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Show 1 The Mail Box organizations that ' studjjjlh The committees Plnio prate the eleetin! ni " w tiresome . "S a, : - S?t,r : cratie process." led and the mZ nlly few ndidals a h ns, assed slogans? '"' WHO GIVFS j uw a damn' Nobody's going ,0 . way. 5 an. Candy hV!i Defends Liberal Editor: The Chrony's Conservative Conserva-tive has delivered an unbelievably unbeliev-ably critical attack in his declared de-clared "War on Liberals." I would like to defend the liberal against the writer's barrage. HOW THE heck does the author think this country has managed the progress it has made? We might still be under the rule of Great Britain except ex-cept for the determination and efforts of a group of liberals who fought against the status quo of British rule of the colonies. col-onies. It was the liberals ( they might even be called radicals, horror of horrors ! ) , not the conservatives, con-servatives, who fought for this country's independence. So it has been throughout history. Who wanted the slaves freed? Not the conservatives. Who fought for the separation of church and state? Not the conservatives. con-servatives. (I might mention that if the state were allowed to establish and maintain any one religion, it's pretty likely that it wouldn't be the LDS Church. Our local inst'tu;:cn might not even be allowed to exist!) Who has consistently gone about trying to improve the lot and life of the common man through such endeavors as the formation of labor unions (with such benefits as higher wages and better working conditions)? condi-tions)? Not the conservatives! A conservative wouldn't have done it; he's satisfied with things just the way they are. AS FOR the present who is pushing for civil rights legislation, legis-lation, for complete equal opportunities op-portunities for all men? Not the conservatives. They aren't pushing for anything. All they have to do is sit back and say, "Don't rock the boat. Everything Every-thing is hunky-dory just the way it is." Whitney M. Young stated sta-ted in his Challenge Week speech that our present racial situation is not going to change by the mere passage of time. It takes people. People willing to fight estblished ideas. Young was speaking of progress in the racial situation; I maintain that these same people are needed for any kind of progress. pro-gress. People who will examine ex-amine and criticize customs, attitudes, and institutions which have previously been ac cepted simply because thoy are there. L i b e r a 1 s do not say that they have all the answers. But they do say that the present situation needs improvement. Without some element of liberalism lib-eralism progress is not possible. pos-sible. Pat Krauso Letter No. 1 Apathy, Yes Editor: . This campus has blown it's mind. The Chronicle editorials that scream apathy are the grossest of understatements they don't even begin to touch a situation of which our stu-dentbody stu-dentbody "elections" are a most excellent example. I AM a president at Austin Hall and being concerned about the small amount of voting done in the Resident Halls, I called a member of the Elections Elec-tions Committe. My purpose was to have the booth at Ballif Hall left open util 8:00 p.m. in order to encourage voting, something which could be very important in making RHA more of a part of the rest of the University. I was kindly informed, however, that the number of election booths is to be cut to four and that no booth would be put up in Ballif. When questioned, my informant stated: sta-ted: "That's just the way it is, and it won't be changed!" CONGRATULATION BRUCE Hancey! I couldn't think of a more effective way to cut voting vot-ing myself. The entire elections are being handled like a grade-school grade-school tea party. The inanites peddled by the candidates are enough to keep anyone with an ounce of intelligence from voting. vot-ing. Slogans like "It's A Diehl" certainly inform one as to the qualifications of the candidates, and when qualifications are listed well, I fail to see the significance sixth grade traffic cop experience could have on any office in the entire University. Uni-versity. AND THE ASUU Presidential Presiden-tial Candidates? Well fellows, you bring back all the nostalgia of junior high elections. In closing, will the lack-wit that thought of instituting the Student Regulations and Elections Elec-tions Committees please stand up. You are to b& congratulated congratu-lated in forming two student Review Mature? Editor: What kind of Permits a review 0f , ; aric event (can community-wise) p&J ' THEFACT?TrueimR J insist on immediate co A few - far.soei have a policy of "delayed' re views of aday ortwotoai : a critic time for cogitation ani evaluation. The Chroniclels policy te ever, in the case of Dance r permits reviewer W Gran! Gray to attend a Tuesday H, rehearsal and then proceed",',, whack away (in amateur a. shion) at distinguished nation-al nation-al and local artists. It's m only poor reviewing but lousy editing, and little-or-no-reW ing or proofing. IT WOULD be easy to late his review and clobber it sent ence by sentence but that would only dignify him. Suffice it to point out glaring omissions. There is no reference to the best work of the program -either as to title, choreographers choreogra-phers or composers. There is no mention of costume design and lighting. There is no mention men-tion of the fact that the arranger ar-ranger of opener and closer was a campus jazzman. Instead, Gray made un-knowledgable un-knowledgable cracks about instrumentalists in-strumentalists who , (unlikt dancers who had been practicing prac-ticing for months) were in their second rehearsal Tuesday Tues-day night. Gray's knowledge of music and the making thereof there-of is nil. His snide remarks (based, mind you, on a rehearsal re-hearsal two nights before opener) open-er) left him rather naked in the light of knowledge needed to write intelligently. My advice: ad-vice: next time write a news-story; news-story; forget the by-line, Yon are not quite up to it. Lowell M. Durham |