| OCR Text |
Show Uuh Daily Page Six Chronicle November 19. 1973 OBS6RVXtlOnS A matter of ethics After a six month wait, Sam Clark, chairman of ASUU Public Affairs Board, has finally nominated Gina Stucki to fill a vacancy in Publications Council. This appointment is no exception to the rule that ASUU usually follows in these appointments: no gentiles, no "liberals." Ms. Stucki is probably qualified for the position. But we question whether she is more qualified than the ten applicants, including three former Chronicle editors, who applied last spring for the -- position. Ms. Stucki tells us, contrary' to Mr. Clark, that she never applied for the position, but that Mr. Clark "called her up" and asked her if she would like to serve. This blatant discrimination and breaking of both ASUU policies and rational rules of behavior cannot be condoned. Publications Council is too important to allow it to be used for ASUU's simplistic political and religious games. ASUU President Clark Campbell agreed with this statement last spring. We urge Mr. Clark, the ASUU Assembly and Mr. Campbell to review this appointment and make a more legal and ethical choice. Search for title The search for a new head of student affairs is getting off to a slow start. The search committee is presently experiencing that age old problem of definition. What is the position going to be called? The problem is relatively minor, however, because although the title gives some important clues to the position's responsibilities, those responsibilities have already been defined. During University President Alfred Emery's administration, student affairs were handled by the vice president for student affairs, Virginia Frobes. Beneath her was a dean of students, Mike Patton. When David Gardner took office, he restructured the responsibilities. He felt that the vice presidents for student affairs and academics didn't have enough interaction. Both of the positions concerned students, but academics divorced itself from student affairs and vice versa. Gardner believes that the new position for student affairs should be under the jurisdiction of the academic vice-preside- nt. Since Gardner sees that the Academic Vice President and the person in charge of student affairs should work more together, we suggest the title of Associate Academic Vice President for Student Affairs. This would give the position a measure of equality with that of the academic vice president and also insure that the two administrators work closely together for a more effective approach to student concern. off the wall aqentile inzion November outrage by Keith Runrk remember other, more innocent November days when dull but kindly social studies teachers I droned out phrases like "Ours is a nation of laws, not men." 1 remember taking off my over- shoes and hurrying inside the recite the Watergate-Whit- House e horrors scandals. These are the best events in recent history because they are the first chances for mass consciousness-raising. Since the mid-60the United States has s, become increasingly The energy crisis is the first real proof of thewasteof modern American culture. To get through the winter, many Americans will be forced to discover that they can do with a lot less cars, heat, electricity and even food. The discovery that a gas - burning Detroit monster is not only unnecessary, but increasingly less socially acceptable, is sure to force some middle class Americans to conquestion other basics of temporary American life. Maybe people will even decide that words,". ..with earth. Those other November days are gone now. Long years of war in Vietnam, assassinations of a president and his brother, and the murder of a Nobel Peace Prize winner added to a score of smaller, personal defeats for my ideals, have swept away the pride of youth and replaced it with an almost unbearable cynicism. d wonder what elementary students think when they recite words like'liberty and justice for all ? There are not words capable of has happened to the bleak disgust and America is that one long, hard expressing which attends me November has descended upon frustration in these November her and refuses to leave. It was constantlyI If were a social studies ten years ago that John F. days. teacher I do not believe I could Kennedy was murdered in look students in the eye, let Dallas, Texas. Ten years later we alone my tell them that ours is a from one are still What by Rex Nut tiny building more power plants to is run more electric so environmentally backwards that the trend can be reversed. Of course, these people may fight to have more power plants built to meet the need. But the opportunity for educating the public on the limited nature of Earth's resources is here. can-opene- more dualistic with the Great Silent Majority on one side and the radical New Left on the other. The Nc ff Left has been united by a similar view of the world and of the United States, with the common attitude that the world is a very small place too small to be able to handle the enormous "progress" of the consumer "affluent" societies of the Western world. The view of America, after the Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Laos and Cambodian interventions, has been of an imperialistic power devoted to crushing the popular revolutions of the Third World and those oppressed in America. of These course, are, views but these generalizations, of the most characterize youth in the New Left, from McGovern "radicals" to Weathermen. Energy crisis those liberty and justice for all." I remember, very vaguely now, the Looking at the bright side The best things to happen to America in the last few years have been the energy crisis and school classroom to elementary childish pride 1 once had in America, the greatest nation on exiled from their country because our president stands firm in opposition to amnesty. And the man he twice chose as running mat is free to golf with Frank Sinatra after using the trust of the people who elected him to enhance his personal wealth. Can a nation long endure which punishes so sternly acts of conscience and dismisses graft and corruption with a wink of the eye? I wonder if the grey-hairesocial studies teachers are still telling their students about a nation of laws? I can't help but rs Watergate In the same way, Watergate may provide us with a good opportunity to teach middle Americans the cold facts about the American political system. Not all politicians break every campaign law on the books like Nixon and his cohorts did, but the fact is the American political system is open to corruption. Some of us saw that our electoral process was bankrupt after the 1968 Chicago convention, but more Americans are now getting upset about the abuses of government that threaten to destroy our civil liberties. Hopefully, the Big Brother trend of the last ten years can be reversed by the Watergate disclosures. It is even possible that the connections between Watergate and Vietnam will not be overlooked. The same com- petitive, moralistic, secretive mentality that forced us into the war and kept us there also led to the abuses of the political system by Nixon's campaign committee. Says Daniel Ellsberg, "They still do have elections in. Vietnam." Nixon's "explanation" of Watergate that blamed the abuses by Erhlichman and Haldeman on the anti-wa- r had an element of truth that most people missed. movement Nixon had to become more and more repressive (maybe Fascist or totalitarian) because the New Left and the radicals were beginning to be felt in mainstream American politics. They nominated McGovern because he was a clear step away from the y Dick mentality of LBJ-Trick- secret wars, protective annihilation and lying about American involvement. McGovern was not a radical, but he understood that America had fallen away from its ideals such as freedom, liberty and democracy. Tom Hayden, one of the Chicago Seven and a founder of SDS, has said, "A lot of people are going to see things that none of us have ever seen before, namely democracy dry up right before our eyes as we seize it. We're going to see supposedly democratic institutions cut back as the poverty program was cut back in Newark when we seized control of it." Turning point Last year marked a turning point in America; radicals in the Democratic party reached for the highest power in the U.S. They didn't succeed of course, but Nixon's to the threat has turned millions of him. Americans against Everything Nixon stood for over-reactio- n including lying, bombing and giving his friends in big business all the breaks, was challenged for the first time. His answer was similar t.n all his nt.hpr answprs "Wo havp t.n dpstrnv Hpmnrrarv in order to save it." Luckily, we found out what he was up to then and now. And now it is up to us; we can either turn the United States around from a racist, imperialistic power it is now, to a truly free country that allows other people like Vietnamese peasants and ghetto Blacks the same opportunities for advancement that "the land of the free" used to stand for. reeling disapI could to nation of laws, not men. episode frustrating pointing, my allegiance to the another. We have stopped not pledge flag, for the stars and bars have believing in ourselves, in our been lowered and the hideous leaders, in our nation. face of the Jolly Roger has been Who can blame this generation hoisted above the ship of state. for its harsh cynicism? Can And yet, somehow we must anyone view, even superficially, overcome our cynicism. We must the state of the nation and harbor seize the reigns of government even the faintest glimmer of from the soiled and bloodied optimism? How long must we hands that hold them. We must wait for November to end? show the world and ourselves Consider the spectacle of Spiro has far better T. Agnew. For five years Agnew that our generation men than the likes of Donald was engaged in one Dwight Chapin. indictment after another. He Segretti and choice. We cannot is no There roundly condemned the Justice and will not be assured by Julie Department for granting im- Eisenhower that her daddy is a munity and engaging in plea I and You have seen man. good bargaining. Some of his favorite our ideals our and callously hopes targets were those "criminal-coddlinaside tossed by justices" who let lawbreakers off with light sentences hypocrites time and again. But in or no sentences at all. He was the end we will slice this cancer also the man who pleaded guilty from the body politic and return to a felony charge and bargained the nation to men of dignity, and integrity. away his office as Vice President conscience, You have not seen the end of of the United States of America to avoid prosecution on a dozen this generation Mr. Nixon, Mr. self-righteo- g self-righteo- more serious counts and accepted the criminal-coddlin- g sentence of a three probation. year unsupervised Reflect, if you will, on the case of Jimmy Hoffa, the most notorious labor racketeer of our time. Mr. Hoffa received a presidential pardon last year, Just in time for the election Contrast that episode with the case of the Berrigan brothers, who were incarcerated for the offense of having valued human llfe over presidential decision, There are today thousands of my generation living in Canada, Agnew, Mr. Mitchell! Some of our number you have exiled; others died trying to express their horror at your acts on the green grass at Kent State; thousands died on foreign soil as pawns in your game of power. But there are many, many more who still believe in decency and the dignity of the human spirit. And you have not prisons to hold them. You have not guns to kill them. And, most of all, your moral bankruptcy leaves you incapable of silencing their cries for the two things you fear most: Truth and Justice in America. Published daily, except during test week, by the Publications Council of the University of Utah. The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of the Daily Utah Chronicle do not necessarily represent the views of the phidpTHbody or the University administration. |
