EDITORIAL OPINION
End the exodus
At noon each day a strange
hush settles over the University
and all official activity ceases for
precisely one hour.
Not so peaceful are those
students Who find themselves
unable to contact academic
department 6, University officials
and administrators. Ironically,
this is the one. time between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. when most
students have time to trek across
a.
campus for businesd•matters.
• Still, the mass exodus from
departments to lunchrooms
continues, ' short-changing
students.
Unlike most University
associated problems, this is one
dilemma which could-be solved
quite easily. A little cooperation
and concern from the University in
areas such as this could help
smooth rough spots in other
The solution is simple.
Secretaries and others within each
department should stagger their
lunch hours at four one-half
intervals between 11 a.m. and
1:30 p.m. Granted, secretaries
would not be able to eat lunch
together, but student needs
should be more important.
The University exists primarily
for the education of students,
much of which is dependent on
effective channeling of
information. If a noon shut-down
was avoided, the, - flow of
information would improve. -
The Office of Student Affairs
has recognized this: and has
staggered the lunch hours of
those within the departments so
that someone is available
throughout the noon hour. Other
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Staggering I lunch hours to
permit maximum access for
students is a minor change, but
one that i$ easily accomplished.
Those oh the lower levels of the
University hierarchy have often
complained of their inability to
affect , l University policy.
Secretanes and others should take
this oppotlunity to suggest a
change of their,own : staggered
lunch hour's. Bon appetit.
IYHM WE S(
James J. Kilpatrick
An autumn coolness
As slowly and imperceptibly as summer shifting Into fall,
we may be witnessing a change of seasons in foreign policy
also. It may be no more than imagination at work it may be
a product more of hope than of reality but In the field of
U.S. -Soviet relations, one senses a welcome hint of autumn
in the air.
The impression arises from a dozen sources: Soviet Jews.
Wheat. Solzhenitsyn. Sakharov. Radio Liberty. Jamming.
The , National Academy of Sciences. The Kissinger
confirmation. Signs and portents drifi through the news like
falling leaves. After years of sunny weather with the Soviet
Union, the barometer is falling and the nights are turning
cold,
Let me try to pull all this together. For the past 30 years,
more oNiess, the makers and shakers of American foreign
policy have been divided into two 111-defined camps: on one
side the Tolerants, on the other the Intolerants. It Is fair
enough to speak of the Intolerants as anti-Communists. It
never has been accurate to speak of the apposition as ';pro-
Communists," for their principal leaders Senato'r J.
William Fulbrtght, for one are not pro-Communist. Their
guiding rule is toleration. They regard the Intolerants as
paranoids, red-batters, and bores. •
What is happening or what seems to be happening is
a remarkable awakening and reexamination in the Tolerant
camp. The process started a year or so ago, when the
persecution and harassment of Soviet Jews at last shook the
complacency of opinion leaders here. This persecution had
been going on for years. There was nothing especially new
about it. But now the protest swells and takes tangible form:
The passage of new trade legislation, granting concessions
and„"most favored nation" treatmfrit tg the Soviet Union, will
depend upon the , Kremlin's course' of action toward its
Jewish people.
Those of us in the Intolerant camp have written billions of
words over these 30 years about the denial of human rights in
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the Soviet Union. The Tolerants have responded with yawns
or with embarrassed apologies for our bad manners. The
brutal treatment imposed upon Andrei Sakharov, the
physicist, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the novelist, has
changed all that; the wind shifts to unexpected quarters. The
National Academy of Sciences, - never before identified with
anti-Communist activism, is moved to send a bristling
warning to l Moscow: "It is with great dismay that we have
learned of the heightening campaign of condemnation of
Sakharov..."
The developing coolness was clearly evident in the Senate
two weeks ago. By an overwhelming margin of 76-10, the
Senate voted to revitalize Radio Free Europe and Radio
Liberty, and to authorize more than $5O million for their
operations in the current fiscal year. The two netwdrks,
despite furious Jamming by the Soviets, reach an audience of
millions behind the' Iron Curtain.
This changing weather offers a tremendous opportunity.
Even the most tolerant of the Tolerants must be shaken by
Sakharov's courage in urging the United States not to pursue
detente unless there is' some "simultaneous liquidation of
Soviet isolation." Closer ties between Washington and
Moscow must be made to depend upon internal reforms
within the Soviet Union.
Such intervention should not come hard to the Tolerant
camp. After all, those who have gazed with equanimity upon
the internal policies of the Soviet Union have not hesitated to
bring pressures upon South Africa, Rhodesia, and Greece.
The despotism, practiced in the Soviet Union is a thousand
times more ominous.
Henry Kissinger, as astute diplomat, can make great
capital of these events. So long as the Tolerants were in
command, he was bound to attitudes of conciliation, one
way detente, and general sweetness and light. If we have
indeed reached the end of a long lazy summer, a wiser and
harder line will be possible now.
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