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The Red and Black Wednesday May 10. 1472
BOB GILLETTE
THE OPINIONS OF THE RED AND BLACK
Genius or madman ?
President Richard Nixon Is
either a geniuS or a madman.
Anyone that risks world war, as he
has done by orderinq a blockade of
North Vietnamese ports, has qot to
be one of the two.
The first impression is that he
has mistakenly escalated a war that
most people, mcludinq ourselves,
want to end. Even Lyndon
Johnson, who stocked the sunny
lands of rice and mines with
American men, shied from the
darmq blockade
But then, after second thought,
we wonder why a President who
has won a great deal of popularity
for winding down the war would
risk that popularity. Something
must be happening that we don't
know about
Could it be that the Communists
Irom the north are seriously
threatening what's left of the
American contingent in the South?
Or could it be that the Communists
have broken a promise they made
with Nixon in secret talks?
If the Reds are threatening the
American investment and
commitment, then the President
has an obligation to protect them,
particularly if the Reds have agreed
secretly to let us leave in peace.
If the Communists have agreed
to some other arrangement secretly
and are now violating it, then the
President must move to defend the
integrity of American agreements,
Every nation must be sure that it
can trust us, and that means we
must be able to insure that our
agreements - private or public -
will be enforced.
Richard Nixon and his close
advisers are the only ones who
know exactly what's happening. We
must have faith for now that what
fie is doing is in our best interests.
No idiot can be elected President of
the United States, and we're
confident that Nixon - or any
other President - is enough of a
politician and has enough personal
integrity not to betray the people
of this country and the world.
Nixon has proven himself to be
shrewd. We believe for now that he
is doing what he thinks is best for
the country, and that what he
thinks is best is probably right.
The next few days may tell.
Ill
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Liberated
ID llll HMIOK
Your article on “Cohabitation”, on
Ihursclay. Ma> 4. made me shake my
head in disbelief Do the women involved
in these relationships really believe that
they are doing something new. different,
and meaningful? If so. the> should be
jdvised that men have had mistresses
since the beginning of lime and few males
can turn down Ihe opportunity lo get sex
steady, have a cleaning woman and cook
all in a roommate who will pay half the
rent.
Only girls very unsure ot themselves
used to give into “if y ou love me. sleep with
me" routine I thought toda* *s coeds
were too intelligent to fall for a job
description. “Be a cook, help clean up the
place, do the laundry . be available for sex
and pay half the expenses. No guarantees,
no pension, no benefits l*ay for your
own abortion.’*
Now really, is that the kind of
relationship that is worth being afraid the
parents will find out?
A truly tree, liberated woman can
surely find a relationship that has a little
more to it than the old fashioned
“shacking up.” where the male reaps the
benefits and the female is something to
he changed as the mood strikes.
JENNIE LACKEY
Lay off
the Greeks
TO THf FUITOR
b .ppv.rv luely from reading the
editorial, ol Carol Robert- that all ,he
win manage to do is to cut down the
(•reek system She has stated a lot of
-recks which ■ already
self-evident, like they are no longer a
majority on campus. With a university of
20.000 students, there is no way that
they could be a majority And the
non-Greeks are not the only ones who
have changed their interests from gossip
lo world affairs
It would be nice if she could find
something else to cut down for a while
LAl’RA SPALDING
Women, men
not all yin
TO THE EDITOR
John Lennon sings “Woman is the
nigger of the wotld if you don’t
believe it. take a look at the one you’re
with' With his tame and genius, this
erstwhile Beatle is using his best medium
the rock and roll record to do his
part tor women’s liberation I would like
to use a somewhat lesser medium a
letter to Ihe Red and Bla^k to express
my own thoughts, and perhaps do a little
my sell for a cause in which I believe
strongly
With the aid of the teachings of
( on fuse I us. I have liberated myself and
hopefully, my woman from blind
acceptance of traditional male and female
roles. I am determined to let biology do
as it wills It it is natural that my woman
and I feel like getting dressed up one
night, she in a lacy. King dress, and I in a
vest and lie. and go out to eat. why fight
it’ On the other h-nd. mine haj stopped
using make-up or doing anything involved
to her hair, and she Uniks better now than
Being a married student is...
Being a married college student means
never having to say Gee, I wonder what
I’m going to do today?
Perhaps I should qualify that a bit. It’s
not that you don’t
going to do the next
day or the day after,
you do know. It will
be something you
don’t particularly
want to do. So it
would be better to
say Gee. I wonder
what I’m not going
to do today? Then a
whole world of
possibilities opens up to your daydreams.
I’m not complaining, you understand.
I mean, it doesn’t bother me to go to a
class smelling like a pail full of dirty
diapers, or wear clothes with my
daughter’s dessert smeared all over the
front.
I’m not embarrassed to pull a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich out of a brown
paper bag and eat it in the Bulldog Room.
I can hold my head up high when the
bumper falls off my car on Lumpkin
Street while Jaguars and Corvettes cruise
jauntily by. I’ve grown to take a perverse
sense of fulfillment in mentally crucifying
unmarried students for skipping classes
for “no apparent reason.”
I find myself mumbling a lot lately,
“Boy, them single students don’t know
how good they have it.”
Who else but a married student gets
the opportunity to play “watch the buses
go by while waiting for a Married Housing
bus?” This game is most fun in the rain
and snow.
I do get a little upset, however, when I
hear a single student complaining about
the food at Bolton or Snelling. How
would you like to go home to, “Sorry,
I’ve got to go to work tonight and I don’t
have time to fix you any dinner”? Then
you wind up eating what your daughter
leaves and top that off with an
assortment of green olives, pickles, potato
chips, a piece of stale bread, and a glass of
Rootin’ Tootin’ Rasberry.
At a time when most students are
concerned with the problems of the
world and the human race I mean real
big mind benders like the ecology,
Vietnam, Racism, etc. I am concerned
with an expanding waistline and a
shrinking grade point average. I have to
sit and watch my daughter grow out of
those eight dollar shoes we just bought
for her last week.
Being a married student means getting
to live in married housing, if you’re
lucky. If you’re really lucky you’ll find
someplace else. The first married housing
unit I lived in was the prefabs up on Ag
Hill. The price was right, but it was rather
difficult cohabiting with a wife, child,
and a collection of hybrid roaches. I
finally gave up trying to get rid of the
roaches when 1 found an order for two
Black Flag cocktails and a Raid gimlet one
morning. I’m still trying to get ricTof my
wife.
I do wish the housing office would do
something about the mail slots at married
housing, they have an osmosis all their
own; they don’t take anything but bills.
Who else but a ^married student gets to
refuse sex? Many is the time that a frisky
coed has made advances towards me, but
1 had to decline with a fatherly, “Thank
you, but I’m married.”
Just like the Army, marriage provides
an education you’ll not find in any text
book How many students can say that
they have tried to figure out Dean Sims’
explanation of why the University is
raising the rent another $15 a month?
They just don’t offer seminars like that
one to anybody.
Who else but a married student gets to
sit in the waiting room of a pediatrician’s
office with kids crying, sneezing,
coughing, climbing, spitting, and pointing
saying, "Mommy, is he a hippie?”
And married students save a lot of
money by not having to buy speed before
exams. My daughter is better than the
best capsule; inevitably, the night before
every test, she either gets sick, scared, or
just decides to scream all night.
Like 1 said before. I’m not
complaining. Being a married student has-
its advantages, too, like .... like .... uh,
like marriage makes you a more rounded
person?
With all its disadvantages, marriage is
not so bad. As long as you’re not married
and a student. If you’re thinking about a
little gold ring soon and you’ve got over
one month of school before you
graduate, before you say “I do,” you
better ask yourself, “Can I?”
what you are
woman doesn't shack up'
any other woman on this campus (and
this campus has some awfully pretty
women.) It’s all in the mind, y’know? We
don’t need to march for liberation. I
opine, we need to think liberation. Ask a
Zen master how to be free. He will reply
“You’re tree!"
Confucius taught the idea of yin and
yang. Yin female, passive, submissive,
darkness, night Yang male, power,
aggressiveness, day. brightness. These two
traits are in all things' No man is all yang
no woman is all ytn. It would not be
nght to be so For submissiveness is not
wrong it IS We all have yin and yang in
us. Tor one is not bad. or lesser, or the
opposite of the other They are
counterparts, and always of equal
importance. It is natural that wa> One’s
dominance is worthless if it is not
accompanied by another's submissiveness.
all have varying degrees of each in us.
Io let them come out in us when they
desire is lo obey nature To paraphrase
John Lennon “Oppression is over, if you
want it.”
SILN LN R DAI GHERTY
Bus system
complimented
TO THE E DITOR
Just thought I'd sav something nice
about the wonderful bus system. Hooray
for the nice bus drivers they do a really
good job That’s all
J MlRRAY
Willis editorial
reasoned
TO THE EDITOR
Mosl of my letters in the past to The
Red and Black and to other publications,
as well, have been wntten to express my
disagreement with something I had read
This is not really a happy state of affairs.
I also believe that letteis of support
should be wntten when indicated. That is
the reason for this letter.
My comment is brief, but it should he
made. After reading Ken Willis' editorial
in The Red and Black Friday I felt a
distinct pleasure that a mature and
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reasoned approach was voiced regarding
dissent and protest ll brings to mind the
old saying about not criticizing until you
have walked a mile in Ihe other man's
shoes. Impassioned protest may be a good
way to let off steam, hut reasonable
action for change must include a reasoned
appraisal of the opposition's situation.
So to Mr Willis, Bravo!
JOHN H KUNZE
Should Russell
impeach Patrick?
TO THE EDITOR
The State of Georgia has its Lester
Maddox The Residence Hall Association
and Russell Hall have Steve Patrick. The
only difference is that when Lester goes
through his wild-eyed antics, at least he
knows he has the support of his
constituents and represents the views of a
majority of them. But Patrick? Since
he and his girl were asked for their I D.
numbers after violating openhouse hours
m Russell Hall, our Russell President has
become j foaming maniac on the issue. A
while ago he urged the Russell Hall
Council members to have their residents
keep their dates in the dorm after hours
as a massive prote r t (protest against
what? the fact that he violated rules
voted on by the men who live in Russell?
The fact that he the President should
be immune and above the rules? The fact
that he and his girl were finally caught in
the habitual act of staying in the dorm
after closing hours?)
So he called for a massive protest
and only three or four guys and a couple
ot girls showed up a tew weeks back —
and chickened out when they saw no one
else was so stupid. Then he literally asked
to be arrested at President Davison’s
office he had a chance to leave and
tried to drum up a frenzied anti-housing
rally (which, even with a free band and
free refreshments, drew only a very small
crowd.) His allies in this rally were,
surprisingly, made up largely of students
who don’t even live in dormitories, who
aren’t affected by Housing Department
policies, who only want to (1) create a
political issue for Coalition ’72 and (2) go
on an ego trip. Patrick was the only
resident of Russell Hall - out of 1,000 -
who took part in Wednesday morning's
pranks.
Patrick was asked how he had been
affected by this alleged “crackdown” in
Housing policies. “I was asked for my
I.D. when I stayed with my date after
open house,” he replied. Touching,
however (1) This is NOT a change in
policy. Rules are rules, you know, and
residents approved them by a landslide
majority. (2) This is hardly a cruel or
unusual punishment for breaking one of a
dormitory’s major rules.
Why is it that the President of Russell
Hall so flagrantly violates the dorm rules,
so jeopardizes others’ rights to continue
having open house? Why is it that he
clearly doesn’t represent their views and
attitudes (even though administrators
may think he does, since he’s a Big
Wheel)?
What do we want? To keep rules like
they are, as wntten. We do, after all, have
one of the most liberal campuses around.
What’s the best way to keep things cool?
don’t rock the boat, at least not until
you see it’s going down. Russell Hall and
the RHA would be better off with a
full-time President who doesn’t spend
98^ of his time planning rallies and sit-ins
about which we don’t give a damn. If
Patrick keeps up his ego-tripping crusade,
maybe the Russell Hall Council would do
well to impeach him so he au devote 100
per cent of his time to playing Joan of
Arc.
P.S. I must remain anonymous ... in
cognito.
name withheld