Friday. February I}. we SCARLET AND BLACK Page Fivc Continued from page i l‘eallzatlon of a moral and pollilcal commitment: it is not a romantic adventure Pontiac corvo understands this brilliantly. It is a lactlcal and technical maneuver oi no little derrlng~do that the director is able to sustain an extraordinary sense of documentary authcn» ticity while employing some of the most difficult lilm-making techniques. For example, Pontea corvn’s use of freezerframes to handle time lapses in no way detracts from the reality of the events. But there is in evidence a far more profound irony, and it stems from the fact that this film is being shown at Grinnell College in the heartlands of the U.S.A. while we pursue a dis— astrous War in Southeast Asia. The similarity of France‘s efforts in Algeria to U.S. involvement in Vietnam is striking. For although Vietnam has never been a legal colony of the U.S., as Algeria was of France, virtually every other point of comparison is valid. in both cases we have popular based colonial wars of liberation waged against Western capitalist powers, who, with the cooperation of a locally despised ruling elite, have tried to sup press the liberation movement in the name of anti-Communism. In both cases the colonial armies MOYEll’S EAST END GROCERY GROOERIES MEAT - BEER OPEN DAILY I A.M. - 8 PM. 1 Blocks East 06 Quad 1501 5th Ave. 6-4465 GLASSES Made and Repaired in Our Laboratory Contact Lenses Cases and Solutions Eyes Examined Phone 236-3919 E. l. Jensen, 0.0. OPTOMETRIST Across from Post Office Closed Yours. EM. and Sat. P.M. have resorted lo terrorism and torture and to the creation of concentration camps, euphemr istically called centres dc rcgronpcincnt by the French, "strategic hamlets" by the Americans. And in each case racist motives are clearly in evidence: recall the French man’s traditional denigration ol the Arab, comparable to our “yellow peril," and Lyndon Johnson's no\v reference to Asians as “yellow dwarfs Wlth pocket kniies.” in both France and America, street demonstrations against the war resulted in unprecedented police brutality, and draft resislers (in France they had an official title: Jeune Resistance) were forced into hiding or out of the country. Now it is evident, I think, to all of us that as Americans we bear the same responsibility for the continuance of American in- volvement in Vietnam as French men did for their country’s atro- cities in Algeria. What is equally evident, but not nearly as widely recognized, is that we of Grinnell College, as American academicians. are much closer to the springs of brutal U.S. inter- vention in Southeast Asia (and elsewhere) man we care to think. A brief examination of bourgeois Social Science, as taught by virtually every American institution of higher learning, will bear my contention out. Consider the cases of Political Science and Economics. The political scientist purports to be engaged in an inquiry that is by and large, it not entirely. free infamous. of value commitments, His data include only qllanlillable ems pirlcal eVIdence acquired through controlled observation of social behaVloi‘. His concern is to describe the actual machinations of the present polltical structure with a view to- ward explalnlng, predictlng, and ultimately, perhaps, controlling social behavior The function of such interests is to enhance the stability of the present system. Now this casts grave doubts upon the behaviorallst Shibboleth of valuc~neutrality. For me stability of the present structure is the explicit goal of political research and experiment. But a goal, in the sense of a sought after end. is precisely what is meant by a value. Note well that it is not stabllity simpli ’er that is pre supposed by Political Science; it ls the stability of the present political structure. Political scientists no more question the value of preserving the present structure than do physicists question the value of preserving the material world. Clearly, when the existing structure is accepted as an undisputed given social inquiry, radical social change is ruled out not by reason and argument, but a pri i. How many political scientists do you know who are engaged in em- pirical research to determine whether the , present political structure lacilitates or hampers the meeting ofhuman needs? The question ”Reform or Revolution?” certainly merits serious attention but gets none from orthodox political science. Bourgeois Economics takes the WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A MINISTER? ORDINATION is without question and for life. LEGAL in all 50 slates and most foreign countries. Perform le< gal marriages, ordinalions, and tunarals. 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Once again, this iramcwork is not argued iar, nor is it defended against persuasiveness that capitalism does not display tendencies to equilibrium, but rather to disequilibrium, cons filcts of interest, and periodic breaks in the continuity of development, as evidenced in the so-called business cycle with its everrhovering threat of recession, depression. and mass unemployment. These claims are rarely acknowledged, much less examined Thus, orthodox Social Science, under the pretense of value- neutrality, takes a deiinite position in the most pressing issue that Americans can face: Is the existing social structure worth preserving? Social “Science“ emerges, then, as an apologetic ideology for the social status quo, an ideology whose counterrevolutionary premises do not allow certain questions to be raised, in much the same way that the premises of modern physics do not allow questions concerning the existence and character of phloglston to be raised. Physicists are justified in this, since the existence or phlogiston is regarded as a closed question by the unanimous agreement of the world com- Valentines Day NEW SPRING FABRICS ESTY'S FABRICS ‘of Thailand in its munity oi natural scientists, But academicsomalsclentistsal‘enot justilied; there is disagreement even among the international experts as to whether, lor example, twentieth century capitalism is adjustable to the needs at twentieth century humanity, Even our own lcarned experts begin to shin position, Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas argues in his forth- coming (tc be published Feb, 19) Points DI Rebellion that George III was the symbol against whlch our Founders made a revolution now con- sidered bright and glorious. We must realize that today‘s Establishment is the new George III, Whether it will continue to adhere to his tac~ tics, we do not know. If it does, Pleaseturn to page a Student Reviews Folk Festival By Nada Mangialctti At any given moment, an average of one hundred and fifty spoon thieves were present at the folk music workshops held in South Lounge last Friday and Saturday afternoons. Despite the two lectures and occasional questionranswer periods, the workshops were more like in- formal concerts. On both nights, the formal concerts attracted capacity crowds, which included a considerable number of students from other colleges. Happiness is bluegrass fiddle and banjo. Art Rosenbaum and Alan Murphy were very happy, Keith Dempster demonstrated different harmonica styles. The lestival opened with the Papakee family who performed several Mesquakie friendship dances. The singing, very strong and Clear, resembled the music tonality. Papakee, normally taciturn, let slip several comments that Please turn topages Bea emic ressures ? (I ggtipselp wi+li DANISH MAID BAKERY Fresh Pastry Every Day INDULGE! 818 Fourth Avenue