Editorial Opinion
Dismay in the
South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu
said-yesterday that to win the war quickly more U.S.
troops are heeded in Vietnam.
For the first time in recent years a Vietnamese
request subtle as it is for increased U.S. involvement
in the war might be falling on increasingly unsym
pathetic ears.
For if there has been anything at all encouraging
about recent developments in the Vietnamese situa>
tion it has been the growing trend among citizens
and legislators toward a reappraisal of the American
role in Vietnam.
Senator Joseph S. Clark speaking here Sunday
night made the kind of comment more and more of
his Senatorial colleagues have made of late.
Clark said that his recent fact-finding trip to
Vienam convinced him that "our top people are
living in a dream world in their thinking about
Asian affairs."
If top officials are still living in a dream world
it seems that finally members of the Senate, even
those who have been firmly committed to the Admin
istration’s policy, are beginning to enter the real
world.
Clark’s views are echoed by Kentucky Senator
Thurston B. Morton who has been quoted as saying
that there is a decidedly negative reaction within the
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tor conquest of disease
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(Continued)
'TUESDAY;: FEBRUARY 13, 1968
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Failure of South Vietnamese forces to come to
the defense of the American Embassy or beleagured
provincial Capitols during the Tet holidays has cast
considerable doubt on whether South Vietenam is
carrying its share of the war effort.
Senator Clark’s observation on the dreamworld
existence'of our top officials is in agreement with
much of the Senate’s thinking. Hopefully his state
ment that the end of the summer will find the U.S.
involved in peace negotiations will become a reality.
If President Johnson is indeed the “political
realist” Clark terms him, perhaps the growing legis
lative dismay with the ,war many prove fruitful.
Hopefully, from the dismay will come peace.
Letters to the Editor
The Traffic Is Terrific
TO THE EDITOR: I think the traffic problem of the Uni
versity has reached such proportions that it is time to call
it to your attention.
At eleven o’clock a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 23,1 drove around
the campus and around the city for a half hour searching
in vain for a legal place to park so that I might confer with
a professor on the advisability of returning to college for
a master’s degree. ' '
It is my honest opinion that the University is shifting
the burden of the parking problem onto the city which- is
unwilling to accept it. If you force cars off the University
property, will people stop operating them? No! They, will
find a place in the city to ditch them. Thus the problem is
compounded. ’
•Both the city and the University say they take'cogni
sance of the problem. Actually, they turn the problem into
a profit by penalizing professors, students, and visitors to
the area with numerous traffic laws, stiff fines, and park
ing meters with short time limits.
Has anyone ever estimated the amount of money taken
in by selling parking permits and issuing .endless streams
of tickets? Even rough conservative calculations result in
staggering amounts of money. Why isn’t this money ear
marked for solution of the obvious parking problem? A
student would not mind paying a five,- ten or fifteen dollar
fine if he felt it would eventually mean free parking or a
place to park at reasonable rates in a parking garage built -
for, students and professors. ‘ .
I maintain that since the University has everyone
associated with the University "over the barrel" no con
structive and positive action will be taken to correct such
a profitable situation!
This generation, more than any other, is a'mobile gen
eration. We should face reality with understanding and
reason so that solutions for problems can be found instead
of avoiding issues, postponing positive action, and antag
onizing everyone.
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The Big Deception
TO THE , EDITOR: We feel that the U.S. Army is under
mining the consciences ■ and minds of all Americans. Our
soldiers wear uniforms with a great pride thinking that
they are warriors protecting liberty, democracy, and free
dom throughout the world. We feel this is a grave error.
In order to compensate for this error we have devised
a pian. We would suggest that the uniforms of our armed
forces be changed so that the people will know exactly who
they represent when they do Rattle.
For example, if ihey are fighting in South America
for freedom and democracy, they should have large let
tering on their backs spelling out UNITED FRUIT! If in
Thailand, CHASE MANHATTAN BANK; If in Peru,
STANDARD OIL; If in Spain, TEXACO OIL; If in Chile,
ANACONDA COPPER: If in Nigeria, MOBILE OIL,
It would be a marvelous idea, .for our boys would no
longer have any doubts about what they are dying for.
The public would no longer be divided on the war. There
would be no credibility, gap.
Also, "when people watch the war on TV, they could
actually see their favorite' companies doing battle. By
having such uniforms, the stock market and Wall Street
could change so that soldiers would be counted instead of
points, eliminating the false notion that statistics lie.
Who knows, people could gel extra dividends by in
vesting their sons in corporations. Of course, some of our
boys will get killed or wounded. But vou know,' business
is business in America.
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Laurey S. Peikov : 69
Edward C. Dicenzo, '69
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Editor’s Note: “Reportage” columns give senior reporters
a chance to speak out on important issues, many 'i)f which
they meet firsthand in their reportorial jobs.
Ominous expressed in reportage columns are not nec
essarily .those of the Collegian Board of editors.
The paradoxical nature of race relations was summed
up, by Ebony magazine in August, 1965, when it devoted
a special issue to “The White Problem in America.”
The white problem is, in brief: How can the majority
of the people knowingly and at times unknowingly sup
press the economic, social and political advancement of a
racial minority in the most prosperous, progress-minded
democracy in the world?
Hie white Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in the
United States is certainly not a collection of barbarians
and racist tyrants. But it has accepted acts of barbarism
and racist “tyranny inflicted on Indians, blacks and other
minorities.
And now, after four summers of riots, the affluent
descendants of immigrants are losing their old sense of
kinship with the people on the bottom of the social
ladder.
The white liberal, an affluent, educated, socially
responsible citizen in the eyes of his peers, poses a
grave challenge to American democracy.
The New York Times, Dec. 17, 1967, reported that a
substantial number of white liberals in the academic
community agree with black nationalists that "racial
separation" is (the best policy for advancement in the
ghetto cities at this time, or as some contend, in the
foreseeable future.
Racial separation in Afrikaans reads apartheid. In
the South it used to be called Jim Crow or segregation.
The white liberals do not-like these terms. The white
conservatives are too embarrassed to speak.
It is ironic to find a Harvard scholar believing that
separate development will not create new injustice or
worsen the injustice already in existence in 1968, when
only four years ago he attributed urban unrest to the
segregated pattern of society.
A sociologist here at the University said that urban
riots , will hamper civil will “set the cause back.”
This view is widely held by well-meaning people.
In the first place, the exercise of civil rights does
not cause riots. Riots are expressions of hopelessness,
futility. The youth who loots a store is- not concerned
with constitutional questions.
Summer riots did not kill the proposed open-housing
legislation in Congress, but they did provide an excuse for
legislators to shelve an unpopular measure.
The ghetto teenager who throws rocks at the police
is not going to move next door. The middle-class black
wants the house.
But returning to the white liberal; what can be done
about him? Bayard Rustin, long-time rights leader in New
York, reminds us that the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965
dealt only with legal equality and were passed a century
after emancipation. A situation which was allowed to
deteriorate for a century does not greatly improve over
night,
Martin Luther King, the symbolic leader of the civil
rights movement, said in 1965 that the white liberal must
come to grips with his own racial prejudice, instead of
seif-righteously denying he-has any hate or antagonism.
Malcolm X, while no apostle of brotherly love, said
the races do not love each other and there is no reason
they should, but the races should respect each other on
the basis of deed.
University students are notorious for patronizing
blacks, quite unintentionally. The black on campus is still
a new experience for many students. If he is not inte
grated into college life, it is because lie is not integrated '
into soeiet'y at large. But progress is being made.
The solution to the racial problem may ultimately" 1 ,
lie in education, for black and white. Only through the
schools can a meaningful dialogue between persons take .
place. The races have stared at each other, cursed each .
other and shot at each other. They should now read about
each other.
Because the guy we’re talking
about is a college recruiter from
Alcoa. And the only way to play it'
is honestly.
He’ll be on campus in a couple of
days. And here’s what we recom
mend you do at the interview.
First, lay your cards on the table.
Tell him what kind of work would
really turn you on.
Then, sit back and listen while he
explains how your plans figure
into Alcoa’s plans. (You’ll be
surprised how versatile
Aluminum Company of America
can be.)
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