An Oklahoma state senator says the real issue being raised by campus disorder is: How is change to be accomplished in our society? Advises response to student unrest for college administrators. (Author/MF)

Contrary to Marxist theory, commitments to traditional cultural values and immediate communal relations are crucial to many radical movements. Radical mobilization occurs when people have something to defend, have some social strength, and confront social transformations which threaten to take everything from them. (Author/KC)

Discusses the Equal Rights Amendment issue within the American Library Association (ALA) and state library associations, noting key actions regarding the amendment taken by ALA and outlining the political activities of several women librarians in Missouri, Florida, North Carolina, and Illinois. (EJS)

Describes efforts of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws (CCEAD), led by Mary Church Terrell, to abolish segregation in public eating places and other businesses in the nation's capital in the early 1950s. (GC)

Traces the children's television advertising policy dispute from 1970 to the termination of its most recent phase by the Federal Trade Commission in 1981. Suggests that concerned groups might have more impact on children's advertising policy by working outside the regulatory administrative process. (PD)

This article focuses on the important political career of the late Alice Lee Jemison, a Seneca Indian and one of the major Indian critics of Commissioner Collier and his program. (Author/RTS)

Reviews literature on traditional political symbology and its manipulation by regimes to minimize political protest from subordinate or negatively privileged groups. Topics discussed include content of symbols, theories of collective behavior, properties of symbols, symbol versatility, and the borrowing of symbols from religious/cultural groups…

Summarizes a background paper presented and discussion held at a 1978 conference for human rights professionals. Paper reviews (1) basic protections of the right to political participation, (2) methods used to deny full participation, and (3) proposed remedies. Discussion focuses primarily on minority group participation. (GC)

The role and importance of the National Education Association's Political Action Committee is stressed, and a call to action is issued to the educational community. (LH)

The manner in which the National Education Association's Political Action Committee works is explained, and a request for financial support is issued to the teaching community. (LH)

The Olympic Games concept of open, international athletic competition is being corrupted and distorted by politics. Olympic athletes have become pawns of their governments. (JN)

Argues that librarians should become politically involved in order to support their library systems. The work of public librarians in Berkeley to get a special tax referendum passed is described, as well as the experiences of school librarians in Contra Costa County in organizing to protect their program. (BK)

Contrary to their portrayal in "Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman," Black women were not passive in the Black liberation movement of the 1960s. Wallace does not acknowledge the organizing efforts of both Black men and women to challenge racism and sexism within the larger capitalist system. (Author/EB)