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Show n m tt ie m cc mm od rj jj od m profit, then they have an implacable enemy in me. From what I have observed thus far, the SDS, despite lofty words, tends toward the latter. I am a graduate student of more than average experience (meaning older) and I like this country and the great degree of freedom and opportunity it affords. I have seen first hand what real oppression can do to Americans (Guam under the Japanese) and the last thing I want is to be "liberated" by force, regardless of sublimity of purpose. So-know that if anyone blocks my way to class or attempts by force to disrupt my progress, he may well be engaged in a little stomping contest. I don't care how much people march up and down, argue, grow beards, wear granny glasses, play guitars and sing protest songs-that's their problem, but don't try using force on me. J. Lowell Moore Help for the migrants Editor: It is really heart warming to read that a committee has been formed to aid migrant workers settle in Utah. And more than that! A "Utah Migrant Council" is planned! All this for only 75,000 clams to be dug up by the taxpayers. But then the committee will sport many of tin fat far-out liberals who may tol have a chance to live a reasonabk middle-class life otherwise. Oh Golden Dreams! 01 Enlightenment Supreme! We wi go observe the misery, th poverty, the oppression! We wJ take pictures, get our fingernail dirty and eat day-old tortillas' (after all the 75 grand will with the film, a good manicure I dash of bicarbonate) The (as th salaries and expenses grind on) t meet again in another glonoa symposium at a good hotel am publish a REPORT. And what ! report! We will smite t oppressor hip and thigh J flaying the skin off his bac JJ farmer has already lost to sW the agricultural econof and determine to take pictures, eat more mj tortillas, qualify agam fo manicure! (provided J kicks through with ano J In the meantime the workers gather the crops, M wretchedness su;l i photographs and to tongue clucking beg take solace m wine m J , move on to the next area crops need gathenng. i What's your g" the people? j t', j. Lowell Warped values Editor: I am puzzled over the Chronicle's sense of values. One of several cases in point: In the Nov. 15, issue, you devote almost a half page, with photograph, to the appearance of ; , the Deep Purple rock group at the i Terrace Ballroom. Yet you print (bury) only a short item about five of the University's own j student musicians appearing as ! guest soloists no less with the j Utah Symphony, one of the 1 . nation's top major orchestras. ; I ask, what headline coverage would the Chronicle have given to ) five University football players .. making ail-American? Where are your values? i , : Shirl H. Swenson l Value true faith Editor: To paraphrase Eric Hoffer, the effectiveness of a religious doctrine should not be judged by the validity of the truths it embodies but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from the ;. a : world as it is. This is because understanding impairs validity and " ' certitude. Enlightenment is positively unwelcome as this shows their guilt (on race, liquor by the drink, morality of war) and consequently stirs their arrogance (If you don't like it here, why don't you leave instead of criticizing us?) There is enough paraphrased Hoffer left to also knock Students for Democratic Society. The ; frustrated soften their feelings of existential isolation by expounding upon the baseness and vileness of the times. But if the superior status of this isolated being is suitably acknowledged by the powers that be (confrontation and consultation) he will side with the strong against the weak. Both reactionaries and radicals value "true faith" above truth or the search therefor. Students should not. Max Pieper Violence: 'poppycock' Editor: What's all this poppycock about the Students for Democratic Society being violent. Anyone with at least a passing acquaintance with white middle class college students (some faculty and administrators obviously and incredibly do not have) know that these products of suburbia may speak the rhetoric of violence but are paralyzed when actually confronted with it. Witness the difficulty the military has in resocializing college draftees into a life of violence. The sight of a gun or fist or weapon of any kind makes the average white college student, especially SDS members and sympathizers, frankly nervous. Charles H. Anderson SDS is dangerous Editor: Paul Granquist in discussing Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) seems very disturbed about what police do to arsonists, rioters and others that break the law. He is also disturbed about those 3,000 students being trained to kill (the enemy). He should also be disturbed about SDS. Bringing SDS to this campus would make things worse, no better as these two items should indicate: 1. The New York Times (May 7, 1967 pp. 1, 47) quotes Gregory Calvert, national secretary of SDS, as saying "We are actively organizing sedition." 2. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, prepares an FBI appropriations report to Congress. On page 57 of the 1969 report he said, "If anything definite can be said about the Students for a Democratic Society, it is that it can be called anarchistic." In discussing SDS Mr. Granquist should be more specific about what SDS can do for the University rather than using, as his defense, supposed shortcomings in other areas. James Gilgen Pawns of discontent Editor: o It seems apparent that the ;nt for Democratic Society (SDS) has sent agents to Utah to preach the peculiar SDS brand of gospel and drum up discontent among the natives. I get the feeling that we need transfers from Michigan State to enlighten us like a belly dancer needs a boil in her navel. Now if people want to help the poor and the oppressed, feed the hungry and clothe the naked I can't think of anything of greater value or nobler motive, but if they use unfortunates as pawns to bring about chaos and anarchy from which they hope to ultimately Published daily during the fall, winter and spring I"'8"' 'i week, by the Associated Students of the University of U" I y. Second class postage paid in the Post Office at Salt La w j. The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of The Uni do not necessarily represent the view of the studentto administration. " I Jane Lobell j ' Editor-in-Chief ' i |