University of Virginia Library

Gardner To Lead Panel
At Education Conference

Tom Gardner, a College representative
to Student Council, will
be one of the speakers and resource
personnel at a National Student
Association sponsored conference
on educational reform in Southern
universities to be held in Atlanta
later this week.

The conference, entitled
"Education and Society: Reform or
Revolution?" has a twofold
purpose.

According to the NSA, resource
personnel will be helping students
deal with "programs and problems
of educational reform in their
university communities.

These resource personnel will
also "meet with student delegations
to develop concrete plans for
action."

The conference will also have
small group workshops to "center
around the meaning and
relationship of educational reform
in the larger movement for change
in America."

The conference will feature Carl
Oglesby, a provocative and
important figure of the New Left,
as the keynote speaker, Mr. Oglesby
was former national president of
the Students for a Democratic
Society.

At the conference, which will
last from Thursday, February 26
through Sunday. March 1,
participants will discuss such
subjects as "Students and the Ku
Klux Klan" and see newsreels on
"Columbia," "On Strike San
Francisco State." and "ROTC."

Mr. Gardner will be a panel
member on the subject of
"Education For Radical Change."

Mr. Gardner will stress "the
importance of an alliance between
students and other forces in the
community to bring about a general
transformation of our society" in
his discussion group.

Students interested in attending
the conference should call Mr.
Gardner at 296-2542.