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Show j Letters to tHe EcIitor sensible neighbor lo the north. The Weber Slate College student-body student-body plan to write their inilals in unobtrusive sumac which will, according ac-cording to nature's own scheme, flash bright red in the fall. KATHRYN MOORE Letter rules Letters should be addressed to the Editor, Daily Utah Chronicled Union. Letters of any length will be accepted, however, a length of not more than 250 words is preferred. pre-ferred. Because of space limitations, limita-tions, shorter letters may often receive priority. Letters will not be printed if libelous and the editors edi-tors reserve the right to cut or edit them. Letters become the property proper-ty of the Chronicle upon receipt. Racism Editor: ' This letter is concerned with the racism in the Panorama Room. The racism Harrison Whitney Whit-ney felt that day, of course, was real. But the way he put it across in his letter left the reader with an imaginative picture of consciously blatant, racist waitresses running around throwing meatballs at blacks. None of us particularly like to think of ourselves as racists. rac-ists. Any racism that occurred happened unwittingly and unconsciously. uncon-sciously. Harrison Whitney was unknowingly overlooked. The fact is, the same could take place anywhere any-where else on this campus. I feel that this kind of unintentional racism exists everywhere. Therefore, There-fore, I feel that if W. P. Keuffel thinks we should boycott the Panorama Pan-orama Room, then we should also boycott other things such as LDSSA which innocently and unintentionally un-intentionally published a racist advertisement. Because the racism is unconscious or unintentional, it neither negates the subsequent effects upon the pride and dignity of minorities, nor lessens our guilt and inhumanity. I think all of us should be trying to fight this institutional insti-tutional racism in ourselves. Only in this way can we help mend the broken and incomplete relationships relation-ships that we have with blacks. CAROLEE HAMMEL WAITRESS IN THE PANORAMA ROOM War prisoners Editor: I would like to comment on last Friday's editorial concerning American prisoners of war in Viet nam. Your concern over the so-called so-called inhumane treatment of them is admirable, but some well-known well-known facts need to be re-emphasized. First, we are engaged in a racist war in Vietnam. Second, ours is an invading army. Third, the American soldiers who have been captured were engaged in the process pro-cess of destroying the land of and killing the people who have taken them prisoner. Our wanton acts of death and destruction in that area are unspeakable. In view of this, that these men are even alive is somewhat remarkable. Our government is noticeably silent on the subject of prisoner exchange. Perhaps our army doesn't take any prisoners of war. Certainly what I have seen on the Cronkite evening news suggests that we have no prisoners to exchange, ex-change, that our policy is immediate immedi-ate execution. When I read about and literally see American planes and forces engaged in total destruction of another country and its people, it is hard for me to be concerned about so-called inhumane treatment treat-ment of captured soldiers. But I agree that an immediate end of our involvement there is the only answer. Meanwhile, complaints about inhumane treatment should be directed to our President and his Cabinet-not to North Vietnamese Viet-namese officials. ROBERT J. HUOT Blinking wonder Editor: If we must be so inane as to carve our initials all over the mountainside (I refer, of course, to the blinking wonder gracing our hillside), I suggest we follow the example of our small but |