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Show Editor Don't know what it means, sounds bad In reference to the letter to the editor on Monday regarding the drollerlic commentary placing the notable Houdinistic Howard Hughes in the same class as a punchinello prankster at Charlie Brown and his "huddle" infested roturiers, it is not unexpected that the results of 1970 and 1971 ASUU elections have turned up these impapalpable androgynes. Since this paper represents a conglomerate of- radical liberal activist and invective nabob's of negativism, the fate of this expression of free speech and one persons view is indeed faint. J. Mike Smith Jr. Chronicle insincere Editor: If the Chronicle is sincere in its attempt to educate S.L. music audiences, why was there no space given to the musicians the Jazz Committee had arranged for and now cancelled? Insted, we read how these hip journalists who "really love" music are annoyed because they can't get into a Guess Who(?) concert the way all of us dream of it. Henry Ohrtman (Editor's note: The Jazz Committee's musicians did receive Chronicle attention and coverage.) Phi Sig A-signs gone Editor: v I would like to take this time to dispel the fact that you must be a mature individual to attend the University. In recently putting up advertising for the Phi Sig A-Go-Go, I discovered this. After spending two-and-one-half hours posting announcements of the dance on Tuesday, it was very disappointing to find about three-fourths of them ripped down by noon on Wednesday. Then on Wednesday night, a large sign announcing the event, that took approximately 10 hours and $10 to build, was strung across First South. By 7 a.m. Thursday, it was gone too. All I can say is that the individuals responsible for these acts must really be hard up to get their kicks in this way. Thanks alot. Vern Binett Letter to the Editor $355 and no band-aids Editor: As an out-of-state student, I've been irritated continually about this University's residency requirements. But without a word I have paid my $355 every quarter and bought outrageously priced books which a student co-op bookstore should have eliminated years ago. However, something happed today that I can't let pass. The Department of Athletics, which must be one of the1 wealthiest departments on campus, has gone too far after my judo class I asked the women in charge of the locker room for two band-aids. She asked me if they were for cuts. I said no, that they were for blisters I had developed walking the 10 miles from the Park Bldg. to the HPER. I was refused the band-aids as it is against the department's policy to dispense band-aids for blisters. If the University is so penny-pinching that it can't dispense band-aids to its students on request, it might as well forget its relevance in any capacity other than as a money-making corporation. Jill A. Carty Nuremburg no precedent Editor: Tuesday's Chronicle cited the precedent of the Nuremburg war crime trials as grounds for suggesting that President Lyndon Johnson and Gen. William Westmoreland were ultimately responsible for, and should be prosecuted in, the My Lai massacre. The high Nazi officials were tried for the murder of countless Jews because the directives for "the solution of the Jewish problem," i.e., institutional genocide, had come down from German headquarters under their signatures. As anyone literate enough to read the reports of the Ft. Benning court martial knows, there was no remotely similar directive at My Lai. In their absurd comparison of Tuesday, the Chronicle editors betrayed themselves as either A) willfully foisting a deliberate lie on their readers, or B) grossly ignorant of the historical circumstances surrounding Nuremburg and My Lai-and therefore unfit to comment on either. p Cloyd B. Gatrell |