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Show " Jt' k ' T I . ' ' t "i I ; i I y 1 Dr. J. D. Williams, professor of political science, spoke Thursday in the Union Ballroom. He said that violence has been responsible for much good, but that there are better means to achieve coals. J. D. Williams 'There are better ways than violence BY KONALD MITCIIEL Staff Writer "Some argue that violence has mothered much good. I can't argue ar-gue with that," Dr. J. D. Williams, professor of political science and director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, said Thursday. "Violence "Vio-lence has mothered much good. Violence gave us independence, ended slavery, preserved the Union, and was required to recognize rec-ognize the rights of workers. But I think there is a flaw 5n the logic. There are better ways to do it than by violence." Dr. Williams said that there are several things we are now going through. "First, bitter division of the nation and its recent expansion expan-sion into a new country. "Second, glacial-like progress in improving the quality of life for minorities. "Third, the tragedy at Kent State. This is a nation that puts men on the moon, and it is still using bullets to stop window-breaking. That is a technology gap that is really 'out of sight.' "Fourth, tragedy at campuses like my alma mater at Stanford, where the Advance Study of Behavioral Be-havioral Sciences was essentially burned to the ground, including the 25-year research of an Indian scholar on village life in India by anti-ROTC arsonists 'doing their thing.' And so a night of barbar- ism snuffs out the light which that Indian scholar was ready to cast on his nation's gravest problems. "Fifth, the disillusionment that so many of you feel with democratic demo-cratic politics and with majority rule. An electrical system that replaced re-placed a Johnson with a Nixon, the slowness of the electrical process proc-ess ... to change a world or dump a president tin mid-term, on this campus the new left frustration when the ASUU decided to use part of the new left advocacy, participatory par-ticipatory democracy and going to a campus-wide publicity on the strike 'issue and then simply wanting want-ing to ugnore the majority vote that was cast in that election. "Sixth, the fact that in the frustrations frus-trations and alienations that these other problems have led to, now a substantial number of our people peo-ple resurrect Thoreau and feel that the only way to save this country is through civil disorder. "Seventh, a national administration administra-tion which promises to lower the voting age, bring us together again, and then proceeds to attack at-tack the press, call college students stu-dents 'geons' and 'snobs' and tell Yale University when to fire their president." He said that there are three roads of restitution we must take: "road from the politics of protest to the politics of clout (political Influence), from hate to love, from apathy to service." He said: "Since politics is going go-ing to govern us, we had better control politics. Next Monday at 8 p.m. . . . the mass meetings in your voting district will be held. Now, visualize what might happen ' if there was a successful University Univer-sity take-over in 100 voting districts dis-tricts in the Republican and Democratic Dem-ocratic parties next Monday night . . . writing every one of your concerns into the platforms of the parties o( this state, free speech, pollution control, equal employment employ-ment opportunities, support for high education, and putting candidates candi-dates on notice that you have votes." |