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Newspaper Page TextI r PW.K 2 Editorials tEfje anb $Uacfe Opinions ^ «*dn«*Mlay, July .‘II. l*)f»R ( lay Ifryant Monopoly Revisited Theoretically those of us who an* living in the year 1%8 are constantly im tin* move At least that's the impression one would get from television, ra dio. the newspapers, and even the contemporary novel We are to fly friendly skies, with boots that were made for walking neatly paek<*d in our traveling bags a security measure so that we might make a quick getaway from hippies, convicts, and poor peo ple who an* also reported to be on the move this summer The media tells us that Amer ica is ours, as long as see Georgia first and post no bills TIus announcement is followed by a briel hint if one wants to show that he is really in with the going generation, he reads Airport while in an airport All this traveling for pleasure is wonderful if you can afford the money, the time, the* aca demic probation fall quarter, and the notices from tin* local draft board Evidently you can't or you wouldn't be reading this article So let's get down to some thing realistic, those practical moves which each of us makes during our college careers: the move from X-ville to Athens. Inin the parking lot to the filth floor of a dormitory, from the fifth floor of a dormitory to the third floor of a fraternity house, followed by a move to an apart ment complex, and eventually, tlx* ultimate* goal, the* move to a house with sprawling yard, shade tree's, and quiet Hut once at the* goal, don't liolher to unpack By then there’ll only be two more months before graduation and another move, this time from Athens to X-ville. Z-ton. or Boot ( amp. as the case may be. Jo Ann Hock Although they will never be as enchanting as the friendly skies, there is a secret to mak ing these practical moves pleas ant and enjoyable never own anything more than a tooth brush and change of underwear Quite* obviously our moving problems arise* from a human propensity for saving From the early age of six we* liave bo n inbuisj in the Cub Scout-Brown ie philosophy Be Prepared' . hut no den le*ader even both- ereef to finish the* phrase* How ironic if Lord Baden- Powell had actually writte*n Tie* Prepared to Move at a Mo ment's Notice." All of us who have saved our old term pap ers. Playboys, and Rebel Yell bottles under the pretense that they will eventually be* of intel lectual or esthetic value would be* e*ven bigger fools than we are now Accumulation of personal arti facts is indeed a deadly dis ease* Books, clothing and bric- a-brac have a way of gathe ring more than dust "Storage- space'' lias a way of creeping up e>n you Dop kit turns intei suitcase, which is fe>lleiwe*d by several shopping bags, cardboard box es. end tables, anel perhaps even a huffed Roommate is fed lowed bv spouse. who is joined by a pet. anel eventually a child When will it ever end? Like* James Brown says Please, please* don’t go-o-o-o-o, 'Cause I hate that l'-u-llaul. Oh, e>h. oh, e>h I el’s stay where we are. Yea, yea, yea, yea. A more subtle* preddeni which frequently develops when we* move* comes freim e»ur high ex pectations e>f what Ur* future will hold Take for example the* friend in transit" who arrived at Cre- swell this summer with an air- cejneliturner fe»r he*r rexim and a magazine* rack for her pri vate bath A study of disillu sion Take* as another example* the friend-ed a-friend who arrived at his apartment last fall with golf clubs, tennis racket, football, basketball, stereo, television, radio. thirty shirts with match ing slacks. sweaters. and shoes, plus a blender and portable bv He* reserved a cozy spot ne*xt to the driver's seat for the sweet, young thing he* was plan ning to pick up at orientation ami a small space in the* back seat for the* diploma he was to take* home after four years of study Somehow he neglected to leave* room feir books anel a handful of Bit* pens. I wonder if he'll make* it Well, after all the*se thoughts of moving, my arms are ge-tting tir»*el anel my goexl spirits are waning Te> make* matters worse while writing this article I received a pejsteard Irom friends e>n the* move in Acapulco "Are having wonderful time* Traveling light Only texdhbrush anel underwear Tomorrow night head down to the* Yucatan Pangs ed jealousy For us practical movers only thre*e meire* weeks eif summer school ami the*n we meive again. Is there* nei e*nd tei our misery? Is tlx* only alternative — <i<) DIRECTLY TO JAIL IX) NOT PASS GO. IX) NOT COLLECT TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. (IF IN ATHENS. IX) NOT TRY TO BREAK OUT i l* rise ilia Good body & Co. ? I thought I was really looking forward to tlx* summer reruns this year It would be* a gexxl time tei see all the sheiws that I missed during schexd Anel the*n aleing came tlx* censors. They cut exit the be*st fight scene in my favorite TV sheiw The hot air ed pub- lie- opinion lias forced tlx* censors to try and irradicate violence freim the* American scene* 1 may never sen* Matt Dillon outdraw the* bad guy again feir the* millionth time They even got bedel ed lassie The pexir mutt can hardly growl much less bark without some eme* screamming violence What everyone seems to forget is that the United States is a prexluct of rebellion aixl violence. We fought tlx* British in 76 for theise* ed yew whei haven't had American History The Indians wem for once at tlx* Little Big Heim Wiltons have cheered as Scarlett shoots the \ .ikee And the censors grab the* scissors just because one ed my favorite gexxl guys leses a fist fight Swell Anel then along comes tlx* news Thirty action-packed minutes ed Vietnamese newsreels They showed the execution ed a Viet Cong officer the* other night Live anel in living color, until lx* died And the kids wate-hing the* sheiw cheered They say eiur little tykes are violence ori- enled Guns feir Christmas, tanks feir birth days They make some TV sheiws "No-no" for children because ed the* rexigh nature* But the* kids all kneiw that this is nuke believe, pivtend True*, some of the sheiws are his tory Daniel Bexine. Cimmeron Strip anel Bo nanza are going to tell Ixiw the west was really wem Chet Huntley and David Brink- ley will tell how tlx* Wt*st won too. in the East. What I want to kneiw is why does everyone think wrong of poor ole Matt when he* draws ami fires? Anel why is tins worse* Hun shew ing tlx* ae-tual execution of that officei ? Cbf Isrb nut) IllarU nn ^ uyne Kent Business Manager Kill MaeNabb l<litor Ober Tyus Managing l-ditor Volume I.XXV Xu 111 her I Published weekly at the l diversity of (irorgia, Athens, Georgia. I'utered at the l*ost Offiee in Athens, (Georgia as Main Matter of the Second Glass. Subscription rates: $3.50 first year. S.’i renewal. National Advertising Representative: National educational Adver tising Service, Inc. 360 Lexington Arenac, New ^<>rk. New 'iork 10017. Henry Holliman Christopher Honner Joe H ilkinson Ben net George Joyce Snyder John !*oole Ted (lull News Lditor \ssoeinle I alitor Sports Iditor Photographic editor Feature editor Vd Salesman Circulation I’LL BET THAT'S THE LAST TIME YOU U PUT YOUR JOHN HANCOCK ON A STUDENT RIGHTS PETITION Ober Tyus Joe II ilkinson The Crystal Ball Jeanne Dixon, whose predic tions have shaken the world with their accuracy, has said that 1968 will see the end of pol itical parties in the United States as we know them. Back in January, the possibil ity of an "unusual" election year was in the making with tlx* candidacies of George Wal lace and Sen. Eugene Mc Carthy It is a well known fact thiit many Republican party leaders were expecting the 1968 election to be* decided in the House of Representatives be cause of the large number of anticipated votes going to Wal lace's American Independent Party. In February of this year a spokesman for the* Republican Congressional Committee all but publicly admitted that a popular vote (or electoral vote) victory would be impossible for either Democrat or Republican nominees. tial election of 1968 was to be come the country's answer to Georgia’s Gubernatorial raceof 1966 The year became hotter polit ically as President Lyndon Johnson "withdrew" as a candi date along with Gov. George Romney of Michigan The late Robert Kennedy, despite charges that he had just let McCarthy do the dirty work, announced for the office that his brother Jack had held for two and a half years. Vice President Hubert Humphrey said he was running Finally. Gov Nelson Rockefeller entered the race. Then things began to change as George Wallace started los ing strength in the prills. His campaign was almost at a stand-still when his wife Lur- leen, Alabama’s Governor, died. Prior to this his showing in early primaries was poor In other words, the Presiden- Some Republicans began to It's just one of those things you learn to live with it yoa n mm Athtm The road construction, that is. For those of you who don't know it is a ritual that the city g<x*s through every summer. They dig up one side of the street and down tlx* other. Last year they had to put in gas lines. This year they had t» check them. Next year all the power lines go under the ground to be followed by a complete resurfacing ot all city streets. And tlx* year after that we’ll have a power failure am! you know what that means So regard less of what tlx* Chamber of Commerce tells you the city is not preparing for trench war- fan* with tlx* students, even if we did have a I ttle demonstration last spring One last thing Same where in the rules anil regs there is something about campaign posters being removed by so many hours after a rumpus election. 1 sun* wish someone would remove tlx* one on the pole at the Ag Extension Building Either Billy Payne is a die han! or some one thinks this is Cali fornia anti our president is subject to recall Christopher Honner ''Conservative CasuaV He wasn t wearing a suit or a tie or anything like that You'd call it conservative casual, with a corduroy and leather jacket, if you had to give it a name All except for the white socks Anyway, when he walked by the store the first time, he only gave it a shooting glance You know, like he had a kink in his neck or something and just happened to turn to the right He walked about another five or six feet and heeled, turning smartly He looked to his left and right to 'see if anyone was watching, though no one really was. and he went back to the store window. He couldn't see too much through the door because someone had painted it. but what he did see looked pretty good It kind of brought out the daring in a guy. though ft was pretty risky stuff, as you can imagine For instance, there was a poster with a girl on a motorcycle and another with two people who looked like they dkln t have any clothes on When he saw that he started licking his lips, and he almost put his full weight on the door, but it s a lucky thing he didn't. Well now he didn't care d any one did see him. because he was going in. no matter what He was very careful about shutting the door, making cer tain that it didn't squeak too much when he closed it He tried to look sure of himself, smug, a man who knew what he was doing His eyes lit on the poster with the people wrapped around each other He walked, slowly but with a slight bounce to each step, to the counter. "I want one sorta like that.' he said. “Do you want that one or not." he was told. "Well, he said, pointing to the poster with the people wrapped around each other. "I want one like that, but with more art ." "More ait?" "You know, one that shows more More action to it." "Can t help you. friend This isa family store " "Come on. can't you help me out? I just want some art. he said. He was sweating hard and you could see the outline of a gun rocking under his cordu roy and leather jacket Cop think that Wallace might not be quite the threat he started out to be. By late May Richard Nixon, barring disaster, had won the GOP presidential nomi nation with his victory in Ore gon. Despite the supjsirt shown for Kennedy and McCarthy and their primary battles, the "boys in the smoke-filled back room" decided Humph ev would be the Democrat candidate for Presi dent. The events of that first week in June in Los Angeles are well known. Robert Kennedy was dead and his supporters without a leader In the last month many have gone to McCarthy disregarding the bitter primary fights he and Kennedy hail. Others have not. but they will vote in November. They probably will not vote for a person who favors a con tinuation of the present policy in Viet Nam. They surely wiil not support one who is for esca lation. This week Rockefeller pre sented a plan for ending the war ft calls for an end to the lighting, followed by elections for all of Viet Nam. Some McCarthy supporters say there is a good chance that the Minnesota senator will go ahxig with this plan. Many of these same supporters want the senator to form his own party. If he waits until after 'he Dem ocrat convention (Aug 261 to do this.he could only get on the ballot in 21 states for about 40 per cent of the electoral vote. Now some say Rockefeller and McCarthy, who stand little or no chance of getting their party's nominations, will team up to form a fourth party. If this comes about, and if the polls are correct about Un popularity of these two' men. then they will make quite a slowing The millions who will have left the GOP. the Demo crat party, and the ranks of the independents, will not come back. George Wallace, who has bounced back in the polls, has supporters In the South who will stay in the American Inde pendent party forever Former Lt Gov Peter Zack Geer will probably be the AIP's candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1970 These events may never come about, just as some of Miss Dixon's predictions have not been fulfilled Yet. they are not beyond the realm of possibility Ji&t WHO are you going to vote for in November? With Sympathy The death of lour workmen in the Fine Arts Auditorium last week was certainly a tragic event While safety measures are always taken, there seems to be no guarantee that fate will not creep into our lives On behalf of the students of the University. The Red and Btuk wishes to express its heartfelt sympathy to the families of the stnken individuals It is only our hope that additional precautions can be de vised to hopefully prevent such circumstances from ever oc curring again Along The ‘Rocky’ Road Probably never before in our history have the American people been so intensely interested in the political activities of major presidential candidates in an election campaign. The Republicans are set to meet in Miami Beach next week and their decision on a candidate could well dictate the entire future of our country. While Richard Nixon is maintaining as tight a grip as possi ble on his delegates, the other contenders for the nomination are making important progress. Governor Nelson Rockefeller has carried out a magnani mous campaign over the past two months in an effort to get the people of America to express their preference and hopeful ly influence the convention delegates into selecting the New York Governor as the party's nominee. California's Favorite Son Ronald Reagan is having more of an impact on the convention than many people realize. It is with the non candidacy" of Reagan that the hope for an open convention lies While the California governor has spent the past three weeks in the Deep South wooing delegates, the Rockefeller forces have been hoping that he would be successful in open ing up the Nixon hold. It is from this situation that we see how the South holds an important position in the convention. While they will most probably never give their support to Rockefeller, they are quite likely to give it to Gov Reagan. Such a move would open up the convention by depriving Richard Nixon of a first ballot victory. Only with an open convention can Gov. Rockefeller hope to make the necessary impact on the delegates to obtain the nomination. Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was in Atlanta on Monday evening and made some interesting points for Rocke feller. He explained that while Richard Nixon and Ronald Re agan certainly have a g<xxi chance of winning the election in November, their chances are not as great as Nelson Rockefel ler's. Nixon must carry the Southern states if he is to be elect ed. He does not have enough strength in the large cities or with the heavy vote states in the North and in New England. Yet. at the same time. American Independent candidate George Wallace has shown extremely effective strength in those states which would be essential to a Nixon victory. Thus, the Rockefeller forces hope that the delegates will realize that if the nation is to have a change in the current Washington administration, then Rockefeller will have to be the nominee of the Republican party. Qualifications of the New York Governor are certainly not lacking as the delegates make up their mind He is the senior executive in the nation having more experience in an execu tive position in government than any other individual at the state level or in Washington. In his three terms as Governor of the Empire State, he has overcome a $15 million deficit to see that state operate on a balanced budget. Rockefeller is probably the most qualified candidate to unite the people of America under one banner He recently stated that while Nixon could unite the Repub licans (27 per cent of the electorate), he could also unite the currently split Democrats, probably resulting in a continuation of the same policies we have lived under for the past five years. If predictions can be made about nominating conventions, they must surely be nothing but pure guess. Nevertheless, here goes. No candidate will be nominated on the first ballot at Mi ami Beach. If Richard Nixon does not get the nomination by the second ballot, he will never get it. If Nelson Rockefeller does not have it by the fourth or possibly the fifth ballot, he too will be deprived and the nomi nation will go either to Reagan or to a current dark horse such as John Lindsay. Joyce Snyder Wild Blue Yonder Maybe I'll be lucky. Maybe the plane won t leave now as scheduled and I'll fly home to day after all. But I'm late. So I'll manufac ture an emergency and beg the reservations man to hold up the plane just for me. "Can't you please get me on this flight to Norfolk." I plead ed with the man in the blue un iform "Mv brother has just had a sudden attack of terminal cancer and he's on his death bed I just have to get on that plane!" "You still have time, miss" he said, "the plane has been hekl up for 15 minutes " "Good. I'd like to buy a stand-by ticket — student rates." I bought my ticket and took a cnance. making my way towards tlx- waiting room for Gate 34 Despite the crowd going full- fane who had reservations, and the number of armed forces men who would have priority over me. I felt that 1 still had a chance to get on that plane A sign which hung above read Flight 740 to Norfolk Flight 740 Seven, four, zero Those numbers. That was it Those are the numbers in the dream last night There was an explosion, then fire, and the numbers seven, four, and zero, in burning flames surrounded by clouds of smoke But I'm just being ridiculous It must be the diet pill that s making me imagine things After all. planes are supposed to be safer than cars I've nev er heard of cars being hijacked to Cuba Thats right three planes have been hijacked to Ciiia this week And that fire in the dream could be Irom some nut who wants to blow up the plane be cause he doesn't want to live anymore Maybe he has terminal can cer. I'll walk around the roon and watch for someone win looks sickly. But you can never tell abou those people. I'll just take i look at the plane and see if any thing seems to be wrong will it. No. both wings are on. bu one looks kind of crooked. It couldn't be true, I've nevei been known to have extra sen sorv perception. If my dream i: true, maybe someone here ha: experienced the same warning "Pardon me. madam, bu have you been having unusua premonitions lately?" "Excuse me, sir. I know thi seems odd. but have you bee having nightmares with symbol ism in it?" It won t work They all thin I m crazy. If I get on the plan and my dream comes true I die for sure But if I chicke out and miss that plant I II b stuck in Atlanta until tomorrow I know what to do! I'li pi some money in the insurant 1 machine in the lobby That wa - it I die. I ll get all that mm ey And if I live through it well, that's good enough Eithe way. I can t lose. Who can I make out to be benefactor’’'’ Pittypat. my ca And now for some noble caust The Ba ha World Fait Fund, and a couple of thousan to my family so the kid can gi a sports car and the folks ca take a trip I sure will be mts: ing out on a lot I WON'T GO won't go. I'm not taking any chanct with my life I don't care if have to spend the night in thi airport It doesn't matter if m luggage is on the plane and never see it again I know what I'll do 1 11 ii sure my luggage I'm not takir any chances And if anythin happens. I can buy a who new wardrobe

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The Red and Black (Athens, Ga.) 1893-current, July 31, 1968, Image 2