Show I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ethics And Execs Dear On page two of Friday's Chronicle appeared the and an editorial which was written in an attempt to qualify the In this column Charles Aker-low severely criticized the Executive Council for a lack of an effective lack of and with internal The editorial attempted to rationalize the Execs' approach with Aker-low's ON THE BASIS of the I do not feel that the editorial fairly met Akerlow's The major argument of the editorial was that the Execs have attempted to broaden the interests of the student in areas of non-local The argument in the column is that the student has not been affected by this In other even though the editorial approaches the so does the criticism of the Executive In Akerlow's attempt to pin point the basis for the failing Exec he strikes out at an over concern with internal and a to depend too heavily on group dynamics as reasons for Exec I PERSONALLY feel that these are only symptoms of the problem Most would agree that the intellectual of the Execs to the student body and to the philosophical basis of student government is strong and The Execs' ability to take this intellectual work with and translate in into an affective program is not subject to the same We cannot pinpoint the real problem in a few but we can point in the direction of the One factor of the problem seems to be lack of experience in organizational A strong reliance on group situation reduces the formality of decision making and allows greater this may work as a disadvantage if group situations become a device for rationalizing personal failure or group THE factor seems to be too great an inhibition of the Council resulting from an overestimation of the community and institutional threats to the Observe the increasing amount of informal which seems to be replacing more formal interaction with the administration and the Student in all phases of are bogging down in trivia and masses of conflicting which often is The system of problem solving has reached Hegelian proportions but to what There is an indisputable attempt manifest to avoid even the necessary clashes between student government and This is intended to indicate two areas of concern over the journalistic ethic which produced a rationale for qualifying Akerlow's column ethic which I fail to and concern for an Executive Council which has great but a need for more courage and Respectfully BOB CLARK Facts Or Dear I would appreciate the opportunity to clarify questions on the Garcia case raised by Mike Kirkman I examined only one aspect of this complex case the possible effects of ethnic I ignored emotional reactions to moral issues and the larger question of innocence or role in the crime was entirely unlike the Bowne and Garcia were both their degree of involvement their prison KIRKMAN wants the same as and he cares enough to seek We differ in concept and Like the general and through no fault of Kirkman is deprived of crucial Lack of able is destructive ot justice in this case as in persons still mistakenly believe that Chessman's alleged crime was In the Garcia I myself omitted some by As a member of the human I believe I am made of different proportions of the same stuff as any other any acts committed or endured by a human being I can at least The editors deleted some material and I believe their deletions were reasonable and justified under prevailing When fact is fiction may fill the Kirk-man's charges demonstrate He could have at that Garcia has not been tried for murder than as he The question why didn't Since we are all guilty of this practice at some we might profit from discussion of If a serious charge were made against a we would carefully investigate its since our emotions would be against believing if the charge were against someone already an object of our our emotions would trick us into believing the accusation without the interference of THE ALLEGED justifies the preexisting This or opinion formed without consideration of is known as It can result from love as well as hatred both No one should feel ashamed to find prejudice in his lor we learn it with our alphabet and table Not finding and failing to uproot is indeed Loyalty to social groups is based on prejudice so it was once useful to This use has prejudice remains as a malignancy in the social It is difficult combat in ourselves all have because the more prejudiced we the more blinded we are to its Let us briefly consider Gar-cia's courtroom conduct which I mentioned in Article 5 as defiant Kirkman placed great importance on the fact that a teen-aged boy addressed a judge as UNCOUTH conduct arouses animosity but it is not evidence of guilt of I doubt that or lack of it is legally a basis for recommending or withholding a student of law would be kind enough to clarify this Kirkman's reactions make an appropriate addition to my examples of I hope that he and others will consider this discussion in the friendly spirit it is and I hope he and others will seek out prejudiced thinking and go to battle against We never win the we all must struggle every day for the supremacy of reason over emotions the essence of ETHEL C. HALE Young Degeneration Dear I am shocked by the Senate's passage of a resolution favoring a socialistic aid to education bill and defeat of a resolution congratulating John Glenn on his historic trip into BY THIS the Senate has told Kennedy that persons attending the Universe-are overwhelmingly in favor of being protected by the Federal It has also told the country that the student body doesn't give a hoot about Glenn's trips around the If this is what the younger generation is coming I can see why the older generation is so alarmed as we gradually take our place in the GARY HENRICHSEN |