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Show Letters to tHe EcJitor I wish that the people who organize or-ganize those shows would realize that our great Sports Arena was made for athletic contests rather than rock concerts and once again present their shows in the Union ballroom. Although they may not be able to bring in as many people peo-ple and make quite as much money, at least in the ballroom it is possible tor both the audience and the groups to come together and enjoy a good show. BRUCE KERR, BILL KOMLOS, STEVE TEA. Lost sleep Editor: During Challenge Week I attended at-tended the second of the SDS trial sessions. Since I work from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m., I sleep from 5 to 9 in the evening. Hoping the trial would be worthwhile, I skipped my sleep that day. What a mistake! mis-take! Thursday the Chronicle finally fi-nally got around to an editorial dedicated to chopping up the Judiciary. Judi-ciary. My question is: Why did the Chronicle wait so long to say something? Where were yoll when I needed you? Why was ho editorial edi-torial written after the first session ses-sion of the SDS trials so I could have skipped the comedy and caught up on my sleep? DON NEHRXNG. Law and order Editor: Having studied the Attorney reral's opinion on these mat- reported in Thursday's Trib-' Trib-' ve are writing to demand an Instigation of the use of obscene Luage against Mr. Harrison Jyiimey in a University class last ffe don't object to the threats of Dhysical violence wriich also occurred oc-curred during that episode, bemuse be-muse such threats are not in violation vio-lation of the moral standards of the community. But our deep invest in-vest in law and order impels us to demand that the utterers of obscenities ob-scenities be brought to justice. The campus police, the municipal munici-pal vice squad and the FBI must be called in to put an end to this dirt for dirt's sake, or the prurient interests of the state legislators win surely be aroused. Would you want your children to hear those students uttering obscenities ob-scenities while they were offering to throw a black man out the win-. win-. dow? Law and order now! NANCY and PETER APPLEBY. More sense Editor: A letter written Thursday by a young woman recommended the liberalizing of abortion laws so that unwanted pregnancy could be aborted legally. To me this doesn't seem to be the answer. If a young woman doesn't want to get pregnant she should either use contraceptives or stop going to bed with people. When you become be-come pregnant you take the responsibility re-sponsibility for a human life that is just as valuable as your own. It really is strange that so many of the younger generation are pro- testing the killing of "innocent" Vietnamese in Vietnam and yet are willing to fight tooth and nail for the right to take away the life of an unborn child by abortion. It makes more sense. Think about it. D. B. MASON. SDSCUBNW Editor: Due to a collapse of efficiency in their publicity department, few people on this campus were aware of the meeting of the SDSCUBNW held Wednesday at noon in the Up-perclass Up-perclass parking lot just east of Wendover. In this meeting the Students Diligently Striving to Change the Universe Before Next Sunday made four (count 'em) demands de-mands on the University which they claimed must be met by high-noon high-noon Sunday or President Fletcher would be severely threatened. The tour demands were : ! Abolish all parking spaces north of Ogden and destroy Lagoon La-goon in order to make room for the ROTC facilities when they are removed from campus by request ' the SDS and the BBOS. 2. All prison inmates must be freed. 3j A 50-foot statue of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin must be weeted on the 50-yard line of the football field. 4- The Earth must be moved 'loser to the Moon, without negotiations, nego-tiations, so that the pull of the m?n's cavity will speed up the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. How long it will take for these mands to be met remains to be n,butlfeit that it would be in e best interest and safety of the University to report these demands de-mands in order to prevent President Presi-dent Fletcher from being violently violent-ly threatened. DRAKE T. EVANS. Obscenities Editor: I have no idea how many plain-clothesmen plain-clothesmen there were at the rally Wednesday sponsored by SDS-BBOS. SDS-BBOS. I know there were at least three within twenty feet of me, though, because I've seen those three with uniforms on before. One had a notebook and a pencil, taking down anything potentially obscene, I guess. The speakers got tongue-tied at times, afraid to say any four-letter words. They had a right to be hesitant, because the governor, the local ultra-capitalists and Pres. Fletcher have made it clear that anyone being "obscene" would be arrested, later of course, after the meeting, so as not to raise any support for their cause. Anyway, while the speakers were avoiding any illegal words, I , was watching one of the opt-of-unifofm policemen. He was writing writ-ing frantically, the best way he knew how, which was clumsily. Two children, one about two years and one about six or seven years old, were playing within a few feet of him. In his excitement at one remark concerning revolution, he dove at his notebook like a pig diving for the slop bucket. His gun, hidden conspicuously under his sweater, dislodged itself and went spinning to the floor. . I'm serious. With two children not 10 feet away from him, he dropped his gun. It spun in circles on the floor for a minute, min-ute, then he grabbed it up and stuck it more securely under his belt. I'd rather have my son hear someone say an obscenity a million mil-lion times than have him once be around a stupid cop dropping his gun in a public meeting. My boy could hear an obscenity every day for the rest of his life and it would never damage him, but there is a very good chance that staying around people with guns, who can't even keep them secured, might be dangerous. That's not to mention what guns represent violence. vio-lence. I ask: Which is more obscene? A clumsy cop with a gun in a public meeting, or a word? RICHARD MART. Self-defeating Editor: You wouldn't beat the boy of the town's boss if he had about all the guns on his side. And the "storm the Bastille" our SDS suggests, when an army of 500,000 riot-trained riot-trained "specialists" equipped with the latest anti-personal and chemical weapons is roaring to go, would be costly to the rebels and cause repressive legislative backlash .t Regardless of how you feel about ROTC, the military would defend it. If you really should manage to ban ROTC from the campus, cadets would be taken over by military academies. More costs, more waste, more taxes. . . At the campus at least they would pay their share on general University Uni-versity facilities and services (library, (li-brary, auditorium, student union, health services, administration, etc.). The cadets on the campus also still are in contact with liberalizing lib-eralizing influences of non-mili. tary curriculum, teachers and stu dents. Anyhow, a number of these cadets entered ROTC for mere financial fi-nancial reasons or as a lesser evil (they can select their service corps and avoid to become foot soldiers and cannon fodder). On the campus you can infiltrate their ranks with the superiority of your ideas. With the dawn of space age, totally to-tally new methods not only in education, edu-cation, sciences, international and human relations, but also in "revolutions," "rev-olutions," have to be adapted. Violence Vio-lence will play a very unproductive unproduc-tive and self-defeating part. Strategical Stra-tegical non-cooperation, spectacular spectacu-lar public information (Ralph Nader) and continued educational communication, in addition to unified uni-fied political pressure, are the aces in the hands of reformers. H. RONA. Earth Day Editor: On April 22, 1970, the employees of the Union Huddle Room will celebrate "Earth Day." (And I do mean CELEBRATE). On that day the "potheads and various other varieties of Grubs" will leave "ye olde Huddle." This will be one of the few days -in the year when the Huddle will be free from polluted air. Where oversized ash trays once stood in disarray, there will be tables from which one might partake of food. But where will the "potheads and various other varieties of Grubs" be? They will be driving their blue-exhaust-belching jallopies jal-lopies to the various riots being sponsored by TEAM. There, through the haze caused by the tobacco and marijuana smoke being be-ing emitted by their pacifiers, they will (in a series of four-letter words 'cause they don't know no five-letter ones) denounce the "Fascist Capitalists" at the Ken-necott Ken-necott refinery 20 miles to the southwest. Let us pray that part of the "TEAM" agenda is not a swim in the Great Salt Lake. If this should happen, no amount of Ajax will wipe away the bathtub ring left by such an event. ROBERT G. YAUNEY, JOHN W. REED. Ruined concert Editor: I must admit that the University has managed to ruin or at least attempted at-tempted to ruin a really fine concert. con-cert. When I heard that The Coasters, The Shirelles, Bill Haley and the Comets, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, and Chuck Berry were coming to the University, I was very much excited over the chance of being able to boog-a-loo for one more time with the groups and music that made the '50s and '60s more enjoyable for millions of Americans. These artists introduced Rock music and dancing into the American Amer-ican culture, and were able to bring the youth of America together togeth-er dancing at a time when America Amer-ica needed something to start it moving. But on Tuesday night, when these groups came to our University, Univer-sity, the people who organized the show disgraced the music and spirit of dancing that was essential to rock and roll in the beginning. By having the concert in the Sports Arena, the promoters were successful in mutilating the sounds with a terrible sound system while at the same time they were successful suc-cessful in alienating the audience from the groups by seating them 150 feet from the stage. |