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First it was Gov. George Romney of Michigan
who claimed he had been brainwashed by the John
son administnaAon's top military brass during his
1964 visit to Vietnam.
Then it was Sen. Thurston Morton of Kentucky
who claimed that it is actually President Johnson
who is being brainwashed by his military and civil-'
ian advisers the "military-industrial complex,"
to be exact.
• And of course there is the ever-present argu
ment that the American - people are. constantly being
brainwashed by the Pentagon.
Is is very convenient 'to claim that one's! gray
matter has undergone the wash-and-spii cycle the7e
days, for the implication is: if one's brain has' been
washed, one is absolved from all responsibility for
making an error.
Morally, it is wrong to blame the optometrist
because one's glasses don't work; it is far better to
get another pair because one's eyesight has changed.
But the Collegian Board of Editor's is not com-
posed of moralists. We realize that no amount of
moralizing will halt the stream of cries of "brain
wash!" until it has run its course.
Self-immolation was "in" at the time of the
Buddhist uprisings during the Diem regime, as mass
sniping was "in' after Charles Whitman's escapade
at the University of Texas. •
These things run in cycles.
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Now it is "in" to be brainwashed.
The Collegian feels that people who may have
made I.ash statements or misjudgments in recent
years should be given the opporunity to rescind
them with the explanation that their cerebral' cells
had been soaked sufficiently to supercede sensibility.
Aft6r all, why not cash in on the liberal inter- ,
pretation of the word brainwash?
To get the ball rolling, we thought we might
make these suggestions:
• Dean of Women Dorothy L. Harris could claim
she was brainwashed , into thinking that University
coeds don't really want freedom.
• o J. Ra'p's Rackley could say he had been brain-,
washed into believing there really was the post of
provost at the University.
• The College of Liberal Arts could claim it had
been brain Washed into thinking that B 1 Sd was a
worthwhile course.
• The University Senate could say it was brain
washed into believin g that phys ed 'should be a re
quirement for graduation.
• Town apartment managers could claim they
had been brainwashed by builders into believing
their materials were safe.
• Jon Fox could claim he has been brainwashed
period.
e And Gov. Romney could say he had been
brainwashed by his speech writers into believing '
he had been brainwashed in Vietnam.
All You Need Is Love
TO THE EDITOR: Time displaces itself with more
time and people with more people but there is no
growth and economy of conscience. We easily plague
our minds with ideals but no conscious conscience.
For public consumption, the pseudo-statesman and
pseudo-humanitarians plead for peace and preserva
tion of life, for equality and trust, for a mutual giving
and a mutual love. Why have we even reached this
state of desperate pleadings? Why?
There came a nation, a polyglot of personality
and temperment, that matured and developed, socially
and technically earlier than all the others. Each citi-4 ,
zen enjoyed and praised the "finer things of life",
afforded him by his nation. And its leaders were
elected to preserve its "monopoly" on the "finer
things of life", because this is what its population
meant by preservation of liberty arid constitution.
No' citizen could be called upon to give up the ad
vantages it gained by its technocratic nation. Not for
the sake of peace, nor for equality, nor for love. '
Ask the man on the street if he will give up his
car, or television, his well fed belly, or whatever is
his by his nation's purfoseful "monopoly" of those
nations that matured later than his. He has earned
them he will say. He has worked. But has he strived
any harder, for them than those of other nations or
races that cannot achieve them because of his nation's
economic monopoly. I think not. No man on the street
will forego his material and immaterial possessions,
not for the peace they want, the equality they as-
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"Frankly, Senator—for a while we were concerned that
our new pacification program was not working!"
sumo, or the love they need.
Because one nation matures and developes earlier
than another, does not allow it a "monopoly on the
finer things of, life." Yet how many people that voice
their displeasure of the War in Vietnam, of inequal
ity for the Negro, of the conformity of man and lack
of love of man for man are willing to relinquish those
"finer things 'of life" and strive for a growth of
conscience. I assume few can because I am not
assured that I can. I have a pseudo-conscience like
many others. I also want the ideals of life but I too
am not sure I can forego my car, television, or my
other "tangibles."
Those that are truly for peace and equality do
not merely babble against war and inequality—they
write 'their representatives, march inlrotest, forgo
their savings and earnings to suppOrt the active ele
ments they,favor, and they go to fall. 'Less ideology
and more action through conscience would achieve
greater Inds.
I have no solution but offer one last phrase:
"Like things but Love people."
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Gy GEORGE ENTEEN
Assistant Professor of History
Recently I made a trip from Washington to New York
and experienced considerable misgivings enroute. New
York is rough enough ordinarily. The scars of Newark and
Detroit must seem like -a muted challenge. A riot now in a
National-League city like Chicago would be unbearable to
New Yorkers, I thought to myself somewhere &long the
approaches 'to the Lincoln Tunnel. Once in New ;York my
anxiety was dispelled as a result of the unconcern (if friends
and associates. They could still discuss 'racial relations'
with a detachthent that has abandoned Washinon. The
patterns of violence could still be predicted in New York.
Where the Action Is
After returning to Washington, I understood the force
of the metaphor of a feeling embracing a city—Tear grips
Washington,' Anxiety pervades the streets.' One'l feelings
are a function of his location: depart and theY,'A gone;
return and they're regenerated. They arise not rely from
the overtones of conversation but from the simplest and
most essential social' relationships like the exchange in
volved in the purchase of a loaf of bread. No-one needed
to be told by Twenty-three X, a black nationalist who
recently addressed a gathering of Young Republicans on
Capitol Hill, that he's through roaming, that this is where
the action is.
A letter I received front a friend in Milwat,kee rein
forced my feelings: 'All activity in the city has cam:daily
stopped, except hospitals, the phones, etc.... Tonight and
tomorrow night should tell (what happens at present we
are under 24 hour curfew, and supposed to stay tome. It's
really wierd we are keeping the kids in the ibackyard
in this quiet residential neighborhood ... The riot,center
is only one mile from us but fortunately we are separated
fram it by a river with only a few bridges ihich -we
assume are barricaded and will stay so tonite. This is what
I'm putting my trust in . We did hear a coupe of shots
last evening right near here . . . The day is endless
everyone is tense waiting to sea what will hap,en tonite
naturally. It gives one 3utit the' smallest , inkling what it
must be like to be wondering all day if There will be an
air raid come night.
The hippies have departed from Dupont Circle. 'A
District ordinance requiring that adults carry identifica
tion papers has been used,lby the police to cleat,. the area.
A few senior hippies plus some early evening teenie-bop
pars remain, but the tenor of activity changed thoroughly,
though perhaps only temporarily, just during the week I
spent in New York. The grassy areas where the hippies
made music with flutes, guitars, audo-harps, xylophones,
bongo drums, and sweet notatoes are mostly utpnhabited.
The concrete stretches, the area of disputation that en
closes the fountain, are more crowded than ever. The
police concede that the hippies caused little trouble; 'Ws
the groups they draw.' An ugly and menacing racial inci
dent did take place not long ago, but Negro bystanders
quelled it before the police had to take action. There is
little animosity between races in the Circle; most of it is
between citizens and the police. The large numbers of
police—sometimes more than a dozen patrol the park it
self while others with Walkie-talkies are poised in the
wings—are the center of attention and in that sense have
replaced the hippies. Although it is true that 'the quality
of music has declined over the last few year.l, one feels
that there is an imbalance now. The, host of blUe uniforms
is provocative. The police require at least the presence of
hippies for their own juStification.
Guilt Taken for Nihilism
The influence of the current mood, on various groups
is predictable. I don't know how the black racists feel, but
their white counterparts r are apprehensive despite their
brave show at 'I told you so! They're happy at least to
have all the cards in the table and ready for a showdown.
The radical intellectuals react with their traditional .feel
ings of guilt so often taken for nihilism. The;r're grieved
by the knowledge, that the color of their skin and -not an
act of, reason decides whd i e they stand. One of them I know
is at a loss because he does not know how he might argue
with someone who chose Ito stick a knife between his ribs.
He wouldn't have the consolation of being able to tell his
assailant he was doing wrong. He almost views his own
assassination as a philosophical necessity. • • _
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