Show Page 4 November 24 1969 mh UTAH STATE 9 M Well we’re still AGGIES but forgive STUDENT LIFE for digging the corpse up again We feel that the For- - as most students © to do just that but we also intend to impose a few rules of our own: One that the entire contest be public Two that the final selection of a name or names be put up to a student vote between it 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 "" ward USU Forum’s handling of the recently 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 tlie 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 We feel that only this way can If arrangements can be made with the tionai unbiased fair and open hearing be given USU Forum and the Administration we intend to AGGIE and a name change name-additio- n “ Daniiinl KliiIilionil non-emo- VVW iVMWAWAW Sterne McMullen iGtiSQIFS ID 2 I’m fed up Editor im-matu- re and undereducated group that'calls itself the Black St u dent's Union After reading and listening to these characters and their unending lamentations on the wrongs done to their personalities by reason of their slave forefathers I r 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 Jewng ten-de- ish persecution and recovery) The ostracization alternative which they offered their comrades in color was evidence of brutal domination of their broth- er'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 iii" 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 jostled one another 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 poor-mouthin- ex-plaini- " 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 Redbaiting as a form of atis not new in history The the general population to be bad and identify the leaders of a last years offer movement as being heretics to us a number of precedents witches Jews or 'communists and we can study these and Although there do exist real the effects such attacks heretics real witches real have had upon their respective Jews and real communists societies This is essential if these persons in their ideas our society is to profit from the and acts bear little rehistorical errors of past genera- semblanceusually to the attri tions name butes of their abstracted Since the abstractions them- REDBAITING like heretic selves only stand for some ill- and anti- - defined undifferentiated evil it' burning Semitism is a device used to becomes to place such attack a progressive social an epithetpossible on anyone who oppos- movement by those who stand es therstetus-qu- o For exam- -' most to lose by social progress anyone who wants to end pie In order to stop or shatter a the war in Vietnam becomes movement which would raise the a “communist" quality of human life for the those who stand to lose g MOST BASICALLY take an abstraction such as here-sseeks to divert a movement from witchcraft semitism or attacking social injustice to communism which held f — five-hundr- ed ob-ser- ve h'Jt-ribl- red-baitin- y is by LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS The appetite of the heretic-burne- r and witch-hunte- r becomes insatiable and they do not stop er who demonstrate against it there are ten or even a thousand witch-e- s - but whether the war itself is wrong Americans who oppose the war don't believe the waris or ever has been in the best the-follow-- vio-lat- the In Indonesia in 1965 at least persons were killed as “com800-00- munists" l'£o I HAPPEN TO ENJOY To 5A£KET0All— PO WITH MY 6RAPIN& WHAT THAT COT 0 and now instead of social reform Indonesia has military dictatorship In our own country numerous government officials as well as persons in all trades and professions were removed from office taken from jobs or put in jail during the early 1950's because they self-determinati- es of on the Vietnamese people Vietnam Is one country and the 17th to the Ge- - gasoline bombs on civilian populations is immoral indeied a' war crime Our own government acknowledges that some 250000 Vietnamese children have been'-killeor wounded by such weapons vast areas of the countryside have been destroyed That American inter vention has made a million refugees who have been torn from Viet-name- e their homes and placed in some 45000 se refu-ge- e gamps and interogation -- “Trotskyite-social-fascists- " ing neva Agreements of 1954 was only a temporary dividing- line not a permanent political or mill-tar- y boundary the use of phos- -' pherous shrapnel and jellied- - 1933-194- bureaucracy and defeat workers democracy killed jailed or ex iled some two million revolutionary workers and peasants as interests-o- f the American people They probably oppose the war for at least one or all of reasons the United States Is interfering in a civil war and parallel according y: I found or the remy announcement Some-on- e once was what it of mains took upon himself the added effort to rewrite and “spice up" my “plain" eight line announcement To my surprise I found' - History has kept a grisly tal-lIn 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 5 From six milllion Jews and some two million “Poles" Catholics and “communists"-werkilled and all progressive social organization In Spain Italy France and Germany was destroyed From 1928 until 1940 Stalin in order to institutionalize the past this paper an announcement concerning applications for the Com mlttee for the evaluation of Student Assistants to be listed under USU HAPPENINGS 6 Itself until the entire movement is dead in exile or in jail g Headache 69 week I submitted to This page THE REAL QUESTION about the war in Vietnam is not whe-thor not out of the millions of people who oppose the war and out the hundreds of thousands e ma-jori- ty O BROWN 19 - witch-huntin- g I On Nov were “communists" and the American people were set back at least 12 years in curing such problems as racism poverty slums air and water polution tack f j g ocks social ct I am getting fed up with the bad-mouthi- in parenthesis obviously the pro-duof some small witty mind a trite and biting comment which 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 ycur editing and wonder just how much if any of this letter will be Red-baitin- cen-ter- s youngAmeri-ca- n men have been killed for vague or misrepresented war aims the American congress never vote4-fthe war and ihat or it is unconstitutional treaty structure arly the - oft-cite- d — no exist-in- g particul- - SEATQ treat-- y gives international condone- ment to United States interven-tio- n the war costs the Ameri-ca- n people 100 million dollars a day which could best be spent at home the war has been the occasion for the United States government to exercise news management and increase police control over the American ple peo- |