Show Page 4 November 24 1969 o UTAH STATE 17eVe §ks O O O Well we’re still AGGIES but forgive to do just that but we also intend to impose a STUDENT LIFE for digging the corpse few rules of our own: One that the entire contest be public up again We as most students feel that the For- Two that the final selection of a name or ward USU Forum’s handling of the recently names be put up to a student vote between it proposed name change was to say the least inept And the Forum would probably agree with us Like most students we resented not having a say in the actual selection of the additional name But we also feel that because the Highlander tag met such a cool reception is no mandate to believe that Aggie is a satisfactory symbol for USU today at least not Aggie by itself We have a proposal Lyn "Swede” Larsen Alumni director has told STUDENT LIFE that he will supply $200 that has been pledged so far for the winning prize in a He also suggested that perhaps we contest direct the contest If arrangements can be made with the USU Forum and the Administration we intend name-additio- n and the old term Aggie Three we will select an independent judging team of four members none of whom are affiliated with Highlander or the Forward USU Forum in any way Four the judges will select four names from those submitted which will be turned over to the Forum to be researched' Five the Forum will find a suitable medium for acquainting all students with the possibilities presented by the new names Six the contest will be open to any one: student faculty alumni etc Seven $50 will be awarded to each submitter of the four names chosen to be placed on a ballot with the term Aggie for a student vote non-emo-tion- Editor in parenthesis obviously the product of some small witty mind a trite and biting comment which I am getting fed up with the immature and undereducated group that calls itself the Black Union After reading and listening to these characters and their unending lamentations on the wrongs done Stu-dent- bad-mouthin- al Sterne McMullen IsfSors fe fed up ’s g to their personalities by reason of their slave forefathers I ten- der the offer that they start cooperating with the rest of humanity and actively seek ways to offer constructive programs in some semblance of a Christian spirit (Perhaps recall the Jewish persecution and recovery) The ostracization alternative which they offered their comrades in color was evidence of brutal domination of their brother’s freedom of choice Thus they all wore armbands but did they individually believe what they were doing or were they doing this to preserve that very essential thing I'll call the social link? I also wonder if their carried over to the football team and caused some splinters of resentment under the surface of some of the players We might recall the aftermath of the final game of the World Ser-ie- s when you could see the strong bond that existed between black and white players as they jostl- left the reader with the connotation that my Committee formed by the Undergraduate Assessment Committee was open to students who wanted to nail and crucify Student Assistants they had a beef with Your sick attempt at humor has cost me timely delay in to my advisers as well as to revenging students just what my Committee hopes to achieve I am disgusted with your editand wonder just how much ing if any of this letter will be printed Tell your USU “Buckwald” to dry up if I intended on using humor in my announcement I would have hired a professional Thankyou for STUDENT LIFE Headache number 69 MAUREEN J SMITH Student no 83259450 LITTLE Red-baitin- g last as a form of new in history The at-tac- is not d years offer to us a number of precedents and we can study these and observe the effects such attacks have had upon their respective societies This is essential if our society is to profit from the historical errors of past generations REDBAITING burning witch-huntin- g like heretic and anti-Semitis- sy" witchcraft communism which semitism or is held MAN ON CAMPUS by Red-baitin- g social progress the general population to be bad and identify the leaders of a movement as being heretics witches Jews or communists Although there do exist real heretics real witches real and real communists Jews these persons in their ideas and acts usually bear little res semblance to the horrible of their abstracted name Since the abstractions themselves only stand for some undifferentiated evil it becomes possible to place such attri-bute- ill-defin- an epithet on anyone who oppos-e- s the status-qu- o For exam-pi- e anyone who wants to end the war in Vietnam becomes a “communist" g MOST BASICALLY seeks to divert a movement from attacking social injustice to red-baitin- itself The appetite of the r heretic-burne- becomes insatiable and they do not stop until the entire movement is dead in exile or in jail and witch-hunte- r History has kept a grisly tally: In the last decades of the 16th century over thirty thousand persons were killed as witches or heretics and significant reform of the Christian Church was postponed or abandoned six milllion Jews From 1933-194- 5 and some two million “Poles" and “communists" Catholics were killed and all progressive social organization in Spain Italy France - and Germany was Furthermore I question who on the paper is deciding to give this group so much play It is obvious that direct or indirect pressure is being applied to gain this much exposure for a sick group eg Ramazan Fast Schedule baloney Nov 14 destroyed From 1928 until 1940 Stalin in order to institutionalize the bureaucracy and defeat workers democracy killed jailed or O BROWN ex-ile- Headache 69 week I submitted to d some two million revolutionary workers and peasants as This past this paper an announcement concerning applications for the Committee for the evaluation of Student Assistants to be listed un- x m is a device used to attack a progressive social movement by those who stand most to lose by social progress In order to stop or shatter a movement which would raise the quality of human life for the majority those who stand to lose take an abstraction such as here- ed one another der USU HAPPENINGS On Nov 19 page 6 I found my announcement — or the remains of what it once was Someone took upon himself the added effort to rewrite and “spice up" my “plain" eight line announcement To my surprise I found k five-hundre- poor-mouthin- g I l We feel that only this way can unbiased fair and open hearing be given to AGGIE and a name change mm I’m DuiihmmI Kliiliilioni-- “Trotskyite-social-fascists- " In Indonesia in 1965 at least 800-00persons were killed as “communists" and now instead of social reform Indonesia has military dictatorship In our own country numerous government as well as persons officials in all trades and professions were removed from office taken from jobs or put in jail during the early 1950’s because they 0 6o I HAPPEN TO ENJOY 0A£KET£ALL— WHAT To po with my papin er$TerA?" THAT GOT were “communists" and the American people were setback at least 12 years in curing such problems as racism’ poverty slums air and water polution THE REAL QUESTION about the war in Vietnam is not whether or not out of the millions of people who oppose the war and out the hundreds of thousands who demonstrate against it there are ten or even a thousand witches but whether the wrar itself is wrong Americans who oppose the war don’t believe the war is or ever has been in the best interests of the American people They for at probably oppose the war followleast one or all of the is ing reasons: the United States and viinterfering in a civil war of olates the the Vietnamese people Vietnam is one country and the l'tn the Gparallel according to1954 was eneva Agreements of lino only a temporary dividing' milnot a permanent political or itary boundary the use of s phos-pherou- shrapnel P gasoline bombs on civilian is immoral indeed war crime Our own government 25 acknowledges that some been Vietnamese children have w such killed or wounded by the V pons vast areas of namese countryside have n re! destroyed That American i mil a made has vention torn fUgees who have been In their homes and placed -- gamps and interogatioAmert 45000 tersj some yomf have misrepresented congr American the aims war never voted for the it is unconstitutional P" ing treaty structure--- TO 1 arly the international gives y - oft-cite- d tion the war costs can people 100 milll°n a day which could best at home the war ha tor j co bej occasion for lhe neWs DOiiCe government to exerc management and incre over the American pie peo-contr- |