African desk of the State
Department.
Dr. Walker will speak on
Nigeria, Biafra, and the vital
problems attendant to the
modernization of the African
Continent.
college system, Dr. van den
Haag believes that academic
freedom has increased, with less
and less interference with
faculty by trustees or political
interests.
He said that the main danger
to academic freedom now came
from students, whose concept
of academic freedom was one
that embraced freedom only to
promote their own particular
viewpoints.
On the subject of students
having a role in the hiring and
firing of faculty, and deciding
which courses should be taught,
Dr. van den Haag drew a very
interesting analogy. He
compared the student attending
college to a patient entering a
hospital. Just as it would be
unthinkable for the patients to
take over a hospital and dictate
what each doctor should do,
what diseases should be treated,
and how they should be
treated, so also, in Dr. van den
Haag's opinion, it should be
unthinkable that students, who
go to school to learn, should
attempt to dictate to the
school.
Dr. van den Haag laid much
of the blame for campus unrest
on the attempt by American
colleges to act "in loco
parentis." He questioned the
wisdom of school authorities to
regulate students' lives outside
of the classroom. The college
should be a place for the
student to learn, not an
institution for the preservation
of the student's morals or
chastity.
Mothers to be
coed's guests
Chairmen Barb Thune and
Jackie Ainsworth are in the
process of completing plans for
the annual Chi-Epsilon
Mother-Daughter Week-end.
March 14-16 Mothers will
stay on campus with their
daughters. "Portrait of a Lady"
will launch the festivities.
Activities for Saturday,
March 15, will be announced in
next week's Mirror.
Local men appointed to
fund drive positions
Radio station KAUR will
broaden Augie's voice
State Department official to
speak on African problems