European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes May 1977 James Reston graduates of 1977 disillusioned rebels this College graduates Are supposed to be the Luckiest class since the last world they Are not being battered now by the cynicism and pessimism of recent in some ways they have advantages no military no Conven teachers or even parents standing in their Way nothing but they Are Lucky in other it is not Only that they dont have to face a Mili tary but that they can plan their lives with Assurance than their parents and grandparents that they probably wont have to Deal with the world wars and depressions of the first quarters of the Cen so things Are there seems to be a different Melody to the speeches at the end of this academic for Derek the presi Dent of went to Brown University in the other and not about but about the importance of ethics and he sounded like the old and editors who founded Miami University Here in at the beginning of the 19th More attention must be Given in the colleges and universities he to the questions of human to problem oriented courses in ethics classes built around americas moral he premedical students can grapple with issues of Eutha and human while students interested in Public service May discuss whether government officials Are Ever justified in lying to the or Leek ing confidential or refusing to carry out the orders of their this same searching for a purpose is going on All Over the world the Lead ers of the free world have just ended a meeting in London to reconcile their self ish National interests with their longings for a decent world the leaders of the divided religious orders of the world have been trying to find a Compromise of the business Lead ers of America Are recognizing that they now have for the first Lime the problem of dealing with a truly world and have to have some ethical rules about crib to avoid and even the titans of the radio and television Are begin Ning to question whether they know How to report All this this years graduating class from the colleges and universities will undoubtedly be in the forefront of trying to Puzzle out these intractable they will be about 45 years old at the end of the Cen and therefore at that critical Point of personal experience and Energy to take up the Burden of leadership in the first Quarter of the 21st this is not much on their minds Here in this Lovely town in the South of or on any other campuses in the flowering if 1 hear them they Are beginning to doubt the assumptions of the to ques Tion the claims of unlimited sexual and political and some of them Are even searching for new and put Ting manacles on their hands to keep them from the i Between this col lege graduating class of the rebellious graduating classes in the Days of Cambodia and Kent is that this years graduates have looked at the College rebels of a decade ago and find rebellious politics and the drug culture not very promising for the this is not a new even in the writing about the jazz age of Walter up Mann foresaw this what most distinguishes the Uon who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism is not their rebel lion against the religion and moral code of their but their disillusion ment with their own it is common for Young men and women to but that they should rebel sadly and without Faith in their own that they should distrust the new Freedom no less than the old certainties that is something of a so the difference now is at Alt Levels of american there is not Only a new questioning but a More hopeful spirit of the extremists in both political parties have been losing not Only Here but in most of major nations of the president Carter is in More trouble with George me govern and the Ada than he is with the Republican leaders or with the the socialists in Britian Are finding that Fabian socialism Doest the communist ideology Doest unify but divides Moscow and and almost everybody is finding As Huxley that a mans worst difficulties begin when he is free to do As he maybe this is going to be the Puzzle before this years College not that they will have to go to or drive smaller or live in houses that Are not boiling in Winter and freezing in but that they will be free to do what they like without any Clear or it will not be and in this sense maybe they were not All that Roy Witkins has bios understanding for almost 23 since May racially segregated schools have existed in new York at first there was disposition to allow a lag in the correction of racial which had been held to violate the constr new York had roughly 900 schools with in attendance and new York could not be like which had less than a dozen negro High school students for which they it was a simple thing to allow the Black students to join the Whites and save it was not that simple for new York there was the argument Over whelp of Kitty you can 60 in Butof you Ever get kidnapped a6a1n in throwing the Book at or the which dealt with Laws Sepa rating the applied to the states where there were no but an under standing that Black As far As would be segregated from some went beyond this and actually entered into compacts on the segregation of new York City did not have a but it did have an a Law suit alleges that District in Ridgewood is sending Black and hispanic pupils out of the District instead of placing them in largely White local schools where there Are the focus of the said James the lawyer for the Black is decentralization and its effect in perpetuating the District has enough seats if the school Board would rezone minority pupils into White we have been trying for years to get the Board to but they steadfastly said president Shirley Hughes of the parents All the Black parents have received is much talk and Little last november the City school system was accused of laxity in the hiring of minority teachers and the school Board denied that it had been but last week came up with a plan to hire More women and the american association of University professors figures during 19751976 showed a loss of almost a percentage from to in minority faculty several years ago when its capacity was being used much More than at the present the Board of examiners for the City school system was regarded As an obstacle for minority the Board of Edu cation lauded the examiners by saying they kept the standards when it was asserted that segregated schools existed in new York refer ence was to the around when Black students could not attend even though the school was located in the history of segregated schools goes Back for years and it is asking a bit much to take the present Board of education at its thus in 1977 Black parents la the City which Calls itself the greatest in the world must tight in the courts to overcome the discrimination against their children which was found to be unconstitutional in 1c and Tribune Syndicate