University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 26, 1971
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Author of 'Future Shock Pictures New Civilization
By TONDA RUSH Kansan Staff Writer
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The industrial system of the United States is breaking down because it is failing to spring up in the cracks of the old one. Alvin Flynn, author of *The Fault in Our Stars*, told me that
Toffler's lecture, "Work and
Future," was presented in the
Future, was presented as a part of the Roy Robert's Lecture Series to a predominantly white audience.
A seven-offender jury panel has been selected for the Kotouc trial. Col. James Burkham, 55, of Richland, Ind., the only one of them who have served in Vietnam, is president of the court as ranking member.
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Ga. (U.S.) investigator accused of cutting off a suspected enemy's finger during an inside call to police, saying message was on trial Monday.
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Kotoue, charged with assault and maiming, will be the fourth soldier tried on criminal charges arising from the My Lai operation. Kotoue, says the Army, did not directly parry a gunman on the village, but handled the questioning of prisoners.
Kotouc served as an intelligence officer in Task Force Barker, of which Charlie Company was part. The company, the principal unit engaged in the My Lai action, was commanded by My Lai, who is charged with overall responsibility at My Lai.
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One of the company's platoons was commanded by Lt. William Cailley Jr., who was convicted of sentencing to life imprisonment after a trial at Ft. Benning, Ga. The platoon is under appeal.
The Army charges that Kotouc cut off the finger of a Viet Cong prisoner while questioning him following the Mali Massacre, in which he confessed this, saying that severing the man's finger was an accident.
Four to Meet ROTC Reps On Obscenities
people in Woodruff Auditorium.
Donald Alderson, dean of men,
said Friday that the four students
who were accused of yelling
obescenes at the Naval ROTC
review on April 16 would meet
their teachers in代表大会 to discuss the incident.
The lecture focused on the fast pace of today's society and the creation of what Toffer called "a new culture."
He said that the meeting would be arranged in lieu of disciplinary action against the students because of inflicting the occident of the incident.
"We are superimposing it upon the old culture and hurling people into confusion, upset and anger. Which I call future shock," he said.
Toffer said that accelerated change has an effect on the way people interact and increases the pace of life and makes it more difficult to find
"We're asking people to make and break relationships and decisions faster, and alter the nature of them." Toffler said.
"We are changing the way we relate to things. We used to hold onto them. Now they're easier to get rid of them, he said faster."
In feudal days, the serf was locked into a society and forced to cope with people whom he had to live with throughout his life.
In modern society, Toffer said, relationships are more temporary. He quoted Rod Mekanu as saying, "I have been known for only four flaxes."
We are now being asked to accept basic changes caused by technology, he said. Cloning, or able to make carbon copies for people to change with which people must decide whether they can cope.
Midway through the lecture, Toffer said, "I feel I obliged to mention something to you about leisure, since that's the title of
"Since 1900, there has been a 25 to 30 per cent decline in the number of life hours devoted to work in the United States."
He said that industry was moving away from routine jobs and to the creation of task forces, to create one job and then were disbanded.
The result, he said, is not only more leisure but greater variety in jobs.
The new emphasis on variety will fall on areas outside of the working world and affect leisure time. Toffer predicts the end of a decade of video cassette to end the standardization of TV programming
To cope with future shock, Taffer recommends trying to be more adaptable by enhancing man's adaptability to change. The burden, he said.
"We teach kids a lot of things about space—astronomy and geography—so they'll know where they are. But when it comes to teaching them we play a dirty trick on them. We teach them on the past.
"Unless we shift our education to the future tense," he said, "I guarantee widespread future shock."
By HELEN COX Kansan Staff Writer
Modern Views of Life Examined
The thistle believes there is nothing to revere and there never was any value in anything in the world, Ronald McArthur, professor of philosophy at Laval University. Quebec, Canada, said Sunday.
McArthur spoke about "The Christian and the Modern World" in woodcraft Auditorium in the Kansas Union. His lecture was integrated Humanities Program sponsored by Pearson College
In his lecture McArthur examined four modern views of life and explained why they were incompatible with Christianity. HE SAID THE modern college had a series of disciplines which demanded mathematical theories, and these disciplines were called objectives.
McArthur said nihilism owe-
d not to the misuse of his
bother self from nature. The nihilist
he said, does not believe in any
true world and thinks all
nonsense.
"The humanities," he said, are seen as either humorous or sarcastic. The scientific and rigorous, measured by abstract and private starting
McArthur said the growth of the self-conscious or subjective man was another thought movement contrary to Christian belief. "The reason that man is his own proper end, he said, and that all religion
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IN THE CHRISTIAN view, McArthur said, man is not
He said that in all these views there was a contempt for intelligence and reason.
"Where there are no reasons for anything," he said, "desires.
what he was. Existentialists believe everything is permitted because principles limit man and make himself, McArthur said.
HE SAID THAT in the existentialist account that Socrates succeeded in creating existence this means that man made himself and therefore each person a reality.
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