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Show Tlie Animist Whacking About Ned Rorem, a composer of opera music, is coming to the University next quarter to teach. Previously he held a similar position at the University of Buffalo. Last week, he told "Time" magazine: "It was a juicy salary, but I hated it. Most of the students were such clods and I was jealous of the xest." In Salt Lake City, he plans to create an opera for the cinema. "Utah is such a boring state," he said, "I know it will be good for my work." Good luck, Ned. Self-appointed liberals on this campus told the "Chronicle" the other day that it has sold out to the Birch society. In the meantime others hinted that by giving wide coverage to Danny Rubin (the "leading Communist spokesman"), it bordered on pinkness, unless it is Red already. The Animist The animist can't go for anyone or any organization who thinks he or it possesses the one and only truth. We definitely think that any time liberals or conservatives claim perfection and abuse other people who don't agree with them, they display narrow-mindedness and nothing else. Most people usually think the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to race problems solely. But the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Oppor-tunity Commission is trying to reach an interpretation of the Act that will prevent employment discrimination on the basis of sex. The Commission will not consider it legal for a private employer to hire only single women unless he hires only single men, or to hire only women without children unless he hires . only men without children. So, the next time coeds get refused a job on the preceding grounds, they can invoke the Civil Rights Act and stage sit-downs and the like. What's more, the Commission Commis-sion will rule that newspaper advertisers may not list jobs under "help wanted male" or "help wanted female" unless there is a "bona fide occupational occupa-tional qualification" such as the ladies' dress fitter or an attendant in a men's club. Polls are fun to read. The on Viet Nam appearing in this paper was absurd. It should have started by asking students to define what the situation is, then see if they agree with current U.S. policies, and finally fi-nally question them for opinions opin-ions on alternative policies. As it is, the poll is mixed up logically. It found nothing that could be termed striking. The first question blandly stated that U.S. policy is one of containment, contain-ment, which is only partially true. The second question offered of-fered a range of solutions lacking lack-ing in intelligence. Those who want the U.S. to simply withdraw with-draw from Viet Nam (without that UN bit) couldn't fit in. Stepped up military action should have been separated into in-to two categories: both in South and North Viet Nam, and in the South only. The third question contained no definition of U.S. policies that we could agree with. And 17J2 Per cent of those polled answered no opinion to it, not because they did not know how to define the crisis, but because be-cause there was no space for a reasonable opinion, only one for No Opinion. The last question ques-tion shows the same degree of awareness about Viet Nam by the pollers as evidenced throughout the whole poll. It is minimal in its brilliance. |