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Show CHRONICLE MAILBOX On The Draft Editor: Re: Mr. Cummings' letter on "Freedom of Conscience" for those who opposed the draft. A typical piece of loose, emotional thinking. Segregationists are exercising their freedom of conscience when they resist or ignor civil rights statutes. Does Mr. . Cummings suggest that instead of using the law to force civil rights compliance, we would instead offer "alternatives?" Ridiculous! Ri-diculous! Or does he suggest that he represents a "special" moral position? po-sition? Mr. Cummings has confused freedom with anarchy, he forgets the basic corollaries to freedom . responsibility and parity. Outlaws Deserve Punishment Only in a state where there is no democratic opportunity to freely oppose op-pose and change public policy is the individual justified in working outside the law. In America, those who are opposed to the present draft statute are free to work against it within the framework of law. If having failed to gain any appreciable popular support for their position, they insist on extending extend-ing their opposition to illegal methods, meth-ods, then they will have to accept the punishment their crime calls for. It appears to me that if they are so sure of their moral rectitude, a more noble stance would be to take its consequences without the whining and snivelling. James L. Stevens, Jr. all being able simply to repeat a few words and phrases from the ideas of others. Obscurity Value Why is such obscure style used? Perhaps the authors don't have anything to say that they're proud of or sure of. Perhaps some of them are trying to hide the immorality im-morality and improper suggestions they put in their articles. Perhaps a big step forward could be made by having the Publications Council review the Pen before printing print-ing it in order to weed out some of the smog and rest-room art work. Steven C. Barrowes 2 Year Plan Editor: Please allow me to commend your thoughtful editorial dealing with the pass-fail grading system. It is certainly cer-tainly useful to know how individual students feel about this experiment. Since you have advocated "an administrative ad-ministrative evaluation of the pass-fail pass-fail system in order to determine its value to the University," you perhaps will be interested to know that when the present plan was approved ap-proved by the Faculty Council in June 1967, it was decided that the pass-fail program would be carefully care-fully reviewed after a two-year trial period. J. Boyer Jarvis Dean Voice From Above Editor: In response to James L. Stevens' letter in the Thursday Chronicle, I wish to say the April Committee is not a totalitarian organization. It is really just a club whose membership member-ship consists of the most intelligent people on our campus. Because of their superior intelligence, intelli-gence, they are much better qualified quali-fied than the rest of us to judge the relative merits of such groups as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). So. Mr. Stevens, whenever one of the supreme intelligences in the April Committee speaks you can be sure his statement has been thoroughly researched and contains the absolute truth about the subject he is discussing. Conrad Carlyle Slipping Pen Editor: Remember the woman who was sent home from the county fair because she couldn't keep her calves together? That reminds me of the centerfold center-fold painting in our latest Pen. Except Ex-cept I guess "Myrtle" looks more like a cow with elephantiasis than a woman. With those barnyard boobs and that huge cave between her haunches, she has excellent pornographic value, but what is she doing in our cherished literary liter-ary mag? She really should have been submitted to the local slaughter slaugh-ter house. I wonder if she was really painted by a girl or if some dirty old man just used a pen name. Gary Baker Half -Pen Editor: The main style of the . Pen is characterized by word -pictures, which almost sounds like art unless you realize that it really amounts to an excuse for half sentences, half thoughts, words without ideas and in some cases nothing but the most primitive language skill of Russian Film Editor: This letter is addressed to the members of the Movie Committee in the hope that they will respond in self defense. On January 9 and 10 one of the finest Russian films currently being be-ing shown in the United States, "A Summer to Remember," was shown at the Little Theater. Through apparent ap-parent negligence on the part of the Movie Committee, the Russian Department was not informed that this film was to be shown. With such poor advertising, I wonder how the Movie Committee keeps from losing money on its films. At least 30 more people would have attended the film, had the Russian Department been notified. By severing its connections with the Language Department, the Movie Mov-ie Committee has lost its chance to make a real contribution to the academic life of the University. In the case of Russian films in particular, par-ticular, it happens so rarely that students of Russian are exposed to Russian culture here in Salt Lake valley, that the missing of this event was a real disappointment to many of us. Barbara J. Laucher |
