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-VOL. I. APRIL 19, 1948 BUFFALO, NEW YORK NO. 17 Balance of Power is Possible Solution for World Crisis By AL SIEGRIST At a recent meeting of the Political Issues Club which had been called to discuss the inevitability of a third world WM, a suggestion was made that perhaps the only available solution to our present in ternational crisis lay in tbe erection of a balance of power between the United States and the U.S.S.R. After having heard proposals to save the world that ranged from the federation of the nations of the world into a super world state; support of the Truman Doctrine; reconciliation with the U.S.S.R. along the lines suggested by Henry Wallace; a plea for the socialization of the world through the erection of governments be- longing to^;lie' world-proletariat; a plan to educate the world’s peo ples that war is evil and unnecessary and a suggestion that the liberty loving peoples of the world submit to aggression and resist their attempted dominance through passive resistnce it was pro posed that none of these could or would produce a peaceful world in the short space of time that separates us from a shooting war. The shocked manner which the audience greeted this suggestion indicates all too clearly that UB students are sadly deficient in their understanding of the mech anisms of this political vehicle. Because the proponent of the balance of power theory alluded to its ability to preserve world peace for the century following the Congress of Vienna, members of the audience were over-hasty to label the idea as one of reaction because reaction was a prime characteristic of the Congress. In so doing, this part of the au dience displayed both a lack of political understanding and a poor grasp of the principles of logic. There is no inherent quality in the balance of jjower that makes if a vehicle of reaction because it was used by Metternich et al in 1815, than there is in the American Con stitution which was the product of the conservative American Fed- erlalists in 1789. The balance of power is, in fact, as amenable to interpretation and uses as is the American Constitution. Before a real examination of the balance of power can be attempted certain political facts of life must be established. The first of these is that today's world is divided, and two equal powers, or nearly equal powers, are contending for the domination of this divided world. This is the brute fact that must never be over looked in any of this discussion. This is a political fact that exists now and which seems to be our fate for our lifetimes. It is the competition between these super powers that has generated our present world crisis and which, if permitted to continue, in its pres ent state of anarchy, will result in a third world war. Competition between these super states has arisen over the question (Continued on Page 4) British Poet and Crtiic to Lecture Kenneth Muir, British poet and critic will lecture on Shakespeare’s last plays Monday, April 26 at 11:30 in Mr. Perry’s Shakespeare class, Crosby HaU R-219. Mr. Muir, the English Union Fellow in the United States this year, will be known for his book of poems THE NETTLE AND THE FLOWER an^ for his Shakespearian study, THE VOY AGE TO ILL?RIA. All interested students are cordially invited to attend. Teachers Protest. . . Last week the Bee published the results of a nation-wide survey among students in American tmi- versifies and colleges. The purpose of the survey was to outline the requirements of “the ideal college professor. Some of the require ments in the report read more like a teen age high school girl’s con-- ception of ■ a college professor gleaned from a Hollywood proto type than like the opinions of college students. The reaction to this article by various members of the faculty of our university would best be ex- presed by the following letter re ceived by this paper; Members of the faculty naturally read the student papers. They could scarcely serve the students well without keeping track of what they are thinking. So most of us read the Bee's description of a “ perfect professor.” First among the re quirements was youth. It seems reasonable to put up to the demanders the question: Do you expect the sort of young man, who has the making of all your other requirements to- make the tremendous investment of tinie, money effort in order to qualify himself as a teacher in a university, only to find that b y , the time he has completed his preparations he no longer has, or will soon lose, his first qualification “youth”? I hardly think you would! Would you expect anyone to put in years (Continued on Page2, Column 5) 23 Entries Listed For Moving-Up Day Parade Bob Glass, Head Marshall of the Moving-Up Day parade, announced that the following entries have been received for the parade to be held on May 8: ' Sororities: Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, Cheta Chi, Chi Omega and Sigma Delta Tau. Fraternities: Beta Sigma Rho, Alpha Phi Omega. Beta Sigma Psi, Sigma Alpha Nu, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Beta Chi Epsilon, Kappa Nu, Kapa Delta Psi, Omgea Psi Phi, and Chi Tau Omicron. Organizations: Sttulent Engineer ing^ Society, UB Ski Glut), Lacka wanna UB Club, PEM Club, Retail Club, and the Veterans' Club.’ Individuals: Anthony Vitanza (2). Any organization which intends to enter, or has, but is not listed above, is advised to see Bob Glass. NSA Committee Votes to Suspend Affiliation MADISON, Wis., April 14.—The executive committee of the Na tional Student Association voted 21 to 3 to suspend negotiations for affiliation with the International Union of Students (lUS) according to a report by Frank Dowd Re gional Pres, to the regional staff. The action was taken as result, of a review by the committee of the association's policy of interna tional student relations at its meet ing in Chicago last week-end. The NSA's two interim repre sentatives to the lUS resigned their positions when the lUS Secretariat refused to take a stand against the treatment of Prague students on Feb. 25 following the Czech Coup. The resignations were accepted by the staff and sustained , by the executive committee action at the Chicago meeting. The original decision of the NSA to negotiate for affiliation with the lUS was part of a program set up at the national convention at Madison last summer. It was de signed to establish cultural and educational ties with students throughout the world. At the time NSA was fully aware that the lUS leadership was far to the left of American students and that within the majority of that leadership Communists exercised influence far out of proportion to Communists within the world stu dent community, the committee said. It was felt, however, that mem bership in the lUS would promote international understanding and good will, as the lUS was a means of getting together with a large segment of the world's students. Since that time NSA has main tained that the lUS has been con tributing to the growing tensions which are dividing the peoples of the world. This has been parti cularly evident in statements made by the lUS leadership which in dicates that its purpose is to pro mote its political interests to a greater degree than the Interest of the world student community, the committee reported. The association believes the de cisive event was the position as sumed by the lUS Secretariat in the recent Czechoslovakian crises. Here the secretariat would not support the rights of students (Continued on Page 4, Column ANNOUNCEMENT OF COURSE FOR ORTHOPTIC TECHNICIANS PART I—Instruction in anatomy, physiology, optics, refrac tion, chil4 psychology, orthoptic treatment of crossed eyes June 26 to August 28 at Sp'ringvale, Maine, by nationally known ophthalmologists and twelve orthoptic technicians Scholarship available. PART II—Practical Instruction at Buffalo Orthoptic Center of the Buffalo Eye and Ear Hospital and Wettlaufer Clinic, for six months, beginning September 16. Salary after three months. ' This is an excellent opportunity for young women who have had one or two years of college. TTi'e training period is not long, allowing an eaply earning capacity. After certification by the American Orthoptic Council student is qualified to practice in any state. The demand for technicians far exceeds the available supply. For further information phone Mrs. Harriet L. Sprictoan, CL. 8356. Bean Blasts School Board Before New York Conference Buffalo’s long smouldering public education system has once more become a topic of interest among national observers of the American educational scene. As a result of his activities as Chairman of the Buf falo Committee to Defend American Education, Barton Bean, instructor i i government at UB, was an invited speaker at a conference of educators in New York City last Saturday. ' , The conference, sponsored by Local 555 of the CIO Teachers’ Division of Public Workers gave Mr. Bean the opportunity to present the facts in regard to the re cent disturbances in Buffalo’s educational system. In her invitation to Ivir. Bean to address the conference’s panel pn Aia<f6mic Freedom, Mrs. Rose Russel, legisla tive representaiiw of the sponsor, stated that her or ganization intended to support the local committee’s efforts with a sizeable financial contribution. ’ ~ j Speaking before a large audience of educators drawn from all parts of tile country, Mr. Bean described the situation in Buffalo’s school system as depicted by the circum stances surrounding the East High School “situation.” “I am going to review the facts of the case as seen as a basic prob lem arising from bad government,” Mr. Bean told his New York au dience. This is an instance of an irresponsible Board of Education— irresponsible to the citizens of Buf falo or to anyone else. Because of tlie inesponsible nature of the Buffalo School Board, and because of the lack of calibre which it dis plays, it has inconsistently ducked important decisions which are necessary in this affair.” Audience interest heightened when Mr. Bean told them that the Bufalo Board of Education has pursued policies of a distinct con tradictory nature which have been garbed in secrecy. “The whole situation has degen erated to a point where the mem bers of the Board of Education have seen fit to solve the educa tional problem in. Buffalo by re sorting to thrusts of petty vindic tiveness,” declared the speaker in explaining the methods of the local Board in the Dushanc case. “Mr. George Provost, an active member of my committee and a teacher in the Buffalo schools, has recently been ordered to submit to investigation by this school board on the grounds of a com plaint of someone identified as ‘an . unnamed official' in Buffalo,” said Mr. Bean as he described what he termed the “inept handling of the whole situation.” In closing he told his audience that the aim of the Buffalo Com mittee to Defend American Edu- v cation Is to secure a full, impartial public hearing for Miss Eleanor Dushane and an investigation of the case and circumstances sur rounding it. His committee is in terested because it looks upon the free, secular school as a foundation stone of democratic life, he added. “We know that when the schpols are inefficient, unfair and un democratic, it constitutes a most serious attack on our American way of life,” said Mr. Bean in his concluding remarks. Haganah Blockade Runner to Speak A former first mate on the Haganah blockade runner Hatik- vah, and a veteran of more than 3 years of naval warfare in the Paci fic, Harold Katz, will speak the United Jewish Fund City-wide Youth Rally on Sunday, April 25, at the Elk’s Hall on Delaware near Chippewa. Following the speaker, Dave Cheskin’s orchestra will pro vide music for dancing. Mr. Katz is a graduate of Har vard University, where he received his major letter in football. He joined the U. S. Navy in 1943 and saw considerable actiqn in the naval war against Ja])ah, earning 9 battle stars. After liis demobil ization, he attended Harvard Law (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) UB-Canisius Debate World Gov’t Today The first of two debates will be held this evening between the Universities of Buffalo and Cani sius. Resolved: that world federal government be established will be the topic of both debates. Debating the negative for UB this evening at Canisius will be Meyer J. Abgott and Hiliary P. Bradford. Canisius will be represented by John G. Wick and John D. Klocke. On Wednesday afternoon in Nor ton Auditorium at UB, William J. Ostrowski and John J. McNeill will represent Canisius while Hubert M. C?rean and Robert H. IJnd will argue the affirmative for UB. Judges will be from the faculties of both schools. HISTORY MAJORS If you intend to . take compre hensive examinations this Spring, please submit your narne to Miss Elizabeth Seymour in Hayes 182.
