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Editorial Opinion
Showing Cause, and Spunk
We hope we will not be boring those proponents of
the wonders of compulsory ROTC when we again say we
support the vigorous actions of the Liberal Arts faculty
in their attempt to bring a conversion to a voluntary
system
The faculty has spunk. They have been given every
chance to rescind their liberal viewpoint, to maintain the
status quo, to keep the services in business and they
haven't done it
Rather, they actually undertook to show reasons for
making ROTC voluntary—something the Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs sardonically challenged when
It gave its "status quo" report in November, 1960.
This, added to the dubious theoretical and practical
compulsory ROTC, carries more weight than the student
political platforms, posters and petitions that flood campus
with each campaign.
There is one vital point of concern about this com
mittee report—it is dated April 24, 1960. That was five
months ago. Mr. Brewster, to whom the report was sub
mitted (he is head of the LA Planning Committee), said
yesterday that the delay in presentation to the faculty
resulted from lack of time for committee meetings last
spring.
He further stated that it would be "about a month"
before his committee could produce any facts. Simple
arithmetic says that five and one is six, also known as
one-half year.
If a planning committee ever is going to plan anything
it will have to he a vigorous committee, which infers a
few meetings here and there.
We do not think it presumptuous to infer that inaction
hills any committee report, quietly, perhaps inadvertently,
but most effectively.
In addition, the Liberal Arts faculty can debate and
decide, but no action can be taken until the question is
brought before the University Senate—a body that meets
only monthly.
The postponement by the Planning Committee, there
fore postpones Senate discussion and gives those who feel
"every red blooded American lad should want to take
ROTC and if he doesn't we'll make him," more time to
gather ammunition for the fight.
We therefore earnestly entreat that this faculty act
before facts become dim, energy diverted and hope lost.
This is the same faculty that prepared the 1960 report
on the state of the Pattee Library, a report which was in
fluential in getting the library a $lOO,OOO grant.
If any faculty can take an intense interest and create
a strung and persuasive case, this same group can—and
must.
Wondering...and Waiting
Dr. Walker will return from the University's under
water laboratory in La Speiza, Italy this weekend, and on
Monday he may make a statement on the Student Book
store report.
We have once requested that he send a copy of the
report to all the members of the Board of Trustees before
their meeting in mid-October.
We have many times written about, suggested and
endorsed various methods of establishing and managing a
bookstore that would return its profits in dividends to the
student hod''.
Now all we can do is wait—wait to he told something
about the report, wait for it to be sent to the board, wait
for the board to meditate arid mediate, wait for a decision.
This waiting isn't new to us. We do it downtown all
the time.
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Next Crisis:
The first country to applaud Russia's decision to resume nuclear testing has been
the first to feel the damaging results of those tests.
A western province of Communist China, which adjoins the Soviet Union, has
been put under a state of emergency according to intelligence reports that have reached
Taipei, Formosa.
Those reports indicate that radioactive fallout from Soviet atmospheric nuclear
ex plosions is approaching
harmful proportions.
Communist China has been
plagued by drought and severe
storms during the past three
years, which have caused wide
spread crop
failures and
starvation.
Now the na
tion that was
most anxious
for Russia to
resume nuclear
testing, is un
der assault
from deadly
fallout.
The hungry,
overcrowded
Chinese popu
lation is undoubtedly becom
ing restless. The Communist
leaders, in order to perpetuate
their system and themselves,
must raise the hope of better
living conditions and divert
the population's attention from
its own misery.
Expansion is the only solu
tion.
the megaphone
Sweet immunity
A blue-capped, orange-carded, bicycle toting, pony
tailed member of the class of '65 ran breathless into my
room the other day. She had just discovered the HUB,
and in particular, the Lion's Den. •
The discovery thrilled her young, double scoop ice
cream cone loving soul.
But she ran into the room in
the middle of a discussion of
the world situ
ation
(we we 7
just about do►
reworking ci'
ilization aft
THE war) an,
I'm afraid he
picture of 1.1 . ,
good life shif•
ed a trifle aftt
our pessimism.
It was some
thing like bat(
ing cotton can
dy in rubber Min Telchholts
cement—not to appealing—and
she walked out in search of her
"roomie," a 1 s o blue-capped,
also ice-cream loving.
She wished, I think, to be
immune from the human race,
which as we saw it (and see it)
is a barbaric lot.
After four years, she may
find cotton candy not quite so
consoling, rubber cement a bit
too sticky, and may ask her
self as Satre does in "Troubled
Sleep" "by what phony trick
am I responsible for this?"
Granted, there doesn't seem
much we can do about Red
China's hoards waiting around
to pick up the pieces after we
demolish civilization. Granted,
we could all just run back and
forth to the HUB, thinking our
selves into intellectual immun-
Interpreting
Precarious U.A.R.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
For some time the West
ern powers have been keep
ing a nervous eye on the
not-very United Arab Re
public.
There are conflicting facets
of the interest.
They are glad to see any-
thing which interferes with the
dream of U.A.R. President
Gamal Abdel Nasser of turn
ing the Arab States into one
country. Such a development
would inevitably require a
Western decision regarding Its
obligations to defend Israel.
At the same time there has
been hope, in the present
strained state of the world, that
nothing would happen to dis
turb the precarious• balance of
another front in the conflict
between the West and the Sino-
Soviet bloc.
This attitude involves more
than the desire to hold in check
Soviet efforts to interfere in
Middle East politics.
The relations of Red China
with the underdeveloped coun
tries is the source of increas
ingly great concern.
Chinese Communist em is
saries are contriving a sympa
thetic relationship in both
African and Latin America be
cause their problems at home
are so closely a kin to the prob
lems of the revolutionary ele
ments in other economically
and politically backward coun
tries.
What appears to have been
primarily a fight between poll-
Southeast Asia
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ity. And granted, too, we could
lake the course of least re
sistance and accept it all with
granite complacency.
We could, but I hope we
won't.
We all have a duty to our
selves that gets more and more
apparent as the animal seems
to dominate our world. This
isn't a selfish duty, nor a
divinely inspired one.
It's the simple duty of living
life to its fullest. Not, mind you,
hedonistically, nor purposeless
ly, but carrying our innate
capacities to their proper fru
ition, training our minds to
their fullest awareness, devel
oping the guts to stand up for
what we believe.
Some among us may one day
have to reconstruct whatever
is left of the world. Sorry to
mention it, but this just might
happen.
Whether it does or doesn't has
little to do with most of our
present opinions on the world
situation—but in either case,
that responsibility to ourselves
is going to make a great deal of
difference in the world we
live in.
The world is only composed
of people you know—so the
kind of day-to-day world it is
depends only on people. If you
magnify that into society, you
get the point.
t.ians for authority in Syria
may turn out to have been
merely a power play by which
one faction which promotes
Syrian subjection to Egypt
sought to gain an advantage
over another faction with
similar aims.
But in its first moments, it
appeared to be an effort to
restore Syrian independence
and end the tenuous union of
two states whose cultures and
interests are disparate at many
points.
And the Syrian nationalists,
like those everywhere, are per
fectly willing to accept help
from any quarter in which it
may be offered.
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1961
by joel myers
The two principal directions
open for "aggression" are the
west and the southeast.
Russia lies to the west; Laos
Viet Nam, Thailand and Burma
and na t ions protected by
the SEATO pact lie to the
southeast.
Russia is well aware of the
threat that the restless Chi
nese pose to their eastern fron
tier. In fact, I believe this dan
ger is what prompted Premier
Khrushchev to develop the
militarily inefficient 100-mega
ton bomb.
Military experts have stressed
that five 20-megaton bombs
are considerably more useful
than one 100-megaton device.
However, a 100-megaton nu
clear weapon would seem to
be a very efficient weapon of
human destruction.
The smoldering situation in
Southeast Asia, which features
guerrilla warfare, assassinations
and Communist infiltration
may soon explode into open
war as the rainy season comes
to an end.
Already, reports indicate that
the Chinese are strengthening
their military positions, and
many Red regulars have been
sited.
United States concern for
possible Chinese aggression in
Southeast Asia is apparently
what prompted President Ken
nedy to restate in his U.N. ad
dress our determination to pre
vent Communist gains in that
area.
Red China must expand! Rus
sia is holding the 100-megaton
nightmare over her head in
the west, and we are giving
her erratic resistance in the
southeast. The path of least re
sistance is obvious.
The Berlin crisis seems to be
diminishing, but the United
States may soon be faced with
another situation on the other
side of the world that may not
have the alternative of nego
tiation.
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