William Hintnn Luthor describes ‘New China’ By DEBBY BALDWIN Of the Emerald yjam Hinton, a noted author lecturer on the People’s ,,blic of China. told a capacity "nee in the Dad’s Room last * night that after his first descriptions of China in newspaper headlines read j Hinton says the New China ■ to stay.” I guess we couid still write t headline," he said. J with pages and pages of i he took during his recent e-months stay in China still ad and unanalyzed, Hinton succeeded in giving a ui, informal and very ar atc description of the new 53-year-old Pennsylvania farmer and author sum his views of China in of “great progress . . . yen, and characterized by bp, continuing struggles.” hitiining various incidents of i struggle. Hinton brought to ^ the atmosphere of the distant, einating, and unknown nation I Red China. jit Chiang What University, said, two opposing fac > became so caught up in the ^logical interpretations of }o’s philosophy that they loved right through the history Itraditional warfare, from fist Its to rockets ... All ■aphemalia of this engineering id was used in a battle to ate the opposing force, [twofactions each believed if ley didn’t win, the entire Itural revolution was threatened . . . They held buildings and used tractors from the maintenance department in six or eight major battles.” Mao, whose beliefs Hinton said were based on “persuasion, not violence,” told the students that the only positive side to this confrontation was they even tually “learned about modern warfare.” After many of the students had been killed, Hinton said, the conflict was resolved when a liberation army of “400,000 unarmed workers marched on the campus carrying red books and distribution leaflets,” and urging the warring factions to the conference table. “Political struggle is still current,” Hinton said. “The ultra-left has become so ob sessed with Mao’s doctrines (in reaction to the more ‘bourgeois’ right wing) that they attack those who don’t agree ... It may be the dogmatic cult of ?.xao which is completely harmful to the development of China.” Hinton described the right wing factions as followers of the Soviet Union economists, who “take the capitalists’ role, treating workers with contempt and believing that bribery is necessary for in creased production . . . showing little faith in collective agriculture.” Collective farming has suc ceeded where there exists a determined “political con science” and strong local leadership, according to Hinton. “Socialist agriculture since 1948—self-reliance through collective action—in outstanding cases has been the result of a Hark testifies on tenure t State Board meeting University President Clark testified before the Academic Affairs mmittee of the State Board of Higher Education in Portland last esday that tenure is essential to academic freedom. Clark added at the public hearing, the first of two, that, “No ^factory substitutes for indefinite tenure are immediately ap In his lengthy prepared statement Clark did not disclaim that fact i alternatives to tenure exist. However, he said neither a six month atmnary period similar to that used by civil service employes, lve bargaining nor five-year renewable contracts would be as “factory as the present policy. Current state system tenure policy provides for two kinds of ^tenure—“indefinite,” normally awarded between the third and enthyearof empj°ymenj aiMj “annual,” normally granted during ■its three years of employment and maintained until a decision on '«mite tenure is made. tic^taf^ °n annua* tenure generally must be given one year’s indpf °re terminatlon’ hut may be dismissed for any reason. Those laitetenure 030 only be dismissed for “cause” (misconduct or »Ji nce’ subJect to proof in lengthy appeal hearings) or “IiCla| emergency. tewpiihfternent ^rk argue