University Daily Kansan / Thursday. April 16, 1987
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Fear slows progress study director says
Bv IERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
Fear and defeatism can lead to unhappiness and lack of progress, the director of a cross-cultural studies program in Tucson, Ariz., said last night.
"It always furthers the problem and obstructs the solution," Boyd said about fear.
Doug Boyd, director of the program, spoke on "Uses and Abuses to about 25 people at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
He defined two types of fear. One type, he said, is an irrational fear of unchangeable circumstances. Death creates this type of fear. Death making this inevitable fact of life is critical to overcoming fear, he said.
"Once you've done that, you can put your thumb on fear," Boyd said.
He said the second type of fear was rational but needed to be overcome by action. One could eliminate the fear by visualizing the end of the circumstances causing it. Fear of nuclear war and poisonous snakes are these types of fears.
Tim Mirkin Nufire, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said Boyd's speech had given him a sense of control over issues like nuclear war that previously had seemed hopeless. He doesn't have any solutions, he said.
"I still don't know how to do it," Mirkin Nufire said, "but I now have a sense that there is a way." Boyd has been an activist for
social change since he was a boy growing up in California.
"We are all responsible for much more of the human potential than we express today," he said.
Boyd started the Cross-Cultural Studies Program, which was originally based in California, in 1974 as a format for giving workshops and seminars to teach people how to regulate stress. He said he had encountered many people with defeatist ideas, even children.
"They believe the world is going to end," he said. "And the grown-ups are going to do it."
Boyd put his hands in front of his face and backed away from his audience to show how he thinks people cut themselves off from the rest of the world in fear, thus allowing themselves to be isolated from nature.
"In India, you walk right up to animals," he said. "In our society, everything wild and natural runs from us."
Boyd lived in the Far East for about 10 years, studying foreign cultures. He later toured India as a researcher for the Meningeration Foundation of Topeka. He also has lived and worked with American Indian medicine men and traditional tribal leaders.
He wrote the books "Rolling Thunder" and "Swami" to increase popular understanding of Native American and Oriental spirituality and healing.
North filled void in scandal, prof says
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Lt. Col. Oliver North probably was not a self-serving cowboy in the iron-contra affair, but a bureaucrat who tried to fill a void left by the president, an associate professor of public administration said yesterday.
Melvin Dubnick, associate professor of public administration, spoke to about 40 people at a forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204
Dubnick said the U.S. government's recent arms deal with Iran demonstrated that government leaders should recruit recruits to carry out their policies.
By far the most scandalous part of the Iran-contra affair was the president's abdication of responsibility for governance." Dubnick said.
Dubnick showed the group a copy of Fortune magazine featuring a picture of President Reagan and the
headline, "What managers can learn from manager Reagan."
The issue was published several weeks before publicity about the Iran affair, in which the United States sold arms to Iran in an effort to free hostages. Some of the money from the sale was funnelled to the contras
"I think Fortune is trying to collect as many of these as they can so they can burn them," Dubnick said.
He said North and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane became involved in the operation to fill a vacuum that should have been filled by Reagan.
"The image of North as a wild cowboy running around trying to take control doesn't fit," he said. "North and McParlane felt a responsibility to fill in for the president and other major policy makers."
Professional bureaucats like North and McFarlane may have too much devotion to the president, Dub-
"When we abdicate our governance responsibility, we should not complain too loudly about the actions of bureaucrats who feel obliged to step in," he said.
nick said.
But Edward Shaw, professor of biology who attended the forum, said, "It should not have been the responsibility of McFarlane to take action."
The National Security Council is supposed to be an advisory group to the president, he said. "He was behaving as though it was a managerial group."
Dubnick said, "I think McFarlane and North knew they were stepping in where they shouldn't."
Howard Baumgartel, professor of communication studies, said, "Isn't there a problem with our expecting the president to have a policy on every single issue?"
The security council is supposed to help the president by providing information and advice, Dubnick said.
Jack Bremer, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, asked Dubnick whether public apathy contributed to policy problems.
Dbnick said, "I think it does."
The Iran-contra affair and Watergate both may have been consequences of an apathetic public, Dubnick said. "It's only when the consequences of that atmosphere come up do people say, 'Why weren't we more involved?'"
E. Jackson Baur, retired professor of sociology, said Reagan seemed to use whatever means available to reach his goals of democracy in Central America and freedom for hostages in the Middle East.
"I have no doubt that Reagan is convinced of the nobility of his goals," he said.
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