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Show The PARSON Page 4 Where was the Crowd ? Red by Bill Whorton Parson Sports Editor campus for a number of years. Wouldnt it be a change of pace to see a big crowd at our football games next year? Im sure that Coach Nickle would like to start out at Westminster with a great team, and a great crowd. Only the students themselves can make the team want to win. Has anybody seen more than fifteen members of the alumni at a homecoming game in the last two years. In the past, we have learned that the alumni cant be depended upon for any of our social events. What is the purpose of a homecoming game if none of the alumni care enough to come and see the old team put in a special effort for them? Everybody did a lot of complaining when football disappeared, so now we have it back and now we all complain because the team has a problem of winning all the games the first year. The only good complaint that I have heard all year is the one uttered by the members of the team at the end of almost every game. Their complaint was in the form of a question, Where was the crowd? Where was the crowd? Next year will be a new year for the school. New officers, maybe a new paint job on one of the buildings, and a hoard of new freshmen. Along with all of the new additions, why not have a new spirit and have better teams because of it? Wilh "ping football practice comes hot vcaibcr'. This is the only complaint that vtj heard In toward to football practice. The snn cojios down hard in the late afternoon, and in some cases, the heat lamp 1 nifxht. Ive also detected a slight or' fan enthusiasm. This is something bj lint has been hard to find around this . SPRING RETREAT SCHEDULE MAY 13, 14, 1966 :?: j M-a- 13rh i:3J I Registration Coffee Meeting Supper Night Meeting 0 2:00-5:0- 0 . Saturday, May 14th 7:30-6:- 45 9:00-10:1- 5 10:30-12:0- 0 12:15-1:3- 0 ?:91:00 t . . Breakfast Meeting Coffee Meeting Lunch . Afternoon Meeting if needed i 1 Letters to the editor must be Df whvet-- viaL, V in good taste, must be typed and signed by the writer in ink and must be limited to 250 words. The Editorial Board will reserve the right to shorten letters exceeding the lengti). Name of sender will be withheld unon request. Editorials reflect The Parsons views and make no claim to represent student or college opinion. Located Foster Hall, Rm. L01 Mailing Address: Box 158, Westminster College, Salt Lake City. 1 i ft li )' '.oSfU' Chinese Split? by Mike Mitchell Parson Columnist There seems to be speculation that the present Red Chinese Government is head- ing for trouble. A major struggle between the moderates and the hard-lin- e party members, who support party chief Mao, has disrupted. Mao has been absent from the public scene since Nov. 23. Despite Pekings vigorous denial that he is ill, analysts believe that he is incapacitated. Apparently the disagreement is over the economic field as well as military matters. But one may ask: What could this mean to us? One possible answer to this question is that maybe Red China is growing up. Red China is a country that is very isolated from the outside world. She leads her people to believe that the people of America are enslaved by the capitalists. She has no real knowledge of what nuclear war can do. In fact, Premier Chou En-l- ai stated that in an event of a nuclear war, Red China would lose about 23 of her population. This would leave the rest of the people to give a new start to the Communist country. Mr. Chou En-l- ai fails to realize the destruction capacity of a 50 Megaton bomb. We may define the moderates as being the intellecturals of the party. But the want to rid the party of old hard-line- rs them. Without these moderates China will continue its isolation. But if the moderates do succeed in controlling the party, this could mean an awakening for the coun- try. The party leadership in its attacks on moderates often compares its shortcomings with the attitude of its opposite numbers in the Soviet Union and expresses fears that Chinese Communist Society may drift in the direction of Soviet revisionism. |