Show Page 4 Student indent Life r f USUSL Life - 'Utah LITTLE Monday January State University MAN ON CAMPUS Nixon Is Watched WASHINGTON AP Laird of Wisconsin one of the Go most influential House members is ing his ' options open to aid drive' ’by New York Gov Nels!' OOisi Roti feller if Richard M Nixon falters u Republican presidential primaries R Editorial It’s “Rushing Roulette” Time It’s "go Greek” time again on the 'campus and the 13 nationally affiliated organizations will sponsor their quarterly 'game called "rushing roulette” i We feel the game can be very deadly jfor both rushers and rushees Unless certain corrective measures are taken by both fraternities and sororities the time can be a real "Greek tragedy” The "myth” that surrounds rush is ithe biggest flaw the established system has Discovering the flaws should eliminate some jof the mystic auora that pervades during have hisher own chance a decision to make laird such The Joint Statement On Rights and -- qualifications common knowledge that some of the nationally affiliated organizations here do have stipulations in their national charters concerning race color or creed We feel this is discriminatory and the Greeks should consider coming down from their "ivy tower” or Mt Olympus and discover that even their present members are not "pure stock” The biggest improvement houses can make during rush is to make it more personal and less put-oIt’s surprising to find yourself greeted warmly by members of a certain house and after rush they don’t care who you are rush Sororities and fraternities should escape from the superficiality that usually pervades at parties dinners open houses and other activities Girls gushing over rushees exclaiming how good looking her clothes are who her boy friend is what frat guy asked her to WHAT party is to say the least repulsive ' " Fraternities also pressure guys to' impress them How much beer they can drink1 what girls they’ve had if they're PTace men” and jocks tf' Both sororities and fraternities should stop cutting each others throats in front of rushees It puts all Greeks in a bad light If 'you can’t say something good about a fellow house drop it It weakens the system If the Greeks want to uphold their standards of good scholarship maintenance of morality service to the college community and their foremost ideal of sisterhood and brotherhood let them clean up rush and make it what it should be not what it is We feel such an attitude could improve a system that is becoming passe and a "it’s all Greek to me” feeling on the campus k b when houses can’t Telling a rushee st "to go” your way is (mother little “narcistic trick” In the first place the myth is gone about the pin making the man or coed And secretly promising a bid to a rushee is unethical and unfair to influence a rushee A rushee should MOUlP Y9U MINlP ££PEATlN6-TH- “Junior Prom Promises To Be Biggest” Some of the big name performers were invited to entertain such as Rose Bampton Judging by preliminary appearances this year’s Junior Prom promises to be the biggest ever held at USU In fact it could be the most important social event of the Britt Strings Trio Raymon Burrows and Anthony Loudis We Five (they couldn’t come for the prom however but were later billed for the Robbin's Awards )Tiajuana Iron (a group started during the brass famine of 1944) and others ' It might be interesting to note that the 1946 Jr Prom was the first financially successful prom in ten years There was a record turnout of 425 couples who danced to the music of Gus Shields and his orchestra A $50 profit was made which exceeded considerably the budget planned profit of $506 (At least in those days it would have been a considerable amount) Really its no wonder that the 1946 Prom was a financial success Corsages were outlawed uniforms were in order (there was a big rush on the war surplus uniforms that year) ’ it was announced that s the tickets were limited tnd the late were extended to 3 am All the tradition of the past years has helped bring the Junior Prom to the splendor that it is this year The Class of ’69 has really gone out this year to get the best of everything As was said in 1925 hurry and get your date for the prom and don’t leave that gal crying with her new party dress hanging in the closet Help to repeat the financial success of 1946 by attending the concert and Jr Prom Jan 26 year looking into past history of good old USAC (for those who can’t remember or are unaware USU was once USAC or Utah State Agricultural College) the Jr Prom mill was a common ordinary dance Very seldom did the announcement of the dance appear on the front page of run-of-th- e Student Life Way back when the Jr Prom was called the Promenade In 1926 part of the activities of the week was an assembly and a dance from 12:30 to 1:15 In 1928 Student Life announced that tickets were km sale at the local hardware store for 1150 for students and $200 for "outsiders” J1 Also in 1928 the first "Prom Week” Was initiated for its trial run It was anticipated to be "something equal to an 1896 football rally” This first "Prom Week” featured a noon hour appearance of Tony the bannaoil man and his pet monkey who passed out tags to advertise the big party A 'hall dance from 12 to 1 featured a jazz song by Lois Lunt "I'm Gona Dance With The Guy What Brung Me” (It’s not so popular now but in 1928 it was number priv-lege- KSIC) i’: When the idea was born for a concert to accompany the dance it added even more appeal and glitter to "Prom Week” 0I Ouija Boards: Slabs With Mystical Symbols on campus attributed this increase of the occult to instability "Superstitions such as this creep in where there is instability Movie stars are marked by strong adherence to astrology” "Man is an emotional animal Many people read the horoscope everyday then say it n i Oiuja boards wooden slabs with mystical symbols used to seek answers from world have become a common household item a recent survey from Washington DG shows ni'An analyst of religious affairs in Washington DC says this is an indication that churches are not satisfying the members’ concern about the supernatural the’-spiri- The analyst Keoneth fi Wood a Sevarth-daAdventist 'minister and editor of sat denomination's Review and Herald Mid In a recent Associated Press interview "Mw 'of th Churches downgrade the supernatural and mysterious This has left people wide open for all kinds of deviations tQ fill the vacuum” y tl‘0iiije ho’ardi sales exceeded two outselling the money game T inopoly This is the first time in 32 years aify pifinme game has monopoly aMsgr Jerome Stoffel Catholic leader out-sol- d was only in fun" In other areas ' however numerous re have encouraged clergymen recently search into psychic phenomena telepathy darvoyance telekinesis and related fields of intangible processes A national organization Spiritual Frontiers including many Fellowship clergymen and lay Christians formed several years ago to promote research into the occult 1 ' "Do not turn to mediums or wizards do not seek them out to be defiled by them : I am the Lord your God” Leviticus 19:31 WO 0& THKEF By USUSL Readers Campus Forum Reasons For Vietnam Dear Sir The United States has combat forces in South Vitnam because it undertook a commitment by solemn treaty in 1955 to "act to meet the common danger” in the event of an "aggression by means of armed attack” against any country covered by that treaty Second we are in Vietnam because of the vital interest of the United States in the peace and security of Southeast Asia This vital interest was specifically reafirmed by a resolution adopted by both Houses of the Congress in August 1964 with only two negative votes We are in Vietnam because the United States Must be just as interested in the organization of peace in the Pacific as in the Atlantic We are there because we have not forgotten the costly lesson of teh that one successful aggression leads to another We are in Vietnam because it is necessary for those who might become our adversaries to understand that the treaty commitments of the United States which encompass more than 40 allies mean exactly what they say Otherwise there might be temptations to mote against one or more of our allies in a way that would bring us all into the catastrophe of World War III The United States is not attempting to dominate the nations of the world nor are we trying to organize a Pax Americana But we believe emphatically that every nation large or small has a right to live its own national life free from coercion from the outside Fundamentally the foreign policy of the United States reflects the simple and decent purposes of the American people and these purposes are shared by ordinary men and broadly women throughout the world E L PETERSON Ads Are Necessary Tom Wood Religion Writer LAST 1 mutual- Zapped by Mark Zaugg E sen reNcsst rv& omre&ATotmEAucM -security one on creasinly important Until now lupt for Rockefeller has centered among other Republican governors rather h in Congress Laird has said repeatedly his ( concern is to find a candidate ufo beat President Johnson ”1 want a w inner” he told i rep who asked what would determine his mate choice "I don’t think we can ignore opinion polls” he added noting that show Rockefeller as the Repub' with the best chance of defeating President Laird is also interested in having candidate who could help Republicans the 31 seats they need for House cor In this regard he points to the East notes that strong showings by the in Connecticut and Rockefeller’s state of New York could swing seats to the GOP If the GOP takes control of the K Laird would likely rise from his pit post as chairman of the Republican ference to majority leader The Midwesterner could even emerge as i: sible running tnate on a ticket headed Rockefeller Laird who was a Rockefeller b before the governor's divorce he dampened his 1964 chances will attend convention as a delegate pledged to port the winner of the April 2 in which Nixon is the t favorite But he says he regrets that the prr Is so early that California Gov Rr Reagan and Rockefeller will be able file affidavits they are not candidate primary with all of the hopefuls r be more meaningful he says is n 1 I to state preference but rates Nixon as the C runner and likely winner of the nomj if he sw eeps the primaries But he feels Rockefeller is the strongest GOP I sibility as of now While disclaiming any role of V broker” at the Aug 5 Miami Beacht vention Laird’s position could become Freedoms of Students drafted this summer by five organizations in a clause "Campus organizations including those affiliated with an extramural organization should be open to all students without respect to race creed or national origin except for ” religious It is declining Vol Dear Editor: In refernce to the bit of knowledge (?) Miss Joyce Thurston displayed to the readership I would like to speak for the world of advertising In the first place almost every newspaper in the United States has at least 60 advertisements Why? Because it is the ads that virtually keep a newspaper in existance The world of advertising does a great service to the public in general by them where they may spend informing their money wisely A very good example of the functioning of advertising is now be- ing displayed in San Francisco where the’ newspapers are on strike and the merchants are crying the blues because their business is down 22 since the strike began Need I say more Miss Thurston? I get the feeling that some English instructor has been pulling your ear and trying to point out how the Student Life the way the instructor feels a university newspaper should be run let alone chastising us for the poor usage of the English language (Little do is blundering as far as more-1- 0 C they know that we have some of their majors are writing for the Student Life) I would personally be glad to explain to YOU Miss Thurston just how a newspaper such as ours is run with special emphasis on advertising and its necessary function This is an invitation to learn the function of one of the most free enterprises in the world Jay E Davis Advertising Mgr SL s Pollution Not Enough Dear Editor: As if air polution isn’t enough now they are featuring reckless and discourteous bus herders Never in my life have I ever been exposed to such an irresponsible disregard for passenger safety company pror courtesy We perty and passengers (January 11 1968 3:45 PM USU to Logan bus run) witnessed purposeful sliding up to andor running stop signs cutting shiners around corners disfor other vehicles regard of stoping in traffic lanes spining of wheels (believe it or not) and where possible abrupt stopping resulting in throwing standing passengers off balance and into - f seats or railings So fellow students if you desire winter driving "kicks” park your car and ride the run’ rebus One special ’bargain-priceduced to only $15 and the smog is free JERRY W LEWIS SAMS Combatted driver-to-drive- right-of-wa- by FRED S HOFFMAN AP — A WASHINGTON US y rs PORTLAND Ore AP — Third-grad- i at Eliot Elementary School in Portland come to school early to get help with their read! ing Their tutors are six- - graders "They’re learning from each other” says Helen Takacs a consultant who started the program at the school last fall "The take their tutoring tasks very seriously They have proved ingenious in Many explaining things to the times they have managed to get an idea or solution that would have been ' difficult for an adult teacher" s third-grader- s ‘ Parts Blotted Out NEW DELHI AP — Indian 'tjustoms officials are blotting out parts of some eneven when they ire in the cyclopedias personal effects of foreigners the Hindustan Times reported It said the blackouts r on pages showing Kashmir territory' as Pnrt °f Pakistan Spending Is Increased JERUSALEM AP — Israel has quadrupled its civil defense spending' mostly to build air raid sheltors it was disclosed after r Cabinet meeting The civil defense budget was set at $2283 million for the next two years change apparf s to-a- ir missiles SAMs in four days last vember sparked a study of As a result the sources said t justment was made in the electronic ECM technique used by An at can aircraft against the Soviet-madguided missiles Details of the changes are secret In the two months since said only three US warp! have been listed as victims of SAMs Three losses this week are attribute unknown causes the cause e iii Tutors techniques g has overcome a briefly worrisome crease in the effectiveness of North': namese antiaircraft missiles source Friday The loss of nine US planes to surf d Six-Gra- de radar-jammin- ’ The monsoon may have had ‘ somed to do with this improvement bad wei During much of that time has restricted US air operations over Vietnam and comparatively lew mu have flown against targets in the the Haiphong area where most of batteries are concentrated toSAThe heavy loss of US planes ' November four-daover the period in not disclosed at that time a ' It is US policy to announce omj ' loss of planes and whether they The ground fire or in air combat a UJ report does not say whether It dropped by conventional antieifff"1 at a SAM avail" According to the latest formation the 'North Vietnam Have' fired' more than j'lOO mlsil ' planes About 105 American aircraft h®' shot down by SAMs working to b 2 per cent kill rate for the mlI! plane losses over North Vietnam® Sources said there are 270 SA in North Vietnam but only about t th4n 4fje(i)t uJ a apf time ’ ! y r G i are °wVJl are moved around among the rV w i safeguard' (hem1 from US bombe ete end to ihift coverage of Not® I I The SAM nameee facilities batteriee ' ' ' I i I |