European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes James Reston thursday september 21, 1978 gop election Outlook not All that alluring same Here senator do it my worries a0oot amp Hospital costs by All the Normal indicators the re publicans should be going into this fall s state and congressional elections with High Hopes of strengthening their positions across the nation and fortifying them selves for a successful Effort to regain the presidency in 1980. There is a kind of conservative hum in the country and president Carter has lost More ground in the standings lately than the Boston red sox but somehow these ideological and mathematical trends Don t convince the political gamblers or even the Republican leaders that the gop is on the verge of any spectacular revival. The first real test of voter opinion in the state primaries did t show much change. In general the incumbents meaning mainly the democrats were endorsed again and the democratic party Gover nors did very Well in new York California Connecticut Massachusetts and Colorado. Thus the Wall Street journal reported a Sag in Republican Hopes in the Gover nors races and George Gallup has been finding Ever since june that the republicans cannot count on very big gains in this november s congressional elections. Even at the beginning of the summer when president Carter was falling rapidly in the popularity polls Gallup found that the democratic party candidates for the House of representatives were at least holding steady and that the political com position of the House was Likely to remain next year very much As it is today roughly 60-40 in the democrats favor. Since then president Carter has been getting some credit for passing the Panama canal treaty and his civil service re form Bill and for his persistence in trying to find some kind of Compromise however unsatisfactory in the tangles Over Energy policy and the politics of the Middle East. Meanwhile As Carter s standing in the polls has declined the mane vering for the presidential nominations in 1980 has al ready begun and Here the contrast be tween the two major parties is very inter Esting. Twice in the last generation when they were out of the White House the democrats had risked their fortunes on comparatively Young men John Kennedy in 1960 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. And even now when they occupy the White House and have Large majorities in both the House and Senate they still have some younger backup candidates on the Bench if Carter falters gov. Brown of California gov. Carey of new York and sen. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The republicans also have some prom Ising Young candidates particularly George Bush of Texas former head of the Cia and head of the . Diplomatic mis Sions to China and the United nations and Howard Baker of Tennessee the Republican Leader of the Senate. But the spotlight of the developing gop presidential Campaign is on the men and issues of the past Reagan Ford and Connally All for Mer somethings and All in their 60s. These three men got together in Texas the other Day for the first time publicly since Carter took Over the White House but not to discuss the future of the Republican party or the strategy for defeating Jimmy Carter but merely to raise Money which they did in impressive quantities. The Republican Assumption at least among these three men seems to be that the mood of the american people has turned conservative that president Carter is a pleasant and Well intentioned Man who in t quite up to the Job and that therefore the voters Are ready to turn him out in favor of almost anybody and particularly somebody More theatrical Reagan More dogmatic and eloquent Connall Yor More steady and experienced Ford. There is probably something to this argument but not much or it overlooks Sev eral Points. First it probably underrated Carter. If he was Clever enough to capture the White House out of Plains ga., think of what he can do with the Power of the Whitehouse As his platform. Second while the republicans Are concentrating on Reagan Ford and Connally the democrats Are concentrating on hold ing their political base in the Congress and in the governor s mansion in the big elec toral states of new York California Tex As and they Are mounting new challenges to the popular Republican governors this fall in Ohio and even in Illinois and Michi . And finally if Carter is As weak As the polls and the republicans suggest he will probably be challenged within his own party first by Brown of California and if Brown seems to be establishing himself As the Leader of the democratic party in the next generation then and probably Only then will sen. Kennedy enter the race. Either Way the Outlook for the republicans in the congressional and state House elections of 1978 and the presidential elec Tion of 1980 is not All that alluring. They Are like a professional football team that insists on depending on the old quarterbacks and the other popular heavies who Are go ing instead of on the younger men who Are coming. And while the presidential Campaign of 1980 seems a Long Way off it is getting late. Kennedy Nixon and Carter All won by run Ning hard and running Early but the re publicans Are still divided and out of Power and so far As anybody knows they re not even talking seriously about where they Are going and who can Lead them. C new York times Roy Wilkins Rutgers units promote segregation in 1968, when Antioch was one of the first colleges in the nation to establish a separate inner College for Blacks the Black nationalist cult was in full swing. Then Antioch experimented with racism by providing separate living and study facilities for its minority students. Those Whites who once were friends of the Blacks who moved into the Black House were not welcomed there. The College s columns _ i comments Dean of housing sent letters to incoming minority students asking their Choice of integrated or segregated housing. No such letters were sent to Whites. Over the course of a year Antioch resisted efforts of students and a Lone negro trustee to desegregate the facility. As a private College which received substantial support from the Federal government title i of the 1964 civil rights act commanded Antioch to have open facilities and for bade discrimination based on race colorow National origin. The office for civil rights or of the health education and welfare depart ment was called in to investigate Antioch s separate unit where minority students for the most part taught themselves and threatened violence upon intruders. The first or report on the Antioch in Ner College cleared it of any unlawful practice. It reasoned that no White had Ever applied to the Black facility and therefore never had been excluded. The opposition to this reasoning was vociferous and included the a act. Or had mistakenly claimed that the a act was supportive of its curious opinion. Application procedures for the Black col lege were not Clear and whether Whites actually had applied was at least a debatable Point. At one time not even the Dean of faculty at Antioch had the course offerings of the Black eventually when Whites tested the application procedures and were rejected or did a turn around and ordered desegregation. Ten years later when Black nationalism is not so pungent a Force the office for civil rights is not yet committed to a vigorous enforcement of title Vias it relates to col lege facilities and racial segregation. Get Ting Clear guidelines and action from or today on this problem has not been easy Many colleges have Black houses and wings of dormitories reserved for Blac students. In new Jersey Livingston College a Branch of Rutgers state University maintained several kinds of special interest ethnic facilities including a Black House and corridors and wings of dormitories for racial ethnics. It took the Region 2 office of or three years to investigate and Render an opinion on a complaint about separate facilities at Livingston and at Douglas a women s College of Rutgers University Douglas still maintains a Black academic residential facility. After much Effort we have secured a definitive policy guideline on such facilities from the Washington Headquarters of or signed by the Deputy director of the office of compliance and enforcement. Ina letter to an a act official or admits Livingston College previously maintained areas within its student housing exclusively for Blacks. Non Blacks were not permitted to live in these then the or letter states matter of factly that the situation has since been despite that statement. Livingston never received any notice of a violation of Law from or. It was requested merely to file periodic reports on ethnic composition of the dorms following negotiations with the school officials. The reports submitted were not convincing that segregation has been corrected. The or letter links the Douglas Black and puerto rican houses with academic programs concentrating on afro american and puerto rican the school also has language houses uck quickly Points out for students of certain foreign languages who desire greater exposure than they receive in the or says that like the Lan Guage houses priority for the Black and puerto rican houses is Given to students enrolled or interested in the programs offered. The or letter has so much subterfuge and alibis for perpetuating segregation that still another column will be devoted to this subject. C Register and Tribune in the columns and Troon on of the authors and Are in no a Nestr. 1 Rel re to nil a views of the stars and stripes or the United states of government
