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Show Pag Westminster Two EDITORIAL STAND the younger magazine has chosen us (meaning we Man of the the as so 25 and on) generation, those of us under and all brave forthright Year. According to the article we are of hanmore are we and capable our than parents and stronger with. We are more educated dling the problems we are faced We appreciate more. Were just too neat. and more talented. Ronald Reagan thinks we dont appreciate all this education we're getting and we need to pay a little more for it. The state in the wrong way legislature thinks that we handle our problems and has outlawed hallucinatory drugs. like sayFrankly I'm a little tired of all the generalities. Its senile are are bald, ing all the people in the oldest generation we are is that The fact control. d and in and we are all us of some There are every one different from every other one. and not who are capable of handling our problems and some some sort of, just as in any other age or any other group. Even in our little community of college the differences are so vast there shouldnt be any boxes to be put in. There are some people in our generation who don't feel the threat of the bomb and yet are still just as free as those who must get everythinks differently thing done before the bomb hits. Everyone the pigeonholed ideas about the and Im supersick of hearing youth of today and the new woman who seems to be searching for her place in society and the tortured masculine image. People are still people and people have always been different from each other. Why cant we just leave it at that? There was something valid in the Renaissance idea of the individual. , long-haire- Marilyn Pierson Protesters -- Good People of authority in the United States today wonder where the leaders of tomorrow will be coming from. They will be coming from the youth that are protesting the Vietnam War, marching in civil rights marches, and marching against Ronald Reagen. This is true because they are people who care and want to do something about world and local problems. The youth who get out and participate care about their country. They may protest the war, but they are very sincere in their beliefs. These protesters investigate the subject matter because they are in the limelight. They have a reputation to uphold because of the excellent education opportunities given them. They may be wrong, but they are participating. Thats saying more than can be said for more than 95 percent of the public. Yes, I am standing up for the protester. In American journalism the weight seems to be too much on the side of the anti-proteste- SGAC Elections Mean Dedication Letters To Editor Time Promotes Mass Man Time PARSON Dear Editor; think your SMUT column is just that and lowers the level of your newspaper every time it is put in. There is too much valid news on this campus to include such trivialities and sometimes such raunchy material. The paper has been developing in many areas but this new addition is poor taste and derogatory. Criticism is one thing and gossip is another and SMUT is the worst of both. Hiding behind the press has never been good journalism. I hope you'll fill the space more I appropriately. An Irate Reader Dear Sexy; The other day, while I was wiping my feet on an issue of the Parson, I happened to glance at your article on capital punishment. I can't fully express sir, my astonishment at discovering the essence of truth in your defense of premeditating murders. I couldn't agree with you more. However I'm not sure I fully understand the legal ethics implied by capital punishment, nor the implications incurred by the alternative, namely, lack of capital punishment. I am not a religious man, Mr. Norris, but I do have a sense of ethics, however scanty. Simply because a man broke into my home, lets say, and murdered my mother in cold blood, I, along with yourself, could never prescribe the death sentence as punishment. I would march with my placard (hopefully next to yourself) in front of the jail secure with the knowledge that my mother died for an important cause; that our efforts may save the lives of the next gen Mike Mitchell eration of (for lack of a better word) murderers. Ah yes, my mother sweet gray-haircomfort. a martyr! What No. Capital punishment is not the answer. Murderers, by the very nature of their act, must be insane, as you surely agree, sir. And insane men, by the nature of their condition, are not responsible for their actions especially those tempered by violent rages of anger. Let's not kill them. Let's study them to find out why This year, Westminster has seen one of the most effective Student povernments in action. Through the leadership of Joe Ford, George Ligeros, Kathy Slawson and Bob McCarthy this effectiveness was established. . With the elections for next rs years SGAC only a few ed offi-ice- weeks away, you have to will a make decision on whom you feel wiU carry on L effective I J this leadership. The 'J future officers 1 have will ge dedicated and able. As it stands at the present time, the student body has only two opportunities to hear the candidates speak, and those are the primary and final speeches. This, by all means, is not enough time for a person to make a rational ' friend vote, unless L. . involved. is ship Seeing this as a major problem confronting the elections, vote, unless friendship is in- - they have become this way. But, that would be an extraneous expense on society since we already know. Well, lets cure them then. Let's send them all, all of the the premedkind1' murders, itating type, the criminal, the justifiable,' all of them to some green, lush sanitarium for rehabilitation but history sir, the same history study that has undoubtedly helped form your opinions on the subject, tells us that this does not work. How can I help I feel lost. save the murderers then? The Ah yes, the religious Bible. defense. Forgive and forget, understanding, compassion, turn the other cheek, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Are you a religious man, Mr. SGAC Norris? Fieldstad Dan Announcement At Spring Retreat last year, Day on Thursday, May 4th. Council voted to hold Westminster Day on hursday. May 4th. Due to this decision the scheduled study day on May 19 ster has been canceled and classes will be held as usual. be open for all interested students. The time and place will be r. announced prior to the discussions. In order for the student body on the issues to gain insight and candidates, it is the belief of this columnist that this .plan can be very effective. Student Government can only be a working organization with the support of the students. Over a year ago the free speech movement was overemphasized. While this writer was in California last spring he talked to many students from the campus. They stated that the newspapers had made the situation bigger than it really was. Also was the dirty speech movement which followed. A number of weeks ago, Mario Savio, leader of the free speech movement, led a group against a Navy recruiter on campus at Berkeley. This, again, was smaller than the newspapers made it out to be. The only people who didn't seem to mind what was happening at the Berkeley campus were the students. The protester keeps the American people thinking. Simi- larly, Russia has been a good asset in keeping America's ingenuity moving, the protester is keeping the American reading, thinking, and talking. The civil rights marchers have a moral issue on their side. They want equality now. Most people think the marchers are moving too fast, but this is hogwash. As fast as the mind can think we can change our attitudes about equality for the Negro, Indian and all other races being discriminated against. The world is moving too fast to slow down the civil rights movement. Technology in space, new types of math, music, and drama are being accepted every day by every type of person, but we cannot change our attitude too fast about the race problem . . . hogwash! The marchers in California who are protesting Ronald Reagan are students that care about our most important institu-io- n education. California has the most successful system, of education in the world. The great scholars of the country have been migrating to California to be part of the success. Ronald Reagan, who represents the people of Californio, not the students or scholars, wants to kill this system by cutting the education budget for the colleges. Reagan wants the students to pay tuition, which the system has avoided. Because the students want the system to stay, they marched on Sacramento last Saturday. These marchers might be successful and they might not. But, they care. This is what makes if worthover-emphasiz- while. Students who sit at a lounge table and criticize marchers are probably apathetic and never vote, and never support a candidate, and probably never know what his local representative is doing in the state legislature. These marchers, protesters and doers care about their country regardless of their v viewpoint. They care about America. Do you? . rut C St-fi-j President Joe Ford has devised a plan to over come this handicap. During the final week of elections the two candidates will be ajced questions by members os the student body. For example, the two candidates for SGAC President will participate in a discussion with members of the student body. The candidates will also be expected to answer questions brought up from the floor. This will also be true for the other offices concerned. There will be no required convocations called for this. It will It has been said many times, and talked about many times, this past year, that this paper and the writers of this paper have written too many political articles. I, my- self, have heard this said very often. In a small way it is good to hear that the students on this campus care about what is going on with the schooL At least, more this year than in past years. Perhaps, a small college newspaper should not be so concerned with politics, but I feel that it should. The majority of the students on this campus have grown up in the Post-w- ar era. Under the influence of the constant cold-w- ar condition, the young student feels pressure. Politics, is in every phase of our living, and unless we in a democratic America learn about the issues, and talk about them, our government cannot function at its best. You live on a street, your house has a number, your family owns things, you pay taxes, you vote, you mail letters, you live, all of these things involve government on some leveL This college runs under government, and rims by government, whether it be the administration or the Student Government Association. Students here pay $20.00 each semester for student activities, and the SGAC government spends it on the student activities. Democratic government is a very difficult form of government. It takes a lot of discussion, objective looking at, and it produces decisions, most often, very slowly. It was designed that way, so that nobody could pull our eyes shut. I feel that we sould write about politics more and more. Even though the SGAC announces that there won't be a required assembly, they still hold one. These things should be looked into, discussed talked about and written about. Therefore, I am sorry if you feel that there is too much politics, but even then, you wouldnt be able to say that, or express that opinion, if it were not for government. Dilemmas Face Colleges The dramatic shift on the educational scene, declares Dean Theodore R. Sizer of Harvard Graduate School Universitys of Education in his annual report to President Nathan M. Pusey, poses serious dilemmas for centers of research and training. Are the universities, much less just their schools of education, to be agents for vigorous practicall social reform? Or are they to reamin aloof? Neither course, obviously, will do; if we stand aloof, those responsible for educational reform will simply go around us (Continued, Pg. 3) . Investors Group To Start On Adventure business investors club is being created by fifteen Westminster students for the purpose A of learning how the stock market of WaU Street works. The group is being headed by Brenda Wood, a business and economics major. - Each individual must invest five dollars a month or more. What the group invests in is up to the group majority. Miss Wood noted that student investment groups are more profitable than a mutual investment group, the reason being that mutual groups are conservative compared to student groups who take more chances and usually aresuccessfuL The group hopes to go into full swing this spring with some help from Mr. Hatter and Dr. Nagle. |