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The Red *nd Black. Thursday. May 11. 1972
CAROL ROBERTS
Paye 4
THE OPINIONS OF THE RED AND BLACK
Big responsibility
The personnel committee of the
Board of Student Communications
faces a maior responsibility today
in the selection of the first staff for
the new campus radio station. The
people they choose will play a
maior role in its success or failure.
At issue are the three top
Deadlines
A deadline is a deadline is a
deadline. That's what we've always
been told in the newspaper
business.
But it doesn't seem to ever work
that way in the real world. Name
the maior projects around here that
have ever been completed on time.
The radio station? Nope, it's
about two or three years past due.
The Tennis courts in Peoples' Park?
Nope, they were supposed to be
built by last December and now
they're projected lor next fall.
It seems that deadlines are made
to be broken.
positions — manaqer, proqram
director, and news director.
Director of Student
Communications Sean
McCleneqhan has taken steps that
we think will insure the best
possible selection. He has invited
professional radio people from
California, South Carolina, Atlanta,
and other places to interview the
candidates. They will make
recommendations to the personnel
committee and ultimately to the
Board.
This outside talent will provide
what we hope is an unbiased
perspective for the committee to
consider. However, the committee
and the Board, we are sure, are
aware that they have the final say.
A campus radio station should be
run by campus people.
The candidates for the three
positions — and we hear they are
many - will be going through some
rigorous interviewing today, and we
think a well qualified staff will
emerge. Good luck to the Board
and to the new staff.
flW HKI) AND HLACK
Ken Willis, editor
Joe Belew Carol Roberts
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copy editor; Ann Hutchinson, wire editor; Steve Woodford, production
manager; Tom Hill, photographic editor; Andrew Hamilton, art editor.
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I have a stake in Greeks
It's ironic, but true, that we are most
critical of those things we care most
about and of those things we are closest
to.
We care about the people we love, but
being so close to
them puts us in a
position to know
their weakest points
as well as their
strongest. And
because we love
them and want the
best for them, we
wish to do away
with the weaknesses
that make them less than they could be.
The same thing goes for institutions
and organizations of which we are a part.
We know an institution well, and because
of that we know what’s wrong with it. We
care about the institution, and because of
that we want to do away with its bad
characteristics.
You can see this in the current
uprising over what some see as a
crackdown in University housing policy.
The students who are concerned about
the crackdown don’t want to see the
University going backward. Sure, they’re
concerned with themselves, too. They
don’t want such strict rules that they
can’t feel free to do as they please. But
they’re also concerned about the future
of the University, and they don’t want to
see it lapse into an in loco parentis
attitude.
The reason we are critics of the things
we love is that we ourselves are a part of
them. We are closest of all to ourselves,
and therefore most critical of ourselves.
Anything we feel a part of - people we
love, organizations we belong to,
institutions we attend, and movements
we agree with — is a prime target for our
criticism.
I find this is very true of myself. 1 have
been accused, in letters and verbally, of
being too critical of the Greek system, of
being anti-Greek. If that’s true, then I’m
hypocritical.
I am a Greek, and I criticize the
system because I can see very clearly
what’s wrong with it. It is self-criticism
because I am part of the system I
criticize.
I know what’s right with the Greeks.
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Being in a sorority gives me a sisterhood,
not just locally but nationally, with
people who accept me and care about me.
It gives me a chance to live and work
closely with a lot of people, thus teaching
me patience and cooperation. It gives me
the opportunity to work on worthwhile
projects for people who are less fortunate
than I am.
But those things are good, and should
stay as they are. It’s the faults of the
system that I feel the need to point out.
My aim is not to tear the system down,
but rather to make it realize its own
faults and thereby to strengthen it.
I have criticized the lack of sisterhood
between sororities. That is not to say
there is no sisterhood within each
sorority. There certainly is. But a
sisterhood between sororities, among
women in general, is grossly lacking. And
I think that’s sad. Having found
sisterhood in my own sorority, I know
how wonderful it would be if all women
shared that kind of sisterhood with each
other.
I have criticized the way sororities
proclaim their love for Sigma This during
Sigma Chi derby. Sigma Chi Derby is, for
the most part, a healthy, competitive
event. But I find it a bit ridiculous that
sororities feel they have to say they’re “in
love” with the Sigma Chis in order to win
the derby. Love has nothing to do with
winning tricycle races or derby hunts, and
I don’t like seeing my fellow sorority
women being so illogical saying it does.
I’d like to see sororities trying to win the
derby on their own teamwork and ability.
1 am not anti-Greek. I care about the
system because I am a part of it. But
being so close to it, I can see where it is
lacking and where it needs to improve. I’d
like to see a universal sisterhood among
sorority women and a similar
brotherhood among fraternity men. I’d
like to see an end to back-scratching in
Sigma Chi Derby. In short. I’d like to see
the Greek system become what it could
be. I have a personal stake in its future.
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>!
law students gentlemen'
TO THE EDITOR
There seems to be some
misunderstanding on the part ot Miss
Ki-mpf as well as Miss Stewart It would
appear to me that these ladies and “I use
the term doubtfully” would have to
know at least one or two of the law
students before they made such rash
accusations on the moral character of 500
law students as were stated in their
letten
The law students whom 1 have come in
contact with, whether walking in front of
their “law review” or socializing in
everyday life, display the fact that they
are definitely gentlemen In this day and
time, it is indeed hard to find many, but
the University of Georgia law students are
definitely men of the highest calibre and
those of whom I am proud to say will be
our leaders of tomorrow.
Furthermore, there is nothing “sick”
about a man admiring a “lady” as she
passes his way. but not all passers-by are
ladies. Sometimes the “law review" could
be most easily compared to visiting your
meat market The meat is wrapped in
cellophane paper to let the customer see
what he is getting So. if the shoe fits
A gentleman will usually treat a “lady”
with the utmost of respect if she is indeed
a lady
I might also ask why you decided to
pick on the law students when I know for
a fact that when businessmen visit
Athens, the first place they want to go is
down to the campus to “see the sights”*
Of course, there is one very simple
solution to these “ladies’ ” problem
there is also a sidewalk on the other side
of the building where the law students do
not congregate between classes, and if the
students' comments are that repulsive,
wh> don't you try a different route to
your .lasses.
MRS CAROLYN ASHLEY
And what a
show it is
TO THE EDITOR
I am sitting on a bench behind the law
school, watching the show. And what a
show it is. Girls walk by half-naked,
hanging out of what clothes they are
wearing, obviously showing off their
wares.
When I read The Red and Black, I get
the impression that the law school is the
last bastion of heterosexual activity on
campus. To those who would call us
sexists or male chauvinists we happily
plead guilty to the charges
I realize that there are alternatives to
normal sexual activity which have a
beneficial side-effect of decreasing the
population explosion. I suggest that the
up-tight exhibitionists who bounce by the
law school and are insulted by admiring
glances go to the next gay-lib dance
where it is certain they will receive not a
single covetous stare except perhaps by
members of their ow n sex.
While I did play doctor and look up
little girls’ dresses before I reached
puberty. I certainly don't feel it’s a sign
of immaturity to show an interest in
purposeful tit illation when it passes my
way
There was a letter printed in The Red
and Black Friday in which a coed spoke
of another girl being attacked by a rubber
snake as she passed the law school
Wrong' l aw students don’t have to throw
rubber snakes at bttle girls. If she will
check her facts, she will find that
landscape architecture students play with
rubber snakes and it was that school, not
the law school, the girl was walking by
when attacked. She also spoke of the law
students as being impotent. Wrong, again'
The evidence is overwhelmingly in favor
of just the opposite.
As for calling us rednecks, we agree.
Don’t you go to the University of Georgia
too?
CHARLES T MAGARAHAN
I was not
trespassing
TO THE EDITOR
I object strenuously to being
apprehended as a trespasser while sitting
in President Davison's office last
Wednesday morning. 1 feel that I am the
one whose rights are being trespassed
upon A voting adult. I am forced to live
in a place that is not conducive to study,
that is inferior in facilities to one I would
rent by choice, and that had been noted
by psychologists as being harmful to
emotional health.
Furthermore, my conduct in these
dorms is governed by rules made by
councils on which there is no student
vote. Democracy, is it not* 1
It is particularly galling when one
realizes that the reason for forced dorm
life is an economic one. rather than
concern for a student’s well-being. The
University over-extended itself in building
its wonderful dorms and now must keep
them filled to pay off their self-imposed
mortgage Rather than improve the dorms
to make them livable enough so that
students voluntarily live there, the
University takes the easy way out and
forces compliance.
Rest assured there will be no
significant improvements in dorm
facilities or regulations as long as this is in
effect. I hope other students realize that
they, too have nghts (regardless of what
the University would have you think),
that are being violated, and care enough to
protest such iniustices.
PATRICIA SMITH
ROBERT FRIEDMAN
We are own
WtPABAg.-rLWJWJlWl^
enemy
It all seems like a terrible, terrible
never-ending do am “nightmare deja
vu,” as Garry Wills put it.
Another election year. Another
American President making another
insane move in
Indochina. And, all
of a sudden, all
those people who
switched from hawk
to dove in the past
four years are
switching back
again The entire set
of events gives one
the agonizing feeling
that he has been through this before.
Just at a time when it looked as if the
American people had finally realized that
the stakes in Southeast Asia had never
been worth the staggenng cost, just at a
time when the prospects were brightening
for “a generation of peace”, Nixon,
playing his personal game of passe world
politics, has yanked us back into the
tension of a possible World War III.
And over what compelling world issue
has he chosen to nsk hundreds of millions
of lives? The preservation of a petty,
corrupt military dictatorship without any
hint of popular support.
W hat happens when a Russian ship hits
a mine? The United States has always
shown itself more than willing to go to
war for just such a reason. For that
matter, what happens when a British or
Canadian ship is mined? They and
virtually all our allies (if indeed we any
longer have any allies) trade with the
North Vietnamese.
Once again. Nixon is telling us that he
is determined to win this war Why. then,
should the Russians and Chinese be any
less determined? They surely have as
much nght to a military presence in the
area as we do (which in to say not very).
What happens when the Soviet Unitm
attempts a naval blockade of South
Vietnam (as we have in North Vietnam)?
What happens when Soviet pilots begin
bombing the Saigon area (as we bomb the
Hanoi area)?
What happens when China rushes
500.000 troops into North Vietnam (as
we did in South Vietnam)?
It becomes obvious from what we have
done, and from what our adversaries have
not done, that we are the agressors, we
are the bad guys, and if we don’t realize it
now, we never will.
We manufactured an incident in order
to justify our invasion of a foreign
country (just as Germany did to
precipitate World War II).
We are threatening to destroy the ships
of neutral nations trading with the enemy
(just as Germany did to precipitate our
involvement in World War I).
We are attempting to control a
government an ocean away (just as Great
Britain did to precipitate the American
Revolution).
We are the enemy. We are our own
enemy. We have done far too much harm
already. Wc must make it evident to the
President that we don’t want this
nightmare to go on any longer.
The war is once again quite a vital
issue. The events of the past month show
beyond doubt that Nixon’s
“Vietnamization” ha!> been an utter
disaster. This latest “flirtation with World
War III” seems little more than a
desperate gamble to save the South
Vietnamese government from defeat in
the land war.
Nixon has professed a secret desire to
become a national hero (if you can
imagine) in the style of Churchill or
DeGaulle (his own hero). His “palace
guard”, his quickie television surprises,
his summits, and now this Kennedyish
showdown with the Russians all show
his inclination.
Nixon is playing ego games at the
expense of the people of the world and
the image of the United States. He is a
weak man playing power politics, and he
and all of the American people are bound
to lose. He needs very much to be out of
office.
Letters policy
Letters to the editor should
• Be typed, double spaced
on a 60-space line.
• Be brief, to the point.
• Include name, address and
phone number ot contributor
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good reason upon request, but
must bear the above
informat ioh Letters are
subject to editing for style and
libel laws as well as for space
limitations.
Mail letters to The Red and
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