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In Condon Lecture Bronowski Cites 'Division Tragedy By LINDA MLILKJURC.EN Km-rjlil staff Wrltn “It would bo u major intellec tuul tragedy if we carry on the diviNlon between science and the humanities," according to Jacob Hronowtki. Bronowskl, a senior fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, gave the first of a se ries of Condon lectures on "The Philosophy of Contemporary Sci cnce" Monday night. He concentrated on physics Monday and will examine biology at 7:30 p.m today in room 150 Science. lie outlined the "scientific rev olution," some 70 years old, as an example of how scientists must be “dedicated to what they are doing, not just a group of su perior mechanics." Two significant events, the dis covery of radioactivity by the Curies and the composition of the atom by J. J Thompson, led the way into today’s fast expanding world of knowledge, he said. lironowski said that such dis coveries would be "inconceivable" in the 1800’s, “revolutionary” in the 1900's, and “commonplace” by the year 3000. "This is the case with all hu man progress," he added. "These developments were directed by people who didn’t understand the scale, implications, and long range effects of their discoveries." Using Plunck’s quantum the ory and Einstein’s theory of spe cific relativity as examples, he said that "the universe consists of Today's Events 8 00 Pass-tin pass petition- Terrace 9 00 March of Dime* Dance -Terrace Unlv. Curriculum Com.-- 31.*> SU 10 00 YAK lit. tbl.—Terrace 11 00 Student conduct comm.—334 SU Slat I-ah. and Comp Center staff mtg 215 Allen 11 30 — Upward Bound staff- -213 SC 12 00 Italian lain! tbl.—1 SU CCU.: Intro, to the Bible -15 SU ASUO Senate academic affairs— 101 SU School of Business Dean'* Advisory Council 108 SU Unlv. Theatre staff—109 SU Unlv. Theatre student board • 110 SU I KG symposium—111 SU Graduate student pol. scl. Richard Rose -214 SU Anthropology disc, group organizational mtg.— 215 SU Phi Delta Phi -Dads rm. SEARCH Comm.— Kac. Cl. A Academic requirements comm. —Fac. Cl. I) Aslan theatre luncheon— Fac. Cl E 3:00 Hronowski seminar—10B SU Canoe Fete steering eornm.— 337 SU Lecture by Richard Ko*e-"Eng land: A traditionally modern culture”—Comm. 333 Curriculum comm. rota.— Fac. Cl. D 3:30—FSC Barbra Hemming speaks— Ballroom 4:00 - Prof. Richard N. McKennon— 101 SU Rally Board mtg.—109 SU Queen Selection comm —111 SU Student Fac. Council—113 SU Y Dialogue - Hot. of Bowl 4.30 Jr. Panhellenlc—112 SU 0:00—Ccnturlnnnes—110 SU 8:30 Alpha Delta Sigma—307 Allen 7:00 Spring Sing Comm.—108 SU Seminar on European studies— 315 SU U of O mothers style show— Alumni Ger. 7:30 Theta Sigma Phi S07 Allen Condon LeclUre J. Bronowski— 150 Scl. 8:00—Student recital—Sell, of Music 8 30—W. N. Auden (poet I—Ballroom 9:00—Amphibian mtg.—Leighton Pool 6:00 Biology Mid-Terms AN EVENING OF NEW WARREN MILLER SKI MOVIES March of Dimes Benefit Wednesday - Feb. 22 8 p.m. $1 N. E. High School PATRONIZE YOUR . ADVERTISERS • a series of relations." "Understanding must come from a series of signals spread out from you. We can't measure anything except by our own stan dards.” Einstein, according to Bronow ski. developed the 20th ventury concept that “all intellectual con ceptions should be based on things that you can actively car ry out.” “The world does not exist out side of you, but you are an inte gral part of it,” he continued. Today, he said, the scientific profession has developed a will ingness to be worng, a humility with which to face the times and strive for active solutions. In conclusion, Bronowski said that “progress is made of being able to be wrong, to understand things and not to dominate.” Catholic Educator Outlines American Foreign Policy By TOM LOWE Emerald Staff Writer “ 'We have promoted the gen eral recognition that nuclear war cannot be used as an instrument of policy,’ stated Secretary of State Dean Rusk about the great est achievement of United States foreign policy.” This is how Reverend Frank Costello opened the World With out War seminar Wednesday. His topic was “U.S. Foreign Pol icy and World Peace.” Reverend Costello is executive vice president of Seattle Univer sity, former head of political sci ence at the same university, and a member of Washington State Educational Television Commis sion. Costello outlined the way that the United States approaches in ternational situations: “First, we dwell on the differences and not the similarities between Amer icans and foreigners. In North Viet Nam Eyewitness Tells Of Bomb Effects By JAQI THOMPSON Emerald Staff Writer An eyewitness to the effects of bombing in North Viet Nam, who also had a chat with Ho Chi Minh, will speak at 3:30 p.m. today in the Student Union Ballroom. Barbra Deming. who spent 11 days (from December 22, 1966, to January 2, 1967) in Viet Nam with three other American women, went to "see with my own eyes what our government is do ing over there. 1 wasn't sure it was doing what it said it was doing.” Miss Deming's need to see for herself and her refusal "to accept our government’s judgment that these people are our enemies," were important enough to her and her companions to cause them to defy the U.S. govern ment in order to take the trip. The government is now asking that the four women turn in their passports. They will not comply, Miss Deming said. She expects their passports to be de clared void, and accordingly is planning to fight it in the courts. In a telephone voice that sounded gruff, almost masculine, Miss Deming strongly asserted her conclusions about the U.S. government, the Vietnamese, and the war in general: “I found out our government was lying to us. We are not bombing just ’steel and concrete’ as they like to say. “There is clear proof ... in the ruins of schools, playgrounds, churches, pagodas, houses. “Again and again, place after place, we saw the effects of ‘lazy dog’ bombs. (These bombs are designed to scatter steel pellets in explosion.) Why do we keep on using them; they have no effect on big buildings, but have a grave effect on humans.” After talking with many Viet namese people (they spoke in French or used an interpreter) Miss Deming can “see no way they (“they" includes the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) are threatening us.” She stressed the absolute “determination of these people to be independent . . . they will never surrender.” Although she hesitated to use adjectives to describe Ho Chi Minh, since “I'm not good at thumbnail sketches,” she called him “a remarkable man,” “in formal,” direct,” “shrewd,” “hu mane," “he knows very much what he is doing,” and “we spoke English with him.” The interview with Ho Chi Minh was arranged by the Viet namese Woman's Union, whose guests the four were. She said it is “utterly absurd” and an “utter fantasy" that there is communist (especially Chi nese) backing behind any of the Vietnamese Night travel was safest, and the women never went farther than 70 miles from Hanoi, always returning to their hotel to sleep. Their hotel was once a French one, but has been renamed Hotel Reunification, since “reunifica tion is most important to the Vietnamese.” Miss Deming and her compan ions are currently touring and talking to inform U.S. citizens “what our government is doing” and to encourage all citizens to do whatever they can to stop the war. Miss Deming is a member of the Committee for Non-Violent Action, which she describes as a radical pacificist organization. DANCE TO — THE PIERCE ST. ANNEX A Charity Dance for the March of Dimes WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 8-11 p.m. McArthur court Only $1.00 “Second, all too often we feel that we are dealing with morally inferior people. “Third, we have a utopian sense of mission. Our foreign policy ob jectives often rest on lofty ideal ism.” He cited President Wilson’s justification for the United States entering the first World War: "It was our effort to make the world safe for democracy.” Costello went on to summarize a speech given by John Kenneth Galbraith, a leading economist and former ambassador to India, in Seattle last October. Galbraith divided U.S. foreign policy in the period 1945 to the present into three stages. The first stage, called the “First Generation,” covered the years 1945 to 1952. Overshadow ing other events of this period was the establishment of the United Nations with the United States a prime leader. It was also during this stage that the United States declared that it would help free people defend themselves against totali tarianism. This policy contrasted with our former isolationist stand. This concept was embodied in the Marshall plan. The “Second Generation” of foreign policy was developed under Eisenhower and John Dul les and lasted from 1952 to 1961. The one thing that can be gen eralized about this era was that there was a de-emphasis of reli ance on the U.N. and more reli ance on regional collective alli ances like NATO and SEATO. Unlike the previous period, mili tary aid dominated, although ec onomic aid was still provided, he said. The “Third Generation” stretches from 1961 to the pres ent. Galbraith said that this pe riod is distinguished by the gen PL-3 Schedule Tuesday, February Zl 6:30—HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT 7:00—PH NEWS 7:15—ANIMAL KINGDOM: A look at the game preserves of South Af rica 7:30—DESIGN EXPLORATION: Stu dent Designer, NeU Thompson; Guest Critic, Neil Thompson, Asst. Prof, of Architecture. (Re peat) 8:00—GREAT DECISIONS: The strug gle in Viet Nam. 8:30—SPECTRUM: The second pro gram in a two-part examination of medicine in Red China 9:00—CINEPOSIUM: Three Aims are reviewed by Dwight Whitney, Hollywood Editor of TV Guide. 9:30—OPEN MIND: Broadway revisit ed. eral aimlessness in foreign pol icy. Costello also mentioned Presi dent Kennedy’s famous American University speech. Kennedy called for a re-examination of Americans’ attitude toward peace. “Too many think it is impossible; too many think it is unreal,” Ken nedy satd. People see war as in evitable. Kennedy also called for a re examination of Americans' at titude toward the Soviet Union. He said that despite what we think of her leaders, we can still admire the Russian peoples’ acts of courage, especially in World War II when twenty million Rus sians died. Kennedy added that the United States and Russia are almost unique among the world powers because they have never been at war with one another. America’s abhorrence towards violent revolutions is puzzling. “We forget that our Very exis tence began in a violent revo lution,” Costello pointed out. Yet when people desire to overthrow a government to achieve the ends that we de sired in our Revolutionary War, Americans look on in alarm. It would seem that Americans would be the most sympathetic people to such revolutions, he ventured. Costello concluded by saying that the basic documents such a6 the Declaration of Independ ence should be reviewed to find if what they contain is still vi able and can be applied to U.S. foreign policy today. Oregon Dally Emerald The Oregon Dally Emerald la pub lished five times hi September aad five days a week during the academic yam, except during examinations periods, by the Student Publications Board at tbs University ot Oregon. Second-dam postage paid at Eugene, Oregon 974M. Subscription rates SC per year, IB par term. 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