| Show rczii rL n r ww j Li - w is My sister Jcezlyn is in many ways a typical reprcrcatetiv cl USU coeds Poised pretty and fciltiezity prrlsxed she is an interesting person te tnTz to Since I am interested in in my columns I frequently ask that college Bryan: “Joss do you think truth?” the seek should students always Jocelyn: “Yes” were if Bryan: “Then would it bother you you to failed in the audience and this congressman tell the truth?” Jocelyn: “It certainly would!” did was Bryan: "Then what this congressman wrong wasn’t it?” lr rrre qurriicm to find cut hour to express my ideas clearly Occasiccxlly I will interject our' cm verts tien into the column In this column I 41a 11 tell a stcry and then discuss the moral and political significance of it k f bryan anderson UUUULJo Jocelyn: Pause “You’re trying to put words into my mouth” (I stopped immediately because she had once again resorted to “feminine logic” which is at once inimitable emotional and unassailable) On Oct IS the Cabin John Junior High school located in a rather plush area of Maryland just outside of Uashington DC decided to invite a cumber cf distinguished speakers to address them about Vietnam Washington is filled with prepie who enjoy hearing themselves talk and when the program was finalized the list of As we have already pointed out congressmen are often allowed to get away with not telling it like it is because it just isn’t polite to contradict a included two congressmen international an student law a ‘clergyman rsietitej t talent and a major in the army who hH teen sent out by the Pentagon Although the preep appeared to me to be reasonably speakers them Of course they are intelligent men and this they know when they are giving put-onsdoesn’t seem to embarrass them — its only embarrassing when (as in the case of the little boy who said the emperor didn’t have any clothes) someone tells the audience that the congressman did not give the correct answer — distinguished we evidently lacked something because there were no members of HUSH present Perhaps they were missing because had been made for all points of view to be presented The principal of the school was one of these naive young administrators who felt that his students were responsible enough to hear all seven sides of the argument And in this case that is exactly what happened Jerry a PHD candidate in international relations at Johns Hopkins was on the stand with the congressman and he walked up took the microphone and then announced (very politely) “Since the question was addressed to any one who could answer it I will answer it” Everyone-listene- d expectantly Jerry looked like the kind of guy who spent a lot of time in the library and this was true I used to play ping pong with him and he was a lousy player but he had read a lot of things and he had lived in Japan for a long time and knew a lot about Asia In fact Jerry had probably been in the library reading about people like Ho Chi Minh while the congressman had been out shaking hands and asking people to give him money so he could be elected Jerry went on to say briefly and to the point “In 1919 after World War I Ho Chi Minh asked Woodrow Wilson to help get the French out of Vietnam However Woodrow Wilson was too busy settling the war in Europe and Ho Chi Minh never received a reply So he went back to Vietnam to figure out some other way to get the French out of his country” Then Jerry sat down I grinned the boy with the armband on his bicept grinned the principal tried to hold back his grin and the congressman glowered Jocelyn: “You mean the French were in Vietnam first?” Bryan: “Yes they were a colonial power Do you know what that means? The two congressmen gave folksy orations in favor of the Nixon policy the law student read poetry against the war the clergyman presented a masterful history of our involvement there and then said he felt it was unwise the major showed a filmstrip cf Vietnam (he had excellent pictures cf water buffalo a few good shots of river scenes and seme rather fuzzy pictures of rice paddies) and the international relations student didn’t have a chance to speak because we ran out of time I thought the best speech was given by the clergyman who was an Episcopalian minister from Chevy Chase and by the major who didn’t say anything The most fruitful part of the meeting came when it was time for the kids to ask questions A young boy with longish hair an earnest countenance and a black armband around his right bicept stood up and asked “Is it true that Ho Chi Minh once asked the United States for help in getting the French out of his country?” The congressman who had the microphone was surprised by the question and he stalled for time by saying “who are you asking the question to?” The boy replied challengingly “To whoever can answer it” I grinned Trapped the congressman gave a discourse about all the problems we had around the world just after World War II and then he sat down relieved at having evaded the question since he obviously had not answered it Normally when a politician evades a question he gets away with it because there are few people discourteous enough to point out that he was deliberately misleading his audience Have you ever listened closely to the way some of our political leaders answer questions? Some are very skilled in telling little white lies giving put-on- s coping out intellectually not telling it like it Jocelyn: Well Bryan: “It means that they controlled the economy the government and the lives of the Vietnamese Do you think the Vietnamese hated the French? Jocelyn: “Why yes they must have” Bryan: “Do you realize the political significance of Ho Chi Minh asking the Americans to help in the Vietnamese revolution against French colonial control?” Jocelyn “No” Bryan Do you? Last week in his "Coversation with the President” Richard Nixon exposed much to my Surprise and dismay the existence of a world-wid- e organization of "Superradicals” Though he about my comrads in the Middle East he s spoke mainly existence our shifty exposed The effect of his disclosure is not yet sure however 1 can say that as I walked across the quad to my 8:40 class I heard two decrepid school teachers (who were here either to renew their certificates for teaching or as outside agitators for the American Ol Foggev Coalition) stare off into the distance and it’s a plane v it's say "Look Mildred! Out on the lawn a spec of dust on my NOOOOO! It’s SUPERRADICAL!” (And who disquised as a reporter for the Student Life fights a never ending battle for truth justice and the United Order) none-the-les- bi-foca- ls mild-mannere- d Super Fontacy Yes my cloak of identity has been withdrawn my true sake However revealed at for the of last indentity honesty and clarity I must admit that I am at the present time unable to leap tall buildings with a single bound somewhat less powerful than a locomotive and am not quite as swift as a speeding bullit Yet these things are of little help to me as SUPERRADICAL (Yet I might add that I do have 1013 vision in my right eye and 2015 in my left which is hardly y eyesight but is still X-ra- super-visio- n) I will tell you of a few of my experiences as SUPERRADI-CA- (NOTE: In case you plan to foil my activities I might say that Kryptonite does not effect me and my only weekness is severe nausea at the sight of creamed broccoli) A Day In Tho Life On a typical day I begin by thumbing a ride to school from my home in Mendon When a driver sneers as he passes me in the chilly morning breeze I quickly duck into a nearby phone booth remove my street clothes and come out with a red "S” upon my chest dressed in my blue leotards and my reddish pixy shoes Quickly I retrieve the irrate driver and toss him into the West Fields slime Being modest by nature I return to my street clothes I then usually drive my own car to school I then proceed to my photography class where my teacher Arty Clark refuses to develop process and print my next assignment (of all the unmitigated gaul) So in reprisal I quickly duck into the darkroom emerge in my outfit and quickly proceed to dilute his chemicals and fog his protographic paper Getting Lunchy Lunchtime arrives and I go to the Union building for some grub Unfortunately I find an enormous line at the hamburger walk department and so I declothe in a custodians closet and directly to the front of the line as an elderly man mutters "My hear gosh Beatrice the radicals have taken over at USU!” I them but I just smile and devour my pattie After leaving I noticed that I have dribbled chocolate milk all over my cape but I don’t tell anyone I then go in full costume to the bookstore There student wives whisper and laugh as I proceed to tear a copy 1 of The Naked Communist apart page by page (My gosh will stop at nothing?) To end the day I usually saunter incognito of course oyer to get an cone and then leave for a quiet en1 around the fireplace with my family reading old Andy Hardy books The world I live in may not be all real— but it's all mine wide-eye- Sen Wallace F Bennett has reported that the Education Appropriation Bill now pending in the Senate contains approximately $25 (m) million in Utah education funding proposals Bennett reported that the House version of the same proposal contains $197 million and said that Utah probably would receive a compromise figure of about $22 million after Congressional action R-Ut- ah Education bill in USU Senate “The bulk of the funding for Utah in this major appropriation bill is $16 million for the contains $25m in Utah funds elementary and secondary education programs including $9 million in impacted aid funds” he said “I hope that the impacted aid totals remain at the increased spending for Utah” he said “because a major cutback here would seriously hamper Utah’s education efforts and would place a severe strain on the local school district budgets” He said - “I have always felt that impacted aid was one of the better methods of ‘Federal aid to education’ since the US Government does have an obligation to assist school districts where the impact of government installations and strain existing employees facilities” he said Bennett said that the balance of the Utah program consisted of $47 million for higher education and $31 million for vocational and adult education There were ice-crea- m other smaller miscellaneous programs for community education education professions development and research and development comprising about $11 million for a toal $249 million for Utah “Of particular interest in the higher education portion of this bill is $171000 for the Bankhead-Jone- s program which is aid to land grant college” Bennett said “The bulk of this funding will be used by Utah so-call- ed State University” He said “The Higher Education budget includes $305000 for construction of public community technical colleges institutes and which has proved beneficial to Utah’s smaller colleges as well as the University of Utah” L ihid©rfli&s Published each Monday during the Summer school quarter by lh Editorial ofAssociated Students of Utah State University (ASUSU) fices University Center 315 Business offices University Center JO Correspondence and changa of address should be sent to PO Box University Station Logan Utah 84321 Education) Represented for national advertising by the National York IWI7-- ServLj 340 Lexhgton Ave New York New Yrln9 Advertising material presented herein does not necessarily imply endorse ment by this newspaper “iU The opinions expressed on the editorial of the Student pages do not necessarily represent the view of the studentbody or the univer ' sity administration ' EDITOR-IN-CHIE- Ted G Hansen F ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION PHOTOGRAPHER COLUMNIST MANAGER Nick Traiadar Richard Shafer Gerry Carlson Carl Arrington rr— J d |
