News Release (October 29, 1965)

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NEW COLLEGE, SARASOTA, FLORIDA FURMAN C. ARTHUR INFORMATION FOR INMEDIATE RELEASE students at New College can exult in their first badges won as college scholars. Dennis Kezar and Ray Enslow, both second-year students, recently wrote and submitted papers on philosophic topics to the Florida Philosophy Association. \fnile a graduate student was judged to have the best of the papers sub-mitted, both Kezar and Enslow won acclaim for producing papers so early in their college career. They were two of four New College students who attended the association necting at the University of Florida together with Professor of Philosophy Douglas C. Berggren and Dr. B. Gresham Riley, assistant professor of Philosophy. The t\vo other students were Timothy Duns\vorth of St. Louis Park, Minn., and Jeanne Rosenberg, of Peoria, Ill. Dr. Berggren also presented a paper at the association meeting on a spe-cial philosophical idea \vhich he titled "The Janus Fallacy." He termed the work done by Kezar and Enslow of special importance since each is only in his second year at New College. Normally students offering papers at such he said, are well into their upperclass years and have taken a number of specialized courses. -more-

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2 Ph ilosop hy Enslow, who is from Peoria, Ill., did his paper on the general meaning of good", which is the area of ethics. Last year Ray participated in a special seminar in ethics taught by Dr. Berggren. The p'1per b y Kezar, whose home is in Ames, Iowa, was on the problem of ambiguity in di=.-cussing nature is completely determinate or er : i.t offers alter.1ativcs. New College was offered the opportunity of being the site of the 1966 meeting of the Florida Philosophy Association. A postponement in the invitation for a year or ttJO ""as asked until Ne,., College staff and facilities are better able to handle the more than 250 who attend each meeting. Next year selected students at New College probably will use one of their independent study periods in working on special papers to be presented at the 1966 meeting, according to Dr. Berggren. -30-