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Editorial Opinion
Lax Student Leaders
Hurt Representation
A deep check into the current Thanksgiving vacation
problem infficateii that part of the fault for the belated
kno\viedge by SGA. on the possibility of a calendar change
lay in mett icent opet alien or a breakdown in communica
tions to the old SGA.
Then e me two students on the Senate Committee on
Calendar and Class Schedule. The possibility of a calendar
change next year was Intl oduced into this committee
about six weeks before the issue ever became known on
campus. Had SGA had six weeks to work on this problem
it may have had a chance to dev'se a solution to be con
sale' ed by the University Senate when the issue came up
for a vote.
As it was, the newly-elected Assembly was seriously
handicapped by the shortness of time it had to work on
the problem and the advanced stage of the committee
work that had been completed.
The Senate Committee is composed of two student
members and five faculty and administrative members.
Of the two student representatives appointed by the SGA
president, one had instructions from her doctor to ease up
on extracurricular activities and she attended very few
meetings It she were medically unable to attend to the
duties, another should have been appointed in her place.
The committee meetings were usually held on Thurs
day afternoons and the other appointed student had
tiouble making some of the meetings because of a class.
It is not known how many he attended.
The student representative on the committee made
no report of the Thanksgiving issue to SGA until he was
informed that it would be voted upon at the next com
mittee meeting. At that time he took it to the SGA presi
dent and asked for his opinion.
This happened during the changeover in early April
with one president going out and the other coming in.
It was evidently forgotten in the scuffle and no opinion
was rendered. So the student representative to the Senate
Committee voted on what action should be recommended
to the Senate without ever having heard the student's
views.
It SGA is to have a fair chance to prove itself as a
meaningful representative student body, it must have
tune to sound out the students' views and investigate
solutions to he recommended to the propel authorities.
The student representative on the Committee should
have brought the issue to the Assembly as soon as it was
introduced and asked for student opinion to guide his
discussion and voting in the committee work.
That way the students' view would have been repre
sented all along and there would have been no need for
the uproar and panicked activity of the last week.
If students are to have a voice in the actions that
duectly involve them, their elected and appointed leaders
are going to have to fulfill their duties and maintain close
communication with the Assembly so that the students are
Beard before it is too late.
Tottegiatt
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Letters
Student's Wife
Raps Letters
On Prejudice
TO THE EDITOR: In reply to
Itabom's letter of April 27.
Whether of not gi eater human
rights will increase the danger of
a society under complete con
formity depends upon lv ha t you
define as human rights, The
rights involved in the current de
segregation fight and the rights
presented in Mr Hildieth's let
ter of April 26 cannot be cleaily
differentiated,
Is the right to join the country
club of one's choosing any less a
right than the right to get one's
hair cut at a barbershop of one's
choosing?
Is the right to pay a propor
tionate federal income tax any
less a right than the tight to eat
lunch at the lunchcounter of one's
choosing?
But the real question is• Are
we talking about basic human
rights at all' I suspect that we
are not, and, if this is the case,
then your argument is nrelevant,
Mr Rabozzi
Furthermore, I would suggest
that you not discriminate against
any individual because of the
type of work he is doing. He just
may have a broader education
than you think.
After all, I am not a student
of physics, but a housewife. Does
that make me a "real danger to
our present-day society," also?
—Barbara Souder
Student Wife
Junior Complains
Of Two Thefts
TO THE EDITOR: In the past five
days I have lost $25 35 in material
items. Lost? No not lost: stolen
is a bettei woad.
The first object taken was a
suede jacket from a fraternity
parking lot; however, if it is keep
ing some poor soul warm I am re
signed to its loss. The second item
is moie interesting; it is a bike
wrench.
On Monday afternoon I changed
the brakes on my bike. In due
time I checked the efficiency of
these brakes. To achieve this end
I rode the bike once around the
McElwain quadrangle. When I re
turned the wrench was missing.
Students! We are here for an
education, an education to pre
pare us for our future work! Are
some of you preparing to become
thieves, pickpockets, and racke
teers?
Reapplication Necessary
For '6O Encampment
All those who applied for the
1960 Student Encampment by last
Thursday must reapply because of
an error at the Hetzel Union desk,
Robert Umstead, chairman, said.
Applications are now due at 5
p m tomorrow at the HUB desk.
West Halls Elect Officers
West Halls Council elected the
following officers for the 1960-61
term: George Henning, president;
Robert Landis, vice president, and
Robert Stafford, treasurer.
Washin
Race Issues Differ in
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (iP) The
killings, the brutalities, the
horrors in the news from
South Africa add one more
terrible page to that country's
bitter history.
Terror is no stranger there. •
Seven years ago, in a book on
his country's problems, David
Marquard, a South African, was
writing:
"For 150 years the history of
South Africa has been a history
of struggle and conflict, conflict
between black man and black
man, between white man and
black man, between white man
and white man, struggle of white
and black against a not over
generous nature."
Possibly we Americans, with
our own Civil War, are best able
—Marilyn West '6l
ton Beat
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Interpreting:
Decision on S. Africa
Faces Free World
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The free world is facing the question of whether and when
to intervene in the affairs of associated countries if their in
ternal political policies threaten the world standing of
democracy.
The United States and Britain have both intervened at
times since the war in the affairs
of such countries as South Africa,
South Koiea, Guatamata, Greece
and others. Yet they have qdheied
in general to a nonintervention
policy conforming to the United
Nations charter,
In Ali Ica, however, the United
States has taken
a stand against
the South Afri
can govern
or
e n t's
and is trying to
influence devel
oping govern
ments in the new
states
The issue is
involved in the
uses to which ROBERTS
developing countries put Amer
ican• financial aid. At some points
it runs athwart the interests of
some of America's allies.
Britain has been officially more
hesitant and unofficially tougher
TODAY Mixed Choir, 7 p ni , HUB a,•,embly
AAUP. 5 p m . 124 Sparks Music Dept.. 2 p ni , 215 HUB
Panhel Council, 6:40 p in , 203 HUB
Awards Night, .3 p m , HUB ballroom Physics Colloquium. 4.15 p.m , 117 Osmond
Belles Leltrea Club, 7 pin , Simmons Schuhplatter Dance Club. 7.30 pin , 8
lourwe White
BX Interviews, 2 p m.. 212 HUB Sociology Club, 7 p in , 215 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12.15 p in., 215 HUB Vet Club, 6:70 pin , 214 HUB
David Haber Ballet, 8 pm . Little Theatre WSGA, 4 pin , 211 HUB
Encampment, 7 pto . 214 HUB WSGA. 1{01.1%* of Representatives. 12 80-1
Father Hocaneck Dlseulaion, 7 p in., 217 p m., 21.1 HUB
HUB HOSPITAL
Eke ()Thick Theatre. 8 p ro.. Little Thee- William Boyer, Dosed Burris, Lee Chip
tie. Old Main per, ,Jack Crosby. Lai ry Fegley, Esther
Geophysics and Geochemistry Seminar, 8:15 Fold, Douglas Gerard, Shawn Gottlieb.
p ro.. 121 MI Judith Heilman, Robert Ifroludi, Patricia
Home Ee. Research Seminar, 12.30 pm , Karopmeier. Donald Kemmerer. Kristin
. .
HUB timing room "A — Kuhnle. Pali ton Leßoy. Ronna Itlargolia,
It'(:, 7 p m., 2.03 HUB Arlene Ma \ well, Louis Metevia, Lawrence
LA Council. fi ;'3O p in , 212 HUB Millet, ire,eplia Mochulsk 1. Ammon Often-
Marketing Club, 7 pin , 2114 HUH tier, Cato) 04wald, Goldie Paul, John
Meditation Chapel Choir, Spring Concert, Itoneace, Donald Stewart, Carl Sweatman,
S p.m , EiJenhovter Chapel Ansel Thommton. Donald Zehnel.
to understand South Africa
Yet if you'll join me on a trek
to the library of the National Geo
graphic Society you'll soon learn
that the differences are greater
than the similarities.
Here, even in most of the South,
whites outnumber the blacks. In
South Africa, the whites are a
small minority.
Here the Negro has, at least in
theory, legal equality. There the
white man rules the roost, politi
cally and economically, and he
aims to stay there.
Or to quote from the South Af
rican official year book:
"South Africa is the only coun
try in the world where a small,
dominant white community has
followed a definite policy of main
taining its purity of race in the
midst of overwhelming numbers
of non-European inhabitants."
The population breaks down
like this:
White-2,957,000.
TUESDAY, MAY 3. 1960
tow-aid South Africa than has the
United States.
But this week the members of
the Commonwealth, a unique po
litico -economic organization
which has evolved through as
sociation of foi mer members of
the British Empire, are meeting
in London.
The London Times describes it
as an organization without a plan,
without direction, without a doc
trine, which goes on because the
members get some benefit and
have no cause for breaking away
from it. It has always protected
itself by steering clear of the in
ternal problems of members.
There is now, however, strong
pressure for telling South Africa
that she is damaging the demo
cratic front with her racial poli
cies, and there have been sug
gestions that she should be ex
pelled. No direct action is ex
pected, but the debate is launched.
Gazette
S. Africa
Bantu-9,460,000
Asians-431,000, including a
bout 250,000 Indians, descendants
of untouchables who migrated to
Africa 100 years ago,
Colored or mixed races
1,319,000.
It's that top three million whites
who count, and even here it pays
to be among the elite of the elite.
The Afrikaners—you may remem
ber them by their former name,
the Boers—have descended from
Dutchmen, Germans and French
Hugenots.
Each racial group is supposed
to live apart, work apart, stay
apart.
But these are days of great up
heaval.
The Bantus have no vote, little
schooling, and their income in
some areas is so low there's no
way to measure it.
"Three-quarters of the popula
tion," Marquard writes, "is un
dereducated and underpaid."