News Release (May 2, 1968)

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I I YEWS RELEASE N E w CoLLEGE S ARASOTA, F LORID A 335 78 1 179 -4/30/68 813/ 3 5 5-713 1 Ref.: Furman c. Arthur SPECIAL TO THE HERALD T.IBUNE FOR USE: THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1968 PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION TOMORROW Some 26 local churches in Sarasota County, through Church Women United, sponsor a discussion of "Human Values and Advancing Technology" tomorrow (Friday) at 8 p .m. in Hamilton Center on the college's East Campus. Speaking on this theme will be Dr. B. Gresham Riley and Dr. William H Hamilton both members of the New faculty the former a philosopher and the latter a professor of reliRion. The is part of a national May Fellowship Day observed by cwu. * UREHE OFFICERS, ALUMNI GATHER When officers of the 12 institutional members of the Uni o n for Research and Experimentation in Higher Education Rather in Sarasota Monday and Tuesday, one social moment of the quite serious will be a reception for local alumni of the member colleges and universities. more

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NEW COLLEGB Page 2 Alumni of the 12 institutions--Antioch, Bard, Goddard, Hofstra, Illinois Teachers North, Loretto Heights, Monteith, Naason, New College, Sarah Lawrence, Shimer and Stephena--hav been invited to meet with representatives of their alma maters Mond y from 5 to 7 p.m. All of the 12 institutions have banded together in an associa tion to discuss co on problema of experimentation and innovation in higher education nd also to suggest and sponsor programs that will be consistent with their aims. * STUDENTS 00 TV SH0\>7 Political interest by students on college campuses has become one of the phenomena of the decade. College students, even though moat do not vote, now are wooed assiduously by presidential candidates. Three New College students will discu s this in campus activities on "Per pective," seen this Sunday momdng at 9 a.m. over WFLA-TV, Q1annel 8. The three--student newspaper editor Lawrence Paulson, student government veterans Steve Hendricks and Jon Shaughnessywill discuss politics on campus with program moderator Dr. 11artin I. J. Griffin. They are expected also to co ent on the recent nationwide canpus poll of presidential candidates and to relate the w College results--heavily in favor of Eugene lfcCarthy--to n tional trends. * -ore -

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NEW COLLEGE Page 3 COLLEG!>FILM BEING MADE New College students, who have be n studying cinematograthic techniques for months under the direction of Jonathan Slott, now are organizing to create a film about the college. Working with free-lance photographer Otto Walters, who has volunteered to help them, the students have divided thems lves into production units for script writing, filminr, and producing. Sarasotan George Duffee-Braun is serving as producer for the film. The group, which meets every Friday night for classes, hopes to cooplete the fihn by June 1 FSU ECONOMIST LECTURES Dr. Irving Sobel, chairman of the Department of Economics at FSU, presented two seminars to New College students last Friday. Speaking on labor and management in Israeli development and also eno-colonialiom, Dr. Sobel provided another in the series of exchanges between campuses that has brouP,ht a number of guest lecturers to New College. Dr. Sobel's visit was arran. ed by economics Tutor Marshall Barry. 30-