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Show Letters to tHe EdfroR toi-s and our studentbody officers, our University students will demonstrate dem-onstrate that we are exemplary for our willingness and capability of upholding the laws of this great nation and that with human consideration con-sideration for all human beings we will learn to dissent with dignity dig-nity and Integrity to make outlaws out-laws and our great nation even better. BARBARA WEIDNER 'martyrs" at Kent State University. Univers-ity. No one ever mentioned that they were breaking the law when they met death but only that they were serving the cause of peace. Are we willing to let loud-mouthed anarchists become our heroes and run our society? If the news isn't using propagana, please tell me what it is they are doing. I certainly cer-tainly think the feelings of the national guardsmen under an attack at-tack of stones and harassment should be heard. These are the people who are defending our rights. How about us defending them? We made the laws against violence; are we willing now to defend our law enforcement officers of-ficers for doing what we know is right? KENTON KNORR abide by the rules but that he couldn't police the areas. The responsibility for holding meaningful elections doesn't rest with the officers alone. As members mem-bers of a great institution of higher high-er learning it is not reasonable to expect that each of us should either be well enough informed on how to vote or at least willing to believe that there is a fair and proper way unless we do indeed in-deed hold mickey mouse elections? I have since asked myself if these adamant youth represent the students for whom I wrote our congressmen that they should be allowed to vote at eighteen. Are those students representative of the inteligensia to whom we look for the future leadership students stu-dents who feel that they are entitled en-titled to be different, not part of of "county" or "state," that they don't have to abide by the rules that the rest of the citizenry must? I think that they are not! The majority of our University students stu-dents are wonderfully bright, fair-minded, fair-minded, sincere students of the world most of them are citizens of the United States. y Hopefully, with courageous leadership from our administra- medieval mob, they expect by their rantings to frighten away all of the evil spirits they are convinced surround them. Or perhaps per-haps like the Puritans of Salem, they seek witches to burn. Who in his right mind thinks a campus demonstration, a student strike or even the burning of a University building will dissuade the administration and the mli-tary mli-tary from ther foreign adventures? adven-tures? How much noise will it take to bring the Kent University students back to life. Who with any compassion wouldn't demonstrate demon-strate or even set fire to a building build-ing if it would end a ridiculous war or restore four young lives? But shouldn't stupidity be the ultimate sin for the supposedly educated? Or is it pure laziness? Can one salve his conscience by screaming, scream-ing, or (a measure of courage?) throwing a fire bomb into a deserted de-serted building in the darkness. Fortunately both stupidity and cowardice have been at a minimum min-imum on the University campus so far. Laziness is perhaps not so scarce. One might sympathize with hysteria hys-teria growing from the frustrations frustra-tions of powerless. But who is powerless? Could any politician ignore a solemn and signed pledge of 20,000 present and future voters committing themselves never in their adult lives to vote for or fail to vote against any candidate who does not declare himself and act against the Indochina adventure? Utah students have a clear and present opportunity a Senatorial contest between a vocal opponent and a consistent supporter of administration policies. poli-cies. Every seat in the House of yye need SDS Editor: Tolm Tvedtnes claims he is fed , with SDS attempts to force this that on him. While damning Lm as a small group of undemocratic undem-ocratic activists, he cairns great L for "most of America." : Veil I am fed up with the likes t John Tvedtness, who show a Ltheartening indifference and Callousness to what is going on, AO refuse to become involved in ,nv effort to stop it, and who ' Jdescendingly condemn the one ' student organization that has consistently con-sistently taken the lead to show tie nation and the government hat students do care. Granted that the SDS makes mistakes that it reacts emotionally emotion-ally at times, that it raises its voice and appears to be unconcil-jatory unconcil-jatory But this is precisely what is needed in this hour of agony. SDS loves America too. If I said nothing else about the SDS, I would say that it is on the right si(le It cares, it loves life, free-, free-, dom and happiness. And as an organization it is doing some-' some-' thing. It is not wallowing in self-' self-' pity, hiding its head in dusty corn- t Letters ; Letters should be addressed to the Editor, Daily Utah Chronicle, Union Bldg. Letters of any length will be accepted, however, a length of not more than 250 words is preferred. Because of space limitations, shorter letters may often receive priority. Support meeting Editor: In the belief that it will serve to restore communication and mutual mu-tual confidence among the members mem-bers of the University community, the following faculty memebers are among those who support the general faculty meeting Thursday in the Pioneer Memorial Theatre at noon: Gal Dick, R.R. Kadish, Fred Hagen, Peter Grundfossen, George R. Edison, Douglas K. Stewart, Michael A. Toth, Edward Ed-ward Lueders, Charles Uhl, Michael Mich-ael Parsons, Noel Denevers, Michael Mich-ael Rudick, Larry Palmatier, Charles Nabors, Robert Walbach, William Viavant, Larry Gelach, Lome Houten, Doug Willett, Steve Beck, Tony Smith, Phil Sullivan, Gary Gregor, John Vernon, Bangs Tapscott, Bruce Landesman, Peter Pe-ter Applyby, George Humphrey, David Raskin, David Kranes, E. W. Hanley. WILLIAM WHISNER Representatives and one-third of the Senate seats are up for grabs. It the 8 million students of this country had the stamina and the cohesion the guts and good sense to devote six months to the campaign, who doubts that they could affect the outcome? With the present congressional balance, how few doves would have to replace how few hawks? But "activisits" would prefer anything to activity. So much easier to demonstrate and carry posters around green campus lawns than to ring doorbells and get out the vote. It takes courage and judgment to work persistently and effectively for a cause. As any two-year-old knows, it is easier to stand and squall, hoping "mother" will take care of all the problems. There ds the story of the bank teller who was about to be caught with his hand in the til. He decided de-cided to end it all and was about to jump off a convenient bridge on a foggy night when he was confronted by an ugly and ancient crone. Learning of his problem, she promised to remedy the bank's books with a few witchly incantations. incanta-tions. The penalty was that he was to spend the night with her. In desperation he agreed. The experience ex-perience was even more distasteful distaste-ful than he expected. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, he perservered and felt reasonably satisfied with his bargain bar-gain But as he arose to dress the next morning, she looked up at him with a sneer and cackled, "Ain't you kinda big to be believing be-lieving in witches?" GARTH L. MANGUM McGraw Professor of Economics Propaganda Editor: What kind of anarchy do we want? Yesterday the so-called "honest newscasts" carried stories stor-ies of the ragic funerals of the t erns or condemnng every effort to do something constructive. Remove SDS from college and university campuses, and you will remove the very heart of the peace movement. And this is exactly what advocates of the war and "do nothingism" know. We need more and larger demonstrations, not less. We ned more pressure on apathetic and fearful students and faculty, not less. The message of "Stop this vic-i vic-i ious war, get out of Southeast Asia now and rebuild America," must be pounded, pounded and pounded until all the John Tvednesses and all others like him finally get the point. It is ironic that John Tvedtness can't see or hear what is happening happen-ing to the country he claims to I love, that he doesn't realize how much he has been had by a minority min-ority that is really ruthless and undemocratic and that presently controls his entire life. Black, brown and red brothers can not be liberated until oppressed oppres-sed whites are liberated. This cannot can-not and will not happen without a united effort by all people, including in-cluding John Tvedtness. And the 'irst objective is to end this war anil stop the killing. Then this Precious education will become a meaningful thing. ROBERT J. HUOT "Activists" Editor: The old song heralded a horse "couldn't go ahead and he Wn't stand still so he went up d0na flown like an old sawmill." 12 5 amazed at those who after ; a 16 years of schooling can-tell can-tell the difference between lse and activity. Like some Exception? Editor: I came away saddened from our election Friday even before the voting was over saddened by the conduct of students who I have admired and with whom I have enjoyed studying. As I stood in line to vote on the strike issue, I was handed a paper which told me the way I should vote and why. I protested that it was an illegal practice to solicit votes at the polls. At regular polling places this simply is not done in all fairness fair-ness to either side. My protests were met with ridicule. I wondered won-dered if perhaps this polling place was an exception, so I went to the library plaza. The same soliciting so-liciting was going on there but more intensely. Of the solicitors to whom I spoke, fifty per cent of them agreed that although they did not know soliciting at the polls was wrong, they did want to be fair. But the other fifty percent worry me, and they should worry you. I did not express to them my opinion on any issue. I only tried to emphasize that from my own experience I knew that their conduct con-duct was not proper for an election. elec-tion. Unhappily I stood alone in a group of students who insisted that this election was different. As one petite, brunette election judge informed me, "This is not a state or county election and we don't have to go by those rules." The only rule discussed was one of fairness. I conceded! I had mistakenly thought that such a vital issue as strike deserved the same democratic election procedures pro-cedures that responsible citizens elsewhere practice. President Dryer later assured me that he would have liked to have had all |
