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Greenville, North ('
Fire threatens Flanagan
Wednesday. August 4. 1971
Monday night, at
approximately 10:15. a
"potential bomb" existed on
the ECU campus.
Thai was the description
given by Dr Donald Clemens,
chairman of the Chemistry
Department, of the chemical
lire that occurred on the thud
I linn of Flanagan.
The fire apparently started
in a chemical storage closet due
to a chemical reaction between
some unknown contaminant
and potassium chlorate, a very
explosive substance
The fire was first discovered
by a janitor who informed the
ECU police. The police then
alerted the Greenville fire
department, who responded
with thiee trucks. The Rescue
Squad also responded to the
call with an ambulance.
Due to the heavy chemical
smoke, the firemen were
required to use an exhaust fan
to clear the floor before they
began the search for the fire.
Clemens arrived at the scene
and assisted the firemen in
combating the enlarging fire.
Clemens stated that if the
fire had gone undetected for
another ten minutes, a very
explosive fire would have
resulted.
However due to the "alert
janitors and a very alert system
of reporting the fire not only
to the fire department, but to
the chairman of the
department as well the
damage was limited to the
storage closet only.
Clemens said that whereas
the damage was confined to
hundreds of dollars, the
potential damage was of
thousands of dollars.
Library gains new wing by '74
Hopefully, construction can.
be started on the new wing of
Joyner Library early in 1972
so that the proposed addition
may be occupied late in 1973
or early 1974.
The request for a S3 2
million appropriation for the
addition was made to the
General Assembly in 1971. At
present, the budget has been
said to have been cut to $3.1
million.
The starting date f o r
construction depends upon the
acquisition of the property
where the building will stand.
Sam Underwood, the property
owner of the land needed lor
the site, presently has filed suit
against the slate with an
injunction to prevent selling Ins
land for the university.
The building is to be
situated across Eighth Street so
that the street would have to
be closed During the past year
houses have been torn down
along Eight Street to make
room for the new library
addition and the new student
union.
Preliminary plans have been
made for the new addition so
that it will more than double
the present size of Joyner
Library.
The proposed addition will
house the undergraduate
library so that the old building
can be used for the Library
Science Department and
research work The old
building will also still house the
stacks for the entire library.
The undergraduate addition
will consist of four floors The
ground floor, which will be
below ground level, will
connect with the microfilm
section of the old library. It
will house the reference room,
the periodicals room, and the
documents collection. This
area will provide about 300
study stations.
The main floor of the
addition will house the public
catalogue, the general service
desk and the reserve reading
room, which will provide 200
study stations. The third and
fourth floors will house
approximately 100.000
volumes on open shelves and
provide 500 study stations and
I 2 private study stations
A one-story walkwi) will
connect the old library with
the new addition. Within that
walkway will be the catalogue
and check-out desk for both
areas of the library. Plans are
made so that there will be one
entrance to the building and
another opening for an exit so
that better control can be kept
on the regulation of books.
The radio and television
stations will remain unchanged
on the second story of the old
library.
THE PROPOSED ADDITION for the
winq on Jovner library will house the
undergraduate library.
Construction is scheduled to begin
early in 1972.
Falcon's deliberate crash
reveals much information
GREENVILLE FIREMEN WERE
called to the campus Monday night in
response to a
floor Flanagan.
on third
Dean Beardon charges
false weather clearance
Marijuana could have
some medical potential
Charlotte (AP)- The vice
chairman of the Governor's
Advisory Com mine on
Economics and Enviornment
was quoted Saturday as stating
that the National Hurricane
Center "failed to give the
proper designation to the
weather disturbances" that
occurred as nerve gas was
carried to sea in the Atlantic
Ocean a year ago.
"I could point out numerous
ironies . which, when all
viewed together, appear to
stack up to something more
than just coincidence said
committee vice-chairman and
ECU Dean of Business
Education James Bearden
Bearden made the
observations during an
environmental seminar at the
annual meeting of the
Radio-Television News
Directors Association of the
Carolinas.
Bearden stated that Army
officials promised that the
controversial nerve gas would
not be towed to sea without a
"weather clearance" predicting
96 hours of good weather.
However, he said that when
the tow began from the Sunny
Point Ordinance Depot on the
Cape Fear River on Aug. 16.
1970. an intense storm
developed off the North
Carolina coast.
Bearden said that winds of
75 miles-per-hour were
recorded at Morehead City on
the coast and about 85
miles-per-hour winds to the
northeast He alleged that the
National Hurricane Center
termed the disturbance a
"wave" rather than a tropical
depression or hurricane
because the high winds were
not sustained.
However, said Bearden, he
has reconnaissance plane data
which indicates the winds were
sustained.
"I don't think there was a
possibility of getting a 96-hour
clearance on the basts of the
data I have stated Bearden
Bearden recalled that the
dumping operation was
postponed several times
because of bad weather, and
that a tropical depression did
exist in the Atlantic, but that it
'miraculously dissipated to a
wave" the day before the gas
put to sea.
The dumping operation was
carried out without reported
incident.
Congressional committee
CHAPEL HILL (AP)-
Research at the University of
North Carolina has shown that
the main ingredient in
marijuana does not appear to
be addictive and it may be
possible to use it in place of
the currently used addictive
pain-killing drugs.
The most active ingredient is
code named THC, which stands
for del t a-9-1 e t r ahydro-
cannabinol.
Dr. William L. Deweyofthe
university's medical school said
"marijuana may have potential
for treatment of
hypertension
"In tests here animals' blood
pressure has been reduced
significantly for up to four
hours. It is an unusual drug to
reduce blood for that long
Dr. Dewey said.
"Our studies have shown
that THC has analgesic
pain-killing effects in mice, rats
and possibly in dogs Dewey
said. Researchers here believe
that effects of THC on the
brain are "mainly depressant.
though there may be some
stimulatory activity
However. Dewey says he
beheves it might be usefut as an
antl-depressant since users have
reported a "heightened sense
of well being" while on
marijuana.
"We talk in contradictions
when speaking of this drug
Dewey said. "Some clinically
useful antidepressants sedate
lab animals
While it is possible that
marijuana or THC may not
themselves have medical value,
chemicals related to them may
have.
Among the candidates for
study are the chemicals into
which the body changes THC.
THC is not soluble in water so
the body changes it into water
soluble compounds, which ma
be active prior to being
excreted.
Two of these "metabolites"
are now known. To find others
and study their effects when
given seperately is one of the
goals of UNC researchers.
By BILL STOCKTON
A P Sc lence Writer
SPACE CENTER. Houston
( AP) Detection of the
deliberate crash of Apolfb 1 5's
lunar lander by moonquake
meters at three widely
separated points on the moon
is frosting on the cake for lunar
scientists.
The lunar lander Falcon's
violent death late Monday was
detected 30 miles away at the
seismometer which David R
Scott and James B. Irwin left
at the base of the Apennine
Mountains where they landed
earlier in Falcon The crash
also registered 700 miles to the
south on the Apollo 12
seismometer left in the Ocean
of Storms in November 1969
and on the Apollo 14
seismometer left in the lunar
highlands at Fra Mauro last
February.
The response of the three
instruments excited scientists
waiting to see if it would
happen.
It was the latest achievement
for Apollo 15- a mission lunar
experts say may bring more
fundamental knowledge about
the moon than all past moon
landings combined. The
achievements include
-Possible discovery of a piece
of the original lunar crust.
-Samples of bedrock that
might lie just beneath the
moon's surface.
-Discovery of probable
layering in the sides of Hadley
Rille
Scientists are trying to
determine how the moon was
formed as a way of finding the
origin of the solar system
"That's exciting. That's just
very nice Dr D.W.
Strangway. a geophyacist at
the Manned Spacecraft Center,
said when the Apollo 12 and
14 instruments began recording
seismic waves generated by the
Falcon's crash, which equaled
an explosion of more than two
tons of TNT The waves had
reached the closer Apollo 15
etsjnometert several minutes
eafiiei.
"It suggests you can see
impacts on the moon from
very, very far away This has
been a subject of considerable
controversy Strangway said
The principal scientist
working with the
seismometers. Dr. Gary
Latham of Columbia
University's Lamont-Doherty
Geological Laboratory, was
studying the data last Monday
and was unavailable for
comment.
But before the crash he said
detection by the ApoUo 1 2 and
14 instruments would be
strong evidence that present
theories about the interior of
the moon are correct.
These theories are that the
moon's interior is a broken,
crumbled material that scatters
the waves intensely and the
material becomes more dense
with increasing depth
Crashes of previous lunar
landers and spent S4B booster
rockets have been only short
distances from seismometers.
As a result, seismic waves they
generated gave data on the
interior of the moon to a depth
of only about 50 miles.
But detection of seismic
waves generated by the crash
of an object 700 miles away
might give soundings as deep as
150 mies
Data from othei
experiments has suggested
there might be a mantle or
lunar shell at this depth.
Detection of the mantle, if it
exists, wo u Id help in
determining if the moon ever
had a liquid core
Scott's report Sunday during
a lunar excursion that he had
found a piece of coarse-grained
anorthositic rock led to
speculation it might be a piece
of the original lunai crust
The crustal rock might have
been carved out of the moon's
primordial surface more than 4
billion years ago when an
object probably 50 miles wide
gouged the 500-mile-wide
Imbrium Basin
Anorthosites are composed
largely of aluminum, calcium,
sodium and silicates Some
scientists think they might
represent crustal material
agrees to extend draft Eaj wj become Carrier-free'
By BRUCE SAVAGE
Staff Writer
The hopes of many young
men between the ages ot
eighteen and twenty-five may
have been shattered by a
congressional conference
committee
For a while it seemed that
the selective service of the
United States would be a thing
of the past However, on
Friday, July 3 0, a
congressional conference
committee agreed on a
two-year draft extension bill.
Some hopes were laised by
Senate action on June 22,
when, by a vote of 57 to 42,
the Mansfield amendment was
added to a bill to extend the
Selective Service Act after the
June 30 expiration date. The
amendment stated that it was
"the policy of the United
States" that a deadline be set
foi withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Indochina not later than
nine months after the
nactment of the measure,
ith the provision that all U.S.
ai prisoners' release be
cured within ninety days.
However, the House of
Representatives refused to go
llong with the amendment,
following the arrangement for
ch disagreements in the
ingress, a conference
mmittec was called.
For the last month the
inference committee was
-Unable io reach any accord on
e issue of setting a date for
fthdrawal With the
iiatioi.oi thi draf' n ' ins
30, local draft boards all over
the nation virtually closed
shop, confining activities to
regular paperwork.
Then on Friday the
committee gave approval to a
compromise which urged
President Nixon to set a date
for total U.S. troop withdrawal
from Indochina, but without a
deadline
However the agreement by
the conference committee does
not insure quick extension of
the draft
The bill, with its
amendment, will now go back
to the House, where passage is
likely. It will then return to the
Senate, where its fate is
uncertain. Senate anti-war
forces have vowed to filibuster
against the compromise bill.
If no agreement has been
reached by Friday, the bill will
have to wait until September
The Congress adjourns for a
summer vacation on Friday.
August 6 Such quick action by
the Congress is doubtful.
Therefore the draft will have
to wait another month before
extension and another month
before the next call-up.
But don't be surprised if
people are s.ill drafted. The
Selective Service says it still has
the power to draft those men
whose deferments expire and
those who turn 18.
If and when the draft
resumes, changes are to be
expected:
?The President will be
permitted to end student
deferments Freshmen of the
1970 71 class will be allowed
to retain deferments; students
entering later are not expected
to get them.
?After the draft notice has
been mailed, men will no
longer be able to volunteer for
one of the other services.
?Pay for recruits could
double to more than $5,000,
largely as an incentive for
volunteers.
?For the first time since
1961, a congressional limit will
be imposed on draft calls -
270,000 over a 24-montli
period ending July 1, 1973.
While the extension
legislation provides the major
barrier to the continuation of
the draft, there are other
problems, basically the increase
in appeals and the evasion of
the draft and the refusal of
men to serve.
Tha appeals focus mainly on
the conscientious-objector
question. Already, the number
of men holding the CO status is
i believed to have doubled in the
1 past year from 40,646 last
June to an onofficial estimate
of 7 5,000 at present. CO
claims alone range from 7,000
to 10,000a month.
The appeal also applies to
the health qualifications In
January, 1970. the rejection
rate was 18.5 per cent. Twelve
months later it has climed to
28.6 per cent.
Draft experts say these
rejections generally reflect a
more intensive effort by the
young men to seek
professional, legal and medical
help in their physical
.?xaminations
This fall ECU will become
the first barrier-free state
supported campus in North
Carolina
"Barrier-free" means that
barriers which prevent
physically handicapped
individuals from easy access
will no longer be an obstacle
on the Greenville campus
Ramps and handrails to aid
physically handicapped
persons, such as wheelchair
occupants will be installed
Other adjustments will also be
made.
The barrier-free condition at
ECU is being made possible by
a grant from the N.C.
Department of Vocational
Rehabilitation, with 20 percent
matching funds from ECU.
According to Dr. Sheldon
Downes. coordinator of
Rehabilitation Counselor
Education at ECU, theie are
many barriers, things which
physically able people take for
granted, which prevent
handicapped people from easy
movement and access.
Take curbs, for example
Some 70 walkway ramps at
ECU will be insulted to
provide easy accessibility over
curbs to sidewalks which can
safely facilitate wheelchair
movement about campus
And then, there are
restrooms which must be
augmented. Some 55 toilets -
mens and womens - which
need to be outfitted with
handrails and adjustments in
partitions so that they may be
used 6y wheelchair users.
Some drinking fountains will
be lowered and a limited
number of showers in
dormitories will also be
adjusted
Although ECU will be the
first, there are plans to soon
make UNC-CH and
UNC-Asheville also barrier-free.
Pitt Technical Institute, also
located in Greenville, will get
some barrier-free construction
this year.
With the new eastern North
Carolina Vocational
Rehabilitation Center to be
located adjacent to the new
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
with ECLf's newly formed
School of Medicine and very
active Allied Health
Department which trains
physical therapists, and the
vocational rehabilitation
training center in the School of
Education. Downes sees
Greenville soon becoming a
center for training the bodies
and minds of those who have
permanent or temporary
physical handicaps.
Downes hopes to see ECU
eventually make other
adjustments on the campus to
more easily facilitate
convenient living for the
handicapped.
He hopes to sec items such
as telephones and mirrors
lowered in the dorms for use
by the physically handicapped
However, he warns that even
these seemingly simple changes
lequire financial resource!
"We hope to have a special
section in the library, too,
which will be equipped with
tape recorders and books in
Braille for the blind he adds
At the present time. ECU
has several sightless students on
campus. This fall, at least two
students will be entering; ECU
who are totally dependent on
wheelchairs fa motivation
Downes has emphatically
stated that all students who are
physically handicapped at ECU
must be independent He says
"We have found that most
of the handicapped persons,
such as those in wheelchairs,
do not need attendents Most
of them could function quite
well on their own. if thev
would We encourage
independence We will not
permit attendents on the
campus
According to ECU vice
president and business
manager. C.G Moore, the N.C
Department ot Vocational
Rehabilitation is providing
$35,200 of the necessary
$44,000 for the barrier-free
construction and ECU is
providing the remaining
$8,800
Moore says that the funded
construction at ECL' will begin
as soon as plans have been
approved
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be initiated at ECU this fall will
include some 70 ramps to provide
easy wheelchair movement around
campus. The barrier free condition at
ECU is being made possible by e
from the N.C. Departmer
Vocational Rehabilitation with 20
cent matching funds from ECU
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Dr. Abernathy to open lecture series
DR RALPH ABERNATHY, noted civil rights leader,
will visit the ECU campus on Tuesday, October 19, to
speak on "Civil Rights and Black Power
Adzug declares war
Dr Ralph Ahcinathv will
begin the I "71-72 lecture
Mriei by speaking on "Civil
Rights and Black Power" on
lucsday. October ll
Dennis lloppei. who gamed
lame as CO-atai with Petci
Fonda in "Easy Rider will
follow on Thursday. October
2K speaking on "I Love Making
Movies "
Hey wood Hale Bioun,
repoitei allaige foi CBS News,
will appear January 17, to
speak on Ins experiences as a
correspondent.
Also appearing on the
Lecture Series will be Norman
Bakei and Peter Nero. Baker
will speak on "The Voyages of
Ra I and Ra II" January 26.
Nero will give a lecture-
demonstration on ja.
February 2
F11 si on the Popular
Entertainment schedule will be
the Irmidad Tripoli Steel Band
on Parents Day, Octobei 2
October 8, Alex Taylor and
the Nitty Gritty Dirt will
appear in concert.
Pat Paulsen, John Stewart
and Jennifer will perform on
October 30.
Bread will appear at
Homecoming. November 5.
The Popular Entertainment
Committee is in the process of
securing other entertainment
for the Homecoming weekend.
The Artist Scries will begin
on Monday, October 18, with
the Sierre Leone National
Dance Troupe The schedule
for the rest of the year will be
as follows:
The World's Greatest Jazz
Band - November 16
Jerome Mines - January 19
London Symphony
Orchestra ? February 8
Grant Johannesen - April 6
and 9
Issac Stern ? May I
The Travel-Adventure Film
Series will feature films of
international scope. The
countries of Australia. Korea,
Holland, and others will be
highlighted in this series.
News Briefs
Nixon failed to respond
WASHINGTON (AP)- A
group of delegates lo the White
House Conference on Youth
accused President N1 "day
of failing to respond to the
conference.
"Paramount among our
concerns and frustrations is the
total and tiagic silence ol the
President of the United States
regarding this conference the
group told a Senate
subcommittee hearing on
conference followup.
"We want a total end to the
wai in Southeast Asia, now a
spokesman for the group said.
"We want an emphasis on
the needs of the people a
guaranteed annual income, not
loans to Lockheed, an end to
discrimination, not a Southern
strategy.
"We want food for hungry
children, not subsidies fur
wealthy farmers. We want
protection ol civil liberties, not
whitewashing of campus
killing"
Dr. Burden appointed
DENNIS HOPPER, CO STAR of "Easy Rider will
lecture on the subject, "I Love Making Movies" at ECU
on October 28.
Fred Martin
dies of stroke'Gypsy' ends theater season
WASHINGTON i l'i Rep
Bella Abzug is asking Congress
to declare wai on the sex
prefix
The New York Democrat,
wife of a stockbroker, is doing
her thing foi ?omen s
liberation b preceding her
Signal ure with "Ms " She
figures thai can be taken foi
Mrs oi Miss it reference must
be made ar :i'
But women, she said, should
he considered as "individuals
and not wives of nidiv idu.ils
"Women are harassed JaiK
by government interrogations
js to then marital status she
told the House "Thus, the
thousands o( government
forms which make up led lape
icquite women lo designate
Miss or Mrs . while men,
apparently, are sufficiently
described by the term Mr
Each time a woman is
required to designate either
Mrs. or Miss, "she is reminded
that hei identity is perceived
not only by her sex but also by
hei marital status Mrs. Abiis
said, but such "governmental
curiosity does not apparently
extend to the private lives of
men
She said iheie is no
justification "for such idle
curiosity about women In
wow of the vast number of
I o i m s which must be
completed by anyone
associated the the United
States, its elimination will do
much lo enhance the personal
respect foi the individual
Thus, she prepared lor
introduction today a bill to
piinhn any "instrumentality
ol the I nited States from using
.is a prefix to the name of any
pe rson a n title which
indicates marital status as
well as a resolution designating
Aug. 2(s as Women's Equality
Day to commemorate the day
in 120 when women first won
the light to vote
Discrimination against
women in employment, she
said, permits supervisors to
ialionali7t extensively-
"usually on the basis that a
married women is apt to get
pregnant, or she is a 'second
breadwinner or some other
unsubstantiated myth "
Under her bill. Congress,
courts at any iedcrai agency
would be blocked from
indicating anyone's marital
status in correspondence,
records, coertificates or written
documents
Dr. Frederick Carlyle
Martin, director of graduate
studies in the Romance
Languages department, died
suddenly at his home Monday
evening of an apparent heart
attack.
Martin came to ECU in I960
By HARRIET FLANAGAN
Staff Writer
"Gypsy" the last show of
the Summer Theater season
will open August 10.
This show, based on the
with degrees from Emory memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
University and the University
of North Carolina. He had
earlier taught at Furman
University and UNC-CH
At ECU he taught Spanish
and French courses and later
served as coordinator of
Spanish language courses.
In I9ti9 he became director
of graduate studies for the
Romane Languages
Department and launched the
Spanish graduate program in
1970 Before his death, he was
preparing for a French
graduate program for 1971-72.
He served as chairman of
numerous committees in the
Romance Languages
Department and was also a
member of the Association of
Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese, Phi Beta Kappa,
Phi Sigma lota. Pi Delta Phi,
and Pi Kappa Alpha.
The funeral was conducted
in Greenville after which the
body was to be returned to
Martin's home city, Augusta,
Ga. for burial.
was first produced in 1959
with Ethel Merman in the title
roll.
The script for the ECU show
is by Artur Laurants with
music by Jules Stein ("Funny
Girl") and lyrics by Steven
Sondeim ("Forum "Follies
"West Side Story").
The action begins in Seattle
in the early twenties. Baby
Louise and Baby June are
rehearsing for a kiddie show in
a vaudeville theatre ("May We
Entertain You") supervised by
their domineering mother. Her
children's success in show
business is Rose's life.
Leaving Seattle, Rose
collects some boys for an act
and under her driving
direction, June and Louise
entei vaudeville as "Baby June
and her Newsboys On tour
she meets Herbie, a former
candy salesman, and she
charms him into becoming
their agent.
The years have passed. June
and Louise are now much
older, although Rose keeps
their ages secret. On Louise's
birthday. Herbie lands the act
on the Orpheuni Circuit and
Rose is overcome with
gratitude ("Mr Goldstein, I
Love You"). Despite their
success, Herbie wants Rose to
retire and marry him.
A producer offers to make
June a star; however. Mama
Rose violently refuses, and
June and Louise lament their
hard life on stage and their
troubles with their strong-willed
mother ("If Mama Was
Married").
The act continues, and one
of the boys. Tulsa. shows
Louise a new routine he has
worked out for himself and a
girl ("All I Need Is A Girl"). It
is later learned that June and
Tulsa have eloped. Rose is
crushed. She accuses June of
desertion. However, she
summons her indomitable
strength and endeavors to
make a star out of Louise
("Everything Is Coming Up
Roses"). Act one closes on this
note.
Vaudeville is dying and so is
the act even though "Madam
Rose's Toreadorables" are
substituted for the
"Farmboys Nevertheless.
Rose assures Herbie and Louise
that they will stay "Together
Benz receives PhD
Carlton R. Benz, associate
professor of speech at ECU,
has been awarded the PhD
degree from Wayne State
University, Detroit.
A specialist in television
broadcasting, Benz wrote his
doctoral dissertation on the
effects of time-compressed
speech upon the
comprehension of a visually
oriented TV lecture.
His research indicated that
students viewing a televised
lecture compressed one-third
of the original presentation
time could comprehend and
Unwittingly, Herbie books the
act into a second-rate
burlesque house, where Rose is
shocked by the destitute
performers. Louise talks her
mother into remaining and is
instructed by three strippers in
the elements of their work
("You Got to Have a
Gimmick"). The headlining
stripper is arrested. Rose,
determined to make Louise a
star, shoves her into the act to
Herbie's disgust. He angrily
leaves. Pasty, the stage
manager, introduces Louise by
accident as Gypsy Rose Lee.
obviously the title adhered
Louise is an enonnous
success, growing in confidence
and stature as her talents come
into play. The music Rose
chose for her is "Let Me
Entertain You
Months later Louise is
tamous and popular
everywhere and is headlining at
Minsky's. However, Rose is still
interfering and she and her
daughter quarrel bitterly. In
the empty theatre Rose
endeavors to work out her
problem - her ambition, her
disappointments, her neglect
by her own family ("Rose's
Turn"). Gypsy joins her and
there is mutual understanding.
In this production Sally-Jane
Heit will be performing as
Rose, Jane Barrett as Louise.
Linda Marks as June, Skip
Aronson as Herbie, Jim Miller
as Tulsa, and Pat Pertalion.
Camille Hardy, and Baillie
Dr. Hubert W Burden, a
native of Lliabeth City, has
been appointed assistant
professor of anatomy in the
ECU Medical School. Dr.
Michael R Schweisthal.
chairman of the anatomy
department made the
announcement.
Burden comes lo ECU from
Tulane University Medical
School, from which he received
the PhD degree. He received
the AB in 1965 from Atlantic
Christian College and the MA
in biology from ECU m 1967
Burden has done extensive
research in the area of anatomy
and physiology of the
mammalian ovary. The
research, results of which have
been published in national
medical tournals, was funded
through grants from the U.S.
Public Health Service and the
National Institute of Health
He is a member of the
honorary societies Chi Beta Phi
and Sigma Xi, an associate
member of the Southern
Society of Anatomists and a
member of the American
Society of Zoologists
He was selected as a
National Institute of Health
predocatora tialnee in
anatomy. 1968-1
"We are most pleased io
have a native of eastern North
Carolina on our teaching staff
to help develop and implement
the School of Medicine at I asi
Carolina Schweisthal said
Bui den's appointment
effective at the beginning
the fall quarter.
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of
Profs attend meeting
Two ECU Medical School
professors are attending
international medical
conferences dunng the
summer.
Dr S Jerome Putnam is
presenting a paper related to
his work in neurology at the
International Physiological
Conference currently in
progress in Munich, Germany.
Putnam will by joined by
Dr Irvin E. Lawrence Jr. at the
Tenth International
Embryological Conference
which will be held in Glasgow,
Scotland, Aug. 30-Sept. 3.
The Embryological
Conference, which is limited to
only 400 participants from all
over the world, will be
conducted on the campus of
the University of Glasgow.
U.C. announces schedule
remember the lecture material
as well as students who viewed
the lecture presented at the Gernstein as the strippers
normal rate of speed.
Benz is director of
closed-circuit TV operations at
ECU. Prior to his appointment
to the ECU faculty in 1966, he
taught at Stephen Austin State
College (Texas), Indiana State
University and Wayne State
College (Nebraska)
He has also worked at
television stations in South
Dakota and Kansas and in
advertising in New York.
The University College of
the Division of Continuing
Education has announced its
schedule of evening courses
offered for the fall term.
The University College
offers an opportunity for
individuals within commuting
distance of the University to
earn their first two years of
college credit toward the
Baccalaureate Degree oi to
lake occasional courses by
attending classes at the
University at night. Many
individuals may enroll foi day
classes through the University
College It is also possible for
students to transfer from the
University College to the
regular day program at ECU.
Students over 21 years of
age need not take an entrance
examination to be admitted to
the University College
Application for admission
should be made by August 25
Educational offerings for the
fall term include basic courses
in biology, business. English,
geography, history, math,
political science, and
psychology Foui and five-hour
credit courses will meet twice
weekly from 6:30 - 930 p.m.
Courses beginning Sept. 8, are
offered Monday through
Thursday evenings.
Nader seeks punishment
of lax federal employees
a super flve-maji consumet
commission, provide for a
ECU LIBRARIAN WENDELL Smiley
(right) discusses the use of ECU's new
microform library with an
Encyclopedia Brittanica consultant.
The library collection will contain
19,000 volumes dealing with the
subject of American civilization.
Eric Slaughter calls
for recycling trash
Something must be done.
Nader said, to change what he
called the current policy of
placing the "burden of proof
on the victim instead of the
perpetrator
Library receives collection
"The Library of American
Civilization a new microfiche
library of about 19.000
volumes on the subecl ol
America from its beginning to
the outbreak of World War I.
has been added to Joyner
Library
More than 150 college and
university I ibianes are
currently receiving this
collection of resource titles,
published by Library
Resources. Inc ol Chicago, a
subsidiary of Encyclopaedia
Britarimca
"Many of the bxks in this
collection are rare, others are
out of print, and not all are
available in even toe hnesi
libraries said Wendell W
Smiley, FCU's Director of
Library Services.
Each volume in the
Microboook Library is
reproduced m a single 3 i
3 inch Miciobook film card, a
form of microfiche Thete are
up to 1.000 pages on a single
ffche, an achievement of high
reduction photography which
reduces individual pages 55 to
"0 times.
Each fichc in the Microbook
Library can be stored,
retrieved, and circulated as are
most actual books. Ordinarily
the 19.000 volumes in the
Miciobook Library would
occupy 2,000 feet ol shelf
space
In Microbook form the
entire collection is stored in 30
card files which measure less
than eight cubic feet.
Microbook titles are read on
a desk reader or a small,
portable reader, Most material
displayed on the desk reader is
enlarged lo greater than
original size on an 8 12 x
12-inch screen, making it
actually easier to read than the
original volume.
Individual pages are easily
selected and centered on the
screen using two control
knobs.
Hard copies of Microbook
pages, similar to Xerox copies
of printed pages, can be made
using a special reader-printer
which will shortly be available
in the ECU library.
ECU acquired the
Microbook library at about five
percent of its estimated cost in
book form.
Future collections, now in
the development stage, include
a collection of English
literature, featuring microform
reproductions of medieval
manuscripts and early printed
folio and quarto editions of
Shakespeare's plays
According to Ernest
Connelly, director of Joyner
Library's Public Services, ECU
will purchase each forthcoming
microfiche collection as soon
as it becomes available
By MITZY BRYANT
Staff Writer
Does it bother you to find
paper and aluminum cans on
your favority resting place?
How about broken glass bottles
where you trod barefoot ?
Eric Slaughter, a graduate
student in the Biology
Department, has come up with
some ideas which might
possibly solve these problems.
One idea Slaughter has in
mind is to have civic
organizations in Greenville set
up deposit areas for a waste
paper drive. Newspapers and
possibly magazines could be
taken to a paper company and
sold for a profit.
But transportation costs in
getting the papers to the
companies would cut the profit
considerably, according to
Slaughter "The city would
have to be shown that there
would be a profit said
Slaughter He added that one
solution to the problem may
be to put all the money
brought in as profit into a fund
for setting u; recreational
parks
Slaughter stated that it may
also be possible to include
aluminum cans in the drive.
Companies able lo handle the
cans are located in Charlotte
and Norfolk, Va. which would
call for shipping by train.
Another idea of Slaughter's
is to set up an environmental
council. "Parks, urban renewal,
sanitation, all things would
come into play under a council
of this type said Slaughter
The best way to get
mobilization on these
environmental problems is to
start a recycle campaign
through the environmental
council, according to
Slaughter. "There are many
project-oriented groups waiting
for ideas said Slaughter. "All
they need is for someone to
hand them the ball
As a long-range idea
Slaughter said regional
incinerators could be set up to
burn what materials could be
burned. The heat could be
captured and used as a power
source.
In the fall Slaughter plans to
begin work with the campus
ecology club (ECOS) for the
environmental projects.
"Together students, faculty,
and city people can form a
dedicated, powerful and
political group he said.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Consumer advocate Ralph
Nader called Thursday for high-level consumer advocate
punishment, including possible and take away many consumer
dismissal, of federal employees related problems from the
who fail to carry out existing Welfare Department.
consumer laws
"Within I he amorphous
federal bureaucracy Nader
said, "it will get the kind of
attention no other product
safety legislation could "
Testifying before a Senate
Commerce subcommittee
exploring proposed consumer
legislation, Nader also urged
expanded cnminal penalties for
industry giants found guilty of
distributing dangerous
products.
Nader cited the Agriculture
Department as "willfully
refusing to enforce the laws"
by not properly notifying
Americans that thousands of
potentially poisoned chickens
are on the market.
"Let's assume some people
were harmed" Nader said,
adding it's doubtlul any
department employee would
be punished.
Any new legislation. Nader
said, should include a provision I
allowing citizens to hold ,fvil f
servants in regulatory agencies
accountable for their actions.
Overseeing such a
sanction levying process would
be the Civil Service
Commission or a similar CONSUMER ADVOCATE RALPH Nader has called for
agency, Nader said punishment of federal employes who do not carry out
With few reservations, Nader existing consumer laws. He has endorsed a bill i fiich
rDon,oredUPh.f!edh,f !T "S "P ' ' ?n conium" commission and
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Mttnging Editor
Tlie Prison Diary of Ho Chi
Minh. translated by Ailcen
Palmer (Bantam Books
U7I65),$1 25.
In his introduction to 77ie
Prison Diary of Ho Chi Mirth,
Harrison Salisbury describes
Ho as "a poet with the soul of
a dragon "
It is an apt description. This
little volume reveals a great
deal about the enigmatk.
frail-looking man who held the
gigantic war machine of the
world's mightiest nation at bay
in a "David and Goliath"
struggle unprecedented in
modern times
This "diary" is a collection
of quatrains and Tang poems in
the classical Chinese style
which were written during Ho's
captivity in various South
China jails during World Wai II
Not withstanding the
limitations of any translated
work, the Prison Diary Is filled
with many powerful and lyrical
statements
How can a man deal with
severe trials and physical
deprivation0 How does he
escape from the harsh confines
of prison9
The rose at evening
blossoms, and then it lades
OWBV.
HO CHI MINH WRITES with a sensitivity born of
deprivation and a strength of will hardened by adversity,
"poet with the soul of a dragon
He is a
Its opening and its withering
continues all unnoticed.
But the fragrance oj the rose
floats into the depths of the
prison,
Telling the inmates there of
life's injustice and sorrow.
For Ho. the "body is in
prison, the mind escapes
outside He dwells on the
sounds and smells of life going
on outside the walls, on nature,
on the people around him. and
on the struggle that he is
anxious to rejoin.
Wearily to the wood the
birds fly, seeking rest,
A cross the empty sky a
lonely cloud is drifting.
Far away in a mountain
village a young girlgrmfc out
maize
When the maize is all
ground, the fire bums red in
the oven.
Ho combines a sensitivity
burn of deprivation with a
strength of will hardened by
adversity. The soft images of
nature and the haunting
passages in which he talks of
his heartache and loneliness are
balanced with the harsh
realities of prison life, where
"each night the irons devour
the legs of people and each
morning, 'once awake,
everyone starts on the hunt for
lice
Throughout the poems. Ho
reveals a gentle sense of humor,
a serenity that seems
impeturbable
The Prison Diary is an
affirmation of the power of the
human spirit to face hardships,
and to grow from them.
Listening to the pounding of
rice outside. Ho observes.
How much the rice must
suffer under the pestle.
But, after the pounding, it
comes out white like cotton
The same thing often
happens to men in this world
Misfortune j workshop turns
them in to polished lade.
Ho is somehow able to
harden his mind and will like
steel, and yet retain his
sensitivity and concern- his
humanity- in the face of the
most brutal and dehumanizing
conditions He is indeed a poet
with the soul of a dragon:
People who come out of
prison can build up the
country.
Misfortune is the test of
peoplefidelity.
Those who protest at
injustice are people of true
merit.
When the prison doors are
opened, the real dragon will fly
out.
Eugene McCarthy still
something of an enigma
Lighting, makeup mar 'The Red Mill' in
an otherwise 'well done' production
By DAVID McGRAW
Staff Reviewer
ECU's Summer Iheatre
production of "The Red Mill"
was as good as an amateur
production can be. The play
was basically done well. It had
a substantial cast, good
choreography, good singing
and excellent sets.
However, the play was
marred by flaws that should
not exist at this level of
dramatic production.
The make-up was awful
Gregory Zittel looked like a
clown with his bright red
cheeks. Paul Buche appeared as
the 107th resurrection of
Dixie's famed Grey Ghost The
girls looked like Busby-Berkly
renditions of a 42nd street
New York hooker. And the
boys came off as modern
versions of Howdy Doody.
Part of the spell of a musical
is that the actors look right,
and anything out of harmony
with this "Tightness" is sure to
break the spell as certainly as a
Prince's kiss.
The lighting, though
adequate, often presented the
wrong mood The lights were
often too dim or too bright A
number of times when two
actors were singing alone on
stage, they were in a shadow.
At other times, for instance
Aronson's "Everyday Is Ladies
Day With Me the singers
came off like a lineup in a Jack
Webb Production.
Again, the dance numbers
lacked spontaneity and
enthusiam. This was not Mavis
Ray's fault. Her choreography
was extremely tasteful. The
dancers were never clumsy, just
awkward. Their movements
and facial expressions soddenly
wooden, and the noise their
glittering feet made was
enough to overshadow any
good performances. At times it
was so noisy that the dancers
sounded like Hippopotami.
Generally, individual
performances were better than
any I have seen this season.
Stuart Aronson's Governor of
Zeeland and Adriana Amelias'
Juliana were the bright spots of
the show.
He fit his role very well,
bringing to it a good voice and
fine movements Amelias' voice
filled McGinnis like it hasn't
been filled in a long time. She
was excellent.
The comedy team of Zittel
and Robert Sevra has the
potential for making people
laugh Sevra had conquered his
stiffness by midway of the first
act. had copied some of Zittel's
movements and had become a
fair buffoon. However Sevra's
facial expressions hindered his
good vocal delivery. Hopefully,
working with Zittel will help
MARK RAMSEY, THE simple-minded sheriff once
again baffles the Burgomaster, Paul Buche.
him.
Zittel's portrayal as the
leader of the two New York
con-men needs polishing, but
he has the potential for
developing his role into a
show-stealer. A few more
nights and Zittel will have the
audience rolling in the aisles.
The timing of both Sevra
and Zittel was right on the
mark. This team could turn out
to be the high spot of the
entire season if they work on
it.
Jane Barrett as Tina and
Elizabeth K lr pat rick as
Gretchen were good. Barratt
wasn't quite as lightheaded as
her role demanded, however.
The atmosphere of "The
Red Mill" was loose. The entire
production needs polishing. A
few more nights, perhaps, and
the dissonant parts should
mesh together, forming an
entertaining production. The
rhythm of this "boy wants
inaccesble girl and gets her in
the end" musical is fast. With
the antics of that pair of
con-men trying to avoid jail,
work off their bills, and save a
love affair, the play has a lot to
offer. But only if the cast can
come together. In this the
fourth offering of
directorproducer Loessin's bag
of corn, this is good corn Mrs.
Presky.
Student teachers host party
Some 90 Wahl-Coates
School students, members of
last year's fourth grade, were
guests of honor at a summer
goodbye party at the home of
Dr and Mrs Leo Jenkins last
Thursday afternoon.
Hostesses for the party were
three recent ECU graduates
who did their student teaching
with the guests They were
Mrs. Beth Alexander, Mrs.
Suzanne Buck and Miss
Suzanne Jenkins.
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WASHINGTON (AP)- As he
did in the chamber of the
United States Senate, he has a
way of drifting in and drifting
out of the ;im of our vision, a
distant, casual man who floats
like a butterfly and stings like a
bee and is gone.
lift it (.Up tUp rinrmr. of ??
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some regularity, who takes a
lethargic interest in the bar talk
from his end of the bar. taking
part but not becoming a part
of, who drops a few remarks,
some wise, some funny, some
nasty, and floats out again, a
familiar man of mystery. a
type known in the pubs as
"our regular stranger "
With all that we have seen of
Eugene McCarthy over the
years, he remains someone we
only see but don't know, a
unique, cloudy enigma in a
field of transparencies.
Now he floats in again, this
time talking of a new pdlitical
party to take over the White
House in 1972. He stirs a ripple
of interest. His many critics
smile knowingly. Clearly, they
say, McCarthy has less of a
base than ever, not even a
Senate seat; the war fades as an
issue; his own personality
remains an obstacle: he led the
disillusioned once but, in his
tuin. disillusioned some or
many of them himself. Thus,
the skepticism of the critics
rolls on. inhibited only by one
sobering memory: in 1968,
Don Quixote did, at least,
knock over the windmill.
Now McCarthy is back,
saying that unless the two
major parties offer the voter a
real choice next year, a new
party must be formed with a
commitment to end the war
realistically and finally not
merely "to change the color of
the corpses a party that
would reform American
political processes and reorder
national priorities.
He does not say that he
expectt or wants necessarily to
lead such a movement himself.
The answer depends on the
wording of the question. Does
he want to run again"Oh. I
don't know. I'm pretty scarred
up from the last time After
the scars and the tedium- he
was bored much of the time- of
the last campaign, does he
really have the stomach for
another? "Oh. I don't know.
I'm pretty competitive, you
know says Eugene McCarthy,
moving up and down, out and
in.
McCarthy has also talked
about running himself in
several Democratic primaries as
a way of testing his viewpoint
and pressuring the Democrats
into meeting what he considers
are today's political realities
But mostly he has indicated he
does not feel the party will
prove responsive Mostly, he
talks about a new party
In 1968. the McCarthy
candidacy uncovered a
profound discontent in the
country Now. there aie signs
that the discontent may be
wider, if not deeper, and no
iuitgei confined to the young
and the blacks. A recent Ropei
poll, for example, indicated
that two-thirds of Americans
think the country has lost its
direction, that "things have
pretty seriously gotten off on
the wrong track "
A new liberal party could
win, says Richard Goodwin,
political theoretician and
tactician, "by putting together
a senes of discontents, the
emerging prongs of a
middle-class revolution
McCarthy. I h e
poe t-politician, chatting
recently at a poetry workshop
at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, ottered a
compelling diagnosis o( the
current American political
anatomy.
"The center of ! h e
Republican party he said, "is
still Main Street, the Chamber
of Commerce, the small
owners The center of the
Democratic party now is the
labor union men. who are also
property owners All around
these centers you have the
young, the poor, the blacks,
the professional people, the
business .anagers out of jobs,
the people who want change
but feel politically impotent
"These are the group's in
both parties ready to whirl off
from the center What wehae
shaping up is a revolt of the
insecure against the secure,
security being measured in
both economic and political
terms
On another occasion,
chatting with a reporter
skeptical about a new party's
chances. McCarthy came up
with an intriguing set of
statistics based on several
assumptions Assume, he said,
that 80 million people will vote
next year, that Richard Nixon
will be ihe Republican
candidate, that the Democrats
"again" nominate a man nol
far different in program than
Nixon, and that Gov George
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Wallace, he said, can be
expected to gei 10 million oi
I 2 million votes, draining them
equally from the two majoi
parties. That leaves 70 million
votes to be divided between
Nixon. Brand X Democrat and
a new liberal candidate A man
could win with only 25 million
votes, he said
Eligible to vote for the lust
time will be 25 million young
people between 18 and 24
years old If only 15 million of
these do vote said McCarthy.
10 million are likely to go for
the new liberal p a 11 y
candidate That, he said, leaves
15 million to be picked up
among older disenchanted
voters who. like the young, can
be expected to give the new
party man enough strength in
the big Northern states to carry
a majority in the electoral
college
"The only real question
would be what share ot the
minority vote car a new party
candidate get says McCarthy.
The diagnosis may strike
many people as being more
plausible than the man making
it For example, a veteran
Washington reporter, who
admires McCarthy and thinks
his is "the best mind I've met
around here a judgment
echoed among many
politicians, academic and
government people says this
"If I had to go over the rapids
with my wife and children. I
might not want McCarthy in
charge of the raft but if I
needed a damned thoughtful
analysis of the problem. I sure
would go to him. "
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that the Vietnamese whom we
had enthusiatically molded
aftei out own Image woe haul
put to lake up the fight against
the threat we were supposedly
saving them hum
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helicopters strafing them and
bombs with napalm burning
then villages and thearing theii
country apart rhey wanted
every thing to do with ihe wai.
particularly with iliis foreign
presence ol the l nited Stales
of America, to leave them
alone in peace and they
practiced the art of sinvival by
siding with whichevei military
lii ice was pi ese ill at a
particulai lime, be il Viel
Cong. Nonh Vietnamese 01
American
We found also thai all too
often American men were
dying in those' nee paddies foi
want of support from theii
allies We saw tnst hand how
monies from American taxes
w a s used foi a corrupt
dictatorial regime We saw thai
main people in this country
had a one sided idea ol who
was kepi free by out Hag. and
blacks provided the highest
percentage of casualties We
saw Vietnam lavaged equally
by American bombs and search
and destroy missions, as well as
by Viet Cong terrorism, and
yet we listened while this.
country tried to blame all of
the havoc on the Viei Cong.
We rationalized destroying
Milages in .rdet to save them
We saw America lose hei sense
of morality as she accepted
veiy cooly a VI v Lai and
lefused to give up the image ol
American soldiers who hand
out chocolate bais and chewing
gum
We learned the meaning ol
fiee fire ones, shooting
anything that moves, and we
watched while America placed
a cheapness on the lives ol
Menials
w e watched the I nited
States falsification ol body
counts, in fad the glorification
ol body counts We listened
while month aftei month we
weie told the back ol the
enemy was ah.mm to break We
fought using weapons ag.iinsi
"oriental human beings w
fought using weapons against
those people which I do nol
believe this country would
dream ol using were we
i ighting in the I uropean
theatei We watched while men
charged up lulls because a
general said thai hill has 10 be
taken, and aftei losing one
platoon 01 two platoons they
marched away to leave the lull
foi re-occupation bv the Nonh
Vietnamese We watched pride
allow the most unimportant
baiiles to be blown into
extravaganzas, because we
couldn't lose, and we couldn't
retreat, and because it didn't
matter how main American
bodies were lost to prove thai
poin t. a ud so there were
Hamburgei Hills and khc
Sahns and Hill 81 s and I ire
Base 6s, and so mam others
Sow we are told thai the
men who fought there must
watch quietly while Vmerican
lives aie lost so thai we can
exercise the incredible
arrogance ol Vietnamizing the
Vietnamese
I ach day to facilitate the
process by winch the United
States washes hei hands o
Vietnam someone has to give
up his life' so thai the I nited
Slates doesn't have to admit
something that the entire
vv01 Id already knows, so thai
we can'l sa thai we have made
a mistake Someone has to die
so thai President ion won't
be. and these are his words,
"the 111 st President to lose a
wai
We are asking Americans to
think about that because how
do v on ask a man to be ihe last
man to die m Vietnam' How
do vou ask a man lo be the last
man to die foi a mistake? But
we are Ity ing to do that, and
we aie doing it with thousands
ol rationalizations, and it v ou
read caretulK the Presidents
lasi speech to the people ol
iIns country . vou can see that
he says, and says clearly, "but
the issue, gentlemen, the issue,
is communism, and the
question is whethei n not we
will leave that country to the
communists 01 whethei 01 not
we will ti v to give il hope to he
a free people " But the point is
they are nol a free people now
undei us I hev are nol a free
people, and we cannot fight
communism all ovei the world
I think we should have learned
lhal lesson bv now
But the problem ol veterans
goes hev oml tins personal
problem because you think
about a postei 111 this country
with a picture ol Uncle Sam
and the picture savs "I want
vou " nd a young man comes
.ml ol high school and says,
"thai is fine, I am going to
serve my country and he goes
to Vietnam and he shoots and
he kills and he does his job Oi
maybe he doesn't kill Maybe
he nisi goes and he comes
back, and when he gets baek to
ibis soiiniiv he finds that he
isn't really wanted, because the
largest corps ol unemployed in
the country-it vanes depending
ti who y ou gel it Irom, the
veterans Administration sas
15 percent and vanous oilier
sources 22 percent-but ihe
laigest corps of unemployed in
this country are Veterans of
this wai and of those veterans
13 percent of the unemployed
aie black Dial means one out
oi every ten of the nation's
unemployed is a veteran of
Vietnam
The hospitals across the
country won't, or can't meet
then demands. It is not a
question of not trying, thev
haven't got the appropriations.
A man recently died aftei he
had a tracheotomy in
California, not because of the
operation but because there
weren't enough personnel lo
clean the mucus out of his tube
and he suffocated to death.
A no thei young man just
died in a New Vork VA
Hospital the other day A
friend mine was lying in a
bed two beds away and tried to
help him but he couldn't He
rang I bell and lhere was
nobody there to service thai
man and so he died ol
convulsions
I understand 57 percent ol
all i hose entering the VA
hospitals talk about suicide.
Some 27 percent have !iled,
and they iiv because they
come back to llns country and
thev have to face what they
did in Vietnam, and then thev
come back and find the
lusi as we calmly shrugged oil
Ihe loss of 700,000 lives in
Pakistan, the so-called gieatesl
diMlteI of all tunes
But we are heie as veterans
lo say we think we are in the
midst ol the greaiesl disaster of
all times now because they are
still dvmg ovei there-nol just
A in e i icatis, but
V le I na me se-and we ate
rationalizing leaving that
country so that those people
JOHN F. KERRY a member of the Executive Comittee
of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, spoke recently to
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asking for
"immediate withdrawal" of all U.S. Forces from South
Vietnam.
indifference oi a country that
doesn't really care
Suddenly we are faced with
a very sickening situation in
this country, because there is
no n; ral indignation and, if
there is. it conies from people
who aie almost exhausted by
their past indignations, and I
know that many of them are
sitting in front of me The
country seems lo have lain
down and shrugged off
something as serious as Laos.
can go on killing each othei for
years to come.
Americans seem to have
accepted the idea that the war
is winding down, at least for
the Americans, and they have
also allowed the bodies which
were once used by a President
for statistics to prove that we
were winning that war, to be
used as evidence against a man
who followed orders and who
interpreted those orders no
differently than hundreds of
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Othei men in Vietnam
We veterans can only look
with amazement on ihe tact
lhal this country has been
unable to see there is
absolutely no difference
between giound troops and a
helicoptei crew,and vei people
have accepted a differentiation
f e d t h e in b v 1 h e
administration.
No ground tioops aie in
Laos so it is all right to kill
Laotians by remote control
But believe me the hehcoplei
crews fill the same body hags
and they wreak the same kind
ol damage on the Vietnamese
and Laotian countryside as
anybody else, and the
President is talking about
allowing that to go on for
many years lo come One can
only ask if we will really be
salislied only when ihe tioops
march into Hanoi
We are asking here in
Washington for some action;
action from the Congiess ol
the United Slates ol America
which has the povvei lo raise
and maintain armies, and
which by the Constitution also
has the powet lo declare wai
We have come here, no' to
the President, because we
believe that tins bod) can be
responsive lo the will ol the
people, and we believe that the
will of Ihe people says that we
should be oul oi Vietnam now
We are here in Washington
also to say that the problem ol
this war is not just a question
of war and diplomacy It is
part and parcel ol everythtag
that we are trying as human
beings to communicate to
people in the country-the
question of racism, which is
rampant in the military . and so
many othei questions such as
the use of weapons, the
hypocrisy in our taking
umbrage in the Geneva
Conventions and using thai as
justification tor a continuation
of this wai when we are more
guilty than any other body ol
violations of those Geneva
Conventions; in the use of free
fire zones, harassment
interdiction fire, search and
destroy missions, the
bombings, the torture of
pnsoneis, the killing ol
prisoners, all accepted policy
by many units in South
Vietnam. Thai is what we are
living to sav II is part and
parcel ol everything
An American Indian friend
ol mine who lives in the Indian
Nation oi Alcatraz put It to me
very succinctly. He Id me
how as a boy on an Indian
reservation he had watched
television and he used lo cheet
the cowboys when they came
in and shot the Indians, and
then sudden!) one day he
Stopped m Vietnam and he said
"my God, I am doing to these
people the very same thing that
was done to my people and
he stopped And that is what
we aie living to say, lhat we
think this thing has to end.
We are also here to ask, and
we aie heie to ask vehemently ,
where aie ihe leaders of our
country? Where is the
leadership? W'e are here to ask
where are McNainaia. Roslow,
Bundv. Gilpatric and so many
others? Where are they now
that we, the men whom they
sent oil to wai, have returned
Ihese are commanders who
have deserted their troops, and
there is no more serious crime
in the law of war. The Army
says they never leave then
wounded. The Marines say
thev nevei leave even then
dead These men have left all
the casualties and retreated
behind a pious shield of public
rectitude fliey have left the
real stuff of their reputations
bleaching behind them in Ihe
sun in this country
Finally, this administration
has done us the ultimate
dishoiioi Ihey have attempted
to disown us and the sacrifices
we made for this country In
then blindness and fear ihey
have died lo deny that we are
veterans or that we served in
Nam. We do not need their
testimony Our own scars and
slumps oi limbs aie witness
enough lot Others and for
ourselves.
We wish that a merciful God
could wipe away our own
memories ol lhat service as
easily as this administration has
wiped away their memories of
us Bui all that they have done
and all lhat they can do by this
denial is to make more cleat
than ever our own
determination to undeitake
one last mission-to search out
and destroy the last vestige of
this barbaric war, to pacify our
own hearts, to conquei the
hate and the fear that have
driven this country these last
ten years and more, so when
30 years from now our
brothers go down the sueet
without a leg, without an aim,
or a face, and small boys ask
why. we will be able to say
"Vietnam ' and not mean a
deseit, not a filthy obscene
memory, but mean instead the
place where America finally
turned and where soldiers like
us helped it in the turning.
Thank you.
Dick Gregory fasts
CHICAGO (API- Comedian
Dick Gregory, down to 102
pounds, says he will fast "for
10 years if necessary" but he
will not eat solid food until the
war m Southeast Asia comes to
an end.
Gregory marked the 100th
day of his fast Sunday by
running I 5 miles in a South
Side park He began the
all-liquid diet in April to
protest the war.
Later the civil rights and
antiwar activist joked with
newsmen.
"I think I'm going to enter
the Boston Marathon. By that
time. I'll have gone more than
a year without eating. Brother,
that'll really be blowing some
minds
The Boston Marathon is 26'
miles.
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Golf retains appeal
Wednesday. August 4, 197 1 , Fountainhead. Page 5
By JOHN TURNER
Sports Editor
Golf is one of the most
popular sports in America
today
The old Scottish game has a
general appeal to almost all age
groups, but the mere expense
of the game tends to ethnically
classify the game's participants.
The top competition in golf
is found on the Professional
Golfer's Association Tour,
livery Sunday America can
tune in their television sets and
see the same big names driving
the fairways of the great golf
iourses of the world
We see the same faces
display anguish or joy at their
chip shots and puts.
But really, this is not unlike
the NASCAR circuit or the
Grand Prix racing circuit,
where the same people seem to
win consistently. Like the
Grand Prix races, the PGA
tournaments have a certain
festive element, a granducr
which lures people to the
colorful country clubs or
makes them turn on the TV.
And, like the other great
sports, the PGA has its
super-heroes.
Arnold Palmer is the
Richard Petty of golf. Jack
Nicklaus the Brooks Robinson,
and Lee Trevino the Joe
Namath. They are the big
names in golf, and the game is
custom-made to display their
true personalities.
'o do the trick. The always
cool Nicklaus was not at his
usual ease, and lost to
Mexican-American Trevino.
On another occasion Trevino
cursed after coming up short
on an iron shot. A woman in
the gallery blurted out: "How
dare you Trevino, unvexed,
turned around and apologized:
"Oh excuse me lady, I thought
you were a tree
Super Mex's humor seems to
have added a new dimension to
the otherwise serious sport. In
the recent Westchester Classic
in New York which is the
PGA's biggest purse, Trev. ,o
was off to a bad start in the
qualifying rounds. When asked
what his problem was. the
burly Trevino smiled and said
thai his wallet was becoming so
fat that it was getting in the
way of his swing.
Jack Nicklaus may well be
the best golfer on the tour. He
seems to put the whole game
together better than anyone
else. But Jack lacks
personality
One might argue such a
statement, but when Nicklaus
is compared to Lee or Arnold
Palmer he does seem a bit less
enchanting. On the other hand.
Arnold Palmer probably has
more charisma than he knows
what to do with.
Palmer is the all-time PGA
money winner and has won
just about every major
tournament. Last week, at the
was a North Carolinian. Larry
Hinson. also on the PGA
circuit, has a withered left arm
from polio, but this Gastonia
native has not allowed his
physical ailment to hinder his
great competitive spirit.
North Carolina also bosts
?.some of the finer courses of
'play on the tour. The Kemper
Open, held in Charlotte, is
played at Quail Hollow
Country Club. Gary Player,
South African great, said that
the fairways at the Kemper
were "the finest I've ever
seen
The Greater Greensboro
Open is held at Sedgefield
Country Club in Greensboro
each year. This open has the
biggest purse of the winter
tour. Also, the Match Play
ARNOLD PALMER WAS voted the best athetete of the
past decade.
Unlike baseball, football, or
auto-racing, golf is played
slowly, deliberately, and with
intense concentration. Thus,
fans can study the
characteristics of their
individual star at work in his
victory attempt.
In other sports. the
super-heroes are moving fast,
covered by a helmet, or belted
into an automobile
Emerging this year as the
number one money winner
thus far on the PGA tour is Lee
Trevino "Super Mex" has
already won the United States.
British, and Canadian Opens
and done it all in a style that is
cocky, yet personable.
Jack Nicklaus and Lee
Trevino were tied at the end of
regulation play in the U.S.
Open and forced to go on the
next day to an 18-hole play
off. On the first tee. Trevino. a
prankster at heart, threw a
rubber snake at Nicklaus
Everybody laughed at the
left-handed hex. but it seemed
Westchester Golf Classic.
Palmer stepped out of a
prolonged slump and walked
away with a S50.000 first-place
purse, and a course record-not
to speak of the approval of the
thousands of screaming,
trampling golf enthusiasts who
follow his every step.
This past weekend, Palmer
and Nicklaus again assaulted
Lee Trevino's sudden fame
claim by pairing up and
winning the National Team
Championship. This was the
third time in the past four
years that the dual
superlinksters were victorious
in National Team competition
Both Nicklaus and Palmer
have won over one million
dollars in prize money
throughout their careers.
North Carolina has had its
share of big name golfers in the
PGA tour Julius Boros,
current seniors champ and
former PGA champion is from
Noith Carolina Ray Floyd,
another former PGA champ
SUPER MEX LEE Trevino, his wallet is getting in the
way.
Tournament will be held here
in North Carolina this weekend
at Pinehurst Country Club in
Pinehurst. This five-course
country club is a big reason
why Pinehurst has been labeled
the tour's winter golf capital.
Finally, it would be
blasphemy not to mention golf
greats Slamming Sammy Snead
and Bantam Ben Hogan. Snead,
59, finished fourth last week in
Mike Hill and Australian Bruce
Devlin and New Zealand
left-hander Bob Charles.
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ECU hosts Toledo
for opening game
JACK NICKLAUS IS probably the most consistent
competitor in the PGA tour.
On September II. ECU
hosts Toledo at Ficklen
Stadium here in Greenville
This "Armed Forces Night"
game will be the debut of head
football coach Sonny Handle
and high school standout
CarlesterCrumpler.
Toledo makes a very
impressive guest foi the
occasion The Rockets are one
of the top 15 teams in the
nation and own the nation'l
longest winning streak - 23
games. They were ll-Oin 1969
and 12-0 in 1970. Toledo has
also won the Tangerine Bowl
the last two years In a row.
The University of Toledo,
12th ranked in 970's final
Associated Press football poll
and holder of the longest
current major college win
streak, will begin the 1971
season with a ranking among
college football's top 10
statistical champions over the
past five years
According to statistics
released July 12 by the
National Collegiate Sports
Services in New York. Toledo
is tied for eighth place, along
with Tennessee. Penn State.
Louisiana, and Miami ol Ohio
were; Number I nationally for
five seasons in lutal defense
1217.5 yards per game):
Number I nationally toi five
MatOfll In pass ilclense (97.4
yards per game): Number 6
nationally foi five seasons in
defense againsl scoring ill 8
point! per game).
Toledo also (unshed Number
13 nationally over the last five
years in winning percentage
with a cumulative record of
37-12-2. Numbei 6 nationally
in rushing defense with a vield
ol 120.1 yards per game, and
Number 20 nationally in
scoring offense with an average
of 25.4 points per game.
Probably the greatest
strength in Toledo's squad is
the abundance of good
atheletes in the senior class.
Toledo is especially deep in
skilled pass receivers and in the
defensive backfield and has at
least adequate depth at ihe
offensive guards, quarterback,
defensive ends and defensive
middle guard
Fheir team speed is good.
but then strongest point get
to he then overall quickness
and agilm
Toledo is not especially deep
HEAD COACH SONNY Randle hopes he has the team
to topple football giant Toledo ECU hosts Toledo, with
the nation's longest win streak, in the opening game of
the 1971 football season.
the Westchester Classic. He has
won just about every major
tournament with the exception
of the U.S. Open.
Ben Hogan is a golfing
legend. He had been in a severe
cai wreck two decades ago. and
his physicians said he would
probably never walk again. But
the determined athlete came
back within a relatively short
span of time to win a major
PGA tournament.
Some of the outstanding
teams in the National Team
Championship included Lee
Trevino and Howie Johnson,
Gardner Dickinson and old
Sam Snead. former winners
George Archer and Bobby
Nichols, CBS Golf Classic
champs Bert Yancey and Tom
Weiskopf. brothers Dave and
in experienced personnel at
offensive tackle running back,
defensive tackle, or linebacker
Their kicking game also could
be a problem The team does
not appear to have a kicker
with the range on kickoffsand
field goals that Toledo has had
for the last four years The
punting could carry a greater
average per kick, but it also
may be less consistent and
more subject to error in
execution than in years past
Toledo is not expected to
spring anything radically
different from the style of
football that has brought 23
consecutive victories, though
coach Jack Murphy niav
employ a few new variations
off the standard 5-2 and 4-3
defenses and the l-pro
formations thai have featured
Rocket football the past
several seasons
Basically, however. Toledo
can be expected to stick with
the 5-2 and 4-3 defensively,
perhaps with more odd
coverage up front but always
with four deep backs
Offensively, quarter back
Chuck Ealey may use more
option passes than before and
the team may run a few more
plays per game with two tight
ends and only one wide
receiver
The statistics certainly stack
up in Toledo's favor, but if
Sonny Randle and his gridiron
Pirates could pull an upset at
the start of the season. ECU
would be recognized nationally
as a dark horse to beware of.
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12 14 in the North Carolina Summer Baseball League.
in the number of statistical
finishes among the nation's top
10 teams during the last five
seasons.
Only Notre Dame, which led
all colleges with eight statistical
spots among the top 10 during
the past five years. Texas.
Arizona State. Dartmouth.
Ohio State. Nebraska and
Houston finished ahead of
Toledo in the NCSS study
Toledo's three top 10
finishes for the past five years
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Space program funds defended
Critics have complained thai the
Apollo 15 mission is using dollars that
might better be used here on earth Yes
jiuI no Yes. moon money might be
holier spent m saving crumbling cities,
cleaning up the people-polluted
environment or creating jobs foi the
unemployed. I !u- money might make a
difference in funding some crucial
programs "hat is. if Congress channeled
the fund into domestic projects
Bui more likely Congress would use
the space money to bankroll
military-industrial complex desires lor
XB-455 Toad Stomper or a a plan to
save General Motors from bankruptcy.
o The funds would probably not be
better spent here on earth. The problem
is that the majority of moneys that the
Congress handles are poorly spent now
on a bulging military budget, rather than
thai a few billions are spent on
interplanetary development I he
explorations made possible by the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration budget might well prove
crucial in discovering new raw materials
tor future industry alter the earth's
resources are depleted
In addition, the improvements in
NASA rocketry and the planned manned
space stations to come will contribute
much toward revolutionizing the earth's
transportation systems and improving
weathei and communications stems
Teaching assistants' plight serious
I he plight of graduate teaching
assistants at stale-supported institutions
of higher learning has gone almost
unnoticed on campuses across the state
The ones who notice most, the assistants
themselves, are generally powerless to
protest their state for fear of losing their
jobs or the favor of a department head
whose recommendation can make or
break a future eareer in teaching.
The status of teaching assistants vanes
from campus to campus, as do their
salaries and fringe benefits Because
institutional pay rates are sealed within
North Carolina's state-supported school
system. ECU "junior instructors" receive
from Sl00 to S000. depending upon
the number of hours they teach and the
amount of departmental duties they
perform A graduate teaching assistant
with a comparable job at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives
SI.000 more because his institution is
farther up the pay scale
ECU teaching fellows generally teach
one freshman class per quarter (although
at least one department allows its
leasliini! .issistdiits to teach an upper
level course) They have the same
responsibilities to hold classes, give
examinations, grade student work and
observe university regulations that
regular faculty members have
But teaching fellows do not have the
same privileges that faculty members do
they cannot get stall parking privileges,
they get a minimal amount of office
space (in one department 14 teaching
assistants share an office with a
departmental teaching laboratory), and
they have little protection from arbitrary
Inquisitions and firings by their
departmental heads or University
administrators
Although salary inequities cannot be
corrected on an institutional basis,
headway can be made on campus in the
areas of parking, office space and
institutional processes to allow redress
for complaints from and a fair hearing
for accusations about teaching fellows
The American Association of
University Professors has added some
nope to the situation by launching a
"junior membership" drive, open to all
graduate students at approved
institutions (schools on the lists of the
established regional or professional
accrediting associations) Junior
membership costs S3 per year, and
application forms can be obtained at the
newspaper office or from the American
Association of University Professors.
One Duponl Circle. Washington, DC.
20036
An AAUP committee is now working
on proposals that would affect graduate
tea Jung assistants. Their conclusions
should have some influence upon
institutional policy throughout the
country
FCL graduate students are urged to
join the AAUP's junior branch and to
form a Graduate Student Union for
collective bargaining purposes on
campus. With the aid of the AAUP. local
initiative and some concentrated
lobbying of General Assembly members
by their constituents, steps can be taken
to improve the lot of the state's future
professors and to encourage them to
begin their teaching careers in North
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Viet vet spokesman protests
By JOHN F KERRY
Reprinted from the C ongi esslona i Record
EDITOR'S NOTE On April 22. John F Kerry, a
decorated Vietnam combat veteran and member of the
Executive Committee of Vietnam Veterans Against
the War. read the following statement to Senator
William J, Fulbright's Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations as an adjunct to the spring 1971 "March on
Washington" asking for the "immediate withdrawal"
of all US armed forces from South Vietnam The
statement subsequently appeared in the April 23 issue
of the Congressional Record
I would hke to say foi the record, and also
lor the men behind me who .lie also wearing
the uniform and their medals, that my sitting
here is reallj symbolic I am not here as John
Kerry I am here as one member of the group of
1.000. which is a small representation of a very
much largei group of veterans in this country,
and were it possible for all ol them to sit at this
table they would be here and have the same
kind ol testimony
I would simply like to speak in very general
terms. 1 apologize il my statement is general
because 1 received notification yesterday you
would hear me and I am afraid that because of
the court injunction I was up most of the night
and haven't had a great deal of time to prepare
tor this hearing
I would like to talk on behalf of all those
veterans and say that several months ago in
Detroit we had an investigation at which over
150 honorably discharged, and main very
highly decorated, veterans testified to wai
crimes committed in Southeast Asia. These
were not isolated incidents but crimes
committeed on a day to day basis with the full
awareness of officers at all levels of command
It is impossible to describe to you exadlv
what did happen in Detroit the emotions in the
room and the feelings of the men who were
reliving their experiences in Vietnam. The
relieved the absolute horror of what this
country, in a sense, made them do
They told stories that at times they had
personally raped, cutoff ears, cut off heads,
taped wires from portable telephones to human
genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs,
blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians,
raed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis
Khan, shot cattle and dogc lor fun. poisoned
food stocks, and generally ravaged the
countryside of South Vietnam in addition to
the normal ravage of war and the normal and
very particular ravaging winch is done by the
applied bombing power of this country
We call this investigation the Winter Soldier
Investigation The term Winter Soldier is a play
on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776 when he
spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summer time
soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because
the going was rough
We who have come here to Washington have
come here because we feel we have to be winter
soldiers now We could come back to this
country, we could be quiet, we could hold our
silence, we could not tell what went on in
Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens
this country, not the reds, but the crimes which
we are commiting that threaten it, that we have
to speak out.
I would like to talk to you a little bit about
what the result is of the feelings these men
carry with them after coming back from
Vietnam. The country doesn't know it yet but
it has created a monster, a monster in the form
ot millions of men who have been taught to
deal and to trade in violence and who are given
the chance to die for the biggest nothing in
history; men who have returned with a sense of
anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has
yet grasped
As a veteran and one who feels this anger 1
would like to talk about it. We are angry
because we feel we have been used in the worst
fashion by the administration of this country.
In 1970 at West Point Vice President Agnew
said "some glamorize the criminal misfits of
society while our best men die in Asian rice
paddies to preserve the freedom which most of
those misfits abuse and this was used as a
rallying point for our effort in Vietnam.
But lor us, as boys in Asia, whom the
country was supposed to support, his statement
is a terrible distortion from which we can only
draw a very deep sense of revulsion, and hence
the anger of some of the men who are here m
Washington today. It is a distortion because we
in no way consider ourselves the best men of
this country ; because those he calls misfits were
standing up for us in a way that nobody else in
this country dared to; because so many who
have died would have returned to this country
to join the misfits in their efforts to ask for an
immediate withdrawal from South Vietnam,
because so many of those best men have
returned as quadruplegics and amputees-and
they lie forgotten in Veterans Administration
Hospitals in this country which fly the Hag
which so many have chosen as their own
personal symbol-and we cannot consider
ourselves Americas best men when we are
ashamed of and hated for what we were called
on to do in Southeast Asia.
In our opinion, and from our experience,
there is nothing in South Vietnam which could
happen that realistically threatens the United
States of America. And to attempt to justify
the loss of one American life in Vietnam,
Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the
preservation of freedom, which those misfits
supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal
hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy
which we feel has torn this country apart
We are probably much more angry than that,
but I don't want to go into the foreign policy
aspects because 1 am outclassed here I know
that all of you talk about every possible
alternative to getting out of Vietnam. We
understand that We know you have considered
the seriousness of the aspects to the utmost
level and I am not going to try to dwell on that
But I want to relate to you the feeling that
many of the men who have returned to this
country express because we are probably
angriest about all that we were told about
Vietnam and about the mystical war against
communism
We found that not only was it a civil war. an
effort by a people who had for years been
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Citizens wait and wait and wait for Nixon plan
xxXvt
By BRUCE SAVAGE
Sta" Wnter
I vet si.ee the summer ol 1968, the public-
has been waiting lor the "Nixon plan" for
extracating the United States from the Vietnam
VV II
At first we were mid that the U.S. policy
consisted ot gradual withdrawal accompanied
oy "Vietnamization or the turning-over of the
war to the South Vietnamese However with
the fjilure ol Vietnamiation to make the war a
Vietnamese one, we were then told that a
"residual force" would be required to insure
the eventual release of American
prisotiers-ot-wai
Now with the lelease ot American POW'sand
the orderly and honorable withdrawal of
American forces proposed by the enemy, we
are again told a different sioiy
Our policy now is one ol gutng the Saigon
government a "chance to survive" after our
departure
The evidence luggensti thai Nixon's primary
objective is lo preserve the Thieu government at
le.ist mini alter the 1972 American elections.
Nixon maintains that our policy is one that
must he followed to give us "the generation of
peace" he speaks so often ol lie also maintain!
that selling a date for withdrawal would ruin
the prospects lor the return of the POW's.
However, with the recent proposal of the
Vieteong. the POW issue has "backfired" on
Mr. Nixon The proposal offers to release all
POWs in return for the total withdrawal of
U.S. lorces from Vietnam.
If the POW's were the main concern of Mr
Nixon, he would accept the offer The real issue
is keeping South Vietnam a non-commiinist
country and establishing another base for our
"containment" ot communism.
The absurdity of this policy can be seen in
the "Pentagon Papers Not even the Central
Intelligence Agency believed in such a policy.
And what about Tuba9 Isn't it outside our
"circle ol containment "
A clear majority of the American public
favors an end to the I' S role bl the war before
the end of the year But the President asks for
every ne to be patient and not to become
restless for a hurried exit from South Vietnam.
The UJ has been given an opportunity to
end our involvment honorably However, the
President does not see lit to end it. After all. if
a coalition government were to establish itself
in Saigon, his (Nixon's) predictions of havoc
and frenzy might be proven false And also, the
1972 elections are not far off.
So the people of the United States will allow
their justifiable demand for an end to the war
to be quelched by personal ambition, and will
wait and wait, and wait.
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Low-keyed racism
To I oun! iiiihe.nl
This letter is in response to Mr. Fredrick's
letter which appeared in the July 21 1971
edition of Fountainhead. The reason a response
to the letter is necessary is because Mi. Fredrick
demonstrated a form of low-keyed racism.
This style of low-keyed racism has now
replaced the old form found at KKK rallies
The use of moderate language does not make it
any less dangerous; in fact, it is more dangerous
because it is easier to sell.
Two examples of racism in the letter are
found in the following ways: The first example
is found in the fact that the white girls did not
complain, yet Mr. Fredrick was eager and
willing to believe second-hand information
about the alleged h?irassment by blacks. I
wonder did Mr Fredrick ever entertain the
thought that the white girls may have enjoyed
the so-called harrassment or before any others
could obs ,e. the white girls may have actually
caused the harrassment.
The second example of the low-keyed racism
is the following quotation; "The whites who
harrass others are generally non-college students
who find pleasure in taking advantage of
another person's human rights-most important,
?the right to be left alone The blacks who
harrass others are also not college students and
just do not care how they act " The statement
voices an attempt to support a generalization
by whites that blacks are violent and out to
cause trouble, a clearly racist attitude.
I would like to point out that it is the white
man who has been violent, from the destruction
of the American Indian to the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King and the Vietnamese
people. Whites have always and will continue to
use any form of violence to achieve their own
goals.
Since the "Rat" has so-called liberal policies
or are liberal about most things, why not try to
"free" your mind of the myths about black
people On the other hand, that may not be to
wise because then you just might overcome the
"niggerphobia" that many ol you possess
Power to the People
Vivian H Grimes
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