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Th* Red and Black
Thumdoy, February 19, 1970
Involvement vs. being left alone
What students want
During a meeting of the
Alumni Society Student Advi
sory Board, one member of the
board was heard to comment
that the main thing University
students wanted was to be left
alone In the midst of all the
ideas for getting students in
volved in the Alumni Society,
this simple combination of
words struck the heart of all
that is attempted at the Univer
sity in the name of student ac
tivities and extra-curricular
events.
The poignancy of the state
ment is increased in this cur
rent season before the begin
nings of the student body elec
tion campaign Now is the time
for the political parties and any
group supposedly interested in
bettering the student world at
tiie University to take a look at
By MICHAEL HOWELL
Red and Black Editor
what students wanton an analy- and swimming pools, in the
sis that will go beyond the usual communal brotherhood of a
mouthing of cliche ridden plati- fraternity or sorority or in the
tudes It is now that the incum- restricted life of a dormitory
of campus involvement and
student participation in the
academic shaping of the institu
tion are statements made in
"...the main thing University students want is to be left alone."
.oil oi.'empfs at nebulous goals are doomed to the reaping of nebulous results."
bent SGA officers should look
to what they said they would do
and the reality of what they
have done
The University student can
be termed, on the average, as a
human being notable for his
cool and his ability to ignore
what is going on To him. there
is not much world outside the
walls of his existence whether
it be in the land of apartments
lesident He really doesn't care
whether or not the Pandora
runs, color, if the Red and
Black runs national news or if
the Student Senate passes a
new constitution He goes to
class, attempts to pass and ex
ists mainly for the next social,
letter from his high school hon
ey or the next check from home
which can be used to buy large
quantities of that which he de
sires To him the causes
Sandro Scaramucci
Buuneii Manager
Michael Howell
Editor
Tom Giffen
Managing Editor
Howell Medden
Aisociote Eaitor
speeches and used by verbose
editorial writers. To him, as
thing "
Upon reaching the rhetorical
point I have just made, one
would ask why go to the bother
to be Editor of the Pandora,
president of the student body or
any other office which demands
work for a public who could
really care if anything is ac
complished Still, the apathy so
often criticized is attributed to
the average student By mathe
matical definition, an average
means that there is an equal
number of values above and
below that average The group
below the average really doesn't
care and the ones above it
usually care a great deal. It is
the latter group which makes
the effort of it all worth the
trouble
thus. the breaxuown of in
terest levels of the various
segments of University stu
dents is the problem to which
the groups seeking student in
volvement must address them
selves. They must decide if
they are going to work only with
the interested above aver
ages.’ if they are going to seek
to stimulate the ' averages''
and below to become involved
or if the whole mess is worth
the trouble
The decisions outlined above
are the ones which must be
made if student government,
student participation and stu
dent life in general is to gain
the commodity which '—ming-
ly all sides are si .inig-relev-
ance A basic con nunications
law is that publics must be de
fined and then communication
must be tailored to meet the
demands of those defined pub
lics. Without that basic deci
sion, all attempts at nebulous
goals are doomed to the reap
ing of nebulous results
*<H» NMT TO KNOW WHAT I REAUV MUTT
How
"Policy for a decade" I
New left
analysis
In President Nixon's State of the
World message yesterday, our nation's
leader set the tone for U S foreign
policy during his administration.
He called it a “policy for a decade"
and said it marked a shift from the
policies of the past - of the cold
war — to the policies of negotiation
which Nixon proclaimed on taking
office in January 11169
However, in his analysis of the
nuclear arms situation bettypen the
U S. and the Soviet Union, the Presi
dent seems to be reverting directly
back to the cold war policy of years
past He said Russia's growing nu
clear force has created "a serious
threat to our retaliatory capabili
ty" and raised questions about
Russia’s intentions in building such
a viable nuclear force
He proposed the continued ex
pansion of the Safeguard ballistic
missle defense program as the best
immediate response to the Soviet
build-up and then expressed hope
that eventually he could negouate a
limitation or reduction of nuclear
missies with Russia. In other
words he is saying we can not begin
negotiations based on mutual
trust with Russia We can not
trust them but once we have
achieved overwhelming superiority
we can ask them to trust us.
This reasoning does not sound
like a policy of negotiation. This
negotiations-if-and-when reasoning
can only be labeled as cold war di
plomacy
If the end of cold war politics and
a cessation of the nuclear arms
race are to have a place in U S.
foreign policy, it seems that the
time to begin working in earnest
toward these goals is now - at a
time when both antagonists are in a
position to make real eonsessions
based on positions of nearly equal
strength If we insist upon react
ing'' to the Soviet build-up how can
we expect less of a "reaction"
from them 9
By KAYE SIMON
Hippies. Those youths who are so
desparately striving for individualism
have banded together to create one of
the greatest conformities in modern
civilization. Perhaps the idea of liberal
conformity is not a familiar one, but
this conception is easily justified
One typical American male citizen
recently said, "A hippie is one who
looks like a Jack and dresses like a
Jill. " This is merely a cursory observa
tion in an attempt to be humorous But
look further
Distinct appearance is the most
obvious characteristic in hippie identi
fication. though not the most original
Hippies distinguish themselves by
wearing hair styles similar to those
popular during the time of Thomas Jef
ferson, glasses like those designed by
Benjamin Franklin, and sandals com
mon to Jesus of Nazareth l though a
logical conclusion hardly could be that
a hippie is a combination of these three
mem sailors have been wearing
bell bottom pants for decades. And
what about head bands, arm bands
and beads 9 American Indians have
worn these ornaments since before
the white man even arrived in this
country.
Americans have always been in-
sUnctively peace-loving, compromis
ing people Striving for peace has been
constantly interwoven into the demo
cratic system Protesting and demon
strating for this unattainable perfect
peace certainly did not originate in
1969 Underground newspapers, usually
side world, these people have deprived -S
themselves of the opportunity to adjust g
to anything outside of the liberal wall. $
Their self-centered world is construct- :j:
ed around the endeavor for immediate *
good, rather than unlimate benefit. ?i
In a sense, modern conservatives" |
arc die antithesis of the ideal the hip-
pies represent These conservatives -i
"...these people have deprived themselves of the opportunity to
adjust to anything outside of the liberal wall. "
expressing timely left-wing views.
were in existence long before the pre
sent college generation became "the
youth of today "
Hippies appear to derive psychologi
cal reinforcement by dressing alike,
sharing similar attitudes, and seldom
venturing outside of their group They
are social deviants, but they have sepa
rated from society by choice. Devia
tion and contradiction of accepted
mores are not new attitudes Deviant
groups as well as individuals have and
will develop as long as a society exists
Hippies are at a disadvantage No
longer socially affiliated with the out-
employ realistic devices to expand the
possibility of a more stable foundation
for future generations. They are not
exclusively concerned with the pre
sent; neither are they afraid to adapt
with caution in avoidance of mistakes
to be corrected by our generation
By no means is this denouncing free
dom of opinion, individualism, or con
formity This article is quite simply an
endeavor to provoke thought.
Ironically, those who label them
selves as modern conservatives are
possibly more advanced than their
counterparts
So how progressive are these so-
called "progressives?"
Another Voice
Sparrow
Chattahoochee polluters & the tax base Adieu!
New feature
One of the current criticisms of
the Red and Black is the inability,
because of space, to print all meet
ing announcements which come to
the paper To remedy this hopeful
ly, there will begin, next Tuesday,
a feature called Campus Calendar
This feature will print all an
nouncements in agate type which
come to the paper This column
will be open for the announcement
of all seminars, meetings-when
dates or times are changed and
speeches which will be made on
campus
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Red and Black
THE RECONVENED conference on
pollution of the Chattahoochee River
raised some deeply disturbing ques
tions.
Coming under fire from pollution
control officials were Fulton County.
Atlanta. Columbus and certain in
dustrial firms
Receiving particularly strong criti
cism was Fulton County The county's
commissioners were accused of "play
ing footsie" with apartment develo
pers. The man hurling the accusation
was nationally respected R S. I Rock)
Howard of the Georgia Water Quality
Control Board
If they quit piddling around with
these apartment complexes and over
loading their existing facilities, they
might get something done," Howard
told the press
Statements made at the meeting bv
polluters under federal and state pres
sure to clean up the river were disap
pointing, to say the least.
This editorial appeared in the
February 18, 1970 issue of The
Atlanta Journal . While the
article concerns a local issue,
the Editors felt it had special
significance in a place were a
smokestack belching black
smoke is a sooty part of every
day.
Representatives of the City of Atlan
ta. Cobb and Fulton counties all testi
fied that completion or substantial
completion of new sewage treatment
plants could not be expected until De
cember 1972. a year and a half later
than the federal deadline set several
years ago.
City and county officials must face
up to this problem before the Chatta
hoochee is permanentlv ruined.
If it requires higher user fees or tax
es, then the city and county fathers
must have the courage to tell the resi
dents and get on with the financing of
adequate sewage treatment facilities.
State and federal officials owe it to
the public to make regular checkups
and reports until conditions meet their
approval
Meanwhile, public officials might
start thinking of the environment as
well as the tax base when they give the
go-ahead signal to developers
Criticizes writer's red-baiting tactics
II
1
TO THE EDITOR
James Jordan's totter in Tuesday s
Red and Black, is indicaUve of the mis-
informaUon and red-haiUng acUons so
prevalent in the McCarthy era of the
50s First of all he infers that New
Mobe and SMC are one and the same
The slightest effort in researching the
two. would have found that New Mobe
was organized at the July 4-5 Cleveland
National AnUwar Conference held this
past summer SMC had it's beginning
in I960, and although it is not the same
as New Mobe. it has worked in conjunc
tion with the Vietnam Moratorium
Committee and New Mobe in building
the antiwar fall offensive The two
organizations. New Mobe and SMC. are
not one and the same and never have
been
However, it is not Jordan s igno
rance of the two griups that bothers us
so much as the red-baiting techniques
he uses to denounce die groups One of
the most significant breakthroughs
made by the antiwar movement from
the time of it's first national acUoo-the
.April 1965 March on Washington- was
die principled stand of political nonex
elusion in the movement That decision
has been reaffirmed over and over by
the anhwar movement since 1965. ami
has provided the basis for building a
strong, unified, antiwar movement By
rejecUng the cold-war, red-baiting ac
Uons of the McCarthyite vintage, the
antiwar movement has declared une
quivocally that all who oppose U S in-
tervenUon in the Vietnam war-regard
less of their political convictions-are
..welcome to join and participate in
SMC
The refusal to bow before red-bait-
ing attacks, under the age old strategy
of divide and rule, was based on the
underscanding that an attack on any
segment of the movement is an attack
on everyone, that there is no way to buy
immunity from red-baiting, and that if
it succeeds against one group or indi
vidual it will only embolden the witch-
hunters to attack others Once even the
slightest concessions are made to the
pressure for political exclusion ot
some farces, the floodgates of pobtical
repression will come down on not only
a few. but all who would dissent from
an established view Only by uncom
promising. unequivocal commitment
to the pobey of non-exclusion can the
American public be educated on how to
deal with the witch-hunters
UGA STUDENT MOBILIZATION
COMMITTEE
States' rights-beating a dead horse
TO THE EDITOR
John R Brannon s lengthy rebuttal to
Mr Stewart's editorial shed a lot of
heat and very little light The only in
formation he offered was that the
blacks are here Where are we to go
from there 9 The blacks have been
"here since before mine and prohably
Mi Brannon s ancestors The perti
nent quesUon of integration is impeded
by our anachrorosuc governor and the
Hon Gorge C Wallace
The fact that George Wallace has
changed with the times is very de
batable He has changed his rhetoric,
yes. To beat the drums from "stales'
rights is to beat a dead horse It does
not lake much political sophistication
to realize that this is Wallace's red
herring, if elected to national office he
wm Id do all in his power to reverse the
progress of integration One of the very
lew things that I respect Lester Mad
dox far is that when he means segrega
tion. he says it He says that separation
of the races is devine writ, and the
opposite is cummunist conspiracy
In trifling with semantics over res
pectability Mr Brannon slighted the
whole issue of racism Suffice it to say
that while many "respectable" per
sons hold to racism, it is a totally an
achronistic and defeating point of
view The “now-present social unrest"
that Mr Brannon refers to is rooted in
past racism and shouldn i come as a
surprise to an intelligent observer The
racism of Wallace and the like only
fans the flames of unrest, as indeed
does radical black racism
RAY E. TILLEY
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"You're leaving." the Eminent Edi
tor informed me, as if I didn't already
know "Write me a farewell column."
So it s to be "Quoth the Sparrow's"
last cheep A cheap cheep 9 Not me.
None of this soggy ending, bright-
though uncertain beginning bit that
every editor and columnist is tempted
with at the end of his questionable illus
trious college career Nope But I do
have a small crusade to launch, and it
says most of what 1 have to say.
I believe in coeducational living.
Oglethorpe's on the right track, but I
mean like right next door or even in the
same room, if you want to. Let me ex
plain.
I came back here last spring quarter
to start my senior year I'd been out
awhile, had gotten married, and my
husband had just been shipped to Viet
nam Disaster At least I had school to
go back to; anything was better than an
empty apartment night after night. I
prepared myself for moratorium on
life — that seems to be the word of the
year and is particularly apropos to the
way I felt How could I function alone?
I forgot about people They won't let
you smoulder in your despair all by
yourself — they re always knocking on
the door asking how they can commit
suicide when they only have an electric
stove or feeding you baloney sandwich
es or making you commit yourself to a
<50 bridesmaid dress or dragging you
to "Ruby Red s' and smugly pointiig
out that "Butter Beans" i-; a jazzed-up
version of "Just a Closer Walk with
Thee " They're just always there
Maybe college is supposed to be a
time to focus on yourself; to learn what
you re all about inside But I'd gone
that route: I was so cool one quarter
my sophomore year I couldn't stand
myself And now there were no preten
ses. and. man. that s the way it ought
to be
Being an of-age senior woman and
privileged to live in an apartme.l gave
me a chance to see a lot of peopii as
they really are No fronts How can you
put up a front when your hair s soaking
wet and you're in your nightgown and
someone comes over wanting to watch
"Jacques Cousteau and the Squids"?
You can t, you re yourself and they
shrug it off and that s life Life Capital
L It s not exclusive to monogamy, it'll
go wherever people are free to be
themselves
So. Georgia, you gave me a good
year after all Let me wish the same
for you: Have a blast