Opposes HUAC
ACLU Speaker Defends Stand
By Barbara Phillips
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire.
Voltaire said it in the 18th century, and today the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is living up to his philosophy, said Lawrence Speiser, director of the ACLU Washington, D.C., office and the promoter of their national legislative program.
SPEAKING before journalism classes yesterday afternoon and at a meeting of the Lawrence chapter of the ACLU last night, Speiser told both groups the ACLU's stand on legislation and civil rights matters which have come up in the last two years.
In regard to the recent Anti-War in Viet Nam demonstrations, Speiser said the ACLU took no stand for or against these. The organization did consider prosecution on draft card burning as involving civil liberties and freedom of speech because the draft card is not essential to a man's being drafted. It is merely an administrative function.
THE NEW YORK CIVIL Liberties Union will represent David Miller, a 22-year-old New Yorker who burned his draft card in the demonstrations. Speiser said.
In the field of civil rights, the ACLU has been one of the leaders in lobbying for favorable legislation and promoting the civil rights cause. The ACLU challenged poll taxes in Virginia long ago.
SPEIISER COMMENTED on the status of the civil workers in the South, and said legislation was needed.
"We need something more than we have, as far as protection of individuals against murder, assault or whatever is concerned," he said.
Lecturer Seeks Reasons
Man's intentions and his attempts at persuasion are more important to the playwright than what man actually does, Robert Champigny, research professor of French literature at Indiana University, said at the Student Union Activities (SUA) Coffee Forum yesterday.
THESE TWO ELEMENTS of man's make-up are seen in his gestures which are the proper dramatics in human experience," he said.
These are the things that the dramatist must draw from life and place in his play. Moving a stone is not a gesture, but simply a physical effort. However, asking the stone to move is a gesture, Champigny said.
The role of gestures is limited to man and some animals, and is a very important part of man's social behavior. One becomes a person through social behavior, that is, recognition by others. It is gestures which are used by man to persuade others that he is acceptable, he said.
CHAMPIGNY LISTED roles man may take through his social behavior:
- utilitarian in which the roles are useful.
- aesthetic in which the roles are pleasant.
- idolatrous, in which the role is identified with another's regardless of what he really feels.
The revealing of these roles on the stage is the proper and enlightening task of the play, he said.
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